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    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Barnier fights to form French government amid no-confidence threats;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/barnier-fights-to-form-french-government-amid-no-confidence-threats;2024-09-16T15:37:11Z",
        "text": "The new French prime minister, Michel Barnier, has continued negotiations with potential ministers as he struggles to form a government to end the country\u2019s political deadlock. The veteran politician and former EU Brexit negotiator, appointed by the president, Emmanuel Macron, earlier this month, had promised to form a new administration this week after \u201clistening to everybody\u201d. However, with threats from the far right and hard left to call a vote of no confidence in any ministerial team that fails to meet their approval, sources close to Barnier say he is unlikely to put names to posts until the end of next weekend. Vincent Jeanbrun, a spokesperson for the centre-right Republicans party (LR), which Barnier represents, said the PM had \u201ca complex equation to solve\u201d and he did not expect an announcement before then. Barnier has promised to seek ministers from across the political spectrum, but leftwing candidates have been reluctant, while the far-right National Rally (RN) is seen as a behind-the-scenes arbiter. Macron\u2019s decision in June to call a snap general election left the national assembly with three roughly equal political blocs \u2013 left, centre and far right \u2013 none of which has an absolute majority. A leftwing coalition, the New Popular Front (NFP), won the most seats, followed by the centrist alliance that includes Macron\u2019s Renaissance party and the centre-right LR \u2013 but the RN emerged the most powerful single political party. It is now in a position to make or break any government unless the NFP and centrists ally to oppose it. Christian Le Bart, a political scientist at the Institute of Political Studies at Rennes, said Barnier was \u201cstuck\u201d, particularly as the LR\u2019s group had won only 47 of the 577 seats in the national assembly. \u201cIf he reappoints a significant number of [centrist] ministers, people will rightly complain that the executive has not heard the message. And if he swings too far towards the Republicans, everyone will take offence at the fact that a political family with 47 MPs is over-represented in the government,\u201d Le Bart told the newspaper La D\u00e9p\u00eache. Marine Le Pen\u2019s far right is banking on a new general election being called next year. Macron cannot dissolve parliament and call another general election until 12 months after the last dissolution. At the weekend, Le Pen told RN leaders she hoped Barnier\u2019s tenure as head of the government would be \u201cas short as possible\u201d. \u201cWe find ourselves in a situation where the party that got the least votes is in charge of forming a government. It cannot hold,\u201d she said. On Monday, the RN president, Jordan Bardella, who has said \u201cnothing can be done without the RN\u201d, warned the new premier not to continue with a Macronist programme. He threatened a censure motion against any new government that \u201crecycled\u201d Macron\u2019s interior minister, G\u00e9rald Darmanin, or justice minister, \u00c9ric Dupond-Moretti \u2013 both on the centre-right of the previous government. \u201cIf Michel Barnier continues with the programme driven by Emmanuel Macron since seven years, which was severely defeated in the European and legislative election ballot boxes \u2026 then the government will fall,\u201d he told RTL radio. \u201cIf Mr Barnier echoes the hopes expressed by millions of French people, then we\u2019ll vote for the bills on a case-by-case basis.\u201d Fabien Roussel, the national secretary of the French Communist party, one of four leftwing parties that make up the NFP, also warned Barnier it was ready to use a censure motion and called on the new PM to repeal the contested pension law that raised the official retirement age from 62 to 64. \u201cHe [Barnier] is a veteran of 50 years of rightwing politics \u2026 The censure motion is on the table. It\u2019s ready, we\u2019re working on it,\u201d Roussel said. Le Bart believes the only possibility of Barnier escaping censure is a reluctance among opposition parties to leave the country without a government. \u201cThey would not want to add disorder to disorder,\u201d he said. A poll by Ipsos published at the weekend suggested 64% of French people believed Macron had ignored the result of the election. Among those who voted for the NFP, that figure rose to 91%. Only one-third of those polled approved of his choice of Barnier as PM. The next parliamentary session will begin on 1 October. One of the government\u2019s first acts will be to draw up and present the 2025 budget."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel-Gaza war: new generations being recruited as conflict continues, senior Hamas official says \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/16/israel-gaza-war-hamas-houthis-netanyahu;2024-09-16T15:00:06Z",
        "text": "Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels claimed on Monday that they shot down another American-made MQ-9 Reaper drone, with video circulating online showing what appeared to be a surface-to-air missile strike and flaming wreckage strewn across the ground. The US military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Houthis\u2019 claimed downing of a drone over the country\u2019s southwestern Dhamar province, AP reported. The Houthis have exaggerated claims in the past in their ongoing campaign targeting shipping in the Red Sea over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera is reporting that \u201caccording to medical sources\u201d who have spoken to the network, the number of people killed by Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn is now 21. Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government has banned Al Jazeera from operating inside Israel, and the government has moved to revoke the accreditation of all Al Jazeera journalists living there. Israel\u2019s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 41,226 Palestinians and wounded 95,413 since 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said on Monday. A senior Hamas official has told Agence France-Presse that new generations of fighters have been recruited since the 7 October attacks, less than a week after Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant told journalists that Hamas, \u201cno longer exists\u201d as a military formation in Gaza. Osama Hamdan claimed during an interview in Istanbul that the militant group \u201chas a high ability to continue\u201d. \u201cThere were martyrs and there were sacrifices \u2026 but in return there was an accumulation of experiences and the recruitment of new generations into the resistance.\u201d Tehran has not sent hypersonic missiles to Yemen\u2019s Houthis, Iran\u2019s president Masoud Pezeshkian claimed in a televised news conference on Monday, according to a report from Reuters. On Sunday the Houthis claimed that they had, for the first time, fired an advanced surface-to-surface hypersonic missile towards Israel, which hit an open area in the Ben Shemen forest, causing a fire near Kfar Daniel. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned them they would pay a \u201cheavy price\u201d. Polio vaccination coverage in Gaza has reached 90%, the head of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency said on Monday, adding that the next step was to ensure hundreds of thousands of children got a second dose at the end of the month. The campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza under 10 years of age against polio, which began on 1 September, presented major challenges to Unrwa and its partners due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, Reuters reported. Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant told US defence secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday that the window was closing for a diplomatic solution to the standoff with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement in southern Lebanon. Gallant\u2019s remarks came as the White House Special envoy Amos Hochstein visited Israel to discuss the crisis on the northern border where Israeli troops have been exchanging missile fire with Hezbollah forces for months, Reuters reports. Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that Tehran would never give up on its missile programme as it needs such deterrence for its security in a region where Iran\u2019s arch-foe Israel is able to \u201cdrop missiles on Gaza every day\u201d. The Islamic Republic has for years defied western calls to limit its missile programme. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed publicly on Tuesday that three Israeli hostages were mistakenly killed in a strike that also took the life of Hamas\u2019 northern Gaza brigade chief, Ahmed Ghandour, in November. According to reports from Hebrew media, families of Sgt. Ron Sherman, Cpl. Nik Beizer, both 19, and civilian Elia Toledano, 28, who were abducted by Hamas on 7 October, were informed by IDF officials that their loved ones had tragically lost their lives as a result of IDF actions after a comprehensive inquiry. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to New York on 24 September, the first day of the high-level general debate by world leaders at the annual UN general assembly, his office said Sunday. It said Netanyahu is scheduled to stay until 28 September in the US, which he had visited in July for official talks and a congressional address. The archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby is understood to be considering a visit to Israel after being warned Bethlehem risks becoming a \u201cnew Gaza\u201d cut off from the world if extremist Israeli settlers are given their way. The warning was given to the archbishop by Munther Isaac, a Luthern Pastor based in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ. A sniper killed a UN worker on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank, the UN has said, as friends and family gathered in Turkey to bury a US-Turkish activist who had been killed by the Israeli military at a protest six days earlier and around 30km away. Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade. Shot in the early hours of Thursday morning in el Far\u2019a camp, he left behind a wife and five children. That\u2019s all from the Israel-Gaza war live blog for today. Thanks for following along. In Britain, the Labour leadership is facing a challenge at its party conference to extend its current limited arms embargo to Israel to cover all arms export licences and to go faster in recognition of Palestine as a state. Campaigners say they intend to advance an emergency motion similar to one passed unanimously at the TUC last week, calling on the government not just to impose an embargo on 30 arms export licences, but all current licences. They are confident they will receive the votes at conference for the issue to be chosen for debate. The UK government on 3 September, after two months intense internal discussion, suspended 30 of the 350 arms export licences to Israel but the decision has left both pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian groups disssatisfied. The Palestinian ambassador to the UK Husan Zumlot has been working the union conference circuit hard this spring and summer building support, and Labour is also aware that it remains under electoral challenge in some of its strongholds from the Green party and independents in local elections. Both the Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner and the Middle East minister Hamish Falconer are due to speak at a Palestinian reception on Monday evening alongside Zumlot. In a 20-minute address to the TUC, Zumlot said it would be unconscionable if the UK continued to sell arms to Israel. The archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby is understood to be considering a visit to Israel after being warned Bethlehem risks becoming a \u201cnew Gaza\u201d cut off from the world if extremist Israeli settlers are given their way. The warning was given to the archbishop by Munther Isaac, a Luthern Pastor based in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ. He told the Guardian: All it takes for Israel is to close two checkpoints and then Bethlehem becomes another Gaza in terms of isolated from the rest of the world. There are new checkpoints, and new gates around towns and cities. Roads are still blocked. We are becoming more isolated and fearful Pointing to the announcement by the Israeli finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, of a new settlement to be built in the Al-Mahrur Valley on land that will be seized from Palestinians, Isaac said the confiscation of one of the last Christian villages in the region would further increase Bethlehem\u2019s isolation. He said: I would think three or four times before thinking of going to Ramallah or Nablus, out of fear of not just closures, but really the violence of the settlers these days. The settlers can do whatever they want and never be held accountable, not just in terms of land confiscation, but in terms of violence. After the meeting, the archbishop called for the a ceasefire, saying: \u201cI cry out to God for the war in Gaza to stop. How many more stories of families, homes and communities destroyed must we hear before this senseless killing ceases.\u201d Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that Tehran would never give up on its missile programme as it needs such deterrence for its security in a region where Iran\u2019s arch-foe Israel is able to \u201cdrop missiles on Gaza every day\u201d. The Islamic Republic has for years defied western calls to limit its missile programme. The United States and its allies have more recently accused Iran of transferring ballistic missiles to Russia for its war in Ukraine, imposing fresh sanctions on Moscow and Tehran. Both countries have denied the claims, Reuters reported. At least 16 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across central Gaza on Sunday night and Monday morning, including five women and four children, Palestinian health officials have said. Rescuers said an airstrike early on Monday destroyed a residential building in the densely populated Nuseirat refugee camp in the heart of central Gaza, killing at least 10 people, including four women and two children. The al-Awda hospital, which received the bodies, confirmed the deaths and said another 13 people were wounded. Hospital records quoted by local media show that the dead included a mother, her child and her five siblings. In a separate strike targeting a building in Gaza City, six individuals lost their lives. A woman and two children were among the dead, according to the civil defence, a team of emergency responders working under the governance of Hamas. In a message on its official Telegram channel. Israel\u2019s military has claimed its air force \u201cstruck Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure sites in the area of Houla in southern Lebanon.\u201d It said that earlier in Upper Galilee \u201ca number of projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory. Some of the projectiles were intercepted and the rest fell in open areas. No injuries were reported.\u201d The claims have not been independently verified. Tehran has not sent hypersonic missiles to Yemen\u2019s Houthis, Iran\u2019s president Masoud Pezeshkian claimed in a televised news conference on Monday, according to a report from Reuters. On Sunday the Houthis claimed that they had, for the first time, fired an advanced surface-to-surface hypersonic missile towards Israel, which hit an open area in the Ben Shemen forest, causing a fire near Kfar Daniel. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned them they would pay a \u201cheavy price\u201d. Al Jazeera is reporting that \u201caccording to medical sources\u201d who have spoken to the network, the number of people killed by Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn is now 21. Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government has banned Al Jazeera from operating inside Israel, and the government has moved to revoke the accreditation of all Al Jazeera journalists living there. Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels claimed Monday that they shot down another American-made MQ-9 Reaper drone, with video circulating online showing what appeared to be a surface-to-air missile strike and flaming wreckage strewn across the ground. The US military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Houthis\u2019 claimed downing of a drone over the country\u2019s southwestern Dhamar province, AP reported. The Houthis have exaggerated claims in the past in their ongoing campaign targeting shipping in the Red Sea over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed 16 people in the Gaza Strip, including five women and four children. A strike early on Monday flattened a home in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, leaving a total of 10 people dead. Four of the deceased were women and two were children, AP reported. Israel\u2019s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 41,226 Palestinians and wounded 95,413 since 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said on Monday. A senior Hamas official has told Agence France-Presse that new generations of fighters have been recruited since the 7 October attacks, less than a week after Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant told journalists that Hamas, \u201cno longer exists\u201d as a military formation in Gaza. Osama Hamdan claimed during an interview in Istanbul that the militant group \u201chas a high ability to continue\u201d. \u201cThere were martyrs and there were sacrifices \u2026 but in return there was an accumulation of experiences and the recruitment of new generations into the resistance.\u201d Polio vaccination coverage in Gaza has reached 90%, the head of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency said on Monday, adding that the next step was to ensure hundreds of thousands of children got a second dose at the end of the month. The campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza under 10 years of age against polio, which began on 1 September, presented major challenges to Unrwa and its partners due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, Reuters reported. Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant told US defence secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday that the window was closing for a diplomatic solution to the standoff with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement in southern Lebanon. Gallant\u2019s remarks came as the White House Special envoy Amos Hochstein visited Israel to discuss the crisis on the northern border where Israeli troops have been exchanging missile fire with Hezbollah forces for months, Reuters reports. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed publicly on Tuesday that three Israeli hostages were mistakenly killed in a strike that also took the life of Hamas\u2019 northern Gaza brigade chief, Ahmed Ghandour, in November. According to reports from Hebrew media, families of Sgt. Ron Sherman, Cpl. Nik Beizer, both 19, and civilian Elia Toledano, 28, who were abducted by Hamas on 7 October, were informed by IDF officials that their loved ones had tragically lost their lives as a result of IDF actions after a comprehensive inquiry. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to New York on 24 September, the first day of the high-level general debate by world leaders at the annual UN general assembly, his office said Sunday. It said Netanyahu is scheduled to stay until 28 September in the US, which he had visited in July for official talks and a congressional address. A sniper killed a UN worker on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank, the UN has said, as friends and family gathered in Turkey to bury a US-Turkish activist who had been killed by the Israeli military at a protest six days earlier and around 30km away. Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade. Shot in the early hours of Thursday morning in el Far\u2019a camp, he left behind a wife and five children. Polio vaccination coverage in Gaza has reached 90%, the head of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency said on Monday, adding that the next step was to ensure hundreds of thousands of children got a second dose at the end of the month. The campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza under 10 years of age against polio, which began on 1 September, presented major challenges to Unrwa and its partners due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, Reuters reported. It followed confirmation by the World Health Organization (WHO) last month that a baby had been partially paralysed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in Palestinian territory in 25 years. More than 446,000 Palestinian children in central and south Gaza were vaccinated earlier this month before a campaign to vaccinate a final 200,000 children in north Gaza began on 10 September despite access restrictions, evacuation orders and shortages of fuel. The first round of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza ended successfully, Unrwa\u2019s chief Philippe Lazzarini said, adding that 90% of the territory\u2019s children had received a first dose. \u201cParties to the conflict have largely respected the different required \u201chumanitarian pauses\u201d showing that when there is a political will, assistance can be provided without disruption. Our next challenge is to provide children with their second dose at the end of September,\u201d he wrote on X. Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant told US defence secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday that the window was closing for a diplomatic solution to the standoff with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement in southern Lebanon. Gallant\u2019s remarks came as the White House Special envoy Amos Hochstein visited Israel to discuss the crisis on the northern border where Israeli troops have been exchanging missile fire with Hezbollah forces for months, Reuters reports. \u201cThe possibility for an agreed framework in the northern arena is running out,\u201d Gallant told Austin in a phone call, according to a statement from his office. As long as Hezbollah continued to tie itself to the Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, where Israeli forces have been engaged for almost a year, \u201cthe trajectory is clear,\u201d he said. The visit by Hochstein, who is due to meet Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, comes amid efforts to find a diplomatic path out of the crisis, which has forced tens of thousands on both sides of the border to leave their homes. Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels claimed Monday that they shot down another American-made MQ-9 Reaper drone, with video circulating online showing what appeared to be a surface-to-air missile strike and flaming wreckage strewn across the ground. The US military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Houthis\u2019 claimed downing of a drone over the country\u2019s southwestern Dhamar province, AP reported. The Houthis have exaggerated claims in the past in their ongoing campaign targeting shipping in the Red Sea over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. However, the online video bolstered the claim, particularly after two recent claims by the Houthis included no evidence. Other videos showed armed rebels gathered around the flaming wreckage, a propeller similar to those used by the armed drone visible in the flames. One attempted to pick up a piece of the metal before dropping it due to the heat. AP\u2019s report continued: Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, a Houthi military spokesperson, identified the drone as an MQ-9, without elaborating on how he came to the determination. He said it was the third downed by the group in a week, though the other two claims did not include similar video or other evidence. The US military similarly has not acknowledged losing any aircraft. Saree said the Houthis used a locally produced missile. However, Iran has armed the rebels with a surface-to-air missile known as the 358 for years. Iran denies arming the rebels, though Tehran-manufactured weaponry has been found on the battlefield and in seaborne shipments heading to Yemen despite a United Nations arms embargo. Reapers, which cost around $30m apiece, can fly at altitudes up to 50,000 feet (15,240 meters) and have an endurance of up to 24 hours before needing to land. The aircraft have been flown by both the US military and the CIA over Yemen for years. Israel\u2019s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 41,226 Palestinians and wounded 95,413 since 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said on Monday. In case you missed it, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has warned Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels will pay a \u201cheavy price\u201d after the group claimed its first ballistic missile strike on Israel and its leader warned of bigger attacks to come. The missile \u2013 claimed by the Houthis as an advanced surface-to-surface hypersonic missile \u2013 triggered air sirens across the country at about 6.30am, and local media aired footage of people racing to shelters at Ben Gurion international airport south-east of Tel Aviv. According to reports, it hit an open area in the Ben Shemen forest, causing a fire near Kfar Daniel. There were no reports of casualties or damage. The Israeli military is investigating whether the fire was the result of falling fragments caused by the interceptor missiles launched at the projectile, or if it successfully penetrated Israeli air defences as the Houthis have claimed. Yemen\u2019s Houthis downed a US MQ-9 drone in Dhamar province, the Iran-aligned group\u2019s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said on Monday. Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed 16 people in the Gaza Strip, including five women and four children. A strike early on Monday flattened a home in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, leaving a total of 10 people dead. Four of the deceased were women and two were children, AP reported. Gaza medical facility Awda hospital received the bodies, confirmed the death toll, and said another 13 people were wounded. Hospital records show the deceased include a mother, her child, and her five siblings. Another strike on a home in Gaza City killed a further six people which included a woman and two children, as per Hamas-run first responders Civil Defence. Israel says it only targets militants and accuses Hamas and other armed groups of endangering civilians by operating in residential areas. Welcome to our live coverage of the Israel-Gaza war and the wider Middle East crisis. I\u2019m Tom Ambrose. A senior Hamas official has told Agence France-Presse that new generations of fighters have been recruited since the 7 October attacks, less than a week after Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant told journalists that Hamas, \u201cno longer exists\u201d as a military formation in Gaza. Osama Hamdan claimed during an interview in Istanbul that the militant group \u201chas a high ability to continue\u201d. \u201cThere were martyrs and there were sacrifices \u2026 but in return there was an accumulation of experiences and the recruitment of new generations into the resistance.\u201d Last week, Gallant said Hamas\u2019s military capabilities had been severely damaged after more than 11 months of war. At least 41,206 Palestinians have been killed and 95,337 others injured in Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, the health ministry in Gaza said on Sunday. The war was triggered by Hamas\u2019 attacks on southern Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw 250 hostages taken. Hamdan also said Sunday\u2019s first ballistic missile strike on Israel by Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels showed the limits of Israel\u2019s ability to defend itself, including its oft-touted aerial defence system. \u201cIt is a message to the entire region that Israel is not an immune entity,\u201d Hamdan said. \u201cEven Israeli capabilities have limits.\u201d The Israeli military is investigating whether the fire near Kfar Daniel, in central Israel, was the result of falling fragments caused by interceptor missiles launched at the projectile, or if it successfully penetrated Israeli air defences, as the Houthis have claimed. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday: \u201cThis morning, the Houthis launched a surface-to-surface missile from Yemen into our territory. They should have known by now that we charge a heavy price for any attempt to harm us.\u201d Here is a summary of the latest developments: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed publicly on Tuesday that three Israeli hostages were mistakenly killed in a strike that also took the life of Hamas\u2019 northern Gaza brigade chief, Ahmed Ghandour, in November. According to reports from Hebrew media, families of Sgt. Ron Sherman, Cpl. Nik Beizer, both 19, and civilian Elia Toledano, 28, who were abducted by Hamas on 7 October, were informed by IDF officials that their loved ones had tragically lost their lives as a result of IDF actions after a comprehensive inquiry. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to New York on 24 September, the first day of the high-level general debate by world leaders at the annual UN general assembly, his office said Sunday. It said Netanyahu is scheduled to stay until 28 September in the US, which he had visited in July for official talks and a congressional address. A sniper killed a UN worker on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank, the UN has said, as friends and family gathered in Turkey to bury a US-Turkish activist who had been killed by the Israeli military at a protest six days earlier and around 30km away. Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade. Shot in the early hours of Thursday morning in el Far\u2019a camp, he left behind a wife and five children."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Europe floods: death toll rises \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/16/europe-floods-death-toll-storm-boris-poland-austria-romania-slovakia;2024-09-16T14:15:59Z",
        "text": "The death toll in Central Europe rose to at least 15 due to heavy rain and flooding over the past days. While water was receding in some areas, others were shoring up defences. Poland introduced a 30-day \u201cstate of natural disaster\u201d. Austria\u2019s chancellor, Karl Nehammer, said that \u201cin difficult times, we are grateful for the friendship and solidarity of our neighbours and friends.\u201d The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, has said that the country set aside 1 billion zlotys ($260.31 million) to help victims of floods. The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, said that the situation is difficult. Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n said he was postponing \u201call my international obligations\u201d due to the floods. Factories in the region shuttered production lines. The Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said that \u201cwe need a united and decisive European response to adapt to the escalating challenges of the climate crisis.\u201d Climate scientists said they are troubled by the damage but unsurprised by the intensity. \u201cThe catastrophic rainfall hitting central Europe is exactly what scientists expect with climate change,\u201d said Joyce Kimutai, of Imperial College London\u2019s Grantham Institute. Meanwhile, the EU is mobilising firefighting planes to help Portugal battle wildfires. Picturesque towns across central Europe are inundated by dirty flood water after heavy weekend rains turned tranquil streams into raging rivers that wreaked havoc on infrastructure. The floods have killed at least 15 people and destroyed buildings from Austria to Romania. The destruction comes after devastating floods around the world last week when entire villages were submerged in Myanmar and nearly 300 prisoners escape a collapsed jail in Nigeria, where floods have affected more than 1 million people. Climate scientists say they are troubled by the damage but unsurprised by the intensity. \u201cThe catastrophic rainfall hitting central Europe is exactly what scientists expect with climate change,\u201d said Joyce Kimutai, of Imperial College London\u2019s Grantham Institute. She said the death and damage across Africa and Europe highlighted \u201chow poorly prepared the world is for such floods\u201d. Read the full story here. The Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said \u201cwe need a united and decisive European response to adapt to the escalating challenges of the climate crisis.\u201d Austria\u2019s Karl Nehammer said \u201cin difficult times, we are grateful for the friendship and solidarity of our neighbours and friends.\u201d \u201cBavaria, Slovenia, South Tyrol, The Netherlands, Liechtenstein and Ukraine have offered help in the fight against the consequences of the floods in Austria. Thank you very much, you are true friends!\u201d he added. While water was receding in some areas, others were shoring up defences for floods heading their way. The Topola reservoir in southern Poland had overflowed and water was gushing towards the village of Kozielno. Local authorities said residents of several nearby towns and villages would be evacuated. In Wroclaw, in the south-western region of Silesia, the mayor Jacek Sutryk said the city of 600,000 people was preparing for water levels peaking on Wednesday. Slovakia\u2019s capital Bratislava and the Hungarian capital Budapest were both preparing for possible flooding as the River Danube rose. Hungarian interior minister Sandor Pinter said efforts were focused on keeping the river and its tributaries within their banks and said up to 12,000 soldiers were on standby to help. In Austria, the levels of rivers and reservoirs fell overnight as rain eased but officials said they were bracing for a second wave as heavier rain was expected. Austria\u2019s chancellor, Karl Nehammer, said a disaster fund is available to handle damage. 300 million euros can be accessed immediately, and if more is needed, the fund will be increased, he said. Hungarian opposition politician P\u00e9ter Magyar said national unity is needed as the country braces for flooding, writing that Viktor Orb\u00e1n, the prime minister, made the right call to cancel his planned travel to the European parliament. Here\u2019s more footage from the region. The Green group in the European parliament said \u201cthese floods show that more than ever our fight against climate change is a common social and economic challenge we must tackle together.\u201d Poland is introducing a 30-day \u201cstate of natural disaster\u201d. The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, has provided an update on the situation in his country, writing that the situation is difficult. The most problematic situation is now in southern Bohemia, he said. Ostrava residents have been asked not to go to the city. The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, has said that the country set aside 1 billion zlotys ($260.31 million) to help victims of floods, Reuters reported. Here are the latest images from the region. Germany\u2019s Olaf Scholz said his country is ready to help European neighbours impacted by the floors. He also said water levels are rising in Germany and the situation is being closely monitored. The death toll in central Europe has risen as more rivers burst their banks. Six people have died in Romania. Five have reportedly died in Poland. A total of three people have died in Austria: one firefighter died over the weekend and two people were found drowned in their homes, Reuters reported. One person has died in the Czech Republic. The floods in Europe are just one of a number of extreme weather events around the world in the last few days. Floods have also been devastating western and central Africa, with hundreds estimated to have died. Meanwhile in Southeast Asia Typhoon Yagi has been causing havoc, with at least 300,000 people displaced in Myanmar following heavy rains. Although these specific events cannot be definitively attributed to climate change, it\u2019s well established now that extreme rainfall is more common and more intense because of human-caused climate breakdown across most of the world, particularly in Europe, most of Asia, central and eastern North America, and parts of South America, Africa and Australia. This is because warmer air can hold more water vapour. Flooding has most likely become more frequent and severe in these locations as a result, but is also affected by human factors, such as the existence of flood defences and land use. Human-caused climate breakdown is supercharging extreme weather across the world, driving more frequent and more deadly disasters from heatwaves to floods to wildfires. At least a dozen of the most serious events of the last decade would have been all but impossible without human-caused global heating. Watch footage from Central Europe, which has been hit with torrential rain and flooding. Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n, who was scheduled to speak at the European parliament this week, said he is postponing \u201call my international obligations\u201d due to the ongoing floods. Two more people died in Austria, the chancellor, Karl Nehammer, said. Factories and stores across central Europe shuttered production lines and closed their doors today due to flooding, Reuters reported. Late yesterday, the Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, reiterated his call for people to follow instructions from mayors and emergency services. Karl Nehammer, the Austrian chancellor, has said that the Austrian armed forces have been deployed in storm-hit regions and that 2,400 soldiers are on standby to help fill sandbags, evacuate people or do clean-up work. Here are some images of the flooding in Poland. The Hungarian defence forces are deploying equipment to support flood protection efforts. Czech police has said that one person died and seven are missing amid flooding, AFP reported. The death toll rose in central Europe over the weekend after severe flooding impacted the region, the Associated Press reported. Six people died in Romania, one person in Austria and one person in Poland, while police in the Czech Republic said four people were missing."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;At least 16 people killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/israeli-airstrikes-gaza-houthis-netanyahu-gallant;2024-09-16T13:11:37Z",
        "text": "At least 16 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across central Gaza on Sunday night and Monday morning, including five women and four children, Palestinian health officials have said. Rescuers said an airstrike early on Monday destroyed a residential building in the densely populated Nuseirat refugee camp in the heart of central Gaza, killing at least 10 people, including four women and two children. The al-Awda hospital, which received the bodies, confirmed the deaths and said another 13 people were wounded. Hospital records quoted by local media show that the dead included a mother, her child and her five siblings. In a separate strike targeting a building in Gaza City, six individuals lost their lives. A woman and two children were among the dead, according to the civil defence, a team of emergency responders working under the governance of Hamas. Israel says its military operations exclusively target combatants and claims Hamas and other armed factions place civilians at risk by operating within residential areas. Eleven months into the Gaza war, the death toll among Palestinians has passed 41,000, according to health authorities in the territory. Most of the dead are civilians and the total is nearly 2% of Gaza\u2019s prewar population, or equal to one in every 50 people. The conflict was triggered by Hamas\u2019s 7 October attack on Israel, in which 1,200 people died and about 250 were taken hostage. On Sunday evening, a senior Hamas official told Agence France-Presse that new generations of fighters had been recruited since the 7 October attacks, less than a week after the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, told journalists that Hamas, \u201cno longer exists\u201d as a military formation in Gaza. During an interview in Istanbul, Osama Hamdan claimed that the militant group \u201chas a high ability to continue\u201d. He added: \u201cThere were martyrs and there were sacrifices \u2026 but in return there was an accumulation of experiences and the recruitment of new generations into the resistance.\u201d Hamdan spoke of a surface-to-surface missile that reached central Israel for the first time on Sunday, causing a fire near Kfar Daniel. The Hamas official said the attack, claimed by Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels, showed the limits of Israel\u2019s ability to defend itself, including its aerial defence system. \u201cIt is a message to the entire region that Israel is not an immune entity,\u201d Hamdan said. \u201cEven Israeli capabilities have limits.\u201d The Israeli military is investigating whether the fire was the result of falling fragments caused by interceptor missiles launched at the projectile, or if it successfully penetrated its air defences, as the Houthis have claimed. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the Houthis would pay a \u201cheavy price\u201d, while the Houthi leader warned of bigger attacks to come. On Monday, the Houthi military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said the group downed a US MQ-9 drone in Yemen\u2019s Dhamar province. In a separate development on Monday, Gallant told the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, that time was running out for an agreement with Hezbollah to halt the fighting along the Israel-Lebanon border, where on Sunday the Israeli military reported that approximately 40 projectiles had been launched, with the majority being intercepted or landing in uninhabited regions. \u201cThe possibility for an agreed framework in the northern arena is running out as Hezbollah continues to \u2018tie itself\u2019 to Hamas,\u201d Gallant said, \u201cThe trajectory is clear.\u2019\u2019 Hezbollah said it would halt its attacks if there was a ceasefire in Gaza, but months of talks brokered by the US, Qatar and Egypt have repeatedly stalled. Gallant told Austin that \u201cin any possible scenario, Israel\u2019s defence establishment will continue to operate with the aim of dismantling Hamas and ensuring the return of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza \u2013 by any means\u201d. Meanwhile, media reports in Israel suggested Gallant\u2019s position could be under threat, with sources in the prime minister\u2019s office saying Netanyahu was considering appointing the New Hope chair, Gideon Sa\u2019ar, as Gallant\u2019s replacement. After the report, the far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said on X \u201cthe time has come to [fire Gallant] immediately\u201d. Rumours that Netanyahu would replace Gallant have been circulating for months. The already strained relationship between the two has been tumultuous since Netanyahu\u2019s sudden decision to dismiss Gallant in March 2023 because of his vocal disapproval of the government\u2019s judicial changes. However, the prime minister\u2019s move was later rescinded after public outcry. Some in Netanyahu\u2019s administration have called for Gallant\u2019s removal, citing a range of grievances including his stance against a government-supported ultra-Orthodox enlistment bill and his public disagreement with the prime minister on matters such as a hostage negotiation and Israel\u2019s presence in the Philadelphi corridor on the Gaza-Egypt border."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;French rape trial adjourned after Dominique P\u00e9licot health issue reports;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/french-trial-adjourned-after-dominique-pelicot-health-issue-reports;2024-09-16T13:05:42Z",
        "text": "The trial of Dominique P\u00e9licot and 50 other men accused of rape has been adjourned again after it was reported he was suffering from kidney problems and had refused to leave his prison cell. Lawyers now fear the hearing, scheduled to last four months, may have to be postponed and have criticised the prison authorities for not acting sooner to treat him. In a case that has horrified the world, the 71-year-old retired electrician has admitted drugging his wife, Gis\u00e8le, and inviting up to 90 men to rape her as she was unconscious and while he filmed the attacks. On Monday, after P\u00e9licot failed to appear, the court appointed two medical experts to examine him. The president of the bench, Roger Arata, said it was hoped the trial could resume on Tuesday but warned he may have to postpone it if the principal accused was too unwell to attend. Defence lawyers have accused the prison authorities of failing to act as soon as P\u00e9licot complained of being unwell 10 days ago. He was reportedly taken to hospital on Sunday evening, where he was diagnosed with a kidney infection, a kidney stone and a \u201cprostate problem\u201d. He was returned to his cell after tests. \u201cThis could all have been avoided if he\u2019d been treated from Monday [last week]. Why did they wait eight days?\u201d P\u00e9licot\u2019s defence lawyer B\u00e9atrice Zavarro asked outside the court in Avignon. Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot\u2019s lawyer St\u00e9phane Babonneau said that if the hearing had to be postponed because of the prison authorities\u2019 failure to treat her former husband, it would be \u201ca legal catastrophe, a scandal\u201d. \u201cWe are all waiting to hear if Dominique P\u00e9licot can appear. If the hearing has to be postponed because he has a health problem that wasn\u2019t treated, yes, we can talk of it being a scandal,\u201d Babonneau said. \u201cOf course she [Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot] is worried. She finds herself in a very difficult situation, as we all are. The trial is really at a very early stage; it has hardly even started. There is the presentation of the videos and the interrogation of the principal accused to come.\u201d Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot, 72, has become the face of victims of rape and sexual abuse across France, where hundreds of protesters turned out at the weekend to show their support for her, many carrying posters showing her image and the words \u201cShame changes sides\u201d \u2013 implying that instead of female victims being made to feel ashamed, the male accused should be. She has been hailed for her courage in insisting the trial be held in public and not behind closed doors as defence lawyers had requested. In a statement outside the court on Monday morning, P\u00e9licot said she wanted to thank all those \u201cwho have shown me their support from the beginning of this ordeal and particularly those who took the time to gather on Saturday across France. \u201cI was deeply touched by this movement \u2026 thanks to you all I have the strength to fight this to the end. I dedicate this fight to all people, women and men, who are victims of sexual violence across the world. To all those victims I say today look around you, you are not alone.\u201d Babonneau said: \u201cShe does feel very comforted by the support she has received this weekend. She is a simple and genuine woman and was surprised that so many people wanted to show their support. Her message to every victim of sexual abuse is that they should know that they are not alone and should not be alone.\u201d P\u00e9licot had no idea that for more than a decade her husband had recruited men on an online chatroom to rape her while she was in a coma-like state until after he was arrested in 2020 for filming up the skirts of customers in a local supermarket. The accused were aged between 26 and 73 when they were arrested and include a local councillor, a journalist, a former police officer, a prison guard, a soldier, a firefighter and a civil servant. Many were the couple\u2019s neighbours in the small town of Mazan, near Avignon in southern France. Several of the men insist they were unaware P\u00e9licot had been drugged and assumed the sex was consensual. If convicted of rape they face up to 20 years in jail. On Monday, Babonneau said he was shocked to find his client having to queue up to clear security at the courthouse with those accused of raping her. \u201cI arrived to see her in the queue literally sandwiched in between them. It was unbelievable that she should be there. I pulled her out and said we would skip the line,\u201d he said. \u201cShe has had to find the strength in herself to cope \u2026 I can tell you that she is even more of an incredible woman than she appears.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;France\u2019s European commissioner resigns amid row with von der Leyen;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/france-european-commissioner-thierry-breton-resigns-amid-row-with-von-der-leyen;2024-09-16T12:45:52Z",
        "text": "France\u2019s European commissioner, Thierry Breton, has resigned, citing \u201cquestionable governance\u201d at the EU executive led by Ursula von der Leyen. Breton, who was in charge of the EU\u2019s single market and industrial policy, announced his immediate resignation in a post on X on Monday morning. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, had appointed Breton to serve a second term as EU commissioner in June. But Breton said in his resignation letter that von der Leyen had asked Paris to withdraw his name \u201cfor personal reasons that in no instance you [von der Leyen] have discussed directly with me\u201d. \u201cIn light of these recent developments \u2013 further testimony to questionable governance \u2013 I have to conclude that I can no longer exercise my duties,\u201d he added. Breton announced his resignation with a touch of theatricality, by posting on X an empty frame hanging on a wall. \u201cBreaking news: my official portrait for the next European Commission term,\u201d he wrote, with his resignation letter following in a separate post. The announcement adds to the disarray over the appointment of von der Leyen\u2019s top team, which is already running late. In seeking a more gender-balanced lineup, von der Leyen inadvertently triggered a political row in Slovenia after putting pressure on the government to withdraw a male candidate. She is expected to reveal details of the next commission, which has a five-year term, after meetings with senior MEPs on Tuesday. Her team consists of 27 EU commissioners, one from each member state, who will collectively be responsible for enforcing EU law spanning a swathe of areas including environment and climate, industrial and economic policy, foreign affairs, migration, farming and fishing. Breton was one of von der Leyen\u2019s most high-profile commissioners, who sparred with US technology companies such as X and Meta over regulations to curb the harmful effects of the internet, and oversaw moves to increase EU production of ammunition in light of the war in Ukraine. Hours after the news broke, France\u2019s foreign minister, St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9, was announced as his country\u2019s commissioner nominee. A close ally of Macron who served as the leader of the centrist group in the European parliament, S\u00e9journ\u00e9 has been put forward by Paris for a job involving EU industrial and competitiveness policy. The commission has yet to name the person who will take over Breton\u2019s portfolio for the final weeks of the outgoing commission, in a sign his departure has blindsided von der Leyen. EU officials had expected Breton to serve a second mandate, taking on a weighty portfolio as an executive vice-president and one of the most senior members of von der Leyen\u2019s team. His dramatic resignation comes soon after a politically weakened Macron announced the centre-right Michel Barnier as prime minister in an attempt to quell France\u2019s political crisis following snap elections that resulted in a hung parliament. Against a backdrop of political tumult at home, Macron\u2019s star has waned in the EU, but France remains influential in setting the EU agenda of a more \u201csovereign Europe\u201d, meaning less dependence on the rest of the world for security, vital resources and industrial goods. After Breton\u2019s announcement, one EU diplomat observed that he \u201cwasn\u2019t as well liked in Paris as he thought he was\u201d. A spokesperson for the European Commission declined to comment on the charges of \u201cquestionable governance\u201d under von der Leyen. \u201cThe president takes note and accepts Thierry Breton\u2019s resignation and thanks him for his work as commissioner throughout the mandate,\u201d the spokesperson said, citing Breton\u2019s work on EU laws, notably the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act and \u201cother important digital and industrial files\u201d. Von der Leyen had received the resignation letter on Monday morning, the spokesperson said, but they could not say whether the commission president had been informed of Breton\u2019s decision to go before he posted on X. Von der Leyen \u201chopes to be in a position\u201d to announce the details of her new commission on Tuesday, the spokesperson said, adding that \u201c24 hours in politics are a long time\u201d. A statement from the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace described Breton as a \u201cremarkable European commissioner\u201d who had \u201csignificantly contributed to advancing a policy of European sovereignty\u201d in digital policy, industry and technology and resilience of the European single market during the Covid crisis. \u201cThe president of the republic has always defended obtaining for France a key portfolio of European commissioner, focused on the issues of industrial, technological sovereignty and European competitiveness,\u201d the statement said. The veteran German Social Democrat MEP Bernd Lange said the nomination of the new commission was \u201cslowly degenerating into absurd theatre\u201d and was \u201cnot a good omen for the future\u201d. Rym Momtaz, the editor-in-chief of the Carnegie Europe thinktank\u2019s Strategic Europe publication, wrote: \u201cThere\u2019s never been any love lost between von der Leyen and Breton, but this EU commission composition is like a Succession/Game of Thrones mashup.\u201d Breton, a former business executive, was not afraid to criticise his boss. He joined other senior colleagues last year in criticising von der Leyen\u2019s decision to appoint a fellow German member of the Christian Democratic Union party to a senior role he was said to be less qualified for than others. When von der Leyen was running for re-election this year, Breton questioned whether she should get a second term. \u201cIs it possible to (re)entrust the management of Europe to the EPP for five more years?\u201d he wrote on X after the centre-right European People\u2019s party alliance gave von der Leyen an underwhelming majority when selecting her as their candidate. \u201cThe EPP itself does not seem to believe in its candidate,\u201d he wrote. Von der Leyen, who was reappointed by EU leaders and re-elected by the European parliament to serve a second term, has long faced accusations that she is aloof, lacks transparency and fails to involve senior colleagues in EU decision-making. Supporters point to her record of support for Ukraine and creation of a post-Covid recovery fund, but Breton\u2019s letter is likely to add to criticism about her working methods. Brando Benifei, an Italian Democratic party MEP who worked with Breton in drawing up the EU\u2019s AI Act, wrote on X: \u201cI didn\u2019t agree on all the actions and plans of Commissioner Breton, but his dedication to pursue more European pooled sovereignty and his efforts for a healthier digital environment were to be supported.\u201d Tomasz Froelich, a German MEP with the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland party, described Breton as \u201cone of the greatest threats to freedom of expression in Europe, who recently wanted to cancel Twitter and Elon Musk\u201d, and said his departure was a \u201cgood thing\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Amnesty calls for release of peaceful protesters in Angola;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/amnesty-international-calls-for-release-peaceful-protest-activists-angola;2024-09-16T12:41:26Z",
        "text": "Amnesty International has urged authorities in Angola to free four activists who were detained a year ago for planning a peaceful protest, and an influencer who criticised the president in a TikTok video. The four activists were arrested in September last year before a protest against restrictions on motorcycle taxi drivers. They were sentenced to two years and five months in prison for \u201cdisobedience and resisting orders\u201d. The health of three of the four activists has deteriorated sharply in prison, Amnesty said. The southern African country\u2019s government regularly clamps down on dissent. In August, the president, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, signed into law two sweeping bills that extended security forces\u2019 control over the media and permitted prison sentences of up to 25 years for protests that cause \u201cvandalism\u201d or service disruptions. Vongai Chikwanda, Amnesty International\u2019s deputy director for east and southern Africa, said: \u201cOne year in prison simply for peacefully protesting is a travesty of justice. We see a troubling pattern of Angolan authorities withholding medical care as a means of punishing peaceful dissent, amounting to torture.\u201d Adolfo Campos was in good health when he was imprisoned but has since lost much of his vision and become completely deaf in one ear, Amnesty said. It said prison doctors recommended in February that Campos receive surgery externally, but that had been blocked. Hermenegildo Victor Jos\u00e9, known as Gildo das Ruas, also entered prison with no health problems. In June he started experiencing fever and aches, but he was not allowed to see a doctor until the beginning of August. Das Ruas now cannot stand for more than 30 minutes without pain. A wheelchair was delivered to him on 15 August but he was initially stopped from using it. Gilson Moreira, known as Tanaice Neutro, has had bowel surgery scheduled since 2022, which he was denied when he was imprisoned for 18 months. Amnesty International said he had continued to be prevented from having surgery. Ana da Silva Miguel, an influencer also known as Neth Nahara, was arrested in August last year after she criticised the president in a TikTok livestream. Nahara, who is HIV positive, was denied her medication for eight months, Amnesty said. Angola\u2019s ministry of justice and human rights did not respond to requests for comment. The oil-rich country has in recent years been courted by the US and the EU as they seek to fund infrastructure projects and counter Chinese influence."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Death toll reaches 16 as \u2018dramatic\u2019 flooding in central Europe continues;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/dramatic-flooding-in-central-europe-continues;2024-09-16T12:28:01Z",
        "text": "The death toll from torrential rain and flooding in central and eastern Europe has risen to at least 16, with several more people missing, as authorities reported deaths in the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria and warned the worst may yet be to come. The number of victims in Poland rose to five after a surgeon returning from work drowned in the south-western town of Nysa, where the hospital was evacuated and patients rescued by raft. Four more people had died in the southern towns of Bielsko-Bia\u0142a and L\u0105dek-Zdr\u00f3j, firefighters said. In Austria, local media reported that two men aged 70 and 80 drowned after being trapped by rising flood water in their homes in the towns of B\u00f6heimkirchen and Sierndorf, both in the hard-hit north-eastern state of Lower Austria. The Czech police chief, Martin Vondr\u00e1\u0161ek, told local radio a woman had drowned in a stream that overflowed its banks near Brunt\u00e1l, a town of about 15,000 people in the north-east of the country, while seven more people were still unaccounted for. Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes across a swathe of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia as Storm Boris unleashed the worst flooding recorded in the region for more than two decades. It was described by one Romanian mayor as a \u201ccatastrophe of epic proportions\u201d. The flood water burst dams, inundated streets, knocked out electricity and in some places submerged whole neighbourhoods. \u201cI have lived here for 16 years and I have never seen such flooding,\u201d one Austrian woman, Judith Dickson, told public radio. Seven people died in Romania over the weekend, as well as one in Poland and a firefighter in Austria. The rain was expected to ease in many areas on Monday but, with some rivers unlikely to reach peak water levels for days, several major cities were preparing for potentially disastrous flooding. Extreme rainfall is becoming more common and more intense because of human-caused climate breakdown across most of the world, particularly in Europe, most of Asia, central and eastern North America, and parts of South America, Africa and Australia. Poland\u2019s prime minister, Donald Tusk, declared a state of emergency in the flooded areas and announced an emergency aid fund of 1bn zlotys, while his counterpart in Hungary, Viktor Orb\u00e1n, cancelled all his international engagements. Tusk said he was in touch with the leaders of other affected countries and that they would ask the EU for financial help. \u201cFrom today, anyone affected by the flood \u2013 flooding, collapsed buildings, flooded garages, lost cars, losses linked to the flood \u2013 will be able to easily\u201d claim funds, he added. More than 2,600 people were evacuated across Poland in the last 24 hours, according to the defence minister, W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz. Micha\u0142 Piszko, mayor of the Polish town of K\u0142odzko on the Czech border, said waters were receding but aid was badly needed. \u201cWe need bottled water and dry provisions ... half of the city has no electricity,\u201d he told Polish radio. The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, described images from the flooded areas in Austria, the Czech Republic, Romania and Poland as \u201cdramatic\u201d and said Germany was \u201cdeeply saddened by the news of dead and missing people\u201d and ready to help. Hungary\u2019s capital, Budapest, was bracing for severe flooding as the Danube rose. The interior minister, S\u00e1ndor Pint\u00e9r, said efforts were focused on keeping the river and its tributaries within their banks and said up to 12,000 soldiers were on standby to help. Slovakia\u2019s capital, Bratislava, was also on a high state of alert, while the 600,000 residents of Wroc\u0142aw in Poland were told water levels might not peak before Wednesday. Austria\u2019s chancellor Karl Nehammer said the situation in his country \u201ccontinues to worsen\u201d, particularly in Lower Austria, which has been declared a disaster area. More than 10,000 relief workers had evacuated 1,100 houses in the state, he said. Lower Austria\u2019s governor, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, said people there were facing \u201cdifficult and dramatic hours \u2026 probably the most difficult hours of their lives\u201d. The municipality of Lilienfeld, with about 25,000 residents, was completely cut off from the outside world, local media reported. So far 12 dams have broken and thousands of households were without electricity and water, authorities said. \u201cIt is not over,\u201d Mikl-Leitner added. \u201cIt stays critical. It stays dramatic.\u201d She said there there was a high risk of more dams breaking and it was as yet too early to assess the scale of the damage. The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, urged people to \u201cfollow the instructions of mayors and firefighters\u201d. As of Sunday evening, he said, emergency services had dealt with 7,884 incidents and 119,000 households were without power. At least 12,000 people had been evacuated from their homes across the country, Fiala said, adding that although the rain had stopped in the most affected areas, the situation would become critical for others as the storm moves westwards and rivers continue to rise. \u201cVery difficult days for many people, unfortunately, continue,\u201d Fiala said on Monday, with 207 areas across the country facing flood conditions. The most critical situation was in southern Bohemia, he said, adding: \u201cPlease be careful and responsible.\u201d The rising Morava River put about 70% of the Czech city of Litovel, 140 miles (230km) east of the capital, Prague, underwater overnight, its mayor told local media, shutting down schools and health facilities. In the country\u2019s third biggest city, Ostrava, a power plant supplying heat and hot water to the city was forced to shut down. Thousands were evacuated from their homes in Krnov and \u010cesk\u00fd T\u011b\u0161\u00edn. In Opava, up to 10,000 people out of a population of about 56,000 were asked to move to higher ground. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason to wait,\u201d the mayor, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Navr\u00e1til, told Czech public radio, saying the situation was worse than during the last devastating floods in 1997, known as the \u201cflood of the century\u201d. Romania\u2019s prime minister, Marcel Ciolacu, said the country would \u201cclean up and see what can be salvaged\u201d, adding that compared with the worst recent flooding in 2013, \u201cthe amount of water was almost three times bigger\u201d. One resident of the Romanian village of Pechea, in the stricken Galati region, told Agence France-Presse: \u201cThe water came into the house, it destroyed the walls, everything. It took the chickens, the rabbits, everything. It took the oven, the washing machine, the refrigerator. I have nothing left.\u201d The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, expressed solidarity with those affected by flooding and she said the EU would provide support. The climate emergency is causing more incidents of extreme rainfall because warmer air can hold more water vapour. Flooding has most likely become more frequent and severe as a result, but human factors, such as the existence of flood defences and land use, are also important."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Climate scientists troubled by damage from floods ravaging central Europe;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/climate-scientists-troubled-by-damage-from-floods-ravaging-central-europe;2024-09-16T11:03:16Z",
        "text": "Picturesque towns across central Europe are inundated by dirty flood water after heavy weekend rains turned tranquil streams into raging rivers that wreaked havoc on infrastructure. The floods have killed at least 15 people and destroyed buildings from Austria to Romania. The destruction comes after devastating floods around the world last week when entire villages were submerged in Myanmar and nearly 300 prisoners escape a collapsed jail in Nigeria, where floods have affected more than 1 million people. Climate scientists say they are troubled by the damage but unsurprised by the intensity. \u201cThe catastrophic rainfall hitting central Europe is exactly what scientists expect with climate change,\u201d said Joyce Kimutai, of Imperial College London\u2019s Grantham Institute. She said the death and damage across Africa and Europe highlighted \u201chow poorly prepared the world is for such floods\u201d. Scientists take care when attributing extreme rains to human influence because so many factors shape the water cycle. Although it is well established that hotter air can hold more moisture, whether violent downpours occur also depends on how much water is available to fall. Sonia Seneviratne, a climate scientist at ETH Z\u00fcrich, said immediate analyses of the central European floods suggested most of the water vapour came from the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea, both of which have grown hotter as a result of human-induced climate breakdown, resulting in more water evaporating into the air. \u201cOn average, the intensity of heavy precipitation events increases by 7% for each degree of global warming,\u201d she said. \u201cWe now have 1.2C of global warming, which means that on average heavy precipitation events are 8% more intense.\u201d Weather station data indicates that bursts of September rainfall have become heavier in Germany, Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia since 1950, Kimutai said. In Poland, the floods collapsed a bridge and washed houses away, according to local media. In the Czech Republic, helicopters rescued stranded citizens from rising waters. In Austria, one firefighter is reported to have died in the rescue efforts. In the Austrian capital, Vienna, which has been home to Europe\u2019s biggest weather and climate conference since 2005, the rain flooded a motorway and closed metro lines. Erich Fischer, a climate scientist at ETH Z\u00fcrich, said scientists at the conference used to discuss the physics of how climate change increases rainfall intensity over lunch on the banks of the New Danube. \u201cIt is ironic to now see these banks, where we were sitting in the sun and discussing the science of extreme precipitation, now being flooded.\u201d The death toll from floods hinges on how well communities prepare for the rain and respond to its effects. Scientists have urged governments to invest in adapting to extreme weather events through early warning systems, more resilient infrastructure and support schemes for victims, while also ending their reliance on fossil fuels. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that even highly developed countries are not safe from climate change,\u201d said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at the Grantham Institute. \u201cAs long as the world burns oil, gas and coal, heavy rainfall and other weather extremes will intensify, making our planet a more dangerous and expensive place to live.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Germany reintroduces border checks to far-right praise as EU tensions mount;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/germany-reintroduces-border-checks-to-far-right-praise-as-eu-tensions-mount;2024-09-16T06:38:44Z",
        "text": "Germany has reintroduced temporary checks at all nine of its land borders in a move that has drawn criticism from several of its European partners but praise from the far right. The embattled coalition government in Berlin said last week that checks already being carried out on its borders with Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland would be extended to France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark. The decision came after a series of deadly knife attacks in which the suspects were asylum seekers, and historic successes by the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland party (AfD) in two crunch state elections in the east of the country. Nancy Faeser, the country\u2019s interior minister, said the border checks would curb migration and \u201cprotect against the acute dangers posed by Islamist terrorism and serious crime,\u201d but critics have denounced it as politically motivated and likely to be largely ineffective. Europe\u2019s passport-free Schengen zone, which includes 25 EU nations plus four others including Switzerland and Norway, allows free movement without border checks and is thought of as one of the bloc\u2019s biggest achievements as well as a critical economic asset. Temporary checks are allowed in exceptional circumstances to avert specific threats to internal security or public policy. Eight members currently impose them on selected borders, citing increased terror threats or pressure on asylum capacity. Poland\u2019s prime minister, Donald Tusk, was the first to openly criticise Germany\u2019s decision, calling it \u201cunacceptable from Poland\u2019s viewpoint\u201d and demanding more help from Berlin in securing the EU\u2019s external borders rather than tighter internal controls. Warsaw has proposed consultations with all EU member states bordering Germany to address a decision Tusk said was a result of the country\u2019s \u201cinternal political situation\u201d and could lead to \u201cthe de facto suspension of the Schengen agreement on a large scale\u201d. Greece\u2019s prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said on Thursday it would be wrong to \u201cmove to a logic of ad hoc exemptions from the Schengen agreement, with border controls that will \u2026 hurt one of the fundamental achievements of the EU.\u201d The response, Mitsotakis said, \u201ccannot be unilaterally scrapping Schengen\u201d. Others, however, were more sanguine, with the Czech interior minister, Vit Rakusan, saying he did not expect much material change as checks would mostly be random. Far-right leaders were jubilant in response to the news. Geert Wilders of the Dutch Freedom party (PVV) said Berlin\u2019s decision was a \u201cgreat idea\u201d and asked when the Netherlands would follow suit, while the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orb\u00e0n, said on X: \u201cWelcome to the club.\u201d Marine Le Pen of France\u2019s National Rally said her party had proposed a \u201cdouble \u2013 external and internal border \u2013 system\u201d in recent elections and been told it was not possible. \u201cNow Germany is doing it,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen will France follow?\u201d Giorgia Meloni\u2019s far-right Brothers of Italy party has praised Berlin\u2019s decision. Orb\u00e0n\u2019s chief of staff, Gergely Guly\u00e1s, said laxity on the EU\u2019s external borders combined with tougher internal border checks were combining to \u201cdestroy free movement\u201d. The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, whose divided three-party coalition is trailing far behind AfD and the centre-right opposition Christian Democrats (CDU) in the polls a year before federal elections, has defended the decision. With days to go before another critical state election in Brandenburg which the AfD is expected to win, Scholz told parliament the move was necessary and the government would \u201ccontinue with it, even though it is getting difficult with our neighbours\u201d. It is not yet clear what the impact of the increased border checks will be. Berlin has pledged to \u201ccoordinate closely with our neighbours \u2026 and keep the impact on everyday life in the border regions as low as possible\u201d. The interior ministry last week insisted the measures, scheduled to last an initial six months, would be in line with existing border controls \u2013 in other words, random spot checks or targeting specific vehicles based on police intelligence. Freight industry representatives have said they believe the tighter checks should not lead to excessive tailbacks and consequent economic losses, but associations for cross-border workers have said they will be watching the situation closely. More likely, analysts suggest, are rising tensions with Germany\u2019s neighbours if the checks \u2013 along with plans to make it easier to turn people back directly at the border \u2013 lead to authorities returning many more people to the country they arrive from."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Monday briefing: How Manchester City\u2019s 130 legal battles could turn football upside down;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/first-edition-manchester-city-premier-league-legal-battle;2024-09-16T05:49:51Z",
        "text": "Good morning. Donald Trump says he is \u201cunharmed\u201d after what the FBI believes was the second attempt on the former president\u2019s life in two months. On Sunday, Trump was golfing at his club in West Palm Beach Florida when a US Secret Service agent spotted a man with a firearm. The suspect fled after the agent opened fire, but he was later detained and remains in custody. For now, it remains too early to speculate on the motives of the alleged attacker, or on how this latest twist will affect the election that is now less than two months away. Today\u2019s newsletter is on one of the most significant legal cases in football history, but for the latest information on the attempted assassination, you can follow live updates on the story and if you need a quick summary of what has happened overnight, we\u2019ve got that covered here. ---------------------------------------- When Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi\u2019s ruling family acquired Manchester City in 2008, the club had only won two league titles and had gone without a trophy for 32 seasons. After decades of purgatory, the last 16 years under Mansour have been defined by a turbo-charged transformation that turned the club into a record-breaking machine. The club made history this year by winning the Premier League title for the fourth time in a row (and its sixth in seven years), sealing a streak of unparalleled dominance. These wins have come at a steep cost \u2013 by 2018, City\u2019s owners had spent over \u00a31.3bn directly investing in players, managers, the home stadium and marketing worldwide. But, over the years, there have been accusations that the club\u2019s financial transactions have not all been above board. Last February, the Premier League announced the Sky Blues were facing 115 breaches of its financial rules, which later increased to 130. The case into possible financial impropriety begins today at an unknown location and is expected to run for 10 weeks. For today\u2019s newsletter, I spoke with Jonathan Wilson, who writes the Guardian US football newsletter, about City\u2019s legal battle and what it tells us about the impact of ever-increasing amounts of money on the sport. That\u2019s right after the headlines. Five big stories Europe | Germany will reintroduce temporary checks at all nine of its land borders on Monday in a move that has drawn criticism from several of its European partners but praise from the far right. The decision came after a series of deadly knife attacks in which the suspects were asylum seekers, and historic successes by the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland party in two state elections. Environment | The UK government is planning to appoint a special envoy for nature for the first time, in an attempt to put the UK at the centre of global efforts to tackle the world\u2019s ecological crises, the Guardian has learned. Labour | Keir Starmer is under pressure to distance his government from Giorgia Meloni\u2019s hard-right immigration policies. After the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, said the UK would consider copying Italy\u2019s plans to process asylum applicants in a third country, one backbencher questioned why a Labour administration was \u201cseeking to learn lessons from a neo-fascist government\u201d. Welfare | Black and other ethnic minority benefit claimants are disproportionately likely to be hit with universal credit sanctions \u2013 financial penalties typically running into hundreds of pounds \u2013 according to official statistics unveiled for the first time. Emmys | Sh\u014dgun has made Emmys history as the first ever non-English language series to win for best drama. Hacks was the surprise winner of best comedy series, beating out previous winner The Bear and Abbott Elementary. The Bear took the majority of the comedy awards, winning four Emmys. In depth: \u2018We could be talking in terms of hundreds of points being docked\u2019 Jonathan traces this story all the way back to the early 1990s, when top-tier clubs broke away from the Football League to form the Premier League. This nascent league consciously adopted \u201ca very light-touch regulatory approach and that meant that pretty much anybody could buy a club\u201d. What no one anticipated at the time were the oligarchs, venture capitalists and even states that would eventually be investing in English football. Manchester City\u2019s most recent legal woes began in 2018 when German magazine Der Spiegel published leaked emails, and alleged that the club\u2019s owners were breaking Uefa\u2019s financial fair play (known as FFP) regulations through fabricated sponsorship deals and secret contracts. The club was also allegedly paying players using surplus funds from the Abu Dhabi royals, which amounted to more than was in the club\u2019s accounts. The allegations sparked a Uefa investigation that eventually led to a two-year ban from European football. (The ban was eventually lifted after an appeal and the club were instead told to pay an \u00a38m fine). The scrutiny subsided until February 2023, when the Premier League brought a catalogue of charges against the club. *** The Premier League charges Despite the scale and seriousness of the charges, there was no press conference or announcement. \u201cThere was no great moment,\u201d Jonathan says. \u201cThey just suddenly cropped up on the Premier League\u2019s website and everybody became aware of it quite slowly.\u201d Broadly, the Premier League has accused Manchester City of repeatedly breaching financial rules across nine seasons. The 130 charges include: \u2022 54 breaches of failing to provide accurate and up-to-date financial information from 2009/10 to 2017/18. \u2022 14 breaches of failing to provide accurate financial reports for player and manager compensation from 2009/10 to 2017/18. \u2022 Five breaches of failing to comply with Uefa\u2019s regulations, including Uefa\u2019s club licensing and financial fair play regulations. \u2022 Seven breaches of Premier League profitability and sustainability regulations from 2015/16 to 2017/18. \u2022 35 breaches of failing to cooperate with Premier League investigations from December 2018 to present. The hearing will litigate these charges, but a verdict is not expected until next spring. When the charges were brought against them, Manchester City said it was \u201csurprised\u201d and issued a full-throated denial of all the charges. *** The stakes There has been a lot of speculation about what could happen to Manchester City if it is found guilty of some or all of these breaches. The punishment could range from a substantial fine to a points deduction, relegation or even expulsion from the league. \u201cWe\u2019re not sure what expulsion from the league means in practice because presumably City would try to rejoin, but it\u2019s not clear if they would join at the Championship or League Two or whether they would have to start even lower down,\u201d Jonathan says. Last season, Everton were docked eight points for much smaller infractions than the allegations against Manchester City. \u201cSo we could be talking in terms of hundreds of points being docked,\u201d Jonathan says. \u201cObviously, once you get beyond about 60 or 70 it\u2019s irrelevant because you\u2019re already bottom of the league \u2013 there\u2019s no difference\u201d. If this were to happen, City would inevitably appeal, as it did in the Uefa investigation, and it would probably mark a new phase in a very lengthy, very expensive legal battle. Even if City is exonerated, or given a less serious punishment like a fine or a ban from signing players for a year or two, the situation has already left other clubs in the Premier League\u201cfurious\u201d, Jonathan says. He says that if Manchester City isn\u2019t severely reprimanded, \u201c[other clubs] are briefing that they are prepared to take legal action of their own and potentially even quit the Premier League and go back into the Football League\u201d. Taking the steps to actually quit the league may prove too difficult in the end, but the fact that some clubs are threatening to do so demonstrates the level of anger and the enthusiasm to see City penalised. The Premier League is in a bind either way. Losing this case would deal a heavy blow to its credibility and authority, while winning would inevitably lead to an extensive and extremely costly legal battle against City that could go on for years. *** The bigger picture The effects of this case on football as a whole could be seismic because it threatens to fundamentally disrupt trust in the sport. \u201cAs soon as you think that what you\u2019re watching could be overturned in a court later on, then why would you invest emotionally in that?\u201d Jonathan asks. Once points get docked and the lead position is determined not by results on the pitch but by what happens in these committees, people will inevitably be turned off. The legal battles and financial regulation have begun to subsume the sport itself, Jonathan says. \u201cI think it\u2019s a great shame for Manchester City this season that [City\u2019s lawyer] Lord Pannick is almost as important as Erling Haaland, and that\u2019s really not the way it ought to be,\u201d Jonathan says. However, the City case is just one strand, Jonathan adds, of a much wider problem in the sport and \u201cwe are reaching crisis point\u201d. \u201cThe problem now with pretty much every European league is that the big teams win everything all the time,\u201d Jonathan says, which disrupts the competitive balance of the games. Inevitably, as these teams win they become wealthier, allowing them to buy the best players and managers, and the cycle continues. As Jonathan says, \u201cthe greed is phenomenal\u201d. What else we\u2019ve been reading I loved Neneh Cherry answering Observer reader questions, expertly threaded together by Miranda Sawyer. Hannah J Davies, deputy editor, newsletters 625,000 children in Gaza are starting a second academic year with no school. Bethan McKernan spoke with educators trying to maintain some semblance of normality for them, although \u2013 sadly \u2013 \u201cno ceasefire that could help restore normality is on the horizon\u201d. Nimo Hannah Ewens is strong on star singer Chappell Roan and why a whole generation now struggles to respect musicians\u2019 boundaries. Hannah It often feels like every corner of London is littered with Lime e-bikes, strewn about haphazardly across the pavement. One council has said enough is enough. Sammy Gecsoyler spoke with the leader of Brent council, the first in the UK that is trying to impose a ban on the bikes. Nimo I loved Ammar Kalia\u2019s latest New start after 60 column on Norma Geddes, who found her inner artist at 70. Just look how gorgeous Norma\u2019s stained glass is! Hannah Sport Football | Arsenal left rival Tottenham\u2019s stadium with a win for the third season in a row after Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es\u2019 second-half header settled a feisty and physical north London derby. Newcastle fought back from a half-time deficit with two long-range strikes in the space of five minutes to beat Wolverhampton 2-1, moving into third place in the Premier League. Golf | Suzann Pettersen vowed Europe would \u201ccome back very hungry\u201d after losing the Solheim Cup for the first time since 2017. The US held off a brave fightback from Pettersen\u2019s side to win 15.5 to 12.5 at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia, where world number two Lilia Vu birdied the final two holes against Swiss rookie Albane Valenzuela to edge a nervy home team over the line. Formula One | Oscar Piastri won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix with an exceptional drive for McLaren after an enormously tense battle to the flag with Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc in Baku. Lando Norris made a superb and unlikely comeback drive to take fourth having started in 15th to keep his title hopes alive, finishing in front of title rival Max Verstappen who was fifth. The front pages The Guardian leads with \u201cTrump targeted in attempted assassination at his golf course\u201d. The Times has \u201cTrump targeted again in attempted assassination\u201d, while the Telegraph follows the same story with \u201cTrump \u2018targeted by gunman\u2019 on his golf course\u201d. The Financial Times looks ahead to the presidential election with \u201cHarris maintains post-debate lead over Trump on economy, says poll\u201d. The i reports \u201cPM sets sights on Italy-style migration deal to tackle small boats crisis.\u201d The Mail has \u201cWhy can\u2019t millionaire Starmers buy their own clothes?\u201d The Mirror reports on \u201colive branch\u201d moves from King Charles and Prince William on Prince Harry\u2019s 40th birthday, with \u201cRoyal peace gesture\u201d. Today in Focus Revenge of the childless cat ladies Elle Hunt reports on how Donald Trump\u2019s vice-presidential running mate JD Vance calling Democrats \u201cchildless cat ladies\u201d backfired. Cartoon of the day | Edith Pritchett Sign up for Inside Saturday to see more of Edith Pritchett\u2019s cartoons, the best Saturday magazine content and an exclusive look behind the scenes The Upside A bit of good news to remind you that the world\u2019s not all bad In the heart of east London, Anthony Ussher has transformed a small patch of land into a thriving garden, blending his passion for sustainable living with innovative composting techniques. What began as a Covid lockdown project to mend fences \u2013 literally and figuratively \u2013 with his neighbour has evolved into City Soil Lab, a unique composting initiative that turns food waste collected from nearby restaurants into nutrient-rich material. Ussher uses fermentation composting to enrich the garden and to grow herbs and vegetables, which are often on the menu at local high-end restaurants. This example of a closed-loop system is just the start of the project, with other small-scale experiments planned locally. Sign up here for a weekly roundup of The Upside, sent to you every Sunday Bored at work? And finally, the Guardian\u2019s puzzles are here to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until tomorrow. Quick crossword Cryptic crossword Wordiply"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Quite shocking\u2019 lack of government contact during UK riots, says MCB head;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/muslim-council-of-britain-zara-mohammed-labour-government-riots;2024-09-16T05:00:16Z",
        "text": "The head of the Muslim Council of Britain has called for an explanation and a review of the government\u2019s policy of non-engagement with the body after her appeals for contact during the summer riots were ignored. Zara Mohammed, who was elected more than three years ago as the MCB\u2019s youngest and first female secretary general, said there had been a \u201cquite shocking\u201d lack of contact with the new government at a time when mobs were targeting Muslims and mosques. The MCB had been \u201cheavily engaged\u201d with Labour\u2019s shadow cabinet when the party was in opposition, including a meeting in 2021 between Mohammed and Keir Starmer where they discussed \u201cthe importance of engaging with Muslim communities\u201d, she said. Downing Street then ignored attempts to discuss the dangers being posed to Muslim people during the riots, Mohammed said, even as Northern Ireland\u2019s first minister, Michelle O\u2019Neill, and senior police officers held talks with her in Belfast. Mohammed, 33, whose tenure as MCB leader will end in January, said she hoped ministers would now review the government\u2019s \u201cbaffling\u201d approach to the UK\u2019s largest Muslim umbrella group, which has more than 500 affiliated members including mosques, schools and charitable associations. She said: \u201cThere\u2019s been no official communication from government since the election, and when the riots happened, I guess that\u2019s where we would have expected. \u201cWe appreciated that, with any new government, they\u2019ve got to settle in, and there\u2019s got to be some time to work out [things]. There\u2019s a lot of things going on in the country, economic downturns, we appreciate that. \u201cBut I think what was really disappointing, and perhaps for many in the Muslim community, quite shocking, was no formal or meaningful engagement with the Muslim Council of Britain during a time when mosques and Muslims were being targeted by the far right in a terrifying way.\u201d The Conservative government had a policy of non-engagement with the MCB and in a statement to parliament on 1 August the Labour communities minister Alex Norris disclosed that there had \u201cbeen no change to HMG [his majesty\u2019s government] policy and there are no plans for ministers to meet with the Muslim Council of Britain\u201d. The new government has not expanded on its approach but the reason given to parliament by Rishi Sunak\u2019s administration for its policy of non-engagement was that \u201cprevious MCB leaders have taken positions that contradict our fundamental values and these have not been explicitly retracted\u201d. That statement was a reference to a row dating back to 2009 when the then MCB deputy secretary general, Daud Abdullah, signed a document known as the Istanbul declaration, which advocated attacks on the Royal Navy if it tried to stop arms for Hamas being smuggled into Gaza. The then Labour government said it would have nothing more to do with the MCB unless Abdullah stepped down. He did resign and the MCB said the views expressed did not represent those of the body, leading to a re-engagement in the last year of Gordon Brown\u2019s government. Liberal Democrat ministers in the coalition government elected in 2010 also engaged with the MCB. Penny Mordaunt, when she was the Conservative paymaster general, had a meeting with Mohammed in 2021 but was heavily criticised in parts of the media, including the Daily Mail. Mohammed said the MCB had since been \u201clocked out\u201d, although she added that policy had not been consistent, with the body providing a reference service for the appointment of Muslim chaplains by the Ministry of Defence until it was highlighted in a Daily Telegraph article last year. Last week the deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, told the Commons that the government was \u201cactively considering\u201d its approach to tackling Islamophobia. Mohammed said she was \u201coptimistic\u201d that the government would \u201cget its act together\u201d. She said: \u201cI think what I\u2019m hopeful of is that the government will review the former position and will look at offering a position of clarity as to why [they are not engaging], and having a conversation with us to see, you know, what are the challenges; what are the blocks in 2024, not in 2009. \u201cUltimately, talking to a national body is critical when it comes to national representative issues. That\u2019s why we exist, because those mosques sign up to be an umbrella where we\u2019ve had big political issues to talk about. \u201cWe never claim to be the only voice for British Muslims. We claim to represent our bodies. But just as other faith communities have representative bodies, of course, we have one, and of course we want to vocalise on the policy issues, on national representation.\u201d A spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \u201cThe government engages regularly with faith communities. During the recent disorder, the minister for faith spoke to representatives of Muslim communities through numerous roundtables and visits to places of worship.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ukraine war briefing: people trapped after Russian strike on Kharkiv apartment block, Zelenskiy says ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/ukraine-war-briefing-people-trapped-after-russian-strike-on-kharkiv-apartment-block-zelenskiy-says;2024-09-16T01:01:17Z",
        "text": "One person has died and at least 41 people were wounded on Sunday afternoon when a Russian guided bomb struck a multi-storey residential building in Kharkiv, mayor Ihor Terekhov said, adding that the bomb hit the 10th floor of the building, with the fire spreading across four storeys. Prosecutors in Kharkiv said on Telegram the body of a 94-year-old woman had been recovered from the ninth floor of the building. Twelve other buildings were also damaged, Terekhov said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday night that rescue operations were under way at the 12-storey building, with people trapped under the rubble. He said three children were among 35 people injured. \u201cIn this single strike on Kharkiv, four air bombs were dropped. One hit the building in the city, and the other three struck villages in the region,\u201d he said. Russia did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the attack but has previously denied intentionally targeting civilians despite having killed thousands of them since it invaded Ukraine in 2022. Zelenskiy on Sunday again appealed for a shift in the west\u2019s policy on the use of long-range weapons, saying Russia was carrying out at least 100 airstrikes comparable to the one that hit Kharkiv every day. \u201cThe only way to counter this terror is through a systemic solution \u2013 long-range capabilities to destroy Russian military aviation at its bases. This is an obvious, logical solution. We have already explained to all our partners why Ukraine truly needs sufficient long-range capabilities,\u201d he said on X. Moscow and Kyiv exchanged drone and missile attacks over the weekend. The Ukrainian air force said on Sunday it shot down 10 of the 14 drones and one of the three missiles Russia launched overnight. Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said it downed 29 Ukrainian drones overnight into Sunday over western and south-western regions, with no damage caused by the falling debris. It also said another Ukrainian drone was shot down on Sunday morning over the western Ryazan region. Ukrainian troops are suffering high losses because western arms are arriving too slowly to equip the armed forces properly, Zelenskiy told CNN in an interview aired on Sunday. Russia has been gaining ground in parts of eastern Ukraine including around Pokrovsk. Capture of the transport hub could enable Moscow to open new lines of attack. Zelenskiy said the situation in the east was \u201cvery tough\u201d, adding that half of Ukraine\u2019s brigades there were not equipped. \u201cSo you lose a lot of people. You lose people because they are not in armed vehicles \u2026 they don\u2019t have artillery, they don\u2019t have artillery rounds,\u201d said Zelenskiy, speaking in English. CNN said the interview had been conducted on Friday. Zelenskiy said weapons aid packages promised by the United States and European nations were arriving very slowly. \u201cWe need 14 brigades to be ready. Until now \u2026 from these packages we didn\u2019t equip even four,\u201d he said. The only thing Russian president Vladimir Putin fears is the reaction of his people if the cost of the war makes them suffer, Zelenskiy said. \u201cMake Ukraine strong, and you will see that he will sit and negotiate\u201d. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Saturday said Washington was working on a \u201csubstantial\u201d new aid package for Ukraine. Zelenskiy is due to meet President Joe Biden this month and will present a plan to seek an end to the war. The main elements are security and diplomatic support, as well as military and economic aid, he said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Netanyahu tells Houthis they will pay \u2018heavy price\u2019 as missile hits Israel;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/15/netanyahu-tells-houthis-they-will-pay-heavy-price-as-missile-hits-israel;2024-09-15T18:21:31Z",
        "text": "The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has warned Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels will pay a \u201cheavy price\u201d after the group claimed its first ballistic missile strike on Israel and its leader warned of bigger attacks to come. The missile \u2013 claimed by the Houthis as an advanced surface-to-surface hypersonic missile \u2013 triggered air sirens across the country at about 6.30am, and local media aired footage of people racing to shelters at Ben Gurion international airport south-east of Tel Aviv. According to reports, it hit an open area in the Ben Shemen forest, causing a fire near Kfar Daniel. There were no reports of casualties or damage. The Israeli military is investigating whether the fire was the result of falling fragments caused by the interceptor missiles launched at the projectile, or if it successfully penetrated Israeli air defences as the Houthis have claimed. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that interceptors from Israel\u2019s Iron Dome and Arrow air defence systems were deployed but said it had not yet determined whether any had been successful. It said an \u201cinitial inquiry indicates the missile most likely fragmented in mid-air [after] several interception attempts\u201d, adding that \u201cthe entire incident is under review\u201d. Netanyahu hinted at a military response in a statement released at the start of a cabinet meeting on Sunday. \u201cThis morning, the Houthis launched a surface-to-surface missile from Yemen into our territory. They should have known by now that we charge a heavy price for any attempt to harm us,\u201d he said. \u201cThose who need a reminder in this matter are invited to visit the port of Hodeidah,\u201d he added, referring to Yemen\u2019s Red Sea city, which Israeli warplanes bombed in July after the Houthis claimed a drone strike that killed a civilian in Tel Aviv. The Houthi leader, Abdul-Malek al-Houthi, warned on Sunday of further attacks on Israel. \u201cThe operation our forces carried out today with an advanced Yemeni missile is part of the fifth stage of the escalation. What is to come will be greater,\u201d he said in a speech. Nasruddin Amer, the deputy head of the Houthi media office, described the attack as the \u201cbeginning\u201d, claiming in a post on X that a Yemeni missile had reached Israel after \u201c20 missiles failed to intercept\u201d. A Houthi military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said a \u201cnew hypersonic ballistic missile\u201d had been aimed towards an Israeli military target, which crossed 1,270 miles in 11 minutes and which the IDF failed to intercept, while another senior Houthi official, Hezam al-Asad, posted a taunting message in Hebrew on X. Israeli media reports suggested the missile had been detected at a very late stage.\u201cThe warhead of this missile is separate from the body, and with the help of wings and jam-proof navigation systems it zigzags its way towards the target, which can make interception systems very difficult,\u201d said a report on the Ynet newspaper website. The Houthis, who, like Hezbollah, are aligned with Iran, have repeatedly fired drones and missiles toward Israel since the start of the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, but nearly all of them have been intercepted over the Red Sea. They have also repeatedly attacked commercial shipping in what they portray as a blockade against Israel in support of the Palestinians, although most of the targeted vessels have no connection to Israel. If Sunday\u2019s strike is confirmed, it would mark the first instance of a missile launched from Yemen landing on Israeli soil. In July, an Iranian-made drone sent by Yemen\u2019s rebels struck Tel Aviv, killing one person and wounding at least 10. At the time, the drone appeared to have crossed much of the country through the multilayered air defences that have intercepted almost all Houthi drones and rockets since the war in Gaza began. The incident will raise concerns across Israel about the ability of the country\u2019s anti-ballistic missiles systems to defend it from attacks that could come simultaneously from Gaza, Iran, Lebanon and Yemen. The ballistic missile launched from Yemen was anticipated, with the Houthi foreign minister issuing an early warning the previous day. A senior Biden administration official told CNN in June that Israel\u2019s air defences risked being overwhelmed by multiple attacks. On Sunday morning, the Israeli military also reported that approximately 40 projectiles had been launched from Lebanon, with the majority being intercepted or landing in uninhabited regions. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border, and Netanyahu said on Sunday that the current situation was not sustainable. \u201cThe existing situation will not continue. We will do everything necessary to return our residents safely to their homes,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are in a multi-arena campaign against Iran\u2019s evil axis that strives to destroy us.\u201d Tensions are also high in the West Bank, where Israeli military operations have been going on for weeks and violence has reached unprecedented levels, posing a significant threat to local communities. A UN worker was fatally shot by a sniper while on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank on Saturday. Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, who worked as a sanitation worker with Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, became the first employee of the agency to be killed in the West Bank in more than a decade. The incident came as mourners gathered in Turkey to lay to rest a US-Turkish activist who was killed by the Israeli military during a protest in the West Bank this month. In a separate development on Sunday evening, an Israeli border police officer was lightly wounded in a stabbing attack at the Damascus Gate entrance to Jerusalem\u2019s Old City, police said. The assailant attacked the officer with a sharp object before attempting to flee into the Old City, according to authorities. A police spokesperson said the attacker was shot and \u201cneutralised\u201d. Ten months into Israel\u2019s war on Gaza, the death toll has passed 41,000, according to health authorities there. Most of the dead are civilians and the total represents nearly 2% of Gaza\u2019s prewar population, or one in every 50 residents. The conflict was triggered by Hamas\u2019s attack on 7 October in which 1,200 people died and about 250 were taken hostage."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Catastrophe of epic proportions\u2019: eight drown in Europe amid heavy floods;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/15/catastrophe-of-epic-proportions-six-drown-in-europe-amid-heavy-floods-storm-boris-poland-austria-slovakia-hungary;2024-09-15T15:45:34Z",
        "text": "Eight people have drowned in Austria, Poland and Romania and four others are missing in the Czech Republic as Storm Boris continues to lash central and eastern Europe, bringing torrential rain and floods that have forced the evacuation of thousands of people from their homes. Swathes of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia have been battered by high winds and unusually fierce rains since Thursday. Austria\u2019s vice-chancellor, Werner Kogler, said on Sunday that a firefighter had died tackling flooding in Lower Austria, as authorities declared the province, which surrounds the capital, Vienna, a disaster area. Some areas of the Tirol were blanketed by up to a metre (3ft) of snow \u2013 an exceptional situation for mid-September, which saw temperatures of up to 30C (86F) last week. Rail services were suspended in the country\u2019s east early on Sunday and several metro lines were shut down in Vienna, where the Wien River was threatening to overflow its banks, according to the APA news agency. Emergency services made nearly 5,000 interventions overnight in Lower Austria where flooding had trapped many residents in their homes. Firefighters have intervened about 150 times in Vienna since Friday to clear roads blocked by storm debris and pump water from cellars, local media reported. Extreme rainfall is more common and more intense because of human-caused climate breakdown across most of the world, particularly in Europe, most of Asia, central and eastern North America, and parts of South America, Africa and Australia. This is because warmer air can hold more water vapour. Flooding has most likely become more frequent and severe in these locations as a result, but is also affected by human factors, such as the existence of flood defences and land use. Poland\u2019s prime minister, Donald Tusk, said one person in the K\u0142odzko region had drowned. Tusk was travelling through the south-west of the country, which has been hit hardest by the floods. About 1,600 people have been evacuated in K\u0142odzko, and Polish authorities have called in the army to support firefighters on the scene. \u201cThe situation is very dramatic,\u201d Tusk said on Sunday after a meeting in K\u0142odzko, which was partly under water as the local river rose to 6.7 metres on Sunday morning \u2013 well above the alarm level of 2.4 metres \u2013 before receding slightly. That surpassed a record set during heavy flooding in 1997, which partly damaged the town and claimed 56 lives. On Saturday, Polish authorities shut the Go\u0142kowice border crossing with the Czech Republic after a river flooded its banks, as well as closing several roads and halting trains on the line linking the towns of Prudnik and Nysa. In the nearby village of G\u0142ucho\u0142azy, Zofia Owsiaka watched with fear as the fast-flowing waters of the swollen Bia\u0142a river surged past. \u201cWater is the most powerful force of nature. Everyone is scared,\u201d said Owsiaka, 65. In Budapest, officials raised forecasts for the Danube to rise in the second half of this week to above 8.5m, nearing a record 8.91m seen in 2013, as rain continued in Hungary, Slovakia and Austria. \u201cAccording to forecasts, one of the biggest floods of the past years is approaching Budapest but we are prepared to tackle it,\u201d said Budapest\u2019s mayor, Gergely Kar\u00e1csony. Meanwhile, police in the Czech Republic said four people were missing on Sunday. Three had been in a car that was swept into a river in the north-eastern town of Lipov\u00e1-l\u00e1zne, while another man was missing after being swept away by floods in the south-east. A dam in the south of the country burst its banks, flooding towns and villages downstream. \u201cWhat you see here is worse than in 1997 and I don\u2019t know what will happen because my house is under water and I don\u2019t know if I will even return to it,\u201d said Pavel Bily, a resident of Lipov\u00e1-l\u00e1zne. In a message on X, Czech police urged people to heed evacuation warnings, adding: \u201cPolice and firefighters know what they\u2019re doing and why they\u2019re doing it. The situation is changing quickly and we can\u2019t be everywhere immediately. Within a few moments, the only way out could be by helicopter.\u201d Six people have died in floods in south-east Romania over the past two days. In the worst-affected region, Galati in the south-east, 5,000 homes were damaged. Romania\u2019s president, Klaus Iohannis, said: \u201cWe are again facing the effects of climate change, which are increasingly present on the European continent, with dramatic consequences.\u201d Hundreds of people have been rescued across 19 parts of the country, emergency services said, releasing a video of flooded homes in a village by the Danube river. \u201cThis is a catastrophe of epic proportions,\u201d said Emil Dragomir, the mayor of Slobozia Conachi, a village in Galati where 700 homes had reportedly been flooded. Slovakia has declared a state of emergency in the capital, Bratislava. Heavy rains are expected to continue until at least Monday in the Czech Republic and Poland."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Women \u2018disheartened\u2019 by UK decision to halt Harvey Weinstein charges;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/15/women-attack-uk-decision-to-halt-harvey-weinstein-charges;2024-09-15T15:44:54Z",
        "text": "Women who were key to exposing the disgraced Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein have told of their frustration at the decision by UK prosecutors to discontinue two indecent assault charges against him. Zelda Perkins, a former personal assistant to Weinstein who broke a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to help expose him as a rapist, said the decision called into question the justice system\u2019s attitude towards sexual assault and rape. \u201cIt\u2019s about how the Crown Prosecution Service balances what it\u2019s going to cost them in terms of resources and the likelihood of a conviction,\u201d she said. The CPS announced this month that it was discontinuing the charges of indecent assault against a woman in London in 1996 after a review of evidence found \u201cthere is no longer a realistic prospect of conviction\u201d. Perkins, who said she had asked the police to return pieces of evidence including diaries and tapes relating to Weinstein, said she believed the UK developments were partly influenced by recent events in the US, where Weinstein\u2019s 2020 conviction for sex crimes was overturned by a New York appeals court. He is due to be retried and now also faces new charges there. \u201cWhat happened in the US is not about his guilt,\u201d she said. \u201cThere was a legal technicality and all that does is highlight, yet again, that this is about the disparity of power. If you are wealthy, you can afford lawyers, you will continue looking for smaller and smaller and smaller legal loopholes. \u201cI don\u2019t think that was the sole reason but it fed into the decision here. There is a huge issue with the British justice system and the ability of the CPS to deal with rape and sexual assault and where they consider it\u2019s worth spending money pursuing cases.\u201d Rowena Chiu, who was also an assistant to Weinstein and who publicly accused him of attempting to rape her in Venice in 1998, said it had been her understanding that British prosecutors were waiting to see how the trials in the US would go. \u201cBut it does appear the case that the logistics and the cost and the barriers to getting very powerful, wealthy men convicted remains a deterrent,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is disheartening that the balance of power is so tipped against survivors, who have to jump through what seems to be an extraordinary set of hoops in order to get a conviction and to get a conviction to stick. \u201cLegal reform is needed to shift that balance. But I also take an optimistic view. [The New York case] is not over and there are other brave women willing to come forward. I\u2019m constantly impressed by the conviction of people who will not give up and I hope that that is a signal to the world at large that this is a reckoning. This is a new moment. It\u2019s an answer to everyone who said that #MeToo will be flash in the pan. It\u2019s a decade later. We\u2019re still here.\u201d The CPS decision would be \u201chugely disheartening\u201d to victims of sexual assault, said Perkins, the co-founder of Can\u2019t Buy My Silence, an organisation campaigning against the use of NDAs. But she added: \u201cThe root of this issue is much broader than weak men\u2019s proclivity for sexual assault. It has to do with the system that enables those in power to abuse and buy justice. That is far more problematic on a global scale in terms of the integrity of law. Weinstein is going to die in prison, and the headlines always follow how it\u2019s about him not being brought to justice. But I think it\u2019s more about systemic weakness.\u201d Weinstein, 72 \u2013 who is recovering from emergency heart surgery \u2013 was indicted last week on additional sex crime charges before a retrial in New York. He was convicted in 2020 after a jury found him guilty of a criminal sex act in the first degree and rape in the third degree. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison. A Los Angeles jury in 2022 found him guilty in a separate case on three counts of rape and sexual assault and he was sentenced in 2023 to an additional 16 years. He denies wrongdoing."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis: Netanyahu says Israel will \u2018exact heavy price\u2019 for Houthi attack \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/15/middle-east-crisis-live-un-worker-killed-by-israeli-sniper-in-west-bank-israel-reports-missile-from-yemen;2024-09-15T15:00:07Z",
        "text": "The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed publicly on Tuesday that three Israeli hostages were mistakenly killed in a strike that also took the life of Hamas\u2019 northern Gaza brigade chief, Ahmed Ghandour, in November. According to reports from Hebrew media, families of Sgt. Ron Sherman, Cpl. Nik Beizer, both 19, and civilian Elia Toledano, 28, who were abducted by Hamas on 7 October, were informed by IDF officials that their loved ones had tragically lost their lives as a result of IDF actions after a comprehensive inquiry. Israel is allegedly recruiting asylum seekers from Africa to take part in military operations in Gaza in exchange for residency rights, according to an investigation by Israel\u2019s daily newspaper Haaretz. According to the report, based on testimonies of asylum seekers and defence officials, speaking off-the-record, Israel\u2019s defence establishment is \u201coffering African asylum seekers who contribute to the war effort in Gaza assistance in obtaining permanent status in Israel\u201d. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to New York on 24 September, the first day of the high-level general debate by world leaders at the annual UN general assembly, his office said Sunday. It said Netanyahu is scheduled to stay until 28 September in the US, which he had visited in July for official talks and a congressional address. A sniper killed a UN worker on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank, the UN has said, as friends and family gathered in Turkey to bury a US-Turkish activist who had been killed by the Israeli military at a protest six days earlier and around 30km away. Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade. Shot in the early hours of Thursday morning in el Far\u2019a camp, he left behind a wife and five children. A missile fired at central Israel from Yemen hit an unpopulated area, causing no injuries according to Israel\u2019s military on Sunday, Reuters reports. Moments earlier, air raid sirens had sounded in Tel Aviv and across central Israel, sending residents running for shelter. \u201cFollowing the sirens that sounded a short while ago in central Israel, a surface-to-surface missile was identified crossing into central Israel from the east and fell in an open area. No injuries were reported,\u201d the military said. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the Houthis in Yemen should have known that Israel would exact a heavy price after an attack on Israeli soil. At a weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu also said that the current situation in northern Israel \u201cwill not continue,\u201d and that he was determined to do everything possible to return northern evacuees to their homes. Yemen\u2019s Houthis claimed responsibility for a ballistic missile attack that reached central Israel for the first time on Sunday. \u201cIt forced more than two million Zionists to run to shelters for the first time in the enemy\u2019s history,\u201d the military spokesperson for the Houthis said in a statement. Hezbollah\u2019s second-in-command warned on Saturday that an all-out war by Israel aimed at returning 100,000 displaced people to their homes in areas near the Lebanon border would displace \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d more, AFP reports. Naim Qassem, number two in the Iran-backed Lebanese group, was speaking after defence minister Yoav Gallant said Israel was determined to restore security to its northern front. At least 41,206 Palestinians have been killed and 95,337 others injured in Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, the health ministry in Gaza said on Sunday. Thousands of people again took to the streets of Israel\u2019s main cities on Saturday in a bid to increase pressure on the government to secure the release of hostages in Gaza, AFP reports. Weekly rallies have sought to keep up pressure on the Israeli government, accused by critics of stalling on a deal to free the remaining hostages. Mourners gathered in the Aegean town of Didim, south-west Turkey, on Saturday for the funeral of a US-Turkish activist, who was shot dead while protesting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The killing last week of 26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi has sparked international condemnation and angered Turkey, further escalating tensions over the war in Gaza. A large crowd gathered during the prayers including Eygi\u2019s family, members of president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s Islamic-rooted AKP party, and activists advocating the Palestinian cause. Erdo\u011fan has vowed to ensure \u201cthat Aysenur Ezgi\u2019s death does not go unpunished\u201d. The Israeli military has said it was likely Eygi was hit \u201cunintentionally\u201d by forces while they were responding to a \u201cviolent riot\u201d, and said it is looking into the case. Israeli airstrikes hit central and southern Gaza overnight into Saturday, killing at least 14 people, Gaza\u2019s civil defence agency said.\u201cWe have recovered the bodies of 11 martyrs, including four children and three women, after an Israeli airstrike hit the house of the Bustan family in eastern Gaza City,\u201d agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told Agence France-Presse (AFP). The strike took place near the Shujaiya school in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, he said. The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the strike. Bassal said Israeli forces carried out similar strikes in some other parts of the territory overnight, killing at least 10 people. Five people were killed in northwestern Gaza City when an airstrike hit a group of people near Dar Al-Arqam school, he said. Three others were killed in a strike in the al-Mawasi area of the southern Khan Younis governorate, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge, Bassal added. At least 41,182 Palestinians have been killed and 95,280 others injured in Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, Gaza\u2019s health ministry said on Saturday. The toll includes 64 deaths in the previous 48 hours, according to the ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its count. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) disaster risk management teams, in cooperation with the Palestine Ministry of Social Development, distributed food parcels to 11,000 families in Gaza and North Gaza governantes, the humanitarian organisation shared on X. Richard Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) representative in Gaza and the West Bank, said in a statement on Saturday that he is \u201chopeful these pauses will hold\u201d as the UN agency prepare for the next round of polio vaccinations in Gaza in four week\u2019s time. About 559,000 children under the age of 10 have recovered from their first dose, the WHO said, as part of a campaign to inoculate children in Gaza. The second doses are expected to begin later this month as part of an effort in which the WHO said parties had already agreed to. A new attempt has begun to try to salvage an oil tanker burning in the Red Sea after attacks by Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels, an EU naval mission said on Saturday. The EU\u2019s Operation Aspides published images dated Saturday of its vessels escorting ships heading to the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion. That\u2019s all from the Middle East crisis live blog. Thanks for following along. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed publicly on Tuesday that three Israeli hostages were mistakenly killed in a strike that also took the life of Hamas\u2019 northern Gaza brigade chief, Ahmed Ghandour, in November. According to reports from Hebrew media, families of Sgt. Ron Sherman, Cpl. Nik Beizer, both 19, and civilian Elia Toledano, 28, who were abducted by Hamas on 7 October, were informed by IDF officials that their loved ones had tragically lost their lives as a result of IDF actions after a comprehensive inquiry. For ten months, the IDF denied the incident, after the army in December recovered their bodies from a Hamas tunnel in Jabaliya on 14 December. On Sunday, the IDF said: \u201cThe findings of the investigation suggest that the three, with high probability, were killed by a byproduct of an IDF airstrike, during the assassination\u201d of Ghandour. \u201cThis is a highly probable estimate given all the data, but it is not possible to determine with certainty the circumstances of their death,\u201d the military says. Every evening, for two hours, Asma Mustafa sits down with the small children of Nuseirat camp in central Gaza for what now passes as school in the beleaguered strip. She makes do with what is available: sometimes there are pens and paper for basic maths and literacy, but most of the time class time is taken up with storytelling, singing and play. \u201cI have been doing this since November,\u201d said Mustafa, 38, who taught at a girl\u2019s high school in Gaza City before the war. \u201cMany children are now working or helping their families find basic things like food during the day, but I try to give them a little bit of structure and normality in the evenings.\u201d Last week was supposed to mark the beginning of the new school year in Palestine, but in Gaza 625,000 school-age children are now entering a second year in which they have been denied the right to education because of the Israel-Hamas war. More than 45,000 six-year-olds were due to start school this year. In the 11 months since Hamas\u2019s 7 October attack on Israel, almost all of Gaza\u2019s population of 2.3 million have been displaced from their homes, and some of the strip\u2019s schools have become shelters \u2013 but about 90% of Gaza\u2019s 307 public school buildings and all 12 universities have been damaged or destroyed in Israeli attacks, according to the Education Cluster, a collection of aid groups led by Unicef and Save the Children. Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a surface-to-surface ballistic missile that landed a few miles south-east of Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv on Sunday morning as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned the group it would pay a \u201cheavy price\u201d. The missile triggered air sirens across the country at about 6.30am, with local media airing footage of people racing to shelters at the international airport. According to reports, the missile hit an open area in the Ben Shemen forest, sparking a fire near Kfar Daniel. There were no reports of casualties or damage. The Israeli military is investigating if the fire was the result of falling fragments due to the interceptor missiles launched at the projectile, or if the rocket had actually penetrated Israeli air defences as the Houthis have claimed, saying the group had used a hypersonic missile for the first time. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they made several attempts to intercept the missile using their multi-tiered air defences but had not yet determined whether any had been successful. \u201cAn initial inquiry indicates the missile most likely fragmented in mid-air,\u201d the IDF said, with \u201cseveral interception attempts made by the Arrow and Iron Dome aerial defence systems\u201d. It added that \u201cthe entire incident is under review\u201d. Israel is allegedly recruiting asylum seekers from Africa to take part in military operations in Gaza in exchange for residency rights, according to an investigation by Israel\u2019s daily newspaper Haaretz. According to the report, based on testimonies of asylum seekers and defence officials, speaking off-the-record, Israel\u2019s defence establishment is \u201coffering African asylum seekers who contribute to the war effort in Gaza assistance in obtaining permanent status in Israel\u201d. Haaretz reported that the programme was being carried out in an \u201corganised manner\u201d under the supervision of \u201cdefence establishment\u201d legal advisers. Sources who spoke with Haaretz said: \u201cWhile there were some inquiries about granting status to asylum seekers who assisted in the fighting, none were actually given status. At the same time, the defence establishment sought to provide status to others who contributed to combat efforts.\u201d Contacted by the Guardian, the IDF did not immediately respond to a request for comment, citing it is still reviewing and \u201cchecking\u201d the allegations. Benjamin Netanyahu said the Houthis should expect a \u201cheavy price\u201d for the missile attack on Israel. \u201cWhoever needs a reminder of that is invited to visit the Hodeida port,\u201d Netanyahu said, referring to an Israeli retaliatory airstrike against Yemen in July for a Houthi drone that hit Tel Aviv. The Houthis have fired missiles and drones at Israel repeatedly in what they say is solidarity with the Palestinians, since the Gaza war began with a Hamas attack on Israel in October. The drone that hit Tel Aviv for the first time in July killed a man and wounded four people. Israeli airstrikes in response on Houthi military targets near the port of Hodeidah killed six and wounded 80. Previously, Houthi missiles have not penetrated deep into Israeli airspace, with the only one reported to have hit Israeli territory falling in an open area near the Red Sea port of Eilat in March. Israel should expect more strikes in the future \u201cas we approach the first anniversary of the 7 October operation, including responding to its aggression on the city of Hodeidah,\u201d Sarea said. The deputy head of the Houthi\u2019s media office, Nasruddin Amer, said in a post on X on Sunday that the missile had reached Israel after \u201c20 missiles failed to intercept\u201d it, describing it as the \u201cbeginning\u201d. The Israeli military also said that 40 projectiles were fired towards Israel from Lebanon on Sunday and were either intercepted or landed in open areas. \u201cNo injuries were reported,\u201d the military said. In an update to our earlier report on a missile fired from Yemen landing in Israel, the missile triggered air raid sirens at Israel\u2019s international airport. Israel hinted that it would respond militarily. There were no reports of casualties or major damage, but Israeli media aired footage showing people racing to shelters in Ben Gurion international airport. The airport authority said it resumed normal operations shortly thereafter. A fire could be seen in a rural area of central Israel, and local media showed images of what appeared to be a fragment from an interceptor that landed on an escalator in a train station in the central town of Modiin. The Israeli military said it made several attempts to intercept the missile using its multitiered air defences but had not yet determined whether any had been successful. It said the missile appeared to have fragmented mid-air, and that the incident is still under review. The military said the sound of explosions in the area came from interceptors. The Yemeni rebels, known as Houthis, have repeatedly fired drones and missiles toward Israel since the start of the war in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, but nearly all of them have been intercepted over the Red Sea. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to New York on 24 September, the first day of the high-level general debate by world leaders at the annual UN general assembly, his office said Sunday. It said Netanyahu is scheduled to stay until 28 September in the US, which he had visited in July for official talks and a congressional address. A sniper killed a UN worker on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank, the UN has said, as friends and family gathered in Turkey to bury a US-Turkish activist who had been killed by the Israeli military at a protest six days earlier and around 30km away. Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade. Shot in the early hours of Thursday morning in el Far\u2019a camp, he left behind a wife and five children. A missile fired at central Israel from Yemen hit an unpopulated area, causing no injuries according to Israel\u2019s military on Sunday, Reuters reports. Moments earlier, air raid sirens had sounded in Tel Aviv and across central Israel, sending residents running for shelter. \u201cFollowing the sirens that sounded a short while ago in central Israel, a surface-to-surface missile was identified crossing into central Israel from the east and fell in an open area. No injuries were reported,\u201d the military said. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the Houthis in Yemen should have known that Israel would exact a heavy price after an attack on Israeli soil. At a weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu also said that the current situation in northern Israel \u201cwill not continue,\u201d and that he was determined to do everything possible to return northern evacuees to their homes. Yemen\u2019s Houthis claimed responsibility for a ballistic missile attack that reached central Israel for the first time on Sunday. \u201cIt forced more than two million Zionists to run to shelters for the first time in the enemy\u2019s history,\u201d the military spokesperson for the Houthis said in a statement. Hezbollah\u2019s second-in-command warned on Saturday that an all-out war by Israel aimed at returning 100,000 displaced people to their homes in areas near the Lebanon border would displace \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d more, AFP reports. Naim Qassem, number two in the Iran-backed Lebanese group, was speaking after defence minister Yoav Gallant said Israel was determined to restore security to its northern front. At least 41,206 Palestinians have been killed and 95,337 others injured in Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, the health ministry in Gaza said on Sunday. Thousands of people again took to the streets of Israel\u2019s main cities on Saturday in a bid to increase pressure on the government to secure the release of hostages in Gaza, AFP reports. Weekly rallies have sought to keep up pressure on the Israeli government, accused by critics of stalling on a deal to free the remaining hostages. Mourners gathered in the Aegean town of Didim, south-west Turkey, on Saturday for the funeral of a US-Turkish activist, who was shot dead while protesting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The killing last week of 26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi has sparked international condemnation and angered Turkey, further escalating tensions over the war in Gaza. A large crowd gathered during the prayers including Eygi\u2019s family, members of president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s Islamic-rooted AKP party, and activists advocating the Palestinian cause. Erdo\u011fan has vowed to ensure \u201cthat Aysenur Ezgi\u2019s death does not go unpunished\u201d. The Israeli military has said it was likely Eygi was hit \u201cunintentionally\u201d by forces while they were responding to a \u201cviolent riot\u201d, and said it is looking into the case. Israeli airstrikes hit central and southern Gaza overnight into Saturday, killing at least 14 people, Gaza\u2019s civil defence agency said.\u201cWe have recovered the bodies of 11 martyrs, including four children and three women, after an Israeli airstrike hit the house of the Bustan family in eastern Gaza City,\u201d agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told Agence France-Presse (AFP). The strike took place near the Shujaiya school in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, he said. The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the strike. Bassal said Israeli forces carried out similar strikes in some other parts of the territory overnight, killing at least 10 people. Five people were killed in northwestern Gaza City when an airstrike hit a group of people near Dar Al-Arqam school, he said. Three others were killed in a strike in the al-Mawasi area of the southern Khan Younis governorate, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge, Bassal added. At least 41,182 Palestinians have been killed and 95,280 others injured in Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, Gaza\u2019s health ministry said on Saturday. The toll includes 64 deaths in the previous 48 hours, according to the ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its count. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) disaster risk management teams, in cooperation with the Palestine Ministry of Social Development, distributed food parcels to 11,000 families in Gaza and North Gaza governantes, the humanitarian organisation shared on X. Richard Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) representative in Gaza and the West Bank, said in a statement on Saturday that he is \u201chopeful these pauses will hold\u201d as the UN agency prepare for the next round of polio vaccinations in Gaza in four week\u2019s time. About 559,000 children under the age of 10 have recovered from their first dose, the WHO said, as part of a campaign to inoculate children in Gaza. The second doses are expected to begin later this month as part of an effort in which the WHO said parties had already agreed to. A new attempt has begun to try to salvage an oil tanker burning in the Red Sea after attacks by Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels, an EU naval mission said on Saturday. The EU\u2019s Operation Aspides published images dated Saturday of its vessels escorting ships heading to the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the Houthis in Yemen should have known that Israel would exact a heavy price after an attack on Israeli soil. At a weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu also said that the current situation in northern Israel \u201cwill not continue,\u201d and that he was determined to do everything possible to return northern evacuees to their homes. At least 41,206 Palestinians have been killed and 95,337 others injured in Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, the health ministry in Gaza said on Sunday. Hezbollah warns Israel against Lebanon border flare-up Hezbollah\u2019s second-in-command warned on Saturday that an all-out war by Israel aimed at returning 100,000 displaced people to their homes in areas near the Lebanon border would displace \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d more, AFP reports. Naim Qassem, number two in the Iran-backed Lebanese group, was speaking after defence minister Yoav Gallant said Israel was determined to restore security to its northern front. In a speech in Beirut, Qassem said: \u201cWe have no intention of going to war, as we consider that this would not be useful.\u201d \u201cHowever, if Israel does unleash a war, we will face up to it \u2013 and there will be large losses on both sides,\u201d he said. On Saturday evening, the Israeli military said its air force had struck suspected Hezbollah weapons storage facilities at two locations in Lebanon\u2019s eastern Beqaa Valley, as well as in six locations in the south. Three children were among four people wounded in an Israeli strike in the northern Beqaa\u2019s Hermel district, 140km from the Israeli border, the Lebanese health ministry said. Yemen\u2019s Houthis claimed responsibility for a ballistic missile attack that reached central Israel for the first time on Sunday. \u201cIt forced more than two million Zionists to run to shelters for the first time in the enemy\u2019s history,\u201d the military spokesperson for the Houthis said in a statement. Thousands of people again took to the streets of Israel\u2019s main cities on Saturday in a bid to increase pressure on the government to secure the release of hostages in Gaza, AFP reports. Weekly rallies have sought to keep up pressure on the Israeli government, accused by critics of stalling on a deal to free the remaining hostages. Protest organisers say crowd sizes have swelled this month after an announcement by Israeli authorities that six hostages whose bodies were recovered by troops had been shot dead by militants in a southern Gaza tunnel. Thousands of people joined the rally in Tel Aviv and another in Jerusalem, seat of the Israeli parliament, AFP correspondents said. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government is facing rising anger from critics who accuse him of not doing enough to secure a truce deal that would see hostages exchanged for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Of 251 captives seized during Hamas\u2019s 7 October attack on southern Israel, 97 are still held in the Gaza Strip including 33 the Israeli military says are dead. The vast majority of the hostages freed so far were released during a one-week truce in November. Israeli forces have rescued alive just eight. A missile fired at central Israel from Yemen hit an unpopulated area, causing no injuries according to Israel\u2019s military on Sunday, Reuters reports. Moments earlier, air raid sirens had sounded in Tel Aviv and across central Israel, sending residents running for shelter. \u201cFollowing the sirens that sounded a short while ago in central Israel, a surface-to-surface missile was identified crossing into central Israel from the east and fell in an open area. No injuries were reported,\u201d the military said. Loud booms were also heard in the region, which the military said came from missile interceptors that had been launched. It added that its protective guidelines to Israel\u2019s residents were unchanged. Smoke could be seen billowing in an open field in central Israel, according to a Reuters witness, though it was unclear if the fire was started by the missile or debris of an interceptor. A sniper killed a UN worker on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank, the UN has said, as friends and family gathered in Turkey to bury a US-Turkish activist who had been killed by the Israeli military at a protest six days earlier and around 30km away. Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade. Shot in the early hours of Thursday morning in el Far\u2019a camp, he left behind a wife and five children. The war in Gaza has overshadowed spiralling conflict in the West Bank, which has seen weeks of Israeli military operations and violence has reached \u201cunprecedented levels, placing communities at risk,\u201d Unrwa said. For more on this story: Welcome back to our live coverage on the Israel-Gaza war and the wider Middle East crisis. I\u2019m Tom Ambrose. The UN says a sniper killed one of its employees on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank. Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade. Meanwhile, a missile fired at central Israel from Yemen has hit an unpopulated area, causing no injuries according to Israel\u2019s military on Sunday, Reuters reports. More details on those stories shortly, in other recent developments: Mourners gathered in the Aegean town of Didim, south-west Turkey, on Saturday for the funeral of a US-Turkish activist, who was shot dead while protesting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The killing last week of 26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi has sparked international condemnation and angered Turkey, further escalating tensions over the war in Gaza. A large crowd gathered during the prayers including Eygi\u2019s family, members of president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s Islamic-rooted AKP party, and activists advocating the Palestinian cause. Erdo\u011fan has vowed to ensure \u201cthat Aysenur Ezgi\u2019s death does not go unpunished\u201d. The Israeli military has said it was likely Eygi was hit \u201cunintentionally\u201d by forces while they were responding to a \u201cviolent riot\u201d, and said it is looking into the case. Israeli airstrikes hit central and southern Gaza overnight into Saturday, killing at least 14 people, Gaza\u2019s civil defence agency said.\u201cWe have recovered the bodies of 11 martyrs, including four children and three women, after an Israeli airstrike hit the house of the Bustan family in eastern Gaza City,\u201d agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told Agence France-Presse (AFP). The strike took place near the Shujaiya school in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, he said. The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the strike. Bassal said Israeli forces carried out similar strikes in some other parts of the territory overnight, killing at least 10 people. Five people were killed in northwestern Gaza City when an airstrike hit a group of people near Dar Al-Arqam school, he said. Three others were killed in a strike in the al-Mawasi area of the southern Khan Younis governorate, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge, Bassal added. At least 41,182 Palestinians have been killed and 95,280 others injured in Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, Gaza\u2019s health ministry said on Saturday. The toll includes 64 deaths in the previous 48 hours, according to the ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its count. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) disaster risk management teams, in cooperation with the Palestine Ministry of Social Development, distributed food parcels to 11,000 families in Gaza and North Gaza governantes, the humanitarian organisation shared on X. Richard Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) representative in Gaza and the West Bank, said in a statement on Saturday that he is \u201chopeful these pauses will hold\u201d as the UN agency prepare for the next round of polio vaccinations in Gaza in four week\u2019s time. About 559,000 children under the age of 10 have recovered from their first dose, the WHO said, as part of a campaign to inoculate children in Gaza. The second doses are expected to begin later this month as part of an effort in which the WHO said parties had already agreed to. A new attempt has begun to try to salvage an oil tanker burning in the Red Sea after attacks by Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels, an EU naval mission said on Saturday. The EU\u2019s Operation Aspides published images dated Saturday of its vessels escorting ships heading to the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israeli military admits \u2018high probability\u2019 it mistakenly killed hostages;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/15/israeli-military-admits-high-probability-it-mistakenly-killed-hostages;2024-09-15T14:46:21Z",
        "text": "The Israeli military has said there is a \u201chigh probability\u201d that three hostages found dead in a tunnel at the end of last year were mistakenly killed in a strike that also took the life of Hamas\u2019s northern Gaza brigade chief, Ahmed al-Ghandour, in November. The families of Col Nik Beizer and Sgt Ron Sherman, both 19, and the French-Israeli civilian Elia Toledano, 28, who were abducted by Hamas on 7 October, were informed in the last week by officials from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that a comprehensive inquiry revealed their loved ones had lost their lives as a result of IDF actions. Their bodies were recovered on 14 December from a tunnel in Jabaliya but the most likely cause of death was only recently determined, the military said. \u201cThe findings of the investigation suggest that the three, with high probability, were killed by a byproduct of an IDF airstrike,\u201d a statement said. \u201cThis is a highly probable estimate given all the data, but it is not possible to determine with certainty the circumstances of their death.\u201d The families were initially told the hostages had been killed by Hamas captors and, in January, the IDF rejected Hamas\u2019s assertions that they were killed in an Israeli airstrike. The conclusions of the investigation could add to pressure on the government to strike a deal to bring home the remaining hostages held by Hamas. The mothers of the two soldiers had pressed, since their bodies were discovered, for a full account of how their sons had died. \u201cWe have to find out the truth about everything,\u201d Maayan Sherman, the mother of Sherman, told the Wall Street Journal in May. \u201cEven if the truth is: \u2018We had to kill them.\u2019\u201d The November airstrike was aimed at al-Ghandour, who was taking cover in a tunnel. The IDF\u2019s inquiry at the time concluded that the military was unaware of the presence of hostages in the area during the strike. \u201cAt the time of the strike, the IDF did not have information about the presence of hostages in the targeted compound,\u201d the military said. \u201cFurthermore, there was information suggesting that they were located elsewhere, and thus the area was not designated as one with suspected presence of hostages.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Saudi Arabia calls for more pressure on Iran as Houthi threat grows;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/15/saudi-arabia-iran-houthi-threat-yemen-israel-red-sea;2024-09-15T14:13:57Z",
        "text": "The claimed acquisition by Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels of hypersonic missiles capable of penetrating Israeli air defences threatens to further heighten Middle East tensions, as Saudi Arabia calls for more than \u201cpinprick bombings\u201d to constrain the supply of weapons to the group. Saudi Arabia, which supports the Yemen government opposing the Houthis, believes Iran has been arming the group, including with the weapons used in the attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Those attacks have led to a halving of the traffic on the Red Sea route, pushing up the costs of maritime transport and damaging the Egyptian economy through disruption to the Suez canal. But in the Houthi capital, Sana\u2019a, from where the rebel group mastermind their attacks on shipping, the leadership celebrated Sunday\u2019s claimed attack on Israel \u2013 which landed in an open area near Ben Gurion international airport \u2013 as a homegrown breakthrough and claimed the technology was created by the hard work of Yemeni technicians. It promised more strikes would come. Before the attack the Houthis had issued warnings of some kind of attack on Israel. Previous Houthi missile attacks have not penetrated far into Israeli airspace, with the only one reported to have hit Israeli territory falling in an open area near the Red Sea port of Eilat in March. An attack with an Iranian-made drone on Tel Aviv in July killed one person and wounded 10 others. Israel used its Arrow and Iron Dome defences against the Houthi missile on Sunday but has not yet determined if any of the multiple attempts to intercept it were successful. The Houthis, a Shia group that have held Sana\u2019a since 2014, may have employed the Qadr F variant of Iran\u2019s 20-year-old Qadr-110 or Ghadr-110 medium-range ballistic missile. Iran has repeatedly been accused, including by the UN, of supplying weapons to the Houthis initially for use in fighting the Saudi-backed Yemen government based in Aden. Despite an intensive bombing campaign by the Saudis in 2016, the Houthis have proved impossible to displace, even mounting drone attacks into Saudi Arabia. A ceasefire exists inside Yemen but the UN special envoy for the country, Hans Grundberg, told the UN security council that the threat of a return to all-out civil war remained. Turki al-Faisal, a former Saudi intelligence chief and diplomat, has expressed the kingdom\u2019s disappointment at the way Iran has been helping the Houthis. Speaking at Chatham House in London on Friday, he called for more international action to block such assistance and said the \u201cpinprick bombings\u201d mounted on Houthi positions by US and UK naval forces in the Red Sea needed to be more effective. \u201cWe have seen the deployment of European and US fleets along the Red Sea coast and more can be done there to interdict the supply of weaponry that comes to the Houthis from Iran,\u201d he said. \u201cPutting pressure on Iran by the world community can have a positive impact on what the Houthis can do in launching these missiles and drones to hit international commerce.\u201d Faisal claimed that by continuing to interfere in Arab states such as Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, as well as in Palestine, Tehran had not fulfilled its side of the diplomatic bargain struck between Iran and Saudi Arabia in China two years ago. \u201cThe Houthis now hold the world as hostage in the Bab al-Mandab entrance to the Red Sea, and yet Iran is not showing that it can do something there if it wanted to, and the kingdom would have expected Iran to be more forthcoming in showing not just to us but to others that it can be a positive factor in securing stability and removing differences not just with Saudi Arabia but the rest of us.\u201d He said it was unclear if the Iranians could control the Houthis, and the world was in trouble if it could not. Saudi Arabia has not joined the US military attacks because it says it has been pursuing a diplomatic route to form a national government in Yemen. The commander of the Middle East-based US 5th Fleet, V Adm George Wikoff, has said sporadic US and UK bombardments of the Houthi positions along the Yemen coast has not yet led to commercial shipping returning. The attacks caused a 50% drop in ship traffic through the Red Sea, prompting shipping companies to begin routing vessels around Africa, adding 11,000 nautical miles and $1m in fuel costs to journeys. The Houthi attacks have continued despite multiple strikes against positions on the Yemen coastline by the US and Israel in recent months."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018The war has stolen our future\u2019: Gaza children begin second school year without education;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/15/gaza-children-school-year-education-israel-war;2024-09-15T12:23:29Z",
        "text": "Every evening, for two hours, Asma Mustafa sits down with the small children of Nuseirat camp in central Gaza for what now passes as school in the beleaguered strip. She makes do with what is available: sometimes there are pens and paper for basic maths and literacy, but most of the time class time is taken up with storytelling, singing and play. \u201cI have been doing this since November,\u201d said Mustafa, 38, who taught at a girls\u2019 high school in Gaza City before the war. \u201cMany children are now working or helping their families find basic things like food during the day, but I try to give them a little bit of structure and normality in the evenings.\u201d Last week was supposed to mark the beginning of the new school year in Palestine, but in Gaza 625,000 school-age children are now entering a second year in which they have been denied the right to education because of the Israel-Hamas war. More than 45,000 six-year-olds were due to start school this year. In the 11 months since Hamas\u2019s 7 October attack on Israel, almost all of Gaza\u2019s population of 2.3 million have been displaced from their homes, and some of the strip\u2019s schools have become shelters. But about 90% of Gaza\u2019s 307 public school buildings and all 12 universities have been damaged or destroyed in Israeli attacks, according to the Education Cluster, a collection of aid groups led by Unicef and Save the Children. \u201cEducation has totally stopped since 7 October and the future is still unclear,\u201d Mustafa said. \u201cThere\u2019s no vision for how we start again because we are still under attack. Everything and everyone is targeted \u2013 the tents, the shelters, the schools, the streets. It\u2019s a very dangerous situation.\u201d According to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory, whose data various investigations and the World Health Organization have found to be broadly accurate, 25,000 school-age children have been killed or injured in the war. For those who are clinging on, daily life has become a nightmarish struggle. There is no reliable data but it appears that many children have been put to work, collecting firewood or building makeshift shelters and gravestones. Younger children are sent to queue for hours at water and food distribution stations. Yara al-Shawa, 22, from Gaza City, found out last September she had won a full scholarship towards a master\u2019s programme in human rights law in Qatar. Unable to leave the strip because of the Israeli blockade, she and her school-age siblings now spend morning to night trying to keep their family alive and well. \u201cMy younger brother now takes on responsibilities that no child should bear: gathering supplies, fetching water, tending to our household needs. School is a distant memory for him now. He\u2019s been forced to grow up too fast under these circumstances,\u201d she said of 15-year-old Ayman. \u201cI\u2019m always struck by how much he has changed. He\u2019s not little any more,\u201d she added. \u201cThe war has stolen our future. What once seemed like achievable dreams \u2013 me becoming a lawyer, my brother finishing school \u2013 now feel like fantasies.\u201d Studies show that the more school time children miss, the more difficult it is to catch up on lost learning, and the less likely they are to return. Younger children\u2019s cognitive, social and emotional development suffers; girls are more likely to be married off at younger ages, and boys forced into work or militancy. Small-scale initiatives to keep children learning and engaged are present all over Gaza, and last month Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, managed to launch a \u201cback to learning\u201d programme in 45 shelters across the strip, which includes games, drama, arts, music and sports activities to try to mitigate the war\u2019s impact on children\u2019s mental health. For Mustafa, the teacher in Nuseirat, the Unrwa programme is welcome but highlights how much more needs to be done. \u201cThere is only so much local or international organisations can do when sometimes five notebooks cost $50,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is nowhere safe, schools and shelters are targeted. These challenges can\u2019t be solved except by ending the war.\u201d For now, as internationally mediated talks founder once again, no ceasefire that could help restore normality is on the horizon. Like so many in Gaza, Mustafa has little choice but to cling to the hope that the war will end soon and the children of Gaza will be able to go back to a more normal life. \u201cThe kids of Gaza are the future. They give me hope,\u201d she said. \u201cThey give me the power to keep standing, to keep going.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;South Africa school language law stirs Afrikaans learning debate;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/15/south-africa-school-language-law-stirs-afrikaans-learning-debate;2024-09-15T12:20:29Z",
        "text": "A contentious South African education law has drawn furious condemnation from politicians and campaigners who claim it is putting Afrikaans education under threat while evoking for others an enduring association of the language with white minority rule. The Basic Education Laws Amendment Act was signed into law on Friday by the president, Cyril Ramaphosa, who said he would give dissenting parties in his coalition government three months to suggest alternatives to two sections that give provincial officials the powers to override admission decisions and force schools to teach in more than one of South Africa\u2019s 12 official languages. The provisions have meanwhile been welcomed by those who say they are necessary in order to stop some government schools using language to racially exclude children. The controversy has tapped into multiple sensitive political topics in South Africa: forcing children to learn in languages they don\u2019t understand, the enduring association for some of the Afrikaans language with apartheid, persistent racial inequalities and the parlous state of many schools. \u201cWe have seen cases of learners being denied admissions to schools because of their language policies,\u201d Ramaphosa, the leader of the African National Congress, the country\u2019s largest party, said before signing the bill, which was passed before May\u2019s elections. \u201cThe bill is part of the states\u2019 ongoing effort to build an education system that is more effective and more equitable.\u201d The Democratic Alliance (DA), which gets the majority of its support from white voters and is the second largest party in South Africa\u2019s coalition government, threatened legal action if mother-tongue schooling was not protected after the three-month negotiation period. \u201cAfrikaans-medium schools constitute less than 5% of the country\u2019s schools,\u201d said the DA\u2019s leader and agriculture minister, John Steenhuisen, referring to schools that teach only in Afrikaans. \u201cTheir existence in no way contributes to the crisis in education, and turning them into dual-medium or English-medium schools will not help improve the quality of education for South Africa\u2019s learners.\u201d Afrikaans evolved from the Dutch settlers around Cape Town, as well as African and south-east Asian enslaved people, local Indigenous people and their mixed-race Cape Coloured descendants. Some of the first texts in Afrikaans were written in Arabic script by Cape Malay Muslim scholars in the early 19th century. Language and education have a tortuous history in South Africa. When the Boer war ended in 1902, Afrikaans became a form of resistance among white Afrikaners to British colonial rule and English education. After Afrikaner nationalists took power in 1948, with policies including intentionally making segregated black schools worse, the language became identified with white minority rule. In 1976, hundreds of children were shot dead by police in the Soweto uprising when they marched peacefully against the imposition of Afrikaans tuition in schools. According to census data, the number of South Africans speaking Afrikaans at home rose from 5.9 million in 1996 to 6.6 million in 2022, with the majority of speakers non-white. But by share of the population the figure has fallen from 14.5% to 10.6%, and some Afrikaner rights groups argue they are losing their language, culture and identity. \u201cFor our cultural community it\u2019s essential that we have schools where there is Afrikaans education, it\u2019s used as the language of tuition and that it should be monolingual schools,\u201d said Alana Bailey, the head of cultural affairs at Afriforum, which she said campaigns for minority rights, rejecting accusations of racism. Since apartheid ended, many black parents living near the limited number of good historically white schools have tried to send their children there. In some cases this has resulted in officials trying to force Afrikaans-only schools to also teach in English, with legal battles reaching the constitutional court. \u201cThere were historically quite a few Afrikaans schools that were not full to capacity and would use language provision as a way to create barriers to access,\u201d said Brahm Fleisch, a professor of education at the University of the Witwatersrand, expressing his support for the new law as a safeguard. \u201cWhen schools are full and there\u2019s no evidence of discrimination on the basis of race \u2026 schools are not compelled to change their language policy.\u201d South Africa\u2019s constitution guarantees the right to education in an official language of choice where \u201creasonably practicable\u201d. But Marius Swart, a language policy expert at the University of Stellenbosch, said the lack of state capacity meant mother-tongue education in indigenous languages was still a distant dream for many children. Meanwhile, most of South Africa\u2019s children continue to struggle in school. In 2021, a survey found that 81% of 10-year-olds could not read for understanding. \u201cWe still, to a very large extent, have a stratified school system with a relatively small elite of rich schools,\u201d Swart said. \u201cWith relatively rich children from relatively rich families attending them and then many, many children who are in \u2026 poorly resourced schools and who really struggle.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Real Madrid pauses concerts after \u2018torture-drome\u2019 noise complaints;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/15/real-madrid-bernabeu-stadium-cancels-reschedules-concerts-noise-complaints;2024-09-15T11:56:47Z",
        "text": "Real Madrid has cancelled or rescheduled all concerts at its Santiago Bernab\u00e9u stadium and is working to comply with council noise regulations after local people complained that a series of loud, late gigs had turned the arena into a \u201ctorture-drome\u201d. Although best known as the home of one of Spain\u2019s greatest football teams, the Bernab\u00e9u \u2013 which has just undergone a five-year, \u20ac900m (\u00a3760m) refurbishment \u2013 has hosted a string of high-profile concerts over the spring and summer. Recent headliners have included Taylor Swift, Luis Miguel and the Colombian star Karol G. But while the concerts delighted some music fans, they drove many local people to despair. Faced with decibels far exceeding legal levels, midnight finish times, fans camping out in local parks, drunk people urinating in doorways and the blocking off of residential roads, a group representing those living around the stadium began legal action against those responsible, including Madrid city council. In a statement released on Friday, the club said it had decided to rethink its concert schedule. \u201cReal Madrid FC is announcing that it has decided to provisionally reschedule its event and concert programme at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u stadium,\u201d it said. \u201cThis decision is part of a raft of measures that the club is taking to ensure that the concerts comply strictly with the relevant municipal regulations.\u201d Despite the introduction of soundproofing measures, \u201cdifferent organisers and promoters\u201d had still found it difficult to comply with council noise regulations, the statement said. It added: \u201cReal Madrid will continue working to make sure that the necessary sound production and emission conditions are in place to allow concerts to be held in our stadium.\u201d The statement said concerts by the Spanish artists Dellafuente and Aitana, slated for November and December, would be rescheduled, as would concerts next March by Lola \u00cdndigo. A K-pop concert in October has been cancelled. The club said it was still planning a large number of shows and events to make the most of the revamped stadium, but added: \u201cReal Madrid will continue working with the Madrid regional government and Madrid city council when it comes to sustainability and coexistence, and its aim is always to ensure that the stadium\u2019s activities live up to its commitment to the city of Madrid and are beneficial to the surrounding environment.\u201d Jos\u00e9 Manuel Paredes, a spokesperson for the association that was formed in response to the concert noise, said the announcement had come as a temporary relief to those around the stadium but stressed that the group had not abandoned its legal action. \u201cWe\u2019ve managed to stop things in the neighbourhood getting worse for at least six months, so things are better,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that doesn\u2019t mean that we\u2019re giving up the fight. The problem is still the fact that the stadium isn\u2019t equipped to be a concert venue, nor will it be.\u201d Paredes said the Bernab\u00e9u was only licensed by the council to hold sporting fixtures and the odd \u201cextraordinary event\u201d, and was not meant to be holding frequent concerts. \u201cWe just need them to follow the law \u2013 no more, no less,\u201d he said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Kyiv\u2019s botanical garden staring at disaster as Russia targets Ukraine\u2019s energy sector;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/15/kyivs-botanical-garden-staring-at-disaster-as-russia-targets-ukraines-energy-sector;2024-09-15T10:22:30Z",
        "text": "Zhanna Yaroslavska showed off a barrel-shaped stove in the middle of a tropical greenhouse. Nearby was a large pile of logs. \u201cIt\u2019s a pretty neanderthal arrangement,\u201d she explained. \u201cWhen the power shuts off we feed the stove with wood. In winter we do this round the clock. Our plants require constant temperatures. They don\u2019t like cold and hot.\u201d Inside the glass nursery were dozens of rare specimens. All were bromeliads native to the Americas. Silvery wisps of beard-like Tillandsia descended from a pipe. A pineapple poked out of a stem. A screen next to the stove protected a group of starfish-like earth stars, native to Brazil. The collection needed a minimum temperature of 10C, Yaroslavska \u2013 a senior researcher \u2013 said. Below that everything would die off. The greenhouse is one of eight in the Mykola Hryshko national botanical garden in Kyiv. Founded in 1935, it is Ukraine\u2019s biggest garden and one of the largest in Europe. It is home to about 13,000 species of trees, flowers and other plants from around the world. The 52-hectare (130 acres) site has scientific departments and two laboratories. With its roses and camellias, it is a popular venue with wedding photographers. But the park is now staring at disaster. In recent months, Russia has systematically destroyed most of Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure. Power cuts in the capital and across the country are common, with the situation getting worse. The city authorities have said they will not be able to guarantee supply in the freezing months ahead. Prices for electricity have doubled, as the garden\u2019s funding has shrunk. \u201cWorst-case scenario is we lose a big part of our collection,\u201d Roman Ivannikov, the head of the tropical and subtropical plant department, said. Money is so tight he and his colleagues recently took a pay cut. Last winter, \u00a355,000 in donations kept the garden going, allowing the purchase of 242 tonnes of fuel pellets. Volunteers chopped firewood. The garden is appealing for help, under the hashtag #greenhousewarming. Before the first chilly night of October arrives, Ivannikov said his team urgently needed additional generators. The orchid house had a unique collection of exotic specimens and was especially vulnerable. Last year, three Samsung heat pumps were fitted to maintain temperatures at 20-22C. But there was no back-up in the case of a prolonged shutdown. Ivannikov pointed out some of the collection\u2019s highlights. They included an egg-in-the-nest orchid from China \u2013 it has a strange white-and-purple-spotted flower \u2013 and a delicate green jewel orchid. Another example \u2013 Doritis pulcherrima \u2013 was descended from a plant sent into space in 1986. The orchid was part of a Soviet mission to the Mir space station, where the crew performed experiments in biology. The garden collaborates with international partners. In 2014, it sent plants to Vietnam, after their original habitat was destroyed to make way for banana and coffee crops. \u201cI travelled with 45 orchids,\u201d Ivannikov recalled. \u201cI watched on TV, as Russia took Crimea.\u201d Scientific conferences with Moscow stopped. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion Ivannikov took his family out of Kyiv and returned a week later. The Kremlin continues to fire missiles at the capital. From time to time, falling debris breaks glass in the hothouses. Blast waves from explosions have dislodged a chunk of wall and knocked over red-listed plants. \u201cWe haven\u2019t had a direct hit. But we suffered a lot of damage,\u201d Ivannikov said. In January, a rocket flew above the main orangery, a giant glass dome containing banks of shaggy vines and a towering king palm. Iryna Yudakova, an engineer, was inside. \u201cI didn\u2019t hear the air alarm. I went out and saw a streak in the sky,\u201d she said. \u201cThere was an explosion. A piece of shrapnel fell next to me. Another hit a window. I was lucky.\u201d Yudakova said she enjoyed her job but that the pay \u2013 8,000 hryvnia a month (\u00a3150) \u2013 was measly. \u201cPreviously I was a psychologist. When the war started I lost my clients. Without my husband I couldn\u2019t survive,\u201d she said. Yudakova\u2019s duties include looking after the rhododendrons and azaleas. In February, one of her favourite plants \u2013 an old specimen bred in Germany in the 1930s \u2013 lost most of its leaves during a blackout. \u201cIt got too cold,\u201d she said. \u201cThe younger, smaller plants survive better.\u201d Standing next to the denuded shrub, she reflected: \u201cIt\u2019s like losing a relative or a pet. I think of them as my kids. I water them, care for them, talk to them.\u201d Many employees have worked at the garden for decades. Others fled Russian occupation. Among them are a father and daughter in charge of the bonsai collection, who escaped from Mariupol. Ivannikov said his soldier cousin died defending the eastern city, which Russia flattened in 2022. About 1,000 volunteers do various tasks. They prune lavender, remove unwanted hops and water juvenile plants. \u201cIt\u2019s gardening therapy. The volunteers do useful work. They go home feeling better,\u201d Ivannikov said. Last weekend, dog walkers and young couples visited the alpine garden and sat in a pleasant outdoor cafe. A red squirrel bounded between trees. Next to the administration building \u2013 where new orchids are nurtured in glass flasks \u2013 a sale of succulents was going on. Proceeds went to Ukraine\u2019s armed forces. Back at the bromeliad house Yaroslavska said she would like to replace the building \u2013 constructed in 1976 under communism \u2013 with a modern, more heat-efficient version. She recognised there was no point in making improvements while the war rumbled on and bombs fell randomly from the sky. For now, the objective was for the garden and its 4,000 tropical and subtropical plants to get through the coming winter. There were also smaller challenges, she said. A bold squirrel had climbed in through a ventilation window and made off with the figs from a rare tree. Apart from getting rid of the squirrel, what else did she want? \u201cIf I had a magic wand I would wish there was no Russia,\u201d she replied. \u201cNo Russia means no problem. We could live normally.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;US rejects claims of CIA involvement in alleged plot to kill Maduro after Venezuela arrests six ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/15/us-rejects-claims-of-cia-involvement-in-alleged-plot-to-kill-maduro-after-venezuela-arrests-six;2024-09-15T01:09:39Z",
        "text": "The US state department rejected allegations of CIA involvement in an alleged assassination plot against Nicol\u00e1s Maduro after Venezuelan officials announced the arrest of three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech on Saturday. The claims of a plot against Maduro \u2013 the Venezuelan president, whose recent re-election is contested \u2013 were made on state television by Diosdado Cabello, the interior minister. Cabello said the foreign citizens including a US navy member were part of a CIA-led plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government and kill several members of its leadership. In the television programme, Cabello showed images of rifles that he said were confiscated from some of the alleged plotters. The US state department late on Saturday confirmed the detention of a US military member and said it was aware of \u201cunconfirmed reports of two additional US citizens detained in Venezuela\u201d. \u201cAny claims of US involvement in a plot to overthrow Maduro are categorically false. The United States continues to support a democratic solution to the political crisis in Venezuela.\u201d The claims come two days after the US treasury imposed sanctions on 16 allies of Maduro, accused by the US government of obstructing voting during the disputed 28 July Venezuelan presidential election and carrying out human rights abuses. During the past week, Spain\u2019s parliament recognised the opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez as the winner of the election, angering Maduro allies who called on the Venezuelan government to suspend commercial and diplomatic relations with Spain. Tensions between Venezuela\u2019s government and the US have increased as well following the election, whose result sparked protests within Venezuela in which hundreds of opposition activists were arrested. Venezuela\u2019s electoral council, which is closely aligned with the Maduro administration, said Maduro won the election with 52% of the vote but did not provide a detailed breakdown of the results. Opposition activists surprised the government by collecting tally sheets from 80% of voting machines. They were published online and indicate that Gonzalez won with twice as many votes as Maduro. Despite international condemnation, Venezuela\u2019s supreme court, which has long backed Maduro, confirmed his victory in August. Venezuela\u2019s attorney general then filed conspiracy charges against Gonzalez, who fled to Spain last week after it became clear he would be arrested. Maduro has dismissed requests from several countries, including the leftist governments of Colombia and Brazil, to provide tally sheets that prove he won. Maduro, who has been in power since 2013, has long claimed the US is trying to overthrow him through sanctions and covert operations. The Maduro administration has previously used Americans imprisoned in Venezuela to gain concessions. In a 2023 deal, Maduro released 10 Americans and a fugitive wanted by the US government to secure a presidential pardon for Alex Saab, a close Maduro ally who was held in Florida on money laundering charges. According to US prosecutors, Saab had also helped Maduro to avoid US treasury sanctions through a complex network of shell companies. Associated Press contributed reporting"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ukraine war briefing: more than 100 Ukrainians released in prisoner swap with Russia;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/15/ukraine-war-briefing-more-than-100-ukrainians-released-in-prisoner-swap-with-russia;2024-09-15T00:51:17Z",
        "text": "More than 100 Ukrainian prisoners of war will be able to return to their families after an exchange of captives of the Russian and Ukrainian armed forces. The swap on Saturday, mediated by the United Arab Emirates, involved 206 military personnel from both countries. Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said that of the 103 Ukrainian \u201cwarriors\u201d who were released, 82 were soldiers and privates and 21 were officers, including police officers and border guards. In return for their freedom, Ukraine released more than 100 Russian military personnel taken prisoner in the Kursk border region since Ukrainian forces invaded. It is the second such swap since Ukraine\u2019s incursion into Russia, and occurred after mediated negotiations. Russian shelling killed at least seven people in four attacks on the south, south-east and east of Ukraine on Saturday, regional Ukrainian governors said. Russian shells struck an agricultural enterprise in the town of Huliaipole, killing three people in the Zaporizhzhia region in south-east Ukraine, governor Ivan Fedorov said. A missile attack in the suburbs of Odesa killed a man and a woman and injured a 65-year-old woman, the Odesa regional governor said. Shelling killed one person in the southern region of Kherson, according to governor Oleksandr Prokudin. In the Kharkiv region, the body of a 72-year-old woman was retrieved from the rubble after Russia struck the village of Pisky-Radkivski, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said. Details could not be independently verified. Britain and the US have raised fears that Russia has shared nuclear secrets with Iran in return for Tehran supplying Moscow with ballistic missiles to bomb Ukraine. During their summit in Washington DC on Friday, Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, and the US president, Joe Biden, acknowledged that the two regimes were tightening military cooperation at a time when Iran is in the process of enriching enough uranium to complete its long-held goal to build a nuclear bomb. British sources indicated that concerns were aired about Iran\u2019s trade for nuclear technology, part of a deepening alliance between Tehran and Moscow. However, it\u2019s unclear how much technical knowledge Tehran has to build a nuclear weapon at this stage, or how quickly it could do so. Iran denies that it is trying to make a nuclear bomb. Iran\u2019s foreign minister said that Tehran was open to diplomacy to solve disputes but not \u201cthreats and pressure\u201d, state media reported on Saturday. Abbas Araqchi\u2019s comments came a day after the EU\u2019s chief diplomat said the bloc was considering new sanctions targeting Iran\u2019s aviation sector, in reaction to reports Tehran supplied Russia with ballistic missiles in its war against Ukraine. Keir Starmer has been urged by former UK defence secretaries and an ex-PM to allow Ukraine to use provided long-range missiles inside Russian territory even without US backing, according to the Sunday Times. The call came from five former Conservative defence secretaries \u2013 Grant Shapps, Ben Wallace, Gavin Williamson, Penny Mordaunt and Liam Fox \u2013 as well as from Boris Johnson. They warned Starmer that \u201cany further delay will embolden president Putin\u201d, the Sunday Times reported. Starmer and Joe Biden held talks in Washington on Friday on whether to allow Kyiv to use the long-range missiles against targets in Russia. No decision was announced. Joe Biden will use the remaining four months of his term \u201cto put Ukraine in the best possible position to prevail\u201d, according to the US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan. Biden would meet Volodymyr Zelenskiy in late September at the UN general assembly in New York to discuss aid to Ukraine, Sullivan said. \u201cPresident Zelenskiy has said that ultimately this war has to end through negotiations, and we need them to be strong in those negotiations,\u201d Sullivan said, adding Ukraine would decide when to enter talks with Russia. The head of Ukraine\u2019s military intelligence agency, the GUR, Kyrylo Budanov, said North Korean military aid to Russia presented the biggest concern on the battlefield compared with support provided by Moscow\u2019s other allies. \u201cThey supply huge amounts of artillery ammunition, which is critical for Russia,\u201d he said, pointing to the ramp up in the battlefield hostilities after such deliveries. Ukraine and the US, among other countries and independent analysts, say the North Korean ruler, Kim Jong-un, is helping Russia in the war against Ukraine by supplying missiles and ammunition in return for economic and other military assistance from Moscow. Senior Russian security official and former president Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday that Russia could destroy Ukraine\u2019s capital, Kyiv, with non-nuclear weapons in response to the use of western long-range missiles by Ukraine. Medvedev claimed Moscow already had formal grounds to use nuclear weapons since Ukraine\u2019s incursion into Russia\u2019s Kursk region, but could instead use other weapons technologies to reduce Kyiv to \u201ca giant melted spot\u201d when the Kremlin\u2019s patience runs out."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Mother of man accused in California wildfire says \u2018he did not light that fire\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/arson-southern-california-wildfire-san-bernardino;2024-09-14T23:43:22Z",
        "text": "The mother of the 34-year-old man accused of starting the Line fire in southern California \u2013 which has scorched at least 38,000 acres (15,378 hectares) and destroyed one home \u2013 has spoken out in defense of her son, telling the Los Angeles Times on Thursday that \u201che did not light that fire\u201d. Arson-related charges have been filed against Justin Wayne Halstenberg, who is accused of starting the San Bernardino county blaze on 5 September. He is due to be arraigned on Monday according to the San Bernardino county district attorney\u2019s office. Halstenberg\u2019s mother, Connie Halstenberg, told the Los Angeles Times that there were things that her son does that she does not approve of but that \u201che is not an arsonist\u201d. Prosecutors in the San Bernardino county district attorney\u2019s office allege that Halstenberg tried to start a fire in at least two other locations before succeeding. The first, on Bacon Lane in Highland, California, was reported and extinguished by firefighters. \u201cThe second was stomped out by a good Samaritan,\u201d the district attorney\u2019s office said. \u201cUndeterred, he ignited a third fire which is what we now know as the Line fire,\u201d prosecutors said in the statement. Prosecutors said additional charges may be filed for any further structure damage or injuries as the fire continues. The full extent of the damage caused by the blaze remains unclear, but Jason Anderson, the San Bernardino county district attorney, said at least one home had been destroyed. The wildfire was 25% contained as of Saturday. Cool weather over the next several days should help, fire officials said. The Line fire is burning through dense vegetation that grew after two back-to-back wet winters when snowstorms broke tree branches, leaving behind a lot of \u201cdead and down fuel\u201d, Jed Gaines, a Cal Fire operations section chief, said. Four firefighters have been injured in the fire, according to Cal Fire, the latest on Friday. Los Angeles news channel KESQ reported that a firefighter had been airlifted to a hospital after experiencing weakness on the frontlines, citing a Cal Fire official. Thousands of firefighters, aided by cooler weather, made progress on Saturday against three southern California wildfires, and officials in northern Nevada were hopeful that almost all evacuees from a blaze there could soon be home. Authorities have started scaling back evacuations at the largest blaze. The Bridge fire east of Los Angeles has burned 81 sq miles (210 sq km), torched at least 33 homes and six cabins and forced the evacuation of 10,000 people. Two firefighters have been injured in the blaze, state fire officials said. Don Freguila, an operations section chief, said on Saturday that containment was estimated at 3% and improving, with nearly 2,500 firefighters working the lines. He said Saturday\u2019s focus would be the fire\u2019s west flank and northern edge near Wrightwood, where air tankers have dropped retardant on the flames in steep, rugged areas inaccessible to ground crews. \u201cA lot of good work. We\u2019re really beating this up and starting to make some good progress,\u201d Freguila said. He said a new spot fire broke out on Friday night near the Mount Baldy ski area along the blaze\u2019s southern edge, burning only about an acre before crews \u201cbuttoned it up\u201d. The Airport fire in Orange and Riverside counties has been difficult to tame because of the steep terrain and dry conditions, and because some areas had not burned in decades. Reportedly sparked by workers using heavy equipment, it has burned more than 37 sq miles (96 sq km). It was 9% contained as of Saturday. \u201cAlthough direct lines have been challenging to build due to rugged terrain, favorable weather conditions have supported their efforts,\u201d the Saturday situation report from the California department of forestry and fire protection said. Eleven firefighters and two residents have been injured in the blaze, according to the Orange county fire authority. The fire has destroyed at least 27 cabins in the Holy Jim Canyon area, authorities said. The southern California blazes have threatened tens of thousands of homes and other structures since they escalated during a triple-digit heatwave. Smoke and ash from the wildfires have degraded the air quality, as the South Coast Air Quality Management District issued advisories for residents to limit their exposure to the smoky orange skies. The blaze in Nevada near Lake Tahoe broke out last weekend, destroying 14 homes and burning through nearly 9 sq miles (23 sq km) of timber and brush along the Sierra Nevada\u2019s eastern slope. Some 20,000 people were forced from their homes early this week. Fire officials said there was a 90% chance the last of the evacuees would be able to return to their homes by the end of Saturday. Containment of the blaze was estimated at 76% Saturday, fire spokesperson Celeste Prescott said. Some of the 700 crew members should soon be sent off to other fires, she added. Firefighters were mostly mopping up but anticipated winds picking up in the afternoon, and so stood ready to attack any spots that flare up. \u201cWe\u2019re on the verge of big success here,\u201d said Charles Moore, the Truckee Meadows fire district chief."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Transformative, for better and for worse\u2019: what\u2019s the legacy of Peru\u2019s Alberto Fujimori;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/transformative-for-better-and-for-worse-whats-the-legacy-of-perus-alberto-fujimori;2024-09-14T19:37:36Z",
        "text": "At 11.45 on Thursday morning, six white-gloved pallbearers carried a coffin holding the body of the most divisive, beloved and reviled Peruvian politician of the last four decades. They passed the mourners, the cameras and the flag-topped lances of the H\u00fasares de Jun\u00edn cavalry regiment, and set it down in the hall of Lima\u2019s brutalist culture ministry. Behind the coffin, holding hands and dressed in black under a pale but warm spring sky, came its occupant\u2019s eldest daughter and youngest son. A crowd of ministers, political allies and military top brass awaited them at the ministry. And so began three days of national mourning to honour Alberto Fujimori, the political upstart who served as president of Peru from 1990 to 2000 and who, nine years later, was ordered to serve a 25-year sentence for authorising kidnappings and murders during his government\u2019s \u201cwar against terrorism\u201d. On Saturday, after a state funeral at the ministry, supporters gathered as he was buried at the Campo Fe de Huachipa cemetery in the city. The fact that Fujimori, who died of cancer aged 86 on Wednesday, was afforded the kind of send-off not seen since the 2020 funeral of the Peruvian former UN secretary-general Javier P\u00e9rez de Cu\u00e9llar may have infuriated many in the South American country, but it came as little surprise. After all, the life and legacy of Fujimori \u2013 who was pardoned and released from prison just 10 months ago \u2013 is perhaps the most bitter and disputed topic in contemporary Peru. To many, he will always be the cynical autocrat whose corruption, hunger for power and disdain for human rights poisoned the nation. To others, he will forever remain the political outsider who came from nowhere but somehow managed to defeat the twin scourges of terrorism and hyperinflation. Those in the latter camp were evident on the streets outside the culture ministry on Thursday, where they queued, cheered and cried as they reminisced about the man affectionately known as \u201cEl Chino\u201d, while floral wreaths sent by the country\u2019s business elite piled up. \u201cHe\u2019s getting the honours he deserves because he was the best president in the history of Peru,\u201d said Milagros Parra, 54, who had come with companions from the San Juan de Lurigancho neighbourhood on the outskirts of Lima. \u201cHe inherited a country full of blood with massive hyperinflation. We have to thank him.\u201d Her friend Bonifacia Moreno, 79, was also grieving. \u201cOur economy is thanks to him; our peace is thanks to him, she said. \u201cWho will defend us now?\u201d Fujimori, the son of Japanese immigrants, was the all-but-unknown candidate who ran against the Peruvian novelist \u2013 and future Nobel prize-winner \u2013 Mario Vargas Llosa in the 1990 election, which was held after almost a decade of the Shining Path\u2019s Maoist terrorism and years of economic upheaval. With Vargas Llosa perceived as another candidate from the country\u2019s white, Lima-centric elite, Fujimori, an agricultural engineer and mathematician schooled in France and the US, capitalised on his appeal to ordinary Peruvians by riding a tractor and pledging \u201chonesty, technology, work\u201d. The pitch worked and Fujimori won. His drastic market reforms and deregulation of the Peruvian economy appealed to the business elite, while programmes to build schools, roads and bridges in poor, abandoned communities, won him votes and lifelong support. As a result, said Jos\u00e9 Alejandro Godoy, the author of two books about Fujimori, \u201cboth wealthy and poor sectors continue to be the main bases of support for him and the political movement he founded\u201d. But, faced with economic and terrorist turmoil from the outset, Fujimori governed with an increasingly authoritarian hand in connivance with his spymaster, Vladimiro Montesinos, a corrupt lawyer and former soldier who offered him control of the judiciary and the armed forces. Emboldened by broad public support, Fujimori embarked on the \u201cwar against terrorism\u201d that eventually crushed the Shining Path insurgency and then the smaller Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, which made headlines when it took hostages during a party at the Japanese ambassador\u2019s residence in December 1996. The capture in 1992 of the Shining Path\u2019s leader, Abimael Guzm\u00e1n, proved a major coup \u2013 the much-feared terrorist mastermind was paraded in a cage in prison stripes \u2013 as did the operation that ended the siege at the Japanese ambassador\u2019s residence in April 1997. Desperate for an end to the bloodshed \u2013 the country\u2019s truth and reconciliation commission would later establish that 69,280 people were killed between 1980 and 2000, 54% of them by the Shining Path \u2013 many Peruvians supported Fujimori\u2019s \u201cby any means necessary\u201d tactics. In the early 1990s, Fujimori holed up in the intelligence service headquarters from where he directed a dirty war using a death squad, the Grupo Colina, to carry out massacres for which he was eventually convicted and jailed for 25 years in 2009 in a landmark trial against a former head of state. These crimes, which included the murder of an eight-year-old boy and a string of other human rights violations, turned a large sector of public opinion against Fujimori, as did increasing revelations of corruption. But it took time. Even when he dissolved congress in 1992, allied himself with the military and co-opted national institutions to rewrite the constitution, allowing him to run for re-election, he still had broad support. With a chokehold on power, he gutted and corrupted public bodies and, via Montesinos, controlled a significant part of the press that trashed his opponents through tabloids known as the prensa chicha. \u201cHe perfected the use of \u2018fake news\u2019 to control and subjugate the population,\u201d said Jo-Marie Burt, professor of political science at George Mason University and a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America. Things finally began to fall apart towards the end of his second term when he began pushing for a third mandate using much of the apparatus of a co-opted state. Protests against his regime grew until they became daily in Lima and, after an election in 2000 that was beset with allegations of ballot-rigging \u2013 and the emergence of videos that showed Montesinos bribing lawmakers with stacks of cash \u2013 Peruvians tired of the Fujimori government and its graft. Soon after, on an official trip to Asia, Fujimori fled to Japan, his parents\u2019 homeland, and resigned the presidency by fax. But Peru\u2019s congress rejected his resignation and, instead, stripped him of the presidency, arguing that he was \u201cmorally unfit\u201d to be head of state. With Fujimori in disgrace and, latterly, in prison, it was left to his daughter, Keiko, who had been his first lady since 1994 when her parents separated, to defend and perpetuate her father\u2019s legacy. Today, Keiko, who has finished second in the past three presidential elections, remains the standard bearer for the political force known, after her father, as fujimorismo \u2013 a viciously divisive movement that has contorted Peruvian politics ever since he won power. Fujimori may be dead, but experts say his shadow lingers \u2013 and will continue to do so for a while yet. Hundreds of thousands of women and men \u2013 many poor and Indigenous \u2013 are still seeking justice after being forcibly sterilised under his presidency. For Godoy, the late president \u201cdegraded Peruvian politics to extremes rarely seen in national history\u201d and can be considered the father of the \u201ccompetitive authoritarianism\u201d seen today in El Salvador under Nayib Bukele. The author Michael Reid describes Fujimori as \u201ca transformative president for better and for worse\u201d. Although many, unsurprisingly, associate the late president with human rights violations and the poisoning of democracy, Reid points out that \u201cmost poorer Peruvians look back on Fujimori as somebody who saved the country and somebody who improved their lives and the economy\u201d during a time of crisis. But, he added, Fujimori \u201cintroduced corruption as an instrument of rule and I think that was immensely damaging \u2026 Above all, his legacy, sadly, has been one of dividing Peruvians because he did rule as an autocrat from 1992 to 2000.\u201d As Peru digs in for the mourning period and the many memories it will stir up, some have noted that, in a quirk of fate, Fujimori died exactly three years to the day after his terrorist nemesis Guzm\u00e1n died in a military hospital , also at the age of 86. Some have even dared to imagine that the coincidence might herald a better future for a country desperately in need of a break with its recent past. \u201cAnd so Alberto Fujimori dies on the same day as Abimael Guzm\u00e1n,\u201d the Peruvian writer Santiago Roncagliolo wrote on X. \u201cLet\u2019s hope this is an omen for an era with neither terrorists nor dictators. Let\u2019s hope the universe is saying that Peru can be a democracy.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018It\u2019s the height of horror\u2019: protests in 30 French cities in support of Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/its-the-height-of-horror-protests-in-30-french-cities-in-support-of-gisele-pelicot;2024-09-14T18:48:43Z",
        "text": "Hundreds of protesters gathered across France on Saturday in support of Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot, the woman whose husband drugged her and invited more than 80 men to rape her at their home over the course of a decade. Feminist groups organised about 30 protests in cities including Paris and Marseille. Demonstrators also gathered in Brussels. At Place de la R\u00e9publique in Paris, protesters held placards with messages of support for victims of sexual violence. One read: \u201cGis\u00e8le for all. All for Gis\u00e8le.\u201d The case of the 72-year-old, who was repeatedly assaulted while unconscious, shocked the world. Her husband, Dominique, 71, who has pleaded guilty, is being tried with 50 other men accused of raping her. Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot has been widely praised for her courage in saying the trial should be held in public, rather than behind closed doors. The men who allegedly raped her were aged between 26 and 73 when they were arrested and include a local councillor, a journalist, a former police officer, a prison guard, a soldier, a firefighter and a civil servant. Many were the couple\u2019s neighbours in the small town of Mazan, near Avignon, in southern France. It was only after a security guard caught Dominique P\u00e9licot filming up women\u2019s skirts in a supermarket and he was arrested that the crime he committed against his wife of 50 years was discovered. Detectives found a file labelled \u201cAbuses\u201d on a USB drive. It contained about 20,000 images and films of his wife being raped up to 100 times. A video obtained by Paris Match shows him filming up a woman\u2019s skirt in 2020. The security guard can be heard saying: \u201cYou\u2019re disgusting\u2026 You\u2019re lucky. If it was my mother I\u2019d rip your head off.\u201d At the trial in Avignon, Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot said police had \u201csaved my life\u201d. When showed evidence of the rapes, she said, her world \u201cfell apart\u201d. She told the court the word rape was not strong enough; it was \u201ctorture\u201d. The couple were married at 21 and had three children and seven grandchildren. \u201cWe weren\u2019t rich, but we were happy,\u201d she said. \u201cEven our friends said we were the ideal couple.\u201d Several of the men whom P\u00e9licot, a retired electrician, recruited on an online chatroom insist they did not know his wife had been drugged and thought the sex was consensual. At a protest in Marseille, Martine Ragon, 74, said she was there to \u201cdenounce rape culture\u201d. She told journalists: \u201cThis well-publicised trial will allow people to speak out about it, to raise awareness.\u201d Her partner, G\u00e9rard Etienne, 75, added: \u201cWe need to support women who are treated like this. When you hear some of the testimonies, you wonder how a man can treat a woman like that.\u201d Photographer Pedro Campos, 21, agreed: \u201cIt\u2019s shocking\u2026 because we see that the [men on trial] are a bit like Mr Everyman. It goes against the idea that there is only one type of rapist.\u201d Deborah Poirier, 36, protesting in Nice, said the attack was \u201cthe height of horror, crystallising everything that should never happen again\u201d. The trial, scheduled to last four months, was suspended on Thursday, as it entered its second week, after Dominique P\u00e9licot was taken ill on the day he was to be cross-examined. It will reopen on Monday, but presiding judge Roger Arata has warned that the hearing may have to be postponed if P\u00e9licot remains unable to give and hear evidence."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Funeral for slain Turkish American Ay\u015fenur Ezgi Eygi draws hundreds;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/aysenur-ezgi-eygi-funeral-turkey;2024-09-14T18:28:46Z",
        "text": "Hundreds of people waving Turkish and Palestinian flags gathered on Saturday for the funeral of Ay\u015fenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish American activist killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Cevdet Y\u0131lmaz, Turkey\u2019s vice-president; Hakan Fidan, the foreign minister; Numan Kurtulmu\u015f, the parliament speaker; and \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zel, the main opposition leader from the Republican People\u2019s party (CHP) were among mourners at the ceremony in the Turkish Aegean coastal city of Didim. A guard of honour carried the 26-year-old\u2019s coffin, which was draped with a Turkish flag. \u201cThe blood of Ay\u015fenur Eygi is as sacred as that of every Palestinian martyred, and we will follow it until the end. As the Turkish nation, we are fully committed. As a state, we are fully committed,\u201d Kurtulmu\u015f told reporters. Eygi was killed on 6 September as she took part in a protest against settlement expansion in the West Bank. Israel has acknowledged that its troops shot the activist, but says it was an unintentional act during a demonstration that turned violent. \u201cShe was directly targeted and shot behind her left ear. May God have mercy on her, and may her soul rest in paradise,\u201d Kurtulmu\u015f said. Ankara said it will request international arrest warrants for those to blame for what it calls an intentional killing. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris released statements on Wednesday after previously being criticised by the family for not calling to offer condolences. In Wednesday\u2019s statement, the US president called the killing of Eygi \u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d and called for full accountability. \u201cIsrael must do more to ensure that incidents like this never happen again,\u201d Biden said. The vice-president echoed Biden\u2019s words, calling the killing \u201ca horrible tragedy that never should have happened\u201d. The White House has still not called for an independent investigation in to Eygi\u2019s killing. In response to Wednesday\u2019s statement, Hamid Ali, Eygi\u2019s partner, said that Biden had not directly contacted the family and renewed calls for an independent inquiry in the case. \u201cThe White House has not spoken with us,\u201d he said in the statement. \u201cFor four days, we have waited for President Biden to pick up the phone and do the right thing: to call us, offer his condolences and let us know that he is ordering an independent investigation of the killing of Ay\u015fenur.\u201d Kurtulmu\u015f said Turkey would \u201censure this case is pursued until the end\u201d. \u201cWe will hold them accountable in all international courts. Yesterday, we completed all autopsies in accordance with international standards,\u201d he said. Prayers were held for Eygi in various Turkish cities, including Istanbul and Ankara. Reuters contributed to this report"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Inside Japan\u2019s biggest prison: home to yakuza\u2026 and hundreds of old men;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/inside-japan-biggest-prison-tokyo-home-to-yakuza-and-hundreds-of-old-men;2024-09-14T17:00:32Z",
        "text": "With its glass frontage and portico, Fuch\u016b prison could be mistaken for a local government office. Inside, visitors enter an airy reception area where a banner declares support for the local football team, FC Tokyo. But stepping through a heavy, guarded door reveals that this is unmistakably a place of incarceration. Its walls house 1,700 inmates, including a large number serving sentences of less than 10 years but who, in the words of the prison literature, have \u201cadvanced criminal tendencies\u201d. The atmosphere is one of calm and order: cells with neatly folded bedding, piles of books and spotless mint-green walls. The silence is broken by the sound of a guard greeting the prison\u2019s chief, Hiroyuki Yashiro, as he chaperones a small number of media organisations, including the Observer, that have been granted rare access to the frontline of Japan\u2019s criminal justice system. About a third of the men imprisoned at Fuch\u016b, Japan\u2019s biggest prison, have links to the yakuza \u2013 Japan\u2019s crime syndicates. They are easy to spot, sporting elaborate, sprawling tattoos only partly concealed by regulation white vests. But it is hard to imagine many of them chasing their nemeses through the streets of Tokyo, roughing up business owners for protection money or going head-to-head with members of a rival gang. Like many of the inmates here, they have long since entered the twilight of their criminal careers. The proportion of foreign inmates at Fuch\u016b, in Tokyo\u2019s western suburbs, has risen slightly due to a drop in the size of the overall prison population but, according to Yashiro, the biggest challenge comes from its large and growing population of older men \u2013 a criminal cohort that reflects wider demographic trends in Japan, where almost a third of the 125 million population is aged 65 or over. In Fuch\u016b, 22% of inmates fit into that age bracket, bringing with them needs that can give the prison the feel of a care home, from the specially appointed wet rooms to the nursing care qualifications younger inmates acquire to look after their older counterparts and, perhaps, use to find a job after release. \u201cSome of the older men struggle to walk or bathe unaided and have to take medication, so that is why we get younger men to help them,\u201d says Yashiro, adding that more than 70% of older inmates require treatment for chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease and mental health conditions. The age gap is visible in the prison\u2019s workshops. In one, younger men spend eight hours a day making bags and T-shirts, learning car maintenance, printing pamphlets or manning the kitchens and laundry facilities. In another, however, older men are given no more demanding a task than to assemble plastic laundry pegs to improve their strength and manual dexterity. Fuch\u016b\u2019s most famous inmates include Kenichi Shinoda, the octogenarian head of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan\u2019s most powerful crime syndicate, and Michael Taylor, the ex-US Green Beret who helped Carlos Ghosn flee Japan in 2019. Taylor, who served just over a year of his sentence at Fuch\u016b before being transferred to prison in the US, has spoken since his release of the harsh conditions: extreme temperatures, a lack of water, and a long list of rules and regulations \u2013 applicable to all inmates irrespective of age \u2013 that include not speaking to fellow prisoners during work or meals, having to sit a certain way for long periods in their cells, limited visiting rights and just 30 minutes of exercise a day. TV viewing is monitored and rationed, although Fuch\u016b\u2019s 370 foreign inmates have access to English- and Chinese-language radio broadcasts. Roll call is at 6.45am, and lights out at 9pm. Inmates bathe three times a week, with 15 at a time sharing a large communal bath. Japanese prison regulations are based on the 1908 penal code, which has retained its draconian foundations despite several revisions. In a damning report on the experience of female prisoners last year, Human Rights Watch said: \u201cJapan\u2019s prisons impose harsh conditions of confinement. Imprisoned people are subject to strict regulations enforced by prison guards with the threat of solitary confinement for disciplinary infractions. \u201cRegulations in Japan\u2019s prisons are often rigidly enforced in ways that risk worsening social isolation and creating psychological harm for imprisoned people. For instance, imprisoned people are often restricted from interacting with other imprisoned people without permission, including looking in their direction or even making eye contact.\u201d But officials point to the absence of the overcrowding, drug abuse and violence that blight prisons in comparable countries \u2013 a relative calm they insist is possible only if rules are followed to the letter. Maintaining order is a trade-off between security and individual freedom, according to Fuch\u016b\u2019s director, Yuiichiro Kushibiki. \u201cThis place works because everyone is treated the same,\u201d he says. \u201cThere is no hierarchy among criminals here. Look around \u2026 there are about 60 men in this workshop, and only a couple of guards. That can only happen if inmates follow the rules and, in turn, build respect with the staff.\u201d In an area of a workshop, an ageing inmate attempts to throw beanbags on to a tabletop, while another slowly turns the pedals of an exercise bike. \u201cWe had to find a different way to treat frail and elderly inmates,\u201d says Masanori Hayashi, the prison\u2019s occupational therapist. \u201cA lot of them can\u2019t handle ordinary work or normal prison life\u201d.\u201d For some members of Fuch\u016b\u2019s ageing population, life after release will not necessarily herald a new start. According to Yashiro, about 40% \u201cdo not have proper living arrangements\u201d on the outside and will need welfare assistance. The tour ends with a view of the visiting area, where inmates meet family and legal representatives a minimum of twice a month \u2013 and up to five times if they earn privileges for good behaviour \u2013 in cubicles divided by screens. Some older prisoners, though, will never set foot here. \u201cThey have no family left or who want to see them,\u201d says Yashiro. \u201cIt\u2019s much harder for older inmates to adjust after they are released. There are men here who find life easier on the inside.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;UN employee shot dead by Israeli sniper in occupied West Bank;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/un-employee-shot-dead-by-israeli-sniper-in-occupied-west-bank;2024-09-14T16:30:28Z",
        "text": "A sniper killed a UN worker on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank, the UN has said, as friends and family gathered in Turkey to bury a US-Turkish activist who had been killed by the Israeli military at a protest six days earlier and around 30km away. Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade. Shot in the early hours of Thursday morning in el Far\u2019a camp, he left behind a wife and five children. The war in Gaza has overshadowed spiralling conflict in the West Bank, which has seen weeks of Israeli military operations and violence has reached \u201cunprecedented levels, placing communities at risk,\u201d Unrwa said. \u201cCivilian infrastructure, including water and electricity networks, have been destroyed, with precarious access for communities to basic supplies,\u201d the agency said in a statement about Jawwad\u2019s death. \u201cUnrwa has been forced to suspend services to refugees because of the unacceptable risk to staff and beneficiaries.\u201d The violence was thrown into the international spotlight last week when an Israeli soldier killed 26 year-old US-Turkish activist Ay\u015fenur Ezgi Eygi at a protest in Beita. She was in the town with International Solidarity Movement, a group dedicated to bringing observers trained in non-violent methods to protests. On Saturday hundreds of people gathered for her burial in the Turkish coastal town of Didim, where her coffin was carried by an honour guard from the Turkish military. Many in the crowd carried Palestinian flags, and photos of Eygi. Eyewitness Jonathan Pollak, an Israeli protester, said she posed no threat to troops when she was killed and that the shooting came during a moment of calm, following clashes between stone-throwing protesters and Israelis firing tear gas and bullets. The Israeli military said she was shot \u201cindirectly and unintentionally\u201d by one of its soldiers who were targeting violent protestors. Her family have called for an investigation and the shooting drew criticism from US officials including president Joe Biden, who said he was \u201coutraged and deeply saddened\u201d. The refugee camps of the northern West Bank, including Tulkaram, Jenin, Nur Shams and el Far\u2019a, where Unrwa employee Jawwad was killed, have been a particular focus over weeks of Israeli military operations. The Israeli military said Jawwad was killed by a sniper during an operation in the camp. It said he was throwing \u201cexplosive devices\u201d at its troops from his home, without providing evidence. \u201cIt was found that the terrorist was known to Israeli security forces and he had been complicit in additional terrorist activities,\u201d spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said in a statement. UNWRA regularly provides lists of all staff members in Gaza and the West Bank to the Israeli government, and was not informed of any concerns about Jawwad before he was killed. Staff learned about the Israeli allegation from a statement on the social media site X. The killing came days after Israeli airstrikes on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza killed six UNWRA staff members, bringing the total number of agency employees killed in this war to at least 220. Israel\u2019s military said three of the dead Unrwa workers were Hamas employees, without providing evidence. An independent review of previous Israeli claims that Unrwa staff were members of terrorist organisations found that the country was yet to provide any supporting evidence. It was led by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Crisis at Jewish Chronicle as stories based on \u2018wild fabrications\u2019 are withdrawn ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/crisis-at-jewish-chronicle-as-stories-are-withdrawn;2024-09-14T15:36:38Z",
        "text": "The world\u2019s oldest Jewish newspaper, the Jewish Chronicle, has removed a series of sensational articles relating to the Gaza war after claims that the material was fabricated by a \u201cfreelance journalist\u201d who had also misrepresented his r\u00e9sum\u00e9. After an investigation last week into the author, Elon Perry, the Jewish Chronicle put out a two-paragraph announcement late on Friday night, saying that it was unsatisfied with explanations supplied by the journalist regarding his assertions. \u201cThe Jewish Chronicle has concluded a thorough investigation into freelance journalist Elon Perry, which commenced after allegations were made about aspects of his record. While we understand he did serve in the Israel Defense Forces, we were not satisfied with some of his claims. \u201cWe have therefore removed his stories from our website and ended any association with Mr Perry. \u201cThe Jewish Chronicle maintains the highest journalistic standards in a highly contested information landscape and we deeply regret the chain of events that led to this point. We apologise to our loyal readers and have reviewed our internal processes so that this will not be repeated.\u201d Founded in 1841, the JC \u2013 as it is familiarly known \u2013 has long been a respected institution in British Jewish life, attracting prominent Jewish journalists and writers to contribute. But the recent events have caused consternation about the direction of the paper as it has drifted further right under its editor, Jake Wallis Simons, and amid question over who owns it. The extraordinary events of the past week, which have now seen a series of high-profile articles taken down, began several months ago when a writer described as a British-based Israeli journalist began contributing a series of reports allegedly based on Israeli intelligence sources. Highly sensational, the articles purported to describe blow-by-blow Israeli operations \u2013 including what would be regarded as sensitive details \u2013 and intelligence purportedly gathered by Israel on the fugitive Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and his plans. Journalists covering the Gaza conflict, already dubious about the veracity of the material, were unable to establish a meaningful record of Perry\u2019s bona fides as described by the paper. Those suspicions were pushed into the open last week as a series of reports in the Israeli media described Perry\u2019s articles as \u201cfabrications\u201d. In recent months, there have been suggestions in the Israeli media that stories have been placed in European newspapers, including one in the German tabloid Bild, that are based on fake or misrepresented intelligence, planted as part of an effort to support prime minister Benjamin\u2019s Netanyahu\u2019s negotiating position over Gaza. At a 4 September press conference for foreign media, Netanyahu suggested that if the Gaza border area with Egypt known as the Philadelphi Corridor \u2013 a sticking point in negotiations between Hamas and Israel for a ceasefire-for-hostages-deal \u2013 was not under Israeli military control, then Sinwar could use it to escape, perhaps taking hostages with him. The following day, an article by Perry in the JC had turned that into reality. The piece claimed that intelligence existed showing that Sinwar planned to escape to Iran with the hostages, derived from the interrogation of a senior Hamas figure and a document found late in August. Picked up by various Israeli media \u2013 and also promoted by Netanyahu\u2019s son Yair and his wife Sara \u2013 the story, however, was quickly knocked down as a \u201cwild fabrication\u201d, with an IDF spokesman describing it as baseless. Digging by reporters in Israel and elsewhere also quickly established that Perry\u2019s claims about his background, including his supposed work as a journalist and academic, and parts of his military record, were untrue or questionable. In particular, Perry faced questions about his claim to have served as a soldier during the famous Entebbe hostage rescue mission in 1976 and that he was a professor at Tel Aviv University for 15 years. The removal of the articles, after an investigation formally announced by the paper only the day before, raises serious questions for JC editor Wallis Simons, a former novelist who has written for the Mail, the Telegraph and Spectator. Despite being provided with a series of questions, Wallis Simons and the JC have so far declined to describe how Perry \u2013 an individual with no discernible journalistic track record, let alone as an investigative reporter \u2013 came to be writing for the paper or what due diligence had been exercised over an increasingly fantastic series of claims. Perry told the Observer that \u201cthe JC made a huge mistake with its statement\u201d. He described the criticism as a \u201cwitch-hunt\u2026 caused by jealousy from Israeli journalists and outlets who could not obtain the details that I managed to.\u201d The Perry affair comes on top of growing disquiet over the paper\u2019s recent direction. In February, the Sunday Times Whitehall editor, Gabriel Pogrund, aired his misgivings about the paper on social media, including over its murky ownership arrangements that have puzzled observers. \u201cThe coarseness and aggression of the JC\u2019s current leadership is such a pity and does such a disservice to our community,\u201d wrote Pogrund. \u201cIt also once again poses the question: who owns it!? How is it that British Jews don\u2019t know who owns \u2018their\u2019 paper. Moreover, how can a paper not disclose its ownership? It\u2019s an oxymoron. I hate having to pose the question publicly but I asked privately more than a year ago to no avail.\u201d Pogrund\u2019s reservations are widespread among liberal British Jews, who feel it no longer represents them as it once did. \u201cThere was a sense that it was in the pocket of no one. It worked for the whole Jewish community, and because of that it had a greater institutional reach \u2026 in the Jewish community,\u201d said one figure familiar with the paper\u2019s history and role. \u201cIt has become much narrower in its outlook and campaigns on a particular set of issues.\u201d The question of the ownership of the JC was examined in an article by Alan Rusbridger, the former editor of the Guardian, in Prospect magazine earlier this year. He suggested the paper was ultimately backed by a billionaire American, who has denied the claim. Among those commenting on the Jewish Chronicle\u2019s removal of Perry\u2019s articles were some who had been reposting them, including Eylon Levy, the combative former Israeli government spokesman who apologised for circulating the misleading articles to his 200,000 followers. \u201cThe @JewishChron has removed the dodgy stories by \u2018freelance journalist\u2019 Elon Perry and ended its work with him,\u201d wrote Levy on X. \u201cThis is exactly how media should treat reporters who quote dodgy sources. My apologies to anyone misled by my posting of these reports.\u201d Some were sceptical, however, that the removal of Perry\u2019s stories would end the issue, including Ben Reiff of +972, one of the Israeli publications involved in exposing the fabrications. \u201cIt seems that by firing Elon Perry @JewishChron is hoping to put this whole affair to bed, as if decisions weren\u2019t made at the very top to employ a fake journalist, publish nine fake articles without verifying sources, and use the paper [as] an active agent in a pro-Bibi influence op,\u201d wrote Reiff on X."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Fury in Turkey as animal lovers and politicians attack \u2018massacre law\u2019 to deal with 4m stray dogs;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/fury-in-turkey-animal-lovers-politicians-attack-massacre-law-to-deal-with-4m-stray-dogs;2024-09-14T15:00:31Z",
        "text": "Next to the network of the highways that crisscross Turkey, among the lush forests or mountain peaks that dot the country, large stray dogs are a common sight. Most are pale white Akba\u015f dogs or Kangal shepherds, with their distinctive dark muzzle, pale golden coat and large bodies designed to herd livestock, although on the streets of Istanbul they are more commonly found lazing outside coffee shops, rotund and docile from a lifetime of treats. In cities at least, the stray dogs are popular enough to be seen as part of the architecture. One particularly large and sleepy example that dozes outside an ice-cream shop on Istanbul\u2019s main shopping street has become a local celebrity nicknamed \u201cThe Boulder\u201d, complete with a string of rave reviews left by delighted tourists. The dog is marked as an Istanbul tourist attraction on Google Maps, which features a recommendation to avoid petting him. Despite their welcome presence on the streets in some parts, Turkey\u2019s estimated 4 million stray dogs have become the focus of a furious national debate. Last December, a 10-year-old boy was mauled by a pack of strays while walking to school, prompting president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan to pledge that the government would find a solution. \u201cIt is our duty to protect the rights of our people harmed by stray dogs,\u201d he said. In late July, Turkish lawmakers worked overnight to push through a last-minute bill they claimed would resolve the issue of stray dogs, quickly sowing the seeds of outrage among opposition groups and animal rights activists. The new law, called the \u201cmassacre law\u201d by its opponents, requires already underfunded and crowded Turkish shelters to take in strays to be vaccinated, spayed or neutered before putting them up for adoption, adding that any that are ill or pose a risk to humans will be euthanised. Mayors who fail to comply can face penalties, including up to two years in prison. The new law quickly proved just as divisive as the dogs\u2019 presence, pitting Turks who view their country as a nation of animal lovers where street strays are treated well, against supporters of the state, who say decisive action is needed for public safety. Proponents of the law claim that stray dogs are a blight, with Erdo\u011fan calling them \u201ca problem that no other developed country has\u201d, and pointing to a need to control the fabric of city life at street level. Opposition activists have united against the law, calling on the authorities to properly enforce previous legislation \u2013 also introduced by Erdo\u011fan \u2013 which calls on local councils to vaccinate and neuter the dogs, rather than threatening penalties and a cull. At a protest in Istanbul, where police quickly surrounded demonstrators to assess whether their placards met their approval, a large crowd chanted \u201cget your hands off our animals\u201d. Zeynep Tekin said she had turned out to protest because she feared the crackdown on stray animals represents the state\u2019s latest effort to control public life, worried about where it might lead. The government, she said, should instead show care by properly funding municipal shelters to improve conditions, which activists believe would prove most effective. \u201cThis is about much more than an animal rights issue \u2026 this is a war between the Turkish government and the oppressed,\u201d she said, concerned that the authorities could seek to remove other minority groups from public life if this new law went unchallenged. The same exuberance permeated a gathering of hundreds of animal rights and leftwing activists, with some eager to unite around a cause that has fuelled their longstanding discontent with the conservative shift under two decades of AKP rule. Others said they were focused entirely on the dogs, as they waved approved placards showing puppies alongside Turkish flags. \u201cWe\u2019re here to defend the right to life,\u201d said protester Tulin Yeni\u00e7eri. \u201cThis isn\u2019t anything political.\u201d Longtime volunteer \u0130nci Kutay recalled her time at a municipal shelter in Istanbul, where she described the \u201cterrible conditions\u201d of just two square metres of space for each dog. Sending more animals to these facilities was a death sentence, she said, and one she feared would be enacted brutally due to low budgets. \u201cThis is why we object to the new law \u2013 the municipalities don\u2019t cover the costs for the animals currently in your care. How are they going to do this for the ones they collect? At least if they are released they have a chance for a good life in the neighbourhood,\u201d she said. Proponents of the new law include Murat Pinar, who founded the Safe Streets Association after his daughter died when she was hit by a truck while running away from stray dogs in the town of Antalya. He said he wanted an end to what he called the \u201cdisorderly conduct\u201d of the protests against the new law. Previous measures to curb the problem weren\u2019t enough, he said, calling the protesters members of \u201cmarginal groups like feminists, LGBTQ and even some groups that are considered terrorist organisations in our country\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Icelandic fishing giant Samherji sues art student for spoofing corporate website;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/icelandic-fishing-giant-samherji-sues-art-student-for-spoofing-corporate-website;2024-09-14T14:57:10Z",
        "text": "Iceland\u2019s biggest fishing company is suing an art student at London\u2019s high court for spoofing its website and issuing a fake public apology over a high-profile corruption scandal. The costly lawsuit, which will be heard this month, is feared by the student\u2019s supporters to have a potentially chilling effect on artists engaging critically with large corporations, while also raising questions about the UK\u2019s status as the go-to litigation jurisdiction for powerful businesses. Oddur Eysteinn Fri\u00f0riksson, a 41-year-old Icelandic artist and MA fine arts student at the University of Bergen who goes under the moniker Odee, describes his practice as \u201cculture jamming\u201d, a term used for artists such as US duo The Yes Men or British street artist Banksy, who impersonate brands or companies to draw attention to corporate malpractices. For his 2023 work, We\u2019re Sorry, Odee copied the corporate identity of Samherji, one of Europe\u2019s largest fishing and fish processing companies, and on 11 May 2023 launched the website samherji.co.uk, containing a statement entitled: \u201cSamherji Apologizes, Pledges Restitution and Cooperation with Authorities.\u201d The pretend apology related to a corruption scandal known as the \u201cFishrot files\u201d: in 2019, documents released by WikiLeaks and investigations by Icelandic media suggested Samherji had allegedly bribed officials in Namibia in exchange for profitable trawling rights. Two Namibian ministers and Samherji\u2019s chief executive resigned in the wake of the scandal. In a genuine 2021 apology, the fishing company conceded that \u201cmistakes were made\u201d, while strongly denying allegations of bribery. Investigations are ongoing in both Namibia and Iceland. In addition to the website, Odee sent out a press release from samherji@samherji.co.uk to 100 media outlets in 20 countries that acknowledged \u201cthe severity of the allegations against us, which include corruption, bribery, and neocolonialism\u201d. A 10-metre mural containing the same text went on display a week later at Reykjav\u00edk\u2019s contemporary art museum, as part of Fri\u00f0riksson\u2019s BA graduation show. \u201cIcelanders have been very critical of imperialist tactics throughout history. So to have this company drag the reputation of the country through the mud and put this huge stain on our history was just appalling,\u201d Odee told the Observer. \u201cAn apology with promise of restitution and cooperation with the authorities is the only thing that can actually settle this matter\u201d. Samherji reacted swiftly, putting out a statement identifying the spoof before it was picked up as genuine by the media, and filing an application for an interim injunction that led to the website being taken down on 24 May last year. Around the same time, Samherji filed a complaint in London accusing Odee of trademark infringement and malicious falsehood and seeking damages, which will be heard at the high court on 25 September. In preliminary proceedings, lawyers representing Samherji have insisted they are not complaining about the allegations per se but \u201cthe way the allegations are made\u201d, and that the like-for-like impersonation of their corporate identity meant Odee\u2019s \u201cculture jamming\u201d intervention did not qualify as parody. The case is reminiscent of a landmark lawsuit which ended litigation between French fashion house Louis Vuitton and the Danish artist Nadia Plesner over her use of images of its luxury bags in her work. The court eventually ruled in her favour, which allowed her to exhibit her painting Darfurnica, which dealt with the Darfur genocide. Plesner, as well as The Yes Men, have written letters of support for the Icelandic artist. One factor that distinguishes the two cases is that Louis Vuitton sued in the Netherlands, where there was negative media attention. Another is that Plesner managed to sell her work for $45,000. Odee, meanwhile, said that though he has received offers for We\u2019re Sorry, he would not sell it as a matter of principle. In preliminary hearings, the high court judge initially questioned whether \u201cIceland is not the better place for this sort of issue to be ventilated\u201d, though later appeared satisfied with the prosecution\u2019s argument that the spoofed website\u2019s co.uk suffix meant it was targeted at the UK. Andra Matei, a Paris-based free-speech lawyer whose legal NGO Avant Garde Lawyers has been supporting Odee in the case, suggested that comparatively high legal fees in the UK also meant a London-set lawsuit would lend a natural advantage to a big corporation such as Samherji. The company did not respond to a question from the Observer asking to explain why it was suing the artist under English jurisdiction. Odee said he had so far raised more than 33,000 Norwegian krone (\u00a32,350) via a crowdfunding scheme, but would need about 150,000 NOK to defend himself at this point. He said he had rejected two offers for a settlement since it would have hinged on him destroying the artwork and never publicly talking about it in the future. He added: \u201cI would never settle with Samherji, I believe that freedom of speech will prevail.\u201d \u201cWe want Odee to have his day in court,\u201d Matei told the Observer. \u201cHow important is it for us that artists get to express themselves freely and amplify important questions on issues like corruption and injustice? These are conversations we need to be having as a society.\u201d Odee was previously threatened with legal action by the now defunct Icelandic low-budget airline WOW Air, after launching a spoof new airline with the similar-looking name MOM Air, which charged passengers for toilet paper, soap and life jackets. \u201cCulture jamming is artistic jiu jitsu,\u201d he said. \u201cThe more force someone applies to silence it, the harder they tend to fall.\u201d"
    },
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        "label": "The Guardian;Hundreds released in Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap deal \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/14/russia-ukraine-war-live-nato-putin-zelenskiy;2024-09-14T14:34:15Z",
        "text": "Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners of war, with each side releasing 103 people, the Interfax news agency cited Russia\u2019s defence ministry as saying on Saturday. The ministry said the Russian soldiers exchanged on Saturday had been taken prisoner in Russia\u2019s Kursk region. Ukrainian forces captured territory there last month in their first major incursion into Russia. Ukraine has made a new call on the West to allow it to strike deeper into Russia after a meeting between US and British leaders a day earlier produced no visible shift in their policy on the use of long-range weapons. \u201cRussian terror begins at weapons depots, airfields and military bases inside the Russian Federation,\u201d Ukrainian presidential adviser Andriy Yermak said Saturday. US historian and author Timothy Snyder on Saturday led a charity run in Kyiv to raise awareness of the conditions under which Ukrainian prisoners of war are held in Russia as the conflict approaches a third winter. The race came after a recent escalation in Russian missile and drone attacks, largely aimed at Ukraine\u2019s electricity infrastructure. Iran\u2019s foreign minister said that Tehran was open to diplomacy to solve disputes but not \u201cthreats and pressure\u201d, state media reported on Saturday, after the US and three European powers imposed sanctions against the country\u2019s aviation sector. Abbas Araqchi\u2019s comments come a day after the European Union\u2019s chief diplomat said the bloc is considering new sanctions targeting Iran\u2019s aviation sector, in reaction to reports Tehran supplied Russia with ballistic missiles in its war against Ukraine. Nato could have done more to arm Ukraine to try to prevent Russia\u2019s invasion in 2022, the outgoing head of the western military alliance said in an interview released on Saturday. \u201cNow we provide military stuff to a war \u2013 then we could have provided military stuff to prevent the war,\u201d Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg told German weekly newspaper FAS. Russian forces shelled 15 border areas of Ukraine\u2019s Sumy region a total of 84 times on Friday, killing two people and wounding nine, the regional authority said. The authority, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said two people had died near the town of Yampil, Reuters reported. Russian forces have taken control of the village of Zhelanne Pershe in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region, the state-run TASS news agency cited the Russian defence ministry as saying on Saturday. Former British defence secretary Ben Wallace said the wrangling over Ukraine\u2019s use of long-range missiles in Russia was just benefiting Vladimir Putin. The Tory former minister said: \u201cI\u2019m just disappointed that it\u2019s yet again, another tug of war around another capability.\u201d Senior Russian security official and former president Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday Russia could destroy Ukraine\u2019s capital Kyiv with non-nuclear weapons in response to the use of western long-range missiles by Ukraine. Medvedev said Moscow already had formal grounds to use nuclear weapons since Ukraine\u2019s incursion into Russia\u2019s Kursk region, but could instead use some of its new weapon technologies to reduce Kyiv to \u201ca giant melted spot\u201d when its patience runs out. Moscow knows that the West has made a decision on whether to allow Ukraine to attack Russia with long-range missiles and has informed Kyiv, the TASS news agency cited Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Saturday. Ryabkov did not clarify what the purported decision was, but said that since Moscow\u2019s verbal warnings to the West against further escalation have not worked, Russia would need to switch to sending signals in different ways. Joe Biden dismissed sabre-rattling threats made by Vladimir Putin as the US president met with the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, at the White House on Friday. Biden said he did not accept that Ukraine using western-made Storm Shadow missiles to bomb targets in Russia would amount to Nato going to war with Moscow. At a foreign policy summit on Friday afternoon, Biden said: \u201cI do not think much about Vladimir Putin.\u201d Earlier, Russia announced it had revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats in Moscow on accusations of espionage. Moscow\u2019s FSB domestic spy agency said on Friday that it had acted on documents showing part of the Foreign Office was helping coordinate what it called \u201cthe escalation of the political and military situation\u201d in Ukraine. Moscow\u2019s ambassador to the UN told the security council on Friday that loosening the missile strike restrictions would mark an escalation to \u201cdirect war\u201d between Moscow and Nato. Washington officials accused Putin of trying to scare Nato countries away from supporting Ukraine, reports Andrew Roth. In Europe, leaders played down Putin\u2019s threats. The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, said: \u201cI would not attach excessive importance to the latest statements from President Putin. They rather show the difficult situation the Russians have on the front.\u201d Zelenskiy said the Ukrainian incursion into Russia\u2019s border region of Kursk had produced the desired result of slowing Moscow\u2019s advance on another front in Ukraine\u2019s east. The Ukrainian president said in Kyiv on Friday that Russia\u2019s counterattack in Kursk produced no major successes \u2013 contradicting Vladimir Putin\u2019s accounts of Russian advances on both fronts. Zelenskiy said Russia had about 40,000 troops on the Kursk front. \u201cSo far we have seen no serious [Russian] success.\u201d Russia\u2019s defence ministry said on Friday its troops had taken back 10 villages out of 100 that Kyiv had occupied. The battlefield reports of either side were not able to be independently verified. That\u2019s all from me, Tom Ambrose, and the Ukraine live blog for today. Thanks for following along. Iran\u2019s foreign minister said that Tehran was open to diplomacy to solve disputes but not \u201cthreats and pressure\u201d, state media reported on Saturday, after the US and three European powers imposed sanctions against the country\u2019s aviation sector. Abbas Araqchi\u2019s comments come a day after the European Union\u2019s chief diplomat said the bloc is considering new sanctions targeting Iran\u2019s aviation sector, in reaction to reports Tehran supplied Russia with ballistic missiles in its war against Ukraine. \u201cIran continues on its own path with strength, although we have always been open to talks to resolve disputes \u2026 but dialogue should be based on mutual respect, not on threats and pressure,\u201d Araqchi said, according to the official news agency IRNA. Araqchi said on Wednesday that Tehran had not delivered any ballistic missiles to Russia and sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States and three European powers would not solve any problems between them. Ukraine has made a new call on the West to allow it to strike deeper into Russia after a meeting between US and British leaders a day earlier produced no visible shift in their policy on the use of long-range weapons. \u201cRussian terror begins at weapons depots, airfields and military bases inside the Russian Federation,\u201d Ukrainian presidential adviser Andriy Yermak said Saturday. \u201cPermission to strike deep into Russia will speed up the solution.\u201d The renewed appeal came as Kyiv said Russia launched more drone and artillery attacks into Ukraine overnight, AP reported. Ukrainian officials have repeatedly called on allies to approve the use of western-provided long-range weapons to strike targets deep inside Russian territory. So far, the US has allowed Kyiv to use American-provided weapons only in a limited area inside Russia\u2019s border with Ukraine. US historian and author Timothy Snyder on Saturday led a charity run in Kyiv to raise awareness of the conditions under which Ukrainian prisoners of war are held in Russia as the conflict approaches a third winter. The race came after a recent escalation in Russian missile and drone attacks, largely aimed at Ukraine\u2019s electricity infrastructure. People clapped and cheered after Snyder, a 55-year-old Yale University professor who has written extensively on eastern Europe and the global resurgence of authoritarian regimes and is much admired in Ukarine, addressed the nearly thousand runners. He then joined a workout and participated in the run. \u201cThousands of Ukrainian civilians and soldiers are illegally held in captivity during an illegal war,\u201d Snyder told the Associated Press just ahead of the run. \u201cThis race is about reminding everyone of that and expressing solidarity with Ukrainians and giving Ukrainians a chance to do something together,\u201d he said. The United Arab Emirates mediated an exchange of 206 prisoners between Russia and Ukraine, Emirati state news agency WAM said, noting it was the country\u2019s eighth such mediation. In a statement confirming the prisoner swap, the Russian defence ministry said: As a result of the negotiation process, 103 Russian servicemen captured in the Kursk region were returned from territory controlled by the Kyiv regime In return, 103 Ukrainian army prisoners of war were handed over. At present, all Russian servicemen are on the territory of the Republic of Belarus, where they are being provided with the necessary psychological and medical assistance, as well as an opportunity to contact their relatives. Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners of war, with each side releasing 103 people, the Interfax news agency cited Russia\u2019s defence ministry as saying on Saturday. The ministry said the Russian soldiers exchanged on Saturday had been taken prisoner in Russia\u2019s Kursk region. Ukrainian forces captured territory there last month in their first major incursion into Russia. Nato could have done more to arm Ukraine to try to prevent Russia\u2019s invasion in 2022, the outgoing head of the western military alliance said in an interview released on Saturday. \u201cNow we provide military stuff to a war \u2013 then we could have provided military stuff to prevent the war,\u201d Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg told German weekly newspaper FAS. Russian forces shelled 15 border areas of Ukraine\u2019s Sumy region a total of 84 times on Friday, killing two people and wounding nine, the regional authority said. The authority, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said two people had died near the town of Yampil, Reuters reported. Russian forces have taken control of the village of Zhelanne Pershe in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region, the state-run TASS news agency cited the Russian defence ministry as saying on Saturday. Former British defence secretary Ben Wallace said the wrangling over Ukraine\u2019s use of long-range missiles in Russia was just benefiting Vladimir Putin. The Tory former minister said: \u201cI\u2019m just disappointed that it\u2019s yet again, another tug of war around another capability.\u201d Senior Russian security official and former president Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday Russia could destroy Ukraine\u2019s capital Kyiv with non-nuclear weapons in response to the use of western long-range missiles by Ukraine. Medvedev said Moscow already had formal grounds to use nuclear weapons since Ukraine\u2019s incursion into Russia\u2019s Kursk region, but could instead use some of its new weapon technologies to reduce Kyiv to \u201ca giant melted spot\u201d when its patience runs out. Moscow knows that the West has made a decision on whether to allow Ukraine to attack Russia with long-range missiles and has informed Kyiv, the TASS news agency cited Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Saturday. Ryabkov did not clarify what the purported decision was, but said that since Moscow\u2019s verbal warnings to the West against further escalation have not worked, Russia would need to switch to sending signals in different ways. Joe Biden dismissed sabre-rattling threats made by Vladimir Putin as the US president met with the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, at the White House on Friday. Biden said he did not accept that Ukraine using western-made Storm Shadow missiles to bomb targets in Russia would amount to Nato going to war with Moscow. At a foreign policy summit on Friday afternoon, Biden said: \u201cI do not think much about Vladimir Putin.\u201d Earlier, Russia announced it had revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats in Moscow on accusations of espionage. Moscow\u2019s FSB domestic spy agency said on Friday that it had acted on documents showing part of the Foreign Office was helping coordinate what it called \u201cthe escalation of the political and military situation\u201d in Ukraine. Moscow\u2019s ambassador to the UN told the security council on Friday that loosening the missile strike restrictions would mark an escalation to \u201cdirect war\u201d between Moscow and Nato. Washington officials accused Putin of trying to scare Nato countries away from supporting Ukraine, reports Andrew Roth. In Europe, leaders played down Putin\u2019s threats. The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, said: \u201cI would not attach excessive importance to the latest statements from President Putin. They rather show the difficult situation the Russians have on the front.\u201d Zelenskiy said the Ukrainian incursion into Russia\u2019s border region of Kursk had produced the desired result of slowing Moscow\u2019s advance on another front in Ukraine\u2019s east. The Ukrainian president said in Kyiv on Friday that Russia\u2019s counterattack in Kursk produced no major successes \u2013 contradicting Vladimir Putin\u2019s accounts of Russian advances on both fronts. Zelenskiy said Russia had about 40,000 troops on the Kursk front. \u201cSo far we have seen no serious [Russian] success.\u201d Russia\u2019s defence ministry said on Friday its troops had taken back 10 villages out of 100 that Kyiv had occupied. The battlefield reports of either side were not able to be independently verified. The Ukrainian general staff said on Friday that Russian forces had focused their assaults near the town of Kurakhove, about 33km (20 miles) south of the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk in Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region. Russia\u2019s defence ministry said its forces had captured Dolynivka, positioned between Pokrovsk and Kurakhove, the latest in a series of localities Moscow says it has seized. Volodymyr Zelenskiy said 49 Ukrainian prisoners of war had been returned from Russia, with Agence France-Presse witnessing the group being greeted at the border with Belarus. The Ukrainian president did not clarify whether it was part of an exchange with Russia, as is usually the case, but AFP journalists had earlier seen Russian prisoners of war being loaded on to a bus near the border. Romania started training its first group of Ukrainian F-16 pilots this week, the Nato country\u2019s defence ministry said. The first four pilots had started their \u201ctheoretical training\u201d, a ministry spokesperson told AFP, with practical training to follow \u201ctowards the end of the year\u201d. Drone fragments fell on a municipal building in Kyiv\u2019s Obolon district north of the city centre early on Saturday, said the mayor. Writing on Telegram, Vitali Klitschko said no fire broke out and emergency services were sent. He earlier said air defence units had been in action. A Reuters witness said explosions were heard. The head of Kyiv\u2019s military administration, Serhiy Popko, urged people to remain in shelters as drones still posed a threat. The air raid alert was later lifted for the city but remained in effect for several regions of central Ukraine. Russian forces have taken control of the village of Zhelanne Pershe in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region, the state-run TASS news agency cited the Russian defence ministry as saying on Saturday. Moscow knows that the West has made a decision on whether to allow Ukraine to attack Russia with long-range missiles and has informed Kyiv, the TASS news agency cited Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Saturday. Ryabkov did not clarify what the purported decision was, but said that since Moscow\u2019s verbal warnings to the West against further escalation have not worked, Russia would need to switch to sending signals in different ways. Former British defence secretary Ben Wallace said the wrangling over Ukraine\u2019s use of long-range missiles in Russia was just benefiting Vladimir Putin. The Tory former minister said: \u201cI\u2019m just disappointed that it\u2019s yet again, another tug of war around another capability.\u201d The row over whether western missiles can be used to strike targets across Ukraine\u2019s border follows similar delays over decisions on supplying tanks and fighter jets. \u201cAll of that delay, all of that tug of war favours Russia and allows Putin to insert, in the delay, threats and new red lines and efforts to divide and rule in the international community,\u201d Sir Ben told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today. He said Putin was \u201ca bully, and for a bully to succeed all he needs to do is intimidate people, all he needs to do is get people to pause and \u2026 that\u2019s how he gets us to change our behaviour\u201d. Senior Russian security official and former president Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday Russia could destroy Ukraine\u2019s capital Kyiv with non-nuclear weapons in response to the use of western long-range missiles by Ukraine. Medvedev said Moscow already had formal grounds to use nuclear weapons since Ukraine\u2019s incursion into Russia\u2019s Kursk region, but could instead use some of its new weapon technologies to reduce Kyiv to \u201ca giant melted spot\u201d when its patience runs out. \u201cHoly shit! It\u2019s impossible, but it happened,\u201d he wrote in English on the Telegram messaging app. Earlier, Russia announced it had revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats in Moscow on accusations of espionage. Moscow\u2019s FSB domestic spy agency said on Friday that it had acted on documents showing part of the Foreign Office was helping coordinate what it called \u201cthe escalation of the political and military situation\u201d in Ukraine. The Foreign Office, however, said the move had been made last month as part of a continuing diplomatic tit-for-tat. Sources indicated the British diplomats had left Russia weeks ago and were being replaced. A Foreign Office spokesperson said: \u201cThe accusations made today by the FSB against our staff are completely baseless \u2026 We are unapologetic about protecting our national interests.\u201d The British government expelled the Russian defence attache in May, accusing him of being an undeclared intelligence officer, and removed diplomatic status from several Russian-owned buildings in the UK. Joe Biden dismissed sabre-rattling threats made by Vladimir Putin as the US president met with the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, at the White House on Friday. Biden said he did not accept that Ukraine using western-made Storm Shadow missiles to bomb targets in Russia would amount to Nato going to war with Moscow. At a foreign policy summit on Friday afternoon, Biden said: \u201cI do not think much about Vladimir Putin.\u201d Biden and Starmer\u2019s top foreign policy teams were meeting at the Blue Room in the White House. At the start of the meeting, James Matthews from Sky News jumped the gun by asking Biden: \u201cWhat do you say to Vladimir Putin\u2019s threat of war?\u201d Biden scolded him. \u201cYou be quiet, I\u2019m going to speak, OK?\u201d the president said, before beginning his prepared remarks. Also present at the Blue Room meeting were Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, and David Lammy, the UK foreign secretary. Other British participants included Tim Barrow, the national security adviser, and Starmer\u2019s chief of staff, Sue Gray. Nato could have done more to arm Ukraine to try to prevent Russia\u2019s invasion in 2022, the outgoing head of the western military alliance said in an interview released on Saturday. \u201cNow we provide military stuff to a war \u2013 then we could have provided military stuff to prevent the war,\u201d Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg told German weekly newspaper FAS. Stoltenberg pointed to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization\u2019s reluctance to provide weapons that Kyiv had asked for before Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion because of fears that tensions with Russia would escalate. After the war began, Kyiv, which is not a member of Nato, received one weapons system after another from its allies after initial hesitation. Stoltenberg, a former prime minister of Norway, will step down in October from his role at Nato, which he has held since 2014. Dutch former prime minister Mark Rutte was announced in June as the organisation\u2019s next boss. In the interview, Stoltenberg said an end to the war in Ukraine would be achieved only at the negotiating table. \u201cTo end this war there will have to be again dialogue with Russia at a certain stage. But it has to be based on Ukrainian strength,\u201d he said. Stoltenberg declined to confirm that he would take over from German diplomat Christoph Heusgen as chair of the Munich Security Conference after leaving Nato. He told FAS he had \u201cmany options\u201d and would reside in Oslo. Hello and welcome to the Ukraine live blog. I\u2019m Tom Ambrose and will be bringing you all the latest news from Russia\u2019s war on its neighbour throughout the day. We start with news that Russian forces shelled 15 border areas of Ukraine\u2019s Sumy region a total of 84 times on Friday, killing two people and wounding nine, the regional authority said. The authority, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said two people had died near the town of Yampil, Reuters reported. Sumy region has long been the target of Russian shelling in the 2-1/2-year-old war. It lies opposite Russia\u2019s southern Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces have launched an incursion since early in August. In other news this morning: Keir Starmer and Joe Biden have discussed letting Ukraine fire long-range, western-supplied missiles into Russia, while stopping short of any formal announcement. Vladimir Putin has threatened it would amount to Nato joining the war. The UK prime minister told reporters at the White House that he had a \u201cwide-ranging discussion about strategy\u201d with the US president but that it was not just a meeting about \u201ca particular capability\u201d. Biden dismissed Vladimir Putin\u2019s sabre-rattling threats, saying he did not accept that Ukraine using Storm Shadows missiles against Russia proper would amount to Nato going to war with Moscow, reports Dan Sabbagh in Washington. \u201cI do not think much about Vladimir Putin,\u201d Biden said. Moscow\u2019s ambassador to the UN told the security council on Friday that loosening the missile strike restrictions would mark an escalation to \u201cdirect war\u201d between Moscow and Nato. Washington officials accused Putin of trying to scare Nato countries away from supporting Ukraine, reports Andrew Roth. In Europe, leaders played down Putin\u2019s threats. The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, said: \u201cI would not attach excessive importance to the latest statements from President Putin. They rather show the difficult situation the Russians have on the front.\u201d Zelenskiy said the Ukrainian incursion into Russia\u2019s border region of Kursk had produced the desired result of slowing Moscow\u2019s advance on another front in Ukraine\u2019s east. The Ukrainian president said in Kyiv on Friday that Russia\u2019s counterattack in Kursk produced no major successes \u2013 contradicting Vladimir Putin\u2019s accounts of Russian advances on both fronts. Zelenskiy said Russia had about 40,000 troops on the Kursk front. \u201cSo far we have seen no serious [Russian] success.\u201d Russia\u2019s defence ministry said on Friday its troops had taken back 10 villages out of 100 that Kyiv had occupied. The battlefield reports of either side were not able to be independently verified. The Ukrainian general staff said on Friday that Russian forces had focused their assaults near the town of Kurakhove, about 33km (20 miles) south of the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk in Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region. Russia\u2019s defence ministry said its forces had captured Dolynivka, positioned between Pokrovsk and Kurakhove, the latest in a series of localities Moscow says it has seized. Volodymyr Zelenskiy said 49 Ukrainian prisoners of war had been returned from Russia, with Agence France-Presse witnessing the group being greeted at the border with Belarus. The Ukrainian president did not clarify whether it was part of an exchange with Russia, as is usually the case, but AFP journalists had earlier seen Russian prisoners of war being loaded on to a bus near the border. Romania started training its first group of Ukrainian F-16 pilots this week, the Nato country\u2019s defence ministry said. The first four pilots had started their \u201ctheoretical training\u201d, a ministry spokesperson told AFP, with practical training to follow \u201ctowards the end of the year\u201d. Drone fragments fell on a municipal building in Kyiv\u2019s Obolon district north of the city centre early on Saturday, said the mayor. Writing on Telegram, Vitali Klitschko said no fire broke out and emergency services were sent. He earlier said air defence units had been in action. A Reuters witness said explosions were heard. The head of Kyiv\u2019s military administration, Serhiy Popko, urged people to remain in shelters as drones still posed a threat. The air raid alert was later lifted for the city but remained in effect for several regions of central Ukraine."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;More than 100 Ukrainians released in prisoner-of-war swap with Russia;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/more-than-100-ukrainians-released-prisoner-of-war-swap-russia;2024-09-14T14:26:47Z",
        "text": "More than 100 Ukrainian prisoners of war will be able to return to their families after an exchange of captured members of the Russian and Ukrainian armed forces. The prisoner swap on Saturday, mediated by the United Arab Emirates, involved 206 military personnel from both countries. Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said that of the 103 Ukrainian \u201cwarriors\u201d who were released, 82 were soldiers and privates and 21 were officers, including police officers and border guards. Later, he said that his forces\u2019 incursion into Kursk had helped bring about the prisoner exchange. In his nightly video address Zelenskiy thanked his forces for their work on the prisoner exchanges, and added: \u201cIn particular, our operation in the Kursk region gave a necessary boost.\u201d Photographers captured the moment that the smiling and emotional Ukrainians, wrapped in their country\u2019s flag, embraced their fellow soldiers after being swapped at an unknown location in Ukraine. They looked pale and thin, and all of the men released had shaved heads. One kneeled on the ground, his national flag draped around his shoulders, and stared down at his homeland as he made an emotional phone call. In return for their freedom, Ukraine has handed over 103 Russian military personnel taken prisoner in the Kursk border region when Ukrainian forces launched a surprise incursion in August. The Russian defence ministry said in a statement that all these Russians were now in Belarus, \u201cwhere they are being provided with the necessary psychological and medical assistance, as well as an opportunity to contact their relatives\u201d. It is the second such swap since Ukraine\u2019s incursion into the Kursk region, and occurred after mediated negotiations between the two countries. UAE officials said that the number of captives exchanged through its mediation efforts now stood at 1,994. On Saturday, Ukraine made a new call on the west to allow it to strike deeper into Russia, after a meeting on Friday between Joe Biden and Keir Starmer failed to produce a visible shift in British and US policies on the use of long-range weapons. Zelenskiy has been pushing for months to use British Storm Shadow missiles, which can strike targets at least 190 miles (300km) away, to bomb airbases, missile sites and other military targets inside Russia. So far, the US has only allowed Kyiv to use American-provided weapons to strike within a limited area inside Russia\u2019s border with Ukraine. \u201cRussian terror begins at weapons depots, airfields and military bases inside the Russian Federation,\u201d the Ukrainian presidential adviser Andriy Yermak said on Saturday. \u201cPermission to strike deep into Russia will speed up the solution.\u201d On Thursday, Vladimir Putin warned western leaders that allowing Ukraine to use western-made long-range missiles would amount to Nato being at war with Russia. At Friday\u2019s foreign policy summit with Starmer at the White House, Biden said he did not accept that and then told reporters: \u201cI do not think much about Vladimir Putin.\u201d On Saturday, a senior Nato military official said Ukraine would have a good reason to strike deeper into Russia using western weapons. Adm Rob Bauer said the law on armed conflict gave a nation the right to defend itself and that did not stop at its border. He said: \u201cIn military terms, you do (those attacks) because you want to weaken the enemy that attacks you in order to not only fight the arrows that come your way, but also attack the archer. \u201cSo, militarily, there is a good reason to do that; to weaken the enemy, to weaken its logistics lines, fuel, ammunition that comes to the front.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel-Gaza war: UN worker killed in West Bank during Israeli operation \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/14/israel-gaza-war-live-unrwa-west-bank-middle-east-latest;2024-09-14T14:01:41Z",
        "text": "It has just gone 5pm in Gaza and Tel Aviv. We will be closing this blog soon, but you can stay up to date on the Guardian\u2019s Israel-Gaza war coverage here and on the Middle East here. Here is a recap of the latest developments: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) has said that one of its employees was killed during an Israeli operation in the occupied West Bank, where raids have escalated since last month. Unrwa identified the employee as Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, who worked as a sanitation labourer. It said he was \u201cshot and killed on the roof of his home by a sniper\u201d in Faraa refugee camp. The Israeli military called the UN worker a \u201cterrorist\u201d who posed a threat to troops. Mourners gathered in the Aegean town of Didim, south-west Turkey, on Saturday for the funeral of a US-Turkish activist, who was shot dead while protesting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The killing last week of 26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi has sparked international condemnation and angered Turkey, further escalating tensions over the war in Gaza. A large crowd gathered during the prayers including Eygi\u2019s family, members of president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s Islamic-rooted AKP party, and activists advocating the Palestinian cause. Erdo\u011fan has vowed to ensure \u201cthat Aysenur Ezgi\u2019s death does not go unpunished\u201d. The Israeli military has said it was likely Eygi was hit \u201cunintentionally\u201d by forces while they were responding to a \u201cviolent riot\u201d, and said it is looking into the case. Initial findings from an autopsy in Izmir, Turkey, revealed a bullet hit Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in the head state-run TRT television reported. The cause of Eygi\u2019s death was defined as \u201cskull fracture, brain haemorrhage and brain tissue damage\u201d. The report overlapped with an initial autopsy carried out by three Palestinian doctors, which concluded that a bullet passed directly through the victim\u2019s skull. Her mother, Rabia Birden, on Friday urged Turkish officials to pursue justice. \u201cThe only thing I ask of our state is to seek justice for my daughter,\u201d she was quoted as saying by Anadolu news agency. A campaign is under way to drive Unrwa out of existence, its commissioner general has said, days after 18 people were killed when Israeli jets bombed an Unrwa school in Gaza. Israeli airstrikes hit central and southern Gaza overnight into Saturday, killing at least 14 people, Gaza\u2019s civil defence agency said.\u201cWe have recovered the bodies of 11 martyrs, including four children and three women, after an Israeli airstrike hit the house of the Bustan family in eastern Gaza City,\u201d agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told Agence France-Presse (AFP). The strike took place near the Shujaiya school in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, he said. The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the strike. Bassal said Israeli forces carried out similar strikes in some other parts of the territory overnight, killing at least 10 people. Five people were killed in northwestern Gaza City when an airstrike hit a group of people near Dar Al-Arqam school, he said. Three others were killed in a strike in the al-Mawasi area of the southern Khan Younis governorate, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge, Bassal added. At least 41,182 Palestinians have been killed and 95,280 others injured in Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, Gaza\u2019s health ministry said on Saturday. The toll includes 64 deaths in the previous 48 hours, according to the ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its count. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) disaster risk management teams, in cooperation with the Palestine Ministry of Social Development, distributed food parcels to 11,000 families in Gaza and North Gaza governates, the humanitarian organisation shared on X. Iran launched a satellite into space on Saturday with a rocket built by the country\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), according to state-run media. There was no immediate independent confirmation of the launch\u2019s success, nor did Iranian authorities immediately provide footage or other details. Richard Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) representative in Gaza and the West Bank, said in a statement on Saturday that he is \u201chopeful these pauses will hold\u201d as the UN agency prepare for the next round of polio vaccinations in Gaza in four week\u2019s time. About 559,000 children under the age of 10 have recovered from their first dose, the WHO said, as part of a campaign to inoculate children in Gaza. The second doses are expected to begin later this month as part of an effort in which the WHO said parties had already agreed to. A new attempt has begun to try to salvage an oil tanker burning in the Red Sea after attacks by Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels, an EU naval mission said on Saturday. The EU\u2019s Operation Aspides published images dated Saturday of its vessels escorting ships heading to the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad issued a decree naming former communications minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali to form a new cabinet, state media said on Saturday. The new cabinet will replace an outgoing administration which has been serving in a caretaker role since parliamentary elections in mid-July. A man was shot and sustained life-threatening injuries on Thursday in Newton, Massachusetts, after he tackled a pro-Israel demonstrator. During a news conference on Thursday evening, Marian Ryan, the Middlesex district attorney, said that the incident took place at about 6.40pm on Thursday evening. The individual sustained life-threatening injuries, and is being treated at a local hospital, she said. Richard Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) representative in Gaza and the West Bank, said in a statement on Saturday that he is \u201chopeful these pauses will hold\u201d as the UN agency prepare for the next round of polio vaccinations in Gaza in four week\u2019s time. About 559,000 children under the age of 10 have recovered from their first dose, the WHO said, as part of a campaign to inoculate children in Gaza. According to the Associated Press (AP), the second doses are expected to begin later this month as part of an effort in which the WHO said parties had already agreed to. \u201cAs we prepare for the next round in four weeks, we\u2019re hopeful these pauses will hold, because this campaign has clearly shown the world what\u2019s possible when peace is given a chance,\u201d Peeperkorn said. Initial findings from an autopsy in Izmir, Turkey, revealed a bullet hit Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in the head, reports Agence France-Presse, citing state-run TRT television. The cause of Eygi\u2019s death was defined as \u201cskull fracture, brain haemorrhage and brain tissue damage,\u201d TRT television reported. According to AFP, the report overlapped with an initial autopsy carried out by three Palestinian doctors, which concluded that a bullet passed directly through the victim\u2019s skull. Her mother, Rabia Birden, on Friday urged Turkish officials to pursue justice. \u201cThe only thing I ask of our state is to seek justice for my daughter,\u201d she was quoted as saying by Anadolu news agency. Her father, Mehmet Suat Eygi, paid tribute to his daughter in Didim, telling AFP that she was a \u201cvery special person\u201d. \u201cShe was sensitive to human rights, to nature, to everything,\u201d he said. US President Joe Biden on Wednesday called for Israel to provide \u201cfull accountability\u201d for Eygi\u2019s death. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has vowed to ensure \u201cthat Aysenur Ezgi\u2019s death does not go unpunished\u201d. Mourners gathered in south-west Turkey on Saturday for the funeral of a US-Turkish activist, who was shot dead while protesting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The killing last week of 26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi has sparked international condemnation and angered Turkey, further escalating tensions over the war in Gaza. Eygi\u2019s body, wrapped in the Turkish flag and carried by uniformed officers, arrived at its final resting place in the Aegean town of Didim. A picture of Eygi was placed near the coffin during the funeral at the local mosque. A large crowd gathered during the prayers including Eygi\u2019s family, members of president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s Islamic-rooted AKP party, and activists advocating the Palestinian cause. Protesters chanted slogans near the mosque showing their support for Palestinians. Eygi was shot while taking part in a demonstration on 6 September in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, near Nablus. She was a human rights activist and volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement, which calls for resisting the oppression of Palestinians using non-violent methods. Her family wanted Eygi to be buried in Didim, where her grandfather lives and her grandmother has been laid to rest. She was a frequent visitor to the seaside resort. Ankara said this week it was probing her death and pressed the UN for an independent inquiry. Turkey said it was also planning to issue international arrest warrants for those responsible for Eygi\u2019s death, depending on the findings of its investigation. The Israeli military has said it was likely Eygi was hit \u201cunintentionally\u201d by forces while they were responding to a \u201cviolent riot\u201d, and said it is looking into the case. President Erdo\u011fan himself did not show up in Didim but he sent his vice-president, foreign, interior and justice ministers. Opposition CHP party chief Ozgur Ozel attended the funeral. It\u2019s approaching 3pm in Gaza. Here are the day\u2019s main developments: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) has said that one of its employees was killed during an Israeli operation in the occupied West Bank, where raids have escalated since last month. The Israeli military called the UN worker a \u201cterrorist\u201d who posed a threat to troops. A campaign is under way to drive Unrwa out of existence, its commissioner general has said, days after 18 people were killed when Israeli jets bombed an Unrwa school in Gaza. Israeli airstrikes hit central and southern Gaza overnight into Saturday, killing at least 14 people, reports the Associated Press. The body of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the Turkish-American activist killed on 6 September by an Israeli soldier, has been returned to her home town, accompanied by a police honour guard. At least 41,182 Palestinians have been killed and 95,280 others injured in Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, Gaza\u2019s health ministry said on Saturday The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) shared its latest situation update on Saturday. According to the UN, at least 1.9 million people (or nine in ten people) across the Gaza Strip are internally displaced, including people who have been repeatedly displaced (some, up to 10 times or more). The situation update also details the latest on the emergency polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip, as well as information such as Unrwa\u2019s response in areas such as food assistance, health and psychosocial support. A new attempt has begun to try to salvage an oil tanker burning in the Red Sea after attacks by Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels, an EU naval mission said on Saturday. The EU\u2019s Operation Aspides published images dated Saturday of its vessels escorting ships heading to the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion, reports the Associated Press (AP). The mission has \u201cbeen actively involved in this complex endeavor, by creating a secure environment, which is necessary for the tugboats to conduct the towing operation,\u201d the EU said. A phone number for the mission rang unanswered on Saturday, reports the AP. The Sounion came under attack from the Houthis beginning on 21 August. The vessel had been staffed by a crew of 25 Filipinos and Russians, as well as four private security personnel, who were taken by a French destroyer to nearby Djibouti. According to the AP, the Houthis later planted explosives aboard the ship and detonated them. That has led to fears the ship\u2019s 1m barrels of crude oil could spill into the Red Sea. The rebels maintain that they target ships linked to Israel, the US or the UK to force an end to Israel\u2019s campaign against Hamas in Gaza. However, many of the ships attacked have little or no connection to the conflict, including some bound for Iran. At least 41,182 Palestinians have been killed and 95,280 others injured in Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, Gaza\u2019s health ministry said on Saturday, reports Reuters. The toll includes 64 deaths in the previous 48 hours, according to the ministry. Gaza\u2019s ministry of health does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its count. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) disaster risk management teams, in cooperation with the Palestine Ministry of Social Development, distributed food parcels to 11,000 families in Gaza and North Gaza governates, the humanitarian organisation shared on X. \u201cThis effort aims to alleviate the ongoing suffering of citizens due to the worsening humanitarian situation in the northern part of the [Gaza] Strip, caused by the shortage of food supplies as the Israeli occupation continues to block the entry of humanitarian aid,\u201d the PRCS wrote on Friday. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad issued a decree naming former communications minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali to form a new cabinet, state media said on Saturday. According to Reuters, the new cabinet will replace an outgoing administration which has been serving in a caretaker role since parliamentary elections in mid-July. Al-Jalali served as communications minister from 2014-2016. He has been subject to EU sanctions since 2014 for his \u201cresponsibility for the regime\u2019s violent repression of the civilian population\u201d. According to UN figures, at least 350,000 people have been killed in Syria\u2019s civil war, which erupted in 2011 from an uprising against Assad\u2019s rule. Agence France-Presse (AFP) have some additional reporting on the news that Israeli airstrikes overnight into Saturday in central and southern Gaza killed at least 14 people. \u201cWe have recovered the bodies of 11 martyrs, including four children and three women, after an Israeli airstrike hit the house of the Bustan family in eastern Gaza City,\u201d Gaza\u2019s civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP. The strike took place near the Shujaiya school in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, he said. \u201cRescuers are continuing to search for the missing,\u201d Bassal said. The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the strike, reports AFP. Bassal said Israeli forces carried out similar strikes in some other parts of the territory overnight, killing at least 10 people. Five people were killed in northwestern Gaza City when an airstrike hit a group of people near Dar Al-Arqam school, he said. Three others were killed in a strike in the al-Mawasi area of the southern Khan Younis governorate, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge, Bassal added. Iran launched a satellite into space on Saturday with a rocket built by the country\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Associated Press (AP) reports citing state-run media. The AP reports that Iran described the launch as a success, which would be the second such launch to put a satellite into orbit with the rocket. There was no immediate independent confirmation of the launch\u2019s success, nor did Iranian authorities immediately provide footage or other details. The launch comes amid heightened tensions gripping the wider Middle East over the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, during which Tehran launched an unprecedented direct missile-and-drone attack on Israel. Meanwhile, Iran continues to enrich uranium to nearly weapons-grade levels, raising concerns among nonproliferation experts about Tehran\u2019s programme. Iran identified the satellite-carrying rocket as the Qaem-100, the IRGC used in January for another successful launch. Qaem means \u201cupright\u201d in Iran\u2019s Farsi language. The solid-fuel rocket put the Chamran-1 satellite, weighing 60 kilograms (132 pounds), into a 550 kilometer (340 mile) orbit, state media reported. The US state department and the US military did not immediately respond to the AP\u2019s requests for comment over the Iranian launch. The US had previously said Iran\u2019s satellite launches defy a UN security council resolution and called on Tehran to undertake no activity involving ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons. UN sanctions related to Iran\u2019s ballistic missile programme expired last October. According to the AP\u2019s report, the US intelligence community\u2019s worldwide threat assessment this year said Iran\u2019s development of satellite launch vehicles \u201cwould shorten the timeline\u201d for Iran to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile because it uses similar technology. Intercontinental ballistic missiles can be used to deliver nuclear weapons. Iran is now producing uranium close to weapons-grade levels after the collapse of its nuclear deal with world powers. Tehran has enough enriched uranium for \u201cseveral\u201d nuclear weapons, if it chooses to produce them, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency repeatedly has warned. Iran has always denied seeking nuclear weapons and says its space programme, like its nuclear activities, is for purely civilian purposes. However, US intelligence agencies and the IAEA say Iran had an organised military nuclear programme up until 2003. Julian Borger, the Guardian\u2019s world affairs editor, has written a piece on Israel\u2019s prime target: the hunt for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. Here is an extract: The nearly year-long hunt for Sinwar has involved a mix of advanced technology and brute force, as his pursuers have shown themselves prepared to go to any lengths, including causing extremely high civilian casualties, to kill the Hamas leader and destroy the tight circle around him. The hunters are a taskforce of intelligence officers, special operation units from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), military engineers and surveillance experts under the umbrella of the Israeli Security Agency, more widely known by its Hebrew initials or the acronym Shabak. Personally and institutionally, this team is seeking redemption for the security failures that allowed the 7 October assault to happen. But despite their motivation, they have so far failed to pin down their quarry. You can read the full piece here: A man was shot and sustained life-threatening injuries on Thursday in Newton, Massachusetts, after he tackled a pro-Israel demonstrator. During a news conference on Thursday evening, Marian Ryan, the Middlesex district attorney, said that the incident took place at about 6.40pm on Thursday evening. A small group of pro-Israeli demonstrators were on one side of the street, Ryan said, and a man, who has not been publicly identified, was walking on the other side of the street and started exchanging words with the group. Words were \u201cexchanged back and forth\u201d, Ryan said, and then the incident escalated when the individual crossed the street and \u201cjumped upon one of the demonstrators\u201d. \u201cA scuffle ensued,\u201d Ryan said, adding that during the confrontation the individual who had come across the street \u201cwas shot by a member of the demonstrating group\u201d. The individual sustained life-threatening injuries, and is being treated at a local hospital, she said. The person who used the gun was identified on Thursday by authorities as 47-year-old Scott Hayes from Framingham. The Middlesex district attorney\u2019s office said on Thursday evening that Hayes was arrested and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and violation of a constitutional right causing injury. He was scheduled to be arraigned on Friday. You can read the full piece here: The body of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the Turkish-American activist killed on 6 September by an Israeli soldier, was returned to her home town late on Friday accompanied by a police honour guard, the Associated Press (AP) reports, citing the official Turkish news agency. Draped in a Turkish flag, the coffin was carried from a hearse to a hospital in Didim by six officers in ceremonial uniform. Her funeral is due to be held in the coastal town in western Turkey later Saturday. The 26-year-old activist from Seattle, who held US and Turkish citizenship, was killed after a demonstration against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to an Israeli protester who witnessed the shooting. The Israeli military said on Tuesday that Eygi was likely shot \u201cindirectly and unintentionally\u201d by Israeli forces. Turkey announced it will conduct its own investigation into her death. Anadolu agency reported her body arrived in Didim after an autopsy at the Izmir Forensic Medicine Institute. As Eygi\u2019s family watched the coffin being unloaded, her mother had to be helped by medics, the agency said. Her death earned condemnation from US secretary of state Antony Blinken as the US, Egypt and Qatar push for a ceasefire and the release of the hostages. Talks have repeatedly been unable to progress as Israel and Hamas accuse each other of making new and unacceptable demands. Israeli airstrikes hit central and southern Gaza overnight into Saturday, killing at least 14 people, reports the Associated Press (AP). Airstrikes in Gaza City hit one home housing 11 people, including women and children, and another strike hit a tent in Khan Younis housing Palestinians displaced by the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza\u2019s civil defence said on Saturday. They followed airstrikes earlier this week that hit a tent camp on Tuesday and a UN school housing displaced people on Wednesday. A campaign is under way to drive the UN relief agency for Palestinians, Unrwa, out of existence, its commissioner general has said, days after 18 people were killed when Israeli jets bombed an Unrwa school in Gaza. Philippe Lazzarini said in an interview that the Israeli government was seeking to close down the agency, having failed to persuade western donors to stop funding it on the grounds of allegations about links between Unrwa staff and Hamas. \u201cThis deliberate attempt to eliminate Unrwa and prevent it from operating would have devastating consequences for the multilateral system, the UN and the cause of a Palestinian transition to self-determination,\u201d Lazzarini said. On Wednesday Unrwa said six staff members had been killed in two airstrikes that hit al-Jaouni school in Nuseirat, in central Gaza \u2013 the highest death toll among its staff in a single incident. The Israel Defense Forces said the strikes killed nine Hamas members, three of whom had doubled as Unrwa workers. Lazzarini said the IDF had not previously informed his agency that the three staff were Hamas members. \u201cNone of these names have ever been on any IDF list notified to us, so I have absolutely no way of being able to authenticate or not,\u201d he said. \u201cThese people were working in the shelter \u2026 There was no indication they were military operatives.\u201d Unrwa, one of the UN\u2019s largest agencies, has 13,000 staff working in Gaza and more than 30,000 in the region providing health and educational facilities to Palestinian refugees. You can read more of Patrick Wintour\u2019s report here: It has gone 10am in Gaza and Tel Aviv. This is our latest live blog on the Israel-Gaza war and the wider Middle East crisis. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said on Friday that one of its employees was killed during an Israeli operation in the occupied West Bank, where raids have escalated since last month. The Israeli military called the UN worker a \u201cterrorist\u201d who posed a threat to troops. Unrwa said the employee was its first to be killed in the Palestinian territory in more than a decade, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports. But, he is among dozens of Palestinians killed during the large-scale Israeli operation that began days ago and is ongoing, with several more Palestinians dead since Wednesday. Unrwa identified the employee as Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, who worked as a sanitation labourer. It said he was \u201cshot and killed on the roof of his home by a sniper\u201d in Faraa refugee camp. An Israeli military spokesperson, Lieut Col Nadav Shoshani, said on X that during an operation in Faraa \u201ca terrorist was identified hurling explosive devices that posed a threat\u201d to forces, leading troops to open fire to remove the threat. It was later \u201cdiscovered he is also an Unrwa employee\u201d, Shoshani said. Jawwad\u2019s death is in addition to those of six other Unrwa staffers the UN said were killed in Gaza on Wednesday during a strike on a school turned shelter. Mourners carried Jawwad\u2019s body through the streets of Faraa on Friday, while in nearby Tubas, funerals also took place for other Palestinians, who were killed by an airstrike. In other developments: The Israeli military said it acted this week in Syria against targets, after Syrian state media reported Israeli airstrikes killed 18 people in western Syria and injured dozens more. The Israeli military targeted \u201cseveral terrorists\u201d in southern Syria, it said. A war monitor said Israeli forces helicoptered into Syria days ago and destroyed an underground missile production facility built under Iranian supervision, with two US media outlets also reporting the raid. The Israeli military declined to comment. Mourners will gather in south-west Turkey on Saturday for the funeral of a US-Turkish activist shot dead while protesting against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The killing last week of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, has sparked international condemnation and angered Turkey. Israel\u2019s military said she was likely shot \u201cindirectly and unintentionally\u201d by its forces. Turkey said it would conduct its own investigation into her death. Eygi\u2019s body, wrapped in the Turkish flag, arrived on Friday at its final resting place in the Aegean town of Didim \u2013 Eygi was a frequent visitor to the seaside resort \u2013 following a martyrs\u2019 ceremony at Istanbul airport. The head of Unrwa said a campaign was under way to drive it out of existence. Philippe Lazzarini, the UN relief agency\u2019s commissioner general, said in an interview that the Israeli government was seeking to close down the agency, having failed to persuade western donors to stop funding it on the grounds of allegations about links between Unrwa staff and Hamas, reports Patrick Wintour. Israeli police said on Friday they had arrested a 17-year-old in connection with a vehicle explosion in the central city of Ramla on Thursday that left four people dead. Police had said they suspected the explosion to be linked to \u201ca criminal conflict between crime families in the Arab neighbourhood\u201d of the mixed city. The Israeli army took reporters on Friday to tunnels uncovered by troops in southern Gaza, including the entrance to the underground chamber where the bodies of six Israeli hostages killed by Hamas were recovered on 1 September. The military did not allow reporters into the tunnel, in the Tel al-Sultan area of Rafah, for security reasons. But it has released footage showing a cramped and airless passage it said was about 20m (66ft) below ground where it said the hostages had been held possibly for weeks. Turkey\u2019s spy chief has met a Hamas delegation in Ankara and discussed the negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza, state broadcaster TRT said on Friday. Ibrahim Kalin, head of Turkey\u2019s National Intelligence Agency, had met the delegation from the Hamas political bureau leadership, TRT Haber said, citing Turkish security sources, without saying who the delegation members were. Ministers from Muslim and European countries along with the EU\u2019s foreign affairs chief gathered in Madrid on Friday to discuss how to advance a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. \u201cTogether, we want to identify the concrete actions that will enable us to make progress towards this objective,\u201d the Spanish prime minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, said on X. South Africa is \u201cdetermined\u201d to pursue its genocide case against Israel at the international court of justice and will next month file more evidence, president Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday. Israel strongly denies the accusation."
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        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Inhumane\u2019 treatment of migrants rounded up in UK\u2019s failed Rwanda plan revealed;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/revealed-inhumane-treatment-of-migrants-uk-failed-rwanda-plan-laid-bare;2024-09-14T14:00:29Z",
        "text": "The \u201cinhumane\u201d treatment of migrants rounded up in a \u201cfutile\u201d operation for the now scrapped Rwanda scheme, has been laid bare in testimonies from Home Office staff that reveal force was used against distressed detainees. Internal documents disclosed to the Observer and Liberty Investigates under the Freedom of Information Act also reveal four recorded instances of migrants attempting to harm themselves after being apprehended. Dozens of migrants facing removal to Rwanda under the previous Conservative government were detained as part of a surprise initiative, Operation Vector, launched days before the 2 May local elections in England and Wales in what critics say was an \u201cact of political theatre\u201d. The arrests continued until at least a week before Rishi Sunak announced the snap general election on 22 May. He said the next day that no flights would take off until after the election on 4 July. The Labour government subsequently scrapped the scheme. The Operation Vector reports record how Home Office immigration enforcement officers used force 60 times between 30 April and 15 May, giving a rare glimpse into the dawn raids or detention of migrants as they showed up for routine reporting centre appointments. The documents also include testimonies from security staff at the Harmondsworth immigration removal centre in west London that detail two cases of force being used on detainees who remained locked up weeks after the Rwanda scheme was postponed by Sunak. The new government could be hit by costly compensation claims, with the charity Bail for Immigration Detainees preparing to mount legal action, arguing the detention of about 150 migrants the government wanted to send to Rwanda was unlawful, against Home Office policy, as it could not imminently remove them, and \u201cpolitical theatre\u201d. Home Office accounts show the department paid out \u00a356.8m in compensation for more than 2,700 wrongful detentions in the five years before the Rwanda raids. Fran Heathcote, general secretary for the Public and Commercial Services union, whose members include immigration enforcement officers, said the union \u201copposed the Rwanda scheme from the start because we knew it was inhumane as well as impractical\u201d. She added: \u201cWhat also concerns us is the likelihood Rishi Sunak knew full well the Rwanda scheme was futile and causing distress to individuals but continued to push it ahead of the general election to make a political point.\u201d Campaigners say further physical and mental harm could be inflicted under Labour home secretary Yvette Cooper\u2019s plan to increase deportations to 2018 levels \u2013 with a goal to remove thousands of migrants and refused asylum seekers by the end of the year. Measures she announced last month include redeploying hundreds of caseworkers to process their cases and moving ahead with Conservative plans to reopen two immigration removal centres. Steve Smith, chief executive of the refugee charity Care4Calais, warned that Labour\u2019s plans \u201csimply means more despair\u201d. The Operation Vector documents reveal cases of officers restraining detainees and of others being held while in clear distress. One enforcement officer wrote of intervening to prevent a man tying his coat around his neck while \u201cscreaming and crying\u201d in the back of a van transporting him to a detention centre. In two other cases, officers described restraining detainees who were banging their heads against the walls of transportation vans, while a third was handcuffed after reportedly headbutting a windowsill. In one case, the wife of a man being detained was described as becoming \u201cvery erratic/hysterical\u201d. An officer wrote:\u201cShe was shouting and screaming on and off the floor [\u2026]A few of us needed to collectively push her out of the room\u2026 We collectively blocked the doorway so she wouldn\u2019t get back in.\u201d On 29 April \u2013 the first day of the roundup \u2013 an officer reported striking an asylum seeker with a palm heel martial arts technique, pinning him to the ground and putting him in a wristlock after he attempted to escape while being escorted to a cell van. Two weeks later, another officer wrote of using a pain-inducing wristlock technique on a vulnerable man who resisted being handcuffed after he turned up at a reporting centre. One man became severely distressed after being handcuffed inside a reporting centre and sustained a cut to his wrist as he struggled, asking repeatedly to call his brother while \u201cdry heaving and spitting on the floor\u201d, according to a report. The documents also offer an insight into how frustrations mounted inside Harmondsworth, where inspectors recently said conditions are the worst they have seen. A spokesperson for Mitie, the private security contractor that runs the centre, said it has since taken \u201csignificant action\u201d to address inspectors\u2019 concerns and thatimprovements had \u201calready been made\u201d. Custody officers employed by Mitie used force on detainees who the government planned to send to Rwanda in two incidents as recently as 11 and 12 June \u2013 nearly three weeks after the scheme was paused before the election. Many migrants held across the country before potential deportation to Rwanda have reportedly since been released. A spokesperson for Mitie said: \u201cUse of force is only used as a last resort, and our accredited detention custody officers [DCOs] have all undergone specialist use-of-force training in line with Home Office guidance. With this accreditation, DCOs are lawfully permitted to apply use of force when it is reasonable, necessary and proportionate.\u201d Smith of Care4Calais said: \u201cThere is little doubt that the last government used the survivors of war, torture and modern slavery as political pawns as their polling plummeted. \u201cThe Rwanda plan may have been scrapped, but the anxiety it caused will live with those who were forcibly detained by politicians willing to use human suffering as an electioneering tool.\u201d Sunak and the Conservative party were approached for comment. The Home Office declined to comment."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Hundreds of Jews were offered the chance to escape Nazi Austria. Civil servants in the UK turned them away;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/how-chance-for-austrian-jews-to-escape-to-northern-ireland-was-lost;2024-09-14T13:00:28Z",
        "text": "On 26 August 1938, Zionistische Rundschau, a Jewish newspaper in Vienna, ran a two-paragraph article under a tantalising headline: \u201cJewish artisans for Northern Ireland\u201d. The authorities in Belfast were seeking immigrants from central Europe with skills to train local people and set up enterprises, said the article. \u201cApplications for the registration of startups should be sent to the Northern Ireland Ministry of Commerce, which will examine them in a careful but supportive manner.\u201d It was, one reader recalled, \u201clike a sign from destiny\u201d. Five months earlier, Adolf Hitler\u2019s troops had annexed Austria and unleashed a campaign of confiscations, intimidation and violence against Vienna\u2019s 170,000 Jews. Now, for some artisans and business owners, came the possibility of sanctuary in a corner of the UK, an escape ahead of the Holocaust. Around 300 applications with the names of 730 men, women and children landed at Stormont, the seat of Northern Ireland\u2019s government. A handful of civil servants processed the applications. Most ended up inscribed with one of two brief, dry responses: \u201cRegret\u201d or \u201cNo reply\u201d. The first was an instruction to junior civil servants and typists to send a letter of rejection. The second was an instruction to not bother sending any reply. Just a few dozen applications were accepted before the scheme ended. Northern Ireland\u2019s chance to save hundreds and potentially thousands of Jews, and give an example to the rest of the world years before Oskar Schindler, slipped away. A new book, The Saved and the Spurned: Northern Ireland, Vienna and the Holocaust by Noel Russell, has told the full story for the first time. Based on archives, unpublished family memoirs, letters and interviews with survivors, it tells a heartbreaking story of lost opportunity as evil seeped across Europe. \u201cIt was shocking to learn that people turned away had been murdered in the Holocaust,\u201d said Russell. \u201cIt was very emotional to read the letters. Your heart bleeds when you find out what happened to them.\u201d There is inspiration in the tales of those who did reach Northern Ireland and made an outsized economic and cultural impact, but the overriding sense is regret at what might have been, said Russell, a journalist-turned-author. \u201cCivic society was not unified enough to put pressure on the government to allow in refugees. There was a chance missed. For people to be saved, you\u2019ve got to be more openminded than the bureaucracy. I think there would have been a more generous response had more people known what was happening.\u201d The Stormont authorities, using their limited autonomy from Westminster, conceived the initiative in response to a moribund economy and crippling unemployment. There was a precedent: two centuries earlier, Huguenots fleeing persecution in France had founded a linen industry. And earlier in 1938, a Jew named Alfred Neumann had brought in seven workers from Austria to train locals at a fabric factory in Newtownards, County Down, providing a template for a wider scheme. The Zionistische Rundschau news item came as Nazi officials, including Adolf Eichmann, ratcheted up pressure on Vienna\u2019s Jews. They were hounded from homes and jobs, forced to scrub pavements, jeered at, beaten and detained. The Belfast Telegraph and other Northern Ireland newspapers chronicled the persecution \u2013 there were vivid, syndicated reports - but Stormont\u2019s bureaucrats viewed the scheme in narrow economic terms, said Russell. \u201cThey weren\u2019t operating as humanitarian appraisers, they were operating as civil servants with a job creation scheme to implement.\u201d Neumann advised the officials yet they still rejected applicants with valuable skills, said Russell, a former BBC producer and documentary maker. One reason was a fear of duplicating existing businesses. \u201cI don\u2019t think they showed much imagination.\u201d Another was that the Home Office in London tightened rules on admitting refugees from Austria. After the November 1938 pogrom known as Kristallnacht, some applicants strayed from the usual neutral tone and betrayed anguish \u2013 \u201cplease help a despaired family,\u201d said one \u2013 but the rejections continued. \u201cSynagogues burned, murders, it was just a hellhole for Jews. People were clutching at any straw to get out,\u201d said Russell. Of the 730 people named in petitions, about 630 were rejected. Of them, around 125 were murdered in extermination camps such as Sobibor and Treblinka, with the fate of others unclear, said the author. The hundred or so Jews who were admitted to Northern Ireland settled, found jobs and some built factories. Neumann was credited with bringing about 70 of them. After war broke out, he was interned as an enemy alien and put on a ship, the SS Arandora Star, with Italian, German and Austrian detainees that in July 1940 was sunk by a German submarine. He drowned. The anti-immigrant riots in Belfast and other parts of the UK last month showed a depressing lack of humanity, said Russell. \u201cIt makes you realise that terrible things that happened can easily be inflamed again.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Hi-tech, strategic: new wave of Kashmir militant attacks before elections stuns Indian forces;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/hi-tech-strategic-new-wave-of-kashmir-militant-attacks-before-elections-stuns-indian-forces;2024-09-14T12:00:27Z",
        "text": "On the evening of 9 June, as hundreds of high-profile guests gathered in Delhi to watch Narendra Modi sworn in as Indian prime minister for the third time, a bloody massacre unfolded 400 miles (640km) north in the mountains of Kashmir. A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims was ambushed by militants in the southern Reasi area of Indian-administered Kashmir, killing nine and injuring 33. \u201cA masked militant appeared on the road and started firing towards us, hitting the driver in his forehead,\u201d said Santosh Kumar Verma, 44, a pilgrim from the state of Uttar Pradesh, who was sitting on the front seat of the bus. Even after the bus had rolled down into a deep gorge, militants continued to fire on it for half an hour. \u201cThe aim was clearly to kill all of us and send a message to Modi,\u201d said Verma, who was hospitalised by his injuries. The Reasi attack was not an isolated incident but part of a mounting number of militant ambushes in Kashmir that have killed almost 200 security personal and over 350 civilians since 2020. While Indian-administered Kashmir has been in the grip of an insurgency by militants loyal to Pakistan since the 1990s, experts say this new wave of attacks is more concerning and technologically advanced than anything he region has faced in decades, and has left the military and intelligence agencies scrambling to bring it under control. Regional elections will be held in Kashmir this week for the first time in a decade, with Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata party\u2019s manifesto boasting of transforming the region from a \u201cterrorist hotspot to a tourist spot\u201d. Yet the recent rise in attacks appears to contradict the Modi government\u2019s claims to have brought peace to Kashmir. Since independence in 1947, both India and Pakistan have claimed the entire region as their own while controlling only parts of it. Three wars have resulted. In the 1990s, the independence movement in Indian-administered Kashmir took a violent turn, with the backing of Pakistan. Thousands of Kashmiris took up arms to fight against Indian rule and were joined by militants from Pakistan, as well as some veteran mujahideen of the Soviet-Afghan war. India launched a heavy-handed military operation in response, reducing the influence of militants but also bringing accusations of grave human rights violations. The separatist insurgency, however, could never be crushed completely. Waves of terrorist attacks and the rise of new militant figures ensured that Kashmir still remains one of the most heavily militarised zones in the world. In August 2019, the Modi government unilaterally stripped Kashmir of the partial autonomy it had enjoyed since independence and brought it under the full control of New Delhi. In the aftermath, Modi sent thousands of additional troops to Kashmir, imposed a harsh communication blackout and put severe restrictions on physical movement of millions of Kashmiris. Hundreds were jailed and local journalists were routinely detained and harassed. Many in the Indian establishment celebrated the move but it was met with widespread fury within Kashmir and over the border in Pakistan. The Modi government justified its decision to take control of Kashmir on the basis of ensuring safety and security for the region. Yet according to India\u2019s security establishment, Kashmir\u2019s insurgency has far from disappeared, and some experts believe this latest wave of attacks is directly linked to the actions of the Modi government. \u201cThe threat India faces on its border is totally unprecedented,\u201d said Pravin Sawhney, a former Indian army officer and a defence expert. After an ambush killed five soldiers last November, India\u2019s army chief, Gen Upendra Dwivedi, who was then head of its Northern Command, said these new militants were \u201chighly trained\u201d, possibly in \u201cPakistan, Afghanistan and other countries\u201d. He also alleged that some of them were retired Pakistani soldiers. Pakistan has not responded to the allegation. Shesh Paul Vaid, former director general of Jammu and Kashmir police, said that, as well as being highly skilled, these militants were also using sophisticated weapons such as M4 assault rifles that the US military left behind in Afghanistan and steel-cased bullets. \u201cThe way they have been ambushing our forces in the last two years reveals a totally new phenomenon,\u201d said Vaid. \u201cI have decades of experience in dealing with the insurgency, but I can tell you that we have never faced anything like this \u2013 certainly not in the past two decades.\u201d Five officers from the Indian military, and local police and intelligence, who requested to remain anonymous, described how these recent attacks were no longer carried out by radicalised young men who had little training in combat and would often post their activities on the internet. Instead, they described a new batch of militants who appeared to be highly trained to military standards and were coming over the border from Pakistan, equipped with hi-tech equipment, including drones, and were using virtually untraceable Chinese applications to communicate. \u201cThe attacks over the last two years have stunned us,\u201d said one army official. \u201cThese people have received extensive guerrilla warfare training and their goal is to cause the maximum casualties possible.\u201d Instead of getting killed in the ambushes, as was previously the norm \u2013 either from suicide attacks or in gunfights with police \u2013 these militants have tended to lay in wait, sometimes for days, and then hit their Indian army targets with precision. They have then disappeared back into the forests and taken advantage of the rough mountainous terrain to stay hidden, making them difficult to track. They have also been using drones to ensure a supply of weapons and cash as far as nine miles within the Indian border. \u201cWe are having difficulty gathering intelligence on these militants,\u201d said the army officer. \u201cWe lack understanding of who they are and how damaging they could be to us.\u201d According to police and Indian military officers, there are about 150 militants active in the region. Security officials described how Indian soldiers were ambushed by militants who wore body cameras and then released the videos online in the aftermath. In July, after an attack in the region\u2019s Doda area, militants released a gruesome video online of an Indian army officer being beheaded. \u201cNow there is a change in tactics. They [militants] ambush soldiers, then disappear and later show up in some other place and attack there,\u201d said former Northern Command chief Deependra Singh Hooda. Those who have taken responsibility for the attacks claim to be from newer militant groups such as People\u2019s Anti-Fascist Front, the Resistance Front and the Kashmir Tigers, which all emerged after Modi\u2019s cancellation of Kashmir\u2019s special status in 2019. However, the Indian army claims these groups are simply a rebranding of Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terrorist outfits historically responsible for driving the insurgency. Another source of concern is where these ambushes have been taking place. The region\u2019s Jammu province, the only Hindu majority area, had largely escaped militant attacks. However, after new networks were established, Jammu has now emerged as one of the focal points of ambushes against the Indian military. Experts believe it is part of a well-thought-out strategy to target places where Indian forces have been pulled out and deployed in other troubled border areas, particularly along the India-China border. Fear of the insurgency has become so potent in the Jammu region that it has led to the revival of a controversial local civilian militia, which is now being armed with automatic and semi-automatic rifles by the state. This militia, known as the Village Defence Guards, also existed back in the 1990s when it became notorious for committing human rights violations such as rape, murder and extortion. Among those who recently volunteered was Raj Kumar, 45, who lives in Garkhal village in Jammu. \u201cThere is an increase in militancy activities so we patrol the village day and night and keep an eye out for the militants,\u201d said Kumar, adding that the government had promised them even more weapons and training. \u201cThe militants have sophisticated weapons and training \u2013 that is why we are asking for additional support from the government,\u201d he added. \u201cThis time we are more afraid.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;War, deforestation, flooding: in Afghanistan they are all linked;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/afghanistan-war-deforestation-flooding-climate-change;2024-09-14T04:00:17Z",
        "text": "On 10 May 2024, Haroon Nafas was in his family\u2019s guesthouse in Baghlan, north Afghanistan, spending time with friends who had come to stay. It had been raining lightly all through the afternoon, but at about 3pm the group heard a loud crashing noise. \u201cWe immediately went outside to see what was causing the sound,\u201d says Nafas. \u201cInitially, we were confused, thinking it might have been a plane. But then we realised, no, it\u2019s a flood.\u201d Nafas rushed home to his own house, which fortunately was located up on a hillside, and started gathering his family. Meanwhile, several town members sought shelter atop the local mosque, including Nafas\u2019s brothers, who used a mulberry tree to climb on to the roof and reach safety. Others were not so lucky. \u201cThe flood was very severe, maybe up to 30 metres high,\u201d says Nafas. \u201cPeople were even dragged in from the roofs of certain buildings. The damage from the waters spread several kilometres. Some households lost up to 11 family members.\u201d Over two days, at least 315 people were killed in Baghlan and more than 2,000 homes destroyed. About 1,600 people were injured, and hundreds more were missing. Flash floods also wreaked havoc in other provinces across Afghanistan, with at least 50 people killed in Ghor. Afghanistan has always been prone to natural disasters. Among low-income nations, it ranked second in the number of deaths caused by them between 1980 and 2015, according to one report. However, the frequency and extremity of disasters such as flash flooding is on the rise, and climate breakdown is not solely responsible for these changes. The country\u2019s history of armed conflict has exacerbated the situation severely. Dr Najibullah Sadid, an environmental researcher and water resources expert based in Germany, says it is crucial that warring parties are held more accountable as toxic artillery often gets left behind and damages the environment. Explosives can damage ecosystems, disrupt biodiversity and weaken soil structure, and can damage groundwater resources. According to a report by the Progressive magazine, the US dropped more than 85,000 bombs on Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021. In spots where massive ordnance air blast bombs, nicknamed \u201cthe mother of all bombs\u201d, were dropped, such as Nangarhar province, scientists have found that plant yields halved due to the spread of toxins. Such toxins can also be carried to other regions by the wind or in water. Mine contamination is another problem. As of 2021, only one of Afghanistan\u2019s 34 provinces had ever (temporarily) been declared mine-free. The remaining 33 provinces still have explosive ordnance scattered across them. Despite this, funding for the country\u2019s mine action sector has been declining, from $113m (\u00a386m) in 2011 to $32m in 2020. The Taliban takeover in August 2021 has threatened these streams further, as many donors remain reluctant to engage with the new government, despite improved operating conditions and access to previously unreachable locations. According to the United Nations Mine Action Service about 45,000 Afghan civilians have been killed or wounded by landmines since 1989. Sadid says the mines have a direct connection to the recent flash floods: \u201cLandmines [and] de-mining activity disrupt soil structure. Disrupt this, and you are basically exposing the soil to erosion. The debris flow in Baghlan, for example, can be linked to war because the floods originated from a valley which is completely dry.\u201d Conflict-caused deforestation also worsens flash floods. In 1970, Afghanistan had 2.8m hectares (6.9m acres) of forest, covering 4.5% of the country. By 2016, this had shrunk to about 1.5%. In Nuristan, a province in eastern Afghanistan, forest cover had reduced by 53% in that time. \u201cVegetation retains a lot of rainwater,\u201d says Sadid. \u201cWhen there is no forest, the land becomes exposed to landslides, and the runoff increases. That\u2019s why we now see very extreme flash floods occurring in some parts of Afghanistan.\u201d For Sayed Abdul Baset, a disaster risk reduction expert and Herat resident, the issue hits close to home. The former adviser to the Afghan government says there is still an opportunity to unite and mobilise despite the problems caused by climate breakdown. \u201cThese natural disasters are related to the activities of the land,\u201d he says. \u201cThey show how unsafe our homes are, how weak our coping capacity and early warning systems are. We don\u2019t have water pipes. The topography of the soil is not good. There is no flood zoning. People live in floodplains. It is a very painful picture. It is no less than a war.\u201d Sohila Akbari, who is based in Herat, has been leading humanitarian efforts as part of a 12-woman team for more than a decade. With financial contributions collected from the Afghan diaspora and donors abroad, her grassroots organisation Committee Akbari regularly distributes emergency aid such as food, clothes and tents to the city\u2019s poorest and disaster-struck. \u201cI first started interacting with those struggling through my work as a teacher,\u201d says Akbari. \u201cSlowly, I started to develop an interest in finding other ways to help. I\u2019ve since connected with Afghans all over to try to take the work further.\u201d Akbari was herself a victim of the devastating series of earthquakes that hit Herat in October 2023, killing more than 2,000 people. \u201cIt was a very horrible day. We hadn\u2019t experienced an earthquake in years. It took us all by surprise.\u201d She recalls hearing a horrible noise that resembled explosions. \u201cYou couldn\u2019t even stand. The ground would go out from under you. Our house was on the third floor so it was especially bad. I remember telling the children to run, just run. Don\u2019t worry about me. They ran. I was in the stairwell when the ceiling caved. I thought I was finished.\u201d They spent the next few days seeking shelter in a local school. After two days, Akbari resumed her distribution efforts to those who had been most severely affected. \u201cWe are in the city. What else can we do if we don\u2019t help? We will do our best. What little we can do, we will do it,\u201d she says. It is through locals such as Akbari, who are already familiar with the people affected, that aid can have the most successful outcome, says the longtime climate journalist Laurie Goering. \u201cThis is the giant question in climate finance right now. How do you actually move such big amounts of money from governments and organisations to those women in Afghanistan? Taking advantage of local systems and actors, and finding intermediary groups to get more of that money to where it\u2019s needed is really important,\u201d Goering says. As for how much compensation warring states owe for the destruction caused in Afghanistan, Goering refers to the United Nations Development Programme\u2019s loss and damage fund as a good place to start. This is a new fund aimed at helping impoverished nations cope with the damage caused by climate-induced natural disasters. Support will be offered in the form of grants. \u201cThe fund is designed to help communities and countries recover from things they couldn\u2019t have adapted to,\u201d says Goering. \u201cSo that money would be really useful in places like Afghanistan.\u201d Since their rise to power in August 2021, the Taliban have remained excluded from the global stage. For Goering, this poses an extra challenge: \u201cIt\u2019s hard to get funds if you\u2019re excluded from international systems. There\u2019s a lot of thinking at the moment about how to move money to very vulnerable places without going through the government.\u201d Despite Afghanistan being one of the countries most vulnerable to global heating, due to its arid climate, mountainous topography and reliance on agriculture, it was once again excluded from the Cop28 climate talks last year, something Goering says is problematic. \u201cAfghanistan doesn\u2019t have high emissions,\u201d she says. \u201cThis is something that\u2019s happening globally, that everybody must work on together. Otherwise, we won\u2019t solve the problem.\u201d It is a sentiment shared by Rahmani, who believes support from international institutions and existing data could go a long way: \u201cWe need to create a roadmap for each region of Afghanistan. Also, 60% of Afghans are young. They can be taught. With a very small budget, they can be provided with employment, education and training in the climate field.\u201d However, to truly muster the potential of younger generations, Rahmani admits better climate awareness is a crucial first step: \u201cPeople think that this is God\u2019s will, that because of our sins, these disasters happen to us and that we can\u2019t do anything about it. Such beliefs and social behaviours have a lot of impact.\u201d Rahmani also hopes to see more remediation from warring parties, as well as high-emitting nations. \u201cThese countries have a responsibility,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is happening because of them. Places like the United States, England, Brazil and China \u2013 they keep their industry alive with fossil fuels and adapt themselves and raise their resilience. But for Afghanistan, which is currently very limited in terms of global relations, those conditions are completely closed.\u201d In March, the UN security council voted to extend its mission in Afghanistan for another year, but this is focused mostly on the humanitarian crisis rather than climate impacts. There is also an ongoing parliamentary inquiry in the Netherlands on the impact of the Dutch and Nato\u2019s 20-year intervention in Afghanistan. Similar initiatives by other countries embedded in the Nato campaign could accelerate reparations and aid. For Rahmani, prioritising smart policies and expanding irrigation projects, such as those implemented in recent years across Nangarhar province, is the way to go. \u201cWe had a very large climate project a while ago, backed by millions of dollars. But unfortunately, all the work is suspended. We need funds. These are very serious issues. It is very necessary for the people of the world to be united so that we can solve these problems.\u201d Since the Taliban takeover in 2021, large-scale conflict has reduced significantly. According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, no new conflict displacement was recorded in 2023. However, by the end of that year, there were still 1.5 million people internally displaced as a result of natural disasters. For Baghlan resident Nafas, the most pressing need for those affected is clean water. He hopes the humanitarian response offers a solution before the situation on the ground worsens. \u201cThe tap systems have all been damaged,\u201d he says. \u201cAll the canals are covered with mud. There is no drinking water, no water for ablution, for people\u2019s livestock, for agriculture. Incomes have also been suspended. People are living in makeshift tents. It\u2019s chaos. It is hot now but soon the cold season will come.\u201d Interviewees\u2019 names have been changed to protect their identities."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel\u2019s prime target: the hunt for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/hunt-for-hamas-leader-yahya-sinwar-israel-prime-target;2024-09-14T04:00:16Z",
        "text": "A group of Israeli hostages were huddled in a tunnel in Gaza a few days after they had been dragged from their homes on 7 October, when the man who had plotted their abduction appeared out of the subterranean gloom. His hair and beard were grey and his dark-ringed eyes stared out from under thick black brows. It was a face familiar to them from a thousand broadcasts and newspaper stories: Yahya Sinwar. The Hamas leader in Gaza was the most feared man in Israel, even before he ordered the October raid in which 1,200 people \u2013 two-thirds of them civilians \u2013 were killed and 250 taken hostage. In fluent Hebrew, perfected over more than 22 years in an Israeli prison, Sinwar reassured them that they were safe and would soon be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners. One of the hostages, Yocheved Lifshitz, an 85-year-old veteran peace campaigner from the Nir Oz kibbutz, had no time for his show of concern for their welfare and challenged the Hamas leader to his face. \u201cI asked him how he wasn\u2019t ashamed to do something like this to people who had supported peace all these years?\u201d Lifshitz told the Davar newspaper after her release following 16 days in captivity. \u201cHe didn\u2019t answer. He was quiet.\u201d A video recorded on Hamas security cameras at about the same time, on 10 October, and found by the Israeli military some months later, shows Sinwar following his wife and three children through a narrow tunnel and disappearing into the murk. That was the last sighting of the man who unleashed the Gaza war. According to Gaza health officials, 41,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in a devastating Israeli response that has flattened much of the territory, driving 90% of the population from their homes and bringing 2.3 million people to the edge of famine. Through all this, the prime target of the Israeli bombardment has remained at large and apparently unscathed. The nearly year-long hunt for Sinwar has involved a mix of advanced technology and brute force, as his pursuers have shown themselves prepared to go to any lengths, including causing extremely high civilian casualties, to kill the Hamas leader and destroy the tight circle around him. The hunters are a taskforce of intelligence officers, special operation units from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), military engineers and surveillance experts under the umbrella of the Israeli Security Agency, more widely known by its Hebrew initials or the acronym Shabak. Personally and institutionally, this team is seeking redemption for the security failures that allowed the 7 October assault to happen. But despite their motivation, they have so far failed to pin down their quarry. \u201cIf you\u2019d told me when the war began that more than 11 months later he would still be alive, I would have found it amazing,\u201d said Michael Milshtein, a former head of the Palestinian affairs section in Israeli Military Intelligence (Aman). \u201cBut remember, Sinwar prepared for a decade for this offensive and IDF intelligence was very surprised by the size and length of the tunnels under Gaza and how sophisticated they were.\u201d The IDF estimates there are 500km (300 miles) of tunnels under Gaza, an entire underground city. A second important challenge, according to at least some in the defence establishment, is that Sinwar is likely to have surrounded himself with human shields. Ram Ben-Barak, a former deputy director of the Mossad, said: \u201cBecause of the hostages, we are very careful with what we are doing. I believe if there were no such restrictions, we would have found him easier.\u201d Whether or not Sinwar has a ring of human shields around him, the potential presence of hostages has not prevented the IDF from dropping hugely powerful 2,000lb (900kg) bombs on suspected Hamas hideouts in recent weeks. Out of its two primary war aims, the Netanyahu government puts the destruction of Hamas above the rescue of the hostages. There is no shortage of expertise among Sinwar\u2019s hunters. Targeted killings have been a core tactic of Israel\u2019s military since the founding of the state. Since the second world war, Israel has assassinated more people than any other country in the western world. Yahalom, a special section within the Combat Engineering Corps, has more experience in tunnel warfare than any of its counterparts in western armies, and has access to state-of-the-art US-made ground-penetrating radar. The clandestine signals intelligence unit 8200 is a global leader in electronic warfare and has been eavesdropping on Hamas communications for decades. The Shin Bet lost many of its sources in Gaza after Israel pulled out of the territory in 2005, but worked hard to rebuild its network of informants after Israel launched its ground invasion last October, recruiting from among the desperate flows of Palestinians fleeing the onslaught. Despite the capabilities of this formidable taskforce, it has come close to catching Sinwar just once, in a bunker beneath his home town of Khan Younis in late January. The fugitive warlord had left behind clothing and more than 1m shekels (over \u00a3200,000) in wads of banknotes. This was seen by some as a sign of panic, though the Hamas leader was ultimately estimated to have left a few days before Israeli forces raided the bunker. The assumption made by Sinwar\u2019s trackers is that he has long since abandoned using electronic communication, well aware of the skills and technology possessed by his pursuers. It was not only Hebrew that Sinwar studied in Israeli jail but also the habits and culture of his enemy. \u201cHe really understands the basic instincts and the deepest feelings of Israeli society,\u201d said Milshtein, now at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University. \u201cI\u2019m quite sure every move he makes is based on his understanding of Israel.\u201d Sinwar still communicates with the outside world, albeit with apparent difficulty. The long negotiations over a ceasefire in Cairo and Doha have often been paused while messages are sent to and from the subterranean commander. One strong possibility is that Sinwar uses couriers to remain in command, drawn from a small and shrinking coterie of aides he trusts, starting with his brother Mohammed, a senior military commander in Gaza. It is the hope of the team hunting Sinwar that the need for contact with couriers, to issue orders and control the hostage negotiations, will ultimately prove his undoing, just as a courier led American trackers over several years to Osama bin Laden\u2019s hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It is believed that it was a courier who led the Israeli hunters to their biggest scalp of the war so far. At 10.30am on 13 July, Mohammed Deif, Hamas\u2019s veteran commander who had topped Israel\u2019s most wanted list since 1995, emerged from a hiding place near a camp for displaced people at al-Mawasi to take in some air with a close lieutenant, Rafa\u2019a Salameh. Within an instant, both men were killed by bombs dropped by Israeli jet fighters \u2013 at least, according to IDF accounts \u2013 along with scores of Palestinians. Hamas insists Deif is still alive but he has not been seen since. Many in the Israeli security establishment rued what they saw as a missed historic opportunity in September 2003 when they had planes ready to bomb a house where the entire Hamas leadership was holding a meeting. After furious argument in the military chain of command, the air force used a precision missile fired into the presumed meeting room, rather than flattening the whole building with a hail of bombs, out of concern for civilian casualties. They picked the wrong room and the Hamas leaders survived. By July this year, the likelihood of killing large numbers of civilians was no longer an obstacle. In targeting Deif, the air force used 2,000lb bombs, the very weapons the Biden administration had stopped sending in May because of their indiscriminate destructive force. Israel reportedly dropped eight of them on 13 July. Ninety Palestinians in the vicinity were killed and nearly 300 injured. \u201cIt seems that the main source for the attack on Mohammed Deif, that actually gave the information about his location, was a human source \u2013 one of these messengers that go from one tunnel or shelter to another and bring messages between one commander to another,\u201d Milshtein said. \u201cSo maybe there will be an opportunity to follow one of these messengers [to Sinwar], or if one of them is an agent of Israel\u2019s Shin Bet.\u201d Yossi Melman, a co-author of Spies Against Armageddon and author of other books on Israeli intelligence, said Deif may have made a mistake that Sinwar was unlikely to repeat. \u201cDeif was maybe more arrogant or maybe he told himself they tried to kill me so many times, and I lost an eye and an arm but I still survived, so maybe God is with me,\u201d Melman said. \u201cThe Shabak and the army were waiting just for this opportunity. All these targeted killings are about waiting for the one minor mistake by the other side. But Sinwar is more cautious. He is not a military commander who has show himself to be among his people.\u201d On Tuesday this week, the air force again dropped 2,000lb bombs on al-Mawasi, designated by Israel as a \u201chumanitarian zone\u201d. At least 19 people were killed and 60 injured. The IDF said it had carried out \u201cprecision strikes\u201d on Hamas targets, but did not specify the target. It is possible that a deal will be made in which Sinwar goes into exile, and some suggest he may already be across the border, hiding in a tunnel on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border. That would cut against the conventional wisdom about the ideological zeal of a man who rose through Hamas ranks as the executioner of suspected informers. \u201cMy personal assessment is that the likelihood of this option is very low,\u201d said Milshtein, whose job in the Aman military intelligence service was to study Sinwar and other Hamas leaders. \u201cIt is in his basic DNA to stay in Gaza and to fight until death. He will prefer to die in his bunker.\u201d Ben-Barak, the former Mossad deputy chief, agreed. \u201cI don\u2019t think he will cross into Egypt, because the moment that people know he is not in Gaza, the whole [Hamas] operation will collapse \u2013 its morale and so on. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t think he would do that. He\u2019s not a coward.\u201d Sinwar\u2019s death or capture would undoubtedly be hailed as a major military success by Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government, which has made the destruction of Hamas\u2019s \u201cmilitary and governing capabilities\u201d a primary war aim. Whether it would stop the war is quite another question. \u201cWhen we catch him, the situation will be much better, maybe for a couple of weeks,\u201d Ben-Barak said. \u201cAfter that, someone else will come. It is an ideological war, not a war about Sinwar.\u201d Milshtein said: \u201cAfter almost 50 years of assassinations, we understand this is a basic part of the game. Sometimes it is necessary to assassinate a very prominent leader. But when you start to think it will be a gamechanger and that an ideological organisation will collapse because you kill one of its leaders, that is a total mistake. \u201cI\u2019m quite sure that someone will replace, or actually has already replaced, Mohammed Deif, and if Sinwar is killed there will be someone else \u2026 You cannot create a fantasy. It will not end the war.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ukraine war briefing: Biden, Starmer stop short of announcing Storm Shadow permission;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/ukraine-war-briefing-biden-starmer-stop-short-of-announcing-missile-strike-permission;2024-09-14T02:20:47Z",
        "text": "Keir Starmer and Joe Biden have discussed letting Ukraine fire long-range, western-supplied missiles into Russia, while stopping short of any formal announcement. Vladimir Putin has threatened it would amount to Nato joining the war. The UK prime minister told reporters at the White House that he had a \u201cwide-ranging discussion about strategy\u201d with the US president but that it was not just a meeting about \u201ca particular capability\u201d. Before the meeting, officials had said Starmer would press Biden to back his plan to let British Storm Shadow be used to strike inside Russia. Britain\u2019s PM indicated he and Biden would discuss the plan at the UN general assembly in New York the week after next \u201cwith a wider group of individuals\u201d. Biden dismissed Vladimir Putin\u2019s sabre-rattling threats, saying he did not accept that Ukraine using Storm Shadows missiles against Russia proper would amount to Nato going to war with Moscow, reports Dan Sabbagh in Washington. \u201cI do not think much about Vladimir Putin,\u201d Biden said. Moscow\u2019s ambassador to the UN told the security council on Friday that loosening the missile strike restrictions would mark an escalation to \u201cdirect war\u201d between Moscow and Nato. Washington officials accused Putin of trying to scare Nato countries away from supporting Ukraine, reports Andrew Roth. In Europe, leaders played down Putin\u2019s threats. The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, said: \u201cI would not attach excessive importance to the latest statements from President Putin. They rather show the difficult situation the Russians have on the front.\u201d Zelenskiy said the Ukrainian incursion into Russia\u2019s border region of Kursk had produced the desired result of slowing Moscow\u2019s advance on another front in Ukraine\u2019s east. The Ukrainian president said in Kyiv on Friday that Russia\u2019s counterattack in Kursk produced no major successes \u2013 contradicting Vladimir Putin\u2019s accounts of Russian advances on both fronts. Zelenskiy said Russia had about 40,000 troops on the Kursk front. \u201cSo far we have seen no serious [Russian] success.\u201d Russia\u2019s defence ministry said on Friday its troops had taken back 10 villages out of 100 that Kyiv had occupied. The battlefield reports of either side were not able to be independently verified. The Ukrainian general staff said on Friday that Russian forces had focused their assaults near the town of Kurakhove, about 33km (20 miles) south of the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk in Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region. Russia\u2019s defence ministry said its forces had captured Dolynivka, positioned between Pokrovsk and Kurakhove, the latest in a series of localities Moscow says it has seized. Volodymyr Zelenskiy said 49 Ukrainian prisoners of war had been returned from Russia, with Agence France-Presse witnessing the group being greeted at the border with Belarus. The Ukrainian president did not clarify whether it was part of an exchange with Russia, as is usually the case, but AFP journalists had earlier seen Russian prisoners of war being loaded on to a bus near the border. Romania started training its first group of Ukrainian F-16 pilots this week, the Nato country\u2019s defence ministry said. The first four pilots had started their \u201ctheoretical training\u201d, a ministry spokesperson told AFP, with practical training to follow \u201ctowards the end of the year\u201d. Drone fragments fell on a municipal building in Kyiv\u2019s Obolon district north of the city centre early on Saturday, said the mayor. Writing on Telegram, Vitali Klitschko said no fire broke out and emergency services were sent. He earlier said air defence units had been in action. A Reuters witness said explosions were heard. The head of Kyiv\u2019s military administration, Serhiy Popko, urged people to remain in shelters as drones still posed a threat. The air raid alert was later lifted for the city but remained in effect for several regions of central Ukraine. Russia announced it had revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats in Moscow on accusations of espionage. Moscow\u2019s FSB domestic spy agency said on Friday that it acted on documents showing part of the UK Foreign Office was helping coordinate what it called \u201cthe escalation of the political and military situation\u201d in Ukraine. The Foreign Office, however, said the move had been made last month as part of a continuing diplomatic tit-for-tat. Sources indicated the British diplomats had left Russia weeks ago and were already being replaced. The US has imposed new sanctions on Russia over its role to \u201cundermine democracies\u201d, the US secretary of state said. \u201cThe actions we\u2019re exposing today and the actions we exposed last week do not incorporate the full scope of Russia\u2019s efforts to undermine democracies,\u201d Antony Blinken said. \u201cFar from it.\u201d Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he would meet Joe Biden \u201cthis month\u201d to present his \u201cvictory plan\u201d on how to end the war with Russia. The Ukrainian leader gave no details on how to end more than 30 months of fighting, saying only that his proposal would involve \u201ca system of interconnected solutions that will give Ukraine enough power \u2013 enough to put this war on a course to peace\u201d. The German chancellor has said he will not send long-range missiles requested by Ukraine. Germany possesses powerful Taurus cruise missiles. Olaf Scholz said on Friday: \u201cGermany has made a clear decision about what we will do and what we will not do. This decision will not change.\u201d Boris Johnson met with Zelenskiy in Kyiv and renewed calls for permission for Storm Shadow strikes on Russia aimed at \u201cstopping the appalling Russian attacks with glide bombs and now Iranian missiles\u201d. Zelenskiy also met with The American actor Michael Douglas and his son Dylan in Kyiv. The Ukrainian president said that they, alongside Ukraine\u2019s first lady, Olena Zelenska, discussed \u201cthe situation in our country, cooperation with partners, support for Ukraine, and the fourth Summit of Ladies and Gentlemen\u201d. Ukraine\u2019s government has approved a 2025 draft budget with a strong focus on defence spending, the prime minister said. Denys Shmyhal said on Friday that the draft, to be submitted to parliament, provided for 2tn hryvnias (US$48.2bn) in revenues and 3.6tn hryvnias in expenditures. The draft also included a provision of 2.22tn hryvnias (US$53.5bn) for defence. \u201cThe priority for this budget is very clear \u2013 the country\u2019s defence and security,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will again direct all domestic resources to these objectives.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Keir Starmer meets with Joe Biden at White House as Putin warns Nato against letting Ukraine send long-range missiles \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/13/russia-ukraine-moscow-kyiv-long-range-weapons-nato-keir-starmer-joe-biden-latest-news-updates;2024-09-13T23:24:51Z",
        "text": "In a one-on-one meeting at the White House on Friday, Joe Biden and Keir Starmer discussed pleas from Ukraine for their support to use long-range missiles in the war against Russia. No official position was announced after the roughly 20-minute meeting, during which the US president and UK prime minister also reportedly discussed challenges in the Middle East. The meeting came after mounting pressure from both Ukraine and Russia about intervention in the war. \u201cWe are now in the third year of a full-scale war. After so much death, destruction and countless Russian war crimes, Putin can still afford to destroy life in Ukraine as he pleases, buy and produce missiles, bombs and artillery, and issue ultimatums to the world,\u201d Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian leader, said in a post on X on Friday before the meeting. \u201cHe expects the world to fall for his madness.\u201d Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin threatened that if the US and UK agreed to loosen restrictions on long-range strikes into Russia, it would be seen as an act of aggression signifying Nato countries were \u201cat war\u201d. \u201cThis will mean that Nato countries \u2013 the United States and European countries \u2013 are at war with Russia,\u201d Putin told Russian reporters on Thursday. \u201cAnd if this is the case, then, bearing in mind the change in the essence of the conflict, we will make appropriate decisions in response to the threats that will be posed to us.\u201d More on these discussions \u2013 and the decisions the countries come to \u2013 are expected in the coming weeks as leaders reconvene at the United Nations general assembly later this month. This wraps our live coverage for today. You can continue to read our expert analysis and key updates here. Thanks for tuning in with us as we gather the latest updates! Have a good night. Keir Starmer has left the White House after his discussions with Joe Biden, telling reporters gathered outside that the \u201clong and productive discussion,\u201d focused on Ukraine, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific, according to the BBC. He did not disclose whether the two leaders agreed to support the use of long-range missiles and, though he emphasized that Ukraine has a right to defend itself, he said Putin will have to end the war. Politico reports that no final decision was made on the use of Storm Shadow missiles, which action Putin threatened would be taken as an escalation and as Nato involvement in the war. Starmer said the issue will be taken up again at the United Nations general assembly at the end of September. \u201cWe\u2019ll obviously pick up again in UNGA in just a few days time with a wider group of individuals,\u201d he told reporters. Here is where things currently stand: Keir Starmer arrived at the White House on Friday to meet with Joe Biden. The two leaders are expected to discuss the possibility of expanding Ukraine\u2019s long-range missile capabilities. Volodymyr Zelenskiy met with American actor Michael Douglas and his son Dylan in Kyiv amid Ukraine\u2019s ongoing war against Russia. In a post on X, Zelenskiy said they, alongside Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska, discussed \u201cthe situation in our country, cooperation with partners, support for Ukraine, and the fourth Summit of Ladies and Gentlemen\u201d. David Petraeus, the former CIA director, said Vladimir Putin is bluffing over his red line on long-range missiles and that there\u2019s nothing more \u201cconventionally that he can actually do that he\u2019s not already doing\u201d. Petraeus, speaking to the BBC, said the potential lifting of restrictions over the use of long-range weapons inside Russia was \u201clong overdue\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s never too little too late\u201d. Antony Blinken said the US is imposing new sanctions on Russia over its role to \u201cundermine democracies\u201d. The US secretary of state said: \u201cThe actions we\u2019re exposing today and the actions we exposed last week do not incorporate the full scope of Russia\u2019s efforts to undermine democracies. Far from it.\u201d European policy leaders are downplaying Vladimir Putin\u2019s war threats over Ukraine\u2019s potential allowance to expand its long-range missile usage. \u201cIt is necessary to take all events in Ukraine and on the Ukrainian-Russian front very seriously, but I would not attach excessive importance to the latest statements from president Putin,\u201d said the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk. \u201cThey rather show the difficult situation the Russians have on the front,\u201d he added. Boris Johnson met with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Friday and renewed calls for Britain to allow the country to use Storm Shadow missiles against targets in Russia. \u201cIt is vital that Ukraine should be able to defend itself properly by stopping the appalling Russian attacks with glide bombs and now Iranian missiles,\u201d the former UK prime minister said following the meeting. Germany\u2019s chancellor has said he will not send long-range missiles to Ukraine, despite Ukraine\u2019s insistence on the weapons. At a press conference on Friday, as reported by Agence France-Presse, Olaf Scholz said: \u201cGermany has made a clear decision about what we will do and what we will not do. This decision will not change.\u201d In contrast with Germany, Canada said on Friday that it fully supports Ukraine\u2019s use of long-range weaponry in its war against Russia. Speaking to reporters, Justin Trudeau said that his country supports Ukraine\u2019s use of the weapons to \u201cprevent and interdict Russia\u2019s continued ability to degrade Ukrainian civilian infrastructure\u201d, Reuters reports. In his opening remarks before his meeting with the UK prime minister Keir Starmer, Joe Biden said: \u201cFirst, Ukraine, I want to thank you for the UK leadership on this front. The United States is committed to standing with you to help Ukraine as it defends against Russia\u2019s onslaught of aggression. It\u2019s clear that Putin will not prevail in this war. The people of Ukraine will prevail.\u201d In response, Starmer said: \u201cThank you for the invitation to be back here just two months after our last meeting here, and it\u2019s really important to us great allies, that special relationship have this time to talk about the global issues you have just identified, starting, of course, with Ukraine, where I think the next few weeks and months could be crucial, very, very important, that we support Ukraine in this vital war of freedom.\u201d In response to a question on what he thinks about Vladimir Putin\u2019s comment on a \u201cwar with Russia\u201d over the possibility of Ukraine\u2019s expanded long-range missile capacity, Joe Biden said: I don\u2019t think much about Vladimir Putin. Keir Starmer has arrived at the White House before his meeting with Joe Biden. The UK prime minister and the US president are expected to discuss the possibility of expanding Ukraine\u2019s long-range missile capabilities. Volodymyr Zelenskiy met with American actor Michael Douglas and his son Dylan in Kyiv amid Ukraine\u2019s ongoing war against Russia. In a post on X, Zelenskiy said they, alongside Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska, discussed \u201cthe situation in our country, cooperation with partners, support for Ukraine, and the fourth Summit of Ladies and Gentlemen\u201d. Speaking to Zelenskiy, Douglas called him an \u201cinspiration\u201d and a \u201cgreat reminder for our country about what democracy means\u201d. David Petraeus, the former CIA director, said Vladimir Putin is bluffing over his red line on long-range missiles and that there\u2019s nothing more \u201cconventionally that he can actually do that he\u2019s not already doing\u201d. Petraeus, speaking to the BBC, said the potential lifting of restrictions over the use of long-range weapons inside Russia was \u201clong overdue\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s never too little too late\u201d. He said he believed the Russian president was bluffing, adding that the Russian leader \u201chas established innumerable red lines before. The Ukrainians and/or western countries have crossed just about all of them. He\u2019s even rattled the nuclear sabre so much so that his own biggest ally and partner China, President Xi, said don\u2019t even think about that. As did [Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister], an important customer in India for Russian crude oil and so forth. So no, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything more conventionally that he can actually do that he\u2019s not already doing. Ukraine\u2019s prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, said the government has approved the 2025 draft budget, which has a strong focus on defence spending. The budget, which will be submitted to parliament, provides for 2tn hryvnias ($48.2bn)in revenues and 3.6tn hryvnias in expenditures, according to Reuters. It also includes a provision of 2.22tn hryvnias ($53.5bn) for defence. Shmyhal said preparations in drafting the budget \u2013 the third since the start of Russia\u2019s invasion \u2013 had been completed \u201cdespite all the challenges and uncertainty\u201d. He added: The priority for this budget is very clear \u2013 the country\u2019s defence and security. There would be \u201cmore money for Ukrainian weapons, equipment, drones\u201d, he said. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will send staff to Moscow next week to review the Russian economy for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine, in a move that has prompted anger and dismay across European capitals. Officials of the Washington-based organisation will travel to the Russian capital and meet \u201cstakeholders\u201d before publishing an assessment of the economy and providing recommendations about how the Kremlin might improve its economic handling and tackle issues such as the climate crisis. After Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the IMF stopped its annual consultations with Russia. The organization said it was a \u201cmutual obligation\u201d to carry out an article IV review of a member country and that the process was only suspended because of the volatility of economic data. The situation in Russia was now \u201cmore settled\u201d. On Friday, nine European countries protested against the IMF\u2019s plans, saying it would damage the reputation of the Washington-based fund to resume dialogue with a country that had invaded another. \u201cWe would like to express our strong dissatisfaction with such IMF plans,\u201d the finance ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Poland said in a letter to the IMF managing director, Kristalina Georgieva, seen by Reuters. Drone operators and a volunteer medic have given the Guardian an inside look at their efforts to evacuate casualties on the frontlines of the Ukrainian incursion. The Guardian\u2019s Shaun Walker reports: Deep into one recent night, at a Ukrainian mobile drone command point hidden amid the fields and forests close to the border with Russia, the largest of six screens flashed with images of the wiggling course of the River Seym, deep inside Russia on the other side of the border. Straddling the river, a thin band was visible, rendered in white by the night vision imaging: a pontoon bridge. Inside the command point, Anna, Pavlo and Ivan watched the display intently. \u201cMove in closer,\u201d murmured Ivan, the team\u2019s 48-year-old commander. Pavlo pushed a button and the camera zoomed in. \u201cYesterday, we destroyed this crossing, but they\u2019ve repaired it again, probably in the last few hours,\u201d he said, picking up his phone to send the information to an encrypted group chat of Ukrainian commanders in the area. For the full story, click here: In response to a question on Vladimir Putin\u2019s statement on potential \u201cwar with Russia\u201d over Ukraine\u2019s long-range missile capacities, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said on Friday: I\u2019m not going to get into hypotheticals. I\u2019m not going to get into internal policy deliberations from here. I will say what you\u2019ve heard from my [National Security Council] colleagues at this podium, you\u2019ve heard from this president: this war can end today if Mr Putin will end the war that he started. It is his aggression. It is his war that he started. He can end it. He could end it. I\u2019m going to leave it there. She added: We are going to do everything that we can so that Ukraine has what it needs to defend itself. That is our commitment. I think you have seen this, a very much focused, a tremendous amount of support from this administration and also from our partners and allies in doing just that. And that\u2019s what you could expect to see. Volodymyr Zelenskiy has thanked Finland for its provision of another defense package in its war against Russia. In a statement on X, the Ukrainian president wrote: I am grateful to @alexstubb and @FinGovernment for Finland\u2019s decision to provide Ukraine with another defense package, valued at 118 million euros. This brings the total value of Finland\u2019s military aid to Ukraine since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion to 2.3 billion euros. Zelenskiy added: This support is not just about defending Ukraine \u2013 it\u2019s about protecting the people of all Europe and strengthening our entire continent. The security of Europe\u2019s eastern flank can only be ensured through our continued unity and cooperation. Antony Blinken said the US is imposing new sanctions on Russia over its role to \u2018undermine democracies\u2019. The US secretary of state said: Today, we\u2019re imposing sanctions on three entities and two individuals for Russia\u2019s covert global influence operations, including interference in Moldova\u2019s democracy and its upcoming elections. The actions we\u2019re exposing today and the actions we exposed last week do not incorporate the full scope of Russia\u2019s efforts to undermine democracies. Far from it. Russia\u2019s weaponization of disinformation to subvert and polarize free and open societies extends to every part of the world. In response, today, the United States, United Kingdom and Canada are launching a joint diplomatic campaign to rally allies and partners around the world to join us in addressing the threat posed by RT and other machinery of Russian disinformation and covert influence.\u201d Antony Blinken is now delivering remarks about the influence of Russian state-owned outlets including RT. The US secretary of state said: One of its projects is a large, online crowdfunding program in Russia, operating within RT and through social media channels to provide support and military equipment, supplies, weaponry to Russian military units in Ukraine. This includes sniper rifles, suppressors, body armor, night vision equipment, drones, radio equipment, personal weapon sites, diesel generators. While the crowdfunding campaign is out in the open, what\u2019s hidden is that this program is administered by the leaders of RT.\u201d European policy leaders are downplaying Vladimir Putin\u2019s war threats over Ukraine\u2019s potential allowance to expand its long-range missile usage. The Guardian\u2019s Lili Bayer reports: \u201cIt is necessary to take all events in Ukraine and on the Ukrainian-Russian front very seriously, but I would not attach excessive importance to the latest statements from president Putin,\u201d said the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk. \u201cThey rather show the difficult situation the Russians have on the front,\u201d he added. The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, also responded to Putin\u2019s threats, telling reporters: \u201cRussia started this conflict. Russia illegally invaded Ukraine. Russia can end this conflict straight away. Ukraine has the right to self-defence.\u201d Starmer, who will meet the US president, Joe Biden, in Washington on Friday, said the UK had provided \u2018training and capability\u2019 to help Ukraine repel the Russian invasion and he was visiting Biden partly because \u2018there are obviously further discussions to be had about the nature of that capability\u2019. For the full story, click here: Boris Johnson met with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Friday and renewed calls for Britain to allow the country to use Storm Shadow missiles against targets in Russia. \u201cIt is vital that Ukraine should be able to defend itself properly by stopping the appalling Russian attacks with glide bombs and now Iranian missiles,\u201d the former UK prime minister said following the meeting. \u201cIt is obvious that they should be able to use Storm Shadow, Scalp and ATACMS as fast as possible against targets in Russia itself. Every day that goes by means more pointless and tragic loss of Ukrainian lives.\u201d US officials and lawmakers have shot back at Vladimir Putin after the Russian leader said that Nato\u2019s potential lifting of restrictions on Ukraine to launch long-range strikes into Russia would mean Nato countries were \u201cat war\u201d with Russia. \u201cThis will mean that Nato countries \u2013 the United States and European countries \u2013 are at war with Russia,\u201d Putin told Russian reporters on Thursday. \u201cAnd if this is the case, then, bearing in mind the change in the essence of the conflict, we will make appropriate decisions in response to the threats that will be posed to us.\u201d The remarks provoked an angry response in Washington, where officials accused Putin of sabre-rattling in order to scare Nato countries away from supporting Ukraine. Senator Jim Risch, ranking member of the Senate foreign relations committee, told the Guardian that Ukraine should have authorisation to strike targets deep inside Russia, including active Russian bombers launching missiles against Ukrainian cities. \u201cPutin\u2019s latest threats about direct confrontation with Nato are simply an effort to coerce the west out of supporting Ukraine,\u201d Risch said. \u201cHe knows that long-range strikes from Ukraine would cause significant damage to his war effort. Several Russian missiles have landed in Nato territory and Nato has not escalated.\u201d \u201cUkraine must be allowed to defend itself, period,\u201d he continued. \u201cIf that means striking a Russian bomber launching missiles at Ukrainian civilians from Russian airspace, then Ukraine should be able to take that shot.\u201d Speaking with reporters on Friday, John Kirby said that there would likely be no announcements about the lifting of restrictions on Ukraine\u2019s use of British- and French-supplied missiles in Ukraine. But at the same time, the US national security council spokesperson said, the US and its Nato allies have \u201cour own calculus for what we decide to provide to Ukraine\u201d. \u201cI never said that we don\u2019t take Mr Putin\u2019s threats seriously,\u201d Kirby said. \u201cHe starts brandishing the nuclear sword, for instance, yeah, we take that seriously. We constantly monitor that. He obviously has proven capable of aggression. He\u2019s obviously proven capable of escalation \u2026 But it is not something that we haven\u2019t heard before. So we take note of it. We got it.\u201d In contrast with Germany, Canada said on Friday that it fully supports Ukraine\u2019s use of long-range weaponry in its war against Russia. Speaking to reporters, Justin Trudeau said that his country supports Ukraine\u2019s use of the weapons to \u201cprevent and interdict Russia\u2019s continued ability to degrade Ukrainian civilian infrastructure\u201d, Reuters reports. The Canadian prime minister added that Vladimir Putin is trying to destabilize international order, saying: \u201cThat\u2019s why Canada and others are unequivocal that Ukraine must win this war against Russia.\u201d Germany\u2019s chancellor has said he will not send long-range missiles to Ukraine, despite Ukraine\u2019s insistence on the weapons. At a press conference on Friday, as reported by Agence France-Presse, Olaf Scholz said: Germany has made a clear decision about what we will do and what we will not do. This decision will not change. Scholz\u2019s remarks come amid an meeting between Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, and Joe Biden, the US president, over the possibility of allowing Ukraine to expand its strike capacity into Russia. Germany has repeatedly refused to send Ukraine its own long-range Taurus missiles. Earlier today, Scholz\u2019s spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit said that \u201cthe weapons the US and Britain are now discussing\u201d have a longer range than anything Germany had supplied. Meanwhile, Boris Pistorius, the German defense minister, said that what the US and Britain agree \u201cremains their business\u201d. In a post on X on Friday, Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed his gratitude to the US for its military and financial support to Ukraine, adding that his country nevertheless needs \u201cpermission to use long-range weapons\u201d. Zelenskiy went on to say: \u201cI hope the relevant decision will be made.\u201d Zelenskiy\u2019s post comes before a meeting between Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, and Joe Biden, the US president, who are expected to discuss the possibility of Ukraine using Storm Shadow missiles for expanded strikes into Russia. The European Commission has presented three new ways to EU ambassadors to renew sanctions on Russia\u2019s central bank assets, Reuters reports. In June, G7 leaders and the EU agreed to use the interest on frozen Russian assets to support the G7 loan to Ukraine as part of its self-defense against Russia. According to Reuters, the assets held by the G7 are valued at around $300bn and, that in order to secure the loan, the G7 wants to ensure that the sanctions on the assets are not lifted. Speaking to Reuters, one diplomat said: \u201cPossible options were presented this morning ... already discussed with the US.\u201d Russia\u2019s UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the UN security council on Friday that if western countries allow Ukraine to conduct long-range strikes in Russia then Nato countries would be \u201cconducting direct war with Russia\u201d. \u201cThe facts are that Nato will be a direct party to hostilities against a nuclear power, I think you shouldn\u2019t forget about this and think about the consequences,\u201d Nebenzia told the 15-member council The comments echo words from Russian president Vladimir Putin who on Thursday said any western decision to let Kyiv use such longer-range weapons against targets inside Russia would mean Nato would be \u201cat war\u201d with Moscow. On Friday Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Putin had delivered a clear message to the west about the consequences of allowing Ukraine to hit Russian territory, and that there was no doubt that Putin\u2019s message had reached those it was intended for The UK\u2019s prime minister Keir Starmer is in Washington to meet with US president Joe Biden later today, in which it is expected they will agree that Ukraine can use British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at targets inside the Russian Federation Ukraine\u2019s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been meeting foreign ministers from Poland and Lithuania in Kyiv today, and said they discussed \u201cthe need to use long-range weapons against military targets on the territory of the aggressor state\u201d The UK government has said that claims made by Russia\u2019s security services about six members of British diplomatic staff it has expelled from Russia are \u201cbaseless\u201d. The FSB security agency said on Friday it had taken the measure after uncovering documents showing that part of the Foreign Office was helping coordinate what it called \u201cthe escalation of the political and military situation\u201d in Ukraine. Russian media has named and published photographs of the six British members of diplomatic staff who were expelled Russia\u2019s investigative committee has opened a criminal case against the head of Ukraine\u2019s armed forces Maj Gen Dmitry Krasilnikov over the incursion into Russia\u2019s Kursk region. Zelenskiy said today that the Kursk offensive had \u201cslowed\u201d Russia\u2019s advance in east Ukraine 49 captured Ukrainian service personnel and civilians have been returned from captivity by Russia. Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian parliament commissioner for human rights, said \u201cthe state of health of the prisoners is very serious\u201d Nato said on Friday it strongly condemned a Russian missile strike on a civilian grain ship in the Black Sea on Thursday The governor of Russia\u2019s Bryansk region has claimed that air defences there have shot down seven Ukrainian drones in a day Several people have been killed and injured by Russian strikes in Odesa, Sumy and Kherson Rights campaigners say that as many 3,000 Ukrainian refugees living in Hungary have been affected by a new Hungarian decree that cancels state-funded shelters for refugees from western Ukraine Russia\u2019s UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the UN security council on Friday that if western countries allow Ukraine to conduct long-range strikes in Russia then Nato countries would be \u201cconducting direct war with Russia.\u201d \u201cThe facts are that Nato will be a direct party to hostilities against a nuclear power, I think you shouldn\u2019t forget about this and think about the consequences,\u201d Nebenzia told the 15-member council. The comments echo words from Russian president Vladimir Putin who on Thursday said any western decision to let Kyiv use such longer-range weapons against targets inside Russia would mean Nato would be \u201cat war\u201d with Moscow \u2013 a dramatic escalation of his rhetoric about the war which began with the Russian invasion in February 2022. \u201cThis would in a significant way change the very nature of the conflict,\u201d the Russian president told a state television reporter. \u201cIt would mean that Nato countries, the US, European countries, are at war with Russia. He added that Russia would take \u201cappropriate decisions based on the threats that we will face\u201d as a result. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that Putin had delivered a clear message to the west about the consequences of allowing Ukraine to hit Russian territory, and that there was no doubt that Putin\u2019s message had reached those it was intended for. The UK\u2019s prime minister Keir Starmer is in Washington to meet with US president Joe Biden later today, in which it is expected they will agree that Ukraine can use British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at targets inside the Russian Federation. Ukraine\u2019s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has posted to social media about his meetings with the foreign ministers of Lithuania and Poland today. He said: We discussed important issues, including Russia\u2019s ongoing terror, the need to use long-range weapons against military targets on the territory of the aggressor state, the implementation of bilateral security agreements and the peace formula, preparations for the second peace summit, and accelerating Ukraine\u2019s accession to the EU and Nato. We are grateful to Lithuania and Poland for standing with us from the very beginning until our common victory. Russia\u2019s investigative committee has opened a criminal case against the head of Ukraine\u2019s armed forces over the incursion into Russia\u2019s Kursk region, state-owned new agency Tass reports in Russia. It says that as a result of action by Maj Gen Dmitry Krasilnikov, \u201ca significant number of civilians were killed and wounded, residential buildings, civilian infrastructure facilities, and vehicles were destroyed and damaged. In addition, civilians living in the Kursk region were forced to leave their permanent places of residence.\u201d The European Commission has presented to EU ambassadors three new options to extend the sanctions renewal period covering Russia\u2019s central bank assets, crucial to secure a $50bn G7 loan for Ukraine, Reuters reports EU diplomats said on Friday. Nato said on Friday it strongly condemned a Russian missile strike on a civilian grain ship in the Black Sea on Thursday. \u201cThere is no justification for such attacks. Yesterday\u2019s strike shows once again the reckless nature of Russia\u2019s war,\u201d Reuters reports Nato spokesperson Farah Dakhlallah said. Ukraine accused Russia on Thursday of using strategic bombers to strike a civilian grain vessel in Black Sea waters near Nato member Romania. It was the first time a missile has struck a civilian vessel transporting grains at sea since the start of Moscow\u2019s invasion in February 2022. Gabrielius Landsbergis, Lithuania\u2019s minister of foreign affairs, has been in Kyiv today meeting sneior Ukraine leaders including Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and has just posted to social media that he is not there to offer \u201cthoughts and prayers\u201d, instead, he says he is there \u201cto commit to victory, as short as it takes.\u201d The Russian embassy in London has said in a social media post that \u201cthe investments that the UK promised to send to Ukraine, like all the previous ones, will likely go up in smoke in the Special Military Operation zone or, more probably, disappear down the bottomless pockets of the corrupt Ukrainian elites.\u201d Ukraine\u2019s Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that the Kursk offensive \u201cslowed\u201d Russia\u2019s advance in east Ukraine, AFP reported. It gave the results we expected, to be honest. In Kharkiv region, the enemy has been stopped, the progress in Donetsk region has been slowed down, although it is very difficult there. The Ukrainian president said there are 40,000 Russian troops fighting in the Kursk region. Earlier my colleagues Archie Bland and Dan Sabbagh put together this explainer on the issue of deploying \u201cStorm Shadow\u201d missiles in Ukraine for use against targets inside Russia. The governor of Russia\u2019s Bryansk region has claimed that air defences there have shot down seven Ukrainian drones in a day. In his most recent update, Alexander Bogomaz wrote on Telegram \u201cAn attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using a UAV on the territory of the Bryansk region has been thwarted. There are no casualties or damage.\u201d President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has posted to Telegram about the latest prisoner exchange with Russia. Ukraine\u2019s president said: Another return of our people, for which we always wait and work for. 49 Ukrainian men and women at home. These are soldiers of the armed forces of Ukraine, the national guard, the national police, the state border service, as well as our civilians. I thank our entire team, which ensures the release of prisoners and hostages from Russian captivity. We have to bring home all our soldiers and civilians. Suspilne, Ukraine's state broadcaster, is reporting that 49 captured Ukrainian service personnel and civilians have been returned from captivity by Russia. Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian parliament commissioner for human rights is quoted in reports saying \u201cthe state of health of the prisoners is very serious.\u201d Ukrainian news sources are reporting that two people have been killed in an Russian airstrike in Yampil in Sumy region. Six others were injured, including a child. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has been giving his daily media briefing, during which Reuters reports he said president Vladimir Putin had delivered a clear message to the west about the consequences of allowing Ukraine to hit Russian territory with western long-range missiles, and that there was no doubt that Putin\u2019s message had reached those it was intended for. The UK government has said that claims made by Russia\u2019s security services about six members of British diplomatic staff it has expelled from Russia are \u201cbaseless\u201d. In a statement, the UK government said: The accusations made today by the FSB against our staff are completely baseless. The Russian authorities revoked the diplomatic accreditation of six UK diplomats in Russia last month, following action taken by the UK government in response to Russian state directed activity across Europe and in the UK. We are unapologetic about protecting our national interests. The announcement that Russia evoked the accreditation of six British diplomats in Moscow on accusations of espionage came as Keir Starmer was landing in Washington to discuss letting Ukraine use long-range missiles deep inside Russian territory. The FSB security agency said on Friday it had taken the measure after uncovering documents showing that part of the Foreign Office was helping coordinate what it called \u201cthe escalation of the political and military situation\u201d in Ukraine. The Guardian\u2019s political correspondent Kiran Stacey reports: The Guardian understands the move was made several months ago, after the Metropolitan police charged a group of British men with planning an arson attack against Ukrainian-linked businesses on behalf of the Russian state. But it was only announced in a statement on Friday morning. Russian media has named and published photographs of the six British members of diplomatic staff. Ashifa Kassam is the Guardian\u2019s European community affairs correspondent Rights campaigners say that as many 3,000 Ukrainian refugees living in Hungary have been affected by a new Hungarian decree that cancels state-funded shelters for refugees from western Ukraine. The government issued the new decree in June, limiting state-funded housing to Ukrainian refugees that hail from areas it deems as war-torn. The decree entered into force late last month, essentially declaring swathes of Ukraine safe to return to. The Hungarian Helsinki Committee, which works closely with affected groups, said approximately 3,000 Ukrainian refugees were affected by the new decree, leading to homelessness and the inability to access social services such as health care and education, which require a registered address in Hungary. While the decree includes a stipulation that the government will review the situation monthly, rights campaigners pointed to a Lviv attack by Russian forces in early September and noted that, one week later, the Hungarian government had not modified its stance regarding refugees from this area. This week Human Rights Watch, arguing that the decree breaches the EU\u2019s Temporary Protection Directive that was triggered in March 2022 following Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, urged the European Commission to \u201ctake immediate action\u201d and initiate infringement proceedings against Hungary under EU law. Lydia Gall, senior Europe and Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch said: Leaving refugees fleeing a devastating war homeless not only flies in the face of Hungary\u2019s international obligations but is also a worrying reminder of the government\u2019s consistently inhumane and cruel policies with respect to people seeking safety in Hungary. The European Commission should press Budapest to do its duty and ensure that all Ukrainian refugees enjoy the benefits of temporary protection. In an operational update on its official Telegram channel, Russia\u2019s ministry of defence has claimed, without providing evidence, that Ukraine has lost over 12,000 service personnel during its incursion into Russia\u2019s Kursk region. It claims that Russia has repelled three attempts by Ukrainian forces to break through in the Kursk region in the past day. It also claims that 12 members of Ukrainian forces inside Russia surrendered. The claims have not been independently verified. The European Union has issued a statement saying that it \u201cstrongly condemns the recent transfer of Iranian-made ballistic missiles to Russia\u201d and has threatened further sanctions. It says: This transfer is a direct threat to European security and represents a substantive material escalation from the provision of Iranian UAVs and ammunition, which Russia has used in its illegal war of aggression against Ukraine. The EU\u2019s position on Iran\u2019s involvement in Russia\u2019s war has always been clear. The EU has repeatedly strongly cautioned Iran against transfers of ballistic missiles to Russia. The EU will respond swiftly and in coordination with international partners, including with new and significant restrictive measures against Iran, including the designation of individuals and entities involved with Iran\u2019s ballistic missile and drone programmes, and in this regard is considering restrictive measures in Iran\u2019s aviation sector as well. Earlier Reuters reported that France had summoned Iran\u2019s charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires in Paris to remonstrate over the transfer of the missiles from Iran to Russia. The Sky News security and defence editor Deborah Haynes has posted to social media to say that Whitehall sources have told her that the British government \u201cstrongly rejected a claim by Russia\u2019s security service that the officials [expelled by Russia] had been involved in spying and sabotage.\u201d Haynes said the source told her that the expulsion of six British diplomats happened last month, and \u201cis linked to a set of tit-for-tat expulsions\u201d, suggesting it was not a direct Russian response to the British prime minister\u2019s trip to Washington today or the threat that Ukraine will be authorised to use long-range British-supplied \u201cStorm Shadow\u201d missiles against targets inside Russia. Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform is carrying news of damages and injuries overnight. In Odesa region \u201cfalling debris from enemy drones\u201d damaged windows in 20 residential buildings and a 74-year-old man was injured. In Kherson region two civilians were injured after explosives were dropped from a Russian drone. Russia\u2019s ministry of defence has said that its service personnel carrying out exercises in the Barents Sea have conducted tests of firing cruise missiles, and have also participated in exercises to simulate hunting and tracking down enemy submarines. It described the exercises as a success. Russia is conducting its largest naval set of exercises since the Soviet era. The head of Russia\u2019s security council, Sergei Shoigu, visited North Korea on Friday and met with the country\u2019s leader Kim Jong-un, Reuters reports, citing Interfax. Reuters has a quick snap that France is to summon Iran\u2019s charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires in Paris over the country\u2019s decision to supply further arms to Russia. More details soon \u2026 Poland\u2019s prime minister Donald Tusk has dismissed comments by Russian president Vladimir Putin about the risk of escalation if Ukraine is allowed to use longer-range Nato-supplied weapons to strike at targets inside Russian, as Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been requesting. Reuters reports that, speaking to the media, Tusk said on Friday morning: It is necessary to take all events in Ukraine and on the Ukrainian-Russian front very seriously, but I would not attach excessive importance to the latest statements from President Putin. They rather show the difficult situation the Russians have on the front. The Russian president has said that lifting long-range missile restrictions on Ukraine would mean that Nato countries would be at war with Russia. Taking questions from reporters in Moscow, Putin said: \u201cIf this decision is made, it will mean nothing less than the direct participation of Nato countries, the United States, and European countries in the war in Ukraine.\u201d Earlier today a key ally of Putin, the chairman of Russia\u2019s State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, echoed those words, claiming \u201cThe US, Germany, Britain and France are discussing the possibility of strikes using long-range weapons on the territory of our country. This is nothing but an attempt to camouflage and conceal their direct participation in military action.\u201d The UK prime minister Keir Starmer is in Washington today to meet with US president Joe Biden, where he is expected to seek US approval for a plan to allow Ukraine to utilise the British \u201cStorm Shadow\u201d missile to strike targets inside Russia. The UK government has reiterated that it sees it as \u201ca significant escalation\u201d that Iran has supplied Russia with more armaments. In a statement about UK prime minister\u2019s visit to Washington today, the government said: The prime minister has arrived in Washington to hold talks with US president Joe Biden today. In an extended meeting at the White House, the prime minister and the president will discuss a wide range of pressing international issues \u2013 including our ongoing support for Ukraine. It follows the foreign secretary and US secretary of state\u2019s visit to Kyiv this week, where they heard directly from President Zelenskiy about Ukraine\u2019s current position against Russia\u2019s ongoing barbaric invasion. In a significant escalation, it was also confirmed this week that Iran has transferred ballistic missiles to Russia \u2013 bolstering Putin\u2019s capability to continue his illegal war. The UK confirmed an extra \u00a3600m ($790m / \u20ac710m) of support for Ukraine yesterday, on top of the \u00a33bn ($3.9bn / \u20ac3.6bn) a year for as long as needed confirmed by the prime minister in July. The statement made no specific mention of discussing allowing Ukraine to use longer range weapons against targets inside Russia. The New York Times has been suggesting overnight that US president Joe Biden will be minded to approve the use of longer-range Nato-supplied weapons launched at targets inside Russia by Ukraine. It writes: President Biden appears on the verge of clearing the way for Ukraine to launch long-range western weapons deep inside Russian territory, as long as it doesn\u2019t use arms provided by the US, European officials say. Britain has already signaled that it is eager to let Ukraine use its \u201cStorm Shadow\u201d long-range missiles to strike at Russian military targets far from the Ukrainian border. But it wants explicit permission from Biden in order to demonstrate a coordinated strategy with the US and France, which makes a similar missile. American officials say Biden has not made a decision, but will hear from UK prime minister Keir Starmer on Friday. Biden has hesitated to allow Ukraine to use American weapons in the same way, particularly after warnings from American intelligence agencies that Russia could respond by aiding Iran in targeting American forces in the Middle East. Reuters reports Ukraine\u2019s air force said on Friday it shot down 24 of 26 Russia-launched drones overnight over five Ukrainian regions. The news agency cited to a statement posted on the Telegram messaging app. The chairman of Russia\u2019s State Duma, the lower house of parliament, on Friday accused Nato of being a direct party to military action in Ukraine, suggesting it was already heavily involved in military decision-making. The comments were made by Vyacheslav Volodin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, came a day after Putin warned that the West would be directly fighting with Russia if it allowed Ukraine to strike Russian territory with western-made long-range missiles. Reuters quotes Volodin, accussing Nato of helping Ukraine choose which Russian cities to target, of agreeing specific military action, and of giving Kyiv orders: The US, Germany, Britain and France are discussing the possibility of strikes using long-range weapons on the territory of our country. This is nothing but an attempt to camouflage and conceal their direct participation in military action. Russia\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has said the British diplomatic mission in Russia had been engaged in activities \u201cfar beyond\u201d the Vienna convention that were \u201caimed at causing harm to our people\u201d. Speaking to state-owned news agency Tass, she said: We fully share the assessments of the activities of the British so-called diplomats expressed by the Russian FSB. The British embassy has gone far beyond the limits outlined by the Vienna conventions. But the most important thing is that we are not only talking about the formal side of the issue and the inconsistency with the declared activities, but about such actions aimed at causing harm to our people. Zakharova did not produce any evidence to back up the assertion. Russia has claimed that a department in the British foreign office has been, Tass reports, \u201ctransformed into a special service for inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.\u201d Russia\u2019s FSB security service has revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats in Moscow whose actions it said showed signs of spying and sabotage work. The FSB said on Friday it had documents showing that a British Foreign Office department in London was coordinating what it called \u201cthe escalation of the political and military situation\u201d and was tasked with ensuring Russia\u2019s strategic defeat in its war against Ukraine. \u201cThus, the facts revealed give grounds to consider the activities of British diplomats sent to Moscow by the directorate as threatening the security of the Russian Federation,\u201d the FSB said in a statement. It added: \u201cIn this connection, on the basis of documents provided by the Federal Security Service of Russia and as a response to the numerous unfriendly steps taken by London, the ministry of foreign affairs of Russia, in cooperation with the agencies concerned, has terminated the accreditation of six members of the political department of the British embassy in Moscow in whose actions signs of spying and sabotage were found.\u201d The six diplomats were named on Russian state TV, which also showed photographs of them. An FSB employee told Rossiya-24: \u201cThe English did not take our hints about the need to stop this practice [of carrying out intelligence activities inside Russia], so we decided to expel these six to begin with.\u201d Welcome to the Guardian\u2019s ongoing live coverage of Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. Here are your headlines \u2026 Russia\u2019s FSB security service has revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats in Moscow whose actions it said showed signs of spying and sabotage work. The six diplomats were named on Russian state TV, which also showed photographs of them Vladimir Putin has said that a western move to let Kyiv use longer-range weapons against targets inside Russia would mean Nato would be \u201cat war\u201d with Moscow. Putin spoke as US and UK top diplomats discussed easing rules on firing western weapons into Russia, which Kyiv has been pressing for, more than two and a half years into Moscow\u2019s offensive. The Russian president has frequently accused Nato of being an active participant in the war The UK prime minister Keir Starmer has told Putin that he started the war in Ukraine and could end it at any time. Responding directly to threats by the Russian president, Starmer told reporters: \u201cRussia started this conflict. Russia illegally invaded Ukraine. Russia can end this conflict straight away. Ukraine has the right to self-defence\u201d Ukraine\u2019s air force said on Friday it shot down 24 of 26 Russia-launched drones overnight over five Ukrainian regions Russia says its forces have recaptured 10 settlements after it launched a counteroffensive in the Kursk region to push out Ukrainian troops who stormed across the border five weeks ago. With fierce fighting continuing, Russia\u2019s defence ministry listed the names of 10 settlements it said it had retaken It is Martin Belam with you today. You can contact me on martin.belam@theguardian.com."
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        "label": "The Guardian;From spy cams to deepfake porn: fury in South Korea as women targeted again;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/from-spy-cams-to-deepfake-porn-fury-in-south-korea-as-women-targeted-again;2024-09-13T20:00:07Z",
        "text": "The anger was palpable. For the second time in just a few years, South Korean women took to the streets of Seoul to demand an end to sexual abuse. When the country spearheaded Asia\u2019s #MeToo movement, the culprit was molka \u2013 spy cams used to record women without their knowledge. Now their fury was directed at an epidemic of deepfake pornography. For Juhee Jin, 26, a Seoul resident who advocates for women\u2019s rights, the emergence of this new menace, in which women and girls are again the targets, was depressingly predictable. \u201cThis should have been addressed a long time ago,\u201d says Jin, a translator. \u201cI hope that authorities take precautions and provide proper education so that people can prevent these crimes from happening.\u201d The National police agency said this week that it was investigating 513 cases of deepfake pornography \u2013 in which the faces of real women and girls are digitally superimposed on to a body without their knowledge or consent. That represents a 70% jump in cases in just 40 days, the Yonhap news agency said, underlining the country\u2019s struggle to rein in the use of digital technology to sexually abuse women and girls. Recent reports about the rapid rise in deepfake porn have prompted a new round of soul-searching in a country whose positive contribution to global pop culture is being sullied by its status as the world\u2019s digital sex crime capital. The exact number of victims is difficult to verify, but if the current trend continues South Korea is expected to reach a record high by the end of the year. The number of reported cases of deepfake porn has risen steadily in recent years, from 156 in 2021 to 180 in 2023. The victims are predominantly young women and girls, including students, teachers, and soldiers. Last year almost two-thirds were in their teens. Local media reports say the perpetrators are also often minors. Teenagers accounted for 79% of those detained in the first nine months of this year, according to Yonhap. The scale of the problem has stunned many South Koreans. One Telegram chatroom known for creating and distributing deepfake pornography reportedly had 220,000 members, another more than 400,000 users. Some rooms encouraged members to humiliate or degrade women through deepfakes. Several years after South Korea made international headlines with its molka problem, the government is again under pressure to stamp out this wave of online sex crimes. A large protest is scheduled to be held in Seoul on 21 September. The global deepfake capital South Korea holds the unenviable title of the country most targeted by deepfake pornography. Its female singers and actors constitute 53% of the individuals featured in deepfakes worldwide, according to a 2023 report by Security Hero, a US startup focused on identity theft protection. Police have launched an investigation into Telegram, and the country\u2019s media regulator plans to hold talks with the messaging app\u2019s representatives to discuss a joint response to the problem. The education ministry has launched a taskforce to investigate incidents at schools, teach children how to protect their images and support victims. John McGuire, a professor of philosophy at Hanyang University, said digital ethics education was not a realistic solution to AI-related problems. \u201cSouth Korea has just emerged as a test case for this challenge,\u201d he says. \u201cWe are going to need every tool at our disposal to address the present and future problems associated with AI technology.\u201d Telegram, whose founder was arrested last month as part of a French investigation into child sexual abuse, apologised \u201cif there had been an element of misunderstanding\u201d. It said it had taken down dozens of videos, some at the request of the country\u2019s media watchdog. South Korea\u2019s government said it would push for tougher laws to make buying or viewing sexually exploitative deepfakes a crime. Campaigners, however, say the measures are unlikely to quell the appetite for digitally altered sexually explicit material. South Koreans enjoy some of the world\u2019s fastest average internet speeds and smartphone usage rates, but that combined with the popularity of Telegram, advances in AI and lax laws has supercharged the problem. The country\u2019s prime minister, Han Duck-soo, attributed the crisis on Thursday to the \u201cabnormal development\u201d of social media and advances in AI, rather than government failings. South Korean authorities, however, have been aware of the dangers of digital manipulation since 2019, when the so-called \u201cnth room\u201d case revealed that women, including underage girls, had been coerced into sending sexually explicit videos that were circulated online. Police asked Telegram to assist their investigation, but were reportedly ignored. The ringleader was sentenced to more than 40 years in prison, but no action was taken against Telegram amid concerns over censorship. \u201cOnline gender-based violence is an increasing problem globally but is especially widespread in South Korea,\u201d said Heather Barr, an associate director at Human Rights Watch. \u201cJudges, prosecutors, police, and lawmakers in South Korea, the vast majority of them men, do not take these crimes seriously enough. Women seeking police help are often dismissed, re-traumatised, and even ridiculed. There is very little sexuality education in South Korea\u2019s schools to help young people understand how wrong this conduct is.\u201d \u2018The world I knew completely collapsed\u2019 While politicians and authorities scramble to find solutions, there is palpable anger online, prompting petitions on the national assembly website calling for stricter laws. The crisis has affected online behaviour, with reports suggesting many children are removing photos from social media or deactivating their accounts. One adult victim said it had been a \u201chuge trauma\u201d to bring her assailant to justice after she received a barrage of Telegram messages in 2021 containing deepfake images showing her being sexually assaulted. Her attacker was a fellow student at the prestigious Seoul National University with whom she had seldom interacted but had thought of as gentle. \u201cIt was hard to accept,\u201d the woman, who requested anonymity, told Agence France-Presse. \u201cThe world I thought I knew completely collapsed,\u201d she said in a letter she plans to submit to a court later this month. \u201cNo one should be treated as an object or used as a means to compensate for the inferiority complexes of individuals like the defendant, simply because they are women.\u201d South Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has urged police to eradicate deepfake crimes. He told a recent cabinet meeting: \u201cSome people may dismiss it as just a prank, but it is clearly a criminal act that exploits technology behind the shield of anonymity.\u201d More than 80 women\u2019s rights groups have criticised the official response to deepfakes, framing the crisis as evidence of deeply rooted gender discrimination in one of Asia\u2019s biggest economic and cultural powerhouses. \u201cThe fundamental cause is structural gender discrimination, and the solution is gender equality,\u201d they said in a statement. \u201cWhat needs to be expelled from online spaces is not women\u2019s self-expression, but deeply rooted male culture. Neither Telegram nor the so-called \u2018acquaintance humiliation\u2019 behaviour is new. Deepfake technology has merely been superimposed, as if it were something new, on misogyny that photographs, synthesises, edits and processes women\u2019s bodies without consent and does not regard women as fellow citizens.\u201d K-pop labels whose stars are among the victims have been drawn into the debate. JYP Entertainment has described deepfake pornography as \u201ca blatant violation of the law\u201d. The large number of teenagers among the perpetrators and victims mean the repercussions of deepfakes are being felt in South Korean schools. According to the Korean Federation of Teachers union, even students and teachers who have not been directly affected \u201care experiencing extreme fear and anxiety about potentially being used for sex crimes or distributed online without their knowledge\u201d. Agencies contributed to this report"
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    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018We can\u2019t even buy our own land\u2019: the Tongan women pushing for change;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/we-cant-even-buy-our-own-land-the-tongan-women-pushing-for-change;2024-09-13T20:00:07Z",
        "text": "Ofa Ki Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki was attending a workshop on gender issues in Tonga many years ago when she came to a striking realisation: \u201cIf my father dies everything in our house, from the land to belongings, will automatically transfer to my brother.\u201d The 49-year-old went straight to her dad and said \u201cif you die, I will inherit nothing. He looked at me with nothing to say, and I told him that it was really unfair.\u201d It marked the beginning of her journey as an advocate; Guttenbeil-Likiliki is now director of the Women and Children Crisis Centre in Tonga. The not-for-profit group supports survivors of violence and advocates for policy changes. Next month the centre will be renamed Fefine To\u2019a \u2013 meaning \u201cthe strength of a courageous Tongan woman\u201d \u2013 and the organisation will make the push for women\u2019s rights to own land one of its key priorities. \u201cWe can\u2019t even buy our own land, and even if we do, it has to be in our husbands\u2019 names,\u201d she says. Under an 1875 law, women in Tonga are prohibited from owning land. The law also makes it difficult for women who marry non-Tongans to buy land together. Women can only inherit land in specific circumstances, such as when there are no male heirs, and they must remain unmarried. Among others critical of the restrictions is Teisa Cokanasiga, a lawyer who works in Tonga\u2019s capital Nuku\u2019alofa. Her husband is Fijian, meaning they can rent, but not own land. \u201cI had wanted to buy and own land under my name but because I am a woman and my husband is not of Tongan nationality, we could only lease,\u201d says Cokanasiga. The law makes it difficult for women to be financially independent. Cokanasiga says many women want to set up farming businesses \u201cbut not being able to own a piece of land discourages them because they\u2019re only able to lease.\u201d Resistance to reform Changing Tonga\u2019s land laws would be a complex process requiring a shift in social attitudes, and past efforts for reform have been met with resistance. Tonga and Palau are the only Pacific countries that have not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). There have been several attempts to ratify the CEDAW in Tonga over the last two decades, but these have failed. In 2015, public protests opposing ratification were held involving local church groups, and a petition of about 15,000 signatures was submitted to the King. Cokanasiga says reforming the land system \u201cwould take a lot of consultations with the public and would have to change the minds of the majority of parliament and would also have to get through to the King, who gives the final say by giving his royal assent or not, before a law is made law.\u201d Earlier this year, Tonga\u2019s minister of tourism and foreign affairs, Fekitamoeloa \u2018Utoikamanu, told Pacific Media Network that she supports \u201cthe issue of equality and the opportunity for women to be able to make choices in terms of land ownership\u201d but Tongans must \u201csee how we can make the most benefit out of the current system.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019ve had to look at what options are available to us to have some kind of legal ownership of land, and one of those options is to lease,\u201d \u2018Utoikamanu told Pacific Media Network. A spokesperson for the government from the Crown Law office said there are no immediate plans to amend Tonga\u2019s Land Act. \u201cThe ownership of land for women in Tonga remains a challenge, and any changes to the Land Act will require extensive consultation with His Majesty the King and the people of Tonga,\u201d the spokesperson said. Despite these challenges, some women in Tonga remain determined to push for change. One not-for-profit called Ma\u2019a Fafine Moe Famili is advocating and raising awareness on the need for women to have the right to own land. Guttenbeil-Likiliki is also pushing for reform. She is organising women\u2019s forums across Tonga to gather information on development issues, including land rights. \u201cRight now we\u2019re having subnational women\u2019s fono (a community meeting) across the outer islands, and then we\u2019re going to end off with the national women\u2019s fono here on the main island,\u201d she says. She hopes when the \u201cfindings are presented to parliament, the government will address these issues\u201d in the coming years. \u201cTongan women are finding opportunities in places like Australia and New Zealand because there isn\u2019t enough option given for them here in Tonga,\u201d Guttenbeil-Likiliki says. \u201cWe need to change that before it\u2019s too late.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Ukraine must defend itself\u2019: Washington leaders dismiss Putin\u2019s war talk;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/ukraine-must-defend-itself-washington-leaders-dismiss-putins-war-talk;2024-09-13T19:41:04Z",
        "text": "US officials and lawmakers shot back after Vladimir Putin said that Nato\u2019s potential lifting of restrictions on Ukraine to launch long-range strikes over the border into Russian territory would mean Nato countries were \u201cat war\u201d with Russia. The prime minister, Keir Starmer, met with the US president, Joe Biden, on Friday at the White House, where the two were expected to discuss \u2013 though not necessarily announce \u2013 a loosening of restrictions on Storm Shadow missiles that would allow Ukraine to strike targets as far as 155 miles inside Russia. \u201cThis will mean that Nato countries \u2013 the United States and European countries \u2013 are at war with Russia,\u201d Putin told Russian reporters on Thursday. \u201cAnd if this is the case, then, bearing in mind the change in the essence of the conflict, we will make appropriate decisions in response to the threats that will be posed to us.\u201d The missiles are jointly produced in the UK and France, and both countries appear to be seeking Biden\u2019s go-ahead to loosen restrictions on the use of the long-range missiles. Western officials have indicated that the US is not planning to allow its own missiles to be used to strike targets deeper inside Russia. Washington and London have indicated they do not plan to announce any change in policy. Moscow\u2019s ambassador to the UN told the security council on Friday that loosening the restrictions would mark an escalation to \u201cdirect war\u201d between Moscow and Nato. The remarks provoked an angry response in Washington, where officials accused the Russian ruler of sabre-rattling in order to scare Nato countries away from supporting Ukraine. Senator Jim Risch, the ranking member of the Senate foreign relations committee, said Ukraine should have authorisation to strike targets deep inside Russia, including active Russian bombers launching missiles against Ukrainian cities. \u201cPutin\u2019s latest threats about direct confrontation with Nato are simply an effort to coerce the west out of supporting Ukraine,\u201d Risch said. \u201cHe knows that long-range strikes from Ukraine would cause significant damage to his war effort. Several Russian missiles have landed in Nato territory and Nato has not escalated. \u201cUkraine must be allowed to defend itself, period. If that means striking a Russian bomber launching missiles at Ukrainian civilians from Russian airspace, then Ukraine should be able to take that shot,\u201d he added. Speaking with reporters on Friday, the US national security council spokesperson, John Kirby, said that there would probably be no announcements about the lifting of restrictions on Ukraine\u2019s use of British and French-supplied missiles in Ukraine. But at the same time, he said that the US and its Nato allies have \u201cour own calculus for what we decide to provide to Ukraine\u201d. \u201cI never said that we don\u2019t take Mr Putin\u2019s threats seriously. He starts brandishing the nuclear sword, for instance, yeah, we take that seriously. We constantly monitor that. He obviously has proven capable of aggression. He\u2019s obviously proven capable of escalation \u2026 But it is not something that we haven\u2019t heard before. So we take note of it. We got it,\u201d Kirby said. Biden and Starmer were meeting for their second time at the White House after last month\u2019s Nato summit, which was held just days after Labour won the UK general election and retook power after 14 years in opposition. The two leaders were expected to discuss a host of foreign policy topics, including Ukraine, the conflict in the Middle East, the Aukus partnership between the UK, Australia and US, and more. The Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is expected to present his \u201cvictory plan\u201d to Biden on the sidelines of the UN general assembly this month. Pressure is growing on Ukraine in the run-up to the US presidential elections, which could see Donald Trump return to power. As fevered discussions over the future of the war take place behind closed doors, Washington and its allies have continued to pledge to stand behind Ukraine in the war. \u201cWe are going to do everything that we can so that Ukraine has what it needs to defend itself,\u201d said the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, on Friday. \u201cThat is our commitment. I think you have seen this, a very much focused, a tremendous amount of support from this administration and also from our partners and allies in doing just that. And that\u2019s what you could expect to see.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Canadian military admits new sleeping bags are not suited to Canadian winters;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/canada-military-sleeping-bags;2024-09-13T18:32:59Z",
        "text": "The Canadian military has admitted that new sleeping bags issued to troops last year were not suited to \u201ctypical Canadian winter conditions\u201d. According to a briefing note obtained by the CBC, the army issued the new sleeping bags in the autumn of last year in Alberta, where several hundred troops were preparing for a joint Canada-US exercise in Alaska. Soldiers who used the bags reportedly found \u201cseveral critical issues \u2026 related to lack of warmth\u201d, according to the 5 December 2023 note. In temperatures ranging from 5C (41F) to -20C (-4F), troops reported being cold in the sleeping bags overnight, even when they heated their tents with stoves. The official who authored the note concluded that the bags were \u201cbetter suited for use in weather conditions that are characteristic of late spring to early fall\u201d. It recommended loaning the troops some of the army\u2019s original Arctic sleeping bags, which were first acquired in 1965. The defence department spent more than C$34.8m (US$25.6m) on the new sleeping bags to replace those original Arctic bags. In a statement to the CBC, it declined to answer what cold-weather testing had been done before the purchase, saying only that the bags had been \u201cchosen following a rigorous competitive process\u201d and that the \u201ctechnical requirements used to make the selection included insulation value, weight of the bags and the packing volume\u201d. It added that it still considers the new bags suitable for most uses \u2013 but now additionally aims to buy new sleeping bags that are adapted for winter in the far north and the Arctic. \u201cI wonder if they should have just gone to Canadian Tire,\u201d Rob Huebert of the University of Calgary, an expert in Arctic military affairs, told CBC, referencing a popular retail company."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Briton and Americans among 37 given death sentence over DRC coup attempt;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/briton-americans-sentenced-to-death-drc-coup-attempt;2024-09-13T18:22:57Z",
        "text": "A Briton and three Americans are among 37 people sentenced to death on Friday over an attempt to overthrow the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Six people were killed during the botched coup attempt led by the opposition figure Christian Malanga on 19 May that targeted the presidential palace and a close ally of President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi. Armed men first attacked the parliamentary speaker Vital Kamerhe\u2019s home in Kinshasa, then briefly occupied an office of the presidency, before Malanga, a US-based Congolese politician, was killed by security forces. Malanga was shot while resisting arrest soon after live-streaming the attack on his social media, the Congolese army said. The defendants, who also include a Belgian, a Canadian national and several Congolese, can appeal against the verdict on charges that included terrorism, murder and criminal association. Fourteen people were acquitted in the trial, which opened in July. The three Americans convicted were Malanga\u2019s son Marcel Malanga, 21, as well as Tyler Thompson Jr and Benjamin Zalman-Polun. Marcel had told the court that his father, from whom he had been estranged, threatened to kill him unless he participated. He said it was his first time visiting the country at the invitation of his father whom he had not seen in years. Thompson, 21, flew to Africa from Utah with Marcel for what his family believed was a vacation with all expenses paid by the elder Malanga, the court previously heard. The pair had played high school football together in Salt Lake City. Other teammates had accused Marcel of offering up to $100,000 to join him on a \u201csecurity job\u201d in DRC. Thompson\u2019s family have said he had no knowledge of the elder Malanga\u2019s intentions, nor any plans for political activism or intentions to enter DRC. They have said they understood the itinerary to be South Africa and Eswatini. Zalman-Polun, 36, was a business associate of Christian Malanga. There was no official information available about the Briton, who was reported to also be a naturalised Congolese citizen. A spokesperson for the UK\u2019s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \u201cWe are providing consular assistance to a British man detained in DRC and are in contact with the local authorities. \u201cWe have made representations about the use of the death penalty to the DRC at the highest levels, and we will continue to do so.\u201d The verdict was read out on live television in the yard of Ndolo military prison on the outskirts of Kinshasa. In March, DRC reinstated the death penalty, lifting a 21-year-old moratorium, as authorities struggle to curb violence and militant attacks. The justice ministry said at the time that the ban from 2003 had allowed offenders accused of treason and espionage to get away without sufficient punishment."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Greece\u2019s leftwing Syriza party ousts leader Stefanos Kasselakis;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/greeces-leftwing-syriza-party-ousts-leader-stefanos-kasselakis;2024-09-13T16:32:48Z",
        "text": "A Greek American shipping investor and former banker who emerged seemingly out of nowhere to assume the reins of Greece\u2019s main leftwing opposition party Syriza has been deposed after a late night meeting of the party\u2019s secretariat. After a drama-filled gathering of Syriza\u2019s political secretariat on Thursday, Stefanos Kasselakis was told the party\u2019s highest body had voted overwhelmingly and conclusively in favour of his removal. By Friday the 36-year-old had left Syriza\u2019s headquarters, amid reports of cadres barred from even entering his parliamentary office. It was a humbling end to a rollercoaster 11 months in office for the country\u2019s first openly gay party leader. After two days of acrimonious talks, Syriza\u2019s central committee had declared on Sunday that Kasselakis had been ousted in a motion of no confidence. From his luxury villa on the island of Spetses, the businessman contested the decision, writing on X \u201cI\u2019m still here\u201d and urging his supporters to avoid public displays of anger and exhibit self-restraint. The challenge to his ousting forced the political secretariat to convene an emergency session that wrapped up on Thursday night. Kasselakis was a political neophyte when he took over the party in September last year. Some leftwingers, disgusted by his lack of ideological affiliation and perceived rightwing populism, broke away in protest and formed a splinter group called the New Left. This week he argued that the decision to get rid of him had been brought about via \u201ca secret ballot\u201d and had gone against the more than 136,000 party members who had voted him into the office after the abrupt resignation of Alexis Tsipras, the former premier who had previously led the leftwing bloc. Insiders said Kasselakis had not ruled out participating in leadership elections in late November. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve just seen is the overwhelming majority of Syriza cadres coming to the conclusion that so many had come to earlier: that Kasselakis was not the right man for the post,\u201d the leftwing writer Dimitris Psarras told the Guardian. \u201cHe ran Syriza as if it were a company, conducting meetings via Zoom, disregarding the decision-making organs that are so much of every party\u2019s \u2018internal\u2019 life, showing little respect for colleagues, thinking he could govern by simply firing people left and right. In the end everyone was against him.\u201d By the time his expulsion was confirmed on Friday, the Greek American was being branded a \u201cTrump of the Balkans\u201d who had to go. \u201cHopefully this will be the last instalment of a drama that has often seemed like a crazy Netflix series,\u201d said Psarras. \u201cPolls had shown support for Syriza plummeting with Kasselakis at the helm.\u201d In a survey released on Wednesday Syriza was polling at 9.3% and had fallen to third place behind the centre-left Pasok party. Kasselakis, who moved to the US as a teenager after being awarded a scholarship, had deftly used social media to reach a wider audience in the run-up to elections last year. Leading figures in the party had come to his aid but by this week even they had retreated. \u201cSupporting Kasselakis was a mistake,\u201d said Pavlos Polakis, a former alternate health minister whose backing for the entrepreneur was seen as decisive in his winning the leadership race. \u201cLast summer I believed we needed to rebuild Syriza after Tsipras\u2019 resignation,\u201d he told Open TV on Friday. \u201cSeeing his appeal to young people, I believed he could lead Syriza\u2019s reorganisation \u2026 but he failed in many respects. He didn\u2019t form a political team. Leftist parties aren\u2019t one-man shows,\u201d he added echoing the view that too much attention had been placed on Kasselakis\u2019s lifestyle while in office. Kasselakis had vowed from the outset to apply root-and-branch change to Syriza by embracing centrist views and transforming it into a US-style \u201cbig tent\u201d democratic party. This week his dwindling group of supporters said there was \u201cstill a chance\u201d he could seek to establish his own party. \u201cIt seems that he liked his time in politics heading a political party,\u201d said Psarras. \u201cIt\u2019s too early to rule out his departure from the Greek political scene.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;China frees American pastor after 18 years in detention;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/g-s1-23219/china-frees-american-pastor-after-18-years-in-detention;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:10:28 -0400",
        "text": "The State Department said that 68-year-old David Lin is coming home after being arrested in China on vague contract charges that he and his family deny. He had been jailed there for 18 years."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Here's what we know about the suspect in Trump's apparent attempted assassination;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/nx-s1-5113801/trump-shooting-assassination-attempt-suspect-ryan-wesley-routh;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:52:47 -0400",
        "text": "Ryan Wesley Routh's digital footprint paints a picture of a disillusioned former Trump voter who took up an impassioned defense of Ukraine. Here's what else we know about the 58-year-old suspect."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;2nd apparent assassination attempt on Trump: Everything we know so far;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/g-s1-23232/up-first-newsletter-second-apparent-assassination-attempt-trump-emmy-awards-recap;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:01:00 -0400",
        "text": "The FBI is investigating a second apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump Sunday. The gunman was about 300 to 500 yards from Trump with an AK-style rifle with scope."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;A celestial trifecta: What to know about Tuesday\u2019s lunar eclipse;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/nx-s1-5107675/lunar-eclipse-harvest-moon-supermoon-tuesday-what-to-know;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "This month's harvest moon will not only coincide with a supermoon, but also with a blood moon and partial lunar eclipse."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;When Wil was struggling with depression, a therapist said just the right thing;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/12/nx-s1-5109954/depression-therapist-therapy-kindness-help;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "In 2014, Wil Davenport was being treated for depression at an inpatient mental health program. One day, his therapist issued a challenge that renewed his sense of purpose."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;For people with opioid addiction, Medicaid overhaul comes with risks;https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/14/nx-s1-5078745/for-people-with-opioid-addiction-medicaid-overhaul-comes-with-risks;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "More than a million Americans use Medicaid to get addiction treatments like methadone. But as states update their systems, some patients have lost coverage. Even a short gap can be life-threatening."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Her piano concert was six years in the making. Then Puerto Rico's power went out;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/nx-s1-5103787/piano-concert-puerto-rico-power;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "Puerto Rico\u2019s unstable electric grid affects every sector of society, including the island\u2019s rich cultural scene. An outage abruptly ended an emerging pianist\u2019s recent concert, touching a nerve."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;People who exercise have healthier belly fat, new study finds;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/14/nx-s1-5108843/exercise-fat-healthy-weight-obesity;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "Here's another good reason to keep exercising. A study finds people with obesity who exercise can store more fat<strong>\u00a0</strong>under the skin instead of around their organs, which is much better for their health."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Rupert Murdoch is set to face his kids in court, with Fox News\u2019 fate in the balance;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/15/nx-s1-5113155/murdoch-family-trust-fox-news-succession;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "The future of Fox News \u2013 and the rest of the Murdoch media empire \u2013 is at stake in a trial this week in Reno, Nevada. Rupert Murdoch wants to change his will to consolidate his eldest son\u2019s power.<br /><br />"
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Shanghai hit by strongest typhoon since 1949;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/g-s1-23216/shanghai-strongest-storm-1949;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:27:37 -0400",
        "text": "More than 414,000 people had been evacuated ahead of the powerful winds and torrential rain from Typhoon Bebinca. Schools were closed and people were advised to stay indoors."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Storm Boris death toll rises as floods continue to ravage central Europe;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/storm-boris-death-toll-rises-as-floods-continue-to-ravage-central-europe?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:33:56 +0000",
        "text": "Death toll due to devastating flooding reaches at least 15 as many areas brace for more torrential rain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;After seven weeks in office, how is Iran\u2019s President Pezeshkian faring?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/after-seven-weeks-in-office-how-is-irans-president-pezeshkian-faring?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:34:21 +0000",
        "text": "Pezeshkian has promised to closely follow the supreme leader while trying to unite the public and political factions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;UK PM Starmer seeks immigration lessons from Italy\u2019s Meloni;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/uk-pm-seeks-immigration-lessons-from-italys-meloni?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:43:26 +0000",
        "text": "Keir Starmer\u2019s meeting with the far-right premier in Rome branded \u2018disturbing&#039;."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;What we know about Donald Trump\u2019s second apparent assassination attempt;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/16/what-we-know-about-donald-trumps-second-apparent-assassination-attempt?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:18:51 +0000",
        "text": "Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says he is \u2018safe and well\u2019 after Secret Service opened fire on a gunman."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russian corruption purge expands as two more defence officials arrested;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/russian-corruption-purge-expands-as-two-more-defence-officials-arrested?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:13:25 +0000",
        "text": "Confessing to taking bribes, the duo are the latest to be arrested in a &#039;purge&#039; by the Defence Ministry."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;UEFA Champions League 2024-25: Schedule, title favourites, players to watch;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/16/uefa-champions-league-2024-25-matches-teams-format-key-dates-draw-final-favourites-record?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:08:24 +0000",
        "text": "Europe&#039;s top club competition returns with more teams vying for the prize in the four-month-long group stage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;NATO obligations cannot override international law;https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/16/nato-obligations-cannot-override-international-law?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:06:36 +0000",
        "text": "Arms-exporting NATO members cannot overlook their international legal obligations by citing alliance commitments."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Video: Muslim-owned shops attacked in India as religious violence flares;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/16/video-muslim-owned-shops-attacked-in-india-as-religious-violence-flares?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:06:22 +0000",
        "text": "Religious tension in India between Hindu and Muslim communities erupted into violence in Rajasthan."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Project 2025 will go on, even if Kamala Harris wins the US presidency;https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/16/project-2025-will-go-on-even-if-kamala-harris-wins-the-us-presidency?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:04:23 +0000",
        "text": "Many pillars of Project 2025 have already been implemented at the federal and state level."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Ukraine\u2019s \u2018Bucha witches\u2019 volunteer to shoot down Russian drones;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/16/ukraines-bucha-witches-volunteer-to-shoot-down-russian-drones?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:06:53 +0000",
        "text": "About 100 women train to target Russian weaponry in the Kyiv suburb that captured the world&#039;s attention at start of war."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Ukraine invites UN and Red Cross to Russia\u2019s Kursk region;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/ukraine-invites-un-and-red-cross-to-kyiv-controlled-kursk?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:36:50 +0000",
        "text": "Kremlin slams invitation as &#039;pure provocation&#039; as it prepares to welcome Red Cross chief."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Germany expands border controls as right pressures government on migration;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/germany-expands-border-controls-as-right-pressures-government-on-migration?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:14:52 +0000",
        "text": "The governing parties are seeking to head off challenge of the far right as it faces key elections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Trump assassination attempt : Who is suspect Ryan Routh?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/trump-assassination-attempt-who-is-suspect-ryan-routh?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:01:34 +0000",
        "text": "The FBI says Donald Trump was the target of &#039;what appears to be an attempted assassination&#039; at his Florida golf club."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Tribal violence over Papua New Guinea mines kills at least 20: UN;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/shootouts-near-gold-mine-in-papua-new-guinea-leave-at-least-20-dead-un?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:17:21 +0000",
        "text": "As clashes in Porgera Valley intensify, authorities allow police to use \u2018lethal force\u2019 to quell violence."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Ten maps to understand the occupied West Bank;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/ten-maps-to-understand-the-occupied-west-bank?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:44:00 +0000",
        "text": "Since 1967, Israel has occupied the West Bank. Here are 10 maps showing how military control affects Palestinian lives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Hong Kong\u2019s security law threatens to jail activist for \u2018seditious\u2019 T-shirt;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/hong-kongs-security-law-threatens-to-jail-activist-for-seditious-t-shirt?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:36:26 +0000",
        "text": "Chu Kai-pong faces a sentence of up to 10 years in jail after becoming the first convict under the strict new laws."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Premier League vs Manchester City: What\u2019s the trial on 115 charges about?;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/16/premier-league-vs-manchester-city-whats-footballs-big-trial-all-about?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:23:03 +0000",
        "text": "Al Jazeera gives lowdown on the charges, the club&#039;s response and the impact of a potential guilty verdict against City."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Unsanctioned Israeli leaflets order Lebanon residents to evacuate;https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/16/unsanctioned-israeli-leaflets-order-lebanon-residents-to-evacuate?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:22:58 +0000",
        "text": "The Israeli military says the dropping of leaflets is unauthorised, and no evacuation is under way."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Rescuers put human remains in backpack after Israeli attack on Gaza City;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/16/rescuers-put-human-remains-in-backpack-after-israeli-attack-on-gaza-city?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:01:12 +0000",
        "text": "Video shows rescue workers in Gaza collecting the remains of victims in a children\u2019s school bag after an Israeli attack."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;At least 8 dead as Storm Boris continues to pound Central, Eastern Europe;https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/16/at-least-8-dead-as-storm-boris-continues-to-pound-central-eastern-europe?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 07:14:16 +0000",
        "text": "Strong winds and unusually heavy rainfall have been pummelling the region for days."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Kashmir election: Are separatist candidates change agents or Trojan horses?;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/16/kashmir-election-are-separatist-candidates-change-agents-or-trojan-horses?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:15:01 +0000",
        "text": "For decades, the Jamaat-e-Islami boycotted elections. Now, the banned group has upended its position\u2014and the campaign."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Japan\u2019s elderly population rises to record 36.25 million;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/16/japans-elderly-population-rises-to-record-36-25-million?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:57:28 +0000",
        "text": "Japanese aged 65 or older now account for nearly 30 percent of the population, government data shows."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Shogun, Hacks, Baby Reindeer win big at Emmys;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/shogun-hacks-baby-reindeer-win-big-at-emmys?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:42:53 +0000",
        "text": "Sweeping Japanese epic takes home a record 18 awards, the most for a single season."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;China frees US pastor David Lin who was jailed for life in 2006;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/china-frees-us-pastor-david-lin-who-was-jailed-for-life-in-2006?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 03:34:49 +0000",
        "text": "Lin&#039;s release raises hopes for two other US citizens detained in China and considered wrongfully detained by Washington."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Typhoon Bebinca hits Shanghai, strongest storm since 1949;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/typhoon-bebinca-hits-shanghai-strongest-storm-since-1949?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 02:59:18 +0000",
        "text": "Shanghai&#039;s 25 million people advised to stay at home as Bebinca pounds city with heavy rain and strong winds."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Huw Edwards given six-month suspended jail sentence for indecent images of children;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm7dvv128ro;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:01:01 GMT",
        "text": "The disgraced former BBC News presenter is also placed on the sex offenders' register for seven years."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Death toll rises in flood-hit central Europe;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yjjqyv84eo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:23:58 GMT",
        "text": "Several people have died across the Czech Republic, Austria, Romania and Poland following devastating floods."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;I was told I had four days to live, says Lib Dem deputy leader;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crl88ep1d9zo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:47:04 GMT",
        "text": "The Liberal Democrat deputy leader tells her party's conference about living with Crohn's disease."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Hearing to explore what caused Titan submersible disaster;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kk1g66n7o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:24:26 GMT",
        "text": "Investigators hope to find what led to the implosion of the deep-sea vessel that was en route to the wreck of the Titanic."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;New XEC Covid variant starting to spread;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1jddenj5p5o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:49:59 GMT",
        "text": "It has some new mutations that might help it spread this autumn, scientists say."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Tories demand inquiry into gifts for Starmer's wife;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgeyy0dlp24o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:24:55 GMT",
        "text": "The PM insisted \"rules are being followed\" after clothing for his wife was not initially declared."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Girl died from sepsis after GP sent her home twice;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kdd9q804qo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:39:05 GMT",
        "text": "Mia Glynn's parents launch a claim for negligence after their daughter died hours after seeing a GP."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Rich should pay more inheritance tax, says Ed Davey;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgnne7ded8o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:00:11 GMT",
        "text": "The Lib Dem leader calls on Labour to reform inheritance tax to make it \"fairer\" in a BBC interview."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;TikTok says US ban would have \"staggering\" impact on users' free speech;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3y79llndo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:15:38 GMT",
        "text": "The US government wants TikTok sold or divested because it says it is a threat to national security."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Rupert Murdoch's 'Succession' court battle begins;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyllp4rey9o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:20:12 GMT",
        "text": "The court battle will determine the future of the billionaire's media empire."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Channel 4 will not remove alleged abuser from Married At First Sight;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cje33zgln2yo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:55:52 GMT",
        "text": "Accusations of domestic abuse were made against Alexander Henry, who is in the reality show's new series."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What do we know about suspect Ryan Wesley Routh?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3611zjjnd2o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:00:37 GMT",
        "text": "He appears to have mixed politics and a history of support for Ukraine - as well as a number of legal issues."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;How events unfolded on Trump's golf course;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/czd11ryq9rjo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:33:08 GMT",
        "text": "Donald Trump has been targeted in an alleged assassination attempt, for the second time in a matter of months."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Trump thanks Secret Service - but is he protected enough?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6255djzj68o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:53:26 GMT",
        "text": "Agents are praised for foiling a would-be attack - but some say the Republican needs more protection."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Political violence becomes America's new norm - but is still shocking;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6449gy87jo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:38:03 GMT",
        "text": "Donald Trump is the target of an apparent assassination attempt two months after being hit by a bullet at a rally."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'I got a \u00a344,000 student loan - now I owe \u00a354,000\u2019;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg3g8wpwwqo;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 23:16:45 GMT",
        "text": "The new repayment rate for student loans started this month but for some graduates the debt pile keeps growing."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;\u2018I was given 50 lashes\u2019: Women on how their social media posts risk punishment in Iran;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9qgq919yl5o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:53:23 GMT",
        "text": "Women tell how their posts are being spied on, two years after Mahsa Amini's death rocked Iran."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Couple accused of murdering teen to steal baby acquitted;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l44j5jzzyo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:30:21 GMT",
        "text": "Robert and Anne Geeves were accused of killing an intellectually disabled teen to steal her baby."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;HS2 blew billions - here's how and why;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98486dzxnzo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:02:11 GMT",
        "text": "How did HS2 manage to go so far over its original budget?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The Perfect Couple: I liked that my character was objectified;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c756nv5l1xro;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:12:55 GMT",
        "text": "Indian actor Ishaan Khatter plays the role of Shooter in the most-watched Netflix mystery drama."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Kidnapped and trafficked twice - a sex worker's life in Sierra Leone;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyw8xgeyq3o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 02:34:03 GMT",
        "text": "BBC Africa Eye focuses on the horrors of the lives of sex workers in the West African state."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;In pictures: TV stars on Emmy Awards red carpet;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93yy4dz36no;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 03:48:33 GMT",
        "text": "Selena Gomez is among the stars walking the red carpet before the Emmy Awards 2024."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Aston Villa legend Gary Shaw dies aged 63 after fall;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/clyl083pxd9o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:45:22 GMT",
        "text": "Former Aston Villa striker Gary Shaw, who won the European Cup with the club, dies aged 63 from injuries sustained in a fall."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Starmer looks to Italy on how to stop migrant boats;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrmme1d6gvo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:11:25 GMT",
        "text": "The PM said he had discussed Italy's deals with other countries during talks with leader Georgia Meloni."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;UK to offer vaccines to boost mpox protection;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyll8yk1nvo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:57:54 GMT",
        "text": "Mpox vaccines will be offered to thousands of people in the UK to boost protection against the virus."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Rare shy penguin wins NZ bird of the year;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg00xp0442o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:20:54 GMT",
        "text": "More than 50,000 people voted in the competition - which has in the past been marred by controversy."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Titanic shipyard to go into administration;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkddrv7v2po;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:41:31 GMT",
        "text": "Harland and Wolff confirms it is set to be placed into administration for the second time in five years."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Four boys died in rubbish-strewn house fire, court told;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62mm7lry5ro;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:41:51 GMT",
        "text": "Deveca Rose denies the manslaughter of her two sets of twin boys, aged four and five."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Jackson 5 singer Tito Jackson dead at 70;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kddp5x5zno;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 07:23:49 GMT",
        "text": "Tito was an original member of the Jackson Five pop group and brother of the late Michael Jackson."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Download now;https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10628994;Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:35:33 GMT",
        "text": "Top stories, breaking news, live reporting, and follow news topics that match your interests"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Huw Edwards: Fall from grace;https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0023gzb;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:45:00 GMT",
        "text": "The story of the former BBC presenter who became a convicted sex offender."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Another attempted assassination on Donald Trump?;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jqsl19;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:23:00 GMT",
        "text": "The former President was rushed to safety on Sunday night."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'No other outcome' - who will win Champions League? Pundits' predictions;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c8699yqxzxlo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:08:03 GMT",
        "text": "BBC Sport has asked a number of experts to predict their Champions League winners, a surprise package and which player excites them the most."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Villa legend Shaw dies aged 63 after fall;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/clyl083pxd9o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:45:22 GMT",
        "text": "Former Aston Villa striker Gary Shaw, who won the European Cup with the club, dies aged 63 from injuries sustained in a fall."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Coe among seven candidates to be new IOC president;https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/cx2mmldmjnno;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:16:17 GMT",
        "text": "World Athletics president Lord Coe has been named as one of seven confirmed candidates to succeed Thomas Bach as  International Olympic Committee (IOC) president."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Man City's hearing for 115 charges begins;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c1d7drg10nwo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:30:18 GMT",
        "text": "The hearing into Manchester City's 115 charges for alleged breaches of the Premier League's financial rules begins on Monday."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Murray 'magic' and a 97-yard touchdown - NFL best plays;https://www.bbc.com/sport/videos/c9811pg7z7eo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:01:35 GMT",
        "text": "Ceedee Lamb, Kyler Murray and Sam Darnold star in the best plays of the second week of the new NFL season."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Captaincy commodities won Solheim Cup for US';https://www.bbc.com/sport/golf/articles/ce9jjpd394no;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:13:42 GMT",
        "text": "BBC Sport's golf correspondent Iain Carter looks at the finer details behind the United States' triumph in the 2024 Solheim Cup"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Boulter & Raducanu in GB team for Billie Jean King Cup;https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/articles/c93yywkvw9lo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:33:56 GMT",
        "text": "Katie Boulter and Emma Raducanu are named in the British team for November\u2019s Billie Jean King Cup Finals."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Hilary Benn will not say how much money Casement will get;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5eezq5667o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:50:19 GMT",
        "text": "The government committed to the stadium's redevelopment but it will not be in time for Euro 2028."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;New cold case probe ordered into doorstep murder of Alistair Wilson;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r884dlgpno;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:53:07 GMT",
        "text": "The banker and father-of-two was shot dead at his home in the Highlands nearly 20 years ago."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Brevet des coll\u00e8ges\u00a0: la nouvelle formule n\u2019entrera pas en vigueur pour l\u2019ann\u00e9e scolaire en cours;https://www.lemonde.fr/education/article/2024/09/16/brevet-des-colleges-la-nouvelle-formule-n-entrera-pas-en-vigueur-pour-l-annee-scolaire-en-cours_6320398_1473685.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:56:34 +0200",
        "text": "Les changements \u2013 accro\u00eetre le poids des \u00e9preuves terminales et conditionner l\u2019acc\u00e8s au lyc\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019obtention du brevet \u2013 avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 annonc\u00e9s par Gabriel Attal en d\u00e9cembre 2023. Mais les textes n\u2019ont pas \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9s \u00e0 temps, selon le minit\u00e8re de l\u2019\u00e9ducation nationale."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0GeoGuessr\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: le Fran\u00e7ais Blinky remporte la\u00a0Coupe du monde;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/16/geoguessr-le-francais-blinky-remporte-la-coupe-du-monde_6320331_4408996.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:38:06 +0200",
        "text": "La popularit\u00e9 de \u00ab\u00a0GeoGuessr\u00a0\u00bb, qui utilise Google Street View pour plonger le joueur dans un lieu au\u00a0hasard avec pour mission de deviner o\u00f9 il se trouve, a explos\u00e9 depuis les confinements."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Libye\u00a0: la reconstruction de Derna, \u00ab\u00a0une aubaine pour le clan Haftar\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/16/libye-la-reconstruction-de-derna-une-aubaine-pour-le-clan-haftar_6320330_3212.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:30:03 +0200",
        "text": "Dans la nuit du 10\u00a0au 11\u00a0septembre\u00a02023, la ville avait \u00e9t\u00e9 ravag\u00e9e par des inondations meurtri\u00e8res. Les autorit\u00e9s de l\u2019Est mettent en avant les travaux r\u00e9alis\u00e9s depuis un an, mais se gardent bien d\u2019en d\u00e9tailler le co\u00fbt."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Leur rh\u00e9torique fait qu\u2019on me tire dessus\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: Donald Trump incrimine Joe Biden et Kamala Harris au lendemain de la tentative d\u2019assassinat pr\u00e9sum\u00e9e l\u2019ayant vis\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/16/en-direct-donald-trump-apres-la-tentative-d-assassinat-presumee-joe-biden-estime-que-le-secret-service-charge-de-proteger-le-president-et-ses-predecesseurs-a-besoin-de-davantage-d-aide_6319422_3210.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:39:40 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019homme soup\u00e7onn\u00e9 d\u2019avoir tent\u00e9 d\u2019assassiner Donald Trump a \u00e9t\u00e9 inculp\u00e9 lundi de deux infractions \u00e0 la l\u00e9gislation f\u00e9d\u00e9rale sur les armes \u00e0 feu, au cours d\u2019une br\u00e8ve apparition devant un juge de Floride, rapporte la presse am\u00e9ricaine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Top 14\u00a0: le rugbyman Vinaya Habosi en garde \u00e0 vue pour violences conjugales;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/16/top-14-le-rugbyman-vinaya-habosi-en-garde-a-vue-pour-violences-conjugales_6320296_3242.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:18:21 +0200",
        "text": "D\u2019apr\u00e8s plusieurs m\u00e9dias, l\u2019ailier fidjien du Racing\u00a092 a \u00e9t\u00e9 interpell\u00e9 apr\u00e8s avoir pouss\u00e9 puis frapp\u00e9 sa conjointe, dimanche. Une enqu\u00eate pour violences aggrav\u00e9es a \u00e9t\u00e9 ouverte par le parquet de Nanterre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Autoroute A69\u00a0: des gendarmes sont intervenus dans le dernier bastion d\u2019opposants, premi\u00e8res coupes d\u2019arbres;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/16/autoroute-a69-des-gendarmes-sont-intervenus-dans-le-dernier-bastion-d-opposants-premieres-coupes-d-arbres_6320293_3234.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:02:12 +0200",
        "text": "Vers 9\u00a0h\u00a030, les forces de l\u2019ordre sont entr\u00e9es dans le calme dans l\u2019enceinte de la propri\u00e9t\u00e9 situ\u00e9e \u00e0 Verfeil, \u00e0 environ 25\u00a0kilom\u00e8tres de Toulouse, o\u00f9 plusieurs opposants sont perch\u00e9s sur des cabanes install\u00e9es dans de grands arbres."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Massacre de Thiaroye\u00a0: le S\u00e9n\u00e9gal envisage une nouvelle demande de restitution des archives fran\u00e7aises;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/16/massacre-de-thiaroye-le-senegal-envisage-une-nouvelle-demande-de-restitution-des-archives-francaises_6320292_3212.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:00:16 +0200",
        "text": "Le premier ministre Ousmane Sonko a instaur\u00e9 un comit\u00e9 de comm\u00e9moration charg\u00e9 de faire toute la lumi\u00e8re sur la mort de dizaines de tirailleurs africains ex\u00e9cut\u00e9s par le pouvoir colonial en\u00a01944."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo\u00a0: la peine de mort, nouvelle arme de dissuasion contre \u00ab\u00a0les tra\u00eetres\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/16/en-republique-democratique-du-congo-37-condamnations-a-mort-pour-l-exemple_6320289_3212.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:58:07 +0200",
        "text": "Un tribunal militaire a condamn\u00e9, vendredi 13\u00a0septembre, trente-sept\u00a0pr\u00e9venus, dont trois Am\u00e9ricains, pour la \u00ab\u00a0tentative de coup d\u2019Etat\u00a0\u00bb de mai. Malgr\u00e9 son r\u00e9tablissement\u00a0en mars, la peine capitale n\u2019est pas pratiqu\u00e9e dans le pays."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Sept candidats, dont le Fran\u00e7ais David Lappartient, postulent \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence du CIO;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/16/sept-candidats-dont-le-francais-david-lappartient-postulent-a-la-presidence-du-cio_6320223_3242.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:49:43 +0200",
        "text": "Comme le patron du CNOSF, le Britannique Sebastian Coe fait partie des pr\u00e9tendants pour succ\u00e9der, en mars\u00a02025, \u00e0 Thomas Bach, qui ne briguera pas un troisi\u00e8me mandat."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, Michel Barnier\u00a0: le premier ministre re\u00e7oit de nouveau les responsables de la droite avant d\u2019annoncer son gouvernement cette semaine;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/16/en-direct-michel-barnier-le-premier-ministre-recoit-de-nouveau-les-responsables-de-la-droite-avant-d-annoncer-son-gouvernement-cette-semaine_6314327_823448.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:40:11 +0200",
        "text": "G\u00e9rard Larcher, Laurent Wauquiez et Bruno Retailleau \u00e9taient attendus \u00e0 Matignon, en d\u00e9but d\u2019apr\u00e8s-midi. Concernant le budget, Michel Barnier envisage de retarder la transmission du projet de loi de finances \u00e0 l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e au 9\u00a0octobre, dit son entourage au \u00ab\u00a0Monde\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Keir Starmer, en visite \u00e0 Rome, estime que l\u2019Italie a fait des \u00ab\u00a0progr\u00e8s remarquables\u00a0\u00bb dans la lutte contre l\u2019immigration clandestine;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/16/keir-starmer-en-visite-a-rome-estime-que-l-italie-a-fait-des-progres-remarquables-dans-la-lutte-contre-l-immigration-clandestine_6320157_3210.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:27:43 +0200",
        "text": "La visite du premier ministre britannique en Italie a suscit\u00e9 des critiques jusque dans ses propres rangs, alors que l\u2019immigration ill\u00e9gale a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019origine de violentes \u00e9meutes d\u2019extr\u00eame droite au Royaume-Uni."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le secteur industriel alerte le gouvernement sur le brouillard strat\u00e9gique et politique actuel;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/16/le-secteur-industriel-alerte-le-gouvernement-sur-le-brouillard-strategique-et-politique-actuel_6319632_3234.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:00:06 +0200",
        "text": "Energies renouvelables, hydrog\u00e8ne, industrie lourde\u2026 de nombreuses fili\u00e8res craignent de faire les frais des \u00e9conomies budg\u00e9taires et mettent la pression sur l\u2019Etat pour qu\u2019il tienne ses engagements."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Huw Edwards, ancien pr\u00e9sentateur star de la BBC, condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 six mois de prison avec sursis pour d\u00e9tention d\u2019images p\u00e9dopornographiques;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/16/huw-edwards-ancien-presentateur-star-de-la-bbc-condamne-a-six-mois-de-prison-avec-sursis-pour-detention-d-images-pedopornographiques_6320115_3210.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:33:22 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Votre r\u00e9putation est en lambeaux\u00a0\u00bb, a lanc\u00e9 le juge \u00e0 l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sentateur de 63\u00a0ans, qui avait plaid\u00e9 coupable en juillet, en pronon\u00e7ant sa peine. M.\u00a0Edwards a \u00e9galement obligation de suivre un programme destin\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019emp\u00eacher de r\u00e9cidiver."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en Ukraine\u00a0: la Russie ordonne l\u2019\u00e9vacuation de villages frontaliers de l\u2019Ukraine dans l\u2019oblast de Koursk;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/16/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-la-russie-ordonne-l-evacuation-de-villages-frontaliers-de-l-ukraine-dans-la-region-de-koursk_6318183_3210.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:15:31 +0200",
        "text": "Le gouverneur par int\u00e9rim de l\u2019oblast russe de Koursk, cible d\u2019une offensive ukrainienne depuis d\u00e9but ao\u00fbt, a ordonn\u00e9 lundi l\u2019\u00e9vacuation des habitants de villages situ\u00e9s \u00e0 moins de 15 kilom\u00e8tres de l\u2019Ukraine pour des raisons de \u00ab\u00a0s\u00e9curit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Temp\u00eate Boris\u00a0: au moins quinze morts en\u00a0Autriche, en Pologne, en R\u00e9publique tch\u00e8que et\u00a0en Roumanie \u00e0 la suite de graves inondations;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/16/tempete-boris-au-moins-quinze-morts-en-autriche-en-pologne-en-republique-tcheque-et-en-roumanie-a-la-suite-de-graves-inondations_6320048_3244.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:43:00 +0200",
        "text": "Les intemp\u00e9ries ont provoqu\u00e9 des milliers d\u2019\u00e9vacuations, de vastes coupures d\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 et des ruptures du r\u00e9seau de transport. Le premier ministre polonais, qui a annonc\u00e9 une aide aux r\u00e9gions sinistr\u00e9es, a dit vouloir inciter l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne \u00e0 financer les dommages."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le proc\u00e8s des viols de Mazan suspendu en l\u2019absence de Dominique Pelicot, le principal\u00a0accus\u00e9\u00a0: retrouvez les r\u00e9ponses \u00e0 vos questions;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/live/2024/09/16/proces-des-viols-de-mazan-l-audience-a-nouveau-suspendue-en-l-absence-de-dominique-pelicot-posez-vos-questions-a-notre-journaliste_6320014_3224.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:30:02 +0200",
        "text": "M.\u00a0Pelicot doit \u00eatre examin\u00e9 dans la journ\u00e9e par des m\u00e9decins pour savoir s\u2019il est apte \u00e0\u00a0compara\u00eetre et si le proc\u00e8s va pouvoir se poursuivre dans les prochains jours. Henri Seckel, journaliste au \u00ab\u00a0Monde\u00a0\u00bb charg\u00e9 du suivi de ce proc\u00e8s, a r\u00e9pondu \u00e0\u00a0vos\u00a0questions dans un tchat."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Apr\u00e8s le meurtre de Lilian Dejean, l\u2019agent municipal tu\u00e9 par balles \u00e0 Grenoble, le suspect vis\u00e9 par un mandat d\u2019arr\u00eat europ\u00e9en;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/16/apres-le-meurtre-de-lilian-dejean-l-agent-municipal-tue-par-balles-a-grenoble-le-suspect-vise-par-un-mandat-d-arret-europeen_6319946_3224.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:42:18 +0200",
        "text": "Il s\u2019agissait d\u2019\u00ab\u00a0une garantie\u00a0\u00bb en cas de fuite \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tranger, alors que le meurtrier pr\u00e9sum\u00e9, \u00e2g\u00e9 de 25\u00a0ans, est recherch\u00e9 depuis une semaine, selon le procureur de Grenoble."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Dans les communaut\u00e9s Emma\u00fcs, des compagnons et des b\u00e9n\u00e9voles racontent leur difficult\u00e9 \u00e0 condamner l\u2019abb\u00e9 Pierre;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/16/abbe-pierre-dans-des-communautes-emmaus-la-difficulte-a-condamner-un-homme-qui-a-fait-des-choses-extraordinaires_6319596_3224.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:30:02 +0200",
        "text": "Au Plessis-Tr\u00e9vise (Val-de-Marne) et \u00e0 Wambrechies (Nord), des hommes et des femmes t\u00e9moignent de leur stup\u00e9faction, de leur col\u00e8re et de leurs doutes, apr\u00e8s les r\u00e9v\u00e9lations sur les agressions sexuelles commises par le pr\u00eatre. Le retrait de ses portraits accroch\u00e9s dans les locaux fait notamment d\u00e9bat."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Br\u00e9sil, les incendies touchent d\u00e9sormais le parc national de Brasilia;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/16/au-bresil-les-incendies-touchent-desormais-le-parc-national-de-brasilia_6319912_3244.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:03:27 +0200",
        "text": "Il s\u2019agit du plus grand incendie de l\u2019ann\u00e9e dans la ville, qui a accumul\u00e9 145\u00a0jours sans pluie et des niveaux d\u2019humidit\u00e9 minimaux. Les flammes ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 d\u00e9vast\u00e9 1\u00a0200\u00a0hectares, selon l\u2019Institut Chico Mendes de conservation de la biodiversit\u00e9."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Adrien Rabiot, ancien Parisien et renfort inattendu de l\u2019Olympique de Marseille;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/16/ligue-1-l-ex-parisien-adrien-rabiot-signe-a-l-olympique-de-marseille_6319875_3242.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:05:19 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019OM a annonc\u00e9, dimanche, la signature du milieu de terrain de l\u2019\u00e9quipe de France \u00ab\u00a0sous r\u00e9serve du r\u00e9sultat de la visite m\u00e9dicale\u00a0\u00bb. A 29\u00a0ans, Adrien Rabiot retrouve le championnat de France apr\u00e8s avoir commenc\u00e9 sa carri\u00e8re professionnelle au Paris Saint-Germain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9 propos\u00e9 par Emmanuel Macron pour remplacer Thierry Breton \u00e0 la Commission europ\u00e9enne;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/16/stephane-sejourne-propose-par-emmanuel-macron-pour-remplacer-thierry-breton-apres-sa-demission-de-son-poste-de-commissaire-europeen_6319845_3211.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:59:18 +0200",
        "text": "M. Breton a annonc\u00e9 sa d\u00e9mission lundi en affirmant que la pr\u00e9sidente de la Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, avait \u00ab\u00a0demand\u00e9 \u00e0 la France de retirer (s) on nom\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Festival du \u00ab\u00a0Monde\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: participez au grand quiz \u00ab\u00a0Connaissez-vous votre \u201cMonde\u201d\u00a0?\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/festival/article/2024/09/16/festival-du-monde-participez-au-grand-quiz-connaissez-vous-votre-monde_6319873_4415198.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:00:07 +0200",
        "text": "Vendredi\u00a020 et samedi 21\u00a0septembre \u00e0 20\u00a0h\u00a030, venez vous mesurer \u00e0 des personnalit\u00e9s d\u2019horizons vari\u00e9s autour d\u2019une s\u00e9rie de questions intrigantes, amusantes, \u00e9difiantes, \u00e9mouvantes, portant sur diff\u00e9rents aspects de l\u2019histoire et de la vie du journal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le proc\u00e8s des viols de Mazan suspendu jusqu\u2019au 17\u00a0septembre en l\u2019absence de Dominique Pelicot, le principal accus\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/16/le-proces-des-viols-de-mazan-suspendu-jusqu-au-17-septembre-en-l-absence-de-dominique-pelicot-le-principal-accuse_6319862_3224.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:37:56 +0200",
        "text": "Le retrait\u00e9 de 71\u00a0ans, qui a refus\u00e9 son extraction, \u00e9voquant des probl\u00e8mes de sant\u00e9, doit faire l\u2019objet d\u2019une expertise m\u00e9dicale pour savoir s\u2019il est apte \u00e0 compara\u00eetre, a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 le pr\u00e9sident de la cour.\u00a0Les parties civiles d\u00e9noncent une situation \u00ab\u00a0anormale\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le \u00ab\u00a0Jewish Chronicle\u00a0\u00bb, plus vieux journal juif du monde, reconna\u00eet avoir publi\u00e9 des \u00ab\u00a0fake news\u00a0\u00bb sur la guerre \u00e0 Gaza;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/16/au-royaume-uni-le-plus-vieux-journal-juif-du-monde-reconnait-avoir-publie-de-fausses-informations-sur-la-guerre-a-gaza_6319861_3210.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:32:49 +0200",
        "text": "La direction a \u00e9cart\u00e9 un journaliste de cet hebdomadaire bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres, soup\u00e7onn\u00e9 de distiller des fausses informations qui l\u00e9gitimaient la position du premier ministre isra\u00e9lien face au Hamas."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Les\u00a0Ogres\u00a0\u00bb, le livre-enqu\u00eate du journaliste Victor Castanet sur les d\u00e9rives des cr\u00e8ches priv\u00e9es\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Nous, ce qu\u2019on veut, c\u2019est de la marge\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/16/les-ogres-le-livre-enquete-du-journaliste-victor-castanet-sur-les-derives-des-creches-privees-nous-ce-qu-on-veut-c-est-de-la-marge_6319859_3224.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:30:09 +0200",
        "text": "Le journaliste, auteur des \u00ab\u00a0Fossoyeurs\u00a0\u00bb, sur le business du grand \u00e2ge, s\u2019est plong\u00e9 dans l\u2019univers de la petite enfance avec son livre \u00ab\u00a0Les Ogres\u00a0\u00bb, \u00e0 para\u00eetre le 18\u00a0septembre chez Flammarion. Partant des infractions constat\u00e9es au sein du groupe People &\u00a0Baby, consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme le mouton noir du secteur, il met en lumi\u00e8re les d\u00e9viances d\u2019un syst\u00e8me irrigu\u00e9 par l\u2019argent public."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les propri\u00e9taires de Barcelone s\u2019organisent pour r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 l\u2019interdiction annonc\u00e9e des locations touristiques;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/16/face-a-l-interdiction-annoncee-des-locations-touristiques-a-barcelone-les-proprietaires-organisent-la-riposte_6319854_3234.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:04 +0200",
        "text": "Une association de loueurs de logements menace le gouvernement catalan de multiplier les recours en justice contre une nouvelle loi qui a permis \u00e0 la mairie socialiste de la capitale catalane d\u2019interdire Airbnb et ses \u00e9quivalents d\u2019ici \u00e0 fin\u00a02028."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le Mali, le Burkina Faso et le Niger vont cr\u00e9er un nouveau passeport biom\u00e9trique;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/16/le-mali-le-burkina-faso-et-le-niger-vont-creer-un-nouveau-passeport-biometrique_6319851_3212.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:36:44 +0200",
        "text": "Selon le colonel Assimi Go\u00efta, l\u2019objectif est \u00ab\u00a0d\u2019harmoniser les titres de voyage\u00a0\u00bb au sein de l\u2019Alliance des Etats du Sahel, qui regroupe ces trois pays dirig\u00e9s par des juntes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019ex-eurod\u00e9put\u00e9 LR Arnaud Danjean rejoint le cabinet de Michel Barnier;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/16/l-ex-eurodepute-lr-arnaud-danjean-rejoint-le-cabinet-de-michel-barnier_6319808_823448.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:30:00 +0200",
        "text": "La nomination, comme conseiller sp\u00e9cial, de ce sp\u00e9cialiste des questions militaires accr\u00e9dite l\u2019id\u00e9e que le nouveau premier ministre entend prendre sa part en mati\u00e8re de d\u00e9fense et de politique internationale."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Tito Jackson, fr\u00e8re de Michael Jackson et membre des Jackson\u00a05, est mort;https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/09/16/tito-jackson-frere-de-michael-jackson-et-membre-des-jackson-5-est-mort_6319775_3382.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:16:01 +0200",
        "text": "Les Jackson\u00a05 comprenaient les fr\u00e8res Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon et Michael. Le groupe familial, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 intronis\u00e9 au Rock\u00a0&\u00a0Roll Hall of Fame en\u00a01997, a produit plusieurs tubes dans les ann\u00e9es\u00a01970, dont \u00ab\u00a0ABC\u00a0\u00bb, \u00ab\u00a0I Want You Back\u00a0\u00bb et \u00ab\u00a0I\u2019ll Be There\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Dans le Maine-et-Loire, Expliseat veut d\u00e9carboner le secteur des transports;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/16/dans-le-maine-et-loire-expliseat-veut-decarboner-le-secteur-des-transports_6319741_3234.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:00:07 +0200",
        "text": "La PME fran\u00e7aise fabrique des si\u00e8ges ultral\u00e9gers qui r\u00e9duisent le poids des avions et des trains, donc leur effet sur la consommation de carburant. Elle a ouvert sa premi\u00e8re usine de montage, pr\u00e8s d\u2019Angers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ce que l\u2019on sait sur la tentative d\u2019assassinat pr\u00e9sum\u00e9e contre Donald Trump dans l\u2019un de ses golfs de Floride;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/16/ce-que-l-on-sait-sur-la-tentative-d-assassinat-presumee-contre-donald-trump-dans-l-un-de-ses-golfs-de-floride_6319356_3211.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 07:37:47 +0200",
        "text": "Le candidat r\u00e9publicain \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidentielle de novembre n\u2019a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 bless\u00e9. Le FBI a ouvert une enqu\u00eate sur une \u00ab\u00a0tentative d\u2019assassinat pr\u00e9sum\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb. Un suspect a \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le typhon Bebinca, le \u00ab\u00a0plus fort \u00e0 toucher terre \u00e0 Shangha\u00ef depuis 1949\u00a0\u00bb, provoque annulations de vols et \u00e9vacuations;https://www.lemonde.fr/climat/article/2024/09/16/le-typhon-bebinca-frappe-shanghai-apres-avoir-fait-plusieurs-morts-et-des-milliers-de-deplaces-aux-philippines_6318740_1652613.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 07:25:26 +0200",
        "text": "Le minist\u00e8re charg\u00e9 de la gestion des catastrophes chinois avait pr\u00e9venu samedi, dans un communiqu\u00e9, que le typhon pourrait causer des pluies tr\u00e8s fortes, voire \u00ab\u00a0torrentielles\u00a0\u00bb entre dimanche et mardi."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Derri\u00e8re la nouvelle tentative d\u2019assassinat contre Donald Trump, un suspect de 58\u00a0ans au parcours rocambolesque;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/16/derriere-la-nouvelle-tentative-d-assassinat-contre-donald-trump-un-mythomane-de-58-ans-qui-revait-d-aller-combattre-en-ukraine_6319594_3210.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:26:45 +0200",
        "text": "Le candidat r\u00e9publicain \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidentielle se trouvait sur son golf, pr\u00e8s de sa r\u00e9sidence de Mar-a-Lago, en Floride, quand un individu arm\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 rep\u00e9r\u00e9 par le Secret service. Interpell\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s, cet Am\u00e9ricain avait essay\u00e9 de s\u2019associer sur les r\u00e9seaux sociaux \u00e0 de nombreuses causes internationales, dont l\u2019Ukraine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;D\u00e9but du \u00ab\u00a0proc\u00e8s du si\u00e8cle\u00a0\u00bb contre Manchester City, accus\u00e9 d\u2019avoir enfreint les r\u00e8gles du fair-play financier\u00a0de l\u2019UEFA;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/16/football-le-proces-du-siecle-contre-manchester-city-s-ouvre-en-angleterre_6319671_3242.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:30:09 +0200",
        "text": "Le club mancunien, sacr\u00e9 champion d\u2019Angleterre pour la quatri\u00e8me saison cons\u00e9cutive, doit r\u00e9pondre de 115 chefs d\u2019accusation et pourrait \u00eatre th\u00e9oriquement rel\u00e9gu\u00e9 en deuxi\u00e8me division s\u2019il \u00e9tait reconnu coupable."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Emmy Awards\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Shogun\u00a0\u00bb \u00e9lue meilleure s\u00e9rie dramatique, une premi\u00e8re pour un feuilleton non anglophone\u00a0; \u00ab\u00a0The Bear\u00a0\u00bb, \u00ab\u00a0Hacks\u00a0\u00bb et \u00ab\u00a0Mon petit renne\u00a0\u00bb r\u00e9compens\u00e9s;https://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2024/09/16/les-emmy-awards-ont-debute-la-serie-shogun-en-grande-favorite_6319555_3476.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 02:58:01 +0200",
        "text": "Produite par la cha\u00eene FX et diffus\u00e9e en France sur Disney +, \u00ab\u00a0Shogun\u00a0\u00bb a rafl\u00e9 plus d\u2019une quinzaine de prix, ce qui en fait la s\u00e9rie dramatique la plus r\u00e9compens\u00e9e pour une seule saison."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le djihadiste Peter Cherif jug\u00e9 \u00e0 Paris pour son r\u00f4le dans l\u2019attentat contre \u00ab\u00a0Charlie Hebdo\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/16/attentats-de-janvier-2015-le-djihadiste-peter-cherif-juge-pour-association-de-malfaiteurs-terroriste_6319595_3224.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:30:02 +0200",
        "text": "Cet homme, qui a pass\u00e9 sept ans au Y\u00e9men dans les rangs d\u2019Al-Qaida, compara\u00eet pour \u00ab\u00a0association de malfaiteurs terroriste\u00a0\u00bb. Il devra r\u00e9pondre de son implication dans\u00a0la gestion de trois otages fran\u00e7ais kidnapp\u00e9s en\u00a02011\u00a0et du r\u00f4le qu\u2019il a pu jouer dans le recrutement de son ami d\u2019enfance, Ch\u00e9rif Kouachi."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La nouvelle manufacture Herm\u00e8s en Auvergne, symbole des investissements fran\u00e7ais de la marque;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/16/en-auvergne-la-nouvelle-manufacture-hermes-symbole-des-investissements-francais-de-la-marque_6319597_3234.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:30:02 +0200",
        "text": "Le groupe de luxe s\u2019appr\u00eate \u00e0 ouvrir son 23\u1d49 atelier de maroquinerie en France, employant 280\u00a0personnes dans l\u2019ancienne usine des tabacs de Riom. Pour faire face \u00e0 la demande mondiale de sacs \u00e0 main, plusieurs ouvertures de ce type sont en projet, en Charente, en Gironde et dans les Ardennes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Mexique\u00a0: la loi controvers\u00e9e sur l\u2019\u00e9lection des juges par un \u00ab\u00a0vote populaire\u00a0\u00bb est promulgu\u00e9e;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/16/mexique-la-loi-controversee-sur-l-election-des-juges-par-un-vote-populaire-est-promulguee_6319593_3210.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:21:19 +0200",
        "text": "Le pr\u00e9sident sortant a plaid\u00e9 pour \u00ab\u00a0un v\u00e9ritable \u00e9tat de droit\u00a0\u00bb en signant le d\u00e9cret le jour de la f\u00eate nationale de l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance"
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La France recommande \u00e0 ses ressortissants de reporter tout voyage vers le Venezuela \u00ab\u00a0sauf raison imp\u00e9rative\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/15/la-france-recommande-a-ses-ressortissants-de-reporter-tout-voyage-vers-le-venezuela-sauf-raison-imperative_6319151_3211.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:26:06 +0200",
        "text": "Les relations se tendent entre Caracas et plusieurs pays apr\u00e8s la r\u00e9\u00e9lection de Nicolas Maduro le 28\u00a0juillet, lors d\u2019un scrutin aux r\u00e9sultats vivement contest\u00e9s par l\u2019opposition."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ligue 1\u00a0: le PSG soutient son d\u00e9fenseur Nuno Mendes victime d\u2019injures racistes;https://www.lemonde.fr/football/article/2024/09/15/ligue-1-le-psg-soutient-son-defenseur-nuno-mendes-victime-d-injures-racistes_6319323_1616938.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:12:33 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019international portugais avait provoqu\u00e9 un penalty samedi apr\u00e8s une faute sur le Brestois Ludovic Ajorque, permettant au club breton d\u2019ouvrir le score contre le PSG."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Pr\u00e9sidentielle aux Etats-Unis\u00a0: J. D.\u00a0Vance, le colistier de Donald Trump, persiste sur la rh\u00e9torique antimigrants malgr\u00e9 les tensions;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/15/presidentielle-aux-etats-unis-j-d-vance-le-colistier-de-donald-trump-persiste-sur-la-rhetorique-antimigrants-malgre-les-tensions_6319322_3210.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:04:38 +0200",
        "text": "Interrog\u00e9 sur CBS, M.\u00a0Vance a donn\u00e9 du cr\u00e9dit \u00e0 des rumeurs infond\u00e9es selon lesquelles les immigr\u00e9s ha\u00eftiens de la ville de Springfield (Ohio) y mangeraient les chats, les chiens et autres animaux de compagnie."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Femme, vie, libert\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: deux ans apr\u00e8s la mort de Mahsa Amini en Iran, une manifestation en soutien \u00e0 Paris;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/15/mort-de-mahsa-amini-en-iran-deux-ans-apres-manifestation-a-paris-en-soutien-a-la-societe-civile-iranienne_6319321_3224.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:01:14 +0200",
        "text": "Au total, 700\u00a0personnes, selon la pr\u00e9fecture de police, ont particip\u00e9 \u00e0 cette marche, partie de la place de\u00a0la\u00a0Bastille et qui s\u2019est termin\u00e9e non loin de l\u2019H\u00f4tel de ville."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Honduras\u00a0: un d\u00e9fenseur de l\u2019environnement assassin\u00e9, la pr\u00e9sidente promet la \u00ab\u00a0justice\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/15/honduras-un-defenseur-de-l-environnement-assassine-la-presidente-promet-la-justice_6319288_3210.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 20:52:04 +0200",
        "text": "Juan Lopez \u00e9tait engag\u00e9 dans la pr\u00e9servation d\u2019une r\u00e9serve foresti\u00e8re contre l\u2019exploitation mini\u00e8re."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Faute de financement, la sauvegarde des monuments historiques fran\u00e7ais en p\u00e9ril;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/15/faute-de-financement-la-sauvegarde-des-monuments-historiques-francais-en-peril_6319108_3234.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:54:59 +0200",
        "text": "Concentr\u00e9 sur quelques grands chantiers, l\u2019Etat ne parvient pas \u00e0 faire face au mur d\u2019investissements que repr\u00e9sente l\u2019entretien des sites de milliers de petites communes et de propri\u00e9taires individuels. Les financements priv\u00e9s ont encore du mal \u00e0 prendre le relais."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Emmy Awards 2024\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Shogun\u00a0\u00bb, fresque sur le Japon f\u00e9odal, part grande favorite, avec vingt-cinq nominations;https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/09/15/emmy-awards-2024-shogun-fresque-sur-le-japon-feodal-part-grande-favorite-avec-vingt-cinq-nominations_6319155_3246.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 18:56:02 +0200",
        "text": "La 76\u1d49\u00a0c\u00e9r\u00e9monie des Emmy Awards, pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par Eugene Levy et son fils, Daniel, d\u00e9butera \u00e0 Los Angeles, marquant un retour apr\u00e8s les gr\u00e8ves qui avaient paralys\u00e9 Hollywood l\u2019an dernier."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019\u00e9crivain libanais Elias Khoury est mort;https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/09/15/l-ecrivain-libanais-elias-khoury-est-mort_6319153_3382.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 18:54:16 +0200",
        "text": "Le fervent d\u00e9fenseur de la cause palestinienne, et l\u2019un des plus grands romanciers libanais de\u00a0sa\u00a0g\u00e9n\u00e9ration, s\u2019est \u00e9teint \u00e0 76\u00a0ans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Aux Pays-Bas, l\u2019extr\u00eame droite veut faire passer une \u00ab\u00a0loi d\u2019urgence\u00a0\u00bb sur l\u2019immigration;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/15/aux-pays-bas-l-extreme-droite-veut-faire-passer-une-loi-d-urgence-sur-l-immigration_6319148_3210.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 18:28:39 +0200",
        "text": "Le programme gouvernemental fait la part belle aux demandes du parti de Geert Wilders et constitue un test pour le premier ministre sans \u00e9tiquette."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Vainqueur au sprint, le Belge Tim Merlier s\u2019offre le titre de champion d\u2019Europe de cyclisme sur route;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/15/vainqueur-au-sprint-le-belge-tim-merlier-s-offre-le-titre-de-champion-d-europe-de-cyclisme-sur-route_6319147_3242.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 18:25:26 +0200",
        "text": "Devant son public, le coureur a offert \u00e0 la Belgique son premier succ\u00e8s sur l\u2019\u00e9preuve cr\u00e9\u00e9e en\u00a02016. Samedi, la N\u00e9erlandaise Lorena Wiebes s\u2019\u00e9tait adjug\u00e9 le sacre chez les femmes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Formule 1\u00a0: Oscar Piastri remporte le Grand Prix d\u2019Azerba\u00efdjan, et relance le duel entre McLaren et Red Bull;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/15/formule-1-oscar-piastri-remporte-le-gp-d-azerbaidjan-et-relance-le-duel-entre-mclaren-et-red-bull_6319146_3242.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 18:25:19 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019Australien a sign\u00e9 sa deuxi\u00e8me victoire en carri\u00e8re, la premi\u00e8re sur le circuit de Bakou, dimanche. Max Verstappen, 5e, garde la t\u00eate du classement des pilotes, mais son \u00e9curie, Red Bull, conc\u00e8de celle du classement des constructeurs \u00e0 sa rivale britannique."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le point sur la situation au Proche-Orient\u00a0: l\u2019arm\u00e9e\u00a0annonce que trois otages morts \u00e0 Gaza en\u00a0novembre ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0probablement\u00a0\u00bb tu\u00e9s par\u00a0une\u00a0frappe isra\u00e9lienne;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/15/le-point-sur-la-situation-au-proche-orient-l-armee-annonce-que-trois-otages-morts-a-gaza-en-novembre-ont-ete-probablement-tues-par-une-frappe-israelienne_6319113_3210.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 18:17:01 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019arm\u00e9e a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 que ces trois otages \u2013 Nick Beizer, Ron Sherman et le Franco-Isra\u00e9lien Elya Toledano \u2013, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9s \u00ab\u00a0lors de l\u2019\u00e9limination du commandant de la brigade nord du Hamas, Ahmed Ghandour\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Rideau sur les JO, temp\u00eate en Europe centrale, naufrage meurtrier dans la Manche\u2026 Les cinq infos \u00e0 retenir du week-end;https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2024/09/15/parade-des-athletes-de-paris-2024-tempete-boris-naufrage-meurtrier-dans-la-manche-les-cinq-infos-a-retenir-du-week-end_6319109_4355770.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:55:00 +0200",
        "text": "Vous n\u2019avez pas suivi l\u2019actualit\u00e9 samedi\u00a014 et dimanche 15\u00a0septembre\u00a0? Voici ce qu\u2019il s\u2019est pass\u00e9 pendant ces derni\u00e8res quarante-huit heures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Carnets de Syrie\u00a0(1/7)\u00a0| D\u2019Alep aux banlieues de Damas, voyage dans un pays exsangue;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/15/syrie-voyage-dans-un-pays-exsangue_6318179_3210.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 05:16:03 +0200",
        "text": "Reconstruction au compte-gouttes, d\u00e9litement \u00e9conomique et social, millions de d\u00e9plac\u00e9s... Pour la population des territoires sous contr\u00f4le du r\u00e9gime de Bachar Al-Assad, la vie quotidienne est un calvaire."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Prise dans l\u2019\u00e9croulement des Girondins, la\u00a0section f\u00e9minine de Bordeaux dispara\u00eet du\u00a0monde professionnel;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/15/prise-dans-l-ecroulement-des-girondins-la-section-feminine-de-bordeaux-disparait-du-monde-professionnel_6318941_3242.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:05:12 +0200",
        "text": "Exclues des championnats nationaux, le 5\u00a0septembre, les Bordelaises ont appris une semaine plus tard que le club ne ferait pas appel de la d\u00e9cision, condamnant ainsi sa section f\u00e9minine \u00e0\u00a0la\u00a0R\u00e9gional\u00a01."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Isra\u00ebl vis\u00e9 par un tir de missile revendiqu\u00e9 par\u00a0les\u00a0rebelles houthistes du Y\u00e9men, sans faire de\u00a0victime selon l\u2019arm\u00e9e isra\u00e9lienne;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/15/israel-vise-par-un-tir-de-missile-revendique-par-les-rebelles-houthistes-du-yemen-sans-faire-de-victime-selon-l-armee-israelienne_6318874_3210.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:22:54 +0200",
        "text": "Le premier ministre isra\u00e9lien, Benyamin N\u00e9tanyahou, a pr\u00e9venu dimanche que les houthistes paieront \u00ab\u00a0un\u00a0lourd tribut\u00a0\u00bb apr\u00e8s leur \u00ab\u00a0tentative de nuire\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0\u00a0Isra\u00ebl."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Coalitions politiques\u00a0: enqu\u00eate sur une inaptitude fran\u00e7aise;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/13/coalitions-politiques-un-blocage-francais_6316608_823448.html;Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:00:08 +0200",
        "text": "Chez la plupart de nos voisins europ\u00e9ens, les parlements morcel\u00e9s sont presque une norme, tout comme les n\u00e9gociations entre partis pour constituer un gouvernement. Depuis les l\u00e9gislatives, les acteurs politiques fran\u00e7ais ont d\u00e9montr\u00e9 en la mati\u00e8re une parfaite incapacit\u00e9, qui n\u2019est pas d\u2019ordre institutionnel mais bien culturel."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A Vesoul, une partie de la toiture de la gare s\u2019est effondr\u00e9e apr\u00e8s un incendie, pas de train \u00ab\u00a0au minimum\u00a0\u00bb dimanche et lundi;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/15/a-vesoul-une-partie-de-la-toiture-de-la-gare-s-est-effondree-apres-un-incendie-pas-de-train-au-minimum-dimanche-et-lundi_6318739_3224.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 13:29:39 +0200",
        "text": "Samedi soir, vers 19\u00a0heures, un incendie s\u2019est d\u00e9clar\u00e9 au niveau de la toiture centrale de la gare de Vesoul, sans faire de bless\u00e9s."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Temp\u00eate Boris\u00a0: au moins sept morts en Roumanie, en Pologne et en Autriche, des pluies torrentielles provoquent de graves inondations;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/15/la-tempete-boris-parcourt-l-europe-centrale-quatre-morts-en-roumanie-un-mort-en-pologne_6317428_3245.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:03:53 +0200",
        "text": "Les fortes pr\u00e9cipitations ont entra\u00een\u00e9 des inondations \u00ab\u00a0d\u2019une ampleur extraordinaire\u00a0\u00bb en Roumanie. La Pologne, la R\u00e9publique tch\u00e8que, la Slovaquie, l\u2019Autriche et la Hongrie sont \u00e9galement touch\u00e9es par de fortes pluies et des vents parfois violents."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Nous sommes tous Lilian\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: \u00e0 Grenoble, une\u00a0marche blanche en hommage \u00e0 Lilian Dejean, employ\u00e9 municipal tu\u00e9 par balle;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/15/a-grenoble-une-marche-blanche-en-hommage-a-lilian-dejean-employe-municipal-tue-par-balle_6318673_3224.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:46:55 +0200",
        "text": "Environ un millier de personnes, selon la pr\u00e9fecture, \u00e9taient pr\u00e9sentes, dont le maire (\u00e9cologiste), Eric\u00a0Piolle. Bien connu de la justice, le suspect est toujours recherch\u00e9."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Apr\u00e8s la premi\u00e8re sortie spatiale priv\u00e9e dans l\u2019espace, la mission de SpaceX a amerri au large de la Floride;https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/09/15/apres-la-premiere-sortie-spatiale-privee-dans-l-espace-la-mission-de-spacex-a-amerri-au-large-de-la-floride_6318635_1650684.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:46:00 +0200",
        "text": "Les quatre membres de l\u2019\u00e9quipage avaient d\u00e9coll\u00e9 mardi de Cape Canaveral, en Floride. Deux d\u2019entre eux \u2013 le milliardaire Jared Isaacman et une ing\u00e9nieure de SpaceX, Sarah Gillis \u2013 ont \u00e9t\u00e9 les premiers civils, jeudi, \u00e0 r\u00e9aliser une sortie spatiale."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Susie Morgenstern, \u00e9crivaine\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Mon immense d\u00e9faut, c\u2019est d\u2019avoir impos\u00e9 \u00e0 mes enfants des r\u00eaves qui n\u2019\u00e9taient pas les leurs\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/intimites/article/2024/09/15/susie-morgenstern-ecrivaine-mon-immense-defaut-c-est-d-avoir-impose-a-mes-enfants-des-reves-qui-n-etaient-pas-les-leurs_6318195_6190330.html;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 06:30:09 +0200",
        "text": "A\u00a079\u00a0ans, l\u2019autrice am\u00e9ricaine aux\u00a0150\u00a0livres jeunesse reconna\u00eet avoir v\u00e9cu une maternit\u00e9 \u00e0 la fois \u00e9vidente et stressante. Et se d\u00e9couvre en grand-m\u00e8re apais\u00e9e."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Five killed in accidents in Thiruvananthapuram on Thiruvonam day;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/five-killed-in-accidents-in-thiruvananthapuram-on-thiruvonam-day/article68649261.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:51:39 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CPI(M) conducts bike rally demanding strict punishment for flouting of safety norms in SEZs;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/cpim-conducts-bike-rally-demanding-strict-punishment-for-flouting-of-safety-norms-in-sezs/article68649157.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:51:38 +0530",
        "text": "The party leaders urged the government not to be lenient towards factory managements which fail to implement the safety parameters"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Machinery, inventory worth crores of rupees gutted in major fire in knitwear unit in Tiruppur;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/machinery-inventory-worth-crores-of-rupees-gutted-in-major-fire-in-knitwear-unit-in-tiruppur/article68649271.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:51:29 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;No cracks in DMK-VCK ties: Thirumavalavan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/no-cracks-in-dmk-vck-ties-thirumavalavan/article68648876.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:49:22 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Anticipation in the air for better patronage for B.Ed. distance education programme of Bharathiar University;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/anticipation-in-the-air-for-better-patronage-for-bed-distance-education-programme-of-bharathiar-university/article68649124.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:48:16 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;NAAC to launch social responsibility programmes to help school, college students;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/naac-to-launch-social-responsibility-programmes-to-help-school-college-students/article68648598.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:46:47 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Can\u2019t be oblivious to the suffering that a Muslim is enduring in Myanmar, Gaza, India: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/cant-be-oblivious-to-the-suffering-that-a-muslim-is-enduring-in-myanmar-gaza-india-ayatollah-ali-khamenei/article68649248.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:45:41 +0530",
        "text": "The comment from the supreme leader of Iran came on the occasion of the Islamic Unity Week."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;KCR\u2019s family looted Telangana while Sonia sacrificed for Telangana: Revanth;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/kcrs-family-looted-telangana-while-sonia-sacrificed-for-telangana-revanth/article68649169.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:41:54 +0530",
        "text": "Chief Minister unveiled Rajiv Gandhi\u2019s statue in front of the Secretariat and said Rajiv brought a technological revolution in the country"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Man posing as Army Major running countrywide recruitment racket arrested;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/man-posing-as-army-major-running-countrywide-recruitment-racket-arrested/article68648892.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:40:36 +0530",
        "text": "Satyajit Barath Kamble from Ahmednagar in Maharashtra was running the racket across Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab, Haryana and New Delhi, along with accomplices. The module even established training camps for hundreds of Army job aspirants and procured camping kits, akin to the ones used in the military, from local markets in Delhi and Dehradun. Each candidate was duped of \u20b97-8 lakh"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Four men in Pallipattu, Tiruvallur district nabbed by ED for laundering money from cyber scam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/four-men-in-pallipattu-tiruvallur-district-nabbed-by-ed-for-laundering-money-from-cyber-scam/article68641988.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:30:26 +0530",
        "text": "ED initiated probe on basis of several FIRs by various State police. Chinese scammers were part of their network"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Udupi BJP MLAs, MP threaten to launch dharna in front of CM\u2019s residence;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/udupi-bjp-mlas-mp-threaten-to-launch-dharna-in-front-of-cms-residence/article68648965.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:25:30 +0530",
        "text": "If the government does not respond to the demands even then, a people\u2019s movement will be launched against the government in the district, they say"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Experts stress need for early detection and prevention of cancer;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/webinar-stresses-need-for-early-detection-and-prevention-of-cancer/article68648352.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:24:23 +0530",
        "text": "Titled \u2018Cancer : Prevention and Early Detection\u2019, the webinar was held as part of the The Hindu Wellness Series"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;After peace talks, SCs enter temple in Tiruvallur district;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/after-peace-talks-scs-enter-temple-in-tiruvallur-district/article68648909.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:23:24 +0530",
        "text": "The villagers were denied entry last month after the conduct of kumbhabhishekam by a group of caste Hindus"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;I-T proceedings against lottery baron Martin\u2019s wife | Madras High Court refuses to interfere with transfer from Coimbatore to Kolkata;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/i-t-proceedings-against-lottery-baron-martins-wife-madras-high-court-refuses-to-interfere-with-transfer-from-coimbatore-to-kolkata/article68648642.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:22:59 +0530",
        "text": "Justice Krishnan Ramasamy dismisses writ petitions filed by Daisy Aadhav Arjuna and Suvali Real Properties LLP too"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Supreme Court to examine suggestions to stop \u2018bulldozer justice\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/supreme-court-to-examine-suggestions-to-stop-bulldozer-justice/article68648799.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:20:24 +0530",
        "text": "The court had invited suggestions from the petitioners for framing uniform guidelines against illegal demolitions. Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind has suggested prior notice in advance of a demolition"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tamil Nadu State Rural Livelihood Programme members seek regularisation of service, pay hike;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/tamil-nadu-state-rural-livelihood-programme-members-seek-regularisation-of-service-pay-hike/article68648944.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:18:55 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bengaluru commuters urge for more MEMU trains;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/bengaluru-commuters-urge-for-more-memu-trains/article68648019.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:16:45 +0530",
        "text": "Despite presence of automatic signalling on the Whitefield-Hosur route, SWR has been unable to meet the increasing demand for MEMU services, particularly on the Bengaluru Cantonment-Whitefield stretch"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;No rectification of revenue records after long lapse of time: Telangana HC;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/no-rectification-of-revenue-records-after-long-lapse-of-time-hc/article68649056.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:16:18 +0530",
        "text": "Parties should approach authorities within a reasonable period of time eventhough the statute does not prescribe any time limit, HC Bench noted"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Municipal Administration Minister P. Narayana collects LPS consent agreement documents from Amaravati farmers;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/municipal-administration-minister-p-narayana-collects-lps-consent-agreement-documents-from-amaravati-farmers/article68648822.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:14:20 +0530",
        "text": "After completing the LPS, the government will go for land acquisition if required, he says"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;11 arrested on the charge of negligence leading to policeman\u2019s accidental death;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/11-arrested-on-the-charge-of-negligence-leading-to-policemans-accidental-death/article68648991.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:14:01 +0530",
        "text": "Assistant Sub-Inspector Nabhiraj Dayannavar suffered head injury when a rod from a flyover under construction in Hubballi fell on his head and he died in hospital"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;R.G. Kar Medical College senior doctors allege tampering of evidence;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/rg-kar-medical-college-senior-doctors-allege-tampering-of-evidence-in-medics-rape-murder-case/article68648993.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:10:50 +0530",
        "text": "The doctors in their statement stated that numerous attempts were made to politically exploit their movement but have been successfully defied from their side"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;MMK cadre block Kappalur toll plaza demanding its closure;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/mmk-cadre-block-kappalur-toll-plaza-demanding-its-closure/article68649043.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:08:17 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Autorickshaw driver killed after bus collapses on him near Porur in Chennai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/autorickshaw-driver-killed-after-bus-collapses-on-him-near-porur-in-chennai/article68648531.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:07:50 +0530",
        "text": "The driver lost control of the MTC bus when it was approaching the toll plaza near Porur. Six passengers of the bus were injured in the accident"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;MMK cadre lay siege to toll plaza demanding removal of Nanguneri tollgate;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/mmk-cadre-lay-siege-to-toll-plaza-demanding-removal-of-nanguneri-tollgate/article68648984.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:06:47 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PM Modi launches via video link Hubballi-Pune Vande Bharat Express;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/pm-modi-launches-via-video-link-hubballi-pune-vande-bharat-express/article68649057.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:06:16 +0530",
        "text": "Minister of State for V. Somanna attends event to inaugurate another such express train in Kolhapur"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Prime Minister virtually flags off Visakahaptnam-Durg Vande Bharat express;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/prime-minister-virtually-flags-off-visakahaptnam-durg-vande-bharat-express/article68648695.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:05:59 +0530",
        "text": "Union Civil Aviation Minister K. Rammohan Naidu says bhoomi puja for railway zone headquarters will be performed before Deepavali"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Man suspected in apparent assassination attempt on Trump charged with federal gun crimes;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/man-suspected-in-apparent-assassination-attempt-on-trump-charged-with-federal-gun-crimes/article68649028.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:05:26 +0530",
        "text": "The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Ryan Wesley Routh, was to face a federal magistrate in West Palm Beach. Shackled and wearing a blue jumpsuit, Routh smiled as he spoke with his lawyer and reviewed documents ahead of his initial appearance"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike digitises records of 21 lakh properties;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/bruhat-bengaluru-mahanagara-palike-digitises-records-of-21-lakh-properties/article68647869.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:01:14 +0530",
        "text": "Property owners can download an e-khata without meeting any officials, even as the initiative is also expected to boost property tax revenue"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Police, MVD to check drug abuse among private bus staff in Kozhikode;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/police-mvd-to-check-drug-abuse-among-private-bus-staff-in-kozhikode/article68648631.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:01:08 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;People of all religious communities should live cordially, says Khader;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/people-of-all-religious-communities-should-live-cordially-says-khader/article68647919.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:00:58 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Significant investment needed to increase Kerala\u2019s power generation capability;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/significant-investment-needed-to-increase-keralas-power-generation-capability/article68648803.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:59:39 +0530",
        "text": "Kerala State Electricity Board estimates \u20b942,800 crore investment needed to add 7,750 MW capacity by 2030. In 2023-24, the State\u2019s installed capacity \u2013 KSEB units and other sources combined \u2013 stood at 3,419 MW."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;31st annual session of Tamil Nadu History Congress to be held at Mannar Thirumalai Naicker College;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/31st-annual-session-of-tamil-nadu-history-congress-to-be-held-at-mannar-thirumalai-naicker-college/article68649005.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:57:08 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Garuda Aerospace outlines plans for defence drones in meeting with Defence Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/garuda-aerospace-outlines-plans-for-defence-drones-in-meeting-with-defence-minister/article68648813.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:55:04 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP government in Haryana a failure: P. Chidambaram;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/haryana/bjp-government-in-haryana-a-failure-p-chidambaram/article68648453.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:52:58 +0530",
        "text": "The former Union Minister said Haryana\u2019s economy is a \u201ccomplete shambles\u201d; He said farmers will never get justice from the BJP and \u201cthe best way to punish it is by throwing it out of power\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tension prevails on B.C. Road during Id procession;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/tension-prevails-on-bc-road-during-id-procession/article68648199.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:52:53 +0530",
        "text": "Following a recent statement by VHP\u2019s South Karnataka Joint Secretary Sharan Pumpwell that VHP activists can block the procession of Muslims, a voice message challenging the activists to block the Id procession on B.C. Road went viral on social media"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Refresher training programme held for traffic police;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/refresher-training-programme-held-for-traffic-police/article68645243.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:51:37 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP does U-turn on Gopal Kanda, supports him for Sirsa seat in Haryana Assembly election;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/haryana-assembly/bjp-does-u-turn-on-gopal-kanda-supports-him-for-sirsa-seat-in-haryana-assembly-election/article68648677.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:51:31 +0530",
        "text": "After the BJP candidate from Sirsa withdrew his nomination papers on Monday, INLD leader Abhay Chautala said he would reconsider alliance with Mr. Kanda\u2019s Haryana Lokhit Party."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Excise raid yields black money haul;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/excise-raid-yields-black-money-haul/article68648962.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:50:32 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Gauri Lankesh murder case: Karnataka High Court grants bail to four more accused owing to delay in progress of trial;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/gauri-lankesh-murder-case-karnataka-high-court-grants-bail-to-four-more-accused-owing-to-delay-in-progress-of-trial/article68648210.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:49:21 +0530",
        "text": "Apex court had recently refused to interfere with bail granted to another accused person earlier on ground of delay in trial"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;EPS pensioners\u2019 body urges Centre to follow NPS for calculating pension wealth;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/eps-pensioners-body-urges-centre-to-follow-nps-for-calculating-pension-wealth/article68648777.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:45:11 +0530",
        "text": "It calls for determination of 8% rate of return on accumulated pension, and says the existing rate of return, expressed as a percentage of pension payable, is \u201cvery much lower\u201d than that of banks"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nipah infection in Kerala: Health Department steps up surveillance at checkposts, border villages in Coimbatore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/nipah-infection-in-kerala-health-department-steps-up-surveillance-at-checkposts-border-villages-in-coimbatore/article68648971.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:44:26 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kishan Reddy to unfurl national flag at Culture Ministry\u2019s Hyderabad Liberation Day event at Parade Grounds;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/kishan-reddy-to-unfurl-national-flag-at-culture-ministrys-hyderabad-liberation-day-event-at-parade-grounds/article68648905.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:42:05 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vinayaka idols immersed amid tight security in Hosur;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/vinayaka-idols-immersed-amid-tight-security-in-hosur/article68648848.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:40:58 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tight curbs in Malappuram following Nipah death, 126 on primary contact list of victim;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/tight-curbs-in-malappuram-following-nipah-death-126-on-primary-contact-list-of-victim/article68648926.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:39:43 +0530",
        "text": "Masks made mandatory in Malappuram district. Five wards in Tiruvali and Mampad grama panchayats have been declared containment zones. Schools, colleges, madrasas, anganwadis and cinema halls in these zones will remain closed until the Nipah restrictions are lifted"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Manithaneya Makkal Katchi members stage protest, break glass panes of toll plaza counter at Thuvakudi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/manithaneya-makkal-katchi-members-stage-protest-break-glass-panes-of-toll-plaza-counter-at-thuvakudi/article68648910.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:39:21 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;No evidence yet to back theories about boat collision in Prakasam Barrage: JSP MLA Bollisetty Srinivas;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/just-theories-and-no-evidence-to-authenticate-jsp-mla-bollisetty-srinivas/article68648571.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:37:28 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Cambridge Mayor traces his eventful journey from Kottayam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/cambridge-mayor-traces-his-eventful-journey-from-kottayam/article68648693.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:36:19 +0530",
        "text": "Baiju Thittala, an Arpookara native and the first non-white person to be the Mayor of Cambridge, says he will continue with the fight against far right movements that run strong campaigns targeting immigrants"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Workshop held on interventional pulmonology;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/workshop-held-on-interventional-pulmonology/article68648527.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:35:58 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nutri cereals campaign to push for millets crops launched in Krishnagiri;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/nutri-cereals-campaign-to-push-for-millets-crops-launched-in-krishnagiri/article68648690.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:35:22 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Couple held for misappropriation\u00a0of funds;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/couple-held-for-misappropriation/article68648447.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:31:48 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Manipur Internet ban lifted, partial curfew on;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/manipur/manipur-internet-ban-lifted-partial-curfew-on/article68648702.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:31:14 +0530",
        "text": "Schools and colleges in five Imphal Valley districts to reopen on Tuesday, the Education Department said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tank Bund lined with cranes, to host Ganesh idol immersion in Hyderabad;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/tank-bund-lined-with-cranes-to-host-ganesh-idol-immersion-in-hyderabad/article68648840.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:28:48 +0530",
        "text": "GHMC Commissioner said all arrangements are in place and 15,000 staff from different wings of the GHMC will work in three shifts for smooth immersion"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;JD(U) offers support for \u2018one nation, one election\u2019 proposal;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jdu-offers-support-for-one-nation-one-election-proposal/article68648505.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:28:38 +0530",
        "text": "We believe this will ensure continuity of policies in the country. Frequent elections hamper the pace of development plans and also cause other problems, says party\u2019s national spokesperson Rajiv Ranjan Prasad"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;VMRDA to soon launch coastal erosion mitigation project in Visakhapatnam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/vmrda-to-soon-launch-coastal-erosion-mitigation-project-in-visakhapatnam/article68648678.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:28:24 +0530",
        "text": "DPR of the project which is now under review at State-level, will be sent to NDMA to seek 90% of the project fund under the National Policy for Relief and Rehabilitation, says official"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Eight persons injured in illegal firecracker unit blast in Amalapuram;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/eight-persons-injured-in-illegal-firecracker-unit-blast-in-amalapuram/article68648582.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:25:30 +0530",
        "text": "Condition of one injured person is said to be serious, say officials"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Animal welfare groups urge T.N. government to end practice of keeping elephants in temples;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/animal-welfare-groups-urge-tn-government-to-end-practice-of-keeping-elephants-in-temples/article68648754.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:23:43 +0530",
        "text": "This comes on the heels of the death of Subbulakshmi, a 53-year-old elephant, who suffered fatal injuries when a fire broke out on the roof of the Shri Shanmuganatha Peruman temple at Kundrakudi in Sivaganga district"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Water level in Mullaperiyar dam stands at 131.80 feet;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/water-level-in-mullaperiyar-dam-stands-at-13180-feet/article68648607.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:23:02 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Death of temple elephant in Sivaganga district could have been avoided, say activists;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/death-of-temple-elephant-in-sivaganga-district-could-have-been-avoided-say-activists/article68648712.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:22:14 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Food distribution marks Milad-un-Nabi in Tirupati;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/food-distribution-marks-milad-un-nabi/article68648753.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:20:28 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chandrababu Naidu outlines Andhra Pradesh\u2019s energy goals\nat investors\u2019 conclave in Gujarat;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/chandrababu-naidu-outlines-andhra-pradeshs-energy-goals-at-investors-conclave-in-gujarat/article68648616.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:19:14 +0530",
        "text": "A.P.\u2019s aim is to attract investments amounting to \u20b910 lakh crore by 2029, says the Chief Minister; target is to generate 78 GW of solar energy and 35 GW of wind energy in five years"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;TNAU training in Nursery Technology on September 19;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/tnau-training-in-nursery-technology-on-september-19/article68648568.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:06:28 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India concentrating on building ships in the country, says Secretary of Ports and Shipping;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/india-concentrating-on-building-ships-in-the-country-says-secretary-of-ports-and-shipping/article68648380.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:04:06 +0530",
        "text": "The Secretary lauded the coastal States of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Odhisha, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu for cooperating with the Union Government for creating modern facilities in the maritime industry."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy urges State government to hold election to local bodies;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/union-minister-hd-kumaraswamy-urges-state-government-to-hold-election-to-local-bodies/article68648780.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:02:30 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Police conduct surprise checks at Coimbatore Railway Junction, confiscate 4 kg ganja;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/police-conduct-surprise-checks-at-coimbatore-railway-junction-confiscate-4-kg-ganja/article68648663.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:02:21 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Security tightened as eight arrested after groups clash in Davangere;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/security-tightened-as-eight-arrested-after-groups-clash-in-davangere/article68648814.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:02:06 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Government doctors in Andhra Pradesh plan dharna in Vijayawada on September 17 to protest reduction in in-service quota for PG courses;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/government-doctors-in-andhra-pradesh-plan-dharna-in-vijayawada-on-september-17-to-protest-reduction-in-in-service-quota-for-pg-courses/article68648165.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:01:55 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Statue of M.S. Subbulakshmi reinstalled in Tirupati on her birth anniversary;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/statue-of-ms-subbulakshmi-reinstalled-in-tirupati-on-her-birth-anniversary/article68648623.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:59:56 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Prison inmates assault staff in Shivamogga, case booked against 21;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/prison-inmates-assault-staff-in-shivamogga-case-booked-against-21/article68648533.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:59:36 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Amaravati is completely safe, asserts A.P. Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/amaravati-is-completely-safe-asserts-ap-minister/article68648625.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:58:46 +0530",
        "text": "The capital city remained unaffected despite unprecedented inflows into the Krishna, says Ponguru Narayana"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Ration card mustering to resume on September 18;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/ration-card-mustering-to-resume-on-september-18/article68648700.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:58:27 +0530",
        "text": "Centre issues ultimatum to complete process by October 31. State authorities expect the process to be over by October 15. The exercise is likely to be carried out in three phases, with specific dates assigned to each district to streamline the process."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Women leaders of Congress demand Munirathna\u2019s resignation;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/women-leaders-of-congress-demand-munirathnas-resignation/article68648624.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:57:25 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Maharaja\u2019s college speed up efforts to renew autonomous status;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/maharajas-college-speed-up-efforts-to-renew-autonomous-status/article68648429.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:57:22 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Debt-ridden farmer \u2018ends\u2019 life in Anantapur district;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/debt-ridden-farmer-ends-life-in-anantapur-district/article68648375.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:57:15 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Govt. streamlines process of drafting annual confidential reports of officers;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/govt-streamlines-process-of-drafting-annual-confidential-reports-of-officers/article68648546.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:57:13 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Corporation officials discuss reorganisation of polling stations in Chennai district;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/corporation-officials-discuss-reorganisation-of-polling-stations-in-chennai-district/article68647883.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:56:48 +0530",
        "text": "The revised list is expected to be published on October 29."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;All demands cannot be fulfilled at once, says Siddaramaiah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/all-demands-cannot-be-fulfilled-at-once-says-siddaramaiah/article68648602.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:56:41 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CMFRI unit designated seaweed research centre of excellence;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/cmfri-unit-designated-seaweed-research-centre-of-excellence/article68648305.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:55:43 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chilkur Balaji temple priest participates in blood donation drive on Milad Un Nabi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/chilkur-balaji-temple-priest-participates-in-blood-donation-drive-on-milad-un-nabi/article68648648.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:54:26 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Flood prevention project in Kalamassery gets Cabinet nod;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/flood-prevention-project-in-kalamassery-gets-cabinet-nod/article68648260.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:53:56 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Fishmeal producers welcome action by MPEDA against erring unit;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/fishmeal-producers-welcome-action-by-mpeda-against-erring-unit/article68648200.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:52:36 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Amarambedu: A pit stop;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/amarambedu-a-pit-stop/article68648755.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:51:24 +0530",
        "text": "Amarambedu chatram is found on Sriperumbudur Main Road, 42 kilometres before the temple town of Kancheepuram"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Elaborate security arrangements for Ganesha immersion procession in Shivamogga;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/elaborate-security-arrangements-for-ganesha-immersion-procession-in-shivamogga/article68648658.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:51:18 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tiruchi Railway Junction remains on top in passenger movement and earnings in the division;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/tiruchi-railway-junction-remains-on-top-in-passenger-movement-and-earnings-in-the-division/article68648510.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:50:29 +0530",
        "text": "Proposed to be categorised as an non-suburban grade 2 station based on the number of passengers handled and the revenue generated during the year 2024-25"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Platinum Jubilee celebrations of CSB on September 20;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/platinum-jubilee-celebrations-of-csb-on-september-20/article68648732.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:47:16 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chief Minister to chair Cabinet meeting in Kalaburagi today;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/chief-minister-to-chair-cabinet-meeting-in-kalaburagi-today/article68648594.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:46:49 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;515th\u00a0Kempe Gowda Jayantotsava celebrated;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/515th-kempe-gowda-jayantotsava-celebrated/article68648674.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:44:34 +0530",
        "text": "Balagangadharanatha Swami Seva Ratna awards presented at the Akhila Karnataka Vokkaligara Sangha event in Mysuru"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Man arrested for derogatory post about CM;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/man-arrested-for-derogatory-post-about-cm/article68648584.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:44:28 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;MLA Kotamreddy announces free diagnostic, healthcare services for underprivileged people of Nellore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/mla-kotamreddy-announces-free-diagnostic-healthcare-services-for-underprivileged-people-of-nellore/article68647903.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:44:09 +0530",
        "text": "Under the \u2018Sri Nara Lokesh Aarogya Raksha\u2019 programme, weekly medical camps will be organised every Sunday, starting from September 22, up to a period of one year"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;All set for Aranmula regatta;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/all-set-for-aranmula-regatta/article68648482.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:41:54 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;All 67 PHCs in Tiruppur to be developed and maintained as per quality standards;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/all-67-phcs-in-tiruppur-to-be-developed-and-maintained-as-per-quality-standards/article68648561.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:41:40 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Ernakulam Rural police arrest man accused in 12 cases under KAAPA;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/ernakulam-rural-police-arrest-man-accused-in-12-cases-under-kaapa/article68648168.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:41:25 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hit-and-run accident kills woman in Kollam, triggers public outcry;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/hit-and-run-accident-kills-woman-in-kollam-triggers-public-outcry/article68648574.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:40:25 +0530",
        "text": "Car rams scooter from behind, runs over pillion rider who falls on the road in the impact, and speeds away. Tests reveal that car driver and co-passenger were inebriated. Police later arrest both"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Power shutdown in many areas of Tiruchi on September 18;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/power-shutdown-in-many-areas-of-tiruchi-on-september-18/article68648513.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:39:50 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Stop taking actions that weaken government schools, Jagan tells Andhra Pradesh government;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/stop-taking-actions-that-weaken-government-schools-jagan-tells-andhra-pradesh-government/article68648504.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:39:42 +0530",
        "text": "He alleges that the NDA government is rolling back key educational reforms initiated by YSRCP aimed at providing quality education to the underprivileged"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Government hospitals in Hyderabad to observe \u2018Telangana Praja Palana Dinotsavam\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/government-hospitals-in-hyderabad-to-observe-telangana-praja-palana-dinotsavam/article68648461.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:39:28 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP seeks probe into Anvar\u2019s illegal wiretapping \u2018disclosures\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/bjp-seeks-probe-into-anvars-illegal-wiretapping-disclosures/article68648620.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:37:39 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Minister, Life Sciences industry leaders discuss upgrades to Genome Valley;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/minister-life-sciences-industry-leaders-discuss-upgrades-to-genome-valley/article68648563.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:34:55 +0530",
        "text": "CETP, new network and widening of existing roads, improving sanitation and aesthetics Minister mooted, urging industry to partner in the efforts"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CM installed Rajiv Gandhi statue at Secretariat to please Sonia Gandhi: BRS;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/cm-installed-rajiv-gandhi-statue-at-secretariat-to-please-sonia-gandhi-brs/article68648338.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:28:28 +0530",
        "text": "KTR says they\u2019ll shift Rajiv Gandhi statue to Gandhi Bhavan when voted back to power"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tejashwi Yadav hits back at Modi, says PM is the biggest enemy of Bihar;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/tejashwi-yadav-hits-back-at-modi-says-pm-is-the-biggest-enemy-of-bihar/article68648335.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:26:25 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Yadav said the double engine government did nothing about the prevailing public issues but was busy talking about Hindu, Muslims, Mandir, Masjid, Pakistan, Kashmir and Bangladesh."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Top news of the day: Kejriwal to meet Delhi LG on September 17 to tender resignation; doctors reach Bengal CM\u2019s residence for meeting, and more;https://www.thehindu.com/news/top-news-of-the-day-september-16-2024-arvind-kejriwal-to-meet-delhi-lg-on-september-17-to-tender-resignation-doctors-reach-bengal-cm-residence-for-meeting-and-more/article68648650.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:24:03 +0530",
        "text": "The major news headlines of the day and more."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Miss Hong Kong Ellyn Ngai aims to promote women\u2019s rights, redefine beauty standards;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278774/miss-hong-kong-ellyn-ngai-aims-promote-womens-rights-redefine-beauty-standards?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:53:39 +0800",
        "text": "\u2018Michele Reis of City U\u2019 says she wants to use status to give back to society, urges more support for women in coming policy address."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong watch repairer, 76, set to secure hawker licence after 6-year fight;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278770/about-time-hong-kong-watch-repairer-76-set-secure-hawker-licence-after-6-year-fight?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:46:05 +0800",
        "text": "Shir Wing-shing, a watch repairer for more than three decades, started his battle to get a hawker licence in 2018."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong Mark Six Mid-Autumn Festival snowball lottery draw offers HK$80 million jackpot;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278766/hong-kong-mark-six-mid-autumn-festival-snowball-lottery-draw-offers-hk80-million-jackpot?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:43:11 +0800",
        "text": "Hong Kong Jockey Club reveals numbers 7, 15, 12 and 40 drawn the most in the past 38 rounds."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;What are Hong Kong police\u2019s gun rules and how did officer end up fatally shooting man?;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3278769/what-are-hong-kong-polices-gun-rules-and-how-did-officer-end-fatally-shooting-man?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:18:44 +0800",
        "text": "The Post looks at how guidelines compare with other jurisdictions and recent cases such as officer\u2019s shooting of man on Peng Chau last year."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong consumer watchdog urges firms to offer cooling-off terms amid Physical scandal;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278759/hong-kong-firms-can-initiate-cooling-terms-boost-customer-confidence-consumer-watchdog?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:35:21 +0800",
        "text": "Consumer Council chief says firms need not wait for for time-consuming passage of new laws as the government looks to review legislation."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Three arrested after female teacher allegedly punched repeatedly in Hong Kong school;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3278758/three-arrested-after-female-teacher-allegedly-punched-repeatedly-hong-kong-school?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:32:21 +0800",
        "text": "Attack linked to love triangle between victim and one of the suspects, who is the estranged wife of the teacher\u2019s boyfriend, source says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;CK Asset leads Hong Kong builders in touting new flat sale ahead of expected rate cut;https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3278757/ck-asset-leads-hong-kong-builders-touting-new-flat-sale-ahead-expected-rate-cut?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:30:08 +0800",
        "text": "Li Ka-shing\u2019s flagship developer says it will put 558 units on the south side of Hong Kong Island on sale as soon as next month."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong to link its bond market with Macau to create deeper, bigger hub for debt finance;https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3278739/hong-kong-link-its-bond-market-macau-create-deeper-bigger-hub-debt-finance?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:30:11 +0800",
        "text": "The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) will link its Central Moneymarkets Unit (CMU) to Macau Central Securities Depository and Clearing."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Drone show and sampan rides: what\u2019s new in Hong Kong this Mid-Autumn Festival;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278745/drone-show-and-sampan-rides-whats-new-hong-kong-mid-autumn-festival?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:06:37 +0800",
        "text": "The Post explores this year\u2019s line-up of traditional and modern activities for the annual event, gives hints on when to catch the \u2018supermoon\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong cash-for-residency scheme now expected to bring in HK$15 billion in investments;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278732/hong-kong-cash-residency-scheme-now-expected-bring-hk15-billion-investments?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:17:03 +0800",
        "text": "Agency reveals 47 applicants have already invested HK$30 million each through scheme."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;PwC invests in \u2018high quality\u2019 China business to ensure survival after US$62 million fine;https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3278710/pwc-invests-high-quality-china-business-ensure-survival-after-us62-million-fine?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:07:50 +0800",
        "text": "PwC Zhong Tian was hit with a six-month suspension and a fine of 441 million yuan on Friday over the firm\u2019s audit of failed property developer China Evergrande Group."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong seizes HK$400 million haul of mainland-bound electronics amid Black Myth craze;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3278700/hong-kong-customs-seizes-record-hk400-million-mainland-china-bound-electronics?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:46:06 +0800",
        "text": "Demand for high-performance computer products may be linked to the popularity of Chinese video game Black Myth: Wukong, source says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong court jails 8 for up to 4\u00bd years for rioting during 2019 PolyU siege;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3278688/hong-kong-court-jails-8-45-years-rioting-during-2019-polyu-siege?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:49:48 +0800",
        "text": "Group is the final batch of 213 people arrested near Yau Ma Tei MTR station to learn their fate after being charged."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Insurance plans for mainland-bound drivers only offer minimum coverage: Hong Kong watchdog;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3278687/insurance-plans-mainland-bound-drivers-only-offer-minimum-coverage-hong-kong-watchdog?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:46:25 +0800",
        "text": "Plans offered by 12 Hong Kong insurance companies only cover the minimum limit of identical indemnity at 200,000 yuan but vary by 40 per cent."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong man pleads guilty to sedition for wearing clothes with pro-independence slogans;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3278681/hongkonger-pleads-guilty-wearing-seditious-clothing-first-conviction-under-article-23?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:48:39 +0800",
        "text": "Conviction for wearing T-shirt with words \u2018Free Hong Kong, liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times\u2019 is first under Article 23 law."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Gloomy outlook for Hong Kong\u2019s hotel and catering sectors in Mid-Autumn holiday period;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278676/gloomy-outlook-hong-kongs-hotel-and-catering-sectors-across-mid-autumn-holiday-period?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:25:36 +0800",
        "text": "Miramar hotel chain records lower occupancy rates despite reducing rates by as much as 20 per cent, while catering industry struggles over weekend."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;43% of ceramic bowls, cups found to release toxic metals such as lead: Hong Kong watchdog;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278669/43-ceramic-bowls-cups-found-release-toxic-metals-such-lead-hong-kong-watchdog?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:58:46 +0800",
        "text": "13 of 30 tested ceramic bowls and cups released varying levels of lead and cadmium, but below upper limit of safety standards, Consumer Council finds."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Airlines in Hong Kong should step up service over add-on perks: consumer watchdog;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3278663/airlines-hong-kong-should-better-handle-slips-prepaid-add-services-consumer-watchdog?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:18:00 +0800",
        "text": "Consumer Council says it received 1,057 complaints on air tickets and airline services from January to August, many about prepaid add-on perks."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Typhoon York kills 2 people and injures hundreds in Hong Kong in 1999 \u2013 from SCMP archive;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3278378/typhoon-york-kills-2-people-and-injures-hundreds-hong-kong-1999-scmp-archive?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:45:07 +0800",
        "text": "The \u2018erratic behaviour\u2019 of the strongest typhoon to hit Hong Kong in 16 years catches forecasters by surprise"
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Norman Chui, renowned Hong Kong martial arts star, dies of cancer aged 73;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278647/norman-chui-renowned-hong-kong-martial-arts-star-dies-cancer-aged-73?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:26:21 +0800",
        "text": "Veteran actor famous for \u201cReincarnated\u201d series in 1970s succumbed to oesophageal cancer in Beijing on September 1, long-time friend says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong arts hub could tap private investors to finish building facilities: Bernard Chan;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278589/hong-kong-arts-hub-could-tap-private-investors-finish-building-facilities-bernard-chan?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:14 +0800",
        "text": "West Kowloon Cultural District Authority vice-chairman says naming rights up for grabs, with only about 50 per cent of cultural sites built."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Low birth rate alone can\u2019t explain Hong Kong education system\u2019s woes;https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3278412/low-birth-rate-alone-cant-explain-hong-kong-education-systems-woes?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:30:07 +0800",
        "text": "Schools that stick to the old ways of intense testing and exams are failing Hong Kong students, parents and the city as a whole."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Could robot chefs be answer to staff shortages? Hong Kong team believes it has recipe for success;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278629/could-robot-chefs-be-answer-staff-shortages-hong-kong-team-believes-it-has-recipe-success?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:30:14 +0800",
        "text": "Chemistry professor has set up a company to produce robot chefs and has goal of making 30,000 units and HK$2 billion in revenue."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;As Chinese AI and GPU demand heats up, a Hong Kong data centre turns to liquid cooling;https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3278538/chinese-ai-and-gpu-demand-heats-hong-kong-data-centre-turns-liquid-cooling?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:00:19 +0800",
        "text": "China-backed Global Switch is rolling out new liquid-cooling solutions in Hong Kong as its Tseung Kwan O facility see increased demand from the mainland."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Trump or Harris? China, Hong Kong stocks offer hint at preference for White House occupant;https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3278402/us-election-adds-pall-over-chinese-stocks-harris-and-trump-strike-harsh-tones?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 07:30:16 +0800",
        "text": "No matter who wins, geopolitical tensions will continue to haunt Chinese stocks for another four years, according to Daiwa Securities Group."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police warn cybercrime targeting children; city logs 900 \u2018naked chat\u2019, scam cases;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3278623/hong-kong-police-warn-cybercrime-targeting-children-city-logs-900-naked-chat-scam-cases?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 07:00:11 +0800",
        "text": "Nine-year-old girl videotaped having sex with man after meeting on app in one case, with police stepping up warnings over cybercrimes."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police officer acted professionally to fatally shoot armed man, force says;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3278630/armed-man-dies-after-being-shot-hong-kong-police-following-attack-wife-mother?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:12:36 +0800",
        "text": "\u2018It was a critical situation. The man was holding weapons in both hands as he advanced towards our colleagues,\u2019 superintendent says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong must halt or review scheme to bring in workers, unions say;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278625/hong-kong-must-halt-or-review-scheme-bring-workers-unions-say?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 23:33:03 +0800",
        "text": "Trade unions in transport, retail and aviation sectors say scheme is affecting local workforce."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;\u2018Michele Reis of CityU\u2019: ex-girl group dancer Ellyn Ngai crowned Miss Hong Kong 2024;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278628/university-graduate-ellyn-ngai-23-crowned-miss-hong-kong-2024?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 23:30:31 +0800",
        "text": "Winner is former member of local dance group Morii Girls, which she joined in 2022 under name Stella Ngai."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Some Hong Kong Physical gym members ignore expert warnings, sign up for free services;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278624/some-hong-kong-physical-gym-members-ignore-expert-warnings-sign-free-services?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 23:17:58 +0800",
        "text": "Clients shrug off legal worries over Healthy brand\u2019s consent form, others resigned to losing deals after gym\u2019s closure."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Jobs, housing main worries for Hong Kong\u2019s needy, annual survey on government finds;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278616/jobs-housing-main-worries-hong-kongs-needy-annual-survey-government-finds?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 20:37:33 +0800",
        "text": "Annual rating on the government\u2019s overall performance has declined for a second consecutive year."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s first waste water recycling plant can save HK$48 million a year, government says;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3278612/hong-kongs-first-waste-water-recycling-plant-can-save-hk48-million-year-government-says?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 19:40:49 +0800",
        "text": "Facility provides recycled water for flushing at select sites in North district, with capacity able to expand to 520,000 residents."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Saudi Arabia seeks to attract Hong Kong investments for new year-round tourist spot Aseer;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278605/saudi-arabia-seeks-attract-hong-kong-investments-new-year-round-tourist-spot-aseer?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:58:57 +0800",
        "text": "\u2018We want to bring the expertise, the know-how that Hong Kong\u2019s businessmen have and transfer that knowledge to our region,\u2019 Sultan Alshehri says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong coach driver arrested after mainland Chinese cycling vlogger killed in crash;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278603/cyclist-knocked-down-fatal-tour-bus-accident-hong-kongs-lantau-island?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:49:13 +0800",
        "text": "Pan Haili was hit by coach on Lantau, with clip of her and other cyclists uploaded to her Douyin account earlier in morning."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s HK$50 billion Silver Bonds issue a \u2018win-win investment\u2019, says Paul Chan;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278600/hong-kongs-hk50-billion-silver-bonds-issue-win-win-investment-says-paul-chan?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:31:30 +0800",
        "text": "Financial Secretary Paul Chan says bonds will offer elderly residents a safe and reliable place to park their money."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Over 30 members of Hong Kong\u2019s Physical gym signed deals within 3 days of chain\u2019s closure;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278591/over-30-members-hong-kongs-physical-gym-signed-contracts-3-days-chains-closure?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:32:43 +0800",
        "text": "City\u2019s consumer watchdog says gym played on members\u2019 emotional heartstrings as amount involved in complaints hits HK$133 million."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Malaysia to wait for Hong Kong\u2019s policy direction on Islamic finance before helping: envoy;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278548/malaysia-wait-hong-kongs-policy-direction-islamic-finance-helping-envoy?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:00:16 +0800",
        "text": "Consul General Muzambli Markam also says city can learn to better accommodate Middle Eastern consumer behaviour preferences."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong has outbreak of deadly fish-linked infection. Here\u2019s how you can protect yourself;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3278579/hong-kong-has-outbreak-deadly-fish-linked-infection-heres-how-you-can-protect-yourself?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:08:14 +0800",
        "text": "City\u2019s health chief has urged residents to be careful when handling freshwater fish after 27 people were infected with Group B Streptococcus."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;How Hong Kong researchers aim to turn bugs into drugs to treat autism and dementia;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3278562/how-hong-kong-researchers-aim-turn-bugs-drugs-treat-autism-and-dementia?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:00:18 +0800",
        "text": "Microbiota I-Centre researchers have isolated 200 to 300 types of bacteria with therapeutic potential and hope one day to develop them into medications."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong has what it takes to bounce back. We just need to pull together;https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3278356/hong-kong-has-what-it-takes-bounce-back-we-just-need-pull-together?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 09:30:08 +0800",
        "text": "The city can move beyond its reliance on mass tourism from mainland China and instead get stakeholders to offer new opportunities."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s trade office in Kuala Lumpur to open as early as October, Malaysian envoy says;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278534/hong-kongs-trade-office-kuala-lumpur-open-early-october-malaysian-envoy-says?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 08:30:08 +0800",
        "text": "Consul General Muzambli Markam also says Greater Bay Area\u2019s growing integration is an \u2018attractive pull factor\u2019 for Malaysian investors."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Wikipedia user banned for \u2018alleged trolling, doxxing and intimidation\u2019 of Hong Kong journalists;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278559/wikipedia-bans-user-alleged-trolling-doxxing-and-intimidation-hong-kong-journalists?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 15 Sep 2024 00:32:26 +0800",
        "text": "Police chief Raymond Siu says force has received two reports related to claims that dozens of reporters, their family members and employers have been harassed."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Manpower costs may go up with rise in retirement age in mainland China: Hong Kong firms;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278556/manpower-costs-increase-after-beijing-raises-retirement-age-hong-kong-firms-mainland?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 14 Sep 2024 23:03:32 +0800",
        "text": "But firms also say they can adapt to the gradual age extension and benefit from a more stable workforce."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Man, 40, arrested over alleged sex offence in Hong Kong hospital toilet;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3278546/man-arrested-indecent-behaviour-another-male-patient-hong-kong-hospital-toilet?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 14 Sep 2024 21:07:30 +0800",
        "text": "Kwai Chung Hospital says it is \u2018highly concerned\u2019 about the incident."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police confiscate HK$210 million of Ice, biggest seizure of drug on record;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3278545/hong-kong-police-confiscate-hk210-million-ice-biggest-seizure-drug-record?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 14 Sep 2024 20:49:57 +0800",
        "text": "Officers also arrest Malaysian man, 26, on suspicion of trafficking the substance after finding drug concealed in furniture."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Man, 71, hauled off flight at Hong Kong airport for \u2018verbally abusing\u2019 Singapore Airlines crew;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278542/man-71-hauled-flight-hong-kong-airport-verbally-abusing-singapore-airlines-crew?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 14 Sep 2024 19:52:29 +0800",
        "text": "Singapore Airlines confirms passenger on board flight SQ897 was handed over to authorities at Hong Kong International Airport on Tuesday."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong moon-gazers facing isolated thunderstorms for coming Mid-Autumn Festival;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3278540/hong-kong-moon-gazers-facing-isolated-thunderstorms-coming-mid-autumn-festival?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 14 Sep 2024 18:16:00 +0800",
        "text": "Potential area of low pressure could develop into typhoon and enter the South China Sea next week but movements uncertain."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;\u2018Shameless\u2019: only US politicians will benefit if Hong Kong trade offices are closed, says John Lee;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3278537/shameless-only-us-politicians-will-benefit-if-hong-kong-trade-offices-are-closed-says-john-lee?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:17:29 +0800",
        "text": "Chief Executive John Lee slams Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Certification Act and accuses US lawmakers of \u2018ugly political tactics\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Cheap-tour tactics in focus after Hong Kong guide stripped of licence for berating mainlanders;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278531/tour-guide-struck-threatening-mainlanders-shows-low-cost-trips-are-rife-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 14 Sep 2024 16:23:22 +0800",
        "text": "Some tourism officials say incident is isolated, while others stress it has harmed the sector\u2019s reputation."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s giant panda twins to be taken out of incubators in 2 weeks, Ocean Park says;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278522/hong-kongs-giant-panda-twins-be-taken-out-incubators-2-weeks-ocean-park-says?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:07:39 +0800",
        "text": "\u2018They\u2019re constantly wriggling and playing on their bed, and sometimes they even let out a loud squeal,\u2019 park says."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Worker killed in Oktoberfest rollercoaster test;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-worker-killed-in-oktoberfest-rollercoaster-test/a-70232611?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The Munich fire department said a worker was fatally injured during a test ride of a rollercoaster at the Oktoberfest site."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: Death toll rises as Storm Boris wreaks havoc;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-death-toll-rises-as-storm-boris-wreaks-havoc/live-70224153?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Highest flood warnings have been declared at some 100 places in the Czech Republic, with most regions in the country affected. Austria, Poland and Romania have also been hard-hit. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Elections bring hope to India-controlled Kashmir;https://www.dw.com/en/elections-bring-hope-to-india-controlled-kashmir/a-70231598?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "India is organizing first regional elections in Jammu and Kashmir in a decade. For its residents, the chance to choose their own government seems to have brought a new air of optimism amid the never-ending violence."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ex-BBC host gets suspended sentence for indecent images;https://www.dw.com/en/ex-bbc-host-gets-suspended-sentence-for-indecent-images/a-70229058?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Huw Edwards, ex-host of the broadcaster's flagship news program, had pleaded guilty to receiving indecent images of children. There was an outcry over Edwards continuing to receive salary payments following his arrest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;GIRLZ OFF MUTE;https://www.dw.com/en/girlz-off-mute/a-61561323?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "DW's GirlZ Off Mute provides a platform for young, female reporters across Africa. Equipped with a camera and mic, 13- to 18-year-old girls and young women cover the stories that matter to them and their peers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Who could lead Germany's conservatives back to power?;https://www.dw.com/en/who-could-lead-germany-s-conservatives-back-to-power/a-70212831?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Two men are competing \u2013 or is it three? The conservative allied Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union parties are set to choose their candidate for chancellor for Germany's national election next year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Iran: How tradition and law are used to kill women;https://www.dw.com/en/iran-how-tradition-and-law-are-used-to-kill-women/a-70228293?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran's morality police shook Iran and the world, but femicide for \"honor\" is often overlooked."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg: Black politician takes on German far-right AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-black-politician-takes-on-german-far-right-afd/a-70166368?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "German voters in Brandenburg are heading to the polls just weeks after the far-right AfD party's historic surge in two state elections. Can Cameroonian-born politician Adeline Abimnwi Awemo help turn the tide?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Russia says it has retaken Kursk towns;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-russia-says-it-has-retaken-kursk-towns/live-70228135?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The Kremlin is claiming a successful counter-offensive following a Ukrainian incursion. Meanwhile, both Zelenskyy and the Kremlin have commented on Trump's alleged assassination attempt. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's expanded border controls come into force;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-expanded-border-controls-come-into-force/live-70228054?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Germany has temporarily reintroduced controls on its western and northern borders as part of efforts to combat irregular migration and cross-border crime. Follow DW for the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City vs. Premier League over 115 charges;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-vs-premier-league-over-115-charges/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy's UniCredit raises eyebrows over Commerzbank move;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-s-unicredit-raises-eyebrows-over-commerzbank-move/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "UniCredit stunned markets by buying a 9% stake in Germany's second-largest lender. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, DW explores the next possible moves."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;French EU commissioner quits after clash with von der Leyen;https://www.dw.com/en/french-eu-commissioner-quits-after-clash-with-von-der-leyen/a-70224757?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "France's Thierry Breton says he is leaving his role following a spat with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen. In a letter outlining his decision, Breton cited \"questionable governance.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Road closed in Cologne after reported explosion;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-road-closed-in-cologne-after-reported-explosion/a-70224733?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "An explosion in central Cologne damaged at least one building. Police announced a \"major operation,\" but noted that they did not suspect terrorism."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany begins expanded border controls to control migration;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-begins-expanded-border-controls-to-control-migration/a-70218944?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Citing an overloaded asylum system, Germany on Monday started passport controls on all of its land borders to reduce irregular migration. Such measures are supposed to be the exception within the EU."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Baby giraffe born in Karlsruhe Zoo;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-baby-giraffe-born-in-karlsruhe-zoo/a-70223157?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Giraffe Wahia has given birth for the first time in nine years after a 15-month pregnancy, according to officials in Germany's Karlsruhe Zoo. The baby, like her mother, belongs to an endangered giraffe subspecies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Georgia's elections: Will voters lean to the EU or Russia?;https://www.dw.com/en/georgia-s-elections-will-voters-lean-to-the-eu-or-russia/a-70203786?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Georgians go to the polls on October 26, with the key question being whether voters will prefer a pro-European or pro-Russian government. Observers fear violence, regardless of the outcome."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;France: 8 die in attempted Channel crossing;https://www.dw.com/en/france-8-die-in-attempted-channel-crossing/a-70221145?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Eight people on a boat trying to cross from France to England have died after the vessel got into difficulties. Almost 50 people have died so far this year attempting the perilous journey, French authorities say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Russian missile strike kills 2 in Odesa;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-russian-missile-strike-kills-2-in-odesa/live-70220869?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Two people died in a missile attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa, local officials said. Follow DW for the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Will Turkey's bid to join BRICS speed up EU accession?;https://www.dw.com/en/will-turkey-s-bid-to-join-brics-speed-up-eu-accession/a-70208316?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Is Turkey's recent application for membership in the BRICS group a sign the country is moving away from the EU or a political move to put pressure on the bloc? Experts say it could be both \u2014 or neither."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: Parts of Vienna without power as river rises;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-parts-of-vienna-without-power-as-river-rises/live-70220078?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "A dam overflowed in southern Poland and several districts of Vienna were left without power amid heavy rainfall and flooding across Europe. Meanwhile, several people drowned in Romania. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's Scholz rules out long-range weapons for Ukraine;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-scholz-rules-out-long-range-weapons-for-ukraine/a-70219078?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Olaf Scholz said that Berlin will not provide Kyiv with Taurus cruise missiles even if NATO allies decide differently. He also called for the prosecution of those who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine church leader: All faithful unite when facing evil;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-church-leader-all-faithful-unite-when-facing-evil/a-70215411?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, told DW about the debate over Pope Francis' remarks on the Russian war and how the church has evolved through more than two years of hostilities."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The use and misuse of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/the-use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The White Stripes and other artists have objected to Donald Trump using their songs in his presidential campaign. A look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Serbia plans to bring back compulsory military service;https://www.dw.com/en/serbia-plans-to-bring-back-compulsory-military-service/a-70217637?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says he has approved reinstating compulsory military service. The country abolished compulsory military service 23 years ago."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Hundreds of prisoners freed in major swap;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-hundreds-of-prisoners-freed-in-major-swap/live-70216618?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Ukraine and Russia exchanged 206 prisoners of war on Saturday. Meanwhile, Russia's ex-president Dmytri Medvedev threatened to reduce Kyiv to 'molten-grey mass.' Follow DW for the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe: Heavy rains batter Poland, Czech Republic, Austria;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-heavy-rains-batter-poland-czech-republic-austria/live-70216853?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Experts predict heavy flooding in Central Europe this weekend, with storms affecting Czech Republic, Poland, Austria and Romania. Water levels in Germany's Bavaria also rose but remained moderate. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jens Stoltenberg set to head Munich Security Conference;https://www.dw.com/en/jens-stoltenberg-set-to-head-munich-security-conference/a-70213341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is to become the first non-German to head the renowned MSC. The former Norwegian Prime Minister has been a staunch advocate for increased defense spending by NATO member states."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants 'swift' peace in Ukraine;https://www.dw.com/en/german-chancellor-olaf-scholz-wants-swift-peace-in-ukraine/a-70215563?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said it is time to rekindle diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine. But both foreign and domestic responses to his proposal have been rather muted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dresden rushes to remove collapsed bridge amid flood warning;https://www.dw.com/en/dresden-rushes-to-remove-collapsed-bridge-amid-flood-warning/a-70215802?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The city of Dresden in Germany's eastern Saxony state is racing to remove parts of a partially collapsed bridge ahead of expected flooding. A 100-meter segment of the Carola Bridge fell into the Elbe river on Wednesday."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Venezuela recalls Spanish ambassador in post-election clash;https://www.dw.com/en/venezuela-recalls-spanish-ambassador-in-post-election-clash/a-70215714?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Venezuela's move followed after a Spanish minister called Maduro's government a \"dictatorship.\" Opposition figure Eduardo Gonzalez Urrutia, who fled to Madrid this week, says he won July's election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Slovakian leaders want 'countermeasures' for fictional paper;https://www.dw.com/en/slovakian-leaders-want-countermeasures-for-fictional-paper/a-70214145?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "In Slovakia, a fictional paper explores a future where Russia invades the country after defeating Ukraine. Government leaders have called for \"countermeasures\" and accused the authors of spreading disinformation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU Parliament president: extending border controls only possible with 'balanced, comprehensive approach to migration';https://www.dw.com/en/eu-parliament-president-extending-border-controls-only-possible-with-balanced-comprehensive-approach-to-migration/a-70201112?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "In this interview \u2014 conducted before Germany's decision to re-introduce border checks \u2014 EU Parliament President Roberta Metsola spoke to DW about disinformation, migration and the right-wing surge in the EU election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dutch government eyes emergency laws to curb migration;https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-government-eyes-emergency-laws-to-curb-migration/a-70214206?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The new far-right government in the Netherlands wants to wind back several policies in order to reduce the number of people seeking asylum. EU authorities have questioned the legality of the move."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's political landscape is more fractured than ever;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-political-landscape-is-more-fractured-than-ever/a-70211395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The AfD and BSW, two populist parties in Germany, won almost half of the votes in the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia. The result has fundamentally changed the German party system."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Banksy 'Girl with Balloon' art recovered, robbers charged;https://www.dw.com/en/banksy-girl-with-balloon-art-recovered-robbers-charged/a-70206620?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Worth million of pounds, Banksy's renowned \"Girl with Balloon\" painting will be returned to the gallery it was stolen from."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Suspect detained in plot to kill soldiers;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-suspect-detained-in-plot-to-kill-soldiers/a-70206759?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "A 27-year-old man is accused of planning an attack on soldiers in a northeastern Bavarian town. Authorities said the man intended to use two machetes to kill as many German soldiers as possible during their lunch break."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: 3 Red Cross staff killed by shellfire;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-3-red-cross-staff-killed-by-shellfire/live-70195993?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The Red Cross said three employees were killed by shelling in eastern Ukraine. Meanwhile Russia said it had reclaimed 10 villages as it launched a counteroffensive in the Kursk border region. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Young women and girls more at risk of homelessness;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-young-women-and-girls-more-at-risk-of-homelessness/a-70200312?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Homelessness also affects young people, including an unusually high proportion of women and girls. Life with no home of their own is particularly dangerous for this group, say experts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Olaf Scholz stresses Germany's need for immigrants;https://www.dw.com/en/olaf-scholz-stresses-germany-s-need-for-immigrants/a-70187337?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The German chancellor made the remarks in the Bundestag after high-level talks on migration policy in Berlin broke down. Germany is introducing more systematic border checks on those arriving from the Schengen Area."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Cross-party migration talks break down;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-cross-party-migration-talks-break-down/a-70182751?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "A second round of high-level German talks on migration in Berlin ended without agreement. The conservative opposition said it would not attend further meetings. But the coalition government still unveiled a new proposal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German princess gave US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito $900 in concert tickets;https://www.dw.com/en/german-princess-gave-us-supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito-900-in-concert-tickets/a-70159689?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito disclosed receiving concert tickets worth $900 from German socialite and \"princess\" Gloria von Thurn und Taxis."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Berlin plans new mass accommodation for refugees;https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-plans-new-mass-accommodation-for-refugees/a-70169283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Immigration has become a hot-button issue in Germany. Refugee accommodation centers in Berlin are full to overflowing, but there's a desperate lack of housing. Now, authorities are coming up with bright ideas."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Will German police get to do secret house searches?;https://www.dw.com/en/will-german-police-get-to-do-secret-house-searches/a-70154300?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office wants to secretly break into homes as part of anti-terrorism measures. That is currently prohibited, but the interior minister has far-reaching plans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Students want to strip Adolf Hitler of honorary citizenship;https://www.dw.com/en/students-want-to-strip-adolf-hitler-of-honorary-citizenship/a-70155685?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Thousands of German towns and municipalities once made Adolf Hitler an honorary citizen, and many have still not distanced themselves from the Nazi dictator. But now, students in Bad Honnef are taking action."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;1994: Remembering when World War II Allies left Berlin;https://www.dw.com/en/1994-remembering-when-world-war-ii-allies-left-berlin/a-70156413?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Thirty years ago, the military presence of the US, Great Britain, France and the former Soviet Union came to an end in Germany. Their legacies remain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hedgehogs threatened by robot mowers, German activists warn;https://www.dw.com/en/hedgehogs-threatened-by-robot-mowers-german-activists-warn/a-70160521?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Robot mowers damage biodiversity and harm many creatures, including hedgehogs, according to German conservationists. Some of them are calling for a ban on nighttime mowing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German support for Ukraine under pressure from populists;https://www.dw.com/en/german-support-for-ukraine-under-pressure-from-populists/a-70138863?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The populist BSW and far-right AfD parties, both of which did well in recent state elections in Saxony and Thuringia, are opposed to arms deliveries to Ukraine. This stance is having an impact on federal politics."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Hundreds evacuated due to Harz Mountains fire;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hundreds-evacuated-due-to-harz-mountains-fire/a-70159334?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Multiple aircraft were deployed to help put out a large fire in the Harz Mountains of central Germany, with the blaze expected to continue burning for days."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Alex Morgan: The greatest female footballer of all time?;https://www.dw.com/en/alex-morgan-the-greatest-female-footballer-of-all-time/a-70153127?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Marta may have won six FIFA player awards, but two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan is more of a household name. Teammate Megan Rapinoe achieved on and off the field, yet Morgan had a grace on the pitch few could match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Disgruntled German voters want change;https://www.dw.com/en/disgruntled-german-voters-want-change/a-70150936?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Support for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left government has reached a new low, according to the monthly ARD Deutschlandtrend poll. But who stands to gain?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Drugs, human trafficking top organized crime in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/drugs-human-trafficking-top-organized-crime-in-germany/a-70148060?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Most organized crime investigations in Germany involve drug offenses, racketeering and property crimes. But human smuggling is becoming a lucrative business model."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Munich shooting at Israeli Consulate, police suspect terror;https://www.dw.com/en/munich-shooting-at-israeli-consulate-police-suspect-terror/a-70138738?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Investigators in Munich believe the incident was likely an attempted terrorist attack. Police shot and killed a man who had fired on them with a rifle near the Israeli Consulate and a Nazi-era museum in the city."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's ter Stegen is happy the wait is finally over;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-ter-stegen-is-happy-the-wait-is-finally-over/a-70144838?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "National team goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has spoken of his frustration during years of being stuck behind Manuel Neuer, while at the same time paying tribute to his predecessor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Munich: Nazi past and new Jewish life;https://www.dw.com/en/munich-nazi-past-and-new-jewish-life/a-70142299?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Thursday's shooting in the vicinity of the Israeli Consulate and the Nazi Documentation Center has put a spotlight on the southern German city, once a stronghold of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and his movement."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Taliban pressures Germany for more diplomatic control;https://www.dw.com/en/taliban-pressures-germany-for-more-diplomatic-control/a-70136345?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "At a time when Berlin is calling for increased deportations to Afghanistan, the Taliban is attempting to exert more control over Kabul's diplomatic mission in Germany. Berlin has apparently accepted the move."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australia's Raygun claims 'I knew people wouldn't understand my style';https://www.dw.com/en/australia-s-raygun-claims-i-knew-people-wouldn-t-understand-my-style/a-70135037?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Rachael \"Raygun\" Gunn, the 37-year-old Olympic breaker, says the criticism of her performance came from people's ignorance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Is AfD leader Bj\u00f6rn H\u00f6cke planning to grab power?;https://www.dw.com/en/is-afd-leader-bj\u00f6rn-h\u00f6cke-planning-to-grab-power/a-70133045?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Following the far-right AfD's record result in the eastern German state of Thuringia, the party's political influence is growing. What is its goal?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Women's soccer: US shows up Europe on maternity care;https://www.dw.com/en/women-s-soccer-us-shows-up-europe-on-maternity-care/a-70117081?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "A recent lawsuit involving French club Olympique Lyon highlighted the disparities and room for improvement in women's football regarding pregnancies and maternity care."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Argentina: Court blocks Milei move to privatize football;https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-court-blocks-milei-move-to-privatize-football/a-70122667?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "A court in Buenos Aires has blocked President Javier Milei's plans to open up Argentinian football to private investment. The issue continues to split the country's most popular sport, with some even looking to Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's Leon Draisaitl signs record NHL contract;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-leon-draisaitl-signs-record-nhl-contract/a-70124333?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Germany's Leon Draisaitl has signed an eight-year contract extension worth $112 million (\u20ac101.5 million). This will keep the superstar forward in Edmonton for a further eight years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India's archaic labor laws allow firms to exploit workers;https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-archaic-labor-laws-allow-firms-to-exploit-workers/a-70121341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Major international companies, including big tech firms, are exploiting India's labor laws and skirting overtime payment, say workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Open and the controversy over night sessions;https://www.dw.com/en/us-open-and-the-controversy-over-night-sessions/a-70121878?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "A new rule was meant to clamp down on matches at the US Open dragging on into the early hours of the next day. Still, some matches are finishing after 2:00 a.m. \u2013 to the detriment of players' health."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Germany live up to its chipmaking ambitions?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-germany-live-up-to-its-chipmaking-ambitions/a-70079606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The German government wants to build up its long-term chipmaking capabilities. But are they following through and attracting the companies needed to make the country a center of this all-important technology?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World Cup expansion gives hope to West Asian teams;https://www.dw.com/en/world-cup-expansion-gives-hope-to-west-asian-teams/a-70112089?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been dominating West Asian football, but the continent has four more assured spots at the 2026 World Cup. As third-round qualifying opens, the likes of Kuwait, Oman and Jordan may make it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ugandan Olympian set on fire in domestic assault;https://www.dw.com/en/ugandan-olympian-set-on-fire-in-domestic-assault/a-70118647?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Rebecca Cheptegei, who finished 44th in the Olympic marathon in Paris, suffered severe burns after allegedly being doused with petrol by her partner. Domestic violence against women remains a serious problem in Kenya."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German businesses worried about far-right gains in the east;https://www.dw.com/en/german-businesses-worried-about-far-right-gains-in-the-east/a-70112417?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the states of Saxony and Thuringia has raised concerns among business leaders about the economic future of eastern Germany. Will it hit jobs and investment?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany coach Nagelsmann names Kimmich as new captain;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coach-nagelsmann-names-kimmich-as-new-captain/a-70113016?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The coach of Germany's national team has named a new captain as the team prepare for their first matches since the home Euros. Julian Nagelsmann is facing a bit of a rebuild after the retirements of four key players."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis tickets: UK government to probe 'dynamic pricing';https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-tickets-uk-government-to-probe-dynamic-pricing/a-70109787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Ministers have promised an investigation after fans complained of inflated ticket prices for Oasis' 2025 reunion tour. But industry experts insist that \"dynamic pricing\" is not illegal and based on supply and demand."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis reunion tour tickets cause online frenzy;https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-reunion-tour-tickets-cause-online-frenzy/a-70099805?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Fans of the Manchester band Oasis faced long online queues on Saturday morning as tickets went on sale for the group's in-demand reunion concerts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Half the world lacks access to safe drinking water;https://www.dw.com/en/half-the-world-lacks-access-to-safe-drinking-water/a-70089835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "A new report shows 4.4 billion people across the world have no access to safe drinking water, more than double many previous estimates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Japan's youth break tradition by embracing perfume;https://www.dw.com/en/japan-s-youth-break-tradition-by-embracing-perfume/a-70091052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Once seen as ostentatious, an imposition on others, and unnecessary in a culture that famously enjoys bathing, perfumes and scents are finally trending among young Japanese."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is methane?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. Where does methane come from, and what can we do to stop it from getting into the atmosphere?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The unseen Holocaust movie: Jerry Lewis' lost film 'The Day the Clown Cried';https://www.dw.com/en/the-unseen-holocaust-movie-jerry-lewis-lost-film-the-day-the-clown-cried/a-70043956?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "At the Venice Film Festival, a new documentary will reveal never-before-seen footage from \"The Day the Clown Cried.\" The 1972 Holocaust movie by comedian Jerry Lewis was never released, but has gained near-mythic status."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Champions League: German clubs look forward to attractive opponents;https://www.dw.com/en/champions-league-german-clubs-look-forward-to-attractive-opponents/a-70090811?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "This season's draw for the Champions League wasn't about putting teams into groups but simply determining who would play whom in the new eight-match league phase."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Concerning' rise in unprotected sex among teenagers;https://www.dw.com/en/concerning-rise-in-unprotected-sex-among-teenagers/a-70079734?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "A majority of teenagers in Europe, Central Asia, and Canada do not use condoms. Experts warn of rising risks of STIs and unwanted pregnancies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Glammed up in the kitchen: Influencers drive 'tradwife' nostalgia;https://www.dw.com/en/glammed-up-in-the-kitchen-influencers-drive-tradwife-nostalgia/a-70071650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The \"traditional wife\" trend celebrates orthodox gender roles. But does this thriving movement on TikTok and Instagram also serve the far-right political agenda?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Populists\u2019 rhetoric linked to growing unhappiness, study finds;https://www.dw.com/en/populists-rhetoric-linked-to-growing-unhappiness-study-finds/a-70072409?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Right-wing populism is rising across Europe, with Germany\u2019s AfD possibly becoming the first far-right party to win state elections since the Nazis. However, their rise won\u2019t bring greater happiness to their supporters."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen: Germany's new No. 1;https://www.dw.com/en/marc-andr\u00e9-ter-stegen-germany-s-new-no-1/a-70069040?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "For years, Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen was stuck behind Manuel Neuer in the German national team. Now that Neuer has retired, the job is ter Stegen's for the taking."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Russia airspace ban on Western airlines helps Chinese rivals;https://www.dw.com/en/russia-airspace-ban-on-western-airlines-helps-chinese-rivals/a-70025268?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Russia has banned many European carriers from using its airspace in response to sanctions over Ukraine. That's boosted Chinese airlines' market share, but it's not the only reason Western carriers are struggling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Congo 'working blindly' in attempts to control Mpox outbreak;https://www.dw.com/en/congo-working-blindly-in-attempts-to-control-mpox-outbreak/a-70062357?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Only 40% of Mpox cases in DR Congo are laboratory tested, suggesting true number of cases could be five times higher than reported, according to Africa CDC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;5 reasons why Venice is this year's most important film festival;https://www.dw.com/en/5-reasons-why-venice-is-this-year-s-most-important-film-festival/a-70043247?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The 81st Venice Film Festival is the can't-miss event for movie fans in 2024. It will feature impressive feature debuts and the return of cinema superstars."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ryanair to cut flights to Berlin due to 'sky-high costs';https://www.dw.com/en/ryanair-to-cut-flights-to-berlin-due-to-sky-high-costs/a-70063074?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The Irish budget airline says it plans to slash a fifth of traffic to Berlin-Brandenburg airport because of high access costs."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The 2024 Paralympic Games: What you need to know;https://www.dw.com/en/the-2024-paralympic-games-what-you-need-to-know/a-70006618?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Having hosted the Olympic Games earlier in the summer, Paris is now set to host the Paralympics. DW answers the most important questions about this prestigious sporting event."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Will a right-wing shift hit businesses and jobs?;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-will-a-right-wing-shift-hit-businesses-and-jobs/a-70025620?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "As voters in Saxony go to the polls in state elections, some fear a sharper political turn could hurt business investments in the region and worsen a lack of qualified workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN chief Guterres warns of fast-rising Pacific ocean;https://www.dw.com/en/un-chief-guterres-warns-of-fast-rising-pacific-ocean/a-70055845?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "UN chief Antonio Guterres issued a global SOS regarding Pacific ocean temperatures, rising at three times the global average rate. He called for a cutdown on emissions and support for vulnerable countries."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Paralympics: Transgender sprinter set to draw attention;https://www.dw.com/en/paralympics-transgender-sprinter-set-to-draw-attention/a-70028179?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Abuse, speculation and misinformation raged in the Paris Olympics over gender issues. With the Paralympics set to start, an Italian transgender sprinter could be at the center of a storm. But she\u2019s not the first."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Telegram: How the app defies calls for hate censorship;https://www.dw.com/en/telegram-how-the-app-defies-calls-for-hate-censorship/a-70051335?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "After the arrest of Telegram's boss in France, attention is on the messaging app and its hands-off approach to content moderation. Some blame it for inflaming unrest, others see it as a den for criminal activity."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Eating processed meats raises type 2 diabetes risk;https://www.dw.com/en/eating-processed-meats-raises-type-2-diabetes-risk/a-70051810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Two slices of ham a day are enough to raise type 2 diabetes risk by 15%, according to a new study. Meanwhile high-fat diets could increase the numbers of a toxic molecule known to cause the disease."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is groundwater?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-groundwater/a-68142894?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Groundwater is crucial for agriculture and drinking water supplies. But what exactly is it, how does it form and how can we protect this precious underground resource from threats like pollution and climate change?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany\u2019s investments in China increase despite warnings;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-investments-in-china-increase-despite-warnings/a-69957810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Germany's investments in China are growing despite efforts to reduce reliance on the Asian power. China continues to be a critical trade partner for Europe's largest economy, so how to get the balance right?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australian workers now have the 'right to disconnect';https://www.dw.com/en/australian-workers-now-have-the-right-to-disconnect/a-70045955?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "A law giving workers the legal \"right to disconnect\" from work has come into effect in Australia. This gives workers the right to ignore unreasonable contact from their employers outside of work hours."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;South China Sea tensions pose threat to international trade;https://www.dw.com/en/south-china-sea-tensions-pose-threat-to-international-trade/a-69926497?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Maritime trade faces growing threats, including ongoing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. Now, rising tensions in the South China Sea are adding to global security concerns over this crucial trade route."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Startup funding: What role does female beauty play?;https://www.dw.com/en/startup-funding-what-role-does-female-beauty-play/a-69985095?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Women who are preceived as good-looking find it easier to sell their business ideas and products to potential investors. But this is not the only gender inequality in the world of venture capital, a study says."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof to represent Germany at Oscars;https://www.dw.com/en/dissident-iranian-director-mohammad-rasoulof-to-represent-germany-at-oscars/a-70034644?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "The acclaimed film \"The Seed of the Sacred Fig\" has been chosen as Germany's entry for the 2025 Academy Awards. The filmmaker, who lives in exile in Berlin, fled Iran on foot earlier this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;St. Pauli injects subculture into the Bundesliga;https://www.dw.com/en/st-pauli-injects-subculture-into-the-bundesliga/a-70012361?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Newly promoted to Germany's football Bundesliga, Hamburg's St. Pauli club is set to light up the game with a passionate mix of music, creativity and social justice."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Botswana discovers world's second-largest diamond;https://www.dw.com/en/botswana-discovers-world-s-second-largest-diamond/a-70019901?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Botswana has discovered a 2,492-carat diamond at its Karowe Mine, making it the second-largest diamond ever found. President Mokgweetsi Masisi was quick to view and pose with the vast gemstone."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Healthy eating: Why teens gorge and older people peck;https://www.dw.com/en/healthy-eating-why-teens-gorge-and-older-people-peck/a-70017015?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "While young people can eat everything in sight, older people often lose appetite. It's important to know why to stay healthy at any age."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The most dangerous mosquito-borne diseases;https://www.dw.com/en/the-most-dangerous-mosquito-borne-diseases/a-45117067?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Malaria, dengue fever, zika \u2014 mosquitoes aren't just annoying when they buzz around your ear at night, they can also infect us with countless illnesses. On World Mosquito Day, here are some of the most dangerous ones."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is mpox? How it spreads, can be prevented and treated;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-mpox-how-it-spreads-can-be-prevented-and-treated/a-69951261?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Mpox is a viral infection with rising global cases. The WHO has declared it a global health emergency. Learn more as DW answers your questions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Mpox outbreak: Are vaccine makers prepared?;https://www.dw.com/en/mpox-outbreak-are-vaccine-makers-prepared/a-69992535?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Africa faces a shortage of mpox vaccines as a serious new mpox variant spreads on the continent. High costs and a lack of regulatory approval mean there are no guarantees African nations will ever have enough."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Unorthodox cricket bowling has physicists spinning;https://www.dw.com/en/unorthodox-cricket-bowling-has-physicists-spinning/a-69994305?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Wind tunnel analysis revealed Sri Lankan ex-bowler Lasith Malinga's \"round arm\" technique used curveball physics as in football and baseball."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Stranded Starliner: What space does to an astronaut's body;https://www.dw.com/en/stranded-starliner-what-space-does-to-an-astronaut-s-body/a-69993144?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore had expected to be in space for days, not months. How will their physical and mental health cope?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A cultural history of pearls;https://www.dw.com/en/a-cultural-history-of-pearls/a-69991724?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "With the Abernethy pearl expected to fetch a high sum at auction, we look at the history of pearls. Besides its legends and myths, this gem also has a dark side."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Is Russia's war in Ukraine an environmental war crime?;https://www.dw.com/en/is-russia-s-war-in-ukraine-an-environmental-war-crime/a-69859017?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Ukraine wants to hold Russia accountable for the environmental destruction caused by its ongoing war. A war crime conviction for ecological damage at the International Criminal Court would be unprecedented."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Ukraine\u2019s advance in Russia threatens EU gas supply;https://www.dw.com/en/how-ukraine-s-advance-in-russia-threatens-eu-gas-supply/a-69951393?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-16 09:28:49",
        "text": "Ukraine's military advance into Russia could disrupt gas supplies to the EU. Yet Russian gas won't be flowing through Ukraine for much longer."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ursula von der Leyen announces new European Commission lineup \u2013 Europe live;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/17/european-commission-ursula-von-der-leyen-new-commissioners-europe-latest-news;2024-09-17T08:59:51Z",
        "text": "Glenn Micallef, from Malta, said \u201cit is a true privilege to be entrusted to lead EU policies and initiatives on intergenerational fairness, youth, culture and sport. I look forward to working with the European parliament and all stakeholders.\u201d Jozef S\u00edkela, from the Czech Republic, said \u201cthe International Partnerships portfolio will allow me to focus on strengthening the EU\u2019s economic security, diversifying our suppliers of critical raw materials, and opening new markets for European companies.\u201d \u201cMy goal was to secure a strong economic portfolio for the Czech Republic, and given that International Partnerships holds a significant budget and one of the largest Directorates-General within the European Commission, I am confident that I will be able to ensure its substantial impact within the future European Commission,\u201d he said. Jessika Roswall said: \u201cHonored to get the portfolio for environment, water resilience &amp; a competitive circular economy, key to EU competitiveness and the shift from fossil fuels. Thank you von der Leyen ! Look forward to the intense work ahead.\u201d \u201cTo tackle climate change and enhance our economy, it is essential to bring the two closer together,\u201d Wopke Hoekstra said. Magnus Brunner, from Austria, was nominated for the role of internal affairs and migration. The European parliament president, Roberta Metsola, has said that today\u2019s discussion with Ursula von der Leyen \u201cpaves the way for Parliament to vet candidates as efficiently as possible.\u201d \u201cParliamentary scrutiny will not cut corners,\u201d she said. In a press conference, Ursula von der Leyen said she managed to increase the number of women in the lineup compared to member states\u2019 original proposals, noting that she chose to nominate women for four out of the six executive vice president roles. Valdis Dombrovskis, from Latvia, was nominated to be commissioner for economy and productivity. Dan J\u00f8rgensen, from Denmark, was nominated as the new commissioner for energy and housing. Ireland\u2019s Michael McGrath was named by von der Leyen as the next commissioner for democracy, justice and rule of law. Jessika Roswall, from Sweden, is von der Leyen\u2019s choice for commissioner focused on environment, water resilience and a competitive circular economy. Wopke Hoekstra, from the Netherlands, was named by von der Leyen as the next commissioner for climate, net zero and clean growth. Andrius Kubilius, from Lithuania, is Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s choice to be the new commissioner for defence and space. Here is a slide, published by Ursula von der Leyen, of her commission lineup. Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, has presented the lineup for her new commission. The presentation comes after many EU governments snubbed von der Leyen\u2019s request to propose male and female candidates, and a day after France\u2019s European commissioner, Thierry Breton, dramatically resigned. Breton, a heavyweight in Brussels, cited \u201cquestionable governance\u201d at the EU executive and said in an open letter that the commission president had asked Paris to withdraw his name \u201cfor personal reasons that in no instance you [von der Leyen] have discussed directly with me\u201d. All nominees must appear for hearings before European parliament committees, before the full European parliament votes on whether to approve the entire commission. While some nominees are expected to be received by MEPs without much controversy, others may face tough hearings. Hungary\u2019s nominee, Oliv\u00e9r V\u00e1rhelyi, is not expected to win backing from MEPs. Here are the key roles announced by Ursula von der Leyen for the new European Commission: She has named six executive vice-presidents: Teresa Ribera (Spain): Clean, just and competitive transition Henna Virkkunen (Finland): Tech sovereignty, security and democracy St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9 (France): Prosperity and industrial strategy Kaja Kallas (Estonia): High representative for foreign affairs Roxana M\u00eenzatu (Romania): People, skills and preparedness Raffaele Fitto (Italy): Cohesion and reforms Good morning and welcome back to the Europe blog. Send thoughts and tips to lili.bayer@theguardian.com."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis live: Netanyahu expands Gaza war aims; Blinken heads to Egypt;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/17/middle-east-crisis-live-netanyahu-expands-gaza-war-aims-blinken-heads-to-egypt;2024-09-17T08:47:47Z",
        "text": "Israeli forces have arrested 30 Palestinians, including a child and former prisoners, over the last 24 hours in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoner\u2019s Society and the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission. The total number of Palestinians detained in the occupied West Bank since 7 October 2023 is estimated to have risen to over 10,700. Human rights groups and international organisations have alleged widespread abuse of inmates detained by Israel in raids in the occupied West Bank, which Palestinians want as the core of a future independent state along with Gaza. Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, has reported that four Palestinian people, including a child, were killed by Israeli forces bombing several homes in the al-Bureij camp in central Gaza on Tuesday morning. Sources also told the outlet that a person was killed after Israeli soldiers bombed a bicycle in the Qizan Rashwan area in the southern city of Khan Younis. These claims are yet to have been independently verified by the Guardian. The US has announced fresh sanctions against five individuals and a company associated with the Intellexa Consortium for their role in developing and distributing spyware that allegedly presents \u201ca significant threat\u201d to US national security. The move comes months after the US government sanctioned Intellexa\u2019s founder and other parties for their role in making and distributing commercial spyware used to target US officials, journalists and others. The US Treasury said on Monday it had sanctioned another five individuals associated with Intellexa\u2019s international web of companies allegedly involved in supplying the group\u2019s Predator spyware to foreign governments. They were targeted \u201cfor their role in developing, operating, and distributing commercial spyware technology that presents a significant threat to the national security of the United States,\u201d the Treasury said in a statement. Predator spyware can be used to turn a target\u2019s cellphone into a surveillance device and gain access to data stored and transmitted by the device. Acting Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, Bradley Smith, said: The United States will not tolerate the reckless propagation of disruptive technologies that threatens our national security and undermines the privacy and civil liberties of our citizens. We will continue to hold accountable those that seek to enable the proliferation of exploitative technologies, while also encouraging the responsible development of technologies that align with international standards. Former US president Barack Obama hosted Yair Lapid, the Israeli opposition leader, in Washington on Monday. Lapid, who is also a former prime minister, thanked Obama for his \u201cpublic support and efforts for the return of the Israeli abductees held in Gaza\u201d, adding in a post on X: \u201cI told him that we should all work together to secure a deal that will bring the abductees home.\u201d There are reports that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering replacing his defence minister, Yoav Gallant. Israel\u2019s leading television channels and news websites reported that Netanyahu, under pressure from far-right coalition partners, was contemplating firing Gallant and replacing him with former ally turned rival, Gideon Saar, who is a member of the opposition. Netanyahu has dismissed calls by Gallant and others to accept a withdrawal of Israeli troops from the southern border area of the Gaza Strip as the price of a ceasefire deal with Hamas. Gallant, who Netanyahu tried to fire in 2023, has been openly scornful of the Israeli prime minister\u2019s repeated aim of \u201ctotal victory\u201d in Gaza, which he has dismissed as \u201cnonsense\u201d. \u201cInstead of the prime minister being busy with victory over Hamas, returning the hostages, with the war against Hezbollah and allowing (evacuated) residents of the north to return to their homes, he is busy with despicable political dealings and replacing the defence minister,\u201d Benny Gantz, the centre-right National Unity party leader and Netanyahu\u2019s main political rival, wrote on social media. Hello and welcome to the Guardian\u2019s continuing live coverage of Israel\u2019s war on Gaza. Israel has expanded its stated goals of the war to include enabling residents to return to communities in northern Israel that have been evacuated due to attacks by Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. The decision was approved during an overnight meeting of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s security cabinet, his office said. Tens of thousands of Israelis were evacuated from towns along the northern frontier that have been badly damaged by rocket fire and have yet to return. Separately, on Monday, Israel\u2019s defence minister said \u201cthe possibility for an agreement is running out as Hezbollah continues to \u2018tie itself\u2019 to Hamas, and refuses to end the conflict. Therefore, the only way left to ensure the return of Israel\u2019s northern communities to their homes will be via military action.\u201d It comes as the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, was due to travel to Cairo to discuss a proposal for a ceasefire deal and release of hostages. It will be his 10th trip to the region since the outbreak of the war almost a year ago. The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, meanwhile, has warned of the devastating consequences of further regional escalation in the conflict. In a statement from the US defence department, he \u201creaffirmed the necessity of a ceasefire and hostage deal, and that Israel should give diplomatic negotiations time to succeed, noting the devastating consequences that escalation would have on the people of Israel, Lebanon, and the broader region.\u201d Here is a summary of the day\u2019s other main events: Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar has said the Palestinian militant group had the resources to sustain its fight against Israel, with support from Iran-backed regional allies. In a letter to the group\u2019s Yemeni allies, the Houthis, he said \u201cwe have prepared ourselves to fight a long war of attrition \u2026 our combined efforts with you\u201d and with groups in Lebanon and Iraq \u201cwill break this enemy and inflict defeat on it\u201d. Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes killed 16 people in the Gaza Strip on Monday, including five women and four children. A strike flattened a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least 10 people there, according to officials at the Awda hospital, which received the bodies. Another strike on a home in Gaza City killed six people, according to the civil defence first responders. UN secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has said that \u201cnothing justifies\u201d the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. \u201cWe all condemn the terror attacks made by Hamas, as well as the taking of the hostages, that is an absolute violation of international humanitarian law,\u201d he said, before adding \u201cthe truth is that nothing justifies the collective punishment of the Palestinian people, and that is what we are witnessing in a dramatic way in Gaza\u201d. Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official, told Agence France-Presse that new generations of fighters have been recruited since the 7 October attacks. Polio vaccination coverage in Gaza has reached 90%, the head of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency said on Monday, adding that the next step was to ensure hundreds of thousands of children got a second dose at the end of the month. The campaign, which began on 1 September, aims to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza under 10 years of age against polio. Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to New York on 24 September, the first day of the high-level general debate by world leaders at the annual UN general assembly, his office has said. It said the Israeli prime minister is scheduled to stay until 28 September in the US, which he had visited in July for official talks and a congressional address."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Tuesday briefing: How another apparent attempt on Donald Trump\u2019s life changes the election campaign;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/first-edition-donald-trump-golf-club;2024-09-17T05:50:55Z",
        "text": "Good morning. On Sunday, former US president Donald Trump was rushed to safety after Secret Service agents noticed a gunman hiding just a few hundred metres away from him in the bushes of the Trump international golf course in Florida, close to the former president\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort home. The suspect, identified as 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, fled the scene after agents opened fire on him. He was later apprehended by local authorities and charged with two gun-related crimes. The incident comes just two months after a rally in Pennsylvania where Trump was injured after a gunman tried to assassinate him. The response across the political spectrum to Sunday\u2019s attack was swift and unanimous. President Joe Biden responded promptly, making clear his relief that Trump was unharmed and reiterating that there was \u201cno place for political violence or for any violence ever in our country\u201d. Vice-president Kamala Harris, stressed that she was \u201cdeeply disturbed\u201d by the possible assassination attempt. These apparent attempts on Trump\u2019s life are the first of their kind in the US since Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in 1981. For today\u2019s newsletter, I spoke with Guardian US live news editor Chris Michael about what these incidents say about political violence in the US. That\u2019s right after the headlines. Five big stories Labour | Keir Starmer has suggested he will continue to accept gifts from the Labour peer Lord Alli, as he rejected accusations that he had not followed parliamentary rules relating to gifts of clothes to his wife Employment | Insecure work can often be a trap, rather than a stepping stone to a better life, according to new research that tracked the employment of 10,000 people across four years. UK news | The former BBC presenter Huw Edwards has been given a six-month suspended prison sentence, completing an extraordinary fall from grace after admitting accessing indecent photographs of children as young as seven. Europe | The death toll from torrential rain and flooding in central and eastern Europe has risen to at least 16, with several more people missing, as authorities reported deaths in the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria and warned the worst may yet be to come. Health | Tackling Britain\u2019s growing ill-health crisis holds the key to increasing growth and the government needs to invest \u00a315bn a year on a radical programme of reforms designed to improve wellbeing and national prosperity, a left-of-centre thinktank has said. In depth: \u2018Violence is a longstanding feature of American politics\u2019 The reactions to an apparent second attempt on Trump\u2019s life were inevitably predictable. There was a collective, bipartisan expression of shock and outrage. Many said that political violence has no place in the US, \u201calthough, obviously, political violence is a longstanding feature of American politics, and indeed, you might say a feature, not a bug, of political life,\u201d Chris says. Joe Biden has also committed to providing every resource available to support Trump going forward \u2013 though some have asked why this hadn\u2019t happened after the attempt on his life in July. Trump still sought to blame president Joe Biden and vice-president Kamala Harris for the shooting, telling Fox News that \u201ctheir rhetoric\u201d was causing him to be \u201cshot at\u201d. Although there have been attempts to politicise this incident, from figures like Elon Musk, it has been more difficult for Trump\u2019s allies to do it persuasively this time around. The attack in Pennsylvania spawned the now infamous image of a bloodied Trump pumping his fist in the air and shouting \u201cfight, fight, fight\u201d, creating a lightning in a bottle moment that made it seem as if he had already clinched the election. This time though, says Chris, \u201cthere\u2019s no such image like that, and his opponent is much stronger\u201d, making it infinitely more difficult for the GOP and Trump allies to recreate that fervour. The suspect\u2019s reported lack of a clear political motivation has also made it challenging for Republicans to point the finger in a particular direction \u2013 Routh was a registered Democrat but he also reportedly said on social media that he voted for Trump in 2016 and expressed support for a Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy ticket in the 2024 Republican primaries. *** The Secret Service\u2019s role After the events in July, the first of their kind in 43 years, the agency came under intense scrutiny over security lapses that left Trump exposed. Last week, a report found that a number of substantial communication breakdowns led up to the shooting in Pennsylvania. For there to have been another in under two months has reignited the concerns that not enough is being done to protect the former president. Although Trump does have a security detail, which has increased since the first attempt on his life, as he is not in office, he has a slightly lower level of security than would be afforded to a sitting president. Nonetheless, Ronald Rowe Jr, the US Secret Service acting director, insisted that \u201cthe protective methodologies of the Secret Service were effective\u201d. Some have praised the Secret Service for spotting and apprehending the suspect quickly \u2013 Trump himself thanked them and other law enforcement agencies for an \u201cincredible job\u201d \u2013 but others have raised apprehensions. Agents have said that they were not able to surround the whole golf course that Trump was playing in \u2013 had he been president they would have. \u201cHe may not be the president, but he is a former president and a presidential candidate,\u201d says Chris. And, considering the events of July, he adds that \u201cit\u2019s outrageous that more wasn\u2019t already being done\u201d. *** What this means for the election The complete and utter unpredictability of the last few months in US politics means that there is no way to know what the potential consequences of this apparent assassination attempt could be. Logistically, the shape of the campaigns could change. In July, Trump briefly stopped holding rallies in outdoor spaces, although after extra security measures were put in place those gatherings resumed. There were suggestions that the potential second assassination attempt could curtail further public appearances but the former presidents team has said that Trump will hit the campaign trail this week as previously scheduled despite recent events. Chris also notes the wider impact of the \u201cnormalisation\u201d of political violence \u2013 not just on high profile figures but on everyday people who work in politics. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of concern about the knock-on effect on poll workers for instance in the election who have been increasingly politicised over the last few years\u201d. The threats and abuse became so acute that the US justice department has had to create a dedicated taskforce to deal with violent messages, including death threats, targeting election officials and their families. In political terms, this incident adds to the sense of instability surrounding Trump. \u201cThe voters that he needs to win in swing states that self-identify as moderates are really turned off by this sense that Trump is an agent of chaos. So, even though this could further solidify support among his base, and reconfirm to them that he\u2019s a victim and a martyr, I can\u2019t imagine that undecided voters are going to respond well in the longterm\u201d. What else we\u2019ve been reading Anita Chaudhuri has written a great piece about whether keeping up with storage systems is actually more trouble than it\u2019s worth. Hannah J Davies, deputy editor, newsletters For the Guardian opinion team\u2019s How I quit series, Will Clempner writes on breaking his smartphone addiction \u2013 and how much of ourselves we give over to these little bricks in our hands. Have a read \u2026 once you\u2019ve scrolled through the rest of this email, of course. Charlie Lindlar, newsletters team Sh\u014dgun won big at the Emmys on Sunday, and was hailed as a boon for representation. But, as Stuart Heritage writes, did it shut out other worthy winners? Hannah Kate Lloyd reflects on how Laguna Beach \u2013 which introduced us to Lauren Conrad, Kristin Cavallari and a cavalcade of hangers-on \u2013 might be the true patient zero of TV\u2019s \u201cstructured reality\u201d revolution. Charlie Finally got around to reading this powerful dialogue between Orna Guralnik, the Israeli-born counsellor from the television series Couples Therapy, and Christine, her former client, who is Palestinian. Hannah Sport Olympics | Sebastian Coe is officially in the running for the biggest job in global sport after being confirmed as one of seven candidates fighting to be the next International Olympic Committee president. Golf | The Solheim Cup had not even finished before recriminations around the defeated European team began, but Suzann Pettersen, the captain, appears unmoved by any criticism of her leadership. Football | Virgil van Dijk says Liverpool are back where they need to be as he prepares to lead the club upon their return to Champions League duty in Milan on Tuesday. The front pages The Guardian leads on \u201cSuspect charged after apparent assassination attempt on Trump\u201d. The Times has \u201cWorking at home boosts productivity, says Labour\u201d, while the Telegraph says \u201cStarmer defiant over peer\u2019s freebies\u201d. The Financial Times reports \u201cBrussels lines up \u20ac40bn loans package for Ukraine despite faltering G7 effort\u201d. The i reports \u201cHuw Edwards avoids jail over images of child abuse\u201d. The Sun follows the same story with \u201cSickening\u201d, while the Mirror has \u201cAppalling\u201d. The Mail says \u201cDisgraced, reviled \u2026 but not a day in jail\u201d. Today in Focus The devastating secrets of Huw Edwards The newsreader has been sentenced for accessing indecent images of children. How did the BBC handle the scandal? Dan Boffey reports. Cartoon of the day | Nicola Jennings The Upside A bit of good news to remind you that the world\u2019s not all bad A 33-year-old from Lancaster has gone viral after filming himself battling to pack groceries faster than notoriously speedy Aldi staff. Wowed by the \u201cathleticism\u201d of staff in his local store, Leroy Lupton began filming videos for friends, before taking to TikTok. His Street Fighter-esque clips have since racked up over 2m views. In his latest clip, Lupton struggles as a trolley-load of items \u2013 including a Pot Noodle and a four pack of Stella Artois \u2013 are hurled towards him. Lupton says his ultimate aim is to defeat a particularly fast \u201cfinal boss\u201d cashier later in the year. Sign up here for a weekly roundup of The Upside, sent to you every Sunday Bored at work? And finally, the Guardian\u2019s puzzles are here to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until tomorrow. Quick crossword Cryptic crossword Wordiply"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Unease as Russia-friendly \u2018queen of the elections\u2019 aims for more German poll success;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/sahra-wagenknecht-germany-elections-bsw-afd;2024-09-17T04:00:31Z",
        "text": "Sahra Wagenknecht is not even on the ballot in the upcoming state election in Brandenburg. But her face is plastered on billboards across the sprawling, largely rural northern state that surrounds Berlin. There she hopes her fledgling Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) will repeat the successes it enjoyed in polls in Thuringia and Saxony earlier this month, where it came third with vote shares in the double figures, performing so well that it is now a kingmaker for any possible coalition in either state. The centre-right is grappling with how it can keep the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) party out of the governments in those two states, where the AfD took more than 30% of the vote in each, coming top in Thuringia. With the latest polls showing the AfD ahead in Brandenburg, the same scenario could be repeated on Sunday. So it is that Wagenknecht, a former communist who once stood on the periphery as a protest politician, has been thrust into the limelight as a core player advocating a distinctive brand of \u201cleft conservatism\u201d. And while some see her eponymous alliance as a potential bulwark against the AfD, others point to its anti-migration rhetoric and Russia-friendly foreign policy as reasons to be wary. Acknowledging the power she holds, Franz Josef Wagner, the long-serving columnist of the tabloid Bild, recently referred to her as a \u201cqueen of the elections\u201d who could become \u201cQueen of Darkness\u201d or \u201cQueen of Light\u201d, depending on which direction she takes. \u201cI\u2019m pinning my hopes on her,\u201d said Regine Hirsch, 80, a retired chemical laboratory technician, who had left a weekly game of cards with some girlfriends in order to come and hear Wagenknecht speak at the BSW\u2019s first election rally in the riverside city of Brandenburg an der Havel. \u201cWhether everything she says is to be believed, I cannot say,\u201d she said, rubbing her hands against the chill of an autumn breeze. \u201cBut I\u2019ve always quite liked her, and anything to keep the Nazis out will be my motto when I go to vote on 22 September,\u201d she added, in reference to the AfD. In a passionate 35-minute address to a crowd of about a thousand people gathered on Brandenburg an der Havel\u2019s market square, Wagenknecht made brief reference to the BSW\u2019s success \u201cfrom an almost standing start\u201d in Thuringia and Saxony, where governments without it are now almost impossible. Brandenburg voters could ensure a similar result, she said, \u201cand in so doing, send a signal to the unspeakable government in Berlin\u201d, which, she mocked, lived in its own detached capital-city \u201cbubble of organic food shops, lattes and cargo bikes\u201d. Laughter and applause rippled across the square. Then Wagenknecht launched into one of her big campaign themes: Ukraine and the defence policy of the chancellor, Olaf Scholz. Speaking to the crowd, Wagenknecht derided the government\u2019s decision to cut off supplies of Russian gas, blaming the move for Germany\u2019s cost of living crisis. If she were given the chance, she added, she would push for a diplomatic solution to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. She suggested Vladimir Putin was no more of a warmonger than the United States. To many, such claims are deeply disturbing, redolent of reactionary anti-western, anti-Nato propaganda. For the historian Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, the BSW and the AfD are \u201csiblings in spirit\u201d \u2013 both populist parties that reject western values. Calling the former \u201cPutinists\u201d and the latter \u201cfascists\u201d, the author said a vote for either was an expression of the ancient proverb \u201cthe enemy of my enemy is my friend\u201d. \u201cNot since reunification in 1990 is democracy and freedom in such danger as it is now,\u201d he told the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung. In Brandenburg an der Havel, however, the message was going down well with Cornelia Pelzer, a self-employed businesswoman from a nearby town who had travelled to hear Wagenknecht speak. \u201cI\u2019m 150% behind her insistence on pushing for peace,\u201d she said. \u201cShe reflects the consciousness of many other Germans on this score, which is why she\u2019s so successful. She\u2019s a complete counterpoint to our war-mongering government,\u201d she added, in reference to the continued military support the government has given to Ukraine. Pelzer said she had long been a Wagenknecht fan and had chosen to follow her when she broke away last year from the leftist Die Linke party \u2013 \u201cwho were mired in trench warfare\u201d \u2013 with a band of her supporters to form the BSW. Manfred K\u00f6hler, 67, who spent 45 years as a shift worker at the local steelworks, admitted he was unconvinced by Wagenknecht and was more likely to vote for the AfD. \u201cBut I live in hope that her lot, despite what they say, and the AfD will band together,\u201d he said, sitting on the edge of a flower bed and drawing on a cigarette after the rally. Wagenknecht has, like the established parties, ruled out a coalition between her party and the anti-migration, anti-Islam AfD, although she has been less insistent about refusing any cooperation whatsoever, suggesting the two could work together where their party programmes align. She has been eager to show empathy towards AfD supporters in the hope of luring them to her BSW, saying many chose to vote for the party \u201cnot because they\u2019re far-right but because they are furious\u201d. Obvious overlapping goals include limiting migration, increasing the deportations of rejected asylum seekers and tightening controls at Germany\u2019s borders (a step already taken by the government on Monday). Wagenknecht has said Berlin needs to send the message to the world that \u201cGermany is overwhelmed, Germany doesn\u2019t have any more room, Germany is no longer prepared to be destination number one\u201d. K\u00f6hler said that, as a Brandenburg voter, overwrought public services, a lack of integration and security were among his main concerns. \u201cMy granddaughter is in the second year of school and over half the class is not able to speak German,\u201d he said. \u201cAll I know is that this situation can\u2019t continue, and that the established parties have to be ousted.\u201d But did he trust parties that had never before held positions of political responsibility? \u201cIf they\u2019re no good, they\u2019ll be out after five years,\u201d he said. \u201cBut you have to give them a chance. They can\u2019t do any worse than the current lot. And you can\u2019t label me a Nazi for suggesting it. That\u2019s a cheap shot \u2013 that was 85 years ago.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Who will Japan\u2019s next PM be? A policy wonk, ultra-conservative or surfer making the climate fight \u2018sexy\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/japan-next-prime-minister-ldp-party-leadership-presidential-poll;2024-09-17T00:34:28Z",
        "text": "With just 10 days to go before Japan\u2019s governing party elects a new leader \u2013 who will automatically become prime minister \u2013 the contest is still too close to call. Among the frontrunners are Shigeru Ishiba, a model aircraft enthusiast and security policy wonk about to embark on his \u201cfinal battle\u201d, and Shinjiro Koizumi, the youthful, photogenic son of a former prime minister who once insisted the fight against climate change could be \u201csexy\u201d and \u201cfun\u201d. The race has been complicated by a new poll in which ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) supporters named Sanae Takaichi, the ultra-conservative economic security minister, as their preferred choice. The current prime minister, Fumio Kishida, blew open the race to lead the LDP \u2013 a conservative political powerhouse that has governed almost unchallenged for seven decades \u2013 with his surprise decision not to run in the leadership race on 27 September. Citing the need for new blood after damaging political and financial scandals, and stubbornly low personal approval ratings, Kishida warned that his successor must lead a \u201cnew LDP\u201d. Under Japan\u2019s parliamentary system, the party\u2019s new president, who will be chosen from a record nine candidates, will automatically become prime minister when he \u2013 or she \u2013 is approved by the LDP-dominated Diet. On Monday, a poll by the Kyodo news agency showed that 63-year-old Takaichi \u2013 who played drums in a rock band as a teenager \u2013 was viewed by 27.7% of LDP supporters as most suitable to be Japan\u2019s next prime minister, although doubts remain over her ability to garner votes among her lawmaker colleagues. The poll, in which Ishiba received 23.7% support and Koizumi 19.1%, indicates that the leadership vote will have to go to a decisive second round. Koizumi has struggled to convert his popularity with voters into a credible bid to become leader of the world\u2019s fourth-biggest economy. Recent polls suggest this attempt, too, could end in failure at the hands of Ishiba, 67, who is attempting to become LDP head at the fifth \u2013 and, he says, final \u2013 time of asking. An earlier poll by Nikkei financial newspaper and broadcaster TV Tokyo put support for Ishiba at 26%, followed by the 43-year-old Koizumi at 20%, with Takaichi, at 16%. Each of the LDP\u2019s 367 lawmakers will cast a vote in the first round, while an equal number of votes will be distributed based on the preferences of just over 1 million grassroots members who must cast their votes by 26 September. In the unlikely event that one candidate secures a simple majority in the first round, he or she will become party leader. But in the absence of a runaway favourite, the two candidates with the most votes will compete in a second round, with each LDP lawmaker getting one vote and membership\u2019s share dropping to 47 votes, one for each of Japan\u2019s prefectures. The old guard v the new Despite his lack of success in four previous leadership races, Ishiba is seen as a safe pair of hands able to steer the LDP out of stormy waters, although some analysts believe only victory for Koizumi would prove to voters that the LDP is serious about addressing the fallout from a damaging fundraising scandal. Koizumi, a keen surfer who graduated with a Master\u2019s degree in political science from Columbia University, can offer \u201ca nebulous promise of generational change and modernisation of the ruling LDP,\u201d said James Brady, vice-president of the political risk advisory firm Teneo. While Ishiba could outperform his rival among rank-and-file members, \u201cKoizumi is likely to receive significantly more support from parliamentary colleagues, giving him a real chance of coming top in the first round\u201d, Brady added. What the softly spoken Ishiba, a member of Japan\u2019s tiny Christian population, lacks in charisma, he makes up for in experience. A strong backer of Taiwanese democracy, he has served as defence minister and supports the creation of an Asian \u201cNato\u201d to counter security threats from China and North Korea. In some ways, though, Koizumi\u2019s candidacy is a continuation of the status quo. As one of a glut of \u201chereditary politicians\u201d in Japan\u2019s parliament, much of his public profile rests on the legacy of his father, the silver-haired, Elvis-impersonating Junichiro Koizumi, Japan\u2019s prime minister from 2001-6. The younger Koizumi rose steadily through the LDP ranks, serving as environment minister a decade after he inherited his father\u2019s constituency in Kanagawa prefecture in 2009 \u2013 the fourth-generation member of a political dynasty whose involvement in Japanese public life stretches back more than a century. Koizumi immediately made waves, telling a UN summit in that in \u201ctackling a big-scale issue like climate change, it\u2019s got to be fun, it\u2019s got to be cool, and it\u2019s got to be sexy, too\u201d \u2013 a choice of words some described as frivolous. After his marriage to the TV presenter Christel Takigawa, he became the first Japanese cabinet minister to take paternity leave \u2013 albeit a measly two weeks \u2013 after the birth of their first child in 2020. Koizumi has displayed similarly \u201cmodern\u201d instincts elsewhere. He supports legislation to permit married couples to use separate surnames and to allow women to become reigning empresses, a move also backed by Ishiba. While his immediate future will be decided by party colleagues and members, Koizumi, who would become Japan\u2019s youngest prime minister since the war, has said he will immediately seek a popular mandate by calling a snap election. \u201cAfter the money scandal, we won\u2019t get anywhere with our policies unless we face the people\u2019s judgment first,\u201d he said. Agencies contributed reporting."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Shropshire zoo seeks runaway \u2018beloved\u2019 capybara;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/shropshire-zoo-seeks-runaway-beloved-capybara;2024-09-16T21:03:52Z",
        "text": "A zoo has issued a plea on social media for help in finding a capybara named Cinnamon which escaped from its habitat in Shropshire. Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World posted to its Facebook page on Monday announcing its \u201cbeloved capybara\u201d was at large. The small, family-run zoo, located on the outskirts of Telford, said the last sighting of Cinnamon was on Saturday evening. It has urged the public to report any further sightings and advised that the rodent should not be approached. \u201cOn Friday \u2026 our beloved capybara, Cinnamon, escaped from her habitat and entered the woodlands within the zoo grounds,\u201d the statement read. \u201cOn Saturday evening she managed to get beyond the zoo\u2019s perimeter fence and was spotted on a nearby road. \u201cUnfortunately, we haven\u2019t had any further sighting of Cinnamon since Saturday evening, despite having teams working around the clock to locate her. \u201cIt is likely that Cinnamon is in the vicinity of the zoo, The Humbers and surrounding fields where there is ample food and plenty of ponds.\u201d The zoo said it had reported the escape to the local council, adding that anyone who sees the animal \u201cshould call the zoo immediately on 01952 677 917 or 07908 726240 if between the hours of 5pm and 9am\u201d. It added that \u201cunder no circumstances should a member of the public try to capture the animal by themselves\u201d, explaining that, while capybaras are generally friendly animals, she could become unpredictable if alarmed or cornered. \u201cCinnamon has a fantastic bond with her keepers and it is likely that she can be encouraged back to her habitat with no physical intervention. \u201cPlease wish us all the very best for the safe and swift return of Cinnamon. We appreciate all of your support in finding her.\u201d Capybaras are the world\u2019s largest rodents and belong to the same family as the guinea pig."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;French rape trial to resume after Dominique P\u00e9licot health issues;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/french-trial-adjourned-after-dominique-pelicot-health-issue-reports;2024-09-16T18:30:28Z",
        "text": "The trial of Dominique P\u00e9licot and 50 other men accused of rape will resume on Tuesday after he was deemed well enough to attend court. The hearing was adjourned last week after the 71-year-old retired electrician, who has admitted drugging his wife, Gis\u00e8le, and inviting up to 90 men to rape her while she was unconscious and he filmed the attacks, was reportedly diagnosed with a urine infection and prostate problems and taken to hospital for tests. P\u00e9licot was examined on Monday by two court-appointed medical experts. Later in the day his lawyer, B\u00e9atrice Zavarro, said her team had been told their client would \u201cbe present at the trial\u201d on Tuesday. \u201cHe will be present with special adaptations, namely time sequences with breaks, so that the hearings are not too long. The hearings will therefore be split up,\u201d she told journalists. \u201cThe diagnosis established by the experts is indeed the one we had made. The treatment now seems appropriate to his situation.\u201d The president of the bench, Roger Arata, had warned he might have to postpone the trial, scheduled to last four months, to an unspecified future date if the principal accused was too unwell to attend. Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot, 72, has become an emblematic figure for rape and sexual abuse victims across France, where hundreds of protesters turned out at the weekend to show their support for her, many carrying posters showing her image and the words \u201cShame changes sides\u201d \u2013 implying that instead of female victims being made to feel ashamed, the male accused should be. She has been hailed for her courage in insisting the trial be held in public and not behind closed doors as defence lawyers had requested. In a statement outside the court on Monday morning, Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot said she wanted to thank all those \u201cwho have shown me their support from the beginning of this ordeal and particularly those who took the time to gather on Saturday across France. \u201cI was deeply touched by this movement \u2026 thanks to you all I have the strength to fight this to the end. I dedicate this fight to all people, women and men, who are victims of sexual violence across the world. To all those victims I say today look around you, you are not alone.\u201d Her lawyer, St\u00e9phane Babonneau, said: \u201cShe does feel very comforted by the support she has received this weekend. She is a simple and genuine woman and was surprised that so many people wanted to show their support. Her message to every victim of sexual abuse is that they should know that they are not alone and should not be alone.\u201d P\u00e9licot had no idea that for more than a decade her husband had recruited men on an online chatroom to rape her while she was in a coma-like state until after he was arrested in 2020 for filming up the skirts of customers in a local supermarket. The other men accused of rape were aged between 26 and 73 when they were arrested and include a local councillor, a journalist, a former police officer, a prison guard, a soldier, a firefighter and a civil servant. Many were the couple\u2019s neighbours in the small town of Mazan, near Avignon in southern France. Several of the accused have denied the charges, telling police they had no idea Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot was not a willing partner, and accused her husband of tricking them. Detectives were unable to identify and trace more than 30 other men who were recorded. Before Monday\u2019s medical report that P\u00e9licot was fit to return to court, defence lawyers had accused the prison authorities of failing to act as soon as he complained of being unwell 10 days ago. He was reportedly taken to hospital on Sunday evening, where he was diagnosed with a kidney stone, a urine infection and a \u201cprostate problem\u201d. He was returned to his cell after tests. \u201cThis could all have been avoided if he\u2019d been treated from Monday [last week]. Why did they wait eight days?\u201d Zavarro asked outside the court in Avignon. Babonneau said that if the hearing had to be postponed because of the prison authorities\u2019 failure to treat Dominique P\u00e9licot, it would be \u201ca legal catastrophe, a scandal\u201d. \u201cOf course she [Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot] is worried. She finds herself in a very difficult situation, as we all are. The trial is really at a very early stage; it has hardly even started. There is the presentation of the videos and the interrogation of the principal accused to come.\u201d Before the decision of the court to adjourn the hearing for a further 24 hours on Monday, Babonneau said he was shocked to find his client having to queue up to clear security at the courthouse with those accused of raping her. \u201cI arrived to see her in the queue literally sandwiched in between them. It was unbelievable that she should be there. I pulled her out and said we would skip the line,\u201d he said. \u201cShe has had to find the strength in herself to cope \u2026 I can tell you that she is even more of an incredible woman than she appears.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;More than 200 inmates escape Nigerian prison in aftermath of flooding;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/more-than-200-inmates-escape-nigerian-prison-in-aftermath-of-flooding;2024-09-16T17:33:39Z",
        "text": "More than 200 inmates escaped from a prison in north-east Nigeria in the aftermath of the worst flooding there in over two decades, authorities have announced. There have been 37 deaths in Borno state after parts of its capital, Maiduguri, were overrun by water on 9 September following the collapse of a dam, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). As many as 200,000 others have been displaced. Residents of the city said some areas were still flooded on Monday when the president, Bola Tinubu, visited. In a statement on Sunday, Abubakar Umar, a spokesperson for the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), said officials discovered that 281 inmates had escaped while being transferred to \u201ca safe and secure facility\u201d after their prison was flooded. Seven prisoners were recaptured while 274 others remain at large. \u201cThe flood brought down the walls of the correctional facilities, including the medium-security custodial centre Maiduguri as well as the staff quarters in the city,\u201d Abubakar said. The NCS has begun a search for the missing prisoners in collaboration with other security agencies, he added. According to local reports, reptiles, lions and other wildlife from the city\u2019s Sanda Kyarimi Park zoo were washed into residential neighbourhoods by last week\u2019s intense floods. People displaced by the torrential rains are living in temporary shelters set up in six camps across the city. Maiduguri, the birthplace of a 15-year insurgency by the jihadist group Boko Haram, was once home to camps in some of the same locations for internally displaced persons (IDPs) but state authorities, keen to get people back to the rural areas, began closing them in the last three years. Relief materials have come from the federal government and the United Arab Emirates. As many as 31.8 million Nigerians are already at risk of acute food insecurity, according to the UN\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Aid workers say things could get worse in the coming weeks, especially in northern Nigeria which is at the centre of the extreme weather crisis. There are also fears of potential cholera outbreak in the crowded camps. \u201cThe area is now on high alert for outbreaks of diseases including cholera, malaria, and typhoid as well as animal and zoonotic diseases,\u201d the FAO said in a statement. In April, the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency launched the 2024 Annual Flood Outlook, warning of floods across most of Nigeria\u2019s 36 states. But the rains surpassed the annual average as the impact of climate change ramp up around the globe. So far, 29 states have been affected. FAO representatives say 1.3m hectares (3.2m acres) of land nationwide was submerged as of 10 September. About half of that was cropland. \u201cThe severity of this flood [in Maiduguri] has far exceeded our estimates,\u201d said Kashim Shettima, the vice-president and former governor of the state, during his assessment visit. The floods in Nigeria come as people in neighbouring Cameroon\u2019s Far North region are reeling from a flood on 28 August that led to 3,700 houses collapsing after water retention dykes broke. The Benue River, which runs through Cameroon and Nigeria, hosts the Lagdo dam in the nearby North region of Cameroon which, when opened, is a yearly source of flooding in Nigeria. Aid workers at the FAO say states such as Adamawa, next door to Borno, are \u201cat imminent risk\u201d due to an expected discharge from the dam. Shettima said the government was \u201ccommitted to finding lasting solutions to this recurring issue\u201d. But aid workers say more needs to be done as available infrastructure is being overwhelmed by the situation. Suwaiba Dankabo, the deputy director of Action Aid Nigeria, told a press conference in Abuja on Friday: \u201cRoad and transport networks have been destroyed, making it even harder to deliver much-needed aid.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Death toll reaches 16 as \u2018dramatic\u2019 flooding in central Europe continues;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/dramatic-flooding-in-central-europe-continues;2024-09-16T17:24:44Z",
        "text": "The death toll from torrential rain and flooding in central and eastern Europe has risen to at least 16, with several more people missing, as authorities reported deaths in the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria and warned the worst may be to come. The number of victims in Poland rose to five after a surgeon returning from work drowned in the south-western town of Nysa, where the hospital was evacuated and patients rescued by raft. Four more people had died in the southern towns of Bielsko-Bia\u0142a and L\u0105dek-Zdr\u00f3j, firefighters said. In Austria, local media reported that two men aged 70 and 80 drowned after being trapped by rising flood water in their homes in the towns of B\u00f6heimkirchen and Sierndorf, both in the hard-hit north-eastern state of Lower Austria. The Czech police chief, Martin Vondr\u00e1\u0161ek, told local radio a woman had drowned in a stream that overflowed its banks near Brunt\u00e1l, a town of about 15,000 people in the north-east of the country, while seven more people were still unaccounted for. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes across a swathe of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia as Storm Boris unleashed the worst flooding recorded in the region for more than two decades. It was described by one Romanian mayor as a \u201ccatastrophe of epic proportions\u201d. The flood water burst dams, inundated streets, knocked out electricity and in some places submerged whole neighbourhoods. \u201cI have lived here for 16 years and I have never seen such flooding,\u201d one Austrian woman, Judith Dickson, told public radio. Seven people died in Romania over the weekend, as well as one in Poland and a firefighter in Austria. The rain was expected to ease in many areas on Monday but, with some rivers unlikely to reach peak water levels for days, several major cities were preparing for potentially disastrous flooding. Extreme rainfall is becoming more common and more intense because of human-caused climate breakdown across most of the world, particularly in Europe, most of Asia, central and eastern North America, and parts of South America, Africa and Australia. Poland\u2019s prime minister, Donald Tusk, declared a state of emergency in the flooded areas and announced an emergency aid fund of 1bn zlotys (\u00a3200m), while his counterpart in Hungary, Viktor Orb\u00e1n, cancelled all his international engagements. Tusk said he was in touch with the leaders of other affected countries and that they would ask the EU for financial help. \u201cFrom today, anyone affected by the flood \u2013 flooding, collapsed buildings, flooded garages, lost cars, losses linked to the flood \u2013 will be able to easily [claim funds],\u201d he said. More than 2,600 people were evacuated across Poland in the last 24 hours, according to the defence minister, W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz. Standing in the town square of L\u0105dek-Zdr\u00f3j in south-western Poland, Szymon Krzysztan, 16, described the destruction as \u201cunimaginable \u2026 It\u2019s a city like in an apocalypse\u2026 It\u2019s a ghost town.\u201d Jerzy Adamczyk, 70, said the scene resembled \u201cArmageddon\u201d. He added: \u201cIt literally ripped out everything because we don\u2019t have a single bridge. In Ladek, all bridges have disappeared. We are practically cut off from the world.\u201d The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, described images from the flooded areas in Austria, the Czech Republic, Romania and Poland as \u201cdramatic\u201d and said Germany was \u201cdeeply saddened by the news of dead and missing people\u201d and ready to help. Hungary\u2019s capital, Budapest, was bracing for severe flooding as the Danube rose. The interior minister, S\u00e1ndor Pint\u00e9r, said efforts were focused on keeping the river and its tributaries within their banks and said up to 12,000 soldiers were on standby. Slovakia\u2019s capital, Bratislava, was also on a high state of alert, while the 600,000 residents of Wroc\u0142aw in Poland were told water levels might not peak before Wednesday. Austria\u2019s chancellor, Karl Nehammer, said the situation in his country \u201ccontinues to worsen\u201d, particularly in Lower Austria, which has been declared a disaster area. More than 10,000 relief workers had evacuated 1,100 houses in the state, he said. Lower Austria\u2019s governor, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, said people there were facing \u201cdifficult and dramatic hours \u2026 probably the most difficult hours of their lives\u201d. The municipality of Lilienfeld, with about 25,000 residents, was completely cut off from the outside world, local media reported. So far 12 dams had broken and thousands of households were without electricity and water, authorities said. \u201cIt is not over,\u201d Mikl-Leitner added. \u201cIt stays critical. It stays dramatic.\u201d She said there there was a high risk of more dams breaking and it was as yet too early to assess the scale of the damage. The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, urged people to \u201cfollow the instructions of mayors and firefighters\u201d. As of Sunday evening, he said, emergency services had dealt with 7,884 incidents and 119,000 households were without power. At least 12,000 people had been evacuated from their homes across the country, Fiala said, adding that although the rain had stopped in the most affected areas, the situation would become critical for others as the storm moves westwards and rivers continue to rise. \u201cVery difficult days for many people, unfortunately, continue,\u201d Fiala said on Monday, with 207 areas across the country facing flood conditions. The most critical situation was in southern Bohemia, he said, adding: \u201cPlease be careful and responsible.\u201d The rising Morava River put about 70% of the Czech city of Litovel, 140 miles (230km) east of the capital, Prague, underwater overnight, its mayor told local media, shutting down schools and health facilities. In the country\u2019s third biggest city, Ostrava, a power plant supplying heat and hot water was forced to shut down. Thousands were evacuated from their homes in Krnov and \u010cesk\u00fd T\u011b\u0161\u00edn. In Opava, up to 10,000 people out of a population of about 56,000 were asked to move to higher ground. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason to wait,\u201d the mayor, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Navr\u00e1til, told Czech public radio, saying the situation was worse than during devastating floods in 1997, known as the \u201cflood of the century\u201d. Romania\u2019s prime minister, Marcel Ciolacu, said the country would \u201cclean up and see what can be salvaged\u201d, adding that compared with the worst recent flooding in 2013, \u201cthe amount of water was almost three times bigger\u201d. One resident of the Romanian village of Pechea, in the stricken Galati region, told Agence France-Presse: \u201cThe water came into the house, it destroyed the walls, everything. It took the chickens, the rabbits, everything. It took the oven, the washing machine, the refrigerator. I have nothing left.\u201d The climate emergency is causing more incidents of extreme rainfall because warmer air can hold more water vapour. Flooding has most likely become more frequent and severe as a result, but other human factors, such as flood defence planning and land use, are also important."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Iran has shown restraint after Israeli killing of Hamas leader, president says;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/iran-restraint-israeli-killing-of-hamas-leader-president-masoud-pezeshkian;2024-09-16T17:17:25Z",
        "text": "The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has said Tehran has shown restraint so far in its response to the Israeli assassination of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh because it believes Israel has been trying to lure it into a regional war. Pezeshkian, a reformist who was elected unexpectedly three months ago, was speaking at a wide-ranging and unprecedented two-and-half-hour press conference in which nearly half of the questions were from foreign media. \u201cWhat Israel has done in the region and what Israel tried with the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran was to drag us into a regional war,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cWe have exercised restraint so far but we reserve the right to defend ourselves at a specific time and place with specific methods.\u201d It remains a matter of debate whether Pezeshkian, who has a frank, consensual style, has access to the real levers of power or the political will to transform Iran\u2019s relations with the west. But his use of a large international platform and often unpretentious direct manner suggests he is a new and unpredictable element in Iranian politics. He did not rule out the possibility that Iran may have sold short-range ballistic missiles to Russia, saying no sale had occurred during his presidency but he could not speak for whatever had been agreed by his predecessor, Ebrahim Raisi. \u201cThis has not happened in our time. I won\u2019t go into what happened in the past. It is a possibility. There is no prohibition,\u201d he said. Western intelligence has said the contract was signed last August and the shipment occurred last week. The supply of missiles was seen as a blow to Pezeshkian\u2019s hopes of improved relations between Iran and the west. Under questioning he denied that Iran had sent any missiles to Houthi rebels in Yemen, after the claimed firing of a hypersonic missile at Israel on Sunday. Pezeshkian said it was hard enough for people to get to Yemen from Iran and asked how a missile could go to Yemen unseen. He conceded that Iran had hypersonic missiles, but he said not of the kind fired by the Houthis on Sunday. \u201cWe don\u2019t have this missile in Iran at all,\u201d he said. At one point, when asked by a female reporter why she still needed to change her walking route including using back alleys to avoid \u201cmorality police\u201d, Pezeshkian replied: \u201cAre the morality police still bothering you? That is not supposed to be happening. We will follow up so that they don\u2019t bother anyone any more.\u201d On the future of Iran\u2019s nuclear commitments and its enrichment of uranium at a level of 60% purity, he said Iran would not seek nuclear weapons but he accused the US of tearing up the old nuclear agreement. \u201cThe Americans have closed all the roads for us, everyone we want to talk to, the Americans say they will not allow it,\u201d he said. Iranian officials have said they will explore talks on the future of the nuclear deal on the sidelines of the UN general assembly next week. Pezeshkian said that if Iran sought better relations with the west it did not mean it would forget its friends, including Russia and China. \u201cWe have and will have relations with Russia but our view in all wars is that no country should encroach the territory of another,\u201d he said. At the same time, he said Nato should not have come so close to Russia\u2019s border. He said Iran\u2019s need for growth required it to remove itself from the blacklist of the Financial Action Task Force, the global body that decides whether countries meet standards on money laundering and corruption. \u201cWe have no choice but to solve the FATF issues,\u201d he said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;How has Italy sought to cut irregular migration and could UK copy the policy?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/italy-immigration-irregular-migration-policy-giorgia-meloni-tunisia-libya-uk-explainer;2024-09-16T17:05:47Z",
        "text": "Keir Starmer has travelled to Rome for bilateral talks about immigration with Italy\u2019s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni. The British prime minister, under pressure to tackle irregular migration across the Channel from France, wants to examine how Meloni\u2019s hard-right government has cut the number of people arriving in dinghies across the Mediterranean. What policies has the Meloni government pursued? Last September, Lampedusa was once again inundated with people after more than 11,000 arrived on the tiny southern Italian island, mostly from Tunisia, within a week. The emergency highlighted Meloni\u2019s struggles with maintaining her election campaign promise of curbing irregular migration to Italy, but it also marked a turning point. With Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, by her side, the Italian leader vowed to get tough. She passed measures extending the amount of time people can be held in deportation detention centres to 18 months and ordered the construction of new centres. Meloni was the key protagonist in a deal signed in July 2023 between the EU and Tunisia that meant paying the north African country millions of euros to stop migrant boats from leaving, as well as to invest in businesses and education, all with the aim of deterring migration. The policy bore little fruit in the early stages, but now the deal, along with another \u2013 first struck by Italy in 2017 \u2013 that equips and trains the Libyan coastguard to stop people leaving, is credited with reducing inflows. This year, Meloni travelled to Tunisia and Libya to put pressure on their leaders to reinforce those pacts and curb irregular migration more dramatically. Italy also made a deal with Albania under which men arriving on boats from north Africa would be taken to centres in the neighbouring country to have their asylum claims processed. However, there has been no tangible progress on the complex scheme, which, if it takes effect, would cost Italy \u20ac670m (\u00a3560m) over five years. The Meloni government has also enacted draconian policies against charity ships in the Mediterranean, with captains facing huge fines if they carry out more than one rescue operation at a time. What has happened to immigration figures since the Meloni government took power? During Meloni\u2019s first year in power, the number of people arriving in Italy by boat rose sharply, with the total reaching 125,806 in 2023, almost double that of 2022. But arrivals so far this year have dropped to 44,465, according to the latest data from the Italian interior ministry. Meloni will point to the Tunisia and Libya deals for this achievement. Given that Italy is hosting the G7 presidency this year, there are suspicions of additional payouts to what Francesco Gallieti, the co-founder of Policy Sonar, a political consultancy in Rome, called \u201cthe logistical springboards\u201d. Gallieti said: \u201cThere is clearly some truce. Meloni did not want Italy to be inundated [with people arriving] for the duration of the G7. How do you stop them coming otherwise?\u201d How have rights groups and others reacted to Italian measures? Italy\u2019s approach has long been criticised by humanitarian groups. The deal with Libya, which essentially pushes people back to detention camps where they face torture and other abuses, was first struck by a centre-left government in 2017 and is renewed every three years. Similar concerns have been raised about Tunisia. Despite the policies, people still attempt to cross the Mediterranean and many die along the way. According to figures from the international organisation for migration (IOM), more than 1,400 people have died or gone missing in the central Mediterranean since January. At least 11 were confirmed to have died in two separate shipwrecks close to Italy\u2019s shore in June. How applicable is the Italian approach to the UK situation? Starmer can \u201clearn\u201d about the Italian approach, but it won\u2019t be so easy to apply. \u201cIt\u2019s puzzling that Starmer is looking for advice from Rome,\u201d said Wolfango Piccoli, a co-president of political risk advisory at the London-based research company Teneo. \u201cThe immigration challenge faced by both countries is different. Rome can throw money and some kind of assistance to Tunisia and Libya, hoping it will reduce the inflow. This is not an option for London. Immigrants arrive from France. More than anything, the visit shows how sensitive the matter is to Starmer, whose popularity is declining rapidly.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;At least 16 killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, Palestinian officials say;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/israeli-airstrikes-gaza-houthis-netanyahu-gallant;2024-09-16T17:02:35Z",
        "text": "At least 16 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across central Gaza on Sunday night and Monday morning, including five women and four children, Palestinian health officials have said. Rescuers said an airstrike early on Monday destroyed a residential building in the densely populated Nuseirat refugee camp in the heart of central Gaza, killing at least 10 people, including four women and two children. The al-Awda hospital, which received the bodies, confirmed the deaths and said another 13 people were wounded. Hospital records quoted by local media show that the dead included a mother, her child and her five siblings. In a separate strike targeting a building in Gaza City, six people died. A woman and two children were among the dead, according to the civil defence, a team of emergency responders working under the governance of Hamas. Israel says its military operations exclusively target combatants and claims Hamas and other armed factions place civilians at risk by operating within residential areas. Eleven months into the Gaza war, the death toll among Palestinians has passed 41,000, according to health authorities in the territory. Most of the dead are civilians and the total is nearly 2% of Gaza\u2019s prewar population, or equal to one in every 50 people. The conflict was triggered by Hamas\u2019s 7 October attack on Israel, in which 1,200 people died and about 250 were taken hostage. On Sunday evening, a senior Hamas official told Agence France-Presse that new generations of fighters had been recruited since the 7 October attacks, less than a week after the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, told journalists that Hamas \u201cno longer exists\u201d as a military formation in Gaza. During an interview in Istanbul, Osama Hamdan claimed that the militant group \u201chas a high ability to continue\u201d. He added: \u201cThere were martyrs and there were sacrifices \u2026 but in return there was an accumulation of experiences and the recruitment of new generations into the resistance.\u201d The Hamas chief, Yahya Sinwar, congratulated the Yemeni Houthi group for reaching central Israel with a surface-to-surface missile for the first time on Sunday, causing a fire near Kfar Daniel. \u201cI congratulate you on your success in reaching the depth of the enemy entity,\u201d Sinwar said in a letter to the Houthi leader, Abdulmalik al-Houthi. \u201cI assure you that the resistance is fine. We have prepared ourselves to fight a long battle of attrition,\u201d he said. This is reportedly Sinwar\u2019s third public message in the last week, after he congratulated the Algerian president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, on winning the \u201crenewed trust\u201d of his people in the election on 9 September, and showed gratitude for Hezbollah\u2019s continuing fight against Israel on Friday. Before then Sinwar, who is believed to be hiding underground in Gaza, had made only one other official statement since the war began, in late October, when he offered the immediate release of Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of all Palestinian prisoners. Israel is conducting an extensive manhunt in Gaza for the man responsible for the 7 October massacre. The Israeli military is investigating whether the fire near Kfar Daniel was the result of falling fragments caused by interceptor missiles launched at the projectile, or if the missile successfully penetrated its air defences, as the Houthis have claimed. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the Houthis would pay a \u201cheavy price\u201d, while the Houthi leader warned of bigger attacks to come. On Monday, the Houthi military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said the group downed a US MQ-9 drone in Yemen\u2019s Dhamar province. In a separate development on Monday, Gallant told the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, that time was running out for an agreement with Hezbollah to halt the fighting along the Israel-Lebanon border, where on Sunday the Israeli military reported that approximately 40 projectiles had been launched, with the majority being intercepted or landing in uninhabited regions. \u201cThe possibility for an agreed framework in the northern arena is running out as Hezbollah continues to \u2018tie itself\u2019 to Hamas,\u201d Gallant said, \u201cThe trajectory is clear.\u2019\u2019 Hezbollah said it would halt its attacks if there was a ceasefire in Gaza, but months of talks brokered by the US, Qatar and Egypt have repeatedly stalled. Gallant told Austin that \u201cin any possible scenario, Israel\u2019s defence establishment will continue to operate with the aim of dismantling Hamas and ensuring the return of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza \u2013 by any means\u201d. Meanwhile, media reports in Israel suggested Gallant\u2019s position could be under threat, with sources in the prime minister\u2019s office saying Netanyahu was considering appointing the New Hope chair, Gideon Sa\u2019ar, as Gallant\u2019s replacement. After the report, the far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said on X: \u201cThe time has come to [fire Gallant] immediately.\u201d Rumours that Netanyahu would replace Gallant have been circulating for months. The already strained relationship between the two has been tumultuous since Netanyahu\u2019s sudden decision to dismiss Gallant in March 2023 because of his vocal disapproval of the government\u2019s judicial changes. However, the prime minister\u2019s move was later rescinded after public outcry. Some in Netanyahu\u2019s administration have called for Gallant\u2019s removal, citing a range of grievances including his stance against a government-supported ultra-Orthodox enlistment bill and his public disagreement with the prime minister on matters such as a hostage negotiation and Israel\u2019s presence in the Philadelphi corridor on the Gaza-Egypt border."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;UK orders 150,000 mpox vaccine doses amid spread of new strain in Africa;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/uk-orders-mpox-vaccine-spread-new-strain-africa;2024-09-16T15:52:39Z",
        "text": "The UK has ordered more than 150,000 doses of vaccine against mpox to bolster its preparedness after the World Health Organization declared a surge in cases in Africa to be a global emergency. No cases of clade Ib mpox, the new strain that has spread rapidly in Africa after an initial outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), have yet been detected in the UK. However, UK health officials said at a briefing on Monday that ordering more vaccine was necessary to bolster the country\u2019s resilience against the virus, formerly known as monkeypox. They also set out three scenarios illustrating the possible impact of a UK outbreak. The first involved small clusters of cases, the second a \u201ccontrollable epidemic\u201d and the third community transmission in hospitals, care homes, prisons and schools. None of the scenarios outlined were projections or predictions, officials said. \u201cWe are preparing for any cases that we might see in the UK and vaccination plays a vital part in our defences,\u201d said Susan Hopkins, the chief medical adviser at the UK Health Security Agency. \u201cAlongside vaccination, we have been working rapidly to ensure that clinicians are aware and able to recognise cases promptly, that rapid testing is available, and that protocols are developed for the safe clinical care of people who have the infection and the prevention of onward transmission.\u201d Mpox is passed on through close physical contact. The disease causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions, and is usually mild but can kill. Children, pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems are at higher risk of complications. The vaccine, made by Bavarian Nordic, would be offered to those eligible in stages, and based on clinical need, health officials said. Gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men; certain healthcare workers and specialist healthcare and humanitarian workers who go to affected countries; and close contacts of confirmed mpox cases would be offered vaccines, officials said. Clade Ib has prompted more concern among health officials than clade IIb, which was responsible for a global outbreak of the virus in 2022. Small numbers of cases of clade IIb have been present in the UK for about two years. A vaccination programme was launched in the summer of 2022 and closed in the summer of 2023. It is understood that about 50,000 people have had two doses of the jab, which is 80% effective at preventing mpox cases, while more than 83,000 have had one dose. Steve Russell, NHS England\u2019s director for vaccinations and screening, said that while the risk of catching mpox in the UK was low, vaccination offered \u201ca vital level of protection\u201d for those most likely to be exposed. \u201cWe encourage those eligible to come forward when invited by local health services, to ensure they have the best defence,\u201d he added. The health secretary, Wes Streeting, said he was closely monitoring the spread of mpox overseas. He added: \u201cNo cases of clade Ib mpox have been detected in the UK, but we are taking steps to ensure the country is prepared with a robust vaccination programme that protects those who may be at high risk.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;How one shaman helps others find healing and meaning in a modern world;https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2024/09/16/g-s1-7901/how-one-shaman-helps-find-healing-and-meaning-in-a-modern-world;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:30:00 -0400",
        "text": "Helena Soholm, a Korean American shaman and transpersonal psychologist, integrates Western and Indigenous systems of knowledge to facilitate healing and growth in modern, technologically advanced societies."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;DEA closing 2 offices in China as the agency struggles to stem flow of chemicals;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/g-s1-23366/dea-closing-2-offices-in-china;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:52:35 -0400",
        "text": "The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is shutting down two of its hard-won offices in China, a move that comes even as the agency struggles to disrupt the flow of precursor chemicals."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Sean 'Diddy' Combs is arrested in New York after federal indictment;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/g-s1-23363/sean-diddy-combs-faces-federal-charges-in-new-york;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:50:38 -0400",
        "text": "Sean \"Diddy\" Combs was arrested late Monday in New York, where he faces a sealed criminal indictment, prosecutors announced late Monday."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;In interview on X, Trump addresses apparent assassination attempt for the first time;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/nx-s1-5115024/x-interview-trump-assassination-attempt-election;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:11:33 -0400",
        "text": "Former President Donald Trump spoke for the first time about the apparent assassination attempt on him Sunday at his golf course and talking to President Biden on Monday."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Former officer says Tyre Nichols 'wasn't a threat' when taken from car during stop;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/g-s1-23359/tyre-nichols-case-memphis-police-testimony;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:51:15 -0400",
        "text": "Emmitt Martin III, a former Memphis police officer who has pleaded guilty in the case, took the stand in the federal trial of former colleagues Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Gymnast Jordan Chiles appeals to Swiss supreme court for her Olympic bronze medal;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/g-s1-23333/jordan-chiles-american-gymnast-bronze-medal-swiss-court-appeal;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:29:35 -0400",
        "text": "Chiles was awarded the bronze medal at the Paris floor exercise final. But her medal was revoked by an arbitration court, which ruled an inquiry that had improved her score was filed seconds too late."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;These states will decide the election. We went to all of them to talk to voters;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/g-s1-22212/election-harris-trump-swing-states;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:28:20 -0400",
        "text": "Your guide to the six swing states that will decide this year\u2019s presidential election: Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;In France, A Shocking Story and Difficult Questions About Society;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/1199975708/in-france-a-shocking-story-and-difficult-questions-about-society;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:56:39 -0400",
        "text": "A rape case in France involving a woman whose ex-husband is on trial for drugging her and recruiting other men to sexually assault her. Now thousands have turned out to support her and many are asking hard questions about the culture that allowed this to happen for years."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;The Boeing Strike: 4 moments the company fractured its bond with workers;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/nx-s1-5111647/boeing-strike-union-machinists-contract-labor;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:12:52 -0400",
        "text": "Though contract negotiations were the catalyst for Boeing machinists to go on strike, frustrations among workers have been building up for years."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;TikTok argued against its U.S. ban in court today. Here's what happened;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/g-s1-23194/tiktok-us-ban-appeals-court;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:34:07 -0400",
        "text": "TikTok\u2019s survival in the U.S. is riding on the outcome of the hearing. Federal judges peppered both the Justice Department and TikTok with skeptical questions about the ban, which takes effect in January."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;India hits out after Iranian leader criticises treatment of Muslims;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/india-hits-out-after-iranian-leader-criticises-treatment-of-muslims?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:08:59 +0000",
        "text": "Despite strong ties, Khamenei\u2019s past criticisms include India\u2019s handling of Muslim issues and the Kashmir region."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;How a beauty queen became the face of South Africa-Nigeria tensions;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/17/how-a-beauty-queen-became-the-face-of-south-africa-nigeria-tensions?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:00:13 +0000",
        "text": "After Chidimma Adetshina suffered xenophobic abuse online, young Nigerians in South Africa say they feel unwelcome."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Video: Rescue efforts after deadly building collapse in Sierra Leone;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/17/video-rescue-efforts-after-deadly-building-collapse-in-sierra-leone?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:41:10 +0000",
        "text": "Rescue teams in Sierra Leone\u2019s capital climbed the rubble of a seven-storey building to search for survivors."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Firefighters battle wildfires choking Brazilian capital;https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/17/firefighters-battle-wildfires-choking-brazilian-capital?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:28:41 +0000",
        "text": "The blazes have consumed thousands of hectares of the Brasilia National Park."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Firefighters rescued by helicopter from Czech Republic floods;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/17/firefighters-rescued-by-helicopter-from-czech-republic-floods?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:47:49 +0000",
        "text": "Video shows firefighters being rescued by helicopter after they were submerged by floodwater in the Czech Republic."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Atishi to be new chief minister of India\u2019s capital territory Delhi;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/atishi-to-be-new-chief-minister-of-indias-capital-territory-delhi?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:31:12 +0000",
        "text": "The announcement was made by Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal during a meeting with his party&#039;s legislators."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Portugal battles deadly wildfires;https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/17/portugal-battles-deadly-wildfires?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:20:17 +0000",
        "text": "The blazes in central and northern Portugal force authorities to evacuate villages and shut motorways."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel\u2019s Netanyahu announces expanded war goals to include Lebanon border;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/israels-netanyahu-announces-expanded-war-goals-to-include-lebanon-border?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:14:46 +0000",
        "text": "Israeli prime minister says war aims should include enabling Israelis who fled areas near the border to return home."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;What are Pakistan\u2019s controversial constitutional amendments about?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/what-are-pakistans-controversial-constitutional-amendments-about?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:26:57 +0000",
        "text": "The proposed amendments could weaken the independence of the judiciary, allege opposition parties and some experts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Facebook owner Meta bans RT, other Russian state media;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/17/facebook-owner-meta-bans-rt-other-russian-state-media?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 04:50:23 +0000",
        "text": "Tech giant&#039;s announcement comes days after Washington unveiled sanctions against Moscow-backed outlets."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;At least 236 killed in Myanmar flooding from Typhoon Yagi;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/at-least-two-hundred-thirty-six-killed-in-myanmar-flooding-from-typhoon-yagi?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:43:12 +0000",
        "text": "Multiple states and regions affected in a country already plunged into crisis by the February 2021 coup."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;US rapper Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs arrested in New York;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/us-rapper-sean-diddy-combs-arrested-in-new-york?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:44:43 +0000",
        "text": "Charges against Combs not immediately clear as lawyer criticises &#039;unjust&#039; prosecution."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Putin orders third increase in Russian troop numbers since Ukraine invasion;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/putin-orders-third-increase-in-russian-troop-numbers-since-ukraine-invasion?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:51:22 +0000",
        "text": "Increase of 180,000 would leave Russian army second only to China in terms of number of active combat soldiers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Elon Musk deletes post about Harris, Biden assassination after backlash;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/17/elon-musk-deletes-post-about-harris-biden-assassination-after-backlash?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:43:27 +0000",
        "text": "White House condemns Tesla CEO&#039;s post on X as &#039;irresponsible&#039;."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 935;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-935?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:36:02 +0000",
        "text": "As the war enters its 935th day, these are the main developments."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Suspect in Trump assassination attempt may have lain in wait for 12 hours;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/suspect-in-trump-assassination-attempt-may-have-lain-in-wait-for-twelve-hours?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:09:30 +0000",
        "text": "Ryan Routh charged with two gun-related crimes after being spotted on perimeter of former US president&#039;s golf course."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Murdoch succession drama plays out in closed US court;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/16/murdoch-succession-drama-plays-out-in-closed-us-court?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:46:50 +0000",
        "text": "Murdoch wants to change family trust terms to ensure control of media firms stays with his oldest son, a conservative."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Almost like people expected this\u2019: Will latest Trump brush affect US race?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/almost-like-people-expected-this-will-latest-trump-brush-affect-us-race?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:54:44 +0000",
        "text": "Another suspected assassination attempt reminds voters of July incident, with effects on the US election hard to gauge."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israeli settlers attack primary school in occupied West Bank;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/16/israeli-settlers-attack-primary-school-in-occupied-west-bank?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:32:25 +0000",
        "text": "Video captured the moment Israeli settlers attacked students and teachers in the occupied West Bank."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Iran\u2019s president says Iran didn\u2019t supply supersonic missile to Yemen;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/16/irans-president-says-iran-didnt-supply-supersonic-missile-to-yemen?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:13:20 +0000",
        "text": "Iran\u2019s new president Masoud Pezeshkian says the hypersonic missile fired from Yemen into Israel is not Iranian made."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Boeing freezes hires, weighs furloughs to cut costs in labour strike;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/16/boeing-freezes-hires-weighs-furloughs-to-cut-costs-in-labour-strike?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:52:35 +0000",
        "text": "Boeing will also stop issuing majority of supplier purchase orders on 737, 767 and 777 programmes affected by strike."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;JD Vance doubles down on claims of migrants eating Americans\u2019 pets;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/16/jd-vance-doubles-down-on-claims-of-migrants-eating-americans-pets?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:50:36 +0000",
        "text": "Leading Republican Party officials are doubling down on false claims about migrants eating peoples&#039; pets."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;How should Europe deal with its migration crisis?;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/9/16/how-should-europe-deal-with-its-migration-crisis?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:17:05 +0000",
        "text": "The British and French governments are under renewed pressure after more people die trying to cross the English Channel."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel will become a \u2018pariah\u2019 over Gaza \u2018genocide\u2019, UN rights experts say;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/israel-will-become-a-pariah-over-gaza-genocide-un-rights-experts-say?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:04:11 +0000",
        "text": "UN rights rapporteurs also slammed the &#039;double standards&#039; of countries that support Israel&#039;s devastating war on Gaza."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Match time, form: China vs India \u2013 Asian Champions Trophy 2024 hockey final;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/16/live-coverage-commentary-score-match-time-form-head-to-head-india-vs-china-asian-champions-trophy-2024-hockey?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:46:16 +0000",
        "text": "Record four-time champions India will face confident hosts China in the final at the Moqi Base, Hulunbuir at 10:00 GMT."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Man charged with murders of women in crossbow attack;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxx27l95288o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:53:54 GMT",
        "text": "The wife and daughters of BBC racing commentator John Hunt were killed at their Hertfordshire home in July."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'I am a rapist', admits husband in French mass rape trial;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kdd3n7yqo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:21:32 GMT",
        "text": "Dominique Pelicot, 71, is accused of drugging his wife to sleep and recruiting dozens of men to abuse her."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Trump: I heard shots and was grabbed by Secret Service;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwwqkgzx0o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:27:56 GMT",
        "text": "West Palm Beach residents are stunned the suspect was able to hide undetected at the course for nearly 12 hours."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Tuition fees must go up, unis say as term begins;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxdd7qglp6o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:31:26 GMT",
        "text": "As freshers get settled in, a group of unis is calling for inflation-linked fee hikes in England."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Amazon tells staff to get back to office five days a week;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj99ln72k9o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:42:54 GMT",
        "text": "The e-commerce giant is ending hybrid working and will stop people hot-desking in the US."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Diane Abbott: Starmer treated me as a 'non-person';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05gg2v5p98o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:00:54 GMT",
        "text": "The Labour MP speaks to the BBC about the fallout after a Tory donor made racist comments about her."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sean 'Diddy' Combs arrested in New York City;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg22gl97nro;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:13:25 GMT",
        "text": "The rapper's attorney, Marc Agnifilo, said they were \"disappointed\" by the arrest and his client was an \"innocent man\"."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Entire Polish city urged to evacuate as floods batter central Europe;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yjjqyv84eo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:10:14 GMT",
        "text": "Several people have died across the Czech Republic, Austria, Romania and Poland following devastating floods."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Israel sets new war goal of returning residents to the north;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cglkkrj94ldo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:17:52 GMT",
        "text": "It has warned it might use force against Hezbollah, whose attacks have forced mass evacuations."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Brexit deal impact in UK is worsening, warn economists;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd988p00z1no;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:03:12 GMT",
        "text": "The findings come from a report covering the three-year period after the Brexit deal was signed."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Junior doctors accept 22% pay rise to end strikes;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5yy13ng33o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:07:28 GMT",
        "text": "Junior doctors in England accept the government\u2019s offer of a 22% pay rise over two years, ending their long-running dispute."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Jamie Theakston reveals cancer diagnosis;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjr00171w4o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:46:23 GMT",
        "text": "The Heart Radio host says a biopsy revealed it is stage one and the prognosis is positive."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Elon Musk deletes X post about Harris and Biden;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74882jq39vo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:45:14 GMT",
        "text": "The tech tycoon has deleted the post about assassination attempts on the president and vice-president, saying it was a joke."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What do we know about suspect Ryan Wesley Routh?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3611zjjnd2o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:24:19 GMT",
        "text": "He appears to have mixed politics and a history of support for Ukraine - as well as a number of legal issues."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;How much security does Donald Trump get?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6255djzj68o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:57:37 GMT",
        "text": "Following a second apparent assassination attempt, BBC Verify looks at what security Donald Trump is entitled to."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Four key takeaways from Huw Edwards' sentencing;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn033p4d82xo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:09:04 GMT",
        "text": "The former BBC News presenter has been given a suspended prison term for making indecent images of children. Here we look at what we learned from his court appearance."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Pregnancy brain changes revealed in detailed scans;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgvvn0q8e2o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:08:59 GMT",
        "text": "Repeated scans during one woman's pregnancy show brain changes never charted before."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Chased out by protesters, a political dynasty plots its comeback;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5n51ym19jo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:50:42 GMT",
        "text": "The Rajapaksas had a vice-like grip on Sri Lanka until they were chased from power. Could they return?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Working for \u00a33 an hour made me feel dirty';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng1y78wppo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:42:03 GMT",
        "text": "A BBC investigation finds garment workers who explain why they accepted wages as low as \u00a33 an hour."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Publishers try skinnier books to save money and emissions;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24pqrvvll9o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:07:06 GMT",
        "text": "Subtle changes to the font can make books much slimmer and lighter - saving money and CO2 emissions."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The legal battles behind Anna Delvey\u2019s Dancing With The Stars debut;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd2y5e23jo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:18:17 GMT",
        "text": "The convicted fraudster who conned her way into New York's elite is facing deportation back to Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The Papers: 'Huw Edwards' shame' and 'reputation in tatters';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kjjlxjzr5o;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:09:00 GMT",
        "text": "Tuesday's headlines are dominated by the sentencing of ex-BBC newsreader Huw Edwards."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Floods and mudslides kill more than 200 in Myanmar;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gqqgjjv4vo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:26:25 GMT",
        "text": "The storm has killed more than 500 people in northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Facebook owner bans Russian state media networks;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gllnx0p40o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:43:30 GMT",
        "text": "Russian state media outlets have come under increased scrutiny in Western countries."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Injured loggerhead turtle found covered in algae released back into wild;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g554gkkg5o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:13:05 GMT",
        "text": "The creature has been released in the Azores after a successful rehabilitation programme."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Study reveals secret of 190-day Crystal Palace build;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0ll41l9pno;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:10:30 GMT",
        "text": "The standardisation of screws helped the then-world's biggest building be constructed within a year."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sir David Attenborough: 'The world would be worse off without our stories';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05j3q07p3yo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:51:11 GMT",
        "text": "Sir David Attenborough praises the \"beauty\" created by the BBC in its natural history shows."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Nurses lived in disused hospital building after race attack;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6qqwx9eqwo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:50:03 GMT",
        "text": "The staff had to leave an estate in County Antrim after they were victims of intimidation."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Rare 'sweets and beer' tree saved for future;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05j5nm83lno;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:35:28 GMT",
        "text": "Thousands of trees are being grown at a nursery to give rare and depleted species a helping hand."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Huw Edwards sentenced and questions over Trump's security;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jqxfd9;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:54:00 GMT",
        "text": "And, another \u201cattempted assassination\u201d of former President Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;I've been through a lot of pain -  Joshua;https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/articles/cy944zpry3jo;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:47:36 GMT",
        "text": "Anthony Joshua says he has \"been through a lot of pain\" over the past two years as he bids to become a three-time world champion against fellow British heavyweight Daniel Dubois on Saturday."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Brady, Beckham & Deadpool - but fans and football the stars;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cly66qgzglno;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:44:53 GMT",
        "text": "Film stars, an NFL legend and a global football icon were watching but in the end they were cameos in Birmingham's 3-1 win over Wrexham."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;F1 Q&A: Is this season Norris' best chance to win title?;https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/articles/cvgll7d4dnpo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:30:28 GMT",
        "text": "Is this Lando Norris' best shot at the title, and what is 'scrubbing' tyres? BBC F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your questions after the Azerbaijan GP."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Chiles appeals to Supreme Court over Olympic bronze;https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/c4g5v5z2y7po;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:44:58 GMT",
        "text": "Gymnast Jordan Chiles appeals to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland in an attempt to be awarded an Olympic bronze medal."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;36 teams, 36 questions - take our Champions League quiz;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c87g7ye3zlqo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:43:26 GMT",
        "text": "The Champions League returns on Tuesday as Europe's top competition has been revamped with 36 teams playing, so take our quiz to test your knowledge."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Ten new signings to watch in the Women's Super League;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cj9lpykrjv9o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:03:51 GMT",
        "text": "BBC Sport picks out 10 new Women's Super League players who you should keep an eye on in the 2024-25 season."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Maybe our opinion doesn't matter - Alisson;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/videos/c70w4484p69o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:38:23 GMT",
        "text": "Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker says players are not being listened to about workloads and that maybe their \"opinions don't matter\"."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Doctor left bedbound for four years by long Covid;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dyyn834lwo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:21:57 GMT",
        "text": "Becky Williams, a doctor from Leeds, says patients like her have been \u201cleft to rot\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Scotland takes 'huge step' towards Calum's Law on child restraint;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xee71nznwo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:19:25 GMT",
        "text": "The Holyrood bill is named after Calum Morrison who was restrained at an additional needs school when he was 11."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;First minister sparks row with NHS bosses over waits;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8vv4kexyjo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:04:27 GMT",
        "text": "Eluned Morgan says she will hold them to account over long waiting lists."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ursula von der Leyen d\u00e9voile la nouvelle \u00e9quipe de la Commission europ\u00e9enne, St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9 obtient le portefeuille de la strat\u00e9gie industrielle et un titre de vice-pr\u00e9sident;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/17/ursula-von-der-leyen-devoile-la-nouvelle-equipe-de-la-commission-europeenne-stephane-sejourne-obtient-le-portefeuille-de-la-strategie-industrielle_6321284_3210.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:49:58 +0200",
        "text": "La nouvelle \u00e9quipe comprend onze femmes, soit une proportion de 40\u00a0%, a annonc\u00e9 mardi la responsable allemande au Parlement europ\u00e9en \u00e0 Strasbourg."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct | Budget\u00a0: les oppositions vont \u00e0\u00a0Matignon pour faire pression;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/17/en-direct-budget-les-oppositions-vont-a-matignon-pour-faire-pression_6314327_823448.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:26:21 +0200",
        "text": "Alors que Michel Barnier est toujours en qu\u00eate d\u2019un gouvernement, Eric Coquerel, le\u00a0pr\u00e9sident de la commission des finances de l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e nationale, compte se rendre \u00e0\u00a0Matignon \u00e0 la mi-journ\u00e9e, accompagn\u00e9 du rapporteur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du budget, Charles\u00a0de\u00a0Courson."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Tirs et\u00a0explosions \u00e0\u00a0Bamako, la\u00a0capitale du\u00a0Mali;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/17/tirs-et-explosions-a-bamako-la-capitale-du-mali_6321279_3212.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:04:39 +0200",
        "text": "Selon un responsable de gendarmerie, \u00ab\u00a0des hommes arm\u00e9s non encore formellement identifi\u00e9s ont attaqu\u00e9 ce matin au moins un camp de gendarmerie de Bamako\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Je suis un violeur comme ceux qui sont dans cette salle\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: Dominique Pelicot s\u2019exprime pour la premi\u00e8re fois devant la cour criminelle du Vaucluse;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/17/proces-des-viols-de-mazan-je-suis-un-violeur-comme-ceux-qui-sont-dans-cette-salle-reconnait-dominique-pelicot-de-retour-a-l-audience_6321277_3224.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:00:33 +0200",
        "text": "Le retrait\u00e9 de 71\u00a0ans t\u00e9moigne pour la premi\u00e8re fois mardi.  Une expertise m\u00e9dicale ordonn\u00e9e par le pr\u00e9sident de la cour criminelle avait conclu que M. Pelicot \u00e9tait en \u00e9tat de compara\u00eetre, dans des conditions am\u00e9nag\u00e9es."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Niger, l\u2019inqui\u00e9tante disparition d\u2019un journaliste ivoirien;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/17/au-niger-l-inquietante-disparition-d-un-journaliste-ivoirien_6321242_3212.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:51:03 +0200",
        "text": "Selon des informations recueillies par un syndicat, Serge Mathurin Adou est accus\u00e9 d\u2019\u00ab\u00a0espionnage\u00a0\u00bb et d\u2019\u00ab\u00a0\u00eatre de m\u00e8che avec des \u201cterroristes\u201d\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Transition \u00e9cologique\u00a0: sans boussole, l\u2019Etat navigue \u00e0 vue;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/17/moteur-de-la-transition-ecologique-le-sgpe-traverse-une-crise-existentielle_6320866_3244.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:00:22 +0200",
        "text": "Si le Secr\u00e9tariat g\u00e9n\u00e9ral \u00e0 la planification \u00e9cologique, charg\u00e9 d\u2019impulser et de coordonner les politiques \u00ab\u00a0vertes\u00a0\u00bb de l\u2019ex\u00e9cutif, est maintenu \u00e0 Matignon, il s\u2019interroge sur sa capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 peser sur les arbitrages du futur gouvernement, alors que son influence est en berne depuis le d\u00e9but de l\u2019ann\u00e9e 2024."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le groupe Meta interdit les m\u00e9dias d\u2019Etat russes sur Facebook, Instagram et WhatsApp pour \u00e9viter toute \u00ab\u00a0activit\u00e9 d\u2019ing\u00e9rence \u00e9trang\u00e8re\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/17/ingerence-etrangere-le-groupe-meta-interdit-les-medias-d-etat-russes-sur-ses-plates-formes_6321003_4408996.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:37:56 +0200",
        "text": "Le m\u00e9dia public russe RT, lanc\u00e9 en 2005, est entre autres consid\u00e9r\u00e9 par les Occidentaux comme un pur organe de propagande en faveur du Kremlin."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en Ukraine\u00a0: Vladimir Poutine signe un d\u00e9cret pour augmenter l\u2019effectif de l\u2019arm\u00e9e russe;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/17/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-vladimir-poutine-signe-un-decret-pour-augmenter-l-effectif-de-l-armee-russe_6318183_3210.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:32:29 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019arm\u00e9e devra comprendre 2,39\u00a0millions de membres, dont 1,5\u00a0million de soldats, contre 2,2\u00a0millions, dont 1,3\u00a0million de combattants, en\u00a02023."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Tentative d\u2019assassinat sur Donald Trump\u00a0: retrouvez toutes les derni\u00e8res informations;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/17/tentative-d-assassinat-sur-donald-trump-encore-une-journee-folle-qui-s-est-bien-mieux-finie-que-la-derniere-fois-declare-l-ancien-president_6319422_3210.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:09:08 +0200",
        "text": "La police f\u00e9d\u00e9rale am\u00e9ricaine, le FBI, a annonc\u00e9, dimanche 15\u00a0septembre, qu\u2019elle enqu\u00eatait \u00ab\u00a0sur ce qui semble \u00eatre une tentative d\u2019assassinat contre l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident Trump\u00a0\u00bb. Selon le directeur par int\u00e9rim du Secret Service, le suspect n\u2019a jamais eu Donald Trump en \u00ab\u00a0ligne de mire\u00a0\u00bb, dimanche."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Arrestation \u00e0 New York du rappeur Diddy, vis\u00e9 par plusieurs plaintes pour agression sexuelle;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/17/arrestation-a-new-york-du-rappeur-diddy-vise-par-plusieurs-plaintes-pour-agression-sexuelle_6320868_3210.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:08:23 +0200",
        "text": "Les charges retenues contre Sean Combs \u2013 de son vrai nom \u2013 devraient \u00eatre r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9es mardi, a dit le procureur. Au total, neuf plaintes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9pos\u00e9es contre l\u2019artiste am\u00e9ricain depuis novembre\u00a02023."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Vers une pr\u00e9sentation du budget d\u00e9cal\u00e9e de huit\u00a0jours, du jamais-vu sous la V\u1d49\u00a0R\u00e9publique;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/17/vers-une-presentation-du-budget-decalee-de-huit-jours-une-premiere-sous-la-v-republique_6320856_823448.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:30:49 +0200",
        "text": "Michel Barnier ne s\u2019estime pas en mesure de respecter les d\u00e9lais l\u00e9gaux. Pour avoir le temps d\u2019imprimer sa marque, le nouveau premier ministre compte transmettre le projet de loi de finances \u00e0 l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e le 9\u00a0octobre. De quoi tendre les relations entre Matignon et les parlementaires"
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le plan de redressement d\u2019Intel se fait au d\u00e9triment de l\u2019Europe;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/17/le-plan-de-redressement-d-intel-se-precise_6320844_3234.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 04:15:09 +0200",
        "text": "Le g\u00e9ant am\u00e9ricain des semi-conducteurs repousse de deux ans ses projets d\u2019usines en Allemagne et en Pologne. Un coup dur pour Berlin, qui proposait un financement de 10\u00a0milliards d\u2019euros."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Birmanie\u00a0: le bilan du\u00a0passage du\u00a0typhon Yagi grimpe \u00e0\u00a0226\u00a0morts;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/17/birmanie-le-bilan-du-passage-du-typhon-yagi-grimpe-a-226-morts_6320843_3210.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 04:03:21 +0200",
        "text": "En outre, soixante-dix-sept\u00a0personnes sont port\u00e9es disparues apr\u00e8s les pires inondations de l\u2019histoire r\u00e9cente du pays."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Aux Etats-Unis, une commission reconna\u00eet qu\u2019une femme est morte en raison des restrictions sur l\u2019avortement;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/17/aux-etats-unis-une-commission-reconnait-qu-une-femme-est-morte-en-raison-des-restrictions-sur-l-avortement_6320842_3210.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:17:32 +0200",
        "text": "Amber Thurman est morte dans un h\u00f4pital de G\u00e9orgie en\u00a02022\u00a0\u00e0 cause d\u2019un d\u00e9lai trop long pour r\u00e9aliser l\u2019intervention qui aurait pu la sauver."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Royaume-Uni, une augmentation salariale de\u00a0plus de\u00a022\u00a0% met fin aux gr\u00e8ves des internes;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/17/au-royaume-uni-une-augmentation-salariale-de-plus-de-22-met-fin-aux-greves-des-internes_6320807_3210.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:15:22 +0200",
        "text": "Les internes des h\u00f4pitaux anglais ont organis\u00e9 une s\u00e9rie de d\u00e9brayages au cours des dix-huit derniers mois pour protester contre des salaires qu\u2019ils jugent trop bas."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Aux Etats-Unis, l\u2019explosion d\u2019un gazoduc pr\u00e8s de Houston provoque un incendie\u00a0; la zone \u00e9vacu\u00e9e;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/16/aux-etats-unis-l-explosion-d-un-gazoduc-pres-de-houston-provoque-un-incendie-la-zone-evacuee_6320707_3210.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:54:53 +0200",
        "text": "Le flux de gaz a \u00e9t\u00e9 coup\u00e9, mais le r\u00e9sidu pr\u00e9sent dans la conduite pourrait br\u00fbler plusieurs heures, selon les autorit\u00e9s locales, qui n\u2019ont pas fait \u00e9tat de victime. Les causes de l\u2019explosion n\u2019\u00e9taient pas connues\u00a0; une voiture a toutefois heurt\u00e9 le gazoduc quelques heures auparavant."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Sur les traces des faussaires napolitains, \u00ab\u00a0authentiques artistes\u00a0\u00bb qui exportent leurs faux billets en France;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/16/ces-faussaires-napolitains-authentiques-artistes-qui-exportent-leurs-faux-billets-en-france_6319674_3224.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:30:21 +0200",
        "text": "Leurs coupures de 20, 50\u00a0ou 100\u00a0euros sont les mieux r\u00e9alis\u00e9es du march\u00e9 et repr\u00e9sentent plus de 50\u00a0% des saisies de faux billets en France, premier march\u00e9 en Europe. A Naples (Italie), les organisations se d\u00e9veloppent gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 des artisans et des logisticiens r\u00e9put\u00e9s."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le point sur la situation au Proche-Orient\u00a0: le Hamas se dit pr\u00eat \u00ab\u00a0pour une longue guerre d\u2019usure\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0; l\u2019ONU d\u00e9nonce \u00ab\u00a0un niveau de souffrance inimaginable\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 Gaza;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/16/le-point-sur-la-situation-au-proche-orient-le-hamas-se-dit-pret-pour-une-longue-guerre-d-usure-benyamin-netanyahou-demande-un-changement-radical-a-la-frontiere-libanaise_6320641_3210.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:14:39 +0200",
        "text": "Le chef du mouvement palestinien, Yahya Sinouar, a par ailleurs \u00ab\u00a0f\u00e9licit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb les rebelles houthistes du Y\u00e9men apr\u00e8s leur attaque au missile sur Isra\u00ebl dimanche. Le retour des Isra\u00e9liens dans le nord du pays est d\u00e9sormais un but de guerre, a affirm\u00e9, mardi, Benyamin N\u00e9tanyahou."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Enqu\u00eate | Comment la Fondation J\u00e9r\u00f4me Lejeune entrave la recherche fran\u00e7aise sur l\u2019embryon;https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/09/16/comment-la-fondation-jerome-lejeune-entrave-la-recherche-francaise_6320472_1650684.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:00:15 +0200",
        "text": "Depuis 2008, cette fondation a attaqu\u00e9 en justice 61\u00a0projets de recherche autoris\u00e9s par l\u2019Agence de la biom\u00e9decine. D\u00e9bout\u00e9e neuf fois sur dix, elle fait n\u00e9anmoins perdre un temps pr\u00e9cieux aux scientifiques, en particulier dans la recherche sur les embryons humains."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Niger\u00a0: l\u2019arm\u00e9e am\u00e9ricaine annonce avoir achev\u00e9 son retrait;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/16/niger-l-armee-americaine-annonce-avoir-acheve-son-retrait_6320475_3212.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:28:29 +0200",
        "text": "Apr\u00e8s la fermeture de la derni\u00e8re base am\u00e9ricaine au Niger en ao\u00fbt, il y restait \u00ab\u00a0une vingtaine de personnes\u00a0\u00bb pour assurer le retrait du mat\u00e9riel militaire. Leur d\u00e9part met un point final \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sence militaire am\u00e9ricaine dans le pays dirig\u00e9 depuis plus d\u2019un an par un r\u00e9gime militaire."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Face \u00e0 la gr\u00e8ve de ses salari\u00e9s, Boeing annonce r\u00e9duire ses d\u00e9penses et envisage du ch\u00f4mage technique;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/16/face-a-la-greve-de-ses-salaries-boeing-annonce-reduire-ses-depenses-envisage-du-chomage-technique_6320467_3234.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:52:42 +0200",
        "text": "Confront\u00e9 depuis le 13\u00a0septembre \u00e0 une gr\u00e8ve paralysant notamment la production du 737 MAX et du 777, le constructeur automobile a pris des mesures pour pr\u00e9server ses liquidit\u00e9s."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Proc\u00e8s des viols de Mazan\u00a0: Dominique Pelicot, le\u00a0principal accus\u00e9, de retour \u00e0 l\u2019audience mardi, annonce son avocate;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/16/proces-des-viols-de-mazan-dominique-pelicot-le-principal-accuse-de-retour-a-l-audience-mardi-annonce-son-avocate_6319862_3225.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:37:24 +0200",
        "text": "Le retrait\u00e9 de 71\u00a0ans, qui a refus\u00e9 son extraction, a fait l\u2019objet d\u2019une expertise m\u00e9dicale. Le pr\u00e9sident de\u00a0la\u00a0cour a inform\u00e9 l\u2019avocate de M.\u00a0Pelicot qu\u2019il serait pr\u00e9sent mardi \u00ab\u00a0avec des conditions particuli\u00e8res d\u2019adaptation, \u00e0 savoir\u00a0: s\u00e9quen\u00e7age des auditions et temps de repos r\u00e9gulier\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Iran, le pr\u00e9sident promet d\u2019emp\u00eacher la police des m\u0153urs de \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9ranger\u00a0\u00bb les femmes;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/16/en-iran-le-president-promet-d-empecher-la-police-des-m-urs-de-deranger-les-femmes_6320434_3210.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:29:38 +0200",
        "text": "Massoud Pezeshkian, \u00e9lu en juillet, a tenu ces propos deux ans apr\u00e8s la mort en d\u00e9tention de Mahsa Amini, arr\u00eat\u00e9e pour non-respect du code vestimentaire impos\u00e9 aux femmes en Iran. Au cours de sa campagne \u00e9lectorale, M.\u00a0Pezeshkian avait promis de retirer la police des m\u0153urs des rues."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Emmy Awards\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Shogun\u00a0\u00bb \u00e9lue meilleure s\u00e9rie dramatique, une premi\u00e8re pour un feuilleton non anglophone\u00a0; \u00ab\u00a0The Bear\u00a0\u00bb, \u00ab\u00a0Hacks\u00a0\u00bb et \u00ab\u00a0Mon petit renne\u00a0\u00bb r\u00e9compens\u00e9s;https://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2024/09/16/les-emmy-awards-ont-debute-la-serie-shogun-en-grande-favorite_6319555_3476.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 02:58:01 +0200",
        "text": "Produite par la cha\u00eene FX et diffus\u00e9e en France sur Disney +, \u00ab\u00a0Shogun\u00a0\u00bb a rafl\u00e9 plus d\u2019une quinzaine de prix, ce qui en fait la s\u00e9rie dramatique la plus r\u00e9compens\u00e9e pour une seule saison."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Why Punjab needs an authority to regulate higher education;https://www.thehindu.com/education/why-punjab-needs-an-authority-to-regulate-higher-education/article68648750.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:56:21 +0530",
        "text": "The impact of privatization on higher education in Punjab highlights the need for regulatory reform to ensure quality, accessibility and transparency."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Odisha Police orders investigation into incident at Bharatpur station involving Army Captain and his fianc\u00e9e;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/odisha-police-orders-investigation-into-incident-at-bharatpur-station-involving-army-captain-and-his-fianc%C3%A9e/article68650961.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:43:10 +0530",
        "text": "The couple alleged assault and mistreatment by Police when they went to register complaint; meanwhile, the police claimed that the couple was drunk and assaulted them"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Four of a family killed in road accident in Tirunelveli;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/four-of-a-family-killed-in-road-accident-in-tirunelveli/article68650811.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:38:50 +0530",
        "text": "Motorbike on which deceased were riding was knocked down by oil-tanker on ROB at Thachanallur"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Juvenile accused treated 'too leniently' in India, no lessons learnt from Nirbhaya case: High Court;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/madhya-pradesh/juvenile-accused-treated-too-leniently-in-india-no-lessons-learnt-from-nirbhaya-case-high-court/article68650940.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:30:51 +0530",
        "text": "Justice Subodh Abhyankar of the high court's Indore Bench made these strongly-worded observations while dismissing an appeal filed by a man against the lower court's sentence in the case of four-year-old girl's rape in 2017"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jammu and Kashmir gears up for phase 1 polls, seven districts to vote after a decade;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jammu-and-kashmir-assembly/jammu-and-kashmir-gears-up-for-phase-1-polls-seven-districts-to-vote-after-a-decade/article68650925.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:22:22 +0530",
        "text": "This will be the first Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rachakonda police impose traffic restrictions for Ganesh idols procession;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/rachakonda-police-impose-traffic-restrictions-for-ganesh-immersion/article68648347.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:22:19 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Watch: Stray dog situation in Bengaluru: what\u2019s the solution?;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/watch-stray-dog-situation-in-bengaluru-whats-the-solution/article68650918.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:14:51 +0530",
        "text": "What can we do to co-exist with them? What should you do when confronted with a pack of aggressive stray dogs?"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PM Modi launches Odisha Government\u2019s \u2018Subhadra Yojana\u2019, railway, NH projects worth over \u20b93,800 crore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/odisha/pm-modi-launches-odisha-governments-subhadra-yojana-railway-nh-projects-worth-over-3800-crore/article68650903.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:14:23 +0530",
        "text": "Under the Subhadra scheme, all eligible beneficiaries between the age group of 21-60 years would receive \u00a0\u20b950,000 over a period of five years between 2024-25 to 2028-29"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Last date for registrations to Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Class-VI selection test extended;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/last-date-for-registrations-to-jawahar-navodaya-vidyalaya-class-vi-selection-test-extended/article68648353.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:10:03 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Ganesh laddu auctioned for \u20b91.87 crore in Hyderabad\u2019s Bandlaguda;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/ganesh-laddu-auctioned-for-187-crore-in-hyderabads-bandlaguda/article68649542.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:02:00 +0530",
        "text": "The festive offering was  auctioned for \u20b91.26 crore last year"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Wholesale price rise at 4-month low of 1.3% in August;https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/wholesale-price-rise-at-4-month-low-of-13-in-august/article68650868.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:56:32 +0530",
        "text": "Vegetable prices down 10% from last August, but pulses, fruits, potatoes and onions remain in high inflation zone"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Congress will ensure Jammu and Kashmir gets back statehood: Kharge;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jammu-and-kashmir-assembly/congress-will-ensure-jammu-and-kashmir-gets-back-statehood-kharge/article68650798.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:39:36 +0530",
        "text": "Monetary assistance to women, super speciality hospital, financial support to landless, tenant, and land-owning farming households, MSP for crops, rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandit, promises Congress ahead of J&amp;K Assembly election 2024"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CM Revanth Reddy unfurls national flag on \u2018Telangana Praja Palana Dinotsavam\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/cm-revanth-reddy-unfurls-national-flag-on-telangana-praja-palana-dinotsavam/article68650626.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:26:16 +0530",
        "text": "September 17 will be celebrated as people\u2019s governance day by the government. The CM asserts that Govt committed for all round development of Telangana."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PM Modi interacts with PMAY-Urban beneficiaries on his 74th birthday in Bhubaneswar;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-modi-interacts-with-pmay-urban-beneficiaries-on-his-74th-birthday-in-bhubaneswar/article68650729.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:24:30 +0530",
        "text": "The route from Biju Patnaik International Airport to Gadakana was flanked by folk dancers and musical bands."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jarange launches indefinite fast over Maratha quota - his sixth in a year;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/jarange-launches-indefinite-fast-over-maratha-quota-his-sixth-in-a-year/article68650731.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:22:01 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Jarange accused the Maharashtra government of not giving reservation to the community deliberately, and said that Marathas were giving \"one more chance\" to Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to fulfil their demands"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Atishi to succeed Arvind Kejriwal as Delhi Chief Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/atishi-to-succeed-arvind-kejriwal-as-delhi-chief-minister/article68650656.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:11:31 +0530",
        "text": "Atishi has been selected as the leader of the AAP Legislative Party"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.S. Coast Guard says Russian naval vessels crossed into buffer zone off Alaska;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-coast-guard-says-russian-naval-vessels-crossed-into-buffer-zone-off-alaska/article68650643.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:45:21 +0530",
        "text": "The U.S. Coast Guard said on September 17 that it tracked a group of Russian naval vessels as they crossed into US waters off Alaska in an apparent effort to avoid sea ice"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala actor sexual assault case: Supreme Court grants bail to prime accused \u2018Pulsar\u2019 Suni;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala-actor-sexual-assault-case-supreme-court-grants-bail-to-prime-accused/article68650631.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:41:31 +0530",
        "text": "\u2018Pulsar\u2019 Suni, who has been in jail for the past seven years, had approached the Supreme Court after the Kerala High Court dismissed his bail on June 3"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Crater-ridden under-construction underpass becomes a bottleneck between Udupi and Kundapura;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/crater-ridden-under-construction-underpass-becomes-a-bottleneck-between-udupi-and-kundapura/article68648309.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:41:06 +0530",
        "text": "Despite MP Kota Srinivas Poojary directing the NHAI to regularly apply wet mix to ensure free traffic flow, the agency has not followed the direction"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hindenburg-SEBI chief row: Madhabi Buch's answers raise more questions, says Congress;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/hindenburg-sebi-chief-row-madhabi-buchs-answers-raise-more-questions-says-congress/article68650605.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:38:47 +0530",
        "text": "The \u2018facts\u2019 on their financial dealings not contradicted, says Congress"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Control of Murdoch media empire at stake as hearing to proceed with mogul and children;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/control-of-murdoch-media-empire-at-stake-as-hearing-to-proceed-with-mogul-and-children/article68650580.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:35:45 +0530",
        "text": "Rupert Murdoch stepped down as leader of both Fox News' parent company and his News Corp. media holdings last"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Schools, colleges in Manipur to reopen from September 17;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/manipur/schools-colleges-in-manipur-to-reopen-from-september-17/article68650562.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:31:34 +0530",
        "text": "Schools and colleges were closed on September 7 after rocket attacks killed one person and injured several others; orders for the reopening of schools and colleges were issued by the Directorate of Education (Schools) and the Higher and Technical Education Department"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Balapur Ganesh laddu auctioned for \u20b930 lakhs;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/balapur-ganesh-laddu-auctioned-for-30-lakhs/article68650591.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:28:05 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Plan to implement simultaneous polls within current tenure: Amit Shah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/home-minister-amit-shah-press-meet-on-modi-government-100-days/article68650560.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:21:51 +0530",
        "text": "Union Home Minister Amit Shah says the government is in talks with ethnic groups clashing in Manipur"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hyderabad youth drowns in lake in Canada during birthday celebration;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/hyderabad-youth-drowns-in-lake-in-canada-during-birthday-celebration/article68650554.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:16:18 +0530",
        "text": "The victim had moved to Canada in 2019 for studies while his elder brother migrated in 2022"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hyderabad Ganesh immersion LIVE updates: Khairatabad Ganesh idol immersed in Hussain Sagar lake;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/hyderabad-ganesh-immersion-live-updates-september-17-2024/article68650514.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:12:02 +0530",
        "text": "The final day of Ganesh idol immersion in the city is today"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;After Nipah, suspected Mpox case surfaces in Kerala\u2019s Malappuram;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/after-nipah-suspected-mpox-case-surfaces-in-keralas-malappuram/article68650518.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:01:04 +0530",
        "text": "A young man who returned from Dubai last week has been admitted to Government Medical College Hospital, Manjeri, in Malappuram district of Kerala with symptoms of Mpox. His serum samples have been sent for testing"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.S.-India relationship has bright path ahead: top American diplomat;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/us-india-relationship-has-bright-path-ahead-top-american-diplomat/article68650526.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:51:50 +0530",
        "text": "Richard Verma, the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, said the two nations now have greater convergence on how to work together and how they assess shared global threats and opportunities"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PM Modi to launch Subhadra Yojana, railway, highway projects in Odisha;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/odisha/pm-modi-to-launch-subhadra-yojana-railway-highway-projects-in-odisha/article68650508.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:38:50 +0530",
        "text": "An amount of \u20b910,000 per annum would be credited in two installments directly to their accounts; he will also dedicate to the nation and lay the foundation of railway projects worth \u20b92,800 crore"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP MLA falls on rail track while flagging off Vande Bharat train in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Etawah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttar-pradesh/up-bjp-mla-falls-on-rail-track-while-flagging-off-vande-bharat-train/article68650502.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:38:12 +0530",
        "text": "The 61-year-old second-term BJP lawmaker Sarita Bhadauriya was among a host of people holding the green flag as they stood at the platform"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kolkata doctor\u2019s rape-murder case: ED raids six locations in Kolkata over RG Kar \u2018financial irregularities\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/kolkata-doctors-rape-murder-case-ed-raids-six-locations-in-kolkata-over-rg-kar-financial-irregularities/article68650477.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:25:17 +0530",
        "text": "Search operations were underway at the Sithi residence of TMC's Serampore MLA Sudipto Roy and the house of a medicine dealer, besides four other places"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Atishi named new Chief Minister of Delhi; Kejriwal to resign at 4.30 p.m. | LIVE updates;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/arvind-kejriwal-resignation-delhi-chief-minister-aap-lieutenant-governor-meeting-live-updates-september-17-2024/article68650423.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:39:22 +0530",
        "text": "\u2018There is only one Chief Minister of Delhi and that is Arvind Kejriwal,\u2019 said Atishi after AAP MLAs chose her to succeed Mr. Kejriwal"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sean \u2019Diddy\u2019 Combs is arrested in New York after federal indictment;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sean-diddy-combs-is-arrested-in-new-york-after-federal-indictment/article68650424.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:17:52 +0530",
        "text": "The criminal charges are a major but not unexpected takedown of one of the most prominent producers and most famous names in the history of hip-hop"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jani Master told to stay away from Jana Sena Party activities;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/sexual-assault-case-choreographer-jani-master-told-to-stay-away-from-janasena-party-activities/article68650412.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:08:34 +0530",
        "text": "The move comes after a First Information Report was filed against choreographer Shaik Jani Basha, popularly known as Jani Master, on allegations of sexually assaulting a woman."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Violence, threats hang over Trump-Harris race after turbulent weekend;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/violence-threats-hang-over-trump-harris-race-after-turbulent-weekend/article68650416.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:04:28 +0530",
        "text": "The race between Mr. Trump and Ms. Harris remains tight across the battleground States that will decide the election"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Wings of hope: Can Ramanagara revive its vulture population?;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/wings-of-hope-can-ramanagara-revive-its-vulture-population/article68648672.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "The Karnataka Forest Department and Karnataka Vulture Conservation Trust organised the \u2018Nature Walk and Vulture Observation\u2019 to build awareness of the birds whose population in India declined by a staggering 99% between the 1980s and early 2000s"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Milaap Foundation launches handbook to help navigate Bengaluru\u2019s healthcare landscape;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/milaap-foundation-launches-handbook-to-help-navigate-bengalurus-healthcare-landscape/article68641524.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "Making Healthcare Accessible in Bengaluru: A Caretaker\u2019s Handbook  can be a helpful guide for those who come to Bengaluru from other states and countries seeking medical treatment"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Stone-eaters that threaten Iran\u2019s ancient Persepolis;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/stone-eaters-that-threaten-irans-ancient-persepolis/article68650415.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:59:20 +0530",
        "text": "A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, Persepolis features colossal sculptures and intricate stone reliefs of ancient Persian kings, nobles and deities"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Japan\u2019s elderly population hits record high;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/japans-elderly-population-hits-record-high/article68650393.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:44:18 +0530",
        "text": "The elderly now accounted for 29.3% of Japan\u2019s total population."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Melting glaciers pose major threat to Central Asia;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/melting-glaciers-pose-major-threat-to-central-asia/article68650395.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:40:00 +0530",
        "text": "The effects of a warming planet have been particularly visible in Central Asia, which has seen a wave of extreme weather disasters"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kolkata rape-murder case LIVE updates: SC says it is \u2018disturbed\u2019 by findings in CBI report;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rg-kar-hospital-kolkata-rape-murder-case-supreme-court-hearing-live-updates-september-17-2024/article68650349.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:30:32 +0530",
        "text": "The top court orders Wikipedia to take down details disclosing the victim\u2019s identity; WB govt barred from restricting women doctors\u2019 night shifts or working hours"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;How do emergency provisions impact Centre-State relations?;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/how-do-emergency-provisions-impact-centre-state-relations/article68648093.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "What is the federal structure of governance in India? How do Articles 355 and 356 affect federalism?"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Debris piles found in Virugambakkam canal days after Chennai Corporation Mayor\u2019s inspection;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/debris-piles-found-in-virugambakkam-canal-days-after-chennai-corporation-mayors-inspection/article68648985.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:23:38 +0530",
        "text": "Earlier in September, large amounts of garbage were found floating in the canal, including a large rusted metal gate, plastic and food waste"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;EU to name a new defence tsar, but doubts remain on the post\u2019s powers;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/eu-to-name-a-new-defence-tsar-but-doubts-remain-on-the-posts-powers/article68650388.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:21:43 +0530",
        "text": "The designated Defence Commissioner to be named under the European Commission\u00a0makes it clear that the bloc, which doesn\u2019t have an army, is serious about rearming itself; the main focus of the new position would be overseeing efforts to try to bolster the continent\u2019s defence sector"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Argentina\u2019s President Milei presents 2025 budget, vowing austerity and setting up a showdown;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/argentinas-president-milei-presents-2025-budget-vowing-austerity-and-setting-up-a-showdown/article68650389.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:19:40 +0530",
        "text": "The President\u2019s budget proposal followed a week of political clashes in the legislatur over spending increases that the administration warns would derail its IMF-backed \u201czero deficit\u201d budget."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Once a Naxal stronghold, Garjanapally celebrates its first IPS officer;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/once-a-naxal-stronghold-garjanapally-celebrates-its-first-ips-officer/article68648441.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:16:43 +0530",
        "text": "He is the first sub-inspector of police from the Lambada tribal community in the State to rise to the rank of IPS"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vande Bharat will boost growth in North Andhra region: traders;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/vande-bharat-will-boost-growth-in-north-andhra-region-traders/article68648448.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:13:57 +0530",
        "text": "The train will slash travel time by several hours, hugely benefiting traders from the region"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Why rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve matter to world markets;https://www.thehindu.com/business/why-rate-cuts-by-the-us-federal-reserve-matter-to-world-markets/article68650382.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:10:57 +0530",
        "text": "When the U.S. Federal Reserve cuts interest rates on September 18, 2024, its first in four years, the move will resonate well beyond the United States; global investors and interest rate-setters are looking for a steer from the Federal Reserve and are pinning hopes on an economic soft landing."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Prime Minister Narendra Modi turns 74; President, leaders extend birthday wishes;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-modi-turns-74-leaders-extend-birthday-wishes/article68650367.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:57:34 +0530",
        "text": "To mark the PM\u2019s birthday, BJP national president J.P. Nadda will launch a blood donation camp under \u2018Seva Pakhwada\u2019 and also inaugurate an exhibition on Mr. Modi\u2019s life at the party headquarters in New Delhi."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Booker Prize 2024 shortlist features most women in its history;https://www.thehindu.com/books/booker-prize-2024-shortlist-features-most-women-in-its-history/article68650368.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:53:29 +0530",
        "text": "Five of the six authors are women \u2014 the largest number in the prize's 55-year history."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;KPTCL employee cannot seek seniority in promotion in transferred circle if posted on request: Karnataka High Court;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/kptcl-employee-cannot-seek-seniority-in-promotion-in-transferred-circle-if-posted-on-request-karnataka-high-court/article68648427.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vokkaliga Ministers, legislators meet Siddaramaiah and seek action against Munirathna;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/vokkaliga-ministers-legislators-meet-siddaramaiah-and-seek-action-against-munirathna/article68648053.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;State government urged to promulgate Ordinance to implement internal reservation in Karnataka;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/state-government-urged-to-promulgate-ordinance-to-implement-internal-reservation-in-karnataka/article68648729.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Karnataka wins four Medallions of Excellence at WorldSkills Lyon 2024 in France;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/karnataka-wins-four-medallions-of-excellence-at-worldskills-lyon-2024-in-france/article68648320.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP\u2019s fact-finding team visits Nagamangala;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/bjps-fact-finding-team-visits-nagamangala/article68649274.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Morning Digest | MEA\u00a0\u2018strongly\u2019 deplores Ayatollah Khamenei\u2019s remark on Indian Muslims; Supreme Court to hear Kolkata doctor rape, murder case today, and more;https://www.thehindu.com/news/morning-digest-september-17-2024/article68649346.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:50:26 +0530",
        "text": "Here is a select list of stories to start the day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Enabling residents to return to north Israel is now a Gaza war goal, says Netanyahu;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/enabling-residents-to-return-to-north-israel-is-now-a-gaza-war-goal-says-netanyahu/article68650334.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:29:51 +0530",
        "text": "The decision was approved during an overnight meeting of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security Cabinet."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Meta bans RT and other Russian state media networks;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/meta-bans-rt-and-other-russian-state-media-networks/article68650330.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:10:01 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India, U.S. discuss Indo-Pacific and Gaza matters in Intersessional Dialogue;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-us-discuss-indo-pacific-and-gaza-matters-in-intersessional-dialogue/article68649703.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:09:00 +0530",
        "text": "The interaction, held in New Delhi, comes ahead of the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Musk deletes post speculating about Harris and Biden assassination after widespread criticism;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/musk-deletes-post-speculating-about-harris-and-biden-assassination-after-widespread-criticism/article68649701.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:59:00 +0530",
        "text": "Musk, who has nearly 200 million followers on the social media site he bought for $44 billion in 2022, has increasingly embraced conservative ideologies in recent years and endorsed Trump for president"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Stalin administers pledge on social justice; pays tributes to S.S. Ramasamy Padayatchi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/stalin-administers-pledge-on-social-justice-pays-tributes-to-ss-ramasamy-padayatchi/article68648540.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:39:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Shamanur Shivashankarappa elected unopposed as Veerashaiva Mahasabha president;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/shamanur-shivashankarappa-elected-unopposed-as-veerashaiva-mahasabha-president/article68645633.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:32:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Ahead of polls, Congress struggles with internal tensions in Maharashtra;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/ahead-of-polls-congress-struggles-with-internal-tensions-in-maharashtra/article68648714.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 04:59:00 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Wadettiwar, a member of the minority Teli community, has already faced issues with Ms. Dhanorkar\u2019s camp, who accused him of undermining her Lok Sabha election campaign after his daughter, Shivani, was denied a ticket"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Indian Consulate condemns vandalism of temple in New York;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/indian-consulate-condemns-vandalism-of-temple-in-new-york/article68649563.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:59:00 +0530",
        "text": "According to footage shared online, expletives have been sprayed on the road and the signage outside the temple"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Explosion at a firecracker unit in U.P.\u2019s Firozabad leaves five dead, including two children; 11 injured;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttar-pradesh/firozabad-firecracker-factory-explosion-many-dead-september-17-2024/article68649581.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:39:00 +0530",
        "text": "Police said the explosion happened in the factory located in the Naushera area under Shikohabad police station limits on the night of September 16"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bihar Police arrests two youth for misrepresenting national flag;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/bihar-police-arrests-two-youth-for-misrepresenting-national-flag/article68648486.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:22:52 +0530",
        "text": "On Monday morning, a video made the rounds on social media showing the national flag with a moon and star instead of the Ashoka Chakra waved during a procession on Milad-un-Nabi"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Govt, BJP plan events to mark NDA's 100 days in office;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/govt-bjp-plan-events-to-mark-ndas-100-days-in-office/article68649565.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:19:00 +0530",
        "text": "Various Union Ministers will hold press conferences to give a report card on the 100 days of the Modi government 3.0, highlighting its achievements"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;VP Dhankhar cautions against \u2018dispiriting\u2019 institutions like EC, probe agencies;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/vp-dhankhar-cautions-against-dispiriting-institutions-like-ec-probe-agencies/article68648796.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:10:52 +0530",
        "text": "Our institutions work under trying situations. An observation could \u2018dispirit\u2019 them, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Woman job aspirant frisked \u2018inappropriately\u2019 in Assam; probe ordered;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/assam/woman-job-aspirant-frisked-inappropriately-in-assam-probe-ordered/article68648817.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:05:52 +0530",
        "text": "The candidate appeared for Assam Direct Recruitment Examination for about 12,600 Class III and Class V jobs across 2,305 centres on Sunday"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Not mandatory to be a MLA to become the Chief, says Randeep Surjewala;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/not-mandatory-to-be-a-mla-to-become-the-chief-says-randeep-surjewala/article68648867.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:03:37 +0530",
        "text": "Surjewala said the party\u2019s MLAs and the high command would decide on the party\u2019s next Chief Minister at the right time if Congress was voted to power"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CBI interrogates ex-R.G. Kar principal Sandip Ghosh, police officer Abhijit Mondal together;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/cbi-interrogates-ex-rg-kar-principal-sandip-ghosh-police-officer-abhijit-mondal-together/article68649567.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:59:00 +0530",
        "text": "Ghosh and Mondal, the officer-in-charge of the Tala police station, were asked to detail their activities on August 9"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;First 100 days of Modi 3.0 marked by \u2018U-turns\u2019, says Congress;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/first-100-days-of-modi-30-marked-by-u-turns-says-congress/article68649051.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:48:13 +0530",
        "text": "Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate alleges that PM Narendra Modi\u2019s relationship with the RSS has soured, there is intense infighting within the BJP and the government lacked direction"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Singhvi\u2019s petition challenging Rajya Sabha elections in Himachal Pradesh maintainable: HC;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/singhvis-petition-challenging-rajya-sabha-elections-in-himachal-pradesh-maintainable-hc/article68649053.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:43:58 +0530",
        "text": "Singhvi moved the HC in April this year, challenging the interpretation of rules in the process of results declaration in polls held in February"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Protesting doctors hail in the removal of Kolkata Police Commissioner, other officials as victory of their movement;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/protesting-doctors-hail-in-the-removal-of-kolkata-police-commissioner-other-officials-as-victory-of-their-movement/article68649574.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:39:00 +0530",
        "text": "Protesting resident doctors said that they will take decision about resuming work after assurances are officially met by the government"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Prison takes nine months to send detenu\u2019s representation, SC orders his release;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/prison-takes-nine-months-to-send-detenus-representation-sc-orders-his-release/article68649240.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:31:52 +0530",
        "text": "The court said that \u201cin matters pertaining to personal liberty of the citizens, the authorities are enjoined with a constitutional obligation to decide the representation with utmost expedition.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two senior media professionals arrested in Bangladesh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/two-senior-media-professionals-arrested-in-bangladesh/article68649003.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:27:17 +0530",
        "text": "A source in Bangladesh said genocide cases have been lodged against Sheikh Hasina for her role in the killing of protesters during July to August 2024 and the two senior media professionals have been arrested for remarks that they might have made regarding the protest"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Trump blames Biden and Harris 'rhetoric' for assassination bids;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/trump-blames-biden-and-harris-rhetoric-for-assassination-bids/article68649504.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:19:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rights of future generations must guide climate debate;https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rights-of-future-generations-must-guide-climate-debate/article68648973.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:15:00 +0530",
        "text": "There is a moral imperative to ensure a liveable planet for the next generations, but another issue is that of a legal obligation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;A new CM will enable AAP to accelerate its welfare schemes ahead of Delhi poll;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/a-new-cm-will-enable-aap-to-accelerate-its-welfare-schemes-ahead-of-delhi-poll/article68649566.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:09:39 +0530",
        "text": "By stepping aside to get an endorsement from the people\u2019s court on his innocence vis-a-vis corruption charges, Arvind Kejriwal is bidding to retain the functionality of the post before the city-state votes for its next government"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delhi CM\u2019s decision to step down driven by compulsion: BJP;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-cms-decision-to-step-down-driven-by-compulsion-bjp/article68649514.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:06:08 +0530",
        "text": "A day before Kejriwal is likely to quit as CM, Delhi BJP president attacks him for \u2018pushing people into alcoholism\u2019, waterlogging-related deaths; State Cong. chief terms AAP chief\u2019s move a \u2018political stunt\u2019"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;HC directs MCD to pay \u20b910 lakh compensation in 17-year-old case;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/hc-directs-mcd-to-pay-10-lakh-compensation-in-17-year-old-case/article68648520.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:03:11 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Motorcyclist, 19, dies after colliding with a stray bull in Lutyens\u2019 Delhi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/motorcyclist-19-dies-after-colliding-with-a-stray-bull-in-lutyens-delhi/article68649032.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:00:36 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Calicut varsity framing guidelines for  conduct of exams of four-year UG programmes;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kozhikode/calicut-varsity-framing-guidelines-for-conduct-of-exams-of-four-year-ug-programmes/article68648801.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:00:18 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Feature films to be more accessible to hearing and visually impaired;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/feature-films-to-be-more-accessible-to-hearing-and-visually-impaired/article68649154.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:59:00 +0530",
        "text": "Ministry says new guidelines aimed at enhancing\u00a0accessibility standards\u00a0for the public exhibition of feature films in cinema theatres for persons with hearing and visual impairment"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Single girl child quota has given us a chance to open up, make friends, say new DU students;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/single-girl-child-quota-has-given-us-a-chance-to-open-up-make-friends-say-new-du-students/article68605331.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:58:35 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Police warn people of ticket scam ahead of Diljit concert;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/police-warn-people-of-ticket-scam-ahead-of-diljit-concert/article68649561.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:56:23 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bhatti invited to 19th World Summit of Nobel Peace laureates in Mexico;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/bhatti-invited-to-19th-world-summit-of-nobel-peace-laureates-in-mexico/article68648023.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:54:54 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Women-led development in the Rajya Sabha;https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/women-led-development-in-the-rajya-sabha/article68648637.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:49:00 +0530",
        "text": "The Rajya Sabha under Jagdeep Dhankar\u2019s chairmanship is leading by example in translating the ideal of women-led development into a reality"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Politics over prayer in Assam;https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/politics-over-prayer-in-assam/article68648587.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:36:00 +0530",
        "text": "Assam\u2019s decision to abolish the Jumma break seems to have no rationale"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Maradu municipality, Kumbalam panchayat at loggerheads over border land;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/maradu-municipality-kumbalam-panchayat-at-loggerheads-over-border-land/article68648055.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:12:01 +0530",
        "text": "Construction of building halted after Kumbalam panchayat issued stop memo to the owner who had secured a permit from Maradu municipality"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Leaders of DMK, allies condemn \u201chigh-handed\u201d approach of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/leaders-of-dmk-allies-condemn-high-handed-approach-of-finance-minister-nirmala-sitharaman/article68649234.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:10:17 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Many parts of Tamil Nadu likely to witness soaring day temperatures for five days;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/many-parts-of-tn-may-continue-to-sizzle-with-soaring-day-temperature-predicted-for-another-five-days/article68648509.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:05:57 +0530",
        "text": "Madurai Airport continued to experience blazing hot temperature for third consecutive day and hottest in the State on September 16"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Central police canteens in Manipur will be open to all: Amit Shah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/central-police-canteens-in-manipur-will-be-open-to-all-amit-shah/article68649483.ece;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:01:48 +0530",
        "text": "Ever since the conflict, there has been a shortage of essential commodities in the State. Amit Shah said the government will \u201cprovide commodities to the people of Manipur at reasonable prices\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;AITUC asks government to not delay welfare board for unorganised sector;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/aituc-asks-government-to-not-delay-welfare-board-for-unorganised-sector/article68648416.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:55:01 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Home Secretary likely to visit Puducherry;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/home-secretary-likely-to-visit-puducherry/article68648480.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:54:43 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Police on the lookout for rowdy sheeter who stripped a man on the road, assaulted him and posted video;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/police-on-the-lookout-for-rowdy-sheeter-who-stripped-a-man-on-the-road-assaulted-him-and-posted-video/article68648201.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:54:15 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;AIADMK workers observe fast against electricity tariff hike in Puducherry;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/aiadmk-workers-observe-fast-against-electricity-tariff-hike-in-puducherry/article68647841.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:53:46 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mines Safety Week observed at NLC India Ltd.;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/mines-safety-week-observed-at-nlc-india-ltd/article68648212.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:53:32 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Foundation stone laid for new Collectorate in Kallakurichi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/foundation-stone-laid-for-new-collectorate-in-kallakurichi/article68647799.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:53:05 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kolkata case: Jipmer resident doctors hold pen-down protest, form human chain;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/kolkata-case-jipmer-resident-doctors-hold-pen-down-protest-form-human-chain/article68648694.ece;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 23:52:43 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;How the yuan can help Hong Kong outcompete Shenzhen;https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3278595/how-yuan-can-help-hong-kong-outcompete-shenzhen?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:30:09 +0800",
        "text": "Allowing Hong Kong banks to offer Chinese onshore renminbi services would enable the city to leverage its economic freedom on a whole new level."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Tenant of Hong Kong\u2019s only private low-rent housing estate challenges eviction tactics;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3278863/tenant-hong-kongs-only-private-rental-housing-estate-challenges-landlords-eviction-tactics?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:14:15 +0800",
        "text": "85-year-old applicant takes housing corporation to court for failing to ensure resettlement of residents before redeveloping neighbourhood."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;CityUHK launches 9 globally leading Flagship Programmes to nurture future leaders;https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/cityuhk-flagship-programmes/article/3278742/cityuhk-launches-9-globally-leading-flagship-programmes-nurture-future-leaders?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:05:14 +0800",
        "text": "[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.]\r \r City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) is committed to promoting inspirational, interactive and innovative learning experiences. Recognised as the Most International University by Times Higher Education (THE) in 2024, CityUHK values diverse learning experiences for students and actively expands global academic and research partnerships. The University provides students with rich opportunities for overseas exchanges and internships, thereby nurturing the next generation of global leaders.\r \r In partnership with top global universities, CityUHK has introduced four Flagship Programmes for the 2024/25 academic year, which will expand to a total of nine Flagship Programmes in the 2025/26 academic year. The Flagship Scholarships, which cover tuition and hall fees, a guaranteed berth, and a one-off exchange sponsorship of up to HK$500,000, will be awarded to local JUPAS talents who meet the criteria.\r \r \r \r The nine Flagship Programmes are:\r \r Since 2024/25 academic year:\r \r \u2022 Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine\r \u2022 BBA Global Business\r \u2022 Global Research Enrichment and Technopreneurship\r \u2022 Pathway for Research, Innovation, and Multinational Engineering\r \r Since 2025/26 academic year:\r \r \u2022 BSocSc in Psychology (Stream: Wellbeing Enhancement and Care Management (WE-CARE) Programme)\r \u2022 Creative Arts and Technology Excellence\r \u2022 Data Empowerment: Learn, Transform and Achieve\r \u2022 International Sustainability Programme for Innovation, Research and Entrepreneurship\r \u2022 Bachelor of Laws\r \r CityUHK\u2019s global partnerships include:\r \r \u2022 Massachusetts Institute of Technology\r \u2022 Imperial College London\r \u2022 University of Oxford\r \u2022 Harvard University\r \u2022 University of Cambridge\r \u2022 Cornell University\r \u2022 University of Toronto\r \u2022 Columbia University\r \r (In order of QS World University Rankings)\r \r Nurturing future veterinarians and promoting animal health and welfare\r \r Monica Chan Hiu-man, a Year 6 student in the Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine programme\r \r \u201cDuring my\u2026"
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Mentally ill Hongkonger admits to hacking neighbour, 84, to death over \u2018irritating noises\u2019;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3278853/mentally-ill-hongkonger-admits-hacking-neighbour-84-death-over-irritating-noise?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:28:36 +0800",
        "text": "Ho Sai-yu, 38, told police he killed Wong Hang-lam on September 27, 2021, because he could no longer bear neighbours\u2019 alleged noises."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival at its hottest in recorded history;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3278850/hong-kong-celebrate-mid-autumn-festival-its-hottest-recorded-history?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:15:05 +0800",
        "text": "Observatory records temperature of 35.7 degrees in Tsim Sha Tsui, says residents should bring umbrellas in case of rain at outdoor events."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police arrest drug trafficking suspect, seize HK$20,000 of narcotics in Tseung Kwan O;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3278848/hong-kong-police-arrest-drug-trafficking-suspect-seize-hk20000-narcotics-tseung-kwan-o?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:13:28 +0800",
        "text": "In predawn operation, officers find 77 grams of suspected marijuana and five cartridges of cannabidiol in 26-year-old\u2019s illegally parked car."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong IPO market\u2019s \u2018very positive momentum\u2019 set to build, HKEX CEO says;https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3278842/hong-kong-ipo-markets-very-positive-momentum-set-build-hkex-ceo-says?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:09:27 +0800",
        "text": "After Midea\u2019s US$3.98 billion listing on Tuesday, \u2018we\u2019re seeing a lot of very good signs in the IPO market\u2019, says Bonnie Chan."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;John Lee warns of \u2018strong\u2019 response if US advances bill targeting Hong Kong trade offices;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3278840/john-lee-warns-strong-response-if-us-advances-bill-targeting-hong-kong-trade-offices?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:06:23 +0800",
        "text": "City leader reiterates closure of outposts will damage trade relations, deliver political gains for politicians at the expense of US businesses."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Fireworks, discounted MTR rides set for Hong Kong\u2019s National Day \u2018golden week\u2019 holiday;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278837/fireworks-discounted-mtr-rides-set-hong-kongs-national-day-golden-week-holiday?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:52:33 +0800",
        "text": "Chief Executive John Lee says Octopus card holders can enjoy 25 per cent discount on MTR and light rail rides during the October 1 holiday."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Names, numbers of 306 Hongkongers leaked after community hall contractor loses flash drive;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278812/names-phone-numbers-306-hong-kong-applicants-leaked-after-community-hall-contractor-loses-usb?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:01:52 +0800",
        "text": "Staff member handling bookings for community hall in Sai Ying Pun lost thumb drive with applicants\u2019 personal data and event dates, times."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Beijing\u2019s top diplomat in Hong Kong to address British Chamber of Commerce for first time;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278798/beijings-top-diplomat-hong-kong-address-british-chamber-commerce-first-keynote-speech?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:00:10 +0800",
        "text": "Cui Jianchun will \u2018share the spirit\u2019 of the China\u2019s third plenum and its \u2018implications for international business in Hong Kong\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s biggest IPO since 2021 sizzles as Midea shares soar in blockbuster offering;https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3278796/midea-shares-rise-hong-kong-trading-debut-citys-largest-ipo-2021-sizzles?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:34:52 +0800",
        "text": "The Foshan-based company raised HK$31.01 billion last week, after offering its stock at HK$54.80 a share, at the top end of an expected price range."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Despite setbacks, Hong Kong is still the best place to do business;https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3278247/despite-setbacks-hong-kong-still-best-place-do-business?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:30:08 +0800",
        "text": "The exit of foreign firms and falling property prices shouldn\u2019t overshadow the city\u2019s resilient growth, access to the rest of China, and support for innovation."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s Octopus eyes overseas markets as new mainland card travels well;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278777/hong-kongs-octopus-eyes-overseas-markets-new-mainland-card-travels-well?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:30:15 +0800",
        "text": "\u2018Octopus \u2013 China T-Union Card\u2019 is most used in Shenzhen, followed by Guangzhou, Shanghai and Hangzhou."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Rooftop of Henderson\u2019s Zaha Hadid-designed building to host Hong Kong galas, mega events;https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3278743/hendersons-rooftop-venue-host-hong-kong-gala-dinners-mega-events-boost-builder?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:30:09 +0800",
        "text": "The Henderson, a 36-storey office building in Central, will host some of the biggest events this year at its 6,800-sq ft rooftop ballroom."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong shops still selling glow sticks for Mid-Autumn despite single-use plastics ban;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3278775/hong-kong-shops-still-selling-glow-sticks-mid-autumn-despite-single-use-plastics-ban?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:00:20 +0800",
        "text": "Sellers rush to clear stock before grace period ends next month, as economic mood and changing trends weigh on traditional stores."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;13 more Hong Kong patients found to have potentially deadly infection linked to fish;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3278781/13-more-hong-kong-patients-found-have-potentially-deadly-infection-linked-fish?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:44:28 +0800",
        "text": "Patients with Group B Streptococcus found to have same ST283 strain as 27 earlier cases, Centre for Health Protection says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police warn cybercrime targeting children; city logs 900 \u2018naked chat\u2019, scam cases;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3278623/hong-kong-police-warn-cybercrime-targeting-children-city-logs-900-naked-chat-scam-cases?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 07:00:11 +0800",
        "text": "Nine-year-old girl videotaped having sex with man after meeting on app in one case, with police stepping up warnings over cybercrimes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU's von der Leyen unveils new European Commission;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-s-von-der-leyen-unveils-new-european-commission/a-70234957?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Her announcement comes after the sudden resignation of France's Thierry Breton. Von der Leyen's election to a second term as chief of the European Commission came after intense negotiations among EU leaders."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German conservatives name Merz as chancellor candidate, reports;https://www.dw.com/en/german-conservatives-name-merz-as-chancellor-candidate-reports/a-70236210?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's conservative parties chose opposition leader Friedrich Merz as their candidate for chancellor in next year's federal elections. He will likely run against Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Mali: Gunfire heard in Bamako;https://www.dw.com/en/mali-gunfire-heard-in-bamako/a-70235941?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Residents reported hearing gunfire around 5:00 a.m. A Malian police source told reporters the gunmen had not been identified."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: Tusk in southern Poland for crisis meeting;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-tusk-in-southern-poland-for-crisis-meeting/live-70235466?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was in the city of Wroclaw for a disaster meeting while residents of the town of Nysa rushed to fortify a dyke. The Elbe River in eastern Germany continued to rise slowly. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Germany pledges \u20ac100 million in winter aid;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-germany-pledges-\u20ac100-million-in-winter-aid/live-70235271?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The German foreign minister promised Ukraine additional aid as Russia stepped up its attacks on energy infrastructure with winter on the horizon. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India: Atishi to take over as new chief minister of Delhi;https://www.dw.com/en/india-atishi-to-take-over-as-new-chief-minister-of-delhi/a-70235288?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Aam Aadmi Party has said Atishi will take charge as Delhi\u2019s chief minister. Incumbent Arvind Kejriwal is scheduled to officially resign on Tuesday."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Intel delays construction of Magdeburg factory;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-intel-delays-construction-of-magdeburg-factory/a-70235254?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has delayed a construction project by two years amid cost-saving measures. German Finance Minister Christian Lindner called for funds earmarked for subsidies to be used to plug a federal budget gap."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Myanmar: Death toll from floods rises to 226;https://www.dw.com/en/myanmar-death-toll-from-floods-rises-to-226/a-70235130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Floods from Typhoon Yagi have so far claimed the lives of 226 people in Myanmar. The damage is also severely impeding urgent aid efforts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East updates: Israeli PM says returning Israelis to northern areas now a war goal;https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-updates-israeli-pm-says-returning-israelis-to-northern-areas-now-a-war-goal/live-70234354?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says the current war's goals have been expanded, while US Secretary of State Blinken plans another trip to the region in a bid to restart the ceasefire deal talks. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Meta bans RT, other Russian state media networks;https://www.dw.com/en/meta-bans-rt-other-russian-state-media-networks/a-70234756?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp said it's banning a list of Russian state outlets due to \"foreign interference activity.\" The US previously warned of Russia's use of RT to gain influence in the West."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Global democracy continues to decline, says watchdog;https://www.dw.com/en/global-democracy-continues-to-decline-says-watchdog/a-70234477?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "According to a report, the global index for free and fair elections suffered the biggest decline on record in 2023, while disputed elections are becoming a global phenomenon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Back to basics: high-tech Sweden aims to de-digitalize youth;https://www.dw.com/en/back-to-basics-high-tech-sweden-aims-to-de-digitalize-youth/a-70228600?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Swedish government says excessive screen time is causing a severe health crisis for youth, both mentally and physically. New legislation is in the works to require schools to ban access to digital devices."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Israeli airstrikes reportedly kill at least 16 in Gaza;https://www.dw.com/en/israeli-airstrikes-reportedly-kill-at-least-16-in-gaza/a-70234018?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Medics say 16 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, an Israeli minister says a military operation on the Lebanese border is necessary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Trump assassination attempt suspect charged with gun crimes;https://www.dw.com/en/trump-assassination-attempt-suspect-charged-with-gun-crimes/a-70232743?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The suspect in the apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump has been charged with federal gun crimes. Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden said the Secret Service needs more help."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods devastate West and Central Africa;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-devastate-west-and-central-africa/a-70231593?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Unprecendented flooding in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Mali, Ghana and Liberia has triggered humanitarian crises. An estimated four million people \u2014 most of them children \u2014 are caught up in the devastation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Worker killed in Oktoberfest rollercoaster test;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-worker-killed-in-oktoberfest-rollercoaster-test/a-70232611?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Munich fire department said a worker was fatally injured during a test ride of a rollercoaster at the Oktoberfest site."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: Death toll rises as Storm Boris wreaks havoc;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-death-toll-rises-as-storm-boris-wreaks-havoc/live-70224153?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Highest flood warnings have been declared at some 100 places in the Czech Republic, with most regions in the country affected. Austria, Poland and Romania have also been hard-hit."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jammu and Kashmir election brings hope to restive region;https://www.dw.com/en/jammu-and-kashmir-election-brings-hope-to-restive-region/a-70231598?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "India is organizing the first election in Jammu and Kashmir in a decade. The region's residents are cautiously optimistic amid the never-ending violence."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ex-BBC host gets suspended sentence for indecent images;https://www.dw.com/en/ex-bbc-host-gets-suspended-sentence-for-indecent-images/a-70229058?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Huw Edwards, ex-host of the broadcaster's flagship news program, had pleaded guilty to receiving indecent images of children. There was an outcry over Edwards continuing to receive salary payments following his arrest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Who could lead Germany's conservatives back to power?;https://www.dw.com/en/who-could-lead-germany-s-conservatives-back-to-power/a-70212831?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Two men are competing \u2014 or is it three? The conservative allied Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union parties are set to choose their candidate for chancellor for Germany's national election next year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg: Black politician takes on German far-right AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-black-politician-takes-on-german-far-right-afd/a-70166368?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "German voters in Brandenburg are heading to the polls just weeks after the far-right AfD party's historic surge in two state elections. Can Cameroonian-born politician Adeline Abimnwi Awemo help turn the tide?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Russia says it has retaken Kursk towns;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-russia-says-it-has-retaken-kursk-towns/live-70228135?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Kremlin is claiming a successful counter-offensive following a Ukrainian incursion. Meanwhile, both Zelenskyy and the Kremlin have commented on Trump's alleged assassination attempt. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's expanded border controls come into force;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-expanded-border-controls-come-into-force/live-70228054?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany has temporarily reintroduced controls on its western and northern borders as part of efforts to combat irregular migration and cross-border crime."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy's UniCredit raises eyebrows over Commerzbank move;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-s-unicredit-raises-eyebrows-over-commerzbank-move/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "UniCredit stunned markets by buying a 9% stake in Germany's second-largest lender. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, DW explores the next possible moves."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;French EU commissioner quits after clash with von der Leyen;https://www.dw.com/en/french-eu-commissioner-quits-after-clash-with-von-der-leyen/a-70224757?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "France's Thierry Breton says he is leaving his role following a spat with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen. In a letter outlining his decision, Breton cited \"questionable governance.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany begins expanded border controls to control migration;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-begins-expanded-border-controls-to-control-migration/a-70218944?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Citing an overloaded asylum system, Germany on Monday started passport controls on all of its land borders to reduce irregular migration. Such measures are supposed to be the exception within the EU."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Baby giraffe born in Karlsruhe Zoo;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-baby-giraffe-born-in-karlsruhe-zoo/a-70223157?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Giraffe Wahia has given birth for the first time in nine years after a 15-month pregnancy, according to officials in Germany's Karlsruhe Zoo. The baby, like her mother, belongs to an endangered giraffe subspecies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Georgia's elections: Will voters lean to the EU or Russia?;https://www.dw.com/en/georgia-s-elections-will-voters-lean-to-the-eu-or-russia/a-70203786?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Georgians go to the polls on October 26, with the key question being whether voters will prefer a pro-European or pro-Russian government. Observers fear violence, regardless of the outcome."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;France: 8 die in attempted Channel crossing;https://www.dw.com/en/france-8-die-in-attempted-channel-crossing/a-70221145?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Eight people on a boat trying to cross from France to England have died after the vessel got into difficulties. Almost 50 people have died so far this year attempting the perilous journey, French authorities say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Russian missile strike kills 2 in Odesa;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-russian-missile-strike-kills-2-in-odesa/live-70220869?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Two people died in a missile attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa, local officials said. Follow DW for the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Will Turkey's bid to join BRICS speed up EU accession?;https://www.dw.com/en/will-turkey-s-bid-to-join-brics-speed-up-eu-accession/a-70208316?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Is Turkey's recent application for membership in the BRICS group a sign the country is moving away from the EU or a political move to put pressure on the bloc? Experts say it could be both \u2014 or neither."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: Parts of Vienna without power as river rises;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-parts-of-vienna-without-power-as-river-rises/live-70220078?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "A dam overflowed in southern Poland and several districts of Vienna were left without power amid heavy rainfall and flooding across Europe. Meanwhile, several people drowned in Romania. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's Scholz rules out long-range weapons for Ukraine;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-scholz-rules-out-long-range-weapons-for-ukraine/a-70219078?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Olaf Scholz said that Berlin will not provide Kyiv with Taurus cruise missiles even if NATO allies decide differently. He also called for the prosecution of those who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine church leader: All faithful unite when facing evil;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-church-leader-all-faithful-unite-when-facing-evil/a-70215411?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, told DW about the debate over Pope Francis' remarks on the Russian war and how the church has evolved through more than two years of hostilities."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The use and misuse of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/the-use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The White Stripes and other artists have objected to Donald Trump using their songs in his presidential campaign. A look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Serbia plans to bring back compulsory military service;https://www.dw.com/en/serbia-plans-to-bring-back-compulsory-military-service/a-70217637?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says he has approved reinstating compulsory military service. The country abolished compulsory military service 23 years ago."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Hundreds of prisoners freed in major swap;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-hundreds-of-prisoners-freed-in-major-swap/live-70216618?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Ukraine and Russia exchanged 206 prisoners of war on Saturday. Meanwhile, Russia's ex-president Dmytri Medvedev threatened to reduce Kyiv to 'molten-grey mass.' Follow DW for the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe: Heavy rains batter Poland, Czech Republic, Austria;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-heavy-rains-batter-poland-czech-republic-austria/live-70216853?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Experts predict heavy flooding in Central Europe this weekend, with storms affecting Czech Republic, Poland, Austria and Romania. Water levels in Germany's Bavaria also rose but remained moderate. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jens Stoltenberg set to head Munich Security Conference;https://www.dw.com/en/jens-stoltenberg-set-to-head-munich-security-conference/a-70213341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is to become the first non-German to head the renowned MSC. The former Norwegian Prime Minister has been a staunch advocate for increased defense spending by NATO member states."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants 'swift' peace in Ukraine;https://www.dw.com/en/german-chancellor-olaf-scholz-wants-swift-peace-in-ukraine/a-70215563?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said it is time to rekindle diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine. But both foreign and domestic responses to his proposal have been rather muted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dresden rushes to remove collapsed bridge amid flood warning;https://www.dw.com/en/dresden-rushes-to-remove-collapsed-bridge-amid-flood-warning/a-70215802?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The city of Dresden in Germany's eastern Saxony state is racing to remove parts of a partially collapsed bridge ahead of expected flooding. A 100-meter segment of the Carola Bridge fell into the Elbe river on Wednesday."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Venezuela recalls Spanish ambassador in post-election clash;https://www.dw.com/en/venezuela-recalls-spanish-ambassador-in-post-election-clash/a-70215714?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Venezuela's move followed after a Spanish minister called Maduro's government a \"dictatorship.\" Opposition figure Eduardo Gonzalez Urrutia, who fled to Madrid this week, says he won July's election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Slovakian leaders want 'countermeasures' for fictional paper;https://www.dw.com/en/slovakian-leaders-want-countermeasures-for-fictional-paper/a-70214145?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "In Slovakia, a fictional paper explores a future where Russia invades the country after defeating Ukraine. Government leaders have called for \"countermeasures\" and accused the authors of spreading disinformation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU Parliament president: extending border controls only possible with 'balanced, comprehensive approach to migration';https://www.dw.com/en/eu-parliament-president-extending-border-controls-only-possible-with-balanced-comprehensive-approach-to-migration/a-70201112?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "In this interview \u2014 conducted before Germany's decision to re-introduce border checks \u2014 EU Parliament President Roberta Metsola spoke to DW about disinformation, migration and the right-wing surge in the EU election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dutch government eyes emergency laws to curb migration;https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-government-eyes-emergency-laws-to-curb-migration/a-70214206?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The new far-right government in the Netherlands wants to wind back several policies in order to reduce the number of people seeking asylum. EU authorities have questioned the legality of the move."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's political landscape is more fractured than ever;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-political-landscape-is-more-fractured-than-ever/a-70211395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The AfD and BSW, two populist parties in Germany, won almost half of the votes in the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia. The result has fundamentally changed the German party system."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Young women and girls more at risk of homelessness;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-young-women-and-girls-more-at-risk-of-homelessness/a-70200312?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Homelessness also affects young people, including an unusually high proportion of women and girls. Life with no home of their own is particularly dangerous for this group, say experts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Olaf Scholz stresses Germany's need for immigrants;https://www.dw.com/en/olaf-scholz-stresses-germany-s-need-for-immigrants/a-70187337?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The German chancellor made the remarks in the Bundestag after high-level talks on migration policy in Berlin broke down. Germany is introducing more systematic border checks on those arriving from the Schengen Area."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Cross-party migration talks break down;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-cross-party-migration-talks-break-down/a-70182751?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "A second round of high-level German talks on migration in Berlin ended without agreement. The conservative opposition said it would not attend further meetings. But the coalition government still unveiled a new proposal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German princess gave US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito $900 in concert tickets;https://www.dw.com/en/german-princess-gave-us-supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito-900-in-concert-tickets/a-70159689?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito disclosed receiving concert tickets worth $900 from German socialite and \"princess\" Gloria von Thurn und Taxis."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Berlin plans new mass accommodation for refugees;https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-plans-new-mass-accommodation-for-refugees/a-70169283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Immigration has become a hot-button issue in Germany. Refugee accommodation centers in Berlin are full to overflowing, but there's a desperate lack of housing. Now, authorities are coming up with bright ideas."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Will German police get to do secret house searches?;https://www.dw.com/en/will-german-police-get-to-do-secret-house-searches/a-70154300?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office wants to secretly break into homes as part of anti-terrorism measures. That is currently prohibited, but the interior minister has far-reaching plans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Students want to strip Adolf Hitler of honorary citizenship;https://www.dw.com/en/students-want-to-strip-adolf-hitler-of-honorary-citizenship/a-70155685?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Thousands of German towns and municipalities once made Adolf Hitler an honorary citizen, and many have still not distanced themselves from the Nazi dictator. But now, students in Bad Honnef are taking action."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;1994: Remembering when World War II Allies left Berlin;https://www.dw.com/en/1994-remembering-when-world-war-ii-allies-left-berlin/a-70156413?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Thirty years ago, the military presence of the US, Great Britain, France and the former Soviet Union came to an end in Germany. Their legacies remain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hedgehogs threatened by robot mowers, German activists warn;https://www.dw.com/en/hedgehogs-threatened-by-robot-mowers-german-activists-warn/a-70160521?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Robot mowers damage biodiversity and harm many creatures, including hedgehogs, according to German conservationists. Some of them are calling for a ban on nighttime mowing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German support for Ukraine under pressure from populists;https://www.dw.com/en/german-support-for-ukraine-under-pressure-from-populists/a-70138863?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The populist BSW and far-right AfD parties, both of which did well in recent state elections in Saxony and Thuringia, are opposed to arms deliveries to Ukraine. This stance is having an impact on federal politics."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Hundreds evacuated due to Harz Mountains fire;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hundreds-evacuated-due-to-harz-mountains-fire/a-70159334?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Multiple aircraft were deployed to help put out a large fire in the Harz Mountains of central Germany, with the blaze expected to continue burning for days."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Alex Morgan: The greatest female footballer of all time?;https://www.dw.com/en/alex-morgan-the-greatest-female-footballer-of-all-time/a-70153127?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Marta may have won six FIFA player awards, but two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan is more of a household name. Teammate Megan Rapinoe achieved on and off the field, yet Morgan had a grace on the pitch few could match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Disgruntled German voters want change;https://www.dw.com/en/disgruntled-german-voters-want-change/a-70150936?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Support for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left government has reached a new low, according to the monthly ARD Deutschlandtrend poll. But who stands to gain?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Drugs, human trafficking top organized crime in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/drugs-human-trafficking-top-organized-crime-in-germany/a-70148060?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Most organized crime investigations in Germany involve drug offenses, racketeering and property crimes. But human smuggling is becoming a lucrative business model."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's ter Stegen is happy the wait is finally over;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-ter-stegen-is-happy-the-wait-is-finally-over/a-70144838?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "National team goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has spoken of his frustration during years of being stuck behind Manuel Neuer, while at the same time paying tribute to his predecessor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australia's Raygun claims 'I knew people wouldn't understand my style';https://www.dw.com/en/australia-s-raygun-claims-i-knew-people-wouldn-t-understand-my-style/a-70135037?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Rachael \"Raygun\" Gunn, the 37-year-old Olympic breaker, says the criticism of her performance came from people's ignorance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Women's soccer: US shows up Europe on maternity care;https://www.dw.com/en/women-s-soccer-us-shows-up-europe-on-maternity-care/a-70117081?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "A recent lawsuit involving French club Olympique Lyon highlighted the disparities and room for improvement in women's football regarding pregnancies and maternity care."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Argentina: Court blocks Milei move to privatize football;https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-court-blocks-milei-move-to-privatize-football/a-70122667?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "A court in Buenos Aires has blocked President Javier Milei's plans to open up Argentinian football to private investment. The issue continues to split the country's most popular sport, with some even looking to Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's Leon Draisaitl signs record NHL contract;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-leon-draisaitl-signs-record-nhl-contract/a-70124333?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's Leon Draisaitl has signed an eight-year contract extension worth $112 million (\u20ac101.5 million). This will keep the superstar forward in Edmonton for a further eight years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India's archaic labor laws allow firms to exploit workers;https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-archaic-labor-laws-allow-firms-to-exploit-workers/a-70121341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Major international companies, including big tech firms, are exploiting India's labor laws and skirting overtime payment, say workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Open and the controversy over night sessions;https://www.dw.com/en/us-open-and-the-controversy-over-night-sessions/a-70121878?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "A new rule was meant to clamp down on matches at the US Open dragging on into the early hours of the next day. Still, some matches are finishing after 2:00 a.m. \u2013 to the detriment of players' health."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Germany live up to its chipmaking ambitions?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-germany-live-up-to-its-chipmaking-ambitions/a-70079606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The German government wants to build up its long-term chipmaking capabilities. But are they following through and attracting the companies needed to make the country a center of this all-important technology?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World Cup expansion gives hope to West Asian teams;https://www.dw.com/en/world-cup-expansion-gives-hope-to-west-asian-teams/a-70112089?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been dominating West Asian football, but the continent has four more assured spots at the 2026 World Cup. As third-round qualifying opens, the likes of Kuwait, Oman and Jordan may make it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ugandan Olympian set on fire in domestic assault;https://www.dw.com/en/ugandan-olympian-set-on-fire-in-domestic-assault/a-70118647?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Rebecca Cheptegei, who finished 44th in the Olympic marathon in Paris, suffered severe burns after allegedly being doused with petrol by her partner. Domestic violence against women remains a serious problem in Kenya."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German businesses worried about far-right gains in the east;https://www.dw.com/en/german-businesses-worried-about-far-right-gains-in-the-east/a-70112417?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the states of Saxony and Thuringia has raised concerns among business leaders about the economic future of eastern Germany. Will it hit jobs and investment?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany coach Nagelsmann names Kimmich as new captain;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coach-nagelsmann-names-kimmich-as-new-captain/a-70113016?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The coach of Germany's national team has named a new captain as the team prepare for their first matches since the home Euros. Julian Nagelsmann is facing a bit of a rebuild after the retirements of four key players."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis tickets: UK government to probe 'dynamic pricing';https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-tickets-uk-government-to-probe-dynamic-pricing/a-70109787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Ministers have promised an investigation after fans complained of inflated ticket prices for Oasis' 2025 reunion tour. But industry experts insist that \"dynamic pricing\" is not illegal and based on supply and demand."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis reunion tour tickets cause online frenzy;https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-reunion-tour-tickets-cause-online-frenzy/a-70099805?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Fans of the Manchester band Oasis faced long online queues on Saturday morning as tickets went on sale for the group's in-demand reunion concerts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Half the world lacks access to safe drinking water;https://www.dw.com/en/half-the-world-lacks-access-to-safe-drinking-water/a-70089835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "A new report shows 4.4 billion people across the world have no access to safe drinking water, more than double many previous estimates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Japan's youth break tradition by embracing perfume;https://www.dw.com/en/japan-s-youth-break-tradition-by-embracing-perfume/a-70091052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Once seen as ostentatious, an imposition on others, and unnecessary in a culture that famously enjoys bathing, perfumes and scents are finally trending among young Japanese."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is methane?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. Where does methane come from, and what can we do to stop it from getting into the atmosphere?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The unseen Holocaust movie: Jerry Lewis' lost film 'The Day the Clown Cried';https://www.dw.com/en/the-unseen-holocaust-movie-jerry-lewis-lost-film-the-day-the-clown-cried/a-70043956?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "At the Venice Film Festival, a new documentary will reveal never-before-seen footage from \"The Day the Clown Cried.\" The 1972 Holocaust movie by comedian Jerry Lewis was never released, but has gained near-mythic status."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Champions League: German clubs look forward to attractive opponents;https://www.dw.com/en/champions-league-german-clubs-look-forward-to-attractive-opponents/a-70090811?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "This season's draw for the Champions League wasn't about putting teams into groups but simply determining who would play whom in the new eight-match league phase."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Concerning' rise in unprotected sex among teenagers;https://www.dw.com/en/concerning-rise-in-unprotected-sex-among-teenagers/a-70079734?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "A majority of teenagers in Europe, Central Asia, and Canada do not use condoms. Experts warn of rising risks of STIs and unwanted pregnancies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Glammed up in the kitchen: Influencers drive 'tradwife' nostalgia;https://www.dw.com/en/glammed-up-in-the-kitchen-influencers-drive-tradwife-nostalgia/a-70071650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The \"traditional wife\" trend celebrates orthodox gender roles. But does this thriving movement on TikTok and Instagram also serve the far-right political agenda?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Populists\u2019 rhetoric linked to growing unhappiness, study finds;https://www.dw.com/en/populists-rhetoric-linked-to-growing-unhappiness-study-finds/a-70072409?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Right-wing populism is rising across Europe, with Germany\u2019s AfD possibly becoming the first far-right party to win state elections since the Nazis. However, their rise won\u2019t bring greater happiness to their supporters."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen: Germany's new No. 1;https://www.dw.com/en/marc-andr\u00e9-ter-stegen-germany-s-new-no-1/a-70069040?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "For years, Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen was stuck behind Manuel Neuer in the German national team. Now that Neuer has retired, the job is ter Stegen's for the taking."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Russia airspace ban on Western airlines helps Chinese rivals;https://www.dw.com/en/russia-airspace-ban-on-western-airlines-helps-chinese-rivals/a-70025268?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Russia has banned many European carriers from using its airspace in response to sanctions over Ukraine. That's boosted Chinese airlines' market share, but it's not the only reason Western carriers are struggling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Congo 'working blindly' in attempts to control Mpox outbreak;https://www.dw.com/en/congo-working-blindly-in-attempts-to-control-mpox-outbreak/a-70062357?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Only 40% of Mpox cases in DR Congo are laboratory tested, suggesting true number of cases could be five times higher than reported, according to Africa CDC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;5 reasons why Venice is this year's most important film festival;https://www.dw.com/en/5-reasons-why-venice-is-this-year-s-most-important-film-festival/a-70043247?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The 81st Venice Film Festival is the can't-miss event for movie fans in 2024. It will feature impressive feature debuts and the return of cinema superstars."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ryanair to cut flights to Berlin due to 'sky-high costs';https://www.dw.com/en/ryanair-to-cut-flights-to-berlin-due-to-sky-high-costs/a-70063074?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Irish budget airline says it plans to slash a fifth of traffic to Berlin-Brandenburg airport because of high access costs."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Will a right-wing shift hit businesses and jobs?;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-will-a-right-wing-shift-hit-businesses-and-jobs/a-70025620?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "As voters in Saxony go to the polls in state elections, some fear a sharper political turn could hurt business investments in the region and worsen a lack of qualified workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN chief Guterres warns of fast-rising Pacific ocean;https://www.dw.com/en/un-chief-guterres-warns-of-fast-rising-pacific-ocean/a-70055845?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "UN chief Antonio Guterres issued a global SOS regarding Pacific ocean temperatures, rising at three times the global average rate. He called for a cutdown on emissions and support for vulnerable countries."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Telegram: How the app defies calls for hate censorship;https://www.dw.com/en/telegram-how-the-app-defies-calls-for-hate-censorship/a-70051335?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "After the arrest of Telegram's boss in France, attention is on the messaging app and its hands-off approach to content moderation. Some blame it for inflaming unrest, others see it as a den for criminal activity."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Eating processed meats raises type 2 diabetes risk;https://www.dw.com/en/eating-processed-meats-raises-type-2-diabetes-risk/a-70051810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Two slices of ham a day are enough to raise type 2 diabetes risk by 15%, according to a new study. Meanwhile high-fat diets could increase the numbers of a toxic molecule known to cause the disease."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is groundwater?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-groundwater/a-68142894?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Groundwater is crucial for agriculture and drinking water supplies. But what exactly is it, how does it form and how can we protect this precious underground resource from threats like pollution and climate change?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany\u2019s investments in China increase despite warnings;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-investments-in-china-increase-despite-warnings/a-69957810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's investments in China are growing despite efforts to reduce reliance on the Asian power. China continues to be a critical trade partner for Europe's largest economy, so how to get the balance right?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australian workers now have the 'right to disconnect';https://www.dw.com/en/australian-workers-now-have-the-right-to-disconnect/a-70045955?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "A law giving workers the legal \"right to disconnect\" from work has come into effect in Australia. This gives workers the right to ignore unreasonable contact from their employers outside of work hours."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;South China Sea tensions pose threat to international trade;https://www.dw.com/en/south-china-sea-tensions-pose-threat-to-international-trade/a-69926497?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Maritime trade faces growing threats, including ongoing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. Now, rising tensions in the South China Sea are adding to global security concerns over this crucial trade route."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Startup funding: What role does female beauty play?;https://www.dw.com/en/startup-funding-what-role-does-female-beauty-play/a-69985095?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Women who are preceived as good-looking find it easier to sell their business ideas and products to potential investors. But this is not the only gender inequality in the world of venture capital, a study says."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof to represent Germany at Oscars;https://www.dw.com/en/dissident-iranian-director-mohammad-rasoulof-to-represent-germany-at-oscars/a-70034644?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "The acclaimed film \"The Seed of the Sacred Fig\" has been chosen as Germany's entry for the 2025 Academy Awards. The filmmaker, who lives in exile in Berlin, fled Iran on foot earlier this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;St. Pauli injects subculture into the Bundesliga;https://www.dw.com/en/st-pauli-injects-subculture-into-the-bundesliga/a-70012361?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Newly promoted to Germany's football Bundesliga, Hamburg's St. Pauli club is set to light up the game with a passionate mix of music, creativity and social justice."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Botswana discovers world's second-largest diamond;https://www.dw.com/en/botswana-discovers-world-s-second-largest-diamond/a-70019901?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Botswana has discovered a 2,492-carat diamond at its Karowe Mine, making it the second-largest diamond ever found. President Mokgweetsi Masisi was quick to view and pose with the vast gemstone."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Healthy eating: Why teens gorge and older people peck;https://www.dw.com/en/healthy-eating-why-teens-gorge-and-older-people-peck/a-70017015?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "While young people can eat everything in sight, older people often lose appetite. It's important to know why to stay healthy at any age."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The most dangerous mosquito-borne diseases;https://www.dw.com/en/the-most-dangerous-mosquito-borne-diseases/a-45117067?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Malaria, dengue fever, zika \u2014 mosquitoes aren't just annoying when they buzz around your ear at night, they can also infect us with countless illnesses. On World Mosquito Day, here are some of the most dangerous ones."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is mpox? How it spreads, can be prevented and treated;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-mpox-how-it-spreads-can-be-prevented-and-treated/a-69951261?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Mpox is a viral infection with rising global cases. The WHO has declared it a global health emergency. Learn more as DW answers your questions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Mpox outbreak: Are vaccine makers prepared?;https://www.dw.com/en/mpox-outbreak-are-vaccine-makers-prepared/a-69992535?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Africa faces a shortage of mpox vaccines as a serious new mpox variant spreads on the continent. High costs and a lack of regulatory approval mean there are no guarantees African nations will ever have enough."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Unorthodox cricket bowling has physicists spinning;https://www.dw.com/en/unorthodox-cricket-bowling-has-physicists-spinning/a-69994305?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Wind tunnel analysis revealed Sri Lankan ex-bowler Lasith Malinga's \"round arm\" technique used curveball physics as in football and baseball."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Stranded Starliner: What space does to an astronaut's body;https://www.dw.com/en/stranded-starliner-what-space-does-to-an-astronaut-s-body/a-69993144?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore had expected to be in space for days, not months. How will their physical and mental health cope?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Is Russia's war in Ukraine an environmental war crime?;https://www.dw.com/en/is-russia-s-war-in-ukraine-an-environmental-war-crime/a-69859017?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Ukraine wants to hold Russia accountable for the environmental destruction caused by its ongoing war. A war crime conviction for ecological damage at the International Criminal Court would be unprecedented."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Ukraine\u2019s advance in Russia threatens EU gas supply;https://www.dw.com/en/how-ukraine-s-advance-in-russia-threatens-eu-gas-supply/a-69951393?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-17 02:00:06",
        "text": "Ukraine's military advance into Russia could disrupt gas supplies to the EU. Yet Russian gas won't be flowing through Ukraine for much longer."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis live: Hezbollah says it will continue operations to \u2018support Gaza\u2019, after exploding pager attack;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/18/middle-east-crisis-live-hezbollah-pager-explosion-lebanon-irael-iran-latest-updates;2024-09-18T08:50:37Z",
        "text": "US secretary of state Antony Blinken and his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty have met in Cairo. Blinken earlier met with Egypt\u2019s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Blinken will head from Cairo to Paris on Thursday for a meeting with the foreign ministers of France, Italy and Britain to discuss the Middle East and Ukraine and other issues, Reuters reports a state department official said. Blinken will also meet French President Emmanuel Macron, the official said. Blinken will not visit Israel on this trip to the Middle East, his tenth to the region since 7 October, and the first time he has not stopped in Tel Aviv as part of his intinerary. Russia\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, speaking in St Petersburg, has told the Russian media that \u201cwhat happened [in Lebanon] yesterday requires an investigation and international attention to this issue.\u201d The IDF has reported on its official Telegram channel that warning sirens are sounding in northern Israel. Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that medical crews have recovered ten bodies from areas north of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. In a statement on its official Telegram channel, Israel\u2019s military has claimed that on Tuesday its air force struck \u201cHezbollah terrorist infrastructure sites in five different areas in southern Lebanon,\u201d and that additionally IDF artillery \u201cstruck in several areas in southern Lebanon.\u201d In the statement the IDF said it \u201cwill continue to operate against the threat of the Hezbollah terrorist organisation in order to defend the state of Israel.\u201d Thousands of people in Israel and Lebanon have been displaced from their homes after months of Hezbollah and Israel exchanging fire over the UN-drawn blue line that separates the countries. The IDF\u2019s claims have not been independently verified. Iran\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson has condemned the pager detonations in Lebanon as a \u201cterrorist operation\u201d, which he described as \u201ca form of mass killing\u201d and a contravention of \u201cinternational humanitarian law\u201d. Iran\u2019s Tasnim news agency quotes Nasser Kanaani saying: [Tuesday\u2019s] terrorist operation in Lebanon was carried out as a continuation of the Zionist regime\u2019s combined operations and their mercenary agents. It contravenes all moral and human principles, international law, especially international humanitarian law, and warrants international criminal prosecution, trial, and punishment. This combined terrorist act, which is, in fact, a form of mass killing, once again clearly proves that the Zionist regime, in addition to committing war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people, has placed regional and international peace and security in serious jeopardy. Accordingly, confronting the regime\u2019s terrorist actions and the threats arising from it is an evident necessity, and the international community must act promptly to combat the impunity of the Zionist criminal officials. Iran\u2019s government has promised support for Lebanon, and Al Jazeera reports that Iran\u2019s Red Crescent has sent a medical delegation to Beirut to assist with the wounded. A shipment of medical aid from Iraq has also landed at Beirut International Airport. At least 200 of the nearly 3,000 people wounded in the attack are reported to be in critical condition. Lebanon\u2019s culture minister Judge Mohammad Wissam Al-Mortad has this morning issued a statement on social media, saying \u201cIn our struggle with the Israeli enemy, there are two truths: that its evil is limitless, and that our victory is undoubtedly coming. What [Israel] did yesterday provides evidence after evidence of its hostility to humanity, and of the resistance\u2019s ability to stand firm on the road to victory. Israel\u2019s days are numbered. May God have mercy on the martyrs, heal the wounded, and comfort the hearts.\u201d Local Palestinian media is reporting that a 17-year-old child has been killed by Israeli security forces near Ni\u2019lin, west of Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The claims have not been independently verified. Overnight Israel\u2019s military announced the deaths of four soldiers. It takes the total number that Israel says have been killed in action since the start of the ground offensive in Gaza to 346. The claims have not been independently verified, and it has not been possible for journalists to verify casualty figures being issued during the conflict. Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will give a speech on Thursday, Reuters reports the group said in a statement on Wednesday. It follows pager detonations across Lebanon on Tuesday that killed nine people and injured about 3,000 others in what is widely regarded as an attack by Israel. Major airlines Lufthansa and Air France have announced suspensions of flights to Tel Aviv, Tehran and Beirut until Thursday as tensions in the region soared after pager explosions in Lebanon. German group Lufthansa said it was suspending all flights to Tel Aviv and Iran\u2019s capital Tehran while French airline Air France suspended flights to the Israeli city and the Lebanese capital Beirut. \u201cDue to the recent change in the security situation, the Lufthansa Group airlines have decided to suspend all connections to and from Tel Aviv (TLV) and Tehran (IKA) with immediate effect,\u201d Lufthansa said in a statement. \u201cThis applies up to and including 19 September,\u201d it said. \u201cDue to the security situation at the destinations, Air France is suspending its connections from Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Beirut (Lebanon) and \u2026 Tel Aviv (Israel) until 19 September inclusive,\u201d the French company said in statement sent to AFP. Air France said it would \u201cevaluate daily the situation\u201d in the Middle East and insisted that \u201cthe safety of our customers and crews is the absolute priority\u201d. US secretary of state Antony Blinken reportedly landed in Cairo early Wednesday, as part of a planned trip to the region to attempt to secure an elusive ceasefire in Gaza. On his 10th trip to the Middle East since the start of the war in Gaza nearly a year ago, Blinken will address negotiation efforts with Egyptian officials, according to the US state department. Those efforts were further complicated on Wednesday by the wave of pager blasts in Lebanon. Blinken is expected to meet with Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and hold a press conference with foreign minister Badr Abdelatty, but will not be visiting Israel during this round of diplomacy. US officials say privately that they do not expect any breakthroughs at Wednesday\u2019s talks in Cairo, but Blinken\u2019s visit will aim to keep up the pressure campaign for a deal between Israel and Hamas. \u201cHe\u2019ll be meeting with Egyptian officials about a number of things, but squarely on the agenda is how we get a proposal that we think would secure agreement from both parties,\u201d said US state department spokesperson Matthew Miller. After the wave of explosions across Lebanon, the influx of so many casualties has reportedly overwhelmed hospitals in Hezbollah strongholds. At one hospital in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs, an AFP correspondent saw people being treated in a car park on thin mattresses, with medical gloves on the ground and ambulance stretchers covered in blood. \u201cIn all my life I\u2019ve never seen someone walking on the street \u2026 and then explode,\u201d said Musa, a resident of the southern suburbs, requesting to be identified only by his first name. The 10-year-old daughter of a Hezbollah member was killed in east Lebanon\u2019s Bekaa Valley when his pager exploded, the family and a source close to the group said. A son of Hezbollah lawmaker Ali Ammar was also among the dead, a source close to the group told AFP, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. Tehran\u2019s ambassador in Beirut was wounded but his injuries were not serious, Iranian state media reported. In total, nine deaths have been reported with almost 3,000 injured. Hezbollah is known for using pagers to communicate because, unlike mobile phones, they can evade location-tracking and monitoring from Israeli intelligence. Yossi Melman, a co-author of Spies Against Armageddon, said \u201ca lot of people in Hezbollah carried these pagers, not just top echelon commanders\u201d. However, a security breach of this scale is seen by experts as hugely embarrassing and damaging to morale in the militant groups morale. Those wounded in the attack include Iran\u2019s ambassador to Beirut, Mojtaba Amani, according to reports. \u201cThis would easily be the biggest counterintelligence failure that Hezbollah has had in decades,\u201d said Jonathan Panikoff, the US government\u2019s former deputy national intelligence officer on the Middle East. The Taiwanese manufacturer linked to pagers that exploded as part of a deadly attack against Hezbollah has said the devices were made by a company in Europe, as the militant group blamed Israel and vowed revenge attacks. Images of the pagers emerged in the aftermath with stickers on the back appearing consistent with pagers made by Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, according to analysis by Reuters. On Wednesday, the company\u2019s founder Hsu Ching-Kuang, denied it had made the pagers, saying they were manufactured by a company in Europe that had the right to use its brand. \u201cThe product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it,\u2019 he said. \u201cWe are a responsible company. This is very embarrassing,\u201d he said. Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah said early on Wednesday that it \u201cwill continue, as in all the past days, its blessed operations to support Gaza\u201d, after a deadly wave of exploding pagers killed nine and injured thousands. \u201cThis path is ongoing and separate from the difficult reckoning that the criminal enemy must await for its massacre on Tuesday,\u201d the group said in a statement issued on Telegram. Hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday, with the group pinning the blame for the blasts on Israel. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the wave of explosions, which came just hours after Israel announced it was broadening the aims of the war sparked by Hamas\u2019s 7 October attacks to include its fight against Hezbollah along the country\u2019s border with Lebanon. Hello and welcome to the Guardian\u2019s continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. Hezbollah has said it \u201cwill continue\u201d its operations to \u201csupport Gaza\u201d, after a deadly wave of exploding pagers killed 9 people and wounded almost 3,000 more. \u201cThis path is ongoing and separate from the difficult reckoning that the criminal enemy must await for its massacre on Tuesday,\u201d the group said in a statement issued on Telegram. Iran-backed Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the unprecedented security breach that saw thousands of pagers detonate across Lebanon. Israel\u2019s military declined to comment on the blasts. More on this in a moment, first here\u2019s a summary of the day\u2019s other main events. Among those killed on Tuesday was an 10-year-old girl, according to Lebanon\u2019s health minister, Firass Abiad. The latest casualty figures by officials include about 2,750 wounded, with most injuries to the face and hands. Those wounded include Iran\u2019s ambassador to Beirut, Mojtaba Amani. Hezbollah fighters in Syria were also injured in the attack, with several reportedly being treated in hospitals in Damascus. Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards-affiliated Saberin News reported that some guards in Syria had also been killed. The pager explosions across Lebanon marked \u201can extremely concerning escalation,\u201d the UN\u2019s special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said. The spokesperson for the secretary general of the United Nations, St\u00e9phane Dujarric, noted the \u201cextremely volatile\u201d context. A Hezbollah official said the detonation of the pagers was the biggest security breach for the group in nearly a year of conflict with Israel. The blasts appeared to exploit the low-tech pagers that Hezbollah has adopted in order to prevent the targeted assassinations of its members. Lebanon\u2019s foreign minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, said the country was bracing for a major retaliation by Hezbollah. Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel. \u201cWe hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for this criminal aggression that also targeted civilians,\u201d a statement said. The son of the Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar reportedly also died in the explosions, as did two sons of other prominent Hezbollah figures. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the blasts. The attack took place just hours after Israel announced it was broadening the aims of the war sparked by the 7 October Hamas attacks to include its fight against Hezbollah. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry put hospitals across the country on \u201cmaximum alert\u201d and instructed citizens to distance themselves from wireless communication devices. Schools in Lebanon will close on Wednesday. The US government said it \u201cwas not aware of this incident in advance\u201d. The state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, told a briefing that Washington was not involved and did not know who was responsible. He added it was \u201ctoo early to say\u201d how it would affect Gaza ceasefire talks. The Foreign Office has urged \u201ccalm heads and de-escalation\u201d. An FCDO spokesperson said: \u201cWe continue to monitor the situation in Lebanon closely and the UK is working with diplomatic and humanitarian partners in the region. The civilian casualties following these explosions are deeply distressing."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018This is very embarrassing\u2019: Middle East crisis takes a detour to an office park in Taiwan;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/this-is-very-embarrassing-middle-east-crisis-takes-a-detour-to-an-office-park-in-taiwan;2024-09-18T06:00:30Z",
        "text": "It was an unusual and alarming day at work for the staff and neighbours of Gold Apollo, a Taiwanese tech company in an office park in a leafy district half an hour outside Taipei. On the third floor of building \u201cB\u201d, dozens of media crowded the corridor outside Gold Apollo\u2019s glass entrance, which was still festooned with leftover Lunar New Year decorations wishing for prosperity. Inside, police officers sat at a table with the company\u2019s chief executive and founder, Hsu Ching-kuang. On a whiteboard behind him was written: AR-924, the model number of pagers that had simultaneously exploded half a world away in an attack on Hezbollah members in Lebanon on Tuesday. The blasts killed at least nine people, wounded 3,000 and further ratcheted up tensions in the Middle East. Coverage of the regional crisis shifted to Taiwan, and Gold Apollo in particular, after images of the pagers emerged in the aftermath with stickers on the back that appeared to be consistent with pagers made by the company. Earlier, Hsu found himself fronting international media to deny his company had made these pagers. He said they were made by a European company that had the right to use Gold Apollo\u2019s branding. \u201cThis product was not ours,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are a responsible company, this is very embarrassing.\u201d Gold Apollo was founded in 1995 by Hsu and now employs 40 people. On Wednesday, its website was inaccessible but the Guardian couldn\u2019t confirm when it went down. An archived version from April showed a dedicated page for the AR-924 model, which Gold Apollo described as a \u201cconfigurable, flexible design\u201d. As the morning stretched on, the crowd of press grew. A staffer stuck her head out of the door to promise a statement would come soon. Inside, a uniformed police officer flicked through a sheaf of papers with photos of the exploded pagers visible. Hsu then emerged to make another statement to cameras, again denying the Taiwan-based company had supplied the pagers, his voice shaking slightly. As the media crowded around Hsu a security guard wandered over, picking up the printed statements left on the floor by some reporters, photographing them for his manager downstairs, who was concerned about the cause of the unusual scene. Before long, the media spotlight moved on to Europe, leaving in its wake a confused-looking delivery driver who had showed up with a package for one of the Apollo Gold employees."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Wednesday briefing: Why Labour seems to be walking the walk on the climate crisis;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/first-edition-labour-environment-policy;2024-09-18T05:38:43Z",
        "text": "Good morning. During their election campaign, Labour made it clear that the climate crisis would be a key focus should they make it into government. It looks as if they are making good on that promise. A number of senior cabinet ministers have come out this week, banging the drum for the government\u2019s climate policies and reminding the public and the media that the climate crisis and its effects are at the top of their agenda. Yesterday, foreign secretary David Lammy made a stirring speech at Kew Gardens in London that presented the climate emergency as the foremost existential crisis facing humanity. On the other side of the capital, energy secretary Ed Miliband delivered his own speech at the Energy UK annual conference, stating that time is of the essence: \u201cThe faster we go\u201d, he said, \u201cthe more secure we become\u201d. The urgency and clarity is a marked change from the previous government, but does it go far enough? For today\u2019s newsletter, I caught up with Guardian environment editor Fiona Harvey after Lammy\u2019s speech, to understand Labour\u2019s rejuvenated climate fight. That\u2019s right after the headlines. Five big stories Labour | Keir Starmer has declared more free tickets and gifts than other major party leaders in recent times, with his total now topping \u00a3100,000 after recent support for his lifestyle from Labour donor Waheed Alli. Middle East | Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel after pagers used by its members exploded across Lebanon simultaneously, killing at least nine people and wounding almost 3,000. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. The apparent sabotage attack followed months of targeted assassinations by Israel against senior Hezbollah leaders. Music | Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs has been charged with sex trafficking and racketeering, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday. Combs had been arrested late Monday in Manhattan, roughly six months after federal authorities conducting a sex trafficking investigation raided his luxurious homes in Los Angeles and Miami. NHS | A fifth of GPs are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT to help with tasks such as writing letters for their patients after appointments, according to a survey. Aid | UK aid spending will fall to its lowest level since 2007 unless the government takes urgent remedial action in the autumn budget, a group of more than 100 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the aid and humanitarian sector jointly warned on Wednesday. In depth: \u2018Everyone is delighted the UK no longer has a government flirting with climate denial\u2019 Labour\u2019s approach to climate action could not be more different to previous governments. Both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss reneged on the work done by Boris Johnson and Theresa May on the climate crisis, opting instead to water down net zero policies and starve relevant departments of funding. Chris Stark, the former head of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), said that Sunak had set Britain back because of his government\u2019s failure to prioritise the issue in the way his predecessors in No 10 did. \u201cThere was a narrative that was really entrenched with the last government that net zero was a burden,\u201d Fiona says. Sunak veiled his reluctance to prioritise tackling the climate crisis in the language of \u201cpragmatism\u201d, while rolling back, delaying or entirely abandoning pledges and insisting that the responsibility to do more lay with more polluting countries, such as China. Labour\u2019s stance represents a complete reversal in attitude, tone and policy. \u201cThe government is being bold and unapologetic in its messaging and is making the case clearly that this issue is important to the whole world and it\u2019s also important for the UK specifically,\u201d Fiona says. \u201cAnd if the country doesn\u2019t play its part in [climate] leadership globally, then we are all doomed\u201d. *** The challenges Ed Miliband has wasted no time in implementing his agenda. Within weeks of being in office as energy secretary, he lifted bans on onshore windfarms, withdrew government support for the country\u2019s most controversial oil and gas projects, and drafted legislation to create a publicly owned power company. The government has also reappointed a climate envoy and installed, for the first time, a nature envoy. This week, Miliband vowed to take on \u201cnimbys\u201d \u2013 obliquely describing them \u201cblockers, delayers and obstructionists\u201d \u2013 to push through the rollout of wind turbines, solar farms and pylons. He argued that it was not just about the environment: these policies were highly important for \u201cnational security\u201d and \u201ceconomic justice\u201d. The big question now is all about money. How are Miliband and Steve Reed, the environment secretary, going to fund all of their ambitious new plans? The urgency and need for swift change is hampered by a Treasury that does not want to spend. Keir Starmer has already told the public to expect \u201cpainful\u201d decisions, and Rachel Reeves echoed that sentiment last week. \u201cI\u2019ve been really clear that the budget on 30 October will require difficult decisions on tax, on spending, and on welfare,\u201d she said. Being fiscally restrained is the only path to stability, the chancellor insists, but eight leading economists wrote in a letter to the Financial Times that \u201cunder-investment is a central cause of the UK\u2019s poor recent economic performance and the root of many of the problems we now face as a country\u201d. Despite the passion and energy from certain corners of the cabinet, there is still real hesitation about how much to centre climate and environmental policies in Labour\u2019s agenda. \u201cThey don\u2019t see political mileage in it and they\u2019re worried that lots of people are still wedded to an anti-environment attitude that was really amplified during the Truss and Sunak years,\u201d Fiona says. \u201cBut putting real investment into this is crucial \u2013 how can you bring about this kind of low carbon future if you don\u2019t invest?\u201d *** The reaction The government\u2019s shift has been welcomed by states, NGOs, activists and diplomats, especially at a time where right-wing populist parties that stand in the way of climate action are gaining power and popularity. In Germany and France, climate policies are becoming a focal point of far-right attacks \u2013 to the point where embattled centrist parties are dialling down their plans. Across Europe, the phenomenon has been dubbed the \u201cgreenlash\u201d. \u201cEveryone is delighted that the UK no longer has a government that is flirting with climate denial and waging a culture war over the planet. It is so important, especially given the challenges in climate diplomacy because so many progressive governments are in such difficult positions,\u201d Fiona says. But again, without proper investment, climate action is almost impossible, Fiona adds. As Lammy looks to expand and repair the UK\u2019s climate reputation, \u201cwe\u2019ve got to get these things right domestically as well. If you can\u2019t sort out sewage in your own rivers, no one\u2019s going to believe that you can sort out the impact of the climate crisis in Chad\u201d. For more from Fiona on Labour\u2019s climate breakthrough this Thursday, sign up here to get Down to Earth, our enivronment newsletter What else we\u2019ve been reading Inspired by new body horror The Substance, starring Demi Moore, four Guardian writers candidly detail their own ups and downs with body image. Hannah J Davies, deputy editor, newsletters A decade on from the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Libby Brooks spoke with young Scots who were 17 at the time of the referendum about their view on independence now. Nimo From fermenting them to fashioning them into a rustic-style sauce, you can\u2019t move for under-ripe (or over-ripe) tomatoes, take some advice from Anna Berrill. Hannah This week\u2019s TechScape newsletter (sign up here!) is on the latest claim by OpenAI: ChatGPT now is capable of \u201cthoughts\u201d. Chris Stokel-Walker assesses how possible this really is. Nimo I loved Sian Cain\u2019s interview with Giancarlo Esposito, who has made his name playing fearsome baddies on screen but seems like a standup guy. And what a life he\u2019s led! Hannah Sport Football | Aston Villa returned to the Champions League for the first time in 41 years and, winning 3-0 against Swiss side, Young Boys. Meanwhile, six-time champion Liverpool came back from a goal down for a 3-1 win against AC Milan in a rematch of the 2005 and 2007 finals. Scotland | The Scottish government has agreed a rescue deal for a scaled-down version of the 2026 Commonwealth Games to be hosted by Glasgow, after Australian authorities offered a \u201cmultimillion-pound commitment\u201d to save the event. Tennis | Emma Raducanu battled to victory over the American Peyton Stearns in the opening round of the Korea Open. A topsy-turvy contest featuring 12 breaks of serve went the way of the former US Open champion after two hours and 43 minutes as she wrapped up a 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5) win in Seoul. The front pages The Guardian leads with \u201cHezbollah vows to strike back at Israel after deadly pager attacks\u201d. The Financial Times reports \u201cEight killed as Hizbollah members\u2019 low-tech pagers explode in Lebanon\u201d, while the Times has \u201cExploding pagers wreak havoc among Hezbollah\u201d. The Telegraph is similar with \u201cThousands of pager bombs rock Hezbollah\u201d. The Mail says \u201c\u2018Israel\u2019s\u2019 exploding pagers put Middle East on the brink\u201d, while the Mirror characterises the story as \u201cExploding pager hell\u201d. Today in Focus Should we believe Putin\u2019s war talk? How discussions over long-range missiles led to war threats from Vladimir Putin. Dan Sabbagh reports. Cartoon of the day | Martin Rowson The Upside A bit of good news to remind you that the world\u2019s not all bad According to new research from the University of Cambridge, swapping a pint for a two-third measure could be a boon for English drinkers\u2019 health, lessening the impact of alcohol-related harm. Matt Beety of the Bear in Sheffield, which took part in the trial, said craft beer bars were already shifting mentality away from the pint. While some punters asked why they were not allowed pints, most went along with it, while drinkers who came to watch the football stuck to two drinks rather than return to the bar for a third. \u201cWhen we think about tackling alcohol, we often think about affordability and advertising,\u201d adds study leader Prof Dame Theresa Marteau. \u201cWe\u2019re highlighting an additional intervention\u201d. Sign up here for a weekly roundup of The Upside, sent to you every Sunday Bored at work? And finally, the Guardian\u2019s puzzles are here to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until tomorrow. Quick crossword Cryptic crossword Wordiply"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Success breeds success\u2019: why Ireland\u2019s cricket lovers are bullish about the future;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/ireland-cricket-future-win-england-stadium-deal-sport;2024-09-18T04:00:51Z",
        "text": "In cricket a century is a score of 100 or more runs by a batter in a single innings. In Irish cricket a century marks the gulf in time between the sport\u2019s demonisation as a \u201cforeign\u201d import and its metamorphosis into an emblem of a new Ireland. In 1901, nationalists declared a \u201cstruggle to crush English pastimes\u201d and for decades marginalised cricket and other imports such as football and rugby to promote Gaelic football and hurling and to elevate Irish identity. The Gaelic Athletic Association eventually lifted its edicts against non-native sport but for cricket the damage was done. Hugely popular with rich and poor in the 19th century, it limped into the 1990s stereotyped as a niche game for \u201cwest Brits\u201d \u2013 posh Irish anglophiles. Last Sunday Clontarf cricket club, in north Dublin, showed a scene transformed. Ireland\u2019s women\u2019s team hosted \u2013 and beat \u2013 England in a game screened live on free-to-air television. Spectators, including migrants from south Asia, whooped and celebrated. Girls asked the winning players for autographs. \u201cIt shows the direction we\u2019re heading in,\u201d beamed the captain, Gaby Lewis. The victory sealed a golden run for the sport on and off the pitch. Last month the government agreed to build a 4,000-seat cricket stadium to provide a first, permanent home in time for the 2030 T20 men\u2019s World Cup that Ireland will host with England and Scotland. \u201cThat\u2019s a massive turning point for us,\u201d said Richard Holdsworth, the high-performance director of the governing body Cricket Ireland. \u201cOur players now travel the world and see the quality of facilities elsewhere. We need that here.\u201d The new stadium and high-performance centre at the Sport Ireland campus in Abbotstown, west Dublin, will obviate the need to temporarily upgrade club grounds for international fixtures, a recurring, expensive rigmarole that drains finances and complicates fixtures. In June, Belfast city council approved a \u00a325m multi-sport redevelopment project at the Stormont estate that will include a cricket pavilion, another boost to a sport organised on an all-island basis, spanning both sides of the border. Cricket Ireland also hopes to upgrade the grounds of Malahide cricket club, in north Dublin, to international level. The new infrastructure reflects growing visibility and political clout. New clubs are sprouting especially in Dublin and the surrounding Leinster province, which is home to many Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Afghans and others from places where cricket is popular. An estimated 60% of players in Leinster are from south Asia, says Holdsworth. \u201cCricket is in their blood. They\u2019re hugely passionate about it.\u201d Anand Kumar, who was watching the game in Clontarf, said about half of the players at his club in Malahide came from Asia. \u201cCricket is becoming more popular and competitive. You see the pitches getting better.\u201d When Ireland plays India, Kumar roots for his native country while his teenage son cheers for Ireland. Schemes called Smash It and It\u2019s Wicket have drawn children, especially girls, who have followed the feats of players such as Lewis, Orla Prendergast and Amy Hunter. \u201cPeople can see our top players in action and see they are relatable. It\u2019s not the old, stuffy image with cucumber sandwiches,\u201d said Brian MacNeice, the chair of Cricket Ireland. \u201cSuccess breeds success.\u201d Sunday\u2019s dramatic victory \u2013 the first time the Irish women\u2019s team has beaten England in the Twenty20 format \u2013 followed a defeat the previous day and tied a two-game series. At Stormont last month the Irish women completed a 2-0 series win over Sri Lanka, the Asia Cup champions. Ireland\u2019s men\u2019s notched their second ever victory in a Test match \u2013 the game\u2019s longest format \u2013 in July when they beat Zimbabwe. Stella Downes, Cricket Ireland\u2019s president, remembers humbler times for the national team. \u201cTo beat an English county team was all we aspired to. When we beat Middlesex (in 1997) we dined out on that for years.\u201d Several factors contributed to the turnaround. The economy boomed, drawing people from abroad. And the men\u2019s team scored famous wins. At their inaugural World Cup in 2007 the team knocked out Pakistan and made it to the Super Eight stage, prompting a rapturous homecoming. They scored another shock by beating England at the 2011 World Cup. Such triumphs were sporadic but made Ireland a darling of India\u2019s cricket fans, creating opportunity for Irish trade and branding, said Holdsworth. \u201cThe government started to realise the global reach.\u201d Ireland became a full-member of the International Cricket Council in 2017, paving regular encounters with top-notch teams. In Ireland cricket still trails Gaelic football, hurling, soccer and rugby and it is a minnow at international level \u2013 by some estimates 30 times smaller than English cricket. Talent has drifted abroad. Eoin Morgan, who led England to World Cup glory in 2019, is from Dublin. But Downes is bullish about the future. The new stadium, bigger budgets, professional contracts, sponsorship, television deals \u2013 all are enticements to a game no longer deemed foreign but global, she says. \u201cYou can travel the world playing cricket.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Cookathons, speechathons and skipathons: the rapid rise of obscure world record attempts in west Africa;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/west-african-boom-obscure-guinness-world-record-attempts;2024-09-18T04:00:50Z",
        "text": "In 2008, two years after Ebenezer Smith graduated from high school with no means to go on to university, he ventured into Ghana\u2019s culinary industry hoping to become a world-renowned chef. For years, life moved at a slower pace than he had envisioned. So last October, he quit his job as an Accra beach resort chef earning about 1,800 cedis (\u00a388) a month to pursue a new dream: dislodging 27-year-old Nigerian chief Hilda Baci as the world record-holder for the longest cooking marathon. Smith, a 40-year-old father of two, told the Guardian that watching Baci set the record in August last year \u201cboosted my confidence\u201d. \u201cWhen I witnessed [her marathon], I said I\u2019m going to take this challenge and make my society, my community and my nation proud,\u201d he said. Baci\u2019s 93-hour, 11-minute stint in August 2023 broke a record set four years before. Her well-publicised attempt was supported by celebrities and politicians in her home nation of 200 million people. It also garnered millions of social media impressions and slowed the Guinness World Records (GWR) website for days on end as thousands of people went online to check her progress. Mark McKinley, director of Central Record Services at GWR, which released its 2025 edition this month to mark its 70th anniversary next year, said engagement reached historic levels. It was \u201cin a way, a record for the Guinness World Records\u201d, he said. \u201c[It\u2019s] the Hilda Baci effect \u2026 she made attempting a record accessible,\u201d he added. Regional record attempts have risen sharply in the last year and a half. Between 2013 and 2022 there were about 7,000 applications from west Africa to GWR, representing 1% of the global tally. Since 2023 roughly the same number of applications have been received, constituting about 8% of the global total. In the 1990s, the Guinness Book of Records, as it was known then, was popular in middle-class west African households. Baci\u2019s record helped reintroduce it to young adults in the age of TikTok. The surge in attempts is also partly because achieving a record is seen as a shortcut to fame and career advancement in a region stewing in record unemployment. Although record-breakers are not paid, Baci gained a series of endorsement deals and a congratulatory message from Nigeria\u2019s vice-president. \u201cIt is a great platform for international recognition and it projects destinies,\u201d said 34-year-old Accra-based actor Adu Safowaah, who is awaiting verification of her 130-hour speechathon in February. The marathon genre has proven particularly popular: a Cameroonian blogger went temporarily blind during a wailing marathon; a Lagos masseuse collapsed in the middle of a massage endurance attempt; and a kissing marathon was banned by authorities in Ekiti in south-west Nigeria. Nigeria and Ghana together account for 122 of the 139 applications in the cooking marathon category since Baci\u2019s historic quest. Philip Solomon, Dunsin Dubem and Gbenga Ezekiel, three Nigerian teenagers from the south-west town of Akure, are among those featured in the 2025 edition for setting skipping records. The trio represented their schools at a 2021 state championship and hope to wear Nigeria\u2019s colours at the Olympics if the sport is approved for inclusion. \u201cToday we hold six world records, and that can mean six gold medals,\u201d said Dubem. Baci says she feels fulfilled knowing her record has helped many others \u201cpursue their dreams and validate their aspirations\u201d. \u201cThe difficulty involved in breaking records makes me proud of the community that has formed around these achievements,\u201d she said. In July, Smith called a press conference claiming to have cooked nonstop for 802 hours and 25 minutes, showing a certificate purportedly issued by GWR. On the sidelines, a local TV channel offered him a talkshow on dieting. His big break seemed to have finally come. Except that Smith\u2019s attempt was one of thousands to commence without official approval. His certificate had been designed using photos of those presented to Baci and Alan Fisher, the Japan-based Irish chef who now holds the cookathon record, as a template. A few days later, Smith knelt to apologise in a video on Facebook after his claims were debunked. Then the police arrested him. Since then, the chef says he\u2019s faced \u201ctrauma and stigma\u201d as no one is willing to hire him. But he has not ruled out trying to emulate Baci again. \u201cI brought reproach to my nation and Guinness,\u201d he said. \u201cIf I get a genuine way, I will bring glory to the nation to cancel out the shame and the bad name.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Pro-Palestinian protester acquitted over \u2018coconut\u2019 placard has \u2018no regrets\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/pro-palestinian-protester-acquitted-over-coconut-placard-has-no-regrets;2024-09-18T04:00:50Z",
        "text": "A teacher who was acquitted of a racially aggravated public order offence after she carried a placard depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts said she has no regrets and would continue to use the term in future rallies. In her first interview since she was found not guilty at Westminster magistrates court last Friday, Marieha Hussain, 37, said there was a lack of cultural understanding and awareness of the term \u201ccoconut\u201d and how it is used by diverse communities. The mother of two, who is nine months pregnant, described how her trial has had an immense impact on her life. She said she lost her job, had to move home and was unable to recognise the early signs of her pregnancy. Speaking to the Guardian, the psychology teacher described attending a pro-Palestine march in November last year. \u201cFrom that day to this very day I have had no regret about making that placard, taking it out and defending it,\u201d she said. In particular, Hussain said those who found the term offensive did not understand it, adding: \u201cIt\u2019s really not their term, it\u2019s not their language,\u201d she said. \u201cThey didn\u2019t use it, know it, hear it, understand it growing up and so as an adult they actually don\u2019t have any understanding of what this word really means and they\u2019ve taken it [and] kind of hijacked it and decided what they think it means and are prosecuting it. \u201cThis is what we call targeting ethnic minorities and their intra-communal language,\u201d Hussain added. In the trial last week, the prosecution claimed \u201ccoconut\u201d was a well-known racial slur. \u201c[It has] a very clear meaning \u2013 you may be brown on the outside, but you are white on the inside,\u201d said the prosecutor, Jonathan Bryan. \u201cIn other words, you\u2019re a \u2018race traitor\u2019 \u2013 you\u2019re less brown or black than you should be.\u201d However, Hussain argued \u201ccoconut\u201d was \u201ccommon language, particularly in our culture\u201d and, in reference to the placard, a form of political critique. \u201cIt\u2019s something we just grew up with,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was flung around easily \u2026 I remember my father calling me a coconut in my teen years.\u201d This was not the first time the term \u201ccoconut\u201d has come before the courts in the UK. In 2009, a councillor was convicted of racial harassment for using the term to describe a councillor from a different party. However, on Friday, the district judge, VanessaLloyd, ruled the placard was \u201cpart of the genre of political satire\u201d and the prosecution had \u201cnot proved to a criminal standard that it was abusive\u201d. Describing her decision to depict Braverman and Sunak as \u201ccoconuts\u201d, Hussain said her intentions were to critique the politicians for creating and supporting policies which, she said, disproportionately affected minority communities. At the time, Braverman was describing the pro-Palestine protests as \u201chate marches\u201d. \u201cI was trying to show that Sunak and Braverman hold the highest offices in our country, they\u2019ve got so much power and influence,\u201d Hussain said. \u201cCalling [pro-Palestine protests] \u2018hate marches\u2019, the Rwanda policy, the comments about Pakistani men. That fed into a really dangerous rhetoric that is actually untrue. \u201cI was trying to highlight actually their racism and their discrimination against an ethnic minority and vulnerable groups,\u201d she added. Following her acquittal, Hussain said the case and the subsequent media attention has had a substantial impact on her life. In particular, Hussain described feeling \u201creally panicked\u201d after family photos were shared online and details of her family were revealed in tabloid newspapers. She criticised the conduct of the police during the case as \u201cquestionable and confusing\u201d. For instance, Hussain said several police officers saw the coconut placard during the march in November but \u201cnobody said anything\u201d. It was only after a photograph of Hussain holding the placard was posted online that she was made aware of police interest. Hussain described the police interview as \u201cone of the most distressing experiences of my life\u201d. She said it was \u201chostile\u201d and \u201caggressive\u201d, and said she was yelled at by the detective who was interviewing her. In response to the claims, the Metropolitan police said it received an email from Hussain\u2019s solicitor following the interview but a line manager found no issues with the interviewing officer\u2019s conduct and that he did not shout or yell. They said no formal complaints have been made about the matter. When asked whether she would use a similar coconut placard again at a future pro-Palestine rally, Hussain said: \u201cYes. It\u2019s political satire, it\u2019s protected speech and I have absolutely no reason not to carry that placard around again. \u201cIt\u2019s been explained what it is and what it means,\u201d she said. \u201cThe most important thing is that, at its highest level, political critique is a really important element of addressing our politicians and its protected speech. I\u2019ve been acquitted. It\u2019s absolutely completely legal for me to carry that placard around.\u201d Now that the trial is over, Hussain said she is focused on her pregnancy and family but is unsure of her next steps. \u201cI\u2019ve got this wider issue of free speech and Palestine, I\u2019m really passionate about that so I don\u2019t know what the future holds,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel that all doors are open for me now.\u201d A spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said: \u201cOur prosecutors reviewed this case carefully and concluded there was enough evidence for it to be presented to a court. \u201cThe defendant has been found not guilty and we respect the judge\u2019s decision.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018If they don\u2019t die, our infantry will\u2019: Ukraine\u2019s pivotal battle for Donetsk;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/if-they-dont-die-our-infantry-will-ukraines-pivotal-battle-for-donetsk;2024-09-18T04:00:47Z",
        "text": "The Russian soldiers sent to storm Ukrainian positions arrived at a graveyard. Around them was the ruined village of Mykhailivka. From above, Ukrainian spy drones watched. One soldier vanished under a tree. Another jogged towards a shell-walloped cottage. Back at a control observation centre, Maj Oleksandr Fanagey muttered a few words. Seconds later, a Ukrainian kamikaze drone hit a moving Russian. A live video stream showed that he survived but his left leg was injured. The soldier bottom-shuffled towards a patch of grass and tried to pull a bandage from a green backpack. \u201cHe will die for sure,\u201d Fanagey predicted. \u201cThe enemy doesn\u2019t bother evacuating its wounded.\u201d Late last month, Russian forward units seized a mine just outside Mykhailivka, in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk oblast. Their mini-advance was part of a sweeping Russian offensive. It began in February with the capture of Avdiivika. Its goal: to expand a narrow salient deep into Ukrainian territory and overrun the city of Pokrovsk, 11 miles (18km) away. Pokrovsk is a logistics base and major transport hub for Ukraine\u2019s armed forces. Multiple road and rail lines intersect here. Without it, Kyiv will struggle to move troops, food and ammunition to other parts of an overstretched frontline \u2013 to the embattled city of Toretsk, farther east, for example, and to Kurakhove, to the south. The city\u2019s fate is bound up with that of Donetsk province as a whole. A bloody battle looms. Russian troops are a mere six miles away. There is continual noise from incoming and outgoing shells. Last week, Russian warplanes smashed bridges in and around the city, setting the stage for a future frontal attack. One bust bridge had linked the T0504 highway with the neighbouring town of Myrnohrad. Engineers in orange jackets were busy building an alternative dirt route. Another enemy bomb clipped the bridge above Pokrovsk\u2019s train station, now closed and boarded up along with supermarkets, restaurants and banks. Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad were once home to 100,000 people. Most but not all have now fled, with sections of the city spookily empty. Bombs have hit many central buildings, including the office of Ukraine\u2019s pension fund. The Russians are pressing from two directions. They swallowed up the town of Novohrodivka \u2013 population 18,000 \u2013 when its Ukrainian defenders retreated last week, seemingly without much of a fight. Russian forces are also moving forward from the south-east and from Ukrainsk, which fell a few days ago. Beyond a patch of forest and a railway track from Mykhailivka is the Ukrainian-held town of Selydove. The Kremlin\u2019s creeping progress comes at a significant human cost. Sitting in front of a bank of monitors, Fanagey, the artillery commander of the national guard\u2019s 15th brigade, zoomed in on grisly images. Six dead Russians could be seen near a row of old graves marked with blue wooden crosses. Another soldier, bloated and missing a head, lay in a vegetable patch. \u201cThe whole village is a cemetery for them,\u201d the major said. A dozen bodies could be seen in an anti-tank ditch. Around them was the debris of war: a machine gun, helmets, provisions. The gully leads from Mykhailivka\u2019s abandoned mine \u2013 its pit wheel head still intact \u2013 to an avenue of shattered houses. Artillery strikes have dinted yellow fields. \u201cOver the last two weeks Russia\u2019s momentum has nearly stopped. We have slowed down their advance. They are moving forward but with less potential,\u201d Fanagey said. His comments confirm \u2013 in this sector at least \u2013 claims by Ukraine\u2019s commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, that Russia\u2019s assault on Pokrovsk has weakened. In August, Syrskyi launched a surprise attack on Russia\u2019s Kursk oblast. This has helped relieve pressure on other parts of the frontline, including the Zaporizhzhia region and neighbouring Kherson. Moscow had pulled only \u201ca few troops\u201d from the Pokrovsk area, the major said. He added: \u201cThey have a huge collection of forces.\u201d The Russians have changed tactics. These days they rarely use armoured vehicles in a battlefield saturated with drones. Instead, small groups of 10 to 15 soldiers sneak forward on foot, day and night, the commander said, using different paths. If undetected, they assemble at a rendezvous point and try to infiltrate Ukrainian lines. \u201cIt\u2019s quantity with the Russians, not quality. We see so many \u2018meat attacks\u2019,\u201d Fanagey said. Two weeks ago the Russians sent a mechanised column into Mykhailivka, consisting of a Soviet-era T-72 tank and two infantry fighting vehicles. Ukrainian soldiers opened fire. The tank\u2019s crew \u2013 driver, gunner and mechanic \u2013 bailed out and hid in some shrubs. A drone finished them off. The Ukrainians drove away in the tank. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time since we got a working armed vehicle from the enemy,\u201d said Stanislav, the major\u2019s deputy. According to Stanislav, Russia is able to advance because its army is much bigger. \u201cWe don\u2019t have enough ammo. For every one shell we fire, they fire seven. Or more. We lack infantry,\u201d he admitted. \u201cThe situation is a bit better than six months ago [when the US Congress blocked deliveries of weapons]. But with this tempo of fighting it isn\u2019t enough. Russia is a big country. It has money and resources. It funds its military with oil and gas.\u201d The battle for Pokrovsk is very likely to be the culmination of Moscow\u2019s military campaign this year. A decade ago, Russian forces covertly seized the eastern regional capitals of Donetsk and Luhansk. Vladimir Putin\u2019s political and strategic objective is to capture the whole of Donetsk oblast, as well as three other Ukrainian provinces he \u201cannexed\u201d in 2022. Stanislav said taking Pokrovsk would not be easy for the Russians. \u201cWe can hold it,\u201d he said. About 18,000 people in Pokrovsk have ignored official calls to evacuate. If Russian forces occupy the city they will be a short drive from the oblast\u2019s administrative borders and the road to Dnipro. From Pokrovsk they would be able to menace and possibly cut off a chain of Ukrainian garrison cities to the north: Kostiantynivka, Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk. Already they are bombarding the highway between Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka. Vitalii Milovidov, the 15th brigade\u2019s press officer, said the west was party to blame for Ukraine\u2019s step-by-step reversals in 2024. He cited White House restrictions on the use of US-suppled long-range weapons \u2013 the subject of discussions last week in Washington between Joe Biden and Keir Starmer. Milovidov said that if deep strikes were permitted, Ukraine could hit weapons dumps and aerodromes used by Russia in its grinding assault on Ukraine\u2019s east. \u201cIt will make enemy logistics more difficult. They will have to move everything 250-300km back from the frontline,\u201d he noted. \u201cIf we had got a green light earlier, our military situation would be different. There would be no advance on Pokrovsk.\u201d Fanagey said he was optimistic Ukraine could still win, despite the daunting size of its opponent. He cited the accurate work of his experienced artillery and drone units, as well as the contribution made by neighbouring brigades. \u201cWe\u2019ve had three years of war. If we receive enough weapons, victory is absolutely possible.\u201d And what about Putin\u2019s threats to use nuclear weapons? \u201cHe\u2019s lying,\u201d the commander said cheerfully. Back in Mykhailivka, puffs of grey smoke rose into a clear blue sky. A Ukrainian shell had hit a cottage. The building burned furiously. None of the village\u2019s inhabitants \u2013 1,300 of them, once \u2013 remain. The only souls are Russian intruders. Did the commander feel remorse for killing so many of them? \u201cNo. They are the enemy, here to take our land. If they don\u2019t die, our infantry will die instead. I never thought I would be glad to kill someone, but I hate them.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Stamps, sticks and stories: looking for traces of baseball in North Korea;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/baseball-history-north-korea;2024-09-18T00:45:10Z",
        "text": "How do you find evidence that people are still playing \u2013 or still remember \u2013 a once-loved sport? Earlier this year, when a baseball team called the Challengers, made up of young North Korean defectors, toured the US, American and Korean media reported that baseball was \u201cunheard of\u201d in the North. But there are traces of baseball, that most American of sports, in schoolyard games, a dusty field with bases and a pitcher\u2019s mound, and stories told by defectors to the South. James Banfill, a member of the American Society of Baseball research, says there is evidence that the game is still played in limited forms. Certainly it is still remembered in a country that has proclaimed itself America\u2019s \u201cbiggest enemy\u201d. Preserving baseball\u2019s history \u2013 and present \u2013 is important, he says. Some day, North Koreans may be looking for clues about who they were, or what it meant to be Korean, before life under a dictatorship. \u201cIf there\u2019s some future North Korean baseball fan, they can look back at their own history and say, well, we did have history here, you know?\u201d Controlling people through culture The first known game of baseball in Korea was in 1894, in Seoul, 50 years before the country\u2019s division into North and South, and was likely spread to the north of the country by American missionaries, says Banfill. In 1913, one missionary wrote that the hardest part of organising games was convincing high school students to overcome their fear of playing catcher \u2013 northern Korean teenagers had a reputation for being skilled rock throwers. By the 1920s, it was being played in schools, government ministries, businesses and the military. In the 1970s, decades after division, exhibition games were played in the North against the Cubans. Kim Dong-Su, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, defected from the North in 2009, when he was a student. He works as a journalist in South Korea, and says that he first heard about baseball through his grandfather \u2013 but that before defecting, he had never seen a baseball ball. When Kim was a child in the 1990s, he and his grandfather were watching a movie set in the 1930s, in which the Japanese antagonists wore strange gloves and carried wooden bats, which they used during street fights with Koreans. Korea was ruled by Japan as a colony from 1910 to 1945. When Kim asked what the odd props were, his grandfather said: \u201cWe used to play that game back when I was younger, and I used to play it with the Japanese.\u201d Kim believes it is Japan\u2019s love of baseball, not America\u2019s, that is responsible for its current lack of popularity in the North. \u201cJapan is a worse enemy than America,\u201d he says. As children, if Kim and his friends were seen playing sports that resembled baseball, they would have been in a lot of trouble, Kim said, because of its associations with Japan. \u201cNorth Korea controls its people through its culture.\u201d \u2018A friendly country that enjoys a wide range of sports\u2019 Banfill has spoken to people who have said it is still played in the military, and there are women\u2019s softball teams \u2013 a game similar to baseball \u2013 who play on a dedicated softball field in Pyongyang. The World Baseball Softball Confederation lists DPR Korea as a member of the organisation \u2013 a membership confirmed in an email to the Guardian. And then there are the stamps, issued between 2000 and 2009, that depict baseball. But they aren\u2019t necessarily proof. Banfill says they likely \u201creflect a wider interest in sports in general\u201d. He points out that North Korea made stamps commemorating Diana Spencer\u2019s marriage to Prince Charles in 1981. Kim says that because the stamps were issued for the World Stamp expo, he thinks they were just part of North Korea\u2019s efforts to present itself internationally as \u201ca friendly country that enjoys a wide range of sports\u201d. Nobody his age plays baseball, he says, and there are many millennial and Gen-Z North Koreans who have never heard of it. The game is also depicted in a North Korean film: Gwangju Calls Out. Released in 1985 and still aired today, it features a baseball game played between Japanese and Korean high schoolers. \u201cBoth sides are supported by cheerleaders displaying their national costumes \u2013 kimonos for Japanese and hanbok for Koreans,\u201d Banfill writes. \u201cThe game is politicised when a Japanese official asks the home plate umpire to call a play in favour of the Japanese.\u201d It is also played in an episode of the long-running North Korean cartoon Clever Raccoon Dogs and, again, has a political message: the match is between a team of small animals \u2013 much like the small but mighty image North Korea\u2019s regime seeks to project \u2013 and a team made up of large ones. It\u2019s cats, dogs, turtles and pigs versus elephants, rhinos and giraffes. Banfill is not the first to find evidence that some people in the North are preserving the game in one way or another. In 2017, Curtis Melvin, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University, noticed a dusty diamond-shaped field with four bases and a pitcher\u2019s mound on satellite imagery \u2013 and it seemed to have been recently used, he told the Wall Street Journal, which reported that baseball teams have been shown on television competing in North Korea\u2019s northern city of Nampo as recently as 2014. Lee Hae-young, who left North Korea for the South in 1996, told the WSJ that he remembered playing a baseball-like game as a child, using a wooden stick or tree branch. It was called \u201cbba-ru\u201d \u2013 a name that sounds like American baseball legend Babe Ruth."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Utter disillusionment\u2019: Kashmir sees first election since 2014 as chance to reject Modi;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/kashmir-election-modi-india;2024-09-17T23:11:10Z",
        "text": "For the first time in almost 40 years, Bashir Ahmad Thokar, a 75-year-old apple farmer, cannot wait to cast his vote. In the Himalayan valleys and mountains of the Indian region of Kashmir, elections have long been deemed a tainted affair, marred by rigging, boycotts and violence. But as Kashmiris go to the polls on Wednesday to vote for their first regional assembly in a decade, this time there has been a palpable buzz. \u201cThis is the first time since 1987 that the people of Kashmir are excited about the elections,\u201d says Thokar. The election, which will continue in phases until 1 October, is being described as the most significant in the region for years. It is not only the first time since 2014 that Kashmiris will be able to vote for their own regional representatives, but is also the first vote since the region was stripped of its statehood by prime minister Narendra Modi. It was August 2019 that Modi unilaterally revoked Article 370 \u2013 which had given Kashmir its own special form of autonomy since independence \u2013 and brought it under the complete control of the central government. A lengthy and oppressive crackdown followed. Thousands of additional troops were brought in; hundreds, including prominent politicians, were jailed; and the internet was cut for over 18 months, the longest blackout ever recorded. For Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), taking full control of Kashmir had been a central pledge of their Hindu nationalist agenda for years, and it was celebrated by many in the establishment. But while Kashmiris on the ground opposed the move, few were able to protest or openly criticise it. Anyone seen to be involved in dissent was routinely harassed and detained by police, often under draconian anti-terrorism laws, and the freedom of the local press was systematically crushed, with many journalists among those detained. \u2018A crossroads in our history\u2019 Voters in the state described the upcoming polls as an opportunity to finally get back their voice, after years of having their democratic rights silenced. The Modi government had resisted holding the polls but it was finally mandated by the supreme court earlier this year, with a September deadline. The BJP had initially claimed they would \u201csweep\u201d the election yet widespread resentment has left them contesting less than a third of the 90 assembly seats, mostly focused in the only Hindu-majority area of Jammu, and they are expected to win fewer than in the 2014 polls. \u201cThis election is important because there is utter disillusionment amongst people,\u201d said Iltija Mufti, daughter of former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, whose party was once in alliance with the BJP. \u201cWe are at a crossroads in our history, people have not felt such deep alienation before. They feel disempowered and dispossessed.\u201d Historically, Kashmiris have reason to be wary of local elections. The region has been disputed between India and Pakistan since 1947, when the two countries gained their independence, and three wars have been fought over it. Each side currently governs part of it while China controls a portion in the east. It was in 1987 that the Indian government, fearful of the sensitive region falling into the hands of those sympathetic to Pakistan, was accused of meddling in Kashmir\u2019s elections to prevent pro-independence candidates from taking power. In response, a coalition of popular parties boycotted the elections. Several leaders crossed the border into Pakistan, where they went on to launch an armed revolt against India. It plunged the region into waves of violence and militancy from the 1990s onwards that continue to this day. This time, however, the election has not been met with calls for boycotts, even by separatist and terrorist outfits. Instead, candidates from a multitude of parties, including those who favour greater independence for Kashmir, are taking part and many believe it could be the highest turnout in years. Political rallies have been packed, with many people turning up to demand that family members detained under authoritarian laws since 2019\u2019s crackdown are released. New Delhi has been projecting the enthusiasm as a vindication of their policies and an indication that Kashmiris have given up their aspiration for independence. \u201cThe way people are coming forward in huge numbers, aspiring to cast their vote, speaks about the success of India\u2019s democracy and India\u2019s constitution,\u201d said Nirmal Singh, senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister of the region. \u201cWe have been able to finish terrorism \u2026 What could not be done in seventy years has been achieved in the last five years under the vision of prime minister Narendra Modi.\u201d A vote against Modi\u2019s \u2018assault on Kashmiris\u2019 Yet on the ground in the villages and towns, another narrative has been playing out. Many fear that the Modi government is trying to change the Muslim-majority demography of Kashmir, after changes brought in after 2019 allowed outsiders to buy property and invest in the region for the first time. Many also argue that the promised investment and prosperity have yet to materialise, with opponents alleging unemployment remains at a 45-year-high. The Modi government\u2019s claims to have crushed the militancy and brought peace to the region have been undermined by a recent surge in attacks \u2013 carried out by a new tranche of highly trained militants purportedly from Pakistan \u2013 which have killed almost 200 security personnel and over 350 civilians since 2020. \u201cOn the one hand, Modi has been treating the higher voter turnout as a referendum for his decisions of 2019, but on the other hand, local parties also see it as a vote against his policies,\u201d says Sheikh Showkat Hussain, a Kashmiri political analyst. \u201cPeople feel that by voting they may finally be able to put up some barriers to the onslaught that has been unleashed upon them since 2019.\u201d Mohammad Rafiq, 45, a shopkeeper in the town of Bijbehara, was among those intending to vote for the first time, to send a direct message to the Modi government. In the autumn of 1993, his brother was among the 51 civilians who were killed by India\u2019s border security force after they opened fire on protesters. \u201cWhen I saw the bloodied body of my brother, I promised that day to myself that I would never participate in these sham elections,\u201d said Rafiq. \u201cBut now there is such a major assault on our identity that I am going to vote to keep the BJP away.\u201d Voters appear to be rejecting the traditional parties, some of whom once aligned with the BJP, in favour of independent candidates or those aligned with groups that have been critical of New Delhi\u2019s Kashmir policies. Analysts believe the BJP has allowed this flurry of independent candidates in a bid to undermine support for the opposition coalition, which includes India\u2019s main opposition Congress party and Kashmir\u2019s oldest regional party, National Conference. One of the most prominent independent voices has been Abdul Rashid Sheikh \u2013 popularly known as Engineer Rashid \u2013 a firebrand politician who had been held in Delhi\u2019s Tihar jail since August 2019 on terror-funding charges. He already won a parliamentary seat, contested from behind bars, during the national elections in June and is now fielding several independent candidates in the assembly polls. After the courts granted him bail in September, thousands of supporters have thronged to his rallies. \u201cPeople are coming out in huge numbers to protest against Modi\u2019s policies. Their vote is against BJP\u2019s assault on Kashmiris,\u201d said Rashid, who is not only promising to get Kashmir\u2019s autonomy restored but to \u201csolve the Kashmir issue\u201d once and for all. Speaking at an election rally on the weekend, Modi boasted that \u201cthe changes in the region in the last decade are nothing short of a dream\u201d. Yet at the surrounding village gatherings and political meetings, the same fiery slogans raised by Kashmiris for years are once again being heard. In response to the rallying cries of \u201chum kya chaahte?\u201d [What do we want?], there is just one response: \u201cAzadi\u201d [freedom]\u201d."
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        "label": "The Guardian;Lebanon explosions \u2018an extremely concerning escalation\u2019, says UN official, as Hezbollah threatens retaliation \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/17/middle-east-crisis-live-netanyahu-expands-gaza-war-aims-blinken-heads-to-egypt;2024-09-17T22:07:56Z",
        "text": "Pagers used by hundreds of members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah exploded simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding thousands in a dramatic and unprecedented attack at a time of heightened tensions in the Middle East. Among those killed was an 10-year-old girl, according to Lebanon\u2019s health minister, Firass Abiad. The latest casualty figures by officials include about 2,750 wounded, with most injuries to the face and hands. Those wounded include Iran\u2019s ambassador to Beirut, Mojtaba Amani. Hezbollah fighters in Syria were also injured in the attack, with several reportedly being treated in hospitals in Damascus. Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards-affiliated Saberin News reported that some guards in Syria had also been killed. The pager explosions across Lebanon marked \u201can extremely concerning escalation,\u201d the UN\u2019s special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said. The spokesperson for the secretary general of the United Nations, St\u00e9phane Dujarric, noted the \u201cextremely volatile\u201d context. A Hezbollah official said the detonation of the pagers was the biggest security breach for the group in nearly a year of conflict with Israel. The blasts appeared to exploit the low-tech pagers that Hezbollah has adopted in order to prevent the targeted assassinations of its members. Lebanon\u2019s foreign minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, said the country was bracing for a major retaliation by Hezbollah. Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel. \u201cWe hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for this criminal aggression that also targeted civilians,\u201d a statement said. The son of the Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar reportedly also died in the explosions, as did two sons of other prominent Hezbollah figures. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the blasts. The attack took place just hours after Israel announced it was broadening the aims of the war sparked by the 7 October Hamas attacks to include its fight against Hezbollah. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry put hospitals across the country on \u201cmaximum alert\u201d and instructed citizens to distance themselves from wireless communication devices. Schools in Lebanon will close on Wednesday. The US government said it \u201cwas not aware of this incident in advance\u201d. The state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, told a briefing that Washington was not involved and did not know who was responsible. He added it was \u201ctoo early to say\u201d how it would affect Gaza ceasefire talks. Israel\u2019s domestic security agency said it had foiled a plot by Hezbollah to assassinate a former senior Israeli defence official in the coming days. The Shin Bet agency said it had seized an explosive device attached to a remote detonation system, using a mobile phone and a camera, that Hezbollah had planned to operate from Lebanon. Israeli tanks fired on an aid convoy on a mission to northern Gaza at the weekend, the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said. Shots were fired from two Israeli tanks near the WHO-led convoy, he said, adding that nobody was hurt during the incident. Gaza\u2019s health ministry has identified 34,344 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks in the territory, publishing a list of names, ages, gender and ID numbers that cover more than 80% of those who have been killed in the war so far. At least 41,252 Palestinian people have been killed and 95,497 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said on Tuesday. The Palestinian education ministry said 11,001 students \u2013 from schools and universities \u2013 have been killed and 17,772 injured in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank since 7 October 2023. The EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has urged for more pressure on Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza, warning that every day that passes without a deal risks the lives of hostages and civilians \u2013 as well as a regional war breaking out. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is reportedly contemplating dismissing his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and replacing him with Gideon Saar, a member of the opposition and the New Hope party leader. We\u2019re now closing this blog. You can read all our latest reporting here: Hezbollah vows retaliation after deadly pager explosions Analysis: attack is another blow for US peace hopes Analysis: if caused by Mossad, explosions are big escalation At a glance: what we know so far Most of the injuries from Tuesday\u2019s pager explosions in Lebanon have been to the face and hands. Most \u201cappear to be to the face and especially to the eyes, and also the hand with some amputations, whether it\u2019s in the hands or the fingers,\u201d Lebanon\u2019s public health minister Firass Abiad told the BBC. The \u201cvast majority\u201d presenting to emergency rooms are in civilian clothes, Abiad told the broadcaster, adding that this makes it \u201cvery difficult to discern whether they belong to a certain entity like Hezbollah or others\u201d. He added: But we are seeing among them people who are old or people who are very young, like the child who unfortunately died, and there are some of them who are health care workers. Abiad said the incident was a \u201cmajor escalation at a time when everybody was hoping that things were moving to a kind of cessation of hostilities or some kind of ceasefire\u201d, adding that Israel was the \u201cobvious culprit\u201d. There has been no comment from the Israeli military on the blast. The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Israeli tanks fired on an aid convoy on a mission to northern Gaza at the weekend. Posting on X, he wrote that a WHO-led convoy encountered two Israeli tanks while on the way back from a mission last Saturday. Shots were fired from the tanks near the convoy, he said, adding that the convoy had received clearance. Nobody was hurt during the incident, he said. \u201cThis is unacceptable,\u201d he said, noting that humanitarian workers in Gaza deliver critical aid \u201camid extreme danger and life-threatening conditions\u201d. He added: The minimum they deserve for their service is safety. The deconfliction mechanism needs to be adhered to. Ceasefire! The airline Lufthansa announced it is suspending all flights to Tel Aviv and Tehran through to Thursday, citing the \u201crecent change in the security situation\u201d. A statement by Lufthansa reads: During this period, the Israeli and Iranian airspace will also be bypassed by all Lufthansa Group Airlines. It added that it was closely monitoring the situation and \u201cwill assess it further in the coming days\u201d. Hamas has condemned the series of pager explosions across Lebanon and Syria in a statement. The statement reads: We appreciate the struggle and sacrifices of our brothers in Hezbollah, and their insistence on continuing to support and back our Palestinian people in Gaza, and we affirm our full solidarity with the Lebanese people and our brothers in Hezbollah. The UN\u2019s special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said the pager explosions across the country marked \u201can extremely concerning escalation in what is an already unacceptably volatile context.\u201d In a statement, she urged \u201call concerned actors to refrain from any further action, or bellicose rhetoric, which could trigger a wider conflagration that nobody can afford\u201d. Hennis-Plasschaert \"underlines the urgency of restoring calm and calls on all concerned actors to prioritize stability as paramount,\u201d the statement continues, concluding that \u201ctoo much is at stake to do anything less.\u201d Pagers used by hundreds of members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah exploded simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding thousands in a dramatic and unprecedented attack at a time of heightened tensions in the Middle East. Here\u2019s what we know so far: At least nine people were killed in the attack in Lebanon, officials said. Among those killed was an 10-year-old girl, according to Lebanon\u2019s health minister, Firass Abiad. The latest casualty figures by officials include about 2,750 wounded. Those wounded in the attack include Iran\u2019s ambassador to Beirut, Mojtaba Amani. Hezbollah fighters in Syria were also injured in the attack, with several reportedly being treated in hospitals in Damascus. Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards-affiliated Saberin News reported that some guards in Syria had also been killed. A Hezbollah official said the detonation of the pagers was the \u201cbiggest security breach\u201d for the group in nearly a year of conflict with Israel. The blasts appeared to exploit the low-tech pagers that Hezbollah has adopted in order to prevent the targeted assassinations of its members. The pagers were reportedly a new brand. Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel. Hezbollah said two of its fighters were among the dead and threatened a \u201cjust punishment\u201d for Israel. \u201cWe hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for this criminal aggression that also targeted civilians,\u201d the group said. The son of the Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar reportedly also died in the explosions, as did two sons of other prominent Hezbollah figures. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the blasts. The attack took place just hours after Israel announced it was broadening the aims of the war sparked by the 7 October Hamas attacks to include its fight against Hezbollah. The attack followed months of targeted assassinations by Israel against senior Hezbollah leaders. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry put hospitals across the country on \u201cmaximum alert\u201d and instructed citizens to distance themselves from wireless communication devices. Hezbollah maintains its own communication network separate from the rest of Lebanon. It also comes as US officials try to de-escalate tensions between the two sides, and could derail US efforts to prevent Iran from retaliating against Israel for the July bombing in Tehran that killed the Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh. The US said it \u201cwas not aware of this incident in advance\u201d. A US state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, told a briefing the US was not involved and did not know who was responsible. He added that it was \u201ctoo early to say\u201d how it would affect Gaza ceasefire talks. After the pagers blasts, a Reuters journalist saw ambulances rushing through the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, amid widespread panic. At Mount Lebanon hospital just outside Beirut, a Reuters reporter saw motorcycles rushing to the emergency room and people with bloodied hands screaming in pain. The head of the Nabatieh public hospital in the south of the country, Hassan Wazni, told Reuters that around 40 wounded people were being treated at his facility. The wounds included injuries to the face, eyes and limbs. Here are some of the latest images from the newswires from Lebanon, after at least nine people were killed and almost 3,000 others wounded during the pagers explosion on Tuesday. A Pentagon spokesperson said the US had no involvement in Tuesday\u2019s pager blasts in Lebanon. Air force Maj Gen Patrick Ryder told a news briefing: To my knowledge, there\u2019s no US involvement in this at all. Again, it\u2019s something that we\u2019re monitoring. Schools in Lebanon will close on Wednesday, according to state media, after the pager explosions killed at least nine people and injured 2,800 on Tuesday. The pagers that exploded were new and had been bought by Hezbollah in recent months, a Lebanese security source told CNN. The source did not provide any information on the exact date the pagers were purchased or their model. A Hezbollah official told Associated Press that the pagers used by the group first heated up, then exploded. A former British Army munitions expert told the BBC that the devices would have likely been packed with between 10 and 20 grams each of military-grade high explosive, hidden inside a fake electronic component. This would have been armed by a signal, something called an alphanumeric text message, according to the expert. Gaza\u2019s health ministry has identified 34,344 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks in the territory, publishing a list of names, ages, gender and ID numbers that cover more than 80% of those who have been killed in the war so far. The remaining 7,613 people included in its death toll, now more than 41,000, are Palestinians whose bodies have been received by hospitals and morgues, but whose identities have not yet been confirmed. The dead range from the very young to the very old. They include 169 babies born after the Hamas attacks of 7 October that began the war whose lives were shorter than the war that claimed their lives, and a man born in 1922 who survived more than a century of war and upheaval before he was killed. The document runs to 649 pages, with the dead listed largely by age. Gaza\u2019s population is youthful, and the grim register underlines the high toll of Israeli attacks on Palestinian children. The US continues to believe that there needs to be a diplomatic solution to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday. Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah promised to retaliate after blaming Israel for detonating pagers on Tuesday that killed at least nine people and wounded 2,750 others, including many of the militant group\u2019s fighters and Iran\u2019s envoy to Beirut. \u201cSo we continue, we continue to believe that there \u2026 should be a diplomatic resolution to this,\u201d Jean-Pierre said. It may not have been acknowledged by Israel, but the extraordinary, coordinated attack on Hezbollah, blowing up thousands of pagers used by members of the Lebanese group, is almost certainly a Mossad operation. The Israeli intelligence service has been engaged in the assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders for decades but, if its involvement is confirmed, this represent a significant escalation. Reports continue to come in but, with at least nine dead and about 3,000 wounded in dozens, if not hundreds, of coordinated explosions, the episode demonstrates a ruthless \u2013 if indiscriminate \u2013 desire to target Hezbollah. The group had been using pagers as an alternative to mobile phones, which can be tracked and used to pinpoint deadly missile strikes on its commanders. It is unclear how the explosions were caused and, although there is inevitable speculation about hacking, it is most likely they came from sabotaged devices. Initial reports said that the pagers that exploded were a new model manufactured by a company whose supply chain may have been compromised by the perpetrators of the attack. Yossi Melman, co-author of Spies Against Armageddon and other books on Israeli intelligence, emphasised that it appeared the exploding pagers had been \u201crecently supplied\u201d, and added: \u201cWe know that Mossad is able to penetrate and infiltrate Hezbollah time and time again.\u201d But he questioned the strategic wisdom of the attack, in which a 10-year-old girl died. Hamas has condemned the series of pager blasts across Lebanon as part of Israel\u2019s \u201caggression\u201d in the region, saying they were an escalation that would only lead Israel to \u201cfailure and defeat\u201d, according to a statement released by the group. The United States said on Tuesday it is gathering information after at least eight people were killed and 2,750 wounded when pagers used by Hezbollah members \u2013 including fighters and medics \u2013 detonated simultaneously across Lebanon. State department spokesperson Matthew Miller told a regular news briefing the United States was not involved in the incidents and did not know who was responsible. Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah threatened to punish Israel in response to the incidents, Reuters reported. Lebanon\u2019s foreign minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, said the country was bracing for a major retaliation by Hezbollah. Bou Habib told the New York Times: If Israel thinks by this that they\u2019re going to return their displaced people from the north of Israel, they are mistaken. This escalates this war. He added that the Lebanese government was now preparing to lodge a complaint at the UN security council. Hezbollah are definitely going to retaliate in a big way. How? Where? I don\u2019t know. Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar, whose son Mahdi was reportedly killed on Tuesday in the pager explosion in Lebanon, spoke to the Associated Press. \u201cThis is a new Israeli aggression against Lebanon,\u201d Ammar said. The resistance will retaliate in a suitable way at the suitable time. The sons of two other senior officials were wounded, the news agency reported, citing a Hezbollah official said. They are the son of Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah and the son of senior security official Wafiq Safa, according to the report. The EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has urged for more pressure on Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza, warning that every day that passes without a deal risks the lives of hostages and civilians \u2013 as well as a regional war breaking out. \u201cThe only thing I can say is that all actors involved have to continue putting pressure on both parties to reach this agreement,\u201d Borrell told journalists in Dubai on Tuesday. Every day that the agreement is not being reached, it means more hostages will be retained and more people will be killed. So it\u2019s not a matter of waiting for tomorrow. Tomorrow is already too late. The EU diplomat was speaking just after news broke from Lebanon of at least nine people killed and 2,800 others wounded by pager explosions across the country. Borrell said he would seek more information from Beirut, but acknowledged it could escalate the already-boiling tensions in the region: Certainly there is the possibility of the war spilling over to Lebanon. The UK-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 14 people were wounded in Syria by explosions of pagers. A statement by the group said: Fourteen people whose nationalities are unknown have been wounded in Damascus and its countryside after pagers used by Hezbollah exploded. Lebanon\u2019s health minister, Firass Abiad, said nine people are now confirmed dead in a series of explosions that targeted pagers across the country. Among those killed is an eight-year-old girl from Bekka Valley, Abiad said, according to Al Jazeera. At least 2,800 people have been wounded, he added, and more than 200 are in critical condition. As we reported earlier, Lebanon\u2019s information minister condemned what he called \u201cIsraeli aggression\u201d in reference to the explosions of pagers across the country. Ziad Makary, in quotes carried by Al Jazeera, said: Lebanon\u2019s main priority is putting an end to the Israeli attacks targeting our citizens\u2019 lives and livelihoods. \u201cThese crimes are the responsibility of the international community,\u201d Makary added. The spokesperson for the secretary general of the United Nations, St\u00e9phane Dujarric, has described the developments in Lebanon as \u201cextremely concerning\u201d, noting the \u201cextremely volatile\u201d context. \u201cWe deplore the civilian casualties that we have seen,\u201d he said, adding: We cannot underscore enough the risks of escalation in Lebanon and in the region. The leader of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, was not harmed in the pager explosions, a senior Hezbollah source told Reuters. Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the explosion of pagers on Tuesday and warned Israel will receive a \u201cjust punishment\u201d. A statement by the group translated by AFP reads: We hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for this criminal aggression. Electronic pager devices also exploded in Syria, according to multiple reports. Seven people were killed from blasts from their devices in the Damascus neighbourhood of Seyedah Zeinab, Saberin News, an outlet affiliated with Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported. A number of Hezbollah members arrived at hospitals in Damascus after their devices exploded, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Lebanese government sees Israel as responsible for the pager explosions and sees it as violation of Lebanese sovereignty, a Lebanese government spokesperson has reportedly said. From Axios\u2019s Barak Ravid: According to Reuters\u2019 Timour Azhari, Lebanon\u2019s information minister has also condemned \u201cIsraeli aggression\u201d. In an earlier statement, Hezbollah said three people had been killed but did not mention Israel. At least eight people were killed and 2,750 wounded after pager explosions across Lebanon, according to the country\u2019s health minister, Firass Abiad. Iran\u2019s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was wounded on Tuesday when a pager exploded, according to state media. Amani\u2019s wounds were \u201csuperficial\u201d, state media are reporting, adding that he was \u201cconscious and in no danger\u201d. Two Hezbollah fighters and a girl have been killed in a series of simultaneous detonations of pagers on Tuesday, the group said. In a statement, Hezbollah did not directly accuse Israel of being behind the operation. According to Al Jazeera, it said: At approximately 3:30pm on Tuesday 09-17-2024, a number of message receiving devices known as \u2018pagers\u2019 exploded, which were owned by a number of workers in various Hezbollah units and institutions. These explosions, the causes of which are still unknown, led to the martyrdom of a girl and two brothers, and the injury of a large number of people with various injuries. The 10-year-old daughter of a Hezbollah member was killed when his pager exploded on Tuesday, her family has told AFP. The news agency quoted her relatives as saying: A 10-year-old girl was martyred in the Bekaa Valley after her father\u2019s pager exploded while he was next to her. A Hezbollah fighter, the son of a Hezbollah MP, was killed in the pager explosion, two security sources told Reuters. Lebanese media are also reporting that the son of Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar was killed. From Timour Azhari of Reuters: More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were injured when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, security sources told Reuters. This figure \u2013 which we have not yet independently verified - is far higher than the hundreds of injuries estimated in earlier reports. In other developments: The pagers that detonated were the latest model brought in by Hezbollah in recent months, three security sources told Reuters. The head of the the Nabatieh public hospital in southern Lebanon, Hassan Wazni, told Reuters that around 40 injured people were being treated at his facility, including for wounds to the face, eyes and limbs. The Lebanese Red Cross said more than 50 ambulances and 300 emergency medical staff were dispatched to help in the evacuation of victims. There has been no official comment by Israel yet about the simultaneous explosions in Lebanon. Hundreds of members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, including fighters and medics, were seriously injured on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded, a security source told Reuters. Iran\u2019s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was among those who were injured by the explosions, Iran\u2019s Mehr news agency reported. A Hezbollah official said the detonation of the pagers was the \u201cbiggest security breach\u201d the group had been subjected to in nearly a year of war with Israel. No deaths have been reported. A source close to Hezbollah told AFP the explosions were an \u201cIsraeli breach\u201d of its communications. Israel\u2019s domestic security agency said it had foiled a plot by Hezbollah to assassinate a former senior defence official in the coming days. The Shin Bet agency said it had seized an explosive device attached to a remote detonation system, using a mobile phone and a camera, that Hezbollah had planned to operate from Lebanon. At least 41,252 Palestinian people have been killed and 95,497 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said. The Palestinian education ministry said 11,001 students \u2013 from schools and universities \u2013 have been killed and 17,772 injured in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank since 7 October 2023. There are reports that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is contemplating firing his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and replacing him with Gideon Saar, a member of the opposition and the New Hope party leader. Israel\u2019s Business Forum, which consists of 200 heads of Israel\u2019s largest companies that employ many private sector workers, urged Netanyahu to keep Gallant in his position as defence minister, saying it would create more division and weaken the country if he was let go. The Israeli daily Haaretz is reporting that the local council head of the northern Israeli town of Shlomi, Gabi Na\u2019aman, has urged residents to stay near shelters. Na\u2019aman wrote: Due to the unique security situation in which we have found ourselves in the past hour, I ask out of an abundance of caution to stay near your children and your shelters. Hundreds of people were injured across Lebanon when their pagers exploded earlier today, health minister Firass Abiad has said, with a source close to Hezbollah telling Agence France-Presse (AFP) its members were targeted. No deaths have been reported. Iran\u2019s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was among those who were injured by the explosions, Iran\u2019s Mehr news agency reported. Iran\u2019s semi-official Fars news agency said Amani suffered a slight injury. \u201cAmani has a superficial injury and is currently under observation in a hospital,\u201d Fars quoted a source as saying. Regional broadcasters carrying CCTV footage which showed what appeared to be a small handheld device placed next to a grocery store cashier where an individual was paying spontaneously exploding. In other footage, an explosion appeared to knock out someone standing at a fruit stand at a market area. Lebanon\u2019s crisis operations center has asked all medical workers to head to their respective hospitals to help cope with the massive numbers of injured people coming into for urgent care. It said health care workers should not use pagers. A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that the incident was a result of an \u201cIsraeli breach\u201d of its communications. We have some more information on the reports that dozens of Hezbollah members were injured in Lebanon after the devices they use for communications exploded (see earlier post at 14.11). A Hezbollah official has told Reuters that the detonation of the pagers was the \u201cbiggest security breach\u201d the group had been subjected to in nearly a year of war with Israel. A Reuters journalist saw ambulances rushing through the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, with residents saying explosions were taking place even 30 minutes after the initial blasts. There are reports \u2013 not yet verified by the Guardian - that the security breach that led to the explosions happened simultaneously in Beirut, Mount Lebanon and Dahieh. Since October, Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group from Lebanon, has carried out strikes on Israeli targets, saying they were in solidarity with Palestinians impacted by Israel\u2019s war on Gaza. Qatar\u2019s foreign ministry said efforts to forge a Gaza truce, being mediated alongside Egypt and the US, were \u201congoing\u201d. Recent mediation in Doha and Cairo has been based on a framework laid out in May by the US president, Joe Biden, and a \u201cbridging proposal\u201d presented to Hamas and Israel in August. The May proposal offered a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in return for the release of all hostages and the long-term reconstruction of the shattered coastal strip. \u201cThe efforts are still ongoing and channels of communication remain open... the goals and visits and meetings are ongoing,\u201d Majed al-Ansari, spokesperson for Qatar\u2019s foreign ministry, told reporters. The US state department said yesterday that the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, would visit Egypt this week to \u201cdiscuss ongoing efforts to reach a ceasefire\u201d, his tenth trip to the region since October. Pressure inside Israel for a deal has intensified after authorities announced the deaths of six hostages at the start of September after their bodies were recovered from a Gaza tunnel. But in the face of the external calls for an agreement, both Israel and Hamas have publicly signalled deeper entrenchment in their negotiating positions. A major impasse in the negotiations has been the Philadelphi corridor along Gaza\u2019s border with Egypt and the Netzarim east-west corridor across the territory. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has claimed that Israel should retain control of the corridors to prevent smuggling and catch militant fighters. Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, however, is demanding the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza. The Reuters news agency has been told by sources that dozens of members of Hezbollah were seriously injured today in Lebanon\u2019s south, and the southern suburbs of Beirut, when the pagers they use to communicate exploded. A Reuters journalist saw 10 Hezbollah members bleeding from wounds in the southern suburb of Beirut known as Dahiyeh. These claims have not yet been independently verified by the Guardian. Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, has reported that Israel\u2019s security forces have demolished two homes belonging to Palestinians in Khirbet Jbara, south of the city of Tulkarm in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. One of those whose home was destroyed, Muhammad Jabara, said that he had not been able to remove family possessions from the building before the Israeli forces demolished the house. In the last hour Israel\u2019s military has reported on its official Telegram channel that \u201ca number of UAVs were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory. Some of the UAVs were intercepted and some fell in an area adjacent to Ramot Naftali. No injuries were reported.\u201d Sirens have been sounding in northern Israel \u201cdue to the possibility of falling shrapnel from the interception\u201d, it said. Lebanon\u2019s house speaker, Nabih Berri, met with the head of Unrwa Philippe Lazzarini today. Lebanese state media reports that: Lazzarini expressed concern over the escalating conflict, particularly in Gaza and the West Bank, and the growing tensions between Israel and Lebanon. He highlighted the increasing displacement on both sides of the border and emphasised the need for preparedness, while hoping to avoid further escalation. Moreover, Lazzarini also raised concerns about continuous attacks on Unrwa and Israeli efforts to dismantle the agency, mentioning that its facilities and staff in Gaza face daily threats. Al Jazeera reports that its verification unit has ascertained via satellite imagery that in the northern Gaza Strip, Israel has completely destroyed nine UN-run schools, and partially destroyed three others that had been sheltering displaced civilians. Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government has banned Al Jazeera from operating inside Israel. Here are some of the latest images coming from the newswires out of Gaza: Israel\u2019s domestic security agency said it had foiled a plot by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to assassinate a former senior defence official in the coming days, Reuters reports. The official was not named. The Shin Bet agency said it had seized an explosive device attached to a remote detonation system, using a mobile phone and a camera, that Hezbollah had planned to operate from Lebanon. Shin Bet said the attempted attack was similar to a Hezbollah plot foiled in Tel Aviv a year ago, without giving further details. There have been near daily exchanges of fire across the Israel-Lebanon border since 7 October 2023, when Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, stormed into Israeli communities and military bases, killing around 1,200 people and abducting about 250 hostages. Patrick Wintour is diplomatic editor for the Guardian The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has said Tehran has shown restraint so far in its response to the Israeli assassination of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh because it believes Israel has been trying to lure it into a regional war. Pezeshkian, a reformist who was elected unexpectedly three months ago, was speaking at a wide-ranging and unprecedented two-and-half-hour press conference in which nearly half of the questions were from foreign media. \u201cWhat Israel has done in the region and what Israel tried with the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran was to drag us into a regional war,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cWe have exercised restraint so far but we reserve the right to defend ourselves at a specific time and place with specific methods.\u201d It remains a matter of debate whether Pezeshkian, who has a frank, consensual style, has access to the real levers of power or the political will to transform Iran\u2019s relations with the west. But his use of a large international platform and often unpretentious direct manner suggests he is a new and unpredictable element in Iranian politics. You can read the full story here: German news media outlets have called on Israel to grant them access to Gaza, and for neighbouring Egypt to allow entry to the territory via the Rafah border crossing. \u201cAfter almost a year of war, we call on the Israeli government: allow us to enter the Gaza Strip,\u201d a group of newspapers, agencies and broadcasters wrote in an open letter. The media organisations wrote that \u201canyone who makes independent reporting on this war impossible is damaging their own credibility\u201d. \u201cAnyone who prohibits us from working in the Gaza Strip is creating the conditions for human rights to be violated.\u201d The open letter was addressed to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and had been delivered on Monday. Signatories included editors and reporters from Der Spiegel, Die Welt, public broadcasters ARD and ZDF and the German Journalists Association. As of today, the Committee to Protect Journalist\u2019s (CPJ) preliminary investigations showed at least 116 journalists and media workers have been killed since the war began last October, making it the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began collecting data in 1992. 111 of these journalists were Palestinian, three were Lebanese and two were Israeli. The CPJ said: To date, CPJ has determined that at least five journalists were directly targeted by Israeli forces in killings which CPJ classifies as murders: Issam Abdallah, Hamza Al Dahdouh, Mustafa Thuraya, Ismail Al Ghoul, and Rami Al Refee. CPJ is still researching the details for confirmation in at least 10 other cases that indicate possible targeting. Israel denies that it targets journalists, saying it only targets Hamas, the Palestinian militant group. As we mentioned in an earlier post, there are widespread reports that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is contemplating firing his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and replacing him with Gideon Saar, who is currently a member of the opposition and the New Hope party leader. Saar has been critical about making a deal with Hamas to end the war in Gaza, while Gallant has been pushing for a truce. Gallant has dismissed Netanyahu\u2019s repeated aim of \u201ctotal victory\u201d as nonsense. He has also called for a clearer post-war plan that would see the enclave governed by Palestinians. Israel\u2019s Business Forum has urged Netanyahu to keep Gallant in his position as defence minister, saying it would create more division and weaken the country if he was let go. The forum, which consists of 200 heads of Israel\u2019s largest companies that employ many private sector workers, said Netanyahu should stop \u201cmessing around with petty politics\u201d during a time of war. In a statement, the forum said: Immediately stop the process of replacing (Gallant). The firing of the minister weakens Israel in the eyes of her enemies, and will further deepen the division in the people of Israel\u2026 The prime minister knows better than anyone that all the economic indicators also prove that Israel is deteriorating into an economic abyss and sinking into a deep recession. The last thing Israel needs at this time is the firing of a defence minister - which will continue to shock the country. Netanyahu denied he was in negotiations with Saar, though he did not refer to his plans for Gallant. Rumours that Netanyahu would replace Gallant in a reshuffle have been circulating for months but seem to have recently picked up pace. In March 2023, Netanyahu fired Gallant after he broke ranks with the government and urged a halt to a highly contested plan to overhaul the judicial system. That triggered mass protests and Netanyahu backtracked on his decision. The Palestinian education ministry has said 11,001 students \u2013 from schools and universities \u2013 have been killed and 17,772 injured in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank since 7 October 2023. Here is a breakdown of the number of students and educational staff the ministry say have been killed, injured or arrested by Israeli forces between 7 October 2023 and 17 September 2024: At least 41,252 Palestinian people have been killed and 95,497 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The ministry has said thousands of other dead people are most likely lost in the rubble of the enclave. Israeli forces have arrested 30 Palestinians, including a child and former prisoners, over the last 24 hours in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoner\u2019s Society and the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission. The total number of Palestinians detained in the occupied West Bank since 7 October 2023 is estimated to have risen to over 10,700. Human rights groups and international organisations have alleged widespread abuse of inmates detained by Israel in raids in the occupied West Bank, which Palestinians want as the core of a future independent state along with Gaza. Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, has reported that four Palestinian people, including a child, were killed by Israeli forces bombing several homes in the al-Bureij camp in central Gaza on Tuesday morning. Sources also told the outlet that a person was killed after Israeli soldiers bombed a bicycle in the Qizan Rashwan area in the southern city of Khan Younis. These claims are yet to have been independently verified by the Guardian. The US has announced fresh sanctions against five individuals and a company associated with the Intellexa Consortium for their role in developing and distributing spyware that allegedly presents \u201ca significant threat\u201d to US national security. The move comes months after the US government sanctioned Intellexa\u2019s founder and other parties for their role in making and distributing commercial spyware used to target US officials, journalists and others. The US Treasury said on Monday it had sanctioned another five individuals associated with Intellexa\u2019s international web of companies allegedly involved in supplying the group\u2019s Predator spyware to foreign governments. They were targeted \u201cfor their role in developing, operating, and distributing commercial spyware technology that presents a significant threat to the national security of the United States,\u201d the Treasury said in a statement. Predator spyware can be used to turn a target\u2019s cellphone into a surveillance device and gain access to data stored and transmitted by the device. Acting Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, Bradley Smith, said: The United States will not tolerate the reckless propagation of disruptive technologies that threatens our national security and undermines the privacy and civil liberties of our citizens. We will continue to hold accountable those that seek to enable the proliferation of exploitative technologies, while also encouraging the responsible development of technologies that align with international standards. Former US president Barack Obama hosted Yair Lapid, the Israeli opposition leader, in Washington on Monday. Lapid, who is also a former prime minister, thanked Obama for his \u201cpublic support and efforts for the return of the Israeli abductees held in Gaza\u201d, adding in a post on X: \u201cI told him that we should all work together to secure a deal that will bring the abductees home.\u201d There are reports that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering replacing his defence minister, Yoav Gallant. Israel\u2019s leading television channels and news websites reported that Netanyahu, under pressure from far-right coalition partners, was contemplating firing Gallant and replacing him with former ally turned rival, Gideon Saar, who is a member of the opposition. Netanyahu has dismissed calls by Gallant and others to accept a withdrawal of Israeli troops from the southern border area of the Gaza Strip as the price of a ceasefire deal with Hamas. Gallant, who Netanyahu tried to fire in 2023, has been openly scornful of the Israeli prime minister\u2019s repeated aim of \u201ctotal victory\u201d in Gaza, which he has dismissed as \u201cnonsense\u201d. \u201cInstead of the prime minister being busy with victory over Hamas, returning the hostages, with the war against Hezbollah and allowing (evacuated) residents of the north to return to their homes, he is busy with despicable political dealings and replacing the defence minister,\u201d Benny Gantz, the centre-right National Unity party leader and Netanyahu\u2019s main political rival, wrote on social media. Hello and welcome to the Guardian\u2019s continuing live coverage of Israel\u2019s war on Gaza. Israel has expanded its stated goals of the war to include enabling residents to return to communities in northern Israel that have been evacuated due to attacks by Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. The decision was approved during an overnight meeting of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s security cabinet, his office said. Tens of thousands of Israelis were evacuated from towns along the northern frontier that have been badly damaged by rocket fire and have yet to return. Separately, on Monday, Israel\u2019s defence minister said \u201cthe possibility for an agreement is running out as Hezbollah continues to \u2018tie itself\u2019 to Hamas, and refuses to end the conflict. Therefore, the only way left to ensure the return of Israel\u2019s northern communities to their homes will be via military action.\u201d It comes as the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, was due to travel to Cairo to discuss a proposal for a ceasefire deal and release of hostages. It will be his 10th trip to the region since the outbreak of the war almost a year ago. The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, meanwhile, has warned of the devastating consequences of further regional escalation in the conflict. In a statement from the US defence department, he \u201creaffirmed the necessity of a ceasefire and hostage deal, and that Israel should give diplomatic negotiations time to succeed, noting the devastating consequences that escalation would have on the people of Israel, Lebanon, and the broader region.\u201d Here is a summary of the day\u2019s other main events: Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar has said the Palestinian militant group had the resources to sustain its fight against Israel, with support from Iran-backed regional allies. In a letter to the group\u2019s Yemeni allies, the Houthis, he said \u201cwe have prepared ourselves to fight a long war of attrition \u2026 our combined efforts with you\u201d and with groups in Lebanon and Iraq \u201cwill break this enemy and inflict defeat on it\u201d. Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes killed 16 people in the Gaza Strip on Monday, including five women and four children. A strike flattened a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least 10 people there, according to officials at the Awda hospital, which received the bodies. Another strike on a home in Gaza City killed six people, according to the civil defence first responders. UN secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has said that \u201cnothing justifies\u201d the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. \u201cWe all condemn the terror attacks made by Hamas, as well as the taking of the hostages, that is an absolute violation of international humanitarian law,\u201d he said, before adding \u201cthe truth is that nothing justifies the collective punishment of the Palestinian people, and that is what we are witnessing in a dramatic way in Gaza\u201d. Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official, told Agence France-Presse that new generations of fighters have been recruited since the 7 October attacks. Polio vaccination coverage in Gaza has reached 90%, the head of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency said on Monday, adding that the next step was to ensure hundreds of thousands of children got a second dose at the end of the month. The campaign, which began on 1 September, aims to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza under 10 years of age against polio. Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to New York on 24 September, the first day of the high-level general debate by world leaders at the annual UN general assembly, his office has said. It said the Israeli prime minister is scheduled to stay until 28 September in the US, which he had visited in July for official talks and a congressional address."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Lebanon pager explosions: what we know so far;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/lebanon-pager-explosions-what-we-know-so-far;2024-09-17T21:16:38Z",
        "text": "Pagers used by hundreds of members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah exploded simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding thousands in a dramatic and unprecedented attack at a time of heightened tensions in the Middle East. Here\u2019s what we know so far: At least nine people were killed in the attack in Lebanon, officials said. Among those killed was a 10-year-old girl, according to Lebanon\u2019s health minister, Firass Abiad. The latest casualty figures by officials include about 2,750 wounded. Those wounded in the attack include Iran\u2019s ambassador to Beirut, Mojtaba Amani. Hezbollah fighters in Syria were also injured in the attack, with several reportedly being treated in hospitals in Damascus. Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards-affiliated Saberin News reported that some guards in Syria had also been killed. A Hezbollah official said the detonation of the pagers was the biggest security breach for the group in nearly a year of conflict with Israel. The blasts appeared to exploit the low-tech pagers that Hezbollah has adopted in order to prevent the targeted assassinations of its members. The pagers were reportedly a new brand. Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel. The group said two of its fighters were among the dead and threatened a \u201cjust punishment\u201d. \u201cWe hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for this criminal aggression that also targeted civilians,\u201d a statement said. The son of the Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar reportedly also died in the explosions, as did two sons of other prominent Hezbollah figures. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the blasts. The attack took place just hours after Israel announced it was broadening the aims of the war sparked by the 7 October Hamas attacks to include its fight against Hezbollah. The attack followed months of targeted assassinations by Israel against senior Hezbollah leaders. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry put hospitals across the country on \u201cmaximum alert\u201d and instructed citizens to distance themselves from wireless communication devices. Hezbollah maintains its own communication network separate from the rest of Lebanon. It also comes as US officials try to de-escalate tensions between the two sides, and could derail US efforts to prevent Iran from retaliating against Israel for the July bombing in Tehran that killed the Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh. The US government said it \u201cwas not aware of this incident in advance\u201d. The state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, told a briefing that Washington was not involved and did not know who was responsible. He added it was \u201ctoo early to say\u201d how it would affect Gaza ceasefire talks."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Hezbollah pager explosions: questions over strategy behind unprecedented attack;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/hezbollah-pager-explosions-if-caused-by-the-mossad-would-be-a-big-escalation;2024-09-17T18:18:37Z",
        "text": "It may not have been acknowledged by Israel but the extraordinary, coordinated attack on Hezbollah, blowing up thousands of pagers used by members of the Lebanese group, is almost certainly a Mossad operation. The Israeli intelligence service has been engaged in the assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders for decades but, if its involvement is confirmed, this represents a significant escalation. Reports continue to come in but, with at least nine dead and about 3,000 wounded in dozens, if not hundreds, of coordinated explosions, the episode demonstrates a ruthless and indiscriminate desire to target Hezbollah. The group had been using pagers as an alternative to mobile phones, which can be tracked and used to pinpoint deadly missile strikes on its commanders. It is unclear how the explosions were caused and, although there is inevitable speculation about hacking, it is most likely they were the result of sabotaged devices. Initial reports said the pagers that exploded were a new model manufactured by a company whose supply chain may have been compromised by the perpetrators of the attack. Yossi Melman, a co-author of Spies Against Armageddon and other books on Israeli intelligence, emphasised that it appeared the exploding pagers had been \u201crecently supplied\u201d, and added: \u201cWe know that Mossad is able to penetrate and infiltrate Hezbollah time and time again,\u201d he added. But he questioned the strategic wisdom of the attack, in which a 10-year-old girl died. \u201cIt enhances the chance of an escalation of the border crisis into a war,\u201d Melman warned, and argued it was \u201cmore of a sign of panic\u201d because, while he said it showed an extraordinary ability to strike at the heart of Hezbollah, it was neither very targeted, nor would it would change the wider strategic picture. \u201cI don\u2019t see any advance in it,\u201d he concluded. At the very least, Melman argued, some sort of response from Hezbollah was likely. Earlier on Tuesday it had emerged that the Iran-aligned Lebanese group, who have been engaged in a violent tit-for-tat with Israel for months, had, according to Israel\u2019s Shin Bet domestic security service, planned to kill a former Israeli security official by remotely detonating an explosive device from Lebanon. That could suggest the pager attack was a grim warning of the \u201canything you can do, we can do better\u201d variety. But it would also be far from the first time Israel has engaged in an assassination or other spectacular attack and the results have backfired \u2013 or the situation not developed as intended. A sabotaged mobile phone was used as long ago as January 1996 to blow up Yahya Ayyash, then Hamas\u2019s chief bomb maker, in Gaza City. Ayyash, known as \u201cThe Engineer\u201d, was considered responsible for introducing the strategy of carrying out suicide attacks on Israeli passenger buses \u2013 but his killing prompted a fresh wave of bus bombings and did little to calm the crisis at the time. Khaled Meshal, another Hamas leader, survived an assassination attempt in 1997. Meshal, then Hamas\u2019s political leader, had poison injected in his ear in an operation authorised by Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, while in Jordan. Meshal survived, and some of the Israeli agents responsible were arrested \u2013 prompting Jordan\u2019s King Hussein to break off a peace accord and threaten to hang the plotters unless an antidote was supplied. An embarrassed Israel was forced to do so. Five hours after arriving in Dubai in February 2010, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a Hamas leader responsible for weapons procurement, was killed in his hotel room by a team of 11 assassins who used fake European passports to conceal their identities. Hamas accused Israel of being behind the plot, some aspects of which could be seen in CCTV footage released by the Dubai authorities. Some of the agents changed their disguises in a deadly operation that, for all its elaborateness, was detected. Since the start of Israel\u2019s latest war with Hamas, there have been many more attempts to take out leaders of the Palestinian militant group. Ismail Haniyeh, then the group\u2019s political leader, was killed by a \u201cshort range projectile\u201d in Tehran in August \u2013 prompting warnings from Iran it would respond with direct military action against Israel. Though Iran has refrained from an attack, the war between Israel and Hamas is close to entering its second year, and tensions with Hezbollah in the north have arguably never been higher."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Gaza publishes identities of 34,344 Palestinians killed in war with Israel;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/gaza-publishes-identities-of-34344-palestinians-killed-in-war-with-israel;2024-09-17T18:06:11Z",
        "text": "Gaza\u2019s health ministry has identified 34,344 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks in the territory, publishing a list of names, ages, gender and ID numbers that cover more than 80% of Palestinians killed in the war so far. The remaining 7,613 people included in its death toll, which is now above 41,000, are Palestinians whose bodies have been received by hospitals and morgues, but whose identities have not yet been confirmed. The identified people include 169 babies born after the Hamas attacks of 7 October that began the war, and a man born in 1922 who had survived more than a century of war and upheaval. The document runs to 649 pages, with the dead listed largely by age. Gaza\u2019s population is youthful, and the register underlines the high toll of Israeli attacks on Palestinian children. More than 100 pages are filled with the names of victims under 10 years old, and the first adult names do not appear until page 215. Israeli officials question the death toll given by the authorities in Gaza, arguing that because Hamas controls the government there, Gaza\u2019s health officials cannot provide reliable figures. However, doctors and civil servants in the territory have a credible record from past wars. After several conflicts between 2009 and 2021, United Nations investigators drew up their own lists of the dead and found they closely matched ones from Gaza. \u201cUnfortunately, we have the sad experience of coordinating with the ministry of health on casualty figures every few years,\u201d Farhan Haq, a spokesperson for the UN secretary general, has said. \u201cTheir figures have proven to be generally accurate.\u201d Palestinian authorities have been regularly updating the lists of those confirmed dead. This latest release adds more than 2,000 names. It does not distinguish between civilians and fighters, but a majority of the 34,344 dead can be identified as civilians based on age and gender alone. It includes 11,355 children, 2,955 people aged 60 or older, and 6,297 women. There are also many civilian men of fighting age who have been killed. Israel claims it has killed 17,000 militants, without providing evidence. It does not provide an estimate of civilians killed in Gaza. The official death toll provided by health authorities does not tell the full story of Palestinian losses, because it excludes people buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings, and those not directly killed by bombs or bullets. About 10,000 people killed by airstrikes are thought to remain entombed in collapsed buildings, because there has been little heavy equipment or fuel to dig through steel and concrete ruins to look for them, according to health officials. Hunger, lack of shelter and medication, the rapid spread of infectious diseases and the collapse of the healthcare system has claimed many other lives. Palestinian authorities plan to count those dead when the fighting stops, Dr Marwan al-Hams, the director of field hospitals at the ministry of health, has said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Palestinian and Israeli leaders need to have conversations like this | Letters;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/palestinian-and-israeli-leaders-need-to-have-conversations-like-this;2024-09-17T16:33:31Z",
        "text": "Thank you for sharing the conversation between Orna Guralnik, an Israeli, and Christine, a Palestinian (\u2018Many people would throw a tantrum at this point\u2019: An Israeli and a Palestinian discuss 7 October, Gaza \u2013 and the future, 13 September). We believe these dialogues, though uncomfortable and sometimes triggering, are hugely important to fight the polarisation that we\u2019re facing. We are two friends in London \u2013 one European Jewish, one Lebanese \u2013 grappling in our own way with the Israel-Palestine conflict. The 7 October attacks in Israel and subsequent war have deeply affected us both: one distressed by the attacks and rising antisemitism in Europe, the other anxious about Lebanon\u2019s vulnerability and the rising threat to Palestinian statehood. Our narratives transcend simple labels. We share fears, pains and hopes that don\u2019t fit neatly into binary public narratives or social media soundbites. Seeking understanding, we began meeting to discuss the conflict\u2019s complex angles, knowing full comprehension would take lifetimes. We also noticed a growing divide around us \u2013 people from different communities stopped talking to each other; hate spread on the streets but also among friends and colleagues. Scared by this trend and driven by our belief in bridge-building, we felt compelled to act and started hosting listening circles, inviting anyone connected to the region or interested in the topic. These circles provide a safe space to express ourselves, hear others differently and connect vulnerably. They\u2019re not about debate or convincing, but about learning, empathising and building trust. So far, we\u2019ve hosted 12 circles. They have become outlets for difficult emotions and spaces for genuine connection. Our experience shows the power of sitting with discomfort and truly listening. It\u2019s a small step, but one we believe is vital in nurturing understanding and empathy in these challenging times. Through these circles, we\u2019re learning that shared humanity can transcend political divides, offering hope for mutual understanding and hopefully, eventual peace. Lola Wajskop and Ramzi Rafih London \u2022 What saddens me most is that discussions like these, which acknowledge the deep pain on both sides, seem rare at the decision-making level. Without such conversations happening among leaders, it\u2019s hard to see how the dialogue between Orna and Christine can lead to significant change. It is heartening to witness two individuals, both deeply affected by the conflict and holding opposing views, attempting to understand each other\u2019s suffering while also grappling with their own perspectives of responsibility. Often, the debate centres on \u201cwho started it\u201d, and it feels unjust that countries like Germany, whose history with the Holocaust is intertwined with the establishment of Israel, or the US, whose political and military support for Israel has shaped the region, are geographically distant from the ongoing tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Monika Ma London \u2022 This conversation was frustrating to read. As a Palestinian from Gaza living in Germany, I have found myself in these types of situations and recognise the patterns of argument from supporters of Israel (even if critical of the current government). I have been asked to privilege the pain and trauma inflicted on the Jews over my own people\u2019s suffering, and I believe this is what Orna is asking of Christine. It is frankly disheartening to read that Orna insists on borders that would keep her separate from the people who are indigenous to the land she is claiming as her home. I wonder why Orna would feel comfortable asking Christine to subscribe to a version of the future that prioritises her own safety in such a way. It would be very hard for me to maintain a friendship with a person who asks me to take a back seat when envisioning a shared future. Abir Al-Laham Heidelberg, Germany \u2022 I would love to see this conversation made into a play for the stage. It is exactly what I, as an American Jew who has lost friends and family over my opinions about Israel and the war, have wanted to see. I think it captures so much and although I know the staunch supporters of Israel among my family and friends will not read this article, as they tuned out any criticism or alternative voices on this topic months ago, I do think if it were made into a theatrical performance they might watch it. Jill S Levien Cambridge, Massachusetts, US \u2022 I wanted to write in to acknowledge how extraordinary the exchange about Israel and Palestine between Orna Guralnik and Christine was. It was by far the most nuanced and thoughtful journalism I\u2019ve seen on the topic since 7 October, but at the same time, it didn\u2019t shy away from the harrowing and heartbreaking human stories behind the small-p politics. I\u2019m in awe of both Orna and Christine, and I hope to hear more from both of them, just as much as I hope to learn myself from their incredible candour and open-mindedness. Thank you! Jack Collier Sheffield \u2022 Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;First picture of wreckage of Titan sub after implosion revealed at hearing ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/photo-titan-submersible-wreckage;2024-09-17T16:26:31Z",
        "text": "The first picture of the Titan submersible following its deadly June 2023 implosion was revealed on Monday by the US Coast Guard as authorities opened a public hearing into the deaths of five people onboard. The accident\u2019s victims were killed when intense ocean pressure caused the Titan to collapse in on itself off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. They were the British explorer Hamish Harding; the British Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman; Stockton Rush, the chief executive officer of OceanGate, the American company that owned the Titan; and the French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet. Monday\u2019s hearing revealed new details about the implosion of the Titan and its parent company. The newly released image provided most of the public its first glimpse of the Titan\u2019s broken tail cone on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Fragments of the vessel are also visible on the ocean floor \u2013 debris that recovery crews found in the wake of the implosion. The Marine Board of Investigation said the Titan\u2019s detached tail cone and other debris provided \u201cconclusive evidence\u201d that the vessel experienced a \u201ccatastrophic implosion\u201d, CNN reported. Text messages sent from the Titan\u2019s crew to the Polar Prince, a nearby support ship, also gave new insight into the accident. At one point during its ill-fated trip, the Titan was asked by the Polar Prince if the former could still see the latter on its informational display. The crew responded \u201call good here\u201d as the vessel descended further. In a final message, Titan\u2019s crew texted \u201cdropped two wts\u201d, CNN reported, meaning that the submersible had shed two measures of weight in hopes of returning to the ocean\u2019s surface. OceanGate, the company that developed the Titan, has faced endured scrutiny as witnesses have come forward saying they had concerns about the vessel\u2019s construction before its doomed final trip. Tony Nissen, the former engineering director for OceanGate, said that he felt rushed to get the Titan into the water, testifying that he \u201c100%\u201d experienced pressure from higher-ups to do so. Tym Catterson, who worked as a contractor for OceanGate, testified on Monday that he was not comfortable traveling in the Titan because of his questions regarding the vessel\u2019s carbon fiber and titanium construction, ABC News reported. \u201cI don\u2019t believe that the composites are the correct material for a pressure vessel that\u2019s experiencing external compression,\u201d he said, adding that he had \u201cdoubts\u201d. Catterson also said that he relayed his worries to several OceanGate employees. The hearing began on Monday and is expected to continue for two weeks. It is meant to \u201cuncover the facts surrounding\u201d the Titan\u2019s fatal implosion, said Jason Neubauer, the chair of the Marine Board of Investigation. It will also investigate any potential \u201cmisconduct or negligence by \u2026 mariners\u201d credentialed to navigate by the US. Those traveling on the Titan were killed after descending into the deep north Atlantic to view the Titanic, the British passenger liner that was once described as \u201cpractically unsinkable\u201d but sank in 1912 after striking an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Central Europe braces for further flooding as swollen rivers continue to rise;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/central-europe-flooding-rivers-storm-boris;2024-09-17T14:41:58Z",
        "text": "As swollen rivers continued to rise, volunteers and emergency workers in towns and cities across a swathe of central Europe were reinforcing defences against floods that have killed at least 21 people in four countries. Storm Boris has dumped up to five times the average September rainfall on parts of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia in four days, submerging entire neighbourhoods and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate. Seven people have died in Romania, six in Poland, five in Austria and three in the Czech Republic, officials said on Tuesday, with several missing. The rain was easing in some areas but water levels in others were not expected to peak for several days. The Danube River had peaked in Slovakia, the environment minister, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Taraba, said, leaving parts of Bratislava\u2019s old town flooded. It was still rising in Hungary, including by about a metre every 24 hours in Budapest. Mobile dams were in place at the historical towns of Visegr\u00e1d and Szentendre, north of Budapest. Tram lines and roads alongside the river, as well as the popular Margaret island, have been closed and a million sandbags distributed. In eastern Germany, authorities were also taking precautions, with mobile flood protection walls set up in some areas to protect Dresden\u2019s old city as the Elbe rose steadily. The river was expected to peak by midweek. In Poland, the mayor of the historical city of Wroc\u0142aw, Jacek Sutryk, said on Tuesday buses had been prepared for an evacuation. \u201cToday we will also be further reinforcing embankments in the [Oder] river basin,\u201d he said. The Oder is expected to peak on Friday, or perhaps sooner, in the city, which is home to 600,000 people. Wroc\u0142aw zoo, alongside the river, appealed for volunteers to fill sandbags. \u201cWe and our animals will be extremely grateful for your help,\u201d it said. Extreme rainfall is becoming more common and intense because of human-caused climate breakdown across most of the world, particularly in Europe, most of Asia, central and eastern North America, and parts of South America, Africa and Australia. Warmer air can hold more water vapour, while human factors, such as flood defence planning and land use, are also important factors in consequent flooding. Climate breakdown is also making heatwaves more intense and more likely to happen, increasing the risk of devastating wildfires. As rescue workers battled floods in central Europe, firefighters in Portugal fought fires that have killed seven people. Near the border between Poland and the Czech Republic, one of the hardest-hit areas, 2,000 volunteers from the Polish town of Nysa\u2019s population of 44,000 spent Monday night helping rescue workers build up a burst river embankment. \u201cPlease evacuate your belongings, yourselves, your loved ones. It is worth getting to the top floor of the building immediately, because the wave may be several metres high,\u201d the town\u2019s mayor, Kordian Kolbiarz, had told residents on Monday night. On Tuesday morning, the mayor said on Facebook that \u201cwomen, men, children and the elderly\u201d had come out to try to save their town. \u201cWe simply \u2026 did everything we could,\u201d Kolbiarz wrote on Facebook. \u201cWe fought for Nysa. Our home. Our future.\u201d A huge reservoir near the border aimed at reducing water levels and preventing flood waters from the Odra and Nysa from merging \u2013 as they did in catastrophic flooding in 1997 \u2013 was about 80% full, authorities said. Poland\u2019s prime minister, Donald Tusk, on Monday announced an emergency relief fund of 1bn z\u0142otys (\u20ac200m) for flood victims in the country, adding that Poland would apply for EU relief funds. In the Czech Republic, where more than 60,000 homes were still without electricity, the governor of the north-eastern Moravia-Silesian region, Josef Belica, said 15,000 people had been evacuated and helicopters were delivering aid to towns and villages cut off by flood water. Eight people were unaccounted for. In the eastern city of Krnov, people were beginning to cart away debris on Tuesday. \u201cAll the pavements are destroyed, everything\u2019s toppled, everything\u2019s broken \u2026 It\u2019s a nightmare,\u201d Eliska Cokreska, 76, told Agence France-Presse. The fire service delivered bottles of drinking water to villages cut off by the floods, with people told not to drink tap water as it would be heavily contaminated. In Austria, the state of Lower Austria has been declared a disaster zone. The flooding has broken a dozen dams, with muddy rivers raging through devastated villages and thousands of households without electricity and water. Twenty-six communities were still cut off. As the weather improved, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, the state governor, said: \u201cWe are discovering the scale of the disaster.\u201d In the Austrian town of St P\u00f6lten, more rain has fallen in four days than in the whole of the wettest autumn on record 75 years ago. The army has been deployed across the region and a \u20ac300m emergency fund made available. Weather in the region is expected to improve steadily from late on Tuesday, but Storm Boris is forecast to move to northern Italy, where the region of Emilia-Romagna is bracing for the impact of 100-150mm of rainfall. Reuters, Agence France-Presse and Associated Press contributed to this report"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Rat winter: why vermin are crawling up our sewage pipes;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/rat-winter-why-vermin-are-crawling-up-our-sewage-pipes;2024-09-17T14:41:36Z",
        "text": "Name: Rat winter. Age: It hasn\u2019t even properly begun yet \u2026 but when it does, you\u2019ll know. After a Brat summer \u2026 A Rat winter, exactly. Who ya gonna call? Kieran Sampler, perhaps. A rat-catcher? Operating in Yorkshire. He reckons he has killed more than 65,000 of them. Well, Poppy and Penny have, mostly. Sampler\u2019s sisters? Daughters? A family business is it? His lakeland terriers. He says they\u2019re more humane than poison. Still terrierism though. Is there any reason we\u2019re talking about Sampler, rather than any of the other 854 pest control businesses in the UK? Because he has just dealt with a particularly gruesome case. Ooh, go on. He got a call to a house after a giant rat came up the toilet \u2026 while a woman was sitting on it. \u201cShe was screaming,\u201d Sampler told the Sun. \u201cImagine being on the toilet and something brushes against you.\u201d Eesh! Are we sure he\u2019s not making this up? There\u2019s a photo of the rat \u2013 nose sticking out of the water, whiskers, those creepy little claws. Ew! Did Poppy and Penny do their thing? That one ended up drowning, but on the rat front, Sampler thinks \u201cthis winter is going to be bad\u201d. Why are winters bad? When the temperature drops you tend to stay indoors more, right? Right. Rats, too. \u201cAs the winter approaches, rats constantly search for shelter and food reserves to survive the harsh temperatures,\u201d a blogpost by pest control people Rentokil advises. So, they come up the drains? Or they might be lurking under your decking. Rats love decking, apparently. And old buildings are especially vulnerable to attack. Plagues of rats have been known to rampage through ageing NHS hospitals. Aggghhh! How do I keep them out of my home? Seal entry points, don\u2019t leave food or rubbish lying around, cut back garden foliage. Sampler warns that bird feeders attract them. Also dog poo \u2013 pick it up. And, of course, in a city you\u2019re never more than 6ft from a rat. That might be more urban myth than fact, another rat-catcher told the Guardian last year. But he also said there have always been rats in the city and there always will be. Where\u2019s the Pied Piper when you need him? Hamelin? But remember the story: he did get rid of the rats but then he took the children, too. Fine, have them. I\u2019d rather that than a huge rat in the loo. Childless cat ladies are having a moment, why not childless rat ladies? Do say: [Whistles] \u201cPoppy, Penny, at \u2019em.\u201d Don\u2019t say: \u201cAw, cute though, I name him Toilet Scabbers.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;EU fingerprint and facial recognition checks expected to be delayed again;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/eu-fingerprint-and-facial-recognition-checks-expected-to-be-delayed-again;2024-09-17T12:52:00Z",
        "text": "The full implementation of an EU entry-exit system introducing fingerprinting and facial recognition checks at ports and airports is expected to be delayed again amid fears over congestion and long queues. Ylva Johansson, the EU\u2019s home affairs commissioner, said recently that the new entry-exit system (EES) would be introduced on 10 November with a contingency of delaying it one week to 17 November. Johansson had given member states until 5 September to provide the required declaration on their state of readiness. It is understood three countries, France, Germany and the Netherlands, have written to her to say they will not be ready. They expressed concerns about the lack of testing of the system in the field, raising new questions about the target launch date, according to multiple sources. Sources say UK transport operators were briefed by government officials last week to expect a further delay. The introduction of the EES, which required non-EU citizens to have their fingerprints or photos taken before entering the Schengen area, has already been delayed twice. It was due to be introduced last summer but France expressed concerns it would have an adverse impact on the rugby World Cup last autumn and this summer\u2019s Olympics. It was then rescheduled for 6 October this year but put back until November amid concerns congestion would disrupt school holiday visits into the EU from the UK and other non-EU countries. Several sources stressed that France, the Netherlands and Germany were \u201cfully supportive of the checks\u201d as it would increase security and speed up passport checks for non-EU citizens. France\u2019s main concern is congestion in Dover, where British and French border controls take place. This year, Ashford borough council warned of a worst-case scenario involving delays of up to 14 hours affecting freight traffic and leisure or business car and coach travel. One source in France said a \u201cbig bang\u201d option on 10 November was just not viable, with expectations that it would be phased in over a year. However, another said success would come only if all border posts were fully operational and recording every single entry and exit of a passenger. The Port of Dover deals with three types of traffic \u2013 lorries, passenger cars and coaches. It is less concerned about checks of truck drivers because more than 80% of them hold an EU passport. Checking passengers on the 68,000 coaches a year is more problematic but they will be directed through a new border control plaza. However, delays with the 1.6m cars that use ferries annually will have a knock-on effect on trucks and coaches because they all end in the same queue next to the ferry entry point. The EES is being introduced at all entry ports and airports, with Germany concerned about the effect on smaller airports such as Cologne and Munich alongside Frankfurt, while the Netherlands has to deal with traffic from Schiphol, one of Europe\u2019s busiest hubs. Passengers will have their fingerprints or a photo of their face taken the first time they arrive in the EU after the introduction of the EES, with electronic verification of biometric data thereafter. One UK source said: \u201cThey could start it but then phase in the time-consuming stuff like fingerprinting, but also give operators such as the Port of Dover the freedom to freeze checks if they see queues building up. This is all about capacity to manage congestion.\u201d A source in France said: \u201cThe problem is the testing has been desktop. We need live testing. Everyone is now waiting for the response of the commission.\u201d Some feel it is unlikely the commission will backtrack, having announced the launch date so recently, but equally, officials cannot ignore the concerns of the three countries which manage some of Europe\u2019s biggest hub airports. \u201cThis is what happens when politics hits the real world. Countries have to commit to launching and as the time gets closer and closer they are not willing to sign up to something they cannot deliver,\u201d said a source. The commission was approached for comment."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ursula von der Leyen announces new European Commission lineup \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/17/european-commission-ursula-von-der-leyen-new-commissioners-europe-latest-news;2024-09-17T12:49:48Z",
        "text": "Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, presented her lineup for the new commission. Spain\u2019s Teresa Ribera was named for the role of executive vice president for clean, just and competitive transition. Finland\u2019s Henna Virkkunen got an executive vice presidency focused on tech sovereignty, security and democracy, while France\u2019s St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9 is slated to become executive vice president for prosperity and industrial strategy. Other figures named to senior roles include Italy\u2019s Raffaele Fitto, an ally of Giorgia Meloni who was named executive vice president for cohesion and reforms, and Romania\u2019s Roxana M\u00eenzatu, who was chosen to be executive vice president for people, skills and preparedness. Estonia\u2019s Kaja Kallas had already been selected as the next high representative for foreign affairs. Von der Leyen chose Andrius Kubilius, a member of the European parliament and a former prime minister of Lithuania, as the new commissioner for defence and space. Magnus Brunner, from Austria, was nominated for the role of internal affairs and migration. The centre-right European People\u2019s party leader, Manfred Weber, celebrated his party family getting 14 posts. The Socialist and Democrats group leader Iratxe Garc\u00eda said that for the next European Commission mandate, her grouping will work to change the rules to make it obligatory for capitals to nominate a man and a woman for commission posts. The Greens group\u2019s Terry Reintke said \u201cappointing Raffaele Fitto could create a dangerous shift towards the far-right in the Commission\u201d and that the group would not give the Italian candidate \u201can easy ride.\u201d The Left group\u2019s Manon Aubry criticised the new European Commission lineup, arguing that in substance it would be the most right-wing in history. Read more here. Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s new lineup of commissioners includes Hadja Lahbib, who is believed to be the first ever EU commissioner with a non-EU background. Born in Belgium to parents of Algerian origin, Lahbib has been tapped to oversee the portfolio of preparedness, crisis management and equality. Speaking to Euronews earlier this month, the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) said it welcomed the appointment of Lahbib. But it cautioned that representation alone was not enough. \u201cWe urge the Commission to enhance its efforts, particularly by implementing stronger participatory mechanisms for racialised communities, ensuring their input is central to policy-making, and addressing the democratic deficit while adhering to equality and anti-racist principals,\u201d said a spokesperson. Reacting to Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s presentation of her new commission lineup today, Greenpeace EU director Jorgo Riss said \u201cEurope is already the fastest warming continent on the planet, with nature devastated by industrial farming and pollution \u2013 the challenge is well-documented, but it\u2019s still unclear if this Commission can pull Europe back from the brink of ecological collapse and protect people\u2019s livelihoods.\u201d \u201cDespite some impressive sounding job titles for the new commissioners, the EU\u2019s shaky green and social agenda has so far failed communities facing floods, wildfires or job insecurity,\u201d he said, adding: If competitiveness means lowering social and environmental standards and giving in to big polluters, it will not deliver jobs, nor protect lives and the nature we all depend on. Time will tell if this Commission is capable and willing to work for the social, economic and environmental resilience that will safeguard life and ensure our children\u2019s future. The British embassy in Georgia has issued a statement today after Georgian lawmakers approved a legislative package imposing curbs on LGBT rights. \u201cThe United Kingdom is seriously concerned by the adoption, in the third reading, of the legislative package on \u2018family values and protection of minors\u2019 by the Parliament of Georgia,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThis package undermines fundamental human rights, including the rights to freedom of expression and assembly and risks further stigmatisation and discrimination of part of the Georgian population. This legislation impacts the rights of all Georgian citizens,\u201d the UK said. The statement added: We regret that this legislation has been passed ignoring the advice of the Venice commission to \u2018reconsider this legislative proposal entirely and to not proceed with its adoption.\u2019 We call on the Georgian authorities to reconsider the package of laws on \u2018family values and protection of minors\u2019 which together with the Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence place restrictions on both civil society and individual Georgians and call into question the breadth of the UK Georgia relationship. The leaders of Germany\u2019s conservatives have agreed to nominate Christian Democrat (CDU) chief Friedrich Merz to run as chancellor in next year\u2019s federal election, the head of Bavaria\u2019s conservatives, Markus Soeder, said on Tuesday. \u201cThe question of the chancellor candidate is decided \u2013 Friedrich Merz is doing it,\u201d said Christian Social Union (CSU) leader Soeder at a joint news conference with Merz, adding he had his full backing, Reuters reports. By standing aside, Soeder cleared the way for Merz, 68, an economic liberal who has driven the party to the right since becoming party chief in 2022 after Angela Merkel\u2019s 16-year hold on the chancellery. In particular, he has called for a tougher line on migration. The conservative bloc is leading opinion polls, with many surveys putting it ahead of the combined support for the three parties in Social Democrat (SPD) Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s ruling coalition with the Greens and Free Democrats (FDP). The nomination still requires the conservative parties\u2019 approval but the candidacy is all but sealed as another possible rival, North Rhine-Westphalia premier Hendrik Wuest, said on Monday he would not join the race and backed Merz. The relatively early decision, a year before the election, is aimed at avoiding a messy dispute and repeating mistakes from the 2021 campaign that cost the conservatives dear. The conservatives scored their worst-ever result in that vote. Merz may be popular in his party but is less so among the wider electorate. An INSA poll at the weekend indicated only 25% of voters would pick Merz for chancellor in a direct vote, compared with 21% for Scholz, while 48% would not choose either. \u201cWe will go into the election year together, with the firm intention of retaking responsibility for our country,\u201d said Merz. \u201cWith policies that will push Germany forward, make the country function again and perhaps also make us proud of our country, of Germany, again,\u201d he said, naming migration and economic policies as two priorities. An election in the eastern state of Brandenburg on Sunday will be an early test for Merz\u2019s CDU, which is in third place in most polls behind the SPD and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which leads. A lawyer from western Germany, Merz was a senior legislator in the early 2000s before quitting after losing out in a power struggle with Merkel. He went to pursue a lucrative career with asset manager BlackRock before returning to the German parliament in 2021. Turkey and Sweden will hold their first meeting on Wednesday addressing a security pact the sides agreed to ensure Ankara\u2019s approval of Stockholm\u2019s Nato membership bid, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Tuesday. The meeting will take place during a visit to Ankara by Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard, and it carried \u201cspecial importance\u201d in terms of improving cooperation on terrorism, the source said. Turkey approved Sweden\u2019s bid to join the military alliance in January after a more than year-long delay over concerns about Sweden\u2019s stance on groups and individuals it deems terrorists, and over an arms embargo that Stockholm later lifted. As part of the approval, Ankara demanded that Stockholm amend anti-terrorism laws and crack down on members of the Kurdistan Workers\u2019 party (PKK) \u2013 also labelled a terrorist group by the United States and European Union \u2013 as well as a group it accuses of orchestrating a 2016 failed putsch. The formation of the \u201cSecurity Compact\u201d was agreed by Nato\u2019s then-chief Jens Stoltenberg and Turkish and Swedish leaders at an alliance summit in 2023. The parties had also agreed that Stockholm would present a \u201croadmap\u201d on counter-terrorism. Sweden joined Nato in March. \u201cCooperation in the field of security, especially the fight against terrorism, will be discussed within the framework of the road map,\u201d the source said, adding that the talks aimed to pave the way for additional steps on the PKK and its Syrian offshoots, as well others. Turkey\u2019s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, and Stenergard will also discuss bilateral ties during the meetings, the source added. The Socialist and Democrats group leader Iratxe Garc\u00eda said that for the next European Commission mandate, her grouping will work to change the rules to make it obligatory for capitals to nominate a man and a woman for commission posts. \u201cSpain has achieved the highest level of influence it has ever had in Brussels, and the EU has gained an exceptional leader,\u201d Pedro S\u00e1nchez, the Spanish prime minister, said after Ursula von der Leyen nominated Teresa Ribera for the post of executive vice president for clean, just and competitive transition. The centre-right European People\u2019s party leader, Manfred Weber, celebrated his party family getting 14 posts. Terry Reintke, president of the Greens group in the European Parliament, raised concerns about gender equality and the nomination of Italy\u2019s Raffaele Fitto for a senior post. We are concerned about the Member States failing to live up to their promises and reach gender equality. The fact that a candidate from a far-right government is nominated as Vice-President of the European Commission remains a big concern for our Group. Appointing Raffaele Fitto could create a dangerous shift towards the far-right in the Commission and endanger the pro-democratic majority in the European Parliament that voted for Ursula von der Leyen in July. All Commissioner-designates will now face hearings by the members of the European Parliament. The Greens/EFA Group will take this role seriously and thoroughly assess all the Commissioner-designates. We will not give Raffaele Fitto an easy ride. The European Conservatives and Reformists party welcomed the selection of Italy\u2019s Raffaele Fitto for a senior role in the new European commission. Von der Leyen\u2019s choice for the new defence portfolio, Andrius Kubilius, is a member of the European parliament and a former prime minister of Lithuania. Longtime commissioner Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d said: \u201cThank you, EU Commission President von der Leyen, for your continued trust.\u201d \u201cTruly honoured to be entrusted with trade and economic security as well as with interinstitutional relations and transparency. Crucial for the EU\u2019s standing both at home and internationally.\u201d The Left group\u2019s Manon Aubry has criticised the new European Commission lineup, arguing that in substance it would be the most right-wing in history. Finland\u2019s prime minister Petteri Orpo \u2013 whose candidate Henna Virkkunen was nominated for an executive vice president post \u2013 said he is very satisfied with the choice. The Dutch prime minister, Dick Schoof, has also welcomed the new lineup. \u201cWopke Hoekstra will take up the post of Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth. This is a key portfolio that will help determine our future in Europe: how we shape our economic growth, encourage innovation and invest in a sustainable manner,\u201d he said. Italy\u2019s Giorgia Meloni has welcomed the nomination of Raffaele Fitto for a role as an executive vice president in the new European Commission, calling the move an important recognition for Italy\u2019s central role in the EU. The new European Commission presented by Ursula von der Leyen is the outcome of extensive negotiations and balancing \u2013 and power moves by the commission chief, who will be beginning her second term in office. The majority of capitals had asked von der Leyen for a strong economic portfolio \u2013 a request she said is impossible to fulfil. Von der Leyen had originally asked capitals which are not nominating someone for a second term to put forward both a male and female candidate \u2013 but the majority nominated men. The commission chief then pressed several capitals to change their nominees, in exchange for getting more high-profile roles. The lineup presented this morning reflects the influence of the centre-right European People\u2019s party, as well as von der Leyen\u2019s own preferences. Von der Leyen made a symbolic gesture nominating women for four out of six executive vice-president posts. And candidates representing the EPP or nominated by EPP governments are taking key portfolios, including economy, migration, defence and budget. Von der Leyen has also managed to remove an internal critic: on Monday, France\u2019s European commissioner, Thierry Breton, dramatically resigned, writing in an open letter that the commission president had asked Paris to withdraw his name \u201cfor personal reasons that in no instance you [von der Leyen] have discussed directly with me\u201d. France\u2019s new candidate, 39-year old St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9, was awarded the post of executive vice-president for prosperity and industrial strategy. Plus, in a gesture to Italy\u2019s Giorgia Meloni, von der Leyen nominated Raffaele Fitto for an executive vice-president job. Glenn Micallef, from Malta, said \u201cit is a true privilege to be entrusted to lead EU policies and initiatives on intergenerational fairness, youth, culture and sport. I look forward to working with the European parliament and all stakeholders.\u201d Jozef S\u00edkela, from the Czech Republic, said \u201cthe International Partnerships portfolio will allow me to focus on strengthening the EU\u2019s economic security, diversifying our suppliers of critical raw materials, and opening new markets for European companies.\u201d \u201cMy goal was to secure a strong economic portfolio for the Czech Republic, and given that International Partnerships holds a significant budget and one of the largest Directorates-General within the European Commission, I am confident that I will be able to ensure its substantial impact within the future European Commission,\u201d he said. Jessika Roswall said: \u201cHonored to get the portfolio for environment, water resilience &amp; a competitive circular economy, key to EU competitiveness and the shift from fossil fuels. Thank you von der Leyen ! Look forward to the intense work ahead.\u201d \u201cTo tackle climate change and enhance our economy, it is essential to bring the two closer together,\u201d Wopke Hoekstra said. Magnus Brunner, from Austria, was nominated for the role of internal affairs and migration. The European parliament president, Roberta Metsola, has said that today\u2019s discussion with Ursula von der Leyen \u201cpaves the way for Parliament to vet candidates as efficiently as possible.\u201d \u201cParliamentary scrutiny will not cut corners,\u201d she said. In a press conference, Ursula von der Leyen said she managed to increase the number of women in the lineup compared to member states\u2019 original proposals, noting that she chose to nominate women for four out of the six executive vice president roles. Valdis Dombrovskis, from Latvia, was nominated to be commissioner for economy and productivity. Dan J\u00f8rgensen, from Denmark, was nominated as the new commissioner for energy and housing. Ireland\u2019s Michael McGrath was named by von der Leyen as the next commissioner for democracy, justice and rule of law. Jessika Roswall, from Sweden, is von der Leyen\u2019s choice for commissioner focused on environment, water resilience and a competitive circular economy. Wopke Hoekstra, from the Netherlands, was named by von der Leyen as the next commissioner for climate, net zero and clean growth. Andrius Kubilius, from Lithuania, is Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s choice to be the new commissioner for defence and space. Here is a slide, published by Ursula von der Leyen, of her commission lineup. Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, has presented the lineup for her new commission. The presentation comes after many EU governments snubbed von der Leyen\u2019s request to propose male and female candidates, and a day after France\u2019s European commissioner, Thierry Breton, dramatically resigned. Breton, a heavyweight in Brussels, cited \u201cquestionable governance\u201d at the EU executive and said in an open letter that the commission president had asked Paris to withdraw his name \u201cfor personal reasons that in no instance you [von der Leyen] have discussed directly with me\u201d. All nominees must appear for hearings before European parliament committees, before the full European parliament votes on whether to approve the entire commission. While some nominees are expected to be received by MEPs without much controversy, others may face tough hearings. Hungary\u2019s nominee, Oliv\u00e9r V\u00e1rhelyi, is not expected to win backing from MEPs. Here are the key roles announced by Ursula von der Leyen for the new European Commission: She has named six executive vice-presidents: Teresa Ribera (Spain): Clean, just and competitive transition Henna Virkkunen (Finland): Tech sovereignty, security and democracy St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9 (France): Prosperity and industrial strategy Kaja Kallas (Estonia): High representative for foreign affairs Roxana M\u00eenzatu (Romania): People, skills and preparedness Raffaele Fitto (Italy): Cohesion and reforms Good morning and welcome back to the Europe blog. Send thoughts and tips to lili.bayer@theguardian.com."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Spanish Socialist Teresa Ribera gets top EU role steering climate and antitrust policy;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/spain-socialist-teresa-ribera-eu-role-climate-antitrust-european-commission-ursula-von-der-leyen;2024-09-17T12:36:24Z",
        "text": "Spain\u2019s deputy prime minister, the outspoken Socialist Teresa Ribera, will take charge of Europe\u2019s \u201cclean transition\u201d and antitrust enforcement, in a powerful role at the heart of the next European Commission. Ribera is to become one of six executive vice-presidents in the incoming EU executive led by Ursula von der Leyen, which is expected to start work at the end of the year. The French president Emmanuel Macron\u2019s close ally St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9, another vice-president pick, gets a sprawling portfolio in charge of industrial policy, while the Italian far-right leader Giorgia Meloni\u2019s choice, Raffaele Fitto, will oversee funding for Europe\u2019s poorer regions. Von der Leyen, the first woman to lead the commission, outlined the choices for her team of 26 top officials in Strasbourg on Tuesday. After weeks of wrangling with national capitals that nominate candidates, the final list was a careful balancing act of geography, party affiliation and gender. It was also a show of strength by von der Leyen, who strong-armed some governments into providing female candidates. She oversaw the departure of some of her sternest critics, including France\u2019s Thierry Breton, who was expected to serve a second-term in Brussels until his shock resignation on Monday, when he criticised \u201cquestionable governance\u201d at the commission. The decision to award Fitto a vice-presidential post is already proving controversial in the European parliament, however, especially among Green and Socialist MEPs whose support was crucial to von der Leyen\u2019s successful reelection in July. Defending the move, the commission president noted that two of the European parliament\u2019s 14 vice-presidents came from Fitto\u2019s ECR faction. \u201cItaly is a very important country and one of our founding members and this also has to reflect in the choice,\u201d she said. It was perhaps a tacit admission that while all member states are equal under the EU treaties, some carry more weight than others. The co-leader of the Green group Terry Reintke said Fitto\u2019s nomination to a vice-presidency was \u201ca big concern for our group\u201d and \u201ccould endanger the pro-democratic majority in the European parliament that voted for Ursula von der Leyen in July\u201d. Ribera, a veteran advocate of climate action, has been tasked with leading the EU\u2019s \u201cclean industrial deal\u201d to promote green companies that von der Leyen promised to publish in the first 100 days of her next mandate. Ribera, von der Leyen said, would \u201cmake sure Europe remains on track during the European green deal\u201d. The climate emergency \u201cis the major backdrop of all we are doing\u201d, von der Leyen said, while adding that security and Europe\u2019s competitiveness had also emerged as dominant themes in setting the priorities for her incoming commission. The former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi last week warned that Europe needed an \u20ac800bn spending boost plus deep-rooted reforms to avert a \u201cslow and agonising decline\u201d. Citing the Draghi report, von der Leyen also tasked Ribera with leading the work to bring down European energy prices and end dependency on fossil fuels. In an unprecedented move, Ribera has also been designated competition commissioner, traditionally one of the most powerful jobs in Brussels. She will be following in the footsteps of Margrethe Vestager, the high-flying Danish politician who ordered Apple to repay \u20ac13bn in underpaid taxes during a decade-long crusade against \u201caggressive tax planning\u201d. Four of the six vice-president nominees are women, while the overall team of EU commissioners is 40% female. While this falls short of von der Leyen\u2019s aim of achieving a gender-balanced commission, it is an improvement on a few weeks ago, when barely one-fifth of the candidates were women. Von der Leyen told reporters that she had been on track for 22% women and 78% men, which was \u201ccompletely unacceptable, so I worked intensively with the member states and we were able to improve the share\u201d. For the first time there will be EU commissioners for defence (Lithuania\u2019s former prime minister Andrius Kubilius) and housing (Denmark\u2019s Dan J\u00f8rgensen, who is also in charge of energy policy). Croatia\u2019s Dubravka \u0160uica the only woman to return to the commission for a second term, apart from von der Leyen, gets the new job of commissioner for the Mediterranean. Another returnee, the Netherlands\u2019 Wopke Hoekstra, will be commissioner for climate, net zero and clean growth and is expected to represent the bloc in international negotiations on the climate crisis. On paper, he and J\u00f8rgensen are more junior to Ribera. Luxembourg MEP, Christophe Hansen, has been appointed farming commissioner. A member of the centre-right European People\u2019s party, Hansen and Hoekstra are seen as balancing Ribera, whose appointment to a big climate role has unnerved some centre-right politicians. Ribera is not afraid to speak her mind. In the run-up to the European elections, she criticised von der Leyen for refusing to rule out working with Meloni\u2019s hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists faction. The EPP celebrated having 14 of the 27 places at the commission\u2019s top table, including von der Leyen, cementing its dominance as Europe\u2019s strongest political force that has won every European election for 25 years. EU commissioners are akin to government ministers: they are responsible for drafting and enforcing EU laws on climate and nature protection, the single market, economy technology, energy, as well as overseeing the bloc\u2019s foreign policy and negotiating trade deals. Each EU member state sends a commissioner to Brussels, who is meant to represent the common European interest, rather than national positions. All commissioner candidates will be questioned in the European parliament in hearings expected to take place in October. MEPs typically reject two or three commissioners, before voting on whether to approve the entire commission. Hungary\u2019s nominee, Oliv\u00e9r V\u00e1rhelyi, picked for a second term, is seen as especially vulnerable. EU officials expect the new commission to take office on 1 December."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Doctors criticise Finland\u2019s proposal to withhold healthcare from migrants;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/doctors-criticise-finlands-proposal-to-withhold-healthcare-for-migrants;2024-09-17T12:21:16Z",
        "text": "Doctors have urged Finland\u2019s rightwing government to change \u201cproblematic and damaging\u201d plans to ban undocumented people from accessing non-emergency healthcare, warning it could cost lives. The government, which includes the far-right Finns party and is led by the conservative National Coalition party leader, Petteri Orpo, has proposed reversing a 2023 law that enables undocumented migrants to access full healthcare, arguing it is aligned with plans to cut spending and immigration. But the Finnish medical association has argued against the plans, which it said were \u201cvery problematic and damaging in many ways\u201d. Although there would be some exemptions \u2013 including children, people whose health is classified as \u201cextremely vulnerable\u201d and people with disabilities \u2013 doctors warn the impact of the new restrictions could be life-threatening, as people with conditions such as diabetes or asthma could be left without treatment. Aino Tuomi-Nikula, an adviser for Physicians for Social Responsibility, said: \u201cThose who tabled this proposal pretend that we don\u2019t have enough money for everyone and that full access to healthcare would invite more people to Finland. We know this is not true, and that it\u2019s actually cheaper to treat conditions in advance by primary healthcare than leaving them to emergency care. This measure is a political stunt to crack down on marginalised people and bank on public fear of migrants.\u201d Louise Bonneau, an advocacy officer for the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, said: \u201cHealthcare is a basic human right, not a privilege reserved for some. This law, if passed, would lead to suffering and betray Finland\u2019s commitment to equality and justice. It must be rejected.\u201d Physicians for Social Responsibility have said the amendment would have a negative impact on undocumented people\u2019s health, \u201cincrease human suffering\u201d and was likely to ultimately increase healthcare costs. \u201cDoctors and nurses must be able to do their work ethically and sustainably, and the operation of healthcare units should not be made even more difficult,\u201d they said in a statement to the government. The proposal, which was strongly backed by the Finns party, had been scheduled to be presented to parliament next week. But the ministry of social affairs and health said on Tuesday it would not proceed until after Christmas, saying the proposal \u201cneeds more time for preparation\u201d. Under the amendment, access to vaccinations and treatments against some infectious diseases, viewed as a threat to public health, would be exempt."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;West Papua rebels propose terms for release of New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/west-papua-rebels-propose-terms-for-release-of-new-zealand-pilot-phillip-mehrtens;2024-09-17T09:40:00Z",
        "text": "Rebels in Indonesia\u2019s West Papua region have proposed terms for the release of the New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens a year and seven months after he was detained. It comes hours after the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) released a statement saying the Indonesian army bombed its headquarters in Alguru, which is where Mehrtens is being kept. The statement also said Mehrtens \u201csurvived the attack\u201d. Mehrtens, a former Jetstar pilot, was taken hostage by the TPNPB in February 2023 as a bargaining chip for its push for independence from Indonesia. It came after he landed a small commercial passenger plane at Paro airport in Nduga, the centre of the growing Papuan insurgency. In February, a year to the day since Mehrtens was taken hostage, the army announced Mehrtens would be freed \u201cto protect humanity and ensure human rights\u201d, but it had not confirmed when he would be released. On Tuesday, the army released a statement outlining the terms of his release, detailing a number of conditions \u201cto be followed\u201d by the Indonesian government, including allowing \u201copen access\u201d for media to be involved in the release process. It also called for the Indonesian government to suspend military operations during Mehrten\u2019s release, and for the New Zealand government to \u201cprovide space\u201d for Mehrtens to convey \u201cwhat he felt\u201d during his year and seven months with the TPNPB. \u201cThis is a humanitarian mission that must be supported by all parties,\u201d the army said. The terms were planned for release on Monday, according to a spokesperson, but were delayed to Tuesday due to the Indonesian military operation. The terms proposed that Mehrtens should be escorted from Ndugama by New Zealand police and army to Sentani airport in Jayapura, on a plane arranged by the New Zealand government or an Air Niugini aircraft chartered by the army. It also said a number of others should be present, including one UN representative, two senior and international journalists as \u201cwitnesses\u201d, and two human rights figures from Indonesia. The army proposed he would then catch another plane which would pass through Papua New Guinea. A press conference would be held at Jacksons international airport in Port Moresby. The statement said the process should be facilitated by members of the New Zealand government and the Indonesian government, and bodies including the Human Rights Monitor and PNG Council of Churches. Andreas Harsono, who covers Indonesia for Human Rights Watch, said the proposal was \u201crealistic\u201d, despite Indonesia\u2019s ongoing restriction of reporters and human rights monitors into the region. \u201cThe top priority should be to release this man who has a wife and kids,\u201d Harsono said. Mehrtens\u2019 kidnapping has renewed attention on the long-running and deadly conflict that has raged in West Papua, which makes up the western half of Papua New Guinea, since Indonesia took control of the former Dutch colony in 1969. West Papua National Liberation Army is the armed wing of the Free West Papua Movement, which has continued to demand a fair vote on self-determination. Peaceful acts of civil disobedience by Indigenous West Papuans, such as raising the banned \u201cMorning Star\u201d flag, are met with police and military brutality and long jail sentences. In 2022, UN human rights experts called for urgent and unrestricted humanitarian access to the region because of serious concerns about \u201cshocking abuses against Indigenous Papuans, including child killings, disappearances, torture and mass displacement of people\u201d. In December last year, the army filmed a video of Mehrtens, in which he tells his family he loves them and is being treated well by his captors. \u201cI\u2019m OK, they are treating me well, I\u2019m trying to stay positive,\u201d Mehrtens said in the video message directed to his family. \u201cI love you both lots and miss you both lots and hope to be able to talk with you soon.\u201d A spokesperson for the New Zealand ministry of foreign affairs said it was aware of the document. \u201cOur focus remains on securing a peaceful resolution and Phillip\u2019s safe release. We continue to work closely with all parties to achieve this and will not be discussing the details publicly.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;The cement company that paid millions to Isis: was Lafarge complicit in crimes against humanity?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/french-cement-company-lafarge-paid-millions-to-islamic-state-syria;2024-09-17T04:00:33Z",
        "text": "Again and again, Bruno Pescheux made one point to his colleagues: no one must know what their company was up to. Secrecy was paramount. In 2013 and 2014, Pescheux ran the Syrian subsidiary of Lafarge SA, the French company that was then the world\u2019s biggest cement conglomerate. As a civil war caught and spread, the company struck a grim deal: to pay millions of dollars to Islamic State (IS), the world\u2019s most notorious terrorist group, treating it as a strategic ally. These payments bought IS\u2019s blessing so that Lafarge\u2019s factory in Syria could keep making and selling cement \u2013 even as its European executives left the country, its local employees got kidnapped, and bombs and gunfire tore up the region. Lafarge bought raw materials from IS-approved vendors, supplied IS with cement, and paid them to squeeze the competition \u2013 in this case, cement imports coming over the border from Turkey. In mob jargon, this was more than protection money; in MBA jargon, the company optimised for IS. The managers in Lafarge\u2019s Syrian subsidiary knew all too well what they were doing, and they tried hard to hide it. Once, while referring to vehicle passes that IS issued Lafarge\u2019s trucks, Pescheux emailed a go-between to say that \u201cthe name of Lafarge should never appear for obvious reasons in any document of this nature. Please use the words Cement Plant if you need but never the one of Lafarge.\u201d At the time, the factory, in the town of Jalabiya, was one of more than 1,600 that Lafarge ran in 61 countries. But this was no distant outpost going rogue, unnoticed by headquarters. Executives in Lafarge\u2019s offices in Paris were complicit in the relationship with IS, as dozens of internal emails and documents show. On such evidence of wilful collaboration with IS, the US Justice Department filed criminal charges against Lafarge. (The company merged with the Swiss cement giant Holcim in the summer of 2015, not long after IS finally annexed the Jalabiya factory for itself.) Lafarge pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to terrorist groups \u2013 the first successful criminal prosecution of any company on this charge in the US. In the autumn of 2022, the Justice Department fined Lafarge $778m. One prosecutor described Lafarge\u2019s acts as a \u201cstaggering crime\u201d. The penalty threw open the doors to still more legal trouble. A group of more than 800 Yazidis, represented by Amal Clooney and other lawyers in the US, is suing Lafarge for its aid to IS, which murdered, kidnapped and raped thousands of members of this religious minority group in northern Iraq. Others who have suffered IS\u2019s violence have filed separate lawsuits, including US journalists, aid workers, military service members and their families. \u201cNone of the $778m fine imposed by the Justice Department went to any of the victims,\u201d a lawyer in one of these suits told me. \u201cAnd this is a deep-pocketed defendant \u2013 not a random front company for al-Qaida.\u201d These are civil cases, though, so even if Lafarge loses them, the consequences will be all too familiar. A corporation pays an affordable sum in damages. The court issues a stern scolding. Onward to business as usual. But on home turf in France, Lafarge faces a criminal case that might yield a reckoning without precedent. Dozens of former Lafarge employees in Syria, along with two non-profits, Sherpa and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, have accused Lafarge of complicity in crimes against humanity. The history of treating companies as actors stoking conflict for profit dates back to the Nuremberg trials, says Mark Taylor, the author of a book titled War Economies and International Law. But criminal prosecutions usually target executives, rather than the companies they run \u2013 and even then, accountability is rare. \u201cI can only think of three businessmen who\u2019ve been convicted over the last 20 years, for complicity in war crimes or crimes against humanity \u2013 and none before that,\u201d Taylor told me. \u201cAnd I can\u2019t think of a single company that has ever been convicted on either of these charges.\u201d Multinational corporations are slippery targets in the field of war crimes. \u201cTheir conduct often takes place in the shadows, so evidence is difficult to obtain,\u201d Clooney told me. \u201cSometimes it is not clear what the company knew. Or there\u2019s no court where victims can claim their rights.\u201d Also, as the 18th-century lawyer Edward Thurlow remarked, companies \u201chave neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned\u201d. What\u2019s the corporate equivalent of putting a war criminal behind bars for life? As yet, the question has no answer. Over the past quarter-century, though, the number of attempts to prosecute companies for war crimes or crimes against humanity has been rising, Taylor says. That\u2019s partially a result of countries signing and ratifying the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which entered into force in 2002. The statute knitted the ICC\u2019s frameworks for these two grave crimes into countries\u2019 criminal codes, allowing prosecutions to be launched at the national level, rather than in the rarefied halls of The Hague. But the rising number of prosecutions is also a symptom of our heavily corporatised times. Two-thirds of the wealthiest entities on the planet are not nations but companies. Their influence is everywhere \u2013 even where we don\u2019t see it, as in the actions of governments or the machinations of terrorists. The French case against Lafarge has been bouncing between appeals and counter-appeals since 2016, not long after its conduct was first exposed by the Syrian news outlet Zaman Al Wasl and the French newspaper Le Monde. (A Lafarge spokesperson told me: \u201cThese allegations relate to a legacy issue from a decade ago that Lafarge SA is addressing through the legal process in France and the United States.\u201d) If a court eventually rules against Lafarge, it will be a watershed moment \u2013 a recognition of the fact that companies should be punished when they fund or support large-scale atrocities to protect their bottom lines. This happens more often than we\u2019d think. The culprits aren\u2019t just the obvious ones, like arms manufacturers, mercenaries for hire, or fossil fuel and mining giants. They may sell far more innocuous products \u2013 bananas, or beer, or indeed cement out of a factory in a barren corner of northern Syria. * * * In the scrubland of Jalabiya, the factory was the only large building for miles around. Four kilometres of boundary walls wrapped around its premises. The cement silos and the 130-metre preheating tower rose high into the sky. The pipework caught the sun and winked. At night, when all its lights were on, the factory resembled a cruise liner adrift on a flat, dark sea. In 2013 and 2014, as the civil war escalated, cement-laden trucks kept rolling out of the factory\u2019s gates, as many as 160 a day. A war zone was a fine market for a cement company. When shelled homes need to be rebuilt, or when a terrorist group needs to construct an underground warren of tunnels, cement is the first item on the shopping list. What would the world even be without cement \u2013 this undistinguished, death-grey powder made from crushed, superheated minerals, and pulverised so fine that a pound of it contains 150bn grains. By itself, it is dusty nothingness, but combined just so with water and sand, it becomes concrete \u2013 so strong that a concrete launch pad can bear the weight of a 2,200-tonne space shuttle. If we had no cement to turn into concrete, we\u2019d live in a parallel, stunted version of our world. We\u2019d still have bridges, dams and buildings, but they\u2019d be shorter and narrower \u2013 nothing like the monumentality of the Brooklyn Bridge or the Three Gorges Dam or the Shard. We\u2019d have no nuclear reactor stacks or multi-tiered stadiums, no dry docks or office blocks or Fort Knox. Our subways would be more rudimentary, our motorways less robust. Concrete is the foundation of almost all construction \u2013 quite literally, because building work rarely begins before tankers full of the stuff have been poured into a vast pit. After water, concrete is the second-most consumed material in the world, more than wood or steel or coal \u2013 and it is cement that makes concrete possible. Cement is invaluable, in part, because it\u2019s so cheap, and for cement to be cheap, it has to be what Ian Riley, the CEO of the World Cement Association, calls \u201ca local business\u201d. Factories have to be situated close to quarries of limestone, the main raw material, so that the mineral can be gouged out of the earth and ferried in at little cost. \u201cBut you also can\u2019t transport the manufactured cement very far, because trucks are expensive,\u201d Riley told me. \u201cIf you\u2019re competing with another cement company, and the customer is closer to that other plant, you\u2019re in trouble.\u201d In China, where Riley once worked for Holcim, a cement plant\u2019s potential market falls within a 60-mile radius. In Europe, he said, that extends to perhaps 120 or 190 miles. Almost no one exports cement across or between continents. It\u2019s more efficient to open a multitude of factories instead \u2013 which is why Lafarge already owned hundreds of plants around the world by the time it bought the one in Jalabiya. As a company, Lafarge is nearly as old as modern cement. In 1833, just nine years after an industrial cement-production technique was developed, Auguste Pavin de Lafarge started his company, mining limestone from his family\u2019s quarry in south-east France. Its first major international project was to deliver 110,000 tonnes of cement for the construction of the Suez Canal in the 1860s. During the second world war, Lafarge sold cement to the Nazis to build a series of fortifications and bunkers called the Atlantic wall, hemming the coast of France. A couple of years after its 2015 merger with Holcim, Lafarge\u2019s CEO said in an interview that he\u2019d be happy to supply cement to help build Donald Trump\u2019s wall on the US-Mexico border. \u201cThere are other clients who will be stunned by this,\u201d Jean-Marc Ayrault, France\u2019s foreign minister at the time, said in March 2017. \u201cLafarge says it doesn\u2019t do politics \u2026 Very well, but I would say companies \u2026 also have social and environmental responsibilities.\u201d A casual visitor from the 1960s to a cement factory today would find much of it familiar. \u201cIt\u2019s loud everywhere, for starters,\u201d Riley told me. In many plants, noisy mills use steel balls to crush limestone, clay and other minerals. There\u2019s also the din from banks of fans throughout the plant, especially connected to the kiln, a coal-fed oven that can heat up to 1,450C \u2013 a quarter of the temperature on the surface of the sun \u2013 and transform the pounded mix into lumps called clinker. A few chemical additives and a lap in a long kiln later, clinker is re-pulverised into the final product. \u201cIf you\u2019re close to the kiln \u2013 oof! \u2013 it\u2019s hot,\u201d Riley said. \u201cFor some jobs, you have to wear a heat suit.\u201d Cement and concrete account for around 8% of global carbon emissions. Between that, and its consumption of a tenth of all industrial water use, and its despoiling of the natural world, the industry is emblematic not only of the 20th century\u2019s progress, but of its degradations as well. The cement action is all in China these days. In western Europe and North America, Riley told me, cement consumption has been flat for years \u2013 their cities and bridges largely built out, their urbanisation close to complete. A couple of decades ago, the old cement titans of the west sought new customers by looking to China, India, Latin America and the Middle East. Usually, Riley said, these strategic moves happened through takeovers and acquisitions. Which was why Lafarge, wanting to sell cement into the oil-fuelled construction boom across the Middle East, came to buy Egypt\u2019s Orascom Cement for $12.8bn in 2008, inheriting not just its clients and factories in Turkey, Pakistan, North Korea and Algeria, but also its plan to build a new cement plant in Jalabiya, Syria. * * * When Lafarge finished building its factory, in 2010, at a cost of about $680m, it became the biggest cement producer in Syria overnight. Roughly 350 full-time employees and another 350 contract staff worked on site \u2013 either in the factory, or in the adjoining power plant staffed mostly by a Chinese firm. Every day, the plant pounded out 8,000 tonnes of cement, to be sealed into 50kg bags or hauled away in tankers. In the dispatch office, a shaven-headed man named Samee Hassan helped control the entry and exit of trucks, weighing them as they came in and out. Distributors bought the cement and sold it on to their customers across northern Syria. At $60 a tonne, Lafarge made half a million dollars a day in sales. The pace was lively from the minute the plant started operations. Once Hassan worked for 36 hours straight. \u201cThe market needed cement urgently, so the company put a lot of pressure,\u201d he said. By the summer of 2012, the incipient revolution against Bashar al-Assad\u2019s ruthless regime had mutated into a complex set of armed insurgencies. Kurdish factions as well as the Free Syrian Army, started by officers who had defected from Assad\u2019s military, took loose control of the area around Jalabiya. In June 2012, Lafarge evacuated its foreign employees \u2013 most of them French \u2013 from Jalabiya and Damascus; Pescheux moved to Cairo, to dispense orders from afar. That summer, Lafarge began making monthly payments to militant groups, so that the trucks carrying in limestone and coal or carrying out cement could pass unimpeded. As additional insurance, the company installed crash barriers \u2013 made of concrete, of course \u2013 outside the entrance. The factory\u2019s risk manager, Jacob Waerness, a former paratrooper in the Norwegian air force, drove his Toyota Fortuner to Beirut so he could have it plated in armour. One day, not long after Lafarge had moved its expats out of Syria, an electrical maintenance engineer, whom I\u2019ll call Mohammed, told me that he ran into Waerness in the factory. Mohammed asked what he was doing to evacuate the local team. Nothing, Waerness allegedly said. Lafarge classified employees according to risk, he told Mohammed. For expats, the risk level was red. For Syrians, it was a mere yellow. What was the difference between expats and locals, Mohammed asked. If he didn\u2019t like it, Waerness said to Mohammed, he could resign. (Waerness told me he couldn\u2019t respond to questions. He wrote a book in Norwegian recounting his time in Jalabiya, titled Risk Manager in Syria, but it doesn\u2019t mention this incident. He does recount how strict Lafarge had to be with its local employees as the dangers around Jalabiya grew: \u201cMilitary methods had to be used, otherwise they would not have come to work.\u201d) Shortly afterwards, when Assad\u2019s regime began bombing Manbij, the small city where Hassan lived with his wife and two children, he decided to send his family to a safer location in western Syria. Hassan took unpaid leave for a month and stayed with them until his manager called to reassure him that the factory was taking precautions to keep its staff safe. In a chartered minibus, along with eight other employees, Hassan set out for Jalabiya. When they were just a couple of miles away from the factory, five rebels from the Free Syrian Army, all carrying Kalashnikovs, stopped the minibus and diverted it. The passengers were told to keep their heads down, so that they couldn\u2019t see where they were going. One of the rebels made a phone call and said: \u201cThe bird is in the cage.\u201d Hassan and his colleagues had been kidnapped. Hassan found it difficult to talk to me about the three weeks during which they were held in the basement of an old building in Manbij. To a Spanish documentary crew a few years ago, however, he offered some details: \u201cI prayed for my death to be quick. Then they stripped us. One of them burned me with a cigarette in my face.\u201d The rebels wanted a ransom. \u201cThey asked us to call the company, and they gave us a phone with Jacob Waerness\u2019s number,\u201d Hassan told me. \u201cI swear by God! That means they\u2019d already had dealings with him!\u201d (In his book, Waerness wrote that he wasn\u2019t surprised the kidnappers had his number, because \u201cinformation and people were circulating between the different groups in Manbij\u201d.) It was an absurd situation: a militia that had already been earning protection money from Lafarge was now squeezing the company for even more money by holding its staff for ransom. The company agreed to shell out roughly $200,000 in ransom. Waerness bundled the cash into black rubbish bags and drove his Toyota to a spot near the Turkish border for a midnight exchange. Once released, Hassan spent two days back at the factory. Then he returned home, where he learned that his wife, pregnant with their third child, had suffered a miscarriage. Hassan\u2019s abduction, as well as those of other Syrian employees, led Sherpa to accuse Lafarge of endangering its employees\u2019 lives \u2013 a charge it included in its original complaint, alongside complicity in crimes against humanity. (Lafarge is also being investigated on two other charges: financing a terrorist group, and violating an embargo.) This past January, France\u2019s supreme court threw out the charge that Lafarge put its employees in danger, arguing that French labour laws do not apply to the Syrian operations of a company headquartered in France. \u201cWe found that part of the decision appalling,\u201d one of the lawyers involved in the complaint told me. The metaphor of the frog in water brought slowly to a boil, and thus being cooked without knowing it, is scientifically inaccurate, Waerness wrote in his book \u2013 but it was true to Lafarge\u2019s situation in Syria. By the end of autumn in 2012, Lafarge\u2019s managers in Cairo, Jalabiya and Paris were dialling into a crisis unit meeting every week. But what an ordinary western company would have \u201cconsidered a real crisis became, for us, as the weeks went by, something banal, and our tolerance threshold for negative incidents became much higher\u201d. Just a few days after the kidnapped employees had returned, Waerness began hearing of a newly brewing crisis. IS had moved into the neighbourhood. * * * Even for a lifer in the cement business, a job at Lafarge can feel like an education. \u201cThe company is wealthy with knowledge,\u201d Amr Nader, a former Lafarge executive, told me. The son of an Egyptian cement consultant, Nader got his first cement job at the age of 16, as a trainee kiln operator in Cairo. Today, as a Dubai-based consultant, Nader wears natty suits and his hair is pulled tightly back into a bun, but he told me with some pride that he\u2019d worked plenty of sweaty, blue-collar cement jobs before scurrying up the ladder. He spent years with Orascom, and then joined Lafarge after the acquisition, working in Lyon and Cairo. \u201cYou get exposed to a huge variety of technologies and societies,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it was the highest-paying cement company: business-class travel, five-star hotels. For a guy like me, being given an Amex card with a $50,000 limit, and being told that I can use it for whatever I wish, as long as it\u2019s not personal expenses \u2013 well, it was a very good life.\u201d But Nader also found Lafarge a rigidly hierarchical place. \u201cTechnically, people on the ground have autonomy to make decisions, but the decisions have to travel back to Paris to be confirmed,\u201d he said. Usually, employees obeyed Paris rather than speaking their minds. Nader left Lafarge in April 2013, upset that he\u2019d been passed over for a promotion. \u201cThe role was given to a Frenchman,\u201d he told me. It was that kind of company, he said, perhaps soured by his experience: \u201cIf a position was open, I felt like it would go to a non-French person only if no French employee wanted it.\u201d In a trilogy of case studies, Ashok Som, a professor at France\u2019s ESSEC business school, quoted some Lafarge managers who described their company as \u201cshort-term oriented\u201d, with even regional decisions being taken by top executives in Paris. The \u201cuse of common sense is rare\u201d, one said. Another remarked that Lafarge has \u201crules for everything, accurately and methodically documented, but no one follows the rules\u201d. The resultant corporate culture has, over the course of the company\u2019s history, borne distinctly neocolonial overtones. In Morocco, in a housing complex called Cit\u00e9 Lafarge that the company built in 1932 for factory workers, electricity was rationed and running water absent altogether well into the 1970s. Just over a decade ago, Lafarge won the right to quarry limestone from an Indian forest and transport it by a 10-mile conveyor belt over the border to a factory in Bangladesh, despite the protests of Indigenous communities worried about the project\u2019s ecological cost. In Jordan and Egypt, Lafarge has been accused of using low-paid subcontractors to do the most hazardous tasks. (Lafarge claims that its businesses in Jordan and Egypt operate in line with local and international labour standards.) It is hardly unusual for multinationals to be exploitative and extractive. But unlike oil companies or mining giants, cement manufacturers rarely attract attention. Cement itself is as invisible as it is ubiquitous. Nader visited Jalabiya often in 2010 and 2011, when northern Syria was still safe. In Aleppo, 90 miles west of the factory, he could have breakfast in a pavement cafe and dinner in a shisha bar. Even in 2012, when Lafarge began paying off militant groups, it was possible to keep rationalising the situation, Nader said. \u201cFor any heavy industry company in any place that isn\u2019t western Europe or the US \u2013 say in Asia, or sub-Saharan Africa, or even some parts of eastern Europe \u2013 this was a normal situation, where you pay bribes to some groups on the ground to ensure the passage of your trucks,\u201d he told me. Lafarge was also reluctant to give up so quickly on its new $680m asset. The only way for the factory to make its investment back, the company decided, was to have it keep grinding out cement \u2013 in whatever way possible. \u201cThey didn\u2019t tell us in so many words,\u201d an employee at the factory told me, \u201cbut it was obvious what was happening. Lafarge had made a deal with the devil.\u201d * * * The emails that flew between Lafarge Syria\u2019s executives in 2013 and 2014 are an ample chronicle of self-interest and subterfuge. Among the chief correspondents was Firas Tlass, the son of a former defence minister who had since withdrawn his loyalty to Assad. Tlass hadn\u2019t lived in the country since 2011, but he remained Lafarge\u2019s chief fixer. To make its monthly payments to armed groups in northern Syria, Lafarge used Tlass as an intermediary. Tlass sent Pescheux, Lafarge Syria\u2019s CEO, regular updates on the groups he was paying off, and Lafarge reimbursed him. (Neither Pescheux nor Tlass responded to requests for interviews.) Pescheux had to hassle Tlass to send invoices that were sufficiently evasive. In December 2012, Pescheux recommended that all invoices be on the letterhead of a new company located outside Syria: \u201cThis will avoid problems with Syrian authorities and our auditors.\u201d The following April, he sent Tlass detailed invoicing instructions that would \u201cmake things more \u2018presentable\u2019 and help us a lot\u201d. Pescheux added: \u201cPlease do not mention my name on this invoice.\u201d Early in 2013, Tlass referred to a new group in his updates: the al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaida chapter that had taken Raqqa, and that had already been declared a terrorist organisation by the US. Lafarge started paying them: 200,000 Syrian pounds a month at first, rising to 325,000 soon after. In June, Waerness wrote to Pescheux that IS was gathering strength in the area; soon after, IS set up checkpoints on the roads around Jalabiya. Lafarge agreed to pay Tlass $75,000 a month, so that he could disburse funds to both groups \u2013 but the money would only come to him if Lafarge kept selling at least 75,000 tonnes of cement every quarter. Lafarge routed its payments to IS and other groups through intermediaries, and sometimes wired the money from a subsidiary in Egypt to Tlass\u2019s accounts in Lebanon and the UAE. \u201cThis is the way we intend to proceed to severe [sic] any suspicion in connecting [Lafarge and Tlass],\u201d Pescheux wrote in an August 2013 email. Truck drivers received handwritten passes to present at checkpoints, issued in the name of \u201cThe Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham\u201d and stamped with the IS flag. Pescheux\u2019s request to Tlass, that the name \u201cLafarge\u201d never appear on such passes, went unheeded. Well into 2014, the passes bore the words \u201cLafarge Cement Company,\u201d instructing IS militants to let vehicles pass because Lafarge had \u201cfulfilled their dues to us\u201d. After IS captured Raqqa, in January 2014, large swathes of the area around Jalabiya fell under its control. By this time, Lafarge had already begun buying fuel and raw materials from IS-approved vendors and quarries. (One of the emails to Lafarge came, according to its signature, from \u201cThe Emir of the Investment Office in the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham\u201d.) To the monthly payments, Lafarge added a \u201crevenue sharing\u201d deal, which included paying IS for every tonne of cement sold \u2013 an incentive for the militants to smooth the way of the cement to its customers. In May 2014, IS proposed stopping the import of Turkish cement entirely, and asked Lafarge what might be in it for them. In an email, Pescheux laid out the business case: a heavy toll on Turkish imports would not only be a new stream of income for IS, but would also increase Lafarge\u2019s sales \u2013 and thereby also the fees paid to IS. Lafarge was tempting IS with a split of its profits. In an internal email in July 2014, Christian Herrault, Lafarge\u2019s executive vice-president of operations based out of Paris, wrote: \u201cWe have to maintain the principle that we are ready to share the \u2018cake,\u2019 if there is a \u2018cake.\u2019\u201d By this time, the violence perpetrated by the world\u2019s most famous terrorist group was daily fodder for the global news media. Early that August, just two days after IS launched its widely publicised attack on Yazidi villages in Iraq, Tlass and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Jolibois \u2013 who\u2019d replaced Pescheux a month or so earlier \u2013 discussed a new revenue-sharing deal with IS. What would the margins be for Lafarge, Jolibois wondered in an email, before adding in a post-script: \u201cWe should not forget that Isis is a terrorist movement.\u201d Later that month, well after the US authorised airstrikes against IS, and around the time IS released a video showing its beheading of the journalist James Foley, Lafarge\u2019s executive committee was still chewing over the agreement with IS to tax Turkish imports. Perhaps Lafarge was confident of hiding its tracks. It had been funnelling funds through 54 different bank accounts, including at least one personal account, to make transactions hard to trace, according to one of the ongoing lawsuits in the US. For its go-betweens, Lafarge made out vague contracts for services such as \u201cenvironmental consultancy\u201d, so it could send them the money intended for IS. Executives used their personal email addresses to discuss their dealings with IS. (Nader told me he couldn\u2019t believe \u201chow stupid they\u2019d been to even put down their names and Daesh [IS] on the same piece of paper\u201d.) Only on 11 September 2014, the day after President Barack Obama announced his intent to destroy IS, did Lafarge\u2019s lawyer suggest suspending payments. Jolibois rejected any thought of shutting the plant down for a while and returning to it after the pending merger with Holcim was complete. There was no way of knowing \u201cthat the area will have been freed from the grip of Isis\u201d, he wrote, \u201cnor that it will be free from it for years\u201d. If he saw no alternative to continue making cement and paying the terrorists, IS provided one when, just a week later, it snatched the factory for itself. * * * At a remove of a decade, Lafarge\u2019s decision to feed a catastrophe just to sell cement is even more mystifying. Lafarge\u2019s top brass was certainly keen to seal the merger with Holcim, which was finalised in July 2015. After the merger, Holcim conducted its own inquiry of this episode, concluding that, \u201cvery simply, chaos reigned\u201d, and that the \u201c\u2018can-do\u2019 approach\u201d of Lafarge\u2019s managers led them to neglect \u201cthe legal and reputational implications of their conduct\u201d. The statement said nothing about the human cost of Lafarge\u2019s financing of IS. One former Lafarge executive, who asked to remain unnamed, offered me another theory for the company\u2019s persistence in Syria. He\u2019d often been asked to evaluate cement plants in Asia or Africa before Lafarge bought them, and on one such trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the thick of the civil war there, he took a helicopter to the factory from the Ugandan border. On the chopper, he saw a couple of Frenchmen who weren\u2019t, to his knowledge, on any Lafarge team. Once at the plant, he said, \u201cI never saw them until it was time to come back.\u201d In a country beset by a civil war, he reasoned, \u201cthey must be collecting intelligence\u201d. When he tried to talk to one of the men, \u201che was dry and stiff. Later I asked some older Lafarge guys about this, and was told not to ask such questions.\u201d This happened again on trips to inspect possible Lafarge acquisitions in Iran, Pakistan and North Korea \u2013 all countries that French officialdom would find it otherwise difficult to penetrate. The executive thought this must have been the case in Syria as well. \u201cThe French government definitely knew Lafarge was paying militants to [let the company] stay in the country,\u201d he claimed. \u201cFrance just didn\u2019t want Lafarge to get out of Syria at that time.\u201d Between 2012 and 2014, Jean-Claude Veillard, a former special forces marine who was Lafarge\u2019s security director in Paris, met with French secret services at least 33 times, according to the newspaper Lib\u00e9ration. Last year, Tlass claimed to a documentary crew that, in 2015, French intelligence officials paid him hundreds of thousands of euros in cash to share information about Assad\u2019s regime. This was before Lafarge\u2019s deals with IS became public, but not long after the deals themselves \u2013 and it hints at how thirsty French officials were for on-the-ground intelligence about Assad\u2019s Syria. In the ongoing French case, Herrault, Lafarge\u2019s operations chief, has stated that the foreign ministry encouraged the company to remain in Syria, ostensibly to keep the \u201cFrench flag\u201d flying. (The ministry has denied this.) Apart from Herrault and other Lafarge executives, investigators have also questioned the former foreign minister Laurent Fabius and several diplomats. Fabius has said he has \u201cno clear memory\u201d of Lafarge\u2019s operations in Syria, and that he was never informed about its dealings with armed groups \u2013 even though he met Bruno Lafont, Lafarge\u2019s former global CEO, a number of times between 2013 and 2015. Lafont himself, having resigned in 2015, claimed to Lib\u00e9ration last year that if Lafarge really had been \u201cinfiltrated\u201d by French secret services, that was news to him. When the episodes were reported in the French press, Lafont said, \u201cI fell off my chair.\u201d (Lafont also told Lib\u00e9ration that he was never aware of payments to terrorist groups, and that in 2013, he had stressed to a colleague that he would, if necessary, willingly close the factory to protect his employees.) The internal Lafarge emails that I saw, though, held no trace of state-sanctioned espionage; instead, they\u2019re all about the far more banal desire to make more money. No one put it better than Tlass. In March 2014, he sent an email to Lafarge Syria\u2019s executives about the difficulties of the situation \u2013 although he didn\u2019t once mention the moral failings of funding the IS treasury. Doing this work was jeopardising his health, he said, and sometimes when he talked to IS men, \u201ccarrying their rifles \u2026 like they own the world,\u201d he felt \u201clike a clown entertaining children\u201d. But business was good. They were clearing $2m in profit every month, and paying less than a quarter of that to militants. Cement was, at the time, in such short supply in destroyed Syrian cities that a 50kg bag sold for more than 500 Syrian pounds, double its earlier rate \u2013 a classic example of wartime profiteering. (In total, Lafarge sold more than $70m worth of cement during the period when it conspired with IS.) Ending its arrangement with IS would entail writing off not just millions of dollars in income but also the factory itself. The question, Tlass pointed out, was: \u201cIs Lafarge able to bear a loss of about $600m, because we are operating in a difficult situation?\u201d The answer, everyone seems to have decided, was: no. * * * It has never exactly been a secret that corporations sometimes stoke conflict in their pursuit of profit. The foremost exemplar, the East India Company, ran a business model premised on just that method, starting wars in order to sell opium in China and torturing Indians to disclose their treasures. But although companies have been convicted on other charges \u2013 such as stock manipulation and insider trading, in the case of the investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, in the 1980s \u2013 prosecutions for war crimes and crimes against humanity are a much more recent phenomenon. \u201cAt least 15 cases have been investigated or litigated over the past quarter-century, in different jurisdictions,\u201d Mark Taylor, the human rights scholar, said. \u201cMost have not reached trial, and all have proceeded very slowly.\u201d In one way, companies and their executives are easy to indict. As in the case of Lafarge, their emails, financial records, memos and all the rest of their documents that streamline their business also testify to their misconduct. But they can be elusive in other ways. Two former executives at Lundin, a Swedish oil giant, are being tried for war crimes after the company allegedly persuaded the Sudanese military in 1999 to \u201cpacify\u201d an area so that Lundin could extract its oil. Twelve thousand people died. The trial, which began a year ago and will run until the spring of 2026, will be the longest in Sweden\u2019s history, and the executives face possible life sentences if they are convicted. In the interim, Lundin\u2019s owners shut the company down and sold its assets across the border in Norway. By simply ceasing to exist, Lundin can escape any potential liability in Swedish courts. If a French court ever finds Lafarge guilty, the odds that any former executives will go to prison might still be slim. The worst that is likely to happen has already happened to some of them: they\u2019ve lost their jobs, but have still landed on their feet. Lafont, for instance, received an \u20ac8m exit package, of which the French state seized \u20ac2.5m. Last year, he grumbled to Lib\u00e9ration that he\u2019d been on a break since 2016, even though he had actually served on the prestigious boards of companies such as ArcelorMittal in that period. Pescheux moved to head up a Lafarge subsidiary in Kenya. He did not resign until 2017, just before being charged by a French court, although a company release said that he would be \u201crelocating within the LafargeHolcim Group pending retirement\u201d. Only in October 2022 did a Lafarge statement finally make clear that Pescheux and other executives involved in collaborating with IS were not on its rolls any longer. Lafarge itself is a vastly shrunken entity today, present only in France and about a dozen other countries. It\u2019s unlikely that any financial penalties levied by a French court will be distributed as reparations among all the people affected by these crimes. Lafarge\u2019s $778m fine went into the US government\u2019s pocket. The number of Yazidis who became US citizens and are therefore eligible to sue Lafarge in the US is a small fraction of those harmed by IS. Hundreds of Syrian employees who felt trapped in the Lafarge plant, believing their lives to be perpetually at risk while spending their days making cement, are unrepresented in any lawsuit. The same goes for the tens or hundreds of thousands of others targeted by IS \u2013 which was financed, in part, by Lafarge\u2019s payments, and later by the sale of the cement remaining in the Jalabiya warehouse, after the plant fell to IS in September 2014. Over the following weeks, IS sold the cement and other materials left behind, earning at least $11.5m in the process \u2013 a final round of profit squeezed out of Lafarge. Through one of its intermediaries, Lafarge kept negotiating with IS, hoping to regain the factory and begin selling cement again. It wasn\u2019t to be. Cement plants can enjoy a lifespan of half a century or more. The Jalabiya factory lasted just 14 years. IS held on to it, but was finally driven out of the area by a US-led military coalition, which used the compound as a base. In 2019, as President Donald Trump pulled out US troops from Syria, two American F-15s bombed part of the factory that had been repurposed into a storage bunker, to prevent munitions from falling into the hands of militant groups. Through the pandemic, the factory was occupied by Kurdish forces. This past January, as part of an air campaign targeting the Kurds, Turkey destroyed the Lafarge factory. In videos shot after the attack, thick smoke pours upwards from the arid land into the bleached-blue sky. The buildings are mangled. The only things that seem to have survived, at least in the videos, are the white, waist-high crash barriers made of concrete. \u2022 Follow the Long Read on X at @gdnlongread, listen to our podcasts here and sign up to the long read weekly email here."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel expands war goals to include return of residents near border with Lebanon ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/israel-war-goals-netanyahu-hamas-gaza-palestine;2024-09-17T02:38:59Z",
        "text": "Israel will expand its war goals to include the return of northern residents who were evacuated due to attacks by Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The decision was approved during an overnight meeting of the security cabinet, Netanyahu\u2019s office said. Israeli forces have exchanged near-daily strikes with Hezbollah since Hamas\u2019s 7 October attack sparked the war in the Gaza. Tens of thousands of Israelis were evacuated from towns along the northern frontier that have been badly damaged by rocket fire and they have yet to return. Earlier on Monday, Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said that the \u201cpossibility for an agreement is running out as Hezbollah continues to \u2018tie itself\u2019 to Hamas, and refuses to end the conflict. Therefore, the only way left to ensure the return of Israel\u2019s northern communities to their homes will be via military action.\u201d Hezbollah officials have said in the past that the group would stand down if a Gaza ceasefire was reached, while Israel insists it cannot allow militants to remain in the border area in Lebanon\u2019s south. The violence has killed hundreds \u2013 mostly fighters \u2013 in Lebanon, and dozens of civilians and soldiers on the Israeli side. The fighting has also forced tens of thousands of people on both sides to flee their homes. Gallant on Monday met visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein to discuss military operations against Hezbollah and the plight of Israelis displaced by the cross-border strikes, the defence ministry said in a statement. Earlier in the day, the defence minster spoke to his US counterpart Lloyd Austin and said time was \u201crunning out\u201d for an agreement that would end the conflict. While repeated rounds of talks mediated by the United States, Qatar and Egypt have sought a truce in Gaza, there have been no signs of progress in diplomacy aimed at halting the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel. Secretary of state Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt on Tuesday for his 10th trip to the Middle East since the war began nearly a year ago. Blinken has no public plans to go to Israel to meet Netanyahu on this trip. After months in which President Joe Biden and his officials publicly talked up an agreement to end the war in Gaza as being just within reach, the White House says it is now working with fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar to come up with a revised final proposal to try to at least get Israel and Hamas into a six-week ceasefire. Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar said on Monday that the Palestinian group had the resources to sustain its fight against Israel, with support from Iran-backed regional allies. Sinwar said in a letter to the group\u2019s Yemeni allies, the Houthis, that \u201cwe have prepared ourselves to fight a long war of attrition\u201d and along with other Iran-aligned would \u201cbreak the enemy\u2019s political will\u201d after more than 11 months of war. Agence France-Presse and Reuters contributed to this report"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Meta bans Russian state media outlets over \u2018foreign interference activity\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/meta-bans-rt-russian-media-outlets;2024-09-17T01:10:38Z",
        "text": "Facebook owner Meta said on Monday it was banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks, alleging the outlets used deceptive tactics to carry out influence operations while evading detection on the social media company\u2019s platforms. \u201cAfter careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity,\u201d the company said in a written statement. Enforcement of the ban would roll out over the coming days, it said. In addition to Facebook, Meta\u2019s apps include Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads. The Russian embassy did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The ban marks a sharp escalation in actions by the world\u2019s biggest social media company against Russian state media, after it spent years taking more limited steps such as blocking the outlets from running ads and reducing the reach of their posts. It came after the US filed money-laundering charges earlier this month against two RT employees for what officials said was a scheme to hire a US company to produce online content to influence the 2024 election. On Friday, US secretary of state Antony Blinken announced new sanctions against the Russian state-backed media company, formerly known as Russia Today, after new information gleaned from the outfit\u2019s employees showed it was \u201cfunctioning like a de facto arm of Russia\u2019s intelligence apparatus\u201d. \u201cToday, we\u2019re exposing how Russia deploys similar tactics around the world,\u201d Blinken said. \u201cRussian weaponization of disinformation to subvert and polarize free and open societies extends to every part of the world.\u201d The Russian government in 2023 established a new unit in RT with \u201ccyber operational capabilities and ties to Russian intelligence\u201d, Blinken claimed, with the goal of spreading Russian influence in countries around the world through information operations, covert influence and military procurement. Blinken said the US treasury would sanction three entities and two individuals tied to Rossiya Segodnya, the Russian state media company. The decision came after the announcement earlier this month that RT had funneled nearly $10m to conservative US influencers through a local company to produce videos meant to influence the outcome of the US presidential election in November. Speaking to reporters from the state department on Friday, Blinken accused RT of crowdfunding weapons and equipment for Russian soldiers in Ukraine, including sniper rifles, weapon sights, body armor, night-vision equipment, drones, radio equipment and diesel generators. Some of the equipment, including the recon drones, could be sourced from China, he said. Blinken also detailed how the organisation had targeted countries in Europe, Africa and North and South America. In particular, he said that RT leadership had coordinated directly with the Kremlin to target the October 2024 elections in Moldova, a former Soviet state in Europe where Russia has been accused of waging a hybrid war to exert greater influence. In particular, he said, RT\u2019s leadership had \u201cattempted to foment unrest in Moldova, likely with the specific aim of causing protests to turn violent\u201d. \u201cRT is aware of and prepared to assist Russia\u2019s plans to incite protests should the election not result in a Russia-preferred candidate winning the presidency,\u201d Blinken said. Andrew Roth contributed reporting"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ukraine war briefing: Russia retakes two villages in Kursk as counteroffensive continues, Moscow says;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/ukraine-war-briefing-russia-retakes-two-villages-in-kursk-as-counteroffensive-continues-moscow-says;2024-09-17T00:45:19Z",
        "text": "Russia said on Monday that its forces had retaken control of two villages in its western Kursk region from Ukraine, continuing what Moscow says is a significant counter-offensive there. Russian forces have been battling Ukrainian troops in Kursk region since 6 August, when Kyiv surprised Moscow with the biggest foreign attack on Russian soil since the second world war and subsequently seized 100 villages over an area of more than 1,300 sq km. The Russian claim could not be independently verified on Monday. Russia also ordered the evacuation of more villages close to the Ukrainian border in the Kursk region on Monday. The reason for the border evacuations was unclear, but came days after Moscow launched its counteroffensive. Authorities have decided to order the \u201cobligatory evacuation of settlements in the Rylsky and Khomutovsky districts that are within a 15km (nine-mile) zone adjacent to the border with Ukraine,\u201d Kursk region governor Alexei Smirnov said on Telegram. There are dozens of villages and towns within this radius. Ukraine on Monday said it had asked the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to verify the situation in areas of Kursk it has seized. \u201cI instructed the Ukrainian foreign ministry to officially invite the UN and ICRC to join humanitarian efforts in the Kursk region,\u201d foreign minister Andriy Sybiga said on social media. The UN said on Monday that it stood ready to assess and verify the situation in the Kursk region but only with Moscow\u2019s blessing. The outgoing head of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Monday he welcomed talks on Ukraine\u2019s use of long-range missiles to strike inside Russian territory, but any decision on the issue would have to be made by individual allies. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been pleading with allies for months to let Ukraine fire western missiles including long-range US Atacms and British Storm Shadows deep into Russia to limit Moscow\u2019s ability to launch attacks. British prime minister Keir Starmer and US President Joe Biden held talks in Washington on Friday on whether to allow Kyiv to use the long-range missiles against targets in Russia but no decision was publicly announced. The Finnish government is happy for Sweden to lead the establishment of Nato land forces in Finland to boost defences against neighbouring Russia, the two Nordic countries said on Monday. Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 sparked a historic policy U-turn in previously militarily non-aligned Finland and Sweden, which joined Nato in 2023 and 2024 respectively. Ukraine added the director of a controversial war documentary to a national security blacklist on Monday, saying it spread \u201cRussian propaganda\u201d about Moscow\u2019s invasion. Russians at War, directed by Russian-Canadian film-maker Anastasia Trofimova, features interviews with troops fighting on the frontline in Ukraine. Since its debut at Venice earlier this month, it has sparked controversy with some denouncing the film as an attempt to whitewash and justify Moscow\u2019s invasion. The trial of a French citizen arrested in Russia on charges of unlawfully collecting information on military issues started on Monday but was quickly adjourned for a month. Laurent Vinatier, arrested in Moscow in June, had earlier pleaded guilty, setting the stage for a fast-track trial without a detailed examination of evidence. Russia has previously used \u201cforeign agent\u201d charges to target Russian citizens and domestic critics of the Kremlin including activists, campaigners and independent journalists. Vinatier is an adviser with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, a Switzerland-based nongovernmental organisation. The NGO in June said it was doing \u201ceverything possible to assist\u201d him. Human rights activists have criticised the law and other recent legislation as part of a Kremlin crackdown on independent media and political activists intended to stifle criticism of its actions in Ukraine. Soon after the trial opened on Monday, the judge adjourned the hearing until 14 October when prosecutors will declare the sentence they will seek. Vinatier\u2019s lawyer, Aleksey Sinitsyn, said the trial was adjourned because the prosecution needed more time to prepare for final arguments. If convicted, Vinatier could face up to five years in prison. Kyiv on Monday denied links to a man accused of trying to assassinate former US president Donald Trump, after it emerged that the suspect was a supporter of Ukraine who had said he wanted to recruit foreign volunteers to fight there. Media interviews and social media posts showed that the reported suspect, Ryan Routh, 58, was a staunch supporter of Ukraine who had travelled there after Russia\u2019s 2022 invasion. Ukrainian officials said they had nothing to do with him, and accused Moscow of seizing on the link for propaganda purposes. The Kremlin, for its part, implied there was a link between the assassination attempt and US support for Kyiv, saying \u201cplaying with fire has its consequences\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Tracking the exploding pagers used in Israeli apparent attack on Hezbollah;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/18/g-s1-23547/tracking-the-exploding-pagers-used-in-attack-on-hezbollah;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:50:30 -0400",
        "text": "Gold Apollo denied all involvement with the explosive pagers, telling NPR outside its offices in Taiwan that it was a Budapest-based company called BAC Consulting which manufactured the devices."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;The FBI is investigating packages sent to election officials in more than 15 states;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/18/g-s1-23542/the-fbi-is-investigating-suspicious-packages-sent-to-election-officials;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:09:32 -0400",
        "text": "The FBI and the U.S. Postal Service were investigating the origin of suspicious packages that have been sent to elections officials in more than 15 states. There were no immediate reports of injuries."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Report: Cancer diagnoses are more common but so is surviving;https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/18/nx-s1-5076874/report-cancer-diagnoses-survival-young-adults;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:01:23 -0400",
        "text": "A new report shows rapid development of new cancer treatment and detection is helping people live more. But more people are also getting diagnosed, and at younger ages."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Trump held his first campaign event since the apparent assassination attempt;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/nx-s1-5116600/trump-town-hall-flint-michigan;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:55:49 -0400",
        "text": "Trump\u2019s town hall in Michigan was shorter than his typical campaign rally, but he used the event to discuss everything from the failed attempts on his life to a promise to boost the auto industry."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;A records flaw could block thousands in Arizona from voting in state and local races;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/nx-s1-5116592/arizona-election-citizenship-records-dmv;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:26:12 -0400",
        "text": "Arizona officials say the flaw could disqualify nearly 100,000 people from voting in non-federal races. At issue is proof of citizenship records required by the state to participate in such elections."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;A year after the strike is the UAW still winning?;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/1200034663/a-year-after-the-strike-is-the-uaw-still-winning;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:08:21 -0400",
        "text": "A year ago at this time, members of the United Auto Workers Union were feeling powerful and optimistic. The group's new President Shawn Fain had called a historic strike. For the first time, the Union walked out on ALL three big automakers. <br /><br />It was a bold move that by most measures worked. It ultimately brought Ford, GM and Stellantis much closer to the union's demands for historic raises and new job protections. <br /><br />The strike's success had people predicting a bigger and more powerful union.<br /><br />A year on the union is still staring down some major challenges. <br /><br />For sponsor-free episodes of <em>Consider This,</em> sign up for C<em>onsider This+</em> via Apple Podcasts or at <a href=\"https://plus.npr.org/\">plus.npr.org</a>.<br /><br />Email us at <a href=\"mailto:considerthis@npr.org\">considerthis@npr.org</a>."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;The Federal Reserve is on the verge of cutting interest rates. Here's what to know;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/nx-s1-5115907/federal-reserve-interest-rates-inflation;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:04:55 -0400",
        "text": "The Fed is expected to start cutting interest rates on Wednesday \u2014 marking a milestone in the central bank's long-running battle against inflation."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Disinformation and suppression loom over Georgia, says Black Voters Matter co-founder;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/nx-s1-5113804/election-trump-harris-black-voters-matter-latosha-brown-georgia;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:42:30 -0400",
        "text": "LaTosha Brown \u2014 the co-founder of Black Voters Matter \u2014 details how she's thinking about the election to come in Georgia, and the threat of voter suppression and disinformation."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Former officer testifies he beat a 'helpless' Tyre Nichols then lied about it;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/nx-s1-5116545/tyre-nichols-death-memphis-officer-testifies;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:02:45 -0400",
        "text": "Emmitt Martin III testified that he punched the 29-year-old Black man at least five times while two Memphis police colleagues held his arms and said \u201chit him.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Exploding Pagers in Lebanon, Raising Tensions between Hezbollah and Israel;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/1200034682/exploding-pagers-in-lebanon-raising-tensions-between-hezbollah-and-israel;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:52:33 -0400",
        "text": "Authorities in Lebanon are blaming Israel for an apparent attack in which pagers, used by Hezbollah in Lebanon, exploded simultaneously. At least nine people were killed, more than 2,700 were injured. Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese paramilitary group backed by Iran, had already been high and there were fears their frequent attacks on each other could escalate into all-out war. We hear about what this all could mean from our correspondent in the region."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Armed groups\u2019 terrorising Burkina Faso: HRW;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/armed-groups-terrorising-burkina-faso-hrw?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:11:02 +0000",
        "text": "Groups with links to al-Qaeda and ISIL accused of &#039;massacring villagers, displaced people, and Christian worshippers&#039;."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Australia arrests dozens over app allegedly used by criminals worldwide;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/australia-arrests-dozens-over-app-allegedly-used-by-criminals-worldwide?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:10:13 +0000",
        "text": "Authorities charge 32-year-old Sydney man over Ghost network allegedly used by crime gangs in multiple countries."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Video: Trump campaigns for first time since apparent assassination attempt;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/18/video-trump-campaigns-for-first-time-since-apparent-assassination-attempt?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:00:31 +0000",
        "text": "Trump referred to being president as a \u201cdangerous business\u201d at his first rally since the apparent attempt on his life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Titan implosion could have been prevented, says OceanGate ex-director;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/titan-implosion-could-have-been-prevented-says-oceangate-ex-director?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:42:19 +0000",
        "text": "David Lochridge references a 2018 report in which he raised safety issues about OceanGate&#039;s operations."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;India\u2019s Kashmir holds first regional election since losing autonomy;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/indias-kashmir-holds-first-regional-election-since-losing-autonomy?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:36:36 +0000",
        "text": "At stake are seats in the region&#039;s 90-member legislature, which will make laws and oversee local governing decisions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Despite prison, torture, this Kashmiri politician won\u2019t give up on India;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/18/despite-prison-torture-this-kashmiri-politician-wont-give-up-on-india?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:35:54 +0000",
        "text": "As Kashmir votes in its first regional elections in a decade, Waheed-ur-Rehman Para battles his own demons to contest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Ukraine\u2019s boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk released after Poland detention;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/18/ukraines-boxing-champion-usyk-released-after-brief-poland-detention?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:20:22 +0000",
        "text": "Ukraine&#039;s President Zelenskyy said he was &#039;outraged&#039; over the detention of his country&#039;s &#039;champion&#039; in Poland."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;UNICEF says six million children in Southeast Asia affected by Typhoon Yagi;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/unicef-says-six-million-children-in-southeast-asia-affected-by-typhoon-yagi?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:47:17 +0000",
        "text": "UN&#039;s children&#039;s agency says there&#039;s an urgent need for access to clean water, sanitation as Red Cross mobilises relief."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Taiwan drawn into Middle East politics after deadly pager blasts in Lebanon;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/18/taiwan-dragged-into-middle-east-politics-after-deadly-pager-blasts?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:51:52 +0000",
        "text": "Taiwanese tech firm Gold Apollo denies manufacturing exploding pagers used in apparent attack on Hezbollah."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;North Korea fires short-range ballistic missiles for second time in a week;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/north-korea-fires-short-range-ballistic-missiles-for-second-time-in-a-week?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:19:17 +0000",
        "text": "The missiles flew for about 400km (249 miles) before falling into the sea, with no reports of damage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Trump to meet \u2018fantastic\u2019 India PM Modi in US;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/trump-says-he-will-meet-fantastic-modi-during-us-visit?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:14:48 +0000",
        "text": "Republican candidate praises Indian leader while labelling New Delhi a &#039;very big abuser&#039; in trade."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;World Nomad Games put the spotlight on the sport of the Great Steppe;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/18/world-nomad-games-put-the-spotlight-on-the-sport-of-the-great-steppe?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:05:46 +0000",
        "text": "Athletes from 89 countries take part in 10th edition of games featuring sport including horseback wrestling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;The future of travel? For hyperloop, it\u2019s one step forward, two steps back;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/18/the-future-of-travel-for-hyperloop-its-one-step-forward-two-steps-back?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:59:44 +0000",
        "text": "Proponents of the futuristic concept say it could slash travel times, but doubts about feasibility remain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 936;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-936?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:43:45 +0000",
        "text": "As the war enters its 936th day, these are the main developments."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Bolivia braces for turmoil as antigovernment protesters begin march;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/bolivia-braces-for-turmoil-as-antigovernment-protesters-begin-march?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:54:50 +0000",
        "text": "&#039;March to Save Bolivia&#039;: Ex-President Morales challenges former ally and incumbent President Arce in political showdown."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;US downplays ability to prevent escalation after Lebanon pager explosions;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/us-downplays-ability-to-prevent-escalation-after-lebanon-pager-explosions?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:25:48 +0000",
        "text": "Biden administration faces continued calls to do more to pressure top ally Israel to prevent wider regional conflict."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;How did Hezbollah\u2019s pagers explode in Lebanon?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/how-did-hezbollahs-pagers-explode-in-lebanon?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:02:39 +0000",
        "text": "Localised explosions across Lebanon open a new chapter in one of the region&#039;s most established conflicts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Flooding death toll rises to 21 in Central Europe as more areas on alert;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/storm-boris-death-toll-rises-flooding-new-areas-on-alert?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:02:23 +0000",
        "text": "Heavy rainfall has hit Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia since last week."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Three firefighters die as Portugal battles dozens of wildfires;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/firefighters-die-as-portugal-battles-dozens-of-wildfires?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:00:38 +0000",
        "text": "The death toll in the latest wave of fires increases to seven as Portugal seeks help from the European Union."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Report: Israel trying to recruit African migrants for Gaza war;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/17/report-israel-trying-to-recruit-african-migrants-for-gaza-war?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:50:20 +0000",
        "text": "Israel\u2019s defence ministry is offering residency to African migrants if they join the war on Gaza, according to Haaretz."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;US senator to Arab American advocate: \u2018You should hide your head in a bag\u2019;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/us-senator-to-arab-american-advocate-you-should-hide-your-head-in-a-bag?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:33:28 +0000",
        "text": "During US hate crimes hearing, prominent activist faces aggressive questions about Hamas and student protests for Gaza."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018I am a rapist\u2019: French man admits to drugging and mass rape of his ex-wife;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/i-am-a-rapist-french-man-admits-to-drugging-and-mass-rape-of-his-ex-wife?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:18:10 +0000",
        "text": "Dominique Pelicot, 71, admits to drugging his ex-wife so dozens of other men could rape her and begs for forgiveness."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Can Israel destroy Hamas?;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/9/17/can-israel-destroy-hamas?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:43:58 +0000",
        "text": "Hamas says it is able to keep fighting the Israeli army in Gaza, despite its losses."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Myanmar\u2019s military intensifying killing and torture of civilians, UN says;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/myanmars-military-intensifying-killing-and-torture-of-civilians-un-finds?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:22:27 +0000",
        "text": "UN report finds 5,350 civilians have been killed by the military since the coup in February 2021."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Exploding pagers injure thousands in Lebanon in attack targeting Hezbollah;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/17/exploding-pagers-injure-thousands-in-lebanon-in-attack-targeting-hezbollah?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:21:03 +0000",
        "text": "Lebanese health officials say at least 9 people have died and nearly 3,000 are injured after electronic pagers exploded."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What we know about the Hezbollah pager explosions;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz04m913m49o;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:35:45 GMT",
        "text": "The attacks left nine dead and thousands injured, but how the blasts occurred remains unclear."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Inflation remains above Bank of England target at 2.2%;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g927qykywo;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:48:53 GMT",
        "text": "Lower fuel prices helped offset the higher cost of flying in the year to August."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Unlawful care homes \u2018profiteer\u2019 from at-risk kids;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlrl0rkjr6o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:14:55 GMT",
        "text": "Placing children with complex needs in care threatens to bankrupt some councils, the Family Court is told."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What will happen when VAT is added to private school fees?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cje30vq7yypo;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:10:51 GMT",
        "text": "The Labour government's changes will come into effect in January 2025"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sean 'Diddy' Combs denied bail in sex-trafficking case;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3x50jy15o;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:20:18 GMT",
        "text": "The musician allegedly plied victims with drugs to keep them \u201cobedient\u201d in days-long parties called \"Freak Offs\"."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Wildlife charity declares 'butterfly emergency';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y8p4zglpyo;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:17:59 GMT",
        "text": "The charity is calling on the government to ban pesticides that can harm butterflies and bees."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Supermoon and lunar eclipse delight stargazers;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7jwprepl9o;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:31:07 GMT",
        "text": "The Moon appeared brighter and bigger as it reached its closest point in its orbit around the Earth."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Protest 'buffer zones' around abortion clinics set to come in;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4g2drgdo;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:29:57 GMT",
        "text": "Those who break the law protecting areas around abortion clinics could face an unlimited fine."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;New bank hubs to open but many don't have printers to provide statements;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8yj42g5wo;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:20:28 GMT",
        "text": "New rules on branch closures take effect but questions remain over the facilities in shared hubs."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Rwanda plan was un-British, says ex-PM John Major;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6wjdjn0g7o;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:39:42 GMT",
        "text": "The former Tory leader criticises the previous government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Tupperware in fight to survive after bankruptcy filing;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gdprv2ddxo;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:23:25 GMT",
        "text": "The US company says it will ask for court permission to start a sale process of the business."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Video appears to show pager explosion at Lebanon supermarket;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cevy90jzr9xo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:44:10 GMT",
        "text": "Thousands of people were injured when pagers belonging to Hezbollah exploded almost simultaneously."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Pager explosions will devastate Hezbollah's morale and manpower;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw5rqzz5jjo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:51:17 GMT",
        "text": "Tuesday's blasts, which Hezbollah blames on Israel, look calculated to sow fear and confusion."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What is Hezbollah and why is it fighting with Israel?;https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67307858;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:37:46 GMT",
        "text": "Escalating cross-border hostilities have heightened fears of an all-out conflict."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Climate change is turbo-charging Somalia\u2019s problems - but there's still hope;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62rr5qe602o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:05:01 GMT",
        "text": "Despite facing a catastrophic combination of flooding and conflict,  there is optimism in the African country - as climate editor Justin Rowlatt discovers."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The agony and ecstasy of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jl481wkdro;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:13:56 GMT",
        "text": "Tens years on, activists on both sides of the debate recall the highs and lows of polling day."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The Papers: 'Exploding pager hell' and 'Middle East on brink';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c756l4g59eko;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:38:08 GMT",
        "text": "Wednesday's front pages focus on an attack involving exploding pagers injuring thousands in Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Still reeling from crisis, Sri Lanka holds pivotal election;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c756ll1r5g2o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:25:29 GMT",
        "text": "It\u2019s Sri Lanka's first election since it saw mass protests that triggered its worst economic crisis."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Titan sub whistleblower tells hearing \u2018it was inevitable\u2019 something would happen;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgl08wg4kqo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:24:41 GMT",
        "text": "Former employee David Lochridge tells a public hearing the whole idea of OceanGate was to \"make money\"."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Burrow praises his 'inspirational' kids in final podcast;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5ee721vl4o;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:13:50 GMT",
        "text": "In an interview recorded before his death Rob Burrow says his children gave him the drive to fight his MND."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Kate at first work meeting since cancer treatment;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g92rx60d0o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:37:53 GMT",
        "text": "Princess of Wales continues her gradual return to public life with her first work meeting this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Google wins legal challenge against 1.49bn euro fine;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62rjd363j1o;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:20:42 GMT",
        "text": "The firm is under pressure worldwide over the dominance of its search and ad-tech businesses."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;NHS junior doctors to be known as resident doctors after job-title change;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4geg72vjx9o;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:12:15 GMT",
        "text": "They will now be called resident doctors in an attempt to \nbetter reflect their expertise."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Chris Mason: Lib Dems aim to turn election success into influence;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93y79v6r5yo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:48:06 GMT",
        "text": "The party is celebrating the election of 72 Lib Dem MPs - but turning this into influence won't be easy."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Usyk released after airport detention - Zelensky;https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/articles/ce3zy2v0g95o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:35:33 GMT",
        "text": "Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky says heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk has been released after being detained at an airport in Poland."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Life as a woman under Taliban rule;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct6fb9;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:30:00 GMT",
        "text": "How are Afghanistan\u2019s women and girls coping with harsh new restrictions?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Italy's World Cup icon Schillaci dies aged 59;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cqlvrp4nylwo;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:54:44 GMT",
        "text": "Italian World Cup icon Salvatore Schillaci, the top scorer at the 1990 World Cup, dies aged 59."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Referee 'didn't like' Rice red card in Brighton draw;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cjd5l8ll7zko;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:57:31 GMT",
        "text": "Premier League referee Chris Kavanagh says he \"didn't like\" Declan Rice's red card during Arsenal's draw with Brighton last month."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Will Glasgow be last leg or clever rebirth for Commonwealths?;https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/c8j7y09j49no;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:06:07 GMT",
        "text": "Can the Commonwealth Games adapt and survive, or will Glasgow prove to be the final staging post for an almost century-old institution?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Two Champions League final defeats - why Mendieta remains a cult hero;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c4gdn4dzvpxo;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:36:11 GMT",
        "text": "Gaizka Mendieta was the classy midfielder who was a linchpin in the Valencia midfield that came so close to Champions League glory."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'I did it my way' - Duggan announces retirement;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cd6qq9l8jnxo;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:01:40 GMT",
        "text": "Former England forward Toni Duggan says her career has been \"more than I could ever have dreamed of\" as she announces her retirement."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Police probe actor's mistaken pepper-spray arrest;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ywrvpvpx5o;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:55:01 GMT",
        "text": "Reece Richards' arrest by officers in west London is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sexual assault victim says attacker showed 'no remorse';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqzzp571x7o;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:49:29 GMT",
        "text": "Paul Bryan, 63, was given a four year sentence after admitting to the 2017 assault last week."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sturgeon predicts Scottish independence and united Ireland in UK 'shake-up';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj04j2mnr6qo;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:13:31 GMT",
        "text": "Ten years after the Scottish independence referendum, the former first minister predicts a \"very healthy realignment\" of the UK in years to come."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sisters tell of years searching for health answers;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3w12503z3o;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:05:22 GMT",
        "text": "Annika and Sarah say they spent years navigating different appointments before getting a diagnosis."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le Liban\u00a0sous le choc apr\u00e8s une attaque aux bipeurs pi\u00e9g\u00e9s contre le Hezbollah;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/18/liban-le-hezbollah-ebranle-par-une-attaque-aux-bipeurs_6322590_3210.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:38:22 +0200",
        "text": "Les explosions, attribu\u00e9es \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, ont fait au moins neuf morts et 2 800 bless\u00e9s, dont une majorit\u00e9 de combattants du mouvement chiite."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Metro, RER, trains\u00a0: un tarif unique mis en place dans toute l\u2019Ile-de-France \u00e0 partir de 2025;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/18/metro-rer-trains-un-tarif-unique-mis-en-place-dans-toute-l-ile-de-france-a-partir-de-2025_6322623_3234.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:44:29 +0200",
        "text": "En supprimant le maquis tarifaire actuel, l\u2019autorit\u00e9 r\u00e9gionale des transports dit vouloir simplifier la vie des usagers. Le ticket unique sera \u00e0 2,50\u00a0euros dans tout le r\u00e9seau francilien, quelle que soit la distance parcourue."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Michel Barnier, sous pression sur la question des imp\u00f4ts, juge la situation budg\u00e9taire du pays \u00ab\u00a0tr\u00e8s grave\u00a0\u00bb. Suivez notre direct;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/18/l-actualite-politique-en-direct-michel-barnier-juge-la-situation-budgetaire-du-pays-tres-grave-les-macronistes-refusent-toute-hausse-d-impots_6314327_823448.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:15:57 +0200",
        "text": "Une r\u00e9union, qui devait se tenir ce matin entre le premier ministre et Gabriel Attal notamment, est report\u00e9e, a signal\u00e9 Matignon. L\u2019\u00e9ventualit\u00e9 d\u2019une hausse des imp\u00f4ts a suscit\u00e9 des tensions depuis mardi, et G\u00e9rald Darmanin a pr\u00e9venu qu\u2019il ne participerait pas \u00e0 un gouvernement \u00ab\u00a0qui n\u2019est pas clair\u00a0\u00bb sur cette question."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au proc\u00e8s des viols de Mazan, les premi\u00e8res explications de Dominique Pelicot\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Ils savaient tous, je n\u2019ai manipul\u00e9 personne\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/18/au-proces-des-viols-de-mazan-les-premieres-explications-de-dominique-pelicot-ils-savaient-tous-je-n-ai-manipule-personne_6322280_3224.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:26:12 +0200",
        "text": "Le principal accus\u00e9, qui \u00e9tait absent de l\u2019audience depuis une semaine en raison de probl\u00e8mes de sant\u00e9, a reconnu les faits, mardi devant le tribunal, mais multipli\u00e9 les maladresses, dans un discours jamais tr\u00e8s \u00e9loign\u00e9 de la victimisation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0: des entrep\u00f4ts de munitions russes d\u00e9truits pr\u00e8s de Marioupol, selon Kiev;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/18/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-des-entrepots-de-munitions-russes-detruits-pres-de-marioupol-selon-kiev_6318183_3210.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:42:02 +0200",
        "text": "Un communiqu\u00e9 de la marine ukrainienne fait \u00e9tat d\u2019une \u00ab\u00a0attaque au missile\u00a0\u00bb et affirme que \u00ab\u00a0les infrastructures de stockage et les tonnes de munitions que les envahisseurs accumulaient pour \u00eatre utilis\u00e9es sur le territoire ukrainien ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9truites\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct\u00a0: apr\u00e8s les explosions de bipeurs au Liban, le Hezbollah affirme qu\u2019il \u00ab\u00a0continuera\u00a0\u00bb les combats;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/18/en-direct-apres-les-explosions-de-bipeurs-au-liban-le-hezbollah-affirme-qu-il-continuera-les-combats_6321740_3210.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:57:47 +0200",
        "text": "Au moins neuf personnes sont mortes et plus de 2\u00a0800\u00a0ont \u00e9t\u00e9 bless\u00e9es au Liban mardi. Le Hezbollah et le gouvernement libanais ont rapidement accus\u00e9 Isra\u00ebl d\u2019\u00eatre \u00e0 l\u2019origine de ces explosions mortelles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e nationale, l\u2019assise fragile de Michel Barnier menac\u00e9e par les tensions avec les macronistes;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/18/a-l-assemblee-nationale-l-assise-fragile-de-michel-barnier-menacee-par-les-tensions-avec-les-macronistes_6322269_823448.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:52:59 +0200",
        "text": "Les d\u00e9put\u00e9s de l\u2019ancienne majorit\u00e9 pr\u00e9sidentielle exigent du nouveau premier ministre plus de transparence sur la politique qu\u2019il entend mener. Gabriel Attal, pr\u00e9sident du groupe Ensemble pour la R\u00e9publique, est attendu aujourd\u2019hui \u00e0 Matignon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La Cor\u00e9e du Nord tire de nouveaux missiles balistiques;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/18/la-coree-du-nord-tire-de-nouveaux-missiles-balistiques_6322162_3210.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:03:13 +0200",
        "text": "S\u00e9oul et Tokyo ont confirm\u00e9 les tirs, les gardes-c\u00f4tes japonais pr\u00e9cisant qu\u2019un missile s\u2019\u00e9tait \u00e9cras\u00e9 en mer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ligue des champions\u00a0: Lille en\u00a0\u00e9chec face au\u00a0Sporting Portugal, victoire pour Mbapp\u00e9 et\u00a0le\u00a0Real contre Stuttgart;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/18/ligue-des-champions-lille-en-echec-face-au-sporting-portugal-victoire-pour-mbappe-et-le-real-contre-stuttgart_6322129_3242.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:29:39 +0200",
        "text": "Carton de la soir\u00e9e\u00a0: le Bayern Munich a \u00e9cras\u00e9 le Dynamo Zagreb (9-2), avec notamment un quadrupl\u00e9 d\u2019Harry Kane et un doubl\u00e9 de Michael Olise, le nouvel international fran\u00e7ais."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Sous tension, le bureau de l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e nationale juge recevable la motion de destitution d\u2019Emmanuel Macron;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/17/sous-tension-le-bureau-de-l-assemblee-nationale-juge-recevable-la-motion-de-destitution-d-emmanuel-macron_6322096_823448.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:35:43 +0200",
        "text": "La plus haute instance coll\u00e9giale de l\u2019institution, o\u00f9 le NFP est majoritaire, a valid\u00e9 l\u2019initiative de La France insoumise. Cette premi\u00e8re \u00e9tape d\u2019une proc\u00e9dure qui n\u2019a gu\u00e8re de chance d\u2019aboutir marque les d\u00e9buts d\u2019une cohabitation difficile entre la pr\u00e9sidente de l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e, Ya\u00ebl Braun-Pivet, et son bureau."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le rappeur Diddy en d\u00e9tention provisoire pour trafic sexuel et extorsion;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/17/le-rappeur-diddy-arrete-lundi-a-new-york-inculpe-pour-trafic-sexuel-et-extorsion_6320868_3211.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:14:02 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Pendant des d\u00e9cennies\u00a0\u00bb, Sean \u00ab\u00a0Diddy\u00a0\u00bb Combs \u00ab\u00a0a abus\u00e9, menac\u00e9 et contraint des femmes et d\u2019autres autour de lui \u00e0 satisfaire ses d\u00e9sirs sexuels, prot\u00e9ger sa r\u00e9putation et cacher ses actes\u00a0\u00bb, peut-on lire sur l\u2019acte d\u2019inculpation du parquet f\u00e9d\u00e9ral de Manhattan."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A Paris, explosions impressionnantes sur un toit \u00e0 la suite d\u2019un incendie, aucun bless\u00e9 grave;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/17/a-paris-explosions-impressionnantes-sur-un-toit-a-la-suite-d-un-incendie-aucun-blesse-grave_6322030_3224.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:58:54 +0200",
        "text": "Deux bonbonnes de gaz ont explos\u00e9 mardi en raison d\u2019un incendie sur le toit d\u2019un immeuble en travaux du 13e arrondissement. En d\u00e9but de soir\u00e9e, le feu \u00e9tait sur le point d\u2019\u00eatre \u00e9teint, selon les sapeurs-pompiers de Paris."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Reportage | Les chr\u00e9tiens de Syrie, une communaut\u00e9 en voie d\u2019effacement;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/17/les-chretiens-de-syrie-une-communaute-en-voie-d-effacement_6320855_3210.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:30:07 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Carnets de Syrie\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0(3/7).\u00a0La guerre, la pouss\u00e9e djihadiste et l\u2019absence de reconstruction ont eu raison de l\u2019identit\u00e9 plurielle du pays, qui fut un berceau du christianisme."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Autoroute A69\u00a0: la gendarmerie dans les arbres pour d\u00e9crocher les derniers \u00ab\u00a0\u00e9cureuils\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/17/autoroute-a69-la-gendarmerie-dans-les-arbres-pour-decrocher-les-derniers-ecureuils_6321897_3234.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:31:50 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Le but, c\u2019est d\u2019abattre tous les arbres qui sont sur le trac\u00e9 de l\u2019autoroute\u00a0\u00bb, a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 mardi le colonel St\u00e9phane Dallongeville, chef des op\u00e9rations pour le groupement de Haute-Garonne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Flappy Bird\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: derri\u00e8re le retour du jeu culte, un imbroglio et des cryptomonnaies;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/17/flappy-bird-derriere-le-retour-du-jeu-culte-un-imbroglio-et-des-cryptomonnaies_6321860_4408996.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:00:06 +0200",
        "text": "Retir\u00e9 des boutiques d\u2019applications il y a dix ans, le jeu doit revenir cet automne. Mais cette nouvelle mouture, associ\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019univers des cryptomonnaies, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9savou\u00e9e par le cr\u00e9ateur du titre, qui a entre-temps perdu les droits d\u2019utilisation de la marque."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La Ligue des champions ne modifie pas que sa formule, elle change aussi son hymne;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/17/la-ligue-des-champions-ne-modifie-pas-que-sa-formule-elle-change-aussi-son-hymne_6321819_3242.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:06:40 +0200",
        "text": "La nouvelle mouture de la prestigieuse comp\u00e9tition europ\u00e9enne de football a d\u00e9but\u00e9 mardi. Avec une version r\u00e9orchestr\u00e9e de sa bande-son embl\u00e9matique, qui sera diffus\u00e9e avant chaque match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Le Vaillant Petit Page\u00a0\u00bb, le jeu vid\u00e9o qui se prend pour un livre de contes;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/17/le-vaillant-petit-page-le-jeu-video-qui-se-prend-pour-un-livre-de-contes_6321817_4408996.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:00:07 +0200",
        "text": "Ce jeu aux dessins color\u00e9s et aux adorables personnages nous offre de naviguer entre deux mondes\u00a0: les pages d\u2019un livre et la chambre de son jeune propri\u00e9taire."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Explosions au Liban\u00a0: qu\u2019est-ce qu\u2019un bipeur\u00a0?;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/17/explosions-au-liban-qu-est-ce-qu-un-bipeur_6321814_4408996.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:55:53 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019explosion simultan\u00e9e de plusieurs centaines de ces appareils de communication rudimentaires a fait plusieurs morts et des milliers de bless\u00e9s, mardi. Tr\u00e8s populaires dans les ann\u00e9es\u00a01990, ces appareils permettent de recevoir de courts messages d\u2019alerte ou textes, et dans certains cas d\u2019en envoyer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Portugal, des incendies toujours pas ma\u00eetris\u00e9s font sept morts;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/17/au-portugal-des-incendies-toujours-pas-maitrises-font-sept-morts_6321742_3244.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:10:47 +0200",
        "text": "Une cinquantaine de feux actifs mobilisent toujours, mardi apr\u00e8s-midi, quelque 4\u00a0200\u00a0pompiers dans l\u2019ensemble du pays."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0The Observer\u00a0\u00bb, plus vieux journal dominical au monde, mis en vente;https://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2024/09/17/royaume-uni-the-observer-plus-vieux-journal-dominical-au-monde-mis-en-vente_6321735_3236.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:52:29 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0\u00bb a annonc\u00e9 mardi sur son site que l\u2019hebdomadaire britannique pourrait \u00eatre rachet\u00e9 par Tortoise Media, un site Internet d\u2019actualit\u00e9 fond\u00e9 en\u00a02019."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Tout le monde sait ce que nous pensons du fait d\u2019avoir plus de matchs\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: la grogne des footballeurs\u00a0monte face \u00e0 l\u2019alourdissement du calendrier;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/17/tout-le-monde-sait-ce-que-nous-pensons-du-fait-d-avoir-plus-de-matchs-la-grogne-des-footballeurs-monte-face-a-l-alourdissement-du-calendrier_6321734_3242.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:49:08 +0200",
        "text": "La saison 2024-2025\u00a0voit l\u2019entr\u00e9e en vigueur d\u2019une nouvelle formule de la Ligue des champions, d\u00e8s mardi, et l\u2019\u00e9largissement \u00e0 32\u00a0\u00e9quipes de la Coupe du monde des clubs. Plusieurs joueurs d\u00e9noncent les risques de voir les rencontres se multiplier."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Temp\u00eate Boris\u00a0: le bilan s\u2019alourdit \u00e0 22\u00a0morts en Europe centrale et orientale;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/17/tempete-boris-le-bilan-s-alourdit-a-21-morts-en-europe-centrale-et-orientale_6321701_3244.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:17:51 +0200",
        "text": "La temp\u00eate a fait quatre victimes suppl\u00e9mentaires en Autriche et en Pologne, mardi. En R\u00e9publique tch\u00e8que, l\u2019\u00e9tang Rozmberk inonde ses berges, une crue qui s\u2019annonce comme la pire qu\u2019ait connue la r\u00e9gion depuis les inondations de 2002."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En G\u00e9orgie, la loi restreignant les droits des personnes LGBT+ adopt\u00e9e par le Parlement;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/17/en-georgie-la-loi-restreignant-les-droits-des-personnes-lgbt-adoptee-par-le-parlement_6321668_3210.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:58:40 +0200",
        "text": "Le texte interdit notamment \u00ab\u00a0la propagande des relations homosexuelles et de l\u2019inceste\u00a0\u00bb dans les \u00e9tablissements d\u2019enseignement et les \u00e9missions de t\u00e9l\u00e9vision."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le po\u00e8te Joachim Du Bellay identifi\u00e9 dans un cercueil retrouv\u00e9 \u00e0 Notre-Dame de Paris;https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/09/17/le-poete-joachim-du-bellay-identifie-dans-un-cercueil-retrouve-a-notre-dame-de-paris_6321666_3246.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:33:46 +0200",
        "text": "La r\u00e9solution de ce \u00ab\u00a0cold case\u00a0\u00bb constitue le point le plus spectaculaire du bilan des fouilles arch\u00e9ologiques r\u00e9alis\u00e9es sous la cath\u00e9drale, pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 mardi 17\u00a0septembre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Instagram va imposer des \u00ab\u00a0comptes adolescents\u00a0\u00bb aux mineurs;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/17/instagram-va-imposer-des-comptes-adolescents-aux-mineurs_6321523_4408996.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:00:02 +0200",
        "text": "Tous les utilisateurs \u00e2g\u00e9s de\u00a013 \u00e0\u00a017\u00a0ans seront automatiquement soumis \u00e0 certaines restrictions visant \u00e0\u00a0les prot\u00e9ger. Ces \u00ab\u00a0comptes ado\u00a0\u00bb pourront \u00eatre supervis\u00e9s par les parents. Le service, d\u00e9ploy\u00e9 dans plusieurs pays \u00e0 partir de ce mardi, devrait arriver en France d\u2019ici \u00e0 la fin de l\u2019ann\u00e9e."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Commission europ\u00e9enne\u00a0: l\u2019Italien Raffaele Fitto, ministre de Giorgia Meloni, obtient une vice-pr\u00e9sidence;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/17/commission-europeenne-l-italien-raffaele-fitto-ministre-de-giorgia-meloni-obtient-une-vice-presidence_6321456_3210.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:07:50 +0200",
        "text": "La nomination attendue \u00e0 ce poste de ce membre du gouvernement d\u2019extr\u00eame droite italien a provoqu\u00e9 ces derni\u00e8res semaines une lev\u00e9e de boucliers au sein des forces de gauche et du centre au Parlement europ\u00e9en."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Menac\u00e9 d\u2019interdiction aux Etats-Unis, TikTok contre-attaque en\u00a0justice;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/17/menace-d-interdiction-aux-etats-unis-tiktok-contre-attaque-en-justice_6321422_4408996.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:02:32 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019application chinoise, vis\u00e9e par une interdiction sur le sol am\u00e9ricain \u00e0 l\u2019horizon 2025, a fait appel lundi de la d\u00e9cision devant les tribunaux am\u00e9ricains, d\u00e9non\u00e7ant une loi \u00ab\u00a0sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Mali\u00a0: un groupe li\u00e9 \u00e0 Al-Qaida revendique les attaques contre l\u2019\u00e9cole de gendarmerie et l\u2019a\u00e9roport, \u00e0 Bamako;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/17/au-mali-une-attaque-terroriste-vise-un-camp-de-la-gendarmerie-au-c-ur-de-bamako_6321389_3212.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:55:08 +0200",
        "text": "Le Groupe de soutien \u00e0 l\u2019islam et aux musulmans affirme avoir men\u00e9 une \u00ab\u00a0op\u00e9ration sp\u00e9cifique\u00a0\u00bb ayant entra\u00een\u00e9 d\u2019\u00ab\u00a0\u00e9normes pertes humaines\u00a0\u00bb et la \u00ab\u00a0destruction de plusieurs avions de combat\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Paris 2024\u00a0: la gymnaste Jordan Chiles fait appel pour tenter de\u00a0r\u00e9cup\u00e9rer sa\u00a0m\u00e9daille de\u00a0bronze au\u00a0sol;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/17/paris-2024-la-gymnaste-jordan-chiles-fait-appel-pour-tenter-de-recuperer-sa-medaille-de-bronze-au-sol_6321356_3242.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:29:11 +0200",
        "text": "Les avocats de l\u2019Am\u00e9ricaine de 23\u00a0ans d\u2019abord r\u00e9compens\u00e9e, puis r\u00e9trograd\u00e9e au profit de la Roumaine Ana Barbosu, ont d\u00e9pos\u00e9 un recours lundi devant la Cour f\u00e9d\u00e9rale supr\u00eame suisse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ligue des champions de football\u00a0: tout savoir sur\u00a0le\u00a0nouveau format;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/17/ligue-des-champions-de-football-tout-savoir-sur-le-nouveau-format_6321289_3242.html;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:00:03 +0200",
        "text": "La Ligue des champions de football reprend ses droits, mardi 17\u00a0septembre, avec une nouvelle formule que l\u2019UEFA promet plus attractive, mais qui a surtout pour but de susciter plus de recettes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Aux Etats-Unis, l\u2019explosion d\u2019un gazoduc pr\u00e8s de Houston provoque un incendie\u00a0; la zone \u00e9vacu\u00e9e;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/16/aux-etats-unis-l-explosion-d-un-gazoduc-pres-de-houston-provoque-un-incendie-la-zone-evacuee_6320707_3210.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:54:53 +0200",
        "text": "Le flux de gaz a \u00e9t\u00e9 coup\u00e9, mais le r\u00e9sidu pr\u00e9sent dans la conduite pourrait br\u00fbler plusieurs heures, selon les autorit\u00e9s locales, qui n\u2019ont pas fait \u00e9tat de victime. Les causes de l\u2019explosion n\u2019\u00e9taient pas connues\u00a0; une voiture a toutefois heurt\u00e9 le gazoduc quelques heures auparavant."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le point sur la situation au Proche-Orient\u00a0: le Hamas se dit pr\u00eat \u00ab\u00a0pour une longue guerre d\u2019usure\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0; l\u2019ONU d\u00e9nonce \u00ab\u00a0un niveau de souffrance inimaginable\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 Gaza;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/16/le-point-sur-la-situation-au-proche-orient-le-hamas-se-dit-pret-pour-une-longue-guerre-d-usure-benyamin-netanyahou-demande-un-changement-radical-a-la-frontiere-libanaise_6320641_3210.html;Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:14:39 +0200",
        "text": "Le chef du mouvement palestinien, Yahya Sinouar, a par ailleurs \u00ab\u00a0f\u00e9licit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb les rebelles houthistes du Y\u00e9men apr\u00e8s leur attaque au missile sur Isra\u00ebl dimanche. Le retour des Isra\u00e9liens dans le nord du pays est d\u00e9sormais un but de guerre, a affirm\u00e9, mardi, Benyamin N\u00e9tanyahou."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;KDA urges Karnataka government to implement 5% reservation in education for Kannadigas living in border regions and outside the State;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/kda-urges-karnataka-government-to-implement-5-reservation-in-education-for-kannadigas-living-in-border-regions-and-outside-the-state/article68641993.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:26:11 +0530",
        "text": "Although 13 years have passed since the 5% reservation was introduced in education for Kannadigas in border regions and outside the state, authorities have neglected to implement it, said Prof. Purushottam Bilimale"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bandh against power tariff hike affects normal life in Puducherry;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/bandh-against-power-tariff-hike-affects-normal-life-in-puducherry/article68654844.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:24:26 +0530",
        "text": "Several INDIA bloc leaders were arrested while staging a road roko near the Venkata Subba Reddiyar Statue in the UT"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pager attack on Hezbollah: A low-tech gadget blitz redraws the contours of the Israel-Iran conflict;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/pager-attack-on-hezbollah-a-low-tech-gadget-blitz-redraws-the-contours-of-the-israel-iran-conflict/article68655123.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:19:31 +0530",
        "text": "Blasts in multiple parts of the Middle Eastern country surprised the Iran-backed Hezbollah as two of its fighters and an 8-year-old girl were killed"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Imran Khan's crimes enough to keep him jailed: Pakistan Defence Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/imran-khans-crimes-enough-to-keep-him-jailed-pakistan-defence-minister/article68655074.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:58:14 +0530",
        "text": "Khan, 71, has been in jail since August last year after being convicted in some of the nearly 200 cases slapped on him since his ouster in April 2022"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;SC to consider hearing pleas against practice of parties promising freebies during polls;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sc-to-consider-hearing-pleas-against-practice-of-parties-promising-freebies-during-polls/article68655075.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:50:57 +0530",
        "text": "The plea said there should be a total ban on populist measures to gain undue political favour from voters as they violate the Constitution, and the EC should take suitable deterrent measures"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Head to Ishtaa to relish tried and tested comfort food;https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/food/head-to-ishtaa-to-relish-tried-and-tested-comfort-food/article68487438.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:41:21 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Over 37,000 idols immersed in Mumbai as Ganesh festival draws to a close;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/over-37000-idols-immersed-in-mumbai-as-ganesh-festival-draws-to-a-close/article68655053.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:35:01 +0530",
        "text": "Immersion took place at artificial ponds as well as Girgaon, Dadar, Juhu, Marve and Aksa beaches, among other spots in the megapolis"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;A chance to shine with Gallery Charvi;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/a-chance-to-shine-with-gallery-charvi/article68647385.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:31:55 +0530",
        "text": "Gallery Charvi is debuting their maiden show titled Collective Resonance in Bengaluru this week"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Augmented reality, AI bring late Karunanidhi alive on stage;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/augmented-reality-ai-bring-late-karunanidhi-alive-on-stage/article68654995.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:20:46 +0530",
        "text": "The one-minute augmented reality video that was displayed on screen to the audience showed Karunandhi seated next to M.K. Stalin, in a big chair in the front row."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Watch: Cooperative federalism and the language connection;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/watch-cooperative-federalism-and-language-connection/article68655015.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:18:10 +0530",
        "text": "What is cooperative federalism and how does language figure in it?"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018My daughter would have been alive...\u2019: R.G. Kar Medical College victim\u2019s father accuses Mamata Banerjee of inaction;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/my-daughter-would-have-been-alive-rg-kar-medical-college-victims-father-accuses-mamata-banerjee-of-inaction/article68654960.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:15:58 +0530",
        "text": "Father blames CM Mamata for daughter\u2019s death, demands justice for murdered doctor"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;J&K Congress expels Srinagar district unit president for entering poll fray as Independent;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jammu-and-kashmir-assembly/jk-congress-expels-srinagar-district-unit-president-for-entering-poll-fray-as-independent/article68654964.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:05:56 +0530",
        "text": "The party has expelled Srinagar district president Imtiyaz Ahmad Khan and two others from the basic membership of the party"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Himachal Pradesh rains: 50 roads closed as rain lashes parts of state;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/himachal-pradesh/himachal-pradesh-rains-50-roads-closed-as-rain-lashes-parts-of-state/article68654948.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:58:14 +0530",
        "text": "The local meteorological centre had issued a 'yellow' alert for thunderstorms and lightning in isolated areas of six districts of the state"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Our batting has quality to take on any spin unit: Indian head coach Gautam Gambhir ahead of Test series against Bangladesh;https://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/our-batting-has-quality-to-take-on-any-spin-unit-indian-head-coach-gautam-gambhir-ahead-of-test-series-against-bangladesh/article68654963.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:57:51 +0530",
        "text": "India once was a batting-obsessed nation. But Bumrah, Shami, Ashwin, and Jadeja have turned it into a bowlers' game, says Gautam Gambhir ahead of the opening Test match against Bangladesh"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chandigarh court issues notice to Kangana Ranaut over movie 'Emergency';https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/chandigarh-court-issues-notice-to-kangana-ranaut-over-movie-emergency/article68654909.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:49:12 +0530",
        "text": "The petition alleged that Kangana Ranaut and other respondents have in the movie 'Emergency' tried to \"malign the image of Sikhs\" and particularly \"targeted\" the former Jathedar of the Akal Takth by portraying him as a \"terrorist\""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Agitating junior doctors write to Bengal chief secretary, seek meeting on key unresolved issues;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/agitating-junior-doctors-write-to-bengal-chief-secretary-seek-meeting-on-key-unresolved-issues/article68654915.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:47:39 +0530",
        "text": "The protesting doctors highlighted issues of safety and security inside State-run hospital premises and details of the promised special task force headed by the chief secretary as agenda for the proposed meeting"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India should not be seen as 3rd or 4th-largest GHG emitter due to low per capita emissions: Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-should-not-be-seen-as-3rd-or-4th-largest-ghg-emitter-due-to-low-per-capita-emissions-minister/article68654924.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:46:54 +0530",
        "text": "\u201cIndia is home to 17% of the world\u2019s population, but its share of global carbon emissions is less than 5%\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rahul Gandhi\u2019s growing support has unsettled many, says T.N. CM Stalin;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/rahul-gandhis-growing-support-has-unsettled-many-says-stalin/article68654942.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:44:59 +0530",
        "text": "The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister says he is \u201cdeeply shocked\u201d\u00a0by the recent threats issued to Rahul Gandhi"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Lijo Jose Pellissery says he is not part of proposed Malayalam film collective Progressive Filmmakers\u2019 Association;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/lijo-jose-pellissery-says-he-is-not-part-of-proposed-malayalam-film-collective-progressive-filmmakers-association/article68654903.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:41:58 +0530",
        "text": "\u2018I broadly agree and welcome the concept of an independent collective of filmmakers and producers. If I wish to be part of such a collective, it will come as an official announcement from my side. Things which are being reported under my name are without my knowledge,\u2019 says Lijo Jose Pellissery in a Facebook post"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Competition Commission introduces independent monitoring agencies for order compliance;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/competition-commission-introduces-independent-monitoring-agencies-for-order-compliance/article68654871.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:37:28 +0530",
        "text": "Agencies can be appointed by CCI to monitor the implementation of its orders. The agencies can be accounting firms, management consultancy or any other professional organisation or chartered accountants, company secretaries or cost accountants"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018CID\u2019 Sakunthala, veteran Tamil actor, passes away;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/veteran-tamil-actor-a-sakunthala-passes-away/article68654893.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:34:12 +0530",
        "text": "Sakunthala played the female lead in \u2018CID Shankar\u2019, the 1970 spy thriller that earned her the name CID Sakunthala"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delhi court summons Lalu Prasad, Tejashwi Yadav in land for job case;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/delhi-court-summons-lalu-prasad-tejashwi-yadav-in-land-for-job-case/article68654877.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:28:01 +0530",
        "text": "Special Judge Vishal Gogne directed the accused people to appear before the court on October 7"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;MP Rashid slams Jammu and Kashmir L-G for suggesting stricter laws to prevent Jamaat-e-Islami from fighting polls;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/mp-rashid-slams-jammu-and-kashmir-lg-for-suggesting-stricter-laws-to-prevent-jamaat-e-islami-from-fighting-polls/article68654810.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:25:42 +0530",
        "text": "He said there might be some disagreement with the policies of Jamaat-e-Islami but it has not divided or killed people to spread communal hatred like the BJP"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Man dies after being hit by tractor during Ganesha immersion procession in Belagavi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/man-dies-after-being-hit-by-tractor-during-ganesha-immersion-procession-in-belagavi/article68654820.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:19:29 +0530",
        "text": "Another injured is recovering in the hospital"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Supreme Court says govt may argue on law if it chooses not to file a counter to pleas to criminalise marital rape;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/supreme-court-says-govt-may-argue-on-law-if-it-chooses-not-to-file-a-counter-to-pleas-to-criminalise-marital-rape/article68654811.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:18:21 +0530",
        "text": "The observation followed an oral mentioning made by senior advocate Indira Jaising requesting a Bench headed by Chief Justice Chandrachud to fix a specific date for hearing the case"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Amazon\u2019s Great Indian Festival sale begins on September 27: HP, Samsung, OnePlus, realme, IQOO to take part;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/amazons-great-indian-festival-sale-begins-on-september-27-hp-samsung-oneplus-realme-iqoo-to-take-part/article68654450.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:18:02 +0530",
        "text": "Amazon\u2019s Great Indian Festival sale event is slated to begin on Friday, September 27 this year, with a number of tech and gadget companies set to offer discounts"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Milan Fashion Week opens with light, ethereal yet grounded looks from Fendi, Ferretti and Marni;https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/fashion/milan-fashion-week-opens/article68654772.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:16:49 +0530",
        "text": "As the northern hemisphere started transitioning from summer to fall, Milan Fashion Week invites fashionistas to dream about the next warm weather season"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Arvind Kejriwal will move out of official residence in a week: AAP;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/arvind-kejriwal-will-move-out-of-official-residence-in-a-week-aap/article68654809.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:16:18 +0530",
        "text": "The AAP leader said it was yet to be decided where Mr. Kejriwal will live"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Lenovo to make AI servers in India; opens R&D facility in Bengaluru;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/lenovo-to-make-ai-servers-in-india-opens-rd-facility-in-bengaluru/article68654821.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:07:34 +0530",
        "text": "The Bengaluru R&amp;D centre will be Lenovo\u2019s fourth faculty for infrastructure after Beijing, Taipei and Morrisville centres"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;SC defers to Oct 3 hearing on pleas seeking reconsideration of 2022 PMLA verdict;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sc-defers-to-oct-3-hearing-on-pleas-seeking-reconsideration-of-2022-pmla-verdict/article68654757.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:57:33 +0530",
        "text": "In its 2022 verdict, the Supreme Court upheld the ED\u2019s powers of arrest and attachment of property involved in money laundering, search, and seizure under the PMLA"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;West Bengal economy performs poorly over several decades: EAC-PM paper;https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/west-bengal-economy-performs-poorly-over-several-decades-eac-pm-paper/article68654721.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:53:00 +0530",
        "text": "West Bengal\u2019s economic decline, southern States\u2019 growth post-1991, and regional disparities in India\u2019s economic performance analysed in a working paper by Economic Advisory Council to the PM"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Reservation remark: Rahul Gandhi\u2019s tongue should be scalded, says BJP MP;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/reservation-remark-rahul-gandhis-tongue-should-be-scalded-says-bjp-mp/article68654767.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:49:04 +0530",
        "text": "The opposition has expressed shock over the statement"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bulgarian father and son row across Arctic Ocean for endangered species;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/bulgarian-father-and-son-row-across-arctic-ocean-for-endangered-species/article68654727.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:36:18 +0530",
        "text": "In 2020 Maxim at the age of 16 became the youngest rower to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean with his father."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;'Bulldozer' not symbol of rule of law; Supreme Court fulfilled Centre's responsibility: Mayawati;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttar-pradesh/bulldozer-not-symbol-of-rule-of-law-supreme-court-fulfilled-centres-responsibility-mayawati/article68654713.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:34:20 +0530",
        "text": "When the general public does not agree with the bulldozer or any other matter, then the Centre should come forward and make uniform guidelines for the whole country, says BSP chief Mayawati"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Telangana Govt to launch MSME policy today;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-govt-to-launch-msme-policy-today/article68654703.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:20:46 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sri Lanka wins the toss and bats in first test against New Zealand;https://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/sri-lanka-vs-new-zealand-first-test-day-1/article68654648.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:13:29 +0530",
        "text": "Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bat after winning the toss in the first test against New Zealand at the Galle International Stadium"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Odisha police suspends five personnel in case of assault against Army officer and his fianc\u00e9e;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/odisha-police-suspends-five-personnel-in-case-of-assault-against-army-officer-and-his-fianc%C3%A9e/article68654656.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:08:19 +0530",
        "text": "Meanwhile, the National Commission for Women has taken suo motu cognisance of allegations made by an Army officer and his lady friend regarding their \u201ccustodial abuse\u201d by Odisha Police"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Three girls missing from Nirbhaya centre in Kerala\u2019s Palakkad;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/three-girls-missing-from-nirbhaya-centre-in-keralas-palakkad/article68654576.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:04:30 +0530",
        "text": "They reportedly escaped from the shelter home by evading the security guard"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Dengue under control now in Bengaluru: BBMP;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/dengue-under-control-now-in-bengaluru-bbmp/article68652458.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:04:19 +0530",
        "text": "The civic body gave out \u201cDengue Warrior\u201d awards to students and citizens who had made social media reels creating awareness about dengue and its prevention."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;House collapses in central Delhi's Bapa Nagar, 12 injured;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/house-collapses-in-central-delhis-bapa-nagar-occupants-feared-trapped/article68654625.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:58:49 +0530",
        "text": "Few occupants of the building are feared trapped in its debris as efforts are underway to rescue them"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Wikipedia parent moves to avert confrontation with SC over R.G. Kar victim identity;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/wikipedia-parent-moves-to-avert-confrontation-with-sc-over-rg-kar-victim-identity/article68654588.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:48:05 +0530",
        "text": "The Wikimedia Foundation does not censor articles upon court requests, deferring to volunteer editors. But after the SC order in the Kolkata rape-murder case, the foundation moved to appeal to its volunteers to consider the issue while avoiding confrontation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Congress files police complaint against Ravneet Singh Bittu, Tarvinder Singh Marvah over threats against Rahul Gandhi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/congress-files-police-complaint-against-ravneet-singh-bittu-tarvinder-singh-marvah-over-threats-against-rahul-gandhi/article68654602.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:35:15 +0530",
        "text": "Ajay Maken in the letter for FIR named Minister of State for Railways Ravneet Singh Bittu, Delhi BJP leader Tarvinder Singh Marvah, Shiv Sena (Shinde) Sanjay Gaikwad and U.P. Minister Raghuraj Singh"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Squadron Leader Mohana Singh becomes the first woman fighter pilot in LCA Tejas fighter fleet;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/squadron-leader-mohana-singh-becomes-the-first-woman-fighter-pilot-in-lca-tejas-fighter-fleet/article68654525.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:09:57 +0530",
        "text": "The officer was part of the recent exercise, 'Tarang Shakti' in Jodhpur, where she was part of the historic flight by three Vice Chiefs of the three forces"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Liverpool fan dies after road traffic accident in Italy ahead of game against AC Milan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/liverpool-fan-dies-after-road-traffic-accident-in-italy-ahead-of-game-against-ac-milan/article68654521.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:51:51 +0530",
        "text": "Representatives from both teams placed flowers on Dooley's seat at San Siro before kickoff"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;History sheeter \u2018Kakkathoppu\u2019 Balaji shot dead by police in encounter in Vyasarpadi, Chennai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/history-sheeter-kakkathoppu-balaji-shot-dead-by-police-in-encounter-in-vyasarpadi-chennai/article68654395.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:46:28 +0530",
        "text": "He was an A+ category history-sheeter with more than five murder cases pending"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Agitating junior doctors continue sit-in, seek another meeting with CM Mamata;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/agitating-junior-doctors-continue-sit-in-seek-another-meeting-with-cm-mamata/article68654479.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:44:49 +0530",
        "text": "The sit-in agitation outside the Swasthya Bhavan entered its ninth day while the 'cease work' stir in hospitals continued for the 40th day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Taiwan company Gold Apollo denies producing explosive-packed Hezbollah pagers;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/taiwan-company-gold-apollo-denies-producing-explosive-packed-hezbollah-pagers/article68654464.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:38:48 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Three men stabbed during Ganesha immersion procession in Belagavi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/three-men-stabbed-during-ganesha-immersion-procession-in-belagavi/article68654425.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:37:25 +0530",
        "text": "The police point to clues that indicate the two groups knew each other; investigations are on"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Drivers more likely to be distracted while using partial automation tech: Study;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/drivers-more-likely-to-be-distracted-while-using-partial-automation-tech-study/article68654329.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:33:27 +0530",
        "text": "Drivers are more likely to engage in non-driving activities such as checking their phones when using partial automation systems, new research showed"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Fresh firing in Manipur's Jiribam district;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/manipur/firing-in-manipur-jiribam-district-on-september-18/article68654433.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:23:22 +0530",
        "text": "Security forces were rushed to the spot to bring the situation under control and firing stopped around 8 p.m."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Google says it will rethink its plans for a big data centre in Chile over water worries;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/google-says-it-will-rethink-its-plans-for-a-big-data-centre-in-chile-over-water-worries/article68654345.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:17:24 +0530",
        "text": "Google says it will halt plans to develop a major $200 million data center in Chile to address environmental concerns"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;On stage and on par;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/bhoomujas-jackfruit-festival-for-children-in-bengaluru-commences-with-a-concert-by-children-from-shrishti-special-academy/article68647322.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:04:23 +0530",
        "text": "The sixth edition of Bhoomija\u2019s Jackfruit festival for children in Bengaluru, commences with a concert by children from Shrishti Special Academy"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Ukraine drone attack forces evacuation in Russia's Tver region, governor says;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/ukraine-drone-attack-forces-evacuation-in-russias-tver-region-governor-says/article68654406.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:03:30 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sir M.V.: Remembering the quintessential planner, engineer of Karnataka;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/sir-mv-remembering-the-quintessential-planner-engineer-of-karnataka/article68652348.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "At a recent talk held to mark \u00a0Engineer\u2019s Day on September 15, Arun Pai, the co-founder of Bangalore Walks, delved into the life and achievement of  Sir. M. Visvesvaraya"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Microsoft says fake Kamala Harris hit-and-run story is the work of Russian propaganda group;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/microsoft-says-fake-kamala-harris-hit-and-run-story-is-the-work-of-russian-propaganda-group/article68654352.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:54:33 +0530",
        "text": "A false claim circulating on social media about Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is the work of a covert Russian disinformation operation, according to new research by Microsoft"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Donald Trump holds first event since second assassination attempt;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/donald-trump-holds-first-event-since-second-assassination-attempt/article68654378.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:49:29 +0530",
        "text": "Former President Donald Trump has made his first public appearance since Sunday\u2019s second apparent assassination attempt against him, with a crowd chanting \u201cGod bless Trump!\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Azerbaijan says 'God-given' oil and gas will help it go green;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/azerbaijan-says-god-given-oil-and-gas-will-help-it-go-green/article68651549.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:42:09 +0530",
        "text": "While Azerbaijan's share of gas supplies to Europe might only reach five percent by 2033, the country can meet all the gas needs of Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, Albania, and the south of Italy, said Bagirov"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Power asymmetry between China and Russia;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/power-asymmetry-between-china-and-russia/article68653066.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "As supplies from Moscow\u2019s traditional partners have dried up under sanctions and Russia\u2019s domestic capacity remains stretched, China has stepped up to help its friend. Compared to 2021, when high-priority goods from China accounted for 32% of Russia\u2019s import needs, China\u2019s share soared to 89% in 2023"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Amit Shah urges people of J&K to vote against separatism, joblessness;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jammu-and-kashmir-assembly/amit-shah-urges-people-of-jk-to-vote-against-separatism-joblessness/article68654361.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:27:04 +0530",
        "text": "Amit Shah said that only a government with a strong will can create a terror-free Jammu and Kashmir, protect the rights of the citizens there, and speed up development work"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;French man admits in court to drugging his wife, inviting men to \u2018mass rape\u2019 her;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/french-man-admits-in-court-to-drugging-his-wife-inviting-men-to-mass-rape-her/article68654314.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:04:06 +0530",
        "text": "His wife of 50 years, who has divorced him since his arrest, also got to speak, telling the court that she feels completely betrayed"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Investors turned more bearish on oil last week than ever;https://www.thehindu.com/business/investors-turned-more-bearish-on-oil-last-week-than-ever/article68651532.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:01:07 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Climate fund chief targets vulnerable countries;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/climate-fund-chief-targets-vulnerable-countries/article68654328.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:55:22 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Plan to phase out coal gives fuel to the far right in rural eastern Germany;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/plan-to-phase-out-coal-gives-fuel-to-the-far-right-in-rural-eastern-germany/article68654309.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:35:04 +0530",
        "text": "The AfD, founded about a decade ago, scored a triumph earlier this month when it won an election in the eastern State of Thuringia and came a close second in Saxony."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Trump family set to run new platform\u00a0for cryptocurrency;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/trump-family-set-to-run-new-platform-for-cryptocurrency/article68654305.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:31:56 +0530",
        "text": "During his presidency Mr. Trump referred to cryptocurrencies as a scam, but has since radically changed his position, presenting himself as a \u201cpro-bitcoin President\u201d if elected in November"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India will contribute to 35% of global energy demand in next 2 decades: Puri at Gastech;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-will-contribute-to-35-of-global-energy-demand-in-next-2-decades-puri-at-gastech/article68654285.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:31:31 +0530",
        "text": "He framed India's challenge as an \"energy trilemma,\" emphasising the need to balance availability, affordability, and a successful green transition"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;EU chief unveils new right-leaning Commission with women in top roles;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/eu-chief-unveils-new-right-leaning-commission-with-women-in-top-roles/article68654303.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:29:27 +0530",
        "text": "European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen names only two men in her top echelon with four women as Vice Presidents; France gains a strong voice while Italy establishes \u2018newfound central role\u2019 in the bloc with the appointments awaiting parliamentary confirmation in coming weeks"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;KPSCB directs BBMP to redirect sewage flow in Kodichikkanahalli;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/kpscb-directs-bbmp-to-redirect-sewage-flow-in-kodichikkanahalli/article68651589.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Case filed against Parappana Agrahara prison officials and KSISF personnel;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/case-filed-against-parappana-agrahara-prison-officials-and-ksisf-personnel/article68650937.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Administrative processes, types of cases impact performance of court significantly rather than the number of judges or total working days, finds study;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/administrative-processes-types-of-cases-impact-performance-of-court-significantly-rather-than-the-number-of-judges-or-total-working-days-finds-study/article68652358.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;#BLRFootpathChallenge: A unique initiative to draw attention to walking infrastructure;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/blrfootpathchallenge-a-unique-initiative-to-draw-attention-to-walking-infrastructure/article68652716.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Karnataka government to reimburse all fees charged by private colleges for professional courses for SC students;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/karnataka-government-to-reimburse-all-fees-charged-by-private-colleges-for-professional-courses-for-sc-students/article68651777.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "This is applicable to those eligible for post matric scholarship programme of the Department of Social Welfare"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BBMP pourakarmikas condemn assault; call for protest on September 18;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/bbmp-pourakarmikas-condemn-assault-call-for-protest-on-september-18/article68652477.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mpox: All international passengers have to go past thermal scanners\u00a0at Kempegowda International Airport;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/mpox-all-international-passengers-have-to-go-past-thermal-scanners/article68653301.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "Passengers who have symptoms indicative of mpox, such as high temperatures, will undergo isolation and testing as per government guidelines by health authorities"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Study reveals predominance of dengue virus 3 in Bengaluru during outbreak between April and July;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/lancet-study-shows-predominance-of-dengue-virus-3-in-bengaluru-during-outbreak-between-april-and-july/article68652385.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "The findings indicate a potential shift in serotype dominance towards DENV-3 from DENV-4, which has been the predominant serotype in southern India since 2015, one of the study authors said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Zimbabwe to cull 200 elephants to feed people left hungry by drought;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/zimbabwe-to-cull-200-elephants-to-feed-people-left-hungry-by-drought/article68654280.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:37:07 +0530",
        "text": "It follows neighbouring Namibia\u2019s decision last month to cull 83 elephants and distribute meat to people impacted by the drought"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Morning Digest | First phase of much-awaited J&K Assembly election begins today; exploding pagers kill at least nine, injure thousands in Lebanon, Syria, and more;https://www.thehindu.com/news/morning-digest-september-18-2024/article68653150.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:31:08 +0530",
        "text": "Here is a select list of stories to start the day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls LIVE updates: Polling peaceful so far, says J&K CEO; 41.17% turnout till 1 p.m.;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jammu-and-kashmir-assembly/jammu-kashmir-assembly-elections-voting-first-phase-turnout-live-updates-september-18-2024/article68653405.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "More than 23.27 lakh voters are eligible to cast their votes in the first phase across 24 Assembly constituencies today"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Thousands injured in deadly pager explosions across Lebanon and Syria | Key facts;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/thousands-injured-in-deadly-pager-explosions-across-lebanon-and-syria-key-facts/article68654263.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:06:34 +0530",
        "text": "In what appeared to be a sophisticated, remote attack, pagers used by hundreds of members of Hezbollah exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria Tuesday \u2014 killing at least nine people, including a young girl, and wounding thousands more"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.N. considers resolution demanding Israel end its occupation of Palestinian territories;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/un-considers-resolution-demanding-israel-end-its-occupation-of-palestinian-territories/article68653563.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:57:00 +0530",
        "text": "The U.N. General Assembly is considering a Palestinian resolution demanding that Israel end its \u201cunlawful presence\u201d in Gaza and the West Bank within a year"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs jailed by judge after sex trafficking indictment;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sean-diddy-combs-jailed-by-judge-after-sex-trafficking-indictment/article68653398.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:44:28 +0530",
        "text": "Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs has been ordered held without bail in his federal sex trafficking case"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Trump says PM Modi will meet him during U.S. visit next week, calls him \u2018fantastic\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/trump-says-he-will-meet-with-pm-modi-next-week/article68654249.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:39:55 +0530",
        "text": "While the Republican presidential candidate slammed India as an \u201cabuser\u201d on the issue of import tariffs, he described Mr. Modi as a \u201cfantastic man\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;APGVB contributes \u20b965 lakh for flood relief work in Telangana;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/apgvb-contributes-65-lakh-for-flood-relief-work-in-telangana/article68652063.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:37:00 +0530",
        "text": "The contribution was raised through the donation of one day\u2019s privilege leave (PL) encashment by the employees"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bangladesh wishes to have normal relation with Pakistan: Foreign Affairs Adviser of Bangladesh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/bangladesh-wishes-to-have-normal-relation-with-pakistan-foreign-affairs-adviser-of-bangladesh/article68652585.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:15:40 +0530",
        "text": "Reiteration of Dhaka\u2019s current position on Pakistan by the Foreign Affairs Adviser, provides a clearer impression about the interim government\u2019s plans on Pakistan"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;No progress in resolution of Demchok and Depsang friction points in two years;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/no-progress-in-resolution-of-demchok-and-depsang-friction-points-in-two-years/article68652821.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:57:00 +0530",
        "text": "Both India and China have stated that after disengagement from the friction areas, they would undertake de-escalation, though the phrase \u201crestoration of\u00a0status quo ante\u201d\u00a0is being heard less and less."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;North Korea test-fired ballistic missiles in latest military display, Japan and South Korea say;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/japans-defense-ministry-says-north-korea-has-test-fired-a-ballistic-missile/article68653561.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:38:38 +0530",
        "text": "Japan\u2019s military says it detected North Korea test-firing at least one ballistic missile, adding to its military demonstrations as tensions with Washington and neighbors escalate"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Custodial death of Assam rape accused: Court seeks answers from govt;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/assam/custodial-death-of-assam-rape-accused-court-seeks-answers-from-govt/article68652494.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:37:00 +0530",
        "text": "One of three people accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in Dhing, central Assam, a handcuffed Tafajjul Islam, reportedly drowned while trying to escape from police custody"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Floods imminent in West Bengal as depression, dam water make things worse;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/floods-imminent-in-west-bengal-as-depression-dam-water-make-things-worse/article68652835.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:17:00 +0530",
        "text": "Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she has spoken to her Jharkhand counterpart, Hemant Soren about the situation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Selvaperunthagai stages protest against Raja\u2019s comments on Rahul Gandhi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/selvaperunthagai-stages-protest-against-rajas-comments-on-rahul-gandhi/article68652118.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:13:51 +0530",
        "text": "The Congress cadre would gherao Mr. Raja if he continued to speak in a similar manner, Selvaperunthagai warned."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Stalin, Ministers pay tributes to \u2018Periyar\u2019 on birth anniversary;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/stalin-ministers-pay-tributes-to-periyar-on-birth-anniversary/article68652153.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:13:07 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Govt. announces relief package for flood victims in Andhra Pradesh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/govt-announces-relief-package-for-flood-victims-in-andhra-pradesh/article68652938.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:05:30 +0530",
        "text": "The total quantum of package is likely to be \u20b910,000 crore if the compensation announced for various categories, including farmers and fishermen, is to be considered"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Naidu clears dues pertaining to diet and other charges of BC welfare hostels in Andhra Pradesh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/naidu-clears-dues-pertaining-to-diet-and-other-charges-of-bc-welfare-hostels-in-andhra-pradesh/article68652857.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:04:32 +0530",
        "text": "He wants that SR Sankaran Resource Centres be established in all welfare hostels, releases matching grant for pre and post-matric scholarship"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;KPCC president K. Sudhakaran\u2019s X account hacked;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/sudhakarans-x-account-hacked/article68652099.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:47:23 +0530",
        "text": "Sudhakaran has also sent a letter to the authorities of X stating that necessary steps be taken to get the old account back"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Windfall tax on crude petroleum slashed to zero;https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/windfall-tax-on-crude-petroleum-slashed-to-zero/article68653291.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:17:00 +0530",
        "text": "The last such revision took place effective August 31 when the windfall tax on crude petroleum was set at \u20b91,850 per tonne"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;17 persons stranded in Uttarakhand return to Chennai: 13 more to arrive today;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/17-persons-stranded-in-uttarakhand-return-to-chennai-13-more-to-arrive-today/article68651915.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:07:03 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Supreme Court order halting bulldozer action is victory against \u2018destructive\u2019 politics, says Akhilesh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttar-pradesh/supreme-court-order-halting-bulldozer-action-is-victory-against-destructive-politics-says-akhilesh/article68652372.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:33:18 +0530",
        "text": "The order created an identity crisis for those who made the bulldozer their symbol, added Akhilesh, in an indirect reference to U.P. CM Yogi Adityanath"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kundannoor bridge resurfacing: concern over traffic falling into disarray;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kundannoor-bridge-resurfacing-concern-over-traffic-falling-into-disarray/article68652269.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:49:20 +0530",
        "text": "Work to scoop out the surface of the bridge and to resurface it as per stone mastic asphalt specifications is expected to take a month"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kochi metro to get 15 electric feeder buses by end of September;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kochi-metro-to-get-15-electric-feeder-buses-by-end-of-september/article68651499.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:48:29 +0530",
        "text": "The buses will have a range of 160 km and will be based at the Muttom depot the metro"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Man behind alleged murder arrested;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/man-behind-alleged-murder-arrested/article68653067.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:47:36 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Woman arrested on charge of obstructing doctor on duty;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/woman-arrested-on-charge-of-obstructing-doctor-on-duty/article68652891.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:47:08 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;A matter of buns puts BJP in a pickle;https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-matter-of-buns-puts-bjp-in-a-pickle/article68653053.ece;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:42:02 +0530",
        "text": "The Union government has to go a long way in sensitising people about GST"
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong freshwater fish farms log 30% drop in business amid outbreak of deadly infection;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3278992/hong-kong-freshwater-fish-farms-log-30-drop-business-amid-outbreak-deadly-infection?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:19:39 +0800",
        "text": "Group B Streptococcus cases linked to raw freshwater fish prompt some diners to change habits, as local suppliers worry over business impact."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Macau clears former top judge Sam Hou-fai to stand for election next month;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3278964/macau-national-security-committee-clears-former-top-judge-sam-hou-fai-stand-election?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:42:52 +0800",
        "text": "Election commission says committee for safeguarding national security cleared Sam for legal abilities and allegiance to city and country."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong restaurant receipts down 10% over Mid-Autumn Festival as residents head north;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278961/hong-kong-restaurant-receipts-drop-10-over-mid-autumn-festival-residents-head-across-border?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:33:01 +0800",
        "text": "Many eateries in Tsim Sha Tsui, city\u2019s main tourist hotspot, seen half empty during lunch hours on Wednesday."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Bangladeshi man, 47, dies after being found unconscious on Cathay flight to Hong Kong;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278945/bangladeshi-passenger-47-dies-after-collapsing-cathay-pacific-flight-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:03:44 +0800",
        "text": "Cathay Pacific confirms Bangladeshi passenger was found collapsed during a pre-landing check."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Many Hong Kong small businesses are on the brink of collapse. Can they be saved?;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278918/many-hong-kong-small-businesses-are-brink-collapse-can-they-be-saved?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:15:13 +0800",
        "text": "SMEs are struggling with cash flow, loss of business and an exodus of investors."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong sees biggest uptick in cryptocurrency activity in East Asia, new report finds;https://www.scmp.com/tech/blockchain/article/3278900/hong-kong-sees-biggest-uptick-cryptocurrency-activity-east-asia-new-report-finds?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:00:19 +0800",
        "text": "The city rose to 30th place, up from the No 47 spot last year, in this year\u2019s Global Cryptocurrency Adoption Index rankings by Chainalysis."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong public hospital battling bedbug infestation; 4 patients with suspected bites;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3278929/hong-kong-public-hospital-battling-bedbug-infestation-4-patients-suspected-bites?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:34:17 +0800",
        "text": "Kwai Chung Hospital says it is investigating and has disinfected ward after finding bedbugs in at least 10 beds."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong issues amber rainstorm alert for 2 hours as downpours dampen Mid-Autumn Festival;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3278926/hong-kong-observatory-issues-amber-rainstorm-warning?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:28:28 +0800",
        "text": "Observatory forecasts showers will ease off on Wednesday."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Death of mainland cyclist in Hong Kong sparks calls for road safety publicity boost;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3278910/death-mainland-cyclist-hong-kong-accident-sparks-calls-road-safety-publicity-boost?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:30:09 +0800",
        "text": "More mainland tourists have been opting for bike tours in Hong Kong with various routes promoted on popular social media platform Xiaohongshu."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong love scammers con 99 men of HK$20 million, including doctor, teacher, engineer;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3278916/hong-kong-love-scammers-con-99-people-hk20-million-including-doctor-teacher-engineer?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:05:51 +0800",
        "text": "Police arrest 11 in crackdown on suspected fraud syndicate, warn that \u2018significant number of men\u2019 fell victim to love scams in August."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;What\u2019s on in Hong Kong on National Day? Fireworks, panda-themed deals and free transport;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278913/whats-hong-kong-national-day-fireworks-panda-themed-deals-and-free-transport?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:28:14 +0800",
        "text": "Half-price film tickets, drone shows and free entry to major museums lined up for National Day celebrations."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;75 of everything, from tours to manholes to trees: Hong Kong goes big to mark National Day;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278903/more-5000-sites-earmarked-hong-kongs-largest-decoration-campaign-national-day?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:24:42 +0800",
        "text": "City will also roll out series of events featuring the number \u201875\u2019, including tree planting and city tours."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Saudi Arabia approves first exchange-traded funds tracking Hong Kong-listed equities;https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3278886/saudi-arabia-approves-first-exchange-traded-funds-tracking-hong-kong-listed-equities?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:10:54 +0800",
        "text": "Saudi Arabia\u2019s CMA said it approved AlBilad Investment Company\u2019s request to offer \u201cAlbilad CSOP MSCI Hong Kong China Equity ETF\u201d units on the Saudi Stock Exchange."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Fire dragon dance, drone show draw crowds as Hong Kong celebrates Mid-Autumn Festival;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3278850/hong-kong-celebrate-mid-autumn-festival-its-hottest-recorded-history?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:15:05 +0800",
        "text": "This year\u2019s Mid-Autumn Festival was the hottest on record."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s John Lee warns of strong response if US advances bill targeting trade offices;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3278840/john-lee-warns-strong-response-if-us-advances-bill-targeting-hong-kong-trade-offices?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:06:23 +0800",
        "text": "City leader reiterates closure of outposts will damage trade relations, deliver political gains for politicians at the expense of US businesses."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong to roll out MTR discounts, cheap film tickets for National Day \u2018golden week\u2019 break;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278837/fireworks-discounted-mtr-rides-set-hong-kongs-national-day-golden-week-holiday?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:52:33 +0800",
        "text": "No 2 official Eric Chan says patriotism key focus of celebrations and cost of extensive decorations \u2018worth it\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong community centre contractor loses USB with names, numbers of 306 residents;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278812/names-phone-numbers-306-hong-kong-applicants-leaked-after-community-hall-contractor-loses-usb?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:01:52 +0800",
        "text": "Staff member handling bookings for community hall in Sai Ying Pun lost thumb drive with applicants\u2019 personal data and event dates, times."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Arsenal in Russia's Tver region explodes;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-arsenal-in-russia-s-tver-region-explodes/live-70246486?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "A major Ukrainian drone attack on Russia caused a huge explosion in a large Russian arsenal in the western Tver region. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Lebanon: What we know about the Hezbollah pager attack;https://www.dw.com/en/lebanon-what-we-know-about-the-hezbollah-pager-attack/a-70245569?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "At least nine people were killed and thousands injured when pagers belonging to Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon. The militant group has vowed to \"continue\" the fight for Gaza and \"punish\" Israel."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Google wins legal battle against EU over \u20ac1.5 billion fine;https://www.dw.com/en/google-wins-legal-battle-against-eu-over-\u20ac1-5-billion-fine/a-70246709?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "After years of back and forth, the EU's General Court has annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it displayed advertisements."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can killing animals save them?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-killing-animals-save-them/a-70213343?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Does Namibia's plan to kill animals to save them, and help the human population from ongoing drought, stack up?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand shrinks;https://www.dw.com/en/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy-as-demand-shrinks/a-70245540?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Once popular for its colorful food storage containers, US firm Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy. The company succumbed to a plummeting demand for its products."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East updates: Hezbollah to fight after pager blasts;https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-updates-hezbollah-to-fight-after-pager-blasts/live-70244929?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Iran-backed Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate following pager explosions in Lebanon it blames on Israel. The blasts will likely affect US Secretary of State Blinken's trip to Egypt to push for a cease-fire. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India: Kashmir votes in assembly elections after a decade;https://www.dw.com/en/india-kashmir-votes-in-assembly-elections-after-a-decade/a-70245012?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Polls have opened in Indian-administered Kashmir for the first time since the region lost its semi-autonomy. The vote will be held in three phases."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Second explosion shakes Cologne;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-second-explosion-shakes-cologne/a-70245020?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The explosion was the second in a week in Cologne's city center. Police said it was still too early to say if there was a connection. Sniffer dogs were on the site as officers investigated."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Trump says he will meet Indian PM Modi next week;https://www.dw.com/en/trump-says-he-will-meet-indian-pm-modi-next-week/a-70244737?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Former US President Donald Trump has said that he will meet next week with Narendra Modi. The Indian PM is visiting the United States to attend several official events. Modi will also meet current US President Joe Biden."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German tourist dies after shark attack off Canary Islands;https://www.dw.com/en/german-tourist-dies-after-shark-attack-off-canary-islands/a-70244572?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The 30-year-old was attacked some 500 kilometers off the coast of Gran Canaria. She lost a leg in the attack and suffered a heart attack before a Spanish rescure helicopter could get her to hospital."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US: Judge orders star rapper Sean 'Diddy' Combs jailed;https://www.dw.com/en/us-judge-orders-star-rapper-sean-diddy-combs-jailed/a-70244477?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Superstar rapper Sean \"Diddy\" Combs was ordered to remain in custody pending trial in a racketeering and sex trafficking case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Does an Islamist victory in Jordan's elections spell danger for the region?;https://www.dw.com/en/does-an-islamist-victory-in-jordan-s-elections-spell-danger-for-the-region/a-70240899?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Jordan's Islamic Action Front were successful in last week's election, partly because their support for Hamas in Gaza made them popular. But their victory won't cause a crisis, experts say, and could even be beneficial."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Portugal: Firefighters battle dozens of deadly wildfires;https://www.dw.com/en/portugal-firefighters-battle-dozens-of-deadly-wildfires/a-70243388?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Several people have lost their lives in forest fires that have been raging in Portugal since the weekend. Thousands of firefighters have been deployed to combat the flames"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German government shrugs off Intel's delayed factory plan;https://www.dw.com/en/german-government-shrugs-off-intel-s-delayed-factory-plan/a-70241739?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has announced it is postponing a $30 billion investment in Germany due to financial problems at the firm. But is the German government still committed to the investments?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Instagram introduces teen accounts with restricted features;https://www.dw.com/en/instagram-introduces-teen-accounts-with-restricted-features/a-70241497?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Users under the age of 18 will automatically be given 'teen accounts' that limit who can contact them and see their posts. The platform will also give parents tools to monitor their child's behavior online."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Azerbaijan unveils COP29 agenda amid financial deadlock;https://www.dw.com/en/azerbaijan-unveils-cop29-agenda-amid-financial-deadlock/a-70241019?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The summit aims to determine how much money developing countries need and who should contribute to the fund. With just two months until the event, negotiations remain at a standstill."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Flooding in Poland: How Wroclaw is preparing for the expected flood wave peak;https://www.dw.com/en/flooding-in-poland-how-wroclaw-is-preparing-for-the-expected-flood-wave-peak/a-70242060?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The citizens and authorities of Wroclaw, in southwestern Poland, are working feverishly to prepare for a dramatic rise in floodwaters."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German police reintroduce spot controls at all borders;https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-reintroduce-spot-controls-at-all-borders/a-70240598?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Germany is reintroducing border checks at all its borders for at least six months. The aim is to help restrict migration. DW visited the border area between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands to see how it was working."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How arts and culture are a thorn in the side of the AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/how-arts-and-culture-are-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-the-afd/a-70239911?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German conservative Friedrich Merz to run for chancellor;https://www.dw.com/en/german-conservative-friedrich-merz-to-run-for-chancellor/a-70240130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "It's as good as official: liberal businessman Friedrich Merz, head of the conservative Christian Democrats, is set to be the party's lead candidate in upcoming German federal election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Lebanon pagers: Explosions kill several, injure thousands;https://www.dw.com/en/lebanon-pagers-explosions-kill-several-injure-thousands/a-70241394?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The handheld pagers exploded in Beirut's suburbs and other parts of the country. Hezbollah said two of its members were killed, while the Lebanese Health Ministry put the death toll at 9."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How new technologies can mitigate the risks of flooding;https://www.dw.com/en/how-new-technologies-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-flooding/a-70239314?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "With extreme weather, floods are getting as common in Europe as they are in Asia and Africa. From mobile barriers to specialized dams, people are finding solutions to life-threatening floods across the globe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Georgia's parliament approves anti-LGTBQ+ bill;https://www.dw.com/en/georgia-s-parliament-approves-anti-lgtbq-bill/a-70239544?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The ruling Georgian Dream party has voted to approve legislation that would allow authorities to outlaw Pride events and censor media. The bill is similar to a law in neighboring Russia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Far right, center left in close race;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-far-right-center-left-in-close-race/a-70238419?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Sanssouci, Babelsberg, Tesla, BER airport \u2014 Brandenburg is a state with much to boast about when it comes to history or economy. Governed by the same party since 1990, the state may face a shake-up in upcoming election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'I am a rapist,' Frenchman in mass rape trial says;https://www.dw.com/en/i-am-a-rapist-frenchman-in-mass-rape-trial-says/a-70238195?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "A man from the south of France has admitted to drugging his wife at the time and recruiting dozens of men to rape her. He is also accused of various privacy breaches by recording and disseminating sexual images."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China's technology drive leaves young people jobless;https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-technology-drive-leaves-young-people-jobless/a-70187883?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "China is investing billions to become a global tech power. But AI, robotics and quantum computing are not labor-intensive sectors, so what to do about the millions of young Chinese who can't find a job?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Volkswagen's crisis: How can Europe's car industry survive?;https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-s-crisis-how-can-europe-s-car-industry-survive/a-70231806?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "While Volkswagen and other European automakers are considering closing factories, Chinese rivals are searching for production sites on the continent. What's going wrong in Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: Tusk in southern Poland for crisis meeting;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-tusk-in-southern-poland-for-crisis-meeting/live-70235466?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was in the city of Wroclaw for a disaster meeting while residents of the town of Nysa rushed to fortify a dyke. The Elbe River in eastern Germany continued to rise slowly. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Germany pledges \u20ac100 million in winter aid;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-germany-pledges-\u20ac100-million-in-winter-aid/live-70235271?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The German foreign minister promised Ukraine additional aid as Russia stepped up its attacks on energy infrastructure with winter on the horizon. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Intel delays construction of Magdeburg factory;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-intel-delays-construction-of-magdeburg-factory/a-70235254?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has delayed a construction project by two years amid cost-saving measures. German Finance Minister Christian Lindner called for funds earmarked for subsidies to be used to plug a federal budget gap."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Worker killed in Oktoberfest rollercoaster test;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-worker-killed-in-oktoberfest-rollercoaster-test/a-70232611?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Munich fire department said a worker was fatally injured during a test ride of a rollercoaster at the Oktoberfest site."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: Death toll rises as Storm Boris wreaks havoc;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-death-toll-rises-as-storm-boris-wreaks-havoc/live-70224153?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Highest flood warnings have been declared at some 100 places in the Czech Republic, with most regions in the country affected. Austria, Poland and Romania have also been hard-hit."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg: Black politician takes on German far-right AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-black-politician-takes-on-german-far-right-afd/a-70166368?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "German voters in Brandenburg are heading to the polls just weeks after the far-right AfD party's historic surge in two state elections. Can Cameroonian-born politician Adeline Abimnwi Awemo help turn the tide?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Russia says it has retaken Kursk towns;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-russia-says-it-has-retaken-kursk-towns/live-70228135?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Kremlin is claiming a successful counter-offensive following a Ukrainian incursion. Meanwhile, both Zelenskyy and the Kremlin have commented on Trump's alleged assassination attempt. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's expanded border controls come into force;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-expanded-border-controls-come-into-force/live-70228054?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Germany has temporarily reintroduced controls on its western and northern borders as part of efforts to combat irregular migration and cross-border crime."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy's UniCredit raises eyebrows over Commerzbank move;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-s-unicredit-raises-eyebrows-over-commerzbank-move/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "UniCredit stunned markets by buying a 9% stake in Germany's second-largest lender. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, DW explores the next possible moves."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;French EU commissioner quits after clash with von der Leyen;https://www.dw.com/en/french-eu-commissioner-quits-after-clash-with-von-der-leyen/a-70224757?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "France's Thierry Breton says he is leaving his role following a spat with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen. In a letter outlining his decision, Breton cited \"questionable governance.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany begins expanded border controls to control migration;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-begins-expanded-border-controls-to-control-migration/a-70218944?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Citing an overloaded asylum system, Germany on Monday started passport controls on all of its land borders to reduce irregular migration. Such measures are supposed to be the exception within the EU."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Baby giraffe born in Karlsruhe Zoo;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-baby-giraffe-born-in-karlsruhe-zoo/a-70223157?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Giraffe Wahia has given birth for the first time in nine years after a 15-month pregnancy, according to officials in Germany's Karlsruhe Zoo. The baby, like her mother, belongs to an endangered giraffe subspecies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Georgia's elections: Will voters lean to the EU or Russia?;https://www.dw.com/en/georgia-s-elections-will-voters-lean-to-the-eu-or-russia/a-70203786?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Georgians go to the polls on October 26, with the key question being whether voters will prefer a pro-European or pro-Russian government. Observers fear violence, regardless of the outcome."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;France: 8 die in attempted Channel crossing;https://www.dw.com/en/france-8-die-in-attempted-channel-crossing/a-70221145?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Eight people on a boat trying to cross from France to England have died after the vessel got into difficulties. Almost 50 people have died so far this year attempting the perilous journey, French authorities say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Russian missile strike kills 2 in Odesa;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-russian-missile-strike-kills-2-in-odesa/live-70220869?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Two people died in a missile attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa, local officials said. Follow DW for the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Will Turkey's bid to join BRICS speed up EU accession?;https://www.dw.com/en/will-turkey-s-bid-to-join-brics-speed-up-eu-accession/a-70208316?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Is Turkey's recent application for membership in the BRICS group a sign the country is moving away from the EU or a political move to put pressure on the bloc? Experts say it could be both \u2014 or neither."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: Parts of Vienna without power as river rises;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-parts-of-vienna-without-power-as-river-rises/live-70220078?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "A dam overflowed in southern Poland and several districts of Vienna were left without power amid heavy rainfall and flooding across Europe. Meanwhile, several people drowned in Romania. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's Scholz rules out long-range weapons for Ukraine;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-scholz-rules-out-long-range-weapons-for-ukraine/a-70219078?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Olaf Scholz said that Berlin will not provide Kyiv with Taurus cruise missiles even if NATO allies decide differently. He also called for the prosecution of those who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine church leader: All faithful unite when facing evil;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-church-leader-all-faithful-unite-when-facing-evil/a-70215411?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, told DW about the debate over Pope Francis' remarks on the Russian war and how the church has evolved through more than two years of hostilities."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The use and misuse of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/the-use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The White Stripes and other artists have objected to Donald Trump using their songs in his presidential campaign. A look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Serbia plans to bring back compulsory military service;https://www.dw.com/en/serbia-plans-to-bring-back-compulsory-military-service/a-70217637?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says he has approved reinstating compulsory military service. The country abolished compulsory military service 23 years ago."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Hundreds of prisoners freed in major swap;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-hundreds-of-prisoners-freed-in-major-swap/live-70216618?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Ukraine and Russia exchanged 206 prisoners of war on Saturday. Meanwhile, Russia's ex-president Dmytri Medvedev threatened to reduce Kyiv to 'molten-grey mass.' Follow DW for the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe: Heavy rains batter Poland, Czech Republic, Austria;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-heavy-rains-batter-poland-czech-republic-austria/live-70216853?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Experts predict heavy flooding in Central Europe this weekend, with storms affecting Czech Republic, Poland, Austria and Romania. Water levels in Germany's Bavaria also rose but remained moderate. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jens Stoltenberg set to head Munich Security Conference;https://www.dw.com/en/jens-stoltenberg-set-to-head-munich-security-conference/a-70213341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is to become the first non-German to head the renowned MSC. The former Norwegian Prime Minister has been a staunch advocate for increased defense spending by NATO member states."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants 'swift' peace in Ukraine;https://www.dw.com/en/german-chancellor-olaf-scholz-wants-swift-peace-in-ukraine/a-70215563?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said it is time to rekindle diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine. But both foreign and domestic responses to his proposal have been rather muted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's political landscape is more fractured than ever;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-political-landscape-is-more-fractured-than-ever/a-70211395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The AfD and BSW, two populist parties in Germany, won almost half of the votes in the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia. The result has fundamentally changed the German party system."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Young women and girls more at risk of homelessness;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-young-women-and-girls-more-at-risk-of-homelessness/a-70200312?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Homelessness also affects young people, including an unusually high proportion of women and girls. Life with no home of their own is particularly dangerous for this group, say experts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Olaf Scholz stresses Germany's need for immigrants;https://www.dw.com/en/olaf-scholz-stresses-germany-s-need-for-immigrants/a-70187337?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The German chancellor made the remarks in the Bundestag after high-level talks on migration policy in Berlin broke down. Germany is introducing more systematic border checks on those arriving from the Schengen Area."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Cross-party migration talks break down;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-cross-party-migration-talks-break-down/a-70182751?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "A second round of high-level German talks on migration in Berlin ended without agreement. The conservative opposition said it would not attend further meetings. But the coalition government still unveiled a new proposal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German princess gave US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito $900 in concert tickets;https://www.dw.com/en/german-princess-gave-us-supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito-900-in-concert-tickets/a-70159689?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito disclosed receiving concert tickets worth $900 from German socialite and \"princess\" Gloria von Thurn und Taxis."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Berlin plans new mass accommodation for refugees;https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-plans-new-mass-accommodation-for-refugees/a-70169283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Immigration has become a hot-button issue in Germany. Refugee accommodation centers in Berlin are full to overflowing, but there's a desperate lack of housing. Now, authorities are coming up with bright ideas."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Will German police get to do secret house searches?;https://www.dw.com/en/will-german-police-get-to-do-secret-house-searches/a-70154300?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office wants to secretly break into homes as part of anti-terrorism measures. That is currently prohibited, but the interior minister has far-reaching plans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Students want to strip Adolf Hitler of honorary citizenship;https://www.dw.com/en/students-want-to-strip-adolf-hitler-of-honorary-citizenship/a-70155685?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Thousands of German towns and municipalities once made Adolf Hitler an honorary citizen, and many have still not distanced themselves from the Nazi dictator. But now, students in Bad Honnef are taking action."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;1994: Remembering when World War II Allies left Berlin;https://www.dw.com/en/1994-remembering-when-world-war-ii-allies-left-berlin/a-70156413?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Thirty years ago, the military presence of the US, Great Britain, France and the former Soviet Union came to an end in Germany. Their legacies remain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hedgehogs threatened by robot mowers, German activists warn;https://www.dw.com/en/hedgehogs-threatened-by-robot-mowers-german-activists-warn/a-70160521?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Robot mowers damage biodiversity and harm many creatures, including hedgehogs, according to German conservationists. Some of them are calling for a ban on nighttime mowing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German support for Ukraine under pressure from populists;https://www.dw.com/en/german-support-for-ukraine-under-pressure-from-populists/a-70138863?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The populist BSW and far-right AfD parties, both of which did well in recent state elections in Saxony and Thuringia, are opposed to arms deliveries to Ukraine. This stance is having an impact on federal politics."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Alex Morgan: The greatest female footballer of all time?;https://www.dw.com/en/alex-morgan-the-greatest-female-footballer-of-all-time/a-70153127?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Marta may have won six FIFA player awards, but two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan is more of a household name. Teammate Megan Rapinoe achieved on and off the field, yet Morgan had a grace on the pitch few could match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's ter Stegen is happy the wait is finally over;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-ter-stegen-is-happy-the-wait-is-finally-over/a-70144838?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "National team goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has spoken of his frustration during years of being stuck behind Manuel Neuer, while at the same time paying tribute to his predecessor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australia's Raygun claims 'I knew people wouldn't understand my style';https://www.dw.com/en/australia-s-raygun-claims-i-knew-people-wouldn-t-understand-my-style/a-70135037?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Rachael \"Raygun\" Gunn, the 37-year-old Olympic breaker, says the criticism of her performance came from people's ignorance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Women's soccer: US shows up Europe on maternity care;https://www.dw.com/en/women-s-soccer-us-shows-up-europe-on-maternity-care/a-70117081?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "A recent lawsuit involving French club Olympique Lyon highlighted the disparities and room for improvement in women's football regarding pregnancies and maternity care."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Argentina: Court blocks Milei move to privatize football;https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-court-blocks-milei-move-to-privatize-football/a-70122667?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "A court in Buenos Aires has blocked President Javier Milei's plans to open up Argentinian football to private investment. The issue continues to split the country's most popular sport, with some even looking to Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's Leon Draisaitl signs record NHL contract;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-leon-draisaitl-signs-record-nhl-contract/a-70124333?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Germany's Leon Draisaitl has signed an eight-year contract extension worth $112 million (\u20ac101.5 million). This will keep the superstar forward in Edmonton for a further eight years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India's archaic labor laws allow firms to exploit workers;https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-archaic-labor-laws-allow-firms-to-exploit-workers/a-70121341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Major international companies, including big tech firms, are exploiting India's labor laws and skirting overtime payment, say workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Open and the controversy over night sessions;https://www.dw.com/en/us-open-and-the-controversy-over-night-sessions/a-70121878?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "A new rule was meant to clamp down on matches at the US Open dragging on into the early hours of the next day. Still, some matches are finishing after 2:00 a.m. \u2013 to the detriment of players' health."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Germany live up to its chipmaking ambitions?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-germany-live-up-to-its-chipmaking-ambitions/a-70079606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The German government wants to build up its long-term chipmaking capabilities. But are they following through and attracting the companies needed to make the country a center of this all-important technology?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World Cup expansion gives hope to West Asian teams;https://www.dw.com/en/world-cup-expansion-gives-hope-to-west-asian-teams/a-70112089?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been dominating West Asian football, but the continent has four more assured spots at the 2026 World Cup. As third-round qualifying opens, the likes of Kuwait, Oman and Jordan may make it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ugandan Olympian set on fire in domestic assault;https://www.dw.com/en/ugandan-olympian-set-on-fire-in-domestic-assault/a-70118647?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Rebecca Cheptegei, who finished 44th in the Olympic marathon in Paris, suffered severe burns after allegedly being doused with petrol by her partner. Domestic violence against women remains a serious problem in Kenya."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German businesses worried about far-right gains in the east;https://www.dw.com/en/german-businesses-worried-about-far-right-gains-in-the-east/a-70112417?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the states of Saxony and Thuringia has raised concerns among business leaders about the economic future of eastern Germany. Will it hit jobs and investment?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany coach Nagelsmann names Kimmich as new captain;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coach-nagelsmann-names-kimmich-as-new-captain/a-70113016?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The coach of Germany's national team has named a new captain as the team prepare for their first matches since the home Euros. Julian Nagelsmann is facing a bit of a rebuild after the retirements of four key players."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis tickets: UK government to probe 'dynamic pricing';https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-tickets-uk-government-to-probe-dynamic-pricing/a-70109787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Ministers have promised an investigation after fans complained of inflated ticket prices for Oasis' 2025 reunion tour. But industry experts insist that \"dynamic pricing\" is not illegal and based on supply and demand."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis reunion tour tickets cause online frenzy;https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-reunion-tour-tickets-cause-online-frenzy/a-70099805?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Fans of the Manchester band Oasis faced long online queues on Saturday morning as tickets went on sale for the group's in-demand reunion concerts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Half the world lacks access to safe drinking water;https://www.dw.com/en/half-the-world-lacks-access-to-safe-drinking-water/a-70089835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "A new report shows 4.4 billion people across the world have no access to safe drinking water, more than double many previous estimates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Japan's youth break tradition by embracing perfume;https://www.dw.com/en/japan-s-youth-break-tradition-by-embracing-perfume/a-70091052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Once seen as ostentatious, an imposition on others, and unnecessary in a culture that famously enjoys bathing, perfumes and scents are finally trending among young Japanese."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is methane?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. Where does methane come from, and what can we do to stop it from getting into the atmosphere?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The unseen Holocaust movie: Jerry Lewis' lost film 'The Day the Clown Cried';https://www.dw.com/en/the-unseen-holocaust-movie-jerry-lewis-lost-film-the-day-the-clown-cried/a-70043956?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "At the Venice Film Festival, a new documentary will reveal never-before-seen footage from \"The Day the Clown Cried.\" The 1972 Holocaust movie by comedian Jerry Lewis was never released, but has gained near-mythic status."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Champions League: German clubs look forward to attractive opponents;https://www.dw.com/en/champions-league-german-clubs-look-forward-to-attractive-opponents/a-70090811?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "This season's draw for the Champions League wasn't about putting teams into groups but simply determining who would play whom in the new eight-match league phase."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Concerning' rise in unprotected sex among teenagers;https://www.dw.com/en/concerning-rise-in-unprotected-sex-among-teenagers/a-70079734?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "A majority of teenagers in Europe, Central Asia, and Canada do not use condoms. Experts warn of rising risks of STIs and unwanted pregnancies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Glammed up in the kitchen: Influencers drive 'tradwife' nostalgia;https://www.dw.com/en/glammed-up-in-the-kitchen-influencers-drive-tradwife-nostalgia/a-70071650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The \"traditional wife\" trend celebrates orthodox gender roles. But does this thriving movement on TikTok and Instagram also serve the far-right political agenda?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Populists\u2019 rhetoric linked to growing unhappiness, study finds;https://www.dw.com/en/populists-rhetoric-linked-to-growing-unhappiness-study-finds/a-70072409?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Right-wing populism is rising across Europe, with Germany\u2019s AfD possibly becoming the first far-right party to win state elections since the Nazis. However, their rise won\u2019t bring greater happiness to their supporters."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen: Germany's new No. 1;https://www.dw.com/en/marc-andr\u00e9-ter-stegen-germany-s-new-no-1/a-70069040?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "For years, Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen was stuck behind Manuel Neuer in the German national team. Now that Neuer has retired, the job is ter Stegen's for the taking."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Russia airspace ban on Western airlines helps Chinese rivals;https://www.dw.com/en/russia-airspace-ban-on-western-airlines-helps-chinese-rivals/a-70025268?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Russia has banned many European carriers from using its airspace in response to sanctions over Ukraine. That's boosted Chinese airlines' market share, but it's not the only reason Western carriers are struggling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Congo 'working blindly' in attempts to control Mpox outbreak;https://www.dw.com/en/congo-working-blindly-in-attempts-to-control-mpox-outbreak/a-70062357?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Only 40% of Mpox cases in DR Congo are laboratory tested, suggesting true number of cases could be five times higher than reported, according to Africa CDC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;5 reasons why Venice is this year's most important film festival;https://www.dw.com/en/5-reasons-why-venice-is-this-year-s-most-important-film-festival/a-70043247?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The 81st Venice Film Festival is the can't-miss event for movie fans in 2024. It will feature impressive feature debuts and the return of cinema superstars."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ryanair to cut flights to Berlin due to 'sky-high costs';https://www.dw.com/en/ryanair-to-cut-flights-to-berlin-due-to-sky-high-costs/a-70063074?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Irish budget airline says it plans to slash a fifth of traffic to Berlin-Brandenburg airport because of high access costs."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Will a right-wing shift hit businesses and jobs?;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-will-a-right-wing-shift-hit-businesses-and-jobs/a-70025620?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "As voters in Saxony go to the polls in state elections, some fear a sharper political turn could hurt business investments in the region and worsen a lack of qualified workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN chief Guterres warns of fast-rising Pacific ocean;https://www.dw.com/en/un-chief-guterres-warns-of-fast-rising-pacific-ocean/a-70055845?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "UN chief Antonio Guterres issued a global SOS regarding Pacific ocean temperatures, rising at three times the global average rate. He called for a cutdown on emissions and support for vulnerable countries."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Telegram: How the app defies calls for hate censorship;https://www.dw.com/en/telegram-how-the-app-defies-calls-for-hate-censorship/a-70051335?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "After the arrest of Telegram's boss in France, attention is on the messaging app and its hands-off approach to content moderation. Some blame it for inflaming unrest, others see it as a den for criminal activity."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Eating processed meats raises type 2 diabetes risk;https://www.dw.com/en/eating-processed-meats-raises-type-2-diabetes-risk/a-70051810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Two slices of ham a day are enough to raise type 2 diabetes risk by 15%, according to a new study. Meanwhile high-fat diets could increase the numbers of a toxic molecule known to cause the disease."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is groundwater?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-groundwater/a-68142894?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Groundwater is crucial for agriculture and drinking water supplies. But what exactly is it, how does it form and how can we protect this precious underground resource from threats like pollution and climate change?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany\u2019s investments in China increase despite warnings;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-investments-in-china-increase-despite-warnings/a-69957810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Germany's investments in China are growing despite efforts to reduce reliance on the Asian power. China continues to be a critical trade partner for Europe's largest economy, so how to get the balance right?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australian workers now have the 'right to disconnect';https://www.dw.com/en/australian-workers-now-have-the-right-to-disconnect/a-70045955?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "A law giving workers the legal \"right to disconnect\" from work has come into effect in Australia. This gives workers the right to ignore unreasonable contact from their employers outside of work hours."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;South China Sea tensions pose threat to international trade;https://www.dw.com/en/south-china-sea-tensions-pose-threat-to-international-trade/a-69926497?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Maritime trade faces growing threats, including ongoing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. Now, rising tensions in the South China Sea are adding to global security concerns over this crucial trade route."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Startup funding: What role does female beauty play?;https://www.dw.com/en/startup-funding-what-role-does-female-beauty-play/a-69985095?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Women who are preceived as good-looking find it easier to sell their business ideas and products to potential investors. But this is not the only gender inequality in the world of venture capital, a study says."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof to represent Germany at Oscars;https://www.dw.com/en/dissident-iranian-director-mohammad-rasoulof-to-represent-germany-at-oscars/a-70034644?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "The acclaimed film \"The Seed of the Sacred Fig\" has been chosen as Germany's entry for the 2025 Academy Awards. The filmmaker, who lives in exile in Berlin, fled Iran on foot earlier this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;St. Pauli injects subculture into the Bundesliga;https://www.dw.com/en/st-pauli-injects-subculture-into-the-bundesliga/a-70012361?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Newly promoted to Germany's football Bundesliga, Hamburg's St. Pauli club is set to light up the game with a passionate mix of music, creativity and social justice."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Botswana discovers world's second-largest diamond;https://www.dw.com/en/botswana-discovers-world-s-second-largest-diamond/a-70019901?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Botswana has discovered a 2,492-carat diamond at its Karowe Mine, making it the second-largest diamond ever found. President Mokgweetsi Masisi was quick to view and pose with the vast gemstone."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Healthy eating: Why teens gorge and older people peck;https://www.dw.com/en/healthy-eating-why-teens-gorge-and-older-people-peck/a-70017015?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "While young people can eat everything in sight, older people often lose appetite. It's important to know why to stay healthy at any age."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The most dangerous mosquito-borne diseases;https://www.dw.com/en/the-most-dangerous-mosquito-borne-diseases/a-45117067?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Malaria, dengue fever, zika \u2014 mosquitoes aren't just annoying when they buzz around your ear at night, they can also infect us with countless illnesses. On World Mosquito Day, here are some of the most dangerous ones."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is mpox? How it spreads, can be prevented and treated;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-mpox-how-it-spreads-can-be-prevented-and-treated/a-69951261?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Mpox is a viral infection with rising global cases. The WHO has declared it a global health emergency. Learn more as DW answers your questions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Unorthodox cricket bowling has physicists spinning;https://www.dw.com/en/unorthodox-cricket-bowling-has-physicists-spinning/a-69994305?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Wind tunnel analysis revealed Sri Lankan ex-bowler Lasith Malinga's \"round arm\" technique used curveball physics as in football and baseball."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Stranded Starliner: What space does to an astronaut's body;https://www.dw.com/en/stranded-starliner-what-space-does-to-an-astronaut-s-body/a-69993144?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore had expected to be in space for days, not months. How will their physical and mental health cope?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Is Russia's war in Ukraine an environmental war crime?;https://www.dw.com/en/is-russia-s-war-in-ukraine-an-environmental-war-crime/a-69859017?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-18 02:00:05",
        "text": "Ukraine wants to hold Russia accountable for the environmental destruction caused by its ongoing war. A war crime conviction for ecological damage at the International Criminal Court would be unprecedented."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israeli warplanes target Lebanon as Iran and Hezbollah threaten retaliation for deadly blasts - live;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/19/lebanon-blasts-impossible-to-know-if-walkie-talkies-used-by-hezbollah-were-from-our-company-says-japanese-firm-live;2024-09-19T16:12:03Z",
        "text": "Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said that there are \u201csignificant opportunities, but also heavy risks\u201d as the country enters what he described as a \u201cnew phase\u201d of the war. Gallant, addressing top Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials in comments carried by the Times of Israel, said: This is a new phase in the war, it has significant opportunities, but also heavy risks. Hezbollah is feeling chased and the sequence of our military operations will continue. \u201cOur goal is to return the residents of the north to their homes safely. As time goes by, Hezbollah will pay an increasing price,\u201d he added. The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said explosions in booby-trapped radios and pagers in Lebanon \u201cseriously disrupted\u201d the country\u2019s fragile health sector. Ghebreyesus, at a press conference on Thursday, said the WHO had distributed blood supplies and trauma kits in the country. Lebanon\u2019s prime minister, Najib Mikati, has called on the UN to take a \u201cfirm stance\u201d against Israel ahead of a meeting of the UN security council on Friday. \u201cThis matter does not only concern Lebanon but all of humanity,\u201d Mikati said in a statement. Israel will face \u201ca crushing response from the axis of resistance\u201d, Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards Cmdr Hossein Salami told the head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, Reuters is reporting, citing Iranian state media. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says two of its soldiers were killed by the latest Hezbollah strikes across the Lebanon border. From the Times of Israel\u2019s Emanuel Fabian: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, addressing Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says Israel will not be able to return its residents to the north. You will not be able to return the people of the north to the north \u2026 No military escalation, no killings, no assassinations and no all-out war can return residents to the border. He says the attacks this week targeting his group will be met with \u201cjust punishment\u201d. Israeli fighter jets carried out mock air raids and broke the sound barrier over Beirut, Lebanon, as the secretary general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, spoke for the first time since the pager explosions this week. The low-flying jets brought residents out of their homes and into the streets as they looked to the sky and watched the remnants of flares dissipate. While sonic booms have become common in Lebanon over the last two months, the mock air raid over Beirut on Thursday was the lowest jets have flown over the city since the beginning of fighting in October. A series of airstrikes were also carried out in several areas in south Lebanon to coincide with the beginning of Nasrallah\u2019s speech. The Israeli military said it was targeting Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. \u201cFor decades, Hezbollah has weaponized civilian homes, dug tunnels beneath them, and used civilians as human shields,\u201d the Israeli military said. Nasrallah said the pager explosions, which injured more than 3,000 and killed more than 32 people, crossed \u201call red lines\u201d. He insisted that despite the attack, Hezbollah would not stop fighting on the Lebanese front until the war in Gaza stops. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah says the attacks across Lebanon this week were targeted to undermine the group\u2019s infrastructure and for the group to defy the leadership. He says the \u201cIsraeli enemy\u201d had planned for the attacks to drive a wedge between the group and cause division. But he says the top Hezbollah officials did not carry the model of the pagers that exploded. \u201cOur infrastructure has not been shaken,\u201d he says, adding that instead it was \u201crobust, mighty, coherent and cannot be shaken by such an attack\u201d. Let the enemy know what happened did not shake our faith, conviction, resolve, preparedness or infrastructure. On the contrary, this turned us more resolved, more robust and more adamant. If the Israeli\u2019s objective was to separate us from what\u2019s taking place in Gaza, it failed. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah says the group will not \u201cabandon\u201d their \u201cfellow resistance fighters\u201d in Gaza and the population in Gaza and West Bank. Nasrallah says the aim of the attacks in Lebanon this week were aimed to \u201cbring Hezbollah to their knees\u201d and to surrender. Addressing Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, he says Hezbollah operations in southern Lebanon will not come to a halt until the war in Gaza comes to an end. I say it clearly: no matter what the consequences are, no matter what the sacrifices are, no matter what scenarios would unfold, the resistance in Lebanon will not stop supporting the resistance in Gaza and the West Bank and all the aggrieved in the occupied territories. As Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has been speaking, multiple huge sonic booms from Israeli jets have been reportedly been heard over Beirut. As we reported earlier, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. Israel\u2019s military chief of staff, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, had approved plans for Israel\u2019s north, which borders Lebanon, according to an IDF statement. \u201cFor decades, Hezbollah has weaponized civilian homes, dug tunnels beneath them, and used civilians as human shields,\u201d it said. The IDF is operating to bring security to northern Israel in order to enable the return of residents to their homes, as well as to achieve all of the war goals. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah says the group has been dealt a \u201cvery hard\u201d blow, describing the attacks as \u201cunprecedented\u201d in Lebanon. Nasrallah said investigation committees have been formed to study how the explosions happened, and that he will wait until he sees the assessments of those investigations. He says: We have received a very hard hit. But this is a state of a war. Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, says the pager attacks were intended to \u201ckill 4,000 people in one moment\u201d. \u201cThis was the intention of the enemy, and this is the scale of criminality\u201d. What can we call this kind of criminal action. Is it a big operation? Is it genocide? Is it a massacre? Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, says the \u201cIsraeli enemy\u201d had \u201ccrossed over all the red lines\u201d and targeted many of the pages in Lebanon earlier this week. The explosions happened in hospitals because some medics were carrying them, he said. He said the blasts also occurred in pharmacies, hospitals, markets, shops, houses, cars and in the streets where many civilians were. There were women and children and thousands were injured, different kinds of wounds. The head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has started speaking in his first public address since the deadly explosions on Tuesday and Wednesday across Lebanon. The Israeli Defense Forces\u2019 chief of the general staff has \u201crecently completed approval of plans for the northern arena,\u201d the military said. The IDF also said it is striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. Here are some of the latest images sent to us over the news wires of funerals being carried out in Lebanon after two waves of attacks, widely regarded to be by Israel, detonated pagers and walkie-talkies. Lebanese authorities on Thursday banned walkie-talkies and pagers from being taken on flights from Beirut airport, Reuters reports. Citing the Lebanese national news agency, it notes the Lebanese civilian aviation directorate asked airlines operating from Beirut to tell passengers that walkie-talkies and pagers were banned until further notice. Such devices were also banned from being shipped by air, the Lebanese state news agency reported. At least 37 people were killed and more than 3,000 wounded when pagers and walkie-talkies were detonated in two waves of attacks widely attributed to Israel. Those killed or wounded included Hezbollah fighters, medics and administrative staff. At least two of Tuesday\u2019s dead were children. The impact of the attack on civilian life will add further to criticism that the attack bore the hallmarks of \u201cwanton disregard\u201d for civilian life, as Irish T\u00e1naiste Miche\u00e1l Martin said earlier in the week. Reuters spoke to a Beirut resident, Mustafa Sibai, who said \u201cOf course we\u2019re scared, my children, my siblings\u2019 children, all of us. Who can feel safe in this situation? When I heard about what happened \u2026 I left my phone on my motorcycle and walked away.\u201d Mustafa Jemaa, who owns an electrical shop in Sidon, told the news agency he had removed some stock. \u201cWe had some devices here that we believed were 100% safe, but out of caution, we removed them ... because we got worried,\u201d he said. Earlier today the Lebanese army said it was carrying out controlled demolition of suspicious electronic devices. Lebanon\u2019s information minister Ziad Makari said panic was to be expected, noting that the attack was \u201ca new type of crime to the Lebanese\u201d and that it had struck people at home, at work and during their daily lives. Lebanon\u2019s state-owned NNA news agency reports that French president Emmanuel Macron phoned Lebanese caretake prime minister Najib Mikati today. Israeli media is reporting that Israel has submitted a new ceasefire proposal to Joe Biden\u2019s administration in the US. Jonathan Lis reports for Haaretz that it is has been put forward by the government official responsible for returning the hostages and missing persons, Gal Hirsch. Lis writes: All hostages held in Gaza would be released in one phase, in exchange for ending the war. As part of Hirsch\u2019s proposal, Israel would agree that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, his family, and thousands of operatives of his choice would leave Gaza for a third country. According to the proposal, this move would not be defined as a \u201csurrender\u201d or \u201cexile\u201d and would allow Hamas leaders to leave through a safe passage. Sources familiar with the initiative stated that the move is intended to \u201cunblock\u201d the deadlock imposed by the crisis in the negotiations. Earlier this week, while visiting Cairo, the US secretary of state Antony Blinken claimed that 15 out of 18 paragraphs of a ceasefire agreement had been settled upon, and that progress had been made in the last few weeks, despite there being no imminent sign of Israel relenting in its bombardment of Gaza or the impending release of any of the hostages who have been held by Hamas for approaching a year. Egypt\u2019s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, said at the same press conference that his country would not accept any changes to the pre-7 October security arrangements for the border between Egypt and Gaza, including for the Rafah crossing. Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have been insisting that as part of any deal Israel must retain control of the Philadelphi corridor, the strip of land running along the Egypt-Gaza border. Israel\u2019s military seized control of the Rafah crossing in May. Turkey is reviewing its measures to secure the communication devices used by its armed forces after the deadly blasts in Lebanon, a Turkish defence ministry official said on Thursday. The Turkish government has put the blame for the 37 people killed and thousands injured in the explosions firmly at the door of Israel, with foreign minister Hakan Fiden earlier today saying \u201cThe escalation in the region is alarming. We see Israel mounting its attacks towards Lebanon step by step. We have come to a point where these operations carried out by Israel have become increasingly provocative.\u201d Reuters reports a Turkish official, speaking to the news agency on condition of anonymity, said Turkey\u2019s military exclusively used domestically produced equipment but Ankara had additional control mechanisms in place if a third party is involved in procurement or production of devices. \u201cIn the context of this incident, we as the defence ministry are carrying out the necessary examinations,\u201d the person added In interviews in the UK this morning Jonathan Reynolds, the business minister, said that he rejected \u201cvery much\u201d a claim by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, that the UK government\u2019s decision to suspend some arms sales to his country was a boost to Hamas. Netanyahu made the claim in an interview with the Daily Mail. He told the paper: They say that Israel has the right to defend itself, but they undermine our ability to exercise that right both by reversing Britain\u2019s position on the absurd allegations made by the ICC [international criminal court] prosecutor against Israel and by blocking weapons sales to Israel as we fight against the genocidal terrorist organisation that carried out the 7 October massacre. The new UK government suspended 30 arms licences to Israel, days after Hamas executed six Israeli hostages, sending a horrible message to Hamas. Asked how he reacted to Netanyahu saying Labour was sending a \u201chorrible message to Hamas\u201d, Reynolds said: I would respectfully reject very much that position and say the decision we took was fair, was proportionate, was consistent with international law, and, fundamentally what we need, what everyone needs in the Middle East is a ceasefire in that conflict. That is in Israel\u2019s interest. I think it\u2019s in everyone\u2019s interest to make sure we get there. But we will always comply with international law as a government. I think you\u2019d expect that of the UK government. A funeral has been taking place in Ghobeiry in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs for two Hezbollah members. In an earlier update Lebanon\u2019s health minister Firass Abiad gave the casualty figures from the two waves of attacks that exploded electrical devices as 12 people killed and 2,323 admitted to hospital on Tuesday, and 25 people killed and 708 wounded on Wednesday. A UN committee has condemned Israel for committing \u201csevere violations\u201d of a global treaty protecting children\u2019s rights, saying its military actions in Palestine since last October has had a \u201ccatastrophic\u201d impact on them. \u201cThe committee condemns in the strongest terms the severe violations of rights under the convention in the OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territories), including the tremendous loss of life as a result of the state party\u2019s military actions,\u201d the four-person committee said in a document, referring to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Israel\u2019s delegation argued in a series of UN hearings earlier this month that the treaty did not apply in Gaza or the West Bank and said that it was committed to respecting international humanitarian law. Three Palestinians have been killed and four others were injured by Israeli fire during a military raid in the occupied West Bank\u2019s city of Qabatiya, Reuters reports, citing the Palestinian official news agency WAFA. The death toll from Wednesday\u2019s blasts targeting walkie-talkies across Lebanon has risen to 25, the country\u2019s health minister Firass Abiad has said. Speaking at a press conference, he also said 608 others had been injured. Lebanon\u2019s state-owned news agency NNA, citing a Lebanese military statement, reports that pagers and other electronic devices are being detonated in a controlled fashion as a precautionary measure. It quotes the military saying that specialised units are \u201cdetonating pagers and suspicious communication devices in various regions\u201d and called on citizens \u201cto stay away from the detonation scenes and to report any suspicious device or object.\u201d Al Jazeera is carrying an additional quote from Turkey\u2019s foreign minister Hakan Fidan, who said that \u201cIran, Hezbollah and elements close to them have no choice\u201d but to respond to recent actions widely attributed to Israel. He said \u201cWe have come to a point where these operations carried out by Israel have become increasingly provocative.\u201d Israel\u2019s military evacuated injured people by helicopter after an anti-tank missile was fired into northern Israel from Lebanon this morning. Reports in Israeli media suggest at least eight people were wounded. The man that Israeli security forces say they have arrested for plotting assassinations against senior political figures in Israel has been named as 73-year-old Moti Maman. Maman, from Ashkelon, was arrested last month and indicted this morning. The Shin Bet and Israeli police have claimed that Iran was backing the plot. Hakan Fidan has said it is \u201calarming\u201d that conflict appears to be escalating in the Middle East. The Turkish foreign minister is reported by AFP as saying \u201cThe escalation in the region is alarming. We see Israel mounting its attacks towards Lebanon step by step.\u201d Hezbollah and Israel have repeatedly exchanged fire since the surprise Hamas attack in southern Israel in October 2023, and thousands of Israelis and Lebanese people have fled their homes to avoid the crossfire over the UN-drawn blue line that separates the two countries. Israeli media reports that at least eight people were injured by an anti-tank guided missile attack from Lebanon on what Hezbollah has claimed was an IDF position in northern Israel. More details soon \u2026 Lebanon\u2019s state-owned news agency NNA reports that there have been fires inside Lebanon near the UN-drawn blue line that separates Israel and Lebanon as a result of fire from Israel. It also reports that Israeli drones and reconnaissance planes have been overflying southern Lebanon. Lorenzo Tondo reports from Jerusalem for the Guardian: The head of the UN relief agency for Palestinians, Unrwa, said in a statement on Thursday that \u201ctoo many of our staff are being killed as our buildings are attacked\u2019\u2019 in Gaza. Commissioner general of Unrwa, Phlippe Lazzarini, says that the UN agency \u201ccontinues to be the target of a barrage of misinformation &amp; disinformation.\u201d In the statement he said: This includes attempts to justify the killing of staff by labelling them operatives of armed groups like Hamas. Such horrific claims, made publicly, are not backed by evidence and are dangerous. Most importantly, they instigate fear among our humanitarian frontline workers in Gaza. Several colleagues told us they no longer feel safe to put on the Unrwa vest. Their children are begging them not to go to work fearing they might be killed while in Unrwa buildings. The misinformation attacks are not about the neutrality of Unrwa or our humanitarian workers. Lazzarini said these attempts were aimed at creation of a distraction from the atrocities of this war dehumanisation by rendering the unbearable justifiable undermining and eliminating Unrwa He added \u201cEveryone has a responsibility to control the spread of inaccurate or malicious information. Before sharing, check the facts to avoid the trap of putting the lives of others at risk.\u201d Last week, Unrwa said six staff members had been killed in two airstrikes that hit al-Jaouni school in Nuseirat, in central Gaza \u2013 the highest death toll among its staff in a single incident. The Israel Defense Forces claimed the strikes killed nine Hamas members, three of whom had doubled as Unrwa workers. Unrwa, one of the UN\u2019s largest agencies, has 13,000 staff working in Gaza and more than 30,000 in the region providing health and educational facilities to Palestinian refugees. Lazzarini called for an independent investigation, pointing out the total number of Unrwa staff killed in the conflict since 7 October last year had reached 220. Allegations of the involvement of Unrwa staff in the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel led major donors in January to cut their funding to the agency, the main channel of humanitarian support not only to Palestinians in Gaza but to Palestinian refugee communities across the region. In August, the UN fired nine staff members from Unrwa, after an internal investigation found they may have been involved in the Hamas-led 7 October attack against Israel. The UN secretary general\u2019s office announced the move in a brief statement on Monday. It did not elaborate on the Unrwa staffers\u2019 possible role in the attack. It said the nine included seven staffers who were fired previously over the claims. In our First Edition newsletter today, my colleague Heather Stewart has spoken to our defence and security editor Dan Sabbagh. Here is a snippet: Targeting Hezbollah directly is not new: Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government claimed to have killed a Hezbollah leader in an airstrike on Beirut in July, for example. But the widespread and indiscriminate nature of Tuesday\u2019s blasts represented a significant escalation. Israel\u2019s much-feared intelligence agency, the Mossad, has a long history of meticulously planned assassinations. But as Dan points out, the sophistication required to plant explosives, physically, inside what appears to have been a job lot of deadly devices, is on a different level. When Hezbollah opted to switch to the low-tech option of pagers, he says, it was \u201cso well penetrated by Israeli intelligence,\u201d that they knew the changeover was happening, and were able to \u201cphysically compromise the supply chain,\u201d to put explosives inside the devices. Add in the reports suggesting the US was tipped off that something was about to happen, says Dan, and \u201call in all, it looks like a state operation. It looks like Israel. It looks like Mossad\u201d. It is unclear, Dan says, what strategic aim Israel\u2019s scattergun attacks achieved, unless they were simply intended as a provocation. \u201cHezbollah will be under some pressure to respond: and it raises the question, does Israel want Hezbollah to respond? Does Israel want Hezbollah to make a move that will force Israel, in turn, into an even more aggressive move, and perhaps start a war?\u201d Read more here: Thursday briefing \u2013 what the attack on Hezbollah means for a fractious Middle East Sign up here for our free daily newsletter, First Edition Senior Hezbollah figure Hassan Nasrallah is expected to make a speech later today, after the explosions in Lebanon over the past two days which have left some of its members dead. Reporting from Beirut for Al Jazeera, Zeina Khodr says that the group faces \u201cone of its biggest challenges yet\u201d, writing for the news network: Hezbollah has suffered setbacks in the last 48 hours, to say the least. Its communications network has been compromised. The group is in a very difficult position. It has been trying a difficult balancing act: to maintain deterrence while avoiding \u2013 or not giving Israel a pretext \u2013 to widen the conflict. Nasrallah will not just be sending messages to Israel. He will be speaking to his own supporters who are asking a lot of questions, including whether the command and control of the organisation is still intact. Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government has banned Al Jazeera from operating inside Israel. Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that Israeli security forces are staging a raid in Hebron and in the town of Idhna, west of Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. In a joint statement the Shin Bet and Israel\u2019s police have claimed that last month an Israeli civilian was arrested for allegedly being recruited by Iran to assassinate Israel\u2019s prime minister, defense minister, or the head of the Shin Bet, as well as undertaking other esponiage and sabotage missions. The Times of Israel reports that the suspect, who security forces claim had been smuggled in and out of Iran during the plotting, was not named, and was indicted on Thursday. Justin McCurry is the Guardian\u2019s Tokyo correspondent Icom, the Japanese communication equipment maker whose walkie-talkies are thought to have been detonated in Lebanon on Wednesday, said the devices may have been a discontinued model containing modified batteries. \u201cWe can\u2019t rule out the possibility that they are fakes, but there is also a chance the products are our IC-V82 model,\u201d Icom\u2019s director, Yoshiki Enomoto, said, according to the Kyodo news agency. The firm sold around 160,000 units of the model in Japan and overseas before ending production and sales in 2014. Images of the devices used in the Lebanon attacks showing damage to their battery area indicated the power packs may have been replaced with those that had been modified to explode, Enomoto said. The Osaka-based company said it was not clear how the devices had ended up in the Middle East. \u201cIt is difficult to determine the distribution channels without checking the serial numbers,\u201d Kyodo quoted Enomoto as saying. Icom said the IC-V82 handheld radio had been exported overseas, including to the Middle East, between 2004 and 2014. \u201cThe production of the batteries needed to operate the main unit has also been discontinued, and a hologram seal to distinguish counterfeit products was not attached, so it is not possible to confirm whether the product shipped from our company,\u201d it said in a statement on its website. It added that products for overseas markets are sold exclusively through its authorised distributors, and that its export programme is based on Japanese security trade control regulations. Icom said all of its radios are manufactured \u201cunder a strict management system\u201d at a subsidiary production site in Wakayama prefecture in western Japan. \u201cNo parts other than those specified by our company are used in a product,\u201d it said. \u201cIn addition, all of our radios are manufactured at the same factory, and we do not manufacture them overseas.\u201d In the last hour Haaretz has reported \u201cseveral Israelis wounded\u201d by anti-tank missiles fired from Lebanon into northern Israel. More details soon \u2026 Here is a reminder of the statements, via Reuters, from Japan\u2019s ICOM, the company linked to the walkie-talkies that exploded in Lebanon yesterday. They said it was not possible to confirm whether the radio product reportedly related to Lebanon explosions was shipped by the company. They said the batteries required to operate the device, for which sales had been discontinued about 10 years ago, had also already been discontinued. They also stated that their products had undergone a strict regulatory process set by the Japanese government. Australia was one of 43 countries that abstained in a non-binding UN vote urging Israel to cease \u201cits unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory as soon as possible and stop all settlement activity there immediately\u201d. It was the first resolution tabled by Palestine since the UN general assembly voted in May by 143 to nine to upgrade Palestine\u2019s UN observer status by giving the Palestinian delegation the right to submit resolutions. Australia\u2019s UN ambassador, James Larsen, told the UN general assembly that Australia \u201csupports many of the principles of this resolution\u201d and was \u201calready doing much of what it calls for\u201d he argued that the vote \u201cdistracts from what the world needs Israel to do.\u201d The latest resolution urges member states to end the import of products originating in the Israeli settlements and to stop the provision of arms, munitions and related equipment to Israel \u201cif it is reasonable to suspect that they may be used in the occupied Palestinian territory\u201d. Over 530 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank between 7 October 2023 and 8 July of this year. In its latest operation update, Israel\u2019s military has claimed that its airforce has struck overnight at what it called \u201cHezbollah terrorist infrastructure\u201d in six areas of southern Lebanon, and also struck at what it called a \u201cHezbollah weapons storage facility.\u201d Israel\u2019s military also claimed to have used artillery fire on southern Lebanon. Thousands of people in Lebanon and Israel have been forced to flee their homes due to the frequent exchanges of fire between Israel and anti-Israeli forces in the region. Israel\u2019s claims have not been independently verified. Hello and welcome to the Guardian\u2019s continuing coverage of crisis in the Middle East. After a second wave of device explosions suspected to be an Israeli attack targeting Hezbollah members in Lebanon killed 20, focus is now turning to the manufacturer of the walkie-talkies reportedly used in the blasts. Images of the exploded walkie-talkies examined by Reuters showed an inside panel labeled \u201cICOM\u201d and \u201cmade in Japan.\u201d However Icom has said it stopped producing the model of radios reportedly used in the blasts about 10 years ago. \u201cThe IC-V82 is a handheld radio that was produced and exported, including to the Middle East, from 2004 to October 2014. It was discontinued about 10 years ago, and since then, it has not been shipped from our company,\u201d Icom said in a statement. Wednesday\u2019s blasts, came a day after the simultaneous explosion of hundreds of paging devices used by Hezbollah killing 12 people, including two children. Hezbollah blamed the unprecedented attack on Israel. More on this in a moment, first here\u2019s a summary of they day\u2019s other main events. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attacks in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed in a brief statement on Wednesday to return tens of thousands of residents evacuated from northern border areas to their homes. Israel\u2019s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, declared the start of a \u201cnew phase\u201d of the war with a focus on the northern front. Gallant, speaking to Israeli troops on Wednesday, did not mention the explosions of devices in Lebanon but he praised the work of Israel\u2019s army and security agencies, noting that the \u201cresults are very impressive\u201d. Hezbollah on Tuesday promised a \u201cfair punishment\u201d for the explosions. Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is expected to give a speech on Thursday. Reports suggest Israel managed to place explosives in thousands of pagers bought by Hezbollah. The US was not involved \u201cin any way\u201d in the wave of explosions that took place in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday, the White House claimed. National security adviser John Kirby told reporters on that it was \u201ctoo soon to know\u201d if the explosions aimed at Hezbollah across recent days would have an impact on a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Hezbollah said it had attacked Israeli artillery positions with rockets on Wednesday in the first cross-border attack since the Tuesday pager blasts. An Israeli journalist said a barrage of 10 rockets was fired from Lebanon at western Galilee, causing no injuries. The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, was \u201cdeeply alarmed\u201d by reports that a large number of communication devices exploded across Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday and Wednesday. The UN security council will meet on Friday to discuss the wave of device explosions across Lebanon targeting Hezbollah. The UN\u2019s high commissioner for human rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, said those responsible for the explosions \u201cmust be held to account\u201d. The EU\u2019s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, described the pager detonations in Lebanon as \u201cextremely worrying\u201d, and said they had caused \u201cheavy, indiscriminate collateral damages among civilians\u201d. Irish foreign minister Miche\u00e1l Martin said the pager detonations showed a \u201cwanton disregard\u201d for the lives of civilians. In a symbolic step exposing Israel\u2019s continued international isolation, the UN general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to direct Israel to leave the occupied Palestinian territories within a year. The non-binding vote follows a historic advisory ruling in July by the international court of justice (ICJ) urging Israel to cease \u201cits unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory as soon as possible and stop all settlement activity there immediately\u201d."
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        "label": "The Guardian;Russia-Ukraine war: US imposes new sanctions on Russia and North Korea \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/19/donald-trump-meet-volodymyr-zelenskiy-un-security-council-russia-ukraine-war-latest-updates;2024-09-19T15:43:01Z",
        "text": "We will be closing this blog soon, but you can stay up to date on the Guardian\u2019s Russia and Ukraine coverage here. Here is a recap of the latest developments: The coming winter will prove the \u201csternest test yet\u201d for Ukraine\u2019s energy grid since Russia\u2019s invasion, with numerous power plants destroyed or damaged, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday. Putting forward a 10-point plan for Ukraine to safeguard its war-battered energy security, the IEA also warned of problems for neighbouring Moldova\u2019s electricity supply after Ukraine stops allowing the transit of Russian gas at the end of 2024. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would \u201cprobably\u201d meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who will be in the US next week to address a meeting of the UN security council on Russia\u2019s war in his country. \u201cProbably, yes,\u201d Trump said in response to a question from a reporter about whether he will meet the Ukrainian leader. Trump did not provide further details. Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Russian military received about 140,000 drones in 2023 and that Moscow plans to increase this number tenfold in 2024. \u201cWhoever reacts faster to these demands on the battlefield wins,\u201d Vladimir Putin said on Thursday at a meeting in St Petersburg about developing drone production. A senior Russian lawmaker on Thursday said that Ukrainian strikes on Russia with western weapons would lead to nuclear war and that Moscow\u2019s response would be tough with more powerful weapons. Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia\u2019s Duma, the lower house of parliament, said that what the European Parliament was proposing would lead to a \u201cglobal war with the use of nuclear weapons.\u201d European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will travel to Kyiv on Friday and meet president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, as the bloc seeks to help Ukraine weather Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure. \u201cI will be travelling to Kyiv to discuss these matters in person with president Zelenskiy tomorrow in our efforts to help Ukraine,\u201d von der Leyen told a press conference in Brussels on Thursday. The sum of \u20ac160m from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets will be allocated to meet Ukraine\u2019s urgent humanitarian needs for this winter, von der Leyen said on Thursday. She added that a fuel power plant is being dismantled in Lithuania and will be rebuilt in Ukraine, where 80% of the country\u2019s thermal plants have been destroyed. Russia\u2019s campaign of airstrikes on Ukraine\u2019s energy grid probably violates international humanitarian law, a UN monitoring body said on Thursday. The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) focused its report on nine waves of strikes between March and August 2024. HRMMU cited experts as saying that Ukrainians should expect power outages of between four and 18 hours a day this winter. Germany has planned almost \u20ac400m ($445m) in extra military aid for Ukraine this year despite a row over budgetary constraints, according to a finance ministry document seen by Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday. The additional funds are needed to \u201cfulfil the German government\u2019s support commitments to the Ukrainian armed forces\u201d, the letter to the parliamentary budget committee said. One elderly woman was killed and two other women were injured by Russian strikes in Ukraine\u2019s Zaporizhzhia region, governor Ivan Fedorov said on Thursday. Russian forces shelled the region 161 times over the past 24 hours, damaging infrastructure facilities and residential buildings, he said on the Telegram messaging app. Ukraine\u2019s air force said on Thursday it had shot down all 42 drones and one of four missiles used by Russia during overnight attacks. Air defences went into operation in nine Ukrainian regions, the air force said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app. Serhiy Lysak, the governor of the central Dnipropetrovsk region, said the air force had shot down one missile over his region, and that no one was hurt there. Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said six people were injured in a Russian attack on the eastern town of Kupiansk, eight km (five miles) from the frontline. Civilian infrastructure, a school, a kindergarten and 10 apartment buildings were damaged in the city of Kharkiv, he said. An educational institution was also damaged in the Cherkasy region, regional governor Ihor Taburets said. Russian forces have taken control of the village of Heorhiivka in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region, the RIA state news agency cited the defence ministry as saying on Thursday. Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield report, the latest in a series of reports by Russia of gains in eastern Ukraine. Russia attacked energy infrastructure in Ukraine\u2019s northeastern region of Sumy overnight, Ukraine\u2019s national grid operator Ukrenergo said on Thursday. The attack caused a temporary power cut in the region, Ukrenergo said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app. A Russian court jailed a student for almost two months on Thursday for making positive statements about a Ukrainian paramilitary unit that Moscow classifies as a \u201cterrorist\u201d group. The RIA Novosti news agency reported that the 19-year-old male student was accused of \u201cpublicly justifying terrorism\u201d and has been placed in detention for \u201cone month and 28 days\u201d. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indefinitely postponed a staff mission to Moscow this week to review the Russian economy for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine, after the move came under heavy criticism from several of Kyiv\u2019s European allies. After revelations in the Guardian of widespread condemnation, the IMF said it would spend more time gathering information for a \u201crigorous analysis\u201d. Romania\u2019s supreme defence council said on Thursday it has discussed additional measures to discourage and combat recent escalations in the Black Sea region which should be enforced nationally with support from Nato but did not offer details. Defence ministers from Nato\u2019s eastern flank including Romania said on Wednesday Nato needed to enact a robust response to incidents in which Russian missiles or drones fired at Ukraine enter the alliance\u2019s airspace. North Korean foreign minister Choe Son Hui discussed expanding bilateral relations with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on Tuesday, North Korea\u2019s state media KCNA reported on Thursday. Earlier this week, Russia\u2019s embassy in North Korea said Choe had flown to Russia. The controversial documentary \u201cRussians at War\u201d will be shown at the Zurich film festival (ZFF) next month despite harsh criticism from Kyiv, the event\u2019s director said on Thursday. Ukraine added Russian-Canadian film-maker Anastasia Trofimova, who directed the documentary, to a national security blacklist on Monday, saying it spread \u201cRussian propaganda\u201d about Moscow\u2019s invasion. A senior Russian lawmaker on Thursday said that Ukrainian strikes on Russia with western weapons would lead to nuclear war and that Moscow\u2019s response would be tough with more powerful weapons. The European Parliament voted in favour of letting Kyiv hit Russian targets with western weapons, reports Reuters. Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia\u2019s Duma, the lower house of parliament, said that what the European Parliament was proposing would lead to a \u201cglobal war with the use of nuclear weapons.\u201d Washington imposed fresh sanctions on Thursday related to Russia and North Korea, according to the treasury department website, reports Reuters. It comes amid US concerns about deepening military cooperation between the two countries to help Russia in its war against Ukraine. Jens Stoltenberg, a former prime minister of Norway who has led Nato since 2014, is shortly expected to give a farewell speech. It will be followed by a question and answer session with reporters. You can follow it live on the embedded video below. \u201cWhoever reacts faster to these demands on the battlefield wins,\u201d Vladimir Putin said on Thursday at a meeting in St Petersburg about developing drone production, reports Reuters. Putin said earlier that Russia was ramping up drone production by around ten times to nearly 1.4 million this year (see 2.29pm BST) Both Russia and Ukraine have bought drones abroad and ramped up their own production for a range of targets \u2013 from destroying artillery and arsenals to striking at energy infrastructure and battleships. North Korean foreign minister Choe Son Hui discussed expanding bilateral relations with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on Tuesday, North Korea\u2019s state media KCNA reported on Thursday, according to Reuters. Earlier this week, Russia\u2019s embassy in North Korea said Choe had flown to Russia. Reuters reports that Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Russian military received about 140,000 drones in 2023 and that Moscow plans to increase this number tenfold in 2024. Romania\u2019s supreme defence council said on Thursday it has discussed additional measures to discourage and combat recent escalations in the Black Sea region which should be enforced nationally with support from Nato but did not offer details, according to Reuters. Defence ministers from Nato\u2019s eastern flank including Romania said on Wednesday Nato needed to enact a robust response to incidents in which Russian missiles or drones fired at Ukraine enter the alliance\u2019s airspace. A Russian court jailed a student for almost two months on Thursday for making positive statements about a Ukrainian paramilitary unit that Moscow classifies as a \u201cterrorist\u201d group. Russia has led a huge crackdown at home as its troops fight in Ukraine, regularly arresting its citizens for criticism of the Kremlin\u2019s offensive. Russian media reported that a 19-year-old male student from a university in the Primorye region, in the east of the country, was arrested. The RIA Novosti news agency reported he was accused of \u201cpublicly justifying terrorism\u201d and has been placed in detention for \u201cone month and 28 days\u201d. According to investigators, he was accused of posting statements on social media justifying the activities of an unnamed Ukrainian paramilitary unit banned in Russia. He risks up to seven years in prison. Thousands of Russians have been punished \u2013 either by prison terms or fines \u2013 for criticising the Ukraine offensive since it was launched in February 2022. Moscow has banned criticism of the military operation. Following Germany\u2019s announcement it is set to approve close to \u20ac400m ($450 million) in additional military aid to Ukraine, Reuters have more detail based on a finance ministry letter its reporters have seen. The funds are in addition to around \u20ac8bn budgeted for Ukraine in 2024. Germany is Ukraine\u2019s biggest supporter in Europe in terms of military aid. Ukraine has been backed by arms from its allies but is worried that support may drop as the war grinds on. \u201cIn view of the continuously deteriorating military situation in Ukraine, there is a serious risk that Ukraine, without significantly increased material support, could be defeated in its defence campaign,\u201d the letter said. Following a request by the defence ministry, the finance ministry in the letter is asking for the approval of the extra expenditure from the budget committee of the lower house of parliament. Carsten Klein, member of the budget committee for the Free Democrats (FDP), welcomed the request for funds, saying that it showed Ukraine could rely on Germany\u2019s support. \u201cUkraine urgently needs additional military material and equipment to defend its freedom and our values,\u201d Klein said. The need for funds must be satisfied immediately to implement the measures in 2024 so they can have an impact during the remainder of the year, the finance ministry said. The funds will be used to buy ammunition, fighting vehicles, drones and protective equipment, among other items. The unplanned need for around \u20ac397m has only become clear in the last few weeks, so it meets the constitutional and budgetary requirements of an unplanned need, the letter said. If the budget committee approves the additional funds next week, the total amount of German military aid for Ukraine in 2024 will go up to \u20ac8.4bn. German aid to Ukraine will be cut to \u20ac4bn in 2025, according to the draft of the 2025 budget, as the country hopes Ukraine will be able to meet the bulk of its military needs with the $50bn in loans from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets approved by the Group of Seven. Nato\u2019s current military spending target will not be enough to protect the alliance as it braces for an increasingly assertive Russia, secretary general Jens Stoltenberg is expected to say in his farewell speech later on Thursday. \u201cWe have to be willing to pay the price for peace. The more money, the stronger our defences, the more effective our deterrence, the greater our security,\u201d Stoltenberg will say according to prepared remarks reported by Reuters. \u201cThe good news is that we have delivered on the pledge we made ten years ago (to spend 2% of GDP on defence). But the bad news is that this is no longer enough to keep us safe,\u201d Stoltenberg is expected to say. Stoltenberg, a former prime minister of Norway who has led Nato since 2014, will hand over to Dutch former prime minister Mark Rutte on 1 October. The controversial documentary \u201cRussians at War\u201d will be shown at the Zurich film festival (ZFF) next month despite harsh criticism from Kyiv, the event\u2019s director said on Thursday, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). The documentary has sparked outrage since it was first shown at the major Venice film festival earlier this month, with some calling it a pro-Kremlin film that seeks to whitewash and justify Moscow\u2019s assault on its neighbour. Ukraine added Russian-Canadian film-maker Anastasia Trofimova, who directed the documentary, to a national security blacklist on Monday, saying it spread \u201cRussian propaganda\u201d about Moscow\u2019s invasion. The AFP reports that the documentary was listed on the programme for the Swiss festival, which was sent out to media on Thursday, as a film portraying \u201cRussian frontline soldiers in Ukraine (dealing) with the fragility of democracy\u201d. \u201cWe understand that Ukrainians are unhappy,\u201d but the film will be screened as scheduled, ZFF director Christian Jungen told a press conference in Zurich, according to the Keystone-ATS news agency. He stressed that \u201cfilms should incite discussion\u201d, adding that he considered the documentary an \u201canti-war film\u201d. AFP reports that a spokesperson for the Ukrainian foreign ministry warned the ZFF organisers on Thursday that they risked ruining the festival\u2019s reputation by going ahead with the screening. \u201cThis is a propaganda film that whitewashes war crimes, not a documentary,\u201d Georgil Tykhyi said on X. Before those comments, the Ukrainian foreign ministry had already said on X on Wednesday that it was \u201coutraged\u201d by the ZFF decision. Jungen acknowledged that the director was \u201cnot unproblematic\u201d, stressing that the \u201cRussians at War\u201d documentary would be discussed at a roundtable event during the festival. Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, wants his western allies to allow the use of their Storm Shadow missiles to bomb targets inside Russia. In this episode of the Guardian\u2019s Today in Focus podcast, Dan Sabbagh, the Guardian\u2019s defence and security editor, tells Michael Safi why US president Joe Biden\u2019s decision over the missiles is a delicate one. \u201cThey allow you to strike deep into another country in a way that changes the political calculus as much as it changes the military calculus,\u201d Sabbagh says. \u201cSo you\u2019re thinking about airfields, missile launch sites, military sites, logistics sites, but you get something wrong, and you kill a lot of civilians, you\u2019re starting to be in a very different discussion \u2026 And I think the US has been worried that Russia might escalate dramatically if certain types of western weapons are given to Ukraine.\u201d On Russian state television last week, the president, Vladimir Putin, said: \u201cThis would in a significant way change the very nature of the conflict. It would mean that Nato countries, the US, European countries, are at war with Russia.\u201d Listen at the link below: My colleague, Luke Harding, has reported from Pokrovsk on how Russian forces are gathering on the area \u2013 which is a logistics base and transport hub \u2013 after months of slow, brutal advance. You can read his news feature on Ukraine\u2019s pivotal battle for Donetsk here: Germany plans almost \u20ac400m ($445m) in extra military aid for Ukraine this year despite a row over budgetary constraints, according to a finance ministry document seen by Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday. The additional funds are needed to \u201cfulfil the German government\u2019s support commitments to the Ukrainian armed forces\u201d, the letter to the parliamentary budget committee said. The sum of \u20ac160m from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets will be allocated to meet Ukraine\u2019s urgent humanitarian needs for this winter, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday. She added that a fuel power plant is being dismantled in Lithuania and will be rebuilt in Ukraine, where 80% of the country\u2019s thermal plants have been destroyed. \u201cWe aim to restore 2.5 gw of capacity, which is 15% of Ukraine\u2019s needs,\u201d von der Leyen said, according to Reuters. Russian forces have taken control of the village of Heorhiivka in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region, the RIA state news agency cited the defence ministry as saying on Thursday. Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield report, the latest in a series of reports by Russia of gains in eastern Ukraine. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will travel to Kyiv on Friday and meet president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, as the bloc seeks to help Ukraine weather Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure. \u201cI will be travelling to Kyiv to discuss these matters in person with president Zelenskiy tomorrow in our efforts to help Ukraine,\u201d von der Leyen told a press conference in Brussels on Thursday, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Outside Ukraine, the International Energy Agency (IEA) report warned that neighbouring Moldova\u2019s energy security could also be hit, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Most of Moldova\u2019s electricity comes from one gas power plant in the breakaway Transnistria region, which is backed by Russia. Producing around two-thirds of the country\u2019s electricity, the Moldavskaya GRES power plant is largely fuelled by Russian gas imported via Ukraine. But last month, Ukraine announced its intention to discontinue at the end of this year an agreement signed in 2019 allowing Russia to pump gas via its territory. Both the plant\u2019s gas supplies and Moldova\u2019s electricity security would be subject to \u201csignificant uncertainty\u201d as a result, the IEA said. The agency has urged the country to secure its supplies by strengthening energy ties with its European neighbours, \u201cwith benefits for the wider region\u201d. Set up under the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the IEA styles itself as \u201cthe world\u2019s leading energy authority\u201d. Though not a full member, Ukraine joined the agency as an association country in July 2022. The coming winter will prove the \u201csternest test yet\u201d for Ukraine\u2019s energy grid since Russia\u2019s invasion, with numerous power plants destroyed or damaged, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday. Putting forward a 10-point plan for Ukraine to safeguard its war-battered energy security, the IEA also warned of problems for neighbouring Moldova\u2019s electricity supply after Ukraine stops allowing the transit of Russian gas at the end of 2024, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). \u201cUkraine\u2019s energy system has made it through the past two winters \u2026 But this winter will be, by far, its sternest test yet,\u201d IEA executive director Fatih Birol said in a news release accompanying the report. The report said that in 2022 and 2023 \u201cabout half of Ukraine\u2019s power generation capacity was either occupied by Russian forces, destroyed or damaged, and approximately half of the large network substations were damaged by missiles and drones\u201d. With Ukraine having lost more than two-thirds of its electricity production capacity since the Russian invasion, the report warned of a \u201cyawning gap between available electricity supply and peak demand\u201d. It urged European countries to expedite deliveries of equipment and parts to rebuild the damaged facilities and called for measures to protect them from drones. AFP reports that in the summer, when energy needs tend to be lower, Ukraine\u2019s capacity for power generation already fell more than two gigawatts below the peak demand of 12 gigawatts. As demand for energy to heat homes increases in winter, the IEA predicts that the country\u2019s peak demand could increase to nearly 19 gigawatts. \u201cStrains that are bearable in the summer months may become unbearable when temperatures start to fall and supplies of heat and water falter,\u201d the report said. The IEA said that power plants damaged by Russian attacks or occupied by Russian troops, such as the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, urgently needed replacing or repairing, while the physical and IT security of critical infrastructure needed strengthening. It also recommended increasing electricity and gas import capacity from the EU, accelerating the decentralisation of electricity production and greater investment in energy efficiency. It estimated the cost of necessary repairs and upgrades at $30bn. A Ukrainian drone attack on a large Russian weapons depot caused a blast that was picked up by earthquake monitoring stations, in one of the biggest strikes on Moscow\u2019s military arsenal since the war began. Pro-Russian military bloggers said Ukraine struck an arsenal for the storage of missiles, ammunition and explosives in Toropets, a historic town more than 300 miles north of Ukraine and about 230 miles west of Moscow. Videos and images on social media showed a huge ball of flame rising high into the night sky and detonations thundering across a lake, in a region not far from the border with Belarus. The strike was part of a broader Ukrainian drone campaign targeting Russian oil refineries, power plants, airfields and military factories, and highlights Kyiv\u2019s enhanced long-range drone capabilities. Earthquake monitoring stations registered what sensors thought was a minor earthquake in the area. Ukrainian Pravda reported that the operation was conducted by the Ukrainian security service together with the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine and the Special Operations Force. An unnamed official at the Ukrainian security service said the weapons warehouse contained long-range Russian missiles and guided bombs known as KABs. Russia\u2019s defence ministry said 54 Ukrainian drones targeted five western Russian regions overnight and that all of them were destroyed. But in a tacit admission of the strike, Igor Rudenya, the governor of Russia\u2019s Tver region, said firefighters there were trying to contain a fire and that some residents were being evacuated from their homes. One elderly woman was killed and two other women were injured by Russian strikes in Ukraine\u2019s Zaporizhzhia region, governor Ivan Fedorov said on Thursday, according to Reuters. Russian forces shelled the region 161 times over the past 24 hours, damaging infrastructure facilities and residential buildings, he said on the Telegram messaging app. Ukraine\u2019s air force said on Thursday it had shot down all 42 drones and one of four missiles used by Russia during overnight attacks, reports Reuters. Air defences went into operation in nine Ukrainian regions, the air force said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app nearly 31 months after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion. Serhiy Lysak, the governor of the central Dnipropetrovsk region, said the air force had shot down one missile over his region, and that no one was hurt there. Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said six people were injured in a Russian attack on the eastern town of Kupiansk, eight km (five miles) from the frontline. Civilian infrastructure, a school, a kindergarten and 10 apartment buildings were damaged in the city of Kharkiv, he said. An educational institution was also damaged in the Cherkasy region, regional governor Ihor Taburets said. Russia attacked energy infrastructure in Ukraine\u2019s northeastern region of Sumy overnight, Ukraine\u2019s national grid operator Ukrenergo said on Thursday, reports Reuters. The attack caused a temporary power cut in the region, Ukrenergo said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app. Russia\u2019s campaign of airstrikes on Ukraine\u2019s energy grid probably violates international humanitarian law, a UN monitoring body said on Thursday, reports Reuters. Over the course of its invasion, Russia has fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Ukrainian electricity generation, transmission and distribution facilities. The first big wave of strikes hit in the autumn and winter of 2022, a few months after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The strikes have continued throughout the war, though Moscow has markedly stepped up its campaign since March.Each wave of strikes has left Ukrainian cities without power for hours at a time for weeks on end. The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) focused its report on nine waves of strikes between March and August 2024. According to Reuters, the report said: There are reasonable grounds to believe that multiple aspects of the military campaign to damage or destroy Ukraine\u2019s civilian electricity and heat-producing and transmission infrastructure have violated foundational principles of international humanitarian law.\u201d HRMMU said it had visited seven power plants that were damaged or destroyed by attacks, as well as 28 communities affected by the strikes. The HRMMU said the attacks posed risks to Ukraine\u2019s water supply, to sewage and sanitation, to the provision of heating and hot water, to public health, to education and to the wider economy. Reuters reports that the report highlighted a particular problem in urban areas, where most homes are linked up to centralised heating and hot water systems. The report said that nearly 95% of Kyiv\u2019s residents relied on centralised basement heating systems whose output requires electric pumps to reach the upper floors of the building. \u201cWithout emergency electricity supply, millions of urban residents could be left without heat,\u201d it said. HRMMU cited experts as saying that Ukrainians should expect power outages of between four and 18 hours a day this winter. The report also said that during the summer period of 2024, energy-related issues were the second most common reason that Ukrainians gave for fleeing the country. Kyiv says the targeting of its energy system is a war crime, and the international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for four Russian officials and military officers for the bombing of civilian power infrastructure. Moscow says power infrastructure is a legitimate military targets and has dismissed the charges against its officials as irrelevant. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indefinitely postponed a staff mission to Moscow this week to review the Russian economy for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine, after the move came under heavy criticism from several of Kyiv\u2019s European allies. After revelations in the Guardian of widespread condemnation, the IMF said it would spend more time gathering information for a \u201crigorous analysis\u201d. Officials of the Washington-based organisation were due to travel to the Russian capital and meet \u201cstakeholders\u201d before publishing an assessment of the economy. The IMF said last week it was a \u201cmutual obligation\u201d to carry out an article IV annual review of a member country and the situation in Russia had become \u201cmore settled\u201d. On Friday, nine European countries protested against the IMF\u2019s plans, saying it would damage the reputation of the fund to resume dialogue with a country that had invaded another. Aleksei Mozhin, the IMF\u2019s executive director for Russia, told the Tass news agency on Wednesday that the decision was taken on Monday, the day preliminary talks were supposed to start. Critics said a first official visit since 2021 would be based on flawed data and provide Russia with a cloak of respectability. In a letter seen by the Financial Times and signed by Poland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and non-EU members Iceland and Norway, ministers said there was a \u201creputational risk\u201d to the IMF, and indicated a visit would \u201cdiminish donors\u2019 efforts and actions in supporting Ukraine through IMF initiatives\u201d. You can read the full piece here: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would \u201cprobably\u201d meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who will be in the US next week to address a meeting of the UN security council on Russia\u2019s war in his country. \u201cProbably, yes,\u201d Trump said in response to a question from a reporter about whether he will meet the Ukrainian leader. Trump did not provide further details. Zelenskiy said in August he wanted to present a peace plan to US president Joe Biden, vice-president Kamala Harris and Trump. While Trump and Zelenskiy talked over the phone in July, they have not talked in person since Trump\u2019s 2017-2021 term. More on that in a moment. In other developments: Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that his \u201cVictory Plan\u201d, intended to bring peace to Ukraine while keeping the country strong and avoiding all \u201cfrozen conflicts\u201d, was now complete after much consultation. Zelenskiy pledged last month to present his plan to Biden, presumably next week when he is in the US. While providing daily updates on the plan\u2019s preparation, Zelenskiy has given few clues of the contents, indicating only that it aims to create terms acceptable to Ukraine, now locked in conflict with Russia for more than two and a half years. The Biden administration still is not convinced that it should give Ukraine the authority to launch long-range missiles deeper into Russia, and US officials say they are seeking more detailed information about how Kyiv would use the weapons and how they fit into the broader strategy for the war, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. US officials said they have asked Ukraine to spell out more clearly its combat objectives. The report comes a week after Biden discussed easing restrictions on Ukraine\u2019s use of long-range missiles supplied by the west with British prime minister Keir Starmer. A Ukrainian drone attack on a large Russian weapons depot caused a blast that was picked up by earthquake monitoring stations, in one of the biggest strikes on Moscow\u2019s military arsenal since the war began. Pro-Russian military bloggers said Ukraine struck an arsenal for the storage of missiles, ammunition and explosives in Toropets, a historic town more than 300 miles north of Ukraine and about 230 miles west of Moscow. Videos and images on social media showed a huge ball of flame rising high into the night sky and detonations thundering across a lake, in a region not far from the border with Belarus. The EU must be quick to increase its defences as Russia may be ready for a confrontation in six to eight years, the nominee to be the EU\u2019s first defence commissioner told Reuters in an interview. Andrius Kubilius, a former prime minister of Lithuania, has been tapped to boost the continent\u2019s arms industry, by getting EU countries to spend more on European weapons and procure jointly \u2013 as well as by getting companies themselves to cooperate more across borders. The new post reflects how security has risen to the top of the EU\u2019s political agenda since Russia\u2019s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. \u201cDefence ministers and Nato generals agree that Vladimir Putin could be ready for confrontation with Nato and the EU in six to eight years,\u201d Kubilius, a fierce critic of Russia and a supporter of Ukraine, said on Wednesday. Putin on Wednesday said he had ordered a boost of Russia\u2019s army to 1.5 million active soldiers earlier this week to ensure a well-trained military. The president on Monday signed a decree boosting the number of active troops by 180,000 soldiers \u2013 making the Russian army the second largest in the world by active troop size. Russia\u2019s counteroffensive to retake Ukrainian-held territory in the Kursk region has been \u201cstopped\u201d, a spokesperson from Ukraine\u2019s military administration there told AFP on Wednesday, after Moscow said it was beginning to repel the surprise incursion. Russia earlier this month said it had taken back several villages from Ukraine in the region, where Kyiv has held on to swathes of land since its shock offensive began more than a month ago. \u201cThey tried to attack from the flanks, but they were stopped there,\u201d spokesperson Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky from Ukraine\u2019s military administration in Kursk told AFP. The British government on Wednesday said it summoned Russia\u2019s ambassador to condemn what it called Moscow\u2019s \u201cunprecedented and unfounded public campaign of aggression against the UK\u201d. Andrei Kelin was told that Russia\u2019s behaviour, including its \u201cmalicious and completely baseless\u201d claims of spying against six British diplomats, contravened the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, the foreign ministry said. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indefinitely postponed a staff mission to Moscow this week to review the Russian economy for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine, after the move came under heavy criticism from several of Kyiv\u2019s European allies. After revelations in the Guardian of widespread condemnation, the IMF said it would spend more time gathering information for a \u201crigorous analysis\u201d."
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        "label": "The Guardian;Georgian trans model murdered after parliament passes \u2018anti-LGBTQ+\u2019 law;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/georgia-trans-model-kesaria-abramidze-murdered-parliament-passes-anti-lgbtq-law;2024-09-19T14:59:53Z",
        "text": "A well-known Georgian transgender model has been murdered, local officials said, a day after the government passed legislation that will impose sweeping curbs on LGBTQ+ rights in the country. Georgia\u2019s interior ministry said Kesaria Abramidze, 37, was believed to have been stabbed to death in her apartment in suburban Tbilisi on Wednesday. Georgian media later reported that a man had been arrested in connection with the crime. Abramidze was one of the country\u2019s first openly trans public figures. Her death follows controversial legislation on \u201cfamily values and the protection of minors\u201d that will allow officials to outlaw Pride events and censor films and books. The law, which was approved by the Georgian parliament on Tuesday in its third and final reading, includes bans on same-sex marriages and gender-affirming treatments. It is expected to be another point of contention between Georgia and the EU as the country seeks to join the bloc. Critics argue that the bill, initially introduced by the ruling Georgian Dream party in the summer, mirrors laws enacted in neighbouring Russia, where authorities have implemented a series of repressive anti-LGBTQ+ measures over the past decade. Although the motive behind Abramidze\u2019s murder remains unclear, her death was swiftly cast by Georgian civil society as part of a state campaign against minorities in the country. Under the Georgian Dream party, which has taken an increasingly anti-liberal stance, the country has seen a rise in violence against LGBTQ+ people. Last year, hundreds of opponents of gay rights stormed an LGBTQ+ festival in Tbilisi, forcing the event to be cancelled. This year, tens of thousands of people marched in the capital to promote \u201ctraditional family values\u201d at an event attended by the ruling party amd the deeply conservative and influential Orthodox church. \u201cThere is a direct correlation between the use of hate speech in politics and hate crimes,\u201d the Social Justice Center, a Tbilisi-based human rights group, said in its statement reacting to the murder. \u201cIt has been almost a year that the Georgian Dream government has been aggressively using homo/bi/transphobic language and cultivating it with mass propaganda means,\u201d it added. On Wednesday, Josep Borrell, the EU\u2019s top diplomat, called on the Georgian government to withdraw the \u201cfamily values\u201d law, warning it would harm Georgia\u2019s chances of joining the bloc. The legislation would \u201cincrease discrimination &amp; stigmatisation\u201d, he said on X. After Abramidze\u2019s death, Michael Roth, the Social Democratic party chair of the Bundestag foreign affairs committee in Germany, echoed that call. \u201cThose who sow hatred will reap violence. Kesaria Abramidze was killed just one day after the Georgian parliament passed the anti-LGBTI law,\u201d Roth wrote on X. The introduction of the law comes just five weeks before parliamentary elections that many see as a litmus test of whether Georgia, once one of the most pro-western former Soviet states, will now drift towards Russia. The country\u2019s pro-western president, Salome Zourabichvili, whose functions are mostly ceremonial, is expected to veto the law before it comes into effect. However, Georgian Dream and its allies have enough seats in parliament to override her veto. Earlier this year, the Georgian Dream also pushed through the divisive \u201cforeign influence\u201d law, which western critics argue is authoritarian and Russian-inspired, and has derailed the country\u2019s EU aspirations. Meanwhile, tributes have started to pour in for Abramidze, who represented Georgia at Miss Trans Star International in 2018 and had more than 500,000 followers on Instagram. \u201cKesaria was iconic! Provocative, wise, incredibly brave! A trailblazer for Georgia\u2019s trans rights,\u201d Maia Otarashvili, a Georgian political scientist, wrote on X. Zourabichvili said the murder should be a \u201cwake-up call\u201d for Georgian society. \u201cA terrible murder! The death of this beautiful young woman \u2026 should not be in vain!\u201d the president wrote on Facebook."
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    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Two missing and 1,000 evacuated as Storm Boris devastates northern Italy;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/thousands-evacuated-as-storm-boris-causes-havoc-in-northern-italy;2024-09-19T14:37:53Z",
        "text": "Two people are missing and about 1,000 people have been evacuated from their homes after devastating floods and landslides hit the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, prompting accusations that Giorgia Meloni\u2019s far-right government lacks the will to confront the climate crisis. The flooding was brought on by Storm Boris, which had earlier wreaked havoc in central and eastern Europe, killing at least 24 people. Several major cities in central Europe were bracing for swollen rivers to peak on Thursday. The torrential rain engulfed the same areas of Emilia-Romagna hit by flooding in May 2023 that killed 17 people and caused \u20ac8.5bn (\u00a37.14bn) of damage. Two people were reported missing in Traversara, a hamlet in Ravenna province, after the Lamone River burst its banks. Schools have closed, railway lines been disrupted and some roads blocked by landslides. Firefighters have carried out more than 500 rescue operations in the region, including using helicopters to lift people from flooded homes. \u201cWe are in a full emergency \u2026 the event is very similar to what we had last May,\u201d Michele De Pascale, the mayor of Ravenna, told Radio 24. There are no deaths reported in the latest flooding, which has also affected parts of the neighbouring Marche region. However, anger is mounting among residents at the sluggish progress of works intended to help protect the region from flooding. \u201cMy home has once again been destroyed,\u201d a resident in Faenza, a town in Ravenna province, said in a video collated by Local Team, an Italian photo and video agency. \u201cIt\u2019s shameful; the politicians do nothing.\u201d Extreme rainfall is becoming more common because of human-caused climate breakdown across most of the world. Warmer air can hold more water vapour, while human factors, such as flood defence planning and land use, are also important factors in flooding. Italy is among Europe\u2019s climate risk spots. This summer alone it has endured unprecedented heatwaves, drought, wildfires, storms and severe flooding. Angelo Bonelli, who leads the leftwing Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra party, on Thursday urged Meloni to explain her government\u2019s strategy in addressing the climate crisis. \u201cThere is no will to face the climate crisis,\u201d he said. \u201cThe truth is that the climate crisis causes damage, and economic damage. The climate issue must not have a political characterisation. Unfortunately, it is an objective fact that we have to deal with. The premier, Meloni, must tell parliament which initiatives she intends to adopt.\u201d Meanwhile, Alice Buonguerrieri, a deputy in Meloni\u2019s Brothers of Italy party, said she would file a complaint with prosecutors \u201cto determine responsibility\u201d for the latest flooding. She claimed the region\u2019s centre-left authorities had spent only \u20ac49m of the \u20ac130m allocated by the government last year to build flood defences. In eastern and central Europe, the flooding was the worst in two decades. At least 24 people have died \u2013 five in the Czech Republic, seven in Romania, seven in Poland and five in Austria. The damage is estimated at billions of euros, with roads, bridges and railway lines destroyed and whole neighbourhoods submerged. In Poland\u2019s third-largest city, Wroc\u0142aw, the defences appeared to be holding firm after two frantic days of work to reinforce them by the military and civil protection forces and volunteers among the city\u2019s 600,000 residents. Poland has deployed 14,000 troops to its hardest-hit region, near the Czech border. \u201cIt is too early to say the flood in Wroc\u0142aw has been overcome,\u201d the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, told a crisis meeting. \u201cI would prefer that we hold on nervously and try to guess \u2026 the state of rivers as accurately as possible.\u201d Tusk was later due to meet the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria to discuss aid for the region, which has been hit by five times the average rainfall for September in five days. In Hungary, which has reinforced defences along more than 300 miles of riverbank, the Danube was not due to peak in the capital, Budapest, until Saturday. The prime minister, Viktor Orb\u00e0n, said the water should be below record 2013 levels and Hungary would \u201cmount a successful defence against this flood as well\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Sweden cuts tax on flying despite admitting it would increase emissions;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/sweden-cuts-flying-tax-emissions;2024-09-19T13:30:09Z",
        "text": "Campaigners have accused the Swedish government of doing \u201ceverything in its power to stop climate action\u201d after it cut a tax on flying, despite admitting that it would increase emissions. The flight tax, aimed at cutting pollution from aviation, was introduced in 2018, amid the rise of the \u201cflight shame\u201d (flygskam) movement popularised by Greta Thunberg. But in its budget for next year, presented on Thursday, the centre-right coalition, which depends on the support of the far-right Sweden Democrats, said that from 1 July 2025 the tax would no longer apply. The move is expected to cut ticket prices from Sweden by 80 SEK (\u00a35.93) on European flights and 325 SEK (\u00a324.09) on those outside Europe. Erika Bjureby, a programme manager at Greenpeace Sweden, said: \u201cIt feels like the government is trying to dismantle as many climate policies as possible and does everything in its power to stop climate action. \u201cThe government even states that a scrapped flight tax will increase flying, which undoubtedly will lead to increased emissions. On top of that, we have the current tax cut on fuels, while the public transport in Sweden is on its knees with several train connections being cancelled in the near future.\u201d Although the move is likely to increase flying, and in turn lead to a rise in emissions, the government claims that overall its budget will cut emissions. It also announced a cut in taxes on wages, pensions, savings and petrol. Milj\u00f6partiet, the Swedish Green party, accused the government of being in \u201cnumber-crunching denial\u201d. It said: \u201cThe government cannot cope with the climate and nature crisis: instead of a policy that lowers emissions, they subsidise both aviation and diesel. The Baltic Sea is dying, invasive species continue to spread and people cannot get out into the forest and land.\u201d Maja Ros\u00e9n, from campaign group Vi h\u00e5ller oss p\u00e5 jorden (We stay grounded), said the move was a \u201cclear example of the huge gap between knowledge and action in the climate issue\u201d. Ros\u00e9n added: \u201cThe government knows that emissions must urgently be reduced and that the emissions from aviation are very high, yet they choose to drop the flight tax, which will inevitably lead to increased emissions.\u201d The Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, said earlier this month that the flight tax had resulted in a \u201cheavy competitive disadvantage for Swedish airports. Now it is abolished.\u201d Meanwhile, Denmark has said it plans to implement a flight tax from 2025 to help fund the industry\u2019s green transition. By 2030 the country plans to make all domestic flights powered by 100% sustainable fuels."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Hezbollah leader to rally followers after deadly pager and walkie-talkie attacks;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/hezbollah-pager-walkie-talkie-attacks-lebanon-israel-hassan-nasrallah-speech;2024-09-19T13:02:12Z",
        "text": "Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, will seek to rally his followers and inspire new defiance of Israel in a much-anticipated televised speech on Thursday afternoon, after the Lebanon-based militant Islamist organisation was thrown into disarray by successive waves of unprecedented attacks that have been blamed on Israel. On Tuesday, thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously, killing 12 people, including two children, and wounding up to 2,800 others across Lebanon. A day later, 25 people were killed and more than 450 wounded when walkie-talkies exploded in supermarkets, on streets and at funerals, stoking fears that a full-blown war between Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, and Israel could be imminent. There was no comment from Israel, which hours before Tuesday\u2019s explosions had announced it was broadening the aims of its war in Gaza to include the return of northern residents who had been evacuated from their homes due to attacks by Hezbollah. Israel said on Thursday it had bombed six Hezbollah \u201cinfrastructure sites\u201d and a weapons storage facility in the south of the country, a stronghold of the organisation. Eight people were reported to have been injured by antitank missiles fired by Hezbollah into northern Israel, and two were hurt in a drone attack. With tensions in the Middle East spiralling, senior diplomats from the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Italy will meet on Thursday in Paris before a UN security council meeting planned for Friday. Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, will join his counterparts in the French capital after discussing the possibility of a Gaza truce in Cairo. The White House warned all sides against \u201can escalation of any kind\u201d. John Kirby, the US national security council spokesperson, said: \u201cWe don\u2019t believe that the way to solve where we\u2019re at in this crisis is by additional military operations at all.\u201d The Lebanese foreign minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, warned that the \u201cblatant assault on Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and security\u201d was a dangerous development that could \u201csignal a wider war\u201d. Turkey on Thursday accused Israel of seeking to expand the war in Gaza to Lebanon. \u201cThe escalation in the region is alarming,\u201d the foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, said on state-run TRT television. \u201cWe see Israel mounting its attacks towards Lebanon step by step.\u201d Nasrallah\u2019s speech on Thursday will be keenly watched. The attacks dealt a heavy blow to Hezbollah, which already had concerns about the security of its communications after losing several commanders to targeted strikes in recent months. The Hezbollah leader will need to reassure followers after the attacks, which amounted to the biggest security breach for the organisation since its foundation more than 40 years ago. Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at the Swedish Defence University and pioneer of western studies of Hezbollah, said: \u201cThis is a huge humiliation for an organisation that prides itself on its security. They were lured into a trap \u2026 There were some civilian casualties, but most were Hezbollah people who will now be out of action for some time.\u201d Nasrallah will have to show defiance of Israel but without committing to further escalation, which could lead to a war that Hezbollah\u2019s sponsors in Tehran have so far sought to avoid. Iran\u2019s envoy to the UN said the country \u201creserves the right to take retaliatory measures\u201d, after its ambassador in Beirut was wounded. Hezbollah is a keystone member of Iran\u2019s \u201caxis of resistance\u201d, which includes Hamas, the Houthis and other militant groups across the Middle East. In Israel, a man whom Israeli security forces said they arrested for plotting assassinations against senior political figures has been named as 73-year-old Moti Maman. Maman, from Ashkelon, was arrested last month and indicted on Thursday. The Shin Bet and Israeli police have claimed that Iran was backing the plot to kill senior defence officials and possibly the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Analysts said Israeli operatives probably planted explosives on the pagers before they were delivered to Hezbollah. \u201cA small plastic explosive was almost certainly concealed alongside the battery, for remote detonation via a call or page,\u201d said Charles Lister, of the Middle East Institute. The preliminary findings of a Lebanese investigation into the blasts were that the pagers had been booby-trapped, a security official said. \u201cData indicates the devices were pre-programmed to detonate and contained explosive materials planted next to the battery,\u201d the official said, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. A source close to Hezbollah, asking not to be identified, said the pagers were \u201crecently imported\u201d and appeared to have been \u201csabotaged at source\u201d. After reports that the pagers had been ordered from a Taiwanese manufacturer, Gold Apollo, the company said they had been produced by its Hungarian partner BAC Consulting KFT, which has a licence to use its brand. A government spokesperson in Budapest said the company was \u201ca trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary\u201d. Icom, the Japanese communications equipmentmaker whose walkie-talkies are thought to have been detonated on Wednesday, said the devices may have been a discontinued model containing modified batteries. \u201cWe can\u2019t rule out the possibility that they are fakes, but there is also a chance the products are our IC-V82 model,\u201d said Icom\u2019s director, Yoshiki Enomoto, according to the Kyodo news agency. The firm sold about 160,000 units of the model in Japan and overseas before ending production and sales in 2014 and it said it was not clear how the devices had ended up in the Middle East. Hezbollah has traded near-daily cross-border fire with Israel since Hamas\u2019s 7 October attacks sparked the war in Gaza. Since October, more than 500 people have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli strikes, most of them fighters with Hezbollah and other armed groups but also more than 100 civilians. In northern Israel, at least 23 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed by strikes from Lebanon. About 60,000 Israelis were evacuated from their homes along the contested border with Lebanon and have been unable to return for fear of being targeted by Hezbollah. On Wednesday, the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, described \u201cthe start of a new phase in the war\u201d triggered by the Hamas attacks into Israel last October. The retired Brig Gen Amir Avivi, who leads the Israel Defense and Security Forum, a group of hawkish former military commanders, said: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of pressure from the society to go to war and win. Unless Hezbollah tomorrow morning says \u2018OK, we got the message, we\u2019re pulling out of south Lebanon\u2019, war is imminent.\u201d The United Nations human rights chief, Volker T\u00fcrk, said Tuesday\u2019s attack had come at an \u201cextremely volatile time\u201d, calling the blasts \u201cshocking\u201d and their impact on civilians \u201cunacceptable\u201d. The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, urged governments \u201cnot to weaponise civilian objects\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Mohamed Al Fayed accused in BBC documentary of raping five women;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/mohamed-al-fayed-accused-bbc-documentary-raping-five-women;2024-09-19T08:38:27Z",
        "text": "The former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of raping five women and sexually abusing at least 15 others when they worked at the luxury department store, according to a BBC investigation. More than 20 women, all of whom were Fayed\u2019s former employees, told a BBC documentary they were sexually assaulted by him and that Harrods covered up the abuse. The store\u2019s current owners said they were \u201cutterly appalled\u201d by the allegations and apologised to the victims. Fayed, who sold Harrods in 2010, died last year aged 94. His obituary in the Guardian noted there were repeated allegations of sexual harassment of female staff during his lifetime. In 2009 the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to charge Fayed over the claim he had sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl at the store. In 2013 he was interviewed by police after a woman alleged he had sexually attacked her at his Park Lane apartment after a job interview. The police reopened the case in 2015 but took no further action. Fayed always denied the allegations. The alleged victims give detailed accounts of the abuse, including some on camera, in the new documentary, Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods. It alleges the abuse took place in London, Paris, Saint-Tropez and Abu Dhabi. One woman told the BBC she was raped as a teenager in Fayed\u2019s Park Lane apartment. \u201cMohamed Al Fayed was a monster, a sexual predator with no moral compass,\u201d she told the BBC. Three other women told the BBC they were also raped by him in the apartment. A fifth woman, named only as Gemma, said on camera that Fayed raped her at his Villa Windsor apartment in Paris and then made her wash herself with disinfectant. She told the programme: \u201cObviously he wanted me to erase any trace of him being anywhere near me.\u201d The documentary-makers say the women came forward after seeing Fayed sympathetically portrayed in the Netflix series The Crown. The episodes in question covered Diana, Princess of Wales\u2019s relationship with Fayed\u2019s son Dodi, and their deaths in a car crash in 1997. One woman, whom the BBC names only as Sophia, says Fayed tried to rape her more than once when she was a personal assistant to him from 1988 to 1991. Speaking of Fayed\u2019s portrayal in The Crown, she told the BBC: \u201cPeople shouldn\u2019t remember him like that.\u201d Bruce Drummond, a barrister representing several of the women, told the BBC: \u201cThe spider\u2019s web of corruption and abuse at this company was unbelievable and very dark.\u201d In a statement, Harrods said: \u201cWe are utterly appalled by the allegations of abuse perpetrated by Mohamed Al Fayed. These were the actions of an individual who was intent on abusing his power wherever he operated and we condemn them in the strongest terms. We also acknowledge that during this time as a business we failed our employees who were his victims and for this we sincerely apologise. \u201cThe Harrods of today is a very different organisation to the one owned and controlled by Al Fayed between 1985 and 2010; it is one that seeks to put the welfare of our employees at the heart of everything we do. \u201cThis is why, since new information came to light in 2023 about historic allegations of sexual abuse by Al Fayed, it has been our priority to settle claims in the quickest way possible, avoiding lengthy legal proceedings for the women involved. This process is still available for any current or former Harrods employees. \u201cWhile we cannot undo the past, we have been determined to do the right thing as an organisation, driven by the values we hold today, while ensuring that such behaviour can never be repeated in the future.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Thursday briefing: The sophisticated attack on Hezbollah, and what it means for a fractious Middle East;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/first-edition-hezbollah-pagers-attack;2024-09-19T05:45:07Z",
        "text": "Good morning. Archie is away, so I\u2019ll be bringing you this email with Nimo for the next month. Assassinating targets with exploding pagers: as a plotline in a spy movie it would stretch credibility. Yet the authorities in Lebanon have been left counting the casualties of an extraordinary coordinated attack, that risks escalating the bitter conflict in the Middle East. Twelve people died in the explosions on Tuesday, including two children, and thousands more were injured in the blasts. The onslaught was aimed at Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, who had apparently turned to the devices to avoid being tracked via mobile phone. No one has claimed responsibility, but Israel is widely assumed to have been behind it. On Wednesday, nine people were killed and hundreds more people reported injured after similar attacks began, this time targeting walkie-talkies. In today\u2019s First Edition, we talk to the Guardian\u2019s defence and security editor Dan Sabbagh, about how such attacks could have been carried out \u2013 and what might come next. Five big stories Labour | Sue Gray, Keir Starmer\u2019s chief of staff, has been given a salary of \u00a3170,000 \u2013 more than the prime minister. Gray was given a pay rise after the election despite other political special advisers being unhappy about their pay being cut compared with their previous jobs at the Labour party. US news | More than 100 Republican former national security and foreign policy officials on Wednesday endorsed Kamala Harris for president in a joint letter, calling Donald Trump \u201cunfit to serve\u201d another term in the White House. Brazil | Appeal judges in Brazil yesterday upheld charges against only two of the three men accused of murdering Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, in a decision \u201creceived with indignation\u201d by Indigenous activists. Culture | A towering cuboid made of more than 300 masks depicting the faces of transgender and non-binary people, this year\u2019s fourth plinth artwork, has been described as a piece designed to \u201cunite the trans community around the world\u201d. Immigration | A child refugee who fled Iraq has won a three-year legal battle to prove he was only 16 when he arrived undocumented in the UK, not eight to 10 years older, as British officials claimed, citing his facial hair and broad shoulders. In depth: \u2018Hezbollah will be under some pressure to respond\u2019 Grim details of Tuesday\u2019s attack continued to emerge throughout Wednesday, as funerals began to take place for the victims. The Lebanese health minister said almost 3,000 injured remained in hospital. Some witnesses said they had heard the two beeps that signalled a message arriving, shortly before the pagers blew up \u2013 with experts suggesting that may have been how the attack was remotely triggered. Gruesome footage appeared to show a pager exploding in a man\u2019s pocket in a grocery shop, in just one of scores of such incidents, which happened simultaneously on Tuesday afternoon. The backdrop to the blasts is the simmering cross-border conflict on Israel\u2019s northern border, between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group, since the 7 October attacks last year. \u201cYou\u2019ve got this tit for tat that\u2019s been ongoing \u2013 and deepening, if anything,\u201d says Dan. He adds that 60,000 people have been displaced from the border region on the Israeli side, and about 75,000 within Lebanon, as rocket attacks have taken place in both directions. Targeting Hezbollah directly is not new: Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government claimed to have killed a Hezbollah leader in an airstrike on Beirut in July, for example. But the widespread and indiscriminate nature of Tuesday\u2019s blasts represented a significant escalation. Lebanon\u2019s information minister Ziad Makary called it \u201ca blatant attack on Lebanese sovereignty, that targeted civilians, not only Hezbollah members.\u201d *** A state operation? Israel\u2019s much-feared intelligence agency, the Mossad, has a long history of meticulously planned assassinations. But as Dan points out, the sophistication required to plant explosives, physically, inside what appears to have been a job lot of deadly devices, is on a different level. When Hezbollah opted to switch to the low-tech option of pagers, he says, it was \u201cso well penetrated by Israeli intelligence,\u201d that they knew the changeover was happening, and were able to \u201cphysically compromise the supply chain,\u201d to put explosives inside the devices. Add in the reports suggesting the US was tipped off that something was about to happen, says Dan, and \u201call in all, it looks like a state operation. It looks like Israel. It looks like Mossad\u201d. As far as the deadly pagers were concerned, attention initially switched on Tuesday to a Taiwanese firm, Gold Apollo, as the apparent manufacturer of the devices. But the firm\u2019s chief executive Hsu Ching-kuang, doorstepped by journalists at its headquarters outside Taipei, said it had licensed the product to a European company. That European company, Budapest-based BAC Consulting, issued its own denial on Wednesday. \u201cI did not manufacture the pagers,\u201d chief executive Cristiana B\u00e1rsony-Arcidiacono told a Hungarian news website. \u201cI am only a mediator. I believe you have misunderstood this\u201d. Even as questions continued to swirl about how the pagers could have been tampered with, there was a fresh string of explosions in Lebanon \u2013 this time emanating from walkie-talkies. At least 20 people were killed and more than 450 wounded in cities across the country. *** \u2018Yet another act of hybrid warfare\u2019 The attacks intensified international criticism of Israel, already under pressure over the months-long conflict in Gaza. The UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, called for those responsible for the blasts to be held to account. \u201cSimultaneous targeting of thousands of individuals, whether civilians or members of armed groups, without knowledge as to who was in possession of the targeted devices, their location and their surroundings at the time of the attack, violates international human rights law and, to the extent applicable, international humanitarian law,\u201d T\u00fcrk (pictured above) said. World leaders, anxious about the risk of a conflagration in the region, called on both sides to show restraint. A spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry called the attacks, \u201cyet another act of hybrid warfare against Lebanon,\u201d the purpose of which was, \u201cto foment a large-scale armed confrontation in order to provoke a major war in the Middle East.\u201d *** What next? In fact, Dan says, it is unclear what strategic aim Israel\u2019s scattergun attacks achieved, unless they were simply intended as a provocation. \u201cHezbollah will be under some pressure to respond: and it raises the question, does Israel want Hezbollah to respond? Does Israel want Hezbollah to make a move that will force Israel, in turn, into an even more aggressive move, and perhaps start a war?\u201d Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate, and if reports of a second round of explosions emerge, public pressure on the organisation\u2019s leadership is likely to increase. Even without the international calls for restraint, there are reasons for Hezbollah to respond with caution. \u201cNobody thinks Iran really wants a full on conflict with Israel that might drag in the US, and Iran does not want Hezbollah getting in one either, and nor, really, does Hezbollah,\u201d says Dan. \u201cBecause although the geography of southern Lebanon is different to Gaza, which is intensely built up, with civilians and fighters cheek by jowl, it\u2019s still going to be a bloody and difficult conflict on both sides.\u201d On the Israeli side, opening up a fresh front while the Gaza conflict is ongoing, would risk overstretching the country\u2019s military and alienating key backers including the US. Yet the stakes are extremely high \u2013 and as Dan concludes, with details still emerging about the latest round of blasts, amid emotive images of the fallout from the pager attack, \u201cconflict is inherently unpredictable\u201d. What else we\u2019ve been reading Few people are better placed than Faiza Shaheen to review Diane Abbott\u2019s new book. \u201cAfter enduring so much racism, and at a time of few political wins for the left, we have to ask: how did Abbott end up having the last laugh?\u201d, she asks. Nimo In case you missed it, I enjoyed this righteously furious piece from Marina Hyde, on the baseless (and misogynist) rumours being whispered about 29-year-old Tory peer Charlotte Owen, by \u201ctrouser rubbing \u2018journalists\u2019\u201d. Heather One of the most bizarre and unsettling moments of the US presidential debate was when Donald Trump peddled the lie that Haitian migrants were capturing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. Moira Donegan writes about the violence, bomb threats and xenophobia that has turned residents\u2019 lives upside down since the conspiracy hit the internet. Nimo Apparently \u201cBritishcore\u201d is a thing on social media. Check out Dylan B Jones\u2019s tongue-in-cheek list of endearingly naff things about living on this soggy isle and see which resonate with you. (For me: \u201cHearing the Countdown music in your head every time there\u2019s a time constraint on anything\u201d). Heather Brian Reed, the reporter behind S-Town and the Trojan Horse Affair, is back on our airwaves with a new podcast called Question Everything, in which he reevaluates all that he has ever learned about journalism. It\u2019s an exercise in peeling back the layers of an industry that is dealing with record levels of mistrust. Nimo Sport Football | Inter Milan escaped Etihad Stadium with a surprise 0-0 draw against Manchester City in the Champions League, exacting a small measure of revenge for their narrow loss to Pep Guardiola\u2019s side in the 2023 final. Meanwhile, Celtic started the new Champions League format with a 5-1 win over Slovan Bratislava which eclipsed their biggest victory in the group stage era. Cricket | Essex have been fined \u00a3100,000, with half suspended, after admitting to a charge of racism at the county club which they failed to address between 2001 and 2010, the Cricket Regulator has announced. Football | Rob Couhig\u2019s prospective deal to buy Reading has collapsed, raising fears over the future of the troubled League One club. Couhig, the former Wycombe owner, satisfied the English Football League\u2019s owners\u2019 and directors\u2019 test but Reading\u2019s owner, Dai Yongge, failed to complete a deal to sell the club. The front pages The Guardian leads on \u201cFears of escalation as second wave of deadly explosions hits Lebanon\u201d. The Mirror calls it a \u201cWalkie-Talkie bomb blitz\u201d, while the Times has \u201c\u2018New phase\u2019 in conflict as walkie-walkie blasts kill 20\u201d. The Telegraph takes a similar line with \u201cNew phase of Mid-East war after walkie talkie blitz\u201d. The Sun simply goes with \u201cDeath by walkie talkie\u201d. The Mail has \u201cLabour has \u2018undermined\u2019 Israel, says Netanyahu\u201d. The Financial Times looks to the US with the headline \u201cFed\u2019s half-point cut to interest rates signals era of easing policy has begun\u201d. The i reports \u201cRogue landlord MP founded nursery firm accused of child safety breaches\u201d. Today in Focus Anushka Asthana on the perils of Keir Starmer\u2019s fragile majority The PM should be enjoying his political honeymoon but, explains Anushka Asthana, his wide but fragile majority is proving difficult to navigate. Cartoon of the day | Nicola Jennings The Upside A bit of good news to remind you that the world\u2019s not all bad At one point in its history, Lake Uru Uru in the Bolivian highlands supported the local community and was a sanctuary for wildlife. Residents used the lake sustainably for fishing, farming and irrigation, but it has since been completely destroyed by urban waste and mining pollution. Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, local indigenous women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019 to reverse some of the damage. They used totora reeds, a bulrush that can grow to six metres and is known to be very effective at absorbing heavy metals and contaminants, to clean the water. Slowly, wildlife \u2013 including flamingos and other bird species \u2013 have begun to return to the water. The team\u2019s aim is to plant 4,000 totora a year and completely clean up the lake, to bring back the birds and allow the community to grow vegetables again. \u201cWe have to empower ourselves because nothing will happen if we are just passive and wait for a solution to come from elsewhere,\u201d one of the team members, Tatiana Blanco, says. Sign up here for a weekly roundup of The Upside, sent to you every Sunday Bored at work? And finally, the Guardian\u2019s puzzles are here to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until tomorrow. Quick crossword Cryptic crossword Wordiply"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Tokyo demands answers over fatal stabbing of 10-year-old Japanese boy in China;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/japanese-boy-stabbed-china;2024-09-19T05:13:29Z",
        "text": "Japan\u2019s foreign minister, Yoko Kamikawa, has described as \u201cdespicable\u201d the alleged killing in China of a 10-year-old Japanese boy and demanded that Chinese authorities do everything possible to ensure the safety of Japanese nationals living in the country. The boy, who has not been named by Japanese media, died on Thursday, a day after he was allegedly stabbed about 200 metres from his school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. While it is unclear if the suspect, a 44-year-old man, targeted the boy because he was Japanese, there is concern that the incident could trigger a further deterioration in Sino-Japanese ties. The boy killed in Shenzhen had received hospital treatment after allegedly being stabbed in the stomach, while the suspected assailant was apprehended by police officers stationed near the boy\u2019s school, the Kyodo news agency reported, quoting Yoshiko Kijima, Japan\u2019s consul general in Guangzhou, which is responsible for Shenzhen. The Japanese embassy warned Japanese nationals living in China to be vigilant and take precautions. Kamikawa described the attack as \u201cdespicable\u201d, telling reporters in Tokyo that she was \u201cdeeply saddened\u201d by it. She said Japan\u2019s government had demanded that Chinese authorities \u201cmake every possible effort\u201d to ensure the safety of Japanese nationals in China and release a detailed explanation of the stabbing. Wednesday\u2019s attack occurred on the anniversary of the 1931 Mukden incident, in which Japanese troops staged a minor detonation on a railway track in Mukden, now Shenyang, as a precursor to Japan\u2019s invasion and occupation of Manchuria. Kamikawa said Japan had asked China\u2019s foreign ministry last week to step up safety measures at Japanese schools ahead of the anniversary. China\u2019s foreign ministry did not comment when asked about the significance of the date, which state media said was marked with air raid sirens in multiple cities. Lin Jian, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, said the case was being investigated, adding that Beijing would \u201ccontinue to take effective measures to protect the safety of all foreigners\u201d in the country. Kyodo cited witnesses who said the boy was bleeding from his stab wounds and had been given heart massage at the scene. Japan\u2019s vice foreign minister, Masataka Okano, summoned China\u2019s ambassador to Tokyo, Wu Jianghao, on Wednesday to voice \u201cserious concerns\u201d over the attack. Okano \u201cstrongly urged that security be strengthened, including around Japanese schools throughout China\u201d, Japan\u2019s foreign ministry said. Local authorities in Shenzhen, which is home to 3,600 Japanese nationals, reportedly voiced regret over the boy\u2019s death, adding that he had received \u201cfirst-rate\u201d medical care. Relations between China and Japan have worsened in recent years over Beijing\u2019s increasingly assertive military activity in waters around Japan, centring on a longstanding territorial dispute over the Senkakus, remote islands in the East China Sea that are administered by Japan but claimed by China, where they are known as the Diaoyu islands. On Wednesday, a Chinese aircraft carrier and two destroyers entered Japan\u2019s contiguous waters for the first time, sailing between the westernmost island of Yonaguni and nearby Iriomote and prompting Tokyo to convey its \u201cserious concerns\u201d to Beijing. Japan has also protested China\u2019s ban on imports of Japanese seafood, imposed after the release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began in August last year."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/shapeshifter-who-is-the-real-giorgia-meloni-italy-prime-minister;2024-09-19T04:00:08Z",
        "text": "In mid-June, Giorgia Meloni was in an exultant mood while hosting the G7 summit, a gathering of the world\u2019s most powerful nations, in the southern Italian region of Apulia. After days in which she presided over meetings speaking English, French and Spanish along with her native Italian, one evening she danced the pizzica \u2013 a traditional Apulian dance \u2013 twirling and hopping to the trance-like rhythmic folk music often played at local weddings at a contagious 100 beats per minute. Meloni\u2019s uninhibited performance expressed the self-confidence of an emerging political star, who, after a strong showing in the European elections just a few days earlier, was the hottest political leader in Europe. She took a selfie with Indian strongman Narendra Modi, which she posted on Instagram to her 3.5 million followers with the caption \u201cHello from the MELODI team.\u201d For a politician who only a few years ago was stuck at the margins of Italian politics as the head of a small rightwing party, Brothers of Italy, Meloni, at 47, appeared to be on top of the world. Meloni has worked hard to achieve the respectability that has eluded other rightwing parties such as Marine Le Pen\u2019s National Rally. She was received at the White House by Joe Biden and has been accepted by centrist parties within the EU. This is all the more surprising given the openly neo-fascist origins of her career. (Just before she was elected prime minister in late 2022, author Roberto Saviano wrote in the Guardian: \u201cGiorgia Meloni is a danger to Italy and the rest of Europe.\u201d) But in two years, she has surprised many people by her political pragmatism and shrewd ability. The head of a party traditionally hostile to the European Union, Meloni instead has worked closely with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and made necessary concessions to obtain EU funding for her domestic agenda. She has emerged as one of Ukraine\u2019s most reliable supporters \u2013 surprising given the strain of pro-Putin sentiment traditional on the European right \u2013 and convinced her ideological compatriot, Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n, to finally approve EU military aid to Ukraine. She managed to move the EU towards her own position on immigration, greatly expanding a programme to pay north African countries to stop the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean. With her hard-earned credibility, Meloni has worked her way out of the neo-fascist pigeonhole in which her critics tried to confine her. After that joyful dance in June, the unstoppable rise of Meloni and the European right seemed to stall. In France, where the National Rally appeared ready to assume power, the left won a surprising victory. The rightwing Vox in Spain quit the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) \u2013 the centre-right coalition that Meloni heads \u2013 to join a new grouping of rightwing parties called Patriots for Europe. Von der Leyen returned to the presidency of the European Commission without Meloni\u2019s help. On the domestic front, Meloni has had to grapple with the embarrassing publication of clandestine videos showing members of her party\u2019s youth group chanting fascist slogans, and making racist and antisemitic remarks. Meloni condemned the views expressed, saying they were \u201ccompletely incompatible with Brothers of Italy \u2013 and with the political line we have articulated for years\u201d. Several of those featured in the videos were forced to resign. For some, the incident unmasked \u201cthe true face\u201d of Brothers of Italy, as Giuseppe Provenzano, a member of parliament for the main opposition Democratic party, said. Others, even in the opposition, felt this was grossly unfair. \u201cWhat these young people said and did is a serious matter, but I don\u2019t believe for a minute that Meloni and her government are fascist,\u201d said Roberto Giachetti, a member of parliament for the centre-left Italia Viva party. He said the debate threatened to distract from the important issue: new laws that, he said, take Italy in an illiberal direction. One of Brothers of Italy\u2019s campaign slogans declared: \u201cWe defend God, Fatherland and Family.\u201d The slogan was part of Mussolini\u2019s propaganda, and greeted with dismay by Italy\u2019s leftwing press. But Meloni is careful to point out that the slogan was coined by Giuseppe Mazzini, one of Italy\u2019s founding fathers in the time of 19th-century unification. The fact that it can be read two ways \u2013 either as an expression of democratic nationalism or as an echo of fascism \u2013 is typical of a certain ambiguity that Meloni likes to maintain. The term some of her critics use is \u201cdoppiezza\u201d or doubleness. At the moment, Meloni is having it both ways: a moderate in economic and foreign policy, and a rightwinger on issues such as immigration and family policy, working hard to shut down illegal immigration and cracking down on gay couples trying to adopt children. Rather than worry at the question of whether Brothers of Italy are fascists, it is more to the point to see Meloni as a rightwing populist responding to 21st-century problems. She sees herself as defending Italy against the corrosive and homogenising effects of global capitalism, a hyperactive EU bureaucracy, secular values and chaotic immigration. Her record on tackling illegal immigration brought UK prime minister Keir Starmer (to the dismay of his Labour party backbenchers) to Italy this week, to get her advice. The economist Fabrizio Barca places Meloni as part of a neo-authoritarian turn in Europe and elsewhere that he says 40 years of neoliberal policies have produced. The loss of manufacturing jobs, the paring back of social protections and growing inequality have created high levels of anxiety and insecurity, which have made the idea of a strong leader \u2013 a \u201cCaesar\u201d who will take things in hand \u2013 appealing to millions of people. Since these leaders, whether Trump or Meloni, are unlikely to challenge the economic status quo, what they mainly offer is a defence of traditional forms of identity. Is the real Giorgia Meloni a closet fascist or a conservative democrat? It may not matter. Meloni is, above all, a skilled and disciplined politician who has risen to power by staking out territory on the centre-right. She and her party have grown their vote share from 2% to 26% in a few years \u2013 and it wasn\u2019t by appealing to the far right or promising an authoritarian adventure. She has avoided teaming up with Alternative for Germany and the National Rally. She let Matteo Salvini\u2019s Lega leapfrog her on the right, using much cruder xenophobic and racist language than Brothers of Italy \u2013 and she has stolen the Lega\u2019s more moderate voters. Her top advisers \u2013 some of whom I interviewed at length \u2013 are intelligent and thoughtful people, very conservative politically, but far less extreme than the people around Trump, for example. At the same time, Meloni the shapeshifter presents different sides to different audiences. She is scrupulously moderate when addressing the EU and international audiences, but a populist firebrand on the campaign trail. When addressing a rally of the Spanish rightwing party Vox, she denounced the threat from \u201cthe secularism of the left and Islamic radicalisation\u201d, and called for a defence of \u201cour civilisation\u201d against \u201cthose who want to destroy it\u201d. * * * Establishing herself as a tough but relatable figure has been central to Meloni\u2019s political persona. In the run-up to June\u2019s European elections, she asked voters to simply write her Christian name on the ballot. \u201cI am proud that most people continue to call me Giorgia. That\u2019s very important and precious to me. For years, people made fun of me because of my popular roots: they called me a fishmonger, a fruit seller, a street kid because they\u2019re so educated. What they never understood is that I am proud of being a woman of the people.\u201d According to her autobiography, when her parents\u2019 marriage ended, Meloni\u2019s mother moved her and her older sister, Arianna, from a fashionable Rome neighbourhood to a small apartment in the working-class area of Garbatella, where most people spoke Roman dialect. Her resourceful mother, Anna Paratore, supported the family by churning out romance novels. Her father, Francesco, moved to the Canary Islands. Giorgia and her sister would spend summers with him, but she had no contact with him after she turned 12. (He later spent several years in a Spanish prison after getting caught smuggling hashish from north Africa. He died in 2012.) Meloni is also a single parent, having chosen to have a child with TV presenter Andrea Giambruno while remaining unmarried and living separately. Last October, when Giambruno was caught on camera propositioning other women \u2013 \u201cCan I touch my package while I talk to you?\u201d \u2013 Meloni dropped him that same day. Despite being a single mother and the child of a single mother, Meloni is deeply committed to promoting the traditional family, consistent with Catholic religious values. Along with being the first female prime minister of Italy, Meloni is the first not to have attended university. Her real schooling came as a young rightwing political activist. At 15, she joined the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI), a political party founded by a group of diehard former fascists after the second world war. To understand what it meant to belong to the MSI in 1992, I met with Gianfranco Fini, who was the party\u2019s chairman at the time and guided it through a period of transformation from a neo-fascist or post-fascist party into a \u201cmodern and democratic rightwing party\u201d, which formally changed its name in 1995 to The National Alliance. I met Fini at his favourite cafe in downtown Rome. He appeared younger than his 72 years, tanned and elegantly dressed, wearing a pressed long-sleeve shirt and sports jacket despite the fierce summer heat. His sartorial style was always part of his political image. (Back in the 1980s his critics called him \u201ca fascist in a double-breasted suit\u201d.) The MSI, at the time Meloni joined, was divided between older members nostalgic for fascism and a younger generation who, after the cold war, were looking to find another way of being rightwing that was anti-Communist and critical of capitalism; a way of restoring national pride. Meloni\u2019s mentors were members of this second generation of the MSI who came of age during the 1970s, when political struggle in Italy lurched towards terrorism. Youth culture was dominated by the far left, and members of the MSI were often targeted for beatings. \u201cWe would wear motorcycle helmets when we went out to put up posters or distribute flyers,\u201d Fini told me. Meloni joined an MSI section called Colle Oppio (Oppian Hill), which functioned as a debating society, reading group and political party. Colle Oppio occupies a very particular place in the history of the Italian right. Its headquarters were in an ancient ruin on the Oppian Hill in Rome. In 1978, one of its members was beaten to death by leftwing extremists carrying metal wrenches. From then on, the section would hold an annual commemoration for the young man, and others who died in those years. This sense of belonging to an embattled minority fighting against a dominant, increasingly intolerant and sometimes violent leftwing youth culture left their imprint on Meloni. She was joining a kind of counter-counterculture. The MSI youth wore jackets and ties and kept their hair short while leftwing youth wore long hair and jeans. They opposed the legalisation of divorce and abortion, and pushed the \u201cwar on drugs\u201d and the reintroduction of the death penalty (abolished in 1948) for terrorists convicted of murder. \u201cThe MSI,\u201d Fini stated at a party congress in 1987, \u201cis antagonistic, transgressive, and anti-conformist, in complete contrast with the parties that make a business out of politics.\u201d Colle Oppio became, beginning in the late 1980s, something of a maverick group within the MSI. They delivered a letter to the chief rabbi of Rome apologising for the fascist antisemitic laws of 1938, held a conference on racism after skinheads attacked a young African in the Oppian Park and defended a Catholic hospital against older members of the MSI who wanted to get rid of a ward for Aids patients. \u201cThere was a standoff between a right that wanted to rid itself of fascist nostalgia and a right that wanted to play on people\u2019s worst instincts,\u201d said Fabio Rampelli, who ran Colle Oppio and is now a member of parliament and founding member of Meloni\u2019s Brothers of Italy. Meloni was, at least initially, on the nostalgic side. In 1996, aged 19, she gave an interview on French TV in which she stated: \u201cMussolini was a good politician. Everything he did, he did for the good of the country, unlike the politicians of the last 50 years.\u201d She has chosen her words more carefully since then. Meloni has inherited from Fini a party that has explicitly renounced fascism. And yet, when we spoke, he could not help noting that she could barely bring herself to pronounce the word \u201cantifascist\u201d \u2013 an important omission, since the birth of Italian democracy was defined in opposition to fascism. When he asked her why, a few years ago, Meloni replied: \u201cBecause for me antifascist means the slogan \u2018Killing a fascist is not a crime\u2019.\u201d What is paradoxical about this, Fini said, is phrases like that were not common during the 1990s when Meloni was becoming active in rightwing politics. \u201cShe has taken on the battles of her older brothers who had direct experience of the terrorism period,\u201d he said. Meloni, whenever she says the word \u201cleft\u201d (la sinistra), cannot help but pronounce it with a tone of contempt. \u201cI am not afraid to repeat for the umpteenth time that I have no nostalgia for fascism,\u201d Meloni writes. \u201cOn the other hand, I know the name and the story of every one of the young people who were sacrificed during the 1970s on the altar of antifascism.\u201d This May she made an important step, honouring Giacomo Matteotti, a socialist leader who was murdered by henchmen of Mussolini, on the 100th anniversary of Matteotti\u2019s death, referring to Matteotti as a \u201cfree and courageous man killed by fascist thugs\u201d \u2013 without, however, mentioning Mussolini. * * * Part of the search for a non-fascist identity led Meloni and other MSI youth into the world of fantasy literature, in particular JRR Tolkien\u2019s Hobbit and Lord of the Rings novels. There is a photograph of Meloni in her early days as an MSI militant, in the costume of Samwise Gamgee, the faithful companion of Frodo Baggins. The MSI youth group started holding Hobbit Camps in the 1970s, which have been described as a kind of Woodstock of the far right. The camps were revived in the 1990s and Tolkien\u2019s vision took on new meaning: Middle-earth resembled a pre-capitalist, medieval Europe of tribal groups fighting courageously against powerful enemies. It seemed a perfect metaphor for Italy contending with the forces of globalisation, a newly empowered EU bureaucracy in Brussels and boatloads of foreigners suddenly arriving on Italy\u2019s shores. \u201cI don\u2019t consider The Lord of the Rings fantasy,\u201d Meloni has said. In 1997, Meloni, aged 20, became the head of the Rome section of the MSI\u2019s youth organisation. In 1998, she started a political festival called Atreju, named after a hero in a bestselling fantasy novel, The Neverending Story, by the German writer Michael Ende. Atreju is a young boy who must use the power of imagination and storytelling to build a new world of values and defeat the nothingness that is spreading. \u201cA symbol of the struggle against nihilism, perfect for our vision,\u201d Meloni writes. The festival, under Meloni\u2019s leadership, has hosted rightwing figures including Viktor Orb\u00e1n and Steve Bannon, as well as politicians from the left. Last year, Elon Musk was a surprise guest. In 2004, at 27, Meloni was elected president of the National Alliance\u2019s youth group. She entered parliament at 29, and became minister of youth as a deputy president of Italy\u2019s Chamber of Deputies in 2008, the youngest in Italy\u2019s history. She assumed a leadership role as a result of a crisis on the right. In 2009, Fini decided to dissolve The National Alliance and fold it into the larger coalition that Silvio Berlusconi was creating, known as The People of Liberty. In effect, Fini killed off the party he had created by bringing the outcasts of the far right into government. In 2012, when Berlusconi refused to hold primaries to select a new leader, Meloni and several colleagues took the audacious step of leaving the coalition and forming a new party, which in many ways recouped the symbol, the headquarters and many of the members of Fini\u2019s National Alliance. Meloni originally wanted to call the party \u201cWe Italians\u201d, but Fabio Rampelli came up with Fratelli d\u2019Italia (Brothers of Italy), which is also the name by which the Italian national anthem is known. Using the opening words of the anthem made a claim to be the party of national unity, much as Berlusconi\u2019s Forza Italia (\u201cGo Italy\u201d), had done, launched in a World Cup year. * * * One way to understand Italian politics in the past 30 years is as a desperate, convulsive search for a populist saviour to cure the country\u2019s ills. In the early 1990s, Italy entered a period of stagnation, becoming one of the slowest-growing economies in the world. The financial crisis of 2008 hit Italy especially hard, and by 2022, Italy\u2019s standard of living for the average Italian household was 12% lower than it was before the crisis began. In this time, Italy has turned to one populist leader after another who promised \u2013 and failed \u2013 to deliver radical change: Berlusconi vowed to be the Margaret Thatcher of Italy and make everyone rich; former prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro promised to root out corruption; the comedian Beppe Grillo and his Five-Star Movement literally lifted a middle finger to Italy\u2019s political class by staging a national \u201cFuck you\u201d day; Matteo Renzi, a left-of-centre populist leader, promised to clear out Italy\u2019s old political class \u2013 hence his nickname \u201cil rottamatore\u201d, or the demolition man. Then there was Salvini, who declared in 2018 that \u201cfor the clandestine immigrants, the party\u2019s over, start packing your suitcases\u201d. Italy has the highest level of political volatility in Europe, with up to half the electorate changing party from one election to the next. Meloni\u2019s party got 4.4% in Italy\u2019s 2018 election, and 6.4% in the 2019 European elections. But by 2022 Brothers of Italy was Italy\u2019s largest party, with 26%, propelling Meloni into the role of prime minister. What was behind this sudden leap in fortunes? The short answer is that Meloni\u2019s was the only party to remain consistently in opposition during a decade in which Italy tried to work itself out of a period of protracted economic crisis. Meloni\u2019s aides pointed out that the pressure on her to join a \u201cgovernment of unity\u201d with 12 other parties across the ideological spectrum was enormous. But she held back, which put her in a perfect position to profit from pent-up popular discontent. As Five Star found, being anti-establishment and channelling popular dissatisfaction works much better in opposition. Meloni\u2019s challenge is to maintain the outsider energy while in power. The Meloni government must contend with a national debt at 137% of GDP, and a deficit of 7.2%. One of their first moves was to axe a guaranteed minimum income programme created by the Five Star Movement in 2019. Today, about 5.6 million Italians live below the poverty line \u2013 nearly 10% of the population \u2013 and the Reditto di Cittadinanza (citizenship income) gave a small monthly minimum income, averaging about \u20ac580 a month, to 1.3 million poorer Italian families. Meloni\u2019s people believe the guaranteed income is a handout that encourages people not to work, and \u201coffers citizens no real prospect of a better future\u201d, one of her chief ministers told me. Barca says that Meloni dislikes \u201cuniversalist programmes\u201d, preferring policies that benefit particular favoured groups. The government has given tax breaks and subsidies to businesses and startups, to families with children, to working women and to businesses hiring younger and/or female workers. Officials insist these policies are working, since unemployment has gone down from about 8.1% in 2022, when Meloni was elected, to 6.8% today. Meloni opposes the introduction of a minimum wage. More and more younger Italians work in short-term jobs and internships that often pay as little as \u20ac1,000 (\u00a3840) a month. As a result, roughly 550,000 young people left Italy between 2014 and 2023, according to the national statistics bureau ISTAT, about a third of them with university degrees. Italy is facing deep structural problems \u2013 lack of investment in R&amp;D, failure to fund programmes for training graduates \u2013 that would require considerable investments to tackle. Along with stagnating wages, in the past 30 years Italy has also become one of the more unequal countries in Europe, according to the economist Salvatore Morelli of the University of Rome. At the same time, it has virtually eliminated inheritance tax. Before 2000, Italy taxed large estates at a rate of 8%. Silvio Berlusconi, the richest man in the country, reduced the rate to zero. The subsequent government raised it to a modest 0.8%, and Meloni has no plans to increase them, insisting that Italians already pay enough taxes. * * * If Meloni\u2019s economic policies are fairly traditional centre-right, her government is much more hard-line when it comes to immigration, after a tumultuous decade in which boats carrying 1 million migrants reached Italian shores and an estimated 28,000 died at sea. In June, a Sikh agricultural worker named Satnam Singh had his arm torn off by a piece of farm equipment on a farm outside Rome. Because Singh was employed illegally, his employer, rather than calling an ambulance, left him by the side of the road with his severed arm in a vegetable box. Singh died not long after. The horrifying death opened a window on to an especially brutal aspect of the Italian economy: an estimated 230,000 farm workers in the \u201cblack economy\u201d, living essentially like modern slaves. Several days later, Meloni stood up in the Italian parliament and denounced Singh\u2019s \u201chorrible and inhumane death\u201d and \u201cthe disgusting behaviour of his employer \u2026 we must say it: this is the worst of Italy.\u201d She called for a moment of silence, and when two of her ministers remained seated, she said, very audibly, in Roman dialect: \u201cRaga\u2019 arzatevi pure voi.\u201d (\u201cGuys, you stand up, too.\u201d) It was a clever piece of political theatre. Rather than face criticism for the deplorable conditions of foreign agricultural labour, Meloni decided to show that, despite her fierce opposition to illegal immigration, she had compassion for the individuals toiling in the underground world of \u201clavoro nero\u201d (black work). In practice, however, Meloni\u2019s government has made it much less likely for asylum seekers to have their claims accepted, and taken protections away from many people who already had them. Meloni has made a tougher stand on illegal immigration a staple of her campaign speeches. Between 2016 and 2018, Meloni often spoke of \u201cethnic substitution\u201d, the conspiracy theory also known as the \u201cgreat replacement\u201d in which obscure forces were imposing immigration on Italy to replace its native population with a low-wage foreign labour force. Since becoming prime minister, Meloni has toned down her rhetoric. But, as head of government, she has proceeded on two separate tracks \u2013 publicly working to stop illegal immigration on the one hand, while on the other, tripling the number of foreign workers Italian employers can hire. Her government has also made it much harder to obtain asylum, driving more people into the underground economy. Meloni has worked to get the EU to follow her lead on immigration. In 2023, Meloni and von der Leyen flew to Tunis to sign an agreement with Tunisia\u2019s strongman president Kais Saied that gives Tunisia \u20ac105m for \u201cborder management\u201d and about \u20ac1bn in loans and financial support. In 2024, Meloni and von der Leyen worked out similar deals with Mauritania and Egypt, hoping to close off the main departure points. The deals build on an agreement the Italian government reached with Libya in 2016 under a left-of-centre government. The EU has been paying and training Libya\u2019s coastguard to intercept migrant boats, and paying them to house migrants indefinitely in brutal private Libyan prisons controlled by armed militia groups. In Tunisia, Al Jazeera reports, \u201cMigrants and asylum seekers are bussed out to Tunisia\u2019s desert borderlands with Libya or Algeria and abandoned with no money, mobile phones, food or water \u2013 in stark violation of international humanitarian law.\u201d The Meloni government believes that their policies are beginning to work: the number of illegal immigrants reaching Italy by ship during the first seven months of 2024 is down by about 62% compared with the previous year, although critics say the flow of immigration is simply returning to the level it was at in 2021. While Meloni\u2019s policy of paying north African countries to stop illegal immigration is not new, it is a far more comprehensive effort to \u201cexternalise Italy\u2019s borders\u201d. What is new and more radical is the Meloni government\u2019s plan to outsource the detention of illegal migrants to Albania. The Italian government is building a facility in Albania to house immigrants who are unlikely to qualify for asylum status, from where they can be returned to their countries of origin. \u201cAt the moment in which people are rescued at sea, we will make a distinction,\u201d a high-level aide to Meloni explained to me. \u201cFragile individuals \u2013 women, children or people who are fleeing persecution \u2013 Syrians, Afghans \u2013 will not be sent to Albania. Adult males who come from a list of what we call \u2018safe countries\u2019 \u2013 Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Bangladesh \u2013 people immigrating for economic reasons \u2013 in most cases, will be returned to their country of origin.\u201d Having ditched the previous government\u2019s unpopular Rwanda deportation scheme, Keir Starmer wanted to discuss the Albania programme with Meloni, and figure out how he might replicate it. The Italian opposition spokesman for foreign affairs calls the Albania plan \u201cuseless, expensive and cruel\u201d. It will house at most 3,000 people, many of whom will almost certainly be sent back to Italy. Its initial cost is estimated at \u20ac653m \u2013 far more than housing them in Italy. It is cruel, he said, because you are \u201cbreaking up families, based on an arbitrary criterion (young adult males), and prolonging the suffering of people who deserve to be helped\u201d. One of Meloni\u2019s senior advisers replied that the Albania facility will send a signal to potential migrants that illegal immigration will not be tolerated. And yet Italy needs immigration. With an ageing population declining by 400,000 per year, employers are pressing the government to let them hire more foreign workers. Behind the scenes, the Meloni government has agreed to allow Italian employers to hire 450,000 foreign workers over the next three years, almost all of whom will be people who entered the country illegally years before \u2013 the very people Meloni is trying to keep out. What remains unspoken is something that Meloni has articulated in the past: that Italy does not want immigrants from Africa, especially those who are Muslim. \u201cEvery nation,\u201d Meloni has said, \u201chas the right to choose an immigration that is more compatible with its own culture. In Venezuela, there are millions of people starving \u2013 they are Christian \u2013 often of Italian origin. So, if we need immigrants, let\u2019s take them from Venezuela.\u201d Salvatore Fachile, an immigration lawyer in Rome, offers a cynical interpretation of Italy\u2019s immigration policy, which he blames equally on the left and the right: it is convenient for Italy to have a shadow army of millions of foreign workers in a legally tenuous position. They may feel obliged to work longer hours at lower pay and put up with dangerous working conditions. \u201cYou have 500,000 illegal workers who are completely vulnerable and blackmailable by their employers and another at least 2 million foreigners who are in a legally fragile position. This has, in turn, weakened the bargaining power of Italian workers, who now must compete with foreign workers to accept lower pay and longer hours.\u201d Meloni\u2019s government has set about removing asylum status from those who have already been granted international protection. Foreigners with legal work contracts who are paying taxes have been made illegal immigrants overnight. Meloni\u2019s immigration policy, in short, is a tangle of contradictions: torn between the desire to prevent foreigners from arriving and a desperate need to replenish the declining workforce; between its stated goal of restoring legality to immigration and a drive to remove legal status from many foreign workers while refusing to relax Italy\u2019s highly restrictive citizenship rules. * * * Since the budget crunch and the EU straitjacket make it difficult for Meloni to undertake ambitious domestic policies, passing new laws is an inexpensive way for her to establish her government\u2019s rightwing identity. The first law Meloni\u2019s government passed was one punishing the organisers of illegal raves in warehouses or abandoned factories. The new law would send rave organisers to prison for three to six years. When asked why her government was cracking down on a phenomenon not widely seen as a threat to public safety, Meloni replied: \u201cIt\u2019s a signal I want to send: that the days are over in Italy for people who refuse to respect the rules.\u201d Along with the law against raves, there was a law severely punishing anyone who steered a boat bringing migrants to Italy. (Intended to punish the smugglers, the law ignores the fact that they generally force the migrants to steer the boats.) A law against encouraging anorexia. A couple of laws directed at the Roma: one aimed at parents keeping their children out of school and another punishing adults for encouraging children to beg. There were laws to punish popular forms of protest: occupying buildings and trying to block major public works projects \u2013 a strategy sometimes used by environmental groups. Another new law made surrogacy a \u201cuniversal crime\u201d, meaning that Italian couples who travel overseas to adopt children through a surrogate mother can be prosecuted and jailed when they return. The Meloni government refers to surrogacy as \u201cutero in affitto\u201d (rent-a-womb). \u201cFor a mother to sell her own child is a crime anywhere in the world \u2013 a universal crime \u2013 so why is it not a crime if a mother sells her child before it\u2019s born?\u201d says Meloni\u2019s minister of the family, of natality and equal opportunity, Eugenia Roccella. In Roccella, Meloni has found a sharp-tongued advocate who is unafraid to take highly provocative positions in defence of the traditional family. She is against gay marriage, and proposed getting rid of civil unions, which were introduced in 2016 and grant gay couples some legal protection. \u201cI think the civil unions law is \u2026 a lockpick for the progressive destruction of the family, of parenthood and defined sexual identity,\u201d she said in 2017. Roccella defends her rightwing government\u2019s position using the traditional language of the left: the language of freedom, of rights and of feminism. She insists that the law against surrogacy is meant to protect women against exploitation and reducing life to a monetised commodity. She insists that her resistance to adding homophobia to a bill designed to punish hate crimes is a matter of freedom of expression: mightn\u2019t a vigorous defence of the traditional family be construed as homophobic? Anyone is free to love whom they like, she says, but her efforts are focused on helping what she sees as an embattled and vulnerable minority: mothers and couples with children. The Meloni government has increased the number of daycare centres and created economic benefits for families with children and working mothers. Roccella points with pride to a small but significant uptick in female employment. While it is hard to object to efforts to help families with children, it is also hard not to see Italy\u2019s family law as discriminating against everyone else. Adoption is limited to heterosexual couples who are married or have lived together for three years. IVF is essentially banned, with an exception for heterosexual couples who can demonstrate infertility problems. Italian women who decide to have a child on their own routinely leave the country to have the procedure. Most of these policies \u2013 greatly influenced by the Vatican \u2013 were on the books before Meloni took office. But the Meloni government has taken things further by forbidding mayors (who carry out civic duties and used to have a degree of autonomy) to issue birth certificates to children born of surrogate mothers, and to children born to lesbian couples who used artificial insemination \u2013 a move that seems positively punitive. To Meloni, the defence of the boundaries of gender and family are like the national boundaries she is trying to defend against bureaucratic overreach from Brussels and the homogenising forces of globalisation. As she said in a 2019 speech that has become extremely famous: \u201cNow they want to remove the words \u2018father\u2019 and \u2018mother\u2019 from our identity documents. Because the family is an enemy, national identity is an enemy, sexual identity is an enemy \u2026 [But] we will defend our identity. I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian and I am Christian. You will never take that from me! You will never take that from me!\u201d * * * In early September, Meloni faced a crisis of what used to be called family values, when her culture minister resigned in what was almost a cliched case of an old-fashioned sex scandal. Gennaro Sangiuliano, 62 and married, was at the centre of a media storm when it came out that he had made his mistress, Maria Rosaria Boccia, an unpaid consultant for \u201cmajor events\u201d at his ministry. Meloni initially dismissed the scandal as mere \u201cgossip\u201d but then accepted Sangiuliano\u2019s resignation when it came out Boccia was recording conversations and even making secret videos inside the parliament building with Ray-Ban spyglasses. Meloni\u2019s relationship with the mainstream press has been contentious and combative, leading to concerns about press freedom. In April, three journalists of the daily newspaper Domani were placed under investigation by prosecutors in Perugia for a piece published in 2022 revealing that Guido Crossetto, a co-founder of Brothers of Italy, had received millions of euros as a consultant to Italian arms manufacturers, representing a possible conflict of interest in his job as Minister of Defence. \u201cThe minister threatened to sue the journalists but never did,\u201d Domani\u2019s editor commented. \u201cHe couldn\u2019t because the information we published was true \u2026 instead he preferred to ask prosecutors to identify Domani\u2019s sources.\u201d For having published confidential information, the journalists could risk up to nine years in prison, according to the National Press Association. In mid-July, the European Commission issued a report on the rule of law in Italy. It took the Meloni government to task on a number of fronts, and expressed concern over the independence of the press. \u201cCases of physical attacks, death threats and other forms of intimidation have been reported \u2026 75 incidents in the first six months of 2024.\u201d This summer, four members of the far-right group Casa Pound were arrested for beating up a young journalist who tried to film a gathering of their group. Meloni and other members of her government have made use of Italy\u2019s defamation laws to pursue their critics. Meloni sued and won damages from a journalist who mockingly described her as being four feet tall. (She is 5ft 2in.) She also sued the writer Roberto Saviano for calling her and one of her ministers \u201cbastards\u201d over their immigration policies. The scholar Antonio Scurati was prevented from reading a text he had prepared on the anniversary of the end of the second world war in which he criticised Meloni\u2019s reluctance to \u201crepudiate her neo-fascist past\u201d and her government\u2019s efforts to \u201crewrite history\u201d. The host of a programme on Rai state TV who had invited Scurati on had her airtime drastically cut back. Political parties exerting control of state TV is nothing new in Italy, but many journalists insist that Brothers of Italy has taken things to a new level, referring to it as Telemeloni. Perhaps of greater concern in the light of worries about Meloni\u2019s tendency to authoritarianism are two major constitutional changes her government is pursuing. The first is a judicial reform that would mean government prosecutors could not become judges and vice versa. This reform, Meloni\u2019s government insists, prevents cosy collegiality between prosecutors and judges, and is the only way to guarantee a truly impartial trial. It continues a longstanding battle begun by Berlusconi, who waged war against the Italian magistrature, accusing it of leftist bias. Italian magistrates fear this is a first step toward placing prosecutors under the control of the executive branch. Nicola Gratteri, a prominent anti-mafia prosecutor, noted in a recent television interview that the proposed reform \u201cwas a solution to a problem that doesn\u2019t exist\u201d. The mother of all reforms, however, which concerns von der Leyen and the European Commission, is a proposed revision of the Italian constitution to permit the direct election of the prime minister. Under the Italian constitution, the president of the Republic appoints the prime minister in consultation with the parties who have won the most votes. Usually this results in the leader of the largest party becoming prime minister, but when members of the governing coalition fall out with one another, the president may appoint someone else and cobble together a majority with a different lineup. Meloni insists that this system is anti-democratic and a cause of Italy\u2019s political instability: there have been 69 governments since 1945. If prime ministers were directly elected, she argues, they would generally last the full five years of each legislature, and be able to carry out their agenda. Given Italy\u2019s proportional electoral system, in which the largest party rarely gets more than 25-30% of the vote, proposals being discussed include a \u201cbonus\u201d in which the winning party would receive an extra share of seats to achieve a more stable majority. These reforms make many people, including many in the European Commission, nervous. Viktor Orb\u00e1n has used \u201cwinner compensation mechanisms\u201d, similar to the one Meloni is proposing, to maintain a supermajority in the Hungarian parliament, even when his party receives less than half the vote. Meloni \u2013 almost certain not to obtain the two-thirds majority in parliament required to revise the constitution \u2013 will need to call for a national referendum to make Italy a presidential republic. Given their experience with fascism, Italians have generally resisted greater concentration of power, but Meloni\u2019s popularity, and public frustration over a series of ineffective governments, make the outcome of a referendum far from clear. \u2022 Follow the Long Read on X at @gdnlongread, listen to our podcasts here and sign up to the long read weekly email here."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Swedish children to start school a year earlier in move away from play;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/swedish-children-to-start-school-a-year-earlier-six;2024-09-19T04:00:05Z",
        "text": "Children in Sweden are to start school at six years old from 2028, a year earlier than at present, in an overhaul of the country\u2019s education system that signals a switch from play-based teaching for younger children. The government has announced plans to replace a compulsory preschool year for six-year-olds known as f\u00f6rskoleklass with an additional year in grundskola (primary school). The centre-right coalition government, led by the Moderates and backed by the far-right Sweden Democrats, announced the plan before the presentation of the 2025 budget, due on Thursday. The plan dates back to the previous government and is also backed by the left-leaning Social Democrats. The education minister, Johan Pehrson, said \u201cschool must go back to the basics\u201d and added that there would be a stronger focus on early learning to read and write, as well as mathematics. \u201cThis should lead to students having a better opportunity to develop basic skills such as reading, writing and counting and to reach the goals in school,\u201d he said. Critics say the plan goes against research that shows children\u2019s development is best supported by play-based learning environments, encouraging them to explore, create and develop through play, curiosity and guided discovery. Union leaders fear the move could put many specialised preschool teachers out of work. Christian Eidevald, a visiting professor of early childhood education at S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University, said: \u201cBy pushing six-year-olds into a more formalised school setting, we risk losing the essential play-based methods that have been shown to foster children\u2019s development. This is not just a pedagogical preference: studies confirm that play is foundational for early learning and the development of critical skills such as language and problem-solving.\u201d Eidevald is among a group of academics who study children and pedagogy, including Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, a senior professor of pedagogy at the University of Gothenburg, who have written an article calling into question the government\u2019s reasoning. \u201cIncorporating the six-year-olds into primary school without taking into account their specific developmental needs and without taking advantage of the unique competence of preschool teachers is a step in the wrong direction and will not lead to increased equality,\u201d they wrote. \u201cInstead of implementing structural changes, resources should be invested in raising the quality in education with competent teachers.\u201d \u00c5sa Westlund, the Social Democrats\u2019 education spokesperson, said her party\u2019s support for the plan was dependent on maintaining a mix of learning and play in what she said should act as a \u201cbridge between preschool and school\u201d. Some experts were positive about the plan. Johannes Westberg, an education professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, said the move made sense and would bring Swedish schooling more into line with the rest of Europe. \u201cIt will probably imply a schoolification of the f\u00f6rskoleklass, so more traditional school pedagogy will be provided already for these six-year-olds, but not necessarily affect the entire comprehensive school as such,\u201d he said. Other education measures to be presented in the budget include investing in \u201cemergency schools\u201d for temporarily relocating children when there are issues at school, greater investment in textbooks to support screen-free environments, and funding for teacher and preschool-teacher training."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ukraine war briefing: Trump says he will \u2018probably\u2019 meet Zelenskiy in US next week;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/ukraine-war-briefing-trump-says-he-will-probably-meet-zelenskiy-in-us-next-week;2024-09-19T02:55:15Z",
        "text": "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would \u201cprobably\u201d meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who will be in the US next week to address a meeting of the UN security council on Russia\u2019s war in his country. \u201cProbably, yes,\u201d Trump said in response to a question from a reporter about whether he will meet the Ukrainian leader. Trump did not provide further details. Zelenskiy said in August he wanted to present a peace plan to US President Joe Biden, vice-president Kamala Harris and Trump. While Trump and Zelenskiy talked over the phone in July, they have not talked in person since Trump\u2019s 2017-2021 term. Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that his \u201cVictory Plan\u201d, intended to bring peace to Ukraine while keeping the country strong and avoiding all \u201cfrozen conflicts\u201d, was now complete after much consultation. Zelenskiy pledged last month to present his plan to Biden, presumably next week when he is in the US. While providing daily updates on the plan\u2019s preparation, Zelenskiy has given few clues of the contents, indicating only that it aims to create terms acceptable to Ukraine, now locked in conflict with Russia for more than two and a half years. The Biden administration still is not convinced that it should give Ukraine the authority to launch long-range missiles deeper into Russia, and US officials say they are seeking more detailed information about how Kyiv would use the weapons and how they fit into the broader strategy for the war, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. US officials said they have asked Ukraine to spell out more clearly its combat objectives. The report comes a week after Biden discussed easing restrictions on Ukraine\u2019s use of long-range missiles supplied by the west with British prime minister Keir Starmer. A Ukrainian drone attack on a large Russian weapons depot caused a blast that was picked up by earthquake monitoring stations, in one of the biggest strikes on Moscow\u2019s military arsenal since the war began. Pro-Russian military bloggers said Ukraine struck an arsenal for the storage of missiles, ammunition and explosives in Toropets, a historic town more than 300 miles north of Ukraine and about 230 miles west of Moscow. Videos and images on social media showed a huge ball of flame rising high into the night sky and detonations thundering across a lake, in a region not far from the border with Belarus. The European Union must be quick to increase its defences as Russia may be ready for a confrontation in six to eight years, the nominee to be the EU\u2019s first defence commissioner told Reuters in an interview. Andrius Kubilius, a former prime minister of Lithuania, has been tapped to boost the continent\u2019s arms industry, by getting EU countries to spend more on European weapons and procure jointly \u2013 as well as by getting companies themselves to cooperate more across borders. The new post reflects how security has risen to the top of the EU\u2019s political agenda since Russia\u2019s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. \u201cDefence ministers and Nato generals agree that Vladimir Putin could be ready for confrontation with Nato and the EU in six to eight years,\u201d Kubilius, a fierce critic of Russia and a supporter of Ukraine, said on Wednesday. Putin on Wednesday said he had ordered a boost of Russia\u2019s army to 1.5 million active soldiers earlier this week to ensure a well-trained military. The president on Monday signed a decree boosting the number of active troops by 180,000 soldiers \u2013 making the Russian army the second largest in the world by active troop size. Russia\u2019s counteroffensive to retake Ukrainian-held territory in the Kursk region has been \u201cstopped\u201d, a spokesperson from Ukraine\u2019s military administration there told AFP on Wednesday, after Moscow said it was beginning to repel the surprise incursion. Russia earlier this month said it had taken back several villages from Ukraine in the region, where Kyiv has held on to swathes of land since its shock offensive began more than a month ago. \u201cThey tried to attack from the flanks, but they were stopped there,\u201d spokesperson Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky from Ukraine\u2019s military administration in Kursk told AFP. The British government on Wednesday said it summoned Russia\u2019s ambassador to condemn what it called Moscow\u2019s \u201cunprecedented and unfounded public campaign of aggression against the UK\u201d. Andrei Kelin was told that Russia\u2019s behaviour, including its \u201cmalicious and completely baseless\u201d claims of spying against six British diplomats, contravened the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, the foreign ministry said. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indefinitely postponed a staff mission to Moscow this week to review the Russian economy for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine, after the move came under heavy criticism from several of Kyiv\u2019s European allies. After revelations in the Guardian of widespread condemnation, the IMF said it would spend more time gathering information for a \u201crigorous analysis\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018A long way to go\u2019: in revolution\u2019s wake, questions linger over direction of the new Bangladesh;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/bangladesh-protests-sheikh-hasina-amir-chowdhury;2024-09-19T02:07:28Z",
        "text": "Like so many of Sheikh Hasina\u2019s political rivals, Amir Chowdhury was in jail the day that the prime minister fled Bangladesh. Chowdhury, a senior leader in the opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP), had been picked up by police three weeks earlier, in July, as mass protests began to engulf the country and a violent crackdown began in response. It was Chowdhury\u2019s third stint in prison since Hasina took power 15 years ago and began a campaign to destroy his party. This time it was university students, not opposition parties, who started the protests. As their movement began to gather momentum and public anger swelled against Hasina, the BNP and other parties also took to the streets, alongside garment workers, farmers, lawyers and intellectuals. The state hit back at protesters, using beatings, teargas, rubber bullets and live ammunition, but the protests swelled, escalating into a fully fledged revolution calling for the end to Hasina\u2019s autocratic rule. Thousands were arrested and over 1,000 people were killed over the course of three weeks, one of the bloodiest episodes in Bangladesh\u2019s history. On 5 August, Chowdhury became aware that the prison cells around him, filled with arrested students and BNP members, were abuzz. Some had smuggled in radios and were listening to the news as it began to be reported that Hasina had fled in a helicopter as almost a million people had marched towards her residence. \u201cWhen we heard she had gone,\u201d said Chowdhury, \u201cit was like a bomb blast in the jail.\u201d The next morning Chowdhury and swathes of fellow prisoners were freed. With just over a month since Hasina\u2019s regime collapsed, Bangladesh now stands at a crossroads. At the request of the triumphant student leaders, Mohammed Yunus, the Nobel Laureate and former political rival of Hasina, agreed to return to the country from the US to head an interim government, tasked with restoring democracy. Many of the advisers Yunus has appointed were once deemed enemies of the state by Hasina, including prominent NGO heads, lawyers, journalists, activists and students. A giddy optimism still grips the streets of the capital Dhaka. People spoke gleefully of a \u201csecond independence for Bangladesh\u201d, of the relief of the overnight return of freedom of speech and no longer having to fearfully look over their shoulders as they discussed politics. Sitting in a hotel lobby in Dhaka, renowned human rights activist Nur Khan Liton recalled that, until a few weeks ago, he had been under constant police surveillance and could never have imagined being able to hold meetings freely in public. BNP leaders, many of whom were slapped with hundreds of criminal cases, revelled at no longer spending their days sitting in courtrooms or jail cells. Yet the country still has yet to return to normality and remains in a state of insecurity. For the past month, hundreds of factories have been shut down due to mass protests, bringing the lucrative garment industry to an economically devastating halt. Police \u2013 routinely used by Hasina\u2019s regime to terrorise civilians and commit abuses \u2013 still remain largely absent from the streets, fearing attacks by civilians. Several police stations have been set on fire and in many instances, civilians have taken to calling student groups rather than the police to help resolve incidents or report injustices. This week, in what many saw as a bid to get the law and order situation under control, the interim government granted the military special powers to carry out policing duties, including arrests and search warrants. While the government insisted the measure was only temporary, lasting two months, the move was viewed with some concern. Analysts say the roster of ambitious democratic reforms that Yunus and his advisers have promised are complex \u2013 involving rebuilding key state institutions from scratch \u2013 and are likely to take years to implement. For students at the forefront of the revolution, several of whom now sit at Yunus\u2019s right hand, the task at hand is a complete overhaul of everything from the police to the judiciary, the banks and the electoral system to ensure that authoritarianism can never take hold again. Many also spoke of the necessity of changing the constitution, which Hasina had amended. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge and complicated process,\u201d said Rezwan Ahmed Refat, a protest coordinator who is studying law at Dhaka university. \u201cThe main challenge is that many of the fascist systems that Hasina put in place are still there. We have a long way to go with reforming the government secretariat, the police and the judiciary. Until these institutions are independent, then nothing will change.\u201d \u2018These reforms will take time\u2019 Refat said that while Yunus still had a powerful mandate from millions who took to the streets, if the government did not move faster and clearly lay out the specifics of their reform agenda soon, students would not hesitate to protest once again. Privately, several prominent figures voiced concern that the interim government appeared to be \u201clost\u201d and trying to take on too much. Few however wanted to speak publicly, not wanting to be seen to undermine Yunus. After the public highs following Hasina\u2019s departure, the government admitted that the weight of expectation was enormous and the pathway to reform was fraught with challenges, particularly as Hasina left the country in deep economic crisis. According to government advisers, tens of billions of dollars have been illegally laundered out of Bangladesh by Hasina\u2019s so-called \u201ccronies\u201d since 2014, and the scale of the corruption and losses are still only just becoming apparent. Touhid Hossain, the newly appointed foreign affairs adviser, called for patience, stating that the outlines of exactly what the interim government meant by reform was \u201cstill being finalised\u201d and would probably \u201ccrystallise in the next few months\u201d. Hossain emphasised that he, like others in the new government, stepped up simply to implement a new vision of Bangladesh that the youth have sacrificed their lives for. Yunus himself is already 84. \u201cOnce we do the job, we will hold the elections,\u201d said Hossain. \u201cPoliticians will come in and run the country and we will fade away. None of us has any ambition to hold any post in the future government.\u201d Nonetheless, one of the biggest questions is just how long they intend on staying in power. While initially it was suggested it would be just a few months, many now believe it could be up to five or six years, in order to give them time to overhaul the country\u2019s key institutions. Activists tasked by the government to look into issues such as enforced disappearances said it would take them 18 months minimum just to do their initial investigations. \u201cI would not speculate on timeframe, but I don\u2019t think that it is going to be over in three or six months. These reforms will take time,\u201d said Hossain. For now, political parties, namely the BNP, have agreed to step back and let the interim government implement reforms with their tacit support, namely in the hope that Yunus\u2019s strong connections with the US and other western countries will encourage much-needed foreign economic assistance into the country. \u201cIf this transition government does not succeed, it will not only destroy the government, it will destroy Bangladesh,\u201d said Abdul Moyeen Khan, a senior BNP leader. Yet the BNP pushed back at the suggestions of the unelected interim government lasting several years. It is widely acknowledged that with Hasina\u2019s Awami League party in tatters, with most of its leaders in hiding or abroad, the BNP would sweep any election. Analysts said BNP\u2019s impatience to return to power could be a cause of unrest down the line, with the first protests taking place this week. Others warned that an ongoing political vacuum could enable more extremist Islamist elements, already present in Bangladesh, to take greater hold. But on the streets, most remained hopeful for the future. Gazi Jakaria, 35, was among about 400 people who was partially blinded during the protests after he was shot at by police and then held in jail for several weeks with no treatment. \u201cI have no regrets about making this sacrifice to bring down Hasina,\u201d he said. \u201cWe went out into the streets to fight for change and that\u2019s what Yunus\u2019s government is doing so I am happy. We can\u2019t fix everything overnight.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018It breaks us deeply\u2019: anguish as China closes door to foreign adoptions;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/china-ends-adoptions-international-foreign-intercountry;2024-09-19T01:09:01Z",
        "text": "Americans Lauren and Harrison Smith met in China as students, and discussed their desire to adopt from the country early on in their relationship. As soon as they reached the minimum age of 30, the couple put together their applications and submitted for inspections of their home in Kunming, the capital of south-west China\u2019s Yunnan province, where they lived with their two-year-old daughter. \u201cIn September 2019, we saw our son\u2019s picture for the first time and were able to submit a letter of intent to adopt him,\u201d Lauren told the Guardian. The boy, who the couple named Benaiah, had been given up by his parents at the age of 15 months, after suffering a head injury. Lauren assumed the parents had loved him in that first year of life but didn\u2019t have the capacity to care for him. The couple received all approvals except permission to travel and collect Benaiah. But before the Smiths were able to continue with the adoption process, the Covid-19 pandemic hit, they were forced to return to the US. Months of delays stretched into years. \u201cIn our years of waiting, we have created family traditions for our son \u2026 He has come to know us as mama and baba and knows his sisters as jiejie and meimei,\u201d said Lauren, referring to the Chinese terms for older sister and younger sister. Then, on 4 September, Lauren got a call that changed everything: \u201cMy phone started to ring, I looked and saw it was our adoption agency case worker and my heart started to race. \u2018This is it!\u2019 I thought, but as soon as I heard her voice I knew this call wasn\u2019t a call of good news.\u201d The call reported that a Chinese government spokesperson, answering a question from a journalist, had just confirmed that after 35 years the country was ending international adoptions of Chinese children. Only those applicants who had been approved for travel to collect their child would be finalised. The spokesperson, Mao Ning, did not explain the decision other than to say that it was in line with the spirit of relevant international conventions. \u201cWe express our appreciation to those foreign governments and families, who wish to adopt Chinese children, for their good intention and the love and kindness they have shown,\u201d Mao added. The news confirmed what some had suspected was coming for years, after watching a decline in the number of children being put up for adoption, combined with an increasingly closed-off China which is trying to reverse falling birthrates. For couples midway through the adoption process, the announcement was crushing. \u201cCorinne met our six children [through video calls], saw her home and the room that we had prepared for her, and experienced the excitement our children felt in preparation for her arrival,\u201d said Anne and John Contant, about the young girl with special needs they were matched with in 2019. \u201cOur daughter is turning nine years old next month. She should have been home almost five years ago. We are still just as committed to bringing Corinne home now as when we were matched with her in the fall of 2019. Our family is devastated by China\u2019s announcement.\u201d \u2018A variety of emotion\u2019 An estimated 160,000 Chinese children were adopted by foreign parents over the three-and-a-half decades it was allowed, with more than half of them going to the US. China\u2019s adoption programme was primarily driven by the one-child policy which, for decades, enforced strict limits on Chinese parents. Pregnant women were forced to have abortions, children born in breach of the limits were taken from parents unwillingly, and baby girls were disproportionately abandoned by couples in a society that heavily favoured sons. Many Chinese parents had no idea their child had been adopted out to overseas families. In other horrifying cases children were kidnapped and sold to welfare institutes that organised overseas adoptions in what had become a profitable industry. Cindy Zhu Huijgen, the Dutch journalist who asked Mao the crucial question in the press conference, said hearing the answer felt \u201ccathartic\u201d. Zhu Huijgen was adopted herself by Dutch parents in 1993. \u201cBut any relief I feel is tempered by knowing that China\u2019s government will probably never fully acknowledge the system\u2019s abuses,\u201d she wrote in the New York Times. Xavier Huang, a Chinese adoptee and development manager at the Nanchang Project, told the Guardian there was \u201csuch a variety of emotion\u201d among Chinese adoptees in the wake of the announcement. \u201cThe reality for many people is that regardless of how loving and happy the family these adoptees grow up in, there are a series of huge traumas that we all experience,\u201d they said. \u201cThe feeling of being treated as other, being approached as other. We feel a deep pain and grief at having to reject that part of ourselves.\u201d Huang said they feel a lot of joy and hope \u201cto know these children who need homes have the prospect of staying in their communities with other racial peers\u201d, but also more isolated knowing there will be no more people like them. \u201cMy first reaction was \u2018Good, no more children will have to experience what I did,\u2019 because being removed from your birthplace, culture, heritage, and people is such a cruel and unusual life sentence. But then anxiety started to kick in,\u201d wrote one adoptee in a testimony published by the Nanchang Project, a US-based organisation that helps adoptees try to connect with their birth families. \u201cIt just feels odd. I know the one child policy is over, but to think other possible adoptees don\u2019t get the chance is sad to me. Being adopted was one of the best things to happen to me,\u201d wrote another, Molly Brown. \u2018I hope and pray he is told he is loved\u2019 A key concern among observers is what will happen to the children with disabilities and special needs, who in recent years formed the largest proportion of international adoptions. Between 2014 and 2018, 95% of the more than 12,000 adoptions by international couples were of a child with special needs. Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, says \u201cthere is an absence of interest in China in adopting those kids\u201d. That makes international adoption one of the only routes for disabled children to have a real family, Huang said. In 2019, Chinese officials said it had been difficult in the past to convince Chinese couples to adopt older children or those with disabilities, but that was starting to change. Wang Jinhua, director of the social affairs department at the time, said \u201cmore and more domestic families are beginning to adopt children with mild disabilities or orphaned children who have recovered from illness\u201d. But Huang says not enough has been done to make it easier for local families to adopt the 98% of children in welfare institutions who have greater needs. \u201cWhat is at stake, is the future of those more than 50,000 kids who now live in the state orphanages \u2026 And as a result of the [ban on] international adoption, they will be condemned in those institutions until 18 years old, and then after that, we don\u2019t know.\u201d Details are scant about when the cancellation was decided, and what will happen now to the children and prospective parents still in the system. Early signs of a bureaucratic slowdown of international adoptions are littered among the stories of those affected. A temporary pause was attributed to the pandemic, but several couples told the Guardian of other measures that couldn\u2019t be explained by Covid restrictions. Some said that permission to video chat with the child they\u2019d been matched with was gradually restricted, and eventually banned. Others had not been able to send gifts or supplies to the child or the institute caring for them in more than a year. The Contants said all communication with Corinne\u2019s orphanage was cut off over a year ago. The Smiths said biannual video calls with Benaiah were replaced by occasional photos from the orphanage, and soon they were no longer getting photos or updates. Eventually they were blocked from sending supplies and gifts. \u201cWe have received no pictures or information on him since three pictures in March 2022,\u201d said Lauren. Observers have reported some governments, including that of Spain, have lobbied Beijing on behalf of couples left in the lurch by the announcement. It is not clear what the Chinese authorities\u2019 plans are for those children who had been matched with families and had gotten to know them. A voluntary list of US couples who were in the process of adoption before the announcement show dozens of children aged six to 17, most of whom already know about their prospective parents, according to the submissions. Most of the couples in the list said they received their letters of acceptance in 2019 or 2020, and all say they wish to continue with the adoption if it\u2019s possible. For now, the Smiths say they have still not been able to speak to Benaiah, now eight years old, but they hope he has been told they have not abandoned him. \u201cI do not know what will be communicated to him in regards to his adoption\u201d, said Lauren. \u201cI hope and pray he is told that he is loved and adored by now three precious sisters who will never forget him and that it breaks us deeply to not be able to hold him or even see his sweet face.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Hezbollah device blasts: how did pagers and walkie-talkies explode and what do we know about the attacks?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/hezbollah-pagers-what-do-we-know-about-how-the-attack-happened;2024-09-19T00:19:49Z",
        "text": "In an unprecedented security breach, thousands of pagers and walkie-talkie radios belonging to members of Hezbollah detonated across Lebanon in simultaneous explosions on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing at least 26 people and wounding thousands of others. Hospitals across Lebanon were overwhelmed with an influx of patients after the pager attack on Tuesday, and a field hospital was set up in the southern city of Tyre to accommodate the wounded. Hezbollah has blamed Israel and vowed to retaliate. Israel has declined to comment on the blasts, but Tuesday\u2019s explosions came just hours after the military announced it was broadening its aims in the war sparked by the Hamas attacks on 7 October to include its fight against Hezbollah along the border with Lebanon. It remains unclear how exactly such an audacious attack was carried out, but here is what we know so far. How did the pagers and walkie-talkies explode? A small amount of explosives were planted inside a new batch of 5,000 pagers ordered by Hezbollah for its members, according to a senior Lebanese security source who spoke to the Reuters news agency. Israel\u2019s intelligence services were responsible, the source said. \u201cThe Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has explosive material that receives a code. It\u2019s very hard to detect it through any means. Even with any device or scanner,\u201d the source said. Another security source told Reuters that up to 3g of explosives had been hidden in the new pagers and had gone \u201cundetected\u201d by Hezbollah for months. The source said 3,000 of the pagers had exploded when a coded message was sent to them, simultaneously activating the explosives. An American official who spoke anonymously to the New York Times made similar claims, adding that the devices had been tampered with before they reached Lebanon. Explosive material was reportedly hidden in each pager next to the battery, along with a switch that could remotely detonate the device. According to the New York Times, the pagers received a message at 3.30pm local time that appeared to have come from the group\u2019s leadership. It was this message that is believed to have activated the explosives. Several videos being circulated of the explosions appear to show victims checking their pagers in the seconds before they exploded. Fewer details have emerged about Wednesday\u2019s walkie-talkie blasts, but a security source told Reuters that they had been bought by Hezbollah five months ago, about the same time that the pagers were bought. The Mossad has not commented on either attack. Where did the devices come from? The plot appeared to have been many months in the making. The walkie-talkies are understood to have been bought about the same time as the pagers, and images of the devices examined by Reuters showed an inside panel labeled \u201cICOM\u201d and \u201cmade in Japan\u201d. ICOM said in a brief statement on its website that it was aware of media reports that walkie-talkies with stickers bearing its logo had exploded in Lebanon. \u201cWe are currently trying to establish the facts and will provide updates on our website as new information becomes available,\u201d it said. The wireless communications company, based in the western city of Osaka, has offices in several other countries, including the US, Germany and China. The firm has previously said that production of model IC-V82, which appeared to be the model in images seen by Reuters, was phased out in 2014. Hezbollah ordered 5,000 pagers marketed by the Taiwan-based company Gold Apollo, according to the Lebanese official, and it was these new devices that exploded. Other sources told Reuters that these pagers had been brought into the country in the northern hemisphere spring. Analysts at the open-source intelligence group Bellingcat also identified the pagers as coming from Gold Apollo. A source close to Hezbollah told the AFP news agency that \u201cthe pagers that exploded concern a shipment recently imported by Hezbollah\u201d, which appeared to have been \u201csabotaged at source\u201d. A senior Lebanese source told Reuters the devices, identified as the AR-924 model, had been modified by Israel\u2019s spy service \u201cat the production level\u201d. There is no suggestion that Taiwan-based Gold Apollo was aware its devices had been tampered with. The company\u2019s founder, Hsu Ching-kuang, told reporters on Wednesday that the pagers used in the attack had not been manufactured by Gold Apollo but by BAC Consulting, a company based in Hungary that had the right to use the Taiwanese firm\u2019s brand. However, Cristiana B\u00e1rsony-Arcidiacono, the chief executive of BAC, told NBC: \u201cI don\u2019t make the pagers. I am just the intermediate. I think you got it wrong.\u201d Elijah Magnier, a Brussels-based security analyst, told AFP: \u201cFor Israel to embed an explosive trigger within the new batch of pagers, they would have likely needed access to the supply chain of these devices.\u201d Why does Hezbollah use pagers? A pager is a small wireless device that can receive, and in some cases send, messages but cannot make calls. Popular in the 1980s and 90s, their use quickly declined in the early 2000s with the rise of mobile phones. Hezbollah is known for using the lower-tech devices to communicate because, unlike mobile phones, they can evade location-tracking and monitoring by Israeli intelligence. Yossi Melman, a co-author of the book Spies Against Armageddon, said: \u201cA lot of people in Hezbollah carried these pagers, not just top-echelon commanders.\u201d A security breach of this scale is seen by experts as hugely embarrassing and damaging to morale in the militant group. \u201cThis would easily be the biggest counterintelligence failure that Hezbollah has had in decades,\u201d said Jonathan Panikoff, a former US government deputy national intelligence officer on the Middle East. Why are mobile phones so trackable? Hezbollah is well aware of the threat posed by using mobile phones. In February, the group\u2019s general secretary, Hassan Nasrallah, warned supporters their phones were more dangerous than Israeli spies, saying they should break, bury or lock the devices in an iron box. Mobile phones can be used to track someone\u2019s location because they regularly \u201cping\u201d masts as they move around, allowing their signal to move to different masts in the network. \u201cThe phone is constantly pinging away to stay in touch with whatever network it is using,\u201d said Alan Woodward, a professor of cybersecurity at Surrey University. If you monitored the network, you could locate the signal from a specific phone, he said, by seeing which masts were interacting with the device and locating the handset within the overlapping ranges of those masts. In urban areas, the density of masts makes for an accurate zeroing-in process. \u201cYou can do a simple triangulation,\u201d said Woodward. GPS receivers on phones \u2013 used for mapping apps, for instance \u2013 also give a device\u2019s location, although you would need to hack your way inside a phone to receive that information. As a safety move, therefore, Hezbollah turned to pagers, which listen out for a signal from transmission networks in order to receive a message but do not \u201cping\u201d back. There is no communication made by the pager to monitor, Woodward said. \u201cYou cannot locate the pager because it is doing nothing but listening,\u201d he said. However, Hezbollah clearly did not anticipate the device itself being used as a potential weapon. Referring to the walkie-talkie explosions on Wednesday, Woodward said the devices could be tracked because they communicated with each other via radio frequencies, but that tracking was a difficult task and they were not as vulnerable as mobile phones, which may have been why Hezbollah used them. Again, the group did not appear to have suspected that they would be used as explosive weapons."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Storm Boris batters northern Italy bringing severe flooding and landslides;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/storm-boris-batters-northern-italy-bringing-severe-flooding-and-landslides;2024-09-18T22:23:06Z",
        "text": "Homes are being evacuated in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna as Storm Boris, which has killed at least 24 people in central and eastern Europe since last week, swept into the country, causing severe flooding and landslides. Pounding rain hit Emilia-Romagna late on Wednesday afternoon and the situation rapidly worsened as night fell. Jader Dardi, the mayor of Modigliana, a town in Forl\u00ec-Cesena province that was also hit badly by devastating regional flooding in May 2023, said the river had \u201cexploded\u201d. \u201cThe situation is very dramatic,\u201d he told Sky TG 24. \u201cIt is worse than in 2023.\u201d Water surged downstream, causing floods in the hamlet of Marzeno in Brisighella. \u201cA sudden and large wave is arriving from Modigliana, passing through the hamlet of Marzeno,\u201d according to a message on the social media page of Brisighella\u2019s town hall urging people in the affected areas to evacuate their homes. Displaced people would be accommodated in a school, the post added. Luca Della Godenza, the mayor of Castel Bolognese, said the situation was \u201cwell beyond the worst forecasts\u201d. \u201cThe situation is getting worse and it\u2019s getting worse more rapidly,\u201d he wrote on Facebook. \u201cThe river level is constantly being monitored and has reached 6.19 metres in Tebano. The fire brigade and local police have been mobilised and will be using megaphones to warn citizens of the serious situation we\u2019re experiencing.\u201d He urged residents in the area to ascend to the higher floors of their homes. The Savena river in Bologna was also rising rapidly, the town hall warned on Wednesday night. Officials have ordered the evacuation of ground floor and basement homes in the affected areas. Some roads have also been blocked due to landslides. Severe weather warnings are in place in Emilia-Romagna and neighbouring Marche for the next 24-36 hours. Schools will be closed on Thursday and people have been advised to avoid travel and, where possible, to work from home. The flooding in Emilia-Romagna in May 2023 claimed 17 lives and caused \u20ac8.5bn (\u00a37.2bn) worth of damage. Since last week Storm Boris has brought widespread flooding and torrential rain in the Czech Republic, Romania, Poland and Austria. The death toll rose to at least 24 on Wednesday as the Czech Republic reported its fourth and fifth victims. Scientists say that extreme rainfall and flooding have become increasingly common and more intense because of human-caused climate breakdown. The EU\u2019s crisis management commissioner, Janez Lenar\u010di\u010d, said on Wednesday that flooding in central Europe and deadly forest fires in Portugal were joint proof of the climate crisis. \u201cMake no mistake. This tragedy is not an anomaly. This is fast becoming the norm for our shared future,\u201d Lenar\u010di\u010d told MEPs. \u201cEurope is the fastest warming continent globally and is particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Death toll in Lebanon walkie-talkie explosions rises to 20, with more than 450 injured \u2013 Middle East crisis as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/18/middle-east-crisis-live-hezbollah-pager-explosion-lebanon-irael-iran-latest-updates;2024-09-18T22:06:08Z",
        "text": "We\u2019re closing this blog now, but you can find our latest story here. Thanks very much for reading. Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: At least 20 people were killed and more than 450 injured as a result of the explosions on Wednesday, according to officials. A source in Hezbollah confirmed that walkie-talkies used by the group were targeted in the attack. Several solar power systems exploded in people\u2019s homes across Lebanon, according to the National News Agency. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attacks in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed in a brief statement on Wednesday to return tens of thousands of residents evacuated from northern border areas to their homes. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, declared the start of a \u201cnew phase\u201d of the war with a focus on the northern front. Gallant, speaking to Israeli troops on Wednesday, did not mention the explosions of devices in Lebanon but he praised the work of Israel\u2019s army and security agencies, noting that the \u201cresults are very impressive\u201d. The head of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, said Israel has drawn up plans for additional action against Hezbollah and is ready to strike. Wednesday\u2019s explosions took place a day after more than 2,800 were injured and 12 killed by exploding pagers, including a 10-year-old girl. Here\u2019s what we know about the attack on Tuesday. Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel for Tuesday\u2019s attack. Hezbollah on Tuesday promised a \u201cfair punishment\u201d for the explosion. Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is expected to give a speech on Thursday. Reports suggest Israel managed to place explosives in thousands of pagers bought by Hezbollah. The US was not involved \u201cin any way\u201d in the wave of explosions that took place in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday, the White House said. National security adviser John Kirby told reporters on that it was \u201ctoo soon to know\u201d if the explosions aimed at Hezbollah across recent days would have an impact on a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. US military officials are reportedly re-examining how its forces are positioned in the region in case of retaliation. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said 15 out of 18 paragraphs of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas have been agreed, and insisted that progress on negotiations had been made during the last few weeks, despite there being no respite in Israel\u2019s bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Hezbollah said it had attacked Israeli artillery positions with rockets on Wednesday in the first cross-border attack since the Tuesday pager blasts. An Israeli journalist said a barrage of 10 rockets was fired from Lebanon at western Galilee, causing no injuries. The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, was \u201cdeeply alarmed\u201d by reports that a large number of communication devices exploded across Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday and Wednesday. The UN security council will meet on Friday to discuss the wave of device explosions across Lebanon targeting Hezbollah. The UN\u2019s high commissioner for human rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, said those responsible for the explosions \u201cmust be held to account\u201d. The EU\u2019s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, described the pager detonations in Lebanon as \u201cextremely worrying\u201d, and said they had caused \u201cheavy, indiscriminate collateral damages among civilians.\u201d An Israeli airstrike on a school turned shelter in Gaza killed five people, Gaza\u2019s civil defence agency said on Wednesday. It is the latest in a series of Israeli strikes on school buildings housing displaced Palestinians. The Israeli military said it targeted Hamas militants. Saudi Arabia will not recognise Israel without a Palestinian state, the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, said on Wednesday as he condemned the \u201ccrimes of the Israeli occupation\u201d against the Palestinian people. Egypt\u2019s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, ruled out his country accepting any changes to the agreed border security arrangements with Gaza, including the operation of the Rafah crossing. The UN general assembly voted overwhelmingly to direct Israel to leave the occupied Palestinian territories within a year, a symbolic step exposing Israel\u2019s continued international isolation. The non-binding vote follows a historic advisory ruling in July by the international court of justice (ICJ) urging Israel to cease \u201cits unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory as soon as possible and stop all settlement activity there immediately\u201d. Germany denied any arms boycott to Israel after earlier reports it had halted new exports of weapons of war to Israel. Reuters reported that Berlin had stopped work on approving export licences for arms to Israel while it deals with legal challenges, citing a source close to the German economy ministry. The US issued a new round of Iran sanctions on Wednesday targeting 12 individuals who it said were tied to Tehran\u2019s \u201congoing, violent repression of the Iranian people,\u201d including its \u201cbrutal crackdown on peaceful protests.\u201d US senator Bernie Sanders said he would file resolutions seeking to block the sale of more than $20bn (\u00a315.1bn) in US arms sales to Israel, citing the toll on civilians of Israel\u2019s campaign in Gaza. The US \u201ccannot be \u201ccomplicit in this humanitarian disaster,\u201d Sanders wrote in a letter to Senate colleagues on Wednesday, AP reported. Providing more offensive weapons to continue this disastrous war would violate US and international law. The action would force an eventual vote to block the arms sales to Israel, though majority passage is highly unlikely. As we reported earlier, at least 20 people were killed and more than 450 others wounded in Wednesday\u2019s explosions targeting walkie-talkies in cities across Lebanon, according to the latest figure by the country\u2019s health ministry. In addition, at least 12 people were killed and more than 2,800 others were injured by exploding pagers on Tuesday in Lebanon and Syria. This means that so far 32 people have been confirmed killed and 3,250 wounded in the wave of explosions. Israel has not claimed responsibility for either of the attacks, although its defence minister Yoav Gallant declared on Wednesday the start of a \u201cnew phase\u201d of the war with a focus towards the northern front with Hezbollah. Here is a screen grab showing a walkie-talkie that exploded inside a house in Baalbek, east Lebanon, earlier today. Footage shot in the aftermath of the explosions showed destroyed devices bearing the brand Icom, a Japanese company. The exploded radio devices appear to be a knockoff product and not made by Icom, a sales executive at the US subsidiary of the company said. \u201cI can guarantee you they were not our products,\u201d they told Associated Press, adding that Icom introduced the V82 two-way radio model more than two decades ago and it has long since been discontinued. Iran\u2019s ambassador to the UN said his country will follow up on the \u201cattack\u201d against its ambassador in Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, who was among those wounded in Tuesday\u2019s pager attack. In a letter reported by the Iranian state news agency, Amir Saeid Iravani accused the Israeli government of \u201ccriminal and terrorist attacks\u201d that resulted in the deaths of at least 11 civilians and injured thousands more, including Amani, who he said \u201csustained injuries\u201d. \u201cUndoubtedly, the Israeli regime bears full responsibility for such perpetration of such horrific crimes,\u201d he wrote. The Islamic Republic of Iran will duly follow up on the attack against its ambassador in Lebanon \u2026 and reserves its rights under international law to take required measures deemed necessary to respond to such a heinous crime and violation. The Lebanese health ministry announced six additional deaths from Wednesday\u2019s explosions targeting walkie-talkies across the country. The latest death toll is now 20 with more than 450 people injured, the ministry said. US military officials are re-examining how its forces are positioned in the Middle East region following the series of explosions aimed at Hezbollah in Lebanon in recent days. The head of US air power in the region, Lt Gen Derek France, had been scheduled to hold a news conference in Maryland on Wednesday but cancelled to more closely monitor the situation after the pager attack on Tuesday, a US military official told Associated Press. The official said the attack has prompted the US air force to reexamine how US forces are positioned in the region in case of retaliation. Joe Biden will welcome the president of the United Arab Emirates, sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to the White House on Monday for talks on Gaza and Sudan. The visit will be the first-ever by a UAE president to Washington, the White House\u2019s spokesperson John Kirby told reporters today. The US vice-president, Kamala Harris, will meet separately with the UAE leader. Biden and Harris \u201cwill discuss with President Mohamed, obviously, the crisis in Gaza, the UAE\u2019s essential role in addressing the humanitarian crisis there, and the crisis in Sudan\u201d, Kirby said. Germany has denied any arms boycott to Israel after earlier reports it had halted new exports of weapons of war to Israel. Reuters reported that Berlin had stopped work on approving export licences for arms to Israel while it deals with legal challenges, citing a source close to the German economy ministry. Last year, Germany approved arms exports to Israel worth \u20ac326.5m (\u00a3275.1m), including military equipment and war weapons \u2013 marking a 10-fold increase from the previous year, the agency reported. However approvals have dropped this year, it said, with only \u20ac14.5m (\u00a312.2m) granted from January to August. \u201cThere is no German arms export boycott against Israel,\u201d government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit said after the Reuters story was published. The detonation of walkie-talkies around Lebanon a day after scores of pagers used by Hezbollah officials blew up is a one-two punch that drives home the extent of Israel\u2019s penetration of its Shia foe\u2019s defences across its northern border. It represents utter humiliation for Hezbollah that its security can be so effortlessly breached twice, and be shown incapable of protecting its own people. Israel has not admitted responsibility for the blasts but there is little doubt around the region that this was an operation bearing the Mossad\u2019s hallmarks. The more difficult questions concern its purpose: do these attacks represent tactical surprise for its own sake, or are they part of a broader strategy, and where does that strategy lead? Is this a prelude to an all-out war in Lebanon, or a substitute for one? Read the full analysis here: The White House\u2019s national security adviser, John Kirby, said it is \u201ctoo soon to know\u201d if the explosions aimed at Hezbollah across recent days will have an impact on a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Kirby told reporters: Sadly, we aren\u2019t any closer to that now than we were even a week ago, so it\u2019s difficult to see any impact of these incidents, but I think it\u2019s just too soon to know. The White House\u2019s national security communications adviser, John Kirby, said the US was not involved in the wave of explosions that took place in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday. \u201cWe were not involved in yesterday\u2019s incidents or today\u2019s in any way,\u201d Kirby told reporters in a briefing this afternoon. Asked if he was concerned that the blasts could lead to an escalation, Kirby said: We want to see the war end, and everything we\u2019ve been doing since the beginning has been designed to prevent the conflict from escalating. The US still believes that \u201cthere is a diplomatic path forward,\u201d he said. UN secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has issued a statement in response to the blasts across the Middle East, saying: I\u2019m deeply alarmed by reports that a large number of communication devices exploded across Lebanon &amp; Syria, killing at least 11 people, including children, and injuring thousands. All actors must exercise maximum restraint to avert any further escalation. Speaking to RT, Russia\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called the Lebanon blasts a \u201cheinous act of terrorism\u201d. Zakharova went on to add: All the signs are there of an international terrorist attack because it is obvious that in order to gather such a large amount of equipment, it had to be brought in, crossing several borders. Obviously, there is an international trail in this, and it should be investigated accordingly. Now the reaction of the west should be indicative. If the west remains silent, and as always, does not insist on an investigation, does not talk about human rights, does not repeat its rhetoric of many years, which they have used in similar cases when terrorist acts were committed on their territory, then this will be proof of their direct engagement.\u201d US senator Bernie Sanders has introduced joint resolutions of disapproval that would block the sale of US weapons to Israel. In a statement released on Wednesday, Sanders, who has been a vocal critic of Israel\u2019s war on Gaza which has killed over 41,000 Palestinians in the last 11 months, said: Sadly, and illegally, much of the carnage in Gaza has been carried out with US-provided military equipment. Providing more offensive weapons to continue this disastrous war would violate US and international law. The sales would reward [Benjamin] Netanyahu\u2019s extremist government, even as it continues to cause massive destruction in Gaza, undermine the prospects of a ceasefire deal that would secure the release of the hostages, and advance its effort to illegally annex the West Bank. Here are some images coming through the newswires from Lebanon where the latest walkie-talkie blasts \u2013 which Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed on Israel \u2013 have killed 14 people and injured at least 450 others: The head of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, said Israel has drawn up plans for additional action against Hezbollah and is ready to strike. Israel has \u201cmany more capabilities\u201d that have not been used yet in the fighting against Hezbollah, Halevi said on Wednesday in quotes carried by the Times of Israel. We have many capabilities that we have not yet activated \u2026 We have seen some of these things, it seems to me that we are well prepared and we are preparing these plans going forward. \u201cAt each stage, the price for Hezbollah needs to be high,\u201d he added. The death toll from the latest blast in Lebanon has risen from nine to 14 people, with more than 450 others wounded, the country\u2019s health ministry said. Explosions apparently targeting walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah have killed at least 14 people and wounded at least 450 in cities across Lebanon, a day after a wave of pager explosions killed a dozen people and injured thousands in an attack blamed on Israel. Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: At least 14 people were killed and more than 450 injured as a result of the explosions on Wednesday, according to officials. A source in Hezbollah confirmed that walkie-talkies used by the group were targeted in the attack. Several solar power systems exploded in people\u2019s homes across Lebanon, according to the National News Agency. At least one girl in the town of al-Zahrani, south Lebanon, was injured, it said. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attacks in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed in a brief statement on Wednesday to return tens of thousands of residents evacuated from northern border areas to their homes. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, declared the start of a \u201cnew phase\u201d of the war with a focus on the northern front. Gallant, speaking to Israeli troops on Wednesday, did not mention the explosions of devices in Lebanon but he praised the work of Israel\u2019s army and security agencies, noting that the \u201cresults are very impressive\u201d. Wednesday\u2019s explosions took place a day after more than 2,800 were injured and 12 killed by exploding pagers, including a 10-year-old girl. Here\u2019s what we know about the attack on Tuesday. Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel for Tuesday\u2019s attack. Hezbollah on Tuesday promised a \u201cfair punishment\u201d for the explosion. Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is expected to give a speech on Thursday. Reports suggest Israel managed to place explosives in thousands of pagers bought by Hezbollah. Hezbollah said it had attacked Israeli artillery positions with rockets on Wednesday in the first cross-border attack since the Tuesday pager blasts. An Israeli journalist said a barrage of 10 rockets was fired from Lebanon at western Galilee, causing no injuries. The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, is \u201cdeeply alarmed\u201d by reports that a large number of communication devices exploded across Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday and Wednesday. The UN security council will meet on Friday to discuss the wave of device explosions across Lebanon targeting Hezbollah. The UN\u2019s high commissioner for human rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, said those responsible for the explosions \u201cmust be held to account\u201d. The EU\u2019s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, described the pager detonations in Lebanon as \u201cextremely worrying\u201d, and said they had caused \u201cheavy, indiscriminate collateral damages among civilians.\u201d An Israeli airstrike on a school turned shelter in Gaza killed five people, Gaza\u2019s civil defence agency said on Wednesday. It is the latest in a series of Israeli strikes on school buildings housing displaced Palestinians. The Israeli military said it targeted Hamas militants. The US secretary of state Antony Blinken said 15 out of 18 paragraphs of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas have been agreed, and insisted that progress on negotiations had been made during the last few weeks, despite there being no respite in Israel\u2019s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, or any sign of the impending release of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas. Saudi Arabia will not recognise Israel without a Palestinian state, the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, said on Wednesday as he condemned the \u201ccrimes of the Israeli occupation\u201d against the Palestinian people. Egypt\u2019s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, ruled out his country accepting any changes to the agreed border security arrangements with Gaza, including the operation of the Rafah crossing. The UN general assembly voted overwhelmingly to direct Israel to leave the occupied Palestinian territories within a year, a symbolic step exposing Israel\u2019s continued international isolation. The US issued a new round of Iran sanctions on Wednesday targeting 12 individuals who it said were tied to Tehran\u2019s \u201congoing, violent repression of the Iranian people,\u201d including its \u201cbrutal crackdown on peaceful protests.\u201d Explosions apparently targeting walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah have killed at least nine people and wounded at least 300 in cities across Lebanon, a day after exploding pagers killed 12 people and injured more than 2,800 in an attack blamed on Israel. Here\u2019s our video report: Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, released a brief video statement in which he vowed to return tens of thousands of residents evacuated from northern border areas to their homes. In the short video, Netanyahu said: I have said it before, we will return to the citizens of the north to their homes in security and that\u2019s exactly what we are going to do. He did not mention the blasts targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon over the past two days. As we reported earlier, Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, on Wednesday declared the start of a \u201cnew phase\u201d of the war with a focus on the northern front. Israel has not claimed responsibility for either of the attacks in Lebanon on Tuesday or Wednesday. Israel denounced the UN general assembly resolution as \u201ccynical\u201d and \u201cdistorted\u201d after UN members voted overwhelmingly to direct Israel to leave the occupied Palestinian territories within a year. \u201cThis is what cynical international politics looks like,\u201d Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein said in a post on X. He said the UN general assembly\u2019s resolution \u201cignores reality, Israel\u2019s security needs and terrorism against its citizens\u201d, adding: Israel rejects the distorted and disconnected from reality decision of the General Assembly and thanks the leading countries that did not join the march of folly that took place today in New York. Condemnations of Israel by the UN general assembly are frequent, including two resolutions passed by comparable majorities since the conflict began on 7 October, but this latest move is the first since 1982 to advocate sanctions against Israel. It arguably has additional force since it claims to be seeking to enforce an ICJ ruling. The resolution states: Israel\u2019s security concerns cannot override the principle of the prohibition of the acquisition of territory by force. The latest resolution urges member states to end the import of products originating in the Israeli settlements and to stop the provision of arms, munitions and related equipment to Israel \u201cif it is reasonable to suspect that they may be used in the occupied Palestinian territory\u201d. Additionally, it requires the UN general secretary, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, to report within three months on what progress he had made in urging Israel to cooperate. In a symbolic step exposing Israel\u2019s continued international isolation, the UN general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to direct Israel to leave the occupied Palestinian territories within a year. The non-binding vote follows a historic advisory ruling in July by the international court of justice (ICJ) urging Israel to cease \u201cits unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory as soon as possible and stop all settlement activity there immediately\u201d. Wednesday\u2019s resolution was passed by 124 votes to 14 with 43 abstentions, prompting applause across the general assembly chamber in New York. A preliminary investigation has found hundreds of pagers that exploded across Lebanon had been booby-trapped, according to a report. A security source told AFP: Data indicates the devices were pre-programmed to detonate and contained explosive materials planted next to the battery. Israeli officials notified the US that it was planning to carry out an operation in Lebanon on Tuesday but did not give any details on what they were planning, according to a report. That included a call between the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, and his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, on Tuesday morning, CNN reported. Tuesday\u2019s explosions, which killed 12 people and wounded nearly 3,000 others, came as a shock to senior US officials including Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, who was travelling from Washington to Cairo. On Wednesday, Blinken told reporters in Egypt that the US \u201cdid not know about nor was it involved in these incidents\u201d. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has declared the start of a \u201cnew phase\u201d of the war with a focus on the northern front against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. Gallant, speaking to Israeli troops on Wednesday, did not mention the explosions of devices in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday. But he praised the work of Israel\u2019s army and security agencies, noting that the \u201cresults are very impressive\u201d, the Associated Press reported. \u201cThe center of gravity is moving north. We are diverting forces, resources and energy toward the north,\u201d Gallant said, according to the Times of Israel. I believe that we are at the onset of a new phase in this war, and we need to adapt. We will need consistency over time, this war requires great courage, determination and perseverance. From the Times of Israel\u2019s Emanuel Fabian: The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, is \u201cdeeply alarmed\u201d by reports that a large number of communication devices exploded across Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday and Wednesday. The UN chief\u2019s spokesperson, St\u00e9phane Dujarric, said in a statement: The secretary general urges all concerned actors to exercise maximum restraint to avert any further escalation. Guterres also urges the parties to \u201cimmediately return to a cessation of hostilities to restore stability\u201d, the statement said. The UN security council will meet on Friday to discuss the wave of device explosions across Lebanon targeting Hezbollah. The meeting was requested by Algeria on behalf of Arab states, according to Samuel \u017dbogar, the UN ambassador to Slovenia, which holds the council\u2019s rotating presidency this month. Saudi Arabia will not recognise Israel without a Palestinian state, the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, said on Wednesday as he condemned the \u201ccrimes of the Israeli occupation\u201d against the Palestinian people. The crown prince was speaking at an annual speech to the advisory Shura Council, according to the state-run Al Arabiya news channel. He said: The kingdom will not stop its tireless work towards the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and we affirm that the kingdom will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel without that. He emphasised that the Palestinian cause remains a top priority for Saudi Arabia, and expressed gratitude to the nations that have recognised the Palestinian state, Al Arabiya reported. More than 30 ambulances have been deployed to \u201cmultiple explosions\u201d in Lebanon\u2019s south and east, the Lebanese Red Cross said. In a post on X, it said 50 additional ambulances have been put on alert to support rescue and evacuation operations. Nine people were killed and at least 300 injured as a result of the explosions targeting walkie-talkies across Lebanon on Wednesday afternoon, Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said. The ministry added that first responders had almost finished transferring people to hospitals. Several solar power systems exploded in people\u2019s homes across Lebanon, according to the National News Agency, injuring at least one girl in the town of al-Zahrani in south Lebanon. Pictures of exploded solar panels, fingerprint readers and other devices circulated through social media, though it was unclear if they blew up by themselves or were simply near walkie-talkies which blew up. While paramedics rushed to evacuate wounded from affected areas, a group of men attacked a UN peacekeeping (Unifil) patrol transiting through the city of Tyre in south Lebanon. A video showed men throwing stones at two Unifil armored personnel carriers on the side of one of the main thoroughfares in the southern Lebanese city. Unifil spokesperson Andrea Teneti told the Guardian: The situation is under control right now. The Lebanese armed forces intervened but this is a serious breach of our freedom of movements. He added that no injuries occurred, just material damages. The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, held a briefing before news of the latest wave of device blasts across Lebanon on Wednesday that officials say has killed at least three people and wounded more than 100. Guterres said it was \u201cvery important\u201d that civilian objects should not be weaponised after 12 people were killed and up to 2,800 were wounded in Tuesday\u2019s pager blasts. The UN chief said the explosions on Tuesday confirmed \u201ca serious risk of a dramatic escalation in Lebanon\u201d, and warned that \u201ceverything must be done\u201d to avoid the escalation. He added: What has happened is particularly serious, not only because of the number of victims that it caused, but because of the indications that exist that this was triggered, I would say, in advance of a normal way to trigger these things, because there was a risk of this being discovered. According to Lebanon\u2019s official news agency, home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut on Wednesday. As my colleague William Christou reported earlier, a video shows a blast occurring while a funeral for Hezbollah fighter killed on Tuesday during the pager attacks takes place in the southern suburb of Beirut. In the video, a blast occurs somewhere on a Hezbollah member\u2019s body, knocking him to the ground and sending the crowd around him running. Hundreds of people were wounded in the latest blasts involving walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah on Wednesday, a security source told Reuters. Many of the wounds were to the stomach and hands, the source said. Lebanon\u2019s state-run National News Agency (NNA) has reported that three people were wounded in the Bekaa region in the east of the country in the latest device blasts. The Guardian has been unable to independently verify this. Reuters reports that security sources have shared that dozens of people were injured by the new explosions in Lebanon on Wednesday. We will bring you more details as they emerge. Prior to reports of further explosions on Wednesday afternoon, UN secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres warned that pager blasts targeting militant group Hezbollah on Tuesday indicated \u201ca serious risk of a dramatic escalation in Lebanon and everything must be done to avoid that escalation\u201d. \u201cObviously the logic of making all these devices explode is to do it as a pre-emptive strike before a major military operation,\u201d he told reporters, according to Reuters. The US issued a new round of Iran sanctions on Wednesday targeting 12 individuals who it said were tied to Tehran\u2019s \u201congoing, violent repression of the Iranian people,\u201d including its \u201cbrutal crackdown on peaceful protests.\u201d The sanctions, which come two years after the death of Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amin in police custody, target members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iranian prison officials \u201cand those responsible for lethal operations overseas,\u201d the US Treasury Department said in a statement, reports Reuters. Reuters are also reporting that the communication devices that exploded on Wednesday afternoon were handheld radios. The news agency cites a security source and witness for the information. According to its sources, Reuters reports that at least one of the blasts heard took place near a funeral organised by Hezbollah for those killed the previous day when thousands of pagers used by the group detonated across Lebanon. Reporting from Beirut, William Christou writes: Explosions targeting walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah have gone off in multiple cities across Lebanon, with initial reports of an unknown number of casualties. A source in Hezbollah confirmed that walkie-talkies used by the group were targeted in the attack. A senior security source said that the explosions were \u201csmall in size\u201d, similar to yesterday\u2019s attacks. The wide-ranging attack occurred just a day after more than 2,800 were injured and 12 killed by exploding pagers all over Lebanon. Both Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel for the attack, with the former promising a \u201cfair punishment\u201d for the explosion. Pictures showed broken and singed communication devices amid scenes of destruction. The Guardian saw multiple pictures of an ICOM IC-V82 two-way radio that had seemingly exploded. In a video, a member of Hezbollah in the southern suburb of Beirut is taking part in a funeral for fighters killed yesterday when a blast occurs somewhere on his body, knocking him to the ground and sending the crowd around him running. Israel has not claimed responsibility for either of the two days\u2019 attacks, but reporting suggests the country managed to place explosives in thousands of pagers bought by Hezbollah. Reuters journalists in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs heard at least two contained blasts in separate parts of the suburbs on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear what had caused the explosions but they came a day after pagers used by armed group Hezbollah detonated across Lebanon. We will bring you more details as they emerge. Gaza\u2019s civil defence agency said on Wednesday that an Israeli airstrike on a school turned shelter killed five people, while the Israeli military said it targeted Hamas militants, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). \u201cFive martyrs and a number of wounded were recovered after the occupation targeted Ibn Al-Haytam school in the Shujaiya neighbourhood\u201d of Gaza City, the agency said in a statement. The Israeli military said the air force \u201cconducted a precise strike on Hamas terrorists\u201d in a compound that \u201cpreviously served as the \u2018Ibn Al-Haytam\u2019 school in the area of Gaza City\u201d. The military\u2019s statement said Hamas fighters used the school \u201cto plan and carry out terrorist activities against (Israeli) troops and the State of Israel\u201d. According to AFP, the military did not provide a death toll but said \u201cnumerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence\u201d. It is the latest in a series of Israeli strikes on school buildings housing displaced Palestinians. On Saturday the civil defence agency said five people were killed in a strike on Gaza City\u2019s Shuhada al-Zeitun school, which the Israeli military said was also used by Hamas militants. Another strike on the UN-run Al-Jawni school in central Gaza on 11 September drew international outcry after the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said six of its staffers were among the 18 reported fatalities. The Israeli military accuses Hamas of hiding in school buildings where many thousands of Palestinians have sought shelter \u2013 a charge denied by the Palestinian militant group. Those responsible for a deadly wave of explosions across Lebanon targeting paging devices used by members of the Hezbollah militant group \u201cmust be held to account\u201d, the UN high commissioner for human rights said on Wednesday. \u201cSimultaneous targeting of thousands of individuals, whether civilians or members of armed groups, without knowledge as to who was in possession of the targeted devices, their location and their surroundings at the time of the attack, violates international human rights law and, to the extent applicable, international humanitarian law,\u201d Volker T\u00fcrk said in a statement, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Reuters is reporting that Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah said on Wednesday that it had attacked Israeli artillery positions with rockets in the first cross-border attack since the Tuesday pager blasts. Emanuel Fabian, military correspondent at the Times of Israel, has reported that a barrage of 10 rockets was fired from Lebanon at western Galilee around an hour ago. According to the IDF, he wrote, the rockets struck open areas, causing no injuries. Irish foreign minister Miche\u00e1l Martin has said that the pager detonations in Lebanon showed a \u201cwanton disregard\u201d for the lives of civilians, and said it was a \u201clogical conclusion\u201d that Israeli forces were behind the incident. Israel has not claimed responsiblity for the attack, which injured nearly 3,000 people and killed at least 12 people, including two children. The t\u00e1naiste said \u201cThe nature of the attack illustrates a wanton disregard for the lives of people because these pagers with explosives put into them went off in public areas and supermarkets and around people going out about their daily lives. It meant that many innocent civilians \u2013 men, women and children \u2013 were caught up in this.\u201d PA Media reports that asked if he considered it to be a breach of Geneva conventions rules on indiscriminate attacks, Martin replied: \u201cIn my view, yes, absolutely.\u201d Martin continued: I would appeal to the Israeli Government to desist and not to engage in war in Lebanon and likewise to Hezbollah to desist and not to do anything to further escalate the situation. That kind of warfare and the creation of that terror in the midst of communities, commercial areas and normal human behaviour is unacceptable. Earlier Ireland\u2019s taoiseach Simon Harris said it was an \u201cextraordinarily worrying development.\u201d He said: What we have seen is significant explosions in civilian areas, including in a supermarket, and we\u2019ve seen very distressing and upsetting scenes of civilians and children being caught up in the situation. What the Middle East needs to see is de-escalation, not escalation, and as I get ready to go to the UN general assembly next week, that\u2019s certainly the message that Ireland will be taking to that. We all must work to step back from the brink in terms of the Middle East. Obviously a country\u2019s rights to defend itself, a country\u2019s rights to address terrorism, is a legitimate right, but when explosives are being detonated, civilians being impacted, and take place in locations with many many civilians, it\u2019s extraordinarily concerning. The EU\u2019s top diplomat has described the pager detonations in Lebanon as \u201cextremely worrying\u201d, and said they had caused \u201cheavy, indiscriminate collateral damages among civilians.\u201d In a statement, Josep Borrell said: Following yesterday\u2019s series of explosions in Lebanon, I called the Lebanese foreign minister Abdallah Bou Habib. He briefed me on the explosion of a high number of electronic devices in many areas across the country. Thousands of people were injured \u2013 hundreds in critical condition \u2013 hospitals are collapsing. Even if the attacks seem to have been targeted, they had heavy, indiscriminate collateral damages among civilians: several children are among the victims I consider this situation extremely worrying. I can only condemn these attacks that endanger the security and stability of Lebanon, and increase the risk of escalation in the region. The European Union calls on all stakeholders to avert an all-out war, which would have heavy consequences for the entire region and beyond. Lebanon\u2019s state national news agency reports that according to health ministry statistics among the near 3,000 people injured after the pager detonations yesterday, 1,800 people were hospitalised, and 460 required surgery for severe injuries. Caretake health minister Firas Abiad said that while some patients are being evacuated to Syria and potentially Iran, 92% of cases will be treated within Lebanon. Egypt\u2019s foreign minister Badr Abdelatty has said in a joint press conference with US secretary of state Antony Blinken that Hamas has confirmed to Egypt its full commitment to the ceasefire agreement that was agreed on 27 May and to the amendments made on 2 July. Lili Bayer in Brussels and Michael Safi report for the Guardian: The CEO of a Hungarian entity which a Taiwanese company said it had authorised to produce and sell pagers has denied making the devices, saying she was just an \u201cintermediate.\u201d Gold Apollo, a Taiwan-based company, said in a statement today that it had a partnership with the Budapest-based BAC Consulting KFT, and had authorised BAC \u201cto use our brand trademark for product sales in designated regions, but the design and manufacturing of the products are solely the responsibility of BAC.\u201d \u201cRegarding the AR-924 pager model mentioned in the recent media reports, we clarify that this model is produced and sold by BAC. Our company only provides the brand trademark authorization and is not involved in the design or manufacturing of this product,\u201d it added. BAC Consulting was registered in Hungary in 2022 and provided a Budapest address on its website \u2013 the same address used by multiple companies. On its website, which was live early Wednesday but later became unavailable, BAC Consulting provided long yet vague descriptions of its work. \u201cWith over a decade of consulting experience, we are on an exciting and rewarding journey with our network of passionate experts with a hunger for innovation and discovery for the Environment, Innovation &amp; Development, and International Affairs,\u201d according to the company\u2019s LinkedIn page. Cristiana B\u00e1rsony-Arcidiacono presents herself on LinkedIn as the CEO of the company. Her LinkedIn page describes her as a native speaker of both Hungarian and Italian. B\u00e1rsony-Arcidiacono and BAC Consulting did not respond to questions from the Guardian. Reached by phone, B\u00e1rsony-Arcidiacono asked how the paper got the number and then hung up. However, she confirmed to NBC that her company worked with Gold Apollo. Asked about the pagers and the explosions, B\u00e1rsony-Arcidiacono said: \u201cI don\u2019t make the pagers. I am just the intermediate. I think you got it wrong.\u201d Asked about the Hungarian company, EU foreign affairs spokesperson Peter Stano said at a press conference on Wednesday: \u201clet\u2019s not jump to conclusions at this stage.\u201d \u201cThe reasons and how it was done, how it was organised, needs to be investigated,\u201d he said. Asked about the CEO\u2019s claim on LinkedIn that she also works for the European Commission, a spokesperson said \u201cshe is not a staff member, never been.\u201d Egypt\u2019s foreign minister Badr Abdelatty has ruled out his country accepting any changes to the agreed border security arrangements with Gaza, including the operation of the Rafah crossing. Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu appears in recent weeks to have made continued Israeli control of the Philadelphi corridor, a ribbon of land about nine miles (14km) in length and 100 metres wide along Gaza\u2019s border with Egypt which includes the Rafah crossing, a condition of any ceasefire agreement. It was seized by Israel in May this year as its Gaza ground offensive pushed into Rafah. US secretary of state Antony Blinken has stated that 15 out of 18 paragraphs of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas have been agreed, and insisted that progress on negotiations had been made during the last few weeks, despite there being no respite in Israel\u2019s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, or any sign of the impending release of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas. Speaking in Cairo, where he described Egypt as a critical partner in the ceasefire negotiations, Blinken said closing the gap on the last three paragraphs was a matter of \u201cpolitical will\u201d. Secretary of state Antony Blinken has said that the US did not know about the pager explosions in Lebanon in advance, and said his country was still gathering the facts about the blasts. Speaking in a joint appearance in Cairo with Egypt\u2019s foreign minister Badr Abdelatty, Blinken cautioned everyone in the region to avoid taking steps that could escalate the conflict. Yesterday nearly 3,000 people were injured and 12 killed, including two children, by the detonation of pagers inside Lebanon. The attack, which appears to have been chiefly aimed at Hezbollah operatives, has been widely attributed to Israel. Israel has not claimed responsibility, and Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government seldom comments on Israeli operations carried out outside its borders. Israeli media is reporting that Israel is deploying its 98th Division to the north of the country nearer to Lebanon. It had previously been deployed to the Gaza Strip, fighting in Khan Younis until late August. Haaretz reports that the deployment is intended \u201cto prevent a wide-scale attack\u201d by Hezbollah in the north. The Lebanese-based group has threatened retaliation for the pager explosions in Lebanon yesterday which Hezbollah has attributed to Israel. The division is believed to have between 10,000 and 20,000 troops. In another development, the Times of Israel reports that a planned memorial ceremony this evening for IDF soldiers which was due to have speeches by defense minister Yoav Gallant and chief of the IDF northern command Maj Gen Ori Gordin, has been postponed \u201cin accordance with an assessment of the situation.\u201d A little more detail on the updated casualty count from the pager detonations in Lebanon, which officials say has now killed 12 people, including two children. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said 2750 to 2800 people were wounded, of which 300 people are said to be in a critical condition. This is higher than the earlier reported figure of 200. Lebanese minister Nasser Yassin, who heads up the country\u2019s disaster response committee, has said that yesterday\u2019s pager explosions were \u201canother severe test of our preparedness\u201d, and praised the way that emergency services coped with the sudden influx of casualties. Lebanon\u2019s state news agency quoted Yassin saying that at an emegency meeting on Wednesday morning the committee \u201cassessed the situation in light of the major Israeli aggression that targeted Lebanese civilians.\u201d Yassin added \u201cWe extend our condolences to the families of the martyrs and wish the wounded a speedy recovery.\u201d He said: Yesterday, the health sector, medical teams, ambulance services, the civil defence, the Red Cross, and other emergency groups did a tremendous job. They demonstrated the importance of our country\u2019s emergency preparedness. In a matter of minutes, nearly 3,000 injuries were treated in hospitals and ambulances. This was a remarkable achievement. However, there were challenges, especially in transporting patients between hospitals, triaging the injured, and relocating them to other areas. There was also a shortage of ophthalmologists and eye surgeons. What happened yesterday was a real war, similar to what we experienced during the Beirut Port explosion. Yesterday\u2019s attack was another severe test of our preparedness. Yassin also said the committee discussed \u201cpotential scenarios in case the aggression expands, something we\u2019ve been preparing for over recent months with regular updates to our contingency plans\u201d. He said the country had food supplies for three months, and that 100 school locations had been identified as potential shelters. In the UK the recently elected chair of parliament\u2019s foreign affairs select committee has suggested that Israel\u2019s allies need to be asking \u201cWhat on earth are you doing?\u201d after the pager detonation attack in Lebanon widely attributed to Israel. PA Media in the UK quotes Emily Thornberry, a Labour MP, saying: We are really concerned about what is happening now in Lebanon. I think the big question is: why? Why is this happening now? And what will the result of that be? It seems to be yet another escalation of the conflict which is happening in the Middle East, which will affect all of us. And it is very worrying indeed, of course it is, and what the response will be? And is this the first step, and what will Israel do next? Is it part of a larger plan? It is very worrying and I would certainly be expecting Israel\u2019s friends to be speaking very seriously to them, and saying: \u2018What on earth are you doing? Why is this happening now?\u2019 The UK\u2019s Foreign Office has said \u201cWe continue to monitor the situation in Lebanon closely and the UK is working with diplomatic and humanitarian partners in the region. The civilian casualties following these explosions are deeply distressing. We urge calm heads and de-escalation at this critical time.\u201d The UK recommended its nationals leave Lebanon in August due to rising tensions in the region. Israel is pushing the whole Middle East to the brink of regional conflict by maintaining a dangerous escalation on several fronts, Reuters reports Jordan\u2019s foreign minister said on Wednesday. In remarks after an Islamic and Arab ministerial contact group meeting in Amman to lobby for a Gaza ceasefire, Ayman Safadi said peace would not prevail without a two-state solution. Safadi has kept the foreign ministry portfolio in a new Jordanian cabinet named today. The death toll from exploding pagers in Lebanon has risen to 12, and includes two children, Lebanese health minister Firass Abiad said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. About 3,000 people, including civilians, are reported to have been injured by the wave of explosions that struck Lebanon yesterday. While there has been no official claim of responsibility, the attack, which appears to have been chiefly aimed at Hezbollah operatives, has been widely attributed to Israel. Lebanon\u2019s information minister Ziad Makary has said the country is preparing to put a complaint to the UN security council over the incident, which he called \u201ca blatant attack on Lebanese sovereignty, that targeted civilians, not only Hezbollah members.\u201d Lebanon has received medical aid today from Iran, Iraq and Jordan, and Egypt\u2019s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said his country rejects any attempts at escalation in the region, offering support to Lebanon. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan conveyed his sadness over the deadly pager blasts to Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati in a phone call. The Anadolu news agency reported that Erdo\u011fan told Mikati that Israel\u2019s attempts to spread conflicts in Gaza to the wider region were dangerous and that efforts to stop Israel would continue. Russia\u2019s foreign ministry has said the attack was \u201cdeliberately\u201d designed to \u201cprovoke a major war in the Middle East\u201d, and spokesperson Maria Zakharova described it as \u201cyet another act of hybrid warfare against Lebanon which has harmed thousands of innocent people\u201d, and demanded an investigation. Iran\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani described it as \u201cterrorist operation \u2026 [that] contravenes all moral and human principles, international law, especially international humanitarian law, and warrants international criminal prosecution, trial, and punishment.\u201d Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan conveyed his sadness over the deadly pager blasts in Lebanon to Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati in a phone call on Wednesday, Reuters reports Turkey\u2019s state-owned Anadolu news agency said. Erdo\u011fan also told Mikati in the call that Israel\u2019s attempts to spread conflicts in Gaza to the wider region were dangerous and that efforts to stop Israel would continue, Anadolu added. Lebanon\u2019s minister of information has said the country is preparing to take a complaint to the UN security council over the mass detonation of pagers yesterday which killed at least nine people and injured nearly 3,000 others. Although there has been no official statement of responsibility, the attack has been widely attributed to Israel. Lebanon\u2019s state national news agency reports that Ziad Makary described the explosions as \u201ca blatant attack on the Lebanese sovereignty, that targeted civilians, not only Hezbollah members.\u201d Makary said: What we fear is not Hezbollah, but Israel\u2019s criminality, whether in Gaza or Lebanon. Lebanon is preparing a complaint to submit to the UN security council, and the ambassadors of certain states concerned with this never-ending conflict between Lebanon and the Israeli enemy will be summoned. The enemy does not care about anybody, not even about the constant and public US pressures. US diplomacy must intensify its pressures on Israel before it does on Hezbollah and Lebanon. In addition to an earlier statement by Russia\u2019s foreign ministry that the detonation of pagers in Lebanon had been deliberately designed to \u201cprovoke a major war in the Middle East\u201d, the Kremlin has additionally said that the incident could become a trigger for a wider regional conflict. Speaking in Moscow, Reuters reports Vladimir Putin\u2019s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the media \u201cThe causes and circumstances of the incident must be established and those behind it must be identified.\u201d According to a report in Tass, Peskov added \u201cOf course, this should become a subject of study by specialists in order to take measures to eliminate similar risks here and in other places.\u201d In its latest operational update on its official Telegram channel, Israel\u2019s military has said that in the last few hours it has intercepted a suspicious aerial target that crossed into Israel from the direction of Lebanon, and that Israeli fighter jets intercepted a UAV \u201cthat was approaching from Iraq\u201d. The claims have not been independently verified. Russia\u2019s foreign ministry has said the attack on Lebanese group Hezbollah and others using exploding pagers was designed to \u201cprovoke a major war in the Middle East\u201d. The detonation of the devices has been widely attributed to Israel. Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry, said in a statement: We regard what happened as yet another act of hybrid warfare against Lebanon, which has harmed thousands of innocent people. It appears that the organisers of this high-tech attack deliberately sought to foment a large-scale armed confrontation in order to provoke a major war in the Middle East. Earlier Zakharova said that the incident should be investigated, and said that the international community should be paying close attention to the event. At least nine people have been killed and nearly 3,000 wounded by the detonation of the pagers. Among the wounded was Iran\u2019s envoy to Beirut. Reuters reports that a statement from the Egyptian presidency said president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told visiting US secretary of state Antony Blinken that Egypt rejects any attempts at escalation in the region and that Egypt supports Lebanon after the pager blasts incident. The funeral of Fatima Abdallah, the 10-year-old girl killed during the wave of pager detonations that struck Lebanon yesterday afternoon, has been taking place in the village of Saraain in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon. The detonations have been widely attributed to Israel, although there has been no official confirmation from Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government, which rarely comments on Israeli operations outside its borders. At least nine people were killed and nearly 3,000 people were wounded in the blasts. About 200 of the wounded are reported to be in critical condition. US secretary of state Antony Blinken and his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty have met in Cairo. Blinken earlier met with Egypt\u2019s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Blinken will head from Cairo to Paris on Thursday for a meeting with the foreign ministers of France, Italy and Britain to discuss the Middle East and Ukraine and other issues, Reuters reports a state department official said. Blinken will also meet French President Emmanuel Macron, the official said. Blinken will not visit Israel on this trip to the Middle East, his tenth to the region since 7 October, and the first time he has not stopped in Tel Aviv as part of his intinerary. Russia\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, speaking in St Petersburg, has told the Russian media that \u201cwhat happened [in Lebanon] yesterday requires an investigation and international attention to this issue.\u201d The IDF has reported on its official Telegram channel that warning sirens are sounding in northern Israel. Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that medical crews have recovered ten bodies from areas north of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. In a statement on its official Telegram channel, Israel\u2019s military has claimed that on Tuesday its air force struck \u201cHezbollah terrorist infrastructure sites in five different areas in southern Lebanon,\u201d and that additionally IDF artillery \u201cstruck in several areas in southern Lebanon.\u201d In the statement the IDF said it \u201cwill continue to operate against the threat of the Hezbollah terrorist organisation in order to defend the state of Israel.\u201d Thousands of people in Israel and Lebanon have been displaced from their homes after months of Hezbollah and Israel exchanging fire over the UN-drawn blue line that separates the countries. The IDF\u2019s claims have not been independently verified. Iran\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson has condemned the pager detonations in Lebanon as a \u201cterrorist operation\u201d, which he described as \u201ca form of mass killing\u201d and a contravention of \u201cinternational humanitarian law\u201d. Iran\u2019s Tasnim news agency quotes Nasser Kanaani saying: [Tuesday\u2019s] terrorist operation in Lebanon was carried out as a continuation of the Zionist regime\u2019s combined operations and their mercenary agents. It contravenes all moral and human principles, international law, especially international humanitarian law, and warrants international criminal prosecution, trial, and punishment. This combined terrorist act, which is, in fact, a form of mass killing, once again clearly proves that the Zionist regime, in addition to committing war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people, has placed regional and international peace and security in serious jeopardy. Accordingly, confronting the regime\u2019s terrorist actions and the threats arising from it is an evident necessity, and the international community must act promptly to combat the impunity of the Zionist criminal officials. Iran\u2019s government has promised support for Lebanon, and Al Jazeera reports that Iran\u2019s Red Crescent has sent a medical delegation to Beirut to assist with the wounded. A shipment of medical aid from Iraq has also landed at Beirut International Airport. At least 200 of the nearly 3,000 people wounded in the attack are reported to be in critical condition. Lebanon\u2019s culture minister Judge Mohammad Wissam Al-Mortad has this morning issued a statement on social media, saying \u201cIn our struggle with the Israeli enemy, there are two truths: that its evil is limitless, and that our victory is undoubtedly coming. What [Israel] did yesterday provides evidence after evidence of its hostility to humanity, and of the resistance\u2019s ability to stand firm on the road to victory. Israel\u2019s days are numbered. May God have mercy on the martyrs, heal the wounded, and comfort the hearts.\u201d Local Palestinian media is reporting that a 17-year-old child has been killed by Israeli security forces near Ni\u2019lin, west of Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The claims have not been independently verified. Overnight Israel\u2019s military announced the deaths of four soldiers. It takes the total number that Israel says have been killed in action since the start of the ground offensive in Gaza to 346. The claims have not been independently verified, and it has not been possible for journalists to verify casualty figures being issued during the conflict. Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will give a speech on Thursday, Reuters reports the group said in a statement on Wednesday. It follows pager detonations across Lebanon on Tuesday that killed nine people and injured about 3,000 others in what is widely regarded as an attack by Israel. Major airlines Lufthansa and Air France have announced suspensions of flights to Tel Aviv, Tehran and Beirut until Thursday as tensions in the region soared after pager explosions in Lebanon. German group Lufthansa said it was suspending all flights to Tel Aviv and Iran\u2019s capital Tehran while French airline Air France suspended flights to the Israeli city and the Lebanese capital Beirut. \u201cDue to the recent change in the security situation, the Lufthansa Group airlines have decided to suspend all connections to and from Tel Aviv (TLV) and Tehran (IKA) with immediate effect,\u201d Lufthansa said in a statement. \u201cThis applies up to and including 19 September,\u201d it said. \u201cDue to the security situation at the destinations, Air France is suspending its connections from Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Beirut (Lebanon) and \u2026 Tel Aviv (Israel) until 19 September inclusive,\u201d the French company said in statement sent to AFP. Air France said it would \u201cevaluate daily the situation\u201d in the Middle East and insisted that \u201cthe safety of our customers and crews is the absolute priority\u201d. US secretary of state Antony Blinken reportedly landed in Cairo early Wednesday, as part of a planned trip to the region to attempt to secure an elusive ceasefire in Gaza. On his 10th trip to the Middle East since the start of the war in Gaza nearly a year ago, Blinken will address negotiation efforts with Egyptian officials, according to the US state department. Those efforts were further complicated on Wednesday by the wave of pager blasts in Lebanon. Blinken is expected to meet with Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and hold a press conference with foreign minister Badr Abdelatty, but will not be visiting Israel during this round of diplomacy. US officials say privately that they do not expect any breakthroughs at Wednesday\u2019s talks in Cairo, but Blinken\u2019s visit will aim to keep up the pressure campaign for a deal between Israel and Hamas. \u201cHe\u2019ll be meeting with Egyptian officials about a number of things, but squarely on the agenda is how we get a proposal that we think would secure agreement from both parties,\u201d said US state department spokesperson Matthew Miller. After the wave of explosions across Lebanon, the influx of so many casualties has reportedly overwhelmed hospitals in Hezbollah strongholds. At one hospital in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs, an AFP correspondent saw people being treated in a car park on thin mattresses, with medical gloves on the ground and ambulance stretchers covered in blood. \u201cIn all my life I\u2019ve never seen someone walking on the street \u2026 and then explode,\u201d said Musa, a resident of the southern suburbs, requesting to be identified only by his first name. The 10-year-old daughter of a Hezbollah member was killed in east Lebanon\u2019s Bekaa Valley when his pager exploded, the family and a source close to the group said. A son of Hezbollah lawmaker Ali Ammar was also among the dead, a source close to the group told AFP, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. Tehran\u2019s ambassador in Beirut was wounded but his injuries were not serious, Iranian state media reported. In total, nine deaths have been reported with almost 3,000 injured. Hezbollah is known for using pagers to communicate because, unlike mobile phones, they can evade location-tracking and monitoring from Israeli intelligence. Yossi Melman, a co-author of Spies Against Armageddon, said \u201ca lot of people in Hezbollah carried these pagers, not just top echelon commanders\u201d. However, a security breach of this scale is seen by experts as hugely embarrassing and damaging to morale in the militant groups morale. Those wounded in the attack include Iran\u2019s ambassador to Beirut, Mojtaba Amani, according to reports. \u201cThis would easily be the biggest counterintelligence failure that Hezbollah has had in decades,\u201d said Jonathan Panikoff, the US government\u2019s former deputy national intelligence officer on the Middle East. The Taiwanese manufacturer linked to pagers that exploded as part of a deadly attack against Hezbollah has said the devices were made by a company in Europe, as the militant group blamed Israel and vowed revenge attacks. Images of the pagers emerged in the aftermath with stickers on the back appearing consistent with pagers made by Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, according to analysis by Reuters. On Wednesday, the company\u2019s founder Hsu Ching-Kuang, denied it had made the pagers, saying they were manufactured by a company in Europe that had the right to use its brand. \u201cThe product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it,\u2019 he said. \u201cWe are a responsible company. This is very embarrassing,\u201d he said. Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah said early on Wednesday that it \u201cwill continue, as in all the past days, its blessed operations to support Gaza\u201d, after a deadly wave of exploding pagers killed nine and injured thousands. \u201cThis path is ongoing and separate from the difficult reckoning that the criminal enemy must await for its massacre on Tuesday,\u201d the group said in a statement issued on Telegram. Hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday, with the group pinning the blame for the blasts on Israel. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the wave of explosions, which came just hours after Israel announced it was broadening the aims of the war sparked by Hamas\u2019s 7 October attacks to include its fight against Hezbollah along the country\u2019s border with Lebanon. Hello and welcome to the Guardian\u2019s continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. Hezbollah has said it \u201cwill continue\u201d its operations to \u201csupport Gaza\u201d, after a deadly wave of exploding pagers killed 9 people and wounded almost 3,000 more. \u201cThis path is ongoing and separate from the difficult reckoning that the criminal enemy must await for its massacre on Tuesday,\u201d the group said in a statement issued on Telegram. Iran-backed Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the unprecedented security breach that saw thousands of pagers detonate across Lebanon. Israel\u2019s military declined to comment on the blasts. More on this in a moment, first here\u2019s a summary of the day\u2019s other main events. Among those killed on Tuesday was an 10-year-old girl, according to Lebanon\u2019s health minister, Firass Abiad. The latest casualty figures by officials include about 2,750 wounded, with most injuries to the face and hands. Those wounded include Iran\u2019s ambassador to Beirut, Mojtaba Amani. Hezbollah fighters in Syria were also injured in the attack, with several reportedly being treated in hospitals in Damascus. Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards-affiliated Saberin News reported that some guards in Syria had also been killed. The pager explosions across Lebanon marked \u201can extremely concerning escalation,\u201d the UN\u2019s special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said. The spokesperson for the secretary general of the United Nations, St\u00e9phane Dujarric, noted the \u201cextremely volatile\u201d context. A Hezbollah official said the detonation of the pagers was the biggest security breach for the group in nearly a year of conflict with Israel. The blasts appeared to exploit the low-tech pagers that Hezbollah has adopted in order to prevent the targeted assassinations of its members. Lebanon\u2019s foreign minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, said the country was bracing for a major retaliation by Hezbollah. Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel. \u201cWe hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for this criminal aggression that also targeted civilians,\u201d a statement said. The son of the Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar reportedly also died in the explosions, as did two sons of other prominent Hezbollah figures. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the blasts. The attack took place just hours after Israel announced it was broadening the aims of the war sparked by the 7 October Hamas attacks to include its fight against Hezbollah. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry put hospitals across the country on \u201cmaximum alert\u201d and instructed citizens to distance themselves from wireless communication devices. Schools in Lebanon will close on Wednesday. The US government said it \u201cwas not aware of this incident in advance\u201d. The state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, told a briefing that Washington was not involved and did not know who was responsible. He added it was \u201ctoo early to say\u201d how it would affect Gaza ceasefire talks. The Foreign Office has urged \u201ccalm heads and de-escalation\u201d. An FCDO spokesperson said: \u201cWe continue to monitor the situation in Lebanon closely and the UK is working with diplomatic and humanitarian partners in the region. The civilian casualties following these explosions are deeply distressing."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Venezuela opposition leader says he was forced to sign letter accepting Maduro victory;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/venezuela-maduro-election-opposition-leader;2024-09-18T20:08:00Z",
        "text": "Venezuela\u2019s opposition candidate, Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez Urrutia, has said he was coerced into signing a letter recognizing Nicol\u00e1s Maduro as the winner of the country\u2019s disputed election as a condition for letting him flee to Spain. The revelation of the letter is the latest strain to the country\u2019s political crisis, which was exacerbated by the disputed election results and Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s recent departure for exile in Spain. \u201cI had to either sign it or deal with the consequences,\u201d Gonzalez wrote on X, citing \u201cvery tense hours of coercion, blackmail and pressure\u201d. He said Maduro allies brought him the document when he was in the Spanish embassy in Caracas before fleeing to Spain to request asylum, following the 28 July presidential election that the opposition insists he won. \u201cAt that point I considered I could be of more use free than if I were imprisoned and prevented from fulfilling the tasks entrusted to me\u201d by voters, he said. The document states it was meant to be confidential, but Jorge Rodr\u00edguez, head of the national assembly and Maduro\u2019s chief negotiator, presented it during a nationally televised press conference hours after a local news outlet published parts of it. Rodr\u00edguez told reporters Gonz\u00e1lez signed the letter of his own volition. Gonz\u00e1lez, however, in a video posted on social media said he signed it under coercion. \u201cThey showed up with a document that I would have to sign to allow my departure from the country,\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez said. Rodr\u00edguez, questioned about Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s video message, threatened to reveal audio of his conversations with Gonz\u00e1lez if he did not take back his assertions. Venezuela\u2019s national electoral council, which is stacked with Maduro loyalists, declared Maduro the election winner hours after polls closed. Unlike previous presidential elections, electoral authorities did not provide detailed vote counts. But the opposition coalition collected tally sheets from 80% of the nation\u2019s electronic voting machines and posted them online. Gonz\u00e1lez and opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado said the voting records showed the former diplomat won the election with twice as many votes as Maduro. Gonz\u00e1lez became the subject of an arrest warrant over an investigation into the publishing of the tally sheets. Global condemnation over the lack of transparency prompted Maduro to ask Venezuela\u2019s supreme tribunal of justice, whose members are aligned with the ruling party, to audit the results. The high court reaffirmed his victory. Venezuela\u2019s next presidential term begins on 10 January and lasts six years."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel\u2019s double-punch humiliation of Hezbollah is a dance on the edge of an abyss;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/israels-double-punch-humiliation-of-hezbollah-is-a-dance-on-the-edge-of-an-abyss;2024-09-18T19:14:59Z",
        "text": "The detonation of walkie-talkies around Lebanon a day after scores of pagers used by Hezbollah officials blew up is a one-two punch that drives home the extent of Israel\u2019s penetration of its Shia foe\u2019s defences across its northern border. It represents utter humiliation for Hezbollah that its security can be so effortlessly breached twice, and be shown incapable of protecting its own people. Israel has not admitted responsibility for the blasts but there is little doubt around the region that this was an operation bearing the Mossad\u2019s hallmarks. The more difficult questions concern its purpose: do these attacks represent tactical surprise for its own sake, or are they part of a broader strategy, and where does that strategy lead? Is this a prelude to an all-out war in Lebanon, or a substitute for one? The miniature bombs have gone off in Lebanon at a time of increasingly bellicose language from Netanyahu\u2019s coalition. At a late-night meeting on Tuesday, the security cabinet agreed to broaden the country\u2019s stated war aims from Gaza to the north, to include the goal of enabling the return of over 60,000 Israelis displaced by cross-border exchanges with Hezbollah since the conflict erupted on 7 October. The security logic in Israel is that those people cannot go home to their northern towns and villages while Hezbollah is still entrenched in southern Lebanon, between the border and the Litani river. The hope of the Biden administration and other brokers in the region is that a negotiated ceasefire in Gaza would also defuse tensions on the Israel-Lebanon border, allowing displaced Israelis to return without further escalation. No such ceasefire has materialised, however, while the talk of a new Israeli war in Lebanon has gathered momentum. Netanyahu\u2019s office has reportedly been briefing in recent days that one of the reasons the prime minister is considering dumping the defence minister, Yoav Gallant, is that Gallant\u2019s enthusiasm for a war in Lebanon has dimmed. As always with Netanyahu, it is hard to tell how much of this whispered campaign is really about military intentions, and how much is about domestic politics and the prime minister\u2019s constant need to tend to his coalition to keep him in power. He is talking to Gallant\u2019s would-be replacement, Gideon Sa\u2019ar, the leader of the New Hope party, whose members could help stabilise the coalition\u2019s standing. While there are manoeuvres in the corridors of the Knesset, there are few signs of corresponding offensive deployments on the Lebanese border. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) units continue to be rotated out of Gaza to go north, but they are exhausted and in insufficient numbers to launch a ground attack. Israel could greatly intensify its aerial campaign in Lebanon, but few if any military observers believe that the threat represented by Hezbollah and its formidable arsenal of missiles and rockets can be blunted from the air alone. And a ground offensive on Hezbollah\u2019s home turf in southern Lebanon would be costly in terms of Israeli casualties and therefore politically risky. The detonating devices in Lebanon offer Netanyahu the benefits of a spectacular, daring success, showing he is taking the battle to the enemy in the north, in the knowledge that Hezbollah, and its Iranian backers, have looked anxious to avoid being drawn into a full-scale war with Israel. The Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, sought to mislead his followers by exaggerating the success of a mass rocket and drone attack last month against strategic targets like Israeli intelligence headquarters, to lessen internal political pressure to inflict greater damage on Israel. Nasrallah is now under even more pressure to deliver a spectacular success of his own. The Israeli security agency, Shin Bet, claimed this week to have foiled a Hezbollah plot to assassinate a former senior member of the country\u2019s security establishment. If such a plot had succeeded, the demands within Israel for the IDF to deal with the Hezbollah threat \u201conce and for all\u201d would have grown significantly. It is an inherently unstable situation. Hezbollah needs to maintain its credibility as the tip of the spear of Islamic resistance to Israel. Netanyahu needs to keep Israel in a continual state of war to put off the threat of elections, and with them his risk of a fall from office with corruption charges pending in the courts. Both seek to stay on the brink of a wider war, without the power necessarily to stop events taking on a momentum of their own and taking the region over the edge."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah were audacious and carefully planned;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/pager-and-walkie-talkie-attacks-on-hezbollah-were-audacious-and-carefully-planned;2024-09-18T18:52:10Z",
        "text": "It may be years before the full story is told of how the coordinated explosions of thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah were orchestrated. But, even without Israel publicly admitting responsibility, it is clear that the attack must have been carefully planned \u2013 however uncertain its consequences. Experts generally believe a small mount of stable explosive was carefully implanted into each sabotaged device. Alan Woodward, a professor of cybersecurity at Surrey University, said: \u201cThere wouldn\u2019t need to be much explosive, as proximity to a human body means it would cause injury even if it was a few grams.\u201d The first wave of explosions \u2013 which occurred from about 3.30pm local time on Tuesday \u2013 appear to have been triggered by a special message from Hezbollah leadership, implying, Woodward argued, a specific modification of the pagers\u2019 embedded software. This meant it would trigger an explosion when the appropriate message was sent. It may have been a default setting on the pagers, but the trigger message came with a cynical twist. Eyewitnesses say the pager bleeped, then paused, then detonated \u2013 giving enough time for them to be brought closer to the owner\u2019s face \u2013 which is why Lebanese doctors reported treating multiple hand and eye injuries after the blast. Twelve people were killed and about 2,800 injured in Tuesday\u2019s explosions, and 14 died in a second wave of blasts that followed on Wednesday when walkie-talkies starting blowing up. This suggests the attacks amounted to a concerted attempt to disrupt Hezbollah\u2019s communications \u2013 the kind of activity that could be a prelude to a bombing raid of south Lebanon or other conventional military attack. Sabotaging the pagers is not a trivial undertaking, and amounts to a compromise of the supply chain, said Oleg Brodt, a director at Ben-Gurion University\u2019s Cyber Labs. It may even have required either the cooperation of the manufacturers, or for Israel\u2019s Mossad spy agency \u2013 or whoever carried out the attacks in Lebanon \u2013 to have manufactured the doctored pagers themselves, though this is speculative. The pagers bore the logo of an apparently hapless Taiwanese manufacturer, Gold Apollo. Its founder, Hsu Ching-Kuang, said his company had subcontracted the manufacture of the AR-924 model involved in the attack to the little-known Budapest-based BAC Consulting KFT, a deal he said had been struck three years ago. From here the trail goes strange, then cold. BAC Consulting was registered in Hungary in 2022 and provided a Budapest address on its website, the same address used by multiple companies. Its chief executive is Cristiana B\u00e1rsony-Arcidiacono, according to her profile on LinkedIn, and she is described as a graduate of the London School of Economics (LSE) and a native speaker of both Hungarian and Italian. When the Guardian called, B\u00e1rsony-Arcidiacono asked how the reporter had got the number and then hung up. However, she confirmed to NBC that her company worked with Gold Apollo. Asked about the pagers and the explosions, B\u00e1rsony-Arcidiacono said: \u201cI don\u2019t make the pagers. I am just the intermediate [sic]. I think you got it wrong.\u201d Later, Hungarian officials also said the pagers had not been made in the country. BAC Consulting\u2019s website went down on Wednesday, but internet archives of the site were full of generic pictures of coastlines and vague descriptions of its work without any reference to pager manufacture. Previous posts by B\u00e1rsony-Arcidiacono on LinkedIn feature pro-Russian, anti-Ukraine comments and a complaint \u201chow does it make no one says anything about US colonization\u201d? Making the deadly booby-trapped pagers is only half the story, however. Whoever did so had a good intelligence picture inside Hezbollah \u2013 an understanding that the Mossad and Israel\u2019s other security agencies did not have of Hamas prior to 7 October. They knew that Hezbollah had placed an order for about 5,000 pagers, after the group\u2019s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, had warned in February against using mobile phones. \u201cYour phone is their agent,\u201d the Hezbollah secretary general warned at the time, not anticipating that his group\u2019s enemies would be willing to plant explosives inside pagers instead. The assailants also knew who would be supplying the sabotaged devices to Hezbollah, and had a way of ensuring they could control their delivery to the militant group \u2013 as well as their manufacture or compromise. \u201cThe scale, destruction and precision of the attack suggests a sophisticated operation months in the making,\u201d said Emile Hokayem from the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Though Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack, few doubt its security forces were behind the effort \u2013 extraordinary because it involved thousands of devices rather than a single booby-trapped phone of the type used to assassinate the Hamas leader Yahya Ayyash in 1996. Yoav Gallant, the country\u2019s defence minister, called Lloyd Austin, his US counterpart, \u201cseveral minutes\u201d before the pagers began exploding to tell him that an operation in Lebanon was coming, according to the Axios website. No specifics were shared, and the state department said the US had not been forewarned of the attack plan \u2013 though Gallant\u2019s phone call comes close to an acknowledgment of responsibility. But however sophisticated the planning, the reality is that many civilians were harmed as the pagers exploded. One video captured a pager exploding in a grocery store; others showed adults and children in hospital with severe penetrating traumatic injuries to their heads, bodies and limbs. Human Rights Watch, a monitoring group, said human rights law \u201cprohibits the use of booby traps \u2026 precisely to avoid putting civilians at grave risk\u201d. In the immediate aftermath, Yossi Melman, a co-author of Spies Against Armageddon and other books on Israeli intelligence, asked \u201cwhy would you waste a valuable intelligence asset that could be used in a more urgent time?\u201d amid fears of an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah. But it appears Israel has been wanting to step up its attack on the militant group, two days after its security cabinet said allowing 60,000 displaced people to return safely to their homes in the north of the country was now a war aim. Hokayem argued that the pager operation, followed now by the walkie-talkie attack, \u201crepresents a humiliating blow and a major operational security failure for Hezbollah\u201d, already reeling from the assassination by airstrike of its top military commander in July. \u201cThe large number of casualties and their distribution across the country have had a deep impact on Lebanese society and on Hezbollah\u2019s constituency,\u201d he concluded. But it is also likely to risk retaliation, and an intensification of hostilities, as both sides teeter on the brink of war. Additional reporting by Michael Safi"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Walkie-talkie blasts: attacks on Hezbollah kill 20 as Israel says military focus shifting north;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/explosions-linked-to-walkie-talkies-deaths-lebanon;2024-09-18T18:16:51Z",
        "text": "A new series of extraordinary explosions aimed at Hezbollah \u2013 this time targeting walkie-talkies \u2013 has killed at least 20 and wounded more than 450 in cities across Lebanon, as international observers warned that the simultaneous detonation of thousands of booby-trapped communications devices may constitute a war crime. The targeted detonations of the walkie-talkies came one day after more than 2,800 were injured and 12 killed by exploding pagers in an attack blamed on Israel that world leaders and diplomats have warned could lead to an all-out conflict between Israel and the powerful militant group despite efforts by the US and UN to avert an escalation with Hezbollah. A source in Hezbollah confirmed that walkie-talkies used by the group were targeted in Wednesday\u2019s attack. A senior security source said the individual explosions were \u201csmall in size\u201d, similar to Tuesday\u2019s attacks. UN secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres condemned the attacks and called for restraint from both Hezbollah and Israel, while the UN security council was convened to meet on Friday to discuss the unprecedented operations in what appeared to be a massive supply chain breach by Israeli intelligence. Guterres also suggested the operation may have been planned as a prelude to a major Israeli attack on Lebanon. \u201cObviously the logic of making all these devices explode is to do it as a pre-emptive strike before a major military operation,\u201d Guterres told reporters. In a potentially related move, the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said Israel was shifting its military focus towards the front with Hezbollah, during a visit to an air force base on Wednesday. \u201cThe centre of gravity is shifting northward, meaning we are increasingly diverting forces, resources and energy towards the north,\u201d Gallant said, adding that the goal was to return displaced northern residents to their homes. He further complimented the Israeli Intelligence Agency, the Mossad, for \u201cgreat achievements\u201d, but stopped short of claiming responsibility for the two days of attacks in Lebanon. \u201cI have said it before, we will return to the citizens of the north to their homes in security and that\u2019s exactly what we are going to do,\u201d the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said in a video statement. Israel and Hezbollah, an Iran-backed faction that controls swaths of Lebanon, have been trading attacks across a shared border in a battle that has threatened to escalate into a regional war. Reports in Israeli media have suggested that Netanyahu and his military advisers may have decided to detonate the devices this week over concerns that Hezbollah was close to discovering the operation to booby-trap the group\u2019s communications equipment, which was launched at least five months ago. The attacks began just a day after Biden administration adviser Amos Hochstein met Netanyahu and Gallant in an effort to de-escalate tensions with Hezbollah. After that, the Israeli PM announced that returning tens of thousands of Israeli residents to their homes in northern Israel had become a key war aim, suggesting Israel could be preparing for further escalation. US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, who is visiting Egypt to discuss the US-led proposal for a Gaza ceasefire, appeared to suggest that Israel had timed the strike to derail a potential breakthrough in those talks. When US and other mediators believed they were making progress on a ceasefire deal in Gaza, Blinken said, \u201ctime and again, we\u2019ve seen an event that \u2026 threatens to slow it, stop it, derail it,\u201d he said, regarding Tuesday\u2019s explosions in Lebanon. Unusually, Blinken was not scheduled to visit Israel during the Middle East trip. Meanwhile, diplomats and human rights organisations warned that the strikes, which targeted thousands of pagers and hundreds of walkie-talkies ordered by Hezbollah, were indiscriminate and violated human rights law. \u201cSimultaneous targeting of thousands of individuals, whether civilians or members of armed groups, without knowledge as to who was in possession of the targeted devices, their location and their surroundings at the time of the attack, violates international human rights law and, to the extent applicable, international humanitarian law,\u201d said Volker T\u00fcrk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, in a statement. \u201cCustomary international humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby traps \u2013 objects that civilians are likely to be attracted to or are associated with normal civilian daily use \u2013 precisely to avoid putting civilians at grave risk and produce the devastating scenes that continue to unfold across Lebanon today,\u201d said Lama Fakih, Middle East and north Africa director at Human Rights Watch. \u201cThe use of an explosive device whose exact location could not be reliably known would be unlawfully indiscriminate, using a means of attack that could not be directed at a specific military target and as a result would strike military targets and civilians without distinction.\u201d \u201cA prompt and impartial investigation into the attacks should be urgently conducted,\u201d Fakih said. The fresh waves of strikes marked a second day of chaos in Lebanon and in particular in Hezbollah\u2019s stronghold in Beirut, where one of the walkie-talkies exploded at a funeral for three Hezbollah members and a child who had been killed by an exploding pager the day before. Twenty people were killed and at least 450 injured as a result of the new round of explosions, Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said. The ministry added that first responders had almost finished transferring people to hospitals. Several solar power systems exploded in people\u2019s homes across Lebanon, according to the National News Agency, injuring at least one girl in the town of al-Zahrani, south Lebanon. Pictures of exploded solar panels, fingerprint readers and other devices circulated on social media, though it was unclear whether they blew up by themselves or were near walkie-talkies that exploded. Images of the exploded walkie-talkies examined by Reuters showed an inside panel labeled \u201cICOM\u201d and \u201cmade in Japan.\u201d ICOM said in a brief statement on its website that it was aware of media reports that walkie-talkies with stickers bearing its logo had exploded in Lebanon. \u201cWe are currently trying to establish the facts and will provide updates on our website as new information becomes available,\u201d it said. It later said it was not possible to confirm whether it had shipped the walkie-talkies reportedly involved in the attack and that the batteries required to operate the device, of which sales had been discontinued about 10 years ago, had already been discontinued as well. It also said its products underwent strict regulatory processes set by the Japanese government. The wireless communications company, based in the western city of Osaka, has offices in several other countries, including the US, Germany and China. The firm has previously said that production of model IC-V82, which appeared to be the model in images seen by Reuters, was phased out in 2014. Japan\u2019s chief cabinet secretary, Yoshimasa Hayashi, told reporters the government was aware of reports regarding the walkie-talkies and that the government was gathering information. Hezbollah and the Lebanese government have blamed Israel for Tuesday\u2019s attack, with the former threatening a \u201cfair punishment\u201d for the explosion. Pictures showed broken and singed communication devices amid scenes of destruction. The Guardian saw multiple pictures of an Icom IC-V82 two-way radio that had seemingly exploded. In a video, a member of Hezbollah in the southern suburb of Beirut can be seen taking part in a funeral for fighters killed on Tuesday when a blast occurs somewhere on his body, knocking him to the ground and sending the crowd around him running. While paramedics rushed to evacuate wounded from affected areas, a group of men attacked a UN peacekeeping patrol transiting through the city of Tyre in south Lebanon. A video showed men throwing stones at two UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) armoured personnel carriers on the side of one of the main thoroughfares in the city. \u201cThe situation is under control right now. The Lebanese armed forces intervened but this is a serious breach of our freedom of movements,\u201d Unifil spokesperson Andrea Teneti told the Guardian, adding that no injuries occurred, but there were material damages. Israel has not claimed responsibility for either of the attacks, but reports suggest it managed to place explosives in thousands of pagers bought by Hezbollah. The Israeli ministry of defense has also moved the 98th Division, whose forces until recently had been fighting in the Gaza Strip, to the northern region of Israel, after the cabinet\u2019s decision to shift most of the military\u2019s capabilities to the region. The 98th Division will join the 36th Division, which has been deployed in northern Israel for several months. In addition, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) decided to deploy a limited recruitment of reserves in the north, including air defence, Home Front Command and Medical Corps personnel. On Wednesday, Maj Gen Uri Gordin, head of the IDF\u2019s Northern Command, visited a drill carried out by reservists of the IDF\u2019s 179th Brigade, which is simulating fighting in Lebanon, including manoeuvring in enemy territory. \u201cThe mission is clear: we are determined to change the security reality as soon as possible. The commitment of the commanders and the troops here is complete, with peak readiness for any task that will be required,\u201d Gordin said in a statement provided by the IDF. Netanyahu and president Isaac Herzog met for a security briefing on Wednesday morning, Herzog\u2019s office announced. No details were released after the meeting. Meanwhile, the IDF said dozens of rockets were fired from Lebanon at the western Galilee in the afternoon, striking open areas. They did not cause any injuries. A drone, allegedly launched from Iraq, was also intercepted by an Israeli fighter jet early on Wednesday morning, the IDF said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Sophisticated evil\u2019: Beirut medics and civilians horrified by pager attacks;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/lebanon-beirut-medics-civilians-horrified-pager-attacks;2024-09-18T17:49:43Z",
        "text": "Two beeps and a pause was the only warning Yusuf got. He turned around to face the noise, thinking it was one of his medical instruments, but instead was met with an explosion, throwing shrapnel into his leg. His patient fared much worse. \u201cThe patient lost consciousness; he started bleeding. His face, neck and lips were burned. He had knife-like cuts, as if he was hit by a rocket,\u201d Yusuf, a doctor from Beirut speaking under a pseudonym, said while waiting for an injured friend outside a Beirut hospital on Tuesday night. He rolled up his trouser leg to show a small wound, the remnants of his patient\u2019s exploded pager. Tuesday\u2019s attacks, which targeted pagers used by members of Hezbollah and have been attributed to Israel, left at least 2,800 injured and 12 dead, including two children and a healthcare worker. The scale was \u201cfar greater\u201d than that of the Beirut port blast some four years earlier, the largest non-nuclear explosion in human history, which left more than 7,000 injured, Lebanon\u2019s health minister, Firas Abiad, said. Two-thirds of those wounded in the Tuesday\u2019s attacks needed hospitalisation, a greater proportion even than those hurt in the port explosion, the minister explained. On Wednesday, walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah members for communication began to explode across Lebanon in a similar fashion to the previous day\u2019s attacks. A video showed a blast suddenly striking a Hezbollah member during a funeral in Beirut for a fighter killed on Tuesday, knocking him down and sending the crowd running. At least 14 people have been killed by the walkie-talkie detonations and hundreds injured. The wide-ranging attacks extended all the way to Syria, where at least four Hezbollah members were injured by pager explosions in al-Qalamoun, Damascus and Seida Zeinab, according to Fadel Abdulghani, the founder of the Syrian Network for Human Rights. News of Tuesday\u2019s attack trickled in at first, starting with information regarding a security incident in Beirut, then the southern city of Tyre, and the Bekaa valley. Soon it was all over the news, with pictures of people with mangled limbs and bloodied faces emerging from all over the country. The sound of ambulance sirens started and would continue non-stop, deep into the night. Abiad issued a call for all health workers to go to their stations, and Lebanon\u2019s Internal Security Forces asked citizens to stay off the streets so that ambulances could reach hospitals. \u201cI didn\u2019t understand what was happening; the first thing I thought was that it was a terrorist attack,\u201d said Ali, a 22-year-old trader from the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp, interviewed while waiting outside a Beirut hospital for an injured friend on Tuesday night. \u201cPeople started throwing their phones on the ground out of fear; they thought they would explode.\u201d Ali was in a popular market in Burj al-Barajneh when the explosions started. Though he did not hear them, their aftermath became quickly apparent. \u201cI saw a man trying to hold his face together; it had completely split. His eyes had popped out of his skull and blood was pouring out,\u201d Ali said. Hours after Tuesday\u2019s explosions, the wounded were still being transported to hospitals. At Rizk hospital in Beirut, dozens of families waiting outside the emergency room, eager for any news of their family and friends inside. People crowded the doors of arriving ambulances, peering into windows to see if any loved ones were inside. A woman collapsed to the ground, wailing after first responders had no information on the whereabouts of her family member. Ya Ali!\u201d she cried, a religious exhortation, as men tried to soothe her. \u201cYou see that one? That one came all the way from Abbasiyeh,\u201d Ali said, pointing to an arriving ambulance that had travelled more than two hours to find a hospital with available beds. Doctors described \u201capocalyptic\u201d scenes inside emergency rooms, where young men, women and children alike poured in nonstop. \u201cI was in my house when I heard what happened, so I came back [to the hospital]. People were crying, shouting \u2018I can\u2019t see!\u2019\u201d an anaesthesiologist who worked at the Beirut H\u00f4tel-Dieu de France hospital said on Wednesday morning under the condition of anonymity, as they were not authorised to speak to the press. The doctor said that the injuries were unlike anything they had seen before, mainly wounded eyes and hands, a result of patients looking at their pagers before they exploded. \u201cNever do you have eye emergencies at this frequency. It\u2019s transforming 2,000 people into disabled [people] at the same time,\u201d another doctor at the same hospital said. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday that the attack could be a violation of international humanitarian law, through its use of pagers as booby traps, and that it had put civilians at risk. \u201cThe use of an explosive device whose exact location could not be reliably known would be unlawfully indiscriminate \u2026 and as a result would strike military targets and civilians without distinction,\u201d Lama Fakih, the Middle East and north Africa director at HRW, said. As families waited outside the hospital, individual volunteers emerged to distribute water bottles and manakeesh, a Lebanese flatbread. A line of people formed outside the hospital as people came to donate blood. \u201cI\u2019m horrified by the level of sophisticated evil. It\u2019s completely crazy,\u201d said Maliha Raydan, a 50-year-old mother of two, while distributing supplies outside Rizk hospital. \u201cWe were wondering what we could do, so we thought it would be a good thing to do.\u201d The apparently limitless suspected reach of Israeli intelligence had instilled anxiety in Raydan and others, some of whom refused to speak to the press for fear it would make them a future target for Israel. \u201cBy doing this today, they can get to anyone. They can get to us in our bedrooms. They breach all laws of war and humanity. And no one is stopping them,\u201d Raydan said. For others, fear was pushed aside by a deep anger \u2013 mainly at the indiscriminate nature of the attack. \u201cI am a medical worker, but the grudge I have now \u2026 I will insist on teaching it to my great-great-grandson. I was neutral, but now I\u2019m going to take a side,\u201d Yusuf said, stressing, however, that his resistance would be non-violent."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Iraqi refugee wins legal battle to prove he was a child when he arrived in UK;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/iraqi-refugee-wins-legal-battle-to-prove-he-was-a-child-when-he-arrived-in-uk;2024-09-18T17:33:07Z",
        "text": "A child refugee who fled Iraq has won a three-year legal battle to prove he was only 16 when he arrived undocumented in the UK, not eight to 10 years older, as British officials claimed, citing his facial hair and broad shoulders. The Kurd, now 19, fled Iraq with his family in 2021 after death threats from Shia militia, who came into his home area around Kirkuk after the fall of Islamic State in northern Iraq and Syria. But he was separated from his parents and sister while changing vessels on a treacherous sea journey and, after landing by boat in Britain in the middle of the night, he was treated as an adult with an estimated age of 24 to 26 by the Home Office and the London Borough of Greenwich. It meant that as well as being separated from his loved ones, he was allocated accommodation with adult asylum seekers and he claimed to be suicidal and threatened to kill himself during one age assessment. He won his case against the council\u2019s decision to treat him as an adult in the upper tribunal immigration and asylum chamber in February, when the judge found his claim of his age credible and that his father, who had worked for Saddam Hussein\u2019s Sunni-dominated regime, would plausibly have attracted an \u201cadverse\u201d interest from Shia militias. The boy also claimed he had his leg broken by the militia. In July the borough was refused leave to appeal against the ruling on his age. His lawyers have now spoken out about his case, which means he will now have access to social services support until he is at least 21. \u201cSadly, this is also not an isolated case and I cannot help but think that it is sometimes seen by local authorities with limited resources as a way to wriggle out of, or at least put off, providing the support and accommodation they are obliged to give child refugees,\u201d said Edward Taylor, a partner at the law firm Osbornes, whorepresented the boy, who cannot be named. While Judge Norton-Taylor found the refugee was indeed the age he claimed, he was probably \u201caware that being a child required the authorities to provide accommodation and support\u201d. Last year the number of unaccompanied children arriving in the UK and seeking asylum hit the highest level in at least 14 years, according to Home Office figures, with 7,373 cases considered, of which 1,475 were refused. Home Office guidance published this year tells officials to give the benefit of the doubt and to treat uncertain cases as children pending further consideration of their age. The boy told the tribunal that he had an identity card in Iraq and it said he was born on 15 January 2005 \u2013 making him 16 when he arrived. But when his age was assessed by officials on arrival in Kent, they found he had a deep voice, broad shoulders, a pronounced Adam\u2019s apple, frown lines and significant facial hair. His appearance, they concluded \u201cwas so obvious in terms of age, that there is no doubt about his adulthood\u201d. The council reckoned he was probably aged 24 to 26. The tribunal found his looks did not justify the council\u2019s assessment. Another age check by trained Kent county council assessors in 2022 highlighted his \u201cgentleman and adult-like behaviour, showing courtesy which can rarely be displayed by children younger in age\u201d. The judge was asked to consider his \u201ccharm, charisma and forceful, argumentative demeanour\u201d. But he found this was \u201coften an unreliable indicator of age\u201d. The boy \u2013 now a young man \u2013 has been learning English at Croydon College in south London and was discharged from child and adolescent mental health services in July 2022. The judge found that his threat to kill himself was more likely to have been a result of \u201cemotional dysregulation and impulsive frustration\u201d rather than \u201cmanipulative intent\u201d. His application for asylum has, meanwhile, been refused and he is appealing against the decision. A spokesperson for the Royal Borough of Greenwich said: \u201cWe take our duties to children and those seeking asylum very seriously and we are proud to be recognised as a borough of sanctuary for all the work that we do. Although we cannot comment on individual cases, we have accepted the upper tier tribunal\u2019s decision that was made on 13 February 2024 and have complied with and continue to comply with the decision.\u201d \u2022 The headline on this article was amended on 18 September 2024 because the original version inaccurately said the refugee was from Iran, rather than Iraq"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;UN members back resolution directing Israel to leave occupied territories;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/un-general-assembly-resolution-israel-occupied-palestinian-territories;2024-09-18T17:28:02Z",
        "text": "In a symbolic step exposing Israel\u2019s continued international isolation, the UN general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to direct Israel to leave the occupied Palestinian territories within a year. The non-binding vote follows a historic advisory ruling in July by the international court of justice (ICJ) urging Israel to cease \u201cits unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory as soon as possible and stop all settlement activity there immediately\u201d. Wednesday\u2019s resolution was passed by 124 votes to 14 with 43 abstentions, prompting applause across the general assembly chamber in New York. The UK and Australia abstained while the US voted against. Condemnations of Israel by the general assembly are frequent, including two resolutions passed by comparable majorities since the conflict began on 7 October, but this is the first since 1982 to advocate sanctions against Israel. It arguably has additional force since it claims to be seeking to enforce an ICJ ruling. The resolution states: \u201cIsrael\u2019s security concerns cannot override the principle of the prohibition of the acquisition of territory by force.\u201d It is also the first resolution tabled by Palestine since the UN general assembly voted in May by 143 to nine to upgrade Palestine\u2019s UN observer status by giving the Palestinian delegation the right to submit resolutions. That vote came after the US had used its veto at the UN security council in April to block Palestine being given full UN status. The latest resolution urges member states to end the import of products originating in the Israeli settlements and to stop the provision of arms, munitions and related equipment to Israel \u201cif it is reasonable to suspect that they may be used in the occupied Palestinian territory\u201d. Additionally, it requires the UN general secretary, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, to report within three months on what progress he had made in urging Israel to cooperate. The US has no veto at the general assembly, unlike on the 15-strong security council, but lobbied hard among allies to minimise size of the vote condemning Israel. The assembly vote does not have the force of law and in Israel the resolution is likely to confirm a widely held view that the UN is driven by a bias against the country. Israel\u2019s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, described the vote as \u201ca shameful decision that backs the Palestinian Authority\u2019s diplomatic terrorism\u201d. \u201cInstead of marking the anniversary of the 7 October massacre by condemning Hamas and calling for the release of all 101 of the remaining hostages, the general assembly continues to dance to the music of the Palestinian Authority, which backs the Hamas murderers,\u201d Danon said. In October the general assembly voted by 120 in favour and 14 against with 45 abstentions to demand that greater humanitarian aid be allowed into Gaza. In December the assembly voted 153 to 10 with 23 abstaining to call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. The US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, argued against the adoption of the latest resolution, saying it was one-sided and selectively interpreted the substance of the ICJ\u2019s opinion. Such selectivity \u201cdid not advance what we all want to see \u2013 progress towards two states living in peace, side by side,\u201d she said. She also said the resolution was unbalanced since it did not condemn Hamas as a terrorist group. During the three-day debate, Egypt\u2019s envoy, Osama Mahmoud Abdelkhalek Mahmoud, reflected the frustration of Middle Eastern states that Israel was being protected by the US from the legal and political judgments of the international courts. He said the Israeli occupation, with its settlements and extremist settlers, \u201cwould not be viable\u201d if countries that respected international law and the ICJ\u2019s legal opinion decided to boycott Israel and end cooperation. \u201cPutting an end to the occupation and deterring Israel\u2019s hostile behaviour against the Palestinian people is an urgent necessity to maintain international security and what remains of regional stability,\u201d he said. \u201cIsrael has gone too far, and its aggression against the United Nations itself has killed more than 220 UN staff members, as it continues to adopt a law that would criminalise the UN relief agency Unrwa and consider it a terrorist organisation.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Repercussions are inevitable\u2019: unease in Israel over Hezbollah pager attack;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/repercussions-are-inevitable-israeli-media-reacts-to-the-pager-attack;2024-09-18T17:19:18Z",
        "text": "Nearly 24 hours after the simultaneous detonation of hundreds of pagers imported by the Lebanese group Hezbollah, followed by more explosions on Wednesday targeting walkie-talkies across Lebanon, in an attack attributed to Israel, political commentators and analysts were grappling with questions about the timing and what the consequences might be for the conflict on the Lebanese border. The blasts occurred shortly after the Israeli security cabinet had approved a decision to expand the goals of the war in Gaza to include the return of tens of thousands of Israelis evacuated from towns in the north that have been damaged by rockets fired by Hezbollah. That move potentially hands the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a casus belli if he decides to launch a ground invasion into Lebanon. Writing for the news website Ynet on Wednesday, the Israeli journalist and political commentator Avi Issacharoff asked: \u201cWhat is the purpose of such a war against Hezbollah? What are the achievable goals? Will it be possible to restore peace to the northern border and keep the activists of the Shia organisation away from the border?\u201d These are questions that the government \u201cwill have to ask itself, and soon\u201d, Issacharoff wrote. \u201cThis action attributed to Israel will not lead Hezbollah to stop its offensive activity against the northern settlements, but to escalation,\u201d he added. Israel has a longstanding history of conducting advanced remote operations in countries deemed enemies, ranging from cyber-attacks to remote-controlled firearms aimed at individuals in drive-by shootings. It rarely comments on or accepts responsibility for such operations. Tuesday\u2019s blasts caught most political observers off-guard. Since October, Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas in Gaza, has traded almost daily fire with Israeli troops along the Lebanon-Israel border. Not formally declared as a war, the clashes on the Lebanon front have killed hundreds in Lebanon, mostly fighters, and dozens, including soldiers, on the Israeli side. They have also forced tens of thousands of people on both sides of the border to flee their homes. Prof Eyal Zisser, the vice-rector of Tel Aviv University and an expert on Lebanon and Arab-Israeli relations, said he struggled to see how Tuesday\u2019s attack could help the goal of returning evacuated Israelis to their homes. \u201cSince 8 October \u2026 both sides, each for its own reasons, have accepted limitations \u2013 at what depth and distance from the border they launched their attacks and at what targets,\u201d Zisser said. \u201cBut for the Israelis who were evacuated from their homes, this is a total war, and the same is true for Lebanese who were forced to leave their homes.\u201d An editorial in the Jerusalem Post congratulated any force \u201coperating against the evil that is Hezbollah\u201d, but also raised concerns about the consequences for Israeli citizens in the north. The paper said: \u201cThere is one thing we cannot forget, however, and it is the residents of Israel\u2019s north that have faced the brunt of the war with Hezbollah and taken hit after hit. \u201cWhile this new advancement gives Israel an advantage it is undeniable: Hezbollah will retaliate, and Israel\u2019s north will suffer the consequences. To whoever devised yesterday\u2019s cunning attack, good job \u2013 but always bear in mind that broad repercussions are inevitable.\u201d In an analysis for the Haaretz newspaper, Amos Harel said the attack had exposed Hezbollah\u2019s weakness and humiliated its leaders, but wondered if the timing was appropriate. \u201cAt a time when Netanyahu was promising the Israeli public until not very long ago that we are just a small step from total victory over Hamas, now it seems we are closer than ever to a large-scale war with Hezbollah, too,\u201d Harel wrote. \u201cThe victory, on all fronts, is still nowhere on the horizon.\u201d So far, the only response of the Israeli ministry of defence was reportedly to move the 98th division, whose forces have been fighting until recently in the Gaza Strip, to the northern region of the country. In addition, the IDF decided on a limited recruitment of reserve personnel to be deployed in the north, including air defence, home front command and medical corps personnel. The 98th division will join the 36th division, which has been deployed in northern Israel for several months. On Wednesday, Maj Gen Uri Gordin, head of the IDF\u2019s northern command, visited a drill carried out by reservists of the IDF\u2019s 179th brigade, which is simulating fighting in Lebanon, including manoeuvring in enemy territory. \u201cThe mission is clear; we are determined to change the security reality as soon as possible. The commitment of the commanders and the troops here is complete, with peak readiness for any task that will be required,\u201d Gordin said in a statement provided by the IDF. Some opposition politicians accused Netanyahu of losing sight of the goals of the war in Gaza. The former IDF deputy chief of staff and leader of the Democrats party, Yair Golan, told Israeli radio: \u201cIf Israel is indeed responsible for the beeper attack, then this is a capability that should be used as part of an overall campaign, for example on the eve of a ground campaign. \u201cWhen such a capability is activated without any strategic context, this is a puzzling move. At the same time, and I don\u2019t know, it could be that there was a situation where there was no choice, a situation where they had to activate this tool immediately.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot tells mass rape trial that she \u2018never gave consent\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/gisele-pelicot-tells-court-she-never-consented-to-mass;2024-09-18T17:07:55Z",
        "text": "The former wife of a French man accused of recruiting strangers to rape her while she was drugged has told a court she never consented and the men who allegedly assaulted her were \u201cdegenerates\u201d. Appearing at the trial of her former husband, Dominique P\u00e9licot, and 50 men he allegedly invited to rape her, Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot, 72, said: \u201cI never, even for a single second, gave my consent to Mr P\u00e9licot or those other men.\u201d Dominique Pelicot, 71, has admitted drugging his then-wife with sedatives and anti-anxiety medication to render her unconscious so that he and dozens of strangers who he recruited in online chatrooms could allegedly rape her between 2011 and 2020. The 50 men, aged between 26 and 74, with professions ranging from fire officer to journalist, are alleged to have been recruited by P\u00e9licot, who said they knew they were being invited to commit rape. Some of the accused men have admitted P\u00e9licot told them he was drugging his then-wife, but others have said they believed they were participating in a couple\u2019s organised game. Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot said she felt humiliated by questioning from defence lawyers who had argued that the men may have made an error of judgment, or thought she was drunk or pretending to be asleep and complicit. \u201cI have felt humiliated while I\u2019ve been in this courtroom. I have been called an alcoholic, a conspirator of Mr P\u00e9licot,\u201d she said, adding her life had been \u201cdestroyed\u201d for 10 years. \u201cIn the state I was in, I absolutely could not respond. I was in a comatose state; the videos show that.\u201d She said of the men on trial: \u201cThese men are degenerates. They committed rape \u2026 When they see a woman sleeping on her bed, no one thought to ask themselves a question? Don\u2019t they have brains?\u201d She added: \u201cWhen does a husband decide for his wife?\u201d Although she experienced unexplained memory lapses and gynaecological problems for years, Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot said she had been unaware of the alleged rapes until police found images on her husband\u2019s computer and told her. Her ex-husband again asked for forgiveness from her in court, but she looked at the ground without reacting. Asked about remarks by one defence lawyer who had said in court that \u201cthere\u2019s rape and there\u2019s rape\u201d in a possible attempt to back up some of the men\u2019s claim that they assumed they were participating in a couple\u2019s game, Gis\u00e8le Pelicot said: \u201cNo, there are no different types of rape,\u201d she said. \u201cRape is rape.\u201d The lawyer subsequently apologised to her, saying he had wanted to distinguish the legal definition of rape from the \u201cmedia\u201d definition. \u201cI am sorry that these remarks hurt and shocked you,\u201d he said. The court was shown explicit images of Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot who said she had had no knowledge of the photographs being taken by her husband, raising the issue of whether she could have been sedated when they were taken. She said: \u201cThese were taken without my knowledge, I am very surprised.\u201d Dominique P\u00e9licot told the court he had taken the photos without her knowledge. Defence lawyers asked Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot if she understood that men who saw these kinds of photos online could think she wanted a sexual encounter, even while drugged. She said men could \u201cask whether I consented to intercourse\u201d. She said she felt she was being accused of being the guilty party in the courtroom, while the 50 men accused of rape alongside her husband sat in court observing. She said she understood why women hesitated about filing rape complaints. Gis\u00e8le P\u00e9licot has requested that the trial be open to the public to raise awareness about the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse. The trial continues until December."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Former smugglers\u2019 ship sunk off Ireland to form artificial reef;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/former-smugglers-ship-sunk-off-ireland-to-form-artificial-reef;2024-09-18T17:00:10Z",
        "text": "The valves opened, the sea gurgled in and slowly, imperceptibly at first, the ship began its journey to the bottom of the Atlantic. The 60-metre MV Shingle debuted in Ireland a decade ago as a smuggling vessel, but then became an unwanted hulk. On Wednesday afternoon it performed its swan song \u2013 scuttled off County Mayo to create an artificial reef. A flotilla of smaller boats with spectators circled and a drone fed live footage to YouTube, providing an audience for the sunlit scene off Killala Bay. Authorities hope the wreck, from its new home on the seabed, will enhance the ecosystem and boost tourism by enticing divers to Ireland\u2019s west coast. It might also redeem a cargo vessel associated with crime. In June 2014 armed police and customs officers intercepted the Moldovan-registered ship, which had sailed from Slovenia via Portugal, as it neared the port of Drogheda, north of Dublin. The Europe-wide security operation netted 32m cigarettes and four tonnes of tobacco apparently destined for the hidden market. It also created a headache for Irish revenue officials who were left with a rusting, asbestos-tainted vessel. Nobody wanted to buy it and scrapping it was prohibitively expensive. So it sat in Dublin port for nine years and then last year was towed to New Ross port, no longer seaworthy. A Mayo-based campaign group called Killala Bay Ships 2 Reef persuaded Mayo and Sligo county councils that the ship could create an artificial marine reef \u2013 Ireland\u2019s first \u2013 and benefit marine life and tourism. The group said it wished to create an \u201cAtlantic underwater oasis\u201d. Many sunken wrecks around the world teem with marine life including coral, eels, snappers and sharks, according to Smithsonian Ocean. Revenue officials agreed to donate a vessel, which since being seized has cost about \u20ac2m in berthing fees, maintenance and remedial work, including the removal of asbestos and residual oils. Michael Loftus, a Mayo councillor and diver who led the initiative, said the project had been a \u201clong and hard road\u201d. He hopes the wreck will generate income and spur research. \u201cWe expect that this money they have spent on it will be paid back within a three-year period from diving, tourism, fishing tourism, marine research,\u201d he told RT\u00c9. The Shingle was towed from New Ross and arrived at Killala Bay on Tuesday. About a dozen dinghies and other small boats accompanied the former cargo vessel on its last voyage on Wednesday. Soon after 3pm, about 2km from shore, its valve tanks were opened. Nothing appeared to happen at first. After an hour it was visibly lower in the water. It sank lower and listed to its starboard side, the ocean claiming the bow. The end came just before 5pm, and was swift: in a few seconds the bridge plunged beneath the water, producing foam which bubbled and swirled, then vanished, leaving calm, placid water. The ship rested on the seabed 29 metres (95ft) below."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;British activist denied bail after years in Indian jail without trial;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/british-activist-denied-bail-after-years-in-indian-jail-without-trial;2024-09-18T16:35:33Z",
        "text": "Delhi\u2019s high court has denied bail to the British activist Jagtar Singh Johal, who has been imprisoned in India for nearly seven years, in seven cases brought against him by the country\u2019s National Investigations Agency. The ruling has shocked family and supporters who claim it should jolt the British government into recognising that Johal is not receiving justice at the hands of the Indian legal system. The court acknowledged that his trials have been severely delayed but ruled this was not sufficient grounds to grant bail, according to Reprieve, the human rights organisation that has been fighting against his long detention without trail. Johal, 37, from Dumbarton in Scotland, was arrested in connection with targeted killing cases in Punjab in 2016 and 2017. It is alleged that these offences were part of a conspiracy by the Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF), an organisationthe Indian police allege Johal was a member of. Johal had previously been bailed in two cases. In March 2022, the high court of Punjab and Haryana granted bail on the basis that Johal had been imprisoned without trial for five years and that this violated his right to access to justice. In August 2023, in an appeal filed by the National Investigations Agency to the March 2022 order, India\u2019s supreme court challenged prosecutors to present credible evidence against him, and as they were unable to do so, upheld the lower court\u2019s order granting bail. As a result, Wednesday\u2019s ruling appears to be directly at odds with the supreme court\u2019s 2023 order, meaning the latest high court ruling could be subject to challenge in the supreme court. Reprieve has insisted the cases against Johal are based on one false confession he gave after being tortured with electricity by police, who brought petrol into the cell and threatened to burn him alive. \u201cProsecutors have now had almost seven years and have presented no physical evidence, no email trail, no CCTV footage, no record of a bank transfer, and no recordings of telephone calls linking Jagtar to the supposed conspiracy,\u201d Reprieve said. The officer who arrested Johal in 2017 admitted in court that there was no evidence against him when cross-examined under oath, Reprieve said. United Nations legal experts have recognised that he is arbitrarily detained and is being targeted for his human rights activism. His brother, Gurpreet Singh Johal, said: \u201cMy brother should not be in prison. All he ever did was stand up for human rights, as we have said from day one. Prosecutors can\u2019t come up with any evidence against him because there isn\u2019t any. \u201cToday\u2019s ruling is a harsh reminder that the system is stacked against him. Prosecutors are able to drag out the case, potentially for decades, to deny him justice. Even these simple bail applications have taken more than a year to be considered because the prosecution has sought so many needless adjournments.\u201d Harriet McCulloch, of Reprieve, said: \u201cThese bail rulings should shock the UK government into action. To deny Jagtar bail when there is no end in sight to his trials and no credible evidence has been presented is clearly unjust. India is keeping a British human rights activist in arbitrary detention while his government stands by.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Hezbollah vows revenge on Israel for deadly Lebanon pager explosions;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/hezbollah-pager-explosion-lebanon-israel-gold-apollo;2024-09-18T16:31:42Z",
        "text": "Hezbollah has vowed revenge for an unprecedented and deadly attack in Lebanon, with Israel accused of carrying out the operation by planting explosives inside thousands of pagers imported by the group months earlier. Thousands of pagers detonated across Lebanon and in Syria, killing 12 people and wounding almost 3,000 others, including the group\u2019s fighters and Iran\u2019s envoy to Beirut, Mojtaba Amani. Lebanon\u2019s health minister, Firass Abiad, said a young girl was among the dead, and that more than 200 people had critical injuries. A senior Lebanese security source and a second source told Reuters that Israel\u2019s spy agency, the Mossad, which has a long history of pulling off complex attacks on foreign soil, planted explosives inside the pagers. The claim was mirrored by American officials cited in US media. Amid growing anger in the region about the attack, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said the US had not been forewarned and that it was imperative all sides avoid escalation. Jordan\u2019s foreign minister said Israel was pushing the Middle East to the brink of regional conflict by maintaining a dangerous escalation on several fronts. In remarks after an Islamic and Arab ministerial contact group meeting in Amman to lobby for a Gaza ceasefire, Ayman Safadi said peace would not prevail without a two-state solution. Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, is expected to give a speech on Thursday when the group\u2019s response to the attacks is likely to be made clear. According to unverified reports, the decision to detonate the pagers \u2013 which had reportedly been planned for the opening of a major Israeli offensive against Hezbollah, was brought forward after suspicions emerged about the devices. Hezbollah said it was carrying out a \u201csecurity and scientific investigation\u201d into the causes of the blasts and that Israel would receive \u201cits fair punishment\u201d. The Lebanese information minister, Ziad Makary, condemned the attack as an \u201cIsraeli aggression\u201d. Quickly emerging details on the source of the pagers Hezbollah bought has traced a trail from Taiwan to Hungary. The attack has further raised the prospect of another full-scale war in the Middle East between the Iran-backed group and its arch-foe. It emerged on Wednesday that the Israeli army had moved its 98th division, until recently deployed in the Gaza Strip, to northern Israel after a cabinet decision to shift most of the military\u2019s capabilities to the region. The Israeli military has not commented directly on the blasts but said senior commanders had held a situational assessment \u201cfocusing on readiness in both offence and defence in all arenas\u201d. The Taiwanese manufacturer linked to the pagers that exploded said the devices were made by a company in Europe. Images of the pagers emerged in the aftermath with stickers on the back that appeared consistent with pagers made by the Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, according to Reuters analysis. On Wednesday, the company\u2019s founder, Hsu Ching-kuang, denied it had made the pagers, saying they were manufactured by a company in Europe that had the right to use its brand. \u201cThe product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are a responsible company. This is very embarrassing.\u201d The blasts appeared to exploit the low-tech pagers that Hezbollah has adopted to prevent the targeted assassinations of its members, who could be tracked by mobile phone signals. A Hezbollah source said they believed the attack was in response to an alleged assassination attempt by the Shia militia of the former Israeli defence minister Moshe Ya\u2019alon last year in a failed bomb attack. Hospitals across Lebanon were overwhelmed with patients, and a field hospital was set up in the southern city of Tyre to accommodate wounded people. The sound of ambulance sirens was constant in Lebanon\u2019s capital city more than three hours after the attack. US officials are trying to de-escalate tensions between the two sides and are concerned that the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, could order a ground invasion of Lebanon. The pager attack came hours after Israel announced it was broadening its aims in the war to include its fight against Hezbollah along the border with Lebanon. Hezbollah confirmed in an earlier statement that the deaths included at least two of its fighters and a young girl. Later media reports said the son of the Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar also died in the explosions. The pagers exploded in southern Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut known as Dahiyeh and the eastern Bekaa Valley, all Hezbollah strongholds. One Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the detonation was the group\u2019s \u201cbiggest security breach\u201d since the Gaza conflict erupted on 7 October, when Hamas launched attacks in southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostage. Jonathan Panikoff, the US government\u2019s former deputy national intelligence officer on the Middle East, said: \u201cThis would easily be the biggest counterintelligence failure that Hezbollah has had in decades.\u201d The apparent sabotage attack follows months of targeted assassinations by Israel against senior Hezbollah leaders and has ratcheted up tensions between Israel and Hezbollah. An uneasy calm had prevailed in the past three weeks when both parties had appeared to step back from the brink of a regional war after a limited Hezbollah response in late August to Israel\u2019s assassination of its top military commander, Fuad Shukr, in Beirut. The attack also threatens to derail US efforts to prevent Iran, which backs Hezbollah, from retaliating against Israel for the July bombing in Tehran that killed the Hamas political leader, Ismail Haniyeh. The US state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, said it was \u201ctoo early to say\u201d how the attack would affect Gaza ceasefire talks. He told a briefing the US was not involved and did not know who was responsible. Hamas described the attack as an \u201cescalation\u201d that would lead to Israel\u2019s defeat. Reuters contributed to this report"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Dutch government led by far-right PVV asks EU for opt-out from asylum rules;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/dutch-government-geert-wilders-pvv-brussels-opt-out-eu-asylum-rules;2024-09-18T15:48:14Z",
        "text": "The new Dutch coalition government headed by Geert Wilders\u2019 far-right Freedom party (PVV) appears to be on a collision course with the EU over immigration after formally asking Brussels for an opt-out on asylum rules. \u201cI have just informed the European Commission that I want an \u2018opt-out\u2019 on migration matters in Europe for the Netherlands,\u201d the asylum and migration minister Marjolein Faber, a member of the PVV, said on X on Wednesday. \u201cWe have to be in charge of our own asylum policy once more!\u201d she added. The four-party coalition, which took office in July after elections last November, has promised to introduce the country\u2019s \u201ctoughest ever\u201d policy on immigration. The move is not expected to get a positive reception in Brussels or many of the bloc\u2019s other capitals since all 27 member states \u2013 including the Netherlands \u2013 agreed last December a new EU-wide migration and asylum pact after years of talks. \u201cYou don\u2019t opt out of adopted legislation in the EU, that is a general principle,\u201d the European Commission\u2019s chief spokesperson, Eric Mamer, said last week, referring to the Dutch government\u2019s intentions. Experts in the Netherlands have also expressed serious reservations. \u201cA Dutch opt-out can only be realised by amending the treaty,\u201d said the Advisory Council on Migration, an independent body that advises the Dutch government and parliament. \u201cThis is not very likely, because the number of asylum seekers must then be distributed among fewer other member states.\u201d Denmark, Ireland and Poland have previously secured opt-outs from EU treaties in different policy areas including the euro, the bloc\u2019s area of freedom, security and justice, the passport-free Schengen zone and the charter of fundamental rights. All were negotiated as part of the treaty, not afterwards. The Dutch request is widely seen as having almost no chance of success, not least since it could open the door to similar demands from other increasingly anti-immigration governments. The opt-out demand is unrelated to the new government\u2019s aims to declare a \u201cnational asylum crisis\u201d, which would allow it to implement significantly harsher immigration measures without the approval of the Dutch parliament. These include a freeze on new applications, limiting visas issued for family members of people granted asylum, making living conditions as basic as possible and accelerating the deportation process for those not eligible for asylum. Presenting the policy last Friday, the Dutch prime minister, Dick Schoof, said the country could not \u201ccontinue to bear the large influx of migrants\u201d. King Willem-Alexander said in a speech to open parliament on Tuesday that the government\u2019s goal was a \u201cfaster, stricter and more modest\u201d asylum system. Legal experts have questioned whether the Netherlands\u2019 asylum system can be fairly described as \u201cin crisis\u201d, noting that its problems are largely the result of government funding decisions rather than an external event such as war or natural disaster. According to EU data, the Netherlands received two first-time asylum applications per 1,000 residents last year, matching the average across the bloc, with 10 member states \u2013 including Greece, Germany and Spain \u2013 reporting higher ratios. After years of budget cuts, however, the only Dutch registration centre for asylum seekers, in the small village of Ter Apel in the north-east of the country, has been repeatedly overwhelmed, occasionally leaving hundreds to sleep outdoors. Wilders\u2019 nativist PVV finished a shock first in last year\u2019s elections but the far-right, anti-Islam firebrand struggled to form a government and was eventually forced to concede he did not have enough support from would-be coalition partners to be prime minister. Their refusal to accept some of his more extreme policies had already resulted in him ditching several anti-constitutional proposals, including bans on mosques, the Qur\u2019an and Islamic headscarves as well as a \u201cNexit\u201d referendum on leaving the EU. Two months after its formation, cracks are already emerging in the coalition, which also includes the populist farmers\u2019 party, BBB; the rightwing liberal VVD, long led by the former prime minister Mark Rutte, and the anti-corruption NSC. The NSC\u2019s acting leader, Nicolien van Vroonhoven, said this week her party\u2019s MPs would not vote in favour of the proposed immigration measures if they were not fully approved by the Netherlands\u2019 top advisory body, the Council of State. Wilders responded furiously, saying on X: \u201cI would have another hard think. The Netherlands has a huge huge asylum crisis and it will not be solved by running away in advance and threatening with the NSC to vote no.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Flood warnings in Nigeria over release of water from Cameroon dam;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/flood-warnings-in-nigeria-over-release-of-water-from-cameroon-dam;2024-09-18T15:43:14Z",
        "text": "Authorities in Nigeria have warned of the potential for flooding in 11 states after neighbouring Cameroon said it would start regulated releases from its Lagdo dam following recent heavy rainfall in west and central Africa. Umar Mohammed, the director-general of the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NHSA), indicated that the discharges would be gradual \u201cto avoid \u2026 triggering substantial flooding downstream in Nigeria\u201d and that there was \u201cno need for alarm\u201d. Still, 11 Nigerian states from north to south lie along the Benue River\u2019s flow trajectory and are expected to be affected to some degree. \u201cThe water discharge is anticipated to progressively escalate to 1,000m\u00b3/s over the next seven days based on the inflow from the upstream Garoua River, which serves as the primary source into the reservoir and a significant tributary to the Benue River,\u201d Mohammed said. The Garoua River in Cameroon\u2019s North region runs along the bank of the larger Benue River that flows through both countries. For years, the reservoir\u2019s releases have been a source of headache for its larger neighbour. In 2022, releases led to the loss of more than 600 lives and an estimated $9bn (\u00a36.8bn) in damages, according to the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics. The NHSA said it had been notified by authorities in Cameroon on Tuesday that they had started controlled water releases from Lagdo dam. A spokesperson for Cameroon\u2019s utility ENEO, which manages the dam, told Reuters the dam had not been opened as of Wednesday morning. The flood alert comes a week after thousands in the north-eastern hub of Maiduguri were displaced by torrential rains after the collapse of a nearby dam which had been so neglected for years that cracks had begun to appear on its walls. The incident, which caused a bridge to collapse and drowned some wild animals including reptiles and lions, let others loose into the metropolis and also facilitated the escape of more than 200 inmates from the city prison. The official death toll is 38 but some residents say the true figure exceeds that. One of the three nutrition centres run by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) was cut off by the flood. Twenty-six children were evacuated from it, said Babatunde Ojei, its country director in Nigeria, on Wednesday. \u201cMay Allah help us stop the tragedy; the situation that we find ourselves in, the environmental problem and climate change,\u201d News Agency of Nigeria quoted President Bola Tinubu as saying during a visit on Monday, days after his deputy led a federal delegation to Maiduguri. Nigeria\u2019s hydrological agency first gave notice of a national disaster during the launch of the 2024 Annual Flood Outlook in April, forecasting floods in as many as 29 of Nigeria\u2019s 36 states. Aid workers say 1.3m hectares (3.2m acres) of land nationwide has already been submerged as of 10 September. About half of that was cropland. Across the country, the impact of climate change continues to compound the woes of some of its most vulnerable households. Rural poverty is widespread, as is malnutrition in a region with multiple, sometimes concurrent, conflicts. Extreme rainfall is more common and more intense because of human-caused climate breakdown across most of the world, particularly in Europe, most of Asia, central and eastern North America, and parts of South America, Africa and Australia. This is because warmer air can hold more water vapour. Flooding has most likely become more frequent and severe in these locations as a result, but is also affected by human factors, such as the existence of flood defences and land use. In Maiduguri, the birthplace of the Boko Haram insurgency that has decimated villages since 2009 when its founder was killed extrajudicially, the floods have brought a new dimension of helplessness for local people. \u201cI never pray for even my enemy to experience such a thing,\u201d Aisha Aliyu, a resident of Maiduguri, told AFP last week. She is temporarily staying at one of the eight camps opened to take in survivors. In Gubio, another camp, an unknown number of suspected cholera cases have been reported, said Ojei. If confirmed, a cholera outbreak would put many children \u201cat extreme risk \u2026 due to existing vulnerabilities such as diarrhoea and malaria,\u201d he added."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Blast from attack on Russian arms depot picked up on earthquake monitors;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/ukraine-drone-attack-on-russian-arms-depot-toropets;2024-09-18T15:37:59Z",
        "text": "A Ukrainian drone attack on a large Russian weapons depot caused a blast that was picked up by earthquake monitoring stations, in one of the biggest strikes on Moscow\u2019s military arsenal since the war began. Pro-Russian military bloggers said Ukraine struck an arsenal for the storage of missiles, ammunition and explosives in Toropets, a historic town more than 300 miles north of Ukraine and about 230 miles west of Moscow. Videos and images on social media showed a huge ball of flame rising high into the night sky and detonations thundering across a lake, in a region not far from the border with Belarus. The strike was part of a broader Ukrainian drone campaign targeting Russian oil refineries, power plants, airfields and military factories, and highlights Kyiv\u2019s enhanced long-range drone capabilities. Earthquake monitoring stations registered what sensors thought was a minor earthquake in the area. Ukrainian Pravda reported that the operation was conducted by the Ukrainian security service together with the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine and the Special Operations Force. An unnamed official at the Ukrainian security service said the weapons warehouse contained long-range Russian missiles and guided bombs known as KABs. Russia\u2019s defence ministry said 54 Ukrainian drones targeted five western Russian regions overnight and that all of them were destroyed. But in a tacit admission of the strike, Igor Rudenya, the governor of Russia\u2019s Tver region, said firefighters there were trying to contain a fire and that some residents were being evacuated from their homes. Rudenya said wreckage from a destroyed Ukrainian drone had sparked a fire, but did not say what was burning. Russian state media reported that nurseries and schools in the Zapadnodvinsk district, bordering the Toropetsk district in the Tver region, were closed on Wednesday. Some pro-war Russian war bloggers expressed anger over how Ukrainian drones could trigger such large explosions at what was thought to be a highly fortified facility. In a scathing statement on Telegram, Anastasia Kashevarova, a well-connected and influential blogger, blamed the Russian defence ministry and authorities for allowing Ukraine to \u201cblow up a massive military depot\u201d. She wrote: \u201cHow many more mistakes can they make \u2026 It is the third year of the special military operation but the idiocy continues.\u201d Ukraine\u2019s strike using domestically produced drones comes amid Volodymyr Zelenskiy\u2019s ongoing efforts to persuade his allies to permit Kyiv to use western-supplied missiles against airbases and weapons dumps on Russian territory, to curb Moscow\u2019s steady advances in eastern Ukraine. Kyiv\u2019s allies, including the US and Britain, are discussing whether to authorise Kyiv to strike deep inside Russian territory using missiles including the long-range US Atacms and Anglo-French Storm Shadows, known in France as Scalp. The Kremlin has said such a move would imply direct western involvement in the conflict and would result in consequences, with some officials close to Vladimir Putin suggesting Moscow could respond with nuclear weapons. Since the start of this year, Russian forces have made continuous advances in eastern Ukraine, steadily approaching the key city of Pokrovsk. Earlier on Wednesday, Russia\u2019s military claimed to have captured the town of Ukrainsk, which lies in between Pokrovsk and Kurakhove, another Ukrainian military stronghold."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: murder charge dropped against one of three suspects;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/dom-phillips-bruno-pereira-murder-charge-dropped-one-of-three-suspects;2024-09-18T15:15:15Z",
        "text": "Appeal judges in Brazil yesterday upheld charges against only two of the three men accused of murdering Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, in a decision \u201creceived with indignation\u201d by Indigenous activists. The three judges ruled that there was \u201cinsufficient evidence of authorship or participation\u201d by Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, a fisher, in the 2022 deaths of the Brazilian Indigenous expert and the British Guardian journalist. However, the charges against the other two accused \u2013 fellow fisher Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira (Oseney\u2019s brother) and Jefferson da Silva Lima (also known as Pelado da Dinha) \u2013 were upheld, and they will face a jury trial. This decision does not mean Oseney has been acquitted, as prosecutors can still appeal against the ruling or file a new charge against him. But he could be transferred from maximum security to house arrest if his lawyer submits a request, which he said yesterday he would, and if one of the judges grants it. In a statement, Univaja, the Indigenous association where Pereira worked, said it \u201creceived the decision with indignation,\u201d considering it \u201cworrying\u201d because \u201cit may lead to \u2026 Oseney\u2019s release\u201d. \u201cAccording to evidence collected at the time by police during the investigation, the defendant was directly involved at the scene of the tragic murder of our friends Bruno and Dom,\u201d it said. Univaja also expressed \u201cconfidence\u201d that prosecutors would appeal and said it expected the judiciary to \u201chandle this case according to the evidence collected\u201d and to conduct the process \u201cin a proper and unimpeachable manner\u201d. Pereira and Phillips were ambushed and killed near the Amazon town of Atalaia do Norte while returning from a reporting trip to the entrance of one of Brazil\u2019s largest Indigenous territories. Months after the crime, public prosecutors had charged Oseney with double aggravated homicide \u2013 Amarildo and Silva Lima, who, unlike Oseney, confessed to the crime, were also charged with concealment of a corpse. Last May, a first-instance judge accepted the murder charges against all three, but Oseney\u2019s lawyer appealed, leading to yesterday\u2019s decision. According to prosecutors, a witness had seen Oseney at the lake where Bruno and Dom were murdered, carrying a shotgun near the boat that Amarildo and Silva Lima were in. In yesterday\u2019s ruling, Judge Marcos Augusto de Souza said that \u201cthe fact that [Oseney] was carrying a shotgun \u2013 if it were in an urban area, it would have a different implication, but in a region near the border where subsistence hunting takes place \u2026 it\u2019s common.\u201d Regarding his presence near the execution site, the judge said that \u201cthe testimonies of the two confessed defendants explicitly exclude Oseney from the crime scene, ie from the location and time when the crime was committed\u201d, adding that \u201cthe indictment indeed doesn\u2019t describe any action carried out by Oseney\u201d. Regarding the involvement of the other two, however, the judge said there was sufficient evidence for them to face a public jury trial for double homicide and concealment of a corpse. No date has been set for Amarildo and Silva Lima\u2019s jury trial, and public prosecutors have not yet announced whether they intend to appeal against the ruling on Oseney. Oseney\u2019s lawyer, Lucas S\u00e1 Souza, said during the trial that he would request house arrest because his client was ill, suffering from internal bleeding, and unable to undergo the necessary tests to diagnose his condition while in prison. Pereira and Phillips were killed while travelling along the Itaqua\u00ed River on 5 June 2022. They had been visiting Indigenous patrol teams working to protect the Javari valley Indigenous territory, a vast expanse of rainforest believed to hold the world\u2019s largest concentration of isolated Indigenous peoples. The fishers are suspected of committing the crime on behalf of Ruben Dario da Silva Villar, whom police accuse of running a transnational illegal fishing network that exploits these protected Indigenous lands. Villar has also been arrested and charged. He denies any wrongdoing."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Australians stranded on Kokoda track resume walk after protests shut down sections;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/kokoda-track-walkers-stranded-treks-cancelled-landowner-protests;2024-09-18T15:00:49Z",
        "text": "Australians walking the Kokoda track have had treks cancelled while others have been stalled for long periods on the historic route as protests by landowners closed sections of the trail. A group of 64 walkers, including 52 Australians, were left stranded on Monday after frustrated landowners from Naoro village blocked off the track, demanding the Papua New Guinea government release funds earmarked for community livelihood development projects. Local police have since advised the group are safe and were able to resume walking on Wednesday. It was unclear whether all the hikers would continue with the trek or return. The Australian government updated its travel advice for PNG on Monday to warn landowner blockades may disrupt treks, advising travellers to check with their trekking company for the latest information. Mick O\u2019Malley, owner and trek leader of Australian Kokoda Tours, told Guardian Australia those on the track have safe passage to walk around the blockade. But walkers not yet on the trail will be told to \u201cturn around and go back\u201d, he said, until negotiations with the government are finalised. Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email \u201cIt could be this week, it could be next week, it could be in three months,\u201d he said, noting 18 walkers had their trips cancelled on Wednesday morning. A spokesperson for Australia\u2019s foreign affairs department said they were monitoring the situation on the track. \u201cThe Australian high commission in Port Moresby is supporting relevant PNG authorities to work with communities on a resolution,\u201d the spokesperson said. The PNG commissioner of police, David Manning, said police were satisfied there had been no threat to the welfare of the hikers but investigations were continuing. \u201cThis is an illegal protest and there are better ways to air grievances than to prevent our mainly foreign travellers from completing this historic journey,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Kokoda track is of great significance for the history of our nation and the countries that fought along it during [the second world war]. \u201cIt must also be pointed out that the landowners who blocked the track also depend on income from trekking groups so they are only undermining themselves.\u201d Manning said police were in discussion with the landowners and were working to resolve the situation for the good of all parties so that walking the track could continue. According to the Mt Kodu Landowners chairman, Chillion Biloi, when the Mt Kodu mine was negotiated in 2007 and 2008 the government asked the landowners to accept the government\u2019s offer of a socioeconomic development package of K50m (A$18.9m) to protect and preserve the Kokoda track. Biloi alleged only a fifth of that amount had been paid to landowners so far, between 2011 and 2012, with numerous submissions to the government for parts of the remaining K40m. \u201cWe have been patient and waited for almost 12 years but the government has turned a blind eye on our requests,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are now making our stance to shut down the track on our part indefinitely until the government respond to us by releasing our funds.\u201d The former chief executive of the Kokoda Track Authority, James Enage, has called for an urgent stakeholders meeting to address the closure. Enage said the track is an important national asset and the government, through relevant agencies and stakeholders, must conduct an urgent meeting to address the issue. He said the shutdown was putting the country\u2019s tourism industry at risk and the meeting should include other strategic landowners along the track. Enage said action was needed to address the issue amicably for the long-term benefit of Kokoda track catchment communities and the wider PNG tourism industry. \u201cUnless we handle both agendas strategically and make amendments within our scopes of operations to prioritise on agendas which will bring about significant change in the various communities along the Kokoda track and also amicably resolve the Mt Kodu issue right now, the issue of Kokoda track closure will be perpetual,\u201d he said. \u2022 This article was amended on 19 September 2024. The Kokoda track campaign took place during the second world war, not the first world war as an earlier version said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Stop that capybara! Search party uses drone to spot rodent that fled British zoo;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/stop-that-capybara-search-party-uses-drone-to-spot-rodent-that-fled-british-zoo;2024-09-18T14:59:54Z",
        "text": "To catch a rat, many call pest control. But how does one go about catching the world\u2019s largest rodent, the capybara? Zookeepers in Shropshire are wrestling with that very problem after Cinnamon, one of the furry breed native to South America, escaped. The 25kg (55lb) rodent bolted from her paddock at Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World near Telford on Friday when the gate to the enclosure was opened to allow a tractor in. Now, a search operation is under way led by Will Dorrell, a partner at Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World, who explained the complexities of the task, which involves using capybara sounds and scents, as well as apples, pears and drones. \u201cThe search operation, we\u2019ve got up to about 20 people involved,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s actually easiest to do in smaller groups for the simple reason you\u2019d end up tripping over each other, so up to about 20 people involved, usually in groups of about five people.\u201d On Tuesday night, Cinnamon \u2013 who is about the size of a labrador \u2013 was seen by a drone with a thermal camera just 200 metres from her paddock, right next to the zoo on land owned by the Ministry of Defence. She had managed to hide in dense thicket, and the zookeepers decided to place live traps rather than catch her by hand and cause further stress. \u201cWe use lots of live traps, which are essentially large cages that the animal will walk into, and then the cage closes behind them, so it\u2019s relatively stress-free for the animal,\u201d Dorrell said. \u201cObviously we have got things that we can catch animal with, like nets, but they\u2019re quite stressful, so we try to avoid using those if at all possible.\u201d More innovative methods have also been used. \u201cWe have been playing capybara sounds to try and draw her into an area. But at the moment, that hasn\u2019t been overly successful. She doesn\u2019t seem to be drawn particularly towards those so we\u2019re going to start using scents instead. \u201cSo we\u2019re trying to use the smells of our other capybara, put some dirty bedding down in certain areas and see if that\u2019ll draw her towards it instead \u2026 We\u2019re also putting food in the traps and putting food in other places. Various fruits such as apples, pears \u2013 sweet things, mainly, that she can\u2019t find in the wild.\u201d The nature of the capybara is presenting challenges to the search effort, Dorrell said. \u201cObviously, we think of them as being tropical animals, living in rainforests and stuff like that. That is true, but, ultimately, a lot of the things that they need are just present in regular forest. \u201cSo the woodland she\u2019s next to at the moment, there is loads of food. There is loads of natural food, loads of grass, loads of waterways, ponds \u2013 they\u2019re fantastic swimmers. The first thing they do is as soon as they feel threatened is run straight into a pond. So you can\u2019t really do anything about that, because they\u2019re a lot better swimmers than you \u2013 they can swim underwater for about five minutes.\u201d Cinnamon is a year old and was born at the zoo, where her parents and brother also live. The council has been notified, as is required when an animal escapes from a zoo. While the focus is on finding Cinnamon, Dorrell said they had already reviewed the incident and put in place measures to prevent future escapes. \u201cShe got out, unfortunately, because while the gate was opened while they took a tractor mower in there, she managed to slip around the side of the tractor mower and get out from the open gate, which has never previously been an issue in over 10 years. \u201cBut we\u2019re now reviewing to make sure that it can\u2019t happen again. So, going forward, there\u2019ll be another gate in, something like a double gate, and it\u2019ll be a two-person job as well, to stop this from happening.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;What is Hezbollah\u2019s role and influence in Lebanon?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/what-is-hezbollah-role-influence-lebanon-israel-pagers;2024-09-18T14:38:52Z",
        "text": "An escalating tit-for-tat conflict between Israeli forces and Hezbollah has brought renewed attention on the battle-hardened militant group, and the role it plays in Lebanon. The violence has forced tens of thousands of people to flee on both sides and is seen as the most likely avenue for the war in Gaza to explode into an uncontrollable regional conflagration. Here is a guide to the \u201cParty of God\u201d and its position in \u2013 and testy relationship with \u2013 the fragile Lebanese state. What is Hezbollah? Hezbollah is a powerful Islamist movement that was founded by Iran during the middle of the Lebanese 1975-90 civil war. It was further shaped by its fight with Israeli forces after their 1982 invasion of Lebanon. While the US and other western governments deem it a terrorist organisation \u2013 and Hezbollah has conducted mass-casualty attacks on civilians \u2013 the group\u2019s reach extends far beyond militancy. The Shia Muslim movement has become a political and social powerhouse in Lebanon, running medical clinics, schools, a regional television network and even a hilltop museum that has been popular with European tourists. What is Hezbollah\u2019s current position in Lebanon? For years, Hezbollah has played an official political role, with ministers in government and lawmakers in parliament. It currently holds the ministry of public works and the ministry of labour, and has often formed coalitions with other political parties, including Christian ones, under power-sharing agreements. Fractured, sectarian politics means the government in Lebanon has remained weak, politically divided and plagued by corruption. Currently, there is no president due to infighting. The upshot is that even Hebzollah\u2019s domestic adversaries are unable to reel in the group. Lebanon\u2019s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, for example, describes himself as \u201cliberal\u201d and is not part of Hezbollah, but he has little control over what it does. It is widely accepted that Hezbollah could overpower the national army if it wanted to, although the group appears to have preferred to keep its current status as a powerful player. How has Hezbollah become so influential? Lebanon\u2019s 15-year civil war, which was fought largely along religious and sectarian lines, ended with warring militias laying down their arms. Hezbollah, however, was the exception, keeping its weapons ostensibly to fight the Israeli forces that occupied southern Lebanon at the time. Hezbollah garnered widespread domestic support for pushing Israel out in 2000, even among Christian, Druze and Sunni Muslim sections of society outside its main Shia base in the south of Lebanon. It later fought a five-week war with Israel in 2006. Substantial backing from allies in Iran and Syria has also allowed Hezbollah to play an outsized role in the Lebanese state. How popular is Hezbollah in Lebanon? The local support Hezbollah received as the only Lebanese force able to provide a deterrent to Israel\u2019s attacks has been chipped away over the years, most significantly after it helped the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad suppress a pro-democracy uprising with bloody and lethal force. As Iran\u2019s most powerful proxy force in its region, Hezbollah could have been forced or at least coerced into fighting for Assad, who is a close ally to Tehran and part of its \u201caxis of resistance\u201d against Israel and the US. However, many Lebanese people saw Hezbollah\u2019s attacks on Syrians as an unjust intervention in a foreign conflict \u2013 one that risked drawing their fragile state into more unrest while it was still recovering from the scars of its own civil war, decades after it formally ended. What is Hezbollah\u2019s relationship with Hamas in Gaza? Hezbollah has allowed Hamas to operate in Lebanon and coordinates closely with the group. However, while they share a common enemy in Israel, they are certainly not strong allies. The Sunni Muslim Hamas is also considered an Iranian proxy force but it operates with independence, notably by initially backing anti-Assad forces during the Syrian civil war, which strained its relationship with Hezbollah."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Families of Americans ensnared in DRC coup plot assert their innocence;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/americans-death-penalty-drc-coup;2024-09-18T14:28:49Z",
        "text": "The family of a Utah student sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for his alleged role in a failed coup d\u2019etat in which his father was killed fears he and two other Americans could be executed within days without US government intervention. Marcel Malanga, 22, was one of dozens convicted and sentenced at a military tribunal in Kinshasa last week, after the attempted overthrow of the Congolese government in May. The \u201camateurish\u201d assault, which left six dead, was led by his father, Christian Malanga, a former DRC opposition leader, army captain and self-styled warlord. Among those found guilty was Marcel Malanga\u2019s friend Tyler Thompson, 21, also from West Jordan, a suburb of Salt Lake City, whose relatives believed the two young men were on vacation together in South Africa. Both families say the two are innocent. Wednesday is the deadline set by the tribunal president, the Congolese army major Freddy Ehume, for the 37 convicts to appeal their sentences. Giving the families further anxiety is the declaration by the DRC government earlier this year that it was lifting a two-decade-old moratorium on the death penalty. \u201cTheir lives are at stake. We\u2019ve talked to our lawyers and they told us it was urgent,\u201d Patricia Malanga, Marcel\u2019s aunt and Christian\u2019s sister, said. \u201cWe have been quiet because we wanted to see how things would go, but keeping our silence is actually putting their lives in danger. \u201cThis fight was my brother\u2019s fight for the people of Congo. It was not Marcel\u2019s fight, it was not Tyler\u2019s fight and it was not Ben\u2019s fight,\u201d she added, referring to Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, 36, of Maryland, a former business partner of Christian Malanga who is also among those convicted. \u201cThe Congolese government is making them a scapegoat for what my brother did. They are innocent. Marcel is just an American kid \u2013 he\u2019s never been in the military, never been in trouble with the law in the US, let alone go and stand up for a militia in a foreign country.\u201d Thompson\u2019s family, meanwhile, said it was \u201cheartbroken\u201d by the verdict. \u201cWe continue to believe in Tyler\u2019s innocence and will be pursuing all possible appellate remedies,\u201d they said in a statement released by their lawyer Skye Lazaro. \u201cWe urge all who have supported Tyler and the family throughout this process to write to your congressmen and request their assistance in bringing him home. We are grateful for the kindness and support during the past months [and] ask that our family\u2019s privacy be respected as we navigate this situation and determine our next steps.\u201d Patricia Malanga said her family was in \u201cconstant communication\u201d with politicians in Utah and the US embassy in Kinshasa. However, the state department has not declared the Americans wrongfully detained and has not publicly made representations to the Congolese government. A state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, told reporters on Friday that the government was aware of the verdict and that embassy staff \u201chave been attending these proceedings and [will] follow the developments closely\u201d. The department did not immediately return a request for comment. According to NPR, neither of Utah\u2019s two Republican senators, Mitt Romney and Mike Lee, have called on the Biden administration to request their release. Marcel Malanga, his aunt said, had taken Thompson to Africa at his father\u2019s invitation to show him his homeland, of which he was proud, but had never previously visited. During the tribunal hearing, both Thompson and Malanga testified they had no idea what Christian Malanga was planning until he woke them in the middle of the night at gunpoint, an assertion Patricia Malanga said that, knowing her brother, she agreed with \u201c1,000%\u201d. \u201cHe had not said anything about any of this happening until that night,\u201d Thompson told the court, NPR reported. \u201cTo my knowledge we were here on vacation to meet him, so I did not see him as a threat. The only thing he told me is that I must do everything as he says or else I will die.\u201d Marcel Malanga, testifying last month, claimed he and Thompson had been \u201cbeaten and tortured\u201d after they were captured. Others who were charged complained of inhumane treatment at the high-security military prison in Kinshasa in which they were held, and of being tortured by military police for confessions. \u201cThe prison system is the worst of the worst. They only have two bathrooms for thousands of prisoners,\u201d Patricia Malanga said. She said her family was frustrated by accusations that Marcel Malanga was involved in his father\u2019s planning, and that they felt they could not speak out about them during the hearing. \u201cHe\u2019s not this thug, this bandit the world has portrayed him to be. He\u2019s none of these things, just an American kid who had no fight with the Congolese government,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been living through hell. We love him and we miss him, and we want Tyler, Ben and Marcel back with their families. They need to come home.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Spanish court opens investigation into fatal shark attack off Canary Islands;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/spanish-court-investigation-fatal-shark-attack-canary-islands-german-woman;2024-09-18T14:14:02Z",
        "text": "A court in Spain has opened an investigation into the death of a German woman who died after being attacked by a shark while sailing 270 nautical miles (500km) off the Canary Islands on Tuesday. According to the country\u2019s maritime rescue service, Salvamento Mar\u00edtimo, the 30-year-old woman was travelling on the British-flagged catamaran Dalliance Chichester about 110 miles west of the Western Saharan city of Dakhla when the attack happened just before 4pm local time. The boat\u2019s crew made an emergency call to the Spanish rescue service, which shares responsibility for the zone with the its Moroccan counterpart. The Moroccan authorities asked Salvamento Mar\u00edtimo to lead the operation effort as it had no rescue craft in the area. A Spanish air force search-and-rescue helicopter was scrambled from Gran Canaria, which reached the woman at 20.05 on Thursday. Salvamento Mar\u00edtimo also contacted nearby boats, one of which managed to offer assistance while the helicopter was on the way. The woman, who had lost a leg in the attack, suffered cardiorespiratory failure on the helicopter flight and was pronounced dead at the Doctor Negr\u00edn hospital in Las Palmas on Gran Canaria. A spokesperson for the Canaries\u2019 courts service confirmed that a court in Las Palmas had begun an investigation into the incident, \u201cas it does in the case of any accidental death\u201d. They said no one had been called to testify. The Guardia Civil police force also said it was looking into the matter, and referred the Guardian to the courts. According to the boat-tracking website VesselFinder, the Dalliance Chichester left the port of Las Palmas on 14 September. Meanwhile, Salvamento Mar\u00edtimo crews helped rescue 122 people who were trying to reach the Canary Islands on the perilous Atlantic route from west Africa. So far this year, 26,758 people including children have reached the Canary Islands by sea \u2013 12,304 more than last year \u2013 once again placing a huge strain in the archipelago\u2019s reception infrastructure. The Spanish migration NGO Caminando Fronteras estimated that more than 5,000 people died trying to reach Spain by sea in the first five months of this year, the overwhelming majority of them on the Atlantic route."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;It is time for a reckoning in the west over Hungary, says US ambassador;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/hungary-us-ambassador-david-pressman-orban-west;2024-09-18T13:27:29Z",
        "text": "The US ambassador in Budapest has said Hungary\u2019s democracy problems and foreign policy divergence from the west can no longer be dismissed as rhetoric and that the time has come for \u201ca reckoning\u201d. Since coming to power more than 14 years ago, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orb\u00e1n, has concentrated political and economic power in the hands of his ruling party and a handful of businesspeople close to the government, while also nurturing relationships with Moscow and Beijing. In recent months, civil society groups and foreign governments have raised concerns that the Hungarian government is taking steps to put more pressure on independent voices. Hungary\u2019s trajectory has posed a dilemma for its allies, as the country remains a member of both the EU and Nato. In a speech on Wednesday, David Pressman, who has served as the American ambassador to Hungary since 2022, said \u201cone needn\u2019t look further than the past six months to recognise that the alibi of \u2018just words\u2019 is no longer adequate in the face of the apparent divergences in Hungary\u2019s relationship with the rest of Europe and the transatlantic alliance\u201d. Orb\u00e1n shocked allies this summer when he embarked on what he has termed a \u201cpeace mission\u201d while his country holds the Council of the EU\u2019s rotating presidency, visiting Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin, China\u2019s Xi Jinping and the US presidential candidate Donald Trump. Meanwhile, a Hungarian decision to ease visa restrictions for Russian and Belarusian citizens has raised security concerns in Europe. Pressman took aim at what he described as Hungary\u2019s \u201cdoublespeak\u201d. \u201cHow can the country of 1956 also be so cosy with Putin\u2019s Russia? How can a country be both a member of the European Union and also at war with \u2018Brussels\u2019? How can an ally of the United States also, in the prime minister\u2019s words, be its \u2018adversary\u2019? How can a repeated victim of Russian aggression also obstruct efforts to respond to it?\u201d he said. The ambassador, who became a household name in Hungary \u2013 and the target of attacks in pro-government media \u2013 for his vocal critique of the government\u2019s foreign policy choices and democratic backsliding, also cautioned about the impact on the state of Hungarian democracy. \u201cThe governing party\u2019s control of the media and its attacks on civil society have created an atmosphere of fear,\u201d Pressman said. \u201cThe atmosphere of fear allows corruption to flourish, and influences the government\u2019s choices of its partners, not only at home, but also abroad.\u201d He argued that Hungary\u2019s allies must face the reality of what is transpiring in the country. There must be, he said, \u201ca reckoning for Hungary\u2019s allies and partners. We too have to recognise that what we used to dismiss with an eyeroll requires us to look at it directly, and respond to it unflinchingly.\u201d \u201cThe conventional wisdom that the Hungarian government\u2019s communications were \u2018just words\u2019 was just wrong. These words are policy. And they are changing Hungary.\u201d Orb\u00e1n has vocally endorsed Trump and sought his friendship, while his team has courted conservative circles in the US. Trump, in turn, has repeatedly praised the far-right Hungarian leader. \u201cThey call him a strongman. He\u2019s a tough person, smart,\u201d he said of Orb\u00e1n during a debate with Kamala Harris. \u201cViktor Orb\u00e1n said it: he said the most respected, most feared person is Donald Trump. We had no problems when Trump was president.\u201d The Hungarian leader, who has few friends in European democracies and has faced repeated criticism from the US over rule of law concerns and his relationship with the Kremlin, has wagered that his standing could shift with the US election. A Trump presidency could offer Orb\u00e1n a hands-off approach, with little or no criticism of Hungary\u2019s democracy woes. Asked earlier this year about Hungary\u2019s relationship with the US being at a 30-year low, Orb\u00e1n enthusiastically responded: \u201cWaiting for Donald Trump!\u201d Pressman, in what could be his last major speech before Americans go to the polls and an Orb\u00e1n-friendly administration could return to the White House, argued that this approach did not serve Hungary\u2019s interests. \u201cPrime Minister Orb\u00e1n has made no secret of who he would like to win. I don\u2019t think actions that risk reducing a security alliance between two great nations into a political alliance between two big personalities services any democratic, allied relationship, anywhere,\u201d the ambassador said. \u201cIf that election doesn\u2019t go the way they hope, their strategy is \u2026 to wait. In the words of one senior official, \u2018There is no plan B,\u2019\u201d he noted, adding: \u201cContinued recklessness with our bilateral relationship will unavoidably change that relationship.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ex-OceanGate employee calls Titan disaster \u2018inevitable\u2019 as first video shown;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/employee-titan-submersible-hearing-inevitable;2024-09-18T13:15:04Z",
        "text": "A former marine operator who worked for the company behind the Titan submersible that imploded last year, killing five on its journey to view the wreck of the Titanic on the bottom of the north Atlantic, told an inquiry that he believed such a tragedy was \u201cinevitable\u201d as safety standards were flouted. David Lochridge, the former operations director for OceanGate, the firm behind the deep sea diving craft, testified during a US Coast Guard hearing that he alerted the company to safety concerns he had about the submersible, but was largely ignored. His testimony came as video footage of the remains of Titan was released for the first time by the Coast Guard. In the video, a broken tail cone can be seen on the ocean floor, with fragments of the vessel visible around the cone. During his highly anticipated testimony, Lochridge said that the \u201cwhole idea\u201d of OceanGate was to \u201cmake money\u201d, adding: \u201cThere was very little in the way of science.\u201d Lochridge told the hearing of his doubts about how the Titan was built in 2017. \u201c[I had] no confidence whatsoever, and I was very vocal about that, and still am,\u201d he said. Lochridge was later fired in 2018 and sued by OceanGate, alleging that he improperly disclosed confidential information to regulators. The company also accused Lochridge of refusing to listen to assurances from a lead engineer on the matter. Lochridge and OceanGate settled their suit in November 2018. Lochridge also gave an account of the OceanGate CEO, Stockton Rush, previously crashing another submersible in 2016 after attempting to pilot the vessel to the Andrea Doria shipwreck, located off the Massachusetts coast. During that chaotic and near-disastrous trip, Rush reportedly threw the vessel\u2019s controls at Lochridge in a fit of rage after a passenger asked that someone else pilot the submersible when, Lochridge said, Stockton rushed the craft too close to the wreck, got into difficulty and panicked, then would not cede control until the tearful passenger yelled at him. The US Coast Guard hearing to investigate the Titan tragedy comes more than a year after the submersible experienced a \u201ccatastrophic implosion\u201d deep underwater under intense ocean pressure on its way to the Titanic wreck at the bottom of the north Atlantic. Five people, including Rush, were killed in the June 2023 incident. The other victims were the British explorer Hamish Harding; the British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman; and the French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Thai woman rescued after two hours trapped in four-metre python\u2019s coils;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/thai-woman-rescued-after-two-hours-trapped-in-four-metre-pythons-coils;2024-09-18T13:08:32Z",
        "text": "A Thai woman has described being trapped in the coils of a 20kg (44lb) python for about two hours in her home before rescuers were able to free her. Arom Arunroj, 64, was bitten several times by the snake, which had entered her home in Samut Prakan, a province south of Bangkok. She said she had been doing the washing-up at about 8.30pm when she suddenly felt something biting her leg. \u201cI looked at it, and it was a snake,\u201d she said in an interview broadcast on Thai media. Arom said she had tried to fight the snake and had cried out for help, but no one heard her. At one point she grabbed the snake\u2019s head in the hope that it would let her go, \u201cbut it didn\u2019t, instead it kept strangling me\u201d. A neighbour eventually heard her calls for help and rang for assistance at 10pm, Thai media reported. Sgt Maj Anusorn Wongmali Anusorn of the police said he had kicked down Arom\u2019s door after hearing a weak voice coming from inside. \u201cShe had probably been strangled for a while, because her skin was pale,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a python, a big one. I saw a bite mark on her leg but [knew] there might be some elsewhere too,\u201d he said, adding that he tried to help by prodding the snake to get it to move away. The python was four metres (13ft) long and weighed more than 20kg. In footage filmed by first responders, Arom can be seen sitting on the floor with the snake coiled around her waist. The police were joined by members of the She Poh Tek Tung foundation, a rescue organisation, and Arom was taken to hospital for treatment. Pythons are not venomous, but their bites can cause infections. They kill their prey by wrapping themselves around it and suffocating it. About 12,000 people were treated for venomous snake and animal bites in Thailand in 2023, according to the country\u2019s national health security office. According to government figures, 26 people died from snake bites last year. A python bit a man on the testicle in the same province last month as he sat on the toilet on the second floor of his house. He grabbed the snake to prevent it escaping into his home and tried to pull it out of the toilet, hitting its head with his hand and a toilet brush, until a neighbour responded to his calls for help. He was prescribed antibiotics and experienced pain in the area, he told the Thai media outlet Khaosod English, adding that he was traumatised by the attack."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Japan has just 13 female CEOs among top 1,600 companies, survey shows;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/japan-female-ceo-reports-survey;2024-09-18T04:16:21Z",
        "text": "Japan\u2019s long campaign to appoint more women to senior roles in business and industry has suffered a blow after a survey found that just 13 chief executive officers at the country\u2019s top companies are female. Women lead just 0.8% of the 1,643 firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange\u2019s top-tier prime market, according to a survey by the Kyodo news agency, which based its findings on fiscal 2023 financial statements. Kyodo said the figures demonstrated Japan\u2019s slow progress in \u201cincreasing diversity among its corporate decision makers\u201d. The low numbers underline the uphill struggle Japan\u2019s government faces in reaching its target of having women in at least 30% of executive roles by the end of the decade. The proportion of senior women in business remains low even under the government\u2019s wider definition of \u201cexecutive\u201d, which includes corporate officers, as well as directors, auditors and executive officers. A decade after the then prime minister, Shinzo Abe, told the UN general assembly he would \u201ccreate a society in which all women shine\u201d, Japan continues to fare badly in international gender comparisons of politics and business. According to a 2022 OECD survey, women held just 15.5% of executive positions in Japan, compared with 40.9% in Britain and 45.2% in France. Only China and South Korea had a smaller proportion of female executives. Other reports paint a similar picture. Last year an Economist survey placed Japan 27th out of 29 developed economies in its \u201cglass-ceiling index\u201d. Women have, though, been appointed to several prominent positions in recent years, and the Kyodo survey found that the number of female board members exceeded 3,000 \u2013 double the number five years ago. In January, Mitsuko Tottori, a former flight attendant, became the first female president of Japan Airlines, and in July the government appointed Naomi Unemoto as the first female prosecutor-general. In 2021, Tomoko Yoshino became the first female president of Rengo, Japan\u2019s biggest trades union organisation. New polls indicating that Sanae Takaichi, the economic security minister, is among the three candidates expected to be in the running in a 27 September vote for leader of the governing Liberal Democratic party (LDP), has raised the prospect that Japan could soon have its first female prime minister. Takaichi, a conservative who opposes same-sex marriage and separate surnames for married couples, enjoys strong support among LDP supporters, but she is less popular among her colleagues. Party lawmakers and rank-and-file members will both have a say in choosing the new leader, who is then expected to be approved as prime minister in the LDP-dominated parliament."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ukraine war briefing: Blinken briefed on Kyiv\u2019s plan to push Russia to end war ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/ukraine-war-briefing-blinken-briefed-on-kyivs-plan-to-push-russia-to-end-war;2024-09-18T00:24:04Z",
        "text": "US secretary of state Antony Blinken was briefed during his trip to Kyiv on elements of a Ukrainian plan to push Russia to end the war, US state department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Tuesday. Ukraine\u2019s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy is expected to present the plan on the sidelines of the UN general assembly meeting in New York next week. Earlier on Tuesday, the US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said Washington had seen the plan. \u201cWe think it lays out a strategy and a plan that can work,\u201d she said. A Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire and forced partial evacuation of residents in the town of Toropets in the western part of Russia\u2019s Tver region, regional authorities said on Wednesday. Fire fighters were trying to contain the fire, Igor Rudenya, the governor of the region located northwest of Moscow, said in a post on the Telegram messaging channel of the region\u2019s administration. He did not say what was burning. According to a RIA state news agency report from 2018, Russia was building an arsenal for the storage of missiles, ammunition and explosives in Toropets, a 1,000-year-old town, which has a population of just over 11,000. There was no information about casualties. Russian forces captured the Ukrainian town of Ukrainsk in the eastern Donetsk region on Tuesday, Russian state-run RIA news agency and pro-Russian war bloggers reported, as they advanced westwards in a bid to take the whole of the Donbas. Russian troops raised their flag on a mine ventilation shaft on the outskirts of the town, which had a population of over 10,000 people before the war, RIA reported, citing an unidentified source in the Russian military. The General Staff of Ukraine\u2019s military, in a late evening report, said nothing about Ukrainsk changing hands, referring to it as one of several localities under Russian attack. It said 34 assaults had been recorded near the town of Pokrovsk. Reuters was unable to immediately verify battlefield claims from either side due to reporting restrictions in the war zone. A false claim circulating on social media that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris left a 13-year-old girl paralysed after an alleged hit-and-run in San Francisco in 2011 is the work of a covert Russian disinformation operation, according to new research by Microsoft. Researchers found that the operation created a video, paid an actor to appear as the alleged victim, and spread the claim through a fake website for a non-existent San Francisco news outlet named \u201cKBSF-TV\u201d. The Russian group responsible, which Microsoft calls Storm-1516, is described as a Kremlin-aligned troll farm. Facebook owner Meta said on Monday it was banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks from its platforms, claiming the outlets had used deceptive tactics to carry out covert influence operations online. The ban, strongly criticised by the Kremlin, marks a sharp escalation in measures by the world\u2019s biggest social media company against Russian state media, after years of more limited steps such as blocking the outlets from running ads and reducing the reach of their posts. Russian forces heavily shelled an area of Ukraine\u2019s south-eastern Zaporizhzhia region late on Tuesday, killing two people and injuring five, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said. Fedorov, writing on Telegram, said rescue teams were searching under rubble in the town of Komishuvakha, southeast of the regional centre of Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian heavyweight boxing Olympic champion Oleksandr Usyk has been released after detention by law enforcement officers at Poland\u2019s Krakow airport, Zelenskiy said on Wednesday. \u201cI was outraged by this attitude towards our citizen and champion,\u201d Zelenskiy said on the Telegram messaging app. \u201cOur champion was released and no one is detaining him any more.\u201d It was not immediately clear why the 37-year-old Usyk was detained. The WBC, WBO and WBA champion, who won gold at the 2012 London Olympics, has been a national hero aiding Kyiv\u2019s war efforts. \u201cFriends, everything is fine,\u201d Usyk said in an Instagram post. \u201cThere was a misunderstanding that was quickly resolved. Thank you to everyone who was concerned.\u201d Usyk\u2019s charity fund, Usyk Foundation, aids Kyiv\u2019s forces in the war that Russia launched with a full-scale invasion against Ukraine in 2022. It buys ambulances and delivers humanitarian aid to the front line."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;'Times' reporter Haberman weighs in on Trump, the media and the turbulent election;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/g-s1-23680/times-reporter-haberman-weighs-in-on-trump-the-media-and-the-turbulent-election;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:18:19 -0400",
        "text": "Maggie Haberman, who's spent years covering Trump, discusses his behavior on the campaign trail, including his insistence on responding to every slight \u2014 even when it undermines his appeal to voters."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;An ex-CIA officer gets 30 years for drugging, filming and assaulting dozens of women;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/nx-s1-5119319/cia-officer-sexual-assault-dozens-sentenced;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:15:49 -0400",
        "text": "Brian Raymond admitting to drugging, filming and assaulting the women, most of whom didn't know until investigators showed them footage. Several shared their experiences in court as he looked on."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;New research points to raccoon dogs in Wuhan market as pandemic trigger. It's controversial;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/g-s1-23605/covid-pandemic-origins-wet-market-wuhan-lab-leak-raccoon-dogs;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:47:14 -0400",
        "text": "With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that raccoon dogs are likely the animal that infected humans. Proponents of the lab leak theory are dubious."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Why Teamsters won't endorse a candidate for 2024. And, how to avoid credit card debt.;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/g-s1-23709/up-first-newsletter-teamsters-union-presidential-endorsement-hezbollah-walkie-talkie-explosions;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:01:42 -0400",
        "text": "The Teamsters, a large and prominent union, is not endorsing a presidential candidate this cycle, breaking away from what other labor unions are doing. And, tips on how to avoid credit card debt."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Ukraine keeps up the fight against HIV while fighting a war;https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/09/19/g-s1-20648/ukraine-hiv-aids-war;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:22:52 -0400",
        "text": "Progress in preventing infections was being made in the country with Europe's second-highest number of HIV cases. Then came the Russian invasion."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Bomb threats followed Trump's false claims about Springfield. Some Haitians may leave;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/nx-s1-5114047/springfield-ohio-haitian-migrants-trump-safety-concerns;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:16:44 -0400",
        "text": "A Haitian community leader in Springfield, Ohio tells <em>Morning Editio</em>n that some newcomers are pondering leaving after a string of bomb threats made to the city after former President Trump elevated debunked claims about new migrants during presidential debate with VP Harris."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;A viral nine-month world cruise saw plenty of drama, but not the kind you'd expect;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/nx-s1-5109906/ultimate-world-cruise-royal-caribbean-tiktok;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:03:29 -0400",
        "text": "The \"Ultimate World Cruise\" consumed social media, with many comparing it to a reality show. But what was it really like? Passengers spoke with NPR, nine months and 60-plus countries later."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;2 close calls have the Secret Service facing criticism and an uncertain future;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/g-s1-23618/secret-service-trump-shooting-gunman-problems;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:15:00 -0400",
        "text": "The Secret Service is again facing criticism following a second apparent attempt on former President Donald Trump's life."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Exclusive: Watchdog finds Black girls face more frequent, severe discipline in school;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/nx-s1-5118365/black-girls-discipline-public-schools-gao-watchdog-report;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "The Government Accountability Office found that Black girls received nearly half of the most severe punishments, like expulsion, even though they represent only 15% of girls in public schools."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Sickle cell gene therapies roll out slowly;https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/19/nx-s1-4978692/sickle-cell-gene-therapies;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "It\u2019s been almost a year since the Food and Drug Administration approved the first genetic treatments for sickle cell disease. So far, only a few patients have received the long-awaited treatments."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Judge in Brazil orders Musk\u2019s X to obey ban or face daily fine;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/judge-in-brazil-orders-musks-x-to-obey-ban-or-face-daily-fine?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:51:34 +0000",
        "text": "The social network X faces hefty new fine after its appears to defy ban ordered by a judge."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;UN accuses Israel of \u2018massive\u2019 violation of child rights treaty in Gaza;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/un-accuses-israel-of-massive-violation-of-child-rights-treaty-in-gaza?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:20:24 +0000",
        "text": "UN committee says horrific impact on children from Israel&#039;s war on Gaza will have an &#039;extremely dark place in history&#039;."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Cambodia\u2019s controversial canal;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/pinch-point/2024/9/19/cambodias-controversial-canal?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:29:57 +0000",
        "text": "Why Cambodia&#039;s new canal project has its neighbours worried."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;UN votes against Israel\u2019s occupation of Palestine: Will it change anything?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/unga-resolution-against-palestine-occupation-will-it-change-anything?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:50:29 +0000",
        "text": "The resolution orders Israel to vacate the occupied Palestinian territory in a year. But it is nonbinding."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israelis and supporters mock victims of Lebanon attacks;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/19/israelis-and-supporters-mock-victims-of-lebanon-attacks?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:14:09 +0000",
        "text": "Israeli content creators have been mocking the victims of explosions targeting communication devices across Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Remote attacks push Hezbollah and Israel to the brink of war;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/remote-attacks-push-hezbollah-and-israel-to-the-brink-of-war?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:00:07 +0000",
        "text": "Analysts say that remotely triggered explosions over two days have left Hezbollah with no choice but to retaliate"
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Malaysia arrests business leaders as probe widens in child sex abuse case;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/malaysia-arrests-business-leaders-as-probe-widens-in-child-sex-abuse-case?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:55:33 +0000",
        "text": "Arrests follow the recent rescue of 402 children and youth from care homes allegedly run by a prominent business group."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;New video shows wreckage of Titan submersible on ocean floor;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/19/new-video-shows-titan-sub-wreckage-on-ocean-floor?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:36:53 +0000",
        "text": "New video of the remains of the destroyed Titan submersible has been made public, ahead of an official hearing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;India vs Bangladesh: Homeboy Ashwin to the rescue after top-order wobble;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/19/india-vs-bangladesh-homeboy-ashwin-to-the-rescue-after-top-order-wobble?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:35:09 +0000",
        "text": "Ashwin shared a 195-run unbroken stand with Jadeja after India were reduced to 144-6 on the first day of the first Test."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Storm Boris floods northern Italy as EU leaders to discuss aid in Poland;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/storm-boris-floods-northern-italy-as-leaders-to-discuss-eu-aid-in-poland?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:27:40 +0000",
        "text": "Italy&#039;s Emilia-Romagna region sees three rivers overflow after Boris wreaks havoc across Central and Eastern Europe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018A disaster\u2019: Homes lost, relatives missing in floods in northeast Nigeria;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/19/a-disaster-homes-lost-relatives-missing-in-floods-in-northeast-nigeria?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:14:25 +0000",
        "text": "Floods have displaced 300,000 people and damaged thousands of buildings, affecting one million people in Maiduguri."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Video: Child freed from Indian well after 18-hour rescue operation;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/19/video-child-freed-from-indian-well-after-18-hour-rescue-operation?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:27:53 +0000",
        "text": "Rescuers in India say a two-year-old girl has been freed from a 10-metre-deep well after an 18-hour operation in Rajasth"
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Hong Kong man sentenced to 14 months in jail for \u2018seditious\u2019 T-shirt;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/hong-kong-man-sentenced-to-14-months-in-jail-for-seditious-t-shirt?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:45:12 +0000",
        "text": "Chu Kai-pong is first person to be convicted under Article 23, the China-ruled city\u2019s tough new national security law."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russian attacks on Ukraine power grid probably violate humanitarian law: UN;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/russian-attacks-on-ukraine-power-grid-probably-violate-humanitarian-law-un?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:51:24 +0000",
        "text": "International Energy Agency also warns coming winter would prove to be &#039;sternest test yet&#039; for Ukraine&#039;s energy grid."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Lebanese people talk about fears after pager and walkie-talkie explosions;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/lebanese-people-talk-about-fears-after-pager-and-walkie-talkie-explosions?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:51:23 +0000",
        "text": "Two days of random explosions have made some people nervous, others ditch their walkie-talkies, but some remain defiant."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Vietnam tycoon Truong My Lan, sentenced to death, faces new fraud trial;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/vietnam-tycoon-truong-my-lan-sentenced-to-death-faces-new-fraud-trial?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:40:43 +0000",
        "text": "As part of major state anticorruption drive, she was convicted in April for her role in a $12.5bn financial fraud case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Sri Lanka\u2019s tea estate workers courted by presidential candidates;https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/19/sri-lankas-tea-estate-workers-courted-by-presidential-candidates?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:24:26 +0000",
        "text": "Trouble brews before presidential election as long-marginalised group says it&#039;s heard the candidates&#039; promises before."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;UN demands Israel end occupation of Palestine: How did your country vote?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/un-demands-israel-end-occupation-of-palestine-how-did-your-country-vote?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:12:57 +0000",
        "text": "The UNGA nonbinding measure has been backed by 124 of the 181 member states - but 43 members abstain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;UN General Assembly overwhelmingly calls for end of Israeli occupation;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/19/un-general-assembly-overwhelmingly-calls-for-end-of-israeli-occupation-2?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:34:53 +0000",
        "text": "This is what happened as the UN voted to back a resolution calling for Israel to end its illegal occupation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Australia\u2019s social media ban for minors: Has this worked elsewhere?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/australias-social-media-ban-for-minors-has-this-worked-elsewhere?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:03:41 +0000",
        "text": "Multiple countries have tried but failed to effectively curb social media access. Will Australia&#039;s attempt be different?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;AI needs \u2018global governance\u2019, cannot be left to market, UN panel says;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/19/ai-needs-global-governance-cannot-be-left-to-market-un-panel-says?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:55:44 +0000",
        "text": "Expert body makes seven recommendations on regulating AI, including establishment of fund to help developing countries."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Child dies after stabbing near Japanese school in China;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/child-dies-after-stabbing-near-japanese-school-in-china?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:52:04 +0000",
        "text": "Japan condemns &#039;despicable act&#039; committed against the 10-year-old who was on his way to the Shenzhen Japanese School."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Video: White House spokesman pressed on what US knew about Lebanon attacks;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/19/video-white-house-spokesman-pressed-on-what-us-knew-about-lebanon-attacks?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:46:34 +0000",
        "text": "US official John Kirby refused to answer questions on whether the US was informed prior to the attacks on Hezbollah."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;World reacts to UN vote calling on Israel to end Palestinian occupation;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/world-reacts-to-un-vote-calling-on-israel-to-end-palestinian-occupation?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:44:43 +0000",
        "text": "UNGA resolution, backed by 124 countries, makes it clear that occupation \u2018cannot be allowed to continue any longer\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Lebanon explosions raise alarm about supply chain security, safety of tech;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/19/lebanon-blasts-raise-alarm-about-supply-chain-security-tech-safety?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:19:28 +0000",
        "text": "At least 32 people were killed when thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies detonated in attacks blamed on Israel."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;I\u2019m in control, says Starmer after Sue Gray pay leaks;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyvg1y170xo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:00:05 GMT",
        "text": "Anonymous briefings point to mounting tensions around the PM's chief of staff in Downing Street."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Late Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed accused of rape by female staff;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6x635wpjxo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:30:15 GMT",
        "text": "The BBC hears the owner of the luxury store scoped out his victims on the shop floor, assaulted them in London, Paris and St Tropez, and pressured them to keep quiet."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Some prisoners released early without being tagged;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp95n2z9370o;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:03:55 GMT",
        "text": "Some offenders released last week were not electronically tagged as they should have been, raising the risk of reoffending."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Japan firm says it stopped making walkie-talkies used to target Hezbollah;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6ezre8xr4o;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:28:54 GMT",
        "text": "A Japanese firm whose name was on devices that exploded says it discontinued them a decade ago."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Secret gifts from public swell Treasury's coffers;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgdn3134w1o;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:36:26 GMT",
        "text": "So far this year 18 people have handed over almost \u00a3620,000 to the government without being asked."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Interest rates held at 5% but set to fall gradually, says Bank;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgq8ydy8e79o;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:41:15 GMT",
        "text": "Economists are betting on rates being held in September with a cut to come in November instead."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Starmer defends corporate seats for Arsenal games;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jw193ydw6o;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:00:05 GMT",
        "text": "The PM says it would cost taxpayers a \"fortune\" in security costs for him to watch from the stands."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Genetic ghosts suggest Covid\u2019s market origins;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8095xjg4po;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:32:47 GMT",
        "text": "A team of scientists say it is \"beyond reasonable doubt\" the Covid pandemic started with infected animals."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Brazil fines Musk's X for site's return after ban;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4dn4z02emo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:05:50 GMT",
        "text": "The social media platform formerly known as Twitter was banned in the country in August."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Thunderstorm warnings mark end of UK summer;https://www.bbc.com/weather/articles/ce8dnznxyj8o;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:02:54 GMT",
        "text": "The week is set to end with a bang in the southern half of the UK as the warm spell concludes. Tomasz Schafernaker explains."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Video captures Beirut's skyline as devices explode across the city;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cdenk2721p8o;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:56:55 GMT",
        "text": "Blasts were seen across Lebanon as thousands of walkie-talkies exploded in the country."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What we know about the walkie-talkie explosions;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz04m913m49o;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:31:17 GMT",
        "text": "The attacks left at least 32 dead and thousands injured, but how the blasts occurred remains unclear."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Hezbollah and its conflict with Israel explained;https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67307858;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:24:24 GMT",
        "text": "Escalating cross-border hostilities have heightened fears of an all-out conflict."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;No holds barred in new film on Prince Andrew scandal;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3yyz1914o;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:05:05 GMT",
        "text": "It is an angry, sweary version of the Duke of York in a new series about his interview with BBC Two's Newsnight programme."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;We need new homes, where should they go?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrjd04466go;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:24:46 GMT",
        "text": "BBC Home Editor Mark Easton hosts a debate with three experts asking whether we should build on the green belt."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What's the point of buying the latest smartphone?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxrv97djw9o;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:01:05 GMT",
        "text": "It is the time of year when new handsets are unveiled, but they may offer only small improvements."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Springfield grapples with false pet-eating rumours - and real problems;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l4g6g5d97o;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:27:09 GMT",
        "text": "Locals say they are facing serious issues with housing, jobs and harassment, even though pet-eating rumours are false."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Why finding out about Sue Gray\u2019s salary really matters;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxgdgkew81o;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:40:20 GMT",
        "text": "Chris Mason explains why the story about the prime minister's chief of staff earning \u00a3170,000 a year matters."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Women not being offered anaesthetics for uterine procedures despite advice;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7498yvvjvgo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:36:37 GMT",
        "text": "Women who experienced traumatic pain from hysteroscopies reveal fears new clinical guidelines may not help."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Ex-Arsenal player charged after \u00a3600,000 of cannabis seized at UK airport;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce81e2zq0jjo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:27:58 GMT",
        "text": "Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, 33, was arrested and taken to Carlisle charged with the importation of cannabis."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Storm Boris batters Italy after wreaking havoc in central Europe;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30ln80z4deo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:21:50 GMT",
        "text": "The storm has hit the north-east and central regions of Italy, days after causing widespread flooding in central Europe."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;New York teen accused of stealing subway train and crashing it;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgm1xmjjepo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:39:55 GMT",
        "text": "A teenage girl has been arrested over the alleged incident, which resulted in a crash but no injuries."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;High-grade masks may have been no better than surgical masks, Covid inquiry hears;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2jr0dppro;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:39:28 GMT",
        "text": "UKHSA's Prof Susan Hopkins said respirator masks may have worked no better than thin surgical masks."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;BBC Natural History Unit co-founder dies aged 95;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4glpenddeko;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:24:40 GMT",
        "text": "Former BBC wildlife TV presenter, author and naturalist Tony Soper has died."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Race Across the World was 'exhausting' say winners;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l4nmr8q7qo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:58:50 GMT",
        "text": "The final episode, broadcast on Wednesday, was watched by an average audience of 3.7 million."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Pager and Walkie-Talkie Explosions in Lebanon;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jrcl9w;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:57:00 GMT",
        "text": "And a row over Sue Gray's pay."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Special episode: Hezbollah pager blasts explained;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jrbr7c;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:00:00 GMT",
        "text": "Devices used by the armed group were targeted across Lebanon"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Horrible piece of cricket' - Duckett goes for 95 to Labuschagne;https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/videos/c8j79m0r47ko;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:51:00 GMT",
        "text": "England's Ben Duckett falls five runs short of his century as he is caught and bowled by Australia's Marnus Labuschagne during the first ODI at Trent Bridge."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;FIA boss used 'stereotypical' language - Hamilton;https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/articles/cly3vr0zg1lo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:03:22 GMT",
        "text": "Lewis Hamilton has accused FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem of using \u201cstereotypical\u201d language with a \u201cracial element\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Raducanu reaches Korea Open quarter-finals;https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/articles/c5y5v2k415ro;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:36:20 GMT",
        "text": "Great Britain's Emma Raducanu reaches the quarter-finals at the Korea Open after beating China's Yue Yuan in straight sets in Seoul."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Piastri ready to 'help' Norris in title battle;https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/articles/c0m0v8r49vko;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:03:56 GMT",
        "text": "Oscar Piastri says McLaren are ready to use him to help Lando Norris\u2019 championship bid if the circumstances arise at the Singapore Grand Prix."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Emmanuel-Thomas charged after \u00a3600k of cannabis seized at Stansted;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce81e2zq0jjo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:27:58 GMT",
        "text": "Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, 33, was arrested and taken to Carlisle charged with the importation of cannabis."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;England lose to Australia in series opener;https://www.bbc.com/sport/netball/articles/crkd02v2elpo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:28:37 GMT",
        "text": "The first game of England's three-match Test series in Australia ends in a 70-57 defeat by the world champions in Adelaide."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Boy, 8, dies after falling from window of house;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kdxj94n3lo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:28:01 GMT",
        "text": "The boy was taken to hospital but did not survive his injuries, said police."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Mum fears family targeted 'because of religion';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrj03n24jno;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:51:19 GMT",
        "text": "Leonie McLaughlin says her family have no choice but to leave their home after a second car is set alight."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Charity boss apologises to rape survivors over support centre failings;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj310jvzpd8o;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:10:50 GMT",
        "text": "A rape support centre in Edinburgh, run by a trans woman, had not provided women-only spaces for 16 months."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Welsh NHS needs reform, Keir Starmer says;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly54q7nwjno;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:59:57 GMT",
        "text": "But the prime minister refuses to describe Wales' health services as broken, as he did in England."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le sp\u00e9cialiste du reconditionn\u00e9 Back Market f\u00eate ses dix ans;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/19/le-specialiste-du-reconditionne-back-market-fete-ses-dix-ans_6324521_3234.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:12:45 +0200",
        "text": "En une d\u00e9cennie, l\u2019entreprise fran\u00e7aise a s\u00e9duit 15\u00a0millions de clients pour 30\u00a0millions d\u2019appareils vendus, et s\u2019est implant\u00e9e dans 18\u00a0pays en Europe, en Am\u00e9rique, et en Asie."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019enclave espagnole de Ceuta sous la pression de migrants marocains souhaitant rejoindre l\u2019Europe;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/19/l-enclave-espagnole-de-ceuta-sous-la-pression-de-migrants-marocains-souhaitant-rejoindre-l-europe_6324517_3212.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:00:05 +0200",
        "text": "Apr\u00e8s celle de dimanche, une nouvelle tentative massive de franchissement de la fronti\u00e8re serait pr\u00e9vue le 30\u00a0septembre. Planifi\u00e9s sur les r\u00e9seaux sociaux, ces passages en force impliquent majoritairement des ressortissants marocains, alors qu\u2019ils \u00e9taient jusqu\u2019\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent le fait de migrants subsahariens."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Selon Gabriel Attal, Michel Barnier pr\u00e9voit 7\u00a0ministres macronistes de plein exercice sur\u00a016 et promet de ne pas augmenter les imp\u00f4ts des classes moyennes;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/19/l-actualite-politique-en-direct-un-entretien-entre-michel-barnier-et-emmanuel-macron-est-prevu-a-19-h-15_6314327_823448.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:37:28 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019Elys\u00e9e a confirm\u00e9 que le premier ministre, Michel Barnier, avait demand\u00e9 un entretien avec le pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique. L\u2019entrevue est pr\u00e9vue \u00e0 19 h 15."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Gabon\u00a0: Ali Bongo et les siens, \u00ab\u00a0un caillou dans la chaussure\u00a0\u00bb du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Brice Oligui Nguema;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/19/gabon-ali-bongo-et-les-siens-un-caillou-dans-la-chaussure-du-general-brice-oligui-nguema_6324511_3212.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:54:46 +0200",
        "text": "Alors qu\u2019aucune charge formelle ne p\u00e8se sur lui, l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident vit reclus dans une villa \u00e0 Libreville. Sa femme et leur fils a\u00een\u00e9, eux, sont en prison et victimes, selon leurs avocats, d\u2019\u00ab\u00a0actes de torture et de barbarie\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Pour valoriser la Ligue 1, les dirigeants du football fran\u00e7ais la jouent d\u00e9cal\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/19/pour-valoriser-la-ligue-1-les-dirigeants-du-football-francais-la-jouent-decale_6324509_3242.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:48:34 +0200",
        "text": "La Ligue de football professionnel a d\u00e9voil\u00e9 un clip pour valoriser son championnat d\u2019\u00e9lite dans un contexte compliqu\u00e9, marqu\u00e9 par la baisse des droits t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9s et les critiques visant son nouveau diffuseur."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Proc\u00e8s des viols de Mazan\u00a0: un des coaccus\u00e9s admet ne jamais avoir \u00ab\u00a0eu le consentement\u00a0\u00bb de Gis\u00e8le Pelicot;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/19/proces-des-viols-de-mazan-un-des-coaccuses-admet-ne-jamais-avoir-eu-le-consentement-de-gisele-pelicot_6324474_3224.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:27:58 +0200",
        "text": "Les accus\u00e9s d\u00e9filent \u00e0 la barre, jeudi, pour livrer leur version des faits, et se contredisent souvent."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Dopage\u00a0: plus de\u00a04\u00a0000\u00a0athl\u00e8tes contr\u00f4l\u00e9s et\u00a0plus de 6\u00a0000\u00a0\u00e9chantillons collect\u00e9s pendant les Jeux;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/19/dopage-plus-de-4-000-athletes-controles-et-plus-6-000-echantillons-collectes-pendant-les-jeux_6324408_3242.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:02:51 +0200",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Explosions au Liban\u00a0: le chef du Hezbollah \u00e9voque \u00ab\u00a0un coup sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent\u00a0\u00bb qui a \u00ab\u00a0franchi toutes les lignes rouges\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/19/en-direct-explosions-au-liban-le-bilan-global-s-eleve-desormais-a-37-morts-et-pres-de-3-000-blesses_6321740_3210.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:21:54 +0200",
        "text": "Hassan Nasrallah s\u2019exprime dans un discours apr\u00e8s la double s\u00e9rie d\u2019explosions qui ont fait au moins 37\u00a0morts et pr\u00e8s de 3\u00a0000 bless\u00e9s. Au m\u00eame moment, l\u2019arm\u00e9e isra\u00e9lienne a annonc\u00e9 de nouvelles frappes \u00ab\u00a0sur des cibles du Hezbollah au Liban\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le prix Rafto des droits humains attribu\u00e9 \u00e0\u00a0l\u2019\u00ab\u00a0artiviste\u00a0\u00bb cubain Otero Alcantara, actuellement emprisonn\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/09/19/le-prix-rafto-des-droits-humains-attribue-a-l-artiviste-cubain-otero-alcantara-actuellement-emprisonne_6324295_3246.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:57:36 +0200",
        "text": "Le Cubain de 36\u00a0ans a \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9 le 11\u00a0juillet\u00a02021 \u00ab\u00a0pour son opposition intr\u00e9pide \u00e0 l\u2019autoritarisme \u00e0 travers l\u2019art\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0: le Parlement europ\u00e9en appelle \u00e0\u00a0lever imm\u00e9diatement les restrictions sur l\u2019usage d\u2019armes occidentales sur le\u00a0territoire russe;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/19/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-le-parlement-europeen-appelle-a-lever-immediatement-les-restrictions-sur-l-usage-d-armes-occidentales-sur-le-territoire-russe_6318183_3210.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:58:30 +0200",
        "text": "La pr\u00e9sidente de la Commission europ\u00e9enne, Ursula von\u00a0der\u00a0Leyen, a annonc\u00e9 qu\u2019elle se rendrait en\u00a0Ukraine vendredi pour rencontrer Volodymyr Zelensky."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Trois stars du football alg\u00e9rien rejoignent le championnat local;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/19/trois-stars-du-football-algerien-rejoignent-le-championnat-local_6324281_3212.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:50:17 +0200",
        "text": "Apr\u00e8s une carri\u00e8re \u00e0 l\u2019international, Andy Delort, Ryad Boudebouz et Islam Slimani \u00e9volueront respectivement au Mouloudia Club d\u2019Alger, \u00e0 la Jeunesse sportive de Kabylie et au Chabab Riadhi Belouizdad."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Je n\u2019ai jamais eu le fin mot de l\u2019histoire\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: pourquoi la CAF est une bo\u00eete noire pour ses allocataires;https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2024/09/19/je-n-ai-jamais-eu-le-fin-mot-de-l-histoire-pourquoi-la-caf-est-une-boite-noire-pour-ses-allocataires_6323745_4355770.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:00:17 +0200",
        "text": "Des milliers de Fran\u00e7ais peinent \u00e0 savoir \u00e0 quelles prestations ils peuvent pr\u00e9tendre et \u00e0 faire valoir leurs droits. Enqu\u00eate sur un mal aux causes profondes, que la technologie seule ne peut r\u00e9soudre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ligue 1\u00a0: les supporteurs de\u00a0l\u2019OM interdits de\u00a0d\u00e9placement \u00e0\u00a0Lyon dimanche;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/19/ligue-1-les-supporteurs-de-l-om-interdits-de-deplacement-a-lyon-dimanche_6324215_3242.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:09:40 +0200",
        "text": "Le ministre de l\u2019int\u00e9rieur d\u00e9missionnaire, G\u00e9rald Darmanin, a interdit le d\u00e9placement des fans de l\u2019Olympique de Marseille \u00e0 Lyon, dimanche, \u00e0 l\u2019occasion du match de la 5\u1d49\u00a0journ\u00e9e de L1."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Nintendo attaque en justice le d\u00e9veloppeur de \u00ab\u00a0Palworld\u00a0\u00bb pour violation de brevets;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/19/nintendo-attaque-en-justice-le-developpeur-de-palworld-pour-violation-de-brevets_6324148_4408996.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:01:31 +0200",
        "text": "D\u00e8s sa sortie, au mois de janvier, le jeu vid\u00e9o du d\u00e9veloppeur Pocketpair \u00e9tait consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme \u00ab\u00a0Pokemon avec des armes\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Disparition de Lina\u00a0: l\u2019ADN de l\u2019adolescente et de Samuel Gonin retrouv\u00e9s sur des cordes;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/19/disparition-de-lina-l-adn-de-l-adolescente-et-de-samuel-gonin-retrouves-sur-des-cordes_6324114_3224.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:32:06 +0200",
        "text": "Tout tend \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9montrer l\u2019implication\u00a0\u00bb de l\u2019homme de 43\u00a0ans qui s\u2019est suicid\u00e9 le 10\u00a0juillet, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 le procureur de la R\u00e9publique par int\u00e9rim de Strasbourg, Alexandre Chevrier."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le youtubeur MrBeast et Amazon poursuivis pour \u00ab\u00a0mauvais traitements\u00a0\u00bb sur le tournage d\u2019un jeu t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/19/le-youtubeur-mrbeast-et-amazon-poursuivis-pour-mauvais-traitements-sur-le-tournage-d-un-jeu-televise_6324112_4408996.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:20:46 +0200",
        "text": "Cinq participants \u00e0 la future \u00e9mission \u00ab\u00a0Beast Games\u00a0\u00bb ont port\u00e9 plainte contre le youtubeur le plus suivi au monde et contre Amazon, qui doit diffuser le jeu de t\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9alit\u00e9 sur sa plate-forme Amazon Prime."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Explosions de bipeurs au Liban\u00a0: le Hezbollah pris au pi\u00e8ge dans son soutien au Hamas;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/19/explosions-de-bipeurs-au-liban-le-hezbollah-pris-au-piege-dans-son-soutien-au-hamas_6324066_3210.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:00:17 +0200",
        "text": "Apr\u00e8s la s\u00e9rie d\u2019attaques au Liban, il revient au parti chiite d\u2019engager ou pas une escalade d\u00e9cisive contre Isra\u00ebl."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La fr\u00e9quentation des sites patrimoniaux conna\u00eet un vrai rebond;https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/09/19/la-frequentation-des-sites-patrimoniaux-connait-un-vrai-rebond_6324107_3246.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:00:07 +0200",
        "text": "A la veille des Journ\u00e9es europ\u00e9ennes du patrimoine, la nouvelle \u00e9dition de l\u2019enqu\u00eate de r\u00e9f\u00e9rence, Patrimostat, confirme le go\u00fbt du public pour les vieilles pierres."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Un Hongkongais condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 quatorze mois de\u00a0prison pour avoir port\u00e9 un tee-shirt \u00ab\u00a0Lib\u00e9rez\u00a0Hongkong\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/19/un-hongkongais-condamne-a-quatorze-mois-de-prison-pour-avoir-porte-un-tee-shirt-liberez-hongkong_6324106_3210.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:56:50 +0200",
        "text": "Chu Kai-pong, 27\u00a0ans, a \u00e9t\u00e9 reconnu coupable \u00ab\u00a0d\u2019actes dans une intention s\u00e9ditieuse\u00a0\u00bb, dans le but de\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0raviver les id\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019origine des troubles\u00a0\u00bb, r\u00e9f\u00e9rence aux manifestations prod\u00e9mocratie en\u00a02019."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La cha\u00eene C8 saisit le Conseil d\u2019Etat contre le non-renouvellement de sa fr\u00e9quence TNT;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/19/la-chaine-c8-saisit-le-conseil-d-etat-contre-le-non-renouvellement-de-sa-frequence-tnt_6324069_3234.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:09:55 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019Arcom avait d\u00e9cid\u00e9, en juillet, de ne pas renouveler l\u2019autorisation de diffusion sur la TNT de C8. NRJ 12, \u00e9galement \u00e9cart\u00e9e de la proc\u00e9dure de renouvellement des fr\u00e9quences TNT, a \u00e9galement annonc\u00e9 saisir le Conseil d\u2019Etat."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au proc\u00e8s Pelicot, l\u2019accusatrice accus\u00e9e\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Je comprends que les victimes de viol ne portent pas plainte\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/19/au-proces-pelicot-l-accusatrice-accusee-je-comprends-que-les-victimes-de-viol-ne-portent-pas-plainte_6323986_3224.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:58:11 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019atmosph\u00e8re s\u2019est tendue, mercredi, lors de la diffusion, \u00e0 l\u2019initiative de la d\u00e9fense, de photos intimes de Gis\u00e8le Pelicot, cens\u00e9es d\u00e9montrer la bonne foi des accus\u00e9s."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Nouvelle-Cal\u00e9donie\u00a0: deux morts tu\u00e9s par balle \u00e0 la tribu de Saint-Louis, fief ind\u00e9pendantiste de l\u2019archipel;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/19/nouvelle-caledonie-deux-morts-tues-par-balle-a-la-tribu-de-saint-louis-fief-independantiste-de-l-archipel_6323884_823448.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:04:34 +0200",
        "text": "Deux hommes \u00e2g\u00e9s de 30 ans et 29\u00a0ans sont d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9s au cours d\u2019une op\u00e9ration sp\u00e9ciale de la gendarmerie. Ils \u00e9taient recherch\u00e9s pour leur implication pr\u00e9sum\u00e9e dans les tirs r\u00e9currents sur les forces de l\u2019ordre \u00e0 la tribu de Saint-Louis, portant \u00e0 treize le nombre de morts depuis le d\u00e9but des violences."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Des hackeurs iraniens ont envoy\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9quipe de\u00a0Joe\u00a0Biden des documents de campagne de\u00a0Donald Trump;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/19/des-hackeurs-iraniens-ont-envoye-a-l-equipe-de-joe-biden-des-documents-de-campagne-de-donald-trump_6323848_3210.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:35:52 +0200",
        "text": "Selon les autorit\u00e9s am\u00e9ricaines, des pirates informatiques iraniens ont envoy\u00e9 des documents \u00ab\u00a0vol\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0\u00a0des personnes associ\u00e9es \u00e0 la campagne du pr\u00e9sident am\u00e9ricain, qui s\u2019est depuis retir\u00e9 de la course \u00e0\u00a0la\u00a0Maison Blanche. L\u2019Iran d\u00e9ment."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Aux Etats-Unis, la Chambre des repr\u00e9sentants \u00e9choue \u00e0 prolonger le budget, provoquant un nouveau risque de \u00ab\u00a0shutdown\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/19/aux-etats-unis-la-chambre-des-representants-echoue-a-prolonger-le-budget-provoquant-un-nouveau-risque-de-shutdown_6323676_3210.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 06:33:43 +0200",
        "text": "Les \u00e9lus se sont oppos\u00e9s \u2013 \u00e0 220\u00a0voix contre, 202 pour \u2013 \u00e0 une prolongation temporaire du budget jusqu\u2019en mars\u00a02025, soit apr\u00e8s la prise de fonction du candidat \u00e9lu \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidentielle de novembre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Entre Michel Barnier et Emmanuel Macron, les premi\u00e8res frictions;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/19/entre-michel-barnier-et-emmanuel-macron-les-premieres-frictions_6323657_823448.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:29:01 +0200",
        "text": "Le chef de l\u2019Etat aurait refus\u00e9 une premi\u00e8re liste de ministres potentiels, o\u00f9 Les R\u00e9publicains figuraient en force. Les deux hommes s\u2019affrontent aussi sur certaines orientations politiques, le nouveau premier ministre souhaitant imposer des hausses d\u2019imp\u00f4ts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Harvey Weinstein plaide non coupable face \u00e0 une nouvelle inculpation pour agression sexuelle;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/19/harvey-weinstein-plaide-non-coupable-face-a-une-nouvelle-inculpation-pour-agression-sexuelle_6323618_3210.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:09:35 +0200",
        "text": "Le procureur du district de Manhattan Alvin Bragg l\u2019a inculp\u00e9 cette fois pour \u00ab\u00a0l\u2019agression sexuelle d\u2019une femme dans un h\u00f4tel du sud de Manhattan, \u00e0 une seule occasion, entre le 29\u00a0avril et le 6\u00a0mai\u00a02006\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Niger, trois attaques s\u00e9par\u00e9es causent la mort d\u2019au moins douze militaires;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/19/niger-trois-attaques-separees-causent-la-mort-d-au-moins-douze-militaires_6323617_3212.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:42:00 +0200",
        "text": "Selon l\u2019organisation Acled, qui r\u00e9pertorie les victimes des conflits dans le monde, quelque 1\u00a0500\u00a0civils et militaires sont morts dans des attaques djihadistes depuis un an dans le pays."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A Marseille, un homme tu\u00e9 dans une fusillade, un adolescent gravement bless\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/19/un-homme-tue-dans-une-fusillade-a-marseille-un-adolescent-gravement-blesse_6323551_3224.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:14:13 +0200",
        "text": "Les violences li\u00e9es au narcobanditisme dans la cit\u00e9 phoc\u00e9enne sont en recul en\u00a02024, apr\u00e8s une ann\u00e9e\u00a02023\u00a0record."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Springfield, ses chats et ses migrants ha\u00eftiens, c\u0153ur toxique de la pr\u00e9sidentielle am\u00e9ricaine;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/19/springfield-ses-chats-et-ses-migrants-haitiens-c-ur-toxique-de-la-campagne-americaine_6323550_3210.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:59:53 +0200",
        "text": "Cette ville de l\u2019Ohio est au centre de l\u2019attention depuis que Donald Trump a colport\u00e9, lors de son d\u00e9bat contre Kamala Harris, les fausses accusations prof\u00e9r\u00e9es par son colistier, J.\u00a0D.\u00a0Vance, \u00e0 l\u2019encontre de la communaut\u00e9 ha\u00eftienne. Des propos qui exacerbent les tensions dans une cit\u00e9 devenue, malgr\u00e9 elle, le miroir de la polarisation des Etats-Unis."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Nouvelle-Cal\u00e9donie\u00a0: deux hommes tu\u00e9s par balle au cours d\u2019une op\u00e9ration des forces de l\u2019ordre;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/19/nouvelle-caledonie-un-homme-tue-par-balle-lors-d-une-operation-des-forces-de-l-ordre_6323517_823448.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:07:09 +0200",
        "text": "Ce nouveau d\u00e9c\u00e8s porte \u00e0 treize, dont deux gendarmes, le nombre de personnes tu\u00e9es dans l\u2019archipel depuis le d\u00e9but des violences. Deux enqu\u00eates ont \u00e9t\u00e9 ouvertes par le procureur de Noum\u00e9a."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A la Martinique, un couvre-feu instaur\u00e9 dans certains quartiers de Fort-de-France et au Lamentin apr\u00e8s des violences;https://www.lemonde.fr/outre-mer/article/2024/09/19/martinique-couvre-feu-decrete-dans-certains-quartiers-de-fort-de-france-apres-des-violences_6323484_1840826.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:02:12 +0200",
        "text": "Mis en place de 21\u00a0heures \u00e0 5\u00a0heures du matin, d\u00e8s mercredi soir, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 ordonn\u00e9 apr\u00e8s plusieurs nuits de\u00a0troubles, en marge d\u2019un mouvement de contestation contre la vie ch\u00e8re. Le pr\u00e9fet a annonc\u00e9 un renfort des forces de l\u2019ordre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;PSG-G\u00e9rone\u00a0: le r\u00e9sum\u00e9 des d\u00e9buts poussifs, mais victorieux, des Parisiens en Ligue des champions;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/18/psg-gerone-le-resume-des-debuts-poussifs-mais-victorieux-des-parisiens-en-ligue-des-champions_6323451_3242.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:29:34 +0200",
        "text": "Les Parisiens ont d\u00e9but\u00e9 leur campagne europ\u00e9enne par un succ\u00e8s qui a mis longtemps \u00e0 se dessiner, mercredi, au Parc des Princes (1-0). Au bout du suspense, le gardien de G\u00e9rone, Paulo Gazzaniga, a finalement conc\u00e9d\u00e9 un but gag, et la victoire au PSG."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Pr\u00e9sidentielle am\u00e9ricaine\u00a0: le puissant syndicat des routiers renonce \u00e0 soutenir Donald Trump ou Kamala Harris, apr\u00e8s vingt-cinq\u00a0ans d\u2019appui aux d\u00e9mocrates;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/18/presidentielle-americaine-le-puissant-syndicat-des-routiers-renonce-a-soutenir-donald-trump-ou-kamala-harris-apres-vingt-cinq-ans-d-appui-aux-democrates_6323418_3210.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:55:50 +0200",
        "text": "Les Teamsters ont fid\u00e8lement soutenu le candidat d\u00e9mocrate \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle depuis l\u2019an 2000\u00a0et Al Gore. Deux sondages rendus publics mercredi montrent que la base du syndicat \u00e9tait favorable \u00e0 un soutien \u00e0 Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Bernard Arnault demande aux cadres de LVMH de tenir leur langue;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/18/bernard-arnault-demande-aux-cadres-de-lvmh-de-tenir-leur-langue_6323417_3234.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:48:39 +0200",
        "text": "Le site d\u2019information \u00ab\u00a0La Lettre\u00a0\u00bb a publi\u00e9 un mail du patron du groupe de luxe, datant de janvier, dans lequel il interdit aux membres de son comit\u00e9 ex\u00e9cutif de parler \u00e0 sept m\u00e9dias."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Br\u00e9sil, X op\u00e8re un retour surprise mais \u00ab\u00a0involontaire\u00a0\u00bb, contournant le blocage ordonn\u00e9 par la justice;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/18/au-bresil-x-parvient-a-contourner-le-blocage-ordonne-par-la-justice-apres-un-changement-technique_6323384_3210.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:13:45 +0200",
        "text": "Utilisant pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment des adresses IP fixes, le r\u00e9seau social utilise d\u00e9sormais des IP qui changent en permanence, rendant le blocage plus difficile. L\u2019Agence nationale des t\u00e9l\u00e9communications br\u00e9silienne a dit enqu\u00eater, tandis que le r\u00e9seau social a annonc\u00e9 que ce retour ne serait que \u00ab\u00a0temporaire\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Territoires palestiniens occup\u00e9s par Isra\u00ebl\u00a0: l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de l\u2019ONU exige le d\u00e9part de l\u2019Etat h\u00e9breu dans les \u00ab\u00a0douze mois\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/18/territoires-palestiniens-occupes-par-israel-l-assemblee-generale-de-l-onu-exige-le-depart-de-l-etat-hebreu-dans-les-douze-mois_6323351_3210.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:44:01 +0200",
        "text": "Cette r\u00e9solution non contraignante, adopt\u00e9e mercredi, a provoqu\u00e9 la col\u00e8re d\u2019Isra\u00ebl, la qualifiant de \u00ab\u00a0cynique\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ligue des champions\u00a0: suivez le match entre le PSG et G\u00e9rone en direct;https://www.lemonde.fr/football/live/2024/09/18/en-direct-psg-gerone-suivez-la-premiere-journee-de-la-ligue-des-champions_6323178_1616938.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:00:07 +0200",
        "text": "Le Paris Saint-Germain n\u2019a pas impressionn\u00e9 pour son premier match europ\u00e9en de la saison, mercredi face \u00e0 G\u00e9rone. Mais il a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 s\u2019imposer dans les derni\u00e8res minutes (1-0) par un but contre son camp du gardien Paulo Gazzaniga sur un centre de Nuno Mendes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Aux Etats-Unis, la Fed abaisse son taux directeur de 0,5 point de pourcentage et envisage de nouvelles baisses en 2024;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/18/aux-etats-unis-la-fed-abaisse-son-taux-directeur-de-0-5-point-de-pourcentage-et-envisage-de-nouvelles-baisses-en-2024_6323284_3234.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:07:42 +0200",
        "text": "La Fed a tabl\u00e9, mardi, sur une baisse inflation plus rapide que pr\u00e9vue \u00e0 2,1\u00a0% en 2025\u00a0et a r\u00e9vis\u00e9 \u00e0 la hausse sa pr\u00e9vision de ch\u00f4mage, \u00e0 4,4\u00a0% en 2024\u00a0et 2025."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Emilia Perez\u00a0\u00bb, le film de Jacques Audiard, s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 pour repr\u00e9senter la France aux Oscars;https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/09/18/emilia-perez-le-film-de-jacques-audiard-selectionne-pour-representer-la-france-aux-oscars_6323250_3246.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:51:43 +0200",
        "text": "Le film raconte le repentir d\u2019un baron de la drogue mexicain qui devient une femme. La candidature fran\u00e7aise sera envoy\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019acad\u00e9mie des Oscars, qui annoncera \u00e0 la mi-janvier quels sont les pays nomm\u00e9s dans la cat\u00e9gorie meilleur film \u00e9tranger."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La 5G de deuxi\u00e8me g\u00e9n\u00e9ration se diffuse doucement \u00e0 travers la France;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/18/la-5g-de-deuxieme-generation-se-deploie-doucement-en-france_6323182_4408996.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:17:52 +0200",
        "text": "Free a annonc\u00e9 mercredi le lancement d\u2019une offre grand public de 5G \u00ab\u00a0standalone\u00a0\u00bb, qui ne s\u2019appuiera plus sur l\u2019infrastructure technique vieillissante de la 4G. Les autres op\u00e9rateurs devraient aussi se lancer dans les prochains mois."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Entre RT et les sanctions, il y a un jeu du chat et de la souris\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: entretien avec Maxime Audinet, sp\u00e9cialiste de la Russie;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/18/entre-rt-et-les-sanctions-il-y-a-un-jeu-du-chat-et-de-la-souris-entretien-avec-maxime-audinet-specialiste-de-russia-today_6323180_4408996.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:06:25 +0200",
        "text": "Le groupe\u00a0Meta a annonc\u00e9, lundi 16\u00a0septembre, l\u2019interdiction sur ses plates-formes de m\u00e9dias d\u2019Etat russes, comme Russia Today et Sputnik. Selon le chercheur Maxime Audinet, ces m\u00e9dias recourent \u00e0 la clandestinit\u00e9 pour contourner les sanctions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Enqu\u00eate | L\u2019industrie automobile se divise sur les normes environnementales;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/18/l-industrie-automobile-se-divise-sur-les-normes-environnementales_6322266_3234.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:00:13 +0200",
        "text": "Abaissement du plafond d\u2019\u00e9missions de CO\u2082\u00a0des voitures, prise en compte de l\u2019empreinte carbone des batteries\u2026 Les r\u00e8gles europ\u00e9ennes mises en place pour organiser la transition \u00e9cologique du secteur agitent les constructeurs automobiles. Mais tous n\u2019adoptent pas la m\u00eame strat\u00e9gie."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Botswana, les diamants ne seront pas \u00e9ternels;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/18/au-botswana-les-diamants-ne-seront-pas-eternels_6323144_3212.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:30:05 +0200",
        "text": "Les ventes de pierres pr\u00e9cieuses repr\u00e9sentent un quart du PIB du pays, mais la chute des cours mondiaux le pousse \u00e0 diversifier son \u00e9conomie."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Six mois apr\u00e8s l\u2019effondrement d\u2019un pont \u00e0 Baltimore, les Etats-Unis poursuivent le propri\u00e9taire et le gestionnaire singapouriens du porte-conteneurs;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/18/six-mois-apres-l-effondrement-d-un-pont-a-baltimore-les-etats-unis-poursuivent-le-proprietaire-et-le-gestionnaire-singapouriens-du-porte-conteneurs_6323139_3210.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:19:31 +0200",
        "text": "Un porte-conteneurs s\u2019\u00e9tait encastr\u00e9 le 26\u00a0mars, en quittant le port de Baltimore, dans le pont Francis-Scott-Key, qui s\u2019\u00e9tait effondr\u00e9, causant la mort de six personnes et des dommages importants. \u00ab\u00a0Cette trag\u00e9die \u00e9tait enti\u00e8rement \u00e9vitable\u00a0\u00bb, selon Washington."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Burkina Faso, la junte du capitaine Traor\u00e9 s\u2019en prend aux familles de ses opposants;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/18/au-burkina-faso-la-junte-du-capitaine-traore-s-en-prend-aux-familles-de-ses-opposants_6323137_3212.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:11:17 +0200",
        "text": "Deux enfants de l\u2019ancien ministre des affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res Djibril Bassol\u00e9, accus\u00e9 de vouloir d\u00e9stabiliser le r\u00e9gime et qui vit en exil en France, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 enlev\u00e9s."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Entreprises\u00a0: les d\u00e9lais de paiement s\u2019allongent, les tr\u00e9soreries se tendent;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/18/entreprises-les-delais-de-paiement-s-allongent-les-tresoreries-se-tendent_6323102_3234.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:55:35 +0200",
        "text": "Moins d\u2019une entreprise sur deux en France paie ses fournisseurs \u00e0 l\u2019heure, selon le cabinet Altares. L\u2019investissement et la consommation ne repartiraient pas avant 2025."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Autoroute A69\u00a0: un militant chute d\u2019un arbre et se blesse lors d\u2019une op\u00e9ration de gendarmerie dans la derni\u00e8re zone d\u2019opposition;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/18/autoroute-a69-un-militant-chute-d-un-arbre-et-se-blesse-lors-d-une-operation-de-gendarmerie-dans-le-dernier-bastion-d-opposition_6323066_3234.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:31:22 +0200",
        "text": "Apr\u00e8s une chute de 5 \u00e0 6\u00a0m\u00e8tres, l\u2019homme a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9vacu\u00e9, conscient, par le SAMU vers un h\u00f4pital toulousain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Le Journal du dimanche\u00a0\u00bb lance un hebdomadaire du mercredi;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/18/le-journal-du-dimanche-lance-un-hebdomadaire-du-mercredi_6323064_3234.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:22:41 +0200",
        "text": "Le \u00ab\u00a0JDNews\u00a0\u00bb, contraction du \u00ab\u00a0JDD\u00a0\u00bb et de CNews, fait de la \u00ab\u00a0libert\u00e9 d\u2019expression\u00a0\u00bb sa ligne \u00e9ditoriale."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Proc\u00e8s des viols de Mazan\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0J\u2019\u00e9tais dans un \u00e9tat de\u00a0coma\u00a0\u00bb, r\u00e9torque Gis\u00e8le Pelicot, qui se sent \u00ab\u00a0humili\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb des soup\u00e7ons de complicit\u00e9 \u00e0\u00a0son\u00a0\u00e9gard;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/18/proces-des-viols-de-mazan-j-etais-dans-un-etat-de-coma-se-defend-gisele-pelicot-qui-se-sent-humiliee-des-soupcons-de-complicite-a-son-egard_6323028_3224.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:23:54 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Je ne pouvais absolument pas r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 qui que ce soit, et les vid\u00e9os qu\u2019on va diffuser vont pouvoir l\u2019attester\u00a0\u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Gis\u00e8le Pelicot \u00e0 la barre, d\u00e9non\u00e7ant les propos des avocats de certains accus\u00e9s."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019Ukraine dit avoir \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9truit\u00a0\u00bb un d\u00e9p\u00f4t d\u2019armements dans l\u2019ouest de la Russie dans une attaque de drones;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/18/l-ukraine-dit-avoir-detruit-un-depot-d-armements-dans-l-ouest-de-la-russie-dans-une-attaque-de-drones_6323023_3210.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:47:06 +0200",
        "text": "Les autorit\u00e9s russes ont ordonn\u00e9 mercredi matin des \u00e9vacuations en raison d\u2019un \u00ab\u00a0incendie\u00a0\u00bb, disant repousser une \u00ab\u00a0attaque de drones\u00a0massive\u00a0\u00bb contre la ville de Toropets, dans la r\u00e9gion de Tver."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le dilemme de la bronchiolite\u00a0: une piq\u00fbre pour la femme enceinte ou pour le nourrisson;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/18/le-dilemme-de-la-bronchiolite-une-piqure-pour-la-femme-enceinte-ou-pour-le-nourrisson_6322276_3244.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:00:19 +0200",
        "text": "Tandis que le vaccin Abrysvo est inject\u00e9 \u00e0 la future m\u00e8re pour prot\u00e9ger son f\u0153tus, l\u2019anticorps monoclonal Beyfortus est administr\u00e9 directement \u00e0 l\u2019enfant."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Angleterre et au Pays de Galles, des \u00ab\u00a0zones tampons\u00a0\u00bb vont \u00eatre mises en place autour des\u00a0cliniques d\u2019avortement;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/18/en-angleterre-et-au-pays-de-galles-des-zones-tampons-vont-etre-mises-en-place-autour-des-cliniques-d-avortement_6323017_3210.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:00:36 +0200",
        "text": "Ces p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres de protection, qui vont \u00eatre cr\u00e9\u00e9s \u00e0 partir du 31\u00a0octobre, s\u2019\u00e9tendront jusqu\u2019\u00e0 150\u00a0m\u00e8tres autour des cliniques. Il y sera ill\u00e9gal de tenter d\u2019\u00ab\u00a0influencer la d\u00e9cision\u00a0\u00bb et de \u00ab\u00a0harceler\u00a0\u00bb les personnes qui s\u2019y rendent."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Souvent d\u00e9ficitaires, les start-up de l\u2019IA sont sous pression;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/18/souvent-deficitaires-les-start-up-de-l-ia-sont-sous-pression_6323016_3234.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:00:13 +0200",
        "text": "Les fabricants de mod\u00e8les et d\u2019outils d\u2019intelligence artificielle font face aux doutes sur l\u2019existence d\u2019une \u00ab\u00a0bulle\u00a0\u00bb dans le secteur, ainsi qu\u2019\u00e0 la concurrence des g\u00e9ants du num\u00e9rique."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Chronique | \u00ab\u00a0Zelensky veut arracher \u00e0 Biden, avant qu\u2019il quitte la Maison Blanche, une invitation pour l\u2019Ukraine \u00e0 rejoindre l\u2019OTAN\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/18/zelensky-veut-arracher-a-biden-avant-qu-il-quitte-la-maison-blanche-une-invitation-a-l-ukraine-a-rejoindre-l-otan_6322265_3210.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:00:13 +0200",
        "text": "Le pr\u00e9sident ukrainien, qui voudrait h\u00e2ter la fin de la guerre, esp\u00e8re convaincre le pr\u00e9sident des Etats-Unis de faire un geste d\u00e9cisif pour permettre \u00e0 Kiev d\u2019aborder des n\u00e9gociations en position de force, analyse Sylvie Kauffmann, \u00e9ditorialiste au \u00ab\u00a0Monde\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Mali, de nombreuses interrogations persistent au lendemain des attaques \u00e0 Bamako;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/18/au-mali-de-nombreuses-interrogations-persistent-au-lendemain-des-attaques-a-bamako_6322945_3212.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:29:54 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019\u00e9tat-major de l\u2019arm\u00e9e malienne a reconnu \u00ab\u00a0quelques pertes en vies humaines\u00a0\u00bb, tandis que les djihadistes affirment avoir fait des centaines de morts et de bless\u00e9s dans les rangs adverses, dont des membres du Groupe Wagner."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Un film \u00ab\u00a0Les Sims\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0\u00a0venir, mais toujours pas de\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0Sims\u00a05\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 l\u2019horizon;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/18/un-film-les-sims-a-venir-mais-toujours-pas-de-sims-5-a-l-horizon_6322936_4408996.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:53:22 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019\u00e9diteur Electronic Arts a annonc\u00e9 que la s\u00e9rie de jeux vid\u00e9o de simulation de vie quotidienne allait \u00eatre adapt\u00e9e en long-m\u00e9trage par Amazon MGM Studios et les producteurs de \u00ab\u00a0Barbie\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Une op\u00e9ration de police internationale cible le\u00a0service de communication chiffr\u00e9e Ghost;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/18/une-operation-de-police-internationale-cible-le-service-de-communication-chiffree-ghost_6322900_4408996.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:13:59 +0200",
        "text": "Le cr\u00e9ateur de ce r\u00e9seau de t\u00e9l\u00e9phonie utilis\u00e9 par des organisations criminelles a \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9, alors\u00a0que\u00a0la\u00a0police surveillait les conversations depuis plusieurs mois."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Explosion des bipeurs du Hezbollah\u00a0: la piste d\u2019une insertion d\u2019explosifs largement privil\u00e9gi\u00e9e;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/18/explosion-des-bipeurs-du-hezbollah-la-piste-d-une-insertion-d-explosifs-largement-privilegiee_6322796_4408996.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:25:10 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019attaque, mardi 17\u00a0septembre, a fait plus de 2\u00a0800\u00a0bless\u00e9s et au moins neuf morts, principalement au Liban. Les victimes sont en majorit\u00e9 des agents ou des combattants du mouvement chiite."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les Pays-Bas demandent une d\u00e9rogation aux r\u00e8gles de\u00a0l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne sur l\u2019asile;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/18/les-pays-bas-demandent-une-derogation-aux-regles-de-l-union-europeenne-sur-l-asile_6322865_3210.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:53:20 +0200",
        "text": "Le gouvernement n\u00e9erlandais investi en juillet \u2013 une coalition de la droite et l\u2019extr\u00eame droite \u2013 promet de lancer la proc\u00e9dure depuis plusieurs mois. Mais le dirigeant d\u2019extr\u00eame droite n\u00e9erlandais Geert Wilders a lui-m\u00eame d\u00e9clar\u00e9 en mai qu\u2019obtenir une \u00e9ventuelle d\u00e9rogation pourrait prendre \u00ab\u00a0des ann\u00e9es\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Tupperware, fabricant des c\u00e9l\u00e8bres bo\u00eetes alimentaires, se d\u00e9clare en\u00a0faillite;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/18/tupperware-fabricant-des-celebres-boites-alimentaires-se-declare-en-faillite_6322832_3210.html;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:42:50 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019entreprise am\u00e9ricaine, fragilis\u00e9e par l\u2019\u00e9mergence du commerce en ligne, de la livraison de repas et du plastique \u00e0 usage unique, \u00e9tait en difficult\u00e9 depuis des ann\u00e9es. Elle a demand\u00e9 une protection au titre du chapitre\u00a011, la loi am\u00e9ricaine sur les faillites."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Speculative and misleading: MEA on media report saying ammunition from India entering Ukraine;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/speculative-and-misleading-mea-on-media-report-saying-ammunition-from-india-entering-ukraine/article68661185.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:46:48 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nagamangala: Situation returning to normal; Don\u2019t make any more arrests, says HDK;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/nagamangala-situation-returning-to-normal-dont-make-any-more-arrests-says-hdk/article68661143.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:45:48 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delhi HC tells Puja Khedkar to respond to perjury claim by UPSC;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-hc-tells-puja-khedkar-to-respond-to-perjury-claim-by-upsc/article68659937.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:42:35 +0530",
        "text": "The court asked the former IAS probationer to submit her reply before the next date of hearing on September 26"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Project to provide stalls to differently abled for selling palm products launched;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/project-to-provide-stalls-to-differently-abled-for-selling-palm-products-launched/article68661075.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:34:25 +0530",
        "text": "Aimed at economic rehabilitation of differently abled individuals"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;HC takes serious view of entrance arches causing hindrance to free flow of traffic;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/hc-takes-serious-view-of-entrance-arches-causing-hindrance-to-free-flow-of-traffic/article68661102.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:29:56 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two-day State Forest Sports Meet starts in Coimbatore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/two-day-state-forest-sports-meet-starts-in-coimbatore/article68659957.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:28:23 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;NTPC Kayamkulam to pioneer methanol-based power generation in India;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/ntpc-kayamkulam-to-pioneer-methanol-based-power-generation-in-india/article68659521.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:27:32 +0530",
        "text": "NTPC signs memorandum of understanding with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited to demonstrate methanol firing in the plant\u2019s existing gas turbine system. The pilot project will be implemented in two phases"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kallakurichi hooch tragedy | Madras High Court reserves judgment on plea for CBI probe;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/kallakurichi-hooch-tragedy-madras-high-court-reserves-judgment-on-plea-for-cbi-probe/article68660913.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:26:54 +0530",
        "text": "Acting Chief Justice D. Krishnakumar and Justice P.B. Balaji defer their verdict after hearing Advocate General P.S. Raman and senior counsel N.L. Rajah and V. Raghavachari"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Cardiac surgeon calls for screening in schools for Marfan Syndrome;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/cardiac-surgeon-calls-for-screening-in-schools-for-marfan-syndrome/article68659564.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:20:24 +0530",
        "text": "On World Aortic Dissection Awareness Day SIMS brings together those treated for the syndrome"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mega cleaning drive conducted in railway yards;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/mega-cleaning-drive-conducted-in-railway-yards/article68660892.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:19:22 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kurnool Collector asks officials to prepare action plans;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/kurnool-collector-asks-officials-to-prepare-action-plans/article68659720.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:17:45 +0530",
        "text": "Mandal and district level action plans for achieving 15% growth as part of Swarnandhra@2047 Vision Document."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rowdy Naga and Velu taken into custody;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/rowdy-naga-and-velu-taken-into-custody/article68660547.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:14:18 +0530",
        "text": "The duo, according to the police, have been running a racket and getting special privileges inside the prison"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Stalin will give Deputy CM\u2019s post to Udhayanidhi at appropriate time: Gingee K.S. Masthan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/stalin-will-give-deputy-cms-post-to-udhayanidhi-at-appropriate-time-gingee-ks-masthan/article68660779.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:14:09 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Counselling for Bachelor of Naturopathy and Yogic Science to begin on September 23;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/counselling-for-bachelor-of-naturopathy-and-yogic-science-to-begin-on-sept-23/article68660441.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:13:31 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Now, Governor seeks report on works taken up by MUDA on CM\u2019s \u2018oral instructions\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/now-governor-seeks-report-on-works-taken-up-by-muda-on-cms-oral-instructions/article68660443.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:09:58 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Karnataka delegation to visit Varanasi, Haridwar to study conduct of Ganga Aarti;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/karnataka-delegation-to-visit-varanasi-haridwar-to-study-conduct-of-ganga-aarti/article68660375.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:08:49 +0530",
        "text": "Karnataka government has planned to organise Cauvery Aarti on the lines of Ganga Aarti"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Lab reports confirm presence of animal fat in Tirumala laddu, alleges TDP leader;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/lab-reports-confirm-presence-of-animal-fat-in-tirumala-laddu-alleges-tdp-leader/article68660694.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:07:48 +0530",
        "text": "The quality of prasadam has drastically declined due to usage of adulterated ghee, alleges Anam Venkata Ramana Reddy"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Elected representatives express concerns over increasing eco-sensitive area in Western Ghats in Karnataka;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/elected-representatives-express-concerns-over-increasing-eco-sensitive-area-in-western-ghats-in-karnataka/article68660149.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:06:48 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jarange has \u2018entertainment value\u2019, can join \u2018Bigg Boss\u2019: Maharashtra OBC leader;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/jarange-has-entertainment-value-can-join-bigg-boss-maharashtra-obc-leader/article68659774.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:06:32 +0530",
        "text": "\u201cIf the government is considering issuing a Government Resolution (GR) based on the 1911 gazette, then what is the need for the OBC commission in Maharashtra?\u201d Mr. Hake asked"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Woman administers poison to sons, one dies;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/woman-administers-poison-to-sons-one-dies/article68660816.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:05:05 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala Women\u2019s Commission proposes local body-level pre-marital counselling services;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-womens-commission-proposes-local-body-level-pre-marital-counselling-services/article68660566.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:02:40 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;IISc researchers come up with solutions to reduce presence of heavy metals in groundwater;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/iisc-researchers-come-up-with-solutions-to-reduce-presence-of-heavy-metals-in-groundwater/article68659890.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:00:11 +0530",
        "text": "Most current methods for removing heavy metal contamination rely on pumping out water from the ground, followed by purification using chemical precipitation, adsorption, ion exchange, and reverse osmosis carried out at a different location"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mpox genome sequence to be done to find virus strain;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/mpox-genome-sequence-to-be-done-to-find-virus-strain/article68660800.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:00:09 +0530",
        "text": "All preventive measures taken against Nipah and Mpox as per the existing protocol, says Veena"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Low-floor buses ineffective without accessible bus shelters, say disability-rights activists in Coimbatore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/low-floor-buses-ineffective-without-accessible-bus-shelters-say-disability-rights-activists-in-coimbatore/article68660479.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:59:10 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Health Minister inaugurates Medical College and Hospital in Narsampet;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/health-minister-inaugurates-medical-college-and-hospital-in-narsampet/article68660822.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:58:05 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hyderabad-New Delhi Telangana Express to depart at 11 a.m.;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/hyderabad-new-delhi-telangana-express-to-depart-at-11-am-today/article68660654.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:57:52 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;To avert a Wayanad in Idukki;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/to-avert-a-wayanad-in-idukki/article68660437.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:56:31 +0530",
        "text": "The people of Bison Valley at the foothills of Chokramudi hills are protesting against construction activities carried out by land-buyers on these ecologically sensitive slopes, home to the endangered Neelakurinji and the Nilgiri Tahr. A government-appointed SIT has uncovered widespread landgrab, allegedly facilitated by some officials of the Revenue department. While the government awaits a review of land records, \u00a0it has promised action against the encroachers, Sandeep Vellaram reports"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Cauvery Aarti\u2019 on the lines of \u2018Ganga Aarti\u2019 likely this Dasara: Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/cauvery-aarti-on-the-lines-of-ganga-aarti-likely-this-dasara-minister/article68660555.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:55:24 +0530",
        "text": "Team is leaving for Varanasi and Haridwar tomorrow to watch the ceremony; \u2018Cauvery Aarti\u2019 at KRS dam site"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hezbollah chief denounces Israeli attacks as warplane sonic booms rattle Beirut;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/hezbollah-chief-denounces-israeli-attacks-as-warplane-sonic-booms-rattle-beirut/article68660850.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:52:03 +0530",
        "text": "Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says \u201cThe enemy went beyond all controls, laws and morals\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Traffic police hold meeting with IT park heads for traffic and mobility planning\u00a0in Bengaluru;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/traffic-police-hold-meeting-with-it-park-heads-for-traffic-and-mobility-planning-in-bengaluru/article68660075.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:51:49 +0530",
        "text": "After the infamous traffic incident on ORR on September 27, 2023, when thousands of motorists were stuck for hours, the Bengaluru Traffic Police have been working with tech parks to avoid such incidents from recurring"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;20 hurt in accident in Maddur taluk;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/20-hurt-in-accident-in-maddur-taluk/article68660667.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:46:51 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;390 idols immersed in eight ponds during procession lasting 32 hours in Belagavi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/390-idols-immersed-in-eight-ponds-during-procession-lasting-32-hours-in-belagavi/article68660744.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:45:32 +0530",
        "text": "The queue for immersion in some places was as long as three kilometres due to the limited number of immersion spots in the city"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chennai Mayor tells officials of Ward 74 to form messaging group for grievance redressal;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chennai-mayor-tells-officials-of-ward-74-to-form-messaging-group-for-grievance-redressal/article68657042.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:45:08 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Shukkoor murder case spectre returns to haunt CPI(M) with CBI court dismissing Jayarajan and Rajesh\u2019s discharge pleas;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/shukkoor-murder-case-spectre-returns-to-haunt-cpim-with-cbi-court-dismissing-jayarajan-and-rajeshs-discharge-pleas/article68660421.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:43:43 +0530",
        "text": "Abdul Shukkoor, a young leader of the Muslim Student Federation, was murdered at Ariyil in Kannur on February 20, 2012, apparently in a rapid-fire retaliation for an attack on Jayarajan\u2019s convoy the same day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Lack of vigilance by Health dept. leads to spread of infectious diseases in Kerala Surendran;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/lack-of-vigilance-by-health-dept-leads-to-spread-of-infectious-diseases-in-kerala-surendran/article68660672.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:38:20 +0530",
        "text": "He says rehabilitation of the landslides-affected in Wayanad getting delayed due to government\u2019s ineptitude in submitting estimates about relief work already done"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kudumbasree registers turnover of \u20b928.47 crore from Onam fairs;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kudumbasree-registers-turnover-of-2847-crore-from-onam-fairs/article68660634.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:38:11 +0530",
        "text": "43,359 micro enterprises, 26,815 farmers\u2019s groups tap festival market"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;The University of Leeds leads the way for Indian students;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/the-university-of-leeds-leads-the-way-for-indian-students/article68660671.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:37:36 +0530",
        "text": "Dr. Piruthivi Sukumar at a recent healthcare convention spoke nuances of healthcare in the U.K. and what India can offer to it"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Ahobila Mutt pontiff concludes \u2018Chaturmasya Sankalpam\u2019 at Tirumala-Tirupati;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/ahobila-mutt-pontiff-concludes-chaturmasya-sankalpam-at-tirumala-tirupati/article68660483.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:35:29 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;HR&CE officials seal three shops at Vennaimalai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/hrce-officials-seal-three-shops-at-vennaimalai/article68660648.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:34:15 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Husband kills wife, surrenders to police;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/husband-kills-wife-surrenders-to-police/article68660356.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:32:46 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rajyotsava to be celebrated as \u2018Kannada Janotsava\u2019; 69 people to get award;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/rajyotsava-to-be-celebrated-as-kannada-janotsava-69-people-to-get-award/article68660117.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:32:24 +0530",
        "text": "Statue of former Chief Minister late D. Devaraj Urs to be unveiled at the new Deputy Commissioner\u2019s office of Mysuru to mark the occasion"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Second, final phase of admission process for AP Ed. CET qualified candidates under way;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/second-and-final-phase-of-admission-process-for-ed-cet-qualified-candidates-under-way/article68660699.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:32:13 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Library to hold career guidance session for persons with disabilities;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/library-to-hold-career-guidance-session-for-persons-with-disabilities/article68660609.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:32:08 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Consumer body urges fencing of Kotagiri tahsildar office premises;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/premises-around-kotagiri-tahsildar-office-needs-maintenance-alleges-consumer-protection-association/article68659432.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:28:54 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje says Karnataka facing \u2018undeclared emergency\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/union-minister-shobha-karandlaje-says-karnataka-facing-undeclared-emergency/article68660197.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:28:18 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chief officer, junior engineer of Kinnigoli Town Panchayat caught while taking bribe;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/chief-officer-junior-engineer-of-kinnigoli-town-panchayat-caught-while-taking-bribe/article68660643.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:27:52 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Probe by Sivaganga police into complaint of robbery reveals gangrape of woman;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/probe-by-sivaganga-police-into-complaint-of-robbery-reveals-gangrape-of-woman/article68660677.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:26:47 +0530",
        "text": "A gang sexually assaulted the woman who was found with a youth in an isolated place near Manamadurai on Tuesday"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Actor Kadambari Jethwani meets Andhra Minister for Home;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/actor-kadambari-jethwani-meets-andhra-minister-for-home/article68660493.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:26:26 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Overcoming shortage of eyecare professionals, enhancing optometry education can help combat Uncorrected Refractive Error in India, says report;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/overcoming-shortage-of-eyecare-professionals-enhancing-optometry-education-can-help-combat-uncorrected-refractive-error-in-india-says-report/article68658821.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:25:51 +0530",
        "text": "According to a new report published by the India Vision Institute, URE remains the leading cause of vision impairment in the country, impacting 59% of adults and 7.5% of children"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chittoor geared up for Nara Lokesh\u2019s visit;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/chittoor-geared-up-for-nara-lokeshs-visit/article68660396.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:21:05 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Relangi\u2019s life-size bronze statue unveiled on Godavari bank in Rajamahendravaram;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/relangis-life-size-bronze-statue-unveiled-on-godavari-bank-in-rajamahendravaram/article68660139.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:19:36 +0530",
        "text": "Harikatha exponent Relangi rose to become the first comedian to receive Padma Shri award; he acted with NTR, ANR, and many stalwarts of his time in many films"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Will provide drinking water connection to every household in Andhra Pradesh under Jal Jeevan Mission in three years, says CM Naidu;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/will-provide-drinking-water-connection-to-every-household-in-andhra-pradesh-under-jal-jeevan-mission-in-three-years-says-cm-naidu/article68660386.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:18:44 +0530",
        "text": "He directs officials to take steps for laying pipelines from the nearest reservoirs in the rural areas"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;One more tests negative for Nipah in Malappuram;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/one-more-tests-negative-for-nipah-in-malappuram/article68660611.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:18:34 +0530",
        "text": "So far, 37 people have tested negative ever since a 24-year-old man from Wandoor succumbed to the deadly virus at MES Medical College Hospital, Perinthalmanna, on September 9."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vigilance sleuths seize \u20b91.5 lakh in unaccounted from sub-registrar, tout in Coimbatore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/vigilance-sleuths-seize-15-lakh-in-unaccounted-from-sub-registrar-tout-in-coimbatore/article68660585.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:17:42 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Digital NCD screening project launched in Madurai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/digital-ncd-screening-project-launched-in-madurai/article68660391.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:17:37 +0530",
        "text": "It will  go a long way in augmenting \u2018Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam,\u2019 a flagship programme of the State government; It has demonstrated its effectiveness in leveraging technology to improve healthcare outcomes, says Mayor"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Varahi Yatra\u2019 from Tirupati to Vizag;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/varahi-yatra-from-tirupati-to-vizag/article68660659.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:16:11 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bengaluru man held for conning Hyderabad victim of $1,721\u00a0in sextortion scam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/bengaluru-man-held-for-conning-hyderabad-victim-of-1721-in-sextortion-scam/article68660257.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:15:24 +0530",
        "text": "Interestingly, the accused was living in a prime location by paying a rent of \u20b975,000 per month"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Farmers get agriculture department schemes, announcements through WhatsApp;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/farmers-get-agriculture-department-schemes-announcements-through-whatsapp/article68660426.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:14:51 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Samanwayam\u2019 project launched in Wayanad;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/samanwayam-project-launched-in-wayanad/article68660211.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:14:42 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;ISRO to celebrate Space Week in Bhimavaram from October 5;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/isro-to-celebrate-space-week-in-bhimavaram-from-october-5/article68660453.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:10:25 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Refugees from Sri Lanka not enthusiastic about presidential poll;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/refugees-from-sri-lanka-not-enthusiastic-about-presidential-poll/article68660539.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:09:14 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Over 100 awake craniotomy surgeries in Siddhasiri Hospital and Research Centre;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/over-100-awake-craniotomy-surgeries-in-siddhasiri-hospital-and-research-centre/article68660517.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:08:40 +0530",
        "text": "A patient played the flute while being operated upon, says surgeon"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;NHRC team\u2019s probe in Maanjolai tea estate continues;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/nhrc-teams-probe-in-maanjolai-tea-estate-continues/article68660614.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:08:28 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Retired staff urge Salem Corporation to distribute monetary benefits soon;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/retired-staff-urge-salem-corporation-to-distribute-monetary-benefits-soon/article68659877.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:06:47 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;1,400 sanitation staff to be deployed in three shifts during Dasara festivities in Vijayawada;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/1400-sanitation-staff-to-be-deployed-in-three-shifts-during-dasara-festivities-in-vijayawada/article68660514.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:06:27 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Paralympics medal winner Mariyappan honoured in Salem;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/paralympics-medal-winner-mariyappan-honoured-in-salem/article68660073.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:06:15 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Onam season brings disappointment to Chendamangalam weavers as sales see a dip;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/onam-season-brings-disappointment-to-chendamangalam-weavers-as-sales-see-a-dip/article68659637.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:05:24 +0530",
        "text": "The dip brings back spotlight on the ongoing crisis in the sector, which has deepened due to the poor wage rates for weavers and a lack of positive intervention by the Union and State governments"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Clampdown on illegal real estate projects in the Nilgiris\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/clampdown-on-illegal-real-estate-projects-in-the-nilgiris/article68659389.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:04:36 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kumaranalloor uthrittathi ooruchuttu boat race held;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kumaranalloor-uthrittathi-ooruchuttu-boat-race-held/article68660235.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:03:32 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Discharge petition of P. Jayarajan and T.V. Rajesh in Shukkoor murder case dismissed;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/discharge-petition-of-p-jayarajan-and-tv-rajesh-in-shukkoor-murder-case-dismissed/article68660507.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:03:21 +0530",
        "text": "Shukkoor was allegedly killed by a group CPI(M) workers on February 20, 2012, and the conspiracy was hatched in room number 315 of Cooperative Hospital, Taliparamba. It was further alleged that CPI(M) workers killed Shukkoor for allegedly being part of a mob that reportedly pelted stones at a car in which Mr. Jayarajan was travelling."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;HDK visits breached lake in Nagamangala;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/hdk-visits-breached-lake-in-nagamangala/article68660408.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:02:19 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Passport Seva portal to be down for maintenance;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/passport-seva-portal-to-be-down-for-maintenance/article68660586.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:01:57 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Ravindra Babu assumes charge as Kurnool Municipal Commissioner;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/ravindra-babu-assumes-charge-as-kurnool-municipal-commissioner/article68660582.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:01:19 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India\u2019s first PCB and Supply Chain Cluster to come up in Mysuru, Priyank Kharge;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/indias-first-pcb-and-supply-chain-cluster-to-come-up-in-mysuru-priyank-kharge/article68660096.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:56:05 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;KSUM invites EoI to offer services to start-ups;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/ksum-invites-eoi-to-offer-services-to-start-ups/article68660558.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:56:03 +0530",
        "text": "Project involves engaging CA/CS, legal and patent support firms to provide essential professional services to start-ups"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;IED blast injures CoBRA battalion jawan in Jharkhand\u2019s Chaibasa;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jharkhand/ied-blast-injures-cobra-battalion-jawan-in-jharkhands-chaibasa/article68660118.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:54:48 +0530",
        "text": "The search operation was on to nab Maoist leader Misir Besra, on whom the State Government has announced \u20b91 crore reward"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP\u2019s members fake, says Tejashwi as RJD launches membership drive;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/bjps-members-fake-says-tejashwi-as-rjd-launches-membership-drive/article68659813.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:54:06 +0530",
        "text": "Tejashwi Yadav said his party is targeting to enroll one crore members in the coming months. He said \u201cpeople from all sections of the society will become members of the RJD.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Awareness programme on back and neck pain management to be held on Sept. 21;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/event-to-create-awareness-among-public-on-back-and-neck-pain-management/article68659135.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:50:28 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Inflow into Mettur dam reduces;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/inflow-into-mettur-dam-reduces/article68660250.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:49:51 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Shakti: Pushpa Amarnath meets women commuters;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/shakti-panel-vice-chairperson-meets-women-commuters/article68659888.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:46:57 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;International Tai Chi conference underway in Coimbatore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/international-tai-chi-conference-underway-in-coimbatore/article68660263.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:44:17 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Policemen save life of a person in Tirthahalli;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/policemen-save-life-of-a-person-in-tirthahalli/article68659842.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:43:58 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tirumala prasadam row: TTD employees\u2019 union leader decries CM\u2019s remarks;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/tirumala-prasadam-row-ttd-employees-union-leader-decries-cms-remarks/article68660015.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:43:41 +0530",
        "text": "It is an outrageous act that hit at the core of the religious sentiments of the devotees and insulted the TTD employees and their morale, alleges Murali"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Wellness camps organised for sanitation workers at major railway stations in Tiruchi Division;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/wellness-camps-organised-for-sanitation-workers-at-major-railway-stations-in-tiruchi-division/article68660186.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:43:23 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two-day theatre festival in Hassan from Friday, Sept. 20;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/two-day-theatre-festival-in-hassan-from-friday-sept-20/article68659721.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:41:47 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Apollo Hospitals launches book to lay down safety protocols to protect staff, patients and visitors;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/apollo-hospitals-launches-book-to-lay-down-safety-protocols-to-protect-staff-patients-and-visitors/article68659172.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:41:42 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;FGG urges govt. to weed out \u2018bogus\u2019 ration cards to save \u20b9600 crore per month;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/fgg-urges-govt-to-weed-out-bogus-ration-cards-to-save-600-crore-per-month/article68660123.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:41:17 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PCC units to have 60% SC/ST/BC representation: Mahesh Goud;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/pcc-units-to-have-60-scstbc-representation-mahesh-goud/article68659692.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:39:37 +0530",
        "text": "Former PCC chief and ex-Rajya Sabha member V. Hanumantha Rao organises felicitation programme for TPCC chief Mahesh Goud"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chief Minister to visit Mysuru on Sept. 20, 21;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/chief-minister-to-visit-mysuru-on-sept-20-21/article68659655.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:39:26 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Top news of the day: PM Modi calls Rahul\u2019s \u2018Devta\u2019 remark a sign of \u2018Naxal mindset\u2019; India calls U.S. court summons in Pannun murder plot \u2018unwarranted imputations\u2019, and more;https://www.thehindu.com/news/top-news-of-the-day-september-19-2024-pm-modi-calls-rahuls-devta-remark-a-sign-of-naxal-mindset-india-calls-us-court-summons-in-pannun-murder-plot-unwarranted-imputations-and-more/article68660519.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:37:40 +0530",
        "text": "The major news headlines of the day and more."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Andhra farmer association welcomes Central initiatives in agriculture;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/andhra-farmer-association-welcomes-central-initiatives-in-agriculture/article68659925.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:37:34 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Houses in eight wards of Tiruchi Corporation to get UGD connection soon;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/houses-in-eight-wards-of-tiruchi-corporation-to-get-ugd-connection-soon/article68660222.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:35:23 +0530",
        "text": "The project, estimated at \u20b9377 crore, has reached its last stage of construction but for inter-connection work and work on a few road crossings, according to sources"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Corruption should be fought straightaway, says Santosh Hegde;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/corruption-should-be-fought-straightaway-says-santosh-hegde/article68660416.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:35:00 +0530",
        "text": "The former Lokayukta says everyday information of various scams\u00a0is getting released and that the disease is in every political party"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Teenager stabbed to death over previous enmity in Musheerabad;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/teenager-stabbed-to-death-over-previous-enmity-in-musheerabad/article68657259.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:34:16 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;11 prison inmates undergo medical examination in Erode;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/11-prison-inmates-undergo-medical-examination-in-erode/article68660210.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:34:13 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Man from West Bengal held for \u20b95.27 crore fraud;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/man-from-west-bengal-held-for-527-crore-fraud/article68656908.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:32:39 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sri Lanka clinches $12.5 billion bond rework deal in pre-election dash;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sri-lanka-clinches-125-billion-bond-rework-deal-in-pre-election-dash/article68660295.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:32:07 +0530",
        "text": "The agreement comes after Sri Lanka began a third round of formal debt restructuring talks with bondholders last week"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Minister asks officials to ensure all agricultural lands receive water;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/minister-asks-officials-to-ensure-all-agricultural-lands-receive-water/article68660012.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:27:42 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mysuru farmers demand bonus of \u20b9500 a quintal to paddy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/mysuru-farmers-demand-bonus-of-500-a-quintal-to-paddy/article68659604.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:27:31 +0530",
        "text": "Demand comes in the wake of rising production cost; farmers\u2019 associations seek incentive on the lines of Kerala and Odisha"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mpox: surveillance stepped up in Coimbatore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/mpox-virus-surveillance-stepped-up-in-coimbatore/article68659816.ece;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:27:21 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;What are the odds? Hong Kong\u2019s Mark Six draws same 5 numbers twice a row;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279203/what-are-odds-hong-kongs-mark-six-draws-same-5-numbers-twice-row?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:52:42 +0800",
        "text": "Internet users express shock soon after results announced, with some questioning whether it was unprecedented worldwide and its probability."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong concerned as pranksters rename schools on Google Maps;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279201/nobi-nobita-college-hong-kong-concerned-over-pranksters-renaming-schools-google-maps?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:19:12 +0800",
        "text": "Changes range from manga character\u2019s name to \u2018psychiatric hospital\u2019, but authorities not amused as wrong labels pop up on Uber, Lalamove."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Beijing IT chief backs Hong Kong to make \u2018new productive forces\u2019 in deal to boost ties;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3279198/beijing-it-chief-backs-hong-kong-build-new-productive-forces-ai-tech-deal-boost-ties?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 22:19:44 +0800",
        "text": "Jin Zhuanglong says agreement will bring Hong Kong, Beijing authorities closer on advanced manufacturing, new energy, biomedicine and more."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival expands to 5 days, ditches plastic cups;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279194/more-savour-hong-kong-wine-and-dine-festival-expands-5-days-ditches-plastic-cups?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:27:48 +0800",
        "text": "Event to be held from October 23 to 27 at the Central Harbourfront, featuring more than 300 booths of food and drinks from dozens of countries, regions."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong judge urges \u2018severe\u2019 sedition penalties, jails 2 in first Article 23 law sentences;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279191/hong-kong-judge-urges-severe-sedition-penalties-jails-2-first-article-23-law-sentences?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:55:02 +0800",
        "text": "Chu Kai-pong and Chung Man-kit jailed for up to 14 months for displaying anti-government slogans."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hongkongers mourn closure of toy giant that helped make 75 years of childhood memories;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279189/hongkongers-mourn-closure-toy-giant-helped-make-75-years-childhood-memories?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:30:43 +0800",
        "text": "Closure comes to light as reseller reveals it is bidding on items from Oriental Trading Company Hong Kong that are up for grabs at warehouse."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;University of Hong Kong opens first clinical trials centre with private hospital; cancer a focus;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279187/university-hong-kong-opens-first-clinical-trials-centre-private-hospital-cancer-focus?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:58:47 +0800",
        "text": "Collaboration with Gleneagles will make use of university\u2019s \u2018100 years of experience\u2019 in research, medical school dean says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Prosecutors accuse Hong Kong ex-opposition lawmaker of inciting riot against \u2018white shirts\u2019;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279183/prosecutors-accuse-hong-kong-ex-opposition-lawmaker-inciting-riot-against-white-shirts?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:18:40 +0800",
        "text": "Lam Cheuk-ting, 46, instigated clash at Yuen Long MTR station on social media, with white-shirted group \u2018defending homeland\u2019, court hears."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Cross-border voting push: authorities urged to set up electoral roll of mainland-based Hongkongers;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3279181/cross-border-voting-push-authorities-urged-set-electoral-roll-mainland-based-hongkongers?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:11:57 +0800",
        "text": "Concern group, made up of lawmakers and Election Committee members, says proposal will pave way for voting from outside city."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Language skills shouldn\u2019t be compulsory for university admissions in Hong Kong: principals;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279179/call-less-emphasis-language-skills-hong-kong-university-admission?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:52:33 +0800",
        "text": "Hong Kong Association of the Heads of Secondary Schools seeks to balance English requirement with demands for city\u2019s future."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s privacy watchdog warns jobseekers against \u2018blind\u2019 ads to protect personal data;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279174/hong-kongs-privacy-watchdog-warns-jobseekers-against-blind-ads-protect-personal-data?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:42:36 +0800",
        "text": "Commissioner of Privacy Ada Chung urges residents to ascertain employers\u2019 identities when applying for jobs and look out for \u2018unscrupulous\u2019 cons."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong customs seizes HK$10 million of smuggled platinum, its largest haul in 20 years;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279139/hong-kong-customs-seizes-hk10-million-worth-smuggled-platinum-its-largest-haul-20-years?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:45:02 +0800",
        "text": "Officers find eight slabs of metal hidden inside Shenzhen-bound truck\u2019s battery box during stop at checkpoint, arrest 48-year-old driver."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong jumps to ninth spot in global talent ranking but Singapore still top in Asia;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279135/hong-kong-jumps-9th-spot-global-talent-ranking-singapore-still-top-asia?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:24:43 +0800",
        "text": "City\u2019s ranking leaps from 16th last year after improving in three assessment areas \u2013 investment and development, appeal and readiness."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Cathay\u2019s Airbus A350 engine fault risked \u2018extensive damage\u2019, major fires: Hong Kong probe;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3279122/hong-kong-probe-finds-cathay-airbus-engine-fault-could-have-sparked-major-fires?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:24:38 +0800",
        "text": "Authorities urge European aviation body to demand that manufacturer Rolls-Royce impose inspection requirements for such engine parts."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong public housing providers to be investigated by watchdog over reallocation delays;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279117/hong-kong-public-housing-providers-be-investigated-watchdog-over-reallocation-delays?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:03:13 +0800",
        "text": "Ombudsman\u2019s Office says authorities mostly keeping up with reclaimed flat refurbishment, but some cases taking 197 days, five months longer than target."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong beautician jailed for 7 weeks over helping boss provide unlicensed botox jab;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279113/hong-kong-beautician-jailed-7-weeks-helping-unlicensed-boss-inject-botox?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:42:23 +0800",
        "text": "Lau Lo, 38, helped her unlicensed manager administer botulinum toxin shot to victim, who later suffered blurred vision and increased heartrate."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police arrest 11 in clampdown on illegally modified cars, speed demons;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279103/hong-kong-police-arrest-11-operation-targeting-illegally-modified-cars-speed-demons?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:26:26 +0800",
        "text": "Force seizes eight cars thought to be modified for speed in crackdown on illegal racing and other traffic-related offences in West Kowloon."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong banks cut prime rates by a quarter point in first drop in funds cost in 5 years;https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3279096/hong-kongs-banks-cut-prime-rates-quarter-point-1st-drop-funds-cost-5-years?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:38:42 +0800",
        "text": "HSBC and Bank of China (Hong Kong) trimmed their prime lending rates by a quarter percentage point, leading the first rate cut among Hong Kong lenders since 2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Coldplay confirm 3 concerts at Hong Kong\u2019s Kai Tak stadium in April 2025;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279091/coldplay-confirms-3-concerts-hong-kongs-kai-tak-stadium-april-2025?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:19:13 +0800",
        "text": "The British rock band will perform at the soon-to-open 50,000-seat mega stadium on April 9, 11 and 12."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;2 cases have put mental health in focus. How does Hong Kong handle psychiatric patients?;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279079/2-cases-have-put-mental-health-focus-so-how-does-hong-kong-handle-psychiatric-patients?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:00:49 +0800",
        "text": "Experts explain circumstances under which psychiatric patients are required be hospitalised or can be discharged."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s financial officials warn borrowers to brace for a delay in the cost of funding;https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3279069/hong-kongs-financial-officials-warn-borrowers-brace-delay-cost-funding?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:11:19 +0800",
        "text": "The pace of cuts in the prime rate used by commercial banks \u2018may be slower\u2019 than those in the United States, warned Financial Secretary Paul Chan."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;What is ailing Hong Kong\u2019s SME sector?;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/series/3278949/what-ailing-hong-kongs-sme-sector?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:03:43 +0800",
        "text": "Hong Kong\u2019s small and medium-sized enterprises weathered global financial crises and the devastating 2003 Sars outbreak, but are now struggling like never before. In a three-part series, the Post looks at the battered F&amp;B sector and others yearning for better days, and more."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Why are selfie shops and claw machine arcades popping up all over Hong Kong?;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279047/why-are-selfie-shops-and-claw-machine-arcades-popping-all-over-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:30:19 +0800",
        "text": "The new lipstick effect? \u2018Experiential stores\u2019 are taking over as traditional shops shut in Hong Kong as people spend less amid struggling economy."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong banks trim prime rates by a quarter point, meeting Fed\u2019s aggressive cut halfway;https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3278874/hong-kong-cuts-base-rate-half-point-lockstep-us-feds-aggressive-bid-economy?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:00:59 +0800",
        "text": "For a typical HK$5 million, 30-year loan priced at prime minus 1.75 per cent, a quarter-point cut in prime rates will save mortgage borrowers HK$720 per month."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong woman may have been gathering laundry at window when she fell to her death;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279043/hong-kong-woman-may-have-been-gathering-laundry-window-when-she-fell-her-death?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:36:09 +0800",
        "text": "Woman, 67, found lying on platform at Heng On Estate in Ma On Shan and declared dead at hospital."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong schools need more diagnostic help under suicide prevention system, experts say;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279036/hong-kong-schools-need-more-diagnostic-help-under-suicide-prevention-system-experts-say?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:12:23 +0800",
        "text": "Calls to streamline procedures under three-tier system follow city leader\u2019s push for improvements."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong pilot union head Paul Weatherilt open to \u2018reconciling\u2019 with Cathay if rights restored;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3279034/hong-kong-pilot-union-head-paul-weatherilt-open-reconciling-cathay-if-rights-restored?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:29:15 +0800",
        "text": "Outgoing chief of union representing 1,300 Cathay Pacific pilots says airline could have avoided woes if it had not broken with association."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Don\u2019t let bedbugs bite! How did pests land in Hong Kong hospital and how do you avoid infestations?;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279027/dont-let-bedbugs-bite-how-did-pests-land-hong-kong-hospital-and-how-do-you-avoid-infestations?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:30:16 +0800",
        "text": "With bedbugs found in a ward of Kwai Chung Hospital, a pest control expert explains the best way to tackle the insects."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong transport, catering firms urge government to keep labour import schemes;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279029/hong-kong-transport-catering-firms-urge-government-keep-labour-import-schemes?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:44:08 +0800",
        "text": "Calls at odds with union push to suspend migrant worker schemes amid exploitation claims and fears over job security and wages."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Burglars strike in Hong Kong\u2019s Tai Po with 2 Patek Philippe watches among HK$900,000 haul;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279028/burglars-strike-hong-kongs-tai-po-2-patek-philippe-watches-among-hk900000-haul?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:43:14 +0800",
        "text": "Two luxury watches worth HK$700,000, two gold necklaces valued at HK$100,000 and around HK$100,000 in cash taken from Hong Lok Yuen house."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Drone show, special laser display among attractions slated for National Day in Hong Kong;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279022/drone-show-special-laser-display-among-attractions-slated-national-day-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:06:19 +0800",
        "text": "Tourism Board will also promote sightseeing hotspots and spending offers for coming holiday which overlaps with 75th anniversary of founding of modern China."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;High hopes for National Day despite Hong Kong restaurants feeling pinch at Mid-Autumn Festival;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3278961/hong-kong-restaurant-receipts-drop-10-over-mid-autumn-festival-residents-head-across-border?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:33:01 +0800",
        "text": "Many eateries in Tsim Sha Tsui, city\u2019s main tourist hotspot, seen half empty during lunch hours on Wednesday."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong public hospital battling bedbug infestation; 4 patients with suspected bites;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3278929/hong-kong-public-hospital-battling-bedbug-infestation-4-patients-suspected-bites?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:34:17 +0800",
        "text": "Kwai Chung Hospital says it is investigating and has disinfected ward after finding bedbugs in at least 10 beds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Taylor Swift and the US election: Do endorsements matter?;https://www.dw.com/en/taylor-swift-and-the-us-election-do-endorsements-matter/a-70272990?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, were overjoyed when singer Taylor Swift shared her support for the Democratic team on Instagram. But only certain voters are influenced by celebrity endorsements."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Czech Republic struggling to mitigate risks as Russian firms flourish;https://www.dw.com/en/czech-republic-struggling-to-mitigate-risks-as-russian-firms-flourish/a-70181088?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Czechia hosts by far the highest number of Russian-owned companies of any EU state. Experts warn this cohort of over 12,500 firms pose economic and security risks that the government must eventually start to mitigate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oktoberfest: Beer and pretzels in a sustainable package;https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-beer-and-pretzels-in-a-sustainable-package/a-70235282?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "More than Bavarians in lederhosen balancing frothing beer mugs and fried sausages, the world's largest folk festival is becoming more inclusive and eco-friendly."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Modi to mobilize India's diaspora during US visit;https://www.dw.com/en/modi-to-mobilize-india-s-diaspora-during-us-visit/a-70268423?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Prime Minister Narendra Modi's outreach to the Indian diaspora has become an important part of his diplomatic toolkit. Ahead of his US visit, 25,000 Indian Americans have signed up to see him speak at a New York event."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;COVID FLiRT variants KP.3 and XEC: What you need to know;https://www.dw.com/en/covid-flirt-variants-kp-3-and-xec-what-you-need-to-know/a-70266402?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another variant and become XEC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US election: Indian Americans are a growing political force;https://www.dw.com/en/us-election-indian-americans-are-a-growing-political-force/a-70266227?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Indian Americans are emerging as a force in US politics. Now, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set for a high-profile visit as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris race for the White House."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: Poland's Wroclaw braces for flood wave;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-poland-s-wroclaw-braces-for-flood-wave/live-70265849?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Soldiers and volunteers in southwestern Poland have been laying sandbags near swollen rivers around Wroclaw. Days of flooding have wreaked death and destruction across Central Europe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Two European firms in focus of Hezbollah pager explosions;https://www.dw.com/en/two-european-firms-in-focus-of-hezbollah-pager-explosions/a-70248830?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The Taiwanese company whose name appeared on the pagers that detonated across Lebanon has denied manufacturing the devices. That has put relatively unknown Hungarian and Bulgarian firms in the spotlight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hong Kong: First person sentenced under new security law;https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-first-person-sentenced-under-new-security-law/a-70265142?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Chu Kai-pong was convicted for wearing a \"seditious\" t-shirt. A new law has greatly increased the penalties for acts deemed seditious by the courts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: UN body warns Russia on power grid strikes;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-un-body-warns-russia-on-power-grid-strikes/live-70264350?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine says attacks on the country's electricity infrastructure by Russia may violate international humanitarian law. Meanwhile, Russia claims gains in Kursk. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine wants action after Belarus Olympic medalist ceremony;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-wants-action-after-belarus-olympic-medalist-ceremony/a-70262052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The ceremony, held on Belarus' National Unity Day, appears to violate the Olympic neutrality rules. Ukraine wants action, with the country's sports minister telling DW further sanctions are necessary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cities start fighting rental crisis triggered by overtourism;https://www.dw.com/en/cities-start-fighting-rental-crisis-triggered-by-overtourism/a-70228085?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "In many of Europe's hottest tourist destinations like Barcelona and Paris, locals struggle to access affordable housing. How much are vacation rentals to blame?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;North Korea says it tested 'super-large' warhead missile;https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-says-it-tested-super-large-warhead-missile/a-70264524?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Pyongyang says its military has trialed a new ballistic missile that is capable of carrying a 4.5-metric-ton warhead. It was also said to have tested a \"strategic\" cruise missile."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Vietnam tycoon on death row faces new trial;https://www.dw.com/en/vietnam-tycoon-on-death-row-faces-new-trial/a-70263896?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "A second trial on new charges has begun for Vietnamese billionaire Truong My Lan, who was sentenced to death in April over Vietnam\u2019s biggest financial fraud on record."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East updates: Hezbollah chief reports 'severe blow';https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-updates-hezbollah-chief-reports-severe-blow/live-70263470?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said an attack on the group's pagers amounted to \"a declaration of war.\" Meanwhile, the Israeli military said two soldiers were killed near the Lebanese border. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Colombia suspends peace talks with ELN rebels;https://www.dw.com/en/colombia-suspends-peace-talks-with-eln-rebels/a-70263303?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The Colombian government has called off peace negotiations with the ELN guerrilla group following a deadly attack on an army base."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US says Iran emailed Trump campaign material to Biden staff;https://www.dw.com/en/us-says-iran-emailed-trump-campaign-material-to-biden-staff/a-70263273?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The United States said the hackers sent emails, which included stolen excerpts from Donald Trump's presidential campaign, to staff of his then-rival, Joe Biden. Both presidential candidates said such attempts took place."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Venezuela: Opposition 'coerced' to recognize Maduro win;https://www.dw.com/en/venezuela-opposition-coerced-to-recognize-maduro-win/a-70262790?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The main opposition candidate in July's ballot said he was coerced into signing a document that accepted the outcome of the election. Venezuelan government figures have denied the account."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Lebanon explosions stoke fear of Hezbollah retaliation;https://www.dw.com/en/lebanon-explosions-stoke-fear-of-hezbollah-retaliation/a-70261978?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "After the explosion of pagers and walkie-talkes used by Hezbollah, it's unclear how the Iran-backed militia will react."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;FBI disrupts major Chinese hacking group, director says;https://www.dw.com/en/fbi-disrupts-major-chinese-hacking-group-director-says/a-70262349?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "A hacker group known as Flax Typhoon was able to infect hundreds of thousands of devices around the world, authorities said. China has denied any involvement in the malicious botnet."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU to withhold \u20ac200 million from Hungary over asylum fine;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-withhold-\u20ac200-million-from-hungary-over-asylum-fine/a-70260506?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The EU Commission says it will withhold funds for Hungary after Budapest failed to pay a fine for violating asylum rules. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's nationalist Fidesz government has taken a hard line on migration"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Netherlands seeks EU migration opt-out;https://www.dw.com/en/netherlands-seeks-eu-migration-opt-out/a-70251015?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The Netherlands says it plans to request an exemption from the EU's common migration and asylum policy. It comes after the right-wing coalition government announced plans for the country's \"strictest-ever asylum regime.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Exploding Hezbollah pagers: How did it happen?;https://www.dw.com/en/exploding-hezbollah-pagers-how-did-it-happen/a-70250960?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Lithium-ion batteries can catch fire or explode, but in the attack on pagers in Lebanon, the devices are more likely to have been hacked."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Slovakia's capital hit by biggest floods in 30 years;https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-s-capital-hit-by-biggest-floods-in-30-years/a-70251068?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The biggest flood in 30 years hit Slovakia's capital Bratislava this week, forcing dozens of people from their homes. The west of the country has also been badly hit."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Ammo depot in Russia's Tver region explodes;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-ammo-depot-in-russia-s-tver-region-explodes/live-70246486?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "A major Ukrainian drone attack on Russia caused a huge explosion in a large Russian arsenal in the western Tver region."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Extreme weather: Flooding and wildfires across Europe;https://www.dw.com/en/extreme-weather-flooding-and-wildfires-across-europe/live-70247619?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The Polish city of Wroclaw and the German city of Dresden have begun preparations for flooding following a weather disaster that has killed 20 people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: AfD loses appeal on chairing Bundestag committees;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-afd-loses-appeal-on-chairing-bundestag-committees/a-70246675?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Germany's top court has rejected a pair of appeals from the far-right AfD concerning the absence of its lawmakers chairing parliamentary committees. The court found the party was not automatically entitled to the posts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains \u2014 study;https://www.dw.com/en/pregnancy-completely-rewires-mothers-brains-study/a-70246399?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Neuroscientists scanned the brain of a pregnant woman and captured a 'widespread reorganization' of her brain before, during and after pregnancy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Homeless World Cup: 'We want to do something special';https://www.dw.com/en/homeless-world-cup-we-want-to-do-something-special/a-70218267?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "National football teams made up of homeless people from around the world will soon gather in South Korea for the Homeless World Cup. For many of the players, the stakes are much higher than just the trophy on offer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Use, and misuse, of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "As Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell become the latest celebs to endorse Kamala Harris, here's a look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Google wins legal battle against EU over \u20ac1.5 billion fine;https://www.dw.com/en/google-wins-legal-battle-against-eu-over-\u20ac1-5-billion-fine/a-70246709?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "After years of back and forth, an EU court annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it sold advertisements. The fine was one of three major penalties the EU has leveled against the tech giant in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Namibia's strategy to cull animals save them?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-namibia-s-strategy-to-cull-animals-save-them/a-70213343?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Does Namibia's plan to kill animals to save them, and help the human population from ongoing drought, stack up?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand shrinks;https://www.dw.com/en/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy-as-demand-shrinks/a-70245540?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Once popular for its colorful food storage containers, US firm Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy. The company succumbed to a plummeting demand for its products."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Second explosion shakes Cologne;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-second-explosion-shakes-cologne/a-70245020?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The explosion was the second in a week in Cologne's city center. Police said it was still too early to say if there was a connection. Sniffer dogs were on the site as officers investigated."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Portugal: Firefighters battle dozens of deadly wildfires;https://www.dw.com/en/portugal-firefighters-battle-dozens-of-deadly-wildfires/a-70243388?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Several people have lost their lives in forest fires that have been raging in Portugal since the weekend. Thousands of firefighters have been deployed to combat the flames"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Intel's factory delay adds to Germany's economic woes;https://www.dw.com/en/us-intel-s-factory-delay-adds-to-germany-s-economic-woes/a-70241739?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has announced it is postponing a $30 billion investment in Germany due to financial problems at the firm. But is the German government still committed to the investments?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Azerbaijan unveils COP29 agenda amid financial deadlock;https://www.dw.com/en/azerbaijan-unveils-cop29-agenda-amid-financial-deadlock/a-70241019?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The summit aims to determine how much money developing countries need and who should contribute to the fund. With just two months until the event, negotiations remain at a standstill."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Flooding in Poland: How Wroclaw is preparing for the expected flood wave peak;https://www.dw.com/en/flooding-in-poland-how-wroclaw-is-preparing-for-the-expected-flood-wave-peak/a-70242060?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The citizens and authorities of Wroclaw, in southwestern Poland, are working feverishly to prepare for a dramatic rise in floodwaters."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German police reintroduce spot controls at all borders;https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-reintroduce-spot-controls-at-all-borders/a-70240598?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Germany is reintroducing border checks at all its borders for at least six months. The aim is to help restrict migration. DW visited the border area between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands to see how it was working."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the arts are a thorn in the side of Germany's AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-arts-are-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-germany-s-afd/a-70239911?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German conservative Friedrich Merz to run for chancellor;https://www.dw.com/en/german-conservative-friedrich-merz-to-run-for-chancellor/a-70240130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "It's as good as official: liberal businessman Friedrich Merz, head of the conservative Christian Democrats, is set to be the party's lead candidate in upcoming German federal election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How new technologies can mitigate the risks of flooding;https://www.dw.com/en/how-new-technologies-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-flooding/a-70239314?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "With extreme weather, floods are getting as common in Europe as they are in Asia and Africa. From mobile barriers to specialized dams, people are finding solutions to life-threatening floods across the globe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Georgia's parliament approves anti-LGTBQ+ bill;https://www.dw.com/en/georgia-s-parliament-approves-anti-lgtbq-bill/a-70239544?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The ruling Georgian Dream party has voted to approve legislation that would allow authorities to outlaw Pride events and censor media. The bill is similar to a law in neighboring Russia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Far right, center left in close race;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-far-right-center-left-in-close-race/a-70238419?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Sanssouci, Babelsberg, Tesla, BER airport \u2014 Brandenburg is a state with much to boast about when it comes to history or economy. Governed by the same party since 1990, the state may face a shake-up in upcoming election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'I am a rapist,' Frenchman in mass rape trial says;https://www.dw.com/en/i-am-a-rapist-frenchman-in-mass-rape-trial-says/a-70238195?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "A man from the south of France has admitted to drugging his wife at the time and recruiting dozens of men to rape her. He is also accused of various privacy breaches by recording and disseminating sexual images."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China's technology drive leaves young people jobless;https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-technology-drive-leaves-young-people-jobless/a-70187883?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "China is investing billions to become a global tech power. But AI, robotics and quantum computing are not labor-intensive sectors, so what to do about the millions of young Chinese who can't find a job?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Volkswagen's crisis: How can Europe's car industry survive?;https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-s-crisis-how-can-europe-s-car-industry-survive/a-70231806?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "While Volkswagen and other European automakers are considering closing factories, Chinese rivals are searching for production sites on the continent. What's going wrong in Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: Tusk in southern Poland for crisis meeting;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-tusk-in-southern-poland-for-crisis-meeting/live-70235466?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was in the city of Wroclaw for a disaster meeting while residents of the town of Nysa rushed to fortify a dyke. The Elbe River in eastern Germany continued to rise slowly. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Germany pledges \u20ac100 million in winter aid;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-germany-pledges-\u20ac100-million-in-winter-aid/live-70235271?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The German foreign minister promised Ukraine additional aid as Russia stepped up its attacks on energy infrastructure with winter on the horizon. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Intel delays construction of Magdeburg factory;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-intel-delays-construction-of-magdeburg-factory/a-70235254?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has delayed a construction project by two years amid cost-saving measures. German Finance Minister Christian Lindner called for funds earmarked for subsidies to be used to plug a federal budget gap."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Worker killed in Oktoberfest rollercoaster test;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-worker-killed-in-oktoberfest-rollercoaster-test/a-70232611?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The Munich fire department said a worker was fatally injured during a test ride of a rollercoaster at the Oktoberfest site."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: Death toll rises as Storm Boris wreaks havoc;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-death-toll-rises-as-storm-boris-wreaks-havoc/live-70224153?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Highest flood warnings have been declared at some 100 places in the Czech Republic, with most regions in the country affected. Austria, Poland and Romania have also been hard-hit."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg: Black politician takes on German far-right AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-black-politician-takes-on-german-far-right-afd/a-70166368?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "German voters in Brandenburg are heading to the polls just weeks after the far-right AfD party's historic surge in two state elections. Can Cameroonian-born politician Adeline Abimnwi Awemo help turn the tide?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Russia says it has retaken Kursk towns;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-russia-says-it-has-retaken-kursk-towns/live-70228135?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The Kremlin is claiming a successful counter-offensive following a Ukrainian incursion. Meanwhile, both Zelenskyy and the Kremlin have commented on Trump's alleged assassination attempt. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's expanded border controls come into force;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-expanded-border-controls-come-into-force/live-70228054?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Germany has temporarily reintroduced controls on its western and northern borders as part of efforts to combat irregular migration and cross-border crime."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy's UniCredit raises eyebrows over Commerzbank move;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-s-unicredit-raises-eyebrows-over-commerzbank-move/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "UniCredit stunned markets by buying a 9% stake in Germany's second-largest lender. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, DW explores the next possible moves."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;French EU commissioner quits after clash with von der Leyen;https://www.dw.com/en/french-eu-commissioner-quits-after-clash-with-von-der-leyen/a-70224757?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "France's Thierry Breton says he is leaving his role following a spat with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen. In a letter outlining his decision, Breton cited \"questionable governance.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany begins expanded border controls to control migration;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-begins-expanded-border-controls-to-control-migration/a-70218944?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Citing an overloaded asylum system, Germany on Monday started passport controls on all of its land borders to reduce irregular migration. Such measures are supposed to be the exception within the EU."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Baby giraffe born in Karlsruhe Zoo;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-baby-giraffe-born-in-karlsruhe-zoo/a-70223157?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Giraffe Wahia has given birth for the first time in nine years after a 15-month pregnancy, according to officials in Germany's Karlsruhe Zoo. The baby, like her mother, belongs to an endangered giraffe subspecies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Georgia's elections: Will voters lean to the EU or Russia?;https://www.dw.com/en/georgia-s-elections-will-voters-lean-to-the-eu-or-russia/a-70203786?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Georgians go to the polls on October 26, with the key question being whether voters will prefer a pro-European or pro-Russian government. Observers fear violence, regardless of the outcome."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;France: 8 die in attempted Channel crossing;https://www.dw.com/en/france-8-die-in-attempted-channel-crossing/a-70221145?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Eight people on a boat trying to cross from France to England have died after the vessel got into difficulties. Almost 50 people have died so far this year attempting the perilous journey, French authorities say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jens Stoltenberg set to head Munich Security Conference;https://www.dw.com/en/jens-stoltenberg-set-to-head-munich-security-conference/a-70213341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is to become the first non-German to head the renowned MSC. The former Norwegian Prime Minister has been a staunch advocate for increased defense spending by NATO member states."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's political landscape is more fractured than ever;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-political-landscape-is-more-fractured-than-ever/a-70211395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The AfD and BSW, two populist parties in Germany, won almost half of the votes in the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia. The result has fundamentally changed the German party system."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Young women and girls more at risk of homelessness;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-young-women-and-girls-more-at-risk-of-homelessness/a-70200312?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Homelessness also affects young people, including an unusually high proportion of women and girls. Life with no home of their own is particularly dangerous for this group, say experts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Olaf Scholz stresses Germany's need for immigrants;https://www.dw.com/en/olaf-scholz-stresses-germany-s-need-for-immigrants/a-70187337?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The German chancellor made the remarks in the Bundestag after high-level talks on migration policy in Berlin broke down. Germany is introducing more systematic border checks on those arriving from the Schengen Area."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Cross-party migration talks break down;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-cross-party-migration-talks-break-down/a-70182751?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "A second round of high-level German talks on migration in Berlin ended without agreement. The conservative opposition said it would not attend further meetings. But the coalition government still unveiled a new proposal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German princess gave US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito $900 in concert tickets;https://www.dw.com/en/german-princess-gave-us-supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito-900-in-concert-tickets/a-70159689?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito disclosed receiving concert tickets worth $900 from German socialite and \"princess\" Gloria von Thurn und Taxis."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Berlin plans new mass accommodation for refugees;https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-plans-new-mass-accommodation-for-refugees/a-70169283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Immigration has become a hot-button issue in Germany. Refugee accommodation centers in Berlin are full to overflowing, but there's a desperate lack of housing. Now, authorities are coming up with bright ideas."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Will German police get to do secret house searches?;https://www.dw.com/en/will-german-police-get-to-do-secret-house-searches/a-70154300?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office wants to secretly break into homes as part of anti-terrorism measures. That is currently prohibited, but the interior minister has far-reaching plans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Students want to strip Adolf Hitler of honorary citizenship;https://www.dw.com/en/students-want-to-strip-adolf-hitler-of-honorary-citizenship/a-70155685?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Thousands of German towns and municipalities once made Adolf Hitler an honorary citizen, and many have still not distanced themselves from the Nazi dictator. But now, students in Bad Honnef are taking action."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Alex Morgan: The greatest female footballer of all time?;https://www.dw.com/en/alex-morgan-the-greatest-female-footballer-of-all-time/a-70153127?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Marta may have won six FIFA player awards, but two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan is more of a household name. Teammate Megan Rapinoe achieved on and off the field, yet Morgan had a grace on the pitch few could match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's ter Stegen is happy the wait is finally over;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-ter-stegen-is-happy-the-wait-is-finally-over/a-70144838?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "National team goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has spoken of his frustration during years of being stuck behind Manuel Neuer, while at the same time paying tribute to his predecessor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australia's Raygun claims 'I knew people wouldn't understand my style';https://www.dw.com/en/australia-s-raygun-claims-i-knew-people-wouldn-t-understand-my-style/a-70135037?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Rachael \"Raygun\" Gunn, the 37-year-old Olympic breaker, says the criticism of her performance came from people's ignorance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Women's soccer: US shows up Europe on maternity care;https://www.dw.com/en/women-s-soccer-us-shows-up-europe-on-maternity-care/a-70117081?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "A recent lawsuit involving French club Olympique Lyon highlighted the disparities and room for improvement in women's football regarding pregnancies and maternity care."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Argentina: Court blocks Milei move to privatize football;https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-court-blocks-milei-move-to-privatize-football/a-70122667?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "A court in Buenos Aires has blocked President Javier Milei's plans to open up Argentinian football to private investment. The issue continues to split the country's most popular sport, with some even looking to Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's Leon Draisaitl signs record NHL contract;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-leon-draisaitl-signs-record-nhl-contract/a-70124333?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Germany's Leon Draisaitl has signed an eight-year contract extension worth $112 million (\u20ac101.5 million). This will keep the superstar forward in Edmonton for a further eight years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India's archaic labor laws allow firms to exploit workers;https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-archaic-labor-laws-allow-firms-to-exploit-workers/a-70121341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Major international companies, including big tech firms, are exploiting India's labor laws and skirting overtime payment, say workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Open and the controversy over night sessions;https://www.dw.com/en/us-open-and-the-controversy-over-night-sessions/a-70121878?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "A new rule was meant to clamp down on matches at the US Open dragging on into the early hours of the next day. Still, some matches are finishing after 2:00 a.m. \u2013 to the detriment of players' health."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Germany live up to its chipmaking ambitions?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-germany-live-up-to-its-chipmaking-ambitions/a-70079606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The German government wants to build up its long-term chipmaking capabilities. But are they following through and attracting the companies needed to make the country a center of this all-important technology?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World Cup expansion gives hope to West Asian teams;https://www.dw.com/en/world-cup-expansion-gives-hope-to-west-asian-teams/a-70112089?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been dominating West Asian football, but the continent has four more assured spots at the 2026 World Cup. As third-round qualifying opens, the likes of Kuwait, Oman and Jordan may make it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ugandan Olympian set on fire in domestic assault;https://www.dw.com/en/ugandan-olympian-set-on-fire-in-domestic-assault/a-70118647?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Rebecca Cheptegei, who finished 44th in the Olympic marathon in Paris, suffered severe burns after allegedly being doused with petrol by her partner. Domestic violence against women remains a serious problem in Kenya."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German businesses worried about far-right gains in the east;https://www.dw.com/en/german-businesses-worried-about-far-right-gains-in-the-east/a-70112417?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the states of Saxony and Thuringia has raised concerns among business leaders about the economic future of eastern Germany. Will it hit jobs and investment?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany coach Nagelsmann names Kimmich as new captain;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coach-nagelsmann-names-kimmich-as-new-captain/a-70113016?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The coach of Germany's national team has named a new captain as the team prepare for their first matches since the home Euros. Julian Nagelsmann is facing a bit of a rebuild after the retirements of four key players."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis tickets: UK government to probe 'dynamic pricing';https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-tickets-uk-government-to-probe-dynamic-pricing/a-70109787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Ministers have promised an investigation after fans complained of inflated ticket prices for Oasis' 2025 reunion tour. But industry experts insist that \"dynamic pricing\" is not illegal and based on supply and demand."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis reunion tour tickets cause online frenzy;https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-reunion-tour-tickets-cause-online-frenzy/a-70099805?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Fans of the Manchester band Oasis faced long online queues on Saturday morning as tickets went on sale for the group's in-demand reunion concerts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Half the world lacks access to safe drinking water;https://www.dw.com/en/half-the-world-lacks-access-to-safe-drinking-water/a-70089835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "A new report shows 4.4 billion people across the world have no access to safe drinking water, more than double many previous estimates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Japan's youth break tradition by embracing perfume;https://www.dw.com/en/japan-s-youth-break-tradition-by-embracing-perfume/a-70091052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Once seen as ostentatious, an imposition on others, and unnecessary in a culture that famously enjoys bathing, perfumes and scents are finally trending among young Japanese."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is methane?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. Where does methane come from, and what can we do to stop it from getting into the atmosphere?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The unseen Holocaust movie: Jerry Lewis' lost film 'The Day the Clown Cried';https://www.dw.com/en/the-unseen-holocaust-movie-jerry-lewis-lost-film-the-day-the-clown-cried/a-70043956?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "At the Venice Film Festival, a new documentary will reveal never-before-seen footage from \"The Day the Clown Cried.\" The 1972 Holocaust movie by comedian Jerry Lewis was never released, but has gained near-mythic status."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Champions League: German clubs look forward to attractive opponents;https://www.dw.com/en/champions-league-german-clubs-look-forward-to-attractive-opponents/a-70090811?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "This season's draw for the Champions League wasn't about putting teams into groups but simply determining who would play whom in the new eight-match league phase."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Concerning' rise in unprotected sex among teenagers;https://www.dw.com/en/concerning-rise-in-unprotected-sex-among-teenagers/a-70079734?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "A majority of teenagers in Europe, Central Asia, and Canada do not use condoms. Experts warn of rising risks of STIs and unwanted pregnancies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Glammed up in the kitchen: Influencers drive 'tradwife' nostalgia;https://www.dw.com/en/glammed-up-in-the-kitchen-influencers-drive-tradwife-nostalgia/a-70071650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The \"traditional wife\" trend celebrates orthodox gender roles. But does this thriving movement on TikTok and Instagram also serve the far-right political agenda?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Populists\u2019 rhetoric linked to growing unhappiness, study finds;https://www.dw.com/en/populists-rhetoric-linked-to-growing-unhappiness-study-finds/a-70072409?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Right-wing populism is rising across Europe, with Germany\u2019s AfD possibly becoming the first far-right party to win state elections since the Nazis. However, their rise won\u2019t bring greater happiness to their supporters."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Russia airspace ban on Western airlines helps Chinese rivals;https://www.dw.com/en/russia-airspace-ban-on-western-airlines-helps-chinese-rivals/a-70025268?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Russia has banned many European carriers from using its airspace in response to sanctions over Ukraine. That's boosted Chinese airlines' market share, but it's not the only reason Western carriers are struggling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Congo 'working blindly' in attempts to control Mpox outbreak;https://www.dw.com/en/congo-working-blindly-in-attempts-to-control-mpox-outbreak/a-70062357?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Only 40% of Mpox cases in DR Congo are laboratory tested, suggesting true number of cases could be five times higher than reported, according to Africa CDC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;5 reasons why Venice is this year's most important film festival;https://www.dw.com/en/5-reasons-why-venice-is-this-year-s-most-important-film-festival/a-70043247?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The 81st Venice Film Festival is the can't-miss event for movie fans in 2024. It will feature impressive feature debuts and the return of cinema superstars."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ryanair to cut flights to Berlin due to 'sky-high costs';https://www.dw.com/en/ryanair-to-cut-flights-to-berlin-due-to-sky-high-costs/a-70063074?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The Irish budget airline says it plans to slash a fifth of traffic to Berlin-Brandenburg airport because of high access costs."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Will a right-wing shift hit businesses and jobs?;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-will-a-right-wing-shift-hit-businesses-and-jobs/a-70025620?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "As voters in Saxony go to the polls in state elections, some fear a sharper political turn could hurt business investments in the region and worsen a lack of qualified workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN chief Guterres warns of fast-rising Pacific ocean;https://www.dw.com/en/un-chief-guterres-warns-of-fast-rising-pacific-ocean/a-70055845?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "UN chief Antonio Guterres issued a global SOS regarding Pacific ocean temperatures, rising at three times the global average rate. He called for a cutdown on emissions and support for vulnerable countries."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Telegram: How the app defies calls for hate censorship;https://www.dw.com/en/telegram-how-the-app-defies-calls-for-hate-censorship/a-70051335?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "After the arrest of Telegram's boss in France, attention is on the messaging app and its hands-off approach to content moderation. Some blame it for inflaming unrest, others see it as a den for criminal activity."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Eating processed meats raises type 2 diabetes risk;https://www.dw.com/en/eating-processed-meats-raises-type-2-diabetes-risk/a-70051810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Two slices of ham a day are enough to raise type 2 diabetes risk by 15%, according to a new study. Meanwhile high-fat diets could increase the numbers of a toxic molecule known to cause the disease."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is groundwater?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-groundwater/a-68142894?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Groundwater is crucial for agriculture and drinking water supplies. But what exactly is it, how does it form and how can we protect this precious underground resource from threats like pollution and climate change?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany\u2019s investments in China increase despite warnings;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-investments-in-china-increase-despite-warnings/a-69957810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Germany's investments in China are growing despite efforts to reduce reliance on the Asian power. China continues to be a critical trade partner for Europe's largest economy, so how to get the balance right?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australian workers now have the 'right to disconnect';https://www.dw.com/en/australian-workers-now-have-the-right-to-disconnect/a-70045955?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "A law giving workers the legal \"right to disconnect\" from work has come into effect in Australia. This gives workers the right to ignore unreasonable contact from their employers outside of work hours."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;South China Sea tensions pose threat to international trade;https://www.dw.com/en/south-china-sea-tensions-pose-threat-to-international-trade/a-69926497?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Maritime trade faces growing threats, including ongoing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. Now, rising tensions in the South China Sea are adding to global security concerns over this crucial trade route."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof to represent Germany at Oscars;https://www.dw.com/en/dissident-iranian-director-mohammad-rasoulof-to-represent-germany-at-oscars/a-70034644?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "The acclaimed film \"The Seed of the Sacred Fig\" has been chosen as Germany's entry for the 2025 Academy Awards. The filmmaker, who lives in exile in Berlin, fled Iran on foot earlier this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Healthy eating: Why teens gorge and older people peck;https://www.dw.com/en/healthy-eating-why-teens-gorge-and-older-people-peck/a-70017015?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "While young people can eat everything in sight, older people often lose appetite. It's important to know why to stay healthy at any age."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The most dangerous mosquito-borne diseases;https://www.dw.com/en/the-most-dangerous-mosquito-borne-diseases/a-45117067?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Malaria, dengue fever, zika \u2014 mosquitoes aren't just annoying when they buzz around your ear at night, they can also infect us with countless illnesses. On World Mosquito Day, here are some of the most dangerous ones."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is mpox? How it spreads, can be prevented and treated;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-mpox-how-it-spreads-can-be-prevented-and-treated/a-69951261?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-19 09:22:58",
        "text": "Mpox is a viral infection with rising global cases. The WHO has declared it a global health emergency. Learn more as DW answers your questions."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Russia-Ukraine war live: Italy calls for \u2018fair peace\u2019 and says defence of Ukraine must not lead to world war;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/20/russia-ukraine-war-live-italy-calls-for-fair-peace-and-says-defence-of-ukraine-must-not-lead-to-world-war;2024-09-20T08:58:37Z",
        "text": "Ukraine\u2019s forces destroyed 61 out of 70 Russian attack drones and one out of four missiles launched overnight, Ukraine\u2019s air force said on Friday. \u201cThe air defence system operated in Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Poltava, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Khmelnytsky, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Kherson regions,\u201d it said on the Telegram messenger. The United States should take into account Moscow\u2019s warnings on risks of further escalation around the conflict in Ukraine, Russia\u2019s state-run news agency RIA Novosti cited Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Friday. Commenting on the possibility of a meeting between Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US state secretary Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, he said there will not be any meeting as the sides have \u201cnothing to talk about\u201d. Foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said separately that giving carte blanche for Kyiv to carry out long-range strikes deep inside Russia would change the nature of the conflict in Ukraine, Reuters reported. \u201cWe would like to remind the hawks on both sides of the Atlantic \u2026 They are playing with fire and have lost all sense of reality,\u201d she told a briefing. \u201cThe scale of conflict which started because of the West risks becoming completely different, which could bring dangerous consequences for the whole world.\u201d European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday she had arrived in Ukraine\u2019s capital Kyiv to discuss Europe\u2019s support, winter preparedness, defence and progress on the G7 loans. \u201cMy 8th visit to Kyiv comes as the heating season starts soon, and Russia keeps targeting energy infrastructure,\u201d von der Leyen said on the X social network. Von der Leyen said on Thursday that the sum of 160 million euros from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets would be allocated to meet Ukraine\u2019s urgent humanitarian needs for this winter, Reuters reported. Russia has knocked out about 9 gigawatts (GW) of Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure, which von der Leyen said was the \u201cpower equivalent of the three Baltic states\u201d. She also said that the EU aimed to restore 2.5 GW of power generating capacity and would increase exports to supply 2 GW of electricity to Ukraine. Von der Leyen will meet Ukraine\u2019s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other officials. Italy is about to send another Samp-T anti-missile system to Ukraine, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday, underlining the need, however, to avoid entering war with Russia. \u201cWe are sending a new Samp-T (anti-missile system) to protect hospitals, schools, universities \u2026 for this country that was attacked by Russia,\u201d Tajani told Radio 24. He added that \u201cdefending Ukraine does not mean bringing a world war \u2026 We are helping Ukraine and must reach a fair peace\u201d. Hello and welcome to the Ukraine live blog. I\u2019m Tom Ambrose and the time in Kyiv is 10.15am. We start with news that Russia\u2019s military command had anticipated Ukraine\u2019s incursion into its Kursk region and had been making plans to prevent it for several months, according to a cache of documents that the Ukrainian army said it had seized from abandoned Russian positions in the region. The disclosure makes the disarray among Russian forces after Ukraine\u2019s attack in early August all the more embarrassing. The documents, shared with the Guardian, also reveal Russian concerns about morale in the ranks in Kursk, which intensified after the suicide of a soldier at the front who had reportedly been in a \u201cprolonged state of depression due to his service in the Russian army\u201d. Unit commanders are given instructions to ensure soldiers consume Russian state media daily to maintain their \u201cpsychological condition\u201d. In other news: Ukraine\u2019s offensive into the Russian border region of Kursk diverted about 40,000 Russian troops away from the frontline, Zelenskyy said on Thursday. Kyiv launched its Kursk offensive on 6 August in a bid to pull Moscow\u2019s forces away from eastern Ukraine, where the Russian army has captured a string of villages in recent months. Russia\u2019s defence ministry said its forces had captured the village of Heorhiivka, east of the city of Kurakhove, in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region. The General Staff of Ukraine\u2019s military, in an afternoon report, referred to the village as one of several engulfed by fighting. Popular Ukrainian military blog DeepState said the village was in Russian hands. In his nightly video address, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine\u2019s forces had \u201cmanaged to diminish the occupiers\u2019 assault potential in Donetsk region,\u201d though the situation remained difficult in areas subjected to the heaviest attacks, near Kurakhove and another key Russian target, the city of Pokrovsk. Russian forces hit a geriatric care home in the Ukrainian city of Sumy and targeted its energy sector in a new wave of airstrikes on Thursday, killing at least one civilian, Ukrainian officials said. During a daytime strike on the northern city, a Russian guided bomb hit a five-storey building, regional and military officials said. One person was killed and 12 wounded, the interior ministry said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said rescue teams were checking to see whether people were trapped under rubble. Images from the site shared alongside the ministry\u2019s post showed elderly patients evacuated from the damaged building lying on the ground on carpets and blankets. The UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine said attacks on the power grid probably violated humanitarian law while the International Energy Agency said in a report that Ukraine\u2019s electricity supply shortfall in the critical winter months could reach about a third of expected peak demand. Moscow has repeatedly attacked the Sumy region, which borders Russia\u2019s Kursk region, the site of a major Ukrainian incursion in which Kyiv says it seized over 100 settlements. Zelenskyy will meet Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at the White House next week in what is likely to be his last such visit before US elections that could upend Washington\u2019s policy on Kyiv. Zelenskyy is expected to share a \u201cvictory plan\u201d with the US leaders to end the war with Russia during the visit on 26 September \u2013 as Kyiv frets that a second Donald Trump presidency could loosen US commitment to Ukraine. In a separate announcement, Zelenskyy said he would also meet Trump. Ramzan Kadyrov, the powerful leader of Russia\u2019s Chechen Republic, accused Elon Musk on Thursday of disabling a Tesla Cybertruck that he claimed to have received from the billionaire last month. Kadyrov, who has ruled Chechnya with an iron fist for over 17 years, shared a video in August of him driving around in the electric vehicle with what appeared to be a machine gun mounted on its roof. Kadyrov said he received the vehicle from Musk, a claim that the Tesla owner called a lie on his social media platform, X. \u201cNow, recently, Musk remotely disabled the Cybertruck,\u201d said Kadyrov in a post on his Telegram account. It was not possible to independently verify Kadyrov\u2019s claims."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;No 10 fears ICC will ask UK to sign Benjamin Netanyahu arrest warrant;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/no-10-fears-icc-ask-uk-sign-benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-warrant;2024-09-20T07:48:48Z",
        "text": "Downing Street fears it is to be asked to support the issue of an international criminal court (ICC) arrest warrant for the Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. Such support would have to be given at a time when it has not proscribed Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the UK. There are concerns among some Foreign Office officials whether the position is politically sustainable. No 10 is said to have been on alert for more than a week about an imminent statement from the ICC that its pre-trial chamber judges have accepted the request of the ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, to issue arrest warrants for war crimes committed in Gaza. The request for arrest warrants was issued on 20 May against Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the defence minister, as well as three Hamas leaders, including Yawar Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, the now-deceased head of the Hamas political bureau. In the short term, No 10 is said to be most concerned by the explosive political fallout if the ICC issues an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, especially at such a moment of extreme tension in the Middle East. Khan told the ICC pre-trial chamber the issue of the arrest warrant was of the utmost urgency nearly a month ago. The chamber of judges has taken much longer to reach a decision than the three weeks it required to accept Khan\u2019s request for an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader, over his role in orchestrating the abduction of children from Ukraine. The delay has been caused by judges needing to assess numerous amicus curiae observations from states, international organisations, victim representatives and human rights groups. The Labour government withdrew the filing made by the Conservatives that the ICC prosecutor did not have jurisdiction. Khan submitted his reply to the submissions on 23 August, saying the case was of \u201cthe utmost urgency\u201d, and referred to the catastrophic situation in Gaza. He argued Palestine was a party to the ICC and any crimes committed on its territory are subject to ICC jurisdiction. The concern in diplomatic circles is that the large anti-Iranian lobby inside parliament will complain that the UK is showing the wrong priorities if it backs seeking the arrest of the leader of a democratic state at a time when the IRGC remains unproscribed. The UK has said it is reviewing the IRGC\u2019s status in the UK in the context of a wider review of laws governing state-sponsored terrorism. The British domestic intelligence service M15 has also said Iran\u2019s backers have been responsible for as many as 15 attacks on British soil. The Foreign Office has imposed heavy sanctions on IRGC members, but opposed IRGC proscription partly because it fears Iran might then cut off diplomatic relations with the UK, leaving the UK without an ambassador in Tehran. In seeking the arrest warrant, Khan accused Gallant and Netanyahu of committing crimes against humanity \u201cas part of a widespread and systematic attack against the Palestinian civilian population pursuant to state policy\u201d. Khan carefully sought and won the backing of a large part of the British human rights legal establishment at the time he called for Netanyahu\u2019s arrest, in particular to argue that the Israeli prime minister is answerable for crimes committed by Israel in Palestine. In a sign of the growing tension, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been piling pressure on the government to do more about the UK\u2019s obligations to apply international law related to Gaza. One group of 15 NGOs issued a statement expressing their \u201cdeep disappointment\u201d that the UK had abstained in a UN general assembly vote that called for the ruling in July of the other big international court, the International Court of Justice, to be enforced by Israel leaving the occupied territories within 12 months. The resolution was passed on Wednesday at the assembly by 124 to 14, but the UK was among 45 countries that abstained. The NGOs reminded the UK the ICJ ruling placed an obligation on all countries not to aid or assist the situation created by Israel\u2019s presence. The UK said it supported the ICJ ruling about Israel\u2019s illegal occupation of Palestine, but did not think the motion would further the cause of peace. At the same time, two NGOs, Global Legal Action Network and al-Haq, involved in a long-running court battle with the government over arms sales to Israel, have written to the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, warning him of criminal liability over the continued sale of F-35 parts that can be used by Israel. A third group has written to the trade secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, urging him to suspend the UK\u2019s existing trade deal with Israel and rethink its plans to sign a new one. They say the step is necessary in light of the ICJ order for all states not to aid or assist Israel\u2019s occupation."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Friday briefing: How nursing Britain back to health is central to Labour\u2019s economic mission;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/first-edition-britain-health-long-term-sickness;2024-09-20T05:45:02Z",
        "text": "The UK was once called the \u201csick man of Europe\u201d, because its economy lagged behind continental rivals. But as a major report from the IPPR thinktank pointed out this week, these days the phrase applies literally. A record 2.8 million people are out of work because of long-term sickness, with huge knock-on costs for the nation in benefits claimed and lost productivity \u2013 not to mention all the personal pain and misery. This epidemic underlines the web of challenges Labour has inherited, weaving together poverty and welfare, the state of the NHS and the government\u2019s back-to-work support. For today\u2019s newsletter, I spoke to Stephen Evans, director of the Learning and Work Institute, about how the UK became \u201cthe sick man of Europe\u201d \u2013 and how to nurse the patient back to health. Five big stories Middle East | Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of strikes across southern Lebanon late on Thursday, hours after Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah\u2019s leader, threatened \u201ctough retribution and just punishment\u201d for the wave of attacks that targeted the organisation with explosives hidden in pagers and walkie-talkies. Environment | The amount of pesticide residue allowed on scores of food types in England, Wales and Scotland has soared since Brexit, analysis reveals, with some now thousands of times higher. Politics | Cabinet ministers have begun rallying around Downing Street chief of staff, Sue Gray, calling briefings against her \u201cappalling\u201d. In an attempt to put an end to a series of damaging rows, Keir Starmer denied he had lost grip of his team and insisted he was \u201ccompletely in control\u201d of his No 10 operation. Ukraine | Russia\u2019s military command had anticipated Ukraine\u2019s incursion into its Kursk region and had been making plans to prevent it for several months, according to a cache of documents that the Ukrainian army said it had seized from abandoned Russian positions in the region. The documents, shared with the Guardian, also reveal Russian concerns about morale in the ranks in Kursk Gambling | Gamblers in Great Britain are betting \u00a32.7bn a year through hidden-market websites, according to a lobby group that claims stricter regulation of the licensed sector would further fuel illegal gambling. In depth: \u2018There is an economic prize here\u2019 The number of people unable to work because of their health had been ticking upwards for some years, but Evans says the real jump came after Covid. Part of this is likely to have been the knock-on effects of the virus itself, with long Covid continuing to cause problems for many workers, for example. But Evans says a key driver has been the increasing number of people unable to work because they are struggling with their mental health. \u201cThere is a big rise in people citing mental health conditions, so that\u2019s making up a much bigger proportion than in the 90s, say, when you still had some of the legacy of industrial changes in the 1980s,\u201d he says. \u201cWith mental health, I think people are more willing to say they have a mental health condition \u2013 there\u2019s more openness about this stuff and more knowledge and awareness \u2013 and there may well be a rising prevalence as well.\u201d Where physical health is concerned, musculoskeletal conditions such as back and neck pain are the leading cause of being unable to work, whether as a result of heavy lifting or being scrunched over a computer screen. Long delays for treatment of both physical and mental conditions, as the NHS creaked and waiting lists lengthened in the aftermath of the pandemic, appears highly likely to have increased the number of workers struggling with their health. *** Turning things around The potential benefits of turning around the increase in nagging long-term health conditions are significant. The Learning and Work Institute estimates there are an extraordinary one million fewer people in the workforce than projections before the pandemic might have suggested. The UK is an outlier here \u2013 we are the only G7 nation whose employment rate has not returned to its pre-Covid level, in part because of these health pressures. And without intervention, the IPPR\u2019s analysis suggested the number of people out of work because of long-term sickness could hit four million. Evans points out that one in five of this group say they would like to work. He argues that proportion might rise, with better health and employment support. \u201cThe proportion who say they want to work is relatively low, but that\u2019s partly because no one ever talks to them about the kind of work available, or flexibility. So it\u2019s not like a fixed number,\u201d Evans says. As it stands, only 1% of people out of work due to long-term sickness are in work six months later. *** Getting Britain working Labour came to power pledging to tackle some of these challenges. Liz Kendall has announced a target of an 80% employment rate \u2013 in other words, 80% of the working-age population in a job. More details are expected to come in a white paper on how to \u201cget Britain working\u201d. With the current rate stuck at 75%, Evans says that would mean an extra 2.4 million people moving into a job, whether from sickness or off the unemployment roll. \u201cThere is an economic prize here. We believe the 80% employment rate could boost the economy by at least \u00a323bn,\u201d he said. That is the dividend in additional GDP growth as inactive people return to work. Evans argues there would also be a direct benefit to the Treasury of \u00a38bn, as workers paid tax and claimed fewer benefits. The upfront costs might be \u00a3200m a year, the Learning and Work Institute suggests. That may make it sound like a no-brainer; but Evans adds that it is likely to be a decade-long challenge, while the Treasury\u2019s horizon tends to be shorter. \u201cOne of the challenges is the current fiscal rules look at debt in five years\u2019 time. This is about long-termism. Getting to 80% is a really good idea but it will take10 years to get there.\u201d *** Best avoid benefit reforms Evans says Labour will need to take action across a range of fronts, to help coax some of the long-term sick back into the workforce. Health secretary Wes Streeting\u2019s plans to reform and reinvest in the NHS will have to be part of the solution \u2013 and the economic benefits of getting people back into work provide a powerful rationale for getting that right. Reducing the poverty and inequality that can leave people more vulnerable to health conditions \u2013 as the pandemic showed \u2013 is another part of the puzzle. The IPPR has pointed to the importance of combating obesity as a health but also an economic challenge. Evans warns against another lever it may be tempting for ministers to use \u2013 benefit reforms. \u201cI think benefit reform is a bit like squeezing a balloon and if you halt it in one area it pops out in another. So I would say the better thing is to improve health and inequality, sort out the health service, but also have some high-quality support on offer to people,\u201d he says. Some local authorities already run back-to-work schemes that help people to confront health challenges and support them back into a job. Evans suggests Labour make that approach much more widespread and easy to reach. \u201cYou find people where they are: it could be the community centre, the GP surgery, the library, the shopping centre.\u201d He adds: You can\u2019t just tweak the benefits system and get there: you also need to look at what employers do, how the NHS is operating, levels of poverty \u2013 you need to look at all of those things together.\u201d What else we\u2019ve been reading Neo-fascist or pragmatic populist? Alexander Stille scrutinises the past and present of Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni in this fascinating Long Read. Toby Moses, head of newsletters This vivid piece by Czech undercover journalist Sa\u0161a Uhlov\u00e1 reveals the depressing reality of life on the margins of the labour market, as a hotel cleaner in Ireland. Heather Joe Lycett has made his name for himself as a bit of an artist \u2013 \u201cI mostly make silly things\u201d \u2013 alongside his comedy and TV presenting careers. Stuart Heritage talks to the polymath upon the release of his new book, Art Hole. Toby From the inside of a defunct asylum, to the carriageway of the as-yet-unopened M25 \u2013 I really enjoyed this piece about Guardian reader\u2019s quirky dates, inspired by Jeremy Corbyn once whisking Diane Abbott off to Karl Marx\u2019s graveside. Heather Alaina Demopoulos writes about the rise of Celsius, \u201cRed Bull for women\u201d, an energy drink marketed as healthy but with nearly as much caffeine as six cans of Coke. Toby Sport Football | Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta hailed his goalkeeper David Raya after the Spaniard\u2019s miraculous double save earned his side a 0-0 draw away to Atalanta in the Champions League on Thursday. Cricket | Travis Head scored an unbeaten 154 and Marnus Labuschagne contributed 77 not out as Australia successfully chased down a formidable 316-run target to beat England by seven wickets in the first of their five-match One Day International Series at Trent Bridge on Thursday. Tennis| Emma Raducanu reached the quarter-finals of the Korea Open after beating eighth seed Yue Yuan in straight sets. The 21-year-old needed seven match points to secure a hard-fought 6-4, 6-3 victory over the eighth seed. The front pages The Guardian leads with \u201cHezbollah chief vows \u2018retribution\u2019 against Israel after wave of attacks\u201d. The i follows the same story with \u201cMiddle East steps closer to regional war\u201d. The Telegraph splashes on \u201cI\u2019m still in control, says Starmer as feud erupts\u201d. The Times has \u201cReeves told to reverse cuts after \u00a310bn boost\u201d. The Financial Times leads with \u201cConsumer confidence takes tumble as households fear \u2018painful budget\u2019\u201d. The Mail looks at the Tory leadership contest, under the headline \u201cEnglish identity is under threat, warns Jenrick\u201d. The Sun\u2019s lead is \u201cRonnie &amp; Laila\u2019s 147 break\u201d. Something for the weekend Our critics\u2019 roundup of the best things to watch, read and listen to right now TV Jamali Maddix: Follow the Leader This new series sees the comic (above) meet leading figures in cults and subcultures, from paedophile hunters to Moonies leader Pastor Sean. He\u2019ll likely receive comparisons to Louis Theroux (whose production company is behind this show), but he has his own unique approach \u2013 one of Theroux\u2019s greatest strengths is an ability to sit in awkwardness, while Maddix continually diffuses it, finding humour in its darkest moments. Leila Latif Music Jamie xx: In Waves If your exposure to Jamie xx was largely via the understated band who gave him his pseudonym, his debut solo album \u2013 a celebration of London\u2019s dance history \u2013 might have come as a shock. Nine years later, the mood remains vibrant on this follow-up, an album preoccupied with rapture, whether induced by chemicals or repetitive beats. But while In Colour was designed to be enjoyed at home, In Waves is more interested in the club. Alexis Petridis Film The Substance Coralie Fargeat, known for the violent 2017 thriller Revenge, now cranks up the amplifier for some death metal \u2026 or nasty injury metal anyway. This is a cheerfully silly and outrageously indulgent piece of gonzo body-horror comedy, lacking in subtlety, body-positivity or positivity of any sort. It\u2019s flawed and overlong but there\u2019s a genius bit of casting in Demi Moore who is a very good sport. Peter Bradshaw Podcast Empire City Widely available, episodes weekly Journalist Chenjerai Kumanyika recently discovered footage of his father as a young man. The context was disturbing: the film was shot by the NYPD who were surveilling civil rights activists. It prompted Kumanyika to produce this damning series, which functions as an alternative history of the US police and a challenge to the notion that they have the safety of New Yorkers at heart. Phil Harrison Today in Focus How Lebanon\u2019s pagers and walkie-talkies became deadly weapons On Tuesday, dozens of people were killed when electronic pagers blew up. The next day walkie-talkies exploded. What was the goal of the attacks? William Christou reports. Cartoon of the day | Ben Jennings The Upside A bit of good news to remind you that the world\u2019s not all bad Katie Ward was an aspiring young novelist who had just experienced her 44th rejection in a row when a colleague suggested she talk to her friend, a published author \u2013 who turned out to be the late Hilary Mantel, two years away from stellar success with Wolf Hall. There started a 15-year relationship in which Mantel would offer calm and assured advice to Ward over email. She urged her to write every day, and showed her that writing could be a kind pursuit. \u201cHilary was a gentle person,\u201d writes Katie, whose second novel, Pathways, was published in April. \u201cShe cared deeply about her readers and respected their intelligence. She nourished her readership with her storytelling, while still leaving them hungry for more.\u201d Mantel, who shot to fame in her 50s, also showed that sometimes you have to wait until you are mature enough to write your best work. But perhaps her most important piece of advice could be applied to a wider field than novel-writing: \u201cBack yourself.\u201d Sign up here for a weekly roundup of The Upside, sent to you every Sunday Bored at work? And finally, the Guardian\u2019s puzzles are here to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until Monday. Quick crossword Cryptic crossword Wordiply"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;UK\u2019s first ever bison bridges under construction in Kent woodland;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/uks-first-ever-bison-bridges-kent-woodland;2024-09-20T05:00:01Z",
        "text": "When Europe\u2019s heaviest land mammals were introduced into a woodland on the edge of Canterbury, it was hoped they would flourish and make space for other wildlife. But the European bison have been so successful in West Blean and Thornden Woods that more space must be made for them \u2013 in the form of Britain\u2019s first ever bison bridges. Four bridges costing a total of \u00a31m are being built in to allow introduced bison, which are classified as dangerous wild animals in UK law, to cross the maze of public footpaths in the ancient woods without interacting with people. The hefty grazers \u2013 which can weigh up to one tonne \u2013 will walk beneath the bridges, with footpaths routed over the top keeping visitors separate while also providing them with a good vantage point to watch the burgeoning bison. The bison herd were released into the woods near Canterbury in July 2022 in a pioneering restoration project by Kent Wildlife Trust and the Woodland Trust. Unknown to the project, one of the three female bison was already pregnant and quickly produced a calf. A bull bison from Germany was added and another calf has since been born in the woods, taking the herd to six. Since their release, the bison have roamed in 50 hectares (123 acres) of woodland. The bridges, which are funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund alongside National Highways, the Michael Uren Foundation, Veolia Environmental Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation and private donors, will enable the herd to traverse 200 hectares. As the key wild engineers of the Wilder Blean project alongside free-roaming pigs and ponies, the bison are breaking up old conifer plantations to create a more natural biodiverse woodland, which will also store more carbon. The European bison is a relative of the steppe bison, which is thought to have become extinct in Britain about 6,000 years ago. The last wild European bison was shot dead in the Caucasus in 1927 but reintroductions from captive breeding populations in zoos have created a resurgent population, with free-ranging herds in many European countries, including Germany, Switzerland and Poland. Bison are ecosystem engineers: they strip bark from trees which creates standing deadwood that supports insects, birds and bats, and their dust-bathing forms patches where burrowing insects thrive. Their trampling of vegetation is also beneficial, creating light and space for wildflowers. Bison help sequester carbon as well: a study in the Southern Carpathian mountains in Romania, where a herd of 170 bison have been reintroduced since 2014, has found that the animals\u2019 impact has helped capture approximately an additional 54,000 tonnes of carbon a year, nearly 10 times more than without the bison. Kent Wildlife Trust hopes that the bison introduction will encourage similar projects across Britain. But conservationists warn that the continued classification of bison as dangerous wild animals \u2013 requiring 27 miles of fencing in the Blean Woods complex as well as the bridges to keep them away from the public \u2013 makes it expensive for the animals to be brought into other rewilding and restoration schemes. Bison mix with the public in other countries, including on rewilding schemes in the Netherlands. Simon Bateman-Brown of Kent Wildlife Trust said: \u201cOur wildlife is in trouble, and we need to think differently about how we deliver conservation projects in the UK if we are to change our future. The Wilder Blean initiative is a ground-breaking proof of concept project laying out the blueprint for others to follow and we are leading the way to make it easier for other organisations to replicate. \u201cWe recognise that miles of fencing and bridges is a barrier to rewilding projects, but we must demonstrate what can be achieved so we can advocate for change. Bison are no more dangerous than domestic cattle and, in other parts of the world, they roam freely in public areas. \u201cOur long-term vision is to remove the steel fencing and have the herd contained via electric fencing, but until the government makes the law fit for rewilding, we will continue to make a case for projects like this, so they can be replicated.\u201d Planning permission has been granted for the bridges and the first two should be completed by the end of this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018They want total control\u2019: how Russia is forcing Sami people to hide their identity;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/russia-forcing-indigenous-sami-people-to-hide-their-identity;2024-09-20T04:00:03Z",
        "text": "Sami people in Russia are being forced to hide their identity and live \u201coutside the law\u201d for fear of imprisonment and persecution, leading figures from the community have warned, after the government labelled dozens of Indigenous organisations terrorists and extremists. In July, Russia\u2019s ministry of justice added 55 Indigenous organisations to a list of terrorists and extremists, meaning that representatives of the groups \u2013 and anyone who takes part, cooperates or communicates with them \u2013 risk being sentenced to years in prison. It is the latest in a long line of legislation restricting the rights of Indigenous people in Russia, including the introduction of a \u201cregister\u201d of Indigenous people. Many are trying to hide their Sami identity in an attempt to avoid being targeted by authorities, Sami activists said, while others are living in exile after seeking asylum in neighbouring Norway and Finland. Andrei Danilov, a representative of the Sami People from the Kola peninsula who sought political asylum in Norway in 2022 after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, said: \u201cOnly activists have been persecuted in the past. Now they can imprison everyone who is in contact with them. I would compare this to the period of Soviet repression in the 1930s.\u201d \u201cMany Sami will hide their nationality. As it was in Soviet times,\u201d added Danilov, 53, who lives in a refugee camp in northern Norway and is unable to work because he does not yet have refugee status. \u201cBut it will be more difficult to do this in the age of digitalisation.\u201d Activists, he said, can be imprisoned for six or more years, and Sami people have no way of defending their rights. During the past two years, preparations have been under way to build a lithium deposit in the Fedorovya tundra of the Murmansk region, an important site for Sami people which they are being put under pressure to develop. If it is allowed to continue, the tundra will be destroyed for ever, said Danilov. \u201cThe Indigenous peoples of Russia have become peoples outside the law. Migrants on their land without rights, without freedom of speech. And their lands have become colonies of the Kremlin under the laws of Putin\u2019s regime,\u201d he said. The International Committee of Indigenous Peoples of Russia (ICIPR) has sent a memorandum signed by about 100 Indigenous organisations citing Russia\u2019s violations of the rights of Indigenous people and minorities to the UN. In the letter, they said Indigenous leaders have been \u201csubjected to increasingly severe repression\u201d, citing the death of Sergei Kechimov. The reindeer herder, who fought to protect the sacred Lake Imlor in Siberia from damage by oil companies, died from cancer earlier this year while under investigation. Andrei Zhvavyi, 36, left his home in Lovozero in the Murmansk region two years ago and now lives in Finland where he is seeking political asylum. The Sami activist and member of Oosmo, a legal assistance and cultural heritage organisation in the Kola peninsula, said Sami people in Russia have been left with very little to protect their human rights, culture and language. \u201cPeople who are still in Russia will be careful in expressing their opinion on these issues because it could cost them their freedom,\u201d he said, adding that the Sami community was losing its identity. Aleksandr Slupachik, 35, is waiting in northern Norway for his asylum application to be processed after leaving Russia, where he was chair of Oosmo, two years ago after coming under pressure from the FSB. After waiting in a refugee camp in Norway for a year, he and his wife now live in a flat and work as cleaners. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to describe [how it was in Russia] because you\u2019re all the time waiting for something to happen. You\u2019re waiting for the police or special services to come and get something. And I was afraid the whole time before my wife left Russia.\u201d His last encounter with the FSB came three years ago when he announced that he was going to become Oosmo\u2019s chair. They came to his work and questioned him and searched him. \u201cThey wanted to find something, but I had nothing \u2026 They asked me if I knew someone who participates in an extreme organisation and I said no.\u201d After he announced his opposition to the war in Ukraine, he was contacted by people he believes were connected to special intelligence services. He left after Russia\u2019s mobilisation for fear of being imprisoned or hurt. The latest measures, outlawing Indigenous groups, could have a significant impact on the future of the Sami community, he said. \u201cThere will simply be no more leaders speaking about Sami issues.\u201d He knows of between 10 and 20 people who have had to go and fight in Ukraine. \u201cIt\u2019s a big number because it\u2019s a lot of young people and our community is maybe 2-3,000, and 20 young people is a very high number.\u201d He may never be able to return to Russia, he said. \u201cI think they [Russia] want to have total control of Sami people. Control their voices, what they think about and everything. And I think they will build a new ideology.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Teresa Ribera: the Spanish deputy PM set to become one of most powerful people in Brussels;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/teresa-ribera-the-spanish-deputy-pm-set-to-become-one-of-most-powerful-people-in-brussels;2024-09-20T04:00:03Z",
        "text": "At the beginning of May, Teresa Ribera sounded the alarm over the future of the EU, warning that war, discord, disinformation, social media manipulation and the increasing normalisation of the far right had put the European project at risk of \u201can implosion\u201d. It did not help centrist political unity, Spain\u2019s environment minister added, that some people \u2013 namely the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen \u2013 were refusing to rule out working with rightwing and far-right nationalists. \u201cI think that\u2019s very worrying and, up to a certain point, it was a betrayal,\u201d Ribera told the Guardian. Fast forward four months and Ribera finds herself uniquely placed to help rebalance and revitalise the European Commission. The 55-year-old socialist, a veteran climate campaigner who also serves as one of Spain\u2019s three deputy prime ministers, will be one of the most powerful people in Brussels when the next European Commission takes office later this year. Despite her somewhat unwieldy job title \u2013 executive vice-president of a clean, just and competitive transition \u2013 Ribera will oversee a hugely influential portfolio and will also be one of the most senior socialists at the top of a more right-leaning EU executive. One of six executive vice-presidents, she will share responsibility with France\u2019s commissioner, St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9, for creating a \u201cclean industrial deal\u201d within the first 100 days of taking office. Details remain scant, but the project is intended to accelerate growth of Europe\u2019s green companies as the EU seeks net zero greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the century. The Spanish commissioner, who speaks English and French, will also take charge of EU competition policy, traditionally one of the most powerful fiefdoms in Brussels, with an instruction to make the EU rulebook that restricts mergers and government subsidies more compatible with the green transition. Competition is \u201ca key portfolio in the transition\u201d, a senior commission official said. But the complex cat\u2019s cradle of lines of responsibility devised by von der Leyen means Ribera will share the green transition job with several colleagues. Notably, the Dutch centre-right commissioner for climate, Wopke Hoekstra, will have the crucial task of proposing the EU\u2019s 2040 climate reduction targets, which will determine the trajectory towards net zero. Insiders say the profusion of overlapping portfolios means only one person is in charge: von der Leyen herself. \u201cThe problem that Ribera has in my view is that she has a super big portfolio,\u201d said one EPP source, noting that Ribera shared responsibility with S\u00e9journ\u00e9 for the clean industrial deal, meaning that von der Leyen \u201cwill do the arbitrage\u201d. But Ribera, who has a law degree and a diploma in constitutional law and political science, is unlikely to be daunted \u2013 or to allow herself to be sidelined. As her comments in April showed, her polite and personable manner belies a determination to speak her mind, especially when it comes to politics, the environment and the politicisation of the environment. In another interview with the Guardian almost two years ago, she bemoaned Rishi Sunak\u2019s failure to commit to fighting the climate emergency, while earlier this year she lamented what she termed the \u201cclimate change denialism and delayism\u201d exhibited by the CEO of the Spanish energy company Repsol. She has also accused the conservative regional government in Andaluc\u00eda of engaging in \u201cshort-term electoral demagoguery\u201d and playing into the hands of the far right by seeking to press ahead with irrigation plans for strawberry farms that could threaten the survival of one of Europe\u2019s most important wetlands, the Do\u00f1ana Natural Space. And yet, as the row over the Do\u00f1ana shows, Ribera is also a pragmatist and a deal-maker: seven months after calling out the behaviour of the Andaluc\u00edan government, she and its regional president reached a landmark \u20ac1.4bn (\u00a31.2bn) investment agreement to help protect the area and diversify the local economy. In an interview with El Pa\u00eds on Thursday, the executive vice-president-designate was keen to stress her record and her commitment to dialogue and cooperation. \u201cThe commission is a collegiate body; it\u2019s about shared power,\u201d she said. \u201cOn the one hand, you have the coordination tasks on the green agenda; on the other, the traditional and powerful portfolio that is competition. Taken together, these areas are very powerful: what we need to do now is start on the kind of team work that will get them to take off. In my career, I\u2019ve always tried to build consensus between north and south, between developed and developing countries. That\u2019s where I feel comfortable. That\u2019s the path.\u201d If Ribera\u2019s departure to Brussels will be a loss to the government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez \u2013 she is a close ally of Spain\u2019s socialist prime minister \u2013 it will also serve as proof of her country\u2019s growing presence in European institutions. The former Spanish foreign minister Josep Borrell may be reaching the end of his turbulent tenure as the EU\u2019s chief diplomat, but S\u00e1nchez\u2019s former economy minister, Nadia Calvi\u00f1o, is the president of the European Investment Bank and Iratxe Garc\u00eda, a member of S\u00e1nchez\u2019s Spanish Socialist Workers\u2019 party, remains the leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group in the European parliament. Congratulating Ribera on her designation on Tuesday, S\u00e1nchez wrote: \u201cWith your nomination, Spain achieves the highest level of influence it\u2019s ever had in Brussels and the EU gains an exceptional leader. We\u2019re really going to miss you.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Revealed: Russia anticipated Kursk incursion months in advance, seized papers show ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/revealed-russia-anticipated-kursk-incursion-months-in-advance-seized-papers-show;2024-09-20T04:00:02Z",
        "text": "Russia\u2019s military command had anticipated Ukraine\u2019s incursion into its Kursk region and had been making plans to prevent it for several months, according to a cache of documents that the Ukrainian army said it had seized from abandoned Russian positions in the region. The disclosure makes the disarray among Russian forces after Ukraine\u2019s attack in early August all the more embarrassing. The documents, shared with the Guardian, also reveal Russian concerns about morale in the ranks in Kursk, which intensified after the suicide of a soldier at the front who had reportedly been in a \u201cprolonged state of depression due to his service in the Russian army\u201d. Unit commanders are given instructions to ensure soldiers consume Russian state media daily to maintain their \u201cpsychological condition\u201d. The Guardian could not independently verify the authenticity of the documents, though they bear the hallmarks of genuine Russian army communications. In late August, the Guardian met the Ukrainian special operations team who seized them, hours after they had left Russian territory. The team said they had taken Russian interior ministry, FSB and army documents from buildings in the Kursk region and later provided a selection to view and photograph. Some of the documents are printed orders distributed to various units, while others are handwritten logs recording events and concerns at specific positions. The earliest entries are dated late in 2023, while the most recent documents are from just six weeks before Ukraine launched its incursion into the Kursk region on 6 August. The documents mostly come from units of Russia\u2019s 488th Guards Motorised Rifle Regiment, and in particular the second company of its 17th Battalion. Ukraine\u2019s incursion into Kursk took Kyiv\u2019s western partners and many in the Ukrainian elite by surprise, as planning had been restricted to a very small number of people. But Russian military documents contain months of warnings about a possible incursion into the area and an attempt to occupy Sudzha, a town of 5,000 residents that has now been under Ukrainian occupation for more than a month. An entry from 4 January spoke of the \u201cpotential for a breakthrough at the state border\u201d by Ukrainian armed groups and ordered increased training to prepare to repel any attack. On 19 February, unit commanders were warned of Ukrainian plans for \u201ca rapid push from the Sumy region into Russian territory, up to a depth of 80km [50 miles], to establish a four-day \u2018corridor\u2019 ahead of the arrival of the main Ukrainian army units on armoured vehicles\u201d. In mid-March, units at the border were ordered to boost defensive lines and \u201corganise additional exercises for the leadership of units and strongpoints regarding the proper organisation of defences\u201d in preparation for a Ukrainian cross-border attack. In mid-June, there was a more specific warning of Ukrainian plans \u201cin the direction Yunakivka-Sudzha, with the goal of taking Sudzha under control\u201d, which did indeed happen in August. There was also a prediction that Ukraine would attempt to destroy a bridge over the Seym River to disrupt Russian supply lines in the region, which also later happened. The June document complained that Russian units stationed at the front \u201care filled only 60-70% on average, and primarily made up of reserves with weak training\u201d. When the Ukrainian attack came on 6 August, many Russian soldiers abandoned their positions, and within a week Ukraine had taken full control of Sudzha. \u201cThey ran away, without even evacuating or destroying their documents,\u201d said a member of the special operations team who seized the files. During Moscow\u2019s chaotic retreat, Ukrainian forces captured hundreds of Russian soldiers, many of whom were conscripts, who are not generally expected to face battle. The parents of one conscript soldier from the second company, featured in the documents, recorded a tearful video appeal in August, identifying him as their 22-year-old son Vadim Kopylov, saying he had been taken prisoner near Sudzha and calling on Russian authorities to exchange him. The documents give an insight into Russian tactics over the past year, in one case speaking of the need to create decoy trenches and positions to confuse Ukrainian reconnaissance drones. \u201cModels of tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery launchers should be created as well as mannequins of soldiers, and they should be periodically moved around,\u201d reads one order. It adds that a few soldiers should be sent to the decoy positions to light fires at night and walk around with torches, and that Russia should create radio chatter about the decoy positions, with the aim of having it intercepted. It is unclear if such positions were ever created; members of a Ukrainian unit flying reconnaissance drones in the area in recent weeks told the Guardian they had seen no evidence of such positions. In March, the Russian documents note that there were increasing incidents of Ukrainian sabotage groups disguising themselves for work behind Russian lines by wearing Russian uniforms. \u201cTo prevent enemy infiltration into our combat formations \u2026 commanders are to implement the use of identification marker variant n6, made from materials 8cm wide, to be attached using invisible tape,\u201d reads an order from that month. Buried in the dry, meandering official language are signs of serious problems with morale at the front. \u201cThe analysis of the current situation regarding suicides shows that the issue of servicemen dying as a result of suicidal incidents remains tense,\u201d reads one entry. It recounts an incident that reportedly took place on 20 January this year, when a conscript soldier entered the summer washing area at a guard post and shot himself in the abdomen. \u201cThe investigation into the incident determined that the cause of the suicide and death was a nervous and psychological breakdown, caused by his prolonged state of depression due to his service in the Russian army,\u201d reads the handwritten report of the incident. To prevent further such incidents, unit commanders are instructed to identify soldiers who \u201care mentally unprepared to fulfil their duties or prone to deviant behaviour, and organise their reassignment and transfer to military medical facilities\u201d. Further instructions on keeping up morale come in an undated, typed document that explains that soldiers should get 5-10 minutes a day as well as an hour once a week of political instruction, \u201caimed at maintaining and raising the political, moral and psychological condition of the personnel\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Taiwan questions president of pager company linked to Hezbollah explosions;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/hezbollah-pager-explosion-gold-apollo-hsu-chingkuang-taiwan;2024-09-20T03:16:33Z",
        "text": "The president and founder of the Taiwanese pager company linked to pagers used by Hezbollah has been questioned by prosecutors and released, as the hunt for the origins of devices that detonated across Lebanon this week spreads across the globe. Gold Apollo\u2019s president, Hsu Ching-kuang, has said his company did not manufacture the pagers used in the attack on Tuesday, and that they were made by a Budapest-based company BAC Consulting KFT which has a licence to use its brand. He was questioned in Taiwan on the same day that Icom, a Japanese communication equipment maker whose walkie-talkies are thought to have been detonated in a second wave of attacks on Wednesday, said the units used may have been a discontinued model containing modified batteries. At least nine people were killed and nearly 3,000 wounded when pagers used by Hezbollah members detonated simultaneously across Lebanon on Tuesday, in an attack the Iran-backed group blamed on Israel. A day later, 25 people were killed and more than 450 wounded when walkie-talkies exploded in supermarkets, on streets and at funerals. In Taiwan, Hsu declined to answer reporters questions as he left a Taipei prosecutors office late on Thursday. Prosecutors had also questioned a woman connected to a different company \u2013 according to local media \u2013 a representative connected to BAC Consulting KFT who had set up a company based in Taipei called \u201cApollo Systems\u201d. Apollo Systems was registered in April this year, and its listed address in Taipei\u2019s Neihu district was among four locations searched by investigators, including Gold Apollo\u2019s office in New Taipei. \u201cOur country takes the case very seriously,\u201d said the prosecutors office from Taipei\u2019s Shilin district in a statement Friday. \u201cWe instructed the Investigation Bureau\u2019s national security station to further interview two people from Taiwanese companies as witnesses yesterday.\u201d Taiwan\u2019s government has said it is investigating what happened and police have made several visits to Hsu\u2019s company, in a small, unassuming office in Taipei\u2019s next door city of New Taipei. On Friday morning Taiwan\u2019s minister of economic affairs said he could say \u201cwith certainty\u201d that the components used in the pagers were not made in Taiwan. In Japan, handheld radio manufacturer Icom said the devices used in the attacks on Wednesday appeared to be their IC-V82 handheld radio, which had been exported overseas, including to the Middle East, between 2004 and 2014. \u201cWe can\u2019t rule out the possibility that they are fakes, but there is also a chance the products are our IC-V82 model,\u201d Icom\u2019s director, Yoshiki Enomoto, said on Wednesday, according to the Kyodo news agency. The firm sold about 160,000 units of the model in Japan and overseas before ending production and sales in 2014. \u201cThe production of the batteries needed to operate the main unit has also been discontinued, and a hologram seal to distinguish counterfeit products was not attached, so it is not possible to confirm whether the product shipped from our company,\u201d it said in a statement on its website. It added that products for overseas markets are sold exclusively through its authorised distributors, and that its export programme is based on Japanese security trade control regulations. Icom said all of its radios are manufactured \u201cunder a strict management system\u201d at a subsidiary production site in Wakayama prefecture in western Japan. \u201cNo parts other than those specified by our company are used in a product,\u201d it said. \u201cIn addition, all of our radios are manufactured at the same factory, and we do not manufacture them overseas.\u201d Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel, which has not claimed responsibility for the detonations. The two sides have been engaged in cross-border warfare since the Gaza conflict erupted last October. Reuters contributed to this report"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018We are isolated, tired, scared\u2019: pager attack leaves Lebanon in shock;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/we-are-isolated-tired-scared-pager-attack-leaves-lebanon-in-shock;2024-09-20T01:00:00Z",
        "text": "The funeral was over almost as soon as it began. Women did not linger in their lamentations but marched directly alongside the pallbearers to bury the body. An overzealous Hezbollah staff member did not wait for them to finish before pulling the picture of their fallen comrade off the martyr\u2019s shrine, eager to pack up. Ten minutes later, the crowd dispersed, filtering out past the ad hoc army checkpoints set up for the occasion in the southern Beirut neighbourhood. The funeral \u2013 a far cry from the usual 90-minute long ceremonies to honour the Shia militia\u2019s deceased \u2013 was one of dozens held across Lebanon on Thursday. One after the other, Hezbollah had issued a steady stream of funerary announcements as the death toll mounted from the operation, probably Israeli in origin, that blew up pagers and walkie-talkies on Tuesday and Wednesday. In total, 42 were killed and almost 3,500 wounded by the blasts, according to Lebanon\u2019s ministry of health. Attenders who came out to honour the dead did so warily, the explosions that interrupted another Beirut funeral just the day before still fresh in their minds. \u201cMy friend\u2019s father lost his eyes in the blasts. We\u2019ve never seen an attack like this, everyone was shocked,\u201d Saeed, a 25-year-old driving instructor, said. He had been just metres away from an explosion at a funeral in Beirut a day prior. An hour after the burial, Hassan Nasrallah, spoke, his first appearance since the pager attacks. Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes in Lebanon\u2019s south, targeting what the Israeli military said were \u201cHezbollah targets\u201d. The leader appeared tired and his tone was soft \u2013 a sharp contrast to his last appearance on 25 August, when he claimed victory for the group\u2019s wide-ranging drone and missile barrage on northern Israel. \u201cThere is no doubt that we have been exposed to a major security and humanitarian blow that is unprecedented in the history of the resistance in Lebanon,\u201d Nasrallah said during his Thursday speech. However, he insisted the attack \u201cwould not bring us down\u201d and vowed to continue fighting until a ceasefire in Gaza was achieved. As Nasrallah spoke, a rumbling grew steadily louder, starting in the country\u2019s south before bursting into a roar over Beirut. The sound brought some residents of the Achrafieh district in east Beirut out on to their balconies and the streets, their necks craned to the sky. Israeli fighter jets were conducting a mock air raid over Beirut, throwing out flares that lingered over the capital city and producing two sonic booms, rattling windowpanes. The planes were flying at the lowest altitude over the city yet since fighting between Hezbollah and Israel broke out on 8 October. \u201cI will not talk about a time, place or form, but \u2026 the reckoning will come,\u201d Nasrallah continued, unaffected by the jets flying overhead. In Rmeish, a Christian town on the Lebanese-Israeli border about 72 miles (116km) from Beirut, the sound of Israeli airstrikes was uncomfortably close. Rmeish sits between Aita al-Shaab and Yaroun \u2013 two of the most frequently targeted towns in Lebanon \u2013 but itself has been mostly spared by Israeli fire. \u201cThere is shelling around us from every angle, they were very violent and produced a huge amount of smoke. Planes are everywhere,\u201d Father Najib al-Amil, a local priest, said over the phone. Father Amil is a community leader for Christian villages in southern Lebanon and has worked to strike a balance between maintaining a cordial relationship with Hezbollah and ensuring Christian villages are not used as staging grounds for attacks against Israel. \u201cUntil now, [Rmeish] is OK, but we don\u2019t know what will happen. We are isolated, tired and scared,\u201d the priest continued. The attacks in Lebanon and the anticipation of retaliation from Hezbollah have become part of a familiar, but still stressful, routine in the country. Just three weeks prior, Nasrallah said that Lebanon \u201ccan take a breath and relax\u201d after the group\u2019s retaliation for Israel\u2019s assassination of Hezbollah\u2019s military chief of staff, Fuad Shukr, in Beirut. That period of relaxation proved brief, as Tuesday\u2019s attacks plunged Lebanon back into uncertainty. The attacks were accompanied by comments from Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, that the war was entering a new phase. Pictures of tanks being transported to northern Israel were widely shared across social media in Lebanon amid furtive speculation as to whether Israel was about to launch a full-scale war. Nonetheless, Hezbollah\u2019s supporters said they trusted Nasrallah and were ready for whatever might come. \u201cOur leadership is wise and they will choose what the retaliation will be. It doesn\u2019t have to happen now,\u201d Saaed said, adding that the attacks over the past week were \u201csomething one must pass through to achieve victory\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018The hardship is still there\u2019: Sri Lanka prepares to vote as hopes of revolution falter;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/sri-lanka-election-vote-hopes-revolution;2024-09-20T01:00:00Z",
        "text": "Just over two years ago, a mood of both crisis and optimism gripped Sri Lanka. Across the Indian Ocean island, the population of 23 million people was enduring hunger, medical shortages and unemployment as part of the worst economic disaster in its history. Yet there was also a ripple of hope. A youth-led movement known as the aragalaya (struggle) had successfully toppled the authoritarian president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his powerful family dynasty, who were accused of bankrupting the country through corrupt deals and policies. Protesters overran Rajapaksa\u2019s presidential mansion, lying on his bed, swimming in his pool and working out in his gym. As Sri Lanka heads to the polls on Saturday to vote in a new president for the first time since the fall of Rajapaksa, many say the economic crisis continues to devastate lives \u2013 while much of the optimism of the aragalaya has faded away. As a country that endured more than 26 years of civil war and still remains heavily divided along ethnic lines, Sri Lanka\u2019s past elections have always been dominated by issues of race, religion and war. Most of the power and wealth continues to be held by the Sinhalese Buddhist majority, while the Tamil minority remain persecuted and economically and politically neglected. Yet this time, it is an election primarily about the economy. Standing at her shuttered food stall in a suburb of Colombo, Seelavathi Nona, 42, said her family was struggling to survive and her only means of feeding her two children was microfinance loans. At the end of every day, she hands over all her earnings to pay back her debts, leaving her nothing to take home. \u201cThe aragalaya movement didn\u2019t achieve much,\u201d she said. \u201cThe only thing they did was remove the Rajapaksas. There is still no business and everything is expensive.\u201d For the first time in recent history, analysts say widespread disenchantment with traditional politics means Saturday\u2019s election is unlikely to deliver an overwhelming majority to any one candidate. Three have emerged as frontrunners: the current president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was installed after Rajapaksa; Sajith Premadasa, the leader of the opposition; and Anura Kumara Dissanayake, whose leftwing coalition has recently surged in popularity. Should a clear winner fail to emerge, there are concerns it could plunge Sri Lanka into further turmoil. \u201cWhoever wins faces daunting challenges,\u201d said Alan Keenan, a senior consultant on Sri Lanka at the NGO Crisis Group. \u201cThe economy is unlikely to get better any time soon, and to have a president without strong popular support could present a very tricky situation.\u201d Wickremesinghe, the six-time former prime minister who took over as president in the last two years of Rajapaksa\u2019s term is pushing himself as the face of economic stability, having negotiated a $2.9bn (\u00a32.1bn) bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as well as bolstering foreign currency reserves and bringing down inflation. Yet while long queues outside petrol stations have disappeared and vital foreign imports have returned, levels of poverty have doubled in the past two years, affecting 25% of the country. Wickremesinghe\u2019s unpopular policies have been blamed and are seen to have hit the poorest the hardest. Many have questioned the strict conditions of the IMF loan, including high taxes, and the little long-term debt relief it provides, with some analysts accusing Wickremesinghe of having negotiated a flawed deal. \u201cAs it stands \u2013 even in the best case scenario, even if Sri Lanka does absolutely everything that the IMF asks of it, does all the austerity measures and all the structural reforms which put huge pressures on the citizens \u2013 they will still be in a very precarious position,\u201d Keenan said. While the aragalaya movement ignited a desire for change and a move away from the corrupt dynastic politics that has dominated Sri Lanka for decades, many see Wickremesinghe as part of the crooked old guard. As an unelected president with neither a popular mandate nor a parliamentary majority, he has relied heavily on support from the Rajapaksas\u2019 party to get his measures passed. Meanwhile, none of the Rajapaksas or their close associates have faced investigation or reprisal under Wickremesinghe\u2019s government, despite widespread allegations of misappropriated state assets and human rights abuses. In a sign of how little has changed, Namal Rajapaksa \u2013 the nephew of the former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is among those accused of corruption \u2013 is also running for president. Aththatage Lalitha, 72, said she hoped the election would bring about a much-needed political transformation. \u201cWe are hoping for a complete change to this system,\u201d she said. \u201cHow can we keep living this way? The cost of living has skyrocketed.\u201d Lalitha said she would be voting for Premadasa, who as leader of the opposition for the past five years has cultivate an image of being a champion of the poor, running on a generous welfare agenda. \u201cAt least he is concerned about the poor man,\u201d she said. For swathes of others, the appetite for a split from the past has led to a surge of support for a previous outsider, the leftwing leader Dissanayake, who heads the Marxist National People\u2019s Power (NPP) coalition. Dissanayake\u2019s party won just 3% of the vote in 2019\u2019s presidential election but this time they have mobilised support through a vast grassroots operation. Large numbers have been flocking to his rallies, drawn in by punchy campaigns pledging to go after those who stole Sri Lanka\u2019s assets, and promising deep systemic change and an end to corruption, which were core demands of the aragalaya. Chathuranga Abeysinghe, an executive committee member of NPP, said an awakening had occurred after the economic crisis and political protests of 2022 and claimed NPP was the party that had \u201cbest captured the spirit and demands of the aragalaya\u201d. \u201cThe people have realised that the mandate they gave to consecutive governments over the past few decades has been repeatedly misused,\u201d said Abeysinghe. \u201cThey are fed up with family-based politics, they want to know where all the misappropriated assets have gone and they want a better economic outlook. We are the only party speaking about these demands.\u201d Abeysinghe gave assurances that if the NPP gained power, it would finally hold past leaders, including the Rajapaksas, accountable for any corruption. However, many have voiced concern over the murky past of Dissanayake\u2019s Marxist party, which in the 1980s led a bloody armed revolt against opponents using guerrilla forces and is still widely viewed with suspicion. Abeysinghe said there had been a complete evolution of the party, and it now \u201csteered away from violence at any cost\u201d. \u201cThere has been no complaint for 30 years, people know we have transformed and we stand for progressive democracy,\u201d he said. Yet not all who took to the streets as part of the aragalaya two years ago were convinced their demands were being represented in this election. While the movement had spoken about the need for ethnic reconciliation and better representation for the Tamil minority, few believed that any of the frontrunners would be likely to address their concerns. Chanu Nimasha, an activist who was part of the movement, said they believed it had ultimately been \u201chijacked\u201d by political parties and those seeking power and influence. \u201cIn the end, the aragalaya didn\u2019t achieve much,\u201d said Nimasha. \u201cPeople realised the power they had when they sent Gota [Gotabaya Rajapaksa] home. But what happened was not what we expected. The crisis took a new direction and the economic hardships are still there.\u201d"
    },
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        "label": "The Guardian;Israel bombards southern Lebanon after Hezbollah chief vows \u2018punishment\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/hezbollah-chief-vows-punishment-of-israel-after-explosive-device-attacks;2024-09-19T22:57:16Z",
        "text": "Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of strikes across southern Lebanon late on Thursday, hours after Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah\u2019s leader, threatened \u201ctough retribution and just punishment\u201d for the wave of attacks that targeted the organisation with explosives hidden in pagers and walkie-talkies. The Israeli military said it had hit hundreds of rocket launchers which it said were about to be used \u201cin the immediate future\u201d. The bombardment included more than 52 strikes across southern Lebanon, the country\u2019s state news agency NNA said. Three Lebanese security sources told the Reuters news agency that they were the heaviest aerial strikes since the conflict began in October. As Israeli jets roared over Beirut in a show of force earlier in the day, Nasrallah threatened retribution against Israel \u201cwhere it expects it and where it does not\u201d. On Tuesday, thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously, killing 12 people, including two children, and wounding up to 2,800 others across Lebanon. A day later, 25 people were killed and more than 450 wounded when walkie-talkies exploded in supermarkets, on streets and at funerals, stoking fears that a full-blown war between Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, and Israel could be imminent. There was no comment from Israel, which hours before Tuesday\u2019s explosions had announced it was broadening the aims of its war in Gaza to include the return of northern residents who had been evacuated from their homes due to attacks by Hezbollah. Nasrallah admitted that the explosive attacks \u2013 the biggest security breach for Hezbollah since its foundation in the 1980s \u2013 had been a major blow to the organisation. The attacks \u201ccrossed all red lines\u201d, Nasrallah said, appearing in front of a featureless red background at an unidentified location. \u201cThe enemy went beyond all controls, laws and morals.\u201d As tensions in the Middle East spiralled, senior diplomats from the US, Britain, Germany, France and Italy met on Thursday in Paris before a UN security council meeting planned for Friday. Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, was to join his counterparts in the French capital after discussing the possibility of a Gaza truce in Cairo. US President Joe Biden believes there can still be a diplomatic resolution to escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, his spokesperson said. The White House warned all sides against \u201can escalation of any kind\u201d. The Lebanese foreign minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, warned that the \u201cblatant assault on Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and security\u201d was a dangerous development that could \u201csignal a wider war\u201d. The Israel Defense Forces\u2019 chief of staff, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, announced on Thursday that Israeli battle plans for the northern front had been \u201ccompleted and approved\u201d. On Wednesday, the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, described \u201cthe start of a new phase in the war\u201d triggered by the Hamas attacks into Israel last October. The retired Brig Gen Amir Avivi, who leads the Israel Defense and Security Forum, which is a group of hawkish former military commanders, said: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of pressure from the society to go to war and win. Unless Hezbollah tomorrow morning says: \u2018OK, we got the message, we\u2019re pulling out of south Lebanon,\u2019 war is imminent.\u201d The Lebanese army said on Thursday it was blowing up pagers and suspicious telecom devices in controlled blasts in different areas. It called on citizens to report any suspicious devices. Lebanese authorities banned walkie-talkies and pagers from being taken on flights from Beirut airport until further notice, the National News Agency reported. Such devices were also banned from being shipped by air. Nasrallah\u2019s speech on Thursday was keenly watched. Analysts said the Hezbollah leader needed to show defiance of Israel without committing to further escalation, which could lead to a war that Hezbollah\u2019s sponsors in Tehran have sought to avoid. He also needed to rally his demoralised followers. Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at the Swedish Defence University and a pioneer of western studies of Hezbollah, said: \u201cThis is a huge humiliation for an organisation that prides itself on its security. They were lured into a trap \u2026 There were some civilian casualties, but most were Hezbollah people who will now be out of action for some time.\u201d Hezbollah is a keystone member of Iran\u2019s \u201caxis of resistance\u201d, which includes Hamas, the Houthis and other militant groups across the Middle East. Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards commander, Hossein Salami, told Nasrallah on Thursday that Israel would face \u201ca crushing response from the axis of resistance\u201d, according to Iranian state media. In Israel, a man whom security forces said they arrested for plotting assassinations against senior political figures has been named as 73-year-old Moti Maman. Maman, from Ashkelon, near the Gaza Strip, was arrested last month and indicted on Thursday. The Shin Bet internal security service and the Israeli police have claimed that Iran was backing the plot to kill senior defence officials and possibly the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The preliminary findings of a Lebanese investigation into the blasts were that the pagers had been booby-trapped, a security official said. \u201cData indicates the devices were pre-programmed to detonate and contained explosive materials planted next to the battery,\u201d the official said, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. A source close to Hezbollah, asking not to be identified, said the pagers were \u201crecently imported\u201d and appeared to have been \u201csabotaged at source\u201d. After reports that the pagers had been ordered from a Taiwanese manufacturer, Gold Apollo, the company said they had been produced by its Hungarian partner BAC Consulting KFT, which has a licence to use its brand. A government spokesperson in Budapest said the company was \u201ca trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary\u201d. Icom, the Japanese communications equipment maker whose walkie-talkies are thought to have been detonated on Wednesday, said the devices may have been a discontinued model containing modified batteries. Hezbollah has traded near-daily cross-border fire with Israel since Hamas\u2019s 7 October attacks sparked the war in Gaza. In his speech, Nasrallah vowed to continue the conflict with Israel until a ceasefire in Gaza was reached. \u201cThe Lebanese front will not stop until the aggression on Gaza stops\u201d, despite \u201call this blood spilt\u201d, he said. Israel said on Thursday it had bombed six Hezbollah \u201cinfrastructure sites\u201d and a weapons storage facility in southern Lebanon, a stronghold of the organisation. Eight people were reported to have been injured by antitank missiles fired by Hezbollah into northern Israel, and two were hurt in a drone attack. Since October, more than 500 people have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli strikes, most of them fighters with Hezbollah and other armed groups but also more than 100 civilians. In northern Israel, at least 23 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed by strikes from Lebanon. About 60,000 Israelis were evacuated from their homes along the contested border with Lebanon and have been unable to return for fear of being targeted by Hezbollah. In a separate development on Thursday, Israeli media reported that Israel had submitted a new ceasefire proposal to the US, under which all hostages held in Gaza would be released at the same time in exchange for ending the war. Israel would also agree that the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, along with his family and thousands of operatives, could leave Gaza for a third country \u201cthrough a safe passage\u201d. There has been no official reaction to the reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;IDF says it has destroyed more than 100 Hezbollah rocket launchers in Lebanon \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/19/lebanon-blasts-impossible-to-know-if-walkie-talkies-used-by-hezbollah-were-from-our-company-says-japanese-firm-live;2024-09-19T21:58:56Z",
        "text": "Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: The leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, threatened Israel with \u201ctough retribution and just punishment\u201d after an unprecedented wave of attacks targeted the organisation this week. In a televised speech on Thursday, Nasrallah admitted the attacks had been a major blow and threatened retribution against Israel \u201cwhere it expects it and where it does not\u201d. Israel will face \u201ca crushing response from the axis of resistance\u201d, Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards Cmdr Hossein Salami told Nasrallah, state media reported. In his speech, Nasrallah vowed to continue the conflict with Israel until a ceasefire in Gaza was reached. \u201cThe Lebanese front will not stop until the aggression on Gaza stops\u201d, despite \u201call this blood spilt\u201d, he said. In response, Hamas said it \u201chighly appreciates\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s support. As Nasrallah made his televised remarks, Israeli jets roared over Beirut in a show of force. Late on Thursday, Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of strikes across southern Lebanon, in some of the most intense bombing since the start of the war in October. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its fighter jets struck more than 100 Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon in the space of a few hours. Eight people were reported to have been injured by antitank missiles fired by Hezbollah into northern Israel, and two were hurt in a drone attack. Hezbollah has traded near-daily cross-border fire with Israel since Hamas\u2019s 7 October attacks sparked the war in Gaza. The IDF said two of its soldiers were killed by Hezbollah strikes across the Lebanon border on Thursday. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said Israeli military operations \u201cwill continue\u201d, adding that there are \u201csignificant opportunities, but also heavy risks\u201d as the country enters a \u201cnew phase\u201d of the war. \u201cOur goal is to return the residents of the north to their homes safely. As time goes by, Hezbollah will pay an increasing price,\u201d Gallant said on Thursday. The speech by the Hezbollah leader on Thursday came amid fears that a full-blown war between Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, and Israel could be imminent. Thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including two children, and wounding up to 2,800 others across Lebanon. A day later, 25 people were killed and more than 450 wounded when walkie-talkies exploded in supermarkets, on streets and at funerals. There was no comment from Israel. Senior diplomats from the US, Britain, Germany, France and Italy met on Thursday in Paris before a UN security council meeting planned for Friday as tensions in the Middle East spiralled. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, urged against \u201cescalatory actions by any party\u201d in the Middle East and called for restraint, while France\u2019s foreign minister, St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9, said France and the US were \u201cvery worried about the situation\u201d in the Middle East. The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. \u201cWe are all very, very clear that we want to see a negotiated political settlement so that Israelis can return to their homes in northern Israel and indeed Lebanese to return to their homes,\u201d Lammy said on Thursday. He urged British nationals in Lebanon to leave the country \u201cwhile commercial options remain.\u201d The US believes that a diplomatic solution in the Middle East is \u201cachievable\u201d and \u201curgent\u201d, the White House said on Thursday. A US state department spokesperson called on Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to stop \u201cterrorist attacks\u201d in Israel. The US has not changed its military posture following recent attacks in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah devices, the Pentagon said. The US secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, has reportedly postponed a planned trip next week to Israel due to the escalation on the Israeli-Lebanese border. Explosions in booby-trapped radios and pagers in Lebanon \u201cseriously disrupted\u201d the country\u2019s fragile health sector, the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said. Lebanese authorities on Thursday banned walkie-talkies and pagers from being taken on flights from Beirut airport. The communications devices that exploded in Lebanon were implanted with explosives before arriving into the country, according to a preliminary investigation by Lebanese authorities. Lebanese authorities determined that the devices were detonated by sending electronic messages to the devices, according to a letter sent by the Lebanese mission to the UN to the UN\u2019s security council. Six Palestinians were killed and 18 others injured on Thursday by Israeli forces during a military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Qabatiya, the governor of the Jenin area of the occupied West Bank told Reuters. In a statement to AFP, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said an air strike killed militants in Qabatiya \u201cas part of a counterterrorism operation\u201d. UN children\u2019s rights experts have accused Israel of severe breaches of a global treaty protecting children\u2019s rights, saying its military actions in Gaza had \u201ccatastrophic consequences\u201d on children in the Palestinian territory. A senior Israeli adviser has presented a new proposed ceasefire deal with Hamas to the Biden administration, according to reports. The proposal from Gal Hirsch, a close ally to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, would see a permanent end to the conflict in Gaza, the release in one stage of all hostages held there in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, and the safe passage for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to be exiled out of Gaza, according to reports. The governor of the Jenin area of the occupied West Bank said six Palestinians were killed and 18 others injured on Thursday by Israeli forces during a military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Qabatiya. Kamal Abu al-Rub told Reuters that four of the injured were in critical condition, and that Israeli forces withdrew from Qabatiya after destroying infrastructure in the area. In a statement to AFP, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said an air strike killed militants in Qabatiya \u201cas part of a counterterrorism operation\u201d. The news agency reported seeing two male bodies on the roof of a building in Qabatiya, and a third corpse lying on a sheet of metal one floor below. Al Jazeera reported that a video showed Israeli soldiers pushing dead bodies off a roof in a raid in Qabatiya. It said that the Israeli military opened fire on a group of journalists filming the raid from a nearby building. The US has not changed its military posture following recent attacks in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah devices, the Pentagon said. Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh, at a briefing on Thursday, told reporters: I am not tracking any force posture changes in the Eastern Med or in the Central Command area of responsibility. Asked about the status of a potential Gaza ceasefire deal amid escalating regional tensions, Singh said the US did not believe that a deal was falling apart. The US has kept an increased military presence in the Middle East throughout much of the past year, according to Associated Press. About 40,000 US forces, at least a dozen warships and four US air force fighter jet squadrons are spread across the region both to protect allies and to serve as a deterrent against attacks, US officials have told AP. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its fighter jets struck more than 100 Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon in the past few hours. The IDF said that since Thursday afternoon, fighter jets struck about 100 rocket launchers consisting of about 1,000 barrels that were set to be used to immediately fire toward Israeli territory. From the Times of Israel\u2019s Emanuel Fabian: UN children\u2019s rights experts have accused Israel of severe breaches of a global treaty protecting children\u2019s rights, saying its military actions in Gaza had \u201ccatastrophic consequences\u201d on children in the Palestinian territory. The UN committee on the rights of the child published their findings on Thursday after a review of Israel\u2019s compliance with the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. \u201cThe outrageous death of children is almost historically unique. This is an extremely dark place in history,\u201d Bragi Gudbrandsson, vice-chair of the committee, told reporters, Reuters reported. I don\u2019t think we have seen before, a violation that is so massive, as we are seeing in Gaza now ... These are extremely grave violations that we do not often see. Here\u2019s more from the US state department\u2019s briefing on Thursday, in which its spokesperson said Washington was still working for a normalisation deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia. On Wednesday, the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, said the kingdom would not recognise Israel without a Palestinian state. He said: The kingdom will not stop its tireless work towards the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and we affirm that the kingdom will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel without that. US state department spokesperson Matthew Miller played down the remarks, noting that Saudi Arabia has long made clear it wants a two-state solution and a ceasefire in Gaza. \u201cEvery day that goes by, it gets tougher to accomplish anything. That\u2019s just a temporal fact,\u201d Miller told reporters. We continue to believe, however, that long term, of course, normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel is in the interests of both countries\u201d and the region. \u201cWe are obviously quite aware of the challenges that we face in getting to those [goals] now. The fighting in Gaza continues to wage on. We continue to work to get a ceasefire,\u201d he added. The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, has called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Lammy, speaking to Reuters on Thursday after meeting his French, US and Italian counterparts for talks in Paris, said: We are all very, very clear that we want to see a negotiated political settlement so that Israelis can return to their homes in northern Israel and indeed Lebanese to return to their homes. As we reported earlier, Lammy has urged British nationals in Lebanon to leave the country \u201cwhile commercial options remain\u201d, warning that \u201ctensions are high and the situation could deteriorate rapidly\u201d. Delta Air Lines announced it would pause its flights between New York and Tel Aviv through 31 December, citing the \u201congoing conflict in the region\u201d. The Lebanese mission to the UN said a preliminary investigation into the communications devices that exploded in Lebanon this week found that they were implanted with explosives before arriving into the country, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Lebanese authorities determined that the devices, which included pagers and walkie-talkies, were detonated by sending electronic messages to the devices, according to the letter sent to the UN\u2019s security council. The letter claims Israel was responsible for the planning and execution of the attacks, according to Reuters. Israel has not directly commented on the attacks. The UN\u2019s security council is scheduled to meet on Friday over the blasts in Lebanon that killed at least 37 people and wounded thousands across the country. The US state department also held a briefing on Thursday to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East following the wave of explosions targeting devices in Lebanon. US state department spokesperson Matthew Miller referred to remarks made earlier today by the head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, who vowed to keep fighting Israel \u201cuntil the aggression on Gaza stops\u201d. Miller said: Nasrallah could stop the terrorist attacks across Israel, and I guarantee you, if he did that, we would be impressing upon Israel the need to maintain calm on their end. Bottom line is, he hasn\u2019t stopped those terrorist attacks. \u201cSo as long as Hezbollah is launching terrorist attacks across the border, of course Israel is going to launch military action to defend itself, as any country would,\u201d he said. However, he added: We will continue to stand by Israel\u2019s right to defend itself, but we don\u2019t want to see any party escalate this conflict, period. Miller acknowledged the limits of US diplomacy, adding: \u201cUltimately every country is responsible \u2026 for the actions that they take.\u201d White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said the US would continue to work on a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, which she said would help with \u201clowering the temperature\u201d in the region. \u201cWe are working around the clock\u201d along with Egypt and Qatar to reach a diplomatic resolution in the region, she said. The US believes that a diplomatic solution in the Middle East is \u201cachievable\u201d and \u201curgent\u201d, the White House has said. The White House\u2019s spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, said on Thursday that the US\u2019s commitment to Israel\u2019s security against \u201call Iran-backed threats, including Hezbollah\u201d was \u201cunwavering\u201d. She told reporters that the US will \u201ccontinue to have those diplomatic conversations\u201d, adding: The conflict along the blue line has gone on for far too long, and it needs to get to a resolution quickly. \u201cWe still believe a diplomatic resolution is the way forward here. We still believe that it is possible,\u201d she added. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, said Israeli fighter jets are flying over south-western Syria. A meticulous manufacturing operation, probably controlled by an Israeli front company, is emerging as the most likely way thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies containing hidden explosives ended up in the hands of Hezbollah operatives this week. Experts said the sabotaged devices appeared to use small amounts of military-grade plastic explosives that could be carefully assembled only over a period of time, amid reports that they were manufactured by an Israeli front company with links to Europe. \u201cIt looks like what was used was a high-grade plastic military explosive,\u201d said Trevor Lawrence, the head of Cranfield University\u2019s Ordnance Test and Evaluation Centre, which tests bombs on Britain\u2019s Salisbury Plain. \u201cYou only need around 5g, but it is a complex job to insert them into the pagers and ensure they still worked.\u201d Military plastic explosives are not commercially available, but are able to kill and cause significant injuries if they are close to a person, particularly their head and torso, Lawrence said. This tallies with the injuries caused in Lebanon this week. \u201cCausing injury with explosives is all about proximity,\u201d he added. Read the full story: Israeli front-controlled manufacturing process likeliest explanation for attacks on Hezbollah Israel carried out dozens of strikes on Thursday across southern Lebanon, Reuters is reporting, citing Lebanese security sources. According to the sources, the strikes marked some of the most intense bombing since the start of the war in October. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it hit about 30 Hezbollah rocket launchers along with other \u201cinfrastructure\u201d in airstrikes carried out in Lebanon on Thursday. An IDF statement reads: With the direction of IDF (military) intelligence, the IAF (air force) struck approximately 30 Hezbollah launchers and terrorist infrastructure sites, containing approximately 150 launcher barrels that were ready to fire projectiles toward Israeli territory. France\u2019s foreign minister, St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9, speaking in a joint press conference with his US counterpart, Antony Blinken, said France and the US were \u201cvery worried about the situation\u201d in the Middle East. The two countries were coordinating to \u201csend messages of de-escalation\u201d to the parties, S\u00e9journ\u00e9 told reporters, adding: Lebanon would not recover from a total war. France\u2019s president Emmanuel Macron held phone calls with Lebanon\u2019s top political and military leaders during which he urged restraint following the wave of explosions on Tuesday and Wednesday. In a statement by his office, Macron asked Lebanon\u2019s leaders to pass on messages to local groups including Hezbollah to avoid further escalation amid fears of a wider war. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has urged against \u201cescalatory actions by any party\u201d in the Middle East and called for restraint following the explosions of devices targeted at Hezbollah in Lebanon, attacks that have been blamed on Israel. Blinken, at a news conference on Thursday after talks in Paris with his French counterpart, St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9, said: France and the United States are united in calling for restraint and urging de-escalation when it comes to the Middle East in general and when it comes to Lebanon in particular. He said he did not want any \u201cescalatory actions\u201d that could make a ceasefire deal in Gaza even \u201cmore difficult\u201d: We continue to work to get a ceasefire for Gaza over the finish line ... We believe that remains both possible and necessary. Hamas on Thursday said it \u201chighly appreciates\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s support after its leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed to keep fighting Israel until a ceasefire in Gaza is reached. According to Agence France-Presse, Hamas said Nasrallah and Hezbollah\u2019s position frustrated \u201cplans to undermine the support front of our people and resistance in the Gaza Strip\u201d. The UN is set to deliver micronutrients along with its second round of polio vaccinations to children in Gaza who have been forcibly displaced and malnourished due to Israel\u2019s war on the Strip. On Thursday, Ted Chaiban, Unicef\u2019s deputy executive director for humanitarian action and supply operations said: \u201cThere are over 44,000 children born in the last year and who haven\u2019t received their basic immunization,\u201d Reuters reports. He added that discussions were under way about adding additional vaccinations to the campaign including measles immunization. Israel\u2019s aid restrictions into Gaza have resulted in the spread of various diseases across the Strip that could have otherwise been prevented through basic hygiene measures including soap access and clean water. Last month, the World Health Organization confirmed that a baby was left partially paralyzed by polio, the first case to emerge in the territory in 25 years. The UK foreign secretary has urged British nationals in Lebanon to leave the country \u201cwhile commercial options remain\u201d. In a post on X, David Lammy wrote: \u201cMy message to British nationals in Lebanon is leave while commercial options remain. Tensions are high and the situation could deteriorate rapidly.\u201d He added that he spoke with Lebanon\u2019s prime minister and expressed his \u201cdeep concern over rising tensions and civilian tensions\u201d in the country. The US secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, has postponed a planned trip next week to Israel due to the escalation on the Israeli-Lebanese border, Axios is reporting, citing Israeli sources. Spain\u2019s foreign ministry has condemned the attacks targeting explosive devices in Lebanon, saying they constituted a violation of international humanitarian law and threatened the region\u2019s stability. \u201cWe call for restraint on the part of all actors,\u201d the ministry said in a statement on Thursday. It\u2019s necessary to avoid a further escalation of violence and the risk of open war with unforeseeable consequences. The statement followed a meeting between Spain\u2019s prime minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, and the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, in Madrid earlier today. It was the first meeting between the two leaders since Spain recognised Palestine as a state. S\u00e1nchez, speaking to reporters after the meeting, said: Today the risk of escalation has again dangerously increased. President Abbas and I have been talking about it in Lebanon, so we have to make a new and strong call for restraint, for de-escalation, for peaceful coexistence between countries. In short, to peace. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said that there are \u201csignificant opportunities, but also heavy risks\u201d as the country enters what he described as a \u201cnew phase\u201d of the war. Gallant, addressing top Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials in comments carried by the Times of Israel, said: This is a new phase in the war, it has significant opportunities, but also heavy risks. Hezbollah is feeling chased and the sequence of our military operations will continue. \u201cOur goal is to return the residents of the north to their homes safely. As time goes by, Hezbollah will pay an increasing price,\u201d he added. The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said explosions in booby-trapped radios and pagers in Lebanon \u201cseriously disrupted\u201d the country\u2019s fragile health sector. Ghebreyesus, at a press conference on Thursday, said the WHO had distributed blood supplies and trauma kits in the country. Lebanon\u2019s prime minister, Najib Mikati, has called on the UN to take a \u201cfirm stance\u201d against Israel ahead of a meeting of the UN security council on Friday. \u201cThis matter does not only concern Lebanon but all of humanity,\u201d Mikati said in a statement. Israel will face \u201ca crushing response from the axis of resistance\u201d, Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards Cmdr Hossein Salami told the head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, Reuters is reporting, citing Iranian state media. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says two of its soldiers were killed by the latest Hezbollah strikes across the Lebanon border. From the Times of Israel\u2019s Emanuel Fabian: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, addressing Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says Israel will not be able to return its residents to the north. You will not be able to return the people of the north to the north \u2026 No military escalation, no killings, no assassinations and no all-out war can return residents to the border. He says the attacks this week targeting his group will be met with \u201cjust punishment\u201d. Israeli fighter jets carried out mock air raids and broke the sound barrier over Beirut, Lebanon, as the secretary general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, spoke for the first time since the pager explosions this week. The low-flying jets brought residents out of their homes and into the streets as they looked to the sky and watched the remnants of flares dissipate. While sonic booms have become common in Lebanon over the last two months, the mock air raid over Beirut on Thursday was the lowest jets have flown over the city since the beginning of fighting in October. A series of airstrikes were also carried out in several areas in south Lebanon to coincide with the beginning of Nasrallah\u2019s speech. The Israeli military said it was targeting Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. \u201cFor decades, Hezbollah has weaponized civilian homes, dug tunnels beneath them, and used civilians as human shields,\u201d the Israeli military said. Nasrallah said the pager explosions, which injured more than 3,000 and killed more than 32 people, crossed \u201call red lines\u201d. He insisted that despite the attack, Hezbollah would not stop fighting on the Lebanese front until the war in Gaza stops. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah says the attacks across Lebanon this week were targeted to undermine the group\u2019s infrastructure and for the group to defy the leadership. He says the \u201cIsraeli enemy\u201d had planned for the attacks to drive a wedge between the group and cause division. But he says the top Hezbollah officials did not carry the model of the pagers that exploded. \u201cOur infrastructure has not been shaken,\u201d he says, adding that instead it was \u201crobust, mighty, coherent and cannot be shaken by such an attack\u201d. Let the enemy know what happened did not shake our faith, conviction, resolve, preparedness or infrastructure. On the contrary, this turned us more resolved, more robust and more adamant. If the Israeli\u2019s objective was to separate us from what\u2019s taking place in Gaza, it failed. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah says the group will not \u201cabandon\u201d their \u201cfellow resistance fighters\u201d in Gaza and the population in Gaza and West Bank. Nasrallah says the aim of the attacks in Lebanon this week were aimed to \u201cbring Hezbollah to their knees\u201d and to surrender. Addressing Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, he says Hezbollah operations in southern Lebanon will not come to a halt until the war in Gaza comes to an end. I say it clearly: no matter what the consequences are, no matter what the sacrifices are, no matter what scenarios would unfold, the resistance in Lebanon will not stop supporting the resistance in Gaza and the West Bank and all the aggrieved in the occupied territories. As Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has been speaking, multiple huge sonic booms from Israeli jets have been reportedly been heard over Beirut. As we reported earlier, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. Israel\u2019s military chief of staff, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, had approved plans for Israel\u2019s north, which borders Lebanon, according to an IDF statement. \u201cFor decades, Hezbollah has weaponized civilian homes, dug tunnels beneath them, and used civilians as human shields,\u201d it said. The IDF is operating to bring security to northern Israel in order to enable the return of residents to their homes, as well as to achieve all of the war goals. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah says the group has been dealt a \u201cvery hard\u201d blow, describing the attacks as \u201cunprecedented\u201d in Lebanon. Nasrallah said investigation committees have been formed to study how the explosions happened, and that he will wait until he sees the assessments of those investigations. He says: We have received a very hard hit. But this is a state of a war. Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, says the pager attacks were intended to \u201ckill 4,000 people in one moment\u201d. \u201cThis was the intention of the enemy, and this is the scale of criminality\u201d. What can we call this kind of criminal action. Is it a big operation? Is it genocide? Is it a massacre? Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, says the \u201cIsraeli enemy\u201d had \u201ccrossed over all the red lines\u201d and targeted many of the pages in Lebanon earlier this week. The explosions happened in hospitals because some medics were carrying them, he said. He said the blasts also occurred in pharmacies, hospitals, markets, shops, houses, cars and in the streets where many civilians were. There were women and children and thousands were injured, different kinds of wounds. The head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has started speaking in his first public address since the deadly explosions on Tuesday and Wednesday across Lebanon. The Israeli Defense Forces\u2019 chief of the general staff has \u201crecently completed approval of plans for the northern arena,\u201d the military said. The IDF also said it is striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. Here are some of the latest images sent to us over the news wires of funerals being carried out in Lebanon after two waves of attacks, widely regarded to be by Israel, detonated pagers and walkie-talkies. Lebanese authorities on Thursday banned walkie-talkies and pagers from being taken on flights from Beirut airport, Reuters reports. Citing the Lebanese national news agency, it notes the Lebanese civilian aviation directorate asked airlines operating from Beirut to tell passengers that walkie-talkies and pagers were banned until further notice. Such devices were also banned from being shipped by air, the Lebanese state news agency reported. At least 37 people were killed and more than 3,000 wounded when pagers and walkie-talkies were detonated in two waves of attacks widely attributed to Israel. Those killed or wounded included Hezbollah fighters, medics and administrative staff. At least two of Tuesday\u2019s dead were children. The impact of the attack on civilian life will add further to criticism that the attack bore the hallmarks of \u201cwanton disregard\u201d for civilian life, as Irish T\u00e1naiste Miche\u00e1l Martin said earlier in the week. Reuters spoke to a Beirut resident, Mustafa Sibai, who said \u201cOf course we\u2019re scared, my children, my siblings\u2019 children, all of us. Who can feel safe in this situation? When I heard about what happened \u2026 I left my phone on my motorcycle and walked away.\u201d Mustafa Jemaa, who owns an electrical shop in Sidon, told the news agency he had removed some stock. \u201cWe had some devices here that we believed were 100% safe, but out of caution, we removed them ... because we got worried,\u201d he said. Earlier today the Lebanese army said it was carrying out controlled demolition of suspicious electronic devices. Lebanon\u2019s information minister Ziad Makari said panic was to be expected, noting that the attack was \u201ca new type of crime to the Lebanese\u201d and that it had struck people at home, at work and during their daily lives. Lebanon\u2019s state-owned NNA news agency reports that French president Emmanuel Macron phoned Lebanese caretake prime minister Najib Mikati today. Israeli media is reporting that Israel has submitted a new ceasefire proposal to Joe Biden\u2019s administration in the US. Jonathan Lis reports for Haaretz that it is has been put forward by the government official responsible for returning the hostages and missing persons, Gal Hirsch. Lis writes: All hostages held in Gaza would be released in one phase, in exchange for ending the war. As part of Hirsch\u2019s proposal, Israel would agree that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, his family, and thousands of operatives of his choice would leave Gaza for a third country. According to the proposal, this move would not be defined as a \u201csurrender\u201d or \u201cexile\u201d and would allow Hamas leaders to leave through a safe passage. Sources familiar with the initiative stated that the move is intended to \u201cunblock\u201d the deadlock imposed by the crisis in the negotiations. Earlier this week, while visiting Cairo, the US secretary of state Antony Blinken claimed that 15 out of 18 paragraphs of a ceasefire agreement had been settled upon, and that progress had been made in the last few weeks, despite there being no imminent sign of Israel relenting in its bombardment of Gaza or the impending release of any of the hostages who have been held by Hamas for approaching a year. Egypt\u2019s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, said at the same press conference that his country would not accept any changes to the pre-7 October security arrangements for the border between Egypt and Gaza, including for the Rafah crossing. Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have been insisting that as part of any deal Israel must retain control of the Philadelphi corridor, the strip of land running along the Egypt-Gaza border. Israel\u2019s military seized control of the Rafah crossing in May. Turkey is reviewing its measures to secure the communication devices used by its armed forces after the deadly blasts in Lebanon, a Turkish defence ministry official said on Thursday. The Turkish government has put the blame for the 37 people killed and thousands injured in the explosions firmly at the door of Israel, with foreign minister Hakan Fiden earlier today saying \u201cThe escalation in the region is alarming. We see Israel mounting its attacks towards Lebanon step by step. We have come to a point where these operations carried out by Israel have become increasingly provocative.\u201d Reuters reports a Turkish official, speaking to the news agency on condition of anonymity, said Turkey\u2019s military exclusively used domestically produced equipment but Ankara had additional control mechanisms in place if a third party is involved in procurement or production of devices. \u201cIn the context of this incident, we as the defence ministry are carrying out the necessary examinations,\u201d the person added In interviews in the UK this morning Jonathan Reynolds, the business minister, said that he rejected \u201cvery much\u201d a claim by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, that the UK government\u2019s decision to suspend some arms sales to his country was a boost to Hamas. Netanyahu made the claim in an interview with the Daily Mail. He told the paper: They say that Israel has the right to defend itself, but they undermine our ability to exercise that right both by reversing Britain\u2019s position on the absurd allegations made by the ICC [international criminal court] prosecutor against Israel and by blocking weapons sales to Israel as we fight against the genocidal terrorist organisation that carried out the 7 October massacre. The new UK government suspended 30 arms licences to Israel, days after Hamas executed six Israeli hostages, sending a horrible message to Hamas. Asked how he reacted to Netanyahu saying Labour was sending a \u201chorrible message to Hamas\u201d, Reynolds said: I would respectfully reject very much that position and say the decision we took was fair, was proportionate, was consistent with international law, and, fundamentally what we need, what everyone needs in the Middle East is a ceasefire in that conflict. That is in Israel\u2019s interest. I think it\u2019s in everyone\u2019s interest to make sure we get there. But we will always comply with international law as a government. I think you\u2019d expect that of the UK government. A funeral has been taking place in Ghobeiry in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs for two Hezbollah members. In an earlier update Lebanon\u2019s health minister Firass Abiad gave the casualty figures from the two waves of attacks that exploded electrical devices as 12 people killed and 2,323 admitted to hospital on Tuesday, and 25 people killed and 708 wounded on Wednesday. A UN committee has condemned Israel for committing \u201csevere violations\u201d of a global treaty protecting children\u2019s rights, saying its military actions in Palestine since last October has had a \u201ccatastrophic\u201d impact on them. \u201cThe committee condemns in the strongest terms the severe violations of rights under the convention in the OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territories), including the tremendous loss of life as a result of the state party\u2019s military actions,\u201d the four-person committee said in a document, referring to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Israel\u2019s delegation argued in a series of UN hearings earlier this month that the treaty did not apply in Gaza or the West Bank and said that it was committed to respecting international humanitarian law. Three Palestinians have been killed and four others were injured by Israeli fire during a military raid in the occupied West Bank\u2019s city of Qabatiya, Reuters reports, citing the Palestinian official news agency WAFA. The death toll from Wednesday\u2019s blasts targeting walkie-talkies across Lebanon has risen to 25, the country\u2019s health minister Firass Abiad has said. Speaking at a press conference, he also said 608 others had been injured. Lebanon\u2019s state-owned news agency NNA, citing a Lebanese military statement, reports that pagers and other electronic devices are being detonated in a controlled fashion as a precautionary measure. It quotes the military saying that specialised units are \u201cdetonating pagers and suspicious communication devices in various regions\u201d and called on citizens \u201cto stay away from the detonation scenes and to report any suspicious device or object.\u201d Al Jazeera is carrying an additional quote from Turkey\u2019s foreign minister Hakan Fidan, who said that \u201cIran, Hezbollah and elements close to them have no choice\u201d but to respond to recent actions widely attributed to Israel. He said \u201cWe have come to a point where these operations carried out by Israel have become increasingly provocative.\u201d Israel\u2019s military evacuated injured people by helicopter after an anti-tank missile was fired into northern Israel from Lebanon this morning. Reports in Israeli media suggest at least eight people were wounded. The man that Israeli security forces say they have arrested for plotting assassinations against senior political figures in Israel has been named as 73-year-old Moti Maman. Maman, from Ashkelon, was arrested last month and indicted this morning. The Shin Bet and Israeli police have claimed that Iran was backing the plot. Hakan Fidan has said it is \u201calarming\u201d that conflict appears to be escalating in the Middle East. The Turkish foreign minister is reported by AFP as saying \u201cThe escalation in the region is alarming. We see Israel mounting its attacks towards Lebanon step by step.\u201d Hezbollah and Israel have repeatedly exchanged fire since the surprise Hamas attack in southern Israel in October 2023, and thousands of Israelis and Lebanese people have fled their homes to avoid the crossfire over the UN-drawn blue line that separates the two countries. Israeli media reports that at least eight people were injured by an anti-tank guided missile attack from Lebanon on what Hezbollah has claimed was an IDF position in northern Israel. More details soon \u2026 Lebanon\u2019s state-owned news agency NNA reports that there have been fires inside Lebanon near the UN-drawn blue line that separates Israel and Lebanon as a result of fire from Israel. It also reports that Israeli drones and reconnaissance planes have been overflying southern Lebanon. Lorenzo Tondo reports from Jerusalem for the Guardian: The head of the UN relief agency for Palestinians, Unrwa, said in a statement on Thursday that \u201ctoo many of our staff are being killed as our buildings are attacked\u2019\u2019 in Gaza. Commissioner general of Unrwa, Phlippe Lazzarini, says that the UN agency \u201ccontinues to be the target of a barrage of misinformation &amp; disinformation.\u201d In the statement he said: This includes attempts to justify the killing of staff by labelling them operatives of armed groups like Hamas. Such horrific claims, made publicly, are not backed by evidence and are dangerous. Most importantly, they instigate fear among our humanitarian frontline workers in Gaza. Several colleagues told us they no longer feel safe to put on the Unrwa vest. Their children are begging them not to go to work fearing they might be killed while in Unrwa buildings. The misinformation attacks are not about the neutrality of Unrwa or our humanitarian workers. Lazzarini said these attempts were aimed at creation of a distraction from the atrocities of this war dehumanisation by rendering the unbearable justifiable undermining and eliminating Unrwa He added \u201cEveryone has a responsibility to control the spread of inaccurate or malicious information. Before sharing, check the facts to avoid the trap of putting the lives of others at risk.\u201d Last week, Unrwa said six staff members had been killed in two airstrikes that hit al-Jaouni school in Nuseirat, in central Gaza \u2013 the highest death toll among its staff in a single incident. The Israel Defense Forces claimed the strikes killed nine Hamas members, three of whom had doubled as Unrwa workers. Unrwa, one of the UN\u2019s largest agencies, has 13,000 staff working in Gaza and more than 30,000 in the region providing health and educational facilities to Palestinian refugees. Lazzarini called for an independent investigation, pointing out the total number of Unrwa staff killed in the conflict since 7 October last year had reached 220. Allegations of the involvement of Unrwa staff in the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel led major donors in January to cut their funding to the agency, the main channel of humanitarian support not only to Palestinians in Gaza but to Palestinian refugee communities across the region. In August, the UN fired nine staff members from Unrwa, after an internal investigation found they may have been involved in the Hamas-led 7 October attack against Israel. The UN secretary general\u2019s office announced the move in a brief statement on Monday. It did not elaborate on the Unrwa staffers\u2019 possible role in the attack. It said the nine included seven staffers who were fired previously over the claims. In our First Edition newsletter today, my colleague Heather Stewart has spoken to our defence and security editor Dan Sabbagh. Here is a snippet: Targeting Hezbollah directly is not new: Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government claimed to have killed a Hezbollah leader in an airstrike on Beirut in July, for example. But the widespread and indiscriminate nature of Tuesday\u2019s blasts represented a significant escalation. Israel\u2019s much-feared intelligence agency, the Mossad, has a long history of meticulously planned assassinations. But as Dan points out, the sophistication required to plant explosives, physically, inside what appears to have been a job lot of deadly devices, is on a different level. When Hezbollah opted to switch to the low-tech option of pagers, he says, it was \u201cso well penetrated by Israeli intelligence,\u201d that they knew the changeover was happening, and were able to \u201cphysically compromise the supply chain,\u201d to put explosives inside the devices. Add in the reports suggesting the US was tipped off that something was about to happen, says Dan, and \u201call in all, it looks like a state operation. It looks like Israel. It looks like Mossad\u201d. It is unclear, Dan says, what strategic aim Israel\u2019s scattergun attacks achieved, unless they were simply intended as a provocation. \u201cHezbollah will be under some pressure to respond: and it raises the question, does Israel want Hezbollah to respond? Does Israel want Hezbollah to make a move that will force Israel, in turn, into an even more aggressive move, and perhaps start a war?\u201d Read more here: Thursday briefing \u2013 what the attack on Hezbollah means for a fractious Middle East Sign up here for our free daily newsletter, First Edition Senior Hezbollah figure Hassan Nasrallah is expected to make a speech later today, after the explosions in Lebanon over the past two days which have left some of its members dead. Reporting from Beirut for Al Jazeera, Zeina Khodr says that the group faces \u201cone of its biggest challenges yet\u201d, writing for the news network: Hezbollah has suffered setbacks in the last 48 hours, to say the least. Its communications network has been compromised. The group is in a very difficult position. It has been trying a difficult balancing act: to maintain deterrence while avoiding \u2013 or not giving Israel a pretext \u2013 to widen the conflict. Nasrallah will not just be sending messages to Israel. He will be speaking to his own supporters who are asking a lot of questions, including whether the command and control of the organisation is still intact. Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government has banned Al Jazeera from operating inside Israel. Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that Israeli security forces are staging a raid in Hebron and in the town of Idhna, west of Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. In a joint statement the Shin Bet and Israel\u2019s police have claimed that last month an Israeli civilian was arrested for allegedly being recruited by Iran to assassinate Israel\u2019s prime minister, defense minister, or the head of the Shin Bet, as well as undertaking other esponiage and sabotage missions. The Times of Israel reports that the suspect, who security forces claim had been smuggled in and out of Iran during the plotting, was not named, and was indicted on Thursday. Justin McCurry is the Guardian\u2019s Tokyo correspondent Icom, the Japanese communication equipment maker whose walkie-talkies are thought to have been detonated in Lebanon on Wednesday, said the devices may have been a discontinued model containing modified batteries. \u201cWe can\u2019t rule out the possibility that they are fakes, but there is also a chance the products are our IC-V82 model,\u201d Icom\u2019s director, Yoshiki Enomoto, said, according to the Kyodo news agency. The firm sold around 160,000 units of the model in Japan and overseas before ending production and sales in 2014. Images of the devices used in the Lebanon attacks showing damage to their battery area indicated the power packs may have been replaced with those that had been modified to explode, Enomoto said. The Osaka-based company said it was not clear how the devices had ended up in the Middle East. \u201cIt is difficult to determine the distribution channels without checking the serial numbers,\u201d Kyodo quoted Enomoto as saying. Icom said the IC-V82 handheld radio had been exported overseas, including to the Middle East, between 2004 and 2014. \u201cThe production of the batteries needed to operate the main unit has also been discontinued, and a hologram seal to distinguish counterfeit products was not attached, so it is not possible to confirm whether the product shipped from our company,\u201d it said in a statement on its website. It added that products for overseas markets are sold exclusively through its authorised distributors, and that its export programme is based on Japanese security trade control regulations. Icom said all of its radios are manufactured \u201cunder a strict management system\u201d at a subsidiary production site in Wakayama prefecture in western Japan. \u201cNo parts other than those specified by our company are used in a product,\u201d it said. \u201cIn addition, all of our radios are manufactured at the same factory, and we do not manufacture them overseas.\u201d In the last hour Haaretz has reported \u201cseveral Israelis wounded\u201d by anti-tank missiles fired from Lebanon into northern Israel. More details soon \u2026 Here is a reminder of the statements, via Reuters, from Japan\u2019s ICOM, the company linked to the walkie-talkies that exploded in Lebanon yesterday. They said it was not possible to confirm whether the radio product reportedly related to Lebanon explosions was shipped by the company. They said the batteries required to operate the device, for which sales had been discontinued about 10 years ago, had also already been discontinued. They also stated that their products had undergone a strict regulatory process set by the Japanese government. Australia was one of 43 countries that abstained in a non-binding UN vote urging Israel to cease \u201cits unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory as soon as possible and stop all settlement activity there immediately\u201d. It was the first resolution tabled by Palestine since the UN general assembly voted in May by 143 to nine to upgrade Palestine\u2019s UN observer status by giving the Palestinian delegation the right to submit resolutions. Australia\u2019s UN ambassador, James Larsen, told the UN general assembly that Australia \u201csupports many of the principles of this resolution\u201d and was \u201calready doing much of what it calls for\u201d he argued that the vote \u201cdistracts from what the world needs Israel to do.\u201d The latest resolution urges member states to end the import of products originating in the Israeli settlements and to stop the provision of arms, munitions and related equipment to Israel \u201cif it is reasonable to suspect that they may be used in the occupied Palestinian territory\u201d. Over 530 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank between 7 October 2023 and 8 July of this year. In its latest operation update, Israel\u2019s military has claimed that its airforce has struck overnight at what it called \u201cHezbollah terrorist infrastructure\u201d in six areas of southern Lebanon, and also struck at what it called a \u201cHezbollah weapons storage facility.\u201d Israel\u2019s military also claimed to have used artillery fire on southern Lebanon. Thousands of people in Lebanon and Israel have been forced to flee their homes due to the frequent exchanges of fire between Israel and anti-Israeli forces in the region. Israel\u2019s claims have not been independently verified. Hello and welcome to the Guardian\u2019s continuing coverage of crisis in the Middle East. After a second wave of device explosions suspected to be an Israeli attack targeting Hezbollah members in Lebanon killed 20, focus is now turning to the manufacturer of the walkie-talkies reportedly used in the blasts. Images of the exploded walkie-talkies examined by Reuters showed an inside panel labeled \u201cICOM\u201d and \u201cmade in Japan.\u201d However Icom has said it stopped producing the model of radios reportedly used in the blasts about 10 years ago. \u201cThe IC-V82 is a handheld radio that was produced and exported, including to the Middle East, from 2004 to October 2014. It was discontinued about 10 years ago, and since then, it has not been shipped from our company,\u201d Icom said in a statement. Wednesday\u2019s blasts, came a day after the simultaneous explosion of hundreds of paging devices used by Hezbollah killing 12 people, including two children. Hezbollah blamed the unprecedented attack on Israel. More on this in a moment, first here\u2019s a summary of they day\u2019s other main events. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attacks in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed in a brief statement on Wednesday to return tens of thousands of residents evacuated from northern border areas to their homes. Israel\u2019s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, declared the start of a \u201cnew phase\u201d of the war with a focus on the northern front. Gallant, speaking to Israeli troops on Wednesday, did not mention the explosions of devices in Lebanon but he praised the work of Israel\u2019s army and security agencies, noting that the \u201cresults are very impressive\u201d. Hezbollah on Tuesday promised a \u201cfair punishment\u201d for the explosions. Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is expected to give a speech on Thursday. Reports suggest Israel managed to place explosives in thousands of pagers bought by Hezbollah. The US was not involved \u201cin any way\u201d in the wave of explosions that took place in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday, the White House claimed. National security adviser John Kirby told reporters on that it was \u201ctoo soon to know\u201d if the explosions aimed at Hezbollah across recent days would have an impact on a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Hezbollah said it had attacked Israeli artillery positions with rockets on Wednesday in the first cross-border attack since the Tuesday pager blasts. An Israeli journalist said a barrage of 10 rockets was fired from Lebanon at western Galilee, causing no injuries. The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, was \u201cdeeply alarmed\u201d by reports that a large number of communication devices exploded across Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday and Wednesday. The UN security council will meet on Friday to discuss the wave of device explosions across Lebanon targeting Hezbollah. The UN\u2019s high commissioner for human rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, said those responsible for the explosions \u201cmust be held to account\u201d. The EU\u2019s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, described the pager detonations in Lebanon as \u201cextremely worrying\u201d, and said they had caused \u201cheavy, indiscriminate collateral damages among civilians\u201d. Irish foreign minister Miche\u00e1l Martin said the pager detonations showed a \u201cwanton disregard\u201d for the lives of civilians. In a symbolic step exposing Israel\u2019s continued international isolation, the UN general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to direct Israel to leave the occupied Palestinian territories within a year. The non-binding vote follows a historic advisory ruling in July by the international court of justice (ICJ) urging Israel to cease \u201cits unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory as soon as possible and stop all settlement activity there immediately\u201d."
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        "label": "The Guardian;Violent protests erupt in Martinique over high cost of living with 14 injured;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/martinique-protest;2024-09-19T18:54:39Z",
        "text": "Officials in the French Caribbean island of Martinique have imposed a 9pm to 5am curfew in parts of its capital to quell escalating violent protests over the high cost of living. According to Radio France International (RFI), at least 14 people, including 11 police, have been injured \u2013 some by firearms \u2013 as alarming scenes on social media showed vehicles engulfed in flames, gutted buildings and heavily geared riot police marching towards the protests. Standing outside a completely destroyed McDonald\u2019s, the chain\u2019s Martinique director, Marie-Kelly Roussas, told France 24 that it would take months to rebuild the restaurant, affecting dozens of low-income workers. The office of Martinique\u2019s France-appointed prefect, Jean-Christophe Bouvier, said the curfew will extend to 23 September and was intended to protect the population and businesses and restore law and order. But demonstrators say they were forced to protest after authorities and businesses turned a blind eye to petitions to bring down the cost of living. French national statistics show marked disparities between the cost of living in mainland France and overseas territories, with Martinique residents paying an estimated 30% to 42% more for food. France\u2019s interior minister, G\u00e9rald Darmanin last year pledged to tackle the issue of companies using their market dominance to inflate prices, but residents of the Caribbean island say they are still struggling to make ends meet. Rodrigue Petitot, the leader of the Rally for the Protection of Afro-Caribbean Peoples and Resources, which has had an ongoing campaign to address the cost of living, told France 24 that the priority of the protest is to ensure people are able to afford food. Shazi Chalon, the business and cultural attache for the St Lucia consulate in Martinique, said there are \u201cother grievances\u201d at the heart of the protest. \u201cMartinique is supposed to be a department of France, which means that the people here are supposed to be on the same level with France, but there are many people who look at it differently and see that there is a huge disparity in the manner in which France manages Martinique \u2013 in the sense that they believe that in a majority-Black country, all of the people who hold the highest positions here \u2026 are from France,\u201d he added. Chalon, who holds dual St Lucia and Martinique citizenship, said there is also concern about the ongoing impact of historical inequalities. \u201cYou have the local white population who, some of them whose grandparents and ancestors, way back to slavery days, owned plantations, who \u2026 today wield most of the economic power in Martinique, and own most of the agricultural land, own most of the business sector as well,\u201d he said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israeli front-controlled manufacturing process likeliest explanation for attacks on Hezbollah;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/israeli-front-controlled-manufacturing-process-likeliest-explanation-for-attacks-on-hezbollah;2024-09-19T18:47:26Z",
        "text": "A meticulous manufacturing operation, probably controlled by an Israeli front company, is emerging as the most likely way thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies containing hidden explosives ended up in the hands of Hezbollah operatives. Experts said the sabotaged devices appeared to use small amounts of military grade plastic explosives that could be carefully assembled only over a period of time, amid reports that they were manufactured by an Israeli front company with links to Europe. \u201cIt looks like what was used was a high grade plastic military explosive,\u201d said Trevor Lawrence, the head of Cranfield University\u2019s Ordnance Test and Evaluation Centre, which tests bombs on Salisbury Plain. \u201cYou only need around 5g, but it is a complex job to insert them into the pagers and ensure they still worked.\u2019 Military plastic explosives are not commercially available, but are able to kill and cause significant injuries if they are close to a person, particularly their head and torso, Lawrence said. This tallies with the injuries caused in Lebanon this week. \u201cCausing injury with explosives is all about proximity,\u201d he added. A report in the New York Times, based on intelligence briefing, said the exploding pagers were manufactured by an Israeli front company, which even went to the trouble of shipping normal pagers to other clients. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the sophisticated deadly double attack, widely considered to be the work of the Mossad intelligence agency, which killed 37 and wounded hundreds this week. Casualties included Hezbollah fighters and operatives but also civilians, with explosions going off in supermarkets and hospitals, while a walkie-talkie exploded on Wednesday during a funeral for three members of the militant group. A child was killed when pagers blew up the day before. The pagers bleeped with a fake message from a Hezbollah commander, then went silent before exploding, by which time many users had lifted the devices to read. Mohamad Jawad Khalifeh, a surgeon at the American University of Beirut, told the pro-Hezbollah newspaper Al-Akhbar that more than 90% of the injuries they were treating were double injuries to the eye and fingertips. There are examples of intelligence agencies taking control of companies, such as the CIA and West German intelligence\u2019s secret ownership of Crypto, which secured diplomatic communications for as much as 40% of the world\u2019s embassies during the cold war and in the two decades that followed. But controlling a company to manufacture covert weapons in quantity is something different \u2013 and has raised questions about whether the remotely exploding devices are legal under international law. Prof Janina Dill, an international law specialist at Oxford University, said: \u201cThe attacking party would have struggled to verify whether the individuals using the pagers were legitimate targets of attack due to a fighting role in Hezbollah.\u201d They would have \u201chad little information about the circumstances in which the pagers detonated\u201d. A deliberately confusing web of front companies, some based in Europe, appear to be behind the delivery of the devices. Bulgarian intelligence said it was examining reports that a firm, Norta Global, was behind the shipment of the pagers, which in turn was using a Hungarian firm, BAC Consulting, as a front. The Bulgarian security service, DANS, said that it could find \u201cno customs operations have been carried out with the goods in question\u201d, though its searches were continuing. No company called Norta Global crops up on the social media networking site LinkedIn or web searches, though there is a deleted website with a reverse name Global Norta. Internet archives reveal only the most basic website, shorn of identifying information. A day earlier, Hungarian authorities said they had no evidence that BAC Consulting had manufactured the pagers in the country, though it held a licence from their original Taiwanese manufacturer, Go Apollo. BAC\u2019s chief executive, Cristiana B\u00e1rsony-Arcidiacono, said it was just an intermediary. Plastic explosives are also difficult to detect, particularly in small quantities, and normally require the adding of a taggant, a special chemical marker, to ensure their origin can be known. Given the apparent goal to target Hezbollah fighters and leaders, it is unlikely that this will have taken place. Lawrence said more explosive was likely to have been used in the walkie-talkies, which would account for the higher number of fatalities on Wednesday in fewer attacks. The death toll was 25, compared with 12 killed by the exploding pagers. The Japanese walkie-talkie manufacturer, Icom, whose name and logo appears on the IC-V82 devices that exploded on Wednesday, said it had not made the handset since 2014. The batteries had also been discontinued, it added, though counterfeits circulate widely in the Middle East. The fact that Israel was apparently able to ascertain that Hezbollah wanted 5,000 pagers and made use of walkie-talkies as an alternative to the mobile phones its leader had banned this year \u2013 and successfully supply them about five months ago \u2013 suggests a high degree of intelligence. Chuck Freilich, a former deputy national security adviser in Israel, said there would be \u201c100 steps in an operation like this, all of which have to be perfect\u201d, adding that such is the ambition of the attack on Hezbollah this week it would make sense only as part of the beginnings of a military escalation. \u201cThis has exposed what appears to be a remarkable strategic capability,\u201d Freilich said, though he questioned if the Israeli military was ready for a major war in the north given it had been fighting in Gaza for nearly a year. Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said the attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday \u201ccould be considered war crimes or a declaration or war\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Mohamed Al Fayed accused in BBC documentary of raping five women;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/mohamed-al-fayed-accused-bbc-documentary-raping-five-women;2024-09-19T18:34:40Z",
        "text": "The former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of raping five women and sexually abusing at least 15 others when they worked at the luxury department store, according to a BBC investigation. More than 20 women, all of whom were Fayed\u2019s former employees, told a BBC documentary they had been sexually assaulted by him and that Harrods had covered up the abuse. The store\u2019s current owners said they were \u201cutterly appalled\u201d by the allegations and apologised to the victims. Law firms in the UK and the US said on Thursday they were investigating bringing legal claims over allegations including trafficking, rape and serious sexual assault. Leigh Day, working with the American firm Motley Rice, represents a woman who alleges she was subjected to trafficking, rape and abuse. She and her lawyers said they believed there could be hundreds more survivors of similar abuse perpetrated when they worked for Harrods between 1985 and 2010. Lawyers are also investigating whether possible claims could be made against the Metropolitan police by people who say they reported their alleged abuse but insufficient action was taken. Fayed, who sold Harrods in 2010, died last year aged 94. His obituary in the Guardian noted there had been repeated allegations of sexual harassment of female staff during his lifetime. In 2009, the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to charge Fayed over the claim he had sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl at the store. In 2013, he was interviewed by police after a woman alleged he had sexually attacked her at his Park Lane apartment after a job interview. The police reopened the case in 2015 but took no further action. Fayed always denied the allegations. The alleged victims give detailed accounts of the abuse, including some on camera, in the new documentary, Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods. It alleges the abuse took place in London, Paris, Saint-Tropez and Abu Dhabi. One woman told the BBC she was raped as a teenager in Fayed\u2019s Park Lane apartment. \u201cMohamed Al Fayed was a monster, a sexual predator with no moral compass,\u201d she told the BBC. Three other women told the BBC they had also been raped by him in the apartment. A fifth woman, named only as Gemma, said on camera that Fayed had raped her at his Villa Windsor apartment in Paris and then made her wash herself with disinfectant. She told the programme: \u201cObviously he wanted me to erase any trace of him being anywhere near me.\u201d The documentary makers say the women came forward after seeing Fayed sympathetically portrayed in the Netflix series The Crown. The episodes in question covered Diana, Princess of Wales\u2019s relationship with Fayed\u2019s son Dodi, and their deaths in a car crash in 1997. One woman, whom the BBC names only as Sophia, says Fayed tried to rape her more than once when she was a personal assistant to him from 1988 to 1991. Speaking of Fayed\u2019s portrayal in The Crown, she told the BBC: \u201cPeople shouldn\u2019t remember him like that.\u201d Bruce Drummond, a barrister representing several of the women, told the BBC: \u201cThe spider\u2019s web of corruption and abuse at this company was unbelievable and very dark.\u201d In a statement, Harrods said: \u201cWe are utterly appalled by the allegations of abuse perpetrated by Mohamed Al Fayed. These were the actions of an individual who was intent on abusing his power wherever he operated and we condemn them in the strongest terms. We also acknowledge that during this time as a business we failed our employees who were his victims and for this we sincerely apologise. \u201cThe Harrods of today is a very different organisation to the one owned and controlled by Al Fayed between 1985 and 2010; it is one that seeks to put the welfare of our employees at the heart of everything we do. \u201cThis is why, since new information came to light in 2023 about historic allegations of sexual abuse by Al Fayed, it has been our priority to settle claims in the quickest way possible, avoiding lengthy legal proceedings for the women involved. This process is still available for any current or former Harrods employees. \u201cWhile we cannot undo the past, we have been determined to do the right thing as an organisation, driven by the values we hold today, while ensuring that such behaviour can never be repeated in the future.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Two missing and 1,000 evacuated as Storm Boris devastates northern Italy;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/thousands-evacuated-as-storm-boris-causes-havoc-in-northern-italy;2024-09-19T17:14:27Z",
        "text": "Two people are missing and about 1,000 people have been evacuated from their homes after devastating floods and landslides hit the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, prompting accusations that Giorgia Meloni\u2019s far-right government lacks the will to confront the climate crisis. The flooding was brought on by Storm Boris, which had earlier wreaked havoc in central and eastern Europe, killing at least 24 people. Several major cities in central Europe were bracing for swollen rivers to peak on Thursday but defences generally appeared to be holding. Visiting one such city, Wroc\u0142aw in Poland, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, announced \u20ac10bn in cohesion funds for member states left with \u201cheartbreaking\u201d devastation from the flooding. The torrential rain in Italy engulfed the same areas of Emilia-Romagna hit by flooding in May 2023 that killed 17 people and caused \u20ac8.5bn (\u00a37.14bn) of damage. Two people were reported missing in Traversara, a hamlet in Ravenna province, after the Lamone River burst its banks. Schools have closed, railway lines have been disrupted and some roads were blocked by landslides. Firefighters have carried out more than 500 rescue operations in the region, including using helicopters to lift people from flooded homes. \u201cWe are in a full emergency \u2026 the event is very similar to what we had last May,\u201d Michele De Pascale, the mayor of Ravenna, told Radio 24. There are no deaths reported in the latest flooding, which has also affected parts of the neighbouring Marche region. However, anger is mounting among residents at the sluggish progress of works intended to help protect the region from flooding. \u201cMy home has once again been destroyed,\u201d a resident in Faenza, a town in Ravenna province, said in a video collated by Local Team, an Italian photo and video agency. \u201cIt\u2019s shameful; the politicians do nothing.\u201d Extreme rainfall is becoming more common because of human-caused climate breakdown across most of the world. Warmer air can hold more water vapour, while human factors, such as flood defence planning and land use, are also important factors in flooding. Italy is among Europe\u2019s climate risk spots. This summer alone it has endured unprecedented heatwaves, drought, wildfires, storms and severe flooding. Angelo Bonelli, who leads the leftwing Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra party, on Thursday urged Meloni to explain her government\u2019s strategy in addressing the climate crisis. \u201cThere is no will to face the climate crisis,\u201d he said. \u201cThe truth is that the climate crisis causes damage, and economic damage. The climate issue must not have a political characterisation. Unfortunately, it is an objective fact that we have to deal with. The premier, Meloni, must tell parliament which initiatives she intends to adopt.\u201d Meanwhile, Alice Buonguerrieri, a deputy in Meloni\u2019s Brothers of Italy party, said she would file a complaint with prosecutors \u201cto determine responsibility\u201d for the latest flooding. She claimed the region\u2019s centre-left authorities had spent only \u20ac49m of the \u20ac130m allocated by the government last year to build flood defences. In eastern and central Europe, the flooding was the worst in two decades. At least 24 people have died \u2013 five in the Czech Republic, seven in Romania, seven in Poland and five in Austria. The damage is estimated at billions of euros, with roads, bridges and railway lines destroyed and whole neighbourhoods submerged. In Wroc\u0142aw, Poland\u2019s third-largest city, defences appeared to be holding firm after two frantic days of work to reinforce them by the military and civil protection forces and volunteers among the city\u2019s 600,000 residents. Poland has deployed 14,000 troops to its hardest-hit region, near the Czech border. Von der Leyen, who met Tusk and the prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria to discuss aid for the region \u2013 which has been hit by five times the average rainfall for September in five days \u2013 said the first \u20ac10bn of aid would be available immediately. \u201cThis is an emergency reaction now,\u201d she said after touring the area around Wroc\u0142aw. \u201cIt was for me \u2026 heartbreaking to see the destruction and the devastation.\u201d In Hungary, which has reinforced defences along more than 300 miles of riverbank, the Danube was not due to peak in the capital, Budapest, until Saturday. The prime minister, Viktor Orb\u00e1n, said the water should be below record 2013 levels and Hungary would \u201cmount a successful defence against this flood as well\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Here\u2019s how we can tackle the far-right surge | Letter;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/heres-how-we-can-tackle-the-far-right-surge;2024-09-19T16:31:05Z",
        "text": "Gordon Brown starkly outlines the dangers of a far-right surge across the world in an important warning from a senior figure of the mainstream left (Europe is in thrall to the far right \u2013 that\u2019s the result of appeasement by so-called moderates, 17 September). Crucially, he criticises the appeasement of the far right that the orthodox right and now, in France, the centre have been making. His call for the development of a progressive alternative is welcome. Yet it will only work if the roots of this far-right surge are acknowledged. As David Edgar and I show in our new study, The Little Black Book of the Populist Right, the far right is exploiting the void left by social democracy when it followed Francis Fukuyama and declared the end of class conflict in the 1990s. Bill Clinton and Tony Blair\u2019s \u201cthird way\u201d politics meant that traditional social democratic parties discarded their focus on the working class at the very moment when profound changes were altering the nature of work. In Peter Mandelson\u2019s contemptuous phrase, they were \u201cold Labour\u201d. On all this, Brown is silent. As he is on the fact that appeasement of the far right\u2019s migrant agenda is being pursued not just by the centre-right but also by left-led governments in Denmark, Germany and Britain. As Brown rightly says, the far right can be beaten. But it requires a rejection of \u201cthird way\u201d austerity politics and a principled discussion of migration, as well as a focus on core everyday issues. Jon Bloomfield Birmingham \u2022 Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Gis\u00e8le Pelicot tells mass rape trial that she \u2018never gave consent\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/gisele-pelicot-tells-court-she-never-consented-to-mass;2024-09-18T17:07:55Z",
        "text": "The former wife of a French man accused of recruiting strangers to rape her while she was drugged has told a court she never consented and the men who allegedly assaulted her were \u201cdegenerates\u201d. Appearing at the trial of her former husband, Dominique Pelicot, and 50 men he allegedly invited to rape her, Gis\u00e8le Pelicot, 72, said: \u201cI never, even for a single second, gave my consent to Mr Pelicot or those other men.\u201d Dominique Pelicot, 71, has admitted drugging his then-wife with sedatives and anti-anxiety medication to render her unconscious so that he and dozens of strangers who he recruited in online chatrooms could allegedly rape her between 2011 and 2020. The 50 men, aged between 26 and 74, with professions ranging from fire officer to journalist, are alleged to have been recruited by Pelicot, who said they knew they were being invited to commit rape. Some of the accused men have admitted Pelicot told them he was drugging his then-wife, but others have said they believed they were participating in a couple\u2019s organised game. Gis\u00e8le Pelicot said she felt humiliated by questioning from defence lawyers who had argued that the men may have made an error of judgment, or thought she was drunk or pretending to be asleep and complicit. \u201cI have felt humiliated while I\u2019ve been in this courtroom. I have been called an alcoholic, a conspirator of Mr Pelicot,\u201d she said, adding her life had been \u201cdestroyed\u201d for 10 years. \u201cIn the state I was in, I absolutely could not respond. I was in a comatose state; the videos show that.\u201d She said of the men on trial: \u201cThese men are degenerates. They committed rape \u2026 When they see a woman sleeping on her bed, no one thought to ask themselves a question? Don\u2019t they have brains?\u201d She added: \u201cWhen does a husband decide for his wife?\u201d Although she experienced unexplained memory lapses and gynaecological problems for years, Gis\u00e8le Pelicot said she had been unaware of the alleged rapes until police found images on her husband\u2019s computer and told her. Her ex-husband again asked for forgiveness from her in court, but she looked at the ground without reacting. Asked about remarks by one defence lawyer who had said in court that \u201cthere\u2019s rape and there\u2019s rape\u201d in a possible attempt to back up some of the men\u2019s claim that they assumed they were participating in a couple\u2019s game, Gis\u00e8le Pelicot said: \u201cNo, there are no different types of rape,\u201d she said. \u201cRape is rape.\u201d The lawyer subsequently apologised to her, saying he had wanted to distinguish the legal definition of rape from the \u201cmedia\u201d definition. \u201cI am sorry that these remarks hurt and shocked you,\u201d he said. The court was shown explicit images of Gis\u00e8le Pelicot who said she had had no knowledge of the photographs being taken by her husband, raising the issue of whether she could have been sedated when they were taken. She said: \u201cThese were taken without my knowledge, I am very surprised.\u201d Dominique Pelicot told the court he had taken the photos without her knowledge. Defence lawyers asked Gis\u00e8le Pelicot if she understood that men who saw these kinds of photos online could think she wanted a sexual encounter, even while drugged. She said men could \u201cask whether I consented to intercourse\u201d. She said she felt she was being accused of being the guilty party in the courtroom, while the 50 men accused of rape alongside her husband sat in court observing. She said she understood why women hesitated about filing rape complaints. Gis\u00e8le Pelicot has requested that the trial be open to the public to raise awareness about the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse. The trial continues until December."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Turkey wants to regulate Germany's beloved d\u00f6ner kebab street food;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/g-s1-23808/turkey-wants-to-regulate-germanys-doner-kebab;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 03:01:40 -0400",
        "text": "Under Turkey's proposal, beef would be required to come from cattle that is at least 16 months old, and be marinated with specific amounts of fat, yogurt or milk, onion, salt, thyme, and pepper."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;An iconic Churchill photo stolen in Canada and found in Italy is ready to return;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/g-s1-23803/an-iconic-churchill-photo-stolen-is-ready-to-return;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 01:58:31 -0400",
        "text": "Canadian and Italian dignitaries marked the successful recovery of a portrait of Winston Churchill known as \"The Roaring Lion,\" stolen in Canada and recovered in Italy after a two-year search."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Shohei Ohtani becomes the first MLB player to top 50 homers and 50 steals in a season;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/nx-s1-5119962/shohei-ohtani-50-50-season-dodgers;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:50:10 -0400",
        "text": "The Los Angeles Dodgers star reached the 50-50 milestone in his 150th game. He was already the sixth player in MLB history and the fastest ever to reach 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a season."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Retiring Later in China; Getting a Driver's License in Mexico;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/1200336840/retiring-later-in-china-getting-a-drivers-license-in-mexico;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:17:50 -0400",
        "text": "In China the government is raising the official retirement age to combat a rapidly shrinking workforce. We hear reaction from Chinese workers. And life in Mexico City presents many challenges for people there. But getting a driving license isn't one of them."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;A woman sustains leg burns after straying from Yellowstone trail;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/nx-s1-5119695/yellowstone-thermal-injury-old-faithful-geyser;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:16:56 -0400",
        "text": "The 60-year-old woman, who has not been named, was near the Old Faithful Geyser at the Wyoming national park this week when she stepped through a thin crust over scalding water, park officials said."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;NASA's 'Hidden Figures' awarded Congressional Gold Medals for pioneering space work;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/nx-s1-5119312/hidden-figures-women-nasa-space-congressional-gold-medal;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:48:39 -0400",
        "text": "A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians known as NASA's \u201cHidden Figures\u201d were honored Wednesday with Congressional Gold Medals, the highest award given to citizens by Congress."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;FAA investigating cabin pressure problem that injured passengers aboard Boeing plane;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/nx-s1-5119707/faa-delta-flight-boeing-cabin-pressure;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:41:01 -0400",
        "text": "The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating an incident aboard a Delta flight in which a cabin pressurization issue with the Boeing 737 caused some passengers to bleed from the nose and ears."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;'Uncommitted' movement doesn't endorse Harris, but asks supporters to vote against Trump;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/g-s1-23736/uncommitted-movement-no-endorsement-harris-trump-2024;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:34:49 -0400",
        "text": "The Uncommitted National Movement announces it will not endorse Vice President Harris but does not want supporters to vote for former President Donald Trump, and it discourages third-party votes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Diplomatic failings and \u2018elite bargains\u2019 prolonging Libya turmoil: Analysts;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/diplomatic-failings-and-elite-bargains-prolonging-libyas-turmoil-analysts?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:43:13 +0000",
        "text": "With the central bank in turmoil, analysts say that diplomatic efforts in Libya are failing its people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Components for pagers used in Lebanon blasts not from Taiwan, minister says;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/20/components-for-pagers-used-in-lebanon-blasts-not-from-taiwan-minister-says?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:11:10 +0000",
        "text": "CEO of Taiwan-based Gold Apollo\u00a0released after questioning over role in deadly explosions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;The pager bombings \u2013 everyday tech that kills;https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/20/the-pager-bombings-everyday-tech-that-kills?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:11:05 +0000",
        "text": "Attacks against Hezbollah with booby-trapped pagers and two-way radios, blamed on Israel, are new in scale, not approach"
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;From Marxist upbringing to \u2018soft Hindutva\u2019: The rise of new Delhi CM Atishi;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/20/from-marxist-upbringing-to-soft-hindutva-the-rise-of-new-delhi-cm-atishi?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:13:51 +0000",
        "text": "A rare woman chief minister in India, Atishi has her task cut out, in rebuilding a party devastated by arrests."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Kamala Harris joins Oprah Winfrey for star-studded election event;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/kamala-harris-joins-oprah-winfrey-for-star-studded-election-event?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:09:09 +0000",
        "text": "&#039;Unite for America&#039; event features celebrities including Jennifer Lopez, Chris Rock and Julia Roberts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Attack by al-Qaeda linked group in Mali killed more than 70 people;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/attack-by-al-qaeda-linked-group-in-mali-killed-more-than-70-people?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:44:51 +0000",
        "text": "Attack on police training academy and nearby airport one of the worst since unrest began more than a decade ago."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 Shohei Ohtani makes baseball history;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/20/los-angeles-dodgers-shohei-ohtani-makes-baseball-history?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 03:09:00 +0000",
        "text": "Player becomes first in MLB to record 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a single season."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;As Sri Lanka votes, a $2.9bn IMF loan looms large;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/20/as-sri-lanka-votes-a-2-9bn-imf-loan-looms-large?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 03:03:50 +0000",
        "text": "Ranil Wickremesinghe, Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Sajith Premadasa are contesting an election focused on the economy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;US believes Gaza ceasefire deal unlikely in Biden\u2019s term: Report;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/us-believes-gaza-ceasefire-deal-unlikely-in-bidens-term-report?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 02:25:56 +0000",
        "text": "Wall Street Journal cites multiple US officials saying they are sceptical a ceasefire can be achieved before January."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 938;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-938?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 01:02:30 +0000",
        "text": "As the war enters its 938th day, these are the main developments."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel intensifies air raids on southern Lebanon amid escalation fears;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/israel-intensifies-air-raids-on-southern-lebanon-amid-escalation-fears?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:53:50 +0000",
        "text": "Israeli defence minister says Hezbollah to &#039;pay an increasing price&#039; as group promises retaliation over device attacks."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Video captures Israeli soldiers pushing dead bodies from roof;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/19/video-captures-israeli-soldiers-pushing-dead-bodies-from-roof?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:22:24 +0000",
        "text": "Video from the occupied West Bank town of Qabatiya shows Israeli soldiers pushing dead bodies off a roof."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Against All Enemies;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/featured-documentaries/2024/9/19/against-all-enemies?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:00:00 +0000",
        "text": "Inside violent US far-right groups, the role played by military veterans and the threat they pose to democracy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Lawmakers, teachers clash over upcoming Florida constitutional amendment;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/lawmakers-teachers-clash-over-upcoming-florida-constitutional-amendment?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:39:14 +0000",
        "text": "Closely watched constitutional amendment in the US state threatens to deepen political divisions over education policy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Iran warns Israel of \u2018crushing response\u2019 after attacks on Hezbollah;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/iran-warns-israel-of-crushing-response-after-attacks-on-hezbollah?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:09:43 +0000",
        "text": "Iran&#039;s Revolutionary Guard commander promises &#039;destruction&#039; of Israel after communication device blasts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Can Israel fight on two fronts?;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/9/19/can-israel-fight-on-two-fronts?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:55:01 +0000",
        "text": "Hezbollah is weighing its options after two days of remote attacks targeted its members and civilians."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;CIA officer who sexually assaulted dozens of women given 30-year sentence;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/cia-officer-who-sexually-assaulted-dozens-of-women-given-30-year-sentence?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:49:28 +0000",
        "text": "Veteran officer with US spy agency found guilty of sexually assaulting dozens of women while stationed around the world."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Lebanese army detonates electronic device found on village street;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/19/lebanese-army-detonates-electronic-device-found-on-village-street?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:41:27 +0000",
        "text": "Lebanese forces carried out a controlled explosion of an electronic device found on a street in Klayaa Thursday."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Hezbollah\u2019s Nasrallah says Israel\u2019s Lebanon attacks crossed \u2018all red lines\u2019;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/hezbollahs-nasrallah-says-israels-lebanon-attacks-crossed-all-red-lines?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:19:03 +0000",
        "text": "Nasrallah says attacks on communication devices are a &#039;declaration of war&#039; by Israel and Hezbollah will retaliate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Sidelining antiwar voices\u2019: US Uncommitted Movement not endorsing Harris;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/sidelining-antiwar-voices-us-uncommitted-movement-not-endorsing-harris?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:16:38 +0000",
        "text": "Group says Donald Trump must be stopped but Kamala Harris&#039;s inaction on Gaza makes endorsement impossible."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Elon Musk is a threat to Brazil\u2019s democracy;https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/19/elon-musk-is-a-threat-to-brazils-democracy?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:15:50 +0000",
        "text": "Under the guise of defending free speech, the tech mogul is attempting to assert dominance over Brazil&#039;s judiciary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Transgender woman stabbed to death in Georgia amid LGBTQ bill controversy;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/transgender-woman-stabbed-to-death-in-georgia-amid-lgbtq-bill-controversy?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:51:42 +0000",
        "text": "Kesaria Abramidze, a transgender model, is killed in Georgia, raising concerns over LGBTQ rights and safety."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Lebanon blasts: Why would Israel attack now?;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/19/lebanon-blasts-why-would-israel-attack-now?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:49:17 +0000",
        "text": "Here\u2019s a look at why Israel would attack Lebanon and what could happen next."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Talk of Ukraine\u2019s missile deal riles Russia; Kyiv vows to make more weapons;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/russia-vows-brutal-response-as-ukraine-seeks-long-range-missile-deal?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:29:03 +0000",
        "text": "Ukrainian officials lay out plans for domestic defence industry as they await word from Western powers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Hezbollah chief: Israel crossed \u201call red lines\u201d with device explosions;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/19/hezbollah-chief-israel-crossed-all-red-lines-with-device-explosions?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:16:40 +0000",
        "text": "Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah blamed Israel for sabotaging communication devices that exploded across Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;More women tell BBC they were sexually assaulted by ex-Harrods boss;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yjgv7qy9qo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:55:11 GMT",
        "text": "Melanie is among a growing number of former employees to tell the BBC they were attacked by Mohamed Al Fayed."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Russia\u2019s war dead tops 70,000 as volunteers endure \u2018meat grinder\u2019 strategy;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr3255gpjgo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:12:45 GMT",
        "text": "More than 70,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine - volunteers now make up the highest number of deaths."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The cancers with longest treatment waits revealed;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy948p4j5wo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:01:31 GMT",
        "text": "Patients with bowel, gynaecological and head and neck cancers are more likely to face delays."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Painful' Budget warning spooks people's confidence;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cje39kw1281o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:31:56 GMT",
        "text": "Some economists have linked a drop in consumer confidence to officials' warnings of a painful Budget."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Why UK can't just return migrants to France, as Reform says;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyxeedx40d8o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:06:56 GMT",
        "text": "Reform UK appears to be wrong to claim Britain can legally turn small boats back in the Channel."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sir Alex Ferguson on how he keeps his own mind sharp as he helps dementia cause;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/videos/cg78rmm3gz7o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:44:46 GMT",
        "text": "Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson talks to BBC Breakfast about helping families affected by dementia. He was speaking as part of National Playlist Day,"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;America through the looking glass: The crypto bros crowdfunding a new country;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyl171lyewo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:22:07 GMT",
        "text": "How a group of Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs plan to create \"the network state.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Domestic abuse experts to be embedded in 999 control rooms;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c243nll5jqpo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:15:54 GMT",
        "text": "The plan is part of the government's pledge to halve violence against women and girls within a decade."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Gallery stands firm over naked painting in window despite police visit;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c206e5qx82do;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:16:24 GMT",
        "text": "Officers visited the gallery in Hay-on-Wye after complaints Poppy Baynham's artwork was pornographic."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Kylie Minogue announces biggest tour in a decade;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9xlkvy24o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 03:37:31 GMT",
        "text": "The tour will kick off in her home country Australia in February, before swinging through Asia and the UK."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Hezbollah device explosions: The unanswered questions;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0e1wpr0q44o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:23:52 GMT",
        "text": "The sabotage of thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies has raised many who, what and whys."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Surgeon 'became robotic' to treat sheer volume of wounded Lebanese;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04p7q3k4k9o;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:12:31 GMT",
        "text": "Elias Jaradeh worked for almost 24 hours on the wounded, many of whom lost eyes or the use of their hands."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Taiwan says it did not make Hezbollah pager parts;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93yg2w53dzo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:27:36 GMT",
        "text": "The pagers that exploded had labels pointing to a Taiwanese firm - but it denied making the devices."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What we know about the walkie-talkie explosions;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz04m913m49o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:07:59 GMT",
        "text": "The attacks left at least 32 dead and thousands injured, but how the blasts occurred remains unclear."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;China spent millions on this new trade route - then a war got in the way;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjyj2rd1zpo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:02:03 GMT",
        "text": "The BBC visits the border with Myanmar, where a war is raging on China\u2019s doorstep."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;\u2018Meeting a real-life cyborg was gobsmacking\u2019;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg58r70yj43o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:27:33 GMT",
        "text": "Director Carey Born was so captivated by Neil Harbisson and his \"eyeborg\" she made a film about him."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Weekly quiz: Who were the big winners at the Emmys?;https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-69356332;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:03:15 GMT",
        "text": "Test how closely you've been paying attention to what has been going on over the past seven days."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The Papers: Starmer 'in control' and 'Al Fayed rape scandal';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79n1r5qrw3o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:14:16 GMT",
        "text": "Friday's headlines include Sir Keir Starmer defending his position and sex attack claims against Mohamed Al Fayed."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Maddy Cusack's legacy will be 'a voice for girls';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89lv21xljjo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 01:21:40 GMT",
        "text": "The Sheffield United player died suddenly a year ago, aged 27."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Boeing strike: 'My $28-an-hour pay isn't enough to get by';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm24l46ye4go;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:56:28 GMT",
        "text": "BBC News speaks to Boeing workers on the picket line about why they feel they have no choice but to strike."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Schoolboys who sang in Benjamin Britten's choir reunite after 61 years;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced08vxq7gpo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:29:58 GMT",
        "text": "The boys who sang on Benjamin Britten's historic recording of War Requiem reunite, 61 years later."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Government borrowing in August highest since Covid;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cje39jpk404o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:00:26 GMT",
        "text": "Higher spending on public services and benefits led to a rise in government borrowing, figures show."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Work begins on bridges to give aerial views of bison;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04p7g9d6w6o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:37:50 GMT",
        "text": "The four bridges will expand the area the animals can roam by hundreds of acres."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;I\u2019m in control, says Starmer after Sue Gray pay leaks;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyvg1y170xo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:46:24 GMT",
        "text": "Anonymous briefings point to mounting tensions around the PM's chief of staff in Downing Street."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Harris and Oprah hold a star-studded rally in Michigan;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cx25vxev4e8o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 03:53:51 GMT",
        "text": "The vice-president joined the television icon in one of the seven crucial battleground states."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Twelve-mile jams on M25 following lorry fire;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y38ev486qo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:45:44 GMT",
        "text": "National Highways says traffic is delayed by about two-and-a-half hours between Kent and Surrey."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Titan sub broke days before doomed dive, says science chief;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70w81ly299o;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:06:33 GMT",
        "text": "US Coast Guard inquiry hears that malfunction caused passengers to \"tumble about\" inside sub."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The 1500th Episode;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jrntz6;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:19:00 GMT",
        "text": "And Starmer insists he\u2019s \u201ccompletely in control\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Is it delivering? First impressions of new Champions League format;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cje391q2wqyo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 22:52:36 GMT",
        "text": "BBC Sport looks at what happened in the first round of Champions League games and how the new format is looking."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;WSL predictions 2024-25: Can anyone stop Chelsea?;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5y88m6lvj3o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:28:01 GMT",
        "text": "With the Women's Super League season back this weekend, can anyone stop Chelsea from winning a sixth successive title?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'That's how we want to play' - Brook happy with England's approach;https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/articles/cn03x9prxzzo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:23:58 GMT",
        "text": "Harry Brook says he is not concerned by England's batting failures in the first ODI against Australia, but former England skipper Sir Alastair Cook disagrees."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Arsenal's Raya stops penalty with 'outstanding' double save;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/videos/cd6q074q6yxo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:00:02 GMT",
        "text": "Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya stops Atalanta from going ahead with an \"outstanding\" double save, keeping out Mateo Retegui's penalty."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Bath 'not under pressure' to win trophy - Van Graan;https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/c39lnxm1n7zo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:31:48 GMT",
        "text": "Bath are not letting pressure to win a trophy affect them ahead of the new Premiership campaign, says head of rugby Johann van Graan."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Dodgers star Ohtani makes MLB 50-50 history;https://www.bbc.com/sport/baseball/articles/c8xej7l75plo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:23:21 GMT",
        "text": "Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani makes baseball history by becoming the first player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Tradeswomen paid less amid appalling sexism';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k3k9y2dp3o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:09:52 GMT",
        "text": "One tradeswoman struggled to find employment despite finishing her training with a distinction."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;PSNI mugshot policy protects criminals, says victim;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced085zqdqlo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:18:15 GMT",
        "text": "The PSNI's plans to change its policy on custody images has been welcomed as a positive step by Catherine McSherry."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Charity boss apologises to rape survivors over crisis centre failings;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj310jvzpd8o;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:36:39 GMT",
        "text": "A rape support centre in Edinburgh, run by a trans woman, had not provided women-only spaces for 16 months."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Family unable to see a dentist in four years;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj04rnj2m7yo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:25:26 GMT",
        "text": "A mother-of-four says she cannot afford private dental care and is unable to see an NHS dentist."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, explosions au Liban\u00a0: l\u2019enqu\u00eate sur l\u2019origine des bipeurs pi\u00e9g\u00e9s du Hezbollah se poursuit de Ta\u00efwan \u00e0 la Bulgarie;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/20/en-direct-explosions-au-liban-l-enquete-sur-l-origine-des-bipeurs-pieges-du-hezbollah-se-poursuit-de-taiwan-a-la-bulgarie_6321740_3210.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:26:29 +0200",
        "text": "Le \u00ab\u00a0New York Times\u00a0\u00bb a affirm\u00e9 que les bipeurs qui ont explos\u00e9 mardi, tuant des responsables du Hezbollah, avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 fabriqu\u00e9s par Gold Apollo \u2013 ce que l\u2019entreprise ta\u00efwanaise a d\u00e9menti \u2013 et pi\u00e9g\u00e9s par Isra\u00ebl. Les autorit\u00e9s bulgares ont exclu toute implication directe de l\u2019entreprise Norta Global."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les laboratoires d\u2019analyses m\u00e9dicales, en\u00a0gr\u00e8ve pour quatre jours, promettent un\u00a0mouvement \u00ab\u00a0massif\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/20/les-laboratoires-d-analyses-medicales-en-greve-pour-quatre-jours-promettent-un-mouvement-massif_6325330_3224.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:16:07 +0200",
        "text": "A l\u2019appel des syndicats de biologistes, les laboratoires d\u2019analyses m\u00e9dicales garderont \u00ab\u00a0presque tous\u00a0\u00bb porte close, pour quatre jours. Ils s\u2019opposent aux baisses de tarifs que leur impose l\u2019Assurance-maladie."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Earvin Ngapeth, double champion olympique de volley et star des Bleus, retrouve le championnat de France;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/20/earvin-ngapeth-double-champion-olympique-de-volley-et-star-des-bleus-retrouve-le-championnat-de-france_6325327_3242.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:03:17 +0200",
        "text": "Le r\u00e9ceptionneur-attaquant de 33\u00a0ans, d\u00e9sign\u00e9 meilleur joueur du tournoi des Jeux en\u00a02021\u00a0et en 2024, s\u2019est engag\u00e9 avec Poitiers pour une saison. Il \u00e9voluait \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tranger depuis treize ans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: Geoffroy Didier satisfait du nombre de ministres LR \u00ab\u00a0au regard des rapports de force \u00e0 l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/20/en-direct-gouvernement-barnier-emmanuel-macron-a-alerte-le-premier-ministre-sur-le-profil-de-laurence-garnier-pressentie-au-ministere-de-la-famille_6325006_823448.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:55:48 +0200",
        "text": "Michel Barnier a \u00e9t\u00e9 re\u00e7u \u00e0 l\u2019Elys\u00e9e par Emmanuel Macron, jeudi soir, pour lui pr\u00e9senter la composition de son gouvernement. Le chef de l\u2019Etat a notamment alert\u00e9 sur le profil de Laurence Garnier, s\u00e9natrice LR. L\u2019ex\u00e9cutif sera pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0avant dimanche\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Un policier condamn\u00e9 pour trafic de drogue dans le centre de r\u00e9tention de Vincennes;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/20/un-policier-condamne-pour-trafic-de-drogue-dans-le-centre-de-retention-de-vincennes_6325284_3224.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:15:10 +0200",
        "text": "Pendant plusieurs mois, des \u00e9trangers retenus se sont fait livrer du cannabis et des t\u00e9l\u00e9phones par l\u2019entremise de ce gardien de la paix, jug\u00e9 jeudi \u00e0 Paris."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Nouvelle-Cal\u00e9donie, une nuit agit\u00e9e apr\u00e8s la mort de deux insurg\u00e9s de la \u00ab\u00a0tribu\u00a0\u00bb kanak de Saint-Louis;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/20/en-nouvelle-caledonie-une-nuit-agitee-apres-le-deces-de-deux-insurges-de-la-tribu-kanak-de-saint-louis_6325283_823448.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:08:38 +0200",
        "text": "La veille, les deux hommes, \u00e2g\u00e9s de 29 et 30\u00a0ans, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 mortellement bless\u00e9s par les tirs d\u2019un membre du Groupe d\u2019intervention de la gendarmerie nationale (GIGN), portant \u00e0 treize le nombre de morts depuis le d\u00e9but des violences."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Partir\u00a0? Rester et s\u2019engager\u00a0? Depuis le 7\u00a0octobre 2023, pour les Fran\u00e7ais juifs, \u00ab\u00a0tout a chang\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/20/partir-rester-et-s-engager-depuis-le-7-octobre-2023-pour-les-francais-juifs-tout-a-change_6324999_3224.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:45:09 +0200",
        "text": "Entre le jour de l\u2019attaque terroriste du Hamas en Isra\u00ebl et le 31\u00a0ao\u00fbt, 1\u00a0660 citoyens fran\u00e7ais de confession juive ont d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de faire leur alya. D\u2019autres ont pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9 rejoindre les nombreux collectifs qui se sont cr\u00e9\u00e9s face \u00e0 la mont\u00e9e de l\u2019antis\u00e9mitisme."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0: Ursula von der Leyen est \u00e0 Kiev pour parler du \u00ab\u00a0soutien\u00a0\u00bb europ\u00e9en \u00e0 l\u2019approche de l\u2019hiver;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/20/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-sera-recu-a-la-maison-blanche-le-26-septembre-et-rencontrera-egalement-donald-trump_6318183_3210.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:57:13 +0200",
        "text": "C\u2019est la huiti\u00e8me visite de la pr\u00e9sidente de la Commission europ\u00e9enne dans la capitale ukrainienne. Volodymyr Zelensky sera re\u00e7u \u00e0 la Maison Blanche le 26\u00a0septembre et rencontrera \u00e9galement Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;De la menace de d\u00e9mission de Michel Barnier \u00e0 la finalisation de son gouvernement\u00a0: r\u00e9cit d\u2019une journ\u00e9e de tractations cruciales \u00e0 Matignon;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/20/gouvernement-barnier-de-la-menace-de-demission-du-premier-ministre-a-la-finalisation-de-son-equipe-recit-d-une-journee-de-tractations-cruciales-a-matignon_6325044_823448.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:50:37 +0200",
        "text": "Au terme de n\u00e9gociations difficiles, l\u2019ancien commissaire europ\u00e9en a \u00e9tabli une liste, pas encore officielle, de trente-huit ministres, dont seize de plein exercice. Parmi ces derniers, sept macronistes, deux MoDem, un Horizons, et trois LR. Une composition qui confirme la droitisation du mandat d\u2019Emmanuel Macron."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Une \u0153uvre in\u00e9dite attribu\u00e9e \u00e0 Mozart d\u00e9couverte en Allemagne;https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/09/20/decouverte-d-une-uvre-inconnue-attribuee-a-mozart_6325007_3246.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:12:46 +0200",
        "text": "Il s\u2019agit d\u2019un ensemble de sept mouvements pour trio \u00e0 cordes d\u2019une dur\u00e9e d\u2019environ douze minutes, que le musicien autrichien aurait compos\u00e9 dans sa jeunesse. Le morceau a \u00e9t\u00e9 retrouv\u00e9 dans le fonds de la biblioth\u00e8que musicale de Leipzig."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Journ\u00e9es europ\u00e9ennes du patrimoine\u00a0: dix id\u00e9es de visite en bord de mer;https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/09/20/journees-europeennes-du-patrimoine-dix-idees-de-visite-en-bord-de-mer_6325002_3246.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:00:00 +0200",
        "text": "Le service Culture du \u00ab\u00a0Monde\u00a0\u00bb propose sa s\u00e9lection de sites qui mettent le patrimoine maritime \u00e0 l\u2019honneur. La 41\u1d49\u00a0\u00e9dition de la manifestation a lieu les 21\u00a0et 22\u00a0septembre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Nike change de PDG et rappelle un ancien de la maison\u00a0pour se relancer;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/20/nike-change-de-pdg-et-rappelle-un-ancien-de-la-maison-pour-se-relancer_6324962_3234.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 02:22:13 +0200",
        "text": "Elliott Hill, parti \u00e0 la retraite en\u00a02020 apr\u00e8s trente-deux ans de carri\u00e8re chez l\u2019\u00e9quipementier sportif, doit prendre ses fonctions le 14\u00a0octobre, en remplacement de John Donahoe, \u00e2g\u00e9 de 64\u00a0ans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Mort \u00e0 47\u00a0ans de Sophie Charnavel, PDG des \u00e9ditions Robert Laffont;https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/09/20/mort-a-47-ans-de-sophie-charnavel-pdg-des-editions-robert-laffont_6324929_3382.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 01:11:18 +0200",
        "text": "Arriv\u00e9e au sein du groupe Editis en\u00a02018, Sophie Charnavel, morte des suites d\u2019une longue maladie, dirigeait\u00a0la prestigieuse maison d\u2019\u00e9dition depuis 2020."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: l\u2019ex\u00e9cutif sera pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0avant dimanche\u00a0\u00bb, Laurent Wauquiez n\u2019en fera pas partie;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/20/en-direct-gouvernement-barnier-l-executif-sera-presente-avant-dimanche-laurent-wauquiez-n-en-fera-pas-partie_6314327_823448.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 01:05:38 +0200",
        "text": "Michel Barnier a \u00e9t\u00e9 re\u00e7u \u00e0 l\u2019Elys\u00e9e par le pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique, jeudi soir, pendant une cinquantaine de minutes. Selon Gabriel Attal, le premier ministre pr\u00e9voit un gouvernement compos\u00e9 notamment de sept ministres macronistes de plein exercice sur seize."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La plate-forme X de nouveau inaccessible au Br\u00e9sil, comme l\u2019exige la justice;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/20/la-plate-forme-x-de-nouveau-inaccessible-au-bresil-comme-l-exige-la-justice_6324894_3210.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:10:20 +0200",
        "text": "Le r\u00e9seau social d\u2019Elon Musk avait assur\u00e9, mercredi soir, que le r\u00e9tablissement de son service \u00e9tait un effet \u00ab\u00a0involontaire\u00a0\u00bb d\u2019un changement de serveur et resterait \u00ab\u00a0temporaire\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Monaco-Barcelone\u00a0: le r\u00e9sum\u00e9 du surprenant succ\u00e8s du club du Rocher, pour ses d\u00e9buts en Ligue des champions;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/19/monaco-barcelone-le-resume-du-surprenant-succes-du-club-du-rocher-pour-ses-debuts-en-ligue-des-champions_6324861_3242.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:25:10 +0200",
        "text": "Face \u00e0 des Barcelonais rapidement r\u00e9duits \u00e0 dix, les Mon\u00e9gasques ont su s\u2019imposer (2-1) au Stade Louis-II jeudi, pour leur premi\u00e8re journ\u00e9e de Ligue des champions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;TNT\u00a0: C8, NRJ12 et la Web TV Le M\u00e9dia saisissent le Conseil d\u2019Etat pour contester la pr\u00e9s\u00e9lection de l\u2019Arcom;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/19/tnt-c8-nrj12-et-la-web-tv-le-media-saisissent-le-conseil-d-etat-pour-contester-la-preselection-de-l-arcom_6324795_3234.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:55:14 +0200",
        "text": "Les deux cha\u00eenes de t\u00e9l\u00e9vision contestent la d\u00e9cision du r\u00e9gulateur de l\u2019audiovisuel de ne pas renouveler leur autorisation de diffusion sur la TNT. Le site Internet de gauche radicale, dont la candidature n\u2019a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 retenue, fait aussi appel \u00e0 la justice administrative."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ligue des champions\u00a0: Monaco et Brest soignent leurs d\u00e9buts;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/live/2024/09/19/en-direct-ligue-des-champions-suivez-les-matchs-brest-sturm-graz-et-monaco-barcelone_6324559_3242.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:00:03 +0200",
        "text": "Qualifi\u00e9 pour la premi\u00e8re fois de son histoire pour une Coupe d\u2019Europe, le Stade brestois a parfaitement entam\u00e9 sa campagne de Ligue des champions, jeudi, face aux Autrichiens du Sturm Graz (2-1). Au m\u00eame moment, l\u2019AS Monaco s\u2019est offert une victoire de prestige contre un FC Barcelone rapidement r\u00e9duit \u00e0 dix (2-1)."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Inondations\u00a0: Ursula von der Leyen annonce que les pays europ\u00e9ens touch\u00e9s vont recevoir une aide de 10\u00a0milliards d\u2019euros;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/19/inondations-ursula-von-der-leyen-annonce-que-les-pays-europeens-touches-vont-recevoir-une-aide-de-10-milliards-d-euros_6324728_3244.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:34:17 +0200",
        "text": "Depuis la semaine derni\u00e8re, des vents violents, des pr\u00e9cipitations exceptionnellement fortes et des inondations ont fait vingt-quatre morts en Autriche, Pologne, Roumanie et R\u00e9publique tch\u00e8que."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Jens Stoltenberg, le secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de\u00a0l\u2019OTAN, met en\u00a0garde contre l\u2019isolationnisme \u00e0\u00a0quelques jours de son d\u00e9part de l\u2019alliance;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/19/jens-stoltenberg-le-patron-de-l-otan-met-en-garde-contre-l-isolationnisme-a-quelques-jours-de-son-depart-de-l-alliance_6324629_3210.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:54:11 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019OTAN est \u00ab\u00a0forte, unie et plus importante que jamais\u00a0\u00bb, affirme Jens Stoltenberg, qui sera remplac\u00e9 par l\u2019ancien premier ministre n\u00e9erlandais Mark Rutte le 1\u1d49\u02b3\u00a0octobre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Formation du gouvernement\u00a0: les maires s\u2019impatientent;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/19/formation-du-gouvernement-les-maires-s-impatientent_6324628_823448.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:48:27 +0200",
        "text": "Les \u00e9diles des petites villes de France, r\u00e9unis jeudi \u00e0 Amboise (Indre-et-Loire), s\u2019inqui\u00e8tent de la mani\u00e8re dont la loi de finances pour 2025\u00a0sera \u00e9labor\u00e9e, et des choix qui seront faits les concernant."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Gr\u00e8ve chez Boeing\u00a0: le patron menace les salari\u00e9s de\u00a0ch\u00f4mage partiel non r\u00e9mun\u00e9r\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/19/greve-chez-boeing-le-patron-menace-les-salaries-de-chomage-partiel-non-remunere_6324557_3234.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:50:20 +0200",
        "text": "Au sixi\u00e8me jour du conflit social qui paralyse une partie de la production de l\u2019avionneur am\u00e9ricain, le directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, Kelly Ortberg, a annonc\u00e9 que des dizaines de milliers d\u2019employ\u00e9s seraient plac\u00e9s en ch\u00f4mage technique de fa\u00e7on imminente."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le sp\u00e9cialiste du reconditionn\u00e9 Back Market f\u00eate ses 10\u00a0ans;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/19/le-specialiste-du-reconditionne-back-market-fete-ses-dix-ans_6324521_3234.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:12:44 +0200",
        "text": "En une d\u00e9cennie, l\u2019entreprise fran\u00e7aise a s\u00e9duit 15\u00a0millions de clients pour 30\u00a0millions d\u2019appareils vendus, et s\u2019est implant\u00e9e dans 18\u00a0pays en Europe, en Am\u00e9rique, et en Asie."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019enclave espagnole de Ceuta sous la pression de migrants marocains souhaitant rejoindre l\u2019Europe;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/19/l-enclave-espagnole-de-ceuta-sous-la-pression-de-migrants-marocains-souhaitant-rejoindre-l-europe_6324517_3212.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:00:01 +0200",
        "text": "Apr\u00e8s celle de dimanche, une nouvelle tentative massive de franchissement de la fronti\u00e8re serait pr\u00e9vue le 30\u00a0septembre. Planifi\u00e9s sur les r\u00e9seaux sociaux, ces passages en force impliquent majoritairement des ressortissants marocains, alors qu\u2019ils \u00e9taient jusqu\u2019\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent le fait de migrants subsahariens."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Pour valoriser la Ligue\u00a01, les dirigeants du football fran\u00e7ais la jouent d\u00e9cal\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/19/pour-valoriser-la-ligue-1-les-dirigeants-du-football-francais-la-jouent-decale_6324509_3242.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:48:32 +0200",
        "text": "La Ligue de football professionnel a d\u00e9voil\u00e9 un clip pour valoriser son championnat d\u2019\u00e9lite dans un contexte compliqu\u00e9, marqu\u00e9 par la baisse des droits t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9s et les critiques visant son nouveau diffuseur."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Watch: Operation Polo: The battle that changed the fate of the Nizam and Hyderabad;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/watch-operation-polo-the-battle-that-changed-the-fate-of-the-nizam-and-hyderabad/article68663381.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:15:34 +0530",
        "text": "The history of the annexation in Hyderabad that took place in September 1948"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tirumala laddus row: YSRCP approaches High Court, told to move a PIL by September 25;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/tirumala-laddus-row-ysrcp-approaches-high-court-told-to-move-a-pil-by-september-25/article68663166.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:08:14 +0530",
        "text": "Rajya Sabha member and TTD Trust Board former chairman Y.V. Subba Reddy on September 19 said that he would initiate legal action against Mr. Naidu in case he failed to corroborate his charges"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tirumala prasadam row: Former minister Eshwarappa demands arrest of Jagan Reddy, CBI probe;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/tirumala-prasadam-row-former-minister-eshwarappa-demands-arrest-of-jagan-reddy-cbi-probe/article68663319.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:04:39 +0530",
        "text": "\u201cA CBI probe should be ordered to find out people responsible for this,\u201d the former minister said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Telangana Agriculture Minister\u2019s comments pushes farmers into confusion: KTR;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-agriculture-ministers-comments-pushes-farmers-into-confusion-ktr/article68663199.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:04:33 +0530",
        "text": "He pointed at Tummala Nageswara Rao\u2019s comments reportedly made in Delhi that Rythu Bharosa would not be extended to the tenant farmers."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India\u2019s heritage activists: power of the people;https://www.thehindu.com/society/india-heritage-activists-growing-number-of-citizen-groups-protecting-natural-and-built-heritage/article68650818.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:55:09 +0530",
        "text": "How the number of citizen groups keenly involved in protecting the natural and built heritage of their cities is growing"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Lokpal seeks applications from retired CBI, ED officers among others to join it as consultants;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/lokpal-seeks-applications-from-retired-cbi-ed-officers-among-others-to-join-it-as-consultants/article68663320.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:52:14 +0530",
        "text": "The Lokpal has recently advertised six posts of consultants at various levels, including one for appointment of an eligible candidate as a \u201cPersonal Assistant\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;How nylon wire baskets have become a showcase of skills for visually challenged women artisans in Tiruchi;https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/visually-challenged-basket-koodai-nylon-wire-handicraft-weaving-tiruchi-rehabilitation-centre-for-blind-women-empowerment-vimala-moses-nahla-nainar-interview-metroplus-the-hindu/article68655089.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:51:20 +0530",
        "text": "A group of visually challenged women artisans in Tiruchi has found empowerment through weaving nylon wire baskets for customers across the country"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;This new bakery in Bandra will take you on a trip down childhood memory lane;https://www.thehindu.com/food/dining/this-new-bakery-in-bandra-will-take-you-on-a-trip-down-childhood-memory-lane/article68576296.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:50:24 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Order court-monitored SIT probe, judicial inquiry into custodial abuse case: Naveen Patnaik to Odisha govt;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/odisha/order-court-monitored-sit-probe-judicial-inquiry-into-custodial-abuse-case-naveen-patnaik-to-odisha-govt/article68663300.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:43:25 +0530",
        "text": "The Indian Army also seeks suo motu intervention of Chief Justice of Orissa High Court into case of police excesses in Bhubaneswar"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India\u2019s area under sustainable farming is about 3.6 mn hectares: Giriraj Singh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/indias-area-under-sustainable-farming-is-about-36-mn-hectares-giriraj-singh/article68663241.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:34:46 +0530",
        "text": "According to Union Minister Giriraj Singh, about 20% to 27% of Indian farmers currently use green and organic fertilizers which is about the same ratio as in the rest of the world."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;SC directs govt. to produce chart on each name reiterated by Collegium for judicial appointment;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sc-seeks-info-from-centre-on-non-appointment-of-judges-despite-collegiums-reiteration/article68663273.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:27:39 +0530",
        "text": "\u2018The Supreme Court Collegium is not a search committee (for judges) whose recommendations can be stalled,\u2019 said the Bench which also comprised Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Six killed, 17 injured in collision between bus, truck in Maharashtra\u2019s Jalna district;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/six-killed-17-injured-in-collision-between-bus-truck-in-maharashtras-jalna-district/article68663271.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:23:12 +0530",
        "text": "Many of the injured were pulled out by breaking the windows of the bus, run by the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC)"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chennai| For Madras Busking, it is all about conversations and memories;https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/chennai-for-madras-busking-it-is-all-about-conversations-and-memories/article68650921.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:20:08 +0530",
        "text": "The second chapter of Madras Busking brought together artists and writers who conversed, listened, and gave people a memory of the day to take back home"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;LDF legislator P.V. Anvar demands immediate suspension of Kerala ADGP Ajith Kumar from service;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/ldf-legislator-pv-anvar-demands-immediate-suspension-of-kerala-adgp-ajith-kumar-from-service/article68663259.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:16:51 +0530",
        "text": "P.V Anvar accuses M.R. Ajith Kumar of misusing the police machinery under the latter\u2019s command to ferret out law enforcers and private individuals who had informed the MLA about the top law enforcer\u2019s alleged corruption, criminality and illegal amassment of wealth"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Milad-un-Nabi celebrations in Hyderabad conclude peacefully;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/milad-un-nabi-celebrations-in-hyderabad-conclude-peacefully/article68660765.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:16:01 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Infrastructure & Investments Department told to draft a comprehensive City Gas Distribution Policy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/infrastructure-investments-department-told-to-draft-a-comprehensive-city-gas-distribution-policy/article68661212.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:07:13 +0530",
        "text": "S. Suresh Kumar directs drafting of City Gas Distribution Policy to enhance operations and meet growing energy demand"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bihar CM Nitish Kumar makes aerial survey to assess rising water level in Ganga;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/bihar-cm-nitish-kumar-makes-aerial-survey-to-assess-rising-water-level-in-ganga/article68663126.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:05:28 +0530",
        "text": "The water level in the Ganga river crossed the danger mark at several places in the State capital"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Release water from Veeranam lake for irrigation: Anbumani to T.N. govt.;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/release-water-from-veeranam-lake-for-irrigation-anbumani-ramadoss-to-tamil-nadu-government/article68660703.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:05:16 +0530",
        "text": "He said farmers in Cuddalore, Chidambaram, and Kattumannarkoil had raised paddy in over 44,854 acres hoping that water from the Veeranam lake would be released for irrigation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Applications for new ration cards to be accepted from Oct 2; Telangana Govt considers issuing digital ration cards;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/applications-for-new-ration-cards-to-be-accepted-from-oct-2-telangana-govt-considers-issuing-digital-ration-cards/article68661118.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:00:16 +0530",
        "text": "Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has directed the Civil Supplies department officials to prepare an action plan for issuing new ration cards to eligible families"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;YouTube channel under the Indian Supreme Court name hacked to promote XRP cryptocurrency;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/youtube-channel-under-the-indian-supreme-court-name-hacked-to-promote-xrp-cryptocurrency/article68663030.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:51:39 +0530",
        "text": "A YouTube channel under the Indian Supreme Court name was hacked to promote content relating to the XRP cryptocurrency and its maker Ripple"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala actor rape case: Trial court grants bail to first accused \u2018Pulsar\u2019 Suni;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-actor-rape-case-trial-court-grants-bail-to-first-accused-ns-sunil/article68663133.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:42:49 +0530",
        "text": "Court asks the accused not to contact the victim or any of prosecution witnesses or the other accused in the case. The court also directs N.S. Sunil not to contact the media regarding the case"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;2021 post-poll violence: Supreme Court raps CBI over its plea seeking transfer of cases outside West Bengal;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/supreme-court-raps-cbi-over-its-plea-seeking-transfer-of-cases-on-2021-post-poll-violence-outside-west-bengal/article68663120.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:39:18 +0530",
        "text": "Scandalous allegations have been made against all the courts in general in West Bengal, says Supreme Court to CBI"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Land-for-jobs case: Sanctions to prosecute Lalu Prasad obtained, CBI tells court;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/land-for-jobs-case-sanctions-to-prosecute-lalu-prasad-obtained-cbi-tells-court/article68663067.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:39:04 +0530",
        "text": "The court directed the CBI to expedite the process to obtain the sanctions for the other accused and posted the matter for further hearing on October 15"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Woman alleges husband died in fire accident at M.S. Ramaiah Hospital, case booked;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/woman-alleges-husband-died-in-fire-accident-at-ms-ramaiah-hospital-case-booked/article68662924.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:33:01 +0530",
        "text": "M. S. Ramaiah Hospital faces negligence accusations after a patient dies in a fire, sparking a police investigation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tirupati laddu row: Union Food Minister Pralhad Joshi seeks probe into Andhra CM Naidu's allegations about use of animal fat;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/union-food-minister-pralhad-joshi-probe-animal-fat-tirupati-laddus/article68663015.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:27:19 +0530",
        "text": "\"Whatever the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister has said is a matter of serious concern. A detailed enquiry is required and the culprit should be punished,\" Pralhad Joshi said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Accident on ORR disrupts traffic during peak hours at Hebbal junction;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/accident-on-orr-disrupts-traffic-during-peak-hours-at-hebbal-junction/article68662981.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:22:49 +0530",
        "text": "A speeding lorry crashed into an under construction metro pillar near Venkatam Cafe, Veerannapalya before Nagavara junction at around 7:30 am. T"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Ahead of PM\u2019s visit to Maharashtra, Jairam Ramesh questions BJP on farmers, Adivasis and Gandhi\u2019s legacy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/ahead-of-pms-visit-to-maharashtra-jairam-questions-bjp-on-farmers-adivasis-and-gandhis-legacy/article68662934.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:11:05 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Ramesh said that the State has been grappling with an alarming rise in farmer suicides. Between January and October last year, 2,366 farmers took their own lives, according to Maharashtra\u2019s Minister for Relief and Rehabilitation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CJI-lead five-judge Bench takes suo motu notice of a video showing Karnataka HC judge\u2019s sexist remarks in court;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cji-lead-five-judge-bench-takes-suo-motu-notice-of-a-video-showing-karnataka-hc-judges-sexist-remarks-in-court/article68662927.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:09:13 +0530",
        "text": "Justice Vedavyasachar Srishananda was seen on video making a sexist and disparaging remark to the woman lawyer."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;International observers arrive in Sri Lanka for presidential election monitoring;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/international-observers-arrive-in-sri-lanka-for-presidential-election-monitoring/article68662958.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:04:41 +0530",
        "text": "The National Election Commission has assured that all necessary measures have been taken to ensure the safety and security of the observers, with local police stations being duly informed of their presence and responsibilities"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Embrace technology, tackle new-age threats: Union Minister Nityanand Rai\u2019s message to IPS probationers;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/embrace-technology-tackle-new-age-threats-union-minister-nityanand-rais-message-to-ips-probationers/article68662730.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:04:01 +0530",
        "text": "A significant number of trainee officers hail from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Bihar"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tirupati laddu row: Suits BJP to allow polarising conspiracy theories during election season, says Congress;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tirupati-laddu-row-suits-bjp-to-allow-polarising-conspiracy-theories-during-election-season-says-congress/article68662902.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:01:18 +0530",
        "text": "\u201cIf the claims that animal fat was used in Tirupati laddus are wrong or motivated then, millions of devotees of Tirupati will not forgive those playing with their faith,\u201d Pawan Khera said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delhi University student dead after speeding SUV crashes into guardrail, four friends injured;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-university-student-dead-after-speeding-suv-crashes-into-guardrail-four-friends-injured/article68662853.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:58:42 +0530",
        "text": "Police suspect the students under the influence of alcohol"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Moments after walking out on bail, Munirathna arrested in rape case;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/moments-after-walking-out-on-bail-munirathna-arrested-in-rape-case/article68662877.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:55:36 +0530",
        "text": "Munirathna was arrested from Kolar district on September 14 for allegedly threatening a civic contractor and demanding a bribe from him"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018India not an \u2018abuser\u2019 of tariffs, Trump\u2019s claims unfair,\u2019 says think tank GTRI;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-not-an-abuser-of-tariffs-trumps-claims-unfair-says-think-tank-gtri/article68662930.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:52:27 +0530",
        "text": "The numbers demonstrate that the U.S. also protects specific products of its economy with high tariffs, GTRI said in a report."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nara Lokesh accepts and dares Y.V. Subba Reddy to live up to his challenge;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/nara-lokesh-accepts-and-dares-yv-subba-reddy-to-live-up-to-his-challenge/article68662861.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:44:23 +0530",
        "text": "Nara Lokesh challenges former TTD Chairman over adulterated ghee controversy at Tirumala temple, sparking heated confrontation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tirumala laddus row: Samples of ghee used by TTD contained \u2018foreign fat\u2019 says NDDB report;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tirumala-laddus-row-samples-of-ghee-used-by-ttd-contained-foreign-fat-says-nddb-report/article68662867.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:43:47 +0530",
        "text": "Together it contained \u2018foreign fat\u2019 which included beef tallow and fat drawn from abdomens of pigs, according to report by th National Dairy Development Board,"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Apple iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max come to Indian stores, Blinkit, Amazon, Flipkart;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/apple-iphone-16-iphone-16-plus-iphone-16-pro-and-iphone-16-pro-max-come-to-indian-stores-quick-delivery-platforms-amazon-flipkart/article68662787.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:41:53 +0530",
        "text": "Apple iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max are now generally available for purchase, with stock quickly running out on Flipkart"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Donald Trump says Jews will be partly to blame if he loses election;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/donald-trump-says-jews-will-be-partly-to-blame-if-he-loses-election/article68662896.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:40:15 +0530",
        "text": "During comments to the Israeli-American Council National Summit in Washington, the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lamented that he was trailing Ms. Harris among American Jews"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;EY employee's death: Ajit Pawar says rising cases of young people dying due to stress needs attention;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/ey-employees-death-ajit-pawar-says-rising-cases-of-young-people-dying-due-to-stress-needs-attention/article68662873.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:20:03 +0530",
        "text": "Ajit Pawar says he is saddened to learn about the death of the EY employee \u201cdue to stress\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jailed gangster's wife arrested for murder of Air India crew member;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/jailed-gangsters-wife-arrested-for-murder-of-air-india-crew-member/article68662889.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:18:27 +0530",
        "text": "Kajal Khattri, who is the wife of Kapil Maan and is known as Lady Don, was wanted for an alleged conspiring to murder"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Amit Shah asks Naxals to lay down arms or face action;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/amit-shah-asks-naxals-to-lay-down-arms-or-face-action/article68662851.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:12:55 +0530",
        "text": "Speaking to the victims of LWE violence, the Home Minister appealed to Naxals to lay down arms and surrender. \u2018If Naxals don\u2019t listen to my appeal, we will soon launch all-out operation against them,\u2019 he said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Quad summit to make significant announcements in areas like maritime security and critical and emerging technologies;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/quad-summit-to-make-significant-announcements-in-maritime-security-and-emerging-technologies/article68662797.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:04:38 +0530",
        "text": "Quad summit in Delaware to feature ambitious announcements in maritime security, infrastructure, and technology, showcasing group\u2019s endurance"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israel strikes hundreds of targets in Lebanon as Hezbollah vows revenge for device blasts;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-strikes-hundreds-of-targets-in-lebanon-as-hezbollah-vows-revenge-for-device-blasts/article68662837.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:00:20 +0530",
        "text": "According to Lebanon's state-run news agency, Israel struck the south of Lebanon at least 52 times."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Roof collapse in Nagapattinam: Two-year-old dies, mother injured;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/roof-collapse-in-nagapattinam-two-year-old-dies-mother-injured/article68662811.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:00:04 +0530",
        "text": "The house collapsed at the Sellur tsunami housing settlement near Nagapattinam town"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vigilance starts anti-corruption inquiry against two Kerala IPS officers, including ADGP Ajith Kumar;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/vigilance-starts-anti-corruption-inquiry-against-two-kerala-ips-officers-including-adgp-ajith-kumar/article68662792.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:55:57 +0530",
        "text": "In a government order, Kerala\u2019s Home department also brings Sujith Das, former District Police Chief of Malappuram and later Pathanamthitta, who served under Ajith Kumar, under the probe\u2019s ambit"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vijay\u2019s party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam to hold its first public rally on October 27 in Vikravandi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/actor-vijays-party-tvk-to-hold-its-first-public-rally-in-vikravandi-on-october-27/article68662808.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:40:44 +0530",
        "text": "It was initially expected that the rally would be held in September"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sensex jumps 440 points in early trade tracking firm global peers;https://www.thehindu.com/business/markets/sensex-and-nifty-updates-on-september-20-2024/article68662795.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:32:15 +0530",
        "text": "The NSE Nifty climbed 132.05 points to 25,547.85."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Shanghai hit by second typhoon days after historic storm;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/shanghai-hit-by-second-typhoon-days-after-historic-storm/article68662785.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:22:30 +0530",
        "text": "Pulasan comes days after Typhoon Bebinca wreaked havoc on September 16 as the strongest storm to hit the megacity since 1949; videos posted on social media showed Shanghai residents wading through calf-level water in some neighbourhoods"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;'The Night Manager' nominated at International Emmys in drama series category;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/the-night-manager-nominated-in-drama-series-category-at-international-emmys/article68662750.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:54:53 +0530",
        "text": "The Night Manager was the only entry from India across 14 categories"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Marriage, mayhem and murder: Unraveling an arsenic poisoning conspiracy that tore apart a Hyderabad family;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/arsenic-poisoning-plot-unraveling-a-complex-murder-conspiracy-that-tore-apart-a-hyderabad-family/article68662755.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:51:00 +0530",
        "text": "A U.K.-based pharmacist meticulously orchestrated one of the most elaborate murder plots in Hyderabad\u2019s recent history, using arsenic as a weapon to target his oncologist wife and her family even as their divorce proceedings were under way. Lavpreet Kaur and Naveen Kumar unravel the intricate conspiracy involving abuse, deceit and an irreversible tragedy."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tirupati laddus row: Pawan Kalyan calls for \u2018Sanatana Dharma Rakshana Board\u2019 at national level;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/tirupati-laddus-row-pawan-kalyan-calls-for-sanatana-dharma-rakshana-board-at-national-level/article68662714.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:42:20 +0530",
        "text": "The State Government is committed to take stringent action, the Deputy Chief Minister said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CEO of Islamic firm arrested in Malaysia child sex abuse case;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/ceo-of-islamic-firm-arrested-in-malaysia-child-sex-abuse-case/article68662741.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:37:20 +0530",
        "text": "Nasiruddin Mohd Ali, the head of Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings, which police say is linked to a banned religious sect, was detained along with 18 people in an early morning raid on four residential premises in Kuala Lumpur."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;16 girls complain of sexual harassment, torture in Eluru ashram;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/16-girls-complain-of-sexual-harassment-torture-in-eluru-ashram/article68660911.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:23:05 +0530",
        "text": "Officials seized records, handed over the girls to their parents and closed the ashram, said Women Development and Child Welfare department director M. Venugopal Reddy"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Flavour lost | Review of \u2018The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories\u2019, edited by Arunava Sinha;https://www.thehindu.com/books/book-review-the-penguin-book-of-bengali-short-stories-editor-arunava-sinha-flavour-lost-in-english-translation/article68584800.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:20:00 +0530",
        "text": "The stories in this collection are wide-ranging but lose their innate Bengali-ness in the translation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Huawei's $2,800 tri-fold phone hits stores amid supply concerns;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/huaweis-2800-tri-fold-phone-hits-stores-amid-supply-concerns/article68662670.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:17:41 +0530",
        "text": "Huawei and Apple\u2019s new smartphones go on sale in China on Friday, with the Chinese tech company\u2019s much-anticipated $2,800 tri-foldable phone offered at more than twice the price of the high-end Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CM launches A.P. Sand Management System;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/cm-launches-ap-sand-management-system/article68661120.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:17:28 +0530",
        "text": "A.P. Sand Management System launched by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu for efficient and cost-effective sand supply"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Deaf artists to showcase work at CKP;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/deaf-artists-to-showcase-work-at-ckp/article68659405.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:07:15 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;When silence becomes golden: Unique art show at Bengaluru features deaf artists;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/when-silence-becomes-golden-unique-art-show-at-bengaluru-features-deaf-artists/article68659245.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "Held in connection with the International Day of Sign Languages, Beyond Signs: Power of Gestures at Chitrakala Parishath features eight artists"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;It\u2019s Dasara season and the jumbos are back in Mysuru;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/its-dasara-season-and-the-jumbos-are-back-in-mysuru/article68654779.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "The elephants are the star attraction of the Nada Habba, and tourists come to watch these gentle giants that make the celebrations awe-inspiring. Their arrival in Mysuru signals the countdown to Dasara"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;China the top challenge in U.S. history: senior diplomat;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/china-the-top-challenge-in-us-history-senior-diplomat/article68662695.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:56:38 +0530",
        "text": "Regarding China as the United States' greatest challenge was a mistake, Lin Jian said at a regular press conference"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Google's plea against CCI order in Android mobile device case mentioned in Supreme Court;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/googles-plea-against-cci-order-in-android-mobile-device-case-mentioned-in-supreme-court/article68662682.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:51:29 +0530",
        "text": "Google told the Supreme Court that the arguments in the case related to the tech giant's alleged anti-competitive practices in the Android mobile device matter may take five to six days"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Health workers in conflict-ridden Congo struggle to contain Mpox outbreak;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/health-workers-in-conflict-ridden-congo-struggle-to-contain-mpox-outbreak/article68662692.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:42:18 +0530",
        "text": "Overall, Congo has more than 21,000 of the 25,093 confirmed and suspected Mpox cases in Africa this year, according to WHO\u2019s most recent count"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pakistan court sentences Christian woman to death in blasphemy case;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pakistan-court-sentences-christian-woman-to-death-in-blasphemy-case/article68662689.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:41:17 +0530",
        "text": "A case was filed under Pakistan\u2019s blasphemy laws against Shaughta Karan, accused of sharing derogatory material about the Prophet of Islam in a WhatsApp group"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;New wave of violence rocks French overseas territories;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/new-wave-of-violence-rocks-french-overseas-territories/article68662690.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:37:33 +0530",
        "text": "The fresh trouble comes at a sensitive time for France where the new PM Michel Barnier is struggling to form a govt. following snap parliamentary polls and has warned of a \u201cvery serious\u201d financial situation."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Adani Foundation offers a donation of \u20b925 crore to CMRF;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/adani-foundation-offers-a-donation-of-25-crore-to-cmrf/article68661048.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:37:24 +0530",
        "text": "Adani Foundation donates \u20b925 crore to CMRF for flood relief; CM Naidu thanks Priti and Karan Adani for their generosity"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sri Lankan polls: economy takes centre stage | Explained;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sri-lankan-polls-economy-takes-centre-stage-explained/article68661351.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "What caused the unprecedented financial meltdown in the island nation in 2022? What does the International Monetary Fund package entail? How have the government\u2019s austerity measures impacted ordinary people? What is the extent of the economic recovery now?"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;China ready to welcome more Indian firms into Chinese market: Envoy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/china-ready-to-welcome-more-indian-firms-into-chinese-market-envoy/article68662658.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:21:40 +0530",
        "text": "In an address at an event, Chinese ambassador Xu Feihong said China is looking at India to take \"positive measures\" for resuming direct flights and visas for Chinese citizens."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Padmapriya to deliver lecture at Madappally college;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/padmapriya-to-deliver-lecture-at-madappally-college/article68660588.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:21:14 +0530",
        "text": "Padmapriya Janakiraman to deliver M.R. Narayana Kurup memorial lecture on equity and justice at Government College, Madappally"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Free workshop on secure coding;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/free-workshop-on-secure-coding/article68660387.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:14:30 +0530",
        "text": "Join Wattlecorp Labs for a cybersecurity training workshop in Kozhikode, supported by Government Cyberpark and industry partners"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.S. warplanes, ships and troops ready in the Middle East if the conflict expands;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-warplanes-ships-and-troops-ready-in-the-middle-east-if-the-conflict-expands/article68662647.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:07:27 +0530",
        "text": "As attacks between Israel and Hezbollah sharply spiked this week, worries are growing that the conflict could escalate into an all-out war"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Post-1991, southern States emerged as leaders: EAC-PM;https://www.thehindu.com/data/post-liberalisation-analysis-shows-southern-states-as-leading-performers-while-uttar-pradesh-and-bihar-regressed-economically/article68656214.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "Punjab and West Bengal have recorded sharp declines in per capita income after a head start"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Haryana Elections: Will congress\u2019 recent gains in the rural areas, hurt BJP?;https://www.thehindu.com/data/changing-rural-equations-in-haryanas-battleground-data/article68654365.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "While the BJP largely retained its urban strengths in the Lok Sabha polls, it is playing catch-up in rural areas"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Titan submersible\u2019s scientific director says the submarine malfunctioned just prior to the Titanic dive;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/titan-submersibles-scientific-director-says-the-sub-malfunctioned-just-prior-to-the-titanic-dive/article68661778.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:30:57 +0530",
        "text": "OceanGate submersible implodes en route to Titanic site, raising questions about company operations and safety practices"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Visakhapatnam artist Moka Vijay Kumar creates record with millet art;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/visakhapatnam-artist-moka-vijay-kumar-creates-record-with-millet-art/article68658812.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:12:37 +0530",
        "text": "Visakhapatnam artist Moka Vijay Kumar, who uses millets in his work, featured in India Book of Records"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israeli soldiers pushed three apparently lifeless bodies from roofs during a West Bank raid;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israeli-soldiers-pushed-three-apparently-lifeless-bodies-from-roofs-during-a-west-bank-raid/article68662628.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:07:40 +0530",
        "text": "When withdrawing from raids, the army usually leaves behind any Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire. Occasionally the army brings dead bodies into Israel"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Morning Digest | Doctors call off strike after Bengal government lists reforms; MEA dismisses report about Indian ammunition entering Ukraine, and more;https://www.thehindu.com/news/morning-digest-september-20-2024/article68661322.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:00:58 +0530",
        "text": "Here is a select list of stories to start the day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Artist Amisha Prakash\u2019s solo show in Visakhapatnam celebrates joy in life\u2019s simple pleasures;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/artist-amisha-prakashs-solo-show-in-visakhapatnam-celebrates-joy-in-lifes-simple-pleasures/article68650724.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:46:57 +0530",
        "text": "Artist Amisha Prakash to showcase her works in Visakhapatnam this week"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Visakhapatnam gears up for the marathon season with structured training and camaraderie;https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/fitness/visakhapatnam-gears-up-for-the-marathon-season-with-structured-training-and-camaraderie/article68658618.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:45:08 +0530",
        "text": "The running community of Visakhapatnam is hitting the tracks with focussed training regimen"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Taiwan questions head of pager firm linked to Hezbollah blasts;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/taiwan-questions-head-of-pager-firm-linked-to-hezbollah-blasts/article68662613.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:43:03 +0530",
        "text": "Taiwan-based Gold Apollo's president and founder Hsu Ching-kuang has said it did not manufacture the devices used in the attack, and that they were made by a Budapest-based company BAC which has a licence to use its brand"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Forging the high road to sobriety in Andhra Pradesh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/forging-the-high-road-to-sobriety-in-andhra-pradesh/article68655816.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:10:00 +0530",
        "text": "As the Andhra Pradesh government gears up to uproot the growing twin evils of substance abuse and pornography addiction blighting the State by strengthening its anti-narcotics and cybercrime wings, psychiatrists and experts call for concerted efforts from all, including the parents and educational institutions to combat the menace, writes P. Sujatha Varma"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Haryana Assembly elections | An overview of the field ahead of the polls;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/haryana-assembly/haryana-assembly-elections-candidates-overview-ahead-of-the-polls/article68600306.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "Battle lines in Haryana are drawn as all major political parties have released their candidate lists. Who is in the fray and what are the various alliances? We take a look."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Getting to the root of Bengaluru\u2019s tree-falls;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/getting-to-the-root-of-bengalurus-tree-falls/article68659034.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "From competing with high-rises for sunlight to infrastructure projects for their very existence, the trees of Bengaluru are up against many odds. Deepika K.C. finds that While Bengalurians wax eloquent about the city\u2019s green cover, too few do anything to stop trees from being choked at their roots or turned into billboards and wire hangers"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;High-level committee to visit sites of industrial accidents in Anakapalli district soon;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/high-level-committee-to-visit-sites-of-industrial-accidents-in-anakapalli-district-soon/article68660155.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:50:00 +0530",
        "text": "It resolves to convene meetings with the stakeholders in the due course of time and receive suggestions for strengthening the safety systems at work"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Dozens killed in Mali attack by Al-Qaeda affiliate;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/dozens-killed-in-mali-attack-by-al-qaeda-affiliate/article68661777.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:45:00 +0530",
        "text": "Two diplomats serving in the region, including one based in Bamako, said the death toll was believed to be in the 70s."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Telangana Discoms seek energy tariff hike in all categories to mop up \u20b91,200 cr.;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-discoms-seek-energy-tariff-hike-in-all-categories-to-mop-up-1200-cr/article68660638.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "Two distribution utilities of Telangana file 2024-25 tariff proposals with aggregate revenue requirement of \u20b957,857 crore, including \u20b913,022 crore revenue gap"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Independents\u2019 day in Kashmir;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jammu-and-kashmir/independents-day-in-kashmir/article68657072.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:06:04 +0530",
        "text": "There is an emotive appeal in the voices of 365 candidates contesting without the backing of political parties in the Union Territory\u2019s first election since the removal of special constitutional status in 2019. Peerzada Ashiq finds that the BJP\u2019s calculations pivot around the Independents, for whom \u2018jail\u2019 is a prominent poll plank in the attempt to upend J&amp;K\u2019s legacy parties"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Explosives put in devices before they arrived in Lebanon, says Lebanon's UN mission;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/explosives-put-in-devices-before-they-arrived-in-lebanon-says-lebanons-un-mission/article68661780.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:03:31 +0530",
        "text": "The authorities also determined the devices, which included pagers and hand-held radios, were detonated by sending electronic messages to the devices"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;10-year-old Japanese boy dies after being stabbed near his school in China;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/10-year-old-japanese-boy-dies-after-being-stabbed-near-his-school-in-china/article68661547.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:50:00 +0530",
        "text": "Officials in Tokyo say a 10-year-old Japanese student attending a Japanese school in southern China who was attacked the day before has died, asking Beijing to provide details of the stabbing and take preventive measures"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Taiwan recognises same-sex marriages between Chinese, Taiwanese;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/taiwan-recognises-same-sex-marriages-between-chinese-taiwanese/article68661545.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "Tensions between Taiwan and China \u2014 which claims the self-ruled island as part of its territory and maintains daily military movements around it \u2014 have meant cross-strait couples were not afforded the same right"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Germany to approve 397 million euros in extra Ukraine military aid, letter says;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/germany-to-approve-397-million-euros-in-extra-ukraine-military-aid-letter-says/article68661543.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:10:00 +0530",
        "text": "Germany is Ukraine\u2019s biggest supporter in Europe in terms of military aid"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;850 Aarogya Mitras continue strike for second day;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/850-aarogya-mitras-continue-strike-for-second-day/article68660213.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:03:29 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Student ally of Bangladesh former PM Hasina beaten to death on campus;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/student-ally-of-bangladesh-former-pm-hasina-beaten-to-death-on-campus/article68660545.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 03:50:00 +0530",
        "text": "Ahmed is at least the second leader of the Awami League\u2019s student wing to be killed this month"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Director V.K. Prakash granted bail;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/director-vk-prakash-granted-bail/article68660305.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 03:45:06 +0530",
        "text": "The case is based on allegations made by a female screenwriter who met with the director in April 2022 to discuss a potential script"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;When John Marshall revealed the Indus Valley civilisation to the world;https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/marshall-exposes-ancient-sites/article68660380.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 03:30:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Harappan civilisation: enigma remains even after 100 years of exploration;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/harappan-civilisation-100-years-of-historic-exploration/article68660040.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 03:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "September 20, 2024 marks the centenary of the announcement of the discovery of the Indus Valley civilisation, which now spans 2,000 sites across 1.5 million sq. km in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bihar cadre IPS officer Shivdeep Wamanrao Lande resigns;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/bihar-cadre-ips-officer-shivdeep-wamanrao-lande-resigns/article68660131.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 02:36:56 +0530",
        "text": "Lande, a 2006 batch IPS officer, was popular in Bihar with several pseudonyms such as dabaang (tough) cop, Singham , and Super cop"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;President Murmu lays foundation of Indore-Ujjain highway; asks institutes to encourage higher education for girls;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/madhya-pradesh/president-murmu-lays-foundation-of-indore-ujjain-highway-asks-institutes-to-encourage-higher-education-for-girls/article68660258.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 02:34:12 +0530",
        "text": "The highway, approved by the Madhya Pradesh Cabinet in February, is expected to be completed in 2.5 years and reduced the travel time between Indore and Ujjain"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Transgender people included in Assam cash benefit scheme;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/assam/transgender-people-included-in-assam-cash-benefit-scheme/article68660259.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 02:25:47 +0530",
        "text": "Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma rolls out the third edition of Orunodoi to cover 37.2 lakh families"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2019Intent, ideology, agenda and mindset of Congress, NC, and Pakistan are aligned,\u2019 says BJP\u2019s Anurag Thakur;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/intent-ideology-agenda-and-mindset-of-congress-nc-and-pakistan-are-aligned-says-bjps-anurag-thakur/article68660851.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 02:19:54 +0530",
        "text": "The former Union Minister said Congress leader \u2018Rahul Gandhi has consistently aligned himself with adversarial forces\u2019, while making a series of provocative allegations"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bureaucracy-led governance replaced with people\u2019s representative-led governance in Odisha, says Mohan Charan Majhi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bureaucracy-led-governance-replaced-with-peoples-representative-led-governance-in-odisha-says-mohan-charan-majhi/article68661581.ece;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 02:11:46 +0530",
        "text": "Steering the govt. in consensus mode, don\u2019t feel burdened, but responsible for fulfilling the hopes and expectations of people, says Odisha CM as first BJP govt. in State completes 100 days in office"
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong bank sues estate of deceased man behind legal fight for same-sex rights;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279310/hong-kong-bank-sues-estate-deceased-man-behind-legal-fight-same-sex-rights?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:49:09 +0800",
        "text": "Hang Seng Bank takes outstanding mortgage repayment case against late Edgar Ng Hon-lam\u2019s estate to court."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Macau approves ex-judge Sam Hou-fai\u2019s bid to stand as sole contender in leadership election;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3279308/macau-approves-ex-judge-sam-hou-fais-bid-stand-sole-contender-leadership-election?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:44:27 +0800",
        "text": "Electoral Affairs Commission says Sam Hou-fai has been accepted as chief executive candidate for next month\u2019s poll."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong teacher gets 16 months\u2019 jail for taking more than 1,500 upskirt pictures, including of students;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279302/hong-kong-teacher-gets-16-months-jail-taking-more-1500-upskirt-pictures?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:31:31 +0800",
        "text": "Leung Wing-san, 35, admits to secretly taking photos of least 10 victims, including some of his students in class."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong to get taste of autumn with temperature to fall to 24 degrees, but heat will return;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279301/hong-kong-get-taste-autumn-temperature-fall-24-degrees-heat-will-return?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:29:42 +0800",
        "text": "Temperatures on Monday are expected to range from 24 to 27 degrees, with strong winds on high ground."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong new technology hub gets go-ahead despite judicial review challenge;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279288/hong-kong-new-technology-hub-gets-go-ahead-despite-judicial-review-challenge?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:51:02 +0800",
        "text": "Civil Engineering and Development Department says it has started inviting tenders for site formation hours after Exco approval obtained."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police arrest 55 in 3-day crackdown on triad-controlled businesses in Tuen Mun;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279279/hong-kong-police-arrest-55-3-day-operation-triad-controlled-businesses-tuen-mun?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:17:59 +0800",
        "text": "Officers also seized narcotics worth HK$950,000 during the operation targeting illicit drug, gambling and prostitution activities."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Beijing official voices high hopes for Hong Kong efforts to promote national opening-up;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3279278/beijing-official-voices-high-hopes-hong-kong-efforts-promote-national-opening?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:11:03 +0800",
        "text": "Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office\u2019s Zhou Ji voices confidence in city at launch of Beijing-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Symposium."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Is Hong Kong\u2019s transport network ready for Coldplay\u2019s arrival? Lawmakers raise concerns;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279253/hong-kongs-transport-network-ready-coldplays-arrival-lawmakers-raise-concerns?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:54:49 +0800",
        "text": "Lawmakers say tourism sector already coming up with holiday packages ahead of band\u2019s arrival in April, but call for more transport options."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;US study on China\u2019s \u2018much stronger\u2019 innovation, discounted Apple iPhone 16s: 7 highlights;https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3279226/us-study-chinas-much-stronger-innovation-discounted-apple-iphone-16s-7-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:30:07 +0800",
        "text": "From the fallout from the Lebanon pager blasts to Bali tightening tourism rules, here are a few highlights from SCMP\u2019s recent reporting."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Panda Watch: Hong Kong cubs put on healthy weight at 5-week mark;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279218/panda-watch-hong-kong-cubs-put-healthy-weight-5-week-mark?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:00:18 +0800",
        "text": "But experts say giant panda cubs will only start to eat more solid food at about 2\u00bd years of age."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;5 famous, hidden billionaires are new owners on The Peak amid Hong Kong debt crunch;https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3279227/5-famous-hidden-billionaires-are-new-owners-peak-amid-hong-kong-debt-crunch?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:47:55 +0800",
        "text": "Rare fire-sale deals in Hong Kong\u2019s exclusive residential enclave have brought famous and hidden tycoons to the fore."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Paris Games and philanthropy show power of the human spirit;https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3278974/paris-games-and-philanthropy-show-power-human-spirit?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:30:08 +0800",
        "text": "The new norm of navigating good and bad news simultaneously reminds us that what truly matters is how we choose to respond."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Principal weeps, says sorry as Hong Kong school famous for winning football misses out on event;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3279222/hong-kong-school-pleads-rejoin-football-competition-after-missing-registration-deadline?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:18:33 +0800",
        "text": "Headmaster of school that has often won annual competition apologises for \u2018negligence\u2019, says he truly feels he has let his students down."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Some Hong Kong SMEs are not rolling over and playing dead. Can they win in the end?;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279193/some-hong-kong-smes-are-not-rolling-over-and-playing-dead-can-they-win-end?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:30:08 +0800",
        "text": "A restaurant chain opens more outlets, a hi-tech farm finds clients abroad \u2013 it\u2019s not all bad news for SMEs."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong banks are \u2018better-than-expected\u2019 at owning up to beat cyber fraud, survey finds;https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3279171/hong-kong-banks-fraud-responses-beat-customer-expectations-survey-finds?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:30:08 +0800",
        "text": "More than half of banks took full responsibility and refunded losses, which only 44 per cent of customers expected, FIS research says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police offer free trackers to children with special needs amid rise in missing cases;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279199/hong-kong-police-offer-free-trackers-children-special-needs-amid-rise-missing-cases?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:00:18 +0800",
        "text": "Police scheme previously catered to patients with cognitive disorders and elderly, with the force distributing 1,800 trackers since project\u2019s launch."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;What are the odds? Hong Kong\u2019s Mark Six draws same 5 numbers twice in a row;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279203/what-are-odds-hong-kongs-mark-six-draws-same-5-numbers-twice-row?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:52:42 +0800",
        "text": "Internet users express shock soon after results announced, with some questioning its probability and whether it was unprecedented worldwide."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;University of Hong Kong opens first clinical trials centre with private hospital; cancer a focus;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279187/university-hong-kong-opens-first-clinical-trials-centre-private-hospital-cancer-focus?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:58:47 +0800",
        "text": "Collaboration with Gleneagles will make use of university\u2019s \u2018100 years of experience\u2019 in research, medical school dean says."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Astronomers concerned by rising impact of Starlink and similar satellites in low orbit on space research;https://www.dw.com/en/astronomers-concerned-by-rising-impact-of-starlink-and-similar-satellites-in-low-orbit-on-space-research/a-70273835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Starlink and other satellite networks are vital for providing high speed internet to remote communities, but unintended radiation leakages are making life difficult for astronomers who need clear skies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: EU's von der Leyen vows support in Kyiv;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-eu-s-von-der-leyen-vows-support-in-kyiv/live-70278769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Ursula von der Leyen said the EU \"will help Ukraine in its brave efforts\" and that would include winter preparations, EU accession and progress on G7 loans. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hungary and the Netherlands want to exit EU asylum policy;https://www.dw.com/en/hungary-and-the-netherlands-want-to-exit-eu-asylum-policy/a-70278674?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Right-wing governments like those in Hungary and the Netherlands are demanding an opt-out, but it's hard to see how countries could legally exit the EU's asylum policy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the Tupperware party changed women's lives;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-tupperware-party-changed-women-s-lives/a-70273741?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "As Tupperware files for bankruptcy, here's a look back at how the iconic US company became woven into the world's cultural fabric."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Slovakia seemingly unfazed by EU threat to withhold funding;https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-seemingly-unfazed-by-eu-threat-to-withhold-funding/a-70277869?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Fearing that PM Robert Fico is dismantling Slovak democracy, the European Commission is reportedly considering freezing billions in EU funds for Bratislava. Will the threat be enough to rein in Fico's illiberal drive?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;French police shoot dead 2 in New Caledonia operation;https://www.dw.com/en/french-police-shoot-dead-2-in-new-caledonia-operation/a-70278345?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Thousands of French police have been deployed to the overseas Pacific territory to quell unrest sparked by voting reforms proposed in Paris."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US: Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey host star-studded rally;https://www.dw.com/en/us-kamala-harris-and-oprah-winfrey-host-star-studded-rally/a-70278148?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris was interviewed by US entertainment star Oprah Winfrey as part of a campaign event. Harris discussed abortion, immigration and reminded the audience she is a gun owner."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU Parliament recognizes Maduro rival as Venezuela president;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-parliament-recognizes-maduro-rival-as-venezuela-president/a-70276261?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The European Parliament has passed a resolution recognizing Venezuelan opposition figure Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia's claim to have won Venezuela's July election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Berlin considering how to support German carmaker Volkswagen;https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-considering-how-to-support-german-carmaker-volkswagen/a-70275918?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that Berlin is looking into ways to support ailing carmaker Volkswagen amid the threat of job cuts. The firm has been grappling with weak electric vehicle sales."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Axel Springer splits media, classified businesses;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-axel-springer-splits-media-classified-businesses/a-70274495?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Friede Springer and CEO Mathias D\u00f6pfner will own Springer's media operations, which include Germany's most-read newspaper Bild and US digital newspaper Politico."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Taylor Swift and the US election: Do endorsements matter?;https://www.dw.com/en/taylor-swift-and-the-us-election-do-endorsements-matter/a-70272990?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, were overjoyed when singer Taylor Swift shared her support for the Democratic team on Instagram. But only certain voters are influenced by celebrity endorsements."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Czech Republic struggling to mitigate risks as Russian firms flourish;https://www.dw.com/en/czech-republic-struggling-to-mitigate-risks-as-russian-firms-flourish/a-70181088?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Czechia hosts by far the highest number of Russian-owned companies of any EU state. Experts warn this cohort of over 12,500 firms pose economic and security risks that the government must eventually start to mitigate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oktoberfest: Beer and pretzels in a sustainable package;https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-beer-and-pretzels-in-a-sustainable-package/a-70235282?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "More than Bavarians in lederhosen balancing frothing beer mugs and fried sausages, the world's largest folk festival is becoming more inclusive and eco-friendly."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Modi to mobilize India's diaspora during US visit;https://www.dw.com/en/modi-to-mobilize-india-s-diaspora-during-us-visit/a-70268423?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Prime Minister Narendra Modi's outreach to the Indian diaspora has become an important part of his diplomatic toolkit. Ahead of his US visit, 25,000 Indian Americans have signed up to see him speak at a New York event."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;COVID FLiRT variants KP.3 and XEC: What you need to know;https://www.dw.com/en/covid-flirt-variants-kp-3-and-xec-what-you-need-to-know/a-70266402?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another variant and become XEC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US election: Indian Americans are a growing political force;https://www.dw.com/en/us-election-indian-americans-are-a-growing-political-force/a-70266227?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Indian Americans are emerging as a force in US politics. Now, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set for a high-profile visit as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris race for the White House."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: EU plans \u20ac10 billion aid for affected members;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-eu-plans-\u20ac10-billion-aid-for-affected-members/live-70265849?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Polish city of Wroclaw hosted the leaders of the region's most affected by Storm Boris to discuss European aid. Days of flooding have wreaked death and destruction across Central Europe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Two European firms in focus of Hezbollah pager explosions;https://www.dw.com/en/two-european-firms-in-focus-of-hezbollah-pager-explosions/a-70248830?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Taiwanese company whose name appeared on the pagers that detonated across Lebanon has denied manufacturing the devices. That has put relatively unknown Hungarian and Bulgarian firms in the spotlight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hong Kong: First person sentenced under new security law;https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-first-person-sentenced-under-new-security-law/a-70265142?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Chu Kai-pong was convicted for wearing a \"seditious\" t-shirt. A new law has greatly increased the penalties for acts deemed seditious by the courts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: UN body warns Russia on power grid strikes;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-un-body-warns-russia-on-power-grid-strikes/live-70264350?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine says attacks on the country's electricity infrastructure by Russia may violate international humanitarian law. Meanwhile, Russia claims gains in Kursk. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine wants action after Belarus Olympic medalist ceremony;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-wants-action-after-belarus-olympic-medalist-ceremony/a-70262052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The ceremony, held on Belarus' National Unity Day, appears to violate the Olympic neutrality rules. Ukraine wants action, with the country's sports minister telling DW further sanctions are necessary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cities start fighting rental crisis triggered by overtourism;https://www.dw.com/en/cities-start-fighting-rental-crisis-triggered-by-overtourism/a-70228085?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "In many of Europe's hottest tourist destinations like Barcelona and Paris, locals struggle to access affordable housing. How much are vacation rentals to blame?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU to withhold \u20ac200 million from Hungary over asylum fine;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-withhold-\u20ac200-million-from-hungary-over-asylum-fine/a-70260506?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The EU Commission says it will withhold funds for Hungary after Budapest failed to pay a fine for violating asylum rules. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's nationalist Fidesz government has taken a hard line on migration"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Netherlands seeks EU migration opt-out;https://www.dw.com/en/netherlands-seeks-eu-migration-opt-out/a-70251015?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Netherlands says it plans to request an exemption from the EU's common migration and asylum policy. It comes after the right-wing coalition government announced plans for the country's \"strictest-ever asylum regime.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Exploding Hezbollah pagers: How did it happen?;https://www.dw.com/en/exploding-hezbollah-pagers-how-did-it-happen/a-70250960?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Lithium-ion batteries can catch fire or explode, but in the attack on pagers in Lebanon, the devices are more likely to have been hacked."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Slovakia's capital hit by biggest floods in 30 years;https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-s-capital-hit-by-biggest-floods-in-30-years/a-70251068?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The biggest flood in 30 years hit Slovakia's capital Bratislava this week, forcing dozens of people from their homes. The west of the country has also been badly hit."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Ammo depot in Russia's Tver region explodes;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-ammo-depot-in-russia-s-tver-region-explodes/live-70246486?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "A major Ukrainian drone attack on Russia caused a huge explosion in a large Russian arsenal in the western Tver region."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Extreme weather: Flooding and wildfires across Europe;https://www.dw.com/en/extreme-weather-flooding-and-wildfires-across-europe/live-70247619?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Polish city of Wroclaw and the German city of Dresden have begun preparations for flooding following a weather disaster that has killed 20 people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: AfD loses appeal on chairing Bundestag committees;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-afd-loses-appeal-on-chairing-bundestag-committees/a-70246675?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Germany's top court has rejected a pair of appeals from the far-right AfD concerning the absence of its lawmakers chairing parliamentary committees. The court found the party was not automatically entitled to the posts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains \u2014 study;https://www.dw.com/en/pregnancy-completely-rewires-mothers-brains-study/a-70246399?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Neuroscientists scanned the brain of a pregnant woman and captured a 'widespread reorganization' of her brain before, during and after pregnancy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Homeless World Cup: 'We want to do something special';https://www.dw.com/en/homeless-world-cup-we-want-to-do-something-special/a-70218267?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "National football teams made up of homeless people from around the world will soon gather in South Korea for the Homeless World Cup. For many of the players, the stakes are much higher than just the trophy on offer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Use, and misuse, of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "As Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell become the latest celebs to endorse Kamala Harris, here's a look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Google wins legal battle against EU over \u20ac1.5 billion fine;https://www.dw.com/en/google-wins-legal-battle-against-eu-over-\u20ac1-5-billion-fine/a-70246709?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "After years of back and forth, an EU court annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it sold advertisements. The fine was one of three major penalties the EU has leveled against the tech giant in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Namibia's strategy to cull animals save them?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-namibia-s-strategy-to-cull-animals-save-them/a-70213343?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Does Namibia's plan to kill animals to save them, and help the human population from ongoing drought, stack up?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand shrinks;https://www.dw.com/en/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy-as-demand-shrinks/a-70245540?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Once popular for its colorful food storage containers, US firm Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy. The company succumbed to a plummeting demand for its products."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Second explosion shakes Cologne;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-second-explosion-shakes-cologne/a-70245020?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The explosion was the second in a week in Cologne's city center. Police said it was still too early to say if there was a connection. Sniffer dogs were on the site as officers investigated."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Portugal: Firefighters battle dozens of deadly wildfires;https://www.dw.com/en/portugal-firefighters-battle-dozens-of-deadly-wildfires/a-70243388?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Several people have lost their lives in forest fires that have been raging in Portugal since the weekend. Thousands of firefighters have been deployed to combat the flames"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Intel's factory delay adds to Germany's economic woes;https://www.dw.com/en/us-intel-s-factory-delay-adds-to-germany-s-economic-woes/a-70241739?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has announced it is postponing a $30 billion investment in Germany due to financial problems at the firm. But is the German government still committed to the investments?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Azerbaijan unveils COP29 agenda amid financial deadlock;https://www.dw.com/en/azerbaijan-unveils-cop29-agenda-amid-financial-deadlock/a-70241019?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The summit aims to determine how much money developing countries need and who should contribute to the fund. With just two months until the event, negotiations remain at a standstill."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Flooding in Poland: How Wroclaw is preparing for the expected flood wave peak;https://www.dw.com/en/flooding-in-poland-how-wroclaw-is-preparing-for-the-expected-flood-wave-peak/a-70242060?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The citizens and authorities of Wroclaw, in southwestern Poland, are working feverishly to prepare for a dramatic rise in floodwaters."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German police reintroduce spot controls at all borders;https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-reintroduce-spot-controls-at-all-borders/a-70240598?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Germany is reintroducing border checks at all its borders for at least six months. The aim is to help restrict migration. DW visited the border area between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands to see how it was working."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the arts are a thorn in the side of Germany's AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-arts-are-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-germany-s-afd/a-70239911?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German conservative Friedrich Merz to run for chancellor;https://www.dw.com/en/german-conservative-friedrich-merz-to-run-for-chancellor/a-70240130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "It's as good as official: liberal businessman Friedrich Merz, head of the conservative Christian Democrats, is set to be the party's lead candidate in upcoming German federal election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How new technologies can mitigate the risks of flooding;https://www.dw.com/en/how-new-technologies-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-flooding/a-70239314?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "With extreme weather, floods are getting as common in Europe as they are in Asia and Africa. From mobile barriers to specialized dams, people are finding solutions to life-threatening floods across the globe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Georgia's parliament approves anti-LGTBQ+ bill;https://www.dw.com/en/georgia-s-parliament-approves-anti-lgtbq-bill/a-70239544?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The ruling Georgian Dream party has voted to approve legislation that would allow authorities to outlaw Pride events and censor media. The bill is similar to a law in neighboring Russia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Far right, center left in close race;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-far-right-center-left-in-close-race/a-70238419?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Sanssouci, Babelsberg, Tesla, BER airport \u2014 Brandenburg is a state with much to boast about when it comes to history or economy. Governed by the same party since 1990, the state may face a shake-up in upcoming election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'I am a rapist,' Frenchman in mass rape trial says;https://www.dw.com/en/i-am-a-rapist-frenchman-in-mass-rape-trial-says/a-70238195?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "A man from the south of France has admitted to drugging his wife at the time and recruiting dozens of men to rape her. He is also accused of various privacy breaches by recording and disseminating sexual images."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China's technology drive leaves young people jobless;https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-technology-drive-leaves-young-people-jobless/a-70187883?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "China is investing billions to become a global tech power. But AI, robotics and quantum computing are not labor-intensive sectors, so what to do about the millions of young Chinese who can't find a job?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Volkswagen's crisis: How can Europe's car industry survive?;https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-s-crisis-how-can-europe-s-car-industry-survive/a-70231806?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "While Volkswagen and other European automakers are considering closing factories, Chinese rivals are searching for production sites on the continent. What's going wrong in Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: Tusk in southern Poland for crisis meeting;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-tusk-in-southern-poland-for-crisis-meeting/live-70235466?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was in the city of Wroclaw for a disaster meeting while residents of the town of Nysa rushed to fortify a dyke. The Elbe River in eastern Germany continued to rise slowly. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Germany pledges \u20ac100 million in winter aid;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-germany-pledges-\u20ac100-million-in-winter-aid/live-70235271?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The German foreign minister promised Ukraine additional aid as Russia stepped up its attacks on energy infrastructure with winter on the horizon. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Intel delays construction of Magdeburg factory;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-intel-delays-construction-of-magdeburg-factory/a-70235254?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has delayed a construction project by two years amid cost-saving measures. German Finance Minister Christian Lindner called for funds earmarked for subsidies to be used to plug a federal budget gap."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Worker killed in Oktoberfest rollercoaster test;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-worker-killed-in-oktoberfest-rollercoaster-test/a-70232611?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Munich fire department said a worker was fatally injured during a test ride of a rollercoaster at the Oktoberfest site."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: Death toll rises as Storm Boris wreaks havoc;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-death-toll-rises-as-storm-boris-wreaks-havoc/live-70224153?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Highest flood warnings have been declared at some 100 places in the Czech Republic, with most regions in the country affected. Austria, Poland and Romania have also been hard-hit."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg: Black politician takes on German far-right AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-black-politician-takes-on-german-far-right-afd/a-70166368?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "German voters in Brandenburg are heading to the polls just weeks after the far-right AfD party's historic surge in two state elections. Can Cameroonian-born politician Adeline Abimnwi Awemo help turn the tide?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Russia says it has retaken Kursk towns;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-russia-says-it-has-retaken-kursk-towns/live-70228135?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Kremlin is claiming a successful counter-offensive following a Ukrainian incursion. Meanwhile, both Zelenskyy and the Kremlin have commented on Trump's alleged assassination attempt. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's expanded border controls come into force;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-expanded-border-controls-come-into-force/live-70228054?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Germany has temporarily reintroduced controls on its western and northern borders as part of efforts to combat irregular migration and cross-border crime."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy's UniCredit raises eyebrows over Commerzbank move;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-s-unicredit-raises-eyebrows-over-commerzbank-move/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "UniCredit stunned markets by buying a 9% stake in Germany's second-largest lender. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, DW explores the next possible moves."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;French EU commissioner quits after clash with von der Leyen;https://www.dw.com/en/french-eu-commissioner-quits-after-clash-with-von-der-leyen/a-70224757?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "France's Thierry Breton says he is leaving his role following a spat with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen. In a letter outlining his decision, Breton cited \"questionable governance.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany begins expanded border controls to control migration;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-begins-expanded-border-controls-to-control-migration/a-70218944?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Citing an overloaded asylum system, Germany on Monday started passport controls on all of its land borders to reduce irregular migration. Such measures are supposed to be the exception within the EU."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Baby giraffe born in Karlsruhe Zoo;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-baby-giraffe-born-in-karlsruhe-zoo/a-70223157?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Giraffe Wahia has given birth for the first time in nine years after a 15-month pregnancy, according to officials in Germany's Karlsruhe Zoo. The baby, like her mother, belongs to an endangered giraffe subspecies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Georgia's elections: Will voters lean to the EU or Russia?;https://www.dw.com/en/georgia-s-elections-will-voters-lean-to-the-eu-or-russia/a-70203786?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Georgians go to the polls on October 26, with the key question being whether voters will prefer a pro-European or pro-Russian government. Observers fear violence, regardless of the outcome."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;France: 8 die in attempted Channel crossing;https://www.dw.com/en/france-8-die-in-attempted-channel-crossing/a-70221145?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Eight people on a boat trying to cross from France to England have died after the vessel got into difficulties. Almost 50 people have died so far this year attempting the perilous journey, French authorities say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jens Stoltenberg set to head Munich Security Conference;https://www.dw.com/en/jens-stoltenberg-set-to-head-munich-security-conference/a-70213341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is to become the first non-German to head the renowned MSC. The former Norwegian Prime Minister has been a staunch advocate for increased defense spending by NATO member states."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's political landscape is more fractured than ever;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-political-landscape-is-more-fractured-than-ever/a-70211395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The AfD and BSW, two populist parties in Germany, won almost half of the votes in the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia. The result has fundamentally changed the German party system."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Young women and girls more at risk of homelessness;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-young-women-and-girls-more-at-risk-of-homelessness/a-70200312?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Homelessness also affects young people, including an unusually high proportion of women and girls. Life with no home of their own is particularly dangerous for this group, say experts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Olaf Scholz stresses Germany's need for immigrants;https://www.dw.com/en/olaf-scholz-stresses-germany-s-need-for-immigrants/a-70187337?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The German chancellor made the remarks in the Bundestag after high-level talks on migration policy in Berlin broke down. Germany is introducing more systematic border checks on those arriving from the Schengen Area."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Cross-party migration talks break down;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-cross-party-migration-talks-break-down/a-70182751?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "A second round of high-level German talks on migration in Berlin ended without agreement. The conservative opposition said it would not attend further meetings. But the coalition government still unveiled a new proposal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German princess gave US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito $900 in concert tickets;https://www.dw.com/en/german-princess-gave-us-supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito-900-in-concert-tickets/a-70159689?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito disclosed receiving concert tickets worth $900 from German socialite and \"princess\" Gloria von Thurn und Taxis."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Berlin plans new mass accommodation for refugees;https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-plans-new-mass-accommodation-for-refugees/a-70169283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Immigration has become a hot-button issue in Germany. Refugee accommodation centers in Berlin are full to overflowing, but there's a desperate lack of housing. Now, authorities are coming up with bright ideas."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Will German police get to do secret house searches?;https://www.dw.com/en/will-german-police-get-to-do-secret-house-searches/a-70154300?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office wants to secretly break into homes as part of anti-terrorism measures. That is currently prohibited, but the interior minister has far-reaching plans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Students want to strip Adolf Hitler of honorary citizenship;https://www.dw.com/en/students-want-to-strip-adolf-hitler-of-honorary-citizenship/a-70155685?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Thousands of German towns and municipalities once made Adolf Hitler an honorary citizen, and many have still not distanced themselves from the Nazi dictator. But now, students in Bad Honnef are taking action."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Alex Morgan: The greatest female footballer of all time?;https://www.dw.com/en/alex-morgan-the-greatest-female-footballer-of-all-time/a-70153127?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Marta may have won six FIFA player awards, but two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan is more of a household name. Teammate Megan Rapinoe achieved on and off the field, yet Morgan had a grace on the pitch few could match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's ter Stegen is happy the wait is finally over;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-ter-stegen-is-happy-the-wait-is-finally-over/a-70144838?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "National team goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has spoken of his frustration during years of being stuck behind Manuel Neuer, while at the same time paying tribute to his predecessor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australia's Raygun claims 'I knew people wouldn't understand my style';https://www.dw.com/en/australia-s-raygun-claims-i-knew-people-wouldn-t-understand-my-style/a-70135037?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Rachael \"Raygun\" Gunn, the 37-year-old Olympic breaker, says the criticism of her performance came from people's ignorance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Women's soccer: US shows up Europe on maternity care;https://www.dw.com/en/women-s-soccer-us-shows-up-europe-on-maternity-care/a-70117081?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "A recent lawsuit involving French club Olympique Lyon highlighted the disparities and room for improvement in women's football regarding pregnancies and maternity care."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Argentina: Court blocks Milei move to privatize football;https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-court-blocks-milei-move-to-privatize-football/a-70122667?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "A court in Buenos Aires has blocked President Javier Milei's plans to open up Argentinian football to private investment. The issue continues to split the country's most popular sport, with some even looking to Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's Leon Draisaitl signs record NHL contract;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-leon-draisaitl-signs-record-nhl-contract/a-70124333?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Germany's Leon Draisaitl has signed an eight-year contract extension worth $112 million (\u20ac101.5 million). This will keep the superstar forward in Edmonton for a further eight years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India's archaic labor laws allow firms to exploit workers;https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-archaic-labor-laws-allow-firms-to-exploit-workers/a-70121341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Major international companies, including big tech firms, are exploiting India's labor laws and skirting overtime payment, say workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Open and the controversy over night sessions;https://www.dw.com/en/us-open-and-the-controversy-over-night-sessions/a-70121878?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "A new rule was meant to clamp down on matches at the US Open dragging on into the early hours of the next day. Still, some matches are finishing after 2:00 a.m. \u2013 to the detriment of players' health."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Germany live up to its chipmaking ambitions?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-germany-live-up-to-its-chipmaking-ambitions/a-70079606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The German government wants to build up its long-term chipmaking capabilities. But are they following through and attracting the companies needed to make the country a center of this all-important technology?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World Cup expansion gives hope to West Asian teams;https://www.dw.com/en/world-cup-expansion-gives-hope-to-west-asian-teams/a-70112089?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been dominating West Asian football, but the continent has four more assured spots at the 2026 World Cup. As third-round qualifying opens, the likes of Kuwait, Oman and Jordan may make it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ugandan Olympian set on fire in domestic assault;https://www.dw.com/en/ugandan-olympian-set-on-fire-in-domestic-assault/a-70118647?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Rebecca Cheptegei, who finished 44th in the Olympic marathon in Paris, suffered severe burns after allegedly being doused with petrol by her partner. Domestic violence against women remains a serious problem in Kenya."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German businesses worried about far-right gains in the east;https://www.dw.com/en/german-businesses-worried-about-far-right-gains-in-the-east/a-70112417?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the states of Saxony and Thuringia has raised concerns among business leaders about the economic future of eastern Germany. Will it hit jobs and investment?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany coach Nagelsmann names Kimmich as new captain;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coach-nagelsmann-names-kimmich-as-new-captain/a-70113016?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The coach of Germany's national team has named a new captain as the team prepare for their first matches since the home Euros. Julian Nagelsmann is facing a bit of a rebuild after the retirements of four key players."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis tickets: UK government to probe 'dynamic pricing';https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-tickets-uk-government-to-probe-dynamic-pricing/a-70109787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Ministers have promised an investigation after fans complained of inflated ticket prices for Oasis' 2025 reunion tour. But industry experts insist that \"dynamic pricing\" is not illegal and based on supply and demand."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis reunion tour tickets cause online frenzy;https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-reunion-tour-tickets-cause-online-frenzy/a-70099805?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Fans of the Manchester band Oasis faced long online queues on Saturday morning as tickets went on sale for the group's in-demand reunion concerts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Half the world lacks access to safe drinking water;https://www.dw.com/en/half-the-world-lacks-access-to-safe-drinking-water/a-70089835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "A new report shows 4.4 billion people across the world have no access to safe drinking water, more than double many previous estimates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Japan's youth break tradition by embracing perfume;https://www.dw.com/en/japan-s-youth-break-tradition-by-embracing-perfume/a-70091052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Once seen as ostentatious, an imposition on others, and unnecessary in a culture that famously enjoys bathing, perfumes and scents are finally trending among young Japanese."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is methane?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. Where does methane come from, and what can we do to stop it from getting into the atmosphere?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The unseen Holocaust movie: Jerry Lewis' lost film 'The Day the Clown Cried';https://www.dw.com/en/the-unseen-holocaust-movie-jerry-lewis-lost-film-the-day-the-clown-cried/a-70043956?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "At the Venice Film Festival, a new documentary will reveal never-before-seen footage from \"The Day the Clown Cried.\" The 1972 Holocaust movie by comedian Jerry Lewis was never released, but has gained near-mythic status."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Concerning' rise in unprotected sex among teenagers;https://www.dw.com/en/concerning-rise-in-unprotected-sex-among-teenagers/a-70079734?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "A majority of teenagers in Europe, Central Asia, and Canada do not use condoms. Experts warn of rising risks of STIs and unwanted pregnancies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Glammed up in the kitchen: Influencers drive 'tradwife' nostalgia;https://www.dw.com/en/glammed-up-in-the-kitchen-influencers-drive-tradwife-nostalgia/a-70071650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The \"traditional wife\" trend celebrates orthodox gender roles. But does this thriving movement on TikTok and Instagram also serve the far-right political agenda?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Populists\u2019 rhetoric linked to growing unhappiness, study finds;https://www.dw.com/en/populists-rhetoric-linked-to-growing-unhappiness-study-finds/a-70072409?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Right-wing populism is rising across Europe, with Germany\u2019s AfD possibly becoming the first far-right party to win state elections since the Nazis. However, their rise won\u2019t bring greater happiness to their supporters."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Russia airspace ban on Western airlines helps Chinese rivals;https://www.dw.com/en/russia-airspace-ban-on-western-airlines-helps-chinese-rivals/a-70025268?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Russia has banned many European carriers from using its airspace in response to sanctions over Ukraine. That's boosted Chinese airlines' market share, but it's not the only reason Western carriers are struggling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Congo 'working blindly' in attempts to control Mpox outbreak;https://www.dw.com/en/congo-working-blindly-in-attempts-to-control-mpox-outbreak/a-70062357?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Only 40% of Mpox cases in DR Congo are laboratory tested, suggesting true number of cases could be five times higher than reported, according to Africa CDC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;5 reasons why Venice is this year's most important film festival;https://www.dw.com/en/5-reasons-why-venice-is-this-year-s-most-important-film-festival/a-70043247?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The 81st Venice Film Festival is the can't-miss event for movie fans in 2024. It will feature impressive feature debuts and the return of cinema superstars."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ryanair to cut flights to Berlin due to 'sky-high costs';https://www.dw.com/en/ryanair-to-cut-flights-to-berlin-due-to-sky-high-costs/a-70063074?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Irish budget airline says it plans to slash a fifth of traffic to Berlin-Brandenburg airport because of high access costs."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Will a right-wing shift hit businesses and jobs?;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-will-a-right-wing-shift-hit-businesses-and-jobs/a-70025620?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "As voters in Saxony go to the polls in state elections, some fear a sharper political turn could hurt business investments in the region and worsen a lack of qualified workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN chief Guterres warns of fast-rising Pacific ocean;https://www.dw.com/en/un-chief-guterres-warns-of-fast-rising-pacific-ocean/a-70055845?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "UN chief Antonio Guterres issued a global SOS regarding Pacific ocean temperatures, rising at three times the global average rate. He called for a cutdown on emissions and support for vulnerable countries."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Telegram: How the app defies calls for hate censorship;https://www.dw.com/en/telegram-how-the-app-defies-calls-for-hate-censorship/a-70051335?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "After the arrest of Telegram's boss in France, attention is on the messaging app and its hands-off approach to content moderation. Some blame it for inflaming unrest, others see it as a den for criminal activity."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Eating processed meats raises type 2 diabetes risk;https://www.dw.com/en/eating-processed-meats-raises-type-2-diabetes-risk/a-70051810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Two slices of ham a day are enough to raise type 2 diabetes risk by 15%, according to a new study. Meanwhile high-fat diets could increase the numbers of a toxic molecule known to cause the disease."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is groundwater?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-groundwater/a-68142894?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Groundwater is crucial for agriculture and drinking water supplies. But what exactly is it, how does it form and how can we protect this precious underground resource from threats like pollution and climate change?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany\u2019s investments in China increase despite warnings;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-investments-in-china-increase-despite-warnings/a-69957810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Germany's investments in China are growing despite efforts to reduce reliance on the Asian power. China continues to be a critical trade partner for Europe's largest economy, so how to get the balance right?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australian workers now have the 'right to disconnect';https://www.dw.com/en/australian-workers-now-have-the-right-to-disconnect/a-70045955?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "A law giving workers the legal \"right to disconnect\" from work has come into effect in Australia. This gives workers the right to ignore unreasonable contact from their employers outside of work hours."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;South China Sea tensions pose threat to international trade;https://www.dw.com/en/south-china-sea-tensions-pose-threat-to-international-trade/a-69926497?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "Maritime trade faces growing threats, including ongoing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. Now, rising tensions in the South China Sea are adding to global security concerns over this crucial trade route."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Healthy eating: Why teens gorge and older people peck;https://www.dw.com/en/healthy-eating-why-teens-gorge-and-older-people-peck/a-70017015?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-20 02:00:07",
        "text": "While young people can eat everything in sight, older people often lose appetite. It's important to know why to stay healthy at any age."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis live: children and Hezbollah commander among 31 killed in Beirut strike, Lebanon says;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/21/middle-east-hezbollah-ibrahim-akil-israel-gaza-war-latest;2024-09-21T08:48:54Z",
        "text": "At least 31 people were killed, including three children and seven women, in an Israeli strike on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Friday, the Lebanese health ministry told a televised news conference on Saturday, according to Reuters. It was previously believed that the strike had killed at least 14 people including a senior Hezbollah leader. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed by a day his scheduled departure to the US, where he is due to address the UN general assembly, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). On Friday the UN\u2019s high commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, told the security council the attack on Hezbollah communications devices violated international law and could constitute a war crime. The pagers and walkie-talkies exploded as their users were shopping in supermarkets, walking on streets and attending funerals, plunging Lebanon into panic. \u201cI am appalled by the breadth and impact of the attacks,\u201d said T\u00fcrk, adding that it \u201cis a war crime to commit violence intended to spread terror among civilians\u201d. International mediators, including the US, have been scrambling to stop the Gaza war from becoming an all-out regional conflict. Israel has submitted an \u201cofficial challenge\u201d to a request from the international criminal court prosecutor for an arrest warrant against its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. In May the ICC\u2019s prosecutor, Karim Khan, requested the court issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. \u201cThe state of Israel submitted today its official challenge to the ICC\u2019s jurisdiction, as well as the legality of the prosecutor\u2019s requests for arrest warrants against Israel\u2019s prime minister and minister of defence,\u201d the foreign ministry\u2019s spokesperson, Oren Marmorstein, said on X. Khan also sought warrants against top Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The prosecutor dropped the application for Haniyeh on 2 August \u201cbecause of the changed circumstances caused by Mr Haniyeh\u2019s death\u201d in Tehran on 31 July, the ICC said in a statement this month. According to Israel, Deif was killed by a strike on 13 July in southern Gaza, though Hamas denies he is dead. The court is still weighing Khan\u2019s application for an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant. The Guardian graphics team have created this map, which shows the airstrikes and artillery fire across the Israel-Lebanon border between 19-20 September 2024. Further violence between Israel and Iran\u2019s allies Hezbollah and Hamas could ignite a devastating regional conflict, the United Nations has warned, after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut killed at least 14 people including a senior Hezbollah leader and wounded 66. Late on Friday, UN political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo said: We risk seeing a conflagration that could dwarf even the devastation and suffering witnessed so far.\u201d Speaking at a meeting of the UN security council which had been convened to discuss Israel\u2019s attacks, DiCarlo said: It is not too late to avoid such folly. There is still room for diplomacy. I also strongly urge member states with influence over the parties to leverage it now.\u201d Robert Wood, the deputy US ambassador to the UN, repeated Washington\u2019s assertions that the US had played no role in the attacks and called on all parties to \u201crefrain from any actions which could plunge the region into a devastating war\u201d. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, had earlier said Israel\u2019s attacks would continue, writing on X: The sequence of actions in the new phase will continue until our goal is achieved: the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes.\u201d You can read more of the report by William Christou in Beirut and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem here: Here is a video report on the Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday. In total, 14 were killed and at least 66 injured. The Guardian\u2019s international security correspondent, Jason Burke, has written a profile of Ibrahim Aqil who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday. Here is an extract: Aqil, who was in his early 60s, had risen through the ranks and reached a senior position in the organisation. Exact details of his role are unclear, but the Israel Defense Forces described him as \u201cthe head of the Hezbollah terrorist organization\u2019s operations team, the acting commander of the Radwan [special forces] unit\u201d. \u201cHe was one of the really senior old-timers but was never really the face of anything. He was always a number two or number three, but had just been promoted in the last five to 10 years,\u201d said Hussain Abdul-Hussain, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington and an expert on extremism in Lebanon. Aqil was one of a group of young Shia men originally from the south of Lebanon but living in Beirut who were energised by the 1979 Iranian revolution and recruited by the country\u2019s Revolutionary Guards into a network known initially as Islamic Jihad and then later as Hezbollah. Their military aim, guided by their Iranian mentors, was to fight the US, which had dispatched a peacekeeping force to Beirut; and Israel, which had occupied much of Lebanon. Their political objective was to turn Lebanon into an Islamic state aligned with Tehran. Almost all have been killed since, probably by Israel. You can read the full profile here: Hezbollah has confirmed the death of Ibrahim Aqil, who sits on the group\u2019s top military body and is wanted by the US in connection with the 1983 Beirut embassy bombing. Aqil was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday, along with several other members of the elite Radwan unit, which under his leadership was designed to conduct cross-border raids into Israel. The group also said Ahmed Wahbi, a commander who oversaw the military operations of the Radwan unit during the Gaza war until early 2024, was also killed in the strike. In its statement, Hezbollah said that Aqil led a \u201cblessed life of jihad\u201d. In total, 14 were killed and at least 66 injured by the Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Paramedics worked late into the night to retrieve survivors and bodies from under the rubble of the collapsed building. Friday\u2019s strike on Beirut came amid a sharp escalation by Israel of attacks against Hezbollah. At least 42 people were killed and more than 3,000 injured this week when explosives inserted into pagers and walkie-talkies commonly used by Hezbollah members were remotely detonated. On Wednesday, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said the war with Hezbollah was entering a new phase and that the \u201ccentre of gravity\u201d had shifted to fighting in northern Israel. Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: Israel submitted formal challenges to the international criminal court (ICC) on Friday over its jurisdiction and the legality of arrest warrant requests against Israeli leaders for their conduct of the Gaza war. In May the ICC\u2019s prosecutor, Karim Khan, requested the court issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. \u201cThe state of Israel submitted today its official challenge to the ICC\u2019s jurisdiction, as well as the legality of the prosecutor\u2019s requests for arrest warrants against Israel\u2019s prime minister and minister of defence,\u201d the foreign ministry\u2019s spokesperson, Oren Marmorstein, said on X. Khan also sought warrants against top Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The White House said it had seen \u201cdeeply disturbing\u201d footage of Israeli soldiers pushing three apparently lifeless bodies from a rooftop during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. The incident took place in the town of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank, where the Israeli military has been carrying out large-scale raids since late August that the Palestinian health ministry says have killed dozens of people. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement: \u201cThis is a serious incident that does not coincide with IDF values and the expectations from IDF soldiers. The incident is under review.\u201d The IDF declined to comment when asked if the soldiers involved were being investigated. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has postponed his trip to the US by a day due to the security situation in the country\u2019s north. Netanyahu was due to travel to New York on 24 September, during which he is expected to address the annual UN general assembly. He issued a short statement after the Beirut airstrike, saying: \u201cOur goals are clear, and our actions speak for themselves.\u201d The UN\u2019s high commissioner for human rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, denounced the pager and walkie-talkie attacks in Lebanon, saying that they violated international law and could constitute a war crime. The UN\u2019s political affairs chief, Rosemary DiCarlo, warned that if violence continues between Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah, then \u201cwe risk seeing a conflagration that could dwarf even the devastation and suffering witnessed so far\u201d. The UK\u2019s foreign secretary, David Lammy, discussed preparations to evacuate remaining Britons from Lebanon, having already urged UK nationals to leave the country given the hostilities with Israel. The White House said Americans were strongly urged not to travel to Lebanon or to leave if they are already there. The US president, Joe Biden, said a ceasefire deal in Gaza was still realistic amid the escalating tensions in the region. \u201cWe\u2019re going to keep at it until we get it done, but we\u2019ve got a way to go,\u201d Biden said in his first comments on the situation since the wave of explosions targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;UN chief Ant\u00f3nio Guterres to seek world leaders\u2019 backing for vision of the future;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/un-chief-antonio-guterres-to-seek-world-leaders-backing-for-vision-of-the-future;2024-09-21T06:00:34Z",
        "text": "The UN\u2019s secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, will try to persuade world leaders to extend their horizons beyond current wars by adopting a pact that he hopes will set a path for a new system of global governance that can prevent similar crises in the future. Global leaders will gather in New York next week for the UN Summit of the Future, the centrepiece of this year\u2019s launch of the annual United Nations general assembly. Guterres had outlined an ambitious agenda covering artificial intelligence, groundbreaking UN security council reform, outer space, peace operations, climate change and financing development, but critics say that outline has not so much shrunk as become ever-less specific. The toll of grinding negotiations and the need for consensus have underlined the divisions that have immobilised the UN for a decade, leading to a watered-down document called \u201cpact for the future\u201d due to be announced at a summit. Talks about the final draft, its five chapters and 58 actions must end on Saturday. For more than a year Guterres had hoped that by confronting world leaders with the scale of the future challenges they collectively face, they could be persuaded to set aside some of those divisions about the present. Guy Ryder, the UN undersecretary for policy who is at the helm of the process, insists the pact \u201ccan render the UN and the multilateral system more effective, participatory and networked\u201d, but at briefings he struggled to convince reporters this was not another UN mission statement that will gather dust similar to the 2015 sustainable development goals summit or the Nelson Mandela peace summit in 2018. At a press conference Guterres called for the current generation of peacebuilders to address challenges not visible when the UN was invented as a much smaller body 80 years ago. \u201cInternational challenges are moving faster than our ability to solve them. We see out-of-control geopolitical divisions and runaway conflicts \u2013 not least in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and beyond. Runaway climate change. Runaway inequalities and debt. Runaway development of new technologies like artificial intelligence \u2013 without guidance or guardrails. And our institutions simply can\u2019t keep up,\u201d he said. \u201cCrises are interacting and feeding off each other \u2013 for example, as digital technologies spread climate disinformation that deepens distrust and fuels polarisation. Global institutions and frameworks are today totally inadequate to deal with these complex and even existential challenges. \u201cIt is no great surprise. Those institutions were born in a bygone era for a bygone world.\u201d Few disagree with his analysis, but many question whether the pact provides new solutions, as opposed to aspirations. Guterres insisted it represented progress, saying it offers \u201cthe strongest language on security council reform in a generation \u2013 and the most concrete step towards council enlargement since 1963. The first set of governance measures for new technologies, including artificial intelligence, in all their applications \u2013 with the UN at its centre. A major advance in reform of the international financial architecture with the most significant language yet strengthening the role of developing countries. A step change in financing the sustainable development goals and a commitment to advance our [sustainable development goals] stimulus, multiplying the resources available to developing countries.\u201d David Miliband, the chief executive of International Rescue Committee, said the pact did include practical proposals, such as an emergency platform allowing the UN to use its convening power to address global shocks such as pandemics. He said his test for the pact was \u201cnot novelty but strength, commitment and follow-through in a world where the nature of global risk has changed\u201d. But the negotiators have confronted familiar problems including cold war standoffs, shortage of cash and entrenched western reluctance to cede power to emerging powers \u2013 at the security council and in financial institutions. Seeking consensus among 193 countries has been no easy task for the two facilitators, Germany and Namibia. Nor has the backdrop of wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan helped the atmosphere. Various critics have said the UN pact is not the right place to settle specific differences. Russia has opposed overspecific references to nuclear disarmament. Others have said the Cop conferences are the only place to address the climate crisis. Richard Gowan, the UN specialist at the International Crisis Group, said there was a western reluctance to address the imbalances in the multilateral financial bodies. In a paper for Chatham House thinktank he observed: \u201cThe US and its allies argue that the UN is not the right space to negotiate complex financial issues. They say the World Bank and [International Monetary Fund] \u2013 where western powers still hold decisive shares of the votes \u2013 have a mandate to address these topics. A lot of diplomats from poorer states will be happy if world leaders make political commitments to sort out debt and development issues at the summit. But some hardliners, such as Pakistan, have argued that is not enough, and have even suggested cancelling the summit.\u201d There are some signs of movement on security council reform where three of the five permanent members on the 15-strong council are France, the UK and the US. The US has suggested creating two new permanent seats for African countries without veto power. But India and Brazil\u2019s claims are also pressing. On the theme of expansion of the security council, an answer may eventually be found. Ingenious solutions to reduce the veto of the permanent members abound, only to be crushed on the rock of objections from Russia, US and China, and a slow migration is visible to greater use of the larger general assembly where the veto does not apply. But the speed of reform does not match the speed with which the world \u2013 its technology and power dynamics \u2013 is changing. At best Gowan argues the pact can provide a hook or staging post for UN reform, and for new issues such as AI to proceed at future summits. Miliband said the UN system could only be as good as its members. He said: \u201cFragmentation of political power around the world is producing gridlock at the apex of the international system: the UN security council.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;From Munich 72 to 7 October attack: the chequered history of the Mossad;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/chequered-history-the-mossad-hezbollah-device-blasts-israel-spy-agency;2024-09-21T04:00:30Z",
        "text": "Israel\u2019s foreign intelligence service, usually known as the Mossad, has scored many spectacular victories in almost 80 years of undercover operations, earning a unique reputation for audacious espionage and ruthless violence. But even former agents admit the service\u2019s history is \u201cchequered\u201d with many failures that have embarrassed Israel, dismayed allies and led to accusations of systematic disregard for international law. Israel has not formally commented on this week\u2019s simultaneous explosion of thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon that killed 37 people and injured about 3,000 others. The consensus among experts is that the Mossad, an abbreviation of the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations in Hebrew, was responsible. Other recent operations will also almost certainly have involved the service. The Mossad may have provided the intelligence allowing the assassinations in July of Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas political leader killed by a bomb in a bedroom in a government guesthouse in Tehran, and Fuad Shukr, a Hezbollah founder member and in effect chief of staff, who died in Beirut after receiving a message summoning him to a flat that was then hit by a missile. Though the most audacious operations get attention, much of the Mossad\u2019s work is never known outside tightly restricted circles. For decades, few had even heard of the Mossad, which was formally established in 1949. Former agents were ordered not to tell even their family of their previous employment and the service never admitted its involvement in any operation. \u201cEverything the Mossad did was quiet, no one knew. It was a totally different era. The Mossad was just not mentioned. When I joined, you had to know someone to be brought in. Now, there is a website,\u201d said Yossi Alpher, who took part in some of the service\u2019s best-known operations in the 1970s. A second former agent said much of the Mossad\u2019s work has always been the mundane, painstaking work of intelligence collection that is of little interest to anyone beyond the intel community. \u201cA lot of it is pretty boring, to be honest. You\u2019re looking through a lot of dirt to find the gold,\u201d he said. The Mossad\u2019s senior officials have long been more likely to be spending their time on sensitive diplomatic missions, briefing senior Israeli decision-makers on regional political dynamics or building relationships abroad than recruiting spies or running operations such as that targeting Hezbollah last week. For decades, the Mossad oversaw years-long clandestine efforts to build up \u201cenemies of Israel\u2019s enemies\u201d, such as Kurds, and Christians in what is now South Sudan. As with many of its efforts, this met with mixed success. \u201cThese are now people who are either sovereign and independent, or have a firm and well-defended autonomy now and the Mossad made a huge contribution here,\u201d said Alpher. However, support for Maronite Christian militia in Lebanon ended less well. The Mossad is blamed by some for ignoring warnings about its chosen proxies\u2019 reputation for brutality and ethnic hatred, and encouraging Israel\u2019s disastrous invasion of Lebanon in 1982, in which thousands of civilians were killed. Alpher said the mythic reputation of the Mossad, bolstered by a series of films and TV series, could be helpful to Israel as a deterrent but that the effect could be exaggerated. \u201cWhen the Palestinians look at Israel, they are looking at Shin Bet [the internal intelligence service] not the Mossad. The Shin Bet has the Palestinian file and so is far more present in the Palestinian conflict \u2026 and, for the region, its the Israel Defense Forces that are ultimately fighting the wars and whose deterrence is stronger or weaker at a strategic level than the Mossad, despite all the razzmatazz in Hollywood,\u201d Alpher said. Still, screenwriters are attracted to some of the Mossad\u2019s most spectacular exploits. One of the most famous is the 1960 capture in Argentina of Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi officer who was a key organiser of the Holocaust. Others include stealing whole warships from the French navy in 1969, warning of impending attack by Egypt and Syria in 1973 and providing key intelligence for the famous raid on Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976 that freed Jewish and Israeli passengers hijacked by Palestinian and German extremists. In 1980, the service set up and ran an entire diving resort on Sudan\u2019s Red Sea coast as a cover for the clandestine transport of thousands of members of Ethiopia\u2019s Jewish community to Israel. The Mossad spies lived among tourists before finally being forced to close down the operation after five years. In recent years, there have been a series of assassinations attributed to the Mossad, such as the 2008 killing of Imad Mugniyeh, a Hezbollah mastermind of dozens of attacks against Israel and the US. A series of scientists connected to Iran\u2019s nuclear programme have died violently, with one killed in 2020 by 15 shots from a pre-positioned machine gun controlled from thousands of miles away. While such attacks have been precise, others have been less discriminate. After a deadly attack by Palestinian extremists on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, the Mossad led a campaign to disrupt the networks and groups responsible. Many of those killed by Israeli assassins had little connection to the original attack and some had no connection with violence at all. The campaign ended when a Mossad team shot dead a Moroccan waiter in Norway in the belief he was a Palestinian Liberation Organisation security official, and then made a series of further errors leading to their arrest and trial by local authorities. This week children, ordinary civilians and medical staff were among those killed or injured by exploding pagers, leading UN human rights experts to condemn \u201cterrifying\u201d violations of international law. In 1997, an effort to kill Khaled Meshaal, a powerful Hamas leader, went badly wrong when the Mossad team was caught in Amman by local security forces. Israel was forced to hand over an antidote and relations with Jordan were badly damaged. Then there is the failure to learn anything that might have warned of the Hamas raids into southern Israel on 7 October that killed 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians. The attack prompted the Israeli offensive in Gaza, and the current round of hostilities with Hezbollah. \u201cThere\u2019s no question that Israeli military, security agencies all have a lot to make up for after October 7, and not just in the eyes of allies and adversaries but also their own [Israeli] people. One failure does not signal that Israeli intelligence services are not what they once were, but they still need to rebuild the aura,\u201d said Matthew Levitt, a US former intelligence official and expert at the Washington Institute, an pro-Israeli American thinktank. \u201cBut that\u2019s not the main reason [for the pager and walkie-talkie operation in Lebanon] \u2026 They are doing it because they are fighting on [multiple] fronts and now is the time to do what has to be done.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;UN pleads against further violence after Israeli strike kills top Hezbollah leader;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/top-hezbollah-leader-airstrike-beirut-israel;2024-09-20T21:05:36Z",
        "text": "Further violence between Israel and Iran\u2019s allies Hezbollah and Hamas could ignite a devastating regional conflict, the United Nations has warned, after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut killed at least 14 people including a senior Hezbollah leader and wounded 66. The strike killed Ibrahim Aqil, a figure on the group\u2019s top military council who was wanted by the US for his alleged connection with the 1983 bombing of the US embassy in Beirut. Israel said Aqil, the leader of Hezbollah\u2019s elite Radwan special forces, was killed along with 10 other senior commanders of the unit. Hezbollah confirmed the death of Aqil, who it described as one of its top leaders, saying he had led a \u201cblessed life of jihad\u201d. It was the latest in a series of attacks that rocked Lebanon this week, after an extraordinary two-stage operation that made thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies commonly carried by Hezbollah members explode simultaneously. The operation, presumed to have been carried out by Israel, left more than 3,000 people wounded and at least 42 dead. Late on Friday, UN political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo said: \u201cWe risk seeing a conflagration that could dwarf even the devastation and suffering witnessed so far.\u201d Speaking at a meeting of the UN security council which had been convened to discuss Israel\u2019s attacks, DiCarlo said: \u201cIt is not too late to avoid such folly. There is still room for diplomacy. I also strongly urge member states with influence over the parties to leverage it now.\u201d Robert Wood, the deputy US ambassador to the UN, repeated Washington\u2019s assertions that the US had played no role in the attacks and called on all parties to \u201crefrain from any actions which could plunge the region into a devastating war\u201d. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, had earlier said Israel\u2019s attacks would continue, writing on X: \u201cThe sequence of actions in the new phase will continue until our goal is achieved: the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes.\u201d Friday\u2019s attack was the third time Beirut, Lebanon\u2019s capital, has been hit by an Israeli airstrike since fighting between Hezbollah and Israel started on 8 October last year after the former launched rockets \u201cin solidarity\u201d with Hamas\u2019s attack the previous day. Videos of the aftermath showed burnt cars and rubble thrown across the street from a building whose first two floors appeared to have been blown out. Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency reported that four rockets had struck the building in Jamous, a residential area in southern Beirut, during rush hour. The Lebanese Civil Defense asked citizens to remain indoors to keep roads clear for emergency workers transporting the wounded to hospitals. Lebanese people shared pictures of loved ones who had gone missing in the aftermath of the strike, attaching their phone numbers in case anyone had seen them. On Thursday night there was the most intense series of Israeli airstrikes carried out in south Lebanon since October. Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of strikes on border villages across the south, marking what the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said was the beginning of a new phase in the war. Hassan Cheet, a first responder in the border village of Kafr Kila, said: \u201cThe destruction is as far as you can see. They brought down about 30 houses overnight. An entire neighbourhood was levelled.\u201d He shared pictures of flattened houses and rescue vehicles clearing rubble from the main road along the border fence with Israel, where emergency workers were accompanied by UN peacekeepers for their safety. Cheet said: \u201cThank God there were no civilians or human losses. The rest can be dealt with.\u201d In response to the Israeli barrage, Hezbollah launched more than 100 rockets at northern Israel on Friday morning, hitting Israeli military bases in the occupied Golan Heights. In Beirut, weary doctors braced themselves for another barrage of wounded after hearing the news of Friday\u2019s attack. \u201cTruly, we\u2019ve been working around the clock. We\u2019ve done 50 surgeries in the past two-and-a-half days, and we only have three rooms because you need specialised microscopes to operate,\u201d said Sami Rizk, the chief executive of LAU Medical Center-Rizk hospital. The pager and walkie-talkie explosions that ripped through Lebanon brought thousands of patients to hospitals in just a few hours. Doctors described apocalyptic scenes in emergency rooms, where overwhelmed staff had to treat patients on the floor due to lack of available beds. Many patients had lost hands and eyes. Most were reaching for their pagers or had brought them to their face when they exploded. \u201cThis is to us is a new type of war where it is one specialty that is necessary: ophthalmology,\u201d Rizk said. \u201cIn war cases, ophthalmologists are used 5 to 10% of the time; here it was over 90%.\u201d He added that it was as if he was looking at \u201cthe same patient\u201d over and over. The resulting injuries would be long-lasting and require lifelong care, Rizk said. \u201cNo more fingers and no more eyes: this will be tough in the long term. It\u2019s going to be a heavy burden on the society and these poor young guys.\u201d Volker T\u00fcrk, the UN\u2019s high commissioner for human rights, on Friday denounced the attacks, saying that they violated international law and could constitute a war crime. \u201cInternational humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby-trap devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects,\u201d Turk told the security council, adding: \u201cIt is a war crime to commit violence intended to spread terror among civilians.\u201d For Lebanon\u2019s health officials, the attacks functioned as a grim stress test of the healthcare sector, which had been preparing for mass-casualty events since the war began in October. Firass Abiad, the Lebanese health minister, said: \u201cThe health sector in Lebanon has been tested and has always been found able to respond. The Lebanese health sector is really a resilient health system.\u201d He said that despite the country\u2019s five-year-long economic crisis, it has been able to cope with successive crises such as Covid-19 and the 2020 Beirut port blast that wounded 7,000 and killed at least 218 people. Despite successfully dealing with two massive attacks in one week, the health minister eyed the future warily, as Friday\u2019s attack brought the possibility of a country-wide war with Israel ever closer. \u201cDoes this mean that we need to keep putting it through the test? I hope not, and I hope we never find out which crisis will be sufficient to bring it to its knees,\u201d Abiad said. In the UK, the foreign secretary, David Lammy, discussed preparations to evacuate remaining Britons from Lebanon, having already urged UK nationals to leave the country given the hostilities with Israel. He repeated the Foreign Office\u2019s warning to British nationals, urging them to leave Lebanon \u201cwhile commercial options remain\u201d, as the situation \u201ccould deteriorate rapidly\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Footage of Israeli soldiers pushing Palestinian bodies off roof \u2018deeply disturbing\u2019, says US \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/20/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-launches-major-strikes-on-lebanon-as-white-house-says-diplomacy-urgent;2024-09-20T20:55:53Z",
        "text": "An Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday killed at least 14 people and injured 66 others, in what the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said was a targeted assassination of a senior Hezbollah leader. Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: At least 14 people were killed and 66 injured as a result of the Israeli strike in Beirut, according to Lebanese authorities. It was the third time that the Lebanese capital has been hit by an Israeli airstrike since fighting between Hezbollah and Israel started in October last year. The Israeli military said the strike killed Ibrahim Aqil, one of the last founder members of Hezbollah\u2019s military wing to have survived more than 40 years of conflict with Israel. Israel said Aqil, the leader of Hezbollah\u2019s elite Radwan special forces, was killed along with 10 other senior commanders of the unit. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said Israel\u2019s attacks would continue after the Beirut strike. \u201cThe sequence of actions in the new phase will continue until our goal is achieved: the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes,\u201d Gallant posted on X. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has postponed his trip to the US by a day due to the security situation in the country\u2019s north. Netanyahu was due to travel to New York on 24 September, during which he is expected to address the annual UN general assembly. He issued a short statement after the Beirut airstrike, saying: \u201cOur goals are clear, and our actions speak for themselves.\u201d Friday\u2019s strike was the latest in a series of attacks that rocked Lebanon this week. Earlier this week, at least 42 people were killed and more than 3,000 people wounded in a two-stage operation that made thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies commonly carried by Hezbollah members explode simultaneously. On Thursday night, Israel launched the most intense series of airstrikes in southern Lebanon since October. Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of strikes on border villages across the south, marking what the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said was the beginning of a new phase in the war. The UN\u2019s high commissioner for human rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, denounced the pager and walkie-talkie attacks in Lebanon, saying that they violated international law and could constitute a war crime. The UN\u2019s political affairs chief, Rosemary DiCarlo, warned that if violence continues between Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah, then \u201cwe risk seeing a conflagration that could dwarf even the devastation and suffering witnessed so far.\u201d The UK\u2019s foreign secretary, David Lammy, discussed preparations to evacuate remaining Britons from Lebanon, having already urged UK nationals to leave the country given the hostilities with Israel. The White House said Americans were strongly urged not to travel to Lebanon or to leave if they are already there. Downing Street fears it is to be asked to support the issue of an international criminal court (ICC) arrest warrant for the Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel submitted on Friday formal challenges to the ICC over its jurisdiction and the legality of arrest warrant requests against Israeli leaders for their conduct of the Gaza war. In the short term, No 10 is said to be most concerned by the explosive political fallout if the ICC issues an arrest warrant for Netanyahu. The US president, Joe Biden, said a ceasefire deal in Gaza is still realistic amid the escalating tensions in the region. \u201cWe\u2019re going to keep at it until we get it done, but we\u2019ve got a way to go,\u201d Biden said in his first comments on the situation since the wave of explosions targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon. The White House said it has seen \u201cdeeply disturbing\u201d footage of Israeli soldiers pushing three apparently lifeless bodies from a rooftop during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the latest in a series of suspected violations by Israeli forces since the start of the Israel-Hamas war that rights groups say show a pattern of excessive force toward Palestinians. The UN\u2019s human rights office in the occupied Palestinian territory has condemned footage showing what appeared to be bodies of Palestinians pushed by Israeli troops from a rooftop during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. Posting to X, it said: Unnecessary or disrespectful treatment of human remains is not consistent with the protection of the basic human dignity of the dead and could amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of the deceased men\u2019s families. The US representative to the UN, at an emergency meeting of the UN\u2019s security council, said Washington believes a broader conflict in the Middle East is \u201cneither desirable nor inevitable\u201d. The US played no role in the latest incidents following the wave of explosions in Lebanon this week, he said. He emphasised it was \u201cimperative\u201d that all parties \u201crefrain from any actions which could plunge the region into a devastating war.\u201d We expect all parties will comply with international humanitarian law and take all reasonable steps to minimise harm to civilians, especially those in densely populated areas. The US continues to believe that a diplomatic resolution is the only way to create the conditions for displaced Lebanese and Israeli civilians to return to their homes safely, he added. The United States will continue to do everything possible to support deescalation and enduring diplomatic solution. The UN\u2019s political affairs chief, Rosemary DiCarlo, warned that if violence continues between Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah, then \u201cwe risk seeing a conflagration that could dwarf even the devastation and suffering witnessed so far.\u201d Volker T\u00fcrk, the UN\u2019s high commissioner for human rights, also speaking at the UN\u2019s security council emergency meeting on Friday, said: International humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby-trap devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects. He said it was \u201cdifficult to conceive how, in these circumstances, such attacks could possibly conform with the key principles of distinction, proportionality, and precautions in attack, under international humanitarian law.\u201d It \u201cis a war crime to commit violence intended to spread terror among civilians,\u201d he added. Here are some of the latest images from the newswires from Beirut, where the latest death toll from an Israeli airstrike on Friday has reached 14. Iran\u2019s foreign ministry has condemned the Israeli airstrike on Beirut on Friday. A statement by the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanani, reported by AFP, reads: The brutal and vicious air strike of the Zionist regime on Beirut... is a gross violation of international law and regulations, as well as the violation of Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty, territorial integrity and national security. The UN security council has begun its emergency meeting over the wave of explosions targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon this week. The meeting was requested by Algeria on behalf of Arab states, and comes after the latest Israeli airstrike on Beirut earlier today that killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens. Friday\u2019s strike was the latest in a series of attacks that rocked Lebanon this week, after a two-stage operation blamed on Israel left more than 3,000 people wounded and at least 42 dead. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said 14 people are confirmed dead after an Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday. Rescue teams continue to search for people under the rubble, it said. The US secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, and his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant held a call on Friday, the Pentagon said. According to a readout of the call, Austin \u201creiterated his concern over the current escalation of exchanges\u201d between Israel and Hezbollah. Austin also \u201cstrongly reemphasized the importance of reaching a diplomatic resolution that enables residents to return safely to their homes on both sides of the border,\u201d it said. The US secretary also \u201curged continued efforts to reach a ceasefire deal in Gaza that would bring home all hostages held by Hamas.\u201d The statement continued: Secretary Austin reaffirmed the United States\u2019 unwavering, enduring, and ironclad commitment to Israel\u2019s security. Israeli drones have been operating over the Achrafieh district in east Beirut, Lebanon, according to the BBC\u2019s Nafiseh Kohnavard. Achrafieh is considered as a mostly Christian populated area and \u201cnot a target\u201d for Israel, she writes, noting that Israeli jets have also been flying over the area. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has issued a short statement following the Israeli airstrike on Beirut on Friday that it said was a targeted assassination of a senior Hezbollah leader. Posting to X, Netanyahu said: Our goals are clear, and our actions speak for themselves. The White House said it has seen \u201cdeeply disturbing\u201d footage of Israeli soldiers pushing three apparently lifeless bodies from a rooftop during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. The White House\u2019s national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that it had demanded an explanation from Israel. Kirby said: We\u2019ve seen that video, and we found it deeply disturbing. If it\u2019s proven to be authentic, it clearly would depict abhorrent and egregious behavior by professional soldiers. In the footage, three soldiers can be seen picking up what appears to be a stiff body and dragging it towards the edge of a roof as troops stand on the ground below. The soldiers on the roof peer over the edge before heaving the body off. On an adjacent rooftop, the soldiers hold another apparently lifeless body by its limbs and swing it over the edge. In a third instance, a soldier kicks a body toward the edge before it falls from view. The incident took place in the town of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank, where the Israeli military has been carrying out large-scale raids since late August that the Palestinian health ministry says have killed dozens of people. The UN said it was \u201cvery concerned\u201d after Israeli airstrikes hit the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens. A statement from Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, reads: We are, of course, very concerned about the heightened escalation... including the deadly strikes we saw in Beirut today. We urge all parties to deescalate immediately. All must exercise maximum restraint. Ibrahim Aqil, who is reported to have been killed by an airstrike in Beirut on Friday, was one of the last founder members of Hezbollah\u2019s military wing to have survived more than 40 years of conflict with Israel. Aqil, who was in his early sixties, had risen through the ranks and eventually reached a senior position in the organisation. Exact details of his role are unclear, but the Israel Defense Forces described him as \u201cthe head of the Hezbollah terrorist organization\u2019s operations team, the acting commander of the Radwan [special forces] unit\u201d. The US had accused Aqil, as well as Imad Mugniyeh, of being involved in the bombings of the US embassy in Beirut in April 1983, which killed 63 people, and the US Marine Corps barracks in October 1983, which killed 241 US personnel. A French barracks was also bombed at that time, killing 58 people. A US justice department notice describes him as \u201c a principal member of Hizballah\u2019s terrorist cell the Islamic Jihad Organization\u201d, which claimed responsibility for the two 1983 bombings in Beirut. The notice also says Aqil directed the taking of US and German hostages in Lebanon and held them there, also in the 1980s. Read the full profile here: Ibrahim Aqil: a founder member of Hezbollah\u2019s military wing Hamas has issued a statement condemning the \u201cbrutal\u201d Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was a targeted assassination of senior Hezbollah leader Ibrahim Aqil. A statement by Hamas said it \u201ccondemns the brutal and terrorist aggression\u201d by Israel, adding that Friday\u2019s attack is \u201can escalation\u201d of Israel\u2019s \u201ccrimes\u201d in Lebanon. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said in a statement posted to X that Israel will continue its \u201csequences of actions in the new phase\u201d of its conflict with Hezbollah until its \u201cgoal is achieved\u201d when Israelis displaced by the fighting are able to return to their homes. Gallant said he had completed a situation assessment with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff and senior officials after the assassination of top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil in Lebanon. \u201cEven in Dahiyeh in Beirut \u2013 we will continue to pursue our enemy in order to protect our citizens,\u201d he wrote, adding: The sequence of actions in the new phase will continue until our goal is achieved: the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes. The White House said US citizens were strongly urged not to travel to Lebanon or to leave if they are already there. White House national security spokesperson John Kirby, speaking to reporters on Friday, said he could not comment on the latest strikes but reiterated that the Biden administration is seeking to avoid an escalation in the region. As we reported earlier, the White House has repeatedly said that the US had no involvement in the strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon this week. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson said about 10 senior Hezbollah commanders were killed along with Ibrahim Aqil in an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut on Friday. Rear Adm Daniel Hagari, at a press conference, said Aqil and other senior members of Hezbollah\u2019s elite Radwan special forces unit were gathered underground when they were targeted and killed. According to the Times of Israel, Hagari said the individuals targeted in the Israeli strike were \u201cthe commanders who drew up and led the Hezbollah terror group\u2019s plan, to be carried out on the day the order was given, to attack into the northern territory of the State of Israel.\u201d The IDF spokesperson claimed that as part of this invasion, Hezbollah \u201cintended to raid Israeli territory, occupy the communities of the Galilee, and murder and kidnap Israeli citizens \u2014 similar to what Hamas did on October 7.\u201d Here are some of the latest images from the newswires from Beirut, where authorities say 12 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese capital. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has postponed his trip to the US by a day due to the security situation in the country\u2019s north, according to reports. Netanyahu was due to travel to New York on 24 September, during which he is expected to address the annual UN general assembly. He will now travel on 25 September, according to reports, and will return to Israel on 28 September. Israel carried out an airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday which killed at least 12 people and wounded 66, in what it said was a targeted assassination attempt on a top Hezbollah leader. Joe Biden said \u201cwe have to keep at it\u201d when asked whether reaching a ceasefire deal in Gaza was still realistic amid escalating tensions in the region. In his first comments on the situation since the wave of explosions targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, the US president told reporters: We have to make sure that the people of northern Israel as well as southern Lebanon are able to get back to their homes, and get back safely. Biden added: The secretary of state, the secretary of defense, our whole team are working with the intelligence community to try to get that done. We\u2019re going to keep at it until we get it done, but we\u2019ve got a way to go. The Israel Defense Forces has confirmed the death of top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. In a statement on X, IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said: With the precise intelligence direction of the Intelligence Division, air force fighter jets targeted the Beirut area and killed Ibrahim Aqil, the head of the Hezbollah terrorist organization\u2019s operations team, the acting commander of the Radwan [special forces] unit. In the attack, together with Akil, the top operatives and the chain of command of the Radwan unit were eliminated.\u201d Iran\u2019s embassy in Lebanon has condemned Israel\u2019s recent attacks on Beirut. In a post on X, the Iranian embassy wrote: In the strongest terms the Israeli madness and arrogance that crossed all limits by targeting residential areas in the southern suburbs of Beirut \u2026 We reaffirm once again that such terrorist crimes will not undermine the determination and faith of the Lebanese. Our sincere condolences to the families of the martyrs and our wishes for a speedy recovery for the wounded.\u201d An Israeli airstrike in Rafah has killed at least 13 Palestinians, according to Gaza\u2019s media office, Reuters reports. Speaking with reporters, US national security council spokesman John Kirby once again said that the US had no involvement in this week\u2019s strikes against Hezbollah using booby-trapped electronics and that US intelligence was not involved in providing any targeting or other advice to the Israeli government. Kirby said that he is not aware of any advance warning from Israel that it planned to carry out Friday\u2019s strike, saying: \u201cThat is not atypical.\u201d However, he declined to answer questions about who was targeted in the strike, and pushed back against questions of whether the Biden administration had exhausted its ability to restrain Israel regarding the conflict in Gaza and the escalation of tensions with Hezbollah. \u201cWe still believe that there is time and space for a diplomatic solution,\u201d he said. \u201cWe think that that is the best way forward. War is not inevitable up there at the blue line, and we\u2019re going to continue to do everything we can to try to prevent it.\u201d Top Hezbollah leader Ibrahim Aqil was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut on Friday, Reuters reports, citing two security sources. According to one of the sources, Aqil was killed alongside members of the Hezbollah elite Radwan unit while they were holding a meeting. The US justice department had designated Aqil as a global terrorist for his alleged role in the 1983 US embassy bombings in Beirut which killed 63 people, as well as the US Marine barracks attacks that year that killed 241 US personnel. Known also as Tahsin, Aqil allegedly also directed the taking of American and German hostages in Lebanon and held them there in the 1980s, according to the US justice department. Eight were killed and 59 wounded in Israel\u2019s airstrike on southern Beirut, Lebanon\u2019s Health Ministry said on Friday afternoon. The US justice department is offering $7m on information surrounding top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil. On its Rewards for Justice website, the US justice department describes Aqil as: Ibrahim Aqil, also known as Tahsin, serves on Hizballah\u2019s highest military body, the Jihad Council. During the 1980s, Aqil was a principal member of Islamic Jihad Organization\u2014Hizballah\u2019s terrorist cell\u2014that claimed the bombings of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in April 1983, which killed 63 people, and the U.S. Marine barracks in October 1983, which killed 241 U.S. personnel. In the 1980s, Aqil directed the taking of American and German hostages in Lebanon and held them there. A Hezbollah source said that \u201cthe search was still under way\u201d when asked if Ibrahim Aqil, a top Hezbollah commander wanted by the US for his alleged role in the 1983 US embassy bombings, was the killed in the Israeli strike. William Christou in Beirut has the following report: Israeli jets carried out a strike on southern Beirut on Friday afternoon in what the Israeli military called a \u201ctargeted airstrike\u201d in an announcement. Four rockets targeted the building in Dahieh, Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency (NNA) reported. Ambulances transported those injured from the scene as Lebanon\u2019s civil defence urged citizens to stay home to keep roads clear for emergency workers. NNA reports that at least five children have been killed in the strike, with more casualties expected as paramedics arrived at the scene. The attack occurred at rush hour, a little before 4pm. Videos of the strike showed rubble and burned-out cars strewn across a busy street, as people surrounded a building with smoke billowing out of it. The strike targeted a building near the al-Qaem mosque in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of south Beirut, a residential area. Reuters, quoting a Lebanese security source, said that the strike was near a Hezbollah facility. An Israeli army spokesperson issued a statement, saying it \u201cconducted a precision strike in the Beirut area\u201d, adding that there had been \u201cno change in the home front command\u2019s instructions\u201d. The strike is the third time Beirut has been hit by an Israeli airstrike since fighting between Hezbollah and Israel started on 8 October after the former launched rockets \u201cin solidarity\u201d with Hamas\u2019s attack the day prior. It comes two days after a wide-ranging attack targeting walkie-talkies and pagers that injured more than 3,000 and left at least 42 dead. Hezbollah and Lebanon have accused Israel of being behind the attack, but Israel has not commented on the operation. Here are some of the latest images on the newswires: The Israeli military said it carried out a \u201ctargeted strike\u201d in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday, according to Reuters. \u201cThe IDF (Israel Defense Forces) conducted a targeted strike in Beirut. At this moment, there are no changes in the home front command defensive guidelines,\u201d the military said, providing no further details. Israel submitted on Friday formal challenges to the international criminal court (ICC) over its jurisdiction and the legality of arrest warrant requests against Israeli leaders for their conduct of the Gaza war, the foreign ministry said. Reuters reports that Israel\u2019s filings might further delay a decision on the warrants, requested in May against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant. ICC prosecutor Karim Khan last month urged judges to rule on the warrants, sought also against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and others in the Palestinian militant group. The Israeli foreign ministry said that its first legal brief outlined the ICC\u2019s \u201cmanifest lack of jurisdiction\u201d in the case. The second paper, it said, argues that the ICC prosecutor breached court rules by \u201cfailing to provide Israel with the opportunity to exercise its right to investigate by itself the claims raised by the prosecutor, before proceeding.\u201d The office of the prosecutor could not immediately be reached by Reuters for comment. In August, Khan said the court has jurisdiction over any war crimes in occupied Palestinian territories and that rules saying the ICC cannot step in if a country is doing its own genuine investigation do not apply for the warrants sought for Netanyahu and Gallant. David Lammy is scrutinising contingency plans for evacuating remaining Britons from Lebanon, having already urged UK nationals to leave the country amid hostilities with Israel. The UK foreign secretary will lead meetings in Whitehall on Friday as officials try to avoid a repeat of the chaos in which British people scrambled to leave Afghanistan when the Taliban took over in 2021. Lammy expressed concern about \u201crising tensions and civilian casualties\u201d in Lebanon after Israel carried out airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in the south of the country on Thursday. He repeated the Foreign Office\u2019s warning to British nationals, urging them to leave Lebanon \u201cwhile commercial options remain\u201d as the situation \u201ccould deteriorate rapidly\u201d. Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has vowed to retaliate after the attacks that targeted Lebanese militants with exploding pagers, killing and injuring many people. On Thursday evening, Lammy said he had spoken to the Lebanese prime minister, Najib Mikati, and \u201cexpressed my deep concern over rising tensions and civilian casualties in Lebanon\u201d. He said that they had discussed \u201cthe need for a negotiated solution to restore stability and security\u201d across the border between Israel and Lebanon. You can read the full piece here: There are conflicting reports on the exact number of rockets fired from Lebanon. The Associated Press (AP) reported that it was 140 rockets, citing the Israeli military and Hezbollah (see 12.47pm BST). However, the Israeli public broadcaster Kan said on Friday that about 150 rockets were fired from Lebanon across the border. Israeli ambulance service said there were no immediate reports of casualties. Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with 140 rockets today, the Israeli military and the militant group said, the Associated Press reported. Reuters, citing two security sources, reports that Hezbollah was still handing its members new Gold Apollo branded pagers hours before thousands blew up this week. 25 organisations have sent a joint letter to the UK government calling on it to suspend its trade agreement with Israel and ongoing negotiations around a deeper free trade agreement, pending the outcome of a review. Sacha Deshmukh, chief executive of Amnesty International UK, said \u201cthe UK\u2019s \u2018business as usual\u2019 approach to trade relations with Israel has emboldened Israel to repeatedly cross legal and ethical boundaries in its illegal occupation of Palestinian land, its system of apartheid, and its war crimes and possible genocide in Gaza.\u201d Israel\u2019s foreign ministry has shared footage of \u201cnorthern Israel right now following intensive Hezbollah rocket fire from Lebanon towards Israel.\u201d \u201cMake no mistake: those who harm the people of Israel will pay the price,\u201d it said. The batteries of the walkie-talkies used by Lebanese armed group Hezbollah that blew up this week were laced with a highly explosive compound known as PETN, a Lebanese source familiar with the device\u2019s components told Reuters. The way the explosive material was integrated into the battery pack made it extremely difficult to detect, the source said. Hundreds of walkie-talkies used by the group exploded on Wednesday, a day after thousands of Hezbollah\u2019s pagers detonated across the group\u2019s strongholds in Lebanon. Pictures of the walkie-talkies that had exploded showed labels reading \u201cICOM\u201d and \u201cmade in Japan\u201d. Icom has said it halted production a decade ago of the radio models identified in the attack, and that most of those still on sale were counterfeit, reports Reuters. Yoshiki Enomoto, the general manager of Icom\u2019s security and trade division, told Reuters it was possible that an older Icom device had been modified to make a bomb. It would be difficult to insert an explosive device into the main compartment of the walkie-talkie because its electronics are tightly packed, so it was more likely to have been in the detachable battery pack, Enomoto told the Japanese broadcaster Fuji TV. The Lebanese source told Reuters that the explosions had occurred even in cases where the battery pack was separated from the rest of the device. A Lebanese security source had earlier told Reuters that the pagers had been implanted with explosives that were difficult to detect. Another security source told Reuters that up to three grams (0.11 ounce) of explosives had been hidden in the new pagers, apparently months before the blasts. A militant from Iraq\u2019s Hezbollah Brigades armed group was killed Friday in a strike targeting pro-Iran factions in Syria, a group member said, blaming Israel for the attack. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said a Hezbollah Brigades member was killed, but was unable to verify the strike itself, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). The UK-based monitor, which relies on a network of sources on the ground in Syria, said the member\u2019s burned-out vehicle was found about 10 kilometres (six miles) from Damascus airport. AFP reports that the Hezbollah Brigades member said the Israeli raid hit one of the group\u2019s premises, killing Abu Haidar al-Khafaji, a senior member of the group. Another member was reportedly injured in the attack. The Observatory said the strike occurred about five kilometres from Sayeda Zeinab, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital. Its director, Rami Abdel Rahman, said a militant was killed but yet to be identified, and the burnt vehicle was found at dawn near the targeted site. Footage of an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank showed a soldier pushing an apparently dead man off a rooftop, in what the army described on Friday as a \u201cserious incident\u201d, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). AFPTV footage of the operation in the town of Qabatiyah, near Jenin, on Thursday showed an Israeli soldier using his foot to roll the body towards the edge of the roof and then pushing him over, while at least two other soldiers looked on. Qabatiyah is located in the northern West Bank, where the military has been carrying out large-scale raids since late August that the Palestinian health ministry say has left dozens dead. The military said in a statement on Friday that four militants were killed \u201cin an exchange of fire\u201d in Qabatiyah, while three were killed in an airstrike on a vehicle. According to AFP, when asked about the footage showing a soldier pushing a body off a rooftop, the military said the action conflicted with its values. \u201cThis is a serious incident that does not coincide with (Israel Defense Forces) values and the expectations from IDF soldiers. The incident is under review,\u201d it said. The military said that one of those killed in Qabatiyah was Shadi Zakarneh, who it identified as \u201cresponsible for directing and carrying out attacks in the northern West Bank area\u201d. It said he was \u201cthe head of the terrorist organisation\u201d in Qabatiyah but did not specify which group he belonged to. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) have warned that escalating violence in the West Bank threatens to collapse the health system. According to the statement, IRC\u2019s partners are surging medical supplies to the impacted hospitals, but some have been forced to halt their work. Bart Witteveen, IRC\u2019s country director for the occupied Palestinian territory, said: Rising violence is undermining the health system in the West Bank, as hospitals are not prepared to handle mass casualty incidents, nor withstand continued attacks on facilities and personnel \u2026 Recently, IRC and its partners launched a programme to enhance emergency preparedness for health services in the West Bank, focusing on Tulkarm and Hebron, some of the areas worst hit by violence in the last year. We are working to prepare hospitals and communities by surging necessary supplies and training staff personnel to handle increased demand for life-saving services during emergencies via new trauma care protocols as well as first aid training for community volunteers. Our ultimate goal is to work with our Palestinian partners to strengthen the health system\u2019s capacity and maintain critical health services during crises, saving as many lives as possible.\u201d \ufeffThe IRC says in its statement: The fighting is taking place close to hospitals and is obstructing ambulances \u2013 which restricts Palestinians\u2019 access to urgent medical care. The UN reports that in both Tulkarm and Jenin, Israeli Forces surrounded hospitals and obstructed access to patients. The WHO has reported that such attacks on healthcare have increased throughout 2024.\u201d It also highlights, in its statement, that the West Bank is facing the worst violence since the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) records began in 2005. Bulgarian authorities said on Friday a company based in Sofia had nothing to do with the delivery of exploding communications devices to Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies detonated across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing at least 37 people, injuring nearly 3,000 and generating panic. Hezbollah and several international media organisations have blamed Israel for sabotaging the electronic devices. Israel has not made any public comment. \u201cFollowing verifications, it has been indisputably established that no communication equipment corresponding to those that exploded on 17 September was imported, exported or manufactured in Bulgaria,\u201d the National Security Agency (SANS) said. The SANS said on Thursday it had launched an investigation after Hungarian website Telex said Norta Global \u2013 a company registered in Sofia by a Norwegian, had imported the devices and then delivered them to Hezbollah. According to the AFP, On Friday the SANS said the company and its owner had \u201cnot carried out any transactions linked to the sale or purchase of the merchandise\u201d or that \u201cfall under laws on terrorism financing\u201d. Norta Global, which was founded in April 2022 by Rinson Jose, last year declared revenue of \u20ac650,000 ($725,000) for consulting activities outside the EU, reports the AFP. Top officials in Taiwan have insisted the communications devices, which carried the brand name of local company Gold Apollo, were not from there (see 6.59am BST). Gold Apollo head Hsu Ching-kuang instead pointed the finger at Hungary-based partner BAC Consulting KFT, which Gold Apollo had allowed to use its trademark. But a Hungarian government spokesperson said BAC Consulting KFT was \u201ca trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary\u201d. In a new challenge to Palestinians displaced in the Al-Mawasi area in southern Gaza, many were concerned about the danger of high waves, reports Reuters. Some tents put up close to the beach flooded last week. \u201cEnough, enough, enough. We were pushed by the occupation [Israel] to the sea, where we believed it was safe, last week the sea flooded and washed away some tents, and that could happen again, where would we go?\u201d Shaban, 47, an electrical engineer displaced from Gaza City, told Reuters. Israeli forces killed at least 14 Palestinians in tank and airstrikes on north and central areas of the Gaza Strip on Friday, medics said, as tanks advanced further into northwest Rafah near the border with Egypt. The unrelenting fighting between the Israelis and Hamas militants in the territory carried on even as a parallel conflict in the Lebanon-Israel border area involving Hamas\u2019s allies Hezbollah intensified, reports Reuters. Meanwhile, according to reporting by Reuters, some Palestinians displaced by the Israeli assault on Gaza said they feared their temporary beachside camp would be inundated by high waves. Palestinian health officials said shelling by Israeli tanks killed eight people and injured several others in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central area of Gaza, and six others were killed in an airstrike on a house in Gaza City. In the northern town of Beit Hanoun, an Israeli strike on a car killed and injured several Palestinians, medics said. Reuters reports that it was not clear how many of the casualties were combatants and how many were civilians. In the southern city of Rafah, where the Israeli army has been operating since May, tanks advanced further to the north-west area backed by aircraft, residents said. They also reported heavy fire and explosions echoing in the eastern areas of the city, where Israeli forces blew up several houses, according to residents and Hamas media. \u201cOur fighters are engaged in fierce gunbattles against Israeli fores, who advanced into Tanour neighbourhood in Rafah,\u201d Hamas armed wing said in a statement, according to Reuters. The Israeli military has said that forces operating in Rafah had in past weeks killed hundreds of Palestinian militants, located tunnels and explosives and destroyed military infrastructure. US secretary of state Antony Blinken has shared an update on talks on the Middle East hosted by France that he attended on Thursday. Blinken wrote on X: Productive meeting with officials from Italy, Germany, France, and the UK. We discussed the importance of achieving a ceasefire in Gaza, sustained support for Ukraine, and decisive action on Iran. We\u2019re united in our commitment to these critical issues.\u201d Downing Street fears it is to be asked to support the issue of an international criminal court (ICC) arrest warrant for the Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. Such support would have to be given at a time when it has not proscribed Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the UK. There are concerns among some Foreign Office officials whether the position is politically sustainable. No 10 is said to have been on alert for more than a week about an imminent statement from the ICC that its pre-trial chamber judges have accepted the request of the ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, to issue arrest warrants for war crimes committed in Gaza. The request for arrest warrants was issued on 20 May against Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the defence minister, as well as three Hamas leaders, including Yawar Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, the now-deceased head of the Hamas political bureau. In the short term, No 10 is said to be most concerned by the explosive political fallout if the ICC issues an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, especially at such a moment of extreme tension in the Middle East. Khan told the ICC pre-trial chamber the issue of the arrest warrant was of the utmost urgency nearly a month ago. The chamber of judges has taken much longer to reach a decision than the three weeks it required to accept Khan\u2019s request for an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader, over his role in orchestrating the abduction of children from Ukraine. You can read more on this story here: A pro-Palestinian protester wearing a keffiyeh scarf has been charged with violating a suburban New York City county\u2019s new law banning face masks in public, reviving fears from opponents that the statute is being used to diminish free speech rights, reports the Associated Press (AP). Police said the 26-year-old North Bellmore resident was arrested on Sunday afternoon during a protest in front of Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, an orthodox synagogue near the New York City borough of Queens. According to the AP, Nassau County police department spokesperson Scott Skrynecki said Thursday that officers questioned the man because he had been concealing his face with a keffiyeh, which has become a symbol of support for Palestinian people. Police on the scene asked him if he was wearing the garment for medical or religious purposes, which are the two major exceptions to the new ban, according to Skrynecki. When the man confirmed he was wearing it in solidarity with Palestinians and not for either of those reasons, he was placed under arrest, Skrynecki said. He was released with a notice to appear in court on 2 October. The AP reports that videos showing some of the arrest have been shared on social media. They show the man wearing the keffiyeh around his neck as he is led away by officers in handcuffs and continues to lead others in pro-Palestinian chants. The man did not respond to the AP\u2019s calls and social media messages seeking comment Thursday. Rachel Hu, a spokesperson for ANSWER Coalition, which organised a rally this week against the arrest, said the man is now seeking legal counsel and will not be commenting on the case until then. She added that organisers believe the man was targeted as one of the leaders of Pro-Palestinian protest movements on Long Island. \u201cWe feel that this arrest (and this ban overall) was aimed at intimidating known activists to discourage us from using our first amendment right to protest,\u201d Hu wrote in an email. The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations denounced the arrest as proof that the local law was being used as a \u201csilencing tactic\u201d against Palestinian supporters. \u201cBarring other criminal misconduct, wearing a keffiyeh or a mask does not make you suspicious,\u201d Lamya Agarwala, supervising attorney for the organisation, said in a statement. \u201cUsing this policy to arrest protesters is an affront to our fundamental rights as Americans.\u201d Skrynecki responded that police officers, as with all laws, \u201cenforce the mask transparency act equally and fairly regardless of the demographics of the defendant\u201d. A spokesperson for Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman didn\u2019t respond to the critiques, according to the AP, but confirmed the Republican, who is Nassau\u2019s first Jewish county executive, was at the synagogue at the time of the protest. Sunday\u2019s arrest is among the first under the Mask Transparency Act approved by Nassau County\u2019s Republican-controlled legislature and signed into law by Blakeman last month. The Guardian picture desk has shared a couple of images that show smoke and flames rising after the Israeli army launched attacks on Al Mahmudiyah, located in southern Lebanon. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released the below two pictures overnight of Israeli fighter jets taking off from an unidentified location to conduct strikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. The UN peacekeeping force in south Lebanon urged de-escalation on Friday after a big increase in hostilities at the Lebanese-Israeli border, where Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah have been trading fire for almost a year. The UNIFIL force had witnessed \u201ca heavy intensification of the hostilities across the Blue Line\u201d and throughout its area of operations, spokesperson Andrea Tenenti told Reuters. \u201cWe are concerned at the increased escalation across the Blue Line and urge all actors to immediately de-escalate,\u201d he said. The Blue Line refers to the frontier between Lebanon and Israel. Reuters reports that late on Thursday, Israeli warplanes carried out their most intense strikes on southern Lebanon of the conflict. It followed attacks this week which blew up thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah, killing at least 37 people and injuring thousands more. On Tuesday, dozens of people were killed when electronic pagers blew up in Lebanon. The next day walkie-talkies exploded. William Christou, Michael Safi and Julian Borger discuss the news in the latest episode of the Guardian\u2019s Today in Focus: Israel lifted orders restricting movement and large gatherings issued on Thursday night for a number of communities in northern Israel and the Golan Heights, its military said on Friday, according to Reuters. The restrictions were ordered after the start of an intense wave of Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon on Thursday afternoon which added to growing fears of a serious escalation in months of conflict along the border. The president and founder of the Taiwanese pager company linked to pagers used by Hezbollah has been questioned by prosecutors and released, as the hunt for the origins of devices that detonated across Lebanon this week spreads across the globe. Gold Apollo\u2019s president, Hsu Ching-kuang, has said his company did not manufacture the pagers used in the attack on Tuesday, and that they were made by a Budapest-based company BAC which has a licence to use its brand. He was questioned in Taiwan on the same day that Icom, a Japanese communication equipment maker whose walkie-talkies are thought to have been detonated in a second wave of attacks on Wednesday, said the units used may have been a discontinued model containing modified batteries. In Taiwan, Hsu declined to answer reporters questions as he left a Taipei prosecutors office late on Thursday. Taipei prosecutors have not issued any statements so far about their investigations into Gold Apollo. Taiwan\u2019s government has said it is investigating what happened and police have made several visits to Hsu\u2019s company, in a small, unassuming office in Taipei\u2019s next door city of New Taipei. On Friday morning Taiwan\u2019s minister of economic affairs said he could say \u201cwith certainty\u201d that the components used in the pagers were not made in Taiwan. US officials are privately saying they don\u2019t expect a Israel-Gaza ceasefire to take place during President Joe Biden\u2019s term, which ends in January, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. \u201cNo deal is imminent,\u201d one of the US officials quoted by the paper said. \u201cI\u2019m not sure it ever gets done.\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s no chance now of it happening,\u201d an official from an Arab country told the paper shortly after the Israeli pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah this week. \u201cEveryone is in a wait-and-see mode until after the election. The outcome will determine what can happen in the next administration.\u201d While saying it is pushing for a ceasefire the US has continued to supply Israel with billions of dollars worth of bombs and other weapons since 7 October, when the war was triggered by the Hamas attack on Israel. It has also provided diplomatic cover for Israel at the UN security council, where it has vetoed multiple resolutions calling for a ceasefire. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been accused by his own negotiators of sabotaging ceasefire talks because it would collapse his coalition, which relies on the support of far-right allies who want to continue the war, and leave him facing a long-delayed trial on allegations of corruption. Most recently Netanyahu has been accused of claiming that Israel must retain control of the Philadelphi corridor, which runs between Gaza and Egypt, in order to ensure Israeli security in a bid to stall the talks. The Israeli military itself has dismissed his claim. Despite this, the WSJ claimed that negotiations were stalling for two main reasons: one major sticking point was the ratio of Palestinian prisoners to Israeli hostages who would be released it said, while the other was that \u201cHamas makes demands and then refuses to say \u2018yes\u2019 after the US and Israel accept them\u201d. It was not possible to independently verify the paper\u2019s claims. Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of strikes across southern Lebanon late on Thursday, hours after Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah\u2019s leader, threatened \u201ctough retribution and just punishment\u201d for the wave of attacks that targeted the organisation with explosives hidden in pagers and walkie-talkies. The Israeli military said it had hit hundreds of rocket launchers which it said were about to be used \u201cin the immediate future\u201d. The bombardment included more than 52 strikes across southern Lebanon, the country\u2019s state news agency NNA said. Three Lebanese security sources told the Reuters news agency that they were the heaviest aerial strikes since the conflict began in October. As Israeli jets roared over Beirut in a show of force earlier in the day, Nasrallah threatened retribution against Israel \u201cwhere it expects it and where it does not\u201d. As tensions in the Middle East spiralled, senior diplomats from the US, Britain, Germany, France and Italy met on Thursday in Paris before a UN security council meeting planned for Friday. Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, was to join his counterparts in the French capital after discussing the possibility of a Gaza truce in Cairo. US President Joe Biden believes there can still be a diplomatic resolution to escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, his spokesperson said. The White House warned all sides against \u201can escalation of any kind\u201d. The Lebanese foreign minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, warned that the \u201cblatant assault on Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and security\u201d was a dangerous development that could \u201csignal a wider war\u201d. Hello and welcome to the Guardian\u2019s live coverage of the conflict in the Middle East. Israeli warplanes carried out late on Thursday their most intense strikes on southern Lebanon in nearly a year of war, heightening the conflict between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah amid calls for restraint. The White House said a diplomatic solution was \u201cachievable\u201d and \u201curgent\u201d, and Britain called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. The US is \u201cafraid and concerned about potential escalation,\u201d White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told a briefing. The intense barrage followed attacks earlier in the week attributed by Lebanon and Hezbollah to Israel that blew up Hezbollah radios and pagers, killing 37 people and wounding about 3,000 in Lebanon. In Thursday\u2019s late operation, Israel\u2019s military said its jets over two hours struck hundreds of multiple-rocket-launcher barrels in southern Lebanon that were set to be fired immediately toward Israel. The bombardment included more than 52 strikes across southern Lebanon after 9pm, Lebanon\u2019s state news agency NNA said. Three Lebanese security sources said these were the heaviest aerial strikes since the conflict began in October. There were no immediate reports of casualties. More on that soon. In other developments: The leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, threatened Israel with \u201ctough retribution and just punishment\u201d after the unprecedented wave of attacks that targeted the organisation this week. In a televised speech on Thursday, Nasrallah admitted the attacks had been a major blow and threatened retribution against Israel \u201cwhere it expects it and where it does not\u201d. Israel will face \u201ca crushing response from the axis of resistance\u201d, Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards Cmdr Hossein Salami told Nasrallah, state media reported. In his speech, Nasrallah vowed to continue the conflict with Israel until a ceasefire in Gaza was reached. \u201cThe Lebanese front will not stop until the aggression on Gaza stops\u201d, despite \u201call this blood spilt\u201d, he said. In response, Hamas said it \u201chighly appreciates\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s support. As Nasrallah made his televised remarks, Israeli jets roared over Beirut in a show of force. Late on Thursday, Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of strikes across southern Lebanon, in some of the most intense bombing since the start of the war in October. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its fighter jets struck more than 100 Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon in the space of a few hours. Eight people were reported to have been injured by antitank missiles fired by Hezbollah into northern Israel, and two were hurt in a drone attack. Hezbollah has traded near-daily cross-border fire with Israel since Hamas\u2019s 7 October attacks sparked the war in Gaza. The IDF said two of its soldiers were killed by Hezbollah strikes across the Lebanon border on Thursday. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said Israeli military operations \u201cwill continue\u201d, adding that there are \u201csignificant opportunities, but also heavy risks\u201d as the country enters a \u201cnew phase\u201d of the war. \u201cOur goal is to return the residents of the north to their homes safely. As time goes by, Hezbollah will pay an increasing price,\u201d Gallant said on Thursday. The speech by the Hezbollah leader on Thursday came amid fears that a full-blown war between Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, and Israel could be imminent. Thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including two children, and wounding up to 2,800 others across Lebanon. A day later, 25 people were killed and more than 450 wounded when walkie-talkies exploded in supermarkets, on streets and at funerals. There was no comment from Israel. Senior diplomats from the US, Britain, Germany, France and Italy met on Thursday in Paris before a UN security council meeting planned for Friday as tensions in the Middle East spiralled. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, urged against \u201cescalatory actions by any party\u201d in the Middle East and called for restraint, while France\u2019s foreign minister, St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9, said France and the US were \u201cvery worried about the situation\u201d in the Middle East. The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. \u201cWe are all very, very clear that we want to see a negotiated political settlement so that Israelis can return to their homes in northern Israel and indeed Lebanese to return to their homes,\u201d Lammy said on Thursday. He urged British nationals in Lebanon to leave the country \u201cwhile commercial options remain.\u201d Explosions in booby-trapped radios and pagers in Lebanon \u201cseriously disrupted\u201d the country\u2019s fragile health sector, the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said. Lebanese authorities on Thursday banned walkie-talkies and pagers from being taken on flights from Beirut airport. The communications devices that exploded in Lebanon were implanted with explosives before arriving into the country, according to a preliminary investigation by Lebanese authorities. Lebanese authorities determined that the devices were detonated by sending electronic messages to the devices, according to a letter sent by the Lebanese mission to the UN to the UN\u2019s security council. Six Palestinians were killed and 18 others injured on Thursday by Israeli forces during a military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Qabatiya, the governor of the Jenin area of the occupied West Bank told Reuters. In a statement to AFP, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said an air strike killed militants in Qabatiya \u201cas part of a counterterrorism operation\u201d. UN children\u2019s rights experts have accused Israel of severe breaches of a global treaty protecting children\u2019s rights, saying its military actions in Gaza had \u201ccatastrophic consequences\u201d on children in the Palestinian territory. A senior Israeli adviser has presented a new proposed ceasefire deal with Hamas to the Biden administration, according to reports. The proposal from Gal Hirsch, a close ally to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, would see a permanent end to the conflict in Gaza, the release in one stage of all hostages held there in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, and the safe passage for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to be exiled out of Gaza, according to reports."
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        "label": "The Guardian;Jasper, garnet, sometimes sapphires: pocketfuls of treasure at Gemstone Beach;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/jasper-garnet-sometimes-sapphires-pocketfuls-of-treasure-at-gemstone-beach;2024-09-20T20:00:20Z",
        "text": "Jack Geerlings crouches down at the shoreline to sift through a bed of stones. He picks up a small rough rock and turns it over in his hands. \u201cThis one is too coarse,\u201d he says and flicks it back to the pile. Geerlings is after something a little more interesting. Slowly, he walks along the vast sweep of beach, his gaze rarely lifting from the ground. \u201cThe sunlight helps to reveal the stones,\u201d he says, bending to pick up and inspect rocks one by one. A little further on, he turns over a small red-brown stone, the colour and texture of a chestnut. \u201cThis one could be jasper,\u201d he says, with more enthusiasm. At a distance, the stones look like any others found along New Zealand\u2019s rugged Southland coast, but here, at Orepuki \u2013 or Gemstone beach \u2013 a closer look reveals a bed of riches. Jasper, hydro-grossular garnet in pinks, greens and yellows, patterned fossilised worm-trails, spotted argillite, frosty white quartz, speckled granites, pink-flecked rhodonite and \u2013 in rare cases \u2013 the unmistakeable blue of sapphire, colour the low-tide line. The gems likely started their lengthy journey to Gemstone Beach during the last ice age, roughly 16,000-18,000 years ago. As the landscape of Fiordland \u2013 the dramatic mountainous region of the lower South Island \u2013 altered and released its rocks, the debris was pulled into the flow of the Waiau River and onwards into the sea. The rocks are shaped and polished as they tumble through rivers and tides, until the ocean currents push them back towards land, where finally they embed in the cliffs and blanket the shore. When the tide recedes, the beach is scattered with a geological lolly scramble. And waiting in the wings are rockhounds \u2013 dedicated rock fossickers hoping to fill their goody bag. Geerlings, a retired dairy-farmer turned avid rock collector, is one of a number of rockhounds who have scoured this shore for years. Occasionally, he hits the gemstone jackpot. Geerlings dips his hand into the pocket of his overalls and retrieves his prized possession, a buttery yellow rock streaked with bright blue. The lucky find came 10 years ago, after a cliff crumbled into the beach and exposed its treasure. \u201cAnd then I found this sapphire,\u201d he says, holding it proudly up to the light. Finding a sapphire is rare \u2013 Geerlings has found just six in his many years of looking \u2013 and there is little one can do to up their chances. \u201cWhen I found that big one, I was just lucky to be on the beach.\u201d Geerlings is so dedicated to his hobby, he has built a cavernous three bay shed to process and house his impressive collection from around the country. The shelves glitter with stones that swirl like milky galaxies, fossilised wood the colour of brindled fur, and glossy gems like gumdrops. When asked what excites him about collecting rocks, he simply says: \u201cI fell in love with it.\u201d It is a sentiment shared by other enthusiasts. Marion Troon, a member of the Southland geological and lapidary club, caught \u201cgem fever\u201d after a trip to Australia some decades ago. Troon regularly rummages at Gemstone beach and is generous with her tips to new fossickers. Word spreads quickly \u2013 more than once, she is interrupted by strangers hoping she can name their finds. The hydro-grossular garnet is the most common of the semi-precious gemstones found here, she says. They are distinguishable not just for their colour, but their texture \u2013 rub a quartz through your fingers and it will feel rough; a garnet will feel smooth and almost \u201cgreasy\u201d. Looking for stones is a form of \u201cstress relief\u201d, Troon says. \u201cAnd they have healing qualities.\u201d A long social history An hour east, in Invercargill, Lloyd Esler is sitting on his couch, in a living room that could be mistaken for a natural history museum \u2013 the shelves are lined with a lifetime of finds: fossils, bones, books, curios and gems. The historian, educator and author has an insatiable interest in local history \u2013 he has published 12 books on the region and has another 7 in the works. Orepuki, or Gemstone beach \u2013 has featured in his work. Long before tourists and collectors populated the beach in search of treasure, M\u0101ori used the hard garnet stones to polish and sharpen toki, a cutting tool. When Europeans arrived in Orepuki, they discovered gold, and a mining settlement was established. The area also became the site of New Zealand\u2019s only, and short-lived, platinum smelter. With just 47kg extracted from gravels between 1897 and 1907, the smelter soon ceased operations, but its platinum made its way into the 1937 British Imperial State Crown. Though not entirely unique to New Zealand (a few other beaches also yield semi-precious stones), Orepuki is striking, he says. \u201cIt has one of the best assortments of unusual pebbles in New Zealand.\u201d \u201cA combination of ocean currents, the shape of the coast and the proximity of the Waiau River \u2013 the source of many of the stones \u2013 means that the rarities are concentrated along a short strip of beach on account of their weight.\u201d People are permitted to take stones from the beach within reason. No more than a cubic metre is allowed to be taken and they must be gathered by hand, the regional council Environment Southland said. With gems regularly washing ashore, and others released from the cliffs, there is little risk of the gems disappearing, Esler adds. \u2018I\u2019m hunting treasure\u2019 It is a bright Monday afternoon in the middle of winter and Gemstone beach is dotted with figures, picking at the shoreline like seabirds. In the distance, the jagged spine of Fiordland curls toward the sea; behind them, farmland stretches inland. Part way down the beach is Trudy Anderson \u2013 a local woman whose pockets are slumping under the weight of her morning\u2019s finds. \u201cI\u2019m addicted,\u201d she says. \u2018\u201cI am hunting treasure.\u201d Anderson has been travelling to the beach for 30 years and is a frequent visitor but even she is not as diehard as some. \u201cSome people do it religiously every morning\u201d, she says. \u201cPeople make jewellery out of them, some sell them.\u201d Further up the beach, Mark and Deborah Barber \u2013 a couple holidaying from Australia \u2013 are giddy over their finds. \u201cThe garnet, apparently is the bees knees,\u201d Mark says, holding up a small pale green gem that becomes semi-translucent in the sunlight. \u201cI\u2019m hoping to find my retirement.\u201d That may be a tall order \u2013 the gems are unlikely to make you rich, but searching for them can lead to an afternoon of childlike glee. \u201cHe\u2019s been trying to drag me out of here for the last hour,\u201d Deborah says. \u201cAnd I\u2019m saying \u2018no \u2013 this is my happy place, I want to stay here forever\u2019.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ibrahim Aqil: a founder member of Hezbollah\u2019s military wing;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/ibrahim-aqil-a-founder-member-of-hezbollahs-military-wing;2024-09-20T17:24:24Z",
        "text": "Ibrahim Aqil, who is reported to have been killed by an airstrike in Beirut on Friday, was one of the last founder members of Hezbollah\u2019s military wing to have survived more than 40 years of conflict with Israel. Aqil, who was in his early 60s, had risen through the ranks and reached a senior position in the organisation. Exact details of his role are unclear, but the Israel Defense Forces described him as \u201cthe head of the Hezbollah terrorist organization\u2019s operations team, the acting commander of the Radwan [special forces] unit\u201d. \u201cHe was one of the really senior old-timers but was never really the face of anything. He was always a number two or number three, but had just been promoted in the last five to 10 years,\u201d said Hussain Abdul-Hussain, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington and an expert on extremism in Lebanon. Aqil was one of a group of young Shia men originally from the south of Lebanon but living in Beirut who were energised by the 1979 Iranian revolution and recruited by the country\u2019s Revolutionary Guards into a network known initially as Islamic Jihad and then later as Hezbollah. Their military aim, guided by their Iranian mentors, was to fight the US, which had despatched a peacekeeping force to Beirut; and Israel, which had occupied much of Lebanon. Their political objective was to turn Lebanon into an Islamic state aligned with Tehran. Almost all have been killed since, probably by Israel. Fuad Shukr was killed in an airstrike in July, almost certainly by Israeli security services working with the IDF. Shukr, who was 63 when he died, was Hezbollah\u2019s chief of staff, and reportedly tasked with obtaining its most powerful weapons. The most prominent member of the original group was Imad Mugniyeh, who was blamed for dozens of lethal attacks on US, Israeli and Jewish targets over 25 years and died in a car-bomb explosion in Damascus in 2008 that was attributed to the Mossad. The US had accused Mugniyeh of playing a central role in the bombings of the US embassy in Beirut in April 1983, which killed 63 people, and the US Marine Corps barracks in October 1983, which killed 241 US personnel. A French barracks was also bombed at that time, killing 58 people. Aqil was also accused of being involved in these operations. A US Justice Department notice describes him as \u201c a principal member of Hizballah\u2019s terrorist cell the Islamic Jihad Organization\u201d, which claimed responsibility for the two 1983 bombings in Beirut. The notice also says Aqil directed the taking of US and German hostages in Lebanon and held them there, also in the 80s. Evidence that Mugniyeh masterminded the two 1983 bombings is thin, however, and it is more likely that he and Aqil played a more minor role, leveraging their deep network of contacts and knowledge of southern Lebanon and Beirut to provide crucial logistical support. \u201cAqil was one of the nucleus of five people around Mugniyeh who were there at the start of the whole Hezbollah military enterprise,\u201d said Abdul-Hussain. Coming so soon after the extraordinary pager explosions which killed 37 people and injured thousands of ordinary Hezbollah operatives, the strike on Aqil suggests a concentrated and urgent Israeli effort to eliminate the organisation\u2019s higher command. Hezbollah will find it hard to replace men such as Shukr and Aqil, and their assassinations are likely to demoralise even committed senior members. Both men were reportedly close to the group\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Cave, Christianity and the search for meaning | Letters;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/cave-christianity-and-the-search-for-meaning;2024-09-20T16:25:10Z",
        "text": "John Harris refers to a fan\u2019s surprise that Nick Cave found \u201csolace in Christianity\u201d in his search for meaning (I\u2019m a devout agnostic. But, like Nick Cave, I hunger for meaning in our chaotic world, 15 September). It is sad that the church fails to communicate the Christian faith attractively to today\u2019s agnostic seekers. This is hindered by those \u201cculture warriors\u201d whose purpose for \u201cChristian revival\u201d is their loathing of Islam, and those who marginalise gay people and women. However, Sunday worship is the only place where one can give thanks, confess to failure, offer prayers of solidarity for the suffering, and hear an exposition on the scriptures. Last Sunday\u2019s reading from James warned readers of the poison of the tongue. Our elderly preacher observed that was true, although today there is the poison of the fingers, hovering over \u201cSend\u201d on a keyboard. The older congregation included some recent refugees who show great enthusiasm for Christianity, surprising those to whom it had become rather a habit. Today\u2019s churches are more diverse, in age, ethnicity and formulation of the faith. They offer a sense of community hard to find elsewhere, and sit lighter to traditional forms of expression. Ultimately, Christianity is about following Jesus; much doctrine piled on top is debatable. Churches do exist where there is both hunger and meaning. Rev David Haslam Evesham, Worcestershire \u2022 A big thank you to John Harris for expressing, in such a personal and honest way, thoughts and feelings that are no longer a part of the usual public discourse in mainstream British society. He describes well the current state of things in our society. For me personally, being part of the non\u2011creedal Society of Friends (Quakers) and, on a Sunday morning, spending an hour in silence with others, feeling their solidarity and companionship and hearing, from time to time, their deep reflections or hesitant insights, answers the need that he describes. Joining a choir that sings beautiful and deeply charged religious works, whose sometimes\u2011to-me-untenable assertions are softened by the medium of Latin, can add something glorious to the mix. Diana Francis Bath \u2022 I much appreciated the article by John Harris for its honesty and thoughtfulness. I, too, am an agnostic, but became a Quaker in my 50s, then, in my 70s, also a Buddhist. I remain a Quaker by religion and a Buddhist by philosophy. So now I am a member of two communities, where agnosticism is accepted. Initially, I found myself searching for meaning. Then for a system of values that I could respect and aspire to. Recently, I have found many people, like John, searching \u201cfor meaning\u201d. Some have come to Quakerism or other traditions that are not necessarily theistic. We don\u2019t have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Kate Allen Guisborough, North Yorkshire \u2022 Having listened recently to the four horsemen of evangelical atheism \u2013 Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris \u2013 I found John Harris\u2019s article fascinating and compelling. Sceptical questioning or rejection of church doctrine need not involve a denial of the transcendent and the numinous in pursuit of ruthless rationalism. Philip Larkin, that devout agnostic, puts the case superbly in Church Going. Ian Barge Ludlow, Shropshire \u2022 John Harris should look no further than the Unitarian movement in his search for meaning and a spiritual path. Aptly described by a friend as \u201cpick and mix\u201d, I\u2019m sure Mr Harris will be assisted in any quest he has by exploration of this open, rational and welcoming movement. Roslyn Connolly St Helens, Merseyside \u2022 John Harris states \u201cI\u2019m a devout agnostic. But, like Nick Cave, I hunger for meaning in our chaotic world\u201d. As an intelligent, cognisant species, human beings seek certainty in the uncertain world in which we find ourselves. Religious belief gives dogmatic certainty to those fundamental uncertainties. The scientific method is essentially a philosophy of empirically verifiable knowing, where conclusions are based on degrees of probability. I personally am content to live with the meaning of scientific uncertainty, rather than with the questionable comfort of unscientific certainty. John Stone Thames Ditton, Surrey \u2022 As a footnote to John Harris\u2019s sincere article, may I simply add that the proposals of the founder of Christianity differ in many cases from their formal interpretations by would-be practitioners, yet these would be of considerable use in the world today, undiluted. He proposed that we should love one another, love our neighbours and \u2013 why not give it a try? \u2013 love our enemies. Similar suggestions are to be found in most other religions. Today, however, what we must love most of all is, of course, money \u2013 however this may be obtained, hoarded, fought for, and denied to others in need. Dr Ian Flintoff Oxford \u2022 Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Now is the time to negotiate with Putin about Ukraine | Letters;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/now-is-the-time-to-negotiate-with-putin-about-ukraine;2024-09-20T16:22:54Z",
        "text": "Simon Jenkins (Keir Starmer\u2019s missile bravado could jeopardise Nato\u2019s careful balancing act in Ukraine, 16 September) is right that the west must be delicate in its approach to the Russia-Ukraine war to avoid escalation, but the article ignores the impact of the current policy of refusing the use of British and American weapons against Russian territory. Russia has been abusing that policy to use its territory as a free iron dome, courtesy of Nato, using Ukraine\u2019s imposed limits to allow it to freely bombard Ukrainian cities from just across the border, where Kyiv is unable to retaliate. Putin knows that in a long-term war of attrition under the status quo, Russia will win by default. Simon is probably correct in that changing these rules would cause Russia to retaliate by bombarding Ukraine, but this would be a temporary, symbolic response to a permanent shift in the dynamic of the war, which would be performed out of anger, not strategic effectiveness. The availability of munitions is already a limiting factor on Russia\u2019s ability to bomb Ukraine over the longer term, and a change in Nato\u2019s policy would not relieve this limitation on their resources. What it would do, however, is allow Ukraine to force Russia to pull back its artillery from the border, or risk allowing Ukraine to squeeze Moscow\u2019s resources where they are actually limited, rather than allowing the war to proceed on Russia\u2019s terms. In the medium term, this would reduce the impact of the artillery strikes that have already been a staple of the war, not increase it. Nato needs to change the equation for Putin so that the war is not worth the cost, or there is no hope of Russia coming to the table to negotiate a lasting peace. Edward Jones London \u2022 Simon Jenkins is correct in his analysis that is extremely unlikely that either Russia or Ukraine will win the war, as defined by full territorial control. Unless a settlement is achieved, further huge loss of life and destruction will continue for many years. Those who believe this would be a policy of appeasement, which failed in the 1930s, should note this historical comparison is of limited value as Russia is a nuclear superpower and Putin\u2019s future is dependent on him being able to claim some degree of success. However unpalatable it is to start negotiations with Putin, it is the least bad option. Rear Admiral (ret\u2019d) Philip Mathias Southsea, Hampshire \u2022 Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Mohamed Al Fayed accuser says she \u2018walked into a lion\u2019s den\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/mohamed-al-fayed-accuser-says-she-walked-into-a-lions-den;2024-09-20T16:17:22Z",
        "text": "A survivor of Mohamed Al Fayed\u2019s sexual abuse has given a harrowing account of her suffering at his hands. Speaking at a press conference in London, the woman \u2013 named as Natacha \u2013 told reporters she \u201cwalked into a lion\u2019s den\u201d when she accepted a job with the former owner of Harrods department store in London. She said working for him had involved a \u201clayer of cover-ups, deceit, lies, manipulation, humiliation and gross sexual misconduct\u201d. Referring to Fayed, who died last year at 94, as \u201cthe chairman\u201d, Natacha said he \u201cpreyed on the most vulnerable \u2013 those of us who needed to pay the rent and some of us who didn\u2019t have parents to protect them\u201d. She called him a \u201chighly manipulative\u201d figure who initially went out of his way to make her feel safe and comfortable at work. \u201cMohamed Al Fayed, a sick predator, lured me in by using the same modus operandi he used time and time again. I was subjected to Aids and STD testing without consent, and now believe in hindsight I was checked for my purity.\u201d Once he had lured her in, Natacha said Fayed started to use private meetings to subject her to an escalating campaign of physical abuse. This culminated with her being summoned to his private apartment one night \u201con the pretext of a job review\u201d. She said: \u201cThe door was locked behind me \u2026 I saw his bedroom door partially open \u2013 there were sex toys on view. I felt petrified. I perched myself at the very end of the sofa and then \u2026 Mohamed Al Fayed, my boss, the person I worked for, pushed himself on to me.\u201d She said after she was able to fight to free herself from his attack, \u201che laughed at me. He then composed himself and he told me, in no uncertain terms, that I was never to breathe a word of this to anyone. If I did, I would never work in London again, and he knew where my family lived. I felt scared and sick.\u201d Another survivor told the BBC she was raped after staying at one of Fayed\u2019s apartments after a late shift at work. \u201cI made it obvious that I didn\u2019t want that to happen. I did not give consent. I just wanted it to be over,\u201d she said. \u201cI remember feeling his body on me, the weight of him. Just hearing him make these noises. And just going somewhere else in my head.\u201d Another woman, who worked as one of Fayed\u2019s personal assistants between 2007 and 2009, told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today programme she was \u201crequired\u201d to have gynaecological tests to get the job and believed, looking back, the tests were checking for sexually transmitted infections. She said Fayed raped her during a trip to Paris and she felt \u201cterrified\u201d afterwards. \u201cIn Paris, there were security guards patrolling the house, there were security guards outside the house. We were locked in a gated property. We\u2019d been escorted there that day by the police, so I felt like I couldn\u2019t even go to the police, even if I could make my way out of the property.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Mohamed Al Fayed: a gilded life full of controversy;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/mohamed-al-fayed-a-gilded-life-full-of-controversy;2024-09-20T16:02:57Z",
        "text": "Mohamed Al Fayed, who female former employees accused of sexual assault in a BBC investigation this week, was flamboyant, extrovert and a thorn in the side of the royal family. That today, a year after his death at the age of 94, he is still making headlines reflects a life much mired in controversy. A scrapper who never shied away from a fight, he took on the House of Windsor, the House of Commons with the \u201ccash for questions\u201d scandal, and business rivals. He may have been the owner of Harrods, arguably Britain\u2019s most prestigious store, and acquired a slice of British cultural life with ownership of Fulham FC and the satirical magazine Punch, but he died never having gained the one thing he desperately craved: citizenship, and with it full acceptance into British society. His most high-profile war was against the royals and the \u201cestablishment\u201d over the death of his beloved son Dodi alongside Diana, Princess of Wales, in a 1997 Paris car crash while being driven by Henri Paul, a Fayed employee who was over the alcohol limit. Grief-stricken, Fayed embarked on an embittered and vengeful campaign. Dodi, he claimed, had told him the princess was pregnant and the couple were to be engaged. There was no evidence, and it undoubtedly caused unimaginable distress to her bereaved family and friends. He would persist, too, for 10 years with allegations that Diana, Dodi and Paul were \u201cmurdered\u201d in an act orchestrated by MI6 on the instructions of the late Duke of Edinburgh and involving the former prime minister Tony Blair. \u201cI am a father who lost his son,\u201d he told the coroner conducting the inquests into the deaths. \u201cI am fighting unbelievable forces. But with your power as a judge, you have to force MI6 to open their box and find the result.\u201d The coroner dismissed claims of a \u201cplot\u201d as having \u201cnot a shred of evidence\u201d to support them. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, the son of a school inspector, Fayed rose from selling lemonade and sewing machines to working for the Saudi businessman and arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, advising the Sultan of Brunei and launching his own shipping business. He was already wealthy when he moved to Britain in the 1970s, intent on building a business empire. In 1979, with his brother Ali, Fayed bought the Paris Ritz hotel. He set his sights on Harrods, becoming locked in a bitter battle with \u201cTiny\u201d Rowland, the business tycoon and head of the mining conglomerate Lonrho. Fayed won, though Rowland later accused him of breaking into his safety deposit box at the department store, claims that led to Fayed, along with others, being arrested in March 1998 but never charged. Fayed bought Fulham FC, taking over the Division Two club 1997, with his spending on players and managers including Kevin Keegan and Roy Hodgson seeing them rise to the Premier League. Fans were bemused, however, when, in 2011, two years after Michael Jackson\u2019s death, Fayed erected a statue of his pop singer friend at the Craven Cottage ground. When he sold the club in 2013 it was taken down. In politics, he was at the centre of the 1994 \u201ccash for questions\u201d scandal, with claims he had paid the then Tory MPs Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith thousands of pounds to illegally table questions in the Commons on his behalf. Hamilton sued for libel and lost. The cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken was another scalp, forced to resign after the Harrods boss revealed he had been staying free at the Ritz in Paris at the same time as Saudi arms dealers. Aitken was later jailed for perjury after libel proceedings against the Guardian. British citizenship continued to elude him, despite having four British children by his second wife, paying millions in tax, giving millions to charities such as Great Ormond Street hospital, and financing films, including Chariots of Fire. \u201cWhy won\u2019t they give me a passport? I own Harrods and employ thousands of people in this country,\u201d he asked. Turning down his second application in 1999, the then Labour home secretary, Jack Straw, decided Fayed had a \u201cgeneral defect in his character\u201d, citing the safety deposit box and \u201ccash for questions\u201d controversies. Fayed was first accused of sexual abuse in the late 1980s, but the allegations did not lead to criminal charges. In 2009, the Crown Prosecution Service, then led by Keir Starmer, elected not to prosecute him after claims he had sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl in Harrods. He denied all allegations against him and attended a voluntary police interview. Claims of sexual misconduct against the billionaire businessman were the subject of pieces by Vanity Fair in 1995, ITV in 1997 and Channel 4 in 2017."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;EU to offer new youth mobility scheme in test of Labour \u2018reset\u2019 with Brussels;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/eu-youth-mobility-proposal-uk;2024-09-20T16:00:15Z",
        "text": "Fresh proposals to allow young people to move between the UK and the EU will be presented to the British government within weeks, in what is seen as a key early test of Labour\u2019s \u201creset\u201d in relations with Brussels. Informed sources say the first draft of a new version of Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s April proposal has already been discussed by member states and will be put to a working group in Brussels next week. Among possible changes could be the removal of four-year student exchange programmes in which the students pay the home fees of the university they attend, something UK universities have said is not an option. If finalised next week, member states will then instruct the European Commission to make a fresh offer to the UK. The previous, Conservative, government knocked back similar proposals earlier this year but EU officials hope the new Labour administration will revisit the issue. They warn privately that another rejection could jeopardise this government\u2019s desire to sign new agreements on defence and agriculture. Some European diplomats say they are \u201cdismayed\u201d that Starmer has not already reversed the British government\u2019s position on a youth mobility scheme, and it would be pointless to open more complex negotiations on defence or trade without agreeing this first. Some point out that the UK has yet to make any proposals to Brussels for what it might want in any security or agricultural pact, and criticise the prime minister for ruling out more significant change, such as rejoining the customs union. One said: \u201cThe red lines are almost like Theresa May\u2019s, it is difficult to see what has changed.\u201d Some believe Britain will struggle to make major agreements with Brussels given its lack of leverage. \u201cThe key to understanding the EU-UK relationship is that we are much less concerned with the UK than the UK is with the EU, especially post-Windsor framework,\u201d said one diplomat, referring to the 2023 deal on trading arrangements in Northern Ireland. \u201cThere is absolutely room for improvement in the relationship but the biggest pain has been removed and the UK is not top of the agenda. If Keir Starmer wants us to come to the table, don\u2019t expect us to drop everything to have that conversation.\u201d The Cabinet Office, which is handling negotiations with the EU, declined to comment. A government spokesperson said last month: \u201cWe are not considering an EU-wide youth mobility scheme and there will be no return to freedom of movement.\u201d Starmer has promised a significantly closer trading relationship with the EU, and has prioritised a defence and security pact, which officials say can be agreed quickly, and an agreement on agricultural products, which is likely to take longer. Since taking office, Starmer has visited the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, in Berlin and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, in France, and he hosted 50 leaders from across the continent for the European Political Community meeting at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. In April, the commission proposed a visa scheme that would allow EU and UK citizens aged between 18 and 30 to stay for up to four years in each other\u2019s countries. Controversially, it also suggested students on the scheme could pay the home fees of the university they attended, but UK universities have made clear this would be unacceptable because their stretched finances could not cope with the loss in revenue. UK students pay around \u00a39,000 a year in fees, but overseas students can pay from \u00a316,000, in Scotland, to up to \u00a359,000 at Oxford University. EU sources insist the scheme would not amount to free movement, given that the visas would apply for only a limited time. Some countries believe reducing the proposed length of youth visas from four years to two, in line with other schemes that the EU has with Canada and Australia, could break the impasse."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Missing Kenyan anti-government protesters resurface as police chief appears in court;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/three-missing-kenyan-protesters-aslam-longton-jamil-longton-and-bob-njagi-have-been-found;2024-09-20T15:30:34Z",
        "text": "Three Kenyans who were abducted last month after taking part in an anti-government protest have resurfaced, amid anger directed at a police chief who belatedly honoured a court summons in relation to the disappearances shortly after they were found. Bob Njagi, and brothers Aslam and Jamil Longton were found in Kiambu county, north of Nairobi, Faith Odhiambo, the president of the Law Society of Kenya, said in the early hours of Friday. \u201cI am informed that Jamil Longton and his brother Aslam were dumped at Gachie border of Kiambu and Nairobi by their captors,\u201d she posted on X. She then wrote another message about Njagi: \u201cAt around 1am Bob Njagi managed find his way to Tigoni police station and for assistance. He is alive and well\u201d. Social media images show the brothers appearing distressed after their release. \u201cI thank Kenyans who stood by us,\u201d Jamil Longton said in a video posted by Odhiambo. \u201cWe\u2019ll share more information through the president of the Law Society of Kenya. The three went missing on 19 August after being taken away by people alleged to be police. The brothers were abducted in the afternoon after they left their house, while Njagi was ejected from a bus by masked men that night and put into another vehicle. Their disappearances followed deadly anti-government protests that lasted nearly two months and in which dozens went missing. The Law Society of Kenya filed a case against the government and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations relating to the disappearance of the three men. The matter caught national attention after the acting inspector general of police, Gilbert Masengeli, snubbed court summons to answer questions about their whereabouts. Last Friday, after Masengeli had failed to honour the summons seven times, a judge ordered him to serve six months in prison for contempt of court, suspending the sentence for seven days to give him another chance to appear before the court. On Friday Masengeli made a last-minute appearance and apologised for his absence, thus avoiding the conviction. \u201cWe believe [the men\u2019s release] was intended to provide immediate grounds for [Masengeli] to challenge his conviction,\u201d Cornelius Oduor of the Kenya Human Rights Commission told Agence France-Presse. Although the contempt charge against Masengeli was dropped, the case into the men\u2019s disappearance is to continue. The case once again turned the spotlight on widespread abductions and enforced disappearances in Kenya, and the general lack of accountability by authorities. The Independent Police Oversight Authority, a civilian watchdog body for police work, is investigating many complaints of such cases, including from the recent anti-government protests. In a rare conviction last year, three police officers were handed sentences including the death penalty for the murder of a human rights lawyer and two other people six years after their bodies were found in sacks in a river. Otsieno Namwaya, an associate director at Human Rights Watch, said the abduction of Njagi and the Longton brothers \u201cfalls in the pattern of the other abductions\u201d involving the police. \u201cThe most unfortunate thing is that everything that they\u2019re doing is in violation of the law,\u201d he said. \u201cThese illegalities have to end, and secondly, the people who are involved need to know they have violated the law and they need to be held to account.\u201d Hussein Khalid, the executive director of the Haki Africa human rights organisation, said it was \u201ca good thing\u201d that Njagi and the Longton brothers have been found alive, and their finding \u201cbegins the quest for justice\u201d. \u201cWe must know who was holding these individuals,\u201d he said. \u201cWe want action taken against them and we will not relent.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskyy says Ukraine \u2018victory plan\u2019 depends on decisions by allies this year \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/20/russia-ukraine-war-live-italy-calls-for-fair-peace-and-says-defence-of-ukraine-must-not-lead-to-world-war;2024-09-20T14:55:54Z",
        "text": "Russia has charged four of its soldiers serving in occupied Ukraine with torturing a US citizen living in Russian-held Donetsk who had fought with pro-Moscow forces since 2014. It is rare instance for Russia to accuse active soldiers in Ukraine \u2013 who are glorified at home \u2013 of committing crimes, AFP reported. The authorities did not say what had motivated the soldiers to kill Russell Bentley, who regularly appeared on pro-Kremlin social media channels, backing Moscow\u2019s full-scale military offensive in Ukraine. Authorities in Ukraine advised residents in the capital Kyiv to stay indoors Friday as air pollution, partly caused by fires in the region, blanketed the city. Ukraine\u2019s Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources said the pollution was a result of the burning of peatlands and other wildfires in the region combined with autumn temperature fluctuations, AP reported. Ukraine has banned use of the Telegram messaging app on official devices used by state officials, military personnel and critical workers because it believes its enemy Russia can spy on both messages and users, a top security body said on Friday. The National Security and Defence Council announced the restrictions after Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine\u2019s GUR military intelligence agency, presented the Council with evidence of Russian special services\u2019 ability to snoop on the platform, it said in a statement. Nato concluded a major anti-drone exercise this week, with Ukraine taking part for the first time as the western alliance seeks to learn urgently from the rapid development and widespread use of unmanned systems in the war there. The drills at a Dutch military base, involving more than 20 countries and 50 companies, tested cutting-edge systems to detect and counter drones and assessed how they work together, Reuters reported. Denys Shmyhal, Ukraine\u2019s prime minister, said that \u201cusing immobilised Russian Central Bank assets for non-repayable assistance underscores the EU\u2019s unwavering commitment to Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and resilience amid Russia\u2019s aggression.\u201d \u201cRussia must and will pay for their atrocities,\u201d he added. Italy is about to send another Samp-T anti-missile system to Ukraine, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday, underlining the need, however, to avoid entering war with Russia. \u201cWe are sending a new Samp-T (anti-missile system) to protect hospitals, schools, universities \u2026 for this country that was attacked by Russia,\u201d Tajani told Radio 24. The EU will grant a loan of up to 35 billion euros ($39.06bn) to Ukraine to help the country stuck in a grinding war with Russia, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced on Friday. The loan, which was announced while the bloc\u2019s Commission chief is on a visit to Kyiv, is part of a wider plan among G7 nations to raise funds using proceeds from Russian assets frozen to sanction the country for invading its neighbour. Ukraine\u2019s \u201cvictory plan\u201d in the war against Russia depends on quick decisions being taken by allies this year, president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday during a visit by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. Zelenskyy told a joint press conference with von der Leyen that Ukraine planned to use a proposed multi-billion dollar European Union loan for air defence, energy and domestic weapons purchases. Russia said on Friday that the West should stop supplying weapons to Ukraine and sponsoring \u201cterrorist activity\u201d if it wanted to send a signal it was serious about seeking an end to the war. Foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told reporters that a peace plan put forward by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy had nothing to do with settling the conflict. Ukraine\u2019s forces destroyed 61 out of 70 Russian attack drones and one out of four missiles launched overnight, Ukraine\u2019s air force said on Friday. \u201cThe air defence system operated in Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Poltava, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Khmelnytsky, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Kherson regions,\u201d it said on the Telegram messenger. The United States should take into account Moscow\u2019s warnings on risks of further escalation around the conflict in Ukraine, Russia\u2019s state-run news agency RIA Novosti cited Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Friday. Commenting on the possibility of a meeting between Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US state secretary Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, he said there will not be any meeting as the sides have \u201cnothing to talk about\u201d. Russia\u2019s military command had anticipated Ukraine\u2019s incursion into its Kursk region and had been making plans to prevent it for several months, according to a cache of documents that the Ukrainian army said it had seized from abandoned Russian positions in the region. The disclosure makes the disarray among Russian forces after Ukraine\u2019s attack in early August all the more embarrassing. The documents, shared with the Guardian, also reveal Russian concerns about morale in the ranks in Kursk, which intensified after the suicide of a soldier at the front who had reportedly been in a \u201cprolonged state of depression due to his service in the Russian army\u201d. Ukraine\u2019s offensive into the Russian border region of Kursk diverted about 40,000 Russian troops away from the frontline, Zelenskyy said on Thursday. Kyiv launched its Kursk offensive on 6 August in a bid to pull Moscow\u2019s forces away from eastern Ukraine, where the Russian army has captured a string of villages in recent months. That\u2019s all from the Ukraine live blog for today. Thanks for following along. Russia has charged four of its soldiers serving in occupied Ukraine with torturing a US citizen living in Russian-held Donetsk who had fought with pro-Moscow forces since 2014. It is rare instance for Russia to accuse active soldiers in Ukraine \u2013 who are glorified at home \u2013 of committing crimes, AFP reported. The authorities did not say what had motivated the soldiers to kill Russell Bentley, who regularly appeared on pro-Kremlin social media channels, backing Moscow\u2019s full-scale military offensive in Ukraine. Known as \u201cTexas\u201d, 64-year-old Bentley was declared dead in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk in April. His wife said at the time he had been abducted and killed by Russian troops. The Russian Investigative Committee said on Friday it had \u201cestablished all the persons involved in the death of Russell Bentley and the circumstances of the offences committed\u201d. It named the four soldiers involved as Vladislav Agaltsev, Vladimir Bazhin, Andrei Iordanov and Vitaly Vansyatsky. They are accused of \u201cusing physical violence and torture, causing the death of a victim by negligence, as well as the concealment of a particularly serious crime by moving the remains of the deceased to another place\u201d, the committee said. According to the investigation, the soldiers tortured and killed Bentley in Donetsk on 8 April. Two of them then blew up a military car containing his body, before another moved the remains to cover up the crime, investigators said. Authorities in Ukraine advised residents in the capital Kyiv to stay indoors Friday as air pollution, partly caused by fires in the region, blanketed the city. Ukraine\u2019s Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources said the pollution was a result of the burning of peatlands and other wildfires in the region combined with autumn temperature fluctuations, AP reported. The capital woke up to thick smog with the rancid smell of blazing fires in the air. Some people were spotted wearing masks. The Ukrainian capital topped a list of the most polluted major cities early Friday in a real-time database by IQAir, a Swiss company that monitors air quality levels. Its air quality appeared to have improved somewhat since as the city came down in the ranking later in the day. Kyiv\u2019s Department of Environmental Protection and Climate Change said that \u201cthe likely cause of this is fires in the Kyiv region.\u201d Fires have been reported in the Vyshhorod district, about 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) north of the capital. Officials warned about an increased concentration of suspended particles, such as dust, soot, and smoke, in the air. In some areas of the city, air pollution levels have reached the maximum of the 100-point scale. Ukraine has banned use of the Telegram messaging app on official devices used by state officials, military personnel and critical workers because it believes its enemy Russia can spy on both messages and users, a top security body said on Friday. The National Security and Defence Council announced the restrictions after Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine\u2019s GUR military intelligence agency, presented the Council with evidence of Russian special services\u2019 ability to snoop on the platform, it said in a statement. But Andriy Kovalenko, head of the security council\u2019s centre on countering disinformation, posted on Telegram that the restrictions apply only to official devices, not personal phones. Telegram is heavily used in both Ukraine and Russia and has become a critical source of information since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But Ukrainian security officials had repeatedly voiced concerns about its use during the war. Nato concluded a major anti-drone exercise this week, with Ukraine taking part for the first time as the western alliance seeks to learn urgently from the rapid development and widespread use of unmanned systems in the war there. The drills at a Dutch military base, involving more than 20 countries and 50 companies, tested cutting-edge systems to detect and counter drones and assessed how they work together, Reuters reported. The 11-day exercise ended with a demonstration of jamming and hacking drones in a week when their critical role in the Ukraine war was demonstrated once again. On Wednesday, a large Ukrainian drone attack triggered an earthquake-sized blast at a major Russian arsenal. The following day, Russian president Vladimir Putin said Moscow was ramping up drone production tenfold to nearly 1.4 million this year. Denys Shmyhal, Ukraine\u2019s prime minister, said that \u201cusing immobilised Russian Central Bank assets for non-repayable assistance underscores the EU\u2019s unwavering commitment to Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and resilience amidst Russia\u2019s aggression.\u201d \u201cRussia must and will pay for their atrocities,\u201d he added. The governor of Ukraine\u2019s Odesa region has said that a Russian missile strike damaged port areas in Odesa and an Antigua-flagged civilian vessel, Reuters reported. \u201cThe prompt implementation of all our agreements is crucial,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, visited Kyiv. Italy is about to send another Samp-T anti-missile system to Ukraine, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday, underlining the need, however, to avoid entering war with Russia. \u201cWe are sending a new Samp-T (anti-missile system) to protect hospitals, schools, universities \u2026 for this country that was attacked by Russia,\u201d Tajani told Radio 24. The EU will grant a loan of up to 35 billion euros ($39.06bn) to Ukraine to help the country stuck in a grinding war with Russia, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced on Friday. The loan, which was announced while the bloc\u2019s Commission chief is on a visit to Kyiv, is part of a wider plan among G7 nations to raise funds using proceeds from Russian assets frozen to sanction the country for invading its neighbour. Ukraine\u2019s \u201cvictory plan\u201d in the war against Russia depends on quick decisions being taken by allies this year, president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday during a visit by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. Zelenskyy told a joint press conference with von der Leyen that Ukraine planned to use a proposed multi-billion dollar European Union loan for air defence, energy and domestic weapons purchases. Russia said on Friday that the West should stop supplying weapons to Ukraine and sponsoring \u201cterrorist activity\u201d if it wanted to send a signal it was serious about seeking an end to the war. Foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told reporters that a peace plan put forward by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy had nothing to do with settling the conflict. Ukraine\u2019s forces destroyed 61 out of 70 Russian attack drones and one out of four missiles launched overnight, Ukraine\u2019s air force said on Friday. \u201cThe air defence system operated in Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Poltava, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Khmelnytsky, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Kherson regions,\u201d it said on the Telegram messenger. The United States should take into account Moscow\u2019s warnings on risks of further escalation around the conflict in Ukraine, Russia\u2019s state-run news agency RIA Novosti cited Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Friday. Commenting on the possibility of a meeting between Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US state secretary Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, he said there will not be any meeting as the sides have \u201cnothing to talk about\u201d. Russia\u2019s military command had anticipated Ukraine\u2019s incursion into its Kursk region and had been making plans to prevent it for several months, according to a cache of documents that the Ukrainian army said it had seized from abandoned Russian positions in the region. The disclosure makes the disarray among Russian forces after Ukraine\u2019s attack in early August all the more embarrassing. The documents, shared with the Guardian, also reveal Russian concerns about morale in the ranks in Kursk, which intensified after the suicide of a soldier at the front who had reportedly been in a \u201cprolonged state of depression due to his service in the Russian army\u201d. Ukraine\u2019s offensive into the Russian border region of Kursk diverted about 40,000 Russian troops away from the frontline, Zelenskyy said on Thursday. Kyiv launched its Kursk offensive on 6 August in a bid to pull Moscow\u2019s forces away from eastern Ukraine, where the Russian army has captured a string of villages in recent months. Russia\u2019s defence ministry said its forces had captured the village of Heorhiivka, east of the city of Kurakhove, in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region. The General Staff of Ukraine\u2019s military, in an afternoon report, referred to the village as one of several engulfed by fighting. Popular Ukrainian military blog DeepState said the village was in Russian hands. In his nightly video address, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine\u2019s forces had \u201cmanaged to diminish the occupiers\u2019 assault potential in Donetsk region,\u201d though the situation remained difficult in areas subjected to the heaviest attacks, near Kurakhove and another key Russian target, the city of Pokrovsk. Russian forces hit a geriatric care home in the Ukrainian city of Sumy and targeted its energy sector in a new wave of airstrikes on Thursday, killing at least one civilian, Ukrainian officials said. During a daytime strike on the northern city, a Russian guided bomb hit a five-storey building, regional and military officials said. One person was killed and 12 wounded, the interior ministry said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said rescue teams were checking to see whether people were trapped under rubble. Images from the site shared alongside the ministry\u2019s post showed elderly patients evacuated from the damaged building lying on the ground on carpets and blankets. The UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine said attacks on the power grid probably violated humanitarian law while the International Energy Agency said in a report that Ukraine\u2019s electricity supply shortfall in the critical winter months could reach about a third of expected peak demand. Moscow has repeatedly attacked the Sumy region, which borders Russia\u2019s Kursk region, the site of a major Ukrainian incursion in which Kyiv says it seized over 100 settlements. Ukraine\u2019s \u201cvictory plan\u201d in the war against Russia depends on quick decisions being taken by allies this year, president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday during a visit by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. Zelenskyy told a joint press conference with von der Leyen that Ukraine planned to use a proposed multi-billion dollar European Union loan for air defence, energy and domestic weapons purchases. The EU will grant a loan of up to 35 billion euros ($39.06bn) to Ukraine to help the country stuck in a grinding war with Russia, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced on Friday. The loan, which was announced while the bloc\u2019s Commission chief is on a visit to Kyiv, is part of a wider plan among G7 nations to raise funds using proceeds from Russian assets frozen to sanction the country for invading its neighbour. \u201cRelentless Russian attacks means Ukraine needs continued EU support,\u201d von der Leyen said in a post on X. Ukraine is facing huge financial needs after more than two years of intensive warfare that have devastated its infrastructure. The Kremlin said on Friday that Russia\u2019s forces would restore control of its Kursk region \u201cin a timely manner\u201d, declining to say how soon this could be achieved. Ukraine launched the biggest foreign attack on Russia since the second world war, bursting through the border into the western Kursk region supported by swarms of drones and heavy weaponry, including western-made arms. Russia has been fighting since then to expel the Ukrainian forces, Reuters reported. On Thursday, a senior Russian commander said Russian troops had recaptured two villages in the Kursk region. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov added on Friday that Russian authorities did not doubt that its forces would return control over the region, though the situation there was \u201cextreme\u201d. Russia said on Friday that the West should stop supplying weapons to Ukraine and sponsoring \u201cterrorist activity\u201d if it wanted to send a signal it was serious about seeking an end to the war. Foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told reporters that a peace plan put forward by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had nothing to do with settling the conflict. Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Ukraine had completed preparation of a \u201cVictory Plan\u201d that he intends to discuss with President Joe Biden when he visits the United States next week. Ukraine\u2019s forces destroyed 61 out of 70 Russian attack drones and one out of four missiles launched overnight, Ukraine\u2019s air force said on Friday. \u201cThe air defence system operated in Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Poltava, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Khmelnytsky, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Kherson regions,\u201d it said on the Telegram messenger. The United States should take into account Moscow\u2019s warnings on risks of further escalation around the conflict in Ukraine, Russia\u2019s state-run news agency RIA Novosti cited Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Friday. Commenting on the possibility of a meeting between Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US state secretary Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, he said there will not be any meeting as the sides have \u201cnothing to talk about\u201d. Foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said separately that giving carte blanche for Kyiv to carry out long-range strikes deep inside Russia would change the nature of the conflict in Ukraine, Reuters reported. \u201cWe would like to remind the hawks on both sides of the Atlantic \u2026 They are playing with fire and have lost all sense of reality,\u201d she told a briefing. \u201cThe scale of conflict which started because of the West risks becoming completely different, which could bring dangerous consequences for the whole world.\u201d European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday she had arrived in Ukraine\u2019s capital Kyiv to discuss Europe\u2019s support, winter preparedness, defence and progress on the G7 loans. \u201cMy 8th visit to Kyiv comes as the heating season starts soon, and Russia keeps targeting energy infrastructure,\u201d von der Leyen said on the X social network. Von der Leyen said on Thursday that the sum of 160 million euros from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets would be allocated to meet Ukraine\u2019s urgent humanitarian needs for this winter, Reuters reported. Russia has knocked out about 9 gigawatts (GW) of Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure, which von der Leyen said was the \u201cpower equivalent of the three Baltic states\u201d. She also said that the EU aimed to restore 2.5 GW of power generating capacity and would increase exports to supply 2 GW of electricity to Ukraine. Von der Leyen will meet Ukraine\u2019s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other officials. Italy is about to send another Samp-T anti-missile system to Ukraine, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday, underlining the need, however, to avoid entering war with Russia. \u201cWe are sending a new Samp-T (anti-missile system) to protect hospitals, schools, universities \u2026 for this country that was attacked by Russia,\u201d Tajani told Radio 24. He added that \u201cdefending Ukraine does not mean bringing a world war \u2026 We are helping Ukraine and must reach a fair peace\u201d. Hello and welcome to the Ukraine live blog. I\u2019m Tom Ambrose and the time in Kyiv is 10.15am. We start with news that Russia\u2019s military command had anticipated Ukraine\u2019s incursion into its Kursk region and had been making plans to prevent it for several months, according to a cache of documents that the Ukrainian army said it had seized from abandoned Russian positions in the region. The disclosure makes the disarray among Russian forces after Ukraine\u2019s attack in early August all the more embarrassing. The documents, shared with the Guardian, also reveal Russian concerns about morale in the ranks in Kursk, which intensified after the suicide of a soldier at the front who had reportedly been in a \u201cprolonged state of depression due to his service in the Russian army\u201d. Unit commanders are given instructions to ensure soldiers consume Russian state media daily to maintain their \u201cpsychological condition\u201d. In other news: Ukraine\u2019s offensive into the Russian border region of Kursk diverted about 40,000 Russian troops away from the frontline, Zelenskyy said on Thursday. Kyiv launched its Kursk offensive on 6 August in a bid to pull Moscow\u2019s forces away from eastern Ukraine, where the Russian army has captured a string of villages in recent months. Russia\u2019s defence ministry said its forces had captured the village of Heorhiivka, east of the city of Kurakhove, in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region. The General Staff of Ukraine\u2019s military, in an afternoon report, referred to the village as one of several engulfed by fighting. Popular Ukrainian military blog DeepState said the village was in Russian hands. In his nightly video address, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine\u2019s forces had \u201cmanaged to diminish the occupiers\u2019 assault potential in Donetsk region,\u201d though the situation remained difficult in areas subjected to the heaviest attacks, near Kurakhove and another key Russian target, the city of Pokrovsk. Russian forces hit a geriatric care home in the Ukrainian city of Sumy and targeted its energy sector in a new wave of airstrikes on Thursday, killing at least one civilian, Ukrainian officials said. During a daytime strike on the northern city, a Russian guided bomb hit a five-storey building, regional and military officials said. One person was killed and 12 wounded, the interior ministry said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said rescue teams were checking to see whether people were trapped under rubble. Images from the site shared alongside the ministry\u2019s post showed elderly patients evacuated from the damaged building lying on the ground on carpets and blankets. The UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine said attacks on the power grid probably violated humanitarian law while the International Energy Agency said in a report that Ukraine\u2019s electricity supply shortfall in the critical winter months could reach about a third of expected peak demand. Moscow has repeatedly attacked the Sumy region, which borders Russia\u2019s Kursk region, the site of a major Ukrainian incursion in which Kyiv says it seized over 100 settlements. Zelenskyy will meet Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at the White House next week in what is likely to be his last such visit before US elections that could upend Washington\u2019s policy on Kyiv. Zelenskyy is expected to share a \u201cvictory plan\u201d with the US leaders to end the war with Russia during the visit on 26 September \u2013 as Kyiv frets that a second Donald Trump presidency could loosen US commitment to Ukraine. In a separate announcement, Zelenskyy said he would also meet Trump. Ramzan Kadyrov, the powerful leader of Russia\u2019s Chechen Republic, accused Elon Musk on Thursday of disabling a Tesla Cybertruck that he claimed to have received from the billionaire last month. Kadyrov, who has ruled Chechnya with an iron fist for over 17 years, shared a video in August of him driving around in the electric vehicle with what appeared to be a machine gun mounted on its roof. Kadyrov said he received the vehicle from Musk, a claim that the Tesla owner called a lie on his social media platform, X. \u201cNow, recently, Musk remotely disabled the Cybertruck,\u201d said Kadyrov in a post on his Telegram account. It was not possible to independently verify Kadyrov\u2019s claims."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Russian prisoner freed in swap urges UK not to let hundreds more \u2018die off\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/russian-prisoner-freed-in-swap-urges-uk-not-to-let-hundreds-more-die-off;2024-09-20T14:32:20Z",
        "text": "Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian dissident freed in the biggest prisoner swap since the cold war, has appealed to Keir Starmer during a meeting in Downing Street to not let hundreds of political prisoners in Russia and Belarus quietly \u201cdie off\u201d. Kara-Murza, who was released last month two years into a 25-year sentence after speaking out against the war in Ukraine, said he had told the prime minister on Friday that organising further such swaps was a matter of \u201clife and death\u201d. The 43-year-old Russian politician, who has British citizenship after moving to England as a child, was one of 16 westerners and Russians, including five German nationals, exchanged last month for 10 Russian nationals, including two minors. The deal marked the first time in 40 years that Russian political prisoners had been released by the Kremlin as part of a swap. The White House said that Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison camp last year, had been due to be part of the exchange. Kara-Murza, a father of three, who survived two poisoning attempts in 2015 and 2017, said he had made the case for further swaps to Starmer and in all his recent meetings with senior politicians, including the US president, Joe Biden, and the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz. The deal under which he had been released had been an \u201cunequal\u201d arrangement, he said, involving murderers, spies and hackers being swapped for people who had committed no crimes, but there was no alternative, Kara-Murza insisted. \u201cThere can be nothing more valuable, more important for democracy, than human life,\u201d he said at a press conference at the Royal United Services Institute. \u201cI know what it\u2019s like just to wake up every morning in a cell two by three metres, four walls, a small window covered by bars, just essentially walking in a small circle all day, staring at walls. You have no one to speak to, nothing to do, no one to go to and this is how the rest of your life is going to continue \u2026 This is not just a question of unjust imprisonment, although that in itself would be unacceptable \u2026 it\u2019s a question, very literally, of life or death.\u201d Among the cases referenced by Kara-Murza were Alexei Gorinov, 63, an elected official of Moscow\u2019s Krasnoselsky district council, who was the first person in Russia to be arrested for his opposition to the war in Ukraine, and Maria Ponomarenko, 46, a journalist from Siberia imprisoned for accusing the Russian air force of bombing a theatre in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, who is on hunger strike. \u201cWe need to be advocating, to be getting them out,\u201d Kara-Murza said, adding that the argument that such deals encouraged Kremlin to take hostages was \u201cfallacious\u201d as Putin was going to lock up his opponents anyway. Kara-Murza, who had been held in a high security prison in Siberia, said he had also talked to Starmer about the need for a strategic plan for Russia after Vladimir Putin. Authoritarian regimes appeared stable from the outside but change could happen in an instant, he said, and it was vital not to repeat the mistakes of the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. There would need to be a reckoning with those who committed crimes during Putin\u2019s 25 years in power and a plan to reintegrate Russia into the rules-based order, he said. \u201cOne of the things that has occupied my mind for a long time, but especially these past few weeks that I\u2019ve been out of prison, is that we have no right to miss the next opportunity for change in Russia,\u201d he said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;David Lammy examines plans to evacuate Britons from Lebanon;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/david-lammy-scrutinising-evacuation-plans-for-britons-in-lebanon-after-attacks;2024-09-20T14:32:02Z",
        "text": "David Lammy chaired a Cobra meeting to discuss preparations to evacuate remaining Britons from Lebanon, having already urged UK nationals to leave the country amid hostilities with Israel. The foreign secretary led meetings in Whitehall on Friday as officials try to avoid a repeat of the chaos in which British people scrambled to leave Afghanistan when the Taliban took over in 2021. There is no order to evacuate citizens yet, but fears of an all-out war are growing after an escalation of Israeli air strikes and targeted attacks on Hezbollah militants with exploding devices. Lammy expressed concern about \u201crising tensions and civilian casualties\u201d in Lebanon after strikes on Hezbollah targets in the south of the country on Thursday. He repeated the Foreign Office\u2019s warning to British nationals, urging them to leave Lebanon \u201cwhile commercial options remain\u201d, as the situation \u201ccould deteriorate rapidly\u201d. Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has vowed to retaliate after the attacks that targeted Lebanese militants with exploding pagers, killing and injuring many people. On Thursday evening, Lammy said he had spoken to the Lebanese prime minister, Najib Mikati, and \u201cexpressed my deep concern over rising tensions and civilian casualties in Lebanon\u201d. He said that they had discussed \u201cthe need for a negotiated solution to restore stability and security\u201d across the border between Israel and Lebanon. Ministry of Defence insiders said no order had been given to organise an evacuation of the 16,000 or so British nationals in Lebanon but they said that plans were being sharpened this week, in response to the deteriorating situation. The decision not to do so indicates that Israel has not told the UK it is planning a significant intensification of military action against Hezbollah, even allowing for the exploding pager and walkie talkie attacks widely attributed to its security agencies. Military personnel and Foreign Office officials were deployed in early August as as part of preparatory planning for a range of possible conflict scenarios. These were being revised and updated this week, defence sources added. Several European operators suspended flights in and out of Beirut and Tel Aviv this week and the only direct flights available out of the country, according to the flight comparison site Skyscanner, are with the Lebanese carrier Middle East Airlines. Military transport planes could be made available if there are no commercial flights, such as the A400M Atlas or the C17 Globemaster. Chinook twin engine helicopters could also be used to evacuate smaller numbers in a hurry. The RAF base at Akrotiri in Cyprus would be the hub of any air evacuation effort. The first choice of evacuation point would be Beirut\u2019s international airport given the quality of the facilities, although it could prove problematic if there is a major outbreak of fighting, rendering the facility unsafe. The 2021 evacuation of Afghanistan used Kabul\u2019s main airport, although evacuations from Sudan in April 2023 were done via an airbase near Khartoum. Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of strikes across southern Lebanon late on Thursday, hours after Nasrallah threatened \u201ctough retribution and just punishment\u201d for the wave of attacks that targeted the organisation with explosives hidden in pagers and walkie-talkies. The Israeli military said it had hit hundreds of rocket launchers that it said were about to be used \u201cin the immediate future\u201d. The bombardment included more than 52 strikes across southern Lebanon, the Lebanese state news agency NNA said. Three Lebanese security sources told the Reuters news agency that they were the heaviest aerial strikes since the conflict began in October. The hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah followed Hamas\u2019s attack on Israel on 7 October, and Israel\u2019s subsequent war on Gaza. Both Hamas and Hezbollah are backed by Iran. A FCDO spokesperson said: \u201cThe foreign secretary has chaired a meeting of COBR this morning on the latest situation in Lebanon and to discuss ongoing preparedness work, with the risk of escalation remaining high. \u201cThe safety of British nationals is our number one priority which is why we\u2019re continuing to advise people to leave Lebanon now while commercial routes remain available.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Far-right AfD looking to make German history in Brandenburg state election;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/far-right-afd-looking-to-make-german-history-in-brandenburg-state-election;2024-09-20T13:55:22Z",
        "text": "Bj\u00f6rn H\u00f6cke shielded his eyes from the bright lights as he peered from the stage into the crowds gathered on a square in front of a gothic church in central Cottbus. Flanked by the slogans \u201cIt\u2019s time for real change\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s time to save our country,\u201d the leader of the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) in Thuringia swept into Cottbus, the second largest city in the state of Brandenburg, for the party\u2019s final rally before a regional election on Sunday that could determine the fate of Germany\u2019s government. Fresh from an election victory three weeks ago, in which his party secured 33% of the vote, H\u00f6cke beamed at the rally participants, addressing them as \u201cfellow patriots\u201d. \u201cI see a lot of women and young men,\u201d he said. \u201cIt used to be only old white men who were concerned about the future of \u2026 our beloved German Fatherland. Now everyone recognises that they\u2019re affected by the fatal politics of the cartel parties.\u201d The crowd, numbering a few thousand, holding banners reading: \u201cFed up to the back teeth\u201d, or \u201cGet the red rats out\u201d, in reference to the Social Democrats, in power in Brandenburg and Berlin, roared with approval. Among them were clusters of young men in their 20s with distinct haircuts and bomber jackets, as well as 14- and 15-year-old school friends Ruben, Willi, Ewell, Kay and Micah, who had turned up to hear H\u00f6cke. \u201cThey\u2019re about to write history,\u201d said Micah, 15, wearing a blue AfD T-shirt, clutching a souvenir AfD mug embossed with the motto: \u201cSomebody has to stay awake\u201d in one hand, and clenching the other in a fist which he shook in apparent approval of H\u00f6cke. \u201cWe can\u2019t vote yet, but we\u2019re ready and waiting for when we finally can.\u201d The AfD, narrowly leading in the polls ahead of the Social Democrats (SPD), was making a last-minute push in Cottbus, where the party has formed the strongest faction in the city parliament since 2019. With 27% of Brandenburgers still undecided if they will vote at all and if so for whom, campaigning is expected to continue feverishly until the last minute. About 2.5 million Brandenburgers are eligible to vote on Sunday in what may be one of the smallest German states population-wise, comprising a belt of rural, and suburban settlements surrounding Berlin. Yet, with its predicted boost for the far-right party, the race is drawing a huge amount of attention that belies the state\u2019s size. Three weeks ago, the AfD upended the status quo with its win in Thuringia \u2013 the first time a far-right force had won a state election in post-war Germany \u2013 accompanied by a strong second place in neighbouring Saxony with more than 30%. The stakes are high. H\u00f6cke, a skilled orator who has pushed for an about-turn in Germany\u2019s culture of Holocaust remembrance and atonement, has been classed as a rightwing extremist by the domestic intelligence agency. Marianne Spring-R\u00e4umsch\u00fcssel, an AfD representative on Cottbus city council, predicted a \u201cglorious\u201d victory for the AfD, which has been leading the polls in the state for more than a year. \u201cYou can smell it in the air.\u201d As the only state in eastern Germany where the Social Democrats have ruled continuously since German reunification in 1990, Brandenburg\u2019s vote is seen as a particular test for the embattled coalition government of the SPD chancellor, Olaf Scholz, which, according to a poll this week, only 3% of Germans are convinced is good for the country. With Brandenburg\u2019s vote being viewed as a referendum on Scholz\u2019s government, defeat for the SPD would be of deep symbolic significance, particularly before next autumn\u2019s Bundestag election. A disappointing performance by the SPD would cause humiliation in Berlin and would probably diminish support for Scholz\u2019s intention to run for a second term. Dietmar Woidke, Brandenburg\u2019s popular state leader, who has been incumbent for 14 years, has upped the ante by pledging to resign if the AfD wins on Sunday. He has even excluded Scholz from his election campaign \u2013 despite the fact he and his wife live in the state capital, Potsdam \u2013 fearing the negative impact of his presence. Either way, Scholz is not likely to come out of the election well. If Woidke wins, \u201cit will be seen as a result of him excluding Scholz. If he loses, it\u2019ll be said this is a defeat for Scholz\u201d, wrote the news magazine Der Spiegel. The personalised campaign around Woidke, including a picture-driven fireside interview in which he talked about his pets and his playlist, has the cheeky campaign slogan: \u201cWenn Glatze, dann Woidke\u201d (If you want a skinhead, choose Woidke) \u2013 a cryptic reference to his bald head and the most physical of Nazi trademarks. He has repeatedly attempted to push voters\u2019 attention towards the state\u2019s economic successes. In Cottbus, about 75 miles (120km) south of Berlin, this includes the gleaming new teaching hospital, and plans to transform an old gravel pit into a huge lakeside leisure complex, both a result of multibillion euro funds to help east Germany\u2019s largest coal-producing region to exit from fossil fuels. At the city\u2019s modern campus technical university, BTU, which has been the recipient of millions of euros of research funding, Indian citizens Twinkle and Kavin, students of World Heritage, and Alwin and Parth, studying masters in Artificial Intelligence, said they had been lured to Cottbus by the resources, and the living costs, which were considerably lower than other German cities. They had learned about the existence of the AfD, and of the city\u2019s reputation for rightwing extremism and racist attacks only after their arrival, they said. \u201cWe were quite shocked and are told the tone towards foreigners has got rawer the more the party has grown in popularity. We have a WhatsApp group in which we are warned against going to certain places, and we take this seriously,\u201d Twinkle said. \u201cWe have thought precisely about what we\u2019d do if they got into power,\u201d Kavin said. \u201cWe\u2019d have no choice but to leave\u201d. Across town at Chekov, an alternative concert venue on the banks of the River Spree, Robert, one of its supporters, said the AfD, which has made clear its plans to cut art subsidies and censor cultural content that does not coincide with its own, has already brought its pressure to bear on the club, \u201cspreading rumours that we\u2019re harbouring left-wing terrorists\u201d. He said he feared that the cuts to its subsidies if the AfD were to gain in strength could be existential. Young people in particular \u2013 who in Thuringia and Saxony voted for the AfD in record numbers \u2013 were not properly aware of the dangers the party posed for German democracy, he said. Hocke talks of doing away with public broadcasting and the licence fee that funds it, of stopping Germany\u2019s military support of Ukraine, and returning to fossil fuels in a rejection of climate change science. He also touches on the party\u2019s remigration project involving the mass deportation of unwanted foreigners. The slogan: \u201cRemigration \u2013 of course\u201d is widely displayed on the mugs and stickers which are distributed to rallygoers. An organising member of Chekov said he used to join protests against the far-right \u201cbut now we feel a sense of \u2018What\u2019s the point?\u2019 We\u2019re not going to convince AfD supporters to change their minds. Their ideas are by now too embedded.\u201d Instead, on the night of the AfD rally, Chekov is concentrating its energies on hosting its own pre-election event at which participants are invited to discuss their fears, voting strategies, and \u201chow to stay strong\u201d, he said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Slovakia targets \u2018wealthy\u2019 book buyers with steep VAT rise;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/slovakia-targets-wealthy-book-buyers-with-steep-vat-rise;2024-09-20T13:51:38Z",
        "text": "Slovakia\u2019s populist government has announced plans to drastically raise value-added tax (VAT) on books to help fix its public finances, drawing condemnation not only from booksellers and publishers but also far-right, pro-Russian propaganda groups seeking to circulate their ideas in print. Announcing the new VAT rate this week, Slovakia\u2019s finance minister, Ladislav Kamenick\u00fd, claimed studies had shown that books were \u201cprimarily purchased by wealthier segments of the population\u201d and could therefore be taxed at the new basic rate of 23% rather than the current rate of 10%. The step is part of a general increase of the basic VAT rate announced by the coalition government headed by Robert Fico, aimed at addressing Slovakia\u2019s excessive public deficit by raising \u20ac50m (\u00a342m) in 2025. Under the proposal, basic food, medicine and textbooks would be exempt from the VAT rise or taxed at a lower rate than before. The rate rises comes amid an increasingly aggressive stance by Fico\u2019s government towards the culture sector, brought into the open by its dismissal last month of the directors of the country\u2019s national gallery and national theatre. If the tax changes get passed by parliament and come into effect in January, it would make Slovakia one of only two countries in Europe not to have reduced VAT rates for books \u2013 a measure whose intangible positive effects on the economy, education and democracy are mostly agreed to outweigh financial benefits. Kamenick\u00fd\u2019s comments about the supposed affluence of bibliophiles have been greeted with derision in the central European country. On social media, Slovaks posted videos of themselves admiring the newly recognised financial assets on their bookshelves, to a soundtrack of Abba\u2019s Money, Money, Money. Juraj Heger, the chair of Slovakia\u2019s Association of Publishers and Booksellers, questioned the finance minister\u2019s claim that books were mostly bought by the well-off, saying recent surveys had shown only a marginal difference between the book-buying habits of high- and medium-income earners. Higher VAT would also not help poorer book-buyers, he added, since it would probably result in higher book prices and mostly affect already struggling booksellers. \u201cPeople are very angry,\u201d Heger told the Guardian. \u201cThe ministry of culture is destroying everything that has been built up over decades.\u201d \u201cThe book market in Slovakia is very small, making about \u20ac100m a year\u201d, he added. \u201cThis decision will lead to people buying fewer books, so the government will only be able to raise very little money from this.\u201d Until now, Denmark has been a European outlier by levying books with as much as 25% of VAT, though the Scandinavian country compensates for the additional burden with promotional support and grant schemes for publishers. All other countries in the EU make use of legislation that allows them to apply reduced VAT rates to book publishing. The average VAT on books in the EU is about 6%, and in some European countries \u2013 including the UK, Ireland, Norway and Slovakia\u2019s neighbour, the Czech Republic \u2013 books are zero-rated for VAT purposes. Latvia raised its VAT rate for books from 5% to the 21% standard rate at the start of 2009 but reversed the measure only eight months later, after lay-offs at publishing houses and a sharp decrease in sales. Fico\u2019s government has set a target of reducing Slovakia\u2019s deficit from an estimated 6% to 4.7% of GDP next year. \u201cConsolidation is, as the English say, \u2018a must\u2019,\u201d the prime minister said on Tuesday. The tax plans have earned Fico, an admirer of Vladimir Putin and Hungary\u2019s illiberal leader, Viktor Orb\u00e1n, criticism from the far right. Roman Michelko, of the far-right Slovak National party (SNS), who chairs the parliament\u2019s culture and media committee, compared the planned higher VAT on books to the policies of communist era Czechoslovakia. The director of Torden, a publishing house specialising in anti-western, pro-Russian and conspiracy theory books, said the policy had revealed the \u201cwretchedness and shallowness of the thinking of our government\u201d. Robert Merva, whose catalogue contains titles such as Putin\u2019s Pilgrimage, Democracy is Total Nonsense and A Brief History of (Almost) Everything Paranormal, suggested the tax plan meant Fico\u2019s nationalist government was in fact working \u201cin the service of foreign interests\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Everyone here is disgusted\u2019: the village at the heart of the rape trial that shook France;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/everyone-here-is-disgusted-the-village-at-the-heart-of-the-trial-that-shook-france;2024-09-20T12:37:05Z",
        "text": "On the narrow streets of stone houses with pastel-blue shutters, residents of Mazan were appalled that this picturesque village in Provence, surrounded by vineyards and fruit trees, was being referred to in the media as \u201cthe village of the rapists\u201d. France has been shaken to its core this week by the trial of Dominique Pelicot, a former estate agent, who had moved from the Paris area to this southern village in retirement, where he is accused of drugging his then wife, Gis\u00e8le Pelicot, and recruiting men online to rape her when she was unconscious in her bedroom over a period of nine years between 2011 and 2020. Fifty other men are on trial for alleged rape alongside Pelicot. They are accused of travelling to commit rape at night at the Pelicots\u2019 house, which sits tucked away on a dead-end lane at the edge of the village, with a swimming pool in its garden. Aged from 26 to 74, the men include a prison warden, a journalist, a nurse, a fire officer, a soldier, truck drivers and shop workers. Many lived in the southern d\u00e9partement of Vaucluse within a 20km drive of Mazan, but some came from further afield and Pelicot, who admits the drugging and rape, said he never had any problem recruiting men to rape his wife when she was in a \u201cdeep coma\u201d state. Another 30 suspects were not able to be identified from videos. Some of the men admit rape but say they had not intended to do it, others deny the charges, saying they believed they were taking part in an organised game by the couple. \u201cThe absolute horror of it,\u201d said a retired teacher, 76, who was born in Mazan to a family of cherry farmers and who had taught at the local school. \u201cHow could so many people have been involved without anyone knowing it was happening?\u201d She said that as a teacher and a local resident, she usually knew all villagers. But in the community of 6,400 people in Mazan, which includes those who commute to the city of Avignon for work or retire from Paris, the Pelicots were not well known and were not active in local associations. Dominique Pelicot was sometimes seen riding his bike at weekends, occasionally with a little dog in the basket, and sometimes played the ballgame p\u00e9tanque, but generally kept to himself. The couple had retired to the village in the shadow of Mount Ventoux for a quiet life. Gis\u00e8le Pelicot was 57 when her husband started crushing drugs into her dinners on a regular basis and the alleged rapes began. She often had unexplained memory lapses, moments of extreme fatigue and wondered if she was experiencing early-onset Alzheimer\u2019s. She also had unexplained gynaecological problems but never imagined what was happening to her at night, which she described in court as \u201ctorture\u201d and being treated like an inanimate doll or a \u201cgarbage bag\u201d. Life in the village changed when Dominique Pelicot was stopped by a security guard for filming up women\u2019s skirts in a supermarket in the nearby Vaucluse town of Carpentras one afternoon in September 2020. French feminists say that filming up skirts is sometimes not treated with the seriousness it deserves but in this case the security guard acted fast and contacted police, and the women pressed charges. The security guard and the women who filed police complaints are now considered to have saved Gis\u00e8le Pelicot\u2019s life. Police seized Dominique Pelicot\u2019s computer equipment and launched an investigation, discovering videos of the alleged rapes. The specialist police investigators said in court that without the security guard\u2019s action \u201cit might still be going on today\u201d. It later emerged that one of the alleged rapists had worked at a supermarket in Carpentras. Others had been invited by Pelicot to come and observe his wife while doing the weekly shop to see if they found her attractive. This week in court, the supermarket worker, 44, admitted the charge of rape, apologised and said he had not intended to commit rape. Another local man told the court he was \u201cnaive\u201d and denied he had taken part in rape. Gis\u00e8le Pelicot, who divorced her husband after his arrest, did not know the alleged rapists identified by police. She told court she had recognised only one of them, a man who had come to discuss cycling with her husband at their home in Mazan. \u201cI saw him now and then in the bakery; I would say hello. I never thought he\u2019d come and rape me,\u201d she said. In Mazan, the mayor, Louis Bonnet, said: \u201cWhat happened here is very serious and cannot be minimised. Everyone here is absolutely disgusted.\u201d He said that no one who is part of the trial still lives in Mazan, including Gis\u00e8le Pelicot. He believed that two accused men had lived there in the past. Bonnet said that unfortunately the court hearings had shown the wide-scale nature of the crimes, which, he said, could have happened anywhere. The case has raised serious questions in France about consent, online chatrooms, pornography and the scale of sexual violence. Some of the men had argued during police questioning that \u201cif the husband was present it wasn\u2019t rape\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s his wife, he can do what he wants with her\u201d. Gis\u00e8le Pelicot, now 72, told the court she could not have consented as she was in a comatose state. She waived her right to anonymity for the case to be heard in public in order to raise awareness of the issue of drugging and rape and sexual abuse. In court in Avignon, where five judges are trying the case, women have come to support Gis\u00e8le Pelicot on the public benches, applauding her as she enters and leaves court. Among them, Martine, 68, a retired administrator from the Gard, said: \u201cI\u2019m here to show solidarity to Gis\u00e8le Pelicot, a brave woman. Things have to change \u2013 there is too much violence against women and girls. This case is so beyond comprehension that I wanted to come to court to try to understand it.\u201d Thousands of women have attended street demonstrations across France in support of Gis\u00e8le Pelicot. Feminist graffiti in Avignon read: \u201cOrdinary men, horrible crimes.\u201d In Mazan, one woman working in the tourism industry said: \u201cIt\u2019s really important that this case is talked about across the world and gets as much coverage as possible. We have to wake up to the reality of sexual violence.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Holocaust survivor marks 80th birthday with protest outside Israeli prison;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/holocaust-survivor-veronica-cohen-80th-birthday-protest-israeli-prison;2024-09-20T12:34:01Z",
        "text": "A Holocaust survivor has chosen to mark her 80th birthday on Friday by bringing her friends together for a solidarity vigil outside an Israeli prison where hundreds of Palestinian inmates arrested after the 7 October attack are being held. Prof Veronika Cohen, who was born in the Jewish ghetto of Budapest and was saved by what she has described as \u201ca series of miracles\u201d, turned her birthday into a protest in front of Neve Tirtza women\u2019s prison in Ramla. The protest was aimed at exposing the degrading treatment faced by Palestinian prisoners, as well as bringing attention to Israel\u2019s systematic use of administrative detention \u2013 which allows for indefinite detention without charge or trial \u2013 during the Gaza war. \u201cAt a time, particularly during this crucial moment, when you think there are no more hearts left to break, mine shattered upon learning about the deplorable conditions endured by Palestinian detainees,\u201d said Cohen, a professor emeritus at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. \u201cFurthermore, I made the decision to stand before this prison where Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian politician, has been unjustly imprisoned for over 10 months, without any trial received or specific criminal charge pressed against her.\u201d Jarrar, 61, a senior Palestinian feminist politician and a prominent figure in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a faction in the Palestine Liberation Organisation, was arrested by the Israeli army on 26 December, along with other activists of her leftist party, after troops stormed the West Bank city of Al-Bireh, near Ramallah, at dawn. In June, Jarrar \u2013 who was elected in 2006 to the Palestinian assembly as a PFLP representative, and has long been an advocate of women\u2019s rights \u2013 was ordered to serve another six months behind bars without charge or trial under administrative detention, one day before her previous detention order was due to expire. \u201cI think about her unbearable situation,\u201d said Cohen, a co-founder of the Rapproachment Group for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. \u201cI can\u2019t stop thinking of a woman in her 60s who has already suffered so much in life, and who finds herself in prison without ever being judged. \u201cA woman imprisoned under administrative detention that can continue for an indefinite time, that may not even have an end. A woman put in solitary confinement, without light, without windows \u2026 I thought I had to do something. I wanted to highlight her case, to set her free, or at least to improve her living conditions in prison.\u201d According to the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, which has released a report alongside the organisations Adalah, HaMoked and Physicians for Human Rights, almost 10,000 Palestinians are held in Israeli detention, a 200% increase from recent years. Among them are approximately 8,000 Palestinians classified as \u201csecurity\u201d detainees \u2013 citizens of Israel and residents of the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, held either under military or criminal law. More than 30% of administrative detainees are held without charge or trial, in prison facilities managed by the Israeli Prison Service (IPS). According to the report, inmates are subjected to widespread physical and mental abuses. \u201cAs of June 2024, at least 14 detainees have died in IPS custody since October 7, with forensic evidence suggesting that at least some of these deaths were connected to instances of severe violence by IPS officers,\u201d the report says, while at least other 40 Palestinians have died in military camps. On Wednesday, the Israeli supreme court rejected a request by civil society organisations to shut down the notorious Sde Teiman prison, which holds Palestinians from Gaza and where human rights violations have been reported, including inmates regularly being kept shackled to hospital beds, blindfolded and forced to wear nappies. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that \u201cdetainees are handcuffed according to their level of risk and their state of health\u201d. Cohen was one of the few Jewish children who survived the Holocaust in the Budapest ghetto. Nearly 80,000 Jews were killed in the Hungarian capital, shot on the banks of the Danube and then thrown into the water. \u201cI survived thanks to mother and my father, who had been deported to a labour camp,\u201d said Cohen, who has also served on the committee for Israel\u2019s national music curriculum. \u201cHe used to say that he would return because I was still alive, and that was the only reason keeping him alive \u2013 to reunite with his daughter.\u201d When Cohen arrived in Israel in 1979, she says she realised she had to fight against the occupation \u201cas it was destroying us and the Palestinians\u201d. She said: \u201cWe cannot build a strong, democratic country without ending the occupation. So, much of my efforts were focused on fostering dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis. I have an optimistic belief that if we get to know each other, the destruction would stop. \u201cYou can assume what I feel about the current government, which is not my government. That\u2019s why, in these tragic times, I wanted to do something special for my birthday.\u201d She added: \u201cMy birthday is a special thanks for being alive, thanks to the creator, and the way I want to thank the creator is by doing something for one of his creatures.\u201d \u2022 This article was amended on 20 September 2024 to correct the spelling of Veronika Cohen\u2019s first name."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018It\u2019s guerrilla warfare\u2019: Brazil fire teams fight Amazon blazes \u2013 and the arsonists who start them;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/amazon-brazil-firefighters;2024-09-20T09:00:08Z",
        "text": "The occupants of the vinyl-coated military tents at this remote jungle camp in Brazil\u2019s wild west compare the hellscape surrounding them to catastrophes old and new: the extinction of the dinosaurs, the bombardment of Gaza, the obliteration of Hiroshima during the second world war. \u201cIt\u2019s as if a nuclear bomb has gone off. There\u2019s no forest. There\u2019s nothing. Everything\u2019s burned. It\u2019s chaos,\u201d said Lt Col Victor Paulo Rodrigues de Souza as he gave a tour of the base on the frontline of Brazil\u2019s fight against one of its worst burning seasons in years and a relentless assault on the greatest tropical rainforest on Earth. For weeks now, forests and farms here in the Amazon \u2013 and across Brazil \u2013 have been ablaze like seldom before thanks to a highly combustible cocktail of extreme drought affecting nearly 60% of the country, the climate crisis and a seemingly insatiable appetite to destroy the environment for immense financial gain. At the front of the camp, an excavator has built a defensive firing position to protect the 100-or-so firefighters and police living here from a possible attack from the illegal loggers and land grabbers who have spent recent years cutting and torching huge areas of rainforest to create farmland and pastures. Beyond that 3ft earthwork lies an immensity of destruction: tens of thousands of acres of wood and ploughland that is going up in smoke, obscuring the sun and filling the skies with a toxic white haze. \u201cIt\u2019s been burning here for over 40 days,\u201d said Souza as his firefighters prepared for their latest mission to put out fires that are also wreaking havoc in neighbouring Bolivia and Peru. \u201cYou couldn\u2019t breathe at the base yesterday. Everyone was wearing masks \u2026 At 9am it was like it was night because you couldn\u2019t see sunlight.\u201d The Guardian spent three days at the Rubber Soldier Ecological Station encampment near a logging outpost called Cujubim to witness government efforts to control the flames before they cause even more harm. Cujubim is named after an Amazonian bird \u2013 the red-throated piping guan \u2013 which is native to this part of Rond\u00f4nia, one of nine Amazon states. The town\u2019s streets pay tribute to the abundance of birdlife that inhabits the region\u2019s jungles: Musician Wren Avenue, Dark-winged Trumpeter Road, Woodpecker Way. The avian theme obscures a menacing reality caused by the criminal race to cash in on the region\u2019s supposedly protected forests. A sign welcoming visitors to Cujubim is riddled with bullet holes. On one recent morning two men were shot in the head at the intersection of Curassow Avenue and Jabiru Stork Road. There is scant sign of birdlife on the dirt track that meanders north from Cujubim towards the firefighting base bar the occasional pair of macaws whose scarlet feathers contrast with the pale white smog. That road takes its name not from nature but from a notorious forest wrecker called Chaules Pozzebon, who locals say built it in order to access the pristine jungles that lie beyond. Once dubbed \u201cthe Amazon\u2019s biggest deforester\u201d, Pozzebon was arrested in 2019 and jailed for 99 years for running an armed criminal organization, although he was recently released after his sentence was slashed. \u201cHe sowed terror around here \u2026 He was the boss of the forest,\u201d one police officer said of Pozzebon, who owned more than 100 sawmills and allegedly employed a militia of gunmen to guard the wilderness he controlled. A bone-jolting 90-minute drive up the Estrada do Chaules (Chaules\u2019s Road), the firefighting base comes into view: a dusty campground beside the Curica River, which is connected to the outside world by a Starlink satellite dish. That internet connection allows firefighters to detect fires as they break out around them. Last week satellite imagery showed that, despite their efforts, the situation was getting worse. \u201cIn our first week here we reduced the number of outbreaks to 17 a day. But since yesterday it\u2019s risen from 17 to 59 \u2013 and today it\u2019s over 80,\u201d said Souza, blaming \u201creprisals\u201d from environmental criminals enraged by the government\u2019s struggle to extinguish the fires. Three large trees had been felled across jungle roads to prevent fire crews arriving. Elsewhere steel bars had been turned into improvised spike strips designed to puncture their tires. \u201cIt\u2019s like guerrilla warfare. They\u2019re trying to stop the firefighters getting in to put out the forest fires because they want to clear the area,\u201d said the fire chief, who wore a pistol on his hip. Hours later, at a blaze just south of the camp, Souza spotted the melted remains of a plastic gasoline container near the carcass of a decades-old Brazil nut tree that had burned to the ground. Motorbike tracks were visible nearby but the fire-starter was long gone. \u201cIt\u2019s like a favela in the jungle, full of back alleys and lanes,\u201d Souza said, likening the vast rainforest region to one of Rio\u2019s maze-like shantytowns. \u201cThe invaders know every single trail so it\u2019s nearly impossible to catch them.\u201d The wildfires \u2013 more than 120,000 of which have broken out since August, mostly in the Amazon \u2013 are easier to locate, although not always in time. The next morning a convoy of firefighters and police left the Rubber Soldier base and drove for two hours through a post-apocalyptic landscape of fallen trees and scorched earth. After passing the putrefying corpse of a horse which appeared to have been bitten by a snake, the group discovered an illegal sawmill at the heart of a colossal expanse of freshly razed forest. Sawed timber and empty beer cans littered the patio. The fire had burned itself out but the damage was done. \u201cI can\u2019t tell you how it started. All I know is that it came from over there,\u201d said Dami\u00e3o de Andrade, 53, a migrant worker from Bodoc\u00f3 in Brazil\u2019s impoverished north-east, who police detained for questioning at a neighbouring ranch. Experts say a lack of rain associated with the natural climate phenomenon El Ni\u00f1o and searing temperatures during what is expected to be the world\u2019s hottest year on record have turbo-charged the wildfires. But the overwhelming majority of the blazes were deliberately set. Carlos Nobre, one of Brazil\u2019s leading climatologists, suspected the explosion of burning \u2013 not just here in the Amazon but in the Pantanal wetlands, the Cerrado tropical savanna and as far south as S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 could be part of a criminal counterattack designed to sabotage a federal government crackdown on deforestation and illegal mining. Since the leftist Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva became president in January 2023 Amazon deforestation has fallen sharply, after four years during which it soared under his far-right predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. Nobre said environmental criminals considered Lula\u2019s administration \u2013 and other South American leaders who were also fighting deforestation \u2013 \u201ca wartime enemy\u201d, unlike Bolsonaro whose anti-environmental policies meant they saw him as a friend. A drought that authorities call \u201cthe most intense and widespread\u201d in Brazilian history and the associated heatwaves had given such criminals a golden opportunity to sow chaos. \u201cIt\u2019s war \u2013 they want to bring these governments down,\u201d Nobre said. This week Lula\u2019s environment minister, Marina Silva, accused the fire-starters of committing \u201cclimate terrorism\u201d and called for tougher punishment for such crimes. As federal police investigators work to identify those responsible for this year\u2019s inferno, hundreds of intrepid, soot-smeared firefighters continue to battle the flames with machetes, leaf blowers and chainsaws. \u201cIt\u2019s like walking into a cemetery \u2026 Everything here was alive once. Now it\u2019s all dead,\u201d said Jos\u00e9 Baldo\u00edno, a 41-year-old firefighter as he led his nine-strong team into its latest conflagration where bright orange flames were ripping through the carbonized bush. As night fell, Baldo\u00edno, who works for a federal forest fire unit called Prevfogo, ordered his squad to retreat for fear of being crushed by falling trees. They had been working since 6am. But the next morning the men woke before dawn, donned flame-resistant uniforms and raced back to the front. In the Bible, \u201cit says the world will end in fire \u2013 and what we\u2019re witnessing today isn\u2019t far off the scriptures,\u201d Baldo\u00edno reflected, remembering the record-breaking wildfires that have also hit countries as far apart as Canada and Portugal. After a month in the jungle, Baldo\u00edno admitted his men\u2019s bodies were weary but vowed they would not give up the fight. \u201cOur souls are crying out for a happy ending.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian; One year of Guardian Europe: different stories through a new lens ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/one-year-of-guardian-europe-different-stories-through-a-new-lens;2024-09-20T09:00:07Z",
        "text": "A year ago today we launched Guardian Europe, a new digital edition of the Guardian to help bring journalism about the world to Europe and journalism about Europe to the world. It has been a dramatic year for the continent, with moments of intense political peril, from huge far-right electoral surges to extraordinary people power and progressive fightbacks. It has also been a year of sporting joy at the Paris Games and Euro 2024. We\u2019ve been there to capture it all, and we\u2019re very grateful that millions of you have joined us. The history of Europe is enmeshed with the 203-year history of the Guardian, revolutions, wars and all. Soon after Britain left the European Union in 2020, I wrote to readers pledging that the Guardian would become even more European in its perspective, not less. The result of that renewed focus was the launch of a digital edition \u2013 our fifth, alongside our UK, US, Australia and international editions \u2013 powered by an expanded network of correspondents and commentators. Our hope was, and remains, to expand the number of people across Europe using Guardian journalism as their primary English-language global news source. I\u2019m delighted to report that Guardian Europe has been a resounding success. We\u2019ve witnessed sustained growth in our audiences and deep levels of interest and engagement from readers old and new. The Guardian Europe front page has become our second most popular, behind the UK edition, and our European audience is our second most engaged overall. Single financial contributions from readers in Europe are up 45% and our supporter base has increased by 8%. It\u2019s been important to remember that our readers in Europe have a global perspective. They come to us for expert coverage of international affairs and to understand a complex world. This year, that has included the ongoing horror in the Middle East and the latest from the frontlines in Ukraine as well as the ceaseless anxiety-inducing drama of the US presidential election. And we\u2019ve shared deeply reported European stories with the rest of the world, too. As well as Lili Bayer\u2019s daily live blog covering the biggest breaking stories across the continent, our reporters have delved into the causes of, and possible solutions to, a housing crisis afflicting young people from Lisbon to \u0141\u00f3d\u017a and have reported extensively on the scourge of overtourism, as well as ideas to tackle it (go to fewer places, stay longer). Our new European culture editor Philip Oltermann has helped to share artistic gems across the language divide from the rise of a Serbian horror writer to a pioneering Czech documentarian, while new European sport correspondent Nick Ames has told vital stories outside the bubble of mainstream sports, from Ukrainian Olympians and Paralympians training against the odds to a football derby in Belgrade that offers a snapshot of local and global tensions. European environment correspondent Ajit Niranjan has been an important addition to an environment team that has focused on the fatal impact of extreme heat and wildfires in Europe as well as an increasingly dangerous rightwing backlash to green policies. And Ashifa Kassam, our new European community affairs correspondent, has produced vital articles about people in countries such as France and Germany who are feeling the brunt of the rise in the far-right vote. Ashifa was often the first person to speak to many of these communities, from either local or international media. Our expanded team of brilliant columnists, many from beyond the Anglosphere, have become essential reading, too. The likes of Fatma Aydemir, Rokhaya Diallo, Mar\u00eda Ram\u00edrez and Nathalie Tocci are among those who have helped Guardian readers to understand the dramatic political, social and cultural challenges facing Europe. Our opinion writers have made strident interjections into important debates: from the grind of being LGBTQ+ in Giorgia Meloni\u2019s Italy to the failures of the EU to recruit more people of colour. They have also been busy confounding national stereotypes: from the \u201cKafkaesque\u201d hell of commuting on Germany\u2019s failing train network to a Swedish parent lamenting being a \u201cbad dad\u201d. Speaking to our writers about the impact Guardian Europe has made, they tell us that it has allowed them to chart new territories with a renewed effort and deep focus, to amplify voices that have previously gone unheard, and to share hundreds of good ideas about how to run a society. Miranda Bryant, hired as our new Nordic correspondent, looked at how sauna culture helps to make Finns so happy, while we also investigated how Ireland became the world\u2019s literary powerhouse, why young people in Lithuania are so happy and how Vienna cracked housing to become the world\u2019s most livable place. All of this coverage, from Europe and beyond, is powered by you, our readers. Quality global journalism is extremely difficult and expensive to produce and the economic conditions of the news industry are increasingly precarious. If you believe in the importance of independent, investigative and trustworthy reporting please consider joining us today. To support Guardian Europe and all our journalism, please consider setting up a monthly amount, from just \u20ac4 \u2013 or \u00a34. It takes less than a minute and is the most effective way to back powerful, investigative reporting"
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Harris says strict abortion laws lead to \u2018predictable\u2019 suffering for women;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/g-s1-23971/harris-abortion-preventable-deaths-georgia;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:03:49 -0400",
        "text": "Speaking in Atlanta Friday, Vice President Harris called tougher abortion laws \u201cimmoral\u201d and slammed Republicans for what she called \u201clongstanding neglect\u201d around maternal mortality."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Israel's Attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon Continue;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/1200551195/israels-attacks-on-hezbollah-in-lebanon-continue;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:41:48 -0400",
        "text": "A building in a residential neighborhood in Beirut was struck by Israel, killing a senior commander with the militant group Hezbollah and ten other fighters, according to the Israeli military. It was the deadliest attack in Beirut in nearly two decades and it comes in the same week Hezbollah militants were targeted by Israel with thousands of exploding pagers and radios. We go to the scene of the strike in Beirut."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Philip Morris sells asthma inhaler company, citing \u2018unwarranted opposition\u2019 to its goals;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5121020/philip-morris-sells-asthma-inhaler-company-citing-unwarranted-opposition-to-its-goals;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:42:16 -0400",
        "text": "Three years ago, the cigarette giant acquired Vectura, a British pharmaceutical firm that makes asthma inhalers, raising health groups\u2019 ire. Now, it\u2019s selling the business for almost $200 million."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;No needles required: The FDA approves an at-home flu vaccine;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5121176/fda-flumist-flu-vaccine-at-home-approved;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:28:11 -0400",
        "text": "The nasal spray option could encourage more people who have fears of doctors or needles to inoculate themselves against the flu."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;The Secret Service admits failures in Butler, Pa., Trump shooting;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120519/secret-service-trump-failures-butler-shooting;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:53:44 -0400",
        "text": "The acting director of the Secret Service also cited \u201ccomplacency\u201d from others, as well as over-reliance on mobile devices and flaws in advance planning."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Georgia's Republican-led election board OKs controversial rule to hand-count ballots;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5121154/georgia-election-board-hand-count-ballots;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:48:53 -0400",
        "text": "Republicans advanced the ballot hand-counting measure over the opposition of Georgia\u2019s Republican secretary of state and attorney general and dozens of local election officials."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Did exploding pagers attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon violate international law?;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/g-s1-23812/lebanon-israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah-international-law;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:03:09 -0400",
        "text": "The series of explosions that rocked Lebanon this week, killing dozens and wounding thousands, has prompted debate among legal experts on international humanitarian law."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-ai;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:40:30 -0400",
        "text": "Three Mile Island, the Pennsylvania power plant that was the scene of the worst commercial nuclear accident in American history, will reopen and sell power to Microsoft."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;A massive baby penguin named Pesto is inhaling fish and winning fans;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120916/pesto-penguin-australia;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:14:59 -0400",
        "text": "Pesto, who weighs 46 pounds at just nine months old, has been on display at an Australian aquarium since April. As he grew, so did his social media fanbase \u2014 especially after a recent gender reveal."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Trump tells Jewish voters they have 'no excuse' for supporting Harris;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/g-s1-23859/trump-jewish-voters-israel-election-2024;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:02:25 -0400",
        "text": "In a speech to the Israeli-American Council, Trump described himself as Israel's \"protector\" and warned Jewish voters against voting for Harris. His remarks have sparked pushback from Jewish groups."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;US lawmaker Rashida Tlaib slams racist image of her with exploding pager;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/us-lawmaker-rashida-tlaib-slams-racist-image-of-her-with-exploding-pager?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:59:28 +0000",
        "text": "Cartoon published in National Review would &#039;incite more hate and violence against our Arab and Muslim communities&#039;."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Japan orders thousands to evacuate quake-hit region as rains trigger floods;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/japan-orders-thousands-to-evacuate-quake-hit-region-as-rains-trigger-floods?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:37:42 +0000",
        "text": "A dozen rivers burst their banks in Ishikawa where the meteorological agency issued its highest alert level."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Earth to get a mini-moon for two months, but what is it?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/earth-to-get-a-mini-moon-for-two-months-but-what-is-it?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:30:16 +0000",
        "text": "Earth will get its very own &#039;mini-moon&#039; which will remain in orbit for two months later this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Could AI save Nigerians from devastating floods?;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/21/could-ai-save-nigerians-from-devastating-floods?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 06:03:49 +0000",
        "text": "Floods are worsening by the year in Nigeria and standard food aid programmes after each disaster are not enough."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens freed by Papua rebels after 19 months;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/indonesian-pilot-phillip-mehrtens-freed-by-papua-rebels-after-19-months?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 04:26:16 +0000",
        "text": "Indonesian police say Mehrtens has been flown out of mountainous Nduga and appears in good health."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Voting under way in first Sri Lanka election since economic collapse;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/voting-under-way-in-first-sri-lanka-election-since-economic-collapse?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:35:43 +0000",
        "text": "While the economy has stabilised, many people are suffering as a result of austerity measures backed by the IMF."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Ukraine bans officials from using Telegram on state-issued devices;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/ukraine-bans-officials-from-using-telegram-on-state-issued-devices?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:33:44 +0000",
        "text": "Decision comes after evidence was shared showing Russia&#039;s ability to access Telegram messages and personal data."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 939;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-939?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:39:47 +0000",
        "text": "As the war enters its 939th day, these are the main developments."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Putin must not win the Ukraine war, freed Russian dissident Kara-Murza says;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/putin-must-not-win-the-ukraine-war-freed-russian-dissident-kara-murza-says?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:39:03 +0000",
        "text": "Kara-Murza defends prisoner swaps, saying it&#039;s crucial to secure the release of more political detainees in Russia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;UN warns escalating Israel-Hezbollah violence risks devastating conflict;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/un-warns-escalating-israel-hezbollah-violence-risks-devastating-conflict?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:51:01 +0000",
        "text": "At UNSC, UN rights chief says Israel&#039;s attacks on Hezbollah devices violated international law and could be a war crime."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;How will immigration shape the US presidential election?;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/9/20/how-will-immigration-shape-the-us-presidential-election?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:45:02 +0000",
        "text": "Donald Trump and Kamala Harris present conflicting plans on the issue of immigration."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Afghanistan seal historic cricket series win against South Africa;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/20/afghanistan-seal-historic-cricket-series-win-against-south-africa?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:46:27 +0000",
        "text": "Afghanistan&#039;s cricketers seal their three-match ODI series against South Africa with a 177-run victory in Sharjah."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;More strikes on Hezbollah escalate decades-long conflict;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/20/more-strikes-on-hezbollah-escalate-decades-long-conflict?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:43:48 +0000",
        "text": "Hezbollah has been rocked by days of suspected Israeli sabotage, bombings and assassinations."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel strikes Beirut suburb in latest attack in Lebanon;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/20/israel-strikes-beirut-suburb-in-latest-attack-in-lebanon?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:26:37 +0000",
        "text": "At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli strike in a Beirut suburb on Friday."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israeli forces kill dozens across Gaza as tanks advance deeper into Rafah;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/israeli-forces-kill-dozens-across-gaza-as-tanks-advance-deeper-into-rafah?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:01:56 +0000",
        "text": "At least 13 people, including children, were killed in Israeli attacks on two homes in Rafah, medical sources say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;More than 70 killed in Mali attack: What happened, why it matters;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/more-than-70-killed-in-mali-attack-what-happened-why-it-matters?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:23:57 +0000",
        "text": "This is the first major attack on Bamako since 2015 when fighters targeted foreigners in a nightclub and hotel."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Who is Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah commander targeted by Israel?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/who-is-ibrahim-aqil-the-hezbollah-commander-targeted-by-israel?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:42:21 +0000",
        "text": "Israel targets top Hezbollah commander in air raid on Beirut suburb that kills 14 people and wounds 66."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;How a Bangladesh minister spent more than $500m on luxury property;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/how-a-bangladesh-minister-spent-more-than-500m-on-luxury-property?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:57:31 +0000",
        "text": "Undercover sting reveals how the politician bought hundreds of overseas homes on a $13,000-a-year salary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israeli airstrikes hit densely populated Beirut neighbourhood;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/20/israeli-airstrikes-hit-densely-populated-beirut-neighbourhood?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:49:30 +0000",
        "text": "Israeli airstrikes have hit the densely populated Dahiyeh neighbourhood of Lebanon\u2019s capital Beirut."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Dozens of women accuse former Harrods boss Mohamed al-Fayed of sexual abuse;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/dozens-of-women-accuse-former-harrods-boss-mohamed-al-fayed-of-sexual-abuse?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:38:45 +0000",
        "text": "Harrods, now under Qatari ownership, issues apology for abuse of power when store was under al-Fayed\u2019s control."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israeli air attack on Beirut kills 14 as cross-border fire intensifies;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/israel-hits-beirut-lebanon-air-strike-hezbollah-fires-rockets?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:34:26 +0000",
        "text": "Hezbollah confirms senior commander Ibrahim Aqil killed in Israeli attack on southern suburbs of Lebanese capital."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;As Russia\u2019s war escalates, will Ukraine down the Kerch Bridge in Crimea?;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/20/as-russias-war-escalates-will-ukraine-down-the-kerch-bridge-in-crimea?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:28:49 +0000",
        "text": "Top US general predicts Ukraine will destroy the bridge, a move that would strengthen its hand in any negotiations."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Oprah\u2019s support for Kamala Harris: Does her endorsement swing elections?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/oprahs-kamala-harris-fundraiser-does-her-support-swing-elections?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:24:13 +0000",
        "text": "Oprah helped Obama win a million extra votes in 2008, and secure more funding. Could Harris benefit, too?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;In Israel, some want war with Hezbollah, others are worried;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/in-israel-some-want-war-with-hezbollah-others-are-worried?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:17:31 +0000",
        "text": "Some Israelis celebrated the killing, maiming that happened in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Generation rent: How youth are battling the global housing crisis;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-stream/2024/9/20/generation-rent-how-youth-are-battling-the-global-housing-crisis?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000",
        "text": "We dive into the global housing crisis and explore how young people are finding creative ways to build community."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Mohamed Al Fayed: Culture of fear at Harrods stopped women coming forward;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9j0kxgmvyo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:05:30 GMT",
        "text": "One woman says the head of security for the former Harrods boss threatened her when she tried to speak out."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Fulham protected women players from Fayed, says ex-manager;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c870d8ry859o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:01:03 GMT",
        "text": "A former manager of Fulham's women's team says extra precautions were put in place to protect female players from the club's late owner Mohamed Al Fayed."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;US soldier who fled to North Korea sentenced for desertion;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlv576d016o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:31:49 GMT",
        "text": "With time already served, Travis King was released by the military court, his legal team says."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;PM will no longer accept donations to pay for clothes;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyvpv1lzq6o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:12:07 GMT",
        "text": "The prime minister has been embroiled in a growing row over accepting clothing gifts from a Labour peer."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'A tipping point': Why Chappell Roan and other stars are taking on toxic fans;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1jd0e0ydywo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:46:49 GMT",
        "text": "Chappell Roan's rapid rise has seen her call out \"abusive\" fans and fame, but has felt a backlash."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Crew's final words and new footage of wreck: Key takeaways from Titan sub hearings;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3e9300128eo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:01:47 GMT",
        "text": "The hearings have included new video and insights from those who worked on the Titan that day"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;UK facing weekend of thunderstorms and heavy rain;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8lqjy8p7po;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 08:22:03 GMT",
        "text": "Heavy rain, lightning, hail and gusty winds could cause some disruption over the weekend"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Japan orders mass evacuation over flooding threat;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20pkwd4dg2o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:08:01 GMT",
        "text": "As many as 45,000 people in central Japan are being told to leave over the threat of major flooding."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Raducanu retires injured against Kasatkina in Korea;https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/articles/c17lenny0j2o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:04:07 GMT",
        "text": "British number two Emma Raducanu retires from her Korea Open quarter-final against Daria Kasatkina with a foot injury."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Burglar stabbed in prison kitchen awarded \u00a35m;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m959pkkn2o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:17:26 GMT",
        "text": "Steven Wilson lives with \"life-changing\" injuries as a result of the attack, the High Court is told."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sri Lanka votes in first election since protests ousted president;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3w2qkx1xlo;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:30:22 GMT",
        "text": "The cost of living is at the front of many voters' minds in what is expected to be a close race."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;It feels good to change Fayed's legacy, says survivor;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xej05vkq8o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:54:46 GMT",
        "text": "Speaking at a news conference on Friday, Natacha described the escalating abuse she experienced at the hands of her former boss."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What we learned from Fayed sex abuse press conference;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98137yl092o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:18:23 GMT",
        "text": "From threats to fear and sexual health checks, lawyers alleged systematic abuse of dozens of women."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Fayed was 'a monster enabled by Harrods', says accusers' lawyer;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89lxz09jzjo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:00:39 GMT",
        "text": "Lawyers representing victims say the store should \"take responsibility\" after sexual abuse allegations emerge."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Watch: Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods;https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0023ff5;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:00 GMT",
        "text": "Investigating alleged serious sex abuse of Harrods staff by former boss Mohamed Al Fayed."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Our husbands didn't go to war for Ukraine so we can sit around crying';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20mn1z3vm6o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:10:23 GMT",
        "text": "A study suggests 54% of Ukrainians suffer from PTSD as Russia's war of conquest grinds on."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Migrants say Germany's 'welcome culture' has soured as far-right parties rise;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyvglq47y9o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:09:45 GMT",
        "text": "Migrants who arrived since 2015 say they feel unwelcome in Germany, where the far-right Alternative for Germany is gaining support."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Republicans absorb a political shockwave in must-win North Carolina;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kqqzx75wo;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:31:27 GMT",
        "text": "Scandalous claims about a Trump-endorsed candidate for governor generate turbulence on the campaign trial."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The Papers: 'Labour U-turn on freebies' and 'Fayed was a monster';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy438p4344wo;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 04:44:19 GMT",
        "text": "Saturday's headlines include the Labour donations saga and comments from lawyers representing Mohamed Al Fayed's rape accusers."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;A Tamagotchi comeback? Toy gets first UK store as global sales double;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0zedgdvdlo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:49:23 GMT",
        "text": "The egg-shaped toy which housed a virtual pet was one of the biggest crazes of the 90s."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The man who left Bowie with mismatched eyes;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2r9mvxz2o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:09:13 GMT",
        "text": "Painter George Underwood, a lifelong friend of Bowie, features in a charity project inspired by the Starman."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Fire, water and full moon: Photos of the week;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp95n8y85rko;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:51:04 GMT",
        "text": "A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Tornado in Hampshire town damages properties and blows over trees;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy89x9v0n7eo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:50:17 GMT",
        "text": "Footage of the tornado in Aldershot was captured on residents' doorbell cameras."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Peppa Pig, Thunderbirds and Dalek voice actor David Graham dies;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj463gx8gyo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:35:51 GMT",
        "text": "He provided the voice for characters in TV series including Peppa Pig, Thunderbirds and Doctor Who."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Cinnamon the capybara captured in pond;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy9p97gllxo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:53:05 GMT",
        "text": "Cinnamon has been on the run for a week after escaping her enclosure at Hoo Zoo, Telford."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;South Carolina executes first inmate in 13 years;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9j1311kzko;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 02:44:07 GMT",
        "text": "Freddie Owens, convicted of murdering shop worker Irene Graves in 1997, dies by lethal injection."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Paratroopers mark 80 years since Operation Market Garden;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78d649vzlqo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:07:42 GMT",
        "text": "A commemorative parachute jump is to be held in the Netherlands to remember the 'bridge too far'."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Acne fighter films her skin journey to help others;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd734qq1x78o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 06:13:22 GMT",
        "text": "A woman who has suffered severe acne for 13 years uses TikTok to share her skin journey."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Autumn equinox 2024: When is it?;https://www.bbc.com/weather/articles/cn0lny4pg3go;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:12:01 GMT",
        "text": "When does autumn begin this year? What is the equinox? And when do the clocks go back? Simon King has the answers."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Succession: The secret battle for the Murdoch empire;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct6dwr;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:50:00 GMT",
        "text": "The media mogul is taking on three of his children in court"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Why Postecoglou's relationship with some Spurs fans is wobbling;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c8rdjvd3nzzo;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 06:22:06 GMT",
        "text": "A modest start to the season and prickly press conferences - why things are very different for Ange Postecoglou compared to 12 months ago."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Gladiator' Joshua heavier than Dubois at weigh-in;https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/articles/cnvdqj6prllo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:29:41 GMT",
        "text": "Anthony Joshua was slightly the heavier man than Daniel Dubois as the heavyweights weighed in for their world title fight on Saturday."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Norris sets pace as Verstappen has 'difficult' day;https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/articles/c98ylx7e2w4o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:56:02 GMT",
        "text": "McLaren\u2019s Lando Norris and Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc establish themselves as pace-setters in practice for the Singapore Grand Prix."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;New managers put down statements in WSL debuts;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cn5z7726yv0o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:53:41 GMT",
        "text": "Two managers tasted their first experience of Women's Super League action on Friday and only one came out with a victory - but both made statements."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Can you risk no Haaland? FPL tips & team of the week;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c3e983elvgxo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:28:50 GMT",
        "text": "If there was ever a week to back against goal machine Erling Haaland in FPL, then it is this one when he comes up against Arsenal's mean defence, writes Thomas Woods."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;WSL highlights: Chelsea edge Villa in season opener;https://www.bbc.com/sport/videos/cx2l4720702o;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:29:39 GMT",
        "text": "Watch highlights as Chelsea narrowly beat Aston Villa following a stunning first-half strike from Johanna Rytting Kaneryd at Kingsmeadow."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;School and leisure centres close after flood damage;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2ymj040l8o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 08:48:38 GMT",
        "text": "Schools and leisure centres have had to close in Gloucestershire after a night of heavy rain."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;DUP to hold first conference since Donaldson resignation;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm241ng4qg7o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 05:35:31 GMT",
        "text": "Gavin Robinson will make his first major party conference address since becoming DUP leader."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Police investigated Fayed sex assault at estate in Scotland;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c748ejp5jdno;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:41:42 GMT",
        "text": "The former Harrods owner, who has been accused of rape at his London store, previously owned Balnagown Estate in the Highlands."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Bereaved mum wants answers not 'hollow condolences';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c206gqlx90yo;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 06:10:10 GMT",
        "text": "Dylan Cope's parents want the \"full picture\" as a clinician who saw their son remains unidentified."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;CGT-agroalimentaire\u00a0: un an de prison avec sursis requis contre l\u2019actuel dirigeant et son pr\u00e9d\u00e9cesseur;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/cgt-agroalimentaire-un-an-de-prison-avec-sursis-requis-contre-l-actuel-dirigeant-et-son-predecesseur_6326323_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:48:42 +0200",
        "text": "Julien Huck et son p\u00e8re Alfred ont comparu, jeudi\u00a019\u00a0et vendredi 20\u00a0septembre, devant le tribunal de Bobigny dans une affaire de d\u00e9tournements de fonds qui implique \u00e9galement leurs compagnes respectives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: la liste des ministres attendue \u00ab\u00a0avant dimanche\u00a0\u00bb, une partie de la gauche appelle \u00e0 manifester;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/21/en-direct-gouvernement-barnier-la-liste-des-ministres-attendue-avant-dimanche-une-partie-de-la-gauche-appelle-a-manifester_6325006_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:01:10 +0200",
        "text": "Michel Barnier a transmis une nouvelle liste de noms au pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique, Emmanuel Macron. Des h\u00e9sitations et des crispations persistent dans le camp macroniste. Une partie de la gauche descend de nouveau dans la rue contre le chef de l\u2019Etat et le premier ministre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le gouvernement Barnier prend forme dans la douleur;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/michel-barnier-met-la-derniere-main-a-son-gouvernement-sur-fond-de-tensions-avec-le-camp-presidentiel_6326071_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 06:00:13 +0200",
        "text": "Avant m\u00eame d\u2019\u00eatre finalis\u00e9e, la liste des ministres de Michel Barnier cause une certaine effervescence au MoDem et irrite les macronistes. Une d\u00e9put\u00e9e Renaissance a d\u00e9j\u00e0 annonc\u00e9 son d\u00e9part de son groupe, d\u00e9non\u00e7ant \u00ab\u00a0un virage net \u00e0 droite\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Travis King, le soldat am\u00e9ricain qui avait fui en Cor\u00e9e du Nord, condamn\u00e9 pour d\u00e9sertion;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/21/travis-king-le-soldat-americain-qui-avait-fui-en-coree-du-nord-condamne-pour-desertion_6326178_3210.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 08:10:43 +0200",
        "text": "Le militaire avait franchi la ligne de d\u00e9marcation entre la Cor\u00e9e du Sud et la Cor\u00e9e du Nord le 18\u00a0juillet\u00a02023, probablement pour \u00e9chapper \u00e0 des sanctions disciplinaires dans son pays. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 un an de d\u00e9tention, \u00e0 une d\u00e9gradation au rang le moins \u00e9lev\u00e9 de l\u2019arm\u00e9e et au renoncement \u00e0 sa paie et \u00e0 ses indemnit\u00e9s."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Gr\u00e8ve des agents EDF \u00e0 la Guadeloupe\u00a0: un nouveau moteur remis en service alors que les n\u00e9gociations sont suspendues;https://www.lemonde.fr/outre-mer/article/2024/09/21/greve-des-agents-edf-a-la-guadeloupe-un-nouveau-moteur-remis-en-service-alors-que-les-negociations-sont-suspendues_6326143_1840826.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:48:04 +0200",
        "text": "La gr\u00e8ve, qui a d\u00e9marr\u00e9 le 16\u00a0septembre, a conduit \u00e0 l\u2019arr\u00eat des moteurs de la centrale, et l\u2019op\u00e9rateur dit proc\u00e9der \u00e0 des \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9lestages tournants\u00a0\u00bb pour \u00ab\u00a0\u00e9viter l\u2019accident g\u00e9n\u00e9ralis\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Japon\u00a0: \u00e9vacuation de 60\u00a0000 habitants en raison d\u2019inondations et de pluies torrentielles;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/21/japon-evacuation-de-60-000-habitants-en-raison-d-inondations-et-de-pluies-torrentielles_6326142_3244.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:46:11 +0200",
        "text": "Quelque 44\u00a0700 habitants des villes de Wajima, Suzu et Noto, dans le d\u00e9partement d\u2019Ishikawa, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 forc\u00e9s de quitter la zone, ont annonc\u00e9 des responsables locaux."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct\u00a0: le Hezbollah confirme qu\u2019un deuxi\u00e8me commandant a \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9 dans la frappe isra\u00e9lienne sur la banlieue sud de Beyrouth;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/21/en-direct-conflit-israel-hezbollah-l-iran-condamne-la-frappe-israelienne-vicieuse-sur-le-liban-qui-a-fait-au-moins-quatorze-morts_6321740_3210.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:20:15 +0200",
        "text": "Vendredi soir, le Hezbollah avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 confirm\u00e9 la mort d\u2019un de ses dirigeants, Ibrahim Aqil, dans un raid isra\u00e9lien sur Beyrouth. L\u2019Etat h\u00e9breu a annonc\u00e9 avoir tu\u00e9 au moins dix chefs militaires du mouvement chiite lors d\u2019une op\u00e9ration a\u00e9rienne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Venezuela\u00a0: le patron de l\u2019ONU fait part \u00e0 Nicolas Maduro de sa pr\u00e9occupation concernant des \u00ab\u00a0violations des droits de l\u2019homme\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/21/venezuela-le-patron-de-l-onu-fait-part-a-nicolas-maduro-de-sa-preoccupation-concernant-des-violations-des-droits-de-l-homme_6326109_3210.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 06:56:50 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Je lui ai expos\u00e9 en int\u00e9gralit\u00e9 la lutte que nous menons contre le fascisme\u00a0\u00bb, a expliqu\u00e9, de son c\u00f4t\u00e9, le pr\u00e9sident contest\u00e9 v\u00e9n\u00e9zu\u00e9lien, qui attaque r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement ses adversaires en ces termes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0: au moins trois morts, dont un enfant, dans une frappe russe sur Kryvy Rih;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/21/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-au-moins-trois-morts-dont-un-enfant-dans-une-frappe-russe-sur-kryvy-rih_6318183_3210.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 06:19:34 +0200",
        "text": "D\u2019autres victimes pourraient \u00eatre retrouv\u00e9es sous les d\u00e9combres apr\u00e8s un tir de missile sur un quartier r\u00e9sidentiel de cette ville de l\u2019oblast de Dnipropetrovsk."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019un des dirigeants du Hezbollah, Ibrahim Aqil, tu\u00e9 dans une frappe isra\u00e9lienne pr\u00e8s de Beyrouth;https://www.lemonde.fr/guerre-au-proche-orient/article/2024/09/21/le-dirigeant-du-hezbollah-ibrahim-aqil-tue-dans-une-frappe-israelienne-pres-de-beyrouth_6326057_6325529.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 04:30:06 +0200",
        "text": "Le raid, qui a fait au moins quatorze morts, constitue un nouveau coup dur pour le mouvement libanais apr\u00e8s une s\u00e9rie d\u2019explosions meurtri\u00e8res, imput\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019Etat h\u00e9breu, ayant vis\u00e9 cette semaine ses syst\u00e8mes de transmission. \u00ab\u00a0Tr\u00e8s inqui\u00e8te\u00a0\u00bb, l\u2019ONU a appel\u00e9 \u00e0 la \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9sescalade\u00a0\u00bb et \u00e0 la \u00ab\u00a0retenue maximale\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Pr\u00e9sidentielle au Sri Lanka\u00a0: l\u2019espoir d\u2019ouvrir un nouveau chapitre apr\u00e8s la r\u00e9volution de 2022;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/21/presidentielle-au-sri-lanka-l-espoir-d-ouvrir-un-nouveau-chapitre-apres-la-revolution-de-2022_6326056_3210.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 04:28:25 +0200",
        "text": "Deux ans apr\u00e8s le mouvement populaire qui avait chass\u00e9 du pouvoir le pr\u00e9sident Rajapaksa, accus\u00e9 d\u2019avoir fait du pays le plus d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 d\u2019Asie du Sud un Etat en faillite, les citoyens sont appel\u00e9s, samedi, \u00e0 \u00e9lire leur nouveau dirigeant."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Martinique, certains types de manifestations interdits dans quatre communes, dont Fort-de-France;https://www.lemonde.fr/outre-mer/article/2024/09/21/en-martinique-certains-types-de-manifestations-interdits-dans-quatre-communes-dont-fort-de-france_6326054_1840826.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 04:15:40 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019interdiction de rassemblements \u00ab\u00a0revendicatifs\u00a0\u00bb, qui concerne aussi Le Lamentin, Ducos et Le Robert, court de vendredi soir \u00e0 lundi matin, apr\u00e8s plusieurs nuits de violences urbaines, dans un contexte de mobilisation contre la vie ch\u00e8re."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Pr\u00e9sidentielle am\u00e9ricaine\u00a0: le comptage des votes dans l\u2019Etat de G\u00e9orgie se fera aussi \u00e0 la main;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/21/presidentielle-americaine-le-comptage-des-votes-dans-l-etat-de-georgie-se-fera-aussi-a-la-main_6326020_3210.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:46:01 +0200",
        "text": "Un r\u00e8glement adopt\u00e9 vendredi pr\u00e9voit un comptage \u00e0 la main en plus de celui effectu\u00e9 par les machines, ce qui pourrait retarder la publication des r\u00e9sultats dans cet Etat-cl\u00e9. En outre, dans l\u2019Arizona, la justice a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 que pr\u00e8s de 98\u00a0000 personnes dont les documents de citoyennet\u00e9 n\u2019avaient pas \u00e9t\u00e9 confirm\u00e9s pouvaient voter aux \u00e9lections f\u00e9d\u00e9rales et locales."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ligue 1\u00a0: Nice pulv\u00e9rise Saint-Etienne 8-0\u00a0gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 six buts inscrits en premi\u00e8re p\u00e9riode;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/21/ligue-1-nice-pulverise-saint-etienne-8-0-grace-a-six-buts-inscrits-en-premiere-periode_6325987_3242.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:38:34 +0200",
        "text": "C\u2019est la premi\u00e8re fois au XXI\u1d49\u00a0si\u00e8cle qu\u2019une \u00e9quipe du championnat de France marque autant avant la pause. Du c\u00f4t\u00e9 st\u00e9phanois, l\u2019entra\u00eeneur, Olivier Dall\u2019Oglio, a \u00e9voqu\u00e9 un \u00ab\u00a0sentiment de honte\u00a0\u00bb, et s\u2019est excus\u00e9 aupr\u00e8s des supporteurs des Verts qui ont quitt\u00e9 l\u2019enceinte apr\u00e8s le sixi\u00e8me but."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A l\u2019affiche de \u00ab\u00a0Monsieur Aznavour\u00a0\u00bb, Tahar Rahim, l\u2019acteur studieux;https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2024/09/20/a-l-affiche-de-monsieur-aznavour-tahar-rahim-l-acteur-studieux_6325011_4500055.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:45:12 +0200",
        "text": "Depuis sa r\u00e9v\u00e9lation dans \u00ab\u00a0Un proph\u00e8te\u00a0\u00bb, de Jacques Audiard, en\u00a02009, l\u2019acteur de 43\u00a0ans est devenu l\u2019un des visages incontournables du cin\u00e9ma fran\u00e7ais. Ce succ\u00e8s, le com\u00e9dien le doit \u00e0 sa fa\u00e7on immersive de pr\u00e9parer ses r\u00f4les. Comme pour \u00ab\u00a0Monsieur Aznavour\u00a0\u00bb, de Grand Corps Malade et Mehdi Idir, en salle le 23\u00a0octobre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Tentative d\u2019assassinat contre Donald Trump\u00a0: Ronald Rowe, directeur du Secret Service, reconna\u00eet \u00ab\u00a0des manquements\u00a0\u00bb dans la communication;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/20/tentative-d-assassinat-contre-donald-trump-ronald-rowe-directeur-du-secret-service-reconnait-des-manquements-dans-la-communication_6325888_3210.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:23:26 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Si une partie des membres de l\u2019\u00e9quipe de rep\u00e9rage ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s consciencieux, d\u2019autres ont fait preuve de n\u00e9gligence\u00a0\u00bb, a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 le directeur par int\u00e9rim, vendredi, lors d\u2019une conf\u00e9rence de presse \u00e0 propos de l\u2019assassinat manqu\u00e9 contre l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident le 13\u00a0juillet."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le diplomate Luis Vassy d\u00e9sign\u00e9 directeur de Sciences Po Paris, apr\u00e8s des mois de crise de gouvernance;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/20/sciences-po-le-diplomate-luis-vassy-designe-directeur-apres-des-mois-de-crise-de-gouvernance_6325854_3224.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:53:56 +0200",
        "text": "Le Franco-Uruguayen de 44\u00a0ans dirigeait depuis\u00a02022 le cabinet des ministres des affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res successifs, Catherine Colonna puis St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 notamment ambassadeur de France aux Pays-Bas."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Groenland, le naufrage du navire \u00ab\u00a0Adolf-Jensen\u00a0\u00bb provoque une mar\u00e9e noire;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/20/au-groenland-le-naufrage-du-navire-adolf-jensen-provoque-une-maree-noire_6325788_3244.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:13:32 +0200",
        "text": "Les pompiers tentent de contenir dans les fjords de Nanortalik la mar\u00e9e noire caus\u00e9e par le naufrage du bateau, qui transportait quelque 20\u00a0000\u00a0litres de gazole."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le PSG fait appel de la d\u00e9cision de la commission juridique de la LFP en faveur de Kylian Mbapp\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/20/le-psg-fait-appel-de-la-decision-de-la-commission-de-discipline-de-la-lfp-en-faveur-de-kylian-mbappe_6325718_3242.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:13:13 +0200",
        "text": "Le club parisien affirme au \u00ab\u00a0Monde\u00a0\u00bb avoir d\u00e9pos\u00e9 un recours contre la d\u00e9cision prise, le 12\u00a0septembre, par la commission juridique de la LFP qui lui ordonnait de verser sous huit jours 55\u00a0millions d\u2019euros de salaire et de primes impay\u00e9s r\u00e9clam\u00e9s par l\u2019attaquant."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Transition \u00e9cologique\u00a0: les deux visages de Michel Barnier;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/20/transition-ecologique-les-deux-visages-de-michel-barnier_6325008_3244.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:15:06 +0200",
        "text": "Ministre de l\u2019environnement dans les ann\u00e9es\u00a01990, l\u2019actuel premier ministre a mis en place, \u00e0 cette \u00e9poque, certains des fondements de la politique verte de la France. Pionnier \u00e0 droite sur les questions \u00e9cologiques, il a ensuite quasiment cess\u00e9 d\u2019en parler."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Manu Chao sort l\u2019album \u00ab\u00a0Viva tu\u00a0\u00bb, son nouveau carnet de voyage musical;https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/09/20/manu-chao-sort-l-album-viva-tu-son-nouveau-carnet-de-voyage-musical_6325616_3246.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:30:07 +0200",
        "text": "Le troubadour altermondialiste poursuit son \u00e9loge de l\u2019artisanat dans son cinqui\u00e8me album."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le Portugal a mis fin \u00e0 sa s\u00e9rie d\u2019incendies, le bilan final est de cinq morts;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/20/le-portugal-a-mis-fin-a-sa-serie-d-incendies-le-bilan-final-est-de-cinq-morts_6325613_3244.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:29:26 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Toutes les situations qui \u00e9taient encore actives hier et aujourd\u2019hui \u00e0 l\u2019aube ont \u00e9t\u00e9 domin\u00e9es\u00a0\u00bb, a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9, vendredi, le commandant national de la protection civile, Andr\u00e9 Fernandes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Inceste\u00a0: proc\u00e8s \u00e0 huis clos d\u2019un grand-p\u00e8re identifi\u00e9 gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une bo\u00eete aux lettres Papillons;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/20/inceste-proces-a-huis-clos-d-un-grand-pere-identifie-grace-a-une-boite-aux-lettres-papillons_6325536_3224.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:09:03 +0200",
        "text": "La petite-fille avait 10\u00a0ans lorsqu\u2019une bo\u00eete aux lettres de l\u2019association Les Papillons, visant \u00e0 lib\u00e9rer la parole des enfants victimes de violences, a \u00e9t\u00e9 install\u00e9e dans son \u00e9cole primaire, \u00e0 Vonnas (Ain)."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La CPI quitte la C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire sans \u00eatre parvenue \u00e0 condamner aucun des anciens bellig\u00e9rants;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/20/la-cpi-quitte-la-cote-d-ivoire-sans-etre-parvenue-a-condamner-aucun-des-anciens-belligerants_6325535_3212.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:05:20 +0200",
        "text": "Malgr\u00e9 la fermeture de son bureau ivoirien, la Cour p\u00e9nale internationale assure poursuivre son enqu\u00eate sur les crimes commis apr\u00e8s l\u2019\u00e9clatement de la guerre civile, en\u00a02002."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Le Monde\u00a0\u00bb et la chronique judiciaire\u00a0: Jean-Marc Th\u00e9olleyre, un ma\u00eetre pendant plus de quarante\u00a0ans;https://www.lemonde.fr/le-monde-et-vous/article/2024/09/20/le-monde-et-la-chronique-judiciaire-jean-marc-theolleyre-un-maitre-pendant-plus-de-quarante-ans_6325081_6065879.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:00:02 +0200",
        "text": "Premier arriv\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019audience, dernier parti, \u00ab\u00a0Th\u00e9o\u00a0\u00bb a, de la fin des ann\u00e9es 1940\u00a0\u00e0\u00a0juin\u00a01989, consign\u00e9 avec une juste distance les sc\u00e8nes de pr\u00e9toire. Des plus grands faits divers (Marie Besnard, Gaston Dominici, Pauline Dubuisson) aux proc\u00e8s de tortionnaires, ses comptes rendus ont port\u00e9 au plus haut cet exercice journalistique si particulier."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au proc\u00e8s des viols de\u00a0Mazan, les vid\u00e9os projet\u00e9es au\u00a0cas par cas\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Il\u00a0faut avoir le\u00a0courage de\u00a0se\u00a0confronter\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0\u00a0la\u00a0r\u00e9alit\u00e9, d\u00e9plore un\u00a0avocat de\u00a0Gis\u00e8le Pelicot;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/20/au-proces-des-viols-de-mazan-les-videos-projetees-au-cas-par-cas-il-faut-avoir-le-courage-de-se-confronter-a-la-realite-deplore-un-avocat-de-gisele-pelicot_6325486_3224.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:21:32 +0200",
        "text": "Au lendemain de la diffusion de premi\u00e8res images montrant Dominique Pelicot et un coaccus\u00e9 pratiquer des actes sexuels sur son ancienne \u00e9pouse, visiblement inconsciente, le pr\u00e9sident de la cour a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 que ces vid\u00e9os seraient d\u00e9sormais diffus\u00e9es seulement \u00ab\u00a0\u00e0 la demande d\u2019une ou\u00a0plusieurs parties\u00a0\u00bb et en l\u2019absence du public et de la presse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Mort de Steve Maia Cani\u00e7o \u00e0 Nantes\u00a0: le commissaire Gr\u00e9goire Chassaing relax\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/20/mort-de-steve-maia-canico-a-nantes-en-2019-le-commissaire-gregoire-chassaing-relaxe_6325464_3224.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:41:44 +0200",
        "text": "Lors du proc\u00e8s, le procureur de la R\u00e9publique de Rennes avait requis une \u00ab\u00a0peine de principe\u00a0\u00bb. Steve Maia Cani\u00e7o \u00e9tait mort noy\u00e9 dans la Loire apr\u00e8s une intervention de la police durant la F\u00eate de la musique \u00e0 Nantes en\u00a02019."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Mohamed Al-Fayed, l\u2019ancien propri\u00e9taire d\u2019Harrods, accus\u00e9 de violences sexuelles par trente-sept femmes;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/20/37-femmes-accusent-de-violences-sexuelles-l-ancien-proprietaire-de-harrods-mohamed-al-fayed_6325391_3210.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:30:25 +0200",
        "text": "Leurs avocats vont intenter une action au civil contre le c\u00e9l\u00e8bre grand magasin, d\u00e9non\u00e7ant un manquement \u00ab\u00a0abject\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 la responsabilit\u00e9 d\u2019entreprise face \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0des survivantes du monde entier\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le journaliste Victor Castanet a r\u00e9pondu \u00e0 vos questions sur son enqu\u00eate sur les cr\u00e8ches priv\u00e9es\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0La stabilit\u00e9 d\u2019une structure, c\u2019est le\u00a0premier rempart \u00e0\u00a0la\u00a0maltraitance\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/live/2024/09/20/les-ogres-posez-vos-questions-a-victor-castanet-sur-son-enquete-sur-les-derives-des-creches-privees_6325390_3224.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0200",
        "text": "Dans \u00ab\u00a0Les Ogres\u00a0\u00bb, paru mercredi, le journaliste d\u00e9nonce d\u2019optimisation des co\u00fbts qui provoque des maltraitantes sur de jeunes enfants et l\u2019inaction des pouvoirs publics pour le r\u00e9guler."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La strat\u00e9gie d\u2019Isra\u00ebl pour intensifier la pression sur le Hezbollah;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/20/israel-intensifie-sa-pression-sur-le-hezbollah_6325388_3210.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:07:03 +0200",
        "text": "Sans franchir le pas d\u2019une op\u00e9ration terrestre au Liban, l\u2019arm\u00e9e isra\u00e9lienne se pr\u00e9pare \u00e0 une guerre ouverte."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Apr\u00e8s avoir minimis\u00e9 l\u2019affaire des viols de\u00a0Mazan, le\u00a0maire de\u00a0la\u00a0commune pr\u00e9sente ses excuses;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/20/apres-avoir-minimise-l-affaire-des-viols-de-mazan-le-maire-de-la-commune-presente-ses-excuses_6325385_3224.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:45:46 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Apr\u00e8s tout, personne n\u2019est mort\u00a0\u00bb, avait d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Louis Bonnet, interview\u00e9 par la BBC, concernant ce proc\u00e8s o\u00f9 la diffusion de photos et de vid\u00e9os mettant en cause les accus\u00e9s se fera au cas par cas, en l\u2019absence de la presse, a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 le pr\u00e9sident de la cour."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Une fuite de donn\u00e9es chez SFR expose des informations sensibles de clients, dont des IBAN;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/20/une-fuite-de-donnees-chez-sfr-expose-des-informations-sensibles-de-clients-dont-des-iban_6325384_3234.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:45:07 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019op\u00e9rateur a d\u00e9tect\u00e9 un incident de s\u00e9curit\u00e9, le 3\u00a0septembre, affectant les donn\u00e9es de commande de\u00a0ses\u00a0clients, y compris les IBAN pour certains."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Enqu\u00eate\u00a0: Comment l\u2019attaque aux appareils explosifs s\u2019est d\u00e9roul\u00e9e;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/video/2024/09/20/enquete-video-comment-l-attaque-aux-appareils-explosifs-du-hezbollah-s-est-deroulee_6325342_3210.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:33:10 +0200",
        "text": "Des vid\u00e9os v\u00e9rifi\u00e9es et g\u00e9olocalis\u00e9es par \u00ab\u00a0Le Monde\u00a0\u00bb permettent de mieux comprendre comment a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alis\u00e9e l\u2019attaque aux appareils pi\u00e9g\u00e9s contre des membres du Hezbollah au Liban."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La \u00ab\u00a0bande des quatre\u00a0\u00bb, ces hauts fonctionnaires aux commandes de l\u2019Etat;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/20/sous-emmanuel-macron-les-ministres-changent-la-bande-des-quatre-reste-aux-commandes-de-l-etat_6325009_823448.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:30:06 +0200",
        "text": "Depuis 2017, Emmanuel Moulin, Bertrand Dumont et J\u00e9r\u00f4me Fournel, se partagent les avant-postes de la haute administration. Proches du puissant secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l\u2019Elys\u00e9e, Alexis Kohler, ils assurent la continuit\u00e9 de la politique \u00e9conomique."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Laurence Garnier, s\u00e9natrice LR pressentie au\u00a0minist\u00e8re des familles, critiqu\u00e9e pour son opposition au\u00a0mariage pour tous et\u00a0\u00e0\u00a0l\u2019inscription de l\u2019IVG dans la Constitution;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/20/laurence-garnier-senatrice-lr-pressentie-au-ministere-des-familles-critiquee-pour-son-opposition-au-mariage-pour-tous-et-a-l-inscription-de-l-ivg-dans-la-constitution_6325338_823448.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:00:48 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019Elys\u00e9e a fait savoir vendredi qu\u2019Emmanuel Macron avait \u00ab\u00a0alert\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb Michel Barnier sur le profil de Laurence Garnier, alors que la gauche et une partie du camp pr\u00e9sidentiel ont d\u00e9nonc\u00e9 sa pr\u00e9sence potentielle dans le futur gouvernement."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Sophie Charnavel, PDG des \u00e9ditions Robert Laffont, est morte \u00e0 47\u00a0ans;https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/09/20/mort-a-47-ans-de-sophie-charnavel-pdg-des-editions-robert-laffont_6324929_3382.html;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 01:11:18 +0200",
        "text": "Arriv\u00e9e au sein du groupe Editis en\u00a02018, Sophie Charnavel, morte des suites d\u2019une longue maladie, dirigeait\u00a0la prestigieuse maison d\u2019\u00e9dition depuis 2020."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;TNT\u00a0: C8, NRJ12 et Le M\u00e9dia saisissent le Conseil d\u2019Etat pour contester la pr\u00e9s\u00e9lection de l\u2019Arcom;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/19/tnt-c8-nrj12-et-la-web-tv-le-media-saisissent-le-conseil-d-etat-pour-contester-la-preselection-de-l-arcom_6324795_3234.html;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:55:14 +0200",
        "text": "Les deux cha\u00eenes de t\u00e9l\u00e9vision contestent la d\u00e9cision du r\u00e9gulateur de l\u2019audiovisuel de ne pas renouveler leur autorisation de diffusion sur la TNT. La cha\u00eene de gauche radicale diffus\u00e9e sur la Freebox et le Web, dont la candidature n\u2019a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 retenue, fait aussi appel \u00e0 la justice administrative."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Air Marshal A.P. Singh appointed next Chief of Air Force;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/air-marshal-ap-singh-appointed-next-chief-of-air-force/article68667020.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:17:22 +0530",
        "text": "He will take over the top post on September 30 when the incumbent Air Chief Marshal V.R. Chaudhari retires"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;NIAB scientists develop AMR diagnostic kits, nano-mineral biocapsules;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/niab-scientists-develop-amr-diagnostic-kits-nano-mineral-biocapsules/article68655627.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:16:52 +0530",
        "text": "While diagnostic kits developed to detect antimicrobial resistance mark a significant leap forward for food safety, the biocapsule allows for the precise delivery of personalized nutrient materials, drugs, antibiotics, or other bioactive molecules"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;R.G. Kar incident: Junior docs resume duties partially at State-run hospitals in Bengal after 42 days;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/rg-kar-incident-junior-docs-resume-duties-partially-at-state-run-hospitals-in-bengal-after-42-days/article68666987.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:02:19 +0530",
        "text": "The junior doctors rejoined their duties in essential and emergency services at all State-run hospitals but not in the outpatient departments (OPDs)."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Healthcare cost will go down in next 10 years: Narayana Health founder;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/healthcare-cost-will-go-down-in-next-10-years-narayana-health-founder/article68664983.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:53:35 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;When border skirmishes triggered the inevitable war;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/when-border-skirmishes-triggered-the-inevitable-war/article68663684.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:43:30 +0530",
        "text": "Only 13 months after declaring that he would join neither India nor Pakistan, the Nizam of the Princely State of Hyderabad had to surrender to the Indian Army in the war rendered inevitable by the clashes at multiple points on the border"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tension in Dharavi as locals thwart BMC's move to raze 'illegal' portion of mosque;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/tension-in-dharavi-as-locals-thwart-bmcs-move-to-raze-illegal-portion-of-mosque/article68666965.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:40:27 +0530",
        "text": "A large number of police personnel have been deployed there to prevent any untoward incident in view of the prevailing situation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delhi CM swearing-in ceremony LIVE updates: Atishi to be youngest Delhi CM; five Cabinet Ministers also to take oath;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/delhi-cm-swearing-in-ceremony-atishi-oath-taking-aap-cabinet-ministers-live-updates/article68666935.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:39:39 +0530",
        "text": "Atishi was nominated for the CM\u2019s office after AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal submitted his resignation to the Lieutenant-Governor on September 17"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israel-Beirut strike: Hezbollah names second commander killed;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-beirut-strike-hezbollah-names-second-commander-killed/article68666934.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:35:43 +0530",
        "text": "The Israeli military said that its air strike on Beirut's southern suburbs eliminated Radwan Force chief Ibrahim Aqil and several other commanders"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;IMD\u2019s thunderstorm warning to 31 districts of Telangana for Saturday;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/imds-thunderstorm-warning-to-31-districts-of-telangana-for-saturday/article68666872.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:33:25 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Separatist rebels release New Zealand pilot after 19 months of captivity in Indonesia\u2019s Papua region;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/separatist-rebels-release-new-zealand-pilot-after-19-months-of-captivity-in-indonesias-papua-region/article68666922.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:29:19 +0530",
        "text": "Phillip Mark Mehrtens, a 38-year-old pilot from Christchurch who was working for Indonesian aviation company Susi Air, was handed over to the Cartenz Peace Taskforce"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;ANR 100: Film festival kickstarts celebrations in 31 cities;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/anr-100-film-festival-kickstarts-celebrations-in-31-cities/article68666816.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:28:38 +0530",
        "text": "The ANR 100: King of the Silver Screen film festival features 10 restored classics starring the legendary Telugu actor; Chiranjeevi to be honoured with this year\u2019s ANR award"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hyderabad| Contemporary Carnatic music band Agam gears up for a live gig;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/contemporary-carnatic-music-band-agam-gears-up-for-a-live-gig/article68663680.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:28:26 +0530",
        "text": "The musicians celebrate the experience of performing in Hyderabad"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala CPI(M) leader M.M. Lawrence passes away at 95;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-cpim-leader-mm-lawrence-passes-away-at-95/article68666915.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:11:07 +0530",
        "text": "M.M. Lawrence had functioned as convenor of Left Democratic Front in Kerala and a member of CPI(M) central committee"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Railway track tampered with in Surat district; police suspect sabotage attempt;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/gujarat/railway-track-tampered-with-in-surat-district-police-suspect-sabotage-attempt/article68666912.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:07:37 +0530",
        "text": "Unidentified persons removed two fish plates that bolted the ends of two rails on the railway track and placed them on the parallel track, says Hitesh Joysar, Superintendent of Police"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India, South Korea discuss upgrading of existing trade pact; promoting investments;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-south-korea-discuss-upgrading-of-existing-trade-pact-promoting-investments/article68666868.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:03:14 +0530",
        "text": "\"Deliberations were held on achieving more balanced trade, upgrading the India-Korea CEPA, promoting investments linked to job creation and addressing non-tariff barriers to further strengthen our economic ties,\" Mr. Goyal said in a post on X"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;What is California\u2019s new anti-deepfake bill and can it stop manipulated political ads? | Explained;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/what-is-californias-new-anti-deepfake-bill-and-can-it-stop-manipulated-political-ads-explained/article68666857.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:40:41 +0530",
        "text": "While California Governor Gavin Newsom said he signed bills to prevent AI-enabled manipulation in political ads, billionaire Elon Musk claimed that parody was legal, and openly defied the governor"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;White House officials meet Sikh activists before PM Modi's U.S. visit;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/white-house-officials-meet-sikh-activists-before-pm-modis-us-visit/article68666843.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:39:22 +0530",
        "text": "We had the chance to thank senior federal government officials for saving the lives of Sikh Americans and for vigilance in protecting our community, says Pritpal Singh,\u00a0founder of the American Sikh Caucus Committee"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pakistan Supreme Court raps Parliament, says it cannot backdate laws if they affect people\u2019s rights;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pakistan-supreme-court-raps-parliament-says-it-cannot-backdate-laws-if-they-affect-peoples-rights/article68666749.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:28:26 +0530",
        "text": "The observations come days after Speaker National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq sent a letter to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to retrospectively implement a change made by Parliament in the elections laws to restrict independently elected lawmakers from joining any political party."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;On International Day of Peace, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma urges armed groups to come for talks;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/assam/on-international-day-of-peace-assam-cm-himanta-biswa-sarma-urges-armed-groups-to-come-for-talks/article68666829.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:26:30 +0530",
        "text": "\"Violence and terror will never yield positive results for the State, while discussions will ensure Assam's ascend as a premier State,\" Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Shashi Tharoor speaks with father of EY employee, says \u2018human rights don\u2019t stop at workplace\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/shashi-tharoor-speaks-with-father-of-ey-employee-says-human-rights-dont-stop-at-workplace/article68666778.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:20:59 +0530",
        "text": "Inhumanity at the workplace must be legislated out of existence with stringent punishment and fines for offenders, says Congress leader Shashi Tharoor"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;T.N. man gets life sentence for murdering wife;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/tn-man-gets-life-sentence-for-murdering-wife/article68664820.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:16:21 +0530",
        "text": "The convicted man, Prabhu, set his wife ablaze in 2012 after she found out he was having an extramarital affair with his sister-in-law"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Suspension of mobile Internet for examination \u2018arbitrary decree\u2019 to hide Jharkhand government failure: BJP;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jharkhand/suspension-of-mobile-internet-for-examination-arbitrary-decree-to-hide-jharkhand-government-failure-bjp/article68666807.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:02:24 +0530",
        "text": "Union Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth criticised the move to suspend mobile Internet services, asserting that it will cause a lot of inconvenience for people"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala Police probe Norway-based Wayanad native\u2019s possible connection to Lebanon pager blasts;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-police-probe-norway-based-wayanad-natives-possible-connection-to-lebanon-pager-blasts/article68666793.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:54:20 +0530",
        "text": "Reports indicate that Rinson Jose has been active within the Malayali community in Norway, where he previously operated a job consultancy."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nitin Gadkari talks about freedom of speech, choice, and religion in Pune;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/nitin-gadkari-talks-about-freedom-of-speech-choice-and-religion-in-pune/article68666767.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:51:24 +0530",
        "text": "BJP leader Nitin Gadkari made strong statements on democracy, secularism, freedom of expression and equality at a book release event in Pune."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sri Lanka presidential election 2024: Five reasons this poll is different;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sri-lanka-presidential-election-2024-five-reasons-this-poll-is-different/article68666774.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:41:40 +0530",
        "text": "Voting started at 7 a.m. and will continue till 5 p.m. Results are expected by Sunday. Voters will choose among 38 presidential candidates."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rotary Excellence Award for Education held at Chennai\u2019s Ethiraj College honours 100 teachers;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/rotary-excellence-award-for-education-held-at-chennais-ethiraj-college-honours-100-teachers/article68665270.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:40:12 +0530",
        "text": "Eight colleges from Chennai that ranked in the top 100 of the National Institutional Ranking Framework were also awarded"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Disruption in water supply to some parts of Hyderabad on Monday;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/disruption-in-water-supply-to-some-parts-of-hyderabad-on-monday/article68664787.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:35:10 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jharkhand-West Bengal border reopened after 24-hour closure;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jharkhand/jharkhand-west-bengal-border-reopened-after-24-hour-closure/article68666751.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:28:12 +0530",
        "text": "West Bengal government had closed the border on September 19, after the release of water by DVC from its dams located along the inter-State boundary with Jharkhand"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Arogya Mitras call off stir;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/arogya-mitras-call-off-stir/article68665446.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:22:29 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hyderabad to get more rain after Friday\u2019s heavy downpour;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/hyderabad-to-get-more-rain-after-fridays-heavy-downpour/article68666662.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:18:43 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Patna NIT student ends life on campus;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/patna-nit-student-ends-life-on-campus/article68666733.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:17:54 +0530",
        "text": "Students demand resignation of NIT Patna director P.K. Jain, alleging that he does not care about the welfare of students."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala Police register case against woman actor who filed sexual abuse complaints against actors;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-police-register-case-against-woman-actor-who-filed-sexual-abuse-complaints-against-actors/article68665292.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:02:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tirupati laddu row: Amul denies supplying ghee to TTD;https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/tirupati-laddu-row-amul-denies-supplying-ghee-to-ttd/article68666726.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:52:37 +0530",
        "text": "\u201cWe also wish to clarify Amul Ghee is made from milk at our state-of-the-art production facilities which are ISO certified,\u201d said Amul"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Fight among Dasara elephants sparks scare among passers-by in Mysuru;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/video-fight-among-dasara-elephants-sparks-scare-among-passers-by-in-mysuru/article68666694.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:28:14 +0530",
        "text": "An angry Dhananjaya pursued Kanjan, which fled out of the Eastern Gate of Mysuru palace"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;TISS students protest suspension of PhD scholar, allege police action on campus;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/tiss-students-protest-suspension-of-phd-scholar-allege-police-action-on-campus/article68666704.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:21:27 +0530",
        "text": "Students alleged that even though the protest was carried out peacefully, the administration repeatedly discouraged students from exercising their right to free speech"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;10 years into Houthi rule, some Yemenis count the cost;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/10-years-into-houthi-rule-some-yemenis-count-the-cost/article68664356.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:20:10 +0530",
        "text": "Already the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen has been devastated by war since 2015, when a Saudi-led coalition launched a failed campaign to dislodge the Houthis"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Gurbaz and Rashid lead Afghanistan to first ODI series win over South Africa;https://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/gurbaz-and-rashid-lead-afghanistan-to-first-odi-series-win-over-south-africa/article68666691.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:04:11 +0530",
        "text": "Rahmanullah Gurbaz's 105 made him the first Afghan man to hit seven ODI hundreds."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sanctity of Tirupati 'laddu prasadam' restored, unblemished now, says TTD;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sanctity-of-tirupati-laddu-prasadam-restored-unblemished-now-says-ttd/article68666681.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 09:46:17 +0530",
        "text": "TTD is committed to protecting the holiness of Laddu Prasadam to the satisfaction of all the devotees, wrotethe temple board on X."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kamala Harris campaign reports spending nearly three times as much as Donald Trump in August;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/kamala-harris-campaign-reports-spending-nearly-three-times-as-much-as-donald-trump-in-august/article68666660.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 09:32:34 +0530",
        "text": "In August, Ms. Harris and Trump each said most of their spending was on ads, with smaller sums paying for rallies, travel and campaign staff salaries."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mexican President blames the U.S. for bloodshed in Sinaloa as cartel violence surges;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/mexican-president-blames-the-us-for-bloodshed-in-sinaloa-as-cartel-violence-surges/article68664512.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 09:25:59 +0530",
        "text": "During his morning news briefing, L\u00f3pez Obrador had claimed American authorities \u201ccarried out that operation\u201d to capture Zambada and that \u201cit was totally illegal, and agents from the Department of Justice were waiting for Mr. Mayo.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mockery of public accountability: Congress slams SEBI over RTI rebuff;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/mockery-of-public-accountability-congress-slams-sebi-over-rti-rebuff/article68666655.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 09:19:02 +0530",
        "text": "SEBI has simply refused to divulge information to a RTI activist on instances of the SEBI Chairperson recusing herself on issues where there have been potential conflicts of interest, says Congress leader Jairam Ramesh"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kenya court finds Meta can be sued over moderator layoffs;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/kenya-court-finds-meta-can-be-sued-over-moderator-layoffs/article68666630.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 09:09:24 +0530",
        "text": "A Kenyan court ruled on Friday that Facebook's parent company Meta could be sued in the East African nation over the dismissal of dozens of content moderators"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Gurugram bike accident: Mother of victim questions bail to SUV driver;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/haryana/gurugram-bike-accident-mother-of-victim-questions-bail-to-suv-driver/article68666636.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 08:51:34 +0530",
        "text": "SHO Kumar said an FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint by one Pradhuman, a friend of the victim, under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;UN chief speaks to Maduro about 'rights violations' in Venezuela;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/un-chief-speaks-to-maduro-about-rights-violations-in-venezuela/article68666640.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 08:33:30 +0530",
        "text": "President Nicolas Maduro, for his part, said the two spoke for 15 minutes and that he explained \"the struggle we are waging against fascism\" and the \"devil,\" words he routinely uses to describe the Opposition movement"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Action will be taken based on facts revealed in investigation: Mansukh Mandaviya on death of EY employee;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/action-will-be-taken-based-on-facts-revealed-in-investigation-mansukh-mandaviya-on-death-of-ey-employee/article68666618.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 08:13:29 +0530",
        "text": "The statement comes after a heart-wrenching letter written by the victim's mother went viral on social media, alleging that EY's work culture and excessive workload contributed to her daughter's demise"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Priyank Kharge proposes sister city corridor between Bengaluru and San Francisco;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/priyank-kharge-proposes-sister-city-corridor-between-bengaluru-and-san-francisco/article68665204.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:37:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Morning Digest | Sri Lanka votes to choose its next President; top Hezbollah leader killed in Israeli strike, and more;https://www.thehindu.com/news/morning-digest-september-21-2024/article68665410.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:34:39 +0530",
        "text": "Here is a select list of stories to start the day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Govt. incentives key for EVs until scale effect sets in, Mercedes-Benz India CEO;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/govt-incentives-key-for-evs-until-scale-effect-sets-in-mercedes-benz-india-ceo/article68665333.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:32:52 +0530",
        "text": "Carmaker\u2019s Made in India BEV -- EQS SUV 580 unveiled in Hyderabad"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Be ready to seize opportunities, IT Minister urges software firms, startups;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/be-ready-to-seize-opportunities-it-minister-urges-software-firms-startups/article68665369.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:32:06 +0530",
        "text": "The expansion project would contribute to job creation. Vaaluka that currently has 50 employees plans to hire 300 people over the next year and have a headcount of 500 employees within two years"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.S. Lawmakers announce bicameral bipartisan Quad caucus;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-lawmakers-announce-bicameral-bipartisan-quad-caucus/article68666583.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:31:04 +0530",
        "text": "Making a veiled reference to China, Mr. Ricketts said groups like the Quad were the \u201cgreatest strength against coercion and malign aggression\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;High Court asks 3 DU minority colleges\u2019 reply against disassociation from DUSU polls;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/high-court-asks-3-du-minority-colleges-reply-against-disassociation-from-dusu-polls/article68664826.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:25:20 +0530",
        "text": "The court, in an interim relief, allowed the petitioners and other students of these colleges to file their nomination forms and participate in the election process"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delhi is of migrants, caste certificate from other states will apply here: Delhi High Court;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-is-of-migrants-caste-certificate-from-other-states-will-apply-here-delhi-high-court/article68664940.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:21:40 +0530",
        "text": "The CAT however granted relief to the candidate and directed the authorities to forthwith issue an appointment letter to him under the reserved category, subject to him meeting all other eligibility criteria"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;'Quad has emerged as key group to work for peace, prosperity in Indo-Pacific,' says PM Modi as he leaves for U.S. visit;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/quad-has-emerged-as-key-group-to-work-for-peace-prosperity-in-indo-pacific-says-pm-modi-as-he-leaves-for-us-visit/article68666581.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 05:59:30 +0530",
        "text": "PM Modi will be on a three-day visit to U.S. to participate in the Quad Summit hosted by US President Joe Biden and to address the Summit of the Future at the UN General Assembly in New York"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.S. Presidential polls: In-person voting begins, kicking off the sprint to Election Day;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-presidential-polls-in-person-voting-begins-kicking-off-the-sprint-to-election-day/article68665793.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 05:50:00 +0530",
        "text": "In-person voting for the 2024 U.S. presidential election has begun in three states \u2014 Virginia, South Dakota and Minnesota, the home state of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.S. Secret Service probe finds lack of diligence ahead of Trump rally shooting;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-secret-service-probe-finds-lack-of-diligence-ahead-of-trump-rally-shooting/article68665794.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 05:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "The assassination attempt against Trump at the July 13 rally led to widespread criticism of the Secret Service and the resignation of its former director"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sri Lanka Presidential poll LIVE: 27% voter turnout in Colombo; 85 complaints of election violations reported;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sri-lanka-presidential-poll-elections-voting-live-updates-september-21-2024/article68665806.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 05:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "The Sri Lanka Election Commission said it will thoroughly review every complaint to ensure transparency and fairness throughout the election process"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;ED action against construction company in Patna;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/ed-action-against-construction-company-in-patna/article68664461.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 04:50:00 +0530",
        "text": "ED investigation revealed that Directors and employees of the company have siphoned off the amount collected from the prospective buyers and utilized it to acquire personal properties."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.N. warns that West Asia violence could escalate into devastating conflagration;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/un-warns-that-west-asia-violence-could-escalate-into-devastating-conflagration/article68665795.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 04:30:06 +0530",
        "text": "As its war in Gaza nears one year old, Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and other senior figures in the Lebanese movement in an airstrike on Beirut"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Letter plea seeks SC\u2019s intervention in Tirupati laddu controversy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/letter-plea-seeks-scs-intervention-in-tirupati-laddu-controversy/article68664208.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 04:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "Row erupted over allegations that \u201cnon-vegetarian products\u201d were used in the preparation of the laddus during the previous TTD Trust management"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;3 BSF personnel dead, 32 injured as bus carrying troops falls into gorge in J&K's Budgam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jammu-and-kashmir/jammu-kashmir-bus-accident-budgam-bsf-soldiers-dead-september-20-2024/article68665796.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 04:26:21 +0530",
        "text": "The bus was hired to carry BSF jawans for duty in the second phase of polling in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Naga students\u2019 body, NSCN (I-M) unhappy with SC order on Oting killings;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/nagaland/naga-students-body-nscn-i-m-unhappy-with-sc-order-on-oting-killings/article68664199.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 04:10:00 +0530",
        "text": "The top court dismissed criminal proceedings against Army personnel accused of involvement in the botched encounter in 2021"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;50 students with disabilities pursuing Ph.D. to get fellowship of \u20b91 lakh each;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/50-students-with-disabilities-pursuing-phd-to-get-fellowship-of-1-lakh-each/article68664345.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:58:54 +0530",
        "text": "Only students with disabilities, pursuing Ph.D., are eligible"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Stalin hails late Sir John Marshall for discovery of Indus Valley civilisation;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/stalin-hails-late-sir-john-marshall-for-discovery-of-indus-valley-civilisation/article68664123.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:57:36 +0530",
        "text": "The Chief Minister said that his government has already announced that the centenary of this historic discovery would be marked by an international conference and the installation of a life-size statue of Sir John Marshall in Tamil Nadu"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Those who tarnished image of Tirumala will not be spared: CM;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/we-will-not-spare-anyone-who-tarnished-image-of-tirumala-laddu-naidu/article68665119.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:52:47 +0530",
        "text": "Naidu alleged that the previous government tarnished the image of the Tirumala temple and laddu prasadam with its decisions"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;President Droupadi Murmu bats for lac farming;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/president-droupadi-murmu-bats-for-lac-farming/article68664112.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:50:00 +0530",
        "text": "Union Agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan says there is need to increase the MSP on lac farming"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pawan asks AIIB delegation to ensure quality in rural road projects;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/pawan-asks-aiib-delegation-to-ensure-quality-in-rural-road-projects/article68664421.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:49:47 +0530",
        "text": "Roads should withstand the vagaries of nature, and hold the contractors accountable, the Deputy Chief Minister tells the bank\u2019s executives"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;SLBC to be completed on priority basis in two years: Deputy CM Bhatti;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/slbc-to-be-completed-on-priority-basis-in-two-years-deputy-cm-bhatti/article68663861.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:42:54 +0530",
        "text": "He visits project tunnel works along with Ministers Uttam Reddy, Venkat Reddy"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CM remembers Konda Laxman Bapuji;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/cm-remembers-konda-laxman-bapuji/article68665048.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:42:01 +0530",
        "text": "Besides serving the poor in various capacities as an MLA, Deputy Speaker and Minister, Bapuji worked relentlessly for the welfare of the downtrodden and weaker sections"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CM lauded for schemes on Gulf employees;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/cm-lauded-for-schemes-on-gulf-employees/article68665174.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:41:00 +0530",
        "text": "TPCC NRI Cell members thanked Mr. Revanth Reddy, the Cabinet, MLAs, MLCs and public representatives for their cooperation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Based on what law Durgam Cheruvu FTL area was fixed: HC to government;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/based-on-what-law-durgam-cheruvu-ftl-area-was-fixed-hc-to-government/article68664904.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:40:16 +0530",
        "text": "The bench was hearing a writ petition filed by a 50-year-old woman, L. Urmila Devi, stating that the authorities had shown the FTL area of the tank as 160 acres."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Telangana announces \u20b9796-crore bonus for Singareni staff and employees;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-announces-796-crore-bonus-for-singareni-staff-and-employees/article68663996.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:37:31 +0530",
        "text": "CM, Dy CM announce bonus for contract workers of SCCL for the first time"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Should real estate owners and college owners benefit from Rythu Bharosa, Congress asks BRS;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/should-real-estate-owners-and-college-owners-benefit-from-rythu-bharosa-congress-asks-brs/article68664990.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:35:17 +0530",
        "text": "Bhavani Reddy ridiculed BRS MLA Palla Rajeshwar Reddy for demanding that Rythu Bharosa should be given to all lands just like the BRS did during its tenure"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India to host World Audio Visual & Entertainment Summit early next year;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-to-host-world-audio-visual-entertainment-summit-early-next-year/article68664003.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "Information & Broadcasting Secretary Sanjay Jaju said that it would be the first-ever global summit covering the entire gamut of media and entertainment industry"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Huge narcotics haul in Kasaragod, MDMA, ganja seized;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/huge-narcotics-haul-in-kasaragod-mdma-ganja-seized/article68664032.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:26:47 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;HC directive on interim custody of currency seized  under IT Act;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/hc-directive-on-interim-custody-of-currency-seized-under-it-act/article68663916.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:25:45 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Unprecedented level of \u2018mob justice\u2019 can turn Bangladesh into a failed state, says criminologist;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/unprecedented-level-of-mob-justice-can-turn-bangladesh-into-a-failed-state-says-criminologist/article68665258.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:10:00 +0530",
        "text": "Incidents of mob justice or mob bullying began almost immediately after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina administration with students often forcing college and university teachers to resign citing political affiliation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;In Mandya district, green turns saffron;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/in-karnatakas-mandya-district-green-turns-saffron/article68665261.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 02:50:00 +0530",
        "text": "Once the hotbed of farmers\u2019 and Dalit movements, the Vokkaliga caste-dominated Mandya district in southern Karnataka is beginning to see the impact of a consistent Hindutva push. The recent communal violence in Nagamangala during the immersion of Ganesh is symptomatic of this trend. Sharath S. Srivatsa reports on the contested political landscape"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India has seized significant amounts from proscribed terrorists: FATF;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-has-seized-significant-amounts-from-proscribed-terrorists-fatf/article68664709.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 02:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "NIA and ED have seized significant amounts from proscribed terrorists under the UAPA, and assets from terror financing and money laundering investigations, the FATF notes in its mutual assessment report"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bhopal school where teacher raped minor girl sealed;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/madhya-pradesh/bhopal-school-where-teacher-raped-minor-girl-sealed/article68665170.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 02:17:11 +0530",
        "text": "Sub-divisional magistrate Archana Sharma says the school was served a notice and a committee has been formed to take a decision on cancelling its affiliation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Massive sinkhole appears on Pune road, swallows truck;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/massive-sinkhole-appears-on-pune-road-swallows-truck/article68665407.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 02:08:34 +0530",
        "text": "No one was hurt\u00a0in the incident"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Don\u2019t wait for winter, install anti-smog guns on Delhi high-rises: Lieutenant-Governor;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/dont-wait-for-winter-instal-anti-smog-guns-on-delhi-high-rises-lieutenant-governor/article68665625.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:10:27 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chhattisgarh govt. shunts Collector, SP amid uproar over custodial death;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/chhattisgarh/chhattisgarh-govt-shunts-collector-sp-amid-uproar-over-custodial-death/article68665525.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:10:00 +0530",
        "text": "The Opposition Congress has alleged custodial torture leading to the death of Prashant Sahu, arrested along with 69 others on September 15, and has called a bandh on Saturday."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Encounter breaks out in Jammu\u2019s Reasi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/encounter-breaks-out-in-jammus-reasi/article68664877.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:07:11 +0530",
        "text": "The fresh encounter comes at a time when J&amp;K is preparing for the\u00a0second phase of elections on September 25"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;DUSU polls: eight candidates in fray for president\u2019s post;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/dusu-polls-eight-candidates-in-fray-for-presidents-post/article68665615.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:58:51 +0530",
        "text": "With campaigning in full swing, students were seen with posters and placards in their hands while printed posters dotted the streets throughout North Campus"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chennai city faces spike in viral respiratory infections;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chennai-city-faces-spike-in-viral-respiratory-infections/article68664499.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:55:33 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Decks cleared for Atishi to take oath as Delhi Chief Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/decks-cleared-for-atishi-to-take-oath-as-the-cm-today/article68665584.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:52:59 +0530",
        "text": "A gazette notification by the Union Home Ministry stated: \u201cThe President is pleased to appoint Ms. Atishi as the Chief Minister, National Capital Territory of Delhi, with effect from the date she is sworn in.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kejriwal to address event on Sunday, kick-start AAP\u2019s Delhi poll campaign;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/kejriwal-to-address-event-on-sunday-kick-start-aaps-delhi-poll-campaign/article68665455.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:50:54 +0530",
        "text": "Sunday\u2019s Janata ki Adaalat at Jantar Mantar will be Kejriwal\u2019s first public event since he stepped out of jail on September 13; Rai says party workers must prepare to defeat BJP on every seat; real Janata ki Adaalat will be held in February 2025: BJP"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;2,681 weapons recovered in Manipur, of which only 1,200 were looted from police armouries: security adviser;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/2681-weapons-recovered-in-manipur-of-which-only-1200-were-looted-from-police-armouries-security-adviser/article68665551.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:50:38 +0530",
        "text": "The number of recoveries showed that a large number of sophisticated weapons, that might have come from outside the country, were available with the public, says Kuldiep Singh"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;AAP demands govt. accommodation for outgoing CM Kejriwal after plans to vacate Civil Lines residence;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/aap-demands-govt-accommodation-for-outgoing-cm-kejriwal-after-plans-to-vacate-civil-lines-residence/article68665052.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:50:24 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delhi HC dismisses Maliwal\u2019s plea seeking quashing of charges in corruption case;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-hc-dismisses-maliwals-plea-seeking-quashing-of-charges-in-corruption-case/article68664879.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:50:20 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;National Achievement Survey 2024 to be held in December;https://www.thehindu.com/education/national-achievement-survey-2024-to-be-held-in-december/article68663911.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:50:00 +0530",
        "text": "Survey to cover nearly five million students across 792 districts belonging to Classes 3, 6 and 9 this year"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP trying to poach our councillors ahead of crucial poll: AAP;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/bjp-trying-to-poach-our-councillors-ahead-of-crucial-poll-aap/article68665013.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:48:58 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Public health projects worth \u20b99.18 crore launched in Ernakulam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kozhikode/public-health-projects-worth-918-crore-launched-in-ernakulam/article68664425.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:47:27 +0530",
        "text": "15 programmes inaugurated in Aluva, Piravom, Vypeen, Paravur, Perumbavoor and Kunnathunad Assembly constituencies; Cochin Cancer Centre to become functional in a few months, says Health Minister"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Satheesan slams CM for not ordering probe into alleged disruption of Thrissur Pooram;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/satheesan-slams-cm-for-not-ordering-probe-into-alleged-disruption-of-thrissur-pooram/article68664426.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:46:09 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nepal delegation visits Kochi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/nepal-delegation-visits-kochi/article68665182.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:45:41 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Attempts being made to create negative narrative about the country, says Tamil Nadu Governor;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/attempts-being-made-to-create-negative-narrative-about-the-country-says-tamil-nadu-governor/article68664645.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:45:17 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;IIT-Madras sets up diabetes research centre;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/iit-madras-sets-up-diabetes-research-centre/article68664405.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:44:55 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tamil Nadu\u2019s SimpleGov initiative to revolutionise governance systems with streamlined processes;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tamil-nadus-simplegov-initiative-to-revolutionise-governance-systems-with-streamlined-processes/article68664795.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:23:22 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;It only takes one minute to start a venture in Kerala: Industries Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/it-only-takes-one-minute-to-start-a-venture-in-kerala-industries-minister/article68663957.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:13:56 +0530",
        "text": "By incorporating the advantages and factoring in barriers, Kerala have adopted a new industrial policy with the motto \u2018nature, people, industry,\u2019 where nature and people come first, says Rajeeve"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;The stakes in Sri Lanka\u2019s ninth Presidential election;https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-stakes-in-sri-lankas-ninth-presidential-election/article68665091.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:08:00 +0530",
        "text": "The country votes in the backdrop of the major churning that has happened in its political arena"
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Woman, 52, arrested for alleged neglect after grandchildren rescued from Hong Kong flat fire;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279439/woman-52-arrested-alleged-neglect-after-grandchildren-rescued-hong-kong-flat-fire?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 16:31:12 +0800",
        "text": "Online video footage shows flames and smoke coming out of high-rise flat in Tsz Wan Shan where the two children were trapped in it."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s Paul Chan goes on tech charm offensive to deepen ties with UK, Spain;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279438/hong-kongs-paul-chan-goes-tech-charm-offensive-deepen-ties-uk-spain?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 16:12:39 +0800",
        "text": "Post learns meetings with British officials might be on the cards for Paul Chan as he leads tech-focused delegation to Europe."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Former leader CY Leung calls for Hong Kong to take cue from Shenzhen\u2019s transformation;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279433/former-leader-cy-leung-calls-hong-kong-take-cue-shenzhens-transformation?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:41:34 +0800",
        "text": "Shenzhen experience is a good reference for Hong Kong in areas such as giving up low-end industries in exchange for novel ones, Leung says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong football event rejects emotional appeal to accept school\u2019s late sign-up;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3279421/hong-kong-football-contest-denies-emotional-appeal-accept-schools-late-sign?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:19:07 +0800",
        "text": "Organiser says it has turned down request from Yan Chai Hospital Tung Chi Ying Memorial Secondary School, citing need to keep contest fair."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Crowd control at Hong Kong\u2019s Coldplay concerts at Kai Tak stadium a top priority: official;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279419/crowd-control-hong-kongs-coldplay-concerts-kai-tak-stadium-top-priority-official?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:38:37 +0800",
        "text": "Chief Secretary Eric Chan also says venue has sufficient transport links, a day after lawmakers raise concerns over insufficient capacity."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong Observatory cancels amber rainstorm signal after less than an hour;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279417/hong-kong-observatory-issues-red-rainstorm-signal-warns-serious-flood-risk?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:34:33 +0800",
        "text": "Observatory says weather is due to area of low pressure moving across the vicinity of Pearl River Delta, resulting in intense rainband."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;How a 70-year-old fitness fanatic sparked a street workout movement in Hong Kong;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279393/how-70-year-old-fitness-fanatic-created-street-workout-movement-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 09:00:12 +0800",
        "text": "\u2018Uncle Cheng\u2019 and his crew have even amassed a following on their Instagram page showcasing their moves."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;1 more death, another 30 Hong Kong cases tied to outbreak of fish-linked infection;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279401/1-more-death-another-30-hong-kong-cases-tied-outbreak-fish-linked-infection?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:49:16 +0800",
        "text": "More patients have tested positive for ST283 strain after being admitted to hospital with Group B Streptococcus infections."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong to seek more information before it considers easing ban on Japanese seafood imports;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279398/hong-kong-seek-more-information-it-considers-easing-ban-japanese-seafood-imports?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:02:52 +0800",
        "text": "Beijing earlier said it had agreed to \u2018gradually resume\u2019 imports of Japanese seafood following rounds of talks between the two countries."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s Pure Fitness lays off staff but says sacked employees paid in full;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279396/hong-kongs-pure-fitness-lays-staff-says-sacked-employees-paid-full?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:39:01 +0800",
        "text": "Fitness chain Pure Fitness says it has laid off staff as part of its \u2018strategic business actions\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Tenant of Hong Kong\u2019s only private low-rent housing estate gets hearing to challenge eviction;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279389/tenant-hong-kongs-only-private-low-rent-housing-estate-gets-hearing-challenge-eviction?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:50:28 +0800",
        "text": "85-year-old accuses housing corporation of failing to ensure resettlement of residents before redeveloping neighbourhood."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Google removes some fake names pranksters gave to Hong Kong schools on Maps;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279383/google-removes-some-fake-names-pranksters-gave-hong-kong-schools-maps?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:16:13 +0800",
        "text": "Company says steps taken to prevent further abuse of Maps service, while Post check finds some offensive names remain."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong interest rate cut gives small businesses \u2018more room for survival\u2019;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279358/hong-kong-interest-rate-cut-gives-small-businesses-more-room-survival?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:14:42 +0800",
        "text": "Lower rates will not only reduce financing costs but revive investor confidence and spending sentiment, experts say."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong lawyer found safe day after wife reported him missing;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279354/concerns-grow-hong-kong-lawyer-reported-missing-wife-thursday-evening?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:24:14 +0800",
        "text": "Police searched for 49-year-old man on Lamma Island after tracing his mobile phone\u2019s last known location."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong authorities to closely monitor sexual assault case involving district councillor;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279343/hong-kong-authorities-closely-monitor-sexual-assault-case-involving-district-councillor?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:05:23 +0800",
        "text": "Home Affairs Department notified of allegations that Sei Chun-hing sexually assaulted underage girl in 2008 and had sex with her in 2011."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s National Day fireworks to feature panda themes and opening drone show;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279342/hong-kongs-national-day-fireworks-feature-panda-themes-and-opening-drone-show?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:01:55 +0800",
        "text": "Organiser says 23-minute display over Victoria Harbour will portray eight scenes designed to honour achievements of country as it turns 75."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong jails man for 14 months in third sedition conviction under domestic security law;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279318/hong-kong-jails-man-14-months-third-sedition-conviction-under-domestic-security-law?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:25:25 +0800",
        "text": "Au Kin-wai, 58, pleads guilty to \u2018knowingly publishing publications that had a seditious intention\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police seize HK$25 million of cocaine in hotel room after ambushing suspect;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279317/hong-kong-police-seize-hk25-million-cocaine-hotel-room-after-ambushing-suspect?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:15:02 +0800",
        "text": "Officers lay in wait outside hotel room after intelligence indicated syndicate was using it for storing illegal drugs, police say."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s tech hub project gets go-ahead despite judicial review challenge;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279288/hong-kong-new-technology-hub-gets-go-ahead-despite-judicial-review-challenge?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:51:02 +0800",
        "text": "Executive Council endorses San Tin Technopole project, which government says will help meet needs of society and is strategically important."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Beijing urges businesses to remain united behind Hong Kong leader to boost economy;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3279278/beijing-official-voices-high-hopes-hong-kong-efforts-promote-national-opening?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:11:03 +0800",
        "text": "Top officials at Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office express confidence in city\u2019s future as John Lee attends forum on economic cooperation in Beijing."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;University of Hong Kong opens first clinical trials centre with private hospital; cancer a focus;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279187/university-hong-kong-opens-first-clinical-trials-centre-private-hospital-cancer-focus?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:58:47 +0800",
        "text": "Collaboration with Gleneagles will make use of university\u2019s \u2018100 years of experience\u2019 in research, medical school dean says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong beautician jailed for 7 weeks for helping boss provide unlicensed botulinum toxin jab;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279113/hong-kong-beautician-jailed-7-weeks-helping-unlicensed-boss-inject-botox?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:42:23 +0800",
        "text": "Lau Lo, 38, helped her unlicensed manager administer botulinum toxin shot to victim, who later suffered blurred vision and increased heartrate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Japan: Heavy rains trigger evacuation in quake-hit region;https://www.dw.com/en/japan-heavy-rains-trigger-evacuation-in-quake-hit-region/a-70289104?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Tens of thousands of people have been asked to evacuate to safety in the Ishikawa region which is still recovering from a devastating earthquake earlier in the year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Does international law allow electronic devices to be weaponized?;https://www.dw.com/en/does-international-law-allow-electronic-devices-to-be-weaponized/a-70288140?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Who primed the communication devices that exploded in the Lebanese strongholds of the Islamist terrorist group Hezbollah? And how should the attack be viewed in the context of international law?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Polls open in Sri Lanka presidential election;https://www.dw.com/en/polls-open-in-sri-lanka-presidential-election/a-70288253?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Over 17 million voters are set to decide the country's president. The vote comes after Sri Lanka defaulted on its foreign debt 2022, triggering the worst economic crisis in decades."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US soldier who fled to N. Korea released after guilty plea;https://www.dw.com/en/us-soldier-who-fled-to-n-korea-released-after-guilty-plea/a-70288313?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Travis King, who crossed into North Korea last year while on deployment, was sentenced to a year in prison under a plea agreement. However, he was set free due to \"time already served.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New Zealand pilot freed in Indonesia's West Papua;https://www.dw.com/en/new-zealand-pilot-freed-in-indonesia-s-west-papua/a-70288317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "A pilot from New Zealand who was being held captive in the restive Indonesian region of West Papua has been freed. Phillip Mehrtens was kidnapped more than a year and a half ago."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;South Carolina carries out first execution in 13 years;https://www.dw.com/en/south-carolina-carries-out-first-execution-in-13-years/a-70288247?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "South Carolina has executed a man who was convicted of murder in 1999, marking the US' 14th execution this year. The state stopped applying the death penalty for years after its stock of lethal injections expired."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Meta could face trial in Kenya for firing content moderators;https://www.dw.com/en/meta-could-face-trial-in-kenya-for-firing-content-moderators/a-70288226?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Meta lost an appeal against a ruling that it could be sued in Kenya over the sackings.The plaintiffs accuse the tech company of dismissing them following their attempts to form a union."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Haiti: UN expert sounds the alarm over growing gang violence;https://www.dw.com/en/haiti-un-expert-sounds-the-alarm-over-growing-gang-violence/a-70288199?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "A UN expert says Haiti is in a \"race against time,\" as gangs' control over the capital and the massive displacement of the population deepens the country's crisis."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Secret Service admits failings amid Trump rally shooting;https://www.dw.com/en/us-secret-service-admits-failings-amid-trump-rally-shooting/a-70287982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The acting head of the US Secret Service said \"complacency\" from some agents and officers \"led to a breach of security protocols\" when responding to the July assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Pennsylvania."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How deadly is Ukraine's new 'dragon drone'?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-deadly-is-ukraine-s-new-dragon-drone/a-70287164?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Ukrainian armed forces have deployed a new kind of drone to defend their country, one filled with a pyrotechnic thermite mixture that rains fire down on enemy positions. Its use is highly controversial."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Fridays for Future protests draw 75,000 in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/fridays-for-future-protests-draw-75-000-in-germany/a-70287782?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Climate activists filled the streets of German cities from Berlin to Munich, calling on authorities to take stronger action. Meanwhile, a court jailed two elderly climate activists for sabotaging an oil pipeline."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Iceland: Police shoot 1st polar bear sighted in years;https://www.dw.com/en/iceland-police-shoot-1st-polar-bear-sighted-in-years/a-70287266?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Number of refugees reaches new high in 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-number-of-refugees-reaches-new-high-in-2024/a-70286816?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "There are more refugees living in Germany than ever in recent history, according to German government data. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has contributed to the increase in refugees in Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Congo: Tuluka's first 100 days of ambition and challenges;https://www.dw.com/en/congo-tuluka-s-first-100-days-of-ambition-and-challenges/a-70284042?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Judith Suminwa Tuluka was sworn in as Congo's first female prime minister on June 11. She has set ambitious goals in her first 100 days in office, aiming to \"translate the president's promises\" into concrete results."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German border city prepares for flood;https://www.dw.com/en/german-border-city-prepares-for-flood/a-70285116?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Frankfurt an der Oder, the German city on the border with Poland, is getting ready for yet another major flood. Yet the climate crisis is barely an issue in the Brandenburg state election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Former Harrods boss Mohamed al Fayed accused of rape;https://www.dw.com/en/former-harrods-boss-mohamed-al-fayed-accused-of-rape/a-70284389?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The late Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women. The survivors, including some minors, were hired as secretaries and assistants when the abuse allegedly took place."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Trump ally accused of claiming to be Black Nazi;https://www.dw.com/en/trump-ally-accused-of-claiming-to-be-black-nazi/a-70283363?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson has rebuffed calls to drop out of the race after a report that he had called himself a \"Black Nazi.\" He reportedly made other incendiary comments on a porn website."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods devastate West and Central Africa;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-devastate-west-and-central-africa/a-70231593?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Unprecedented flooding in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Mali, Ghana and Liberia has triggered humanitarian crises. An estimated 4 million people \u2014 most of them children \u2014 are caught up in the devastation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Fact check: No iPhones, solar panels, laptops exploded in Lebanon;https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-no-iphones-solar-panels-laptops-exploded-in-lebanon/a-70281061?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "A wave of fake images and claims has been circulating online after Hezbollah members and civilians were killed and injured by exploding walkie-talkies and pagers. A DW fact check."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dutch 'Mocro mafia' sets off alarm bells in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-mocro-mafia-sets-off-alarm-bells-in-germany/a-69764909?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "German police have warned of Dutch organized crime networks moving into Germany after they intervened in a spectacular case of kidnapping and torture."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jahjaga: 'Blame should not be directed at the survivors, but at the perpetrators, who used rape as a weapon of war';https://www.dw.com/en/jahjaga-blame-should-not-be-directed-at-the-survivors-but-at-the-perpetrators-who-used-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war/a-70283271?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Former President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga has been advocating for the survivors of wartime sexual violence since her presidency. She speaks to DW about her fight to address and highlight this issue in Kosovo."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Heat pumps: Why Germany's heating revolution is stalling;https://www.dw.com/en/heat-pumps-why-germany-s-heating-revolution-is-stalling/a-70192621?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "It's a signature project of Germany's environmentalist Greens: Instead of heating homes with fossil fuels, Germans should use heat pumps based on air or groundwater. But demand for these devices has plummeted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Von der Leyen in Kyiv announces \u20ac35bn loan;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-von-der-leyen-in-kyiv-announces-\u20ac35bn-loan/live-70278769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Ursula von der Leyen said the loan would come from frozen Russian assets. The EU Commission president also said the bloc \"will help Ukraine in its brave efforts\" including winter preparation and EU accession. Follow DW"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starlink satellites are blinding astronomers' view of space;https://www.dw.com/en/starlink-satellites-are-blinding-astronomers-view-of-space/a-70273835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Starlink and other satellite networks are vital for providing high speed internet to remote communities, but unintended radiation leakages are making life difficult for astronomers who need clear skies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hungary and the Netherlands want to exit EU asylum policy;https://www.dw.com/en/hungary-and-the-netherlands-want-to-exit-eu-asylum-policy/a-70278674?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Right-wing governments like those in Hungary and the Netherlands are demanding an opt-out, but it's hard to see how countries could legally exit the EU's asylum policy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Tupperware parties empowered homebound suburban women;https://www.dw.com/en/how-tupperware-parties-empowered-homebound-suburban-women/a-70273741?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "As Tupperware files for bankruptcy, here's a look back at how the iconic US company and its \"Tupperware party\" business model became a cultural phenomenon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Slovakia seemingly unfazed by EU threat to withhold funding;https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-seemingly-unfazed-by-eu-threat-to-withhold-funding/a-70277869?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Fearing that PM Robert Fico is dismantling Slovak democracy, the European Commission is reportedly considering freezing billions in EU funds for Bratislava. Will the threat be enough to rein in Fico's illiberal ways?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;French police shoot dead 2 in New Caledonia operation;https://www.dw.com/en/french-police-shoot-dead-2-in-new-caledonia-operation/a-70278345?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Thousands of French police have been deployed to the overseas Pacific territory to quell unrest sparked by voting reforms proposed in Paris."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU Parliament recognizes Maduro rival as Venezuela president;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-parliament-recognizes-maduro-rival-as-venezuela-president/a-70276261?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The European Parliament has passed a resolution recognizing Venezuelan opposition figure Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia's claim to have won Venezuela's July election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Berlin considering how to support German carmaker Volkswagen;https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-considering-how-to-support-german-carmaker-volkswagen/a-70275918?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that Berlin is looking into ways to support ailing carmaker Volkswagen amid the threat of job cuts. The firm has been grappling with weak electric vehicle sales."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Axel Springer splits media, classified businesses;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-axel-springer-splits-media-classified-businesses/a-70274495?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Friede Springer and CEO Mathias D\u00f6pfner will own Springer's media operations, which include Germany's most-read newspaper Bild and US digital newspaper Politico."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Czech Republic struggling to mitigate risks as Russian firms flourish;https://www.dw.com/en/czech-republic-struggling-to-mitigate-risks-as-russian-firms-flourish/a-70181088?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Czechia hosts by far the highest number of Russian-owned companies of any EU state. Experts warn this cohort of over 12,500 firms pose economic and security risks that the government must eventually start to mitigate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oktoberfest: Beer and pretzels in a sustainable package;https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-beer-and-pretzels-in-a-sustainable-package/a-70235282?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "More than Bavarians in lederhosen balancing frothing beer mugs and fried sausages, the world's largest folk festival is becoming more inclusive and eco-friendly."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;COVID FLiRT variants KP.3 and XEC: What you need to know;https://www.dw.com/en/covid-flirt-variants-kp-3-and-xec-what-you-need-to-know/a-70266402?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another variant and become XEC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: EU plans \u20ac10 billion aid for affected members;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-eu-plans-\u20ac10-billion-aid-for-affected-members/live-70265849?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Polish city of Wroclaw hosted the leaders of the region's most affected by Storm Boris to discuss European aid. Days of flooding have wreaked death and destruction across Central Europe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Two European firms in focus of Hezbollah pager explosions;https://www.dw.com/en/two-european-firms-in-focus-of-hezbollah-pager-explosions/a-70248830?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Taiwanese company whose name appeared on the pagers that detonated across Lebanon has denied manufacturing the devices. That has put relatively unknown Hungarian and Bulgarian firms in the spotlight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: UN body warns Russia on power grid strikes;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-un-body-warns-russia-on-power-grid-strikes/live-70264350?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine says attacks on the country's electricity infrastructure by Russia may violate international humanitarian law. Meanwhile, Russia claims gains in Kursk. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine wants action after Belarus Olympic medalist ceremony;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-wants-action-after-belarus-olympic-medalist-ceremony/a-70262052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The ceremony, held on Belarus' National Unity Day, appears to violate the Olympic neutrality rules. Ukraine wants action, with the country's sports minister telling DW further sanctions are necessary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cities start fighting rental crisis triggered by overtourism;https://www.dw.com/en/cities-start-fighting-rental-crisis-triggered-by-overtourism/a-70228085?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "In many of Europe's hottest tourist destinations like Barcelona and Paris, locals struggle to access affordable housing. How much are vacation rentals to blame?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU to withhold \u20ac200 million from Hungary over asylum fine;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-withhold-\u20ac200-million-from-hungary-over-asylum-fine/a-70260506?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The EU Commission says it will withhold funds for Hungary after Budapest failed to pay a fine for violating asylum rules. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's nationalist Fidesz government has taken a hard line on migration"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Netherlands seeks EU migration opt-out;https://www.dw.com/en/netherlands-seeks-eu-migration-opt-out/a-70251015?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Netherlands says it plans to request an exemption from the EU's common migration and asylum policy. It comes after the right-wing coalition government announced plans for the country's \"strictest-ever asylum regime.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Exploding Hezbollah pagers: How did it happen?;https://www.dw.com/en/exploding-hezbollah-pagers-how-did-it-happen/a-70250960?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Lithium-ion batteries can catch fire or explode, but in the attack on pagers in Lebanon, the devices are more likely to have been hacked."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Slovakia's capital hit by biggest floods in 30 years;https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-s-capital-hit-by-biggest-floods-in-30-years/a-70251068?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The biggest flood in 30 years hit Slovakia's capital Bratislava this week, forcing dozens of people from their homes. The west of the country has also been badly hit."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Ammo depot in Russia's Tver region explodes;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-ammo-depot-in-russia-s-tver-region-explodes/live-70246486?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "A major Ukrainian drone attack on Russia caused a huge explosion in a large Russian arsenal in the western Tver region."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Extreme weather: Flooding and wildfires across Europe;https://www.dw.com/en/extreme-weather-flooding-and-wildfires-across-europe/live-70247619?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Polish city of Wroclaw and the German city of Dresden have begun preparations for flooding following a weather disaster that has killed 20 people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: AfD loses appeal on chairing Bundestag committees;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-afd-loses-appeal-on-chairing-bundestag-committees/a-70246675?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's top court has rejected a pair of appeals from the far-right AfD concerning the absence of its lawmakers chairing parliamentary committees. The court found the party was not automatically entitled to the posts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains \u2014 study;https://www.dw.com/en/pregnancy-completely-rewires-mothers-brains-study/a-70246399?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Neuroscientists scanned the brain of a pregnant woman and captured a 'widespread reorganization' of her brain before, during and after pregnancy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Homeless World Cup: 'We want to do something special';https://www.dw.com/en/homeless-world-cup-we-want-to-do-something-special/a-70218267?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "National football teams made up of homeless people from around the world will soon gather in South Korea for the Homeless World Cup. For many of the players, the stakes are much higher than just the trophy on offer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Use, and misuse, of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "As Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell become the latest celebs to endorse Kamala Harris, here's a look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Google wins legal battle against EU over \u20ac1.5 billion fine;https://www.dw.com/en/google-wins-legal-battle-against-eu-over-\u20ac1-5-billion-fine/a-70246709?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "After years of back and forth, an EU court annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it sold advertisements. The fine was one of three major penalties the EU has leveled against the tech giant in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Namibia's strategy to cull animals save them?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-namibia-s-strategy-to-cull-animals-save-them/a-70213343?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Does Namibia's plan to kill animals to save them, and help the human population from ongoing drought, stack up?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand shrinks;https://www.dw.com/en/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy-as-demand-shrinks/a-70245540?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Once popular for its colorful food storage containers, US firm Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy. The company succumbed to a plummeting demand for its products."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Second explosion shakes Cologne;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-second-explosion-shakes-cologne/a-70245020?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The explosion was the second in a week in Cologne's city center. Police said it was still too early to say if there was a connection. Sniffer dogs were on the site as officers investigated."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Portugal: Firefighters battle dozens of deadly wildfires;https://www.dw.com/en/portugal-firefighters-battle-dozens-of-deadly-wildfires/a-70243388?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Several people have lost their lives in forest fires that have been raging in Portugal since the weekend. Thousands of firefighters have been deployed to combat the flames"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Intel's factory delay adds to Germany's economic woes;https://www.dw.com/en/us-intel-s-factory-delay-adds-to-germany-s-economic-woes/a-70241739?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has announced it is postponing a $30 billion investment in Germany due to financial problems at the firm. But is the German government still committed to the investments?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Azerbaijan unveils COP29 agenda amid financial deadlock;https://www.dw.com/en/azerbaijan-unveils-cop29-agenda-amid-financial-deadlock/a-70241019?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The summit aims to determine how much money developing countries need and who should contribute to the fund. With just two months until the event, negotiations remain at a standstill."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Flooding in Poland: How Wroclaw is preparing for the expected flood wave peak;https://www.dw.com/en/flooding-in-poland-how-wroclaw-is-preparing-for-the-expected-flood-wave-peak/a-70242060?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The citizens and authorities of Wroclaw, in southwestern Poland, are working feverishly to prepare for a dramatic rise in floodwaters."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German police reintroduce spot controls at all borders;https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-reintroduce-spot-controls-at-all-borders/a-70240598?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany is reintroducing border checks at all its borders for at least six months. The aim is to help restrict migration. DW visited the border area between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands to see how it was working."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the arts are a thorn in the side of Germany's AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-arts-are-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-germany-s-afd/a-70239911?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German conservative Friedrich Merz to run for chancellor;https://www.dw.com/en/german-conservative-friedrich-merz-to-run-for-chancellor/a-70240130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "It's as good as official: liberal businessman Friedrich Merz, head of the conservative Christian Democrats, is set to be the party's lead candidate in upcoming German federal election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How new technologies can mitigate the risks of flooding;https://www.dw.com/en/how-new-technologies-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-flooding/a-70239314?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "With extreme weather, floods are getting as common in Europe as they are in Asia and Africa. From mobile barriers to specialized dams, people are finding solutions to life-threatening floods across the globe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Georgia's parliament approves anti-LGTBQ+ bill;https://www.dw.com/en/georgia-s-parliament-approves-anti-lgtbq-bill/a-70239544?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The ruling Georgian Dream party has voted to approve legislation that would allow authorities to outlaw Pride events and censor media. The bill is similar to a law in neighboring Russia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Far right, center left in close race;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-far-right-center-left-in-close-race/a-70238419?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Sanssouci, Babelsberg, Tesla, BER airport \u2014 Brandenburg is a state with much to boast about when it comes to history or economy. Governed by the same party since 1990, the state may face a shake-up in upcoming election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'I am a rapist,' Frenchman in mass rape trial says;https://www.dw.com/en/i-am-a-rapist-frenchman-in-mass-rape-trial-says/a-70238195?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "A man from the south of France has admitted to drugging his wife at the time and recruiting dozens of men to rape her. He is also accused of various privacy breaches by recording and disseminating sexual images."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China's technology drive leaves young people jobless;https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-technology-drive-leaves-young-people-jobless/a-70187883?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "China is investing billions to become a global tech power. But AI, robotics and quantum computing are not labor-intensive sectors, so what to do about the millions of young Chinese who can't find a job?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Volkswagen's crisis: How can Europe's car industry survive?;https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-s-crisis-how-can-europe-s-car-industry-survive/a-70231806?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "While Volkswagen and other European automakers are considering closing factories, Chinese rivals are searching for production sites on the continent. What's going wrong in Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Intel delays construction of Magdeburg factory;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-intel-delays-construction-of-magdeburg-factory/a-70235254?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has delayed a construction project by two years amid cost-saving measures. German Finance Minister Christian Lindner called for funds earmarked for subsidies to be used to plug a federal budget gap."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Worker killed in Oktoberfest rollercoaster test;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-worker-killed-in-oktoberfest-rollercoaster-test/a-70232611?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Munich fire department said a worker was fatally injured during a test ride of a rollercoaster at the Oktoberfest site."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg: Black politician takes on German far-right AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-black-politician-takes-on-german-far-right-afd/a-70166368?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "German voters in Brandenburg are heading to the polls just weeks after the far-right AfD party's historic surge in two state elections. Can Cameroonian-born politician Adeline Abimnwi Awemo help turn the tide?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's expanded border controls come into force;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-expanded-border-controls-come-into-force/live-70228054?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany has temporarily reintroduced controls on its western and northern borders as part of efforts to combat irregular migration and cross-border crime."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy's UniCredit raises eyebrows over Commerzbank move;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-s-unicredit-raises-eyebrows-over-commerzbank-move/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "UniCredit stunned markets by buying a 9% stake in Germany's second-largest lender. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, DW explores the next possible moves."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jens Stoltenberg set to head Munich Security Conference;https://www.dw.com/en/jens-stoltenberg-set-to-head-munich-security-conference/a-70213341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is to become the first non-German to head the renowned MSC. The former Norwegian Prime Minister has been a staunch advocate for increased defense spending by NATO member states."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's political landscape is more fractured than ever;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-political-landscape-is-more-fractured-than-ever/a-70211395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The AfD and BSW, two populist parties in Germany, won almost half of the votes in the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia. The result has fundamentally changed the German party system."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Young women and girls more at risk of homelessness;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-young-women-and-girls-more-at-risk-of-homelessness/a-70200312?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Homelessness also affects young people, including an unusually high proportion of women and girls. Life with no home of their own is particularly dangerous for this group, say experts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Olaf Scholz stresses Germany's need for immigrants;https://www.dw.com/en/olaf-scholz-stresses-germany-s-need-for-immigrants/a-70187337?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The German chancellor made the remarks in the Bundestag after high-level talks on migration policy in Berlin broke down. Germany is introducing more systematic border checks on those arriving from the Schengen Area."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Cross-party migration talks break down;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-cross-party-migration-talks-break-down/a-70182751?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "A second round of high-level German talks on migration in Berlin ended without agreement. The conservative opposition said it would not attend further meetings. But the coalition government still unveiled a new proposal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German princess gave US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito $900 in concert tickets;https://www.dw.com/en/german-princess-gave-us-supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito-900-in-concert-tickets/a-70159689?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito disclosed receiving concert tickets worth $900 from German socialite and \"princess\" Gloria von Thurn und Taxis."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Berlin plans new mass accommodation for refugees;https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-plans-new-mass-accommodation-for-refugees/a-70169283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Immigration has become a hot-button issue in Germany. Refugee accommodation centers in Berlin are full to overflowing, but there's a desperate lack of housing. Now, authorities are coming up with bright ideas."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Will German police get to do secret house searches?;https://www.dw.com/en/will-german-police-get-to-do-secret-house-searches/a-70154300?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office wants to secretly break into homes as part of anti-terrorism measures. That is currently prohibited, but the interior minister has far-reaching plans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Alex Morgan: The greatest female footballer of all time?;https://www.dw.com/en/alex-morgan-the-greatest-female-footballer-of-all-time/a-70153127?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Marta may have won six FIFA player awards, but two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan is more of a household name. Teammate Megan Rapinoe achieved on and off the field, yet Morgan had a grace on the pitch few could match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's ter Stegen is happy the wait is finally over;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-ter-stegen-is-happy-the-wait-is-finally-over/a-70144838?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "National team goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has spoken of his frustration during years of being stuck behind Manuel Neuer, while at the same time paying tribute to his predecessor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australia's Raygun claims 'I knew people wouldn't understand my style';https://www.dw.com/en/australia-s-raygun-claims-i-knew-people-wouldn-t-understand-my-style/a-70135037?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Rachael \"Raygun\" Gunn, the 37-year-old Olympic breaker, says the criticism of her performance came from people's ignorance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Women's soccer: US shows up Europe on maternity care;https://www.dw.com/en/women-s-soccer-us-shows-up-europe-on-maternity-care/a-70117081?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "A recent lawsuit involving French club Olympique Lyon highlighted the disparities and room for improvement in women's football regarding pregnancies and maternity care."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Argentina: Court blocks Milei move to privatize football;https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-court-blocks-milei-move-to-privatize-football/a-70122667?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "A court in Buenos Aires has blocked President Javier Milei's plans to open up Argentinian football to private investment. The issue continues to split the country's most popular sport, with some even looking to Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's Leon Draisaitl signs record NHL contract;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-leon-draisaitl-signs-record-nhl-contract/a-70124333?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's Leon Draisaitl has signed an eight-year contract extension worth $112 million (\u20ac101.5 million). This will keep the superstar forward in Edmonton for a further eight years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India's archaic labor laws allow firms to exploit workers;https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-archaic-labor-laws-allow-firms-to-exploit-workers/a-70121341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Major international companies, including big tech firms, are exploiting India's labor laws and skirting overtime payment, say workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Open and the controversy over night sessions;https://www.dw.com/en/us-open-and-the-controversy-over-night-sessions/a-70121878?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "A new rule was meant to clamp down on matches at the US Open dragging on into the early hours of the next day. Still, some matches are finishing after 2:00 a.m. \u2013 to the detriment of players' health."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Germany live up to its chipmaking ambitions?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-germany-live-up-to-its-chipmaking-ambitions/a-70079606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The German government wants to build up its long-term chipmaking capabilities. But are they following through and attracting the companies needed to make the country a center of this all-important technology?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World Cup expansion gives hope to West Asian teams;https://www.dw.com/en/world-cup-expansion-gives-hope-to-west-asian-teams/a-70112089?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been dominating West Asian football, but the continent has four more assured spots at the 2026 World Cup. As third-round qualifying opens, the likes of Kuwait, Oman and Jordan may make it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ugandan Olympian set on fire in domestic assault;https://www.dw.com/en/ugandan-olympian-set-on-fire-in-domestic-assault/a-70118647?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Rebecca Cheptegei, who finished 44th in the Olympic marathon in Paris, suffered severe burns after allegedly being doused with petrol by her partner. Domestic violence against women remains a serious problem in Kenya."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German businesses worried about far-right gains in the east;https://www.dw.com/en/german-businesses-worried-about-far-right-gains-in-the-east/a-70112417?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the states of Saxony and Thuringia has raised concerns among business leaders about the economic future of eastern Germany. Will it hit jobs and investment?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany coach Nagelsmann names Kimmich as new captain;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coach-nagelsmann-names-kimmich-as-new-captain/a-70113016?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The coach of Germany's national team has named a new captain as the team prepare for their first matches since the home Euros. Julian Nagelsmann is facing a bit of a rebuild after the retirements of four key players."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis tickets: UK government to probe 'dynamic pricing';https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-tickets-uk-government-to-probe-dynamic-pricing/a-70109787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Ministers have promised an investigation after fans complained of inflated ticket prices for Oasis' 2025 reunion tour. But industry experts insist that \"dynamic pricing\" is not illegal and based on supply and demand."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis reunion tour tickets cause online frenzy;https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-reunion-tour-tickets-cause-online-frenzy/a-70099805?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Fans of the Manchester band Oasis faced long online queues on Saturday morning as tickets went on sale for the group's in-demand reunion concerts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Half the world lacks access to safe drinking water;https://www.dw.com/en/half-the-world-lacks-access-to-safe-drinking-water/a-70089835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "A new report shows 4.4 billion people across the world have no access to safe drinking water, more than double many previous estimates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Japan's youth break tradition by embracing perfume;https://www.dw.com/en/japan-s-youth-break-tradition-by-embracing-perfume/a-70091052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Once seen as ostentatious, an imposition on others, and unnecessary in a culture that famously enjoys bathing, perfumes and scents are finally trending among young Japanese."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is methane?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. Where does methane come from, and what can we do to stop it from getting into the atmosphere?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The unseen Holocaust movie: Jerry Lewis' lost film 'The Day the Clown Cried';https://www.dw.com/en/the-unseen-holocaust-movie-jerry-lewis-lost-film-the-day-the-clown-cried/a-70043956?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "At the Venice Film Festival, a new documentary will reveal never-before-seen footage from \"The Day the Clown Cried.\" The 1972 Holocaust movie by comedian Jerry Lewis was never released, but has gained near-mythic status."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Concerning' rise in unprotected sex among teenagers;https://www.dw.com/en/concerning-rise-in-unprotected-sex-among-teenagers/a-70079734?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "A majority of teenagers in Europe, Central Asia, and Canada do not use condoms. Experts warn of rising risks of STIs and unwanted pregnancies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Glammed up in the kitchen: Influencers drive 'tradwife' nostalgia;https://www.dw.com/en/glammed-up-in-the-kitchen-influencers-drive-tradwife-nostalgia/a-70071650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "The \"traditional wife\" trend celebrates orthodox gender roles. But does this thriving movement on TikTok and Instagram also serve the far-right political agenda?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Populists\u2019 rhetoric linked to growing unhappiness, study finds;https://www.dw.com/en/populists-rhetoric-linked-to-growing-unhappiness-study-finds/a-70072409?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Right-wing populism is rising across Europe, with Germany\u2019s AfD possibly becoming the first far-right party to win state elections since the Nazis. However, their rise won\u2019t bring greater happiness to their supporters."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Russia airspace ban on Western airlines helps Chinese rivals;https://www.dw.com/en/russia-airspace-ban-on-western-airlines-helps-chinese-rivals/a-70025268?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Russia has banned many European carriers from using its airspace in response to sanctions over Ukraine. That's boosted Chinese airlines' market share, but it's not the only reason Western carriers are struggling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Congo 'working blindly' in attempts to control Mpox outbreak;https://www.dw.com/en/congo-working-blindly-in-attempts-to-control-mpox-outbreak/a-70062357?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Only 40% of Mpox cases in DR Congo are laboratory tested, suggesting true number of cases could be five times higher than reported, according to Africa CDC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Will a right-wing shift hit businesses and jobs?;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-will-a-right-wing-shift-hit-businesses-and-jobs/a-70025620?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "As voters in Saxony go to the polls in state elections, some fear a sharper political turn could hurt business investments in the region and worsen a lack of qualified workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN chief Guterres warns of fast-rising Pacific ocean;https://www.dw.com/en/un-chief-guterres-warns-of-fast-rising-pacific-ocean/a-70055845?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "UN chief Antonio Guterres issued a global SOS regarding Pacific ocean temperatures, rising at three times the global average rate. He called for a cutdown on emissions and support for vulnerable countries."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Telegram: How the app defies calls for hate censorship;https://www.dw.com/en/telegram-how-the-app-defies-calls-for-hate-censorship/a-70051335?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "After the arrest of Telegram's boss in France, attention is on the messaging app and its hands-off approach to content moderation. Some blame it for inflaming unrest, others see it as a den for criminal activity."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Eating processed meats raises type 2 diabetes risk;https://www.dw.com/en/eating-processed-meats-raises-type-2-diabetes-risk/a-70051810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Two slices of ham a day are enough to raise type 2 diabetes risk by 15%, according to a new study. Meanwhile high-fat diets could increase the numbers of a toxic molecule known to cause the disease."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is groundwater?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-groundwater/a-68142894?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-21 02:00:06",
        "text": "Groundwater is crucial for agriculture and drinking water supplies. But what exactly is it, how does it form and how can we protect this precious underground resource from threats like pollution and climate change?"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis live: Hezbollah claims to have hit Israeli defence manufacturers in \u2018initial response\u2019 to pager attacks;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/22/middle-east-crisis-live-hezbollah-israel-lebanon-gaza-latest-news-updates;2024-09-22T08:34:35Z",
        "text": "Israel\u2019s military said on Sunday that it intercepted a \u201csuspicious aerial target\u201d launched from the east, and that no damage or injuries were reported. Earlier, an official in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose coalition of Iranian-backed militias that oppose US support for Israel in the war on Gaza, said they launched cruise missile and explosive drone attacks at Israel. You can read more about who the Islamic Resistance in Iraq are in this useful explainer by the Guardian\u2019s defence and security editor, Dan Sabbagh, here: William Christou is reporting from the Lebanese capital, Beirut Hezbollah has said it has struck industrial complexes belonging to Israeli defence company Rafael, just near Haifa, in northern Israel, early on Sunday morning. The group said in a statement said the attack was part of an \u201cinitial response\u201d to the pager and walkie-talkie attacks which left more than 3,000 wounded and 42 dead across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday. It is widely believed that Israel was behind the attacks, though it has not publicly claimed responsibility. Fighting in south Lebanon and north Israel reached its most intense yet overnight, with Israel launching wide-ranging air strikes which it said targeted Hezbollah missile launchers across Lebanon\u2019s south. Videos of the resulting explosions with visible shockwaves being filmed from afar widely circulated Lebanese social media. At least one was killed and another injured in the strikes, the Lebanese ministry of health said. In turn, Hezbollah shot a barrage of rockets at north Israel overnight, targeting Ramat David airbase south east of Haifa in the early hours of Sunday morning \u2014 the furthest the group has hit since fighting began in October. The renewed fighting comes days after Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said Israel was approaching a \u201cnew phase\u201d in the war with Hezbollah. Secretary general of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah said in a Thursday speech that the intensified Israeli attacks would not stop the group from continuing its attacks on Israel, until a ceasefire in Gaza was reached. Here are some of the latest images coming out of the newswires from northern Israel, where Hezbollah says it has fired rockets: The Israeli army have continued attacks across southern and central Gaza today, killing at least seven Palestinians, according to Wafa, the Palestinian news agency. Israeli artillery reportedly targeted the town of Khuza\u2019a, east of the southern city Khan Younis, killing two people. Emergency teams from the Palestinian Red Crescent later recovered the bodies of four people from the al-Attatirah area east of Rafah, after Israeli airstrikes. In another attack, Wafa reports that one person was killed after an Israeli army quadcopter \u2013 a drone with four propellers - opened fire on civilians west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. These reports have not yet been independently verified by the Guardian. The United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, has warned of an \u201cimminent catastrophe\u201d in the Middle East. \u201cWith the region on the brink of an imminent catastrophe, it cannot be overstated enough: there is no military solution that will make either side safer,\u201d she wrote in a brief statement on X. Welcome to our live coverage of Israel\u2019s war in Gaza and the wider Middle East crisis. Hezbollah launched more than 100 rockets early on Sunday from Lebanon targeting a wide area of northern Israel, according to Israel\u2019s military, with some landing near the city of Haifa. The rocket barrage overnight set off air raid sirens across northern Israel, sending thousands of people scrambling into shelters. The Israeli military said rockets had been fired \u201ctoward civilian areas\u201d, pointing to a possible escalation after previous barrages had mainly been aimed at military targets. In posts on X, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Lebanon launched two waves of attacks \u2013 the first about 85 rockets where some of them were intercepted, including crashes detected in the areas of Kiryat Bialik, Tzur Shalom and Moroshet. The second attack included 20 rockets after alerts were issued in the in the Jezreel Valley area, according to the IDF. Israel\u2019s Magen David Adom rescue service said it treated four people for shrapnel wounds, including a 76-year-old man who suffered minor injuries in Kiryat Bialik, a community near Haifa where buildings were damaged and cars set on fire. It was not immediately clear if the damage was caused by a rocket or an Israeli interceptor. Earlier, the Israeli military said it launched airstrikes on hundreds of targets in southern Lebanon in the wake of the deepest rocket attacks by Hezbollah into Israel since the start of the war in Gaza last October. The IDF said on Saturday night it launched two wave of attacks \u2013 one attacking about 290 targets, and a second targeting 110 sites. Earlier, Hezbollah posted on its Telegram channel that it had targeted the Israeli Ramat David airbase near Haifa on Saturday night with dozens of missiles in response to what it described as \u201crepeated Israeli attacks on Lebanon\u201d. The airbase is the furthest target the Lebanese group has hit in Israel since October, about 50km from the Lebanon-Israel border. Here is a recap of the latest developments: Hospitals in northern Israel have been instructed to transfer their operations to facilities with extra protection from rocket and missile fire, the health ministry said on Sunday. Rambam hospital in Haifa will transfer patients to its underground, secure facility, the ministry said. Meanwhile, the military\u2019s Home Front Command said schools and other educational institutions and activities would not be permitted in the north until at least Monday at 6pm local time. The death toll from an Israeli airstrike that targeted Hezbollah military commanders in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs has risen to 45, Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said on Sunday, updating an earlier toll of 37 from the Friday attack. News broadcaster Al Jazeera said on Sunday morning that Israeli forces raided its bureau in the West Bank\u2019s Ramallah city with a military order to close it for 45 days. The Qatar-based channel aired live footage of the Israeli troops entered the channel\u2019s office and handed over a closure order to one of the Al Jazeera TV staff. Al Jazeera\u2019s West Bank bureau chief, Walid al-Omari, reported that Israeli troops brought a truck to confiscate documents, devices and office property. In a statement, the Palestinian Journalists\u2019 Syndicate condemned the raid, saying \u201cthis arbitrary military decision is considered a new violation against journalistic and media works\u201d. The US state department has urged Americans in Lebanon to leave the country while commercial options remain available. \u201cAt this time, commercial flights are available, but at reduced capacity. If the security situation worsens, commercial options to depart may become unavailable,\u201d it added. The death toll from an Israeli strike on Saturday on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza city included \u201c13 children and six women\u201d, one of whom was pregnant, said civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal. The Gaza health ministry said at least 22 had died as a result of the strike. US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said he was worried about escalation between Israel and Lebanon. Sullivan, speaking with reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, said yesterday that he still sees a path to a ceasefire in Gaza but that the US is \u201cnot at a point right now where we\u2019re prepared to put something on the table\u201d. Attacks on Lebanon this week showed that the Israeli government planned to spread the war to the region, Turkey\u2019s president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan said, calling on western countries to take \u201cdeterrent steps\u201d against Israel\u2019s actions. Erdo\u011fan told a press conference that Israel\u2019s war in Gaza will top the agenda of his speech at the UN general assembly on Tuesday. \u201cIt is time for all countries with the mission of protecting world peace to come up with solutions that will stop Israel,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said. Iran unveiled its \u201cjihad\u201d single-stage liquid-fuel ballistic missile with a high-explosive detachable warhead and a range of 1,000km, according to state TV. The missiles were displayed on Saturday, along with other military hardware, during a parade marking the anniversary of the start of the 1980-88 war with Iraq. At least 41,391 Palestinians have been killed and 95,760 injured in Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, Gaza\u2019s health ministry said on Saturday. Gaza\u2019s ministry of health does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its count. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, postponed his trip to the US by a day due to the security situation in the country\u2019s north. Netanyahu was due to travel to New York on 24 September, during which he is expected to address the annual UN general assembly. He issued a short statement after the Beirut airstrike, saying: \u201cOur goals are clear, and our actions speak for themselves.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Football-mad Morocco dreams of a World Cup final in its own ark;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/football-mad-morocco-dreams-of-a-world-cup-final-in-its-own-ark;2024-09-22T07:00:04Z",
        "text": "The rendering is dramatic, a vast white stadium inspired by the design of a Maghrebi communal tent, known as a moussem. The language used to describe it is no less flowery: think of it as \u201calmost like a Noah\u2019s Ark, a place for all nature and animals to come together\u201d, says Tarik Oualalou, head of Paris architecture firm Oualalou + Choi, one of five teams in the design consortium. Then there is the size. Once finished, the 115,000-capacity Grand Stade Hassan II near Casablanca could be the world\u2019s largest football stadium \u2013 and location for the final of the 2030 World Cup Morocco is co-hosting with Spain and Portugal. But like all grand stadium projects, there are questions over its cost, funding and how it will be built. It remains unclear if private backing will supplement the funding from state coffers. There is also speculation about the possible involvement of China, which built the main stadium for this year\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast as part of its \u201cpalace diplomacy\u201d. For Morocco, still basking in the euphoria of being the first Arab or African team to be World Cup semi-finalists in 2022, hosting the final of the biggest sporting showpiece boosts its long-held dream of joining football\u2019s greats. In April 1998, the Atlas Lions were ranked 10th best team in the world. But a poor showing at that summer\u2019s World Cup in France and failure to qualify for subsequent tournaments for years diminished their status. That forced football-loving King Mohammed VI \u2013 who wore the team\u2019s kit to ride in a celebratory motorcade after Qatar 2022 \u2013 to sanction the investment of millions of dollars in upgrading sports infrastructure, including a \u20ac13m football academy. Five stadiums will be upgraded alongside the $490m for building the Grand Stade Hassan II, part of an estimated $5bn outlay for hosting the World Cup. Mahfoud Amara, associate professor of sport policy and management at Qatar University said the new arena is Rabat\u2019s effort to match Beijing\u2019s Nest stadium and Doha\u2019s 974 Stadium, made from shipping containers. \u201cMorocco seems to be leveraging this opportunity to assert its leadership in the region for geopolitical purposes and to reinforce its image as a country pursuing modernisation,\u201d he said. \u201cQatar\u2019s World Cup has influenced other countries [in the Middle East and North Africa], notably Saudi Arabia, to pursue international sports events and invest in cutting-edge facilities. This trend is an integral part of sports diplomacy.\u201d Authorities in Morocco claim building the stadium in El Mansouria, north of Casablanca, will create thousands of jobs and stimulate the economy, Africa\u2019s sixth largest. But Qatar set a precedent for concerns about labour conditions in Morocco, a transit point for many undocumented migrants coming from sub-Saharan Africa on their way to Europe, some of whom could work on construction projects. From 2014 when construction began on Qatar 2022 projects, FIFA and Doha insisted that there had been only three work-related fatalities and 37 non-work-related deaths of migrants. But during the tournament, a high-ranking Qatari official eventually admitted that there had been \u201cbetween 400 and 500\u201d deaths of migrant workers. In 2021 The Guardian reported that 6,500 migrant workers had died. Migrant workers could be in a \u201cprecarious position\u201d in Morocco, which consistently ranks lower than 120 on the World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders, said Alex Carlen, human rights coordinator at not-for-profit FairSquare in London. \u201cThe extent to which you will be able to have critical journalists access those sites will be limited,\u201d he said. Also up for criticism is the disputed sovereignty of Western Sahara, a territory that Morocco continues to occupy and administer. The strongest objections so far have come from Algeria, which could boycott the 2030 World Cup as a result, but it remains unclear what other countries will follow suit in voicing discontent. \u201cThe Western Sahara seems to me to be an issue that gets so little attention in the Western press,\u201d said Carlen. \u201cIf put on a par with the Israeli occupation of Palestine or Russian invasion into Ukraine, it would highlight it and \u2026invite greater scrutiny.\u201d \u201c[Even] the Trump administration recognised Morocco\u2019s right to effectively occupy Western Sahara,\u201d he added. \u201cSportswashing\u201d, using sporting events to distract from controversies, happens wherever political and sporting agendas intersect. \u201cHowever, there seems to be a disproportionate focus . . . when such events are held in non-Western countries,\u201d Amara said. Carlen agreed: \u201cAll countries use international tournaments to improve their reputation. We had the London 2012 Olympics, which people said was a way of restoring Britain\u2019s reputation after the Iraq war. You\u2019ll have the US hosting the next World Cup [amid questions] of their complicity in Gaza.\u201d \u201cThere are risks directly related to the tournament in the case of Morocco,\u201d Carlen added. \u201c[We ought to] look exactly at the harms generated by the tournament rather than the general question of sportswashing.\u201d There is also the question of legacy. After the tournament, the stadium will be home for two top clubs, Raja Casablanca and Wydad. They now share the 45,000-seat Stade Mohammed V where matches draw only about 14,000 on average. In Morocco, none of that seems to matter now to the excited citizenry. \u201cMorocco is a huge football country,\u201d the Moroccan architect Oualalou said. \u201cSo there\u2019s a great enthusiasm from the state, the city, all the technical teams. Everybody is very excited about it.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Von der Leyen tightens grip on EU but trouble looms | Jennifer Rankin;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/von-der-leyen-tightens-grip-on-power-in-eu-but-trouble-looms-on-the-horizon;2024-09-22T04:00:01Z",
        "text": "Ursula von der Leyen was leaving nothing to chance. At a private meeting with members of the European parliament in Strasbourg last Tuesday, she chose not to reveal who would get what job in her incoming European Commission, due to take office at the end of the year. Then immediately afterwards, during a brisk 21-minute press conference, she announced every single name, leaving MEPs fuming. \u201cThat\u2019s not how it should be done,\u201d said one. The secrecy around the big reveal is characteristic of von der Leyen, who carefully controls the flow of information. Named as the most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine and soon to start a second term as commission president, she has organised her new team in a way that is a lesson in how to amass control. \u201cThis is very like the divide and rule approach,\u201d said Sophia Russack, a researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. EU watchers have been poring over organisational charts of the new commission, drawing in lines of who reports to who. The answer is soon clear: all power flows to von der Leyen. The \u201cpresidentialisation\u201d of the commission has been under way since the EU\u2019s \u201cbig bang\u201d enlargement in 2004 made the EU executive\u2019s top table far bigger, creating a need for more direction. Each of the 27 member states has a commissioner, a privilege none wants to give up. But von der Leyen has taken presidential power to another level. Last week, she oversaw the departure of one of her sharpest critics: French commissioner Thierry Breton, who had expected to return to Brussels for a second term after being nominated by France\u2019s president, Emmanuel Macron. Instead, after back channel talks between Macron and von der Leyen, Breton was out. He resigned, accusing her of \u201cquestionable governance\u201d. In another show of strength, von der Leyen arm-twisted governments to send her female commissioner candidates, rewarding countries that complied (including Romania and Slovenia) with big jobs or impressive-sounding titles. Governments that snubbed her request to suggest women (Austria, Ireland) found themselves without the \u201cbig economic portfolio\u201d they had sought, albeit gaining weighty jobs. In 2019, von der Leyen was a surprise last-minute choice to lead the commission. She took office weeks before the Covid pandemic tipped Europe into unprecedented crisis. During lockdown, working with a small team in the commission\u2019s HQ, where she also lives \u2013 von der Leyen has a windowless converted washroom on the 13th floor \u2013 reinforced her penchant for taking decisions alone. \u201cThe question now for the next term is whether she can do normal,\u201d Russack said. During von der Leyen\u2019s first term, she added, \u201cher team operated like a commando hub in a crisis and that worked so well. I wonder if she is able to wield her power in the same way when she doesn\u2019t have the excuse of an emergency.\u201d The tasks in her in-tray are daunting: the brutal war in Ukraine and the spectre of Donald Trump in the White House. The EU is off-track with targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, while struggling to switch to a green economy in the face of heavily subsidised competition from China and the US. Earlier this month, the former president of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi said the EU must embrace deep reforms and spend \u20ac800bn (\u00a3670bn) a year to avert \u201ca slow and agonising decline\u201d. Few expect EU leaders to agree on Draghi\u2019s ambitious agenda. In France, Macron is weakened after snap elections created a prolonged political stalemate. Germany\u2019s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, presides over a squabbling three-way coalition that is preoccupied with domestic politics after unprecedented victories for the far right in regional elections, with another defeat on the horizon on Sunday in Brandenburg. One senior EU official cautioned against the idea that von der Leyen could step into a leadership vacuum. \u201cYou are only as strong as the weakest link in the [European] council.\u201d To get legislation passed, von der Leyen needs not only EU member states, but also the European parliament, which has more far-right MEPs hostile to the EU than ever before. \u201cOn legislation, she will have a lot of trouble,\u201d said the senior official. \u201cYou are no longer talking about 30 nutcases. You are now talking about 150 people who are not well intentioned.\u201d The big tent coalition of pro-EU parties that supported von der Leyen \u2013 from her own centre-right European People\u2019s party, the socialists, centrists and greens \u2013 will be tested. \u201cShe will be much more vulnerable and prone to shifts in majority,\u201d the official added. Von der Leyen\u2019s new commission is likely to take office around 1 December. These few months before the fray may be the peak of her powers."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Putin regime will collapse without warning, says freed gulag dissident;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/putin-regime-will-collapse-without-warning-says-freed-gulag-dissident;2024-09-22T04:00:01Z",
        "text": "The last time I met Evgenia Kara-Murza, it was a grim day in early March. The timing couldn\u2019t have been worse. As we spoke, Alexei Navalny\u2019s coffin was being lowered into the frozen ground in a Moscow cemetery. Meanwhile Evgenia\u2019s husband, Vladimir Kara-Murza, was still incarcerated in a Siberian prison cell almost identical to the one in the Arctic Circle in which Navalny had been found dead, presumed murdered. The parallels were eerie. Because Vladimir, a journalist turned political activist, was not just also loathed and feared by the Kremlin and imprisoned on spurious charges, he\u2019d also been poisoned \u2013 twice \u2013 targeted by the same FSB (Federal Security Service) unit that had poisoned Navalny. The prospects were so grim and the news from Russia and Ukraine so unrelentingly depressing, it feels almost unimaginably miraculous six months later to see Evgenia walk into the lobby of a London hotel, this time with Vladimir right next to her. Six weeks ago, he was in a Siberian gulag. Today, he\u2019s a free man on a trip to London with his wife and their youngest son, nine-year-old Daniel, the result of the largest prisoner exchange between Russian and the west since the cold war. I find myself suddenly overwhelmed by the sight of them together so I can\u2019t begin to imagine how Evgenia is feeling. \u201cI cry all the time,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I make other people cry. Just when I speak, people start crying in the audience. I just seem to have that effect on people.\u201d She\u2019d been so exasperated when we\u2019d last met, fresh from a meeting she\u2019d waited two years to get with the foreign secretary with the steely demeanour of a woman who can\u2019t afford to give up. \u201cThere has been so much emotional trauma. I mean, let alone the fact that Vladimir was in prison in those horrible conditions and solitary confinement in Western Siberia, but I also had to deal with people who couldn\u2019t really understand this. It\u2019s so difficult for a person living in a normal democratic country to grasp what political repression is in the 21st century. They just couldn\u2019t get it.\u201d But then, it is difficult to grasp. What\u2019s disorienting about Vladimir\u2019s descriptions of the Siberian gulag is how familiar it is from the works of Solzhenitsyn and other writers of the Stalinist era \u2013 though for Kara-Murza, who studied history at Cambridge, this was a source of both incredulity and solace. \u201cI\u2019m a historian, and one of the biggest areas of study has always been the Soviet dissidents. I made films about it. I\u2019ve written about it extensively. I\u2019ve known many of these people. And it\u2019s sometimes said that every historian subconsciously dreams of personally experiencing the area of his or her study. If that\u2019s true, you know, I\u2019ve got my wish fully. \u201cI felt like I was living inside these books because it\u2019s astonishing and shocking, and, frankly, very sad how, all these decades later, nothing has changed. Even the minutest details of what a prison cell is like, how the walk is organised, how prison guards speak to you, how the prison transportation works, everything is exactly the same.\u201d Though it was his knowledge of the system, gained from these Soviet memoirs, that enabled him to navigate the system. \u201cI knew the rules. These Siberian prisons are notorious even by the standards of the Russian system for having rules for everything, every minute of every day, but I also knew that I had the right to these books, to the prison library, so they had to give them to me.\u201d For Evgenia too, there were models from the past. When her husband heaps praise on \u201cthis amazing woman\u201d who helped keep his fate in the mind of western politicians, he compares her to the \u201cDecembrist wives\u201d of the early 19th century who followed their husbands to Siberia. But the shock of his sudden change in circumstances, and of the luck that ran out for Navalny who was intended to be part of the exchange, still hasn\u2019t sunk in. For his close friend, Bill Browder, the businessman and anti-corruption campaigner who lobbied tirelessly for Kara-Murza\u2019s release, it\u2019s \u201cbeen such a gift. I was sure he was going to die in custody\u201d. As did Kara-Murza. \u201cI was convinced I was going to die in prison. Sitting here, with you, a few hundred yards from the Palace of Westminster, it feels completely and utterly surreal. It\u2019s too much. It\u2019s too fast for the human mind to process. I\u2019m sort of watching this film since the end of July. It\u2019s a wonderful film, but it still doesn\u2019t feel real.\u201d He talks about how, as he was taxiing down the runway of Vnukovo airport, the FSB agent sitting next to him told him to look out of the window because it would be the last time he\u2019d see his country. \u201cI just laughed in his face and said, \u2018Look man, I\u2019m a historian. I don\u2019t only think, I don\u2019t only believe, I know I will be back home and it\u2019s going to be much quicker than you imagine.\u2019\u201d Most people he met in the Russian prison system, \u201cthe police officers, prison officials, judges, prosecutors, they don\u2019t believe in anything\u201d. Most are not pathological sadists, he says, they were just doing a job. \u201cBut the Alpha Group, the FSB special unit that was escorting us, I saw ideological hatred. They believe in this stuff and that\u2019s even scarier.\u201d Kara-Murza\u2019s grasp of history underpins his certainty that Putin\u2019s regime will collapse \u2013 quickly and without warning. \u201cThat\u2019s how things happen in Russia. Both the Romanov empire in the early 20th century, and the Soviet regime at the end of the 20th century collapsed in three days. That\u2019s not a metaphor, it was literally three days in both cases.\u201d He believes passionately that the best chance of a free and democratic Russia and peace in Europe rests on Russia\u2019s defeat in Ukraine. \u201cA lost war of aggression\u201d has been the country\u2019s greatest driver of political change, he says. Though it\u2019s not just the Russian people, in his view, who need to take collective responsibility but western leaders too, who \u201cfor all these years were buying gas from Putin, inviting him to international summits, rolling out red carpets\u201d. He tells me he thinks the truth will out. \u201cThese guys keep meticulous records. When the end comes \u2013 and it will \u2013 the archives will open, we will find out about Trump and Marine Le Pen and your British guys too.\u201d Sitting in London, the money and reputation-laundering centre of Putin\u2019s empire, he laughs when I mention one of the more notorious figures of British political patronage, Evgeny Lebedev, the proprietor of the Independent and Evening Standard, son of KGB lieutenant colonel Alexander Lebedev. \u201cIs that the guy who\u2019s Baron of Siberia?\u201d he says. \u201cI should meet him. I guess he represents me?\u201d Siberia, the land of Soviet-style gulags and British lords and one delighted former political prisoner walking out into the London sunshine with his wife and son, a small flickering light from the heart of Putin\u2019s darkness."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Worboys lawyer joins team working for alleged Fayed victims;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/warboys-lawyer-joins-team-working-for-alleged-fayed-victims;2024-09-21T21:35:08Z",
        "text": "The lawyer who helped victims sue the Metropolitan Police for failing to investigate John Worboys, the black cab rapist, is working with women allegedly attacked by Mohamed Al Fayed. Phillippa Kaufmann KC has joined the legal team examining whether police had a duty to do more to bring Fayed to justice when allegations were made against him. Since the BBC documentary Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods was shown last Thursday, more than 100 women have contacted law firms representing five women who say they were raped by Fayed while he owned Harrods, along with others who have made allegations of sexual misconduct. There may also be a need for a public inquiry to understand whether some of the claims against Fayed were \u201cswept under the carpet\u201d, according to Emma Jones, a partner at the legal firm Leigh Day. Fayed, who died last year aged 94, was accused of sexual harassment or sexual assault on several occasions as far back as 1995, so the legal team is examining whether or not police breached the Human Rights Act by failing to investigate him properly. Vanity Fair magazine made allegations against Fayed in 1995, followed by ITV\u2019s The Big Story in 1997 when four women claimed they were sexually harassed. Then in 2009 the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute Fayed after claims he had sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl in Harrods. A further investigation in 2015 also did not lead to charges. \u201cThe test is not just what officers knew, but what a reasonable officer ought to have known,\u201d Jones said. \u201cGiven the amount of times this has come to the fore, and given the seriousness of the allegations \u2026 one has to ask oneself, well, what should they have known? And that leads to [the question]: did they know it, and did it get swept under the carpet?\u201d Jones said that it would be helpful for their investigations to hear from women even if they did not want to pursue a case. Dean Armstrong KC, a barrister representing some of the women involved, said that \u201cwell over 100, maybe as many as 150\u201d had come forward so far. He said that it was \u201can enormous shame\u201d that public figures only spoke about Fayed\u2019s behaviour after his death. Jack Straw, the former home secretary, rejected Fayed\u2019s application for British citizenship in 1999, saying he had a \u201cgeneral defect in his character\u201d and last week said the Egyptian businessman had been \u201ca bully\u201d. The former manager of Fulham football club\u2019s women\u2019s team, Gaute Haugenes, said they had \u201cprotected\u201d the players because \u201cwe were aware he liked young, blonde girls\u201d. \u201cJack Straw came out this morning, I\u2019ve seen a report, talking about why he wasn\u2019t granted citizenship,\u201d Armstrong said on Sky News yesterday. \u201cWe\u2019ve had these matters coming out in the public domain from Fulham Football Club. It is an enormous shame for me, and particularly a much, much greater shame for all of those poor women who suffered at his hands, that these matters might have been said a bit earlier. \u201cThose people who didn\u2019t speak up, particularly those in public office, I\u2019m afraid, are deserving of criticism, because a lot of these women couldn\u2019t speak up because they were threatened and they were in fear and they were isolated. But that wasn\u2019t the case for a number of other more high-profile people who could have done.\u201d Armstrong added the Fayed case was \u201ccertainly within the province of a public inquiry\u201d. \u201cMy opinion is it is hugely in the public interest when there is a system which is deployed in probably the most famous retail store in the country, if not the world, which appears to go unchecked for a number of years,\u201d he said, referring to allegations that Fayed\u2019s predatory behaviour included walking around Harrods with male colleagues to pick out female staff who he wanted to target. \u201cThat retail store is then sold very close to when a prosecution has not been proceeded with and after the death, but more importantly, after the courage and the bravery of a number of women to speak out, a number of people in the public eye then decide to come out and effectively corroborate those matters,\u201d he said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Former Harrods worker says manager \u2018brushed off\u2019 Fayed complaints;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/former-harrods-worker-manager-brushed-off-fayed-complaints;2024-09-21T19:16:17Z",
        "text": "A former Harrods worker has criticised Harrods for the way it handled the alleged misconduct of the store\u2019s former owner Mohamed Al Fayed. Five women have alleged they were raped by Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, and a number of others have alleged sexual misconduct. The former Harrods worker, who wished to remain anonymous, criticised Harrods for saying that Fayed\u2019s actions were the actions of an individual. \u201cThere were people at Harrods at the time who were enablers and they are as guilty as Al Fayed, because they were not just passive onlookers. They were actually helping to send girl after girl into a total nightmare.\u201d The woman, who said she worked at Harrods in a junior role, said she was called up to Fayed\u2019s office. \u201cWe went into a little room at the back, just him and me, and he said to me: \u2018Come work in my office \u2013 one year here and you could be a buyer.\u2019\u201d When she politely explained that she was happy where she was, she said he held her hand and asked if she had a boyfriend. \u201cThis was something that I\u2019ve then heard he asked lots of people who\u2019ve been interviewed over the last couple of days.\u201d He then informed her that he was her boyfriend, kissed her on the forehead and handed her \u00a3300 in cash. He told her to think about the job offer and come back the following week. She later returned the cash to his office in an envelope, along with a polite letter declining the job. The former Harrods employee said after describing the encounter to her male line manager, he \u201cbrushed it off\u201d and told her: \u201cThat\u2019s just what he\u2019s like.\u201d When she resigned shortly afterwards to pursue a different role, she said she was called to Fayed\u2019s office to explain why she was leaving, which she found \u201ca pretty extreme reaction, given how junior and replaceable she was\u201d. She said her experience \u201cfeels like absolutely nothing\u201d compared with some of the harrowing testimony women have come forward with over the past few days. \u201cBut I think it\u2019s important as part of building up that evidence of a pattern of behaviour.\u201d In its statement on the BBC documentary Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods, which aired on Thursday, Harrods said it was \u201ca very different organisation to the one owned and controlled by Al Fayed between 1985 and 2010\u201d. The store added that \u201csince new information came to light in 2023 about historic allegations of sexual abuse by Al Fayed, it has been our priority to settle claims in the quickest way possible, avoiding lengthy legal proceedings for the women involved\u201d. More than 150 women have made inquiries to the legal team featured on the BBC documentary since Thursday, according to the legal team representing 37 of the late billionaire\u2019s accusers. Richard Meeran, the co-head of the international department at the law firm Leigh Day, is representing one alleged victim. He believes there could be \u201chundreds\u201d more \u201csurvivors\u201d and is calling for a full public inquiry."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Sicily: fear of foreign actors prompts security request for wreck of luxury yacht;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/mike-lynch-luxury-yacht-wreck-bayesian-extra-security;2024-09-21T18:48:00Z",
        "text": "Italian authorities have confirmed a request for additional security around the wreck of the luxury yacht Bayesian, which sank in August killing seven, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, after fears were raised that material in watertight safes onboard could be of interest to foreign governments. Italian prosecutors fear that would-be thieves might try to reach the wreckage in order to loot expensive jewelry and other valuable objects onboard, including intelligence data, CNN reported, citing unnamed sources. The authorities are reportedly concerned that two super-encrypted hard drives in the sunken yacht\u2019s watertight safes could fall into the wrong hands. The vessel sank during a violent storm off the coast of Sicily on 19 August, claiming the lives of seven of the 22 passengers and crew onboard, including Lynch, 59, and his 18-year-old daughter. Italian authorities confirmed to the cable news outlet that the hard drives could be of interest to foreign governments, including Russia and China, and they had requested that the vessel be guarded closely with surface and underwater surveillance. \u201cA formal request has been accepted and implemented for additional security of the wreckage until it can be raised,\u201d Francesco Venuto of the Sicilian civil protection agency told CNN. The concerns focus on hard drives that Lynch reportedly kept with him. Survivors reportedly told Italian prosecutors that Lynch \u201cdid not trust [internet] cloud services\u201d and kept his data with him. Lynch was believed to have connections to British, American and other intelligence services and had sold Darktrace, a cybersecurity artificial intelligence company he founded, to US billionaire Orlando Bravo, co-founder and managing partner of Chicago-based Thoma Bravo, in a $5bn deal earlier this year. The Cambridge-based company was co-founded in 2013 by Stephen Huxter, a high-ranking figure in MI5\u2019s cyber defense team, who became a managing director at Darktrace. Huxter hired Andrew France, a 30-year veteran of GCHQ, the British intelligence and security agency, as the company\u2019s chief executive. Former MI5 head Jonathan Evans also sat on Darktrace\u2019s board, along with Jim Penrose, a 17-year veteran of the US National Security Agency, among others in the security field, according to Politico. Lynch\u2019s previous company, Autonomy, which he sold to Hewlett-Packard in 2011, was also connected to UK and US government agencies and reportedly specialized in \u201cadvanced computer eavesdropping systems\u201d. The risk that Lynch\u2019s hard drives holding highly classified information, including passcodes and other sensitive data, could fall into the hands of foreign actors was raised by an official involved in the salvage plans, who asked not to be named, according to CNN. Divers have been searching the Bayesian with remote cameras before it is raised. They are expected to complete surveys of the wreck within the next week. Italian prosecutors have opened up a criminal investigation into the sinking of the 184-foot yacht, which came as Lynch, family members, his lawyer and his banker were celebrating his acquittal in June on fraud charges related to Autonomy\u2019s $11bn sale to Hewlett-Packard in 2011. Hewlett-Packard recently said it planned to pursue a $4bn civil litigation against Lynch\u2019s estate, saying the move was \u201cin the best interest of shareholders\u201d, in a 2022 UK civil court judgment over the acquisition. The sinking of the Bayesian in a freak storm claimed the lives of Lynch, 59; his daughter, Hannah, 18; American attorney Chris Morvillo and his wife, Neda; British banker Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, Judy; and the yacht\u2019s onboard chef, Recaldo Thomas. Local prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio told CNN that no personal effects, including computers, jewelry or Lynch\u2019s hard drives, had yet been recovered from the vessel, though equipment related to the navigation system was removed to help determine why the yacht sank within minutes of the storm striking when it was designed to weather such a situation and other nearby vessels remained afloat."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018We\u2019re not safe any more\u2019: Lebanon reels from week of attacks that have intensified war with Israel;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/were-not-safe-any-more-lebanon-reels-from-week-of-attacks-that-have-intensified-war-with-israel;2024-09-21T18:20:37Z",
        "text": "The smell of burnt rubber hung heavy over the rescue workers as they dug, painstakingly removing rubble, their shadows long and movements harsh under the burning floodlights. Onlookers watched the progress in silence, waiting for any sign of life under the building levelled by four Israeli missiles in Dahieh, the southern suburbs of Beirut, just a few hours before on Friday afternoon. Broken glass stained with blood had been swept to the side and the area cordoned off, members of Hezbollah and the Lebanese civil defence barking orders to make sure emergency vehicles could access the area. Men with freshly bandaged hands, the product of booby-trapped pagers a few days before, milled about as women sobbed. \u201cMy son\u2019s best friend, his mother, his father and his three siblings. They\u2019re all under the rubble. The eldest kid is 19, the youngest is two,\u201d Hassan, a 40-year-old resident of Dahieh, said while watching rescue efforts. Everyone was waiting for someone, hoping they would be found but dreading that they would emerge lifeless. People began to run towards the rescue workers as word spread that someone was found. They were alive and the ambulance sped off towards the hospital, accompanied by an escort of young men on scooters, beeping and cheering as they went. For nearly a year, the war with Israel had remained in the south. As Israeli warplanes pounded border villages and more than 100,000 residents fled northwards, politicians in Beirut called for de-escalation to avoid a war, despite the fact that it had already began. A bloody, relentless week of attacks, however, has made the war impossible to ignore. Thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies exploded all over the country in a two-wave attack on Tuesday and Wednesday in a suspected Israeli operation, killing and wounding the Hezbollah members who carried them and nearby civilians. On Friday, an Israeli airstrike levelled a residential building in Beirut. The Israeli military said the attack killed Ibrahim Aqil and 10 other leaders of the elite Hezbollah Radwan commando unit. By the week\u2019s end, 76 people were killed \u2013 including 12 women and children \u2013 and more than 3,000 were wounded, more than doubling the total number of casualties since the war began on 8 October last year. The sudden, brutal nature of the attacks shattered whatever sense of safety Lebanese people felt. \u201cIt was the first time that I felt that the war is around us, that we\u2019re not safe any more. We don\u2019t know where the next Israeli attack will be, I\u2019m avoiding gatherings or unknown areas,\u201d Amal Cherif, a 52-year-old activist and resident of central Beirut, said. When Tuesday\u2019s pager attacks happened, she heard screaming and ambulances \u2013 despite the fact that her neighbourhood is not Hezbollah-affiliated. Human rights groups condemned the pager attacks for being indiscriminate, and UN experts called the attack a \u201cterrifying\u201d violation of international law. \u201cSuch attacks could constitute war crimes of murder, attacking civilians and launching indiscriminate attacks, in addition to violating the right to life,\u201d UN human rights experts said in a statement. Israeli minister of defence Yoav Gallant said shortly after Friday\u2019s airstrike on Beirut that \u201cthe sequence of actions in the new phase will continue until our goal is achieved: the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes.\u201d Earlier in the week, he announced that the Israeli military\u2019s \u201ccentre of gravity\u201d was shifting to confront Hezbollah in north Israel. Israeli drones patrolled the skies over Beirut deep into the night on Friday, the whine of their engines reverberating throughout the capital for the first time since the war started. In the south, residents refer to the Israeli MK drones as Um Kamal, comparing it to a nosy neighbour who is always snooping. In Gaza, they are referred to as \u201cthe wasp\u201d, for their buzzing sounds. In Beirut, residents have developed neither the vocabulary nor the dark humour necessary to refer to the drones as anything but what they are, still amazed by their presence above their homes. Cherif said she shut her windows on Friday to block out the sound, so that she could get some sleep. In hospitals around Lebanon, hundreds of patients were adjusting to a new life, many of them now with permanent disabilities. The pager explosions resulted in many being blinded and losing a hand. The pagers had beeped twice, and then there was a pause, giving people enough time to bring them to their face before they exploded. \u201cEnucleation [removal of the eye] is a procedure that is rarely performed these days. One of our senior ophthalmologists was saying that he has done more enucleations in one day than he has done in his entire career,\u201d Lebanon\u2019s health minister, Firas Abiad, told the Observer. The CEO of LAU Medical Center-Rizk Hospital in Beirut, Sami Rizk, said that they would ask other countries to donate eye prostheses. The series of attacks has prompted unity across Lebanon. Over the past year, the country has been divided over Hezbollah\u2019s war with Israel, with some saying it was necessary to force a ceasefire in Gaza and others resenting Lebanon being dragged into the conflict. It was Hezbollah that fired at Israel first on 8 October, in what it said was an act of \u201csolidarity\u201d with Hamas\u2019s attack the day before. Since then, the Lebanese group has maintained that it would not stop its attacks against north Israel until a ceasefire is achieved in Gaza. The fighting has killed more than 500 in Lebanon, more than 200 of whom are civilians, and destroyed entire villages along the Lebanon-Israel border. After the pager explosions, criticisms of Hezbollah\u2019s war against Israel stopped. Lines have formed outside hospitals as people come to donate blood. Officials put out a statement saying that kidney donations were not needed and that eye transplants were impossible, after a number of citizens offered their own. \u201cIsrael is attacking us, it\u2019s not any more against Hezbollah, it\u2019s against civilians. Even if we are against Hezbollah, when Israel attacks Lebanon, people stand next to each other,\u201d Cherif said. The secretary general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, thanked the citizens of Lebanon for their solidarity during a Thursday speech, and said the week\u2019s attacks were a \u201cdeclaration of war\u201d against Lebanon. He vowed that the group would retaliate against Israel. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that solidarity is increasing day after day,\u201d Kassam Kassir, an analyst close to Hezbollah, said. Whether that support for Hezbollah lasts or evaporates as the shock of the pager attacks fades will largely be determined by what form the group\u2019s retaliation against Israel takes. \u201cThe reality is Hezbollah is facing a major challenge: how can it respond to Israel without going to war? This is the central question,\u201d Kassir said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Could this be the week Netanyahu goes from pariah to fugitive? | Andrew Roth;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/could-this-be-the-week-netanyahu-goes-from-pariah-to-international-fugitive;2024-09-21T16:56:03Z",
        "text": "One year ago, Benjamin Netanyahu came to the UN with a vision of a \u201cnew Middle East\u201d anchored by Israel\u2019s growing ties with its Arab partners in the region. Now he is on the brink of launching a major escalation against Hezbollah, ignoring calls for restraint from his allies over the Gaza war and defying criticism that he is prevaricating in negotiations over a temporary ceasefire. The Israeli PM remains scheduled to speak on Friday at the UN general assembly in an appearance that is sure to lead to walkouts and protests on the streets of midtown Manhattan. He has delayed his arrival in the US by at least a day as tensions rise with Lebanon, after an elaborate operation to detonate thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah that may signal the beginning of a broader war in the region. The trip to New York may offer him a chance to evaluate support for an escalation in Lebanon, or to let Joe Biden and other allies know that he had made his decision and would not be talked down from a broader war. Netanyahu\u2019s trip to the UN comes after a year of bloodshed in Gaza that has left more than 41,000 people dead and led the international criminal court (ICC) to consider issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas\u2019s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar. The ICC judges are regularly rumoured to be close to approving a warrant that could accuse Netanyahu of war crimes. Among those killed during the Gaza conflict have been 200 UN humanitarian aid workers. Netanyahu and the Israel Defense Forces have made claims that staff from the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) had taken part in the 7 October Hamas-led attacks, and nine members of the organisation had their contracts terminated after an internal UN review. Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, the UN secretary general, has said that he and Netanyahu have not spoken since the beginning of the war, but that he was ready to meet him on the sidelines of the summit if the Israeli PM asked. \u201cI have not talked to him because he didn\u2019t pick up my phone calls, but I have no reason not to speak with him,\u201d Guterres said. He blasted the \u201clack of accountability\u201d for the deaths of the humanitarian aid workers, most of whom have been killed in strikes that the UN has slammed as indiscriminate. Asked earlier this month if Netanyahu would meet Guterres, Israel\u2019s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, said that the Israeli PM\u2019s schedule had not been finalised yet. Netanyahu\u2019s most recent trip to the US came in July, when he addressed a raucous joint session Congress, promising \u201ctotal victory\u201d in his war against Hamas and mocking demonstrators against his appearance in the US Capitol as \u201cidiots\u201d. On the streets outside near Union Station, protesters clashed with police and defaced marble statues with paint. It remains to be seen whether Netanyahu is ready to take a step further towards the abyss. Following an airstrike in Beirut on Friday that killed a senior Hezbollah commander and at least 13 others in Beirut\u2019s Dahiyeh area, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said that \u201ceven in Dahiyeh in Beirut \u2013 we will continue to pursue our enemy in order to protect our citizens\u201d. The new \u201cseries of operations in the new phase of the war will continue until we achieve our goal: ensuring the safe return of Israel\u2019s northern communities to their homes,\u201d he said. Guterres had said that he viewed the booby-trapped pager attack against Hezbollah as a potential prelude to a military escalation by Israel in Lebanon and warned that the region was on the \u201cbrink of catastrophe\u201d. Whether Netanyahu is ready to escalate, including by launching a ground operation, remains unclear, and both Hezbollah and its benefactor Iran have promised retribution for recent strikes. But Netanyahu\u2019s office on Friday announced that he would delay his arrival by a day due to the situation, and Danon later told reporters that Netanyahu\u2019s arrival date would depend on events in Israel. Netanyahu addressed the UN last year riding high on the recently concluded Abraham accords. The landmark agreement normalised relations between Israel and two Arab states, Bahrain and UAE, with expectations that Saudi Arabia may soon sign the accords as well. \u201cWhen the Palestinians see that most of the Arab world has reconciled itself to the Jewish state, they too will be more likely to abandon the fantasy of destroying Israel and finally embrace a path of genuine peace with it,\u201d Netanyahu said, holding a crude map with the words \u201cThe New Middle East\u201d. But the bloodletting in Gaza following the attacks by Hamas have sent tensions soaring, and most recently Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said his country would not recognise Israel without a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. And, if the ICC panel of judges makes a surprise decision this week to accuse Netanyahu of war crimes in Gaza, it will mark a further embarrassment as he goes from pariah to international fugitive."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;At least 37 killed in Israeli strike on Beirut, Lebanon says;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/israeli-strike-on-beirut-lebanon-hezbollah-escalation;2024-09-21T16:28:15Z",
        "text": "Three children and seven women were among 37 people killed by an Israeli strike on Beirut that targeted a top Hezbollah leader in a densely populated neighbourhood, Lebanese authorities have said, as US and UN officials warned against further escalation. On Saturday, Israel closed its northern airspace as it awaited Hezbollah retaliation for the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil, a veteran commander of the elite Radwan unit, along with more than a dozen other militants. On Saturday afternoon, fires broke out after a barrage of rockets from Lebanon. Airlines including Air France, Turkish Airlines, and Aegean cancelled flights to Beirut, reflecting fears that a tumultuous week had pushed the region closer to full-blown war. The strike on Aqil destroyed an underground bunker and brought down the building on top of it during rush hour, when the streets were filled with people returning from home and school. On Saturday, workers were still digging through the rubble, the Associated Press reported. Israel has not visibly slowed its war in Gaza to focus on the north. On Saturday its forces bombed a school turned shelter, killing at least 22 and injuring 30 others, mostly women and children, the Gaza health ministry said. Israel\u2019s military said the target was a Hamas base inside the school, without providing details or evidence. Last week, however, Israel said it was expanding its strategic aims for the Gaza war to include returning 60,0000 evacuated residents of northern Israel to their homes, which are regularly targeted by Hezbollah. It then unleashed a series of unprecedented attacks on the group. First thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah members detonated, killing and maiming their owners but also hitting civilian bystanders, including children. The next day, walkie-talkies exploded, then Israel unleashed an intense bombing campaign on southern Lebanon before hitting Aqil. It was a spectacular show of military and intelligence strength, and long-term planning, embarrassing for the Hezbollah leadership and devastating in immediate military terms, decimating the top leadership and the rank and file. But many inside and outside Israel warned that the strategic implications of the week-long assault are far less clear than its immediate tactical impact. Neither Israel nor Hezbollah is thought to want further escalation, but \u201cthe margin is very, very narrow now\u201d for avoiding it, as Hezbollah contemplates how to respond, the former head of Israel\u2019s national security council said. \u201cI don\u2019t think [Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah] is interested in total war, but at the same time he cannot avoid a response,\u201d said the retired major general Giora Eiland. \u201cThe question is: can he find something creative enough that \u2026 it will not drag both sides to total war?\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s arsenal and military experience mean that, for Israel, such a conflict would be \u201cprobably the most painful we ever had\u201d, he added. Late on Friday, the UN political affairs chief, Rosemary DiCarlo, also warned of the fallout of a broader conflict. \u201cWe risk seeing a conflagration that could dwarf even the devastation and suffering witnessed so far,\u201d she said, calling for urgent diplomatic efforts \u201cto avoid such folly\u201d. \u201cI strongly urge member states with influence over the parties to leverage it now,\u201d she told a meeting of the UN security council convened to discuss the Israeli attacks. In the US, President Joe Biden\u2019s top adviser on the Middle East, Brett McGurk, warned that despite fully backing Israel\u2019s defence against Hezbollah, Washington does not think military actions will restore life to northern Israel. \u201cWe do not think a war in Lebanon is the way to achieve the objective to return people to their homes,\u201d he told the Israeli-American Council\u2019s national summit, Haaretz newspaper reported. \u201cWe have disagreements with the Israelis on tactics and how you measure escalation risk,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s something we speak with them about every single day. It is a very concerning situation.\u201d The US has insisted for months that the path to peace in the north lies through Gaza, as Biden has pushed for a ceasefire and hostage release deal. McGurk said the US focus was also on \u201ca diplomatic settlement to the north\u201d. On Friday, Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said the military would continue to target Hezbollah. \u201cThe sequence of actions in the new phase will continue until our goal is achieved: the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes,\u201d he said in a post on X. Hezbollah began launching attacks in support of its ally Hamas after 7 October, and has indicated it will stop targeting Israel when the Gaza Strip offensive stops, unless Israel continues shelling Lebanon. Months of missile, rocket and drone hits have killed at least 23 soldiers and 26 civilians, and in effect turned Israel\u2019s border regions near Lebanon into a strategic buffer zone, too dangerous for ordinary life. Inside Lebanon, more than 500 people have been killed by Israeli strikes, most of them fighters with Hezbollah and other armed groups, but also more than 100 civilians."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Children and Hezbollah commander among 37 killed in Beirut strike, Lebanon says \u2013  as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/21/middle-east-hezbollah-ibrahim-akil-israel-gaza-war-latest;2024-09-21T15:04:38Z",
        "text": "It is 6pm in Gaza, Tel Aviv and Beirut. We will be closing this blog soon, but you can stay up to date on the Guardian\u2019s Israel-Gaza war coverage here and on the Middle East here. Here is a recap of the latest developments: The death toll from Friday\u2019s Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb has climbed to 37, the Lebanese health ministry said on Saturday. The number includes three children and seven women. Lebanon\u2019s health minister Firass Abiad told reporters on Saturday that 68 people were also injured of whom 15 remain in hospital. Hezbollah-aligned transport minister Ali Hamieh told reporters at the scene of Friday\u2019s strike that at least 23 people were still missing. Hezbollah said overnight that those killed on Friday, in the deadliest strike in a year of conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, included 16 of its members, and that senior leader Ibrahim Aqil and another top commander, Ahmed Wahbi, were among the dead. The Israeli army, in posts on X, said Friday\u2019s strike in Beirut hit an underground gathering of Aqil and senior commanders of Hezbollah\u2019s elite Radwan forces, and had \u201calmost completely dismantled\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s military chain of command. Heavy cross-border strikes continued on Saturday, with Israeli warplanes carrying some of its heaviest bombardment in 11 months of fighting across Lebanon\u2019s south and Hezbollah claiming rocket attacks on military targets in Israel\u2019s north. Hezbollah said it fired rockets at two military positions in northern Israel on Saturday, as the Israeli military said it was carrying out new strikes against Hezbollah targets. In separate statements, the Iran-backed group said it fired \u201ca salvo of Katyusha rockets\u201d each at two Israeli barracks \u201cin response\u201d to Israeli attacks \u201con steadfast southern villages and civilian houses\u201d. US national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Saturday said he was worried about escalation between Israel and Lebanon. Sullivan, speaking with reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, said he still sees a path to a ceasefire in Gaza but that the US is \u201cnot at a point right now where we\u2019re prepared to put something on the table\u201d. Cyprus\u2019s president called for restraint over escalating tensions in the Middle East in separate telephone conversations with the Lebanese and Israeli prime ministers on Saturday, his spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis said in a statement. Cypriot president Nikos Christodoulides \u201cexpressed his strong concern\u201d at the escalation of tension in the region said Letymbiotis. Attacks on Lebanon this week showed that the Israeli government planned to spread the war to the region, Turkey\u2019s president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan said on Saturday, calling on western countries to take \u201cdeterrent steps\u201d against Israel\u2019s actions. Erdo\u011fan told a press conference on Saturday that Israel\u2019s war in Gaza will top the agenda of his speech at the UN general assembly on Tuesday. \u201cIt is time for all countries with the mission of protecting world peace to come up with solutions that will stop Israel,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said. Erdo\u011fan also said he was prepared to meet with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, with whom Turkey severed relations in 2011, throwing its support behind rebels seeking to overthrow the Assad regime. Erdo\u011fan said he was waiting for a response from Damascus in order to proceed with normalising ties. Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Israel is committing \u201cshameless crimes\u201d against children, not combatants. Khamenei said Israel was not even hiding its different forms of \u201cshameless crimes\u201d in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria. It is not combating \u201cfighting men, but ordinary people,\u201d Khamenei told a group of envoys from Muslim countries in Tehran in remarks broadcast on state TV. Also on Saturday, in a show of strength, Iran unveiled its \u201cjihad\u201d single-stage liquid-fuel ballistic missile with a high-explosive detachable warhead and a range of 1,000 km, according to state TV. The missiles were displayed, along with other military hardware, during a parade marking the anniversary of the start of the 1980-88 war with Iraq. The dead from an Israeli strike on Saturday on a school turned shelter in the Palestinian territory\u2019s largest city included \u201c13 children and six women\u201d, one of whom was pregnant, said civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal. The Gaza health ministry said at least 22 had died as a result of the strike. Israel\u2019s military said in a statement that the air force had \u201cconducted a precise strike on terrorists who were operating inside a Hamas command and control centre in Gaza City\u201d. It said the target was \u201cembedded inside\u201d the Al Falah school, which is adjacent to the Al-Zaytoun school building which was hit. At least 41,391 Palestinians have been killed and 95,760 injured in Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, Gaza\u2019s health ministry said on Saturday. Gaza\u2019s ministry of health does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its count. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, postponed his trip to the US by a day due to the security situation in the country\u2019s north. Netanyahu was due to travel to New York on 24 September, during which he is expected to address the annual UN general assembly. He issued a short statement after the Beirut airstrike, saying: \u201cOur goals are clear, and our actions speak for themselves.\u201d The UN\u2019s high commissioner for human rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, denounced the pager and walkie-talkie attacks in Lebanon, saying that they violated international law and could constitute a war crime. The UN\u2019s political affairs chief, Rosemary DiCarlo, warned that if violence continues between Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah, then \u201cwe risk seeing a conflagration that could dwarf even the devastation and suffering witnessed so far\u201d. Israeli soldiers have been filmed pushing three apparently lifeless bodies from a rooftop during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. The incident took place in the town of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank, where the Israeli military has been carrying out large-scale raids since late August that the Palestinian health ministry says have killed dozens of people. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement: \u201cThis is a serious incident that does not coincide with IDF values and the expectations from IDF soldiers. The incident is under review.\u201d In the UK, several thousand people gathered in Liverpool city centre on Saturday to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the government to cease arms trading with Israel. Sky News reported that protesters carrying Palestinian flags and banners planned to march through the city centre towards the docks where the Labour party\u2019s political conference will begin on Sunday. Organisers claimed it was the first ever national march for Palestine to take place outside London. Here are some of the latest images that have been shared on the newswires today: US national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Saturday said he was worried about escalation between Israel and Lebanon, reports Reuters. Sullivan, speaking with reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, said he still sees a path to a ceasefire in Gaza but that the US is \u201cnot at a point right now where we\u2019re prepared to put something on the table\u201d. The death toll from Friday\u2019s Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb has climbed to 37, the Lebanese health ministry said on Saturday, according to Reuters. The number includes three children and seven women, Hezbollah said overnight that those killed in the deadliest strike in a year of conflict between Hezbollah and Israel included 16 of its members, and that senior leader Ibrahim Aqil and another top commander, Ahmed Wahbi, were among the dead. According to Reuters, the Israeli army, in posts on X, said the strike hit an underground gathering of Aqil and senior commanders of Hezbollah\u2019s elite Radwan forces, and had \u201calmost completely dismantled\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s military chain of command. Heavy cross-border strikes continued on Saturday, with Israeli warplanes carrying some of its heaviest bombardment in 11 months of fighting across Lebanon\u2019s south and Hezbollah claiming rocket attacks on military targets in Israel\u2019s north. Reuters report that Friday\u2019s strike sharply escalated the conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed group, and inflicted another blow on Hezbollah after two days of attacks this week in which pagers and walkie-talkies used by its members exploded. The total death toll in those attacks has risen to 39, and more than 3,000 were injured. The attacks on communications devices were widely believed to have been carried out by Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement. Hezbollah-aligned transport minister Ali Hamieh told reporters at the scene of Friday\u2019s strike that at least 23 people were still missing. \u201cThe Israeli enemy is taking the region to war,\u201d he said. The ministry had dispatched vehicles and equipment to help rescuers dig through the collapsed buildings, reports Reuters. \u201cWe\u2019ve been taking out women and children from under the rubble,\u201d he said. Attacks on Lebanon this week showed that the Israeli government planned to spread the war to the region, Turkey\u2019s president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan said on Saturday, calling on western countries to take \u201cdeterrent steps\u201d against Israel\u2019s actions. Erdo\u011fan told a press conference that Israel\u2019s war in Gaza will top the agenda of his speech at the UN general assembly on Tuesday, reports Reuters. \u201cIn order for our region not to be dragged into a great disaster, the pressure on Israel must be increased even more,\u201d Erdo\u011fan told a press conference in Istanbul. He was commenting on attacks in Lebanon this week, including the explosion of Hezbollah members\u2019 pagers and walkie-talkies that killed 39 people. The attacks on communications devices were widely believed to have been carried out by Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement. \u201cIt is time for all countries with the mission of protecting world peace to come up with solutions that will stop Israel,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said. \u201cIn order to end this oppression that has been going on for almost a year, to establish a permanent ceasefire and to ensure the unhindered flow of humanitarian aid, all of us, the whole world and especially the UN, have important duties,\u201d he said. Israeli soldiers have been filmed pushing three apparently lifeless bodies from a rooftop during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, in the latest in a series of suspected violations by Israeli forces since the start of the Israel-Hamas war that rights groups say show a pattern of excessive force toward Palestinians. The incident took place in the town of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank, where the Israeli military has been carrying out large-scale raids since late August that the Palestinian health ministry says have killed dozens of people. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement: This is a serious incident that does not coincide with IDF values and the expectations from IDF soldiers. The incident is under review.\u201d The IDF declined to comment when asked if the soldiers involved were being investigated. The Associated Press (AP) said one of its journalists had witnessed the incident. The agency could not immediately confirm the identities or whereabouts of the bodies, nor the death toll from the Israeli raid. Israel said its troops had killed seven militants on Thursday, four during a gun battle and three in an airstrike on a car carrying people who had fired at its soldiers. As of Friday, no militant group had claimed any of the dead as its fighters. Ameed Shehadeh, a correspondent for Al-Arabi who also witnessed the incident, told CNN: A bulldozer tried to demolish the house to bring the bodies down. That didn\u2019t work. Soldiers went up and kicked and pushed the bodies off the roof, as we have seen.\u201d He said a fourth body had been thrown off an adjacent roof a few metres below. You can read the full piece here: The dead from an Israeli strike on Saturday on a school turned shelter in the Palestinian territory\u2019s largest city included \u201c13 children and six women\u201d, one of whom was pregnant, said civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal. Israel\u2019s military said it targeted Hamas militants. There were \u201caround 30 injured, including nine children (needing) limb amputations, as a result of an Israeli bombing on Al-Zaytoun school C\u201d in Gaza City, he said. Thousands of displaced people had sought shelter at the school, Bassal added. Israel\u2019s military said in a statement that the air force had \u201cconducted a precise strike on terrorists who were operating inside a Hamas command and control centre in Gaza City\u201d. It said the target was \u201cembedded inside\u201d the Al Falah school, which is adjacent to the Al-Zaytoun school buildings. An Agence France-Presse (AFP) reporter at the scene confirmed that Al-Zaytoun school C had been hit. Witnesses told AFP that before the strike, orphans had gathered there because they were due to receive sponsorship from a local NGO for humanitarian assistance. Israel\u2019s military did not provide a death toll but said \u201cnumerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence\u201d. It was the latest in a series of Israeli strikes on school buildings housing displaced people in Gaza. A strike on the UN-run Al-Jawni school in central Gaza on 11 September drew international outcry after the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said six of its staffers were among the 18 reported fatalities. The Israeli military accuses Hamas of hiding in school buildings where many thousands of Palestinians have sought shelter \u2013 a charge denied by the Palestinian militant group. Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah said it fired rockets at two military positions in northern Israel on Saturday, as the Israeli military said it was carrying out new strikes against Hezbollah targets, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). In separate statements, the Iran-backed group said it fired \u201ca salvo of Katyusha rockets\u201d each at two Israeli barracks \u201cin response\u201d to Israeli attacks \u201con steadfast southern villages and civilian houses\u201d. AFP correspondents reported heavy Israeli strikes in several areas of south Lebanon. Hezbollah said on Saturday that it had fired rockets at two north Israel barracks, according to a report by Agence France-Presse (AFP). More details soon \u2026 Reuters reports that the Gaza health ministry said an Israeli strike on a school sheltering people in southern Gaza City took at least 22 lives on Saturday. Earlier, Gaza\u2019s civil defence agency put the death toll at 17 (see 11.36am BST). Israel said the attack was targeting a Hamas command centre. However, the Gaza health ministry said most of the victims were women and children. The Hamas-run government media office said 13 children, including a three-month-old baby, and six women had died in the strike. In the UK, several thousand people gathered in Liverpool city centre on Saturday to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the government to cease arms trading with Israel. Sky News reports that protesters carrying Palestinian flags and banners plan to march through the city centre towards the docks where the Labour party\u2019s political conference will begin on Sunday. Organisers claim it is the first ever national march for Palestine to take place outside London. Reuters shared more details on comments by Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Saturday (see 10.25am BST). He said that Israel is committing \u201cshameless crimes\u201d against children, not combatants. His comments came a day after an Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, killed at least 31 people, including three children and seven women, according to the Lebanese health ministry. Friday\u2019s strike, which, according to a source, targeted a building next to a nursery, was the deadliest in a year of conflict between Israel and the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah militia, reports Reuters. It followed two days of attacks in which pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah members exploded. Lebanon blamed the attacks on Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement. Khamenei said Israel was not even hiding its different forms of \u201cshameless crimes\u201d in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria. It is not combating \u201cfighting men, but ordinary people,\u201d Khamenei told a group of envoys from Muslim countries in Tehran in remarks broadcast on state TV. He added: Unable to hurt the real fighters in Palestine, they are venting their malicious anger on small children, on hospital patients, and on schools filled with young children.\u201d Also on Saturday, in a show of strength, Iran unveiled its \u201cjihad\u201d single-stage liquid-fuel ballistic missile with a high-explosive detachable warhead and a range of 1,000 km, according to state TV. The missiles were displayed, along with other military hardware, during a parade marking the anniversary of the start of the 1980-88 war with Iraq, reports Reuters. Cyprus\u2019s president called for restraint over escalating tensions in the Middle East in separate telephone conversations with the Lebanese and Israeli prime ministers on Saturday, his spokesperson said in a statement reported by Reuters. The east Mediterranean island is the closest EU member state to the Middle East, and has good relations with both Lebanon and Israel. Cyprus was ready to act as a conduit for diplomacy as well as facilitate contacts between the sides, said spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis. Cypriot president Nikos Christodoulides \u201cexpressed his strong concern\u201d at the escalation of tension in the region in phone calls to Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati and Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu, said Letymbiotis. \u201cHe underlined the need for an immediate end to actions that may lead to further destabilisation but also have wider regional effects,\u201d he said. Christodoulides underscored the importance of solving disputes through dialogue and diplomacy, within the framework of UN resolutions and international law. \u201cTo this end the president referred to the readiness of Cyprus to continue to be a conduit of such efforts, as well as contact between the sides on the basis of excellent relations with all countries in the region,\u201d said Letymbiotis. Earlier this year, Cyprus became a bridge in delivering badly needed humanitarian aid into Gaza. It has also said it would assist in an evacuation of civilians from the region if tensions were to escalate. At least 16 Hezbollah militants were '\u201celiminated\u201d in an Israeli strike in Beirut on Friday, an Israeli military spokesperson said on Saturday, according to Reuters. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has said that Israel\u2019s recent attacks in Lebanon have \u201cproven our concerns about Israeli administration\u2019s plans to spread war to region\u201d. Speaking at a press conference ahead of his flight to New York to participate in the UN general assembly, Erdo\u011fan said the Middle East region faces an \u201cinexplicably huge crisis\u201d, calling on western countries begin taking deterrent steps against Israel. Erdo\u011fan also said he was prepared to meet with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, with whom Turkey severed relations in 2011, throwing its support behind rebels seeking to overthrow the Assad regime. Erdo\u011fan said he was waiting for a response from Damascus in order to proceed with normalising ties. Here are some of the latest images via the newswires showing the school turned shelter that Gaza\u2019s civil defence agency say was hit by an Israeli strike on Saturday: Gaza\u2019s civil defence agency said on Saturday that an Israeli strike on a school turned shelter in the Palestinian territory\u2019s largest city killed 17 people, while Israel\u2019s army said it was targeting Hamas militants, reports Reuters. \u201cAt least 17 martyrs, including eight children, and more than 30 injured, most of them children and women \u2026 following an Israeli rocket strike on Al-Zaytoun school\u201d in Gaza City, agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal said, noting that thousands of displaced people had sought shelter at the school. Further to the earlier report from Reuters, citing the Palestinian news agency Wafa, that an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City had killed 14 people (10.56am BST), there are now also reports that a number of other people were injured in a separate strike that hit a school in the same neighbourhood. At least 41,391 Palestinians have been killed and 95,760 injured in Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, Gaza\u2019s health ministry said on Saturday, according to Reuters. Gaza\u2019s ministry of health does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its count. The Palestinian news agency Wafa is reporting that at least 13 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City. The Guardian has been unable to independently verify the report. Dozens of people were killed in Lebanon on Tuesday when electronic pagers blew up. The next day walkie-talkies exploded. William Christou reports from Beirut on how Lebanon\u2019s pagers and walkie-talkies became deadly weapons in this epsiode of the Guardian\u2019s Full Story podcast: Reuters reports that Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Saturday that Israel is committing \u201cshameless crimes\u201d against children, not combatants. His comments came a day after an Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, killed 31 people, including three children and seven women, according to the Lebanese health ministry. Lebanon\u2019s health minister Firass Abiad told reporters on Saturday that 68 people were also injured of whom 15 remain in hospital, in the Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb on Friday. The death toll, which Abiad said totals at least 31 people, included Ibrahim Aqil, a Hezbollah commander who was in charge of the group\u2019s elite Radwan forces, as well as about a dozen members of the militant group who were meeting in the basement of the building that was destroyed. Israel launched the airstrike in the densely populated southern Beirut neighbourhood on Friday afternoon during rush hour as people returned home from work and students from schools. The Associated Press (AP) reports that on Saturday morning, Hezbollah\u2019s media office took journalists on a tour of the scene of the airstrike where workers were still digging through the rubble. According to the AP, Lebanese troops cordoned off the area preventing people from reaching the building that was knocked down as members of the Lebanese Red Cross stood nearby to take any recovered body from under the rubble. At least 31 people were killed, including three children and seven women, in an Israeli strike on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Friday, the Lebanese health ministry told a televised news conference on Saturday, according to Reuters. It was previously believed that the strike had killed at least 14 people including a senior Hezbollah leader. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed by a day his scheduled departure to the US, where he is due to address the UN general assembly, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). On Friday the UN\u2019s high commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, told the security council the attack on Hezbollah communications devices violated international law and could constitute a war crime. The pagers and walkie-talkies exploded as their users were shopping in supermarkets, walking on streets and attending funerals, plunging Lebanon into panic. \u201cI am appalled by the breadth and impact of the attacks,\u201d said T\u00fcrk, adding that it \u201cis a war crime to commit violence intended to spread terror among civilians\u201d. International mediators, including the US, have been scrambling to stop the Gaza war from becoming an all-out regional conflict. Israel has submitted an \u201cofficial challenge\u201d to a request from the international criminal court prosecutor for an arrest warrant against its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. In May the ICC\u2019s prosecutor, Karim Khan, requested the court issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. \u201cThe state of Israel submitted today its official challenge to the ICC\u2019s jurisdiction, as well as the legality of the prosecutor\u2019s requests for arrest warrants against Israel\u2019s prime minister and minister of defence,\u201d the foreign ministry\u2019s spokesperson, Oren Marmorstein, said on X. Khan also sought warrants against top Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The prosecutor dropped the application for Haniyeh on 2 August \u201cbecause of the changed circumstances caused by Mr Haniyeh\u2019s death\u201d in Tehran on 31 July, the ICC said in a statement this month. According to Israel, Deif was killed by a strike on 13 July in southern Gaza, though Hamas denies he is dead. The court is still weighing Khan\u2019s application for an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant. The Guardian graphics team have created this map, which shows the airstrikes and artillery fire across the Israel-Lebanon border between 19-20 September 2024. Further violence between Israel and Iran\u2019s allies Hezbollah and Hamas could ignite a devastating regional conflict, the United Nations has warned, after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut killed at least 14 people including a senior Hezbollah leader and wounded 66. Late on Friday, UN political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo said: We risk seeing a conflagration that could dwarf even the devastation and suffering witnessed so far.\u201d Speaking at a meeting of the UN security council which had been convened to discuss Israel\u2019s attacks, DiCarlo said: It is not too late to avoid such folly. There is still room for diplomacy. I also strongly urge member states with influence over the parties to leverage it now.\u201d Robert Wood, the deputy US ambassador to the UN, repeated Washington\u2019s assertions that the US had played no role in the attacks and called on all parties to \u201crefrain from any actions which could plunge the region into a devastating war\u201d. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, had earlier said Israel\u2019s attacks would continue, writing on X: The sequence of actions in the new phase will continue until our goal is achieved: the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes.\u201d You can read more of the report by William Christou in Beirut and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem here: Here is a video report on the Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday. In total, 14 were killed and at least 66 injured. The Guardian\u2019s international security correspondent, Jason Burke, has written a profile of Ibrahim Aqil who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday. Here is an extract: Aqil, who was in his early 60s, had risen through the ranks and reached a senior position in the organisation. Exact details of his role are unclear, but the Israel Defense Forces described him as \u201cthe head of the Hezbollah terrorist organization\u2019s operations team, the acting commander of the Radwan [special forces] unit\u201d. \u201cHe was one of the really senior old-timers but was never really the face of anything. He was always a number two or number three, but had just been promoted in the last five to 10 years,\u201d said Hussain Abdul-Hussain, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington and an expert on extremism in Lebanon. Aqil was one of a group of young Shia men originally from the south of Lebanon but living in Beirut who were energised by the 1979 Iranian revolution and recruited by the country\u2019s Revolutionary Guards into a network known initially as Islamic Jihad and then later as Hezbollah. Their military aim, guided by their Iranian mentors, was to fight the US, which had dispatched a peacekeeping force to Beirut; and Israel, which had occupied much of Lebanon. Their political objective was to turn Lebanon into an Islamic state aligned with Tehran. Almost all have been killed since, probably by Israel. You can read the full profile here: Hezbollah has confirmed the death of Ibrahim Aqil, who sits on the group\u2019s top military body and is wanted by the US in connection with the 1983 Beirut embassy bombing. Aqil was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday, along with several other members of the elite Radwan unit, which under his leadership was designed to conduct cross-border raids into Israel. The group also said Ahmed Wahbi, a commander who oversaw the military operations of the Radwan unit during the Gaza war until early 2024, was also killed in the strike. In its statement, Hezbollah said that Aqil led a \u201cblessed life of jihad\u201d. In total, 14 were killed and at least 66 injured by the Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Paramedics worked late into the night to retrieve survivors and bodies from under the rubble of the collapsed building. Friday\u2019s strike on Beirut came amid a sharp escalation by Israel of attacks against Hezbollah. At least 42 people were killed and more than 3,000 injured this week when explosives inserted into pagers and walkie-talkies commonly used by Hezbollah members were remotely detonated. On Wednesday, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said the war with Hezbollah was entering a new phase and that the \u201ccentre of gravity\u201d had shifted to fighting in northern Israel. Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: Israel submitted formal challenges to the international criminal court (ICC) on Friday over its jurisdiction and the legality of arrest warrant requests against Israeli leaders for their conduct of the Gaza war. In May the ICC\u2019s prosecutor, Karim Khan, requested the court issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. \u201cThe state of Israel submitted today its official challenge to the ICC\u2019s jurisdiction, as well as the legality of the prosecutor\u2019s requests for arrest warrants against Israel\u2019s prime minister and minister of defence,\u201d the foreign ministry\u2019s spokesperson, Oren Marmorstein, said on X. Khan also sought warrants against top Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The White House said it had seen \u201cdeeply disturbing\u201d footage of Israeli soldiers pushing three apparently lifeless bodies from a rooftop during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. The incident took place in the town of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank, where the Israeli military has been carrying out large-scale raids since late August that the Palestinian health ministry says have killed dozens of people. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement: \u201cThis is a serious incident that does not coincide with IDF values and the expectations from IDF soldiers. The incident is under review.\u201d The IDF declined to comment when asked if the soldiers involved were being investigated. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has postponed his trip to the US by a day due to the security situation in the country\u2019s north. Netanyahu was due to travel to New York on 24 September, during which he is expected to address the annual UN general assembly. He issued a short statement after the Beirut airstrike, saying: \u201cOur goals are clear, and our actions speak for themselves.\u201d The UN\u2019s high commissioner for human rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, denounced the pager and walkie-talkie attacks in Lebanon, saying that they violated international law and could constitute a war crime. The UN\u2019s political affairs chief, Rosemary DiCarlo, warned that if violence continues between Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah, then \u201cwe risk seeing a conflagration that could dwarf even the devastation and suffering witnessed so far\u201d. The UK\u2019s foreign secretary, David Lammy, discussed preparations to evacuate remaining Britons from Lebanon, having already urged UK nationals to leave the country given the hostilities with Israel. The White House said Americans were strongly urged not to travel to Lebanon or to leave if they are already there. The US president, Joe Biden, said a ceasefire deal in Gaza was still realistic amid the escalating tensions in the region. \u201cWe\u2019re going to keep at it until we get it done, but we\u2019ve got a way to go,\u201d Biden said in his first comments on the situation since the wave of explosions targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Everything is left behind\u2019: as Russians close in on Ukrainian city, families agonise whether to flee;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/russians-pokrovsk-ukrainian-city-families-agonise-residents-leave;2024-09-21T15:00:44Z",
        "text": "Valeria Tanashchuk packed up a few last belongings from her home. Going in the evacuation van waiting outside: her daughter Nicole\u2019s favourite bear, clothes, items of furniture and a microwave oven. Staying behind: her mother Marina\u2019s collection of detective novels, a wall poster with the Ukrainian alphabet written on it, and a pair of furry slippers. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to leave. But would choice do we have?\u201d Tanashchuk asked, as a thunderous boom echoed nearby. \u201cThe explosions get worse every day. They are louder and more frequent.\u201d What would she do next? \u201cI don\u2019t have a concrete plan,\u201d she said. \u201cI will try and find work somewhere. We had hoped until the end that everything would be OK.\u201d Tanashchuk and her father Rasim, were saying goodbye to their home at number 6 Hirnyka Street for the last time. Her great-grandmother Dosya bought the property. For two-and-a-half years their city \u2013 Pokrovsk \u2013 had escaped the worst of the fighting that engulfed other parts of Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk province, following Vladimir Putin\u2019s 2022 all-out invasion. In February, though, Russian troops began to creep closer. First they captured the city of Avdiivka, outside Kremlin-occupied Donetsk. Then they swallowed up neighbouring villages and settlements. Last week they were six miles away from Tanashchuk\u2019s cottage, with its vegetable patch, walnut and pear trees, and attractive curling vine and roses. \u201cThe garden was my passion. I planted blackberries and blueberries. We have potatoes and cucumbers. Everything is left behind,\u201d she said. Two months ago she sent Nicole, seven, to live with her mother near the city of Dnipro. \u201cWhen Nicole was here she was terrified. At night the bombs kept waking her up. Now she\u2019s afraid for us. She pleads with us to get out,\u201d she said. Pokrovsk was once home to around 50,000 people. For more than a decade \u2013 after Putin seized parts of Donetsk oblast in 2014 \u2013 it has been a Ukrainian military centre, as well as a rail and road hub. Soldiers going to or coming from the front line swelled the population. The local economy flourished, with mobile phone shops, and a modern glass-fronted pizza restaurant. Then the Russians started bombing. In August 2023 a missile flattened the Druzhba hotel, where foreign journalists used to stay, and the Italian caf\u00e9 next door. Neighbouring apartments were damaged. In recent weeks more buildings in the city centre have been hit. Enemy planes have broken bridges in and around Pokrovsk, including a highway connecting the city with the adjacent town of Myrnohrad. These days Pokrovsk is almost a ghost town. Most of its residents have left, heeding the advice of its military mayor Serhii Dobriak. He has told civilians to evacuate, pointing out that the situation will only get worse. For now, electricity works. There is no gas. The Russians bombed the facility. The railway station closed last week. So have most businesses and the central hospital. Windows are boarded up with plywood. About 18,000 people remain. They include Tanashchuk\u2019s 70-year-old neighbour Nikolai, who watched as volunteers loaded her possessions into a removal van, together with the family\u2019s labrador Jayce. What would he do? \u201cWar is terrible. But I don\u2019t think the Russians will touch me,\u201d Nikolai said, lighting a cigarette with trembling hands. After a moment\u2019s reflection, he hedged: \u201cMaybe I will leave a bit later. I don\u2019t know really.\u201d Many of those staying say they have no money to rent an apartment in expensive cities to the west, such as Pavlohrad or Dnipro. Pokrovsk\u2019s outdoor market remains open, between the non-curfew hours of 11am-3pm. Locals arrive on bikes to stock up on cottage cheese, tomatoes and poultry. \u201cThis is our country. We don\u2019t want to go anywhere. Why should we?\u201d one stallholder, Alla, said as she swished flies from a plucked turkey. Others are stuck because they are disabled. Valentina Dereviahina said she had to stay in Pokrovsk to care for her 42-year-old diabetic son, a wheelchair user. \u201cWe are still trying to get him a lift out,\u201d she said, as she helped her 86-year-old mother Liudmyla climb into an evacuation minibus. Liudmyla went with her other daughter Maria. The van trundled off from their cottage in Pushkin street. Valentina cried and waved farewell. Some leave it too late. Yuliia Sokol, the founder of the evacuation charity Starting Point, said her team had agreed to collect an elderly woman from the village of Lysivka, 10kms south-east of the city. \u201cWe spoke on the phone. The next morning Russian troops took over. We rang again to tell her it was too dangerous to fetch her. The line was dead. We are not always successful.\u201d She added: \u201cWe see our job as a calling.\u201d She and her helpers pulled up outside a tower block in the south east of the city, close to Russian lines. There were loud booms. \u201cIt was noisy last night,\u201d one resident, Olena, said, as she loaded her bag into the charity\u2019s van. Olena said goodbye to her son Danylo, 25, who works in Pokrovsk\u2019s mine and was staying behind. The mine supplies coal essential to Ukraine\u2019s steel industry and remains open. Danylo promised to feed the block\u2019s feral cats. A few locals are waiting for the Russians to arrive. Oleksandr \u2013 a soldier fighting with Ukraine\u2019s national guard, who is from Myrnohrad \u2013 estimated that five per cent of his town was pro-Putin, despite the fact that its districts were being bombed. \u201cThey watch Russian TV. They are not very successful. They drink beer, smoke cigarettes and say the state should give them money. Since they don\u2019t get this from Ukraine they want Russia,\u201d he said. Sometimes it is not clear where the enemy is. Earlier this month Oleksandr Humaniuk, founder of the Rose in Hand charity, drove to the frontline city of Ukrainsk, south-east of Pokrovsk. He and a colleague \u2013 dressed in body armour \u2013 went to pick up civilians. When they parked outside a residential building, a Russian soldier appeared. \u201cWhat is the movement?\u201d he asked them. Humaniak filmed the conversation. The volunteers said they were getting people out. The Russian demanded to know where these civilians were. At that moment, an old lady emerged from a basement and hobbled towards them. \u201cGet them in fast. And get the fuck out of here,\u201d the soldier said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t open fire,\u201d Humaniak recalled. \u201cIt was a miracle. A lot of volunteers have died in these situations. I think an angel saved us. We left with two women and a man.\u201d Other encounters end tragically. Two days earlier Ukrainian soldiers tried to persuade residents to leave their homes in the same street, named after the Russian-Soviet writer Maxim Gorky. Some refused. That night, two Russian soldiers entered a cellar where about 20 residents were sheltering. There was a firefight. The Russians were killed, along with five civilians. The body of a woman was laid out the next morning, wrapped in a blanket. Humaniak\u2019s fellow volunteer Ara Karapetyan said that he \u201cliked adventures\u201d. \u201cI\u2019m a bit crazy,\u201d he said. Why was his arm in a sling? \u201cI landed badly when an explosion knocked me over,\u201d he replied. Karapetyan said that he had hoped that Ukraine\u2019s incursion last month into Russia\u2019s Kursk oblast would have relieved pressure on his home town of Vovchansk, which Russian troops seized in May. \u201cThe bitches are still there,\u201d he said. He conceded that Moscow\u2019s advance across Donetsk oblast was likely to continue. More towns and villages would be smashed up, more civilians would be forced to flee. \u201cPutin is nuts. He won\u2019t stop with one oblast. He wants to take the whole of Ukraine,\u201d Karapetyan said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we have to destroy him.\u201d The volunteer added: \u201cThis is a war between good and evil. They want to kill people. We want to save them. I hope that good wins.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Not all men, but a lot of them\u2019: will Gis\u00e8le Pelicot rape trial finally change France\u2019s attitude to sexual abuse?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/mass-case-france-culture-impunity-pelicot-trial-mayor;2024-09-21T14:40:11Z",
        "text": "As the horror of how Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife, Gis\u00e8le, and allowed at least 83 men to rape her continued to unfold in a French courtroom last week, it was hard to see how the case \u201ccould have been worse\u201d as one local official suggested. Louis Bonnet, mayor of Mazan, the southern French town of 6,000 people where the Pelicots and a number of the alleged rapists lived, who added that \u201cno one was killed\u201d, later apologised and admitted his words were not \u201centirely appropriate\u201d. For French feminists and women\u2019s activists, however, Bonnet\u2019s ill-judged comments encapsulated how France has failed to respond to the #MeToo movement and is \u201cabysmally\u201d lagging behind in addressing sexual abuse socially and legally. Anne-C\u00e9cile Mailfert, founder of the feminist organisation Fondation des Femmes, said that the fact that such a comment could be made about a trial \u201cwhich symbolises the worst that male violence can do\u201d showed the challenges that women were up against. \u201cIt demonstrates exactly what we are facing, which is not just rape culture, but the culture of impunity,\u201d she said. Anna Toumazoff, a feminist writer and activist, added: \u201cIt\u2019s an example of how men still struggle to understand what we face as women and that is the real problem. \u201cIt\u2019s the product of a society that fails to protect women or regard them as full human beings.\u201d Ever since the global #MeToo movement emerged, encouraging victims to raise and report sexual and sexist abuse, France has struggled to change attitudes towards those who do. Accusations against a number of high-profile figures, including actor G\u00e9rard Depardieu and directors Beno\u00eet Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, have failed to shake the whiff of what is often called Anglo-Saxon puritanism attached to the movement in French minds, despite their protestation of innocence. In May, in the face of growing frustration at a lack of change after the number of rape cases dismissed without any action rose to 94%, a petition signed by more than 140 public figures, published in Le Monde, called for a new wide-ranging law against sexual and sexist violence. \u201c#MeToo has revealed reality plunged into denial: sexist and sexual violence is systemic not exceptional,\u201d they wrote. \u201cOne affair seems to follow another. Who is listening to us?\u201d Mailfert, one of the petition instigators, said the Pelicot case unfolding in Avignon showed how desperately a new \u201cintegral law\u201d was needed. \u201cWe have regularly demanded this each time there is a specific case,\u201d she said. \u201cWe can only hope this time it will lead to a wide-ranging law that would cover how police treat complaints in the beginning, how they are investigated, then how they are tried and judged. This would enable society to move forward towards resolving these issues. \u201cIn France there is a debate over whether #MeToo has gone too far. \u2018Is it really that bad if someone puts their hand on someone\u2019s bottom, after all it\u2019s just a gesture? Is it really that bad to take a photo of up someone\u2019s skirt? It\u2019s just a photo.\u2019 All these seemingly small crimes should be taken seriously because someone capable of putting their hand on someone else\u2019s bottom without their consent or taking a photo up a skirt is perhaps capable of doing something much, much worse. As we have seen in this case.\u201d Dominique Pelicot\u2019s abuse of his wife was only caught after he was spotted by a security guard filming up women\u2019s skirts in a supermarket and arrested. Mailfert added: \u201cWe should not forget that it was only a matter of luck that Dominique Pelicot was stopped. It was lucky that the security guard that caught him \u2026 detained him, called the police and did not let him off with a warning. \u201cIt was lucky the woman up whose skirt he filmed pressed charges. It was lucky the police didn\u2019t have a hundred more serious things to deal with and pursued the case, looked at his computer and found out what he was doing. \u201cHad none of this happened, he would have surely continued. What seemed like a small incident was an indicator of something much more serious. It was part of a continuum of violence.\u201d Mailfert said any new law should also address how victims are treated in court. Last week, Gis\u00e8le Pelicot, 72, was forced to remind the court that she was not on trial after facing what she called \u201chumiliating questions\u201d from the bench and defence lawyers about her clothes, her drinking and whether she had consented to sex with the 50 men in the dock along with her husband accused of rape. \u201cWith all the debates, I feel like I\u2019m the guilty party and the 50 victims are behind me. In fact, they should be sitting in my place,\u201d Pelicot said. The profile of those in the dock has also highlighted what women\u2019s campaigners have called the \u201cbanality of male violence\u201d. The 50 men, aged between 26 and 73 at the time of their arrest, include a councillor, a journalist, a former police officer, a prison guard, a soldier, a firefighter and a civil servant. Many were the couple\u2019s neighbours in Mazan and had no previous criminal records. Of the 50 accused, 35 have denied the charges. Mailfert added: \u201cMazan has resonated in France because it\u2019s Mr and Mrs Tout-le-Monde, seemingly ordinary people we can identify with. \u201cWe keep hearing it\u2019s not all men, but as this case shows it is quite a lot of men.\u201d Rebecca Amsellem, a French-Canadian economist and founder of the feminist newsletter Les Glorieuses, said she hoped the trial would prompt change and be a \u201cwake-up call for men\u201d. \u201cWe hope it will change mentalities and not result in a return to business as usual once it is over,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is a very unusual case, but there have been so many high profile #MeToo incidents and each time we think this is the one \u2026 and then it\u2019s not.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Senior Church of England bishops accuse Israel of acting above law in West Bank;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/senior-church-of-england-bishops-accuse-israel-of-acting-above-law-in-west-bank;2024-09-21T12:01:28Z",
        "text": "Four of the most senior Church of England bishops have accused Israel of acting as if it is above the law in an excoriating letter about state and settler violence in the occupied West Bank. The bishops, led by Rachel Treweek, the bishop of Gloucester, say there is now \u201clittle distinction between settler violence and state violence\u201d as Palestinian communities experience escalating attacks, dispossession, house demolitions and arson. In unusually forthright language, they say: \u201cThere has been a drastic acceleration and intensification of settlement construction, land confiscation and home demolition in the West Bank, exacerbating longstanding patterns of oppression, violence and discrimination against Palestinians. \u201cThere has always been a close relationship between successive Israeli governments and the settler movement, but there now seems to be little distinction between settler violence and state violence.\u201d The bishops demand the Israeli government \u201cstop acting as if it is uniquely above the law\u201d. They say the call by the UN general assembly last week for Israel to end its unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territories \u201ccan\u2019t be another false dawn\u201d. The UN must \u201cmove beyond strong words and agree a robust set of measures to ensure Israel\u2019s compliance\u201d with international law. The letter\u2019s signatories also include Guli Francis-Dehqani, bishop of Chelmsford, Graham Usher, bishop of Norwich and Christopher Chessun, bishop of Southwark. All four sit in the House of Lords, and at least two are expected to be in the running to be the next archbishop of Canterbury. They cite the case of the Christian Kisiya family as among \u201cnumerous Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, including Christians, [that] are in grave danger of losing everything precious to them\u201d. They were forcefully dispossessed of their ancestral land near Bethlehem, the letter says. \u201cThe Israeli authorities have demolished their home and restaurant multiple times over the last 12 years and allowed an illegal settlement to be established on their land, but until now the family have continued to find ways to farm the land.\u201d Alice Kisiya said they had been expelled despite having documents from the Civil Administration \u2013 the Israeli body that governs the occupied West Bank \u2013 confirming their ownership of the land. The family was evicted on 31 July, after a standoff with settlers accompanied by Israeli troops. Settlers took advantage of the war in Gaza to dispossess her family after two decades of harassment, Kisiya told the Church Times. \u201cWe\u2019ve been suffering for more than 20 years with this, but we\u2019re fighting back.\u201d Their case was a \u201chuman tragedy\u201d, the bishops said. \u201cWe will continue to stand in prayer and solidarity with the Kisiya family, and thousands like them, as they resist the injustice of occupation.\u201d There has been an acceleration in settler violence and settlement growth in the occupied West Bank. In the 10 months following Hamas\u2019s murderous attack on Israeli communities on 7 October, the UN documented about 1,270 attacks, compared with 856 in the whole of 2022. The Israeli human rights organisation B\u2019Tselem, said Israeli settler violence and harassment forced Palestinians out of at least 18 villages in the same period. Since 7 October, almost 600 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank \u2013 at least 570 by Israeli forces and at least 11 by settlers, according to the UN. Palestinians have killed five settlers and nine members of Israel\u2019s security forces. An international day of prayer and vigils for Palestinian Christians in the West Bank is to is taking place next Sunday."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Fulham women\u2019s team was \u2018protected\u2019 from Fayed, says former manager;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/fulham-womens-team-was-protected-from-mohamed-al-fayed-says-former-manager;2024-09-21T10:08:05Z",
        "text": "The former manager of Fulham women\u2019s team has said female players were \u201cprotected\u201d from the club\u2019s late owner, after staff became \u201caware\u201d the billionaire had a predilection for \u201cyoung, blond girls\u201d. Five women have alleged in recent days that they were raped by Fayed, and a number of others have alleged sexual misconduct took place while they worked at Harrods, the luxury department store that was previously owned by Fayed. Gaute Haugenes, who managed Fulham\u2019s women\u2019s team between 2001 and 2003, told the BBC the allegations did not come as \u201cthe biggest surprise\u201d. Referring to members of staff at Fulham, he said: \u201cWe were aware he liked young, blond girls. So we just made sure that situations couldn\u2019t occur. We protected the players.\u201d Since this revelation, Fulham has been trying to establish whether \u201canyone at the club is or has been affected\u201d. The club is urging individuals who had experiences or information about any alleged misconduct at Fulham to contact the club or the police. A Fulham spokesperson said: \u201cWe are deeply troubled and concerned to learn of the disturbing reports after yesterday\u2019s documentary. We have sincere empathy for the women who have shared their experiences. \u201cWe are in the process of establishing whether anyone at the club is or has been affected. Should any person wish to share information or experiences relating to these allegations, we encourage them to contact the club or the police.\u201d In a BBC documentary, Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods, which aired on Thursday night, more than 20 women who had worked at Harrods came forward with allegations of assault and physical violence by Fayed at properties in London and Paris. After selling Harrods in 2010, Fayed died last year at the age of 94. He bought Fulham in 1997 and the Ritz in Paris in 1979. The culture, media and sport secretary, Lisa Nandy, told the BBC she was pleased that Fulham was carrying out an investigation. \u201cToo often, what we see in these cases is, institutions try and withdraw and protect themselves rather than be open and transparent,\u201d she said. She said the case highlighted the need to protect people in their workplace from abuse by powerful individuals. At a news conference on Friday, lawyers representing Fayed\u2019s accusers said they suspected there were more victims from other places where Fayed worked. \u201cWherever he went, there will be victims,\u201d barrister Maria Mulla said. On Saturday, Bruce Drummond, part of the legal team that represents 37 alleged victims, said more women had come forward since the BBC investigation aired. He told BBC Radio 4 there had been 150 \u201cnew inquiries\u201dand described it as probably \u201cthe worst case of corporate sexual exploitation of young women that \u2026 the world has ever seen\u201d. He said it was not just British women coming forward, but women in the US, Canada, Malaysia, Dubai and France. He said it seemed to him \u201ca huge conflict of interest\u201d that Harrods was urging victims to approach the company for a settlement. \u201cWe\u2019re still investigating and looking at all the new inquiries that come through and deciding what\u2019s the best format to move forward with those,\u201d he said. In a statement, Harrods has said it is \u201cutterly appalled\u201d by the allegations of abuse, emphasising that \u201cthese were the actions of an individual who was intent on abusing his power\u201d and that \u201cthe Harrods of today is a very different organisation to the one owned and controlled by Al Fayed between 1985 and 2010\u201d. \u201cWe also acknowledge that during this time as a business we failed our employees who were his victims and for this we sincerely apologise,\u201d it said. The company added that since new information \u201ccame to light\u201d last year about historic allegations of sexual abuse by Fayed, \u201cit has been our priority to settle claims in the quickest way possible, avoiding lengthy legal proceedings for the women involved. This process is still available for any current or former Harrods employees.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Dutch row over which victims of Nazis get \u2018stumbling stone\u2019 plaques;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/dutch-netherlands-nazi-collusion-memorial-paving-stones-gassed;2024-09-21T10:05:26Z",
        "text": "They call them stumbling stones \u2013 little brass plaques in the pavement marking addresses where Holocaust victims once lived. As the Netherlands marks 80 years of liberation, a row has sprung up about placing Stolpersteine for 45 Dutch political prisoners \u2013 Jewish activists, communists, critical Christians \u2013 who were \u201cexperimentally\u201d gassed by the Nazis at the Bernburg psychiatric clinic in Germany in 1942. While around 102,000 Jewish people, Roma and Sinti from the Netherlands were deported and murdered, there is increasing attention on the collusion of the Dutch state in turning over lists of political \u201cundesirables\u201d. For the past year, Jan Boxem and Steven Brandsma, related through their partners, have been campaigning for stumbling stones across the Netherlands to mark the stories of the 45 Bernburg men. But they say they have hit their own stumbling block of cash, bureaucracy and conflicting ideas. \u201cLast year Jan and I went to Germany to pay our debts to history,\u201d said Brandsma. \u201cJan\u2019s uncle was gassed there, something he only found out when he started to research him. Although his uncle was in Neuengamme camp and his cause of death was reported as serious illness, he was actually gassed in Bernburg \u2026 burned in an oven and his ashes dumped in a river in east Germany.\u201d The uncle, Hendrik Visscher, a communist from the city of Enschede, was one of several thousand whose dossiers were passed by Dutch police to the Gestapo. \u201cThis is hardly recognised,\u201d said Brandsma. \u201cIt is a huge scandal.\u201d But he said their requests have encountered bureaucratic and financial resistance, particularly in Haarlem, where the volunteer-run Struikelstenen Haarlem foundation only has a municipal mandate to place stones for 733 Jewish, Sinti and Roma Holocaust victims \u2013 a 10-year process. \u201cIn Haarlem, a decision has been made to place stumbling stones specifically for Jewish people who were deported in the second world war,\u201d said Marieke Geerts, spokesperson for mayor Jos Wienen. \u201cThat\u2019s what the foundation is busy doing. So if someone wants a stumbling stone but [the victim] does not fall into this group, then we look at whether there is another way to remember or bring attention to them. This was offered to the applicants in this case \u2013 but they want a struikelsteen [Dutch for stumbling stone] or nothing.\u201d Others view things differently. In Maastricht, there is a stumbling stone for resistance fighter Lambert Kraft, and the B\u00e8r Kraftstraat road is named after him. In Utrecht, a request to place stones for two victims was agreed \u2013 and funded \u2013 in an afternoon. Meanwhile in The Hague, leader of local VVD party Lotte van Basten Batenburg fundraised for seven stones with Christian Union-SGP party colleagues in an afternoon. \u201cThe Jewish victims are very important to commemorate, but these political victims have a special place as the government was prosecuting them for a longer period of time,\u201d she said. \u201cWe should not ever allow that to happen again.\u201d Dr Samu\u00ebl Kruizinga, historian of 19th and 20th century war and violence at Amsterdam University, said the sticky question appears to be whether the bill is the state\u2019s responsibility. \u201cOne thing that definitely happened is that Dutch security services kept lists of suspect populations \u2013 radical trade unionists, communists \u2013 and the lists were supposedly burned when the Germans invaded in May 1940,\u201d he said. \u201cBut copies were sent to local police stations, and the German security service in the occupied Netherlands put together the pieces of the puzzle. The Dutch security services had particular hang-ups about leftists, whom they considered a more acute and imminent danger to Dutch democracy and society. A lot of these people were horrifically tortured for information and then sent to die. This history is complicated by the perhaps overzealous activities of the Dutch security services and the active assistance of Dutch police.\u201d These stumbling stones \u2013 proliferating across Dutch streets \u2013 are both metaphors and memories. Van Basten Batenburg added: \u201cWhenever my niece, who just turned four, sees one, she gets on her knees and wipes it free of dirt or leaves. They are a bit of light in the sidewalk which catches the soul of the people who are commemorated.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Strikes inside Russia with US missiles key to Ukraine\u2019s plan to end war, says Zelenskyy;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/biden-letting-ukraine-strike-deep-within-russia-key-to-ending-war-zelenskyy-says;2024-09-21T09:43:23Z",
        "text": "Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to carry out long-range strikes inside Russia with US-supplied weapons, and to earn \u201ca place in history\u201d by \u201cstrengthening Ukraine\u201d before he leaves office. Speaking before a crucial trip next week to Washington, where he will meet Biden and the US vice-president and presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, and address the UN, Zelenskyy said he would present a \u201cvictory plan\u201d to end the war. His vision for a \u201cjust peace\u201d has not been made public. But in a media briefing with the Observer in Kyiv, Zelenskyy said it involved carrying out deep strikes with western missiles inside Russia \u2013 something London and Washington have so far refused. The UK has indicated it is willing to allow Ukraine to use British Storm Shadow cruise missiles. But the White House remains sceptical. The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, failed to resolve the issue when he held private talks last week with Biden in Washington. Zelenskyy confirmed no green light had been given, despite months of high-level lobbying. \u201cNeither the US nor UK has allowed us to use these weapons on the territory of Russia, against any targets and at any distance,\u201d he said. Storm Shadows, the French equivalent, Scalp, and the US Atacms system have \u201cnot been provided in the numbers we need\u201d, Zelenskyy added. He suggested the reluctance of international partners could be explained by fear of \u201cescalation\u201d with Moscow \u2013 an analysis Kyiv does not share. Asked how he might persuade Biden when they meet on Thursday, Zelenskyy cited the fact that the outgoing president had in the past \u201cchanged his opinions\u201d after \u201cdifficult discussions\u201d. Some US members of his entourage supported strikes, he said \u2013 which was \u201calready an achievement\u201d. Zelenskyy added: \u201cBiden can strengthen Ukraine and make important decisions for Ukraine to become stronger and to protect its independence while he is US president. I think it is a historical mission after all.\u201d As well as meeting Harris, Zelenskyy said he would \u201cmost likely\u201d have a meeting with Donald Trump on Thursday or Friday. \u201cOur teams are in contact. The main thing is to have time [together]. I won\u2019t look into the future, but I think it will be important for both of us,\u201d Zelenskyy said. Trump\u2019s running mate, JD Vance, has said a future Republican administration envisages a Moscow-friendly deal that would see Russia hang on to the territory it currently occupies. Ukraine would be forbidden from joining Nato, with the war frozen along a demarcation line. Zelenskyy described Ukraine\u2019s incursion last month into Russia\u2019s Kursk oblast as a success, hinting that it could become part of future negotiations. He said the operation prevented Moscow from launching its own attack on Ukraine\u2019s northern Sumy province. The \u201cenemy\u201d had been forced to redeploy 42,000 troops from other parts of the frontline, he said. He acknowledged the situation in eastern Ukraine remained difficult. He said Kyiv needed long-range weapons to counter Russian attacks using airdropped guided bombs. These \u201cdestroyed everything\u201d, he said. Russia \u201cfinished off\u201d with artillery and then sent in infantry to capture Ukrainian positions. The Kremlin, meanwhile, had already moved planes to other, more remote airfields, in anticipation that the White House would sign off on Atacms strikes. \u201cWe cannot simply talk about Atacms. Why? Because it\u2019s too late,\u201d Zelenskyy said, saying \u201cserious decisions\u201d were needed. Zelenskyy made his remarks before a six-day trip to the US and a speech to the UN general assembly in New York. During his trip he will meet representatives from Congress and discuss his victory plan with Harris. The proposal, ahead of a global peace summit in November organised by Ukraine, envisages further security guarantees. Zelenskyy said the \u201cKursk operation\u201d also featured. He declined to give details. Other elements include more weapons and economic support. In a tweet on Thursday, Biden described Zelenskyy warmly as \u201cmy friend\u201d. \u201cDuring his visit, I\u2019ll reaffirm America\u2019s commitment to supporting Ukraine as it defends its freedom and independence,\u201d Biden wrote. Last week, Vladimir Putin said missile strikes against Russia with US weapons would be tantamount to Nato joining the war. He threatened severe consequences. Ukrainian officials have dismissed his comments as the latest in a series of meaningless bluffs. The Atacms system has a 190-mile (300km) range. Its ballistic missiles can carry cluster munitions. They are likely to be highly effective in destroying Russian bases and military runways, from where airstrikes are launched against Ukrainian towns and cities, defence experts say. Storm Shadow missiles were developed together with France and rely on US guidance systems. They include Italian components. All four countries have to sign off on any change to the conditions attached to their use, even if they are not the direct suppliers themselves. Ukraine\u2019s own long-range drones have proved increasingly effective against Russian military targets. On Saturday, they hit an ammunition depot in Russia\u2019s Krasnodar Krai region, causing a massive explosion. Another attack two days ago set fire to a weapons dump in the town of Toropets, in the Tver region."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Dozens of rockets fired into Israel from Lebanon, IDF says;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/22/g-s1-24085/dozens-of-rockets-fired-into-israel-from-lebanon-idf-says;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:56:44 -0400",
        "text": "Over 100 rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon early Sunday, with some landing near the northern city of Haifa, as Israel and the Hezbollah militant group appeared to be spiraling."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Israel raids and shuts down Al Jazeera's bureau in Ramallah in the West Bank;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/22/g-s1-24083/israel-shuts-down-al-jazeera-bureau-ramallah-west-bank;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:12:37 -0400",
        "text": "Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank early Sunday, ordering the bureau to shut down."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;'The West Wing' cast visited the White House to celebrate the show's 25th anniversary;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/21/nx-s1-5121956/west-wing-tv-show-visit-white-house;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:31:57 -0400",
        "text": "The cast and creators of the hit political drama West Wing celebrated the series' 25th anniversary during a visit to the White House."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;New center-right government in France announced 2 months after divisive elections;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/21/nx-s1-5121958/france-center-right-government;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:35:57 -0400",
        "text": "The French presidential palace unveiled a new government dominated by conservatives and centrists. A left-wing coalition secured the most seats in June-July elections but failed to win a majority."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Okinawa's governor strives for regional diplomacy as tensions in Asia-Pacific rise;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/21/nx-s1-5120429/okinawa-governor-denny-tamaki;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:01:00 -0400",
        "text": "Denny Tamaki, governor of Okinawa prefecture, says his personal story is deeply entwined with the U.S. military\u2019s presence on the island."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;A new 'mini-moon' comes to Earth this fall;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/21/nx-s1-5121914/mini-moon-earth-asteroid;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 16:57:44 -0400",
        "text": "An newly discovered asteroid will be captured by Earth's gravity this fall. The \"mini-moon\" will spend about two months in Earth's orbit, before being flung back on its normal path around the sun."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;FTC sues insulin middlemen, saying they pocket billions while patients face high costs;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/21/nx-s1-5121886/insulin-ftc-lawsuit-pharmacy-benefit-manager;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 16:06:39 -0400",
        "text": "The Federal Trade Commission said pharmacy benefit managers created a \"perverse drug rebate system\" that artificially inflated the cost of insulin."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;FBI agents board Baltimore ship linked to Singaporean company sued in bridge collapse;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/21/nx-s1-5121915/fbi-baltimore-bridge-collapse-cargo-ship;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:02:50 -0400",
        "text": "FBI agents boarded a vessel managed by the same company as the cargo ship that caused the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;DOJ investigates Mississippi sheriff's office following 'Goon Squad' torture case;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/21/nx-s1-5120530/goon-squad-mississippi-justice-department-investigation;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:00:37 -0400",
        "text": "Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice Department said it got more complaints regarding similar instances by the deputies."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Whooping cough cases spike in the U.S., after people missed vaccinations during pandemic;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/21/nx-s1-5120908/whooping-cough-cases-spike-unvaccinated-cdc;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 08:51:28 -0400",
        "text": "Infectious diseases experts say many Americans fell behind on their whooping cough vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic, which they say has compounded the recent uptick in cases."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel closes Al Jazeera bureau in Ramallah: All you need to know;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/israel-closes-al-jazeera-bureau-in-ramallah-all-you-need-to-know?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 08:17:28 +0000",
        "text": "At 3am, heavily armed Israeli soldiers raided the office of Al Jazeera in Ramallah, throwing the team out."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 940;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-940?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:05:11 +0000",
        "text": "As the war enters its 940th day, these are the main developments."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Cricket: India beat Bangladesh by 280 runs to win first Test in Chennai;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/22/cricket-india-beat-bangladesh-by-280-runs-to-win-first-test-in-chennai?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:52:17 +0000",
        "text": "Bangladesh were all out for 234 on the fourth day in Chennai as hometown hero Ashwin took 10 wickets after his century."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Refugee chronicles: The long and lonely road from Sudan to northern France;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/9/22/refugee-chronicles-the-long-and-lonely-road-from-sudan-to-northern-france?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:17:20 +0000",
        "text": "Crossing desert and sea, facing pushbacks, racist attacks and homelessness; Sudanese refugees have endured them all."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;At least 30 killed in Iran coal mine blast: State media;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/at-least-30-killed-in-iran-coal-mine-blast-state-media?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 05:56:54 +0000",
        "text": "At least 24 miners are feared trapped following one of the deadliest mine blasts in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israeli forces raid Al Jazeera\u2019s office in Ramallah;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/22/israeli-forces-raid-al-jazeeras-office-in-ramallah?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 05:27:43 +0000",
        "text": "Israeli soldiers have entered Al Jazeera\u2019s bureau in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, ordering staff to leave."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Is the Indus Waters Treaty the latest India-Pakistan flashpoint?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/is-the-indus-waters-treaty-the-latest-india-pakistan-flashpoint?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 04:59:10 +0000",
        "text": "India wants to renegotiate the 64-year-old pact under which the neighbours split water from six Himalayan rivers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israeli soldiers raid, order closure of Al Jazeera office in Ramallah;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/israeli-soldiers-raid-al-jazeera-office-in-ramallah?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:40:42 +0000",
        "text": "Heavily armed and masked Israeli soldiers raid Al Jazeera bureau in occupied West Bank and deliver 45-day closure order."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Hezbollah claims rocket attack at Israeli base near Haifa;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/hezbollah-claims-rocket-attack-deep-inside-northern-israel?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:42:41 +0000",
        "text": "UN official warns of &#039;imminent catastrophe&#039; as Israel targets hundreds of positions in southern Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Quad leaders meet in Biden\u2019s hometown amid growing China competition;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/quad-leaders-meet-in-bidens-hometown-amid-growing-china-competition?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 21:39:01 +0000",
        "text": "Joe Biden says alliance between US, Australia, India and Japan is &#039;here to stay&#039;, pledges to deepen partnership."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israeli explosion rocks Beirut, crossing another red line for Hezbollah;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/9/21/israeli-explosion-rocks-beirut-crossing-another-red-line-for-hezbollah?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 21:19:15 +0000",
        "text": "How much of a blow is all this for Hezbollah? And is the region already at war?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Kenya\u2019s Ruto lands in Haiti to assess police mission as insecurity deepens;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/kenyas-ruto-lands-in-haiti-to-assess-police-mission-as-insecurity-deepens?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:33:37 +0000",
        "text": "Kenya-led police mission to Haiti&#039;s mandate expires next month as country continues to reel from widespread violence."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;France\u2019s Macron appoints new government weeks after divisive election;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/frances-macron-appoints-new-government-weeks-after-divisive-election?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:59:08 +0000",
        "text": "The announcement signals end to more than two months of political uncertainty in the EU member state."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Harris challenges Trump to second US presidential debate;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/harris-challenges-trump-to-second-us-presidential-debate?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 18:06:11 +0000",
        "text": "Donald Trump says &#039;too late&#039; to hold another debate as early voting has started ahead of November 5 election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;UN chief \u2018gravely alarmed\u2019 by reports of RSF assault on Sudan\u2019s el-Fasher;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/un-chief-gravely-alarmed-by-reports-of-rsf-assault-on-sudans-el-fasher?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:42:10 +0000",
        "text": "Antonio Guterres has called on the RSF commander to &#039;act responsibly and immediately order a halt&#039; to its attacks."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Fact check: Are \u2018born alive\u2019 babies really unprotected in some US states?;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/21/fact-check-are-born-alive-babies-really-unprotected-in-some-us-states?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:19:28 +0000",
        "text": "President of US anti-abortion rights group claims protections for babies born alive after abortions have been repealed."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;What is early voting in US elections? What to know in 500 words;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/what-is-early-voting-in-us-elections-what-to-know-in-500-words?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 16:59:35 +0000",
        "text": "Advocates say early voting makes elections more inclusive, but the practice has been the target of false fraud claims."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Danube waters reach parliament\u2019s steps as Storm Boris floods Hungary;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/danube-waters-reach-parliaments-steps-as-storm-boris-floods-hungary?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 16:48:57 +0000",
        "text": "Workers use sandbags to block water as the worst floods to hit Central and Eastern Europe in two decades kill 24."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;No, the UNGA resolution on Palestine was not a win;https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/21/no-the-unga-resolution-on-palestine-was-not-a-win?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:04:31 +0000",
        "text": "The resolution passed but the vote demonstrated persistent flouting international law in favour of strategic interest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Families of jailed Tunisians to urge ICC to probe migrant abuse: Report;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/families-of-jailed-tunisians-to-urge-icc-to-probe-migrant-abuse-report?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:35:32 +0000",
        "text": "Lawyer leading case says International Criminal Court must act with &#039;full force ... to protect those most vulnerable&#039;."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israeli attack on Gaza school sheltering displaced Palestinians kills 22;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/several-killed-in-israeli-attack-on-gaza-school-sheltering-displaced-palestinians?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:37:34 +0000",
        "text": "The dead from the strike on Zeitoun School in Gaza City include 13 children and six women."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Real Madrid to play FIFA Intercontinental Cup 2024 final in Qatar;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/21/fifa-unveils-intercontinental-cup-revamp-with-real-madrid-to-play-in-qatar?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:30:59 +0000",
        "text": "Real Madrid qualify automatically for December&#039;s final in Doha, Qatar, of first annual FIFA Intercontinental Cup."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;At least 45 killed in Israeli strike on suburb in Lebanon\u2019s Beirut;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/death-toll-from-israeli-strike-on-beirut-suburb-rises-to-31?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:27:36 +0000",
        "text": "Children, women among victims of attack which Israel says targeted members of Hezbollah&#039;s Radwan special forces unit."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Disruptor-in-Chief: The politics of Elon Musk;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-listening-post/2024/9/21/disruptor-in-chief-the-politics-of-elon-musk?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:11:13 +0000",
        "text": "Elon Musk&#039;s trajectory from tech visionary to attention-hungry media baron to political anarchist."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Recognising domestic violence as a cause of death: One mother\u2019s long fight;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/21/recognising-domestic-violence-as-a-cause-of-death-one-mothers-long-fight?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:39:24 +0000",
        "text": "It has taken six years for the grieving mother of a suicide victim to be listened to by the UK authorities."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;CPS twice did not prosecute Fayed over sex abuse claims;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k9ggjdjdo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:09:51 GMT",
        "text": "Evidence was presented by police in 2009 and 2015 over sex abuse claims against Mohammed Al Fayed."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Four dead and dozens hurt in Alabama mass shooting;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k9gl6g49o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 08:01:03 GMT",
        "text": "Police say multiple gunmen fired on a group of people outside on a street in the city of Birmingham."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Joshua future in doubt after mauling by dominant Dubois;https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/articles/c748ewp98g5o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 21:59:16 GMT",
        "text": "Briton Daniel Dubois retains his IBF title with a destruction of Anthony Joshua at Wembley Stadium in London."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;MrBeast is called the internet's nicest man - now he faces 54-page lawsuit;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgn8d04kdko;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:20:38 GMT",
        "text": "It\u2019s been another busy week for Jimmy Donaldson, in what is becoming a bit of a theme for the world\u2019s biggest YouTuber."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Virtual wards to scans at supermarkets - six schemes that could help fix the NHS;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm28el83dxno;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:31:55 GMT",
        "text": "Labour is planning the biggest reimagining of the NHS in its history. Do these schemes provide the answer?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Nadiya Hussain: 'Constant pressure to prove how British I was';https://www.bbc.com/articles/c1wnqrer3w9o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:57:40 GMT",
        "text": "Cook Once, Eat Twice host Nadiya Hussain talks Bake Off, anxiety and the joys of eating banana peel."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;At least 51 dead in Iran coal mine explosion;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm24jn02j0qo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 08:59:26 GMT",
        "text": "At least 51 people are reported to have been killed after a gas leak sparked a blast in eastern Iran."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Mysterious hate letters turn quiet village to 'poison';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62gl6en2g5o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:25:21 GMT",
        "text": "The anonymous letters are described as \u201cpersonal, obscene and targeted.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;More heavy rain to come for parts of UK as summer ends;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2mkzp32j1o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 03:38:01 GMT",
        "text": "Fresh Met Office yellow warnings for heavy rain have been issued for Sunday and Monday with flooding and power cuts possible."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sri Lanka election goes to historic second count;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyznjz3d78o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 08:24:05 GMT",
        "text": "No presidential candidate got the 50% plus one required to win in the first round."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Amazon says workers must be in the office. The UK government disagrees. Who is right?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cden9y37e6ro;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:51:03 GMT",
        "text": "Amazon is ordering its staff back to the office five days a week, but the UK government is promoting flexible working."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The great artist recluse and his 78 missing paintings;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gdnwzn3qyo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:51:47 GMT",
        "text": "Swindon's Henry Orlik, 77, has not exhibited for decades but now this unknown name is selling for thousands."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Bella Mackie: Americans romanticise posh Brits;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cql3qyddd2eo;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:54:31 GMT",
        "text": "The author and writer's new book, What A Way To Go, is a murder mystery with a modern twist."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The Papers: 'No more austerity' and 'Sir Shameless at it again';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy94lr0n707o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 05:48:03 GMT",
        "text": "Comments from Sir Keir Starmer on the public finances ahead of Labour's annual conference are among stories on the front of Sunday's newspapers."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;How Punjabi megastar Diljit Dosanjh is inspiring the next gen;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy9gln6lz6o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:51:46 GMT",
        "text": "The biggest Punjabi singer in the world brings his Dil-Luminati tour to the UK."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Labour insiders frustrated at Starmer's 'breathtaking' wardrobe row;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg03g4gxlyo;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 21:50:21 GMT",
        "text": "Sir Keir Starmer's top team have learnt the hard way that in politics, perception matters."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'I struggled to find clothes - now I design them';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj440pljz2o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:18:57 GMT",
        "text": "Ryan Rix's struggle to find suitable clothing growing up sparked his passion for fashion design."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Trump rejects second TV debate as 'too late';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyejk91d2qo;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:12:16 GMT",
        "text": "Kamala Harris had \"gladly\" accepted CNN's invitation to debate two weeks before the presidential election."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Macron unveils new right-wing French government;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rd52zl018o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 21:45:01 GMT",
        "text": "The new cabinet pulls in allies from the centre and right, despite left-wing parties winning France's election."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Father and son jailed over \u00a31m National Trust fraud;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9pe103254o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:11:06 GMT",
        "text": "Roger Bryant and his son James, from Barnstaple in Devon, were sentenced after a trial in Bristol."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Amy Dowden 'so happy' after making Strictly return;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8xk1zppkyo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:20:05 GMT",
        "text": "Amy Dowden was told she was \"home where you belong\" after returning to the show after cancer treatment."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Watch: Hundreds of paratroopers leap to mark daring WW2 offensive;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cqlvd41pnk7o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:42:57 GMT",
        "text": "Veterans watched the jump, at Ginkel Heath near the Dutch town of Ede, to commemorate Operation Market Garden."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'I travelled from Edinburgh to Antarctica to create music';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwylx3ndyw3o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:55:02 GMT",
        "text": "Michael Begg spent nearly three months aboard the Royal Navy's ice patrol vessel, HMS Protector."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Your pictures on the theme of 'railways';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8xx44l021o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:58:53 GMT",
        "text": "A selection of photographs sent in by our readers on the theme of \"railways\"."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Young pretender Dubois legitimises world title reign';https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/articles/cvgleyng01jo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:40:58 GMT",
        "text": "The young pretender Daniel Dubois legitimises his world-title reign in a passing of the torch victory over Anthony Joshua, writes Kal Sajad."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;People expect Man City to be wiped 'from face of Earth';https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c0m01jpdne7o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 21:30:21 GMT",
        "text": "Pep Guardiola says people expect to see Manchester City wiped \"off the face of the Earth\" over the club's alleged financial rule breaches."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Verstappen restricts answers after 'ridiculous' swearing punishment;https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/articles/c93yqw17w9ko;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 16:38:43 GMT",
        "text": "Max Verstappen says his punishment for swearing is \"ridiculous\" after protesting against the penalty during an official news conference."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Why does he shoot?' \u2013 but stunning strike shows Nunez quality;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c24372zl1d0o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:23:30 GMT",
        "text": "Liverpool head coach Arne Slot says he did not want Darwin Nunez to shoot in the lead-up to the Uruguayan\u2019s sensational strike against Bournemouth on Saturday."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;England lose Duckett & Livingstone in consecutive balls;https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/videos/cy5yk70w667o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:20:46 GMT",
        "text": "Australia's Aaron Hardie removes Ben Duckett with a brilliant return catch before Liam Livingstone is dismissed the next ball by Alex Carey's superb diving catch during the second ODI at Headingley."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Bacteria found in maternity site weeks after handover;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyvgy2qp89o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:00:03 GMT",
        "text": "Pseudomonas can affect infants and those with weakened immune systems are vulnerable."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Murdered banker's family have 'lost confidence' in police;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkdelm1530o;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:08:24 GMT",
        "text": "Alistair Wilson was shot on his doorstep almost 20 years ago and his killer has never been caught."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Ukrainian soldiers killed in SUV donated by miners;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7xnlxj8qjo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 05:54:20 GMT",
        "text": "A vehicle donated by a group of Welsh miners is destroyed in Ukraine, killing six."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en Ukraine\u00a0: une frappe russe \u00e0 Kharkiv fait une vingtaine de bless\u00e9s, dont des mineurs;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/22/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-une-frappe-russe-a-kharkiv-fait-une-vingtaine-de-blesses-dont-des-mineurs_6327490_3210.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:49:27 +0200",
        "text": "Une attaque russe nocturne contre des immeubles r\u00e9sidentiels de Kharkiv a fait 21 bless\u00e9s samedi soir, a annonc\u00e9 dimanche le gouverneur r\u00e9gional."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct\u00a0: Michel Barnier au \u00ab\u00a020\u00a0heures\u00a0\u00bb de France 2 dimanche, suivez les r\u00e9actions au lendemain de l\u2019annonce du gouvernement;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/22/en-direct-michel-barnier-au-20-heures-de-france-2-dimanche-suivez-les-reactions-au-lendemain-de-l-annonce-du-gouvernement_6325006_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:44:36 +0200",
        "text": "Parmi les dix-sept ministres de plein exercice nomm\u00e9s samedi soir, une seule personnalit\u00e9 est issue de la gauche, tandis que sept autres viennent des rangs d\u2019Ensemble pour la R\u00e9publique (EPR) et trois, des R\u00e9publicains (LR)."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: le handicap absent des intitul\u00e9s de minist\u00e8res, suscitant l\u2019inqui\u00e9tude des acteurs du secteur;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/gouvernement-barnier-le-handicap-absent-des-intitules-de-ministeres-suscitant-l-inquietude-des-acteurs-du-secteur_6328013_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:31:58 +0200",
        "text": "Face \u00e0 la crainte d\u2019\u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9sint\u00e9r\u00eat\u00a0\u00bb pour le sujet juste apr\u00e8s les Jeux paralympiques, Paul Christophe, nouveau ministre des solidarit\u00e9s, de l\u2019autonomie et de l\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 entre les femmes et les hommes, les a assur\u00e9s de son \u00ab\u00a0engagement\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Outre-mer\u00a0: avec Fran\u00e7ois-No\u00ebl Buffet, Matignon reprend la main;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/outre-mer-avec-francois-noel-buffet-matignon-reprend-la-main_6328012_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:26:54 +0200",
        "text": "Des dossiers complexes attendent le nouveau ministre de plein exercice, le s\u00e9nateur, avocat et sp\u00e9cialiste des questions d\u2019immigration Fran\u00e7ois-No\u00ebl Buffet. Le s\u00e9nateur centriste de Mayotte, Thani Mohamed Soilihi, a lui \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9 secr\u00e9taire d\u2019Etat \u00e0 la francophonie."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0C\u2019est un miracul\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: apr\u00e8s quatre ans de gal\u00e8re, Marc Marquez fait de nouveau peur en MotoGP;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/22/c-est-un-miracule-apres-quatre-ans-de-galere-marc-marquez-fait-de-nouveau-peur-en-motogp_6328010_3242.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:00:07 +0200",
        "text": "Vainqueur des deux derniers Grands Prix, le Catalan menace Francesco Bagnaia et Jorge Martin au championnat du monde. Les trois pilotes s\u2019expliqueront, dimanche, lors du Grand Prix d\u2019Emilie-Romagne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Bruno Retailleau au minist\u00e8re de l\u2019int\u00e9rieur, incarnation d\u2019une droite conservatrice;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/bruno-retailleau-le-nouveau-ministre-de-l-interieur-incarnation-d-une-droite-conservatrice_6327668_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:57:01 +0200",
        "text": "A 63\u00a0ans et apr\u00e8s une carri\u00e8re commenc\u00e9e aupr\u00e8s de Philippe de Villiers, le s\u00e9nateur de la Vend\u00e9e a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9 \u00e0 Laurent Wauquiez Place Beauvau. Ses positions sur l\u2019immigration inqui\u00e8tent la gauche et les associations d\u2019aide aux migrants."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, une macroniste \u00e0 la fibre plus sociale au minist\u00e8re du travail;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/astrid-panosyan-bouvet-une-macroniste-a-la-fibre-plus-sociale-au-ministere-du-travail_6327942_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:25:57 +0200",
        "text": "Soutien de la premi\u00e8re heure du chef de l\u2019Etat, la nouvelle ministre du travail et de l\u2019emploi, attach\u00e9e au dialogue social, a critiqu\u00e9 la derni\u00e8re r\u00e9forme de l\u2019assurance-ch\u00f4mage et est attach\u00e9e aux conditions de travail."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le roi de la formule 1, Max Verstappen, vacille \u00e0 l\u2019approche de la fin de saison;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/22/le-roi-de-la-formule-1-max-verstappen-vacille-a-l-approche-de-la-fin-de-saison_6327909_3242.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:00:12 +0200",
        "text": "Le N\u00e9erlandais, triple champion du monde en titre, n\u2019a plus remport\u00e9 de course depuis trois mois. Il doit faire face \u00e0 la concurrence accrue de Lando Norris et de son \u00e9curie McLaren avant le Grand Prix de Singapour, dimanche."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le gouvernement Barnier, une \u00e9quipe loin de l\u2019union nationale promise par Emmanuel Macron;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/le-gouvernement-barnier-une-equipe-loin-de-l-union-nationale-promise-par-emmanuel-macron_6327601_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:30:07 +0200",
        "text": "Le bras de fer entre le camp pr\u00e9sidentiel et Les R\u00e9publicains, ces derniers jours, a abouti \u00e0 un gouvernement partag\u00e9 \u00e0 parts presque \u00e9gales entre Renaissance et le parti de droite. Seul Didier Migaud, \u00e0 la justice, appara\u00eet comme une figure sociale-d\u00e9mocrate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La Tesla Model Y est-elle encore \u00ab\u00a0cool\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0?;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/22/la-tesla-model-y-est-elle-encore-cool_6327806_3234.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 08:00:09 +0200",
        "text": "La voiture la plus vendue au monde, dont les ventes sont en chute libre, tente d\u2019\u00e9chapper \u00e0 la banalisation en aff\u00fbtant ses arguments commerciaux."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre au Proche-Orient\u00a0: l\u2019arm\u00e9e isra\u00e9lienne affirme que plus de cent roquettes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tir\u00e9es depuis le Liban dimanche matin;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/22/en-direct-guerre-au-proche-orient-les-etats-unis-appellent-leurs-citoyens-a-evacuer-le-liban_6321740_3210.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:55:48 +0200",
        "text": "De son c\u00f4t\u00e9, le Hezbollah annonce avoir cibl\u00e9 des complexes industriels militaires isra\u00e9liens avec des \u00ab\u00a0dizaines\u00a0\u00bb de roquettes \u00ab\u00a0dans une premi\u00e8re r\u00e9ponse\u00a0\u00bb aux explosions de bipeurs et de talkies-walkies appartenant \u00e0 des membres du Hezbollah et imput\u00e9es \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Boxe\u00a0: le Britannique Daniel Dubois conserve sa ceinture IBF en exp\u00e9diant Anthony Joshua;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/22/boxe-le-britannique-daniel-dubois-conserve-sa-ceinture-ibf-en-expediant-anthony-joshua_6327602_3242.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:35:48 +0200",
        "text": "Devant pr\u00e8s de 100\u00a0000\u00a0spectateurs \u00e0 Wembley, le boxeur de 27\u00a0ans a mis son compatriote K.-O. \u00e0 la cinqui\u00e8me reprise. Anthony Joshua \u00e9choue dans sa qu\u00eate d\u2019un troisi\u00e8me titre mondial pour devenir l\u2019\u00e9gal de l\u00e9gendes comme Mohamed Ali, Lennox Lewis et Evander Holyfield."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Malaisie\u00a0: 355\u00a0personnes arr\u00eat\u00e9es pour des agressions physiques et sexuelles d\u2019enfants dans des foyers d\u2019accueil;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/22/malaisie-355-personnes-arretees-pour-des-agressions-physiques-et-sexuelles-d-enfants-dans-des-foyers-d-accueil_6327566_3210.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:03:59 +0200",
        "text": "Plusieurs suspects font partie d\u2019un conglom\u00e9rat islamique accus\u00e9 d\u2019avoir g\u00e9r\u00e9 ces centres et d\u2019avoir entretenu des liens avec une secte interdite. Quelque 186 victimes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 secourues au cours de l\u2019op\u00e9ration, a annonc\u00e9 la police."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Qu\u00e9bec, l\u2019ordinateur quantique fran\u00e7ais se fraie un chemin face aux g\u00e9ants am\u00e9ricains;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/22/au-quebec-l-ordinateur-quantique-francais-se-fraie-un-chemin-face-aux-geants-americains_6327561_3234.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:00:15 +0200",
        "text": "Soutenue par le gouvernement qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, Sherbrooke est devenue l\u2019une des capitales mondiales de cette technologie. Les start-up Quandela et Pasqal en ont leur poste avanc\u00e9 vers les Etats-Unis."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En marge chez les LGBT comme chez les h\u00e9t\u00e9ros, les bisexuels veulent sortir du placard\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Tout nous dit qu\u2019on n\u2019existe pas\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2024/09/22/en-marge-chez-les-lgbt-comme-chez-les-heteros-les-bisexuels-veulent-sortir-du-placard-tout-nous-dit-qu-on-n-existe-pas_6327456_4401467.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 05:00:09 +0200",
        "text": "Peu int\u00e9gr\u00e9es dans les communaut\u00e9s queer, tout en \u00e9tant exclues de la norme h\u00e9t\u00e9ro, les personnes bis revendiquent plus de visibilit\u00e9. De jeunes collectifs s\u2019organisent pour cr\u00e9er des espaces de solidarit\u00e9. Dimanche 22\u00a0septembre s\u2019\u00e9lancera une marche, la veille de la Journ\u00e9e internationale de la visibilit\u00e9 de la bisexualit\u00e9."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Avec Marina Ferrari, le retour d\u2019un minist\u00e8re d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9 au tourisme;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/22/avec-marina-ferrari-le-retour-d-un-ministere-delegue-au-tourisme_6327455_3234.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 05:00:00 +0200",
        "text": "Cela fait dix-sept ans que le secteur, qui p\u00e8se 7\u00a0% du PIB de la France, ne disposait pas d\u2019un poste \u00e0 part enti\u00e8re au sein du gouvernement. La d\u00e9put\u00e9e de Savoie (MoDem), jusqu\u2019ici secr\u00e9taire d\u2019Etat au num\u00e9rique, devra notamment s\u2019atteler \u00e0 la promotion des m\u00e9tiers du tourisme, trop peu valoris\u00e9s."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Proche-Orient\u00a0: Isra\u00ebl intensifie ses raids contre le Hezbollah dans le sud du Liban;https://www.lemonde.fr/guerre-au-proche-orient/article/2024/09/22/proche-orient-israel-intensifie-ses-raids-contre-le-hezbollah-dans-le-sud-du-liban_6327453_6325529.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 04:50:09 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019Etat h\u00e9breu a annonc\u00e9 avoir men\u00e9 des \u00ab\u00a0frappes massives\u00a0\u00bb pour contrer des \u00ab\u00a0pr\u00e9paratifs\u00a0\u00bb du mouvement libanais \u00ab\u00a0en vue de tirer\u00a0\u00bb sur son territoire. Le premier ministre libanais, Najib Mikati, a appel\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0\u00e0 la fin des terribles massacres isra\u00e9liens\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Br\u00e9sil\u00a0: X toujours interdit malgr\u00e9 un geste d\u2019apaisement du r\u00e9seau social;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/22/bresil-x-toujours-interdit-malgre-un-geste-d-apaisement-du-reseau-social_6327417_3210.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:46:12 +0200",
        "text": "La plate-forme du milliardaire Elon Musk, engag\u00e9 dans un bras de fer avec les autorit\u00e9s br\u00e9siliennes, a nomm\u00e9 un repr\u00e9sentant l\u00e9gal dans le pays, mais il doit remplir d\u2019autres conditions pour r\u00e9activer ses services."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot, un n\u00e9ophyte aux affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/22/jean-noel-barrot-un-neophyte-aux-affaires-etrangeres_6327416_3210.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:45:08 +0200",
        "text": "A 41\u00a0ans, ce vice-pr\u00e9sident du MoDem, jusqu\u2019ici ministre d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9 charg\u00e9 de l\u2019Europe, remplace St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9 au Quai d\u2019Orsay. Une promotion qui montre la volont\u00e9 d\u2019Emmanuel Macron de garder la main sur son \u00ab\u00a0domaine r\u00e9serv\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le Nouveau Front populaire retrouve son unit\u00e9 pour d\u00e9noncer le gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Il faudra s\u2019en d\u00e9barrasser aussit\u00f4t que possible\u00a0\u00bb, pr\u00e9vient Jean-Luc\u00a0M\u00e9lenchon;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/le-nouveau-front-populaire-retrouve-son-unite-pour-denoncer-le-gouvernement-barnier-il-faudra-s-en-debarrasser-aussitot-que-possible-previent-m-melenchon_6327383_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:15:03 +0200",
        "text": "La gauche, arriv\u00e9e en t\u00eate lors des derni\u00e8res l\u00e9gislatives, a fustig\u00e9 d\u2019une m\u00eame voix l\u2019\u00e9quipe tr\u00e8s \u00e0 droite compos\u00e9e par le premier ministre. Les \u00ab\u00a0insoumis\u00a0\u00bb esp\u00e8rent que la situation va favoriser leur proc\u00e9dure de destitution d\u2019Emmanuel Macron. Mais dans la rue, samedi, la mobilisation contre le gouvernement\u00a0\u00e9tait faible."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Avec Anne Genetet, l\u2019\u00e9ducation nationale aux mains d\u2019une macroniste novice sur le sujet;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/21/avec-anne-genetet-et-alexandre-portier-l-education-nationale-partagee-entre-une-macroniste-novice-sur-le-sujet-et-un-lr-deux-deputes-meconnus_6327350_3224.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:33:29 +0200",
        "text": "La nouvelle ministre, \u00e9lue Renaissance des Fran\u00e7ais \u00e9tablis hors de France, n\u2019a jamais travaill\u00e9 sur les enjeux scolaires. Elle est accompagn\u00e9e d\u2019un ministre d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9, Alexandre Portier, d\u00e9put\u00e9 Les R\u00e9publicains proche de Laurent Wauquiez."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: qui sont les 39\u00a0ministres et secr\u00e9taires d\u2019Etat\u00a0?;https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2024/09/21/gouvernement-barnier-qui-sont-les-39-ministres-et-secretaires-d-etat_6327349_4355770.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:29:44 +0200",
        "text": "Explorez les \u00e9quilibres politiques et les profils des membres du gouvernement nomm\u00e9s samedi 21\u00a0septembre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Fran\u00e7oise Gatel, un temp\u00e9rament fort au minist\u00e8re d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9 \u00e0 la ruralit\u00e9, l\u2019artisanat et au commerce;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/francoise-gatel-un-temperament-fort-au-ministere-delegue-a-la-ruralite-l-artisanat-et-au-commerce_6327316_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:46:31 +0200",
        "text": "La s\u00e9natrice d\u2019Ille-et-Vilaine, vice-pr\u00e9sidente de l\u2019UDI, s\u2019est illustr\u00e9e comme pr\u00e9sidente de la d\u00e9l\u00e9gation aux collectivit\u00e9s territoriales du S\u00e9nat et \u00e0 la t\u00eate de l\u2019association Petites cit\u00e9s de caract\u00e8re France."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Marc Ferracci, un proche d\u2019Emmanuel Macron, nomm\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019industrie;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/marc-ferracci-un-proche-d-emmanuel-macron-nomme-a-l-industrie_6327283_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:29:09 +0200",
        "text": "Cet intime du couple pr\u00e9sidentiel int\u00e8gre Bercy pour suivre les dossiers industriels. Economiste de formation, sp\u00e9cialiste des questions de travail et ancien conseiller de Jean Castex \u00e0 Matignon, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu d\u00e9put\u00e9 en\u00a02022."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Sophie Primas, vice-pr\u00e9sidente du S\u00e9nat, nomm\u00e9e ministre d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9e charg\u00e9e du commerce ext\u00e9rieur et des Fran\u00e7ais de l\u2019\u00e9tranger;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/sophie-primas-vice-presidente-du-senat-nommee-ministre-deleguee-chargee-du-commerce-exterieur-et-des-francais-de-l-etranger_6327217_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 21:48:09 +0200",
        "text": "La s\u00e9natrice des Yvelines, qui a claqu\u00e9 la porte des R\u00e9publicains en juin, s\u2019est r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement montr\u00e9e critique sur les trait\u00e9s de libre-\u00e9change."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Antoine Armand et Laurent Saint-Martin \u00e0 Bercy\u00a0: la \u00ab\u00a0forteresse \u00bb scind\u00e9e entre deux trentenaires macronistes;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/antoine-armand-et-laurent-saint-martin-a-bercy-la-forteresse-scindee-entre-deux-trentenaires-macronistes_6327114_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:31:37 +0200",
        "text": "Antoine Armand prend l\u2019\u00e9conomie, tandis que Laurent Saint-Martin va tenter de faire passer un budget. Derri\u00e8re l\u2019\u00e9clatement de Bercy, la nomination de ce duo conforte la ligne macroniste d\u2019inspiration lib\u00e9rale"
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Gil Av\u00e9rous succ\u00e8de \u00e0 Am\u00e9lie Oud\u00e9a-Cast\u00e9ra au minist\u00e8re des sports;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/21/gil-averous-succede-a-amelie-oudea-castera-au-ministere-des-sports_6327183_3242.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 21:13:26 +0200",
        "text": "Celui qui est pass\u00e9 ma\u00eetre pour faire parler de sa ville, Ch\u00e2teauroux, se retrouve \u00e0 la t\u00eate d\u2019un minist\u00e8re qui renoue avec la jeunesse et la vie associative."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Patrick Hetzel renoue avec les universit\u00e9s en prenant le minist\u00e8re de l\u2019enseignement sup\u00e9rieur\u00a0et de la recherche;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/patrick-hetzel-renoue-avec-les-universites-en-prenant-le-ministere-de-l-enseignement-superieur-et-de-la-recherche_6327150_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:57:11 +0200",
        "text": "Ex-directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l\u2019enseignement sup\u00e9rieur, cet Alsacien, d\u00e9put\u00e9 LR du Bas-Rhin, est aussi un ancien conseiller \u00e9ducation de Fran\u00e7ois Fillon, lorsque ce dernier \u00e9tait \u00e0 Matignon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A la sant\u00e9, la centriste Genevi\u00e8ve Darrieussecq h\u00e9rite d\u2019un secteur en crise;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/a-la-sante-la-centriste-genevieve-darrieussecq-herite-d-un-secteur-en-crise_6327117_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:51:09 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019ex-ministre d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9e (MoDem) charg\u00e9e des personnes handicap\u00e9es, jusqu\u2019en\u00a02023, obtient un minist\u00e8re de plein exercice, une demande des professionnels de sant\u00e9."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Des dizaines de femmes accusent Mohammed Al-Fayed d\u2019avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 un pr\u00e9dateur sexuel;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/21/des-dizaines-de-femmes-accusent-mohammed-al-fayed-d-avoir-ete-un-predateur-sexuel_6327116_3210.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:45:38 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019homme d\u2019affaires \u00e9gyptien, propri\u00e9taire des magasins Harrods et du Ritz, est mort en\u00a02023\u00a0\u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 94\u00a0ans. Apr\u00e8s les r\u00e9v\u00e9lations d\u2019une s\u00e9rie de documentaires de la BBC, plus d\u2019une trentaine de femmes affirment avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 agress\u00e9es sexuellement ou avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 viol\u00e9es par celui qui \u00e9tait alors leur patron."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Fran\u00e7ois Durovray, pr\u00e9sident LR du conseil d\u00e9partemental de l\u2019Essonne, est nomm\u00e9 ministre d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9 aux transports;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/francois-durovray-president-lr-du-conseil-departemental-de-l-essonne-est-nomme-ministre-delegue-aux-transports_6327113_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:26:24 +0200",
        "text": "Le pr\u00e9sident LR du conseil d\u00e9partemental de l\u2019Essonne succ\u00e8de \u00e0 Patrice Vergriete dans le gouvernment de Michel Barnier."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Agn\u00e8s Pannier-Runacher, une v\u00e9t\u00e9rane du macronisme \u00e0 la transition \u00e9cologique;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/agnes-pannier-runacher-une-veterane-du-macronisme-a-la-transition-ecologique_6327112_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:24:39 +0200",
        "text": "Depuis 2018, l\u2019\u00e9lue du Pas-de-Calais a surv\u00e9cu \u00e0 tous les remaniements. Dans le gouvernement Barnier, elle prend le portefeuille de la transition \u00e9cologique, de l\u2019\u00e9nergie et du climat, dans un contexte de vents contraires et de coupes budg\u00e9taires."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La d\u00e9put\u00e9e Annie Genevard, secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de LR, nomm\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019agriculture;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/la-deputee-annie-genevard-secretaire-generale-de-lr-nommee-a-l-agriculture_6327079_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:16:28 +0200",
        "text": "La d\u00e9put\u00e9e et co-dirigeante par int\u00e9rim du parti Les R\u00e9publicains succ\u00e8de \u00e0 Marc Fesneau dans le gouvernement de Michel Barnier."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Didier Migaud, un social-d\u00e9mocrate au minist\u00e8re de la justice;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/gouvernement-barnier-avec-didier-migaud-un-changement-de-profil-au-ministere-de-la-justice_6327077_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:04:38 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019ex-pr\u00e9sident de la Haute Autorit\u00e9 pour la transparence de la vie publique, ancien du Parti socialiste, est connu pour sa rigueur budg\u00e9taire. Il devra faire avec un budget en recul par rapport \u00e0 ce qui \u00e9tait pr\u00e9vu dans la loi de programmation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Kamala Harris met Donald Trump au d\u00e9fi de d\u00e9battre une nouvelle fois avec elle, ce dernier refuse;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/21/kamala-harris-met-donald-trump-au-defi-de-debattre-une-nouvelle-fois-avec-elle-quelques-jours-avant-l-election-presidentielle_6327008_3210.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:38:25 +0200",
        "text": "La candidate d\u00e9mocrate \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidentielle am\u00e9ricaine a propos\u00e9 \u00e0 son rival une deuxi\u00e8me rencontre, le 23\u00a0octobre, sur CNN. \u00ab\u00a0Il est trop tard pour organiser un nouveau d\u00e9bat, le vote a d\u00e9j\u00e0 commenc\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb, a-t-il balay\u00e9."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Guerre en\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0: Kiev affirme avoir frapp\u00e9 deux d\u00e9p\u00f4ts militaires en Russie, 1\u00a0200\u00a0personnes \u00e9vacu\u00e9es;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/21/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-kiev-affirme-avoir-frappe-deux-depots-militaires-en-russie-1-200-personnes-evacuees_6318183_3210.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:26:29 +0200",
        "text": "Le r\u00e9gime de \u00ab\u00a0situation d\u2019urgence\u00a0\u00bb a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9cr\u00e9t\u00e9 samedi \u00e0 Tikhoretsk, une ville du sud-ouest de la Russie o\u00f9 des \u00e9vacuations d\u2019habitants ont eu lieu apr\u00e8s que l\u2019Ukraine a affirm\u00e9 y avoir frapp\u00e9 avec des drones un d\u00e9p\u00f4t de munitions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Japon\u00a0: un\u00a0mort et sept disparus apr\u00e8s des inondations et pluies torrentielles;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/21/japon-un-mort-et-sept-disparus-apres-des-inondations-et-pluies-torrentielles_6326142_3245.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:11:55 +0200",
        "text": "Quelque 44\u00a0700 habitants des villes de Wajima, Suzu et Noto, dans le d\u00e9partement d\u2019Ishikawa, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 forc\u00e9s de quitter la zone, ont annonc\u00e9 des responsables locaux."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les statues g\u00e9antes de l\u2019\u00eele de P\u00e2ques menac\u00e9es par le changement climatique\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Il faut se rendre \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9vidence, on ne pourra pas toutes les prot\u00e9ger\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/21/les-statues-geantes-de-l-ile-de-paques-menacees-par-le-changement-climatique-il-faut-se-rendre-a-l-evidence-on-ne-pourra-pas-toutes-les-proteger_6326061_3244.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 05:15:05 +0200",
        "text": "Les moa\u00efs, c\u00e9l\u00e8bres statues de tuf volcanique, sont rattrap\u00e9s par la mont\u00e9e des eaux et souffrent des al\u00e9as climatiques accentu\u00e9s par le r\u00e9chauffement. A l\u2019image de l\u2019\u00eele elle-m\u00eame, expos\u00e9e aux temp\u00eates, \u00e0 la s\u00e9cheresse et aux incendies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Carburants\u00a0: le prix du gasoil redescend \u00e0 son niveau d\u2019avant la guerre en Ukraine;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/21/carburants-le-prix-du-gasoil-redescend-a-son-niveau-d-avant-la-guerre-en-ukraine_6326772_3234.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 16:00:20 +0200",
        "text": "Les cours du brent se sont tass\u00e9s, sur fond d\u2019inqui\u00e9tude pour l\u2019\u00e9conomie mondiale, notamment en Europe, o\u00f9 l\u2019industrie est en panne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le meurtre d\u2019un enfant japonais en Chine accro\u00eet les tensions entre Tokyo et P\u00e9kin;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/21/le-meurtre-d-un-enfant-japonais-en-chine-accroit-les-tensions-entre-tokyo-et-pekin_6326770_3210.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 16:00:12 +0200",
        "text": "Le gar\u00e7on de dix ans a \u00e9t\u00e9 poignard\u00e9 mercredi 18\u00a0septembre. C\u2019est le deuxi\u00e8me assaut de ce type en quelques mois, alors que les relations sino-japonaises s\u2019\u00e9taient d\u00e9grad\u00e9es, du fait de nouveaux gestes militaires chinois."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Assassinat du manageur de Jul\u00a0: Mohamed Seghier et Juan-Gino Marti condamn\u00e9s \u00e0 30\u00a0ans de r\u00e9clusion en appel;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/21/assassinat-du-manager-de-jul-mohamed-seghier-et-juan-gino-marti-condamnes-a-30-ans-de-reclusion-en-appel_6326736_3224.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:14:02 +0200",
        "text": "Les jur\u00e9s d\u2019appel ont aggrav\u00e9 la peine inflig\u00e9e en mars\u00a02023. Les deux accus\u00e9s niaient farouchement leur participation \u00e0 l\u2019assassinat de Karim Tir, abattu le 12\u00a0juin\u00a02014\u00a0au volant de son v\u00e9hicule par des hommes circulant \u00e0 moto."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En cartes\u00a0: soixante-dix ans d\u2019assassinats cibl\u00e9s par Isra\u00ebl;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/21/en-cartes-soixante-dix-ans-d-assassinats-cibles-par-israel_6326668_3210.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:54:10 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Le Monde\u00a0\u00bb revient, en infographie, sur les \u00e9liminations cibl\u00e9es de ses ennemis par l\u2019Etat h\u00e9breu depuis 1948. Dernier exemple de cette pratique\u00a0: la mort, le 20 septembre, d\u2019Ibrahim Aqil, chef de la force Radwan, unit\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9lite du Hezbollah."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le combat solitaire des m\u00e8res d\u2019adolescentes sous l\u2019emprise de\u00a0prox\u00e9n\u00e8tes;https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2024/09/21/le-combat-solitaire-des-meres-de-filles-sous-l-emprise-de-proxenetes_6326075_4500055.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 06:30:00 +0200",
        "text": "En France, au moins 10\u00a0000 mineurs, en large majorit\u00e9 des filles, sont victimes d\u2019exploitation sexuelle. Face \u00e0 cette situation, ce sont souvent les m\u00e8res qui luttent pour sauver leur enfant des griffes des prox\u00e9n\u00e8tes. Isol\u00e9es, d\u00e9sempar\u00e9es, en proie \u00e0 la culpabilit\u00e9, elles se heurtent \u00e0 l\u2019indiff\u00e9rence des pouvoirs publics."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019ouverture de la F\u00eate de la bi\u00e8re \u00e0 Munich sous haute s\u00e9curit\u00e9 en treize photos;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/21/l-ouverture-de-la-fete-de-la-biere-a-munich-sous-haute-securite-en-13-photos_6326602_3210.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:06:03 +0200",
        "text": "S\u00e9curit\u00e9 renforc\u00e9e et joints interdits\u00a0: la F\u00eate de la bi\u00e8re s\u2019est ouverte samedi \u00e0 Munich sous un soleil radieux mais dans un contexte tendu apr\u00e8s une s\u00e9rie d\u2019attaques aux motivations islamistes pr\u00e9sum\u00e9es en Allemagne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Vienam, la c\u00e9l\u00e8bre militante \u00e9cologiste Hoang Thi Minh Hong a \u00e9t\u00e9 lib\u00e9r\u00e9e;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/21/au-vienam-la-celebre-militante-ecologiste-hoang-thi-minh-hong-a-ete-liberee_6326502_3210.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:11:24 +0200",
        "text": "En septembre\u00a02023, la d\u00e9fenseuse du climat avait \u00e9t\u00e9 condamn\u00e9e \u00e0 trois ans de prison pour \u00e9vasion fiscale, li\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019activit\u00e9 de l\u2019ONG Change qu\u2019elle a fond\u00e9e."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;People &\u00a0Baby\u00a0: deux ex-salari\u00e9es d\u2019une cr\u00e8che jug\u00e9es \u00e0 Lille pour violences sur des enfants;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/21/people-baby-deux-ex-salariees-d-une-creche-jugees-a-lille-pour-violences-sur-des-enfants_6326501_3224.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:01:19 +0200",
        "text": "Les deux femmes sont jug\u00e9es pour \u00ab\u00a0violence sans incapacit\u00e9 sur mineur de 15\u00a0ans par une personne ayant autorit\u00e9 sur la victime\u00a0\u00bb, sur plusieurs enfants."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Viols de Mazan\u00a0: plus de 200 hommes proposent une \u00ab\u00a0feuille de route\u00a0\u00bb pour lutter contre \u00ab\u00a0la domination masculine\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/21/viols-de-mazan-plus-de-200-hommes-proposent-une-feuille-de-route-pour-lutter-contre-la-domination-masculine-puisque-nous-sommes-tous-le-probleme-nous-pouvons-tous-faire-partie-de-la-solution_6326430_3224.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:07:13 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0L\u2019affaire Pelicot nous l\u2019a prouv\u00e9, la violence masculine n\u2019est pas une affaire de monstres, c\u2019est une affaire d\u2019hommes, de M. Tout-le-Monde\u00a0\u00bb, \u00e9crit le militant et th\u00e9rapeute Morgan N. Lucas, \u00e0 l\u2019origine de cette tribune."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Pr\u00e9sidentielle en Ouganda\u00a0: le fils de Yoweri Museveni se ravise et annonce soutenir son p\u00e8re, au pouvoir depuis 1986;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/21/presidentielle-en-ouganda-le-fils-de-yoweri-museveni-se-ravise-et-annonce-soutenir-son-pere-au-pouvoir-depuis-1986_6326362_3212.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:20:05 +0200",
        "text": "Muhoozi Kainerugaba avait d\u00e9clar\u00e9 en mars\u00a02023\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Il y en a assez des vieux qui nous gouvernent, nous dominent. Il est temps pour notre g\u00e9n\u00e9ration de briller.\u00a0\u00bb Il avait ensuite lanc\u00e9 son \u00ab\u00a0Mouvement MK\u00a0\u00bb, mais il annonce finalement samedi qu\u2019il ne sera pas \u00ab\u00a0sur le bulletin de vote en\u00a02026\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A Marseille, des cano\u00ebs bloquent l\u2019acc\u00e8s au port de navires de croisi\u00e8re pour d\u00e9noncer la pollution qu\u2019ils causent;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/21/a-marseille-des-canoes-bloquent-l-acces-au-port-de-navires-de-croisiere-pour-denoncer-la-pollution-qu-ils-causent_6326361_3244.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:19:16 +0200",
        "text": "Au moins trois navires de croisi\u00e8re et un ferry depuis la Corse ont d\u00fb attendre en mer en raison de cette action, d\u00e9non\u00e7ant l\u2019impact n\u00e9gatif de ces navires \u00ab\u00a0sur la sant\u00e9 des populations et la biodiversit\u00e9 marine\u00a0\u00bb. Le port a rouvert vers 9\u00a0heures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Michel et Nicolas Barnier, la valse du p\u00e8re et du fils entre la droite et la Macronie;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/michel-et-nicolas-barnier-une-valse-familiale-entre-lr-et-la-macronie_6326067_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 06:00:02 +0200",
        "text": "Le nouveau premier ministre a toujours veill\u00e9 sur la carri\u00e8re politique de son fils, qui avait tent\u00e9 sans succ\u00e8s de se faire une place dans le camp d\u2019Emmanuel Macron."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;CGT-Agroalimentaire\u00a0: un an de prison avec sursis requis contre l\u2019actuel dirigeant et son pr\u00e9d\u00e9cesseur;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/cgt-agroalimentaire-un-an-de-prison-avec-sursis-requis-contre-l-actuel-dirigeant-et-son-predecesseur_6326323_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:48:40 +0200",
        "text": "Julien Huck et son p\u00e8re, Alfred, ont comparu, jeudi\u00a019\u00a0et vendredi 20\u00a0septembre, devant le tribunal de Bobigny dans une affaire de d\u00e9tournements de fonds qui implique \u00e9galement leurs compagnes respectives."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Father, son among three electrocuted to death in Yelagiri Hills;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/father-son-among-three-electrocuted-to-death-in-yelagiri-hills/article68670177.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:02:40 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Four killed, dozens injured in Alabama mass shooting;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/several-killed-many-injured-in-alabama-mass-shooting/article68670313.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:39:53 +0530",
        "text": "Police have not got anyone in custody over the shooting, officer Truman Fitzgerald said, urging the public to provide any information that could help the investigation."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kejriwal lashes out at PM Modi, BJP; poses five questions to RSS chief;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kejriwal-lashes-out-at-pm-modi-bjp-poses-five-questions-to-rss-chief/article68670281.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:31:00 +0530",
        "text": "Taking a dig at PM Modi, the AAP supremo cited a norm Mr. Modi has enforced in the BJP that leaders should retire at 75. He questioned if the PM was ready to retire at 75"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u201cNo stone-pelter, terrorist will be released in J&K\u201d, says Amit Shah;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jammu-and-kashmir-assembly/no-stone-pelter-terrorist-will-be-released-in-jk-says-amit-shah/article68670267.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:22:33 +0530",
        "text": "At an election rally in Nowshera in support of J-K BJP president Ravinder Raina, the senior BJP leader said he would like to talk to the youth of Jammu and Kashmir, whom he referred to as \"lions\""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Panneerselvam condemns FIR against former Minister R. Vaithilingam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/panneerselvam-condemns-fir-against-former-minister-r-vaithilingam/article68670239.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:18:46 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;President Biden welcomes progress towards India's procurement of 31 MQ-9B drones from U.S.;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/president-biden-welcomes-progress-towards-indias-procurement-of-31-mq-9b-drones-from-us/article68670278.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:16:36 +0530",
        "text": "A joint fact-sheet on Modi-Biden talks said the two leaders recognised the remarkable progress achieved under the US-India defence industrial cooperation roadmap"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Give new poll symbol to Ajit Pawar-led NCP too: Sharad Pawar group;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/give-new-poll-symbol-to-ajit-pawar-led-ncp-too-sharad-pawar-group/article68670231.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:52:28 +0530",
        "text": "The NCP (SP) has sought \"natural justice\" from the Supreme Court, Lok Sabha member Sule told reporters on Saturday, September 21, 2024."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pakistani intruder arrested along LoC in J&K\u2019s Poonch;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jammu-and-kashmir/pakistani-intruder-arrested-along-loc-in-jks-poonch/article68670228.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:37:09 +0530",
        "text": "Shahzad was found hiding in a burrow close to a river near Bravo check area, 100 metres inside Indian territory."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PM Modi gifts President Biden silver hand-engraved train model;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-modi-gifts-president-biden-antique-silver-hand-engraved-train-model/article68670154.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:31:31 +0530",
        "text": "PM Narendra Modi gifted silver hand-engraved train model to President Biden and a pashmina shawl First Lady of USA Jill Biden"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Dark Tourism: A journey through history\u2019s shadows;https://www.thehindu.com/children/dark-tourism-a-journey-through-historys-shadows/article68641678.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "Imagine standing amidst the ruins of a city once devastated by tragedy. The air is heavy with history, the ground scarred by the past. This is the essence of dark tourism, a unique form of travel that explores places associated with historical catastrophes. For many travel enthusiasts, it\u2019s a journey that goes beyond typical sightseeing, offering a powerful connection to the past."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israel army says 100 rockets fired from Lebanon within hours;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-army-says-100-rockets-fired-from-lebanon-within-hours/article68670135.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:54:28 +0530",
        "text": "Lebanese group Hezbollah has exchanged regular fire with Israeli forces throughout the Gaza war, but the cross-border violence has intensified in recent days after the pager explosions"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Three friends killed in road accident in Tiruvannamalai district;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/three-friends-killed-in-road-accident-in-tiruvannamalai-district/article68670128.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:53:31 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Several trains cancelled, diverted in Bihar as flood water touches girder of bridge;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/several-trains-cancelled-diverted-in-bihar-as-flood-water-touches-girder-of-bridge/article68670130.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:41:11 +0530",
        "text": "The trains that have been cancelled are Patna-Dumka Express, Saraigarh\u2013Deoghar Special, Jamalpur- Kiul Memu Special, and Bhagalpur-Danapur Intercity Express"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Death toll rises to 30 after methane leak causes explosion at eastern Iran coal mine;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/several-killed-as-methane-leak-causes-explosion-at-eastern-iran-coal-mine-reports/article68670132.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:21:23 +0530",
        "text": "The report said the deaths happened at a coal mine in Tabas, some 540 kilometers southeast of the capital, Tehran"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tirumala laddu issue: Pawan Kalyan to sit on 11-day Deeksha from today;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/tirumala-laddu-issue-pawan-kalyan-to-sit-on-11-day-deeksha-from-today/article68668332.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:46:54 +0530",
        "text": "He stated in a message on \u2018X\u2019 that the Prasadam revered by Hindus around the world had been desecrated during the YSR Congress Party rule (YSRCP) rule and that he was deeply disturbed by it and asking for forgiveness"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;KSRTC bags award for heart related screening and treatment for employees initiative;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/ksrtc-bags-award-for-heart-related-screening-and-treatment-for-employees-initiative/article68668279.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:36:13 +0530",
        "text": "SKOCH Group presented the award to Venkatesha .T, Chief Law Officer and Ashraf .K.M, Chief Personnel Manager of KSRTC"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israel raids, shuts down Al Jazeera\u2019s bureau in Ramallah in the West Bank;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-raids-shuts-down-al-jazeeras-bureau-in-ramallah-in-the-west-bank/article68670029.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:07:37 +0530",
        "text": "Al Jazeera aired footage of Israeli troops live on its Arabic-language channel ordering the office to be shut for 45 days"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sri Lanka elections result LIVE: Dissanayake leads in presidential vote;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sri-lanka-presidential-elections-result-live-updates-september-22/article68670009.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:50:03 +0530",
        "text": "Anura Kumara Dissanayake maintains his lead in trends as he bagged 21 out of 22 postal districts"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Army seeks info from Manipur Security Adviser on entry of 900 Kuki militants;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/manipur/army-seeks-info-from-manipur-security-adviser-on-entry-of-900-kuki-militants/article68670013.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:28:41 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Singh, while addressing a press conference in Imphal on September 20, had said that the government is aware of intelligence inputs regarding the entry of \u201c900 Kuki militants\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;297 Indian antiquities to return to India from the US;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/297-indian-antiquities-to-return-to-india-from-usa/article68669982.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 08:45:32 +0530",
        "text": "The total number of antiquities recovered by India since 2014 is 640"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Quad launches maritime and health initiatives, adopts strong language on aggression;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/quad-launches-maritime-and-health-initiatives-adopts-strong-language-on-aggression/article68669956.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 08:30:38 +0530",
        "text": "A Maritime Initiative for Training in the Indo-Pacific (MAITRI), to train Quad partners \u201cto monitor and secure their waters, enforce their laws, and deter unlawful behaviour\u201d was also announced. India will host the first MAITRI workshop in 2025"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two conned of  \u20b92.83 lakh in cyber fraud cases;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/two-conned-of-283-lakh-in-cyber-fraud-cases/article68667267.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 08:11:09 +0530",
        "text": "According to the police, the scamster explained the benefits and convinced the victim to share credit card details, including the CVV number."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Will ensure that Arvind Kejriwal returns to the helm, says Atishi, Delhi\u2019s eighth CM;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/will-ensure-that-arvind-kejriwal-returns-to-the-helm-says-atishi-delhis-eighth-cm/article68668765.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:46:13 +0530",
        "text": "Atishi takes over when AAP govt. is looking to get clearance on schemes such as \u20b91,000 monthly stipend for women ahead of Assembly poll; don\u2019t expect miracles from her, say BJP, Cong. leaders"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Establishments instructed to obtain registration as per\u00a0\nTamil Nadu Shops and Establishments (Amendment) Act, 2023;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/establishments-instructed-to-obtain-registration-as-per-tamil-nadu-shops-and-establishments-amendment-act-2023/article68667976.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:33:31 +0530",
        "text": "Application has to be made in Form-Y to the jurisdictional Inspector online with a fee of \u20b9100 through the designated web portal"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Yelahanka gas power plant to be commissioned on September 24, says K.J. George;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/yelahanka-gas-power-plant-to-be-commissioned-on-september-24-says-kj-george/article68668220.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:32:00 +0530",
        "text": "Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to inaugurate the plant with a capacity of 370 MW"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bathymetric study underway in Pallikaranai marsh to improve ecological functions;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/bathymetric-study-underway-in-pallikaranai-marsh-to-improve-ecological-functions/article68668064.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:23:28 +0530",
        "text": "Authority has collaborated with the National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR) to investigate multiple locations within the marshland"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bilimale underlines need for reconstructing history with unexplored cultural sources;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/bilimale-underlines-need-for-reconstructing-history-with-unexplored-cultural-sources/article68667457.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:12:00 +0530",
        "text": "Kannada Development Authority held one-day workshop for writers on  exploring Karnataka\u2019s harmonious traditions"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Dredger fishes out parts of heavy vehicle at Shirur;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/dredger-fishes-out-parts-of-heavy-vehicle-at-shirur/article68668335.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:09:00 +0530",
        "text": "The third phase of rescue operation with the help of a dredger to trace three persons who went missing after the landslide at Shirur in Uttara Kannada district, gave some positive results."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Man gets life imprisonment for raping and murdering woman in Kalaburagi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/man-gets-life-imprisonment-for-raping-and-murdering-woman-in-kalaburagi/article68667793.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:05:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;More research needed to benefit farm sector: Joshi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/more-research-needed-to-benefit-farm-sector-joshi/article68667985.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Pralhad Joshi has emphasised the need for increased focus on research and development in the farm sector so as to benefit the farmers and make farming viable."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India, U.S. to elevate bilateral support to build secure global clean energy supply chains: White House;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-us-to-elevate-bilateral-support-to-build-secure-global-clean-energy-supply-chains-white-house/article68669928.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:55:32 +0530",
        "text": "The partnership will look to expand complementary U.S. and Indian manufacturing capacity for clean energy technologies and components and lay the groundwork for enhanced cooperation in third countries"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Morning Digest | Quad is here to stay, says PM Modi at Leaders\u2019 Summit; Centre notifies appointments of Chief Justices in eight High Courts, and more;https://www.thehindu.com/news/morning-digest-september-22-2024/article68668917.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:22:28 +0530",
        "text": "Here is a select list of stories to start the day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sri Lankan presidential elections: Dissanayake on way to win, postal voting results suggest;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sri-lankan-presidential-elections-dissanayake-on-way-to-win-postal-voting-results-suggest/article68669923.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 05:26:22 +0530",
        "text": "The election, dubbed a three-cornered contest between Mr. Wickremesinghe, Mr. Dissanayake, and Mr. Premadasa of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), shows signs of being a landslide for Mr. Dissanayake, who would become Sri Lanka\u2019s first ever Marxist head of state"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Youth have a crucial role to play in achieving \u2018Viksit Bharat\u2019 by 2047, says Governor Abdul Nazeer;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/youth-have-a-crucial-role-to-play-in-achieving-viksit-bharat-by-2047-says-governor-abdul-nazeer/article68668398.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 04:11:33 +0530",
        "text": "A total of 1,665 graduates from the batch of 2024 at Vellore Institute of Technology received their degrees. Among them, 19 were gold medallists and 109 earned ranks."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;What is the Nipah protocol in Kerala?;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/what-is-the-nipah-protocol-in-kerala/article68668469.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:58:00 +0530",
        "text": "How did the State respond after a fresh scare in Malappuram? How does the deadly zoonotic virus spread? What are the restrictions that need to be followed once a patient is diagnosed? Who are at risk of contracting the virus? Why is the September death a cause for concern?"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;In black and red: 75 years of the DMK;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/in-black-and-red-75-years-of-the-dmk/article68668919.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:52:35 +0530",
        "text": "The DMK, which split from the DK, tapped into Dravidianism and pursued a politics of community, putting together a broad coalition of the intermediate and lower strata. This has kept the party going all these years. Seen at one stage as an extreme, mass communal force, it has grown into a body that has learnt the art of moderation deftly"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two autorickshaw drivers held for assault near Central Railway Station;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/two-autorickshaw-drivers-held-for-assault-near-central-railway-station/article68667633.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:52:10 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala man held for cheating;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/kerala-man-held-for-cheating/article68667522.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:47:24 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Passenger complaints continue, AAI to bring in more lifts and dedicated pathway for better access to cab pick point;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/passenger-complaints-continue-aai-to-bring-in-more-lifts-and-dedicated-pathway-for-better-access-to-cab-pick-point/article68667209.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:35:55 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;In a first, India invites foreign diplomats to Jammu and Kashmir to witness elections;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/in-a-first-india-invites-foreign-diplomats-to-kashmir-to-witness-elections/article68668241.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "Nearly 20 diplomats of select embassies, including of the U.S., France, Germany, Singapore, the Philippines and Malaysia, invited; it reflects a confidence in the law and order situation, despite a recent uptick in terror attacks on military camps"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Our message is clear, Quad is here to stay: PM Modi at Leaders' Summit;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/our-message-is-clear-quad-is-here-to-stay-pm-modi-at-leaders-summit/article68668893.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:26:41 +0530",
        "text": "A free, open, inclusive and prosperous Indo-Pacific is the grouping's priority, Mr. Modi said, without naming any country"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;France's Macron appoints new government in shift to right;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/frances-macron-appoints-new-government-in-shift-to-right/article68668876.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:55:09 +0530",
        "text": "Tough talks on the distribution of the 39 cabinet posts continued right up to Saturday's official announcement, insiders said, with moments of high tension between the president and his prime minister"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jill Stein: Three\u2019s not a crowd;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/jill-stein-threes-not-a-crowd/article68668580.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:52:00 +0530",
        "text": "While the contest is between the Democratic and Republican parties, the Green Party candidate\u2019s strong anti-war position is having an impact among sections of American voters"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Coast Guard clean-up drive held in Kochi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/coast-guard-clean-up-drive-held-in-kochi/article68667593.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:36:53 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pokrovsk: The Russians are coming;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pokrovsk-the-russians-are-coming/article68668563.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:32:00 +0530",
        "text": "With the Russian troops making gains in the battlefield in the east, Ukraine seeks to hurt Russia with drone and missile strikes"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;STP at Elamkulam gets administrative approval under National River Conservation Plan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/stp-at-elamkulam-gets-administrative-approval-under-national-river-conservation-plan/article68668160.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:31:03 +0530",
        "text": "The initiative is part of the \u20b93,853-crore IURWTS, which aims to rejuvenate local canals\nand establish four STPs; the proposed plant is estimated to cost \u20b947.54 crore"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Atishi: From the backroom to the top;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/atishi-marlena-from-the-backroom-to-the-top/article68668548.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:12:00 +0530",
        "text": "The educationalist has staunchly remained loyal to the leadership during the AAP\u2019s ups and downs and enjoys the the trust of party supremo Arvind Kejriwal, which many believe paved the way for her rise as Chief Minister of Delhi"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Congress leaders file complaints against BJP members over threats to Rahul Gandhi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/congress-leaders-file-complaints-against-bjp-members-over-threats-to-rahul-gandhi/article68667803.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:08:43 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Form tripartite committee to resolve deadlock in Samsung Electronics workers protest, Vasan urges T.N. govt;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/form-tripartite-committee-to-resolve-deadlock-in-samsung-electronics-workers-protest-vasan-urges-tn-govt/article68667227.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:08:06 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;37 fishers from Poompuhar arrested by Sri Lankan Navy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/37-fishers-from-poompuhar-arrested-by-sri-lankan-navy/article68668152.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:07:34 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Simultaneous polls are dangerous for India: Kamal Haasan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/simultaneous-polls-are-dangerous-for-india-kamal-haasan/article68667446.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:06:54 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Inclusive education enriches learning environment for all students, says M.K. Narayanan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/inclusive-education-enriches-learning-environment-for-all-students-says-mk-narayanan/article68667583.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:04:23 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Collab between India, UK vital to solve climate crisis:;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/collab-between-india-uk-vital-to-solve-climate-crisis/article68668460.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:37:07 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bolts removed from signal box, police investigate;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/bolts-removed-from-signal-box-police-investigate/article68667723.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:36:49 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Film critic Ponnam Ravichandra selected a jury member for L\u2018Alternativa Film Festival to be held in Spain;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/film-critic-ponnam-ravichandra-selected-a-jury-member-for-lalternativa-film-festival-to-be-held-in-spain/article68668292.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:29:44 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Telangana LPG distributors association donates \u20b95 lakh to CM Relief Fund\u00a0\nfor flood relief;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-lpg-distributors-association-donates-5-lakh-to-cm-relief-fund-for-flood-relief/article68668301.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:28:33 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;DUSU polls: student outfits promise visit to Ayodhya, scholarships;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/dusu-polls-student-outfits-promise-visit-to-ayodhya-scholarships/article68668447.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:23:33 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Subhankar Sarkar replaces Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury as Bengal Congress chief;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/subhankar-sarkar-replaces-adhir-ranjan-chowdhury-as-bengal-congress-chief/article68668824.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:09:36 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Chowdhury, who led the Congress in the 17th Lok Sabha, has been in a confrontational mode with the Mamata Banerjee-led government"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Key suspect in Armstrong murder held in Delhi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/key-suspect-in-armstrong-murder-held-in-delhi/article68668016.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:06:07 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;RSS affiliate holds event for tribal communities;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/haryana/rss-affiliate-holds-event-for-tribal-communities/article68667811.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:54:25 +0530",
        "text": "Nearly 80 tribes from across the country and Nepal perform their distinct rituals at a camp in Haryana"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Union Minister\u2019s reply on power privatisation: Congress urges CM to take up issue with Nirmala Sitharaman;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/union-ministers-reply-on-power-privatisation-congress-urges-cm-to-take-up-issue-with-nirmala-sitharaman/article68668007.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:49:58 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kith and kin of artist pledge to donate their bodies;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kith-and-kin-of-artist-pledge-to-donate-their-bodies/article68668468.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:45:50 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Techno fest comes to a close in VIT Chennai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/techno-fest-comes-to-a-close-in-vit-chennai/article68668329.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:44:35 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Jharkhand learnt from Assam\u2019, says CM Himanta Sarma on internet suspension during recruitment exam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jharkhand-learnt-from-assam-cm-himanta-sarma-on-internet-suspension-during-recruitment-exam/article68667323.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:41:37 +0530",
        "text": "Assam CM claims Jharkhand copied internet suspension during exams, highlighting BJP-Congress criticism and government actions"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;L-G participates in coastal cleaning programme;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/l-g-participates-in-coastal-cleaning-programme/article68668048.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:29:48 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Man arrested for murder of woman near Tirupattur town;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/man-arrested-for-murder-of-woman-near-tirupattur-town/article68667293.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:23:39 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Heavy rains with lightning pound Hyderabad on Saturday evening;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/heavy-rains-with-lightning-pound-hyderabad-on-saturday-evening/article68668291.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:23:33 +0530",
        "text": "Data from the Telangana Development Planning Society (TGDPS) showed that, at 7 p.m., the highest recorded rainfall was 29 mm, but the rains intensified by 8 p.m"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CMC Vellore organises conference on radiation oncology;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/cmc-vellore-organises-conference-on-radiation-oncology/article68667303.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:18:56 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;16-year-old girl raped near Thalambur; 3 including two juveniles held;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/16-year-old-girl-raped-near-thalambur-3-including-two-juveniles-held/article68667322.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:18:53 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Minister inaugurates check dam across Ponnai river near Katpadi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/minister-inaugurates-check-dam-across-ponnai-river-near-katpadi/article68667431.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:16:30 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Suresh Gopi offers to help elderly woman rebuild her home;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kozhikode/suresh-gopi-offers-to-help-elderly-woman-rebuild-her-home/article68668026.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:10:22 +0530",
        "text": "P.K. Sharada\u2019s house was damaged in heavy wind a few weeks ago"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;With two major halls closed, cultural activists on the lookout for suitable venues in Kozhikode;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kozhikode/with-two-major-halls-closed-cultural-activists-on-the-lookout-for-suitable-venues/article68667871.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:08:39 +0530",
        "text": "The Town Hall is closed for renovation, while the Tagore Centenary Hall has been closed for over a year as the Corporation plans to rebuild it with modern architecture and enhanced facilities"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CM calls for integration of ITIs and Polytechnics under Skill University, pushes for industry-oriented courses;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/cm-calls-for-integration-of-itis-and-polytechnics-under-skill-university-pushes-for-industry-oriented-courses/article68668713.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:07:17 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Calicut varsity V-C selection process may take time;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kozhikode/calicut-varsity-v-c-selection-process-may-take-time/article68667701.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:06:50 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;SDPI to launch campaign against police-RSS nexus;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/sdpi-to-launch-campaign-against-police-rss-nexus/article68667605.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:06:33 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP set Masood Azhar free in Kandahar, who was caught by brave J&K police: Farooq Abdullah;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jammu-and-kashmir-assembly/bjp-set-masood-azhar-free-in-kandahar-who-was-caught-by-brave-jk-police-farooq-abdullah/article68668670.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:05:50 +0530",
        "text": "BJP leadership parrots \u201cthree families and loot everywhere\u201d, Why did they form a joint government with PDP then, asks National Conference president Dr. Farooq Abdullah"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Will ensure special training for SC/ST entrepreneurs: Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/will-ensure-special-training-for-scst-entrepreneurs-minister/article68668664.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:03:36 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP\u2019s Manohar Lal\u00a0invites \u2018snubbed\u2019\u00a0Selja to join party;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/bjps-manohar-lal-invites-snubbed-selja-to-join-party/article68667943.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:01:14 +0530",
        "text": "Congress leader Pawan Khera vehemently denies reports of Ms. Selja being upset"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tension in Dharavi over bid to demolish \u2018illegal\u2019 part of mosque;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/tension-in-dharavi-over-bid-to-demolish-illegal-part-of-mosque/article68668349.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:58:19 +0530",
        "text": "The matter escalated on Saturday morning\u00a0as soon as\u00a0Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation personnel accompanied by police personnel arrived with a bulldozer; matter resolved after trustees sought five days to pull down the encroachment"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Free dementia risk reduction workshop\u00a0held;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/free-dementia-risk-reduction-workshop-held/article68667444.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:57:49 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chief Justice of India emphasises intersection of law, ethics and medical innovation in gene therapy for rare disease treatment;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/chief-justice-of-india-emphasises-intersection-of-law-ethics-and-medical-innovation-in-gene-therapy-for-rare-disease-treatment/article68667343.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:54:21 +0530",
        "text": "The industry should support through CSR initiatives or investments in start-ups to further innovation in gene therapy and rare diseases, he says"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Settle land disputes, prevent Nawada-like violence: Bihar CM Nitish;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/settle-land-disputes-prevent-nawada-like-violence-bihar-cm-nitish/article68667647.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:54:15 +0530",
        "text": "After 34 houses of Dalits were torched, Bihar CM calls for quick completion of land survey and says murders over property form a significant chunk of killings recorded by the SCRB in the State"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Colourful Whispers\u2019: An exhibition celebrating the creativity of dementia patients;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/colourful-whispers-an-exhibition-celebrating-the-creativity-of-dementia-patients/article68668660.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:49:04 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Luxury car kills one, injures four after ramming into autorickshaw;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/luxury-car-kills-one-injures-four-after-ramming-into-autorickshaw/article68668673.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:48:01 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Union Finance Minister, Home Secretary to visit Puducherry on Sunday;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/union-finance-minister-home-secretary-to-visit-puducherry-on-sunday/article68667330.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:46:26 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Complaint against Rahul Gandhi for remarks on reservation during U.S. visit;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/complaint-against-rahul-gandhi-for-remarks-on-reservation-during-us-visit/article68667233.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:43:42 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Centre notifies the appointments of Chief justices in eight High Courts;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/centre-notifies-the-appointments-of-chief-justices-in-eight-high-courts/article68668498.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:41:39 +0530",
        "text": "Justice Nitin Madhukar Jamdar, a Bombay High Court judge, will now be the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court; Justice Manmohan, acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, has been appointed as its Chief Justice; Delhi High Court judge Justice Rajiv Shakdher has been elevated to head the Himachal Pradesh High Court"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;No loss of territory is happening now to China: Ladakh LG;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/no-loss-of-territory-is-happening-now-to-china-ladakh-lg/article68668510.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:40:45 +0530",
        "text": "Ladakh LG B.D. Mishra also said the Agniveers are proving \u201cvery effective\u201d and anybody who is propagating against the programme is bordering on being \u201canti-national\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;17th edition of Kalpavriksha, workshop for ophthalmology students, inaugurated at Dr. Agarwals Eye Hospital;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/17th-edition-of-kalpavriksha-workshop-for-ophthalmology-students-inaugurated-at-dr-agarwals-eye-hospital/article68668532.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:40:24 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Smoke delays Bengaluru-Guwahati express at Simhachalam railway station;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/smoke-delays-bengaluru-guwahati-express-at-simhachalam-railway-station/article68668672.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:36:26 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;School teacher in Coimbatore sentenced to 20 years RI under POCSO Act;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/school-teacher-in-coimbatore-sentenced-to-20-years-ri-under-pocso-act/article68668617.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:33:25 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Room in Parliament House: NCP means NCP Sharadchandra Pawar group, LS Secretariat clarifies;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/room-in-parliament-house-ncp-means-ncp-sharadchandra-pawar-group-ls-secretariat-clarifies/article68668619.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:32:48 +0530",
        "text": "The Lok Sabha Secretariat had issued a corrigendum, noting that the room had in fact been allocated to NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar)"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Assault on pourakarmikas\u00a0is a punishable offence\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/assault-on-pourakarmikas-is-a-punishable-offence/article68668171.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:29:08 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Training on poultry management by KVK;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/training-on-poultry-management-by-kvk/article68668188.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:26:17 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Four burglars arrested, 45 sovereigns gold jewellery and vehicles recovered in Tiruppur;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/four-burglars-arrested-45-sovereigns-gold-jewellery-and-vehicles-recovered-in-tiruppur/article68668652.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:23:40 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Omar Abdullah up against bunch of challenges from Ganderbal, unlike Budgam seat;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jammu-and-kashmir-assembly/omar-abdullah-up-against-bunch-of-challenges-from-ganderbal-unlike-budgam-seat/article68668289.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:22:58 +0530",
        "text": "For decades, the Abdullahs saw Ganderbal as their home turf. The constituency has been represented by the three generations of the Abdullahs comprising founder Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Omar\u00a0Abdullah"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Woman, youth murdered in separate incidents;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/woman-youth-murdered-in-separate-incidents/article68667519.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:21:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Actor Darshan files application for bail in Renukaswamy murder case;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/darshan-files-application-for-bail/article68668215.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:19:32 +0530",
        "text": "Darshan, who was arrested along with 16 others, including his close friend Pavithra Gowda, has been in judicial custody since June 22."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;First repository of cancer genomics in India launched;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/first-repository-of-cancer-genomics-in-india-launched/article68667917.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:16:34 +0530",
        "text": "Historically, cancer treatments in India have been based on Western data sets, but cancers in Indian patients can differ significantly at the molecular level, say experts"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;3 Nepal nationals held for death of newborn in Wayanad;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/3-nepal-nationals-held-for-death-of-newborn-in-wayanad/article68668569.ece;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:16:27 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;How John Lee can secure his legacy beyond national security legislation;https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3279251/how-john-lee-can-secure-his-legacy-beyond-national-security-legislation?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:30:09 +0800",
        "text": "The chief executive\u2019s next policy address is best used to unify the city and address housing concerns while leaving geopolitics to Beijing."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Bakehouse doubles outlets, adds 50% staff as its egg tarts beat Hong Kong\u2019s retail gloom;https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3279484/bakehouse-doubles-outlets-adds-50-staff-its-egg-tarts-beat-hong-kongs-retail-gloom?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:00:20 +0800",
        "text": "The Wan Chai-based bakery will spend about US$4 million to double its branches to 10 by the end of 2025."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong can expect cooler week ahead after Mid-Autumn sizzle, with rain and strong winds;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279485/hong-kong-can-expect-cooler-week-ahead-rain-strong-winds-after-mid-autumn-sizzle?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:50:19 +0800",
        "text": "Observatory says temperatures on Monday set to drop to as low as 23 degrees in urban areas and a couple of degrees lower in New Territories."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Are ox gallstones the new gold in Hong Kong? Report finds rising demand for pill ingredient;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279474/are-ox-gallstones-new-gold-hong-kong-report-finds-rising-demand-pill-ingredient?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:24:39 +0800",
        "text": "Ox gallstone is main ingredient in Chinese medicine pill, but chances of finding one in a bovine gallbladder are about one in 500 to 1,000."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Paul Chan vows to champion Hong Kong market, diversify funding sources after US rate cut;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279480/paul-chan-vows-champion-hong-kong-market-diversity-funding-sources-after-us-rate-cut?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:04:37 +0800",
        "text": "Financial secretary also says extent of Hong Kong\u2019s alignment with US rate cut will depend on \u2018local capital flows and market conditions\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong molecular biologist Dennis Lo \u2018sole candidate\u2019 to become CUHK president;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279477/hong-kong-molecular-biologist-dennis-lo-sole-candidate-become-cuhk-president?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:42:43 +0800",
        "text": "Source says Lo, famed for pioneering non-invasive prenatal test, to be offered similar employment package to outgoing CUHK head Rocky Tuan."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Will Hong Kong benefit from Cathay\u2019s giveaway of tickets to overseas destinations?;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279459/will-hong-kong-benefit-cathays-giveaway-tickets-overseas-destinations?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:00:11 +0800",
        "text": "Offer part of \u2018Hello Hong Kong\u2019 campaign requiring departure from city to overseas destinations, raising concerns over the benefits to local tourism."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Why learning to love China isn\u2019t like any other school subject;https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3279175/why-learning-love-china-isnt-any-other-school-subject?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:30:09 +0800",
        "text": "Patriotic education needs a clear approach or it risks failing like previous efforts. Teachers must be prepared and students must know what they are expected to learn."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Are Hong Kong\u2019s trampoline parks safe? Post investigation finds some venues ill-equipped;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279452/are-hong-kongs-trampoline-parks-safe-post-investigation-finds-some-venues-ill-equipped?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:00:23 +0800",
        "text": "Tour of three venues with expert uncovers safety concerns relating to lack of padding, possibility of mid-air collisions and adequate supervision."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;How Hong Kong can help its SMEs make a difference;https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3279127/how-hong-kong-can-help-its-smes-make-difference?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 05:30:09 +0800",
        "text": "The government need not blindly back development projects but instead match enterprises who need work with communities who need help."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong picks action movie set in Kowloon Walled City for Oscars race;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279462/hong-kong-picks-action-movie-set-kowloon-walled-city-oscars-race?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:30:36 +0800",
        "text": "Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In put forward as city\u2019s entry for Academy Awards\u2019 best international feature film."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong puts taxi drivers on notice, but will frustrated cabbies simply quit?;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3279454/hong-kong-puts-taxi-drivers-notice-will-frustrated-cabbies-simply-quit?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:27:56 +0800",
        "text": "City will adopt demerit point system on Sunday, but industry leaders warn \u2018unfairly targeted\u2019 drivers may choose to join illegal ride-hailing trade."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s Cathay bans Cantonese couple over insults hurled at mainland Chinese passenger;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3279447/hong-kongs-cathay-bans-cantonese-couple-over-insults-hurled-mainland-passenger?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 18:51:57 +0800",
        "text": "Row erupts after mainland passenger reclines her seat, causing couple behind her to kick her arm and verbally attack her with slurs."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Woman arrested for suspected child neglect after 2 rescued from Hong Kong flat fire;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279439/woman-52-arrested-alleged-neglect-after-grandchildren-rescued-hong-kong-flat-fire?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 16:31:12 +0800",
        "text": "Online video footage shows flames and smoke coming out of high-rise flat in Tsz Wan Shan with two children trapped inside."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Iran: Coal miners trapped after deadly explosion;https://www.dw.com/en/iran-coal-miners-trapped-after-deadly-explosion/a-70292191?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "A suspected explosion has killed at least 30 people at a coal mine in Iran, according to state media. Many others are believed to be trapped inside."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Why Meta is now banning Russian propaganda;https://www.dw.com/en/why-meta-is-now-banning-russian-propaganda/a-70290904?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all no longer allow content from Russian state media such as RT. The timing is hardly coincidental."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Iran testing new strategies to soothe an angry public?;https://www.dw.com/en/iran-testing-new-strategies-to-soothe-an-angry-public/a-70290551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "With the recent return of banned students and professors to universities and the new president's intention to curb harassment of women by the morality police, Tehran could be signaling the will to placate its critics."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: AfD seeks further boost in Brandenburg election;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-afd-seeks-further-boost-in-brandenburg-election/live-70291788?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "After winning the most seats in the recent Thuringia regional election and the second-most in the Saxony vote, the far-right AfD is hoping for further gains in the eastern German state of Brandenburg. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Biden tells Quad allies: China 'testing us';https://www.dw.com/en/biden-tells-quad-allies-china-testing-us/a-70291803?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Biden was caught on hot mic saying that China was \"testing us all across the region.\" The comments came as the US president hosted a Quad summit with Australian, Japanese and Indian leaders."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brazil: Supreme Court orders further documents from X;https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-supreme-court-orders-further-documents-from-x/a-70291723?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Tech billionaire Elon Musk has agreed to appoint a legal representative in Brazil following a Supreme Court order in August. However, Judge Alexandre de Moraes has requested more proof of the lawyer's power of attorney."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Modi to mobilize India's diaspora during US visit;https://www.dw.com/en/modi-to-mobilize-india-s-diaspora-during-us-visit/a-70268423?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Prime Minister Narendra Modi's outreach to the Indian diaspora has become an important part of his diplomatic toolkit. Ahead of his US visit, 25,000 Indian Americans have signed up to see him speak at a New York event."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New French government announced in shift to the right;https://www.dw.com/en/new-french-government-announced-in-shift-to-the-right/a-70291188?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "French President Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff revealed the new center-right government from the Elysee Palace with some new faces in key positions and some who will be returning to their positions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Campaigns and a concert on eve of vote;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-campaigns-and-a-concert-on-eve-of-vote/a-70290694?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Politicians made last-ditch pitches in Brandenburg before Sunday's state election, where the far-right AfD is in the running to be the largest party. Several German bands gathered in Potsdam opposing this prospect."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Female referee deletes Instagram as football moves slowly;https://www.dw.com/en/female-referee-deletes-instagram-as-football-moves-slowly/a-70290706?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Albanian referee Emanuela Rusta is making fast progress, but the sport she works in is not. The official made the decision to get rid of her social media account after constant remarks about her appearance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Paratroopers land in Arnhem honoring Operation Market Garden;https://www.dw.com/en/paratroopers-land-in-arnhem-honoring-operation-market-garden/a-70290283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned World War II operations. The Allied bid to secure a Rhine crossing proved \"A Bridge too Far.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;South Africa: Heavy snowfall forces road closures;https://www.dw.com/en/south-africa-heavy-snowfall-forces-road-closures/a-70290589?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Authorities have warned motorists to stay off one of the country\u2019s arterial routes in the east. The N3 highway between Johannesburg and Durban has been blanketed with heavy snow."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Homeless World Cup: 'We want to do something special';https://www.dw.com/en/homeless-world-cup-we-want-to-do-something-special/a-70218267?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "National football teams made up of homeless people from around the world will soon gather in South Korea for the Homeless World Cup. For many of the players, the stakes are much higher than just the trophy on offer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;RECOMMENDED \u2014 A Belarusian couple, political prisoners recently pardoned by Alexander Lukashenko, spoke with DW about their time in prison;https://www.dw.com/en/recommended-a-belarusian-couple-political-prisoners-recently-pardoned-by-alexander-lukashenko-spoke-with-dw-about-their-time-in-prison/a-70274513?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned dozens of political prisoners in recent months. Husband and wife Dmitry Luksha and Polina Polovinko, who were released in early July, spoke with DW about their ordeal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Two arsenals destroyed in Russia, Kyiv says;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-two-arsenals-destroyed-in-russia-kyiv-says/live-70289171?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Ukraine has destroyed two ammunition depots in Russia, the Ukrainian military said. Meanwhile, three people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tunisia: Young people's anger mounts ahead of election;https://www.dw.com/en/tunisia-young-people-s-anger-mounts-ahead-of-election/a-70281756?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Amid a growing crackdown on the political opposition, young people have started taking to the streets. Could the protest gain enough momentum to influence Tunisia's third presidential election since the 2011 uprising?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Immigrants in eastern Germany ask: Leave or stay?;https://www.dw.com/en/immigrants-in-eastern-germany-ask-leave-or-stay/a-70289695?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The far-right AfD, leading in some polls, has campaigned aggressively against immigrants in state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg. But those states also depend on immigrant labor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Oktoberfest beer starts flowing amid high security;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-oktoberfest-beer-starts-flowing-amid-high-security/a-69794021?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The entrances have opened to Munich's Oktoberfest, allowing visitors to take their places in the city's famous beer tents. This year's event saw extra security after a string of security incidents elsewhere in Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East updates: Beirut strike death toll reaches 31;https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-updates-beirut-strike-death-toll-reaches-31/live-70289431?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Lebanon has said more than 30 people, including three children, were killed in a strike on a Beirut suburb. Israel confirmed the attack and said a senior Hezbollah commander was among those killed. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Are Western double standards undermining the global order?;https://www.dw.com/en/are-western-double-standards-undermining-the-global-order/a-70289453?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Global South has become increasingly critical of Western double standards. A study by the Munich Security Conference has warned that the rules-based international order is at stake."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How deadly is Ukraine's new 'dragon drone'?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-deadly-is-ukraine-s-new-dragon-drone/a-70287164?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Ukrainian armed forces have deployed a new kind of drone to defend their country, one filled with a pyrotechnic thermite mixture that rains fire down on enemy positions. Its use is highly controversial."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Fridays for Future protests draw 75,000 in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/fridays-for-future-protests-draw-75-000-in-germany/a-70287782?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Climate activists filled the streets of German cities from Berlin to Munich, calling on authorities to take stronger action. Meanwhile, a court jailed two elderly climate activists for sabotaging an oil pipeline."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Iceland: Police shoot 1st polar bear sighted in years;https://www.dw.com/en/iceland-police-shoot-1st-polar-bear-sighted-in-years/a-70287266?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Number of refugees reaches new high in 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-number-of-refugees-reaches-new-high-in-2024/a-70286816?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "There are more refugees living in Germany than ever in recent history, according to German government data. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has contributed to the increase in refugees in Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German border city prepares for flood;https://www.dw.com/en/german-border-city-prepares-for-flood/a-70285116?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Frankfurt an der Oder, the German city on the border with Poland, is getting ready for yet another major flood. Yet the climate crisis is barely an issue in the Brandenburg state election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Former Harrods boss Mohamed al Fayed accused of rape;https://www.dw.com/en/former-harrods-boss-mohamed-al-fayed-accused-of-rape/a-70284389?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The late Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women. The survivors, including some minors, were hired as secretaries and assistants when the abuse allegedly took place."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dutch 'Mocro mafia' sets off alarm bells in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-mocro-mafia-sets-off-alarm-bells-in-germany/a-69764909?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "German police have warned of Dutch organized crime networks moving into Germany after they intervened in a spectacular case of kidnapping and torture."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jahjaga: 'Blame should not be directed at the survivors, but at the perpetrators, who used rape as a weapon of war';https://www.dw.com/en/jahjaga-blame-should-not-be-directed-at-the-survivors-but-at-the-perpetrators-who-used-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war/a-70283271?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Former President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga has been advocating for the survivors of wartime sexual violence since her presidency. She speaks to DW about her fight to address and highlight this issue in Kosovo."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Heat pumps: Why Germany's heating revolution is stalling;https://www.dw.com/en/heat-pumps-why-germany-s-heating-revolution-is-stalling/a-70192621?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "It's a signature project of Germany's environmentalist Greens: Instead of heating homes with fossil fuels, Germans should use heat pumps based on air or groundwater. But demand for these devices has plummeted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Von der Leyen in Kyiv announces \u20ac35bn loan;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-von-der-leyen-in-kyiv-announces-\u20ac35bn-loan/live-70278769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Ursula von der Leyen said the loan would come from frozen Russian assets. The EU Commission president also said the bloc \"will help Ukraine in its brave efforts\" including winter preparation and EU accession. Follow DW"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starlink satellites are blinding astronomers' view of space;https://www.dw.com/en/starlink-satellites-are-blinding-astronomers-view-of-space/a-70273835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Starlink and other satellite networks are vital for providing high speed internet to remote communities, but unintended radiation leakages are making life difficult for astronomers who need clear skies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hungary and the Netherlands want to exit EU asylum policy;https://www.dw.com/en/hungary-and-the-netherlands-want-to-exit-eu-asylum-policy/a-70278674?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Right-wing governments like those in Hungary and the Netherlands are demanding an opt-out, but it's hard to see how countries could legally exit the EU's asylum policy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Tupperware parties empowered homebound suburban women;https://www.dw.com/en/how-tupperware-parties-empowered-homebound-suburban-women/a-70273741?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "As Tupperware files for bankruptcy, here's a look back at how the iconic US plastic kitchenware company and its \"Tupperware party\" business model became a cultural phenomenon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Slovakia seemingly unfazed by EU threat to withhold funding;https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-seemingly-unfazed-by-eu-threat-to-withhold-funding/a-70277869?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Fearing that PM Robert Fico is dismantling Slovak democracy, the European Commission is reportedly considering freezing billions in EU funds for Bratislava. Will the threat be enough to rein in Fico's illiberal ways?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;French police shoot dead 2 in New Caledonia operation;https://www.dw.com/en/french-police-shoot-dead-2-in-new-caledonia-operation/a-70278345?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Thousands of French police have been deployed to the overseas Pacific territory to quell unrest sparked by voting reforms proposed in Paris."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU Parliament recognizes Maduro rival as Venezuela president;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-parliament-recognizes-maduro-rival-as-venezuela-president/a-70276261?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The European Parliament has passed a resolution recognizing Venezuelan opposition figure Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia's claim to have won Venezuela's July election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Berlin considering how to support German carmaker Volkswagen;https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-considering-how-to-support-german-carmaker-volkswagen/a-70275918?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that Berlin is looking into ways to support ailing carmaker Volkswagen amid the threat of job cuts. The firm has been grappling with weak electric vehicle sales."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Axel Springer splits media, classified businesses;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-axel-springer-splits-media-classified-businesses/a-70274495?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Friede Springer and CEO Mathias D\u00f6pfner will own Springer's media operations, which include Germany's most-read newspaper Bild and US digital newspaper Politico."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Czech Republic struggling to mitigate risks as Russian firms flourish;https://www.dw.com/en/czech-republic-struggling-to-mitigate-risks-as-russian-firms-flourish/a-70181088?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Czechia hosts by far the highest number of Russian-owned companies of any EU state. Experts warn this cohort of over 12,500 firms pose economic and security risks that the government must eventually start to mitigate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oktoberfest: Beer and pretzels in a sustainable package;https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-beer-and-pretzels-in-a-sustainable-package/a-70235282?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "More than Bavarians in lederhosen balancing frothing beer mugs and fried sausages, the world's largest folk festival is becoming more inclusive and eco-friendly."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;COVID FLiRT variants KP.3 and XEC: What you need to know;https://www.dw.com/en/covid-flirt-variants-kp-3-and-xec-what-you-need-to-know/a-70266402?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another variant and become XEC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: EU plans \u20ac10 billion aid for affected members;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-eu-plans-\u20ac10-billion-aid-for-affected-members/live-70265849?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Polish city of Wroclaw hosted the leaders of the region's most affected by Storm Boris to discuss European aid. Days of flooding have wreaked death and destruction across Central Europe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Two European firms in focus of Hezbollah pager explosions;https://www.dw.com/en/two-european-firms-in-focus-of-hezbollah-pager-explosions/a-70248830?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Taiwanese company whose name appeared on the pagers that detonated across Lebanon has denied manufacturing the devices. That has put relatively unknown Hungarian and Bulgarian firms in the spotlight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: UN body warns Russia on power grid strikes;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-un-body-warns-russia-on-power-grid-strikes/live-70264350?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine says attacks on the country's electricity infrastructure by Russia may violate international humanitarian law. Meanwhile, Russia claims gains in Kursk. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine wants action after Belarus Olympic medalist ceremony;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-wants-action-after-belarus-olympic-medalist-ceremony/a-70262052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The ceremony, held on Belarus' National Unity Day, appears to violate the Olympic neutrality rules. Ukraine wants action, with the country's sports minister telling DW further sanctions are necessary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cities start fighting rental crisis triggered by overtourism;https://www.dw.com/en/cities-start-fighting-rental-crisis-triggered-by-overtourism/a-70228085?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "In many of Europe's hottest tourist destinations like Barcelona and Paris, locals struggle to access affordable housing. How much are vacation rentals to blame?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU to withhold \u20ac200 million from Hungary over asylum fine;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-withhold-\u20ac200-million-from-hungary-over-asylum-fine/a-70260506?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The EU Commission says it will withhold funds for Hungary after Budapest failed to pay a fine for violating asylum rules. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's nationalist Fidesz government has taken a hard line on migration"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Netherlands seeks EU migration opt-out;https://www.dw.com/en/netherlands-seeks-eu-migration-opt-out/a-70251015?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Netherlands says it plans to request an exemption from the EU's common migration and asylum policy. It comes after the right-wing coalition government announced plans for the country's \"strictest-ever asylum regime.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Exploding Hezbollah pagers: How did it happen?;https://www.dw.com/en/exploding-hezbollah-pagers-how-did-it-happen/a-70250960?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Lithium-ion batteries can catch fire or explode, but in the attack on pagers in Lebanon, the devices are more likely to have been hacked."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Slovakia's capital hit by biggest floods in 30 years;https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-s-capital-hit-by-biggest-floods-in-30-years/a-70251068?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The biggest flood in 30 years hit Slovakia's capital Bratislava this week, forcing dozens of people from their homes. The west of the country has also been badly hit."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Ammo depot in Russia's Tver region explodes;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-ammo-depot-in-russia-s-tver-region-explodes/live-70246486?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "A major Ukrainian drone attack on Russia caused a huge explosion in a large Russian arsenal in the western Tver region."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Extreme weather: Flooding and wildfires across Europe;https://www.dw.com/en/extreme-weather-flooding-and-wildfires-across-europe/live-70247619?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Polish city of Wroclaw and the German city of Dresden have begun preparations for flooding following a weather disaster that has killed 20 people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: AfD loses appeal on chairing Bundestag committees;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-afd-loses-appeal-on-chairing-bundestag-committees/a-70246675?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Germany's top court has rejected a pair of appeals from the far-right AfD concerning the absence of its lawmakers chairing parliamentary committees. The court found the party was not automatically entitled to the posts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains \u2014 study;https://www.dw.com/en/pregnancy-completely-rewires-mothers-brains-study/a-70246399?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Neuroscientists scanned the brain of a pregnant woman and captured a 'widespread reorganization' of her brain before, during and after pregnancy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Use, and misuse, of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "As Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell become the latest celebs to endorse Kamala Harris, here's a look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Google wins legal battle against EU over \u20ac1.5 billion fine;https://www.dw.com/en/google-wins-legal-battle-against-eu-over-\u20ac1-5-billion-fine/a-70246709?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "After years of back and forth, an EU court annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it sold advertisements. The fine was one of three major penalties the EU has leveled against the tech giant in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Namibia's strategy to cull animals save them?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-namibia-s-strategy-to-cull-animals-save-them/a-70213343?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Does Namibia's plan to kill animals to save them, and help the human population from ongoing drought, stack up?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand shrinks;https://www.dw.com/en/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy-as-demand-shrinks/a-70245540?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Once popular for its colorful food storage containers, US firm Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy. The company succumbed to a plummeting demand for its products."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Second explosion shakes Cologne;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-second-explosion-shakes-cologne/a-70245020?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The explosion was the second in a week in Cologne's city center. Police said it was still too early to say if there was a connection. Sniffer dogs were on the site as officers investigated."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg: Black politician takes on German far-right AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-black-politician-takes-on-german-far-right-afd/a-70166368?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "German voters in Brandenburg are heading to the polls just weeks after the far-right AfD party's historic surge in two state elections. Can Cameroonian-born politician Adeline Abimnwi Awemo help turn the tide?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Portugal: Firefighters battle dozens of deadly wildfires;https://www.dw.com/en/portugal-firefighters-battle-dozens-of-deadly-wildfires/a-70243388?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Several people have lost their lives in forest fires that have been raging in Portugal since the weekend. Thousands of firefighters have been deployed to combat the flames"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Intel's factory delay adds to Germany's economic woes;https://www.dw.com/en/us-intel-s-factory-delay-adds-to-germany-s-economic-woes/a-70241739?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has announced it is postponing a $30 billion investment in Germany due to financial problems at the firm. But is the German government still committed to the investments?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Azerbaijan unveils COP29 agenda amid financial deadlock;https://www.dw.com/en/azerbaijan-unveils-cop29-agenda-amid-financial-deadlock/a-70241019?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The summit aims to determine how much money developing countries need and who should contribute to the fund. With just two months until the event, negotiations remain at a standstill."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German police reintroduce spot controls at all borders;https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-reintroduce-spot-controls-at-all-borders/a-70240598?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Germany is reintroducing border checks at all its borders for at least six months. The aim is to help restrict migration. DW visited the border area between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands to see how it was working."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the arts are a thorn in the side of Germany's AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-arts-are-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-germany-s-afd/a-70239911?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German conservative Friedrich Merz to run for chancellor;https://www.dw.com/en/german-conservative-friedrich-merz-to-run-for-chancellor/a-70240130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "It's as good as official: liberal businessman Friedrich Merz, head of the conservative Christian Democrats, is set to be the party's lead candidate in upcoming German federal election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How new technologies can mitigate the risks of flooding;https://www.dw.com/en/how-new-technologies-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-flooding/a-70239314?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "With extreme weather, floods are getting as common in Europe as they are in Asia and Africa. From mobile barriers to specialized dams, people are finding solutions to life-threatening floods across the globe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Far right, center left in close race;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-far-right-center-left-in-close-race/a-70238419?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Sanssouci, Babelsberg, Tesla, BER airport \u2014 Brandenburg is a state with much to boast about when it comes to history or economy. Governed by the same party since 1990, the state may face a shake-up in upcoming election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China's technology drive leaves young people jobless;https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-technology-drive-leaves-young-people-jobless/a-70187883?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "China is investing billions to become a global tech power. But AI, robotics and quantum computing are not labor-intensive sectors, so what to do about the millions of young Chinese who can't find a job?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Volkswagen's crisis: How can Europe's car industry survive?;https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-s-crisis-how-can-europe-s-car-industry-survive/a-70231806?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "While Volkswagen and other European automakers are considering closing factories, Chinese rivals are searching for production sites on the continent. What's going wrong in Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Intel delays construction of Magdeburg factory;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-intel-delays-construction-of-magdeburg-factory/a-70235254?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has delayed a construction project by two years amid cost-saving measures. German Finance Minister Christian Lindner called for funds earmarked for subsidies to be used to plug a federal budget gap."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Worker killed in Oktoberfest roller coaster test;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-worker-killed-in-oktoberfest-roller-coaster-test/a-70232611?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Munich fire department said a worker was fatally injured during a test ride of a roller coaster at the Oktoberfest site."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's expanded border controls come into force;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-expanded-border-controls-come-into-force/live-70228054?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Germany has temporarily reintroduced controls on its western and northern borders as part of efforts to combat irregular migration and cross-border crime."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy's UniCredit raises eyebrows over Commerzbank move;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-s-unicredit-raises-eyebrows-over-commerzbank-move/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "UniCredit stunned markets by buying a 9% stake in Germany's second-largest lender. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, DW explores the next possible moves."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jens Stoltenberg set to head Munich Security Conference;https://www.dw.com/en/jens-stoltenberg-set-to-head-munich-security-conference/a-70213341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is to become the first non-German to head the renowned MSC. The former Norwegian Prime Minister has been a staunch advocate for increased defense spending by NATO member states."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's political landscape is more fractured than ever;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-political-landscape-is-more-fractured-than-ever/a-70211395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The AfD and BSW, two populist parties in Germany, won almost half of the votes in the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia. The result has fundamentally changed the German party system."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Young women and girls more at risk of homelessness;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-young-women-and-girls-more-at-risk-of-homelessness/a-70200312?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Homelessness also affects young people, including an unusually high proportion of women and girls. Life with no home of their own is particularly dangerous for this group, say experts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Olaf Scholz stresses Germany's need for immigrants;https://www.dw.com/en/olaf-scholz-stresses-germany-s-need-for-immigrants/a-70187337?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The German chancellor made the remarks in the Bundestag after high-level talks on migration policy in Berlin broke down. Germany is introducing more systematic border checks on those arriving from the Schengen Area."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Alex Morgan: The greatest female footballer of all time?;https://www.dw.com/en/alex-morgan-the-greatest-female-footballer-of-all-time/a-70153127?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Marta may have won six FIFA player awards, but two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan is more of a household name. Teammate Megan Rapinoe achieved on and off the field, yet Morgan had a grace on the pitch few could match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's ter Stegen is happy the wait is finally over;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-ter-stegen-is-happy-the-wait-is-finally-over/a-70144838?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "National team goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has spoken of his frustration during years of being stuck behind Manuel Neuer, while at the same time paying tribute to his predecessor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australia's Raygun claims 'I knew people wouldn't understand my style';https://www.dw.com/en/australia-s-raygun-claims-i-knew-people-wouldn-t-understand-my-style/a-70135037?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Rachael \"Raygun\" Gunn, the 37-year-old Olympic breaker, says the criticism of her performance came from people's ignorance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Women's soccer: US shows up Europe on maternity care;https://www.dw.com/en/women-s-soccer-us-shows-up-europe-on-maternity-care/a-70117081?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "A recent lawsuit involving French club Olympique Lyon highlighted the disparities and room for improvement in women's football regarding pregnancies and maternity care."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Argentina: Court blocks Milei move to privatize football;https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-court-blocks-milei-move-to-privatize-football/a-70122667?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "A court in Buenos Aires has blocked President Javier Milei's plans to open up Argentinian football to private investment. The issue continues to split the country's most popular sport, with some even looking to Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's Leon Draisaitl signs record NHL contract;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-leon-draisaitl-signs-record-nhl-contract/a-70124333?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Germany's Leon Draisaitl has signed an eight-year contract extension worth $112 million (\u20ac101.5 million). This will keep the superstar forward in Edmonton for a further eight years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India's archaic labor laws allow firms to exploit workers;https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-archaic-labor-laws-allow-firms-to-exploit-workers/a-70121341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Major international companies, including big tech firms, are exploiting India's labor laws and skirting overtime payment, say workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Open and the controversy over night sessions;https://www.dw.com/en/us-open-and-the-controversy-over-night-sessions/a-70121878?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "A new rule was meant to clamp down on matches at the US Open dragging on into the early hours of the next day. Still, some matches are finishing after 2:00 a.m. \u2013 to the detriment of players' health."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Germany live up to its chipmaking ambitions?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-germany-live-up-to-its-chipmaking-ambitions/a-70079606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The German government wants to build up its long-term chipmaking capabilities. But are they following through and attracting the companies needed to make the country a center of this all-important technology?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World Cup expansion gives hope to West Asian teams;https://www.dw.com/en/world-cup-expansion-gives-hope-to-west-asian-teams/a-70112089?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been dominating West Asian football, but the continent has four more assured spots at the 2026 World Cup. As third-round qualifying opens, the likes of Kuwait, Oman and Jordan may make it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ugandan Olympian set on fire in domestic assault;https://www.dw.com/en/ugandan-olympian-set-on-fire-in-domestic-assault/a-70118647?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Rebecca Cheptegei, who finished 44th in the Olympic marathon in Paris, suffered severe burns after allegedly being doused with petrol by her partner. Domestic violence against women remains a serious problem in Kenya."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German businesses worried about far-right gains in the east;https://www.dw.com/en/german-businesses-worried-about-far-right-gains-in-the-east/a-70112417?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the states of Saxony and Thuringia has raised concerns among business leaders about the economic future of eastern Germany. Will it hit jobs and investment?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany coach Nagelsmann names Kimmich as new captain;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coach-nagelsmann-names-kimmich-as-new-captain/a-70113016?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The coach of Germany's national team has named a new captain as the team prepare for their first matches since the home Euros. Julian Nagelsmann is facing a bit of a rebuild after the retirements of four key players."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis tickets: UK government to probe 'dynamic pricing';https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-tickets-uk-government-to-probe-dynamic-pricing/a-70109787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Ministers have promised an investigation after fans complained of inflated ticket prices for Oasis' 2025 reunion tour. But industry experts insist that \"dynamic pricing\" is not illegal and based on supply and demand."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis reunion tour tickets cause online frenzy;https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-reunion-tour-tickets-cause-online-frenzy/a-70099805?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Fans of the Manchester band Oasis faced long online queues on Saturday morning as tickets went on sale for the group's in-demand reunion concerts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Half the world lacks access to safe drinking water;https://www.dw.com/en/half-the-world-lacks-access-to-safe-drinking-water/a-70089835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "A new report shows 4.4 billion people across the world have no access to safe drinking water, more than double many previous estimates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Japan's youth break tradition by embracing perfume;https://www.dw.com/en/japan-s-youth-break-tradition-by-embracing-perfume/a-70091052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Once seen as ostentatious, an imposition on others, and unnecessary in a culture that famously enjoys bathing, perfumes and scents are finally trending among young Japanese."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is methane?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. Where does methane come from, and what can we do to stop it from getting into the atmosphere?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The unseen Holocaust movie: Jerry Lewis' lost film 'The Day the Clown Cried';https://www.dw.com/en/the-unseen-holocaust-movie-jerry-lewis-lost-film-the-day-the-clown-cried/a-70043956?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "At the Venice Film Festival, a new documentary will reveal never-before-seen footage from \"The Day the Clown Cried.\" The 1972 Holocaust movie by comedian Jerry Lewis was never released, but has gained near-mythic status."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Champions League: German clubs look forward to attractive opponents;https://www.dw.com/en/champions-league-german-clubs-look-forward-to-attractive-opponents/a-70090811?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "This season's draw for the Champions League wasn't about putting teams into groups but simply determining who would play whom in the new eight-match league phase."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Concerning' rise in unprotected sex among teenagers;https://www.dw.com/en/concerning-rise-in-unprotected-sex-among-teenagers/a-70079734?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "A majority of teenagers in Europe, Central Asia, and Canada do not use condoms. Experts warn of rising risks of STIs and unwanted pregnancies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Glammed up in the kitchen: Influencers drive 'tradwife' nostalgia;https://www.dw.com/en/glammed-up-in-the-kitchen-influencers-drive-tradwife-nostalgia/a-70071650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "The \"traditional wife\" trend celebrates orthodox gender roles. But does this thriving movement on TikTok and Instagram also serve the far-right political agenda?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Populists\u2019 rhetoric linked to growing unhappiness, study finds;https://www.dw.com/en/populists-rhetoric-linked-to-growing-unhappiness-study-finds/a-70072409?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Right-wing populism is rising across Europe, with Germany\u2019s AfD possibly becoming the first far-right party to win state elections since the Nazis. However, their rise won\u2019t bring greater happiness to their supporters."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Russia airspace ban on Western airlines helps Chinese rivals;https://www.dw.com/en/russia-airspace-ban-on-western-airlines-helps-chinese-rivals/a-70025268?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Russia has banned many European carriers from using its airspace in response to sanctions over Ukraine. That's boosted Chinese airlines' market share, but it's not the only reason Western carriers are struggling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Congo 'working blindly' in attempts to control Mpox outbreak;https://www.dw.com/en/congo-working-blindly-in-attempts-to-control-mpox-outbreak/a-70062357?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Only 40% of Mpox cases in DR Congo are laboratory tested, suggesting true number of cases could be five times higher than reported, according to Africa CDC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Will a right-wing shift hit businesses and jobs?;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-will-a-right-wing-shift-hit-businesses-and-jobs/a-70025620?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "As voters in Saxony go to the polls in state elections, some fear a sharper political turn could hurt business investments in the region and worsen a lack of qualified workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN chief Guterres warns of fast-rising Pacific ocean;https://www.dw.com/en/un-chief-guterres-warns-of-fast-rising-pacific-ocean/a-70055845?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "UN chief Antonio Guterres issued a global SOS regarding Pacific ocean temperatures, rising at three times the global average rate. He called for a cutdown on emissions and support for vulnerable countries."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Telegram: How the app defies calls for hate censorship;https://www.dw.com/en/telegram-how-the-app-defies-calls-for-hate-censorship/a-70051335?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "After the arrest of Telegram's boss in France, attention is on the messaging app and its hands-off approach to content moderation. Some blame it for inflaming unrest, others see it as a den for criminal activity."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Eating processed meats raises type 2 diabetes risk;https://www.dw.com/en/eating-processed-meats-raises-type-2-diabetes-risk/a-70051810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Two slices of ham a day are enough to raise type 2 diabetes risk by 15%, according to a new study. Meanwhile high-fat diets could increase the numbers of a toxic molecule known to cause the disease."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is groundwater?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-groundwater/a-68142894?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 02:00:07",
        "text": "Groundwater is crucial for agriculture and drinking water supplies. But what exactly is it, how does it form and how can we protect this precious underground resource from threats like pollution and climate change?"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis live: Iran arrests 12 people for \u2018collaborating with Israel\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/22/middle-east-crisis-live-hezbollah-israel-lebanon-gaza-latest-news-updates;2024-09-22T18:33:01Z",
        "text": "Israel\u2019s chief of the general staff Herzi Halevi said in a televised statement the military was well-prepared for the next stages of fighting, which were coming in the next few days, but did not say what this would entail. \u201cWe will do whatever it takes to removes threats against Israel,\u201d Halevi said. So serious were the exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah this weekend, it is hard to be sure that the two sides have not already crossed the threshold of \u201call-out\u201d war. Israel\u2019s air force said it had struck 290 targets in southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing at least three. Hezbollah responded by launching 150 missiles, rockets and drones into Israel overnight, the deepest seen since violent hostilities broke out when the Iran-aligned group began launching rocket attacks in support of Hamas after 7 October. Missiles reached the suburbs of Israel\u2019s northern city of Haifa, and while casualties were modest \u2013 rescue teams treated a number of wounded \u2013 residential buildings were hit in Kiryat Bialik. Thousands of civilians were forced to seek shelter. Israel is examining a plan to use siege tactics against Hamas in northern Gaza, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quoted by several Israeli media outlets as saying. Netanyahu\u2019s office did not respond to a request for comment. The reports cited unnamed sources at a closed parliament committee meeting. The plan, published by retired military commanders and floated by some parliament members this month, suggests Palestinian civilians would be instructed to evacuate northern Gaza, which would then be declared a closed military zone. An estimated 5,000 Hamas militants remaining there would then be put under siege until they surrender. Army Radio reported that Netanyahu told lawmakers at parliament\u2019s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee that it was being examined. Public broadcaster Kan quoted Netanyahu as saying that the blueprint \u201cmakes sense\u201d and that \u201cit is one of the plans being considered but there are others as well.\u201d Seven people have been killed after an Israeli airstrike hit a school housing displaced people in western Gaza City, Palestinian health officials said, amid fears that Gaza\u2019s worsening humanitarian crisis might be forgotten as tensions boil between Hezbollah and Israel. The strike hit Kafr Qasem school in Beach camp on Sunday morning, officials in Gaza said. Among those killed was Majed Saleh, the director of the Hamas-run public works and housing ministry, they added. Israel\u2019s military said the strike had targeted Hamas fighters and that it had used aerial surveillance and taken other steps to limit the risk to civilians. Gaza\u2019s schools closed after the 7 October attack on Israel by Hamas, and most have been transformed into shelters. About 90% of Gaza\u2019s population of 2.3 million has been displaced, often multiple times. Six other Palestinians were killed in separate airstrikes in central and southern parts of Gaza, the medics said. Twelve people were arrested in six different Iranian provinces for being \u201coperatives collaborating with the Zionist regime (Israel)\u201c and planning acts against the country\u2019s security, the Revolutionary Guards said, according to the Student News Network. The Israeli health ministry on Sunday urged hospitals in northern Israel to transfer their operations to facilities with extra protection from rocket and missile fire. Rambam hospital in Haifa would transfer patients to its underground, secure facility, the ministry said. The Guardian obtained pictures of hospitals in the north of the country, preparing the sheltered areas for receiving patients from unsheltered departments. \u201cIn light of the new directives issued this morning, Tzafon Medical Center is taking immediate steps to prioritize the safety and well-being of our patients and staff amidst the escalating conflict,\u201d Dr. Noam Yehudai, from Tzafon Medical Center said. \u201cWe are discharging patients whose medical condition allows for safe discharge to their homes, canceling all elective surgeries until further notice'\u2019. Labour government ministers could be referred to police for potential complicity in war crimes in Gaza, the head of a Palestinian rights group said. Tayab Ali is chairman of the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), an independent organisation of lawyers, politicians and academics who aim to protect the rights of Palestinians through the law. Ali, who is also head of international law at London law firm Bindmans LLP, told a fringe event at the Labour Party conference that he will add Labour ministers to a list the organisation has already sent to Scotland Yard in relation to arming Israel. Earlier this year the ICJP handed evidence to Scotland Yard in relation to alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza under applicable UK legislation. Evidence was provided in relation to senior UK politicians, who have remained anonymous, but Ali said the names of five Conservative former ministers had been supplied. Labour MP for Brent West Barry Gardiner attended the fringe event and asked the panel about \u201cthe ramifications of complicity by the UK Government\u201d. Ali said their case against the previous government had been based on article 25 of the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) which outlines individual criminal responsibility for war crimes. He said: \u201cWhat\u2019s really important about that? Because when you talk about the ICC, it sounds like a foreign institution, but the Rome statute is incorporated in British law, so it makes it a crime here in the UK to be complicit in the same way. \u201cAnd actually even further, because in the UK, in domestic law, we have not just complicity in \u2013 and I\u2019ll read out the pertinent words \u2013 facilitating the commission of a crime, aids, abets or otherwise assists in its commission or its attempted commission, including providing the means for its commission. \u201cReally important keywords there, but also in domestic legislation, is the offence of conspiracy.\u201d Ali added: \u201cIf a person is about to do a bank robbery, they come to me and I think they\u2019re a bank robber, and they ask me to supply them with a weapon, a shotgun for example, I am conspiring with that person to commit that bank robbery. I am complicit in that. \u201cI see the same framework for supplying parts for F-35s. At the moment ICJP is looking very carefully at the Labour Party in Government. \u201cIf we find sufficient evidence that Labour Party Government ministers have been complicit in war crimes then we will add to our complaints already with Scotland Yard. \u201cBelieve me, I don\u2019t want to do that. I\u2019d much rather the Government, and even the last government, comply with international law.\u201d Lebanon\u2019s top Christian cleric Bechara Boutros al-Rai said in his sermon on Sunday that Lebanon was \u201cdeeply saddened\u201d by the casualties among civilians and within Hezbollah in this week\u2019s attacks, in a very rare case of the Christian leader expressing condolences to the group. \u201cWe direct an appeal to the [UN security council] to put an end to this war by all available means,\u201d Rai said. Israeli forces raided the Al Jazeera bureau in the West Bank on Sunday and issued a 45-day closure order, the Qatari broadcaster said. Footage showed heavily armed and masked troops entering the premises in Ramallah. The European Union said it is \u201cextremely concerned\u201d by the escalation of violence between Israel and Hezbollah, and is calling for an \u201curgent\u201d ceasefire. A statement from the EU read: \u201cThe European Union is extremely concerned by the escalation in Lebanon, following Friday\u2019s attacks in Beirut - where at least three children were also killed - and the increasing cross border violence between Israel and Hezbollah. \u201cHeavy attacks are reported also today, both in Israel and Lebanon. A ceasefire is urgent, across the Blue Line as in Gaza. \u201cCivilians on both sides are paying a high price. They will also be the ones suffering once again the most in a full-blown war that must be averted, including by renewed intense diplomatic mediation efforts.\u201d It added peace efforts will be high on the EU\u2019s agenda at the UN General Assembly. A regional military escalation is not in Israel\u2019s \u201cbest interest,\u201d White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby said on Sunday. \u201cWe don\u2019t believe that escalating this military conflict is in their best interest,\u201d Kirby said on ABC\u2019s This Week, adding that the United States was \u201csaying this directly to our Israeli counterparts.\u201d Kirby added: \u201cThe tensions are much higher now than they were even just a few days ago.\u201d But he added \u201cwe still believe that there can be time and space for a diplomatic solution here and that\u2019s what we\u2019re working on.\u201d Sarah Kiperwas, from Krayot, told the Guardian: \u201cI heard a big blast around 6.30am. \u201cFrom our balcony, I could see flames and then they told us that someone got hurt. \u201cI am 68 years old and I have lived in this neighbourhood all my life. This is the fourth time in my life that my city has been hit. \u201cThis time I believe it will be harder than the others. Hezbollah had been there for almost a year waiting to make our lives impossible. But we are ready to fight and finish it. \u201cNo one in the world would stand by if the enemy continues to bomb us.\u201d Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, has praised its ally, Hezbollah, after the Lebanese group launched overnight rocket strikes at northern Israel. Hamas said in a statement: Hamas saluted the resistance fighters in Lebanon for their resilience and bravery in facing the Zionist war machine and for their determination to continue fighting in support of the Palestinian people and their resistance in Gaza and the West Bank. Here are some more comments from Hezbollah\u2019s deputy leader Naim Qassem. \u201cWe admit that we are pained. We are humans. But as we are pained \u2014 you will also be pained,\u201d Kassem said at the funeral of top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Akil, who reportedly led the Radwan Force, a special forces unit tasked with cross-border attacks on Israel. He said a barrage of rockets fired by the group deep into Israel early on Sunday was only the beginning, vowing to destroy Israel\u2019s economy. We have this snap from the Reuters news agency. Hezbollah\u2019s deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem has said that the Lebanese militant group had entered a new phase of its conflict with Israel which he described as an \u201copen-ended battle of reckoning\u201d. \u201cThreats will not stop us... We are ready to face all military possibilities,\u201d he added. The comments were made earlier today during a funeral for a top commander killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Friday. Kenneth Roth, the former Human Rights Watch executive director, has said Al Jazeera has been one of the most important sources of information throughout Israel\u2019s war on Gaza, given the fact foreign journalists banned from entering the strip. Roth said Israel shut Al Jazeera\u2019s bureau in Ramallah because the network has exposed \u201cIsraeli repression - the apartheid\u201d in the occupied West Bank. He wrote in a post on X: Al Jazeera has been one of the most important sources of information on Israeli bombing and starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza and repression in the West Bank, so Israel shuts down its Ramallah bureau after already have shut its East Jerusalem bureau. Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, reposted Roth\u2019s message, saying: \u201cno witnesses allowed\u201d. Qatar-based media outlet Al Jazeera has condemned a raid by Israeli forces on its office in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank and the issuing of a 45-day closure order. The Israeli military said, without providing evidence, that it closed the Al Jazeera TV office in Ramallah because it incited \u201cterror\u201d. The closure order was signed after a legal opinion and intelligence assessment \u201cdetermined that the offices were being used to incite terror, to support terrorist activities and that the channel\u2019s broadcasts endanger the security and public order in both the area and the state of Israel as a whole,\u201d a military statement said. Al Jazeera, which says it has no affiliation with militant groups, has denounced the raid as a \u201ccriminal act\u201d by Israeli forces and has said it would take legal action to protect it rights and promised to continue its coverage. The network said: Israel\u2019s ongoing suppression of the free press is blatantly aimed at concealing its actions in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, in contravention of international and humanitarian law. Israel\u2019s direct targeting and killing of journalists, along with arrests, intimidation, and threats, will not deter Al Jazeera from its commitment to coverage. The Israeli government in May banned Al Jazeera from operating inside Israel, in a move authorised by an Israeli court, and raided a Jerusalem hotel the network used as its office, saying its broadcasts threatened national security. Al Jazeera has vehemently denied accusations by Israel that it is a terrorist mouthpiece. The network says that Israel systematically targets its employees in the Gaza Strip. Four of Al Jazeera\u2019s journalists have been killed since the war in Gaza began last October. As of 20 September 2024, preliminary investigations conducted by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) showed at least 116 journalists and media workers have been killed since the war began, making it the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992. The Israeli military has repeatedly accused journalists from Al Jazeera, a Qatari-based network, of links to Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, or its ally Islamic Jihad. Al Jazeera has fiercely denied Israel\u2019s accusations and said Israel systematically targets its employees in the Gaza Strip. Four of Al Jazeera\u2019s journalists have been killed since the war in Gaza began last October, and the network\u2019s office in Gaza was bombed. The broadcaster said the soldiers did not provide a reason for the closure order on Sunday. \u201cThere is a court ruling for closing down Al Jazeera for 45 days,\u201d an Israeli soldier told Al Jazeera\u2019s West Bank bureau chief Walid al-Omari in a conversation broadcast live on the network. \u201cI ask you to take all the cameras and leave the office at this moment,\u201d the soldier said, according to the footage. Omari said the order accused the network of \u201cincitement to and support of terrorism\u201d, according to Al Jazeera. \u201cTargeting journalists this way always aims to erase the truth and prevent people from hearing the truth,\u201d Omari said. The Foreign Press Association (FPA) has said it is \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d over the Israeli raid this morning that forced the closure of Al Jazeera\u2019s Ramallah bureau in the occupied West Bank. The Qatar-based channel aired live footage of the Israeli troops storming the channel\u2019s office and handing over a military closure order to one of the Al Jazeera TV staff before the broadcast was disrupted. In a statement posted to X, the FPA said: The Foreign Press Association is deeply troubled by this escalation, which threatens press freedom, and urges the Israeli government to reconsider these actions. Restricting foreign reporters and closing news channels signals a shift away from democratic values. Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah launched over 100 rockets early on Sunday across a wide and deep area of northern Israel, with some landing near the city of Haifa. The barrage came after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday killed at least 45 people, including one of Hezbollah\u2019s top leaders, as well as women and children. The Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said Israeli strikes on Lebanon would continue until it was safe for evacuated people in the north of Israel to return. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has in recent days dealt Hezbollah \u201ca series of blows it could not have imagined\u201d. Israel\u2019s president, Isaac Herzog, meanwhile, claimed that Israel does not want a war with Lebanon but stressed it has a right to self-defence. Israel\u2019s civil defence agency ordered all schools in the north of the country to close. The United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, warned of an \u201cimminent catastrophe\u201d in the Middle East. At least 41,431 Palestinian people have been killed and 95,818 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said. An Israeli airstrike killed at least seven people in the Kafr Qasem school in Beach camp \u2013 which was sheltering displaced families \u2013 in Gaza City on Sunday, Palestinian health officials said. Al Jazeera said armed and masked Israeli forces raided its office in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and issued a 45-day closure order. A Hezbollah spokesperson has said the war between the militant group and Israel has now entered a '\u201cnew phase\u201d and confirmed that they would keep up their attacks until these is a ceasefire in the war in Gaza. Speaking at a funeral for a Hezbollah member on Sunday, in quotes reported by the Associated Press, Hassan Fadlallah said: \u201cWe have a strong and capable resistance. All of [Hezbollah\u2019s] options are on the table, and it is prepared for any scenario, war or confrontation.\u201d Britain will keep under review possible new sanctions against Israeli settlers in the West Bank and will act if it has to, foreign minister David Lammy said on Sunday, adding he was concerned by actions that were inflaming tensions. Britain announced sanctions against Israeli settlers in February and May this year over what it said was extremist groups perpetrating settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Lammy, who became foreign minister in July after a Labour election victory, indicated the new government would take a similar approach and said that further sanctions were possible. \u201cWe are very worried about escalatory behaviour, very worried about inflamed tensions,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m absolutely clear: if we have to act, we will act, and I\u2019m in discussions with G7 partners particularly and European partners on that.\u201d The Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant has said Israeli strikes on Lebanon would continue until it was safe for evacuated people in the north of Israel to return. \u201cHezbollah has begun to feel some of the capabilities of the Israel Defense Forces \u2026 and we are seeing the results,\u201d Gallant said during a tour of the Israeli Air Force\u2019s command and control room. \u201cThese moves will continue until we reach a situation where we safely return the residents of the north to their homes. This is the goal, this is the mission, and we will do everything necessary to meet it,\u201d he added, in comments reporting by the Times of Israel. Hezbollah has vowed to fight on until a ceasefire in the war in Gaza, setting the stage for a long conflict. Israel\u2019s communications ministry has said it is working closely with telecommunications firms to \u201censure the continuation of landline, cellular and internet connections everywhere\u201d across the country. \u201cAs part of the ministry\u2019s preparations for an emergency, and under the direction of communications minister, the ministry distributed about 440 satellite phones to the heads of (local) councils and security officials,\u201d the ministry said in a statement, adding that it is \u201cprepared for an emergency and will continue to conduct regular situation assessments\u201d. It comes after Hezbollah responded to Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon with four rocket barrages early on Sunday morning and more than 140 rockets and drones fired into Israel\u2019s Jezreel Valley. At least 41,431 Palestinian people have been killed and 95,818 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The toll includes 40 deaths in the previous 24 hours, according to the ministry. The health ministry has said thousands of other dead people are most likely lost in the rubble of the enclave. We have some more information on the Israeli airstrike that Palestinian health officials said killed seven people in the Kafr Qasem school (in Beach refugee camp) in Gaza City on Sunday (see post at 10.28). Officials have said among those killed was Majed Saleh, the director of the public works and housing ministry. Israel\u2019s military claimed that the strike, that happened around 11am local time (0800 GMT), targeted Hamas fighters there. Hundreds of displaced Palestinian people were sheltering at the school. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a statement form his office. In it, he said Israel has in recent days dealt Hezbollah \u201ca series of blows it could not have imagined\u201d. \u201cIf Hezbollah has not understood the message, I promise you, it will understand the message,\u201d Netanyahu said, as he promised the return of northern residents who were evacuated due to attacks by Hezbollah in Lebanon. \u201cNo country can tolerate firing on its citizens, on its cities, and us \u2013 the State of Israel \u2013 will not tolerate it. We will do everything necessary to restore security,\u201d Netanyahu was quoted as saying. Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has been speaking to the media in New York ahead of the UN general assembly. According to the Hareetz reporter Allison Kaplan Sommer, he said Israel \u201chas created a real hell in Gaza\u201d and that \u201cthe crimes of the Zionist regime in Lebanon, even though they are being committed out of frustration, will not be left without response\u201d. \u201cThe main hurdle in achieving ceasefire and stopping this war has really been the support provided by the US and Western countries,\u201d Araghchi said, as he blamed western support for Israel being able to continue its devastating military actions. Al Jazeera has quoted Gaza\u2019s civil defence as saying that seven people have been killed by Israeli bombing of the Kafr Qasim school in western Gaza City, which has been housing hundreds of displaced people. Civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal reported \u201cseven martyrs and a number of wounded, including serious cases, as a result of Israeli shelling of Kafr Qasim school\u201d in the refugee camp. It follows reports of an attack yesterday on the al-Falah school in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, in which 21 people, including 13 children, were killed, according to Wafa, the Palestinian news agency. Trevor Phillips puts it to Isaac Herzog that Israel has been widely accused of being behind the deadly pager and walkie-talkie explosions in Lebanon last week, in which children were among those who were killed. Philips asks the Israeli president if this was a \u201clegitimate way to prosecute a war\u201d, given the fact there was no way of ensuring civilians were not killed in the attack. \u201cI reject out of hand any connection to this or that source of operation,\u201d Herzog said. He did not answer the question directly, but instead talked about the rocket attack \u2013 which Israel blamed on Hezbollah \u2013 that struck the predominantly Druze town of Majdal Shams in the mountainous Golan Heights, close to the border with Syria, in July, in which at least 12 people, including children, were killed. Herzog said that Israel, as a sovereign nation, has a right to defend itself. Israel\u2019s president, Isaac Herzog, has been interviewed by Sky News\u2019 Trevor Phillips on his Sunday morning politics programme in the UK. Herzog says that Israel \u201cdoes not want war\u201d with Lebanon, claiming that the conflict was \u201cinstigated\u201d by Iranian proxies in the region, including Hezbollah and Yemen\u2019s Houthis, as well as Hamas in Gaza. \u201cIsrael is fighting for its well being, its existence, its citizens. That\u2019s what we are doing. And we are doing whatever is the right thing to do,\u201d he said, adding that Lebanon has been hijacked by Hezbollah, which he described as a \u201cterror organisation\u201d. \u201cIt is being armed to its teeth by the Iranian empire of evil,\u201d he said, stressing that Israel wants to bring Israeli hostages back from Gaza and to return Israeli citizens \u201cback to their homes on the border with Lebanon\u201d. Israel\u2019s military said on Sunday that it intercepted a \u201csuspicious aerial target\u201d launched from the east, and that no damage or injuries were reported. Earlier, an official in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose coalition of Iranian-backed militias that oppose US support for Israel in the war on Gaza, said they launched cruise missile and explosive drone attacks at Israel. Pro-Iranian militias in Iraq have claimed responsibility for drone attacks on Israel multiple times since the outbreak of war in Gaza almost a year ago. You can read more about who the Islamic Resistance in Iraq are in this useful explainer by the Guardian\u2019s defence and security editor, Dan Sabbagh, here: William Christou is reporting from the Lebanese capital, Beirut Hezbollah has said it has struck industrial complexes belonging to Israeli defence company Rafael, just near Haifa, in northern Israel, early on Sunday morning. The group said in a statement said the attack was part of an \u201cinitial response\u201d to the pager and walkie-talkie attacks which left more than 3,000 wounded and 42 dead across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday. It is widely believed that Israel was behind the attacks, though it has not publicly claimed responsibility. Fighting in south Lebanon and north Israel reached its most intense yet overnight, with Israel launching wide-ranging air strikes which it said targeted Hezbollah missile launchers across Lebanon\u2019s south. Videos of the resulting explosions with visible shockwaves being filmed from afar widely circulated Lebanese social media. At least one was killed and another injured in the strikes, the Lebanese ministry of health said. In turn, Hezbollah shot a barrage of rockets at north Israel overnight, targeting Ramat David airbase south east of Haifa in the early hours of Sunday morning \u2014 the furthest the group has hit since fighting began in October. The renewed fighting comes days after Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said Israel was approaching a \u201cnew phase\u201d in the war with Hezbollah. Secretary general of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah said in a Thursday speech that the intensified Israeli attacks would not stop the group from continuing its attacks on Israel, until a ceasefire in Gaza was reached. Here are some of the latest images coming out of the newswires from northern Israel, where Hezbollah says it has fired rockets: The Israeli army have continued attacks across southern and central Gaza today, killing at least seven Palestinians, according to Wafa, the Palestinian news agency. Israeli artillery reportedly targeted the town of Khuza\u2019a, east of the southern city Khan Younis, killing two people. Emergency teams from the Palestinian Red Crescent later recovered the bodies of four people from the al-Attatirah area east of Rafah, after Israeli airstrikes. In another attack, Wafa reports that one person was killed after an Israeli army quadcopter \u2013 a drone with four propellers - opened fire on civilians west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. These reports have not yet been independently verified by the Guardian. The United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, has warned of an \u201cimminent catastrophe\u201d in the Middle East. \u201cWith the region on the brink of an imminent catastrophe, it cannot be overstated enough: there is no military solution that will make either side safer,\u201d she wrote in a brief statement on X. Welcome to our live coverage of Israel\u2019s war in Gaza and the wider Middle East crisis. Hezbollah launched more than 100 rockets early on Sunday from Lebanon targeting a wide area of northern Israel, according to Israel\u2019s military, with some landing near the city of Haifa. The rocket barrage overnight set off air raid sirens across northern Israel, sending thousands of people scrambling into shelters. The Israeli military said rockets had been fired \u201ctoward civilian areas\u201d, pointing to a possible escalation after previous barrages had mainly been aimed at military targets. In posts on X, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Lebanon launched two waves of attacks \u2013 the first about 85 rockets where some of them were intercepted, including crashes detected in the areas of Kiryat Bialik, Tzur Shalom and Moroshet. The second attack included 20 rockets after alerts were issued in the in the Jezreel Valley area, according to the IDF. Israel\u2019s Magen David Adom rescue service said it treated four people for shrapnel wounds, including a 76-year-old man who suffered minor injuries in Kiryat Bialik, a community near Haifa where buildings were damaged and cars set on fire. It was not immediately clear if the damage was caused by a rocket or an Israeli interceptor. Earlier, the Israeli military said it launched airstrikes on hundreds of targets in southern Lebanon in the wake of the deepest rocket attacks by Hezbollah into Israel since the start of the war in Gaza last October. The IDF said on Saturday night it launched two wave of attacks \u2013 one attacking about 290 targets, and a second targeting 110 sites. Earlier, Hezbollah posted on its Telegram channel that it had targeted the Israeli Ramat David airbase near Haifa on Saturday night with dozens of missiles in response to what it described as \u201crepeated Israeli attacks on Lebanon\u201d. The airbase is the furthest target the Lebanese group has hit in Israel since October, about 50km from the Lebanon-Israel border. Here is a recap of the latest developments: Hospitals in northern Israel have been instructed to transfer their operations to facilities with extra protection from rocket and missile fire, the health ministry said on Sunday. Rambam hospital in Haifa will transfer patients to its underground, secure facility, the ministry said. Meanwhile, the military\u2019s Home Front Command said schools and other educational institutions and activities would not be permitted in the north until at least Monday at 6pm local time. The death toll from an Israeli airstrike that targeted Hezbollah military commanders in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs has risen to 45, Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said on Sunday, updating an earlier toll of 37 from the Friday attack. News broadcaster Al Jazeera said on Sunday morning that Israeli forces raided its bureau in the West Bank\u2019s Ramallah city with a military order to close it for 45 days. The Qatar-based channel aired live footage of the Israeli troops entered the channel\u2019s office and handed over a closure order to one of the Al Jazeera TV staff. Al Jazeera\u2019s West Bank bureau chief, Walid al-Omari, reported that Israeli troops brought a truck to confiscate documents, devices and office property. In a statement, the Palestinian Journalists\u2019 Syndicate condemned the raid, saying \u201cthis arbitrary military decision is considered a new violation against journalistic and media works\u201d. The US state department has urged Americans in Lebanon to leave the country while commercial options remain available. \u201cAt this time, commercial flights are available, but at reduced capacity. If the security situation worsens, commercial options to depart may become unavailable,\u201d it added. The death toll from an Israeli strike on Saturday on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza city included \u201c13 children and six women\u201d, one of whom was pregnant, said civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal. The Gaza health ministry said at least 22 had died as a result of the strike. US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said he was worried about escalation between Israel and Lebanon. Sullivan, speaking with reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, said yesterday that he still sees a path to a ceasefire in Gaza but that the US is \u201cnot at a point right now where we\u2019re prepared to put something on the table\u201d. Attacks on Lebanon this week showed that the Israeli government planned to spread the war to the region, Turkey\u2019s president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan said, calling on western countries to take \u201cdeterrent steps\u201d against Israel\u2019s actions. Erdo\u011fan told a press conference that Israel\u2019s war in Gaza will top the agenda of his speech at the UN general assembly on Tuesday. \u201cIt is time for all countries with the mission of protecting world peace to come up with solutions that will stop Israel,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said. Iran unveiled its \u201cjihad\u201d single-stage liquid-fuel ballistic missile with a high-explosive detachable warhead and a range of 1,000km, according to state TV. The missiles were displayed on Saturday, along with other military hardware, during a parade marking the anniversary of the start of the 1980-88 war with Iraq. At least 41,391 Palestinians have been killed and 95,760 injured in Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, Gaza\u2019s health ministry said on Saturday. Gaza\u2019s ministry of health does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its count. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, postponed his trip to the US by a day due to the security situation in the country\u2019s north. Netanyahu was due to travel to New York on 24 September, during which he is expected to address the annual UN general assembly. He issued a short statement after the Beirut airstrike, saying: \u201cOur goals are clear, and our actions speak for themselves.\u201d"
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        "label": "The Guardian;Germany: exit polls show Olaf Scholz\u2019s party narrowly beating far-right AfD in key state election \u2013 Europe live;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/22/germany-brandenburg-state-election-afd-spd-exit-poll-latest-live-news-updates;2024-09-22T18:09:23Z",
        "text": "And here are the latest ARD projections: The latest projections from ZDF put the SPD at 31.3% and the AfD at 29.5%. Alexander Clarkson, a lecturer for German and European Studies at King\u2019s College London, said the projected results show \u201cthat however much BSW and AfD are expanding across the former GDR, there are big differences in local history, culture and economic structures between East German L\u00e4nder that political analysis of Germany must take into account.\u201d Here are the latest images from Brandenburg\u2019s election night. And the updated projections from ARD: In this projection, the SPD is at 31.2% and the AfD at 29.9%. Here are updated projections from ZDF. The SPD is at 31.8%, and the AfD at 29.2%. Initial reactions are filtering in from party leaders after exit polls in Brandenburg show the Social Democrats in a narrow lead ahead of the far-right AfD. At the Brandenburg SPD\u2019s election gathering at the Old Post, a restaurant near the state parliament in Potsdam, there were jubilant cries as the news came in. One reporter on the scene called the response \u2018cathartic\u2019, after weeks of a nail biting campaign in which it looked like the party would lose to the AfD for the first time. Dietmar Woidke, Brandenburg\u2019s leader, who had gambled his future on the result, saying he would resign if his SPD lost to the AfD, took to the floor around 6.15pm telling supporters he was relieved, \u2018considering the starting position we were in\u201d. \u201cWe said we\u2019d take on this battle and we said our goal at the outset was to ensure our land didn\u2019t get a big brown stamp on it,\u201d he said. But he urged SPD members to \u201cput on the euphoria brakes\u201d as the final result was not fully clear. The far right AfD has called its performance in Brandenburg a huge success, thanking its campaigners and voters. A second exit poll, from ZDF, also gives the SPD a narrow lead: Social Democratic party (SPD): 32% Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD): 29% Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW): 12% Christian Democratic Union (CDU): 11.5% Greens: 4.5% Voting has ended in Brandenburg. Here\u2019s a first exit poll, from ARD: Social Democratic party (SPD): 31% Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD): 30% Christian Democratic Union (CDU): 12% Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW): 12% Greens: 5% A so-called \u2018firewall\u2019 has been put up by the established parties, meaning they will not form a coalition with the AfD. Polls will close in Brandenburg in 10 minutes. Stay tuned for exit poll data. Dietmar Woidke, Brandenburg\u2019s popular state leader from the SPD, who has been incumbent for 14 years, has upped the ante by pledging to resign if the AfD wins on Sunday. He has even excluded Olaf Scholz from his election campaign \u2013 despite the fact he and his wife live in the state capital, Potsdam \u2013 fearing the negative impact of his presence. The personalised campaign around Woidke, including a picture-driven fireside interview in which he talked about his pets and his playlist, has the cheeky campaign slogan: \u201cWenn Glatze, dann Woidke\u201d (If you want a skinhead, choose Woidke) \u2013 a cryptic reference to his bald head and the most physical of Nazi trademarks. He has repeatedly attempted to push voters\u2019 attention towards the state\u2019s economic successes. In Cottbus, about 75 miles (120km) south of Berlin, this includes the gleaming new teaching hospital, and plans to transform an old gravel pit into a huge lakeside leisure complex, both a result of multibillion euro funds to help east Germany\u2019s largest coal-producing region to exit from fossil fuels. As people seek answers as to why the AfD has managed to secure such a prominent position in German politics since its foundation in 2013, the question was put to author Jenny Erpenbeck at a reading of her widely acclaimed International Booker prize winning novel Kairos \u2013 set in the final days of the East German regime \u2013 at the Potsdam literary festival LIT:Potsdam on Saturday night. Erpenbeck, who was born in communist-run east Berlin in 1967, stressed she was no apologist for, or supporter of the AfD. But to understand something of the party\u2019s success, one only had to recognise the level of lingering discontentment which existed in eastern Germany today, over the way in which the reunification was carried out, she said, after 40 years of the GDR. Even 34 years since reunification, eastern Germans often felt greatly under-represented in Germany. \u201cForty years are 40 years,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I think the transition was difficult. You just need to look at the numbers: Only 2% of the management positions in companies, in universities, in the media are in eastern German hands. Let me put it this way: I think that easterners are also quite capable of being able to run a western newspaper. \u201cI think that there is simply a feeling people have that they are not really represented, that they are not heard. The east German-born theatre director, Frank Castorf, coined this beautiful expression: \u2018the AfD is the revenge of the East\u2019, and I believe that it really is like that. \u201cThere was such a long wait to really be noticed, and not just to be welcomed, but actually to be recognised as capable of taking on positions of responsibility.\u201d It remained a particularly sore point, she said, that the pensions of eastern Germans still remained below the level of those western Germans receive, \u201cwhich I think is hugely absurd. There has been a lot of injustice like this.\u201d These experiences had not been properly dealt with, or discussed, she said. \u201cThere\u2019s no complaints office, as it were. And this has led to a lot of dissatisfaction and unfortunately it\u2019s pretty late in the day now.\u201d LIT:Potsdam\u2019s moderator Denis Scheck was quick to point out the deep irony that a party \u201cas thoroughly West German as the AfD\u201d \u2013 having started its life in 2013 as a group mainly made up of western German professors and business people, and most of whose leaders now are western Germans \u2013 had so successful managed to \u201chijack this discontent\u201d. Erpenbeck responded: \u201cYes, it\u2019s an interesting and strange fact that the most prominent AfD politicians come from the West. I don\u2019t have much to say about this, other than that I\u2019m not voting for the AfD\u201d. Ahead of today\u2019s election in Brandenburg, polling showed the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) and the Social Democratic party (SPD) neck-and-neck for first place. On what has been a gloriously sunny autumn day in Brandenburg, voter turnout is thought to have been high. By 2pm local time, 46.1% of voters - 2.1 million are eligible, including 100,000 new voters, after the voting age was lowered to 16 - had cast their ballot, according to the state election registrar. At the same time on the last election day five years ago, 31.3% had been to the polling booth. Polling stations opened at 8am and will close at 6pm local time. Voters in the northern German state of Brandenburg are today deciding not only on the future make up of the regional parliament but holding what is being seen as the equivalent of a referendum on the future of the embattled coalition government of Olaf Scholz. His Social Democrats have ruled in Brandenburg, the state that surrounds Berlin like a doughnut, since reunification in 1990. All eyes are on the state, as the Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) was leading in the final pre-election polls with 28%, ahead of the Social Democratic party (SPD), and could be about to win the state for the first time. However, in what is being described as a neck and neck race, the SPD has considerably narrowed the gap in recent days, and in final polls was just a single percentage point behind the AfD, with 27%. The SPD\u2019s incumbent leader, Dietmar Woidke, has effectively gambled his party\u2019s success in the vote on his own popularity ratings, pledging to resign if the AfD beats his party. The AfD has called for the resignation of Chancellor Scholz in the event of its winning the state. In what has become an increasingly fractured political landscape in recent years (the AfD came into being 11 years ago), the newcomers, Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), a left-wing, conservative grouping which broke away from the far-left Die Linke and has been in existence since January, has a good chance of entering government. It was polling around 13% in final surveys. A so-called \u2018firewall\u2019 has been put up by the established parties, meaning they will not form a coalition with the AfD. This has the potential to make the BSW a kingmaker in any powerbroking. The Greens and pro-business FDP - the junior partners in Scholz\u2019s government, are at risk of failing to reach the 5% hurdle needed to get into parliament. Three weeks ago the AfD upended the status quo by winning the state election in Thuringia with 33% - the first time a far-right force had won a state election in post-war Germany - accompanied by a strong second place in neighbouring Saxony with more than 30%. Here are some images from election day in Brandenburg. About 2.5 million Brandenburgers are eligible to vote today in what may be one of the smallest German states population-wise, comprising a belt of rural, and suburban settlements surrounding Berlin. Yet, with its predicted boost for the far-right party, the race is drawing a huge amount of attention that belies the state\u2019s size. Three weeks ago, the Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) upended the status quo with its win in Thuringia \u2013 the first time a far-right force had won a state election in post-war Germany \u2013 accompanied by a strong second place in neighbouring Saxony with more than 30%. Marianne Spring-R\u00e4umsch\u00fcssel, an AfD representative on Cottbus city council, predicted a \u201cglorious\u201d victory for the AfD, which has been leading the polls in the state for more than a year. \u201cYou can smell it in the air.\u201d As the only state in eastern Germany where the Social Democrats have ruled continuously since German reunification in 1990, Brandenburg\u2019s vote is seen as a particular test for the embattled coalition government of the SPD chancellor, Olaf Scholz, which, according to a poll this week, only 3% of Germans are convinced is good for the country. With Brandenburg\u2019s vote being viewed as a referendum on Scholz\u2019s government, defeat for the SPD would be of deep symbolic significance, particularly before next autumn\u2019s Bundestag election. Read the full story here. Good afternoon and welcome to a special edition of the Europe live blog, focused on the state election in Brandenburg. Send thoughts and tips to lili.bayer@theguardian.com."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;No clear winner if Hezbollah and Israel escalate to ground war;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/no-clear-winner-if-hezbollah-and-israel-escalate-to-ground-war;2024-09-22T17:49:09Z",
        "text": "So serious were the exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah this weekend, it is hard to be sure that the two sides have not already crossed the threshold of \u201call-out\u201d war. Israel\u2019s air force said it had struck 290 targets in southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing at least three. Hezbollah responded by launching 150 missiles, rockets and drones into Israel overnight, the deepest attack since violent hostilities broke out when the Iran-aligned group began launching rocket attacks in support of Hamas after 7 October. Missiles reached the suburbs of Israel\u2019s northern city of Haifa, and while casualties were modest \u2013 rescue teams treated a number of wounded \u2013 residential buildings were hit in Kiryat Bialik. Thousands of civilians were forced to seek shelter. Hezbollah said it had used short-range Fadi 1 and 2 missiles for the first time, weapons said to have a range of 50 and 65 miles respectively. They were aimed, the militant group said, at Israel\u2019s Ramat David airbase, 15 miles south-east of Haifa, though their impact on military operations appears slight. Though the number of missiles fired was said to be small, and mostly intercepted, images of the damage to homes suggest that some nevertheless breached Israel\u2019s much-vaunted air defences \u2013 a troubling sign. It has been five long days since the extraordinary plot to blow up pagers and then walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah, killing 42 and wounding more than 3,000, an attack for which Israel is widely believed to have been responsible. On Friday, an Israeli airstrike killed the veteran Hezbollah leader Ibrahim Aqil in Beirut and 37 others. The growing intensity of the Israeli attacks appears to suggest that Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government is willing to accept whatever Hezbollah does in response. \u201cIf Hezbollah didn\u2019t get the message, I promise you \u2013 it will get the message,\u201d the prime minister said on Sunday after the latest exchanges. It is dangerous thinking to rely on the belief that Israel will decisively come out on top if the fighting escalates. But it also comes as Israel\u2019s leaders have decided that months of tit-for-tat responses to Hezbollah attacks across the northern border have not brought about peace. About 65,000 Israeli civilians remain displaced from their homes (similar numbers are also displaced from southern Lebanon) as Hezbollah attacks have continued on a daily basis. An escalation of some sort from Hezbollah in response to the pager plot and the Beirut strike was inevitable, and was always likely to see the group reach into its arsenal of anywhere between 120,000 and 200,000 unguided missiles and rockets. On Sunday, Naim Qassem, Hezbollah\u2019s deputy secretary-general, said that the group had entered a new phase in its struggle with Israel \u2013 ominously described by him as an \u201copen-ended battle of reckoning\u201d. If the rhetoric is anything to go by, neither side appears willing to back down, raising the question of where the higher tempo of cross-border bombing will lead. A Hezbollah missile that causes a significant number of civilian casualties in Israel, whether deliberately or through a miscalculation, would probably prompt an even more intense Israeli response, and risks more civilian casualties in Lebanon in return. The hope is that both sides want to avoid an even more deadly ground war, though such is the environment that even that cannot be certain. Israel\u2019s president, Isaac Herzog, said on Sunday that when Aqil was killed, he and other leaders from Hezbollah\u2019s elite Radwan unit were discussing a surprise cross-border attack into Israel \u2013 \u201cthe same horrific, horrendous attack that we had on 7 October by Hamas\u201d. Though the Israel Defense Forces has been engaged in nearly a year of constant fighting against Hamas in Gaza, the conflict is not as intense as it once was. Last week Israel redeployed its 98th Division from Gaza to the north, and the country\u2019s leaders may yet reach the conclusion the only way to halt the missile and rocket attacks is to enter southern Lebanon, though that is fraught with risk. Even allowing for the exploding pager attack, Hezbollah is estimated to have between 30,000 and 50,000 fighters available and a similar number in reserve. It is a larger and more capable military force than Hamas, which is still fighting on despite nearly a year of bombardment in response to the assault of 7 October."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Fake UK news sites \u2018spreading false stories\u2019 about western firms in Ukraine;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/fake-uk-news-sites-spreading-false-stories-about-western-firms-in-ukraine;2024-09-22T15:44:33Z",
        "text": "Fake news websites registered in the UK and made to resemble trusted British outlets are allegedly spreading disinformation about western companies operating in Ukraine. The suspected Russian propaganda operation has prompted calls by parliamentarians for a change in the law to force UK-registered news websites to reveal their ownership, as happens in the EU. While the sites \u2013 londoninsider.co.uk and talk-finance.co.uk \u2013 are in English and have been registered in the UK, their output has been picked up and disseminated in Ukraine, where the UK\u2019s media has a reputation for reliability and trustworthiness. The use of the sites has been highlighted by a US firm, Sarn, which is working in Ukraine in the energy and military hardware sectors. It said articles on the two sites had falsely accused it of arms trafficking, judicial fraud and embezzlement. Content on the sites appears to be AI-generated, while an analysis by a linguist engaged by Sarn suggested that the original text had been created by a Russian speaker. The name of an actual UK journalist appeared as a byline on the stories, but he has said in an affidavit that he did not know anything about the story he was supposed to have written for londoninsider.co.uk. A Liberal Democrat peer, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, said: \u201cIt is extremely concerning that London\u2019s reputation as a media and financial hub is being used by the Russian propaganda machine to damage western companies operating in Ukraine.\u201d Lord Wallace added that transparency of ownership to enable the public to know who controls the media was more important than ever before and said all news outlets, regardless of their size, should have to publish information about their owners in a national database. \u201cThis important move to protect the media from political or economic interference was brought into law across the European Union in March and it\u2019s high time it was introduced here.\u201d Armen Agas, Sarn\u2019s deputy chair, said the company categorically rejected \u201cbaseless and entirely fake news\u201d that it said was \u201cpropagated\u201d by the sites under the headline: Weapons, Money and Sarn: How the Czech-American Group Embezzled Ukraine. \u201cWe believe we\u2019ve been targeted because of our economic development work in Ukraine during the conflict,\u201d they added. Sarn said it had engaged cybersecurity experts and lawyers and that one of the sites \u2013 talk-finance.co.uk \u2013 responded to a legal \u201ccease-and-desist letter\u201d by demanding money. The other site continues to publish the article. A request for comment was sent by the Guardian to the only contact details provided by talk-finance.co.uk, a Hotmail address. There was a swift reply from an unnamed person, who said they were ready to meet in Calais\u2019 \u201ctent city\u201d, the name given to an area where asylum seekers and immigrants planning to cross the channel to the UK have been living. A request for comment was also sent to an email address on the londoninsider.co.uk website, where the site is described as \u201ca leading digital magazine covering the latest political, business, sport and showbiz news\u201d. There was a response from a person named Thomas Henwell, who said the site published \u201cfact-based news\u201d and suggested Sarn was attempting to intimidate it. They insisted it had published many other stories that were \u201cnot positive\u201d for the Russian government. But they declined to say who owned the site and, in a further email, described it as a \u201cprivate owned enterprise\u201d relying on advertising revenue. They declined to speak on the phone or by Zoom. The cases of the fake UK news websites come amid an explosion in online disinformation campaigns from Russia, before and after its invasion of Ukraine. NewsGuard, a company that aims to counter misinformation by studying and rating news websites, has found that false narratives about Ukraine and its allies were already proliferating online before the February 2022 invasion. The company said it had debunked more than 250 false narratives related to the Russia-Ukraine war, and identified 627 sites spreading those myths. The false narratives have ranged from propaganda claims that reports of massacres by Russian forces in locations such as Bucha were \u201cstaged\u201d to assertions that Nazi ideology is driving Ukraine\u2019s political leadership."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;UN chief calls on Sudanese paramilitary leader to end siege of North Darfur city;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/un-chief-calls-on-sudanese-paramilitary-leader-to-end-siege-north-darfur-city-al-fashir;2024-09-22T15:04:22Z",
        "text": "The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, is \u201cgravely alarmed\u201d at reports of a full-scale assault on the Sudanese city of al-Fashir by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and has called on its leader to halt the attack immediately, according to Guterres\u2019 spokesperson. \u201cIt is unconscionable that the warring parties have repeatedly ignored calls for a cessation of hostilities,\u201d St\u00e9phane Dujarric said in a statement. In a sign that the crisis is belatedly rising up the diplomatic agenda at the UN general assembly in New York, similar fears were expressed by Josep Borrell, the EU foreign affairs chief, who said the 27-member bloc would not bear witness to another genocide. \u201cBelligerent parties, their affiliated militias and their regional supporters must adhere to international humanitarian law, by protecting civilians from conflict, provide unhindered humanitarian access and allow civilians to move in and out of Zamzam camp,\u201d said Borrell, referring to the camp for internally displaced people in North Darfur, the region of which al-Fashir is capital. The assault by the RSF in North Darfur comes amid fresh evidence that RSF is being armed by the United Arab Emirates. The attack also threatens to derail an economic cooperation summit between Joe Biden and his UAE counterpart, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at the White House on Monday. The meeting had previously been billed as the culmination of efforts to restore relations between the two countries. In advance of the meeting, however, US national security officials leaked details, which were published in the New York Times, claiming the UEA was playing \u201ca double game\u201d by using airbases in neighbouring Chad not only to fly in aid but also to launch drones that passed on battlefield information and to escort weapons shipments to the RSF. The UAE denies it is providing weapons or any other form of support to the RSF, which is accused of numerous war crimes and evolved from the Janjaweed militias. Lana Nusseibeh, the country\u2019s assistant minister for political affairs, recently wrote in a letter to the Economist magazine: \u201cThe UAE is not providing weapons or any other support to the Rapid Support Forces or any of the warring parties in Sudan. We believe that the only way to achieve peace is through effective diplomacy where the warring parties must reach a full nationwide ceasefire.\u201d The growing diplomatic attention is belated for a war that has displaced 10 million people and left as many as 25 million, half the population, facing acute hunger. There is a recognition that the issue has been neglected by top diplomats as they have focused on Gaza and Ukraine. The UN imposed an arms embargo on Sudan two decades ago, but it has been widely flouted by both sides. The UAE insists it has \u201cplayed a constructive role\u201d in helping to establish a mediation format it says has \u201cunlocked critical routes for aid deliveries, secured further commitments to protect civilians and developed a proposal for a compliance mechanism to ensure implementation of the Jeddah declaration, with the objective to secure a ceasefire\u201d. In his statement on Saturday, Guterres called on the head of the RSF, Lt Gen Mohamed Hamdan \u201cHemedti\u201d Dagalo, to \u201cact responsibly and immediately order a halt to the RSF attack\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Equivalent of Tasmanian tiger for bird watchers\u2019 discovered in Western Australia desert;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/night-parrot-found-great-sandy-desert-australia;2024-09-22T15:00:13Z",
        "text": "The largest known population of one of Australia\u2019s rarest birds has been found living in Western Australia\u2019s Great Sandy desert. A team of Ngururrpa rangers and scientists detected the stronghold of up to 50 night parrots - a critically endangered species once feared extinct - living on Indigenous-managed land, according to a study published in Wildlife Research. Dr Rachel Paltridge, an ecologist with the Indigenous Desert Alliance and co-author of the study, said night parrots were notoriously elusive birds. \u201cVery few people have seen them,\u201d she said. \u201cBut on a recent field trip the Ngururrpa rangers were lucky enough to have one fly in and land in their camp and saw its beautiful green and yellow feathers in the camp light.\u201d Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email During the daytime, night parrots hid inside old-growth spinifex hummocks, called \u201clanu lanu\u201d in the local Kukatja language, only coming out at night. The program combined Indigenous knowledge and science, Paltridge said. Ngururrpa ranger Cindy Gibson said it was good to go out on country looking for night parrots. The rangers recently found a breeding area for the first time. \u201cWe saw nests and the eggs and we saw feathers of the night parrot,\u201d she said. Aided by songmeters (a type of sound recorder) and camera traps, the researchers surveyed 31 sites within the Ngururrpa Indigenous Protected Area between 2020 and 2023, finding night parrots at 17 locations. Dr Steve Murphy and Dr Nick Leseberg developed the technique for detecting night parrot calls, which was embraced with success by Ngururrpa rangers. Leseberg, an ecologist and co-author of the study, said night parrots used a variety of different calls. One sounded like a telephone - \u201cdidly dip, didly dip\u201d - while another went \u201cdink dink\u201d like a bell. The night parrot and New Zealand\u2019s k\u0101k\u0101p\u014d were the only two nocturnal parrot species, he said, and that wasn\u2019t the only thing the birds had in common. They both behaved in a similar way in the company of predators. \u201cWhen you startle a night parrot, it just freezes, and it just sort of sits there and pretends like you can\u2019t see it.\u201d Baby night parrots were particularly vulnerable to feral cats, Leseberg said. After leaving their spinifex nests, the fledglings spent a few weeks \u201cflopping around on the ground\u201d making a lot of noise. With fewer than 20 recorded in Queensland, the night parrots found living in the Ngururrpa Indigenous Protected Area was the \u201clargest known population by a margin\u201d, he said. Paltridge said the study confirmed the importance of having people on country managing fire and feral animals. Lightning-ignited wildfires were a more significant threat to night parrot roosting habitat in Western Australia than in south-west Queensland, she said. Ngururrpa rangers combined traditional ground burning techniques with aerial burning to break up fuel loads to help stop the spread of hot summer wildfires started by lightning. She said it was also \u201cgood news\u201d that dingoes in the area ate feral cats and deterred them from hanging around night parrot habitat. Prof James Watson, a University of Queensland conservation scientist and night parrot recovery team member, who was not involved in the recent study, said they were considered one of the world\u2019s most enigmatic species. Night parrots were effectively lost for a century, apart from occasional unconfirmed sightings, which gave them an almost mythical aura, he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the equivalent of the Tasmanian tiger for bird watchers.\u201d Watson said the research demonstrated the clear benefits of Indigenous managed land for threatened species. Murphy, an ornithologist who led early research into night parrots in Queensland, agreed. \u201cWe know how to find them and monitor them,\u201d he said, and \u201cpassionate and committed\u201d Indigenous rangers were being supported to become really proficient land managers on Indigenous Protected Areas. The recent discovery of hotspots in Western Australia showed numerous birds were hanging on despite all the pressures, he said. \u201cIt\u2019s an absolute fairytale in terms of conservation\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Lammy urges \u2018guts\u2019 in ongoing US talks over Ukraine using missiles in Russia;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/lammy-urges-fortitude-over-ukraine-using-storm-shadow-missiles-in-russia;2024-09-22T13:13:09Z",
        "text": "The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, has indicated that delicate negotiations with the White House to allow Ukraine to use Storm Shadow missiles inside Russia are ongoing, arguing it was a time for \u201cnerve and guts\u201d. The apparent encouragement to Joe Biden comes just over a week after Lammy and Keir Starmer visited the US president in the White House but failed to resolve the sticking point between two countries. Speaking at a fringe event at the Labour party conference in Liverpool, Lammy said the hardship and challenges of the war in Ukraine would get \u201cdeeper and harsher\u201d, particularly heading into \u201cthe back end of 2025 into 2026\u201d and beyond. \u201cSo this is a critical time for nerve and guts and patience and for fortitude on behalf of allies who stand with Ukraine,\u201d he said in comments that appeared directed at a hesitant White House, concerned about the risks of allowing Storm Shadow missiles to be used to attack Russia. Lammy emphasised that Ukraine and its western allies were discussing \u201cwhat more might be necessary\u201d to help Kyiv on the battlefield beyond trying to hold the frontline, which is under acute pressure in the east. \u201cI am not going to as foreign secretary, of course, comment on operational details, because that can only aid Putin,\u201d Lammy said, in an apparent reference to Storm Shadow missiles. \u201cBut there is a very real-time discussion across allies about how we can support Ukraine as we head into winter.\u201d Ukraine\u2019s President Voldymyr Zelenskyy called on Biden again on Saturday to allow Ukraine to carry out long-range strikes inside Russia. His plea came before a critical meeting between the two on Thursday at the UN general assembly in New York. The issue, he added, remained unresolved despite Starmer lobbying Biden in person nine days ago. Zelenskyy wants to be able to use British, French and Italian Storm Shadow missiles, as well as US-made Atacms to hit airbases and other military targets inside Russia. He has argued that the Kremlin could be motivated to seek peace if it was clear that Ukraine could strike targets closer to Moscow. The UK has donated Storm Shadow missiles from its stocks, but its European partners and the US need to give their permission for Ukraine use them on Russian soil. The weapons also rely on a US guidance system to evade Russian jamming, without which they risk being ineffective if launched. Starmer\u2019s White House meeting with Biden, where they discussed the issue, the wider Ukraine war, the Middle East and China, was deliberately low key. No announcement about Storm Shadow had been expected, but the absence of a briefing after the summit suggested no breakthrough had been achieved. Ukraine\u2019s ambassador to the UK and the country\u2019s former top military commander, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, was also present at the Labour conference fringe event, which was organised by the Tony Blair Institute. Zaluzhnyi said Ukraine was \u201cstill serious about winning this war\u201d and listed a series of requests to help it do so. \u201cFirst of all we need to have enough modern weapons,\u201d he said. \u201cLong-range air and ground facilities are critically important. Lifting restrictions of using the weapons military targets in Russia is critical. These would help protect civilians from Russian missiles and glide bombs.\u201d The ambassador also called for further tightening of sanctions against Russia, future Nato membership for Kyiv, and notably \u201ca political decision\u201d to allow western allies \u201cto shoot down drones and missiles above western Ukraine\u201d with their own fighter jets and air-defence systems. The US, UK and other countries in the Middle East came to Israel\u2019s aid in April when Iran launched a major missile and drone attack against it. That prompted Zelenskyy to ask why such support could not be provided to Kyiv, which would free up some of the country\u2019s military to fight on the frontlines in the south and east."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Far-right AfD eyes further electoral gains in key German state of Brandenburg;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/far-right-afd-eyes-further-electoral-gains-in-key-german-state-of-brandenburg;2024-09-22T10:39:22Z",
        "text": "The far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland party is hoping to come top in an election in the German state of Brandenburg on Sunday, three weeks after making historic gains in two other regions. The AfD, which has been classified as rightwing extremist in several states by domestic intelligence agencies, is running almost neck and neck with Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s Social Democrats (SPD) in the state, a belt of urban and rural communities that surrounds the capital, Berlin. Final polls showed the AfD to have a very slight lead on 28%, with the SPD having considerably narrowed the gap in the last days of campaigning to reach 27%. The conservative CDU was polling at 14% and the new leftist conservative Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) at 13%. The Greens and the pro-business FDP, junior partners in Scholz\u2019s increasingly fractious three-way coalition, will struggle to win the 5% needed to enter the state parliament, as will the leftwing Die Linke, according to polls. About 2.1 million people, including 100,000 first-time voters, are registered to vote, after the voting age was reduced to 16. The ballot is being seen as a referendum on the federal government \u2013 the popularity ratings of which are at a record low \u2013 and a harbinger of the outcome of next autumn\u2019s federal election. The SPD has ruled in the state since reunification 34 years ago, and was the party of all three of the leaders who have governed in that time. The SPD\u2019s Dietmar Woidke, who has led Brandenburg for 14 years, has pledged to resign if the AfD beats his party, in what has been interpreted as a high-stakes gamble based on his own popularity as \u201cfather of the state\u201d. The AfD has also called for Scholz to resign. In a humiliating gesture towards Germany\u2019s leader, Woidke has not only criticised the federal government in his campaign, he has also completely excluded Scholz from it. The most unpopular chancellor on record has been barred from appearing at SPD rallies in the state, even though he and his wife, Britta Ernst, live in its capital, Potsdam. Although it is one of Germany\u2019s smallest states by population, the vote is considered significant for the whole country, and the results are being awaited with suspense across the continent. On 1 September, the AfD became the strongest party in a state election for the first time in the eastern state of Thuringia, where it secured about 33% of the vote. In neighbouring Saxony, it emerged in second place, at about 30%, narrowly beaten by the governing centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The campaign has focused on issues of immigration, energy transition, fears of economic recession and Germany\u2019s support for Ukraine, all of which are hot button issues in the former communist-run eastern Germany in particular, with the AfD proving itself to be especially adept at tuning into voters\u2019 concerns. Even if the AfD wins, it is unlikely to be able to rule the state, because it will lack a majority. The other parties have put up a so-called \u201cfirewall\u201d and have refused to work with it. The BSW of Wagenknecht, a nine-month old breakaway group from the far-left Die Linke, is therefore likely to be a powerful element in any post-election power-broking. Critics say the firewall is going to prove to be increasingly hard to maintain if the AfD continues to perform strongly in elections. Nationally, all three parties in Scholz\u2019s coalition are together polling less than the opposition CDU under Friedrich Merz, who this month was formally appointed as the party\u2019s chancellor candidate for the federal election in September 2025."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Bolivia: protest march by ex-president\u2019s supporters reflects split at heart of left;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/bolivia-evo-morales-protest-luis-arce;2024-09-22T10:00:07Z",
        "text": "The last time Evo Morales led a cross-country march, it was to defend the government of Luis Arce, his old ally from the Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas). Three years later, Bolivia\u2019s former president is leading another such protest \u2013 but this time his aim is to \u201csave\u201d the country from the same man, who has become his bitter rival. Thousands of Morales\u2019s supporters have been making the 190km (120-mile) march from the town of Caracollo to La Paz, the political capital, where they are due to arrive on Monday. Clashes broke out earlier this week as counterprotesters tried to stop them with rocks and tear gas. Roughly 40 people have been injured. The march reflects an existential split in the heart of one of Latin America\u2019s most successful leftwing parties, as the two men fight to be its candidate in the 2025 presidential election. The rift goes back to the 2019 election, when Morales ran for an unconstitutional third consecutive term. He won the election, but allegations of fraud triggered massive protests. Under pressure from the army, Morales resigned and fled the country. When fresh elections were held in 2020, Morales picked Arce, his former finance minister, as the Mas candidate. The party swept back into power, and Morales returned to Bolivia. But it soon became clear that both Arce and Morales wanted to be the candidate of Mas, the country\u2019s dominant political party, in 2025. Arce accused Morales of putting people at risk for his personal ambitions. \u201cI\u2019m here, Evo, and I won\u2019t run away,\u201d he said, alluding to Morales\u2019s flight to Mexico in 2019. \u201cIf you want to solve a problem you have with me because I was not willing to be your puppet, then come. I\u2019m waiting.\u201d Morales\u2019s followers have presented the government with a list of demands that includes their rejection of any measure that seeks to disqualify Morales from the 2025 election. In December 2023, the constitutional court put out a ruling that Arce\u2019s supporters insist rules Morales out of contention, though many experts disagree. Arce is now seeking a referendum on the issue. Morales has tried to expel Arce from Mas. However, as Arce controls the official leaderships of the social organisations that form the backbone of Mas, the party has been paralysed, unable to take such decisions. Though Morales has a hard core of support among the working class, particularly in the coca-growing tropics of Cochabamba where he lives, he also has seen high levels of rejection among broad swathes of society put off by his desire to hold on to power. By contrast, Arce has never had a popular base of his own \u2013 and his reputation for sound economic management has taken a battering in recent months, causing his popularity to slump. Dollars have become scarce, widening the gap between the official and black market rates. This has complicated imports, causing increasingly severe fuel shortages. Inflation is rising despite subsidies. Arce\u2019s economic model is essentially a continuation of the one from Morales\u2019s governments, but Morales is criticising Arce\u2019s management and billing himself as a return to the good times. \u201cPeople think: \u2018With this government there are no dollars, no gasoline, no diesel. With Evo there was money, and perhaps it would be better with him again,\u2019\u201d said Wilmer Machaca, a political analyst in El Alto. \u201cPeople aren\u2019t looking for structural explanations. They want practical solutions.\u201d Roughly $1bn of loans from development banks that would provide temporary relief are snarled up in the legislative assembly, where both the opposition and Mas legislators loyal to Morales are refusing to vote them through. A longer-term fix may involve a bigger loan from the International Monetary Fund, but that would be politically poisonous for Mas, which is still officially ruling such a move out. The rising sense of crisis created space for an inept coup attempt by a disgruntled general in June, when Arce and Morales downed weapons for a few hours until the danger had passed. Morales then claimed the coup had been set up by Arce to boost his popularity. It\u2019s too soon to say who will come out on top. \u201cEvo is a political animal,\u201d said Machaca. \u201cBut Arce has the state.\u201d \u201cBolivians have been through so many crises,\u201d he added. \u201cNow people are thinking about how it will happen this time \u2013 and preparing for it.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Nick Cave, Christianity and the search for meaning | Letters;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/cave-christianity-and-the-search-for-meaning;2024-09-20T16:25:10Z",
        "text": "John Harris refers to a fan\u2019s surprise that Nick Cave found \u201csolace in Christianity\u201d in his search for meaning (I\u2019m a devout agnostic. But, like Nick Cave, I hunger for meaning in our chaotic world, 15 September). It is sad that the church fails to communicate the Christian faith attractively to today\u2019s agnostic seekers. This is hindered by those \u201cculture warriors\u201d whose purpose for \u201cChristian revival\u201d is their loathing of Islam, and those who marginalise gay people and women. However, Sunday worship is the only place where one can give thanks, confess to failure, offer prayers of solidarity for the suffering, and hear an exposition on the scriptures. Last Sunday\u2019s reading from James warned readers of the poison of the tongue. Our elderly preacher observed that was true, although today there is the poison of the fingers, hovering over \u201cSend\u201d on a keyboard. The older congregation included some recent refugees who show great enthusiasm for Christianity, surprising those to whom it had become rather a habit. Today\u2019s churches are more diverse, in age, ethnicity and formulation of the faith. They offer a sense of community hard to find elsewhere, and sit lighter to traditional forms of expression. Ultimately, Christianity is about following Jesus; much doctrine piled on top is debatable. Churches do exist where there is both hunger and meaning. Rev David Haslam Evesham, Worcestershire \u2022 A big thank you to John Harris for expressing, in such a personal and honest way, thoughts and feelings that are no longer a part of the usual public discourse in mainstream British society. He describes well the current state of things in our society. For me personally, being part of the non\u2011creedal Society of Friends (Quakers) and, on a Sunday morning, spending an hour in silence with others, feeling their solidarity and companionship and hearing, from time to time, their deep reflections or hesitant insights, answers the need that he describes. Joining a choir that sings beautiful and deeply charged religious works, whose sometimes\u2011to-me-untenable assertions are softened by the medium of Latin, can add something glorious to the mix. Diana Francis Bath \u2022 I much appreciated the article by John Harris for its honesty and thoughtfulness. I, too, am an agnostic, but became a Quaker in my 50s, then, in my 70s, also a Buddhist. I remain a Quaker by religion and a Buddhist by philosophy. So now I am a member of two communities, where agnosticism is accepted. Initially, I found myself searching for meaning. Then for a system of values that I could respect and aspire to. Recently, I have found many people, like John, searching \u201cfor meaning\u201d. Some have come to Quakerism or other traditions that are not necessarily theistic. We don\u2019t have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Kate Allen Guisborough, North Yorkshire \u2022 Having listened recently to the four horsemen of evangelical atheism \u2013 Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris \u2013 I found John Harris\u2019s article fascinating and compelling. Sceptical questioning or rejection of church doctrine need not involve a denial of the transcendent and the numinous in pursuit of ruthless rationalism. Philip Larkin, that devout agnostic, puts the case superbly in Church Going. Ian Barge Ludlow, Shropshire \u2022 John Harris should look no further than the Unitarian movement in his search for meaning and a spiritual path. Aptly described by a friend as \u201cpick and mix\u201d, I\u2019m sure Mr Harris will be assisted in any quest he has by exploration of this open, rational and welcoming movement. Roslyn Connolly St Helens, Merseyside \u2022 John Harris states \u201cI\u2019m a devout agnostic. But, like Nick Cave, I hunger for meaning in our chaotic world\u201d. As an intelligent, cognisant species, human beings seek certainty in the uncertain world in which we find ourselves. Religious belief gives dogmatic certainty to those fundamental uncertainties. The scientific method is essentially a philosophy of empirically verifiable knowing, where conclusions are based on degrees of probability. I personally am content to live with the meaning of scientific uncertainty, rather than with the questionable comfort of unscientific certainty. John Stone Thames Ditton, Surrey \u2022 As a footnote to John Harris\u2019s sincere article, may I simply add that the proposals of the founder of Christianity differ in many cases from their formal interpretations by would-be practitioners, yet these would be of considerable use in the world today, undiluted. He proposed that we should love one another, love our neighbours and \u2013 why not give it a try? \u2013 love our enemies. Similar suggestions are to be found in most other religions. Today, however, what we must love most of all is, of course, money \u2013 however this may be obtained, hoarded, fought for, and denied to others in need. Dr Ian Flintoff Oxford \u2022 Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Third-party voters face a tough choice in a tight election;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/22/nx-s1-5113108/third-party-voters;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:37:19 -0400",
        "text": "Single-issue voters dissatisfied with Trump and Harris consider third party candidates in tight election"
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Marxist Dissanayake wins Sri Lanka's presidential election as voters reject old guard;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/22/nx-s1-5122448/sri-lanka-election-marxist-lawmaker-anura-dissanayake;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:19:39 -0400",
        "text": "The election was crucial as the country seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis in its history and the resulting political upheaval."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;In one key swing state, both parties are courting Black men;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/21/nx-s1-4855917/black-men-voters-2024-election-swing-state-north-carolina;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 08:01:00 -0400",
        "text": "With North Carolina now a toss-up this presidential election, both parties are making appeals to Black men. An older farmer and a younger restaurant owner share what's driving their votes."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;The human cost of ghost networks;https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/21/nx-s1-5087899/ghost-network-mental-health-insurance-audio;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:15:00 -0400",
        "text": "He tried to find a therapist who would take his insurance. He did not succeed."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Up against a 'ghost network' for mental health care? Here's what you can do;https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5118420/mental-health-insurance-guide-ghost-network;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "Insurers\u2019 failures to update their provider directories have led to dire consequences for people seeking mental health care. Here's how you can navigate these challenges to find treatment."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;'I Don\u2019t Want to Die.' He needed mental health care. He found a ghost network;https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/21/nx-s1-5120543/mental-health-care-parity-insurance-ghost-network;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "Ravi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would give him access to mental health providers. But even after 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could find him a therapist."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Money for cutting-edge climate technology could dry up in a second Trump term;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5091939/energy-innovation-climate-change-renewable-energy-fossil-fuels;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "A hydrogen plant in Utah could offer a new path to slash fossil-fuel pollution. But federal funding that was critical for projects like this one could dry up if Donald Trump is reelected."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;What\u2019s happening between Israel, Hezbollah as war on Gaza nears one year?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/what-is-happening-between-israel-hezbollah-as-war-on-gaza-nears-one-year?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:52:50 +0000",
        "text": "Alarm is spreading among observers who fear the two sides may have finally pushed things too far."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Classes resume at Bangladesh university at heart of anti-Hasina protests;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/classes-resume-at-bangladesh-university-at-heart-of-anti-hasina-protests?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:24:37 +0000",
        "text": "Dhaka University is full again, weeks after authorities shuttered campus following deadly antigovernment demonstrations."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Lando Norris wins Singapore GP to narrow F1 title race with Max Verstappen;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/22/lando-norris-wins-singapore-gp-to-narrow-f1-title-race-with-max-verstappen?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:16:27 +0000",
        "text": "McLaren&#039;s Norris completed his third career win to cut into Red Bull driver Verstappen&#039;s lead on top of the F1 table."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Press groups condemn Israel closing Al Jazeera office in Ramallah;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/press-groups-condemn-israel-closing-al-jazeera-office-in-ramallah?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:52:28 +0000",
        "text": "Committee to Protect Journalists says it is &#039;deeply alarmed&#039; by the raid and calls for protection of press freedom."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;USC: The university of lockdown;https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/22/usc-the-university-of-lockdown?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:59:32 +0000",
        "text": "Here is an inside look at the University of Southern California&#039;s repressive laboratory."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Sri Lanka elects Marxist-leaning Dissanayake as president to fix economy;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/sri-lanka-elects-marxist-leaning-dissanayake-as-president-to-fix-economy?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:52:40 +0000",
        "text": "Anura Kumara Dissanayake picked to fight corruption and bolster fragile economy after worst financial crisis in decades."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Bastianini wins Emilia-Romagna MotoGP, Martin extends championship lead;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/22/bastianini-wins-emilia-romagna-motogp-martin-extends-championship-lead?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:25:19 +0000",
        "text": "Jorge Martin extended his lead in the championship standings thanks Francesco Bagnaia crashing out."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel orders closure of Al Jazeera office in Ramallah;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/22/israel-orders-closure-of-al-jazeera-office-in-ramallah?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:02:23 +0000",
        "text": "Armed Israeli soldiers raided Al Jazeera\u2019s bureau in the occupied West Bank and imposed a 45-day closure order."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Fact check: Did Harris exaggerate scale of Trump\u2019s pre-career inheritance?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/fact-check-did-kamala-harris-exaggerate-scale-of-trumps-pre-career-inheritance?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:59:05 +0000",
        "text": "Harris claimed Trump started out in business with &#039;$400m on a silver platter&#039; from his father. But is that accurate?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Seven killed as Israel strikes Gaza school sheltering displaced again;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/seven-killed-as-israel-strikes-gaza-school-sheltering-displaced-again?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:58:29 +0000",
        "text": "Attack on Kafr Qasim School in Shati refugee camp comes a day after 22 people were killed in another school attack."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Al Jazeera obtains video of Israeli drone killing in Gaza;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/22/al-jazeera-obtains-video-of-israeli-drone-killing-in-gaza?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:42:58 +0000",
        "text": "Al Jazeera has obtained video showing an Israeli military drone killing a wounded and immobile Palestinian man in Gaza."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Criminal act\u2019: Al Jazeera denounces Israeli raid on Ramallah office;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/criminal-act-al-jazeera-denounces-israeli-raid-on-ramallah-office?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:30:20 +0000",
        "text": "The network vows to continue its coverage of the Israeli attacks on the Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Bodies of coal miners retrieved using mine carts after Iran explosion;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/22/bodies-of-coal-miners-retrieved-using-mine-carts-after-iran-explosion?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:11:49 +0000",
        "text": "Mine carts are being used to retrieve bodies of dozens of workers killed in an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Kim Sajet on US presidential portraits and leadership evolution;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/talk-to-al-jazeera/2024/9/22/kim-sajet-on-us-presidential-portraits-and-leadership-evolution?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:45:00 +0000",
        "text": "As the 2024 election nears, Kim Sajet explores how presidential portraits reflect US governance evolution."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israeli forces raid and shut down Al Jazeera bureau in occupied West Bank;https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/22/israeli-forces-storm-al-jazeera-bureau-in-ramallah-shut-down-operations?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:27:30 +0000",
        "text": "Israeli troops order Al Jazeera&#039;s shutdown aimed at silencing network&#039;s coverage of Gaza war."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;The surfer and tribal chief fighting to save a 550km South African coast;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/22/the-surfer-and-tribal-chief-fighting-to-save-a-550km-south-african-coast?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:04:43 +0000",
        "text": "A motley crew of surfers, academics and fishers fight back against mining companies pillaging the country&#039;s West Coast."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Qatar art installation sheds light on Gaza\u2019s children killed by Israel;https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/22/qatar-art-installation-sheds-light-on-gazas-children-killed-by-israel?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:02:15 +0000",
        "text": "More than 15,000 teddy bear sculptures, each representing a Gaza child\u2019s killing by Israel, unveiled in Doha."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Sri Lanka election results: Second count to decide presidential winner;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/sri-lanka-election-results-second-count-to-decide-presidential-winner?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:41:52 +0000",
        "text": "Marxist-leaning politician Dissanayake leads as second round of counting under way to decide the presidential winner."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Japan orders thousands to evacuate flooded prefecture amid heavy rain;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/22/japan-orders-thousands-to-evacuate-flooded-prefecture-amid-heavy-rain?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:32:02 +0000",
        "text": "Floods prompt Japan to order tens of thousands of people in Ishikawa prefecture to leave."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Dozens killed in Mexico as rivals fight for control of Sinaloa cartel;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/dozens-killed-in-mexico-as-rivals-fight-for-control-of-sinaloa-cartel?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:31:48 +0000",
        "text": "At least 10 more people reported killed as the government deploys 600 soldiers to reinforce security amid gang violence."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel\u2019s attempted silencing of Al Jazeera\u2019s coverage of the occupation;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/22/israels-attempted-silencing-of-al-jazeeras-coverage-of-the-occupation?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:56:26 +0000",
        "text": "Al Jazeera\u2019s Zein Basravi recorded this message in case Israel shut down Al Jazeera\u2019s bureau in Ramallah."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;German police chase and detain boy at pro-Palestine rally;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/22/german-police-chase-and-detain-boy-at-pro-palestine-rally?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:13:27 +0000",
        "text": "Video shows German police chasing a 10-year-old boy carrying a Palestinian flag, before he was taken into custody."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Rayner defends using donor's New York flat for holiday;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8vmv1mpggo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:20:02 GMT",
        "text": "The deputy PM says she was \"transparent\" in declaring her use of the New York apartment for a holiday."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Israel and Hezbollah urged to step back as UN warns of 'catastrophe';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gd393llg7o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:06:28 GMT",
        "text": "Israel says it will continue military action, as UN chief raises the risk of Lebanon becoming \"another Gaza\"."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'I hate Trump, she likes him - we both think he staged assassination attempts';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvglm0rjy2go;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:02:04 GMT",
        "text": "A pro-Trump wellness influencer and a suburban Democrat share a conspiracy theory - how did it spread so far?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Left-leaning leader wins Sri Lanka election in political paradigm shift;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyznjz3d78o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:54:04 GMT",
        "text": "Anura Kumara Dissanayake beat his rivals after a historic second round of vote counting."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;CPS twice did not prosecute Fayed over sex abuse claims;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k9ggjdjdo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:21:44 GMT",
        "text": "Evidence was presented by police in 2009 and 2015 over sex abuse claims against Mohammed Al Fayed."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Acne and asthma sufferers to be cleared to join army;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0lw1z0lej8o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:00:32 GMT",
        "text": "Defence Secretary John Healey says he wants to scrap \"outdated\" rules to tackle a recruitment crisis."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Germany's chancellor Scholz escapes far-right win in home state - exit polls;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24315lrv18o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:27:06 GMT",
        "text": "The chancellor's hopes of a second term are bolstered as his SPD is set to defeat the far right in Brandenburg."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Rayner wants 'fairer' Right to Buy scheme for taxpayer;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1d54514269o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:16:53 GMT",
        "text": "Housing activist Kwajo Tweneboa calls for the \"damaging\" policy to be axed altogether."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Warnings of heavy rain as thunderstorms hit parts of the UK;https://www.bbc.com/weather/articles/cz6w1x85469o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:50:11 GMT",
        "text": "Further heavy rain and thunderstorms are expected across England and Wales on Sunday and Monday."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Four dead and 18 hurt in Alabama mass shooting;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k9gl6g49o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:55:29 GMT",
        "text": "Police say multiple gunmen fired on a group of people outside on a street in the city of Birmingham."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sri Lanka's new president: Political outsider makes remarkable turnaround;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wp1p32endo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:04:04 GMT",
        "text": "The newly-elected president signals a pivot away from the unpopular old political order."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Anthony Joshua v Daniel Dubois: What next for former world champion?;https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/articles/clylrxz01jlo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:21:25 GMT",
        "text": "Two-time world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is at a crossroads after a humbling defeat at the hands of fellow Briton Daniel Dubois at Wembley on Saturday."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Peter Jay: the life of 'the cleverest young man in England';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2g8rmm80yo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:28:41 GMT",
        "text": "Economist and broadcaster who controversially became the UK ambassador to Washington and launched TV-am."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Forgotten story of escape from Nazis found at auction;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqnlynqpr7o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 05:21:24 GMT",
        "text": "Pte Ray Bailey wrote 80,000 words about his escape and it has been turned in a published book."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;At least 51 dead in Iran coal mine explosion;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm24jn02j0qo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:43:13 GMT",
        "text": "At least 51 people are reported to have been killed after a gas leak sparked a blast in eastern Iran."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sandi Toksvig officiates wedding of Abba's Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clylrrdjg78o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:52:32 GMT",
        "text": "The wedding took place in Copenhagen in the presence of close friends and family."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Watch highlights of stunning Dubois victory against Joshua;https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/videos/cwyegep2q5do;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:36:16 GMT",
        "text": "Watch highlights of Daniel Dubois' victory against Anthony Joshua as he retains his IBF heavyweight title at Wembley Stadium."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Can Labour Get Control At Conference?;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0js3f9y;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:39:00 GMT",
        "text": "Deputy PM Angela Rayner says she broke no donation rules."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Norris takes dominant Singapore win from Verstappen;https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/articles/c79n8dzl2zqo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:15:26 GMT",
        "text": "McLaren\u2019s Lando Norris wins the Singapore Grand Prix to take a further chunk out of Max Verstappen\u2019s advantage in the championship."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Horschel beats McIlroy with eagle putt in PGA play-off;https://www.bbc.com/sport/golf/videos/cn5z2xx35wdo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:56:34 GMT",
        "text": "Watch as Billy Horschel beats Rory McIlroy with a superb eagle putt in a thrilling play-off to clinch the PGA Championship title at Wentworth."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What next for Joshua after humbling Dubois defeat?;https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/articles/clylrxz01jlo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:21:25 GMT",
        "text": "Two-time world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is at a crossroads after a humbling defeat at the hands of fellow Briton Daniel Dubois at Wembley on Saturday."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Thunderstorms and floods force evacuations;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20md7e7rn8o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:43:39 GMT",
        "text": "Power cuts are reported in10 areas in the region and flood warnings are in place in Staffordshire."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Labour warns of gloomy reality for economy;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33v7enekg6o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:00:57 GMT",
        "text": "The Scottish Secretary tells the BBC his party inherted the \"worst economic and public service finances situation since the Second World War\"."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Cardiff City sack manager after dismal start to season;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cvgw152jg2lo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:49:54 GMT",
        "text": "Manager Erol Bulut is fired after Cardiff City's worst start to a season for 94 years, with one goal and one point."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Guillaume Kasbarian, un lib\u00e9ral revendiqu\u00e9 au minist\u00e8re de la fonction publique;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/guillaume-kasbarian-un-liberal-revendique-au-ministere-de-la-fonction-publique_6328780_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:17:44 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019ancien ministre du logement succ\u00e8de \u00e0 Stanislas Guerini \u00e0 la t\u00eate du minist\u00e8re de la fonction publique, de la simplification et de la transformation publique."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Clara Chappaz, une sp\u00e9cialiste de la French Tech missionn\u00e9e sur l\u2019IA;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/22/clara-chappaz-une-specialiste-de-la-french-tech-missionnee-sur-l-ia_6328747_3234.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:51:00 +0200",
        "text": "La nouvelle secr\u00e9taire d\u2019Etat charg\u00e9e de l\u2019intelligence artificielle et du num\u00e9rique \u00e9tait, avant sa nomination, responsable de la mission de soutien aux start-up fran\u00e7aises."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Avec la nomination de la d\u00e9put\u00e9e Marie-Agn\u00e8s Poussier-Winsback, l\u2019\u00e9conomie sociale et solidaire retrouve un minist\u00e8re sp\u00e9cifique;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/22/avec-la-nomination-de-la-deputee-marie-agnes-poussier-winsback-l-economie-sociale-et-solidaire-retrouve-un-ministere-dedie_6328713_3234.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:24:45 +0200",
        "text": "D\u00e9put\u00e9e de la 9\u1d49\u00a0circonscription de Seine-Maritime depuis 2022, elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9\u00e9lue face \u00e0 un candidat Rassemblement national, en juillet. En mal de reconnaissance, l\u2019\u00e9conomie sociale et solidaire, qui pr\u00f4ne un autre partage des richesses, p\u00e8se 14,9\u00a0% de l\u2019emploi priv\u00e9 en France."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les cinq infos \u00e0 retenir du week-end\u00a0: annonce du nouveau gouvernement, affrontements entre Isra\u00ebl et le Hezbollah\u2026;https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2024/09/22/le-gouvernement-annonce-affrontements-entre-israel-et-le-hezbollah-les-cinq-infos-a-retenir-du-week-end_6328613_4355770.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:45:09 +0200",
        "text": "Vous n\u2019avez pas suivi l\u2019actualit\u00e9 samedi\u00a021 et dimanche 22\u00a0septembre\u00a0? Voici ce qu\u2019il s\u2019est pass\u00e9 pendant ces derni\u00e8res quarante-huit heures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Je ne vais pas alourdir encore l\u2019imp\u00f4t sur l\u2019ensemble des Fran\u00e7ais\u00a0\u00bb, assure Michel Barnier;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/22/en-direct-notre-travail-c-est-de-faciliter-la-tache-des-entreprises-declare-antoine-armand-le-ministre-de-l-economie-lors-de-la-passation-de-pouvoirs-a-bercy_6325006_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:52:12 +0200",
        "text": "Au lendemain de l\u2019annonce de son gouvernement, le premier ministre est l\u2019invit\u00e9 du JT de France 2 dimanche soir."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Formule 1\u00a0: Lando Norris remporte le Grand Prix de Singapour et amenuise encore l\u2019\u00e9cart avec Max Verstappen;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/22/formule-1-lando-norris-remporte-le-grand-prix-de-singapour-et-amenuise-encore-l-ecart-avec-max-verstappen_6328580_3242.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:18:40 +0200",
        "text": "Le pilote britannique de l\u2019\u00e9curie McLaren signe sa troisi\u00e8me victoire de la saison, et se rapproche du leader du championnat, Max Verstappen (Red Bull), deuxi\u00e8me dimanche."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La strat\u00e9gie du RN pour mettre le gouvernement Barnier au service de ses id\u00e9es;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/la-strategie-du-rn-pour-mettre-le-gouvernement-barnier-au-service-de-ses-idees_6328578_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:03:12 +0200",
        "text": "En capacit\u00e9 de censurer \u00e0 tout moment le nouveau gouvernement, Marine Le Pen veut en profiter pour arracher quelques victoires, m\u00eame symboliques, \u00e0 un premier ministre qui ne devra son sursis qu\u2019aux concessions faites \u00e0 l\u2019extr\u00eame droite."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Sri Lanka, Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, marxiste repenti, remporte l\u2019\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/22/au-sri-lanka-anura-kumara-dissanayaka-marxiste-repenti-remporte-l-election-presidentielle_6328577_3210.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:01:47 +0200",
        "text": "Le chef de la coalition de gauche a \u00e9t\u00e9 proclam\u00e9 vainqueur de l\u2019\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle, avec 42,3\u00a0% des suffrages, dimanche, devan\u00e7ant nettement le chef de l\u2019opposition au Parlement Sajith Premadasa et le pr\u00e9sident sortant Ranil Wickremesinghe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Le meilleur moyen de prolonger le plaisir des JO\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: \u00e0 la braderie des Jeux, on s\u2019arrache les souvenirs de Paris 2024;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/22/le-meilleur-moyen-de-prolonger-le-plaisir-des-jo-a-la-braderie-des-jeux-on-s-arrache-les-souvenirs-de-paris-2024_6328541_3242.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:54:33 +0200",
        "text": "Certains sont arriv\u00e9s dans la nuit pour s\u2019assurer de pouvoir acheter l\u2019un des v\u00eatements et objets des Jeux olympiques, mis en vente, dimanche \u00e0 Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis), dans l\u2019une des braderies mise en place par Paris 2024."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: Agn\u00e8s Canayer, ministre d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9e \u00e0 la famille et \u00e0 la petite enfance, face \u00e0 des chantiers urgents;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/22/gouvernement-barnier-agnes-canayer-ministre-deleguee-a-la-famille-et-a-la-petite-enfance-face-a-des-chantiers-urgents_6328508_3224.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:41:53 +0200",
        "text": "Familles monoparentales, aide sociale \u00e0 l\u2019enfance, secteur de la petite enfance\u2026 De nombreux dossiers sont en suspens et n\u00e9cessiteront des r\u00e9ponses rapides de la part de cette s\u00e9natrice LR de Seine-Maritime."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: Catherine Vautrin passe de la \u00ab\u00a0vie quotidienne\u00a0\u00bb aux collectivit\u00e9s territoriales;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/gouvernement-barnier-catherine-vautrin-passe-de-la-vie-quotidienne-aux-collectivites-territoriales_6328442_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:02:40 +0200",
        "text": "Auparavant \u00e0 la t\u00eate du \u00ab\u00a0super minist\u00e8re\u00a0\u00bb du travail, de la sant\u00e9 et des solidarit\u00e9s, la chiraquienne a \u00e9t\u00e9 maintenue au gouvernement en tant que ministre du partenariat avec les territoires et de la d\u00e9centralisation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Eric Ciotti annonce quitter Les R\u00e9publicains;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/eric-ciotti-annonce-quitter-les-republicains-apres-plusieurs-mois-de-bataille-juridique-pour-rester-a-sa-presidence_6328406_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:51:08 +0200",
        "text": "Celui qui \u00e9tait encore pr\u00e9sident du parti de droite, contest\u00e9 depuis son alliance avec le Rassemblement national dit, dans un entretien au \u00ab\u00a0Figaro\u00a0\u00bb, constater \u00ab\u00a0la dissolution de l\u2019\u00e9tat-major des R\u00e9publicains dans la Macronie\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Cr\u00e9ation d\u2019un cong\u00e9 maternit\u00e9, minimums salariaux\u2026 le basket f\u00e9minin fran\u00e7ais se dote d\u2019une convention collective \u00ab\u00a0historique\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/22/creation-d-un-conge-maternite-minima-salariaux-le-basket-feminin-francais-se-dote-d-une-convention-collective-historique_6328373_3242.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:06:15 +0200",
        "text": "La Ligue f\u00e9minine de basket a annonc\u00e9, samedi, la mise en place d\u2019un accord collectif apr\u00e8s plusieurs ann\u00e9es de n\u00e9gociations, offrant un cadre et des protections aux deux premi\u00e8res divisions du basket tricolore."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le corps d\u2019une \u00e9tudiante retrouv\u00e9 enterr\u00e9 au bois de Boulogne;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/22/le-corps-d-une-etudiante-retrouve-enterre-au-bois-de-boulogne_6328340_3224.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:35:19 +0200",
        "text": "La victime, une \u00e9tudiante \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 Paris-Dauphine \u00e2g\u00e9e de 19\u00a0ans, \u00e9tait port\u00e9e disparue depuis vendredi. Son corps a \u00e9t\u00e9 retrouv\u00e9 samedi lors d\u2019une battue et a \u00e9t\u00e9 formellement identifi\u00e9."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre au Proche-Orient\u00a0: une frappe isra\u00e9lienne sur une \u00e9cole du nord de la bande de Gaza fait sept morts, dont un membre du gouvernement du Hamas;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/22/en-direct-guerre-au-proche-orient-une-frappe-israelienne-sur-une-ecole-du-nord-de-la-bande-de-gaza-fait-sept-morts-dont-un-membre-du-gouvernement-du-hamas_6321740_3210.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:12:41 +0200",
        "text": "Le minist\u00e8re de la sant\u00e9 libanais fait de son c\u00f4t\u00e9 \u00e9tat de trois morts dans des \u00ab\u00a0frappes isra\u00e9liennes\u00a0\u00bb dans le sud du pays, alors que la tension s\u2019accro\u00eet dans la r\u00e9gion apr\u00e8s l\u2019explosion d\u2019appareils de communication et la frappe isra\u00e9lienne sur Beyrouth, vendredi, qui a tu\u00e9 au moins 45\u00a0personnes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en Ukraine\u00a0: la Russie a lanc\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0plus de 900\u00a0bombes a\u00e9riennes guid\u00e9es, environ 400\u00a0drones et 30\u00a0missiles\u00a0\u00bb au cours de la semaine;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/22/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-la-russie-a-lance-plus-de-900-bombes-aeriennes-guidees-environ-400-drones-et-30-missiles-au-cours-de-la-semaine_6327490_3210.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:07:43 +0200",
        "text": "Une attaque russe nocturne contre des immeubles r\u00e9sidentiels de Kharkiv a fait 21\u00a0bless\u00e9s samedi soir, ont annonc\u00e9 dimanche les autorit\u00e9s."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le Gard et l\u2019H\u00e9rault plac\u00e9s en vigilance orange en raison du risque de fortes pluies orageuses;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/22/le-gard-et-l-herault-places-en-vigilance-orange-en-raison-du-risque-de-fortes-pluies-orageuses_6328271_3244.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:51:50 +0200",
        "text": "La vigilance entrera en vigueur partir de 18\u00a0heures. De fortes pluies pourraient entra\u00eener \u00ab\u00a0des ph\u00e9nom\u00e8nes de ruissellement intense\u00a0\u00bb notamment dans \u00ab\u00a0les zones de plaines entre Montpellier et N\u00eemes\u00a0\u00bb, met en garde M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Thierry Breton revient sur son d\u00e9part de la Commission europ\u00e9enne;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/en-direct-thierry-breton-invite-de-l-emission-questions-politiques_6328117_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:45:01 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Une esp\u00e8ce de discussion\u00a0\u00bb et une \u00ab\u00a0gouvernance douteuse\u00a0\u00bb l\u2019ont pouss\u00e9 \u00e0 quitter l\u2019\u00e9quipe ex\u00e9cutive europ\u00e9enne, a-t-il expliqu\u00e9 quelques jours apr\u00e8s sa d\u00e9mission, le 16\u00a0septembre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les repentis de la reconversion professionnelle\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0On s\u2019attend \u00e0 vivre une autre vie, mais la d\u00e9sillusion est totale\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/m-perso/article/2024/09/22/les-repentis-de-la-reconversion-professionnelle-on-s-attend-a-vivre-une-autre-vie-mais-la-desillusion-est-totale_6327564_4497916.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:00:22 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019injonction au bonheur pousse de nombreux actifs \u00e0 plaquer leur travail pour un \u00ab\u00a0job passion\u00a0\u00bb. Mais gare aux d\u00e9ceptions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les bureaux d\u2019Al-Jazira \u00e0 Ramallah, en Cisjordanie occup\u00e9e, ferm\u00e9s par Isra\u00ebl pour au moins quarante-cinq jours;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/22/israel-ordonne-la-fermeture-pendant-45-jours-du-bureau-d-al-jazira-a-ramallah-en-cisjordanie-occupee_6328231_3210.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:20:33 +0200",
        "text": "Des militaires masqu\u00e9s et lourdement arm\u00e9s ont effectu\u00e9 une descente dimanche matin dans les locaux de la cha\u00eene qatarie pour la faire fermer. Al-Jazira a qualifi\u00e9 cet acte de \u00ab\u00a0criminel\u00a0\u00bb, tandis qu\u2019Isra\u00ebl l\u2019accuse d\u2019\u00eatre utilis\u00e9e \u00ab\u00a0pour inciter \u00e0 la terreur\u00a0\u00bb"
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Japon, apr\u00e8s les inondations, les \u00e9quipes de secours s\u2019activent, la population appel\u00e9e \u00e0 la vigilance;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/22/au-japon-apres-les-inondations-les-equipes-de-secours-s-activent-la-population-appelee-a-la-vigilance_6328165_3244.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:00:14 +0200",
        "text": "Les pluies \u00ab\u00a0sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent\u00a0\u00bb qui se sont abattues dans la pr\u00e9fecture d\u2019Ishikawa depuis samedi ont fait un mort et au moins onze disparus. L\u2019agence m\u00e9t\u00e9orologique a toutefois r\u00e9trograd\u00e9 son alerte maximale \u00e0 la deuxi\u00e8me alerte la plus \u00e9lev\u00e9e, dimanche."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Vincent Lemire, historien\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Une complicit\u00e9 criminelle unit Yahya Sinouar et Benyamin N\u00e9tanyahou\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/09/22/vincent-lemire-historien-il-faut-construire-un-camp-de-l-apaisement-contre-la-complicite-criminelle-qui-unit-yahya-sinouar-et-benyamin-netanyahou_6327451_3232.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 04:30:07 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019historien Vincent Lemire estime, dans une tribune au \u00ab\u00a0Monde\u00a0\u00bb, que les int\u00e9r\u00eats vitaux des populations palestinienne et isra\u00e9lienne ne co\u00efncident pas avec les calculs politiques de leurs dirigeants."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Iran, l\u2019explosion d\u2019une mine de charbon fait plus de cinquante morts;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/22/en-iran-l-explosion-d-une-mine-de-charbon-fait-plus-de-cinquante-morts_6328115_3210.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:42:39 +0200",
        "text": "Cet accident a \u00e9t\u00e9 provoqu\u00e9 par une fuite de m\u00e9thane, qui a entra\u00een\u00e9 une explosion dans deux blocs de la mine, o\u00f9 se trouvaient alors soixante-neuf employ\u00e9s."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les chantiers qui attendent Rachida Dati, de la r\u00e9forme du Pass culture \u00e0 la fusion de l\u2019audiovisuel public;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/les-chantiers-qui-attendent-rachida-dati-de-la-reforme-du-pass-culture-a-la-ruralite-et-la-fusion-de-l-audiovisuel-public_6328079_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:14:20 +0200",
        "text": "Reconduite \u00e0 la t\u00eate du minist\u00e8re de la culture (et, d\u00e9sormais, du \u00ab\u00a0patrimoine\u00a0\u00bb), la maire LR du 7e\u00a0arrondissement de Paris aura tout fait pour sauver son poste."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: l\u2019absence du handicap dans les intitul\u00e9s de minist\u00e8res suscite l\u2019inqui\u00e9tude des acteurs du secteur;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/gouvernement-barnier-le-handicap-absent-des-intitules-de-ministeres-suscitant-l-inquietude-des-acteurs-du-secteur_6328013_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:31:56 +0200",
        "text": "Face \u00e0 la crainte d\u2019un \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9sint\u00e9r\u00eat\u00a0\u00bb pour le sujet juste apr\u00e8s les Jeux paralympiques, Paul Christophe, nouveau ministre des solidarit\u00e9s, de l\u2019autonomie et de l\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 entre les femmes et les hommes, les a assur\u00e9s de son \u00ab\u00a0engagement\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, une macroniste \u00e0 la fibre plus sociale au minist\u00e8re du travail;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/astrid-panosyan-bouvet-une-macroniste-a-la-fibre-plus-sociale-au-ministere-du-travail_6327942_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:25:57 +0200",
        "text": "Soutien de la premi\u00e8re heure du chef de l\u2019Etat, la nouvelle ministre du travail et de l\u2019emploi, qui accorde de l\u2019importance au dialogue social, a critiqu\u00e9 la derni\u00e8re r\u00e9forme de l\u2019assurance-ch\u00f4mage et est attach\u00e9e aux conditions de travail."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Avec Olga Givernet pour ministre d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9nergie, un soutien affich\u00e9 \u00e0 la relance du nucl\u00e9aire;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/22/avec-olga-givernet-pour-ministre-deleguee-a-l-energie-un-soutien-affiche-a-la-relance-du-nucleaire_6327454_3234.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 05:00:00 +0200",
        "text": "Cette macroniste de la premi\u00e8re heure ne cache pas son enthousiasme face \u00e0 la construction de nouveaux r\u00e9acteurs dans l\u2019Ain, dont elle est d\u00e9put\u00e9e depuis 2017. Rattach\u00e9e au minist\u00e8re de la transition \u00e9cologique au sein du gouvernement Barnier, elle sera \u00e9galement charg\u00e9e d\u2019acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer le d\u00e9ploiement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En marge chez les LGBT comme chez les h\u00e9t\u00e9ros, les bisexuels veulent sortir du placard\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Tout nous dit qu\u2019on n\u2019existe pas\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2024/09/22/en-marge-chez-les-lgbt-comme-chez-les-heteros-les-bisexuels-veulent-sortir-du-placard-tout-nous-dit-qu-on-n-existe-pas_6327456_4401467.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 05:00:00 +0200",
        "text": "Peu int\u00e9gr\u00e9es dans les communaut\u00e9s queer, tout en \u00e9tant exclues de la norme h\u00e9t\u00e9ro, les personnes bis revendiquent plus de visibilit\u00e9. De jeunes collectifs s\u2019organisent pour cr\u00e9er des espaces de solidarit\u00e9. Dimanche 22\u00a0septembre s\u2019\u00e9lancera une marche, la veille de la Journ\u00e9e internationale de la visibilit\u00e9 de la bisexualit\u00e9."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Patrick Hetzel prend la t\u00eate du minist\u00e8re de l\u2019enseignement sup\u00e9rieur et de la recherche avec une vision lib\u00e9rale des universit\u00e9s;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/patrick-hetzel-renoue-avec-les-universites-en-prenant-le-ministere-de-l-enseignement-superieur-et-de-la-recherche_6327150_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:57:11 +0200",
        "text": "Ex-directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l\u2019enseignement sup\u00e9rieur, cet Alsacien, d\u00e9put\u00e9 Les R\u00e9publicains du Bas-Rhin, fait son entr\u00e9e dans le gouvernement Barnier. Il est aussi un ancien conseiller \u00e9ducation (2007-2008) de Fran\u00e7ois Fillon, lorsque ce dernier \u00e9tait \u00e0 Matignon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Didier Migaud, un social-d\u00e9mocrate au minist\u00e8re de la justice du gouvernement Barnier;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/21/gouvernement-barnier-avec-didier-migaud-un-changement-de-profil-au-ministere-de-la-justice_6327077_823448.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:04:38 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019ex-pr\u00e9sident de la Haute Autorit\u00e9 pour la transparence de la vie publique, ancien du Parti socialiste, est connu pour sa rigueur budg\u00e9taire. Il devra faire avec un budget en recul par rapport \u00e0 ce qui \u00e9tait pr\u00e9vu dans la loi de programmation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Japon\u00a0: un\u00a0mort et sept disparus apr\u00e8s des inondations et pluies torrentielles;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/21/japon-un-mort-et-sept-disparus-apres-des-inondations-et-pluies-torrentielles_6326142_3245.html;Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:11:54 +0200",
        "text": "Quelque 44\u00a0700 habitants des villes de Wajima, Suzu et Noto, dans la pr\u00e9fecture d\u2019Ishikawa, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 forc\u00e9s de quitter la zone, ont annonc\u00e9 des responsables locaux."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Treating little hearts for over three decades;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/treating-little-hearts-for-over-three-decades/article68667427.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:05:27 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Damaged roads are the main grievance of Tambaram residents;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/damaged-roads-are-the-main-grievance-of-tambaram-residents/article68667453.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:02:49 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Have very ambitious goals to achieve in third term; India a land of opportunities: PM Modi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/have-very-ambitious-goals-to-achieve-in-third-term-india-a-land-of-opportunities-modi/article68671807.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:58:36 +0530",
        "text": "The Prime Minister was addressing a packed Nassau Veterans Coliseum with more than 13,000 Indian Americans. While the majority of them were from the New York and New Jersey area, Indian Americans came in from 40 States, organisers said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;A cumbersome journey in Egmore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/a-cumbersome-journey-in-egmore/article68670205.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:52:23 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;At 100, Goschen Library is likely to get a facelift;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/at-100-goschen-library-is-likely-to-get-a-facelift/article68668032.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:49:07 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Finance Minister dismisses allegations against NDA government at Pondy Lit Fest;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/finance-minister-dismisses-allegations-against-nda-government-at-pondy-lit-fest/article68671433.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:45:45 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;At 1.8 lakh, Chennai\u2019s street dog population records a sharp jump;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chennais-stray-dog-population-close-to-two-lakh/article68667176.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:45:43 +0530",
        "text": "A survey found that an estimated 73% (1,28,048) of the dogs were still to be sterilised with the rest undergone Animal Birth Control (ABC) procedure."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pen expo attracts huge crowd in Vijayawada;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/pen-expo-attracts-huge-crowd-in-vijayawada/article68671610.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:42:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;ASGE president meets Chief Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/asge-president-meets-chief-minister/article68671663.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:34:42 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Entire cost of Chennai Metro Rail Phase II project will be with TN government: Nirmala Sitharaman;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/entire-cost-of-chennai-metro-rail-phase-ii-project-will-be-with-tn-government-nirmala-sitharaman/article68671494.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:16:21 +0530",
        "text": "The Union Finance Minister stated that the State government chose to implement Chennai Metro Rail Phase II as a State-run project, meaning the State will bear the entire cost without any equity participation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Career guidance programme to be held for Plus Two students in Cuddalore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/career-guidance-programme-to-be-held-for-plus-two-students-in-cuddalore/article68670695.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:08:33 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Coimbatore District Police warn action against illegal sale of liquor;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/coimbatore-district-police-warn-action-against-illegal-sale-of-liquor/article68671284.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:44:44 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;One-year-old baby drowns in bucket in Manjeswaram;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/one-year-old-baby-drowns-in-bucket-in-manjeswaram/article68670444.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:43:45 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CPI(M) criticizes retired DySP Sukumaran\u2019s move to BJP;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/cpim-criticizes-retired-dysp-sukumarans-move-to-bjp/article68670803.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:43:33 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bus operators slash trips as traffic snarls worsen in Kozhikode;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kozhikode/bus-operators-slash-trips-as-traffic-snarls-worsen-in-kozhikode/article68670804.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:43:18 +0530",
        "text": "Though rules prohibit unexpected cancellation of trips, bus operators claim that they have no other option to manage the situation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;KSU-MSF-led students\u2019 union at Calicut varsity staring at a crisis;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kozhikode/ksu-msf-led-students-union-at-calicut-varsity-staring-at-a-crisis/article68670939.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:41:31 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kannur airport to launch solar project to cut energy cost, carbon footprint;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kannur-airport-to-launch-solar-project-to-cut-costs-carbon-footprint/article68671012.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:40:32 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rahul Gandhi urges tourists to visit Wayanad amid tourism crisis;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/rahul-gandhi-urges-tourists-to-visit-wayanad-amid-tourism-crisis/article68671278.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:40:11 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Women in Nainamvalappu take pledge to fight drug abuse;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kozhikode/women-in-nainamvalappu-take-pledge-to-fight-drug-abuse/article68671396.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:39:10 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nitish Kumar wants Vande Bharat between Ayodhya and Sitamarhi, writes to PM Modi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/nitish-kumar-wants-vande-bharat-between-ayodhya-and-sitamarhi-writes-to-pm-modi/article68671664.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:38:14 +0530",
        "text": "The Bihar Chief Minister said that with the construction of the Ram-Janaki Marg, devotees will be able to visit Punaura Dham, believed to be the birthplace of Sita, along with Ayodhya."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Madurai needs a road map to get out of traffic snarls;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/madurai-needs-a-road-map-to-get-out-of-traffic-snarls/article68671101.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:36:41 +0530",
        "text": "Traffic snarls are experienced not only during peak hours but all through the day; the only way out is better road infrastructure and traffic management and dedicated parking areas should be created all over the city to prevent haphazard parking and resultant traffic snarls, say officials"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Govt. introduces one-time regularisation scheme for unauthorised buildings;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/govt-introduces-one-time-regularisation-scheme-for-unauthorised-buildings/article68671128.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:36:07 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sajith Premadasa gets highest share of Tamil vote in Sri Lanka polls;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sajith-premadasa-gets-highest-share-of-tamil-vote-in-sri-lanka-polls/article68671649.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:35:18 +0530",
        "text": "Sri Lankan Opposition leader cumulatively secured over 40% of the votes across Tamil-majority areas in the island\u2019s north, east, and central hill country."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;We have become a generation of short-term gratification: CJI;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/we-have-become-a-generation-of-short-term-gratification-cji/article68671188.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:32:20 +0530",
        "text": "Your law degree has given you knowledge, but your choices will define your legacy, Justice Chandrachud tells new graduates"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Aligarh Muslim University teachers express concern over the Waqf Bill;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/aligarh-muslim-university-teachers-express-concern-over-the-waqf-bill/article68671581.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:29:46 +0530",
        "text": "Raising apprehensions over possible homogenisation of the waqf system, which could lead to the erosion of local and cultural variations, AMUTA seeks audience with head of parliamentary panel"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Volunteer training to deliver adult literacy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/volunteer-training-to-deliver-adult-literacy/article68671271.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:27:19 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Police, Health Dept. launch probe as man dies following treatment by unregistered medical practitioner in Coimbatore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/police-health-dept-launch-probe-as-man-dies-following-treatment-by-unregistered-medical-practitioner/article68671219.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:20:43 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Take care of the cadre to take government schemes to the people: Revanth;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/take-care-of-the-cadre-to-take-government-schemes-to-the-people-revanth/article68671688.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:19:04 +0530",
        "text": "Cadre who worked hard when the party was in the Opposition would be rewarded with party posts, the Chief Minister said at the CLP meeting"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Laddu prasadam row: TTD to perform \u2018shanti homam\u2019 on September 23;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/laddu-prasadam-row-ttd-to-perform-shanti-homam-on-september-23/article68671471.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:14:24 +0530",
        "text": "The ritual will be performed by installing three \u2018homagundams\u2019 at the Yagashala located in the inner precincts of the temple, says Executive Officer Syamala Rao"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Will not oppose Trinamool unnecessarily says new Bengal Congress president;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/will-not-oppose-trinamool-unnecessarily-says-new-bengal-congress-president/article68671541.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:14:23 +0530",
        "text": "The new State Congress president Subhankar Sarkar said that his primary job is to strengthen the party and not to concentrate on whether the party should go with the Left parties and Trinamool Congress."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Regular screening a crucial step in prevention and treatment of cancer, says Shashi Tharoor;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/regular-screening-a-crucial-step-in-prevention-and-treatment-of-cancer-says-shashi-tharoor/article68671627.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:12:39 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;ECI Father Bishop Ezra Sargunam passes away, aged 86;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/eci-father-bishop-ezra-sargunam-passes-away-aged-86/article68671619.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:12:39 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Scientists urged to introspect if enough has been done to help farmers adopt modern technologies;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/scientists-urged-to-introspect-if-enough-has-been-done-to-help-farmers-adopt-modern-technologies/article68671161.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:10:53 +0530",
        "text": "Krishi Mela inaugurated at University of Agricultural Sciences in Dharwad"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Table tennis championship concludes in Peddapuram;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/table-tennis-championship-concludes-in-peddapuram/article68671498.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:09:12 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;T.N. government plans public horticultural garden in Guindy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tn-government-plans-public-horticultural-garden-in-guindy/article68671190.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:03:39 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;A.P. govt. to constitute SIT to probe \u2018adulteration\u2019 of ghee used in making Tirumala prasadam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/ap-govt-to-constitute-sit-to-probe-adulteration-of-ghee-used-in-making-tirumala-prasadam/article68671492.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:03:22 +0530",
        "text": "Government will bring a special legislation, if needed, to clean up the management systems at places of worship of all religions and induct credible persons belonging to only those religions on the administrative boards, says Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Andhra Pradesh boy from Tadepalligudem, Nazeeruddin Shaik, is Telugu Indian Idol Season- 3 winner;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/andhra-pradesh-boy-from-tadepalligudem-nazeeruddin-shaik-is-telugu-indian-idol-season-3-winner/article68671474.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:02:39 +0530",
        "text": "Nazeeruddin recently cleared his CA intermediate examinations and also received an opportunity to lend his voice to Pawan Kalyan\u2019s upcoming movie, OG"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India reaches out to Bangladesh opposition BNP, envoy meets party leader;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-reaches-out-to-bangladesh-opposition-bnp-envoy-meets-party-leader/article68671265.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:56:59 +0530",
        "text": "After the first meeting between the BNP and Indian diplomats stationed in Dhaka, the party\u2019s general secretary said, \u201cIndia wants to bring a positive outlook to the relation with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Only 16% land reclaimed under legacy waste management project of Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/only-16-land-reclaimed-under-legacy-waste-management-project-of-swachh-bharat-mission-20/article68670909.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:56:10 +0530",
        "text": "According to the dashboard of the Mission\u2019s website, out of the 2,424 dumpsites having more than 1,000 tonnes of legacy waste identified across the country, remediation has been completed in only 470"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;SUV catches fire on Hosur Road;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/suv-catches-fire-on-hosur-road/article68670615.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:45:20 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Take steps to ensure Visakhapatnam Steel Plant run to its full capacity, CITU urges Union government;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/take-steps-to-ensure-visakhapatnam-steel-plant-run-to-its-full-capacity-citu-urges-union-government/article68671434.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:44:15 +0530",
        "text": "\u2018While the Centre has spent \u20b94,890 crore for setting up the VSP, the plant had given \u20b955,000 crore in return to the government\u2019"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Actor Chiranjeevi honoured with Guinness World Record;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/chiranjeevi-honoured-with-guinness-world-record/article68671582.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:40:54 +0530",
        "text": "The certificate presented read \u201cThe most prolific film star in Indian Film Industry-actor/dancer is Konidela Chiranjeevi aka Mega Star achieved on 20 September 2024.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Information on Lokayukta seeking Governor\u2019s consent for prosecuting JD(S), BJP leaders may have been leaked from Raj Bhavan itself, says Karnataka CM;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/information-on-lokayukta-seeking-governors-consent-for-prosecuting-jds-bjp-leaders-may-have-been-leaked-from-raj-bhavan-itself-says-karnataka-cm/article68670690.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:37:33 +0530",
        "text": "Siddaramaiah seeks probe into Governor\u2019s concerns over leak of information"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Leaders across parties pay rich tributes to Sitaram Yechury in Vijayawada;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/leaders-across-parties-pay-rich-tributes-to-sitaram-yechury-in-vijayawada/article68671358.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:36:01 +0530",
        "text": "Yechury\u2019s selfless work for uplift of marginalised sections of society, his crucial role in Indian politics and the formation of UPA in 2004, efforts in Parliament to raise the issues of the people of the State remembered"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Coimbatore round up;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/coimbatore-round-up/article68671372.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:36:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Faizabad MP Awadhesh Prasad\u2019s son booked for assaulting man;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttar-pradesh/faizabad-mp-awadhesh-prasads-son-booked-for-assaulting-man/article68671451.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:33:30 +0530",
        "text": "Ajit Prasad, along with six others, is accused of assaulting, kidnapping and threatening a man over a dispute in a land purchase"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;NSA Ajit Doval stayed back from PM Modi\u2019s U.S. visit for J&K election, say officials;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/nsa-ajit-doval-stayed-back-from-pm-modis-us-visit-for-jk-election-say-officials/article68671231.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:33:07 +0530",
        "text": "Explanation on the National Security Advisor\u2019s schedule comes amidst speculation over the Pannun case summons by a New York court even as allegations by Sikh groups could loom over PM\u2019s three-day visit"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;MANUU threatens action against a \u2018handful of students\u2019, says will switch to online teaching if disruption continues;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/manuu-threatens-action-against-a-handful-of-students-says-will-switch-to-online-teaching-if-disruption-continues/article68671300.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:27:43 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;NDA government launched several development programmes in the first 100 days in State, says Ganta;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/nda-government-launched-several-development-programmes-in-the-first-100-days-in-state-says-ganta/article68671373.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:24:24 +0530",
        "text": "He takes part in \u2018Idi Manchi Prabhutvam\u2019 programme at Yendada"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Couple killed in road accident on the outskirts of Bengaluru;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/couple-killed-in-road-accident-on-the-outskirts-of-bengaluru/article68670567.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:23:16 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Joe Biden hails PM Modi\u2019s Ukraine trip, lauds India\u2019s global role;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/joe-biden-hails-pm-modis-ukraine-trip-lauds-indias-global-role/article68671038.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:17:03 +0530",
        "text": "Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said \u201cvery important\u201d conversations were under way with multiple people on all sides of the Ukraine crisis. He said \u201cpeople see value in India\u2019s engagement in these conversations\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Man \u2018murdered\u2019 by two persons at Srisailam temple town;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/man-murdered-by-two-persons-at-srisailam-temple-town/article68671405.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:13:31 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CBI registers disproportionate assets case against Customs SP;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/cbi-registers-disproportionate-assets-case-against-customs-sp/article68670590.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:12:51 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mangaluru police to book cases against vehicles blocking traffic outside schools;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/mangaluru-police-to-book-cases-against-vehicles-blocking-traffic-outside-schools/article68670486.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:10:16 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Coalition politics has not affected economic policies of the Centre: Nirmala Sitharaman;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/coalition-politics-has-not-affected-economic-policies-of-the-centre-nirmala-sitharaman/article68671156.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:09:28 +0530",
        "text": "Union Finance Minister says the issues that took priority before the push and pull of coalition politics are the same issues in focus now; she says no State gets ignored in the Budget and any other narratives by the Opposition are arguments for political convenience"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Industries and Commerce Minister launches free distribution of \u2018Bhagavad Gita\u2019 copies to students;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/industries-and-commerce-minister-launches-free-distribution-of-bhagavad-gita-copies-to-students/article68671199.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:08:53 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Karnatak University convocation tomorrow;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/karnatak-university-convocation-tomorrow/article68671043.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:05:45 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Boy killed as playground gate falls on him at Malleswaram in Bengaluru;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/boy-killed-as-playground-gate-falls-on-him-at-malleswaram-in-bengaluru/article68671032.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:56:02 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CM says water will be provided for second crop in Tungabhadra command area;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/cm-says-water-will-be-provided-for-second-crop-in-tungabhadra-command-area/article68670954.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:55:30 +0530",
        "text": "He offers bagina to the river and felicitates engineers and workers for installing stop-log gate in place of Gate No 19 that was washed away"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tripura Congress leader faces defamation suit, eviction notice after levelling charges against Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tripura-congress-leader-faces-defamation-suit-eviction-notice-after-levelling-charges-against-minister/article68671226.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:52:57 +0530",
        "text": "Recently, former Tripura Minister and Congress MLA Sudip Roy Barman had accused State Tribal Welfare Minister Bikash Debbarma of corruption and building several houses and running two petrol pumps in Tripura and purchasing an apartment in Delhi"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP-led Centre has ignored nation-wide implementation of prohibition, says Thirumavalavan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/bjp-led-centre-has-ignored-nation-wide-implementation-of-prohibition-says-thirumavalavan/article68671076.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:52:24 +0530",
        "text": "\u2018Union Government has not taken any action to protect Tamil fishermen\u2019"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Milma\u2019s Thiruvananthapuram regional union reports record sales during Onam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/milmas-thiruvananthapuram-regional-union-reports-record-sales-during-onam/article68671218.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:50:31 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hindu Yuva Sene has now become RSS and BJP forum, says KPCC spokesperson;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/hindu-yuva-sene-has-now-become-rss-and-bjp-forum-says-kpcc-spokesperson/article68670452.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:49:41 +0530",
        "text": "The autobiography in Kannada titled \u2018Chimani Belakininda\u2019 records how the author came out of the \u2018intoxication of communalism\u2019 and \u2018extreme Hindutva\u2019 and what made him distance from the RSS and ABVP"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Migrant worker attacked by sloth bear near Valparai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/migrant-worker-attacked-by-sloth-bear-near-valparai/article68670896.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:48:46 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;State Highways Department urged to give up its proposal to reduce number of non-engineering posts;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/state-highways-department-urged-to-give-up-its-proposal-to-reduce-number-of-non-engineering-posts/article68671325.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:45:46 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Government hospital in Srirangam to get a new building;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/government-hospital-in-srirangam-to-get-a-new-building/article68671289.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:44:38 +0530",
        "text": "Ministers Ma. Subramanian and K.N. Nehru inaugurated 12 buildings for health centres across Tiruchi district; house pattas and assistance given to 168 beneficiaries"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Small businesses bearing the brunt of flood fallout in Vijayawada;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/small-businesses-bearing-the-brunt-of-flood-fallout-in-vijayawada/article68670998.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:43:28 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;State government will develop Rayalaseema by providing irrigation water to the stabilised ayacut of Handri Neeva main canal through irrigation canals, says Water Resources Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/state-government-will-develop-rayalaseema-by-providing-irrigation-water-to-the-stabilised-ayacut-of-handri-neeva-main-canal-through-irrigation-canals-says-water-resources-minister/article68671145.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:37:34 +0530",
        "text": "I will tour the region twice in a month and ensure that the pending projects are completed, he says"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rayanna and Channamma Brigade will be formed soon, says Eshwarappa;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/rayanna-and-channamma-brigade-will-be-formed-soon-says-eshwarappa/article68670905.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:35:38 +0530",
        "text": "It will help stop injustice being meted out to some communities, he asserts"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;VHP wants temples freed from government control;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/vhp-wants-temples-freed-from-government-control/article68671098.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:35:25 +0530",
        "text": "In the run-up to a meeting in Tirupati after the laddu prasadam controversy, the VHP\u2019s international president Alok Kumar said the organisation had always been against boards formed by governments to manages temples"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;HC Judge honours temple trustee;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/hc-judge-honours-temple-trustee/article68671293.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:35:23 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Interviews at Employability Centre;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/interviews-at-employability-centre/article68670992.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:34:05 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Telangana PCCF denies rumours of large-scale tree removal for naval radar station;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-pccf-denies-rumours-of-large-scale-tree-removal-for-naval-radar-station/article68670952.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:33:48 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two ophthalmologists from Hyderabad top Stanford list of researchers;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/two-ophthalmologists-from-hyderabad-top-stanford-list-of-researchers/article68671235.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:33:03 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kodimatha bridge: works on remaining pillars to begin this week;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kodimatha-bridge-works-on-remaining-pillars-to-begin-this-week/article68670830.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:32:28 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Plans afoot to expand fleet of bike ambulance services to hard-to-reach areas in Telangana\u2019s tribal region;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/plans-afoot-to-expand-fleet-of-bike-ambulance-services-to-hard-to-reach-areas-in-telanganas-tribal-region/article68671298.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:28:52 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tirupati laddu row: Chandrababu Naidu\u2019s allegations \u2018false, reckless\u2019, alleges Jagan Mohan Reddy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/andhra-pradesh-chief-minister-chandrababu-naidus-allegations-on-tirumala-laddu-prasadam-false-reckless-alleges-ysrcp-chief-jagan/article68671018.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:28:25 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Naidu\u2019s actions lowered not only the stature of a Chief Minister but also that of everyone in public life, and the sanctity of the world-renowned TTD and its practices, Jagan alleged."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CPI(M) issues ultimatum to Anvar to stop public accusations that aid political enemies;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/cpim-issues-ultimatum-to-anvar-to-stop-public-accusations-that-aid-political-enemies/article68671035.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:25:15 +0530",
        "text": "An isolated Anvar finds little solace in Congress-led Opposition with its convener M.M. Hassan stating that the LDF legislator is unwelcome"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Four held for ganja sale in Hyderabad;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/four-held-for-ganja-sale-in-hyderabad/article68671159.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:24:53 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Coldplay concert tickets sell out in minutes, fans face skyrocketing resale prices;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/coldplay-concert-tickets-sell-out-in-minutes-fans-face-skyrocketing-resale-prices/article68670733.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:24:08 +0530",
        "text": "Coldplay initially announced two concerts but realising the quick ticket sales, they announced a third show which also was sold out in minutes."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bindu to convene meeting to resolve pay issue of guest faculty;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/bindu-to-convene-meeting-to-resolve-pay-issue-of-guest-faculty/article68671150.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:23:21 +0530",
        "text": "The move comes amid growing clamour among guest lecturers to revise their pay commensurate to the increased workload on account of the introduction of the four year undergraduate programme"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Six houses collapse in Chennai due to sea erosion;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/six-houses-collapse-in-chennai-due-to-sea-erosion/article68671095.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:23:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Students and activists urge IISc to cancel India-Israel Business Summit;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/students-and-activists-urge-iisc-to-cancel-india-israel-business-summit/article68670891.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:22:28 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Ganesh Mandal leaders join Id procession in Belagavi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/ganesh-mandal-leaders-join-id-procession-in-belagavi/article68671249.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:18:09 +0530",
        "text": "Muslims had postponed it to allow idol immersion procession last week"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jharkhand High Court orders immediate restoration of Internet services;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jharkhand/jharkhand-high-court-orders-immediate-restoration-of-internet-services/article68670598.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:17:20 +0530",
        "text": "The court also ordered the Hemant Soren government to not suspend Internet services in any form for conducting any examination without its permission"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Water level in Mullaperiyar dam stands at 129.65 feet;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/water-level-in-mullaperiyar-dam-stands-at-12965-feet/article68671148.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:16:47 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Customs, Central GST officials distribute relief material to flood victims in Vijayawada;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/customs-central-gst-officials-distribute-relief-material-to-flood-victims-in-vijayawada/article68671139.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:16:45 +0530",
        "text": "The kits contain blankets, sarees, mosquito nets, mosquito coils, bath and dish washing soaps, tooth pastes, brushes, floor cleaners, and towels"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bihar government halts land survey for 3 months;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/bihar-government-halts-land-survey-for-3-months/article68670505.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:15:23 +0530",
        "text": "The State\u2019s Land Reforms Minister said the survey will not be suspended as 52,000 acres of government land is under illegal possession of the land mafia."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;A poacher-turned-forest protector bags prestigious award;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/a-poacher-turned-forest-protector-bags-prestigious-award/article68670940.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:12:56 +0530",
        "text": "Till 1996, Sabu was part of a gang involved in smuggling forest produce such as cinnamon bark and sandalwood. Then he joined an eco development committee and strived to protect the very forest he exploited. For his efforts, an award instituted by Cricketers for Wildlife Conservation has come his way"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Dharna Chowk amplifies \u2018Save Damagundam\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/dharna-chowk-amplifies-save-damagundam/article68671172.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:12:03 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Satya Pal Malik meets Uddhav Thackeray, extends support to MVA for Assembly polls;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/maharashtra-assembly/satya-pal-malik-meets-uddhav-thackeray-extends-support-to-mva-for-assembly-polls/article68670914.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:08:10 +0530",
        "text": "The former Jammu and Kashmir Governor to campaign for Maha Vikas Aghadi to wipe out the BJP from Maharashtra"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Complete Asuvama Nathi dam project, say Usilampatti farmers;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/complete-asuvama-nathi-dam-project-say-usilampatti-farmers/article68670976.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:05:48 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Partially charred body of man found along Kudamurutti river bank in Tiruchi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/partially-charred-body-of-man-found-along-kudamurutti-river-bank-in-tiruchi/article68671070.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:04:53 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nikhil visits Nagamangala to condole death of youth;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/nikhil-visits-nagamangala-to-condole-death-of-youth/article68671055.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:04:47 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Cauvery Aarti\u2019 on trial basis this Dasara, full-fledged ceremony only after preparations;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/cauvery-aarti-on-trial-basis-this-dasara-full-fledged-ceremony-only-after-preparations/article68671049.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:01:30 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;GVMC council meeting in Visakhapatnam likely to be a stormy affair;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/gvmc-council-meeting-in-visakhapatnam-likely-to-be-a-stormy-affair/article68670913.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:58:16 +0530",
        "text": "Council to meet for the first time after the formation of the new government in State; a 48-point main agenda and a 27-point supplementary agenda prepared for discussion"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Childhood cancer survivors lead marathon event of Madurai hospital;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/childhood-cancer-survivors-lead-marathon-event-of-madurai-hospital/article68670616.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:56:11 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Corporation deploys 400 workers in 50 locations to clear encroachments along rainwater channels;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/corporation-deploys-400-workers-in-50-locations-to-clear-encroachments-along-rainwater-channels/article68671167.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:50:42 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Dasara expo to feature replica of wooden palace of Mysuru;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/dasara-expo-to-feature-replica-of-wooden-palace-of-mysuru/article68670961.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:47:32 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sign Language Day: Picture postcard to be released in Mysuru today;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/sign-language-day-picture-postcard-to-be-released-in-mysuru-today/article68670848.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:40:53 +0530",
        "text": "The event aims to raise awareness of the Indian Sign Language as a tool for inclusive communication, honouring the International Day of Sign Languages, according to Mysore-based AIISH"
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Second missing dog from Hong Kong\u2019s Po Lin Monastery found and returned home;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279527/second-missing-dog-hong-kongs-po-lin-monastery-found-and-returned-home?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:52:14 +0800",
        "text": "Po Lin Monastery says Dai Mui has now \u2018returned to her original habitat\u2019 and will continue to be observed and receive treatment."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong tells Taoist group to explain axed drone show after \u2018will of heaven\u2019 apology;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279524/hong-kong-tells-taoist-group-explain-axed-drone-show-after-will-heaven-apology?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:14:10 +0800",
        "text": "Sik Sik Yuen, operator of Wong Tai Sin Temple, announced cancellation an hour after show was supposed to begin."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;\u2018Unacceptable\u2019: Hong Kong widow of man shot dead by police says she regrets call for help;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279517/unacceptable-hong-kong-widow-man-shot-dead-police-says-she-regrets-call-help?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:13:38 +0800",
        "text": "Family files complaint to police over officer\u2019s decision to shoot mentally ill man when responding to domestic violence call."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Fewer than 33% of Hong Kong secondary school pupils will seek help for mental health issues: poll;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3279515/less-33-hong-kong-secondary-school-pupils-will-seek-help-mental-health-issues-poll?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:53:40 +0800",
        "text": "Nearly half of 826 pupils polled by Chinese YMCA say they \u2018would not necessarily\u2019 seek help, while more than 20 per cent \u2018would not seek help at all\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Butterfly species in Hong Kong found in record numbers despite habitat harm, NGO says;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279514/butterfly-species-hong-kong-found-record-numbers-despite-habitat-harm-ngo-says?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:53:23 +0800",
        "text": "Green Power\u2019s annual survey finds 186 butterfly species across six hotspots, with 59 types classified as \u2018rare\u2019 and \u2018very rare\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;1.2 million mainland Chinese visitors expected in Hong Kong for National Day \u2018golden week\u2019 break;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279508/12-million-mainland-chinese-visitors-expected-hong-kong-national-day-golden-week-break?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:57:41 +0800",
        "text": "Travel Industry Council also predicts number of inbound tour groups may grow by nearly 10 per cent to 850 over seven-day holiday."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong team to enrol 3,000 patients to improve AI tool targeting cardiovascular disease;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279507/hong-kong-team-enrol-3000-patients-improve-ai-tool-targeting-cardiovascular-disease?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:22:06 +0800",
        "text": "\u2018P-Cardiac\u2019 uses Asia\u2019s largest patient records database to check risk of developing cardiovascular disease, among top causes of death in city."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Elderly man dies after fire in luxury Hong Kong flat in Mid-Levels;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279503/man-found-unconscious-after-blaze-luxury-flat-hong-kongs-mid-levels?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:20:07 +0800",
        "text": "Fire broke out shortly before 5pm in flat in Tower 2 of Elegant Terrace, prompting evacuation of about 50 people."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Cathay\u2019s ban on abusive passengers \u2018right\u2019 move, say Hong Kong industry leaders;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3279501/hong-kong-industry-leaders-call-cathays-ban-abusive-passengers-right-move?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:40:42 +0800",
        "text": "Former Airport Authority member and lawmaker say airline had to show it won\u2019t tolerate aggressive behaviour that affects business and flouts rules."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pakistan: Bomb kills police officer in diplomatic convoy;https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-bomb-kills-police-officer-in-diplomatic-convoy/a-70295770?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "A roadside bomb targeting a convoy of foreign diplomats killed one Pakistani police officer and wounded three others. The diplomats returned safely to Islamabad."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN reform plan adopted despite Russian opposition;https://www.dw.com/en/un-reform-plan-adopted-despite-russian-opposition/a-70295441?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The international community adopted a plan to reform the United Nations, called the \"Pact for the Future,\" despite Russian efforts to derail it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;SPD set to finish ahead of far-right AfD in Brandenburg vote;https://www.dw.com/en/spd-set-to-finish-ahead-of-far-right-afd-in-brandenburg-vote/live-70291788?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "First projections in state elections in the eastern German state of Brandenburg give the Social Democrats a slim lead over the far-right AfD in the race to be the largest party. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods, landslides ravage central Japan after heavy rains;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-landslides-ravage-central-japan-after-heavy-rains/a-70295079?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Unprecedented rainfall caused flooding on the Noto Peninsula in central Japan, leaving at least one dead and eleven missing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Swiss voters reject biodiversity, pension reforms;https://www.dw.com/en/swiss-voters-reject-biodiversity-pension-reforms/a-70295253?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Voters in Switzerland have voted \"no\" to measures on biodiversity preservation and pension reforms, according to official initial results."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hezbollah deputy declares 'new phase' of battle with Israel;https://www.dw.com/en/hezbollah-deputy-declares-new-phase-of-battle-with-israel/live-70292455?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Hezbollah said it is in an \"open-ended battle of reckoning with Israel.\" Israeli's PM said the military \"landed a serious of blows on Hezbollah.\" DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Gaza para cyclists deliver aid, inspiration and hope;https://www.dw.com/en/gaza-para-cyclists-deliver-aid-inspiration-and-hope/a-70269177?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "When the bombs started to fall in Gaza last October, the Gaza Sunbirds made changes. The group of 25 cyclists with amputated legs started using their bikes to deliver food, shelter and much more to their neighbors."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Sri Lanka: Leftist Dissanayake declared president-elect;https://www.dw.com/en/sri-lanka-leftist-dissanayake-declared-president-elect/a-70294284?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been named president-elect by Sri Lanka's electoral commission. This follows an unprecedented count of people's second-preference votes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Iran: Coal miners trapped after deadly explosion;https://www.dw.com/en/iran-coal-miners-trapped-after-deadly-explosion/a-70292191?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "A suspected explosion has killed at least 31 people at a coal mine in Iran, according to the country's interior minister. Many others were believed to be trapped inside."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Why Meta is now banning Russian propaganda;https://www.dw.com/en/why-meta-is-now-banning-russian-propaganda/a-70290904?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all no longer allow content from Russian state media such as RT. The timing is hardly coincidental."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Iran testing new strategies to soothe an angry public?;https://www.dw.com/en/iran-testing-new-strategies-to-soothe-an-angry-public/a-70290551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "With the recent return of banned students and professors to universities and the new president's intention to curb harassment of women by the morality police, Tehran could be signaling the will to placate its critics."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Biden tells Quad allies: China 'testing us';https://www.dw.com/en/biden-tells-quad-allies-china-testing-us/a-70291803?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Biden was caught on hot mic saying that China was \"testing us all across the region.\" The comments came as the US president hosted a Quad summit with Australian, Japanese and Indian leaders."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brazil: Supreme Court orders further documents from X;https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-supreme-court-orders-further-documents-from-x/a-70291723?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Tech billionaire Elon Musk has agreed to appoint a legal representative in Brazil following a Supreme Court order in August. However, Judge Alexandre de Moraes has requested more proof of the lawyer's power of attorney."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Modi to mobilize India's diaspora during US visit;https://www.dw.com/en/modi-to-mobilize-india-s-diaspora-during-us-visit/a-70268423?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Prime Minister Narendra Modi's outreach to the Indian diaspora has become an important part of his diplomatic toolkit. Ahead of his US visit, 25,000 Indian Americans have signed up to see him speak at a New York event."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New French government announced in shift to the right;https://www.dw.com/en/new-french-government-announced-in-shift-to-the-right/a-70291188?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "French President Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff revealed the new center-right government from the Elysee Palace with some new faces in key positions and some who will be returning to their positions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Campaigns and a concert on eve of vote;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-campaigns-and-a-concert-on-eve-of-vote/a-70290694?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Politicians made last-ditch pitches in Brandenburg before Sunday's state election, where the far-right AfD is in the running to be the largest party. Several German bands gathered in Potsdam opposing this prospect."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Female referee deletes Instagram as football moves slowly;https://www.dw.com/en/female-referee-deletes-instagram-as-football-moves-slowly/a-70290706?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Albanian referee Emanuela Rusta is making fast progress, but the sport she works in is not. The official made the decision to get rid of her social media account after constant remarks about her appearance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Paratroopers land in Arnhem honoring Operation Market Garden;https://www.dw.com/en/paratroopers-land-in-arnhem-honoring-operation-market-garden/a-70290283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned World War II operations. The Allied bid to secure a Rhine crossing proved \"A Bridge too Far.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;South Africa: Heavy snowfall forces road closures;https://www.dw.com/en/south-africa-heavy-snowfall-forces-road-closures/a-70290589?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Authorities have warned motorists to stay off one of the country\u2019s arterial routes in the east. The N3 highway between Johannesburg and Durban has been blanketed with heavy snow."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Homeless World Cup: 'We want to do something special';https://www.dw.com/en/homeless-world-cup-we-want-to-do-something-special/a-70218267?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "National football teams made up of homeless people from around the world will soon gather in South Korea for the Homeless World Cup. For many of the players, the stakes are much higher than just the trophy on offer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starting a new life after political imprisonment in Belarus;https://www.dw.com/en/starting-a-new-life-after-political-imprisonment-in-belarus/a-70274513?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned dozens of political prisoners in recent months. Husband and wife Dmitry Luksha and Polina Polovinko, who were released in early July, spoke with DW about their ordeal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Two arsenals destroyed in Russia, Kyiv says;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-two-arsenals-destroyed-in-russia-kyiv-says/live-70289171?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Ukraine has destroyed two ammunition depots in Russia, the Ukrainian military said. Meanwhile, three people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Immigrants in eastern Germany ask: Leave or stay?;https://www.dw.com/en/immigrants-in-eastern-germany-ask-leave-or-stay/a-70289695?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The far-right AfD, leading in some polls, has campaigned aggressively against immigrants in state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg. But those states also depend on immigrant labor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Are Western double standards undermining the global order?;https://www.dw.com/en/are-western-double-standards-undermining-the-global-order/a-70289453?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The Global South has become increasingly critical of Western double standards. A study by the Munich Security Conference has warned that the rules-based international order is at stake."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How deadly is Ukraine's new 'dragon drone'?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-deadly-is-ukraine-s-new-dragon-drone/a-70287164?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The Ukrainian armed forces have deployed a new kind of drone to defend their country, one filled with a pyrotechnic thermite mixture that rains fire down on enemy positions. Its use is highly controversial."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Fridays for Future protests draw 75,000 in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/fridays-for-future-protests-draw-75-000-in-germany/a-70287782?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Climate activists filled the streets of German cities from Berlin to Munich, calling on authorities to take stronger action. Meanwhile, a court jailed two elderly climate activists for sabotaging an oil pipeline."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Iceland: Police shoot 1st polar bear sighted in years;https://www.dw.com/en/iceland-police-shoot-1st-polar-bear-sighted-in-years/a-70287266?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Number of refugees reaches new high in 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-number-of-refugees-reaches-new-high-in-2024/a-70286816?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "There are more refugees living in Germany than ever in recent history, according to German government data. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has contributed to the increase in refugees in Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German border city prepares for flood;https://www.dw.com/en/german-border-city-prepares-for-flood/a-70285116?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Frankfurt an der Oder, the German city on the border with Poland, is getting ready for yet another major flood. Yet the climate crisis is barely an issue in the Brandenburg state election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Former Harrods boss Mohamed al Fayed accused of rape;https://www.dw.com/en/former-harrods-boss-mohamed-al-fayed-accused-of-rape/a-70284389?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The late Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women. The survivors, including some minors, were hired as secretaries and assistants when the abuse allegedly took place."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dutch 'Mocro mafia' sets off alarm bells in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-mocro-mafia-sets-off-alarm-bells-in-germany/a-69764909?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "German police have warned of Dutch organized crime networks moving into Germany after they intervened in a spectacular case of kidnapping and torture."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jahjaga: 'Blame should not be directed at the survivors, but at the perpetrators, who used rape as a weapon of war';https://www.dw.com/en/jahjaga-blame-should-not-be-directed-at-the-survivors-but-at-the-perpetrators-who-used-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war/a-70283271?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Former President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga has been advocating for the survivors of wartime sexual violence since her presidency. She speaks to DW about her fight to address and highlight this issue in Kosovo."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Heat pumps: Why Germany's heating revolution is stalling;https://www.dw.com/en/heat-pumps-why-germany-s-heating-revolution-is-stalling/a-70192621?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "It's a signature project of Germany's environmentalist Greens: Instead of heating homes with fossil fuels, Germans should use heat pumps based on air or groundwater. But demand for these devices has plummeted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Von der Leyen in Kyiv announces \u20ac35bn loan;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-von-der-leyen-in-kyiv-announces-\u20ac35bn-loan/live-70278769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Ursula von der Leyen said the loan would come from frozen Russian assets. The EU Commission president also said the bloc \"will help Ukraine in its brave efforts\" including winter preparation and EU accession. Follow DW"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starlink satellites are blinding astronomers' view of space;https://www.dw.com/en/starlink-satellites-are-blinding-astronomers-view-of-space/a-70273835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Starlink and other satellite networks are vital for providing high speed internet to remote communities, but unintended radiation leakages are making life difficult for astronomers who need clear skies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hungary and the Netherlands want to exit EU asylum policy;https://www.dw.com/en/hungary-and-the-netherlands-want-to-exit-eu-asylum-policy/a-70278674?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Right-wing governments like those in Hungary and the Netherlands are demanding an opt-out, but it's hard to see how countries could legally exit the EU's asylum policy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Tupperware parties empowered homebound suburban women;https://www.dw.com/en/how-tupperware-parties-empowered-homebound-suburban-women/a-70273741?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "As Tupperware files for bankruptcy, here's a look back at how the iconic US plastic kitchenware company and its \"Tupperware party\" business model became a cultural phenomenon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Slovakia seemingly unfazed by EU threat to withhold funding;https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-seemingly-unfazed-by-eu-threat-to-withhold-funding/a-70277869?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Fearing that PM Robert Fico is dismantling Slovak democracy, the European Commission is reportedly considering freezing billions in EU funds for Bratislava. Will the threat be enough to rein in Fico's illiberal ways?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;French police shoot dead 2 in New Caledonia operation;https://www.dw.com/en/french-police-shoot-dead-2-in-new-caledonia-operation/a-70278345?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Thousands of French police have been deployed to the overseas Pacific territory to quell unrest sparked by voting reforms proposed in Paris."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU Parliament recognizes Maduro rival as Venezuela president;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-parliament-recognizes-maduro-rival-as-venezuela-president/a-70276261?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The European Parliament has passed a resolution recognizing Venezuelan opposition figure Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia's claim to have won Venezuela's July election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Berlin considering how to support German carmaker Volkswagen;https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-considering-how-to-support-german-carmaker-volkswagen/a-70275918?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that Berlin is looking into ways to support ailing carmaker Volkswagen amid the threat of job cuts. The firm has been grappling with weak electric vehicle sales."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Axel Springer splits media, classified businesses;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-axel-springer-splits-media-classified-businesses/a-70274495?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Friede Springer and CEO Mathias D\u00f6pfner will own Springer's media operations, which include Germany's most-read newspaper Bild and US digital newspaper Politico."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Czech Republic struggling to mitigate risks as Russian firms flourish;https://www.dw.com/en/czech-republic-struggling-to-mitigate-risks-as-russian-firms-flourish/a-70181088?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Czechia hosts by far the highest number of Russian-owned companies of any EU state. Experts warn this cohort of over 12,500 firms pose economic and security risks that the government must eventually start to mitigate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oktoberfest: Beer and pretzels in a sustainable package;https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-beer-and-pretzels-in-a-sustainable-package/a-70235282?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "More than Bavarians in lederhosen balancing frothing beer mugs and fried sausages, the world's largest folk festival is becoming more inclusive and eco-friendly."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;COVID FLiRT variants KP.3 and XEC: What you need to know;https://www.dw.com/en/covid-flirt-variants-kp-3-and-xec-what-you-need-to-know/a-70266402?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another variant and become XEC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: EU plans \u20ac10 billion aid for affected members;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-eu-plans-\u20ac10-billion-aid-for-affected-members/live-70265849?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The Polish city of Wroclaw hosted the leaders of the region's most affected by Storm Boris to discuss European aid. Days of flooding have wreaked death and destruction across Central Europe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Two European firms in focus of Hezbollah pager explosions;https://www.dw.com/en/two-european-firms-in-focus-of-hezbollah-pager-explosions/a-70248830?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The Taiwanese company whose name appeared on the pagers that detonated across Lebanon has denied manufacturing the devices. That has put relatively unknown Hungarian and Bulgarian firms in the spotlight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: UN body warns Russia on power grid strikes;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-un-body-warns-russia-on-power-grid-strikes/live-70264350?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine says attacks on the country's electricity infrastructure by Russia may violate international humanitarian law. Meanwhile, Russia claims gains in Kursk. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine wants action after Belarus Olympic medalist ceremony;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-wants-action-after-belarus-olympic-medalist-ceremony/a-70262052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The ceremony, held on Belarus' National Unity Day, appears to violate the Olympic neutrality rules. Ukraine wants action, with the country's sports minister telling DW further sanctions are necessary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cities start fighting rental crisis triggered by overtourism;https://www.dw.com/en/cities-start-fighting-rental-crisis-triggered-by-overtourism/a-70228085?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "In many of Europe's hottest tourist destinations like Barcelona and Paris, locals struggle to access affordable housing. How much are vacation rentals to blame?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU to withhold \u20ac200 million from Hungary over asylum fine;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-withhold-\u20ac200-million-from-hungary-over-asylum-fine/a-70260506?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The EU Commission says it will withhold funds for Hungary after Budapest failed to pay a fine for violating asylum rules. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's nationalist Fidesz government has taken a hard line on migration"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Netherlands seeks EU migration opt-out;https://www.dw.com/en/netherlands-seeks-eu-migration-opt-out/a-70251015?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The Netherlands says it plans to request an exemption from the EU's common migration and asylum policy. It comes after the right-wing coalition government announced plans for the country's \"strictest-ever asylum regime.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Exploding Hezbollah pagers: How did it happen?;https://www.dw.com/en/exploding-hezbollah-pagers-how-did-it-happen/a-70250960?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Lithium-ion batteries can catch fire or explode, but in the attack on pagers in Lebanon, the devices are more likely to have been hacked."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Slovakia's capital hit by biggest floods in 30 years;https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-s-capital-hit-by-biggest-floods-in-30-years/a-70251068?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The biggest flood in 30 years hit Slovakia's capital Bratislava this week, forcing dozens of people from their homes. The west of the country has also been badly hit."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Ammo depot in Russia's Tver region explodes;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-ammo-depot-in-russia-s-tver-region-explodes/live-70246486?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "A major Ukrainian drone attack on Russia caused a huge explosion in a large Russian arsenal in the western Tver region."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Extreme weather: Flooding and wildfires across Europe;https://www.dw.com/en/extreme-weather-flooding-and-wildfires-across-europe/live-70247619?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The Polish city of Wroclaw and the German city of Dresden have begun preparations for flooding following a weather disaster that has killed 20 people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: AfD loses appeal on chairing Bundestag committees;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-afd-loses-appeal-on-chairing-bundestag-committees/a-70246675?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Germany's top court has rejected a pair of appeals from the far-right AfD concerning the absence of its lawmakers chairing parliamentary committees. The court found the party was not automatically entitled to the posts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains \u2014 study;https://www.dw.com/en/pregnancy-completely-rewires-mothers-brains-study/a-70246399?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Neuroscientists scanned the brain of a pregnant woman and captured a 'widespread reorganization' of her brain before, during and after pregnancy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Use, and misuse, of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "As Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell become the latest celebs to endorse Kamala Harris, here's a look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Google wins legal battle against EU over \u20ac1.5 billion fine;https://www.dw.com/en/google-wins-legal-battle-against-eu-over-\u20ac1-5-billion-fine/a-70246709?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "After years of back and forth, an EU court annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it sold advertisements. The fine was one of three major penalties the EU has leveled against the tech giant in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Namibia's strategy to cull animals save them?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-namibia-s-strategy-to-cull-animals-save-them/a-70213343?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Does Namibia's plan to kill animals to save them, and help the human population from ongoing drought, stack up?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand shrinks;https://www.dw.com/en/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy-as-demand-shrinks/a-70245540?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Once popular for its colorful food storage containers, US firm Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy. The company succumbed to a plummeting demand for its products."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Second explosion shakes Cologne;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-second-explosion-shakes-cologne/a-70245020?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The explosion was the second in a week in Cologne's city center. Police said it was still too early to say if there was a connection. Sniffer dogs were on the site as officers investigated."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg: Black politician takes on German far-right AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-black-politician-takes-on-german-far-right-afd/a-70166368?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "German voters in Brandenburg are heading to the polls just weeks after the far-right AfD party's historic surge in two state elections. Can Cameroonian-born politician Adeline Abimnwi Awemo help turn the tide?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Intel's factory delay adds to Germany's economic woes;https://www.dw.com/en/us-intel-s-factory-delay-adds-to-germany-s-economic-woes/a-70241739?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has announced it is postponing a $30 billion investment in Germany due to financial problems at the firm. But is the German government still committed to the investments?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German police reintroduce spot controls at all borders;https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-reintroduce-spot-controls-at-all-borders/a-70240598?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Germany is reintroducing border checks at all its borders for at least six months. The aim is to help restrict migration. DW visited the border area between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands to see how it was working."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the arts are a thorn in the side of Germany's AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-arts-are-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-germany-s-afd/a-70239911?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German conservative Friedrich Merz to run for chancellor;https://www.dw.com/en/german-conservative-friedrich-merz-to-run-for-chancellor/a-70240130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "It's as good as official: liberal businessman Friedrich Merz, head of the conservative Christian Democrats, is set to be the party's lead candidate in upcoming German federal election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How new technologies can mitigate the risks of flooding;https://www.dw.com/en/how-new-technologies-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-flooding/a-70239314?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "With extreme weather, floods are getting as common in Europe as they are in Asia and Africa. From mobile barriers to specialized dams, people are finding solutions to life-threatening floods across the globe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Far right, center left in close race;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-far-right-center-left-in-close-race/a-70238419?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Sanssouci, Babelsberg, Tesla, BER airport \u2014 Brandenburg is a state with much to boast about when it comes to history or economy. Governed by the same party since 1990, the state may face a shake-up in upcoming election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China's technology drive leaves young people jobless;https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-technology-drive-leaves-young-people-jobless/a-70187883?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "China is investing billions to become a global tech power. But AI, robotics and quantum computing are not labor-intensive sectors, so what to do about the millions of young Chinese who can't find a job?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Volkswagen's crisis: How can Europe's car industry survive?;https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-s-crisis-how-can-europe-s-car-industry-survive/a-70231806?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "While Volkswagen and other European automakers are considering closing factories, Chinese rivals are searching for production sites on the continent. What's going wrong in Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Intel delays construction of Magdeburg factory;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-intel-delays-construction-of-magdeburg-factory/a-70235254?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has delayed a construction project by two years amid cost-saving measures. German Finance Minister Christian Lindner called for funds earmarked for subsidies to be used to plug a federal budget gap."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Worker killed in Oktoberfest roller coaster test;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-worker-killed-in-oktoberfest-roller-coaster-test/a-70232611?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The Munich fire department said a worker was fatally injured during a test ride of a roller coaster at the Oktoberfest site."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's expanded border controls come into force;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-expanded-border-controls-come-into-force/live-70228054?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Germany has temporarily reintroduced controls on its western and northern borders as part of efforts to combat irregular migration and cross-border crime."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy's UniCredit raises eyebrows over Commerzbank move;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-s-unicredit-raises-eyebrows-over-commerzbank-move/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "UniCredit stunned markets by buying a 9% stake in Germany's second-largest lender. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, DW explores the next possible moves."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jens Stoltenberg set to head Munich Security Conference;https://www.dw.com/en/jens-stoltenberg-set-to-head-munich-security-conference/a-70213341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is to become the first non-German to head the renowned MSC. The former Norwegian Prime Minister has been a staunch advocate for increased defense spending by NATO member states."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's political landscape is more fractured than ever;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-political-landscape-is-more-fractured-than-ever/a-70211395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The AfD and BSW, two populist parties in Germany, won almost half of the votes in the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia. The result has fundamentally changed the German party system."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Young women and girls more at risk of homelessness;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-young-women-and-girls-more-at-risk-of-homelessness/a-70200312?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Homelessness also affects young people, including an unusually high proportion of women and girls. Life with no home of their own is particularly dangerous for this group, say experts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Alex Morgan: The greatest female footballer of all time?;https://www.dw.com/en/alex-morgan-the-greatest-female-footballer-of-all-time/a-70153127?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Marta may have won six FIFA player awards, but two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan is more of a household name. Teammate Megan Rapinoe achieved on and off the field, yet Morgan had a grace on the pitch few could match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's ter Stegen is happy the wait is finally over;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-ter-stegen-is-happy-the-wait-is-finally-over/a-70144838?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "National team goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has spoken of his frustration during years of being stuck behind Manuel Neuer, while at the same time paying tribute to his predecessor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australia's Raygun claims 'I knew people wouldn't understand my style';https://www.dw.com/en/australia-s-raygun-claims-i-knew-people-wouldn-t-understand-my-style/a-70135037?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Rachael \"Raygun\" Gunn, the 37-year-old Olympic breaker, says the criticism of her performance came from people's ignorance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Women's soccer: US shows up Europe on maternity care;https://www.dw.com/en/women-s-soccer-us-shows-up-europe-on-maternity-care/a-70117081?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "A recent lawsuit involving French club Olympique Lyon highlighted the disparities and room for improvement in women's football regarding pregnancies and maternity care."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Argentina: Court blocks Milei move to privatize football;https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-court-blocks-milei-move-to-privatize-football/a-70122667?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "A court in Buenos Aires has blocked President Javier Milei's plans to open up Argentinian football to private investment. The issue continues to split the country's most popular sport, with some even looking to Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's Leon Draisaitl signs record NHL contract;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-leon-draisaitl-signs-record-nhl-contract/a-70124333?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Germany's Leon Draisaitl has signed an eight-year contract extension worth $112 million (\u20ac101.5 million). This will keep the superstar forward in Edmonton for a further eight years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India's archaic labor laws allow firms to exploit workers;https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-archaic-labor-laws-allow-firms-to-exploit-workers/a-70121341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Major international companies, including big tech firms, are exploiting India's labor laws and skirting overtime payment, say workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Open and the controversy over night sessions;https://www.dw.com/en/us-open-and-the-controversy-over-night-sessions/a-70121878?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "A new rule was meant to clamp down on matches at the US Open dragging on into the early hours of the next day. Still, some matches are finishing after 2:00 a.m. \u2013 to the detriment of players' health."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Germany live up to its chipmaking ambitions?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-germany-live-up-to-its-chipmaking-ambitions/a-70079606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The German government wants to build up its long-term chipmaking capabilities. But are they following through and attracting the companies needed to make the country a center of this all-important technology?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World Cup expansion gives hope to West Asian teams;https://www.dw.com/en/world-cup-expansion-gives-hope-to-west-asian-teams/a-70112089?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been dominating West Asian football, but the continent has four more assured spots at the 2026 World Cup. As third-round qualifying opens, the likes of Kuwait, Oman and Jordan may make it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ugandan Olympian set on fire in domestic assault;https://www.dw.com/en/ugandan-olympian-set-on-fire-in-domestic-assault/a-70118647?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Rebecca Cheptegei, who finished 44th in the Olympic marathon in Paris, suffered severe burns after allegedly being doused with petrol by her partner. Domestic violence against women remains a serious problem in Kenya."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German businesses worried about far-right gains in the east;https://www.dw.com/en/german-businesses-worried-about-far-right-gains-in-the-east/a-70112417?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the states of Saxony and Thuringia has raised concerns among business leaders about the economic future of eastern Germany. Will it hit jobs and investment?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany coach Nagelsmann names Kimmich as new captain;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coach-nagelsmann-names-kimmich-as-new-captain/a-70113016?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The coach of Germany's national team has named a new captain as the team prepare for their first matches since the home Euros. Julian Nagelsmann is facing a bit of a rebuild after the retirements of four key players."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis tickets: UK government to probe 'dynamic pricing';https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-tickets-uk-government-to-probe-dynamic-pricing/a-70109787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Ministers have promised an investigation after fans complained of inflated ticket prices for Oasis' 2025 reunion tour. But industry experts insist that \"dynamic pricing\" is not illegal and based on supply and demand."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis reunion tour tickets cause online frenzy;https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-reunion-tour-tickets-cause-online-frenzy/a-70099805?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Fans of the Manchester band Oasis faced long online queues on Saturday morning as tickets went on sale for the group's in-demand reunion concerts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Half the world lacks access to safe drinking water;https://www.dw.com/en/half-the-world-lacks-access-to-safe-drinking-water/a-70089835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "A new report shows 4.4 billion people across the world have no access to safe drinking water, more than double many previous estimates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Japan's youth break tradition by embracing perfume;https://www.dw.com/en/japan-s-youth-break-tradition-by-embracing-perfume/a-70091052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Once seen as ostentatious, an imposition on others, and unnecessary in a culture that famously enjoys bathing, perfumes and scents are finally trending among young Japanese."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is methane?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. Where does methane come from, and what can we do to stop it from getting into the atmosphere?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The unseen Holocaust movie: Jerry Lewis' lost film 'The Day the Clown Cried';https://www.dw.com/en/the-unseen-holocaust-movie-jerry-lewis-lost-film-the-day-the-clown-cried/a-70043956?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "At the Venice Film Festival, a new documentary will reveal never-before-seen footage from \"The Day the Clown Cried.\" The 1972 Holocaust movie by comedian Jerry Lewis was never released, but has gained near-mythic status."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Champions League: German clubs look forward to attractive opponents;https://www.dw.com/en/champions-league-german-clubs-look-forward-to-attractive-opponents/a-70090811?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "This season's draw for the Champions League wasn't about putting teams into groups but simply determining who would play whom in the new eight-match league phase."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Concerning' rise in unprotected sex among teenagers;https://www.dw.com/en/concerning-rise-in-unprotected-sex-among-teenagers/a-70079734?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "A majority of teenagers in Europe, Central Asia, and Canada do not use condoms. Experts warn of rising risks of STIs and unwanted pregnancies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Glammed up in the kitchen: Influencers drive 'tradwife' nostalgia;https://www.dw.com/en/glammed-up-in-the-kitchen-influencers-drive-tradwife-nostalgia/a-70071650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "The \"traditional wife\" trend celebrates orthodox gender roles. But does this thriving movement on TikTok and Instagram also serve the far-right political agenda?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Populists\u2019 rhetoric linked to growing unhappiness, study finds;https://www.dw.com/en/populists-rhetoric-linked-to-growing-unhappiness-study-finds/a-70072409?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Right-wing populism is rising across Europe, with Germany\u2019s AfD possibly becoming the first far-right party to win state elections since the Nazis. However, their rise won\u2019t bring greater happiness to their supporters."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Russia airspace ban on Western airlines helps Chinese rivals;https://www.dw.com/en/russia-airspace-ban-on-western-airlines-helps-chinese-rivals/a-70025268?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Russia has banned many European carriers from using its airspace in response to sanctions over Ukraine. That's boosted Chinese airlines' market share, but it's not the only reason Western carriers are struggling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Congo 'working blindly' in attempts to control Mpox outbreak;https://www.dw.com/en/congo-working-blindly-in-attempts-to-control-mpox-outbreak/a-70062357?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Only 40% of Mpox cases in DR Congo are laboratory tested, suggesting true number of cases could be five times higher than reported, according to Africa CDC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Will a right-wing shift hit businesses and jobs?;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-will-a-right-wing-shift-hit-businesses-and-jobs/a-70025620?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "As voters in Saxony go to the polls in state elections, some fear a sharper political turn could hurt business investments in the region and worsen a lack of qualified workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN chief Guterres warns of fast-rising Pacific ocean;https://www.dw.com/en/un-chief-guterres-warns-of-fast-rising-pacific-ocean/a-70055845?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "UN chief Antonio Guterres issued a global SOS regarding Pacific ocean temperatures, rising at three times the global average rate. He called for a cutdown on emissions and support for vulnerable countries."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Eating processed meats raises type 2 diabetes risk;https://www.dw.com/en/eating-processed-meats-raises-type-2-diabetes-risk/a-70051810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Two slices of ham a day are enough to raise type 2 diabetes risk by 15%, according to a new study. Meanwhile high-fat diets could increase the numbers of a toxic molecule known to cause the disease."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is groundwater?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-groundwater/a-68142894?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-22 11:39:24",
        "text": "Groundwater is crucial for agriculture and drinking water supplies. But what exactly is it, how does it form and how can we protect this precious underground resource from threats like pollution and climate change?"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Russia-Ukraine war live: Volodymyr Zelenskyy says ending war at Ukraine\u2019s expense is \u2018unacceptable\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/23/russia-ukraine-war-live-volodymyr-zelenskyy-new-york-latest-news-updates;2024-09-23T08:51:19Z",
        "text": "Ukraine\u2019s offensive in Russia\u2019s Kursk region had killed at least 31 civilians and injured 256 as of 5 September, the Russian foreign ministry has said. These figures have not yet been verified by the Guardian. Kyiv launched its Kursk offensive on 6 August in a bid to pull Moscow\u2019s forces away from eastern Ukraine, where the Russian army has captured a string of villages in recent months. The offensive, which Volodymyr Zelenskyy said has drawn tens of thousands of Russian troops away from the frontline, is being supported by swarms of drones and heavy weaponry, including western-made arms. Russia said 131,000 civilians had left the most dangerous areas of the Kursk region. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has given a wide-ranging interview to the New Yorker. In it he said that Donald Trump\u2019s running mate JD Vance is \u201ctoo radical\u201d in his ideas of how to end the war in Ukraine. Vance, who has criticised US aid packages to Ukraine and pushed for negotiations with Russia, suggested earlier this month that Trump\u2019s plan to end the war could include the establishment of a special demilitarized zone between Ukraine and Russia. Vance said that Ukraine would retain its sovereignty, but would have to give assurances to Moscow that it would not join Nato or any other allied institutions. \u201cThe idea that the world should end this war at Ukraine\u2019s expense is unacceptable. But I do not consider this concept of his a plan, in any formal sense,\u201d the Ukrainian president said in his interview with the New Yorker which was published on Sunday. \u201cI don\u2019t take Vance\u2019s words seriously, because, if this were a plan, then America is headed for global conflict. It will involve Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Taiwan, China, as well as many African countries. That approach would broadcast to the world the following implicit rule: I came, I conquered, now this is mine,\u201d he added. After Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Zelenskyy asked for his country to be admitted to the 32-member defensive alliance as soon as possible. Jens Stoltenberg, the outgoing Nato secretary general, said Ukraine\u2019s membership to Nato is not a \u201cquestion of if, but when\u201d, though he said Ukraine would not become a member during the war with Russia. In the New Yorker interview, Zelenskyy said Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, does not know how to stop the war even if he thinks he does. As we mentioned in the opening summary, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy began his visit to the US with a visit to the Scranton army ammunition plant, which produces components for artillery and mortar shells. He said in a post on X that he is grateful to American workers who are helping build \u201cthis incredible arsenal of global freedom\u201d. The Scranton plant is among the few facilities in the US that manufactures 155mm artillery shells, which are used in howitzer systems able to strike targets from a long distance. The plant is reported to have ramped up production of these shells in the last year. In Kherson, Russian shelling and airstrikes hit residential buildings, killing one 61-year-old woman and wounding seven people Sunday, governor Oleksandr Prokudin said. Russia controls part of the territory in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. They have both been regularly attacked by Russia during the war. In an update on Telegram, the air force of the armed forces of Ukraine said that two guided air missiles and four drones were detected in Ukrainian airspace overnight. Three of the drones were shot down by anti-aircraft defence in the Sumy region, while the other drone and two guided air missiles did not reach their targets, it added. Hello and welcome to the Ukraine live blog. I\u2019m Yohannes Lowe and the time in Kyiv has just gone past 10:30am. Here are the latest developments: Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in the US on Sunday for a crucial visit to present Kyiv\u2019s plan to end two-and-a-half years of war with Russia. The Ukrainian president will present his proposals \u2013 which he calls a \u201cvictory plan\u201d \u2013 to President Joe Biden, as well as presidential hopefuls Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and will also attend sessions at the UN general assembly. The visit comes after a summer of intense fighting, with Moscow advancing fast in eastern Ukraine and Kyiv holding on to swathes of Russia\u2019s Kursk region. Kyiv has for weeks pressed the west to allow it to use delivered long-range weapons to strike targets deep inside Russia \u2013 so far to no avail. The Ukrainian president urged his partners to help achieve \u201ca shared victory for a truly just peace\u201d, in a post on X with his nightly video address. \u201cThis fall will determine the future of this war,\u201d Zelenskyy said in the address, delivered from a plane. Ukrainian media later reported he landed in New York. He is also due to visit Washington later in the week. The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, indicated that delicate negotiations with the White House to allow Ukraine to use Storm Shadow missiles inside Russia are ongoing, arguing it was a time for \u201cnerve and guts\u201d. The apparent encouragement to Biden comes just over a week after Lammy and the prime minister, Keir Starmer, visited the US president in the White House but failed to resolve the sticking point between two countries. Speaking at a fringe event at the Labour party conference in Liverpool on Sunday, Lammy said it was \u201ca critical time for nerve and guts and patience and for fortitude on behalf of allies who stand with Ukraine\u201d. At least 16 civilians were injured, including a 15-year-old boy, on Sunday evening as a result of Russian airstrikes on the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian officials said on Monday. Rescuers evacuated residents from several damaged apartment buildings, Ukraine\u2019s interior ministry said on Telegram. The ministry said that according to preliminary information Russia used its KAB guided aerial bombs to strike Zaporizhzhia. Russia launched new strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv which hit high-rise apartment buildings, leaving at least 21 wounded in a second consecutive night-time attack, authorities said. The bombs fell on Saturday night on the district of Shevchenkivsky, north of the centre of Kharkiv, which is the second-largest Ukrainian city, local governor Oleh Syniehubov said. A firefighter was killed by a Ukrainian drone in Russia-controlled Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine, the Russian emergencies ministry said on Sunday. The drone\u2019s explosives detonated when Vyacheslav Glazunov, 33, was extinguishing a fire in the Novoaidar district triggered by fallen drones, the ministry said on Telegram. Another two firefighters were injured, it added."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis live: Israel conducts strikes on \u2018terror targets\u2019 in southern Lebanon;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/23/middle-east-crisis-live-hezbollah-israel-war-lebanon-evacuations-latest;2024-09-23T08:41:59Z",
        "text": "Lebanon\u2019s national news agency NNA is reporting Israeli airstrikes in the in Zahrani region, and that three people have been injured by an Israeli strike on Ainata, which is in the north of the country. Multiple Palestinian and Arabic news sources have published pictures and video to social media purporting to show a wave of Israeli strikes. More details soon \u2026 Israel\u2019s military has announced on its official Telegram channel that \u201cThe IDF is currently conducting strikes on terror targets belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation in southern Lebanon.\u201d William Christou reports from Beirut for the Guardian Citizens in Lebanon\u2019s capital city Beirut and other areas of the country have received text messages asking them to immediately evacuate their residences. Lebanon\u2019s Minister of Information, Ziad Makari, said that he received a call in which he was asked to evacuate the building, Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency reported Monday morning The calls comes as Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee, claimed that Hezbollah has hidden missiles and other weaponry across south Lebanon, and urged citizens to leave their homes if they lived near Hezbollah members or infrastructure. \u201cVery soon, we will attack terrorist targets in Lebanon to stop these threats. I call for Lebanese citizens that live in homes or near homes that Hezbollah hides weapons in to evacuate them immediately,\u201d Adraee said in a video message on Monday morning. In Beirut, drones could be heard flying low over the city. Al Jazeera reports from Gaza that \u201cmany Palestinians, including children\u201d have been wounded in an Israeli drone attack east of Khan Younis. The news network has been banned from operating in Israel by Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government, and yesterday Israeli security forces raided and shut down the Al Jazeera bureau in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in Ramallah. More details soon \u2026 Israel\u2019s defense minister Yoav Gallant has told the Israeli public they must \u201cstay calm, disciplined and fully compliant with the home front command\u2019s instructions\u201d in the coming days as Israel expands its military operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Haaretz reports that Israel\u2019s home front command issued emergency guidelines on Sunday for residents of the Jezreel Valley and northern regions which included shutting educational establoshments, closing beaches, and limiting public gatherings. Workplaces can stay in operation if they have designated protection areas. Israel\u2019s military has warned residents of southern Lebanon to flee prior to imminent airstrikes which Israel claims are targeting Hezbollah infrastructure. Israel\u2019s Arabic-language military spokesperson Avichay Adraee has posted a video warning residents of villages in southern Lebanon that they should evacuate before imminent airstrikes from Israel\u2019s military. In the message, Adraee said people should leave homes where weapons are hidden, saying that Hezbollah \u201cis lying to you and sacrificing you\u201d and that \u201cmissiles and drones are more valuable and important to [Hezbollah] than you.\u201d There have also been reports, via Reuters, that some residents have been receiving calls, purporting to be from a Lebanese number, warning them to move further than 1km away from Hezbollah infrastructure. Earlier Israeli military spokesperson Rr Adm Daniel Hagari said the IDF would be conducting \u201cextensive, precise strikes, against terror targets which have been embedded widely throughout Lebanon.\u201d He added \u201cWe advise civilians from Lebanese villages located in and next to buildings and areas used by Hezbollah for military purposes, such as those used to store weapons, to immediately move out of harm\u2019s way for their own safety.\u201d The IDF has reported on its official Telegram channel that an attempted stabbing attack by a contractor at Israel\u2019s Lachish base near Beit Guvrin has been prevented. One person was shot, and no soldiers were injured, it said. More details soon \u2026 Reuters reports that some residents in southern Lebanon have been receiving calls from what appears to be a Lebanese number warning them to move at least 1,000 metres from any Hezbollah position. More details soon \u2026 Here are some of the latest images sent over the news wires from Lebanon, where smoke can be seen billowing across the sky after strikes by Israel. Lebanon\u2019s state news agency has reported one person dead and six wounded as a result of the action which Israel claims is striking at Hezbollah infrastructure. Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant has posted to social media to say that overnight he spoke with US secretary of defense Lloyd Austin. Gallant, whose position in Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s cabinet has recently been the subject of much speculation, said he \u201cprovided the secretary with a situation assessment of Hezbollah threats\u201d and briefed him on \u201cIDF operations to degrade Hezbollah\u2019s ability to launch attacks against Israeli civilians.\u201d Gallant added that the pair \u201calso discussed the wider regional situation and the threats posed by Iran and its proxies.\u201d The US has held the position that it was not briefed in advance on the detail of the suspected Israeli sabotage attack last week which blew up pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon, killing dozens and injuring thousands of people. While Israel has not commented on whether it carried out the attacks, in a video posted overnight Gallant said the past week had been \u201cthe most painful of Hezbollah\u2019s existence\u201d citing what he described as the \u201csignificant, precise and successful operations\u201d of the IDF. Netanyahu\u2019s defense minister said Israel\u2019s goal was to return people to their homes in northern Israel. Thousands of people in northern Israel and southern Lebanon have been forced to evacuate due to the near constant exchanges of fire between Israel and anti-Israeli forces in the area since 7 October. Lebanon\u2019s state-owned national news agency has reported that Israel launched airstrikes against multiple locations in southern Lebanon, and that at least one person has been killed and six have been wounded. It reports that among those hit a shepherd was killed, and two of his family were wounded, and that four people were transferred to hospital. In the last few minutes the IDF has said on its official Telegram channel that warning sirens in the western Galilee area had been a false identification of hostile aircraft. The Israeli military has suggested a ground incursion in Lebanon may be needed to secure its war goals as it conducted another round of extensive strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. Reuters reports Monday\u2019s strikes constituted the most geographically widespread bombing that Israel has simultaneously carried out since its conflict with the Iran-based movement a year ago in parallel with the war on Gaza. Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Daniel Hagari said Israel began striking Hezbollah posts in Lebanon after identifying an intention to fire on Israel. Asked by reporters about a possible Israeli ground incursion into Lebanon, Hagari said \u201cwe will do whatever is needed\u201d in order to return evacuated residents of northern Israel to their homes safely \u2013 a war priority for the Israeli government. Israeli warplanes carried out an intense wave of airstrikes on towns along Lebanon\u2019s southern border and even further north on Monday morning, according to Reuters witnesses. Welcome to our live coverage of Israel\u2019s war in Gaza and the wider Middle East crisis. The Israeli military said on Monday it was conducting extensive strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and urged villagers near areas used by the militant group in the country\u2019s south to evacuate. The strikes come amid some of the heaviest cross-border exchanges of fire in nearly a year of conflict. The chief Israeli military spokesperson, R Adm Daniel Hagari, said on Monday the Israel Defense Forces had begun \u201cstriking terrorist targets throughout Lebanon\u201d after \u201cindications that Hezbollah was preparing to fire towards Israeli territory\u201d. Hagari said in a video posted on X: \u201cWe advise civilians in Lebanese villages located in and next to buildings and areas used by Hezbollah for military purposes \u2013 such as those used to store weapons \u2013 to immediately move out of harm\u2019s way for their own safety.\u201d Monday\u2019s strikes came a day after the Iranian-backed Hezbollah sent rockets deep into northern Israeli territory. The militant group fired more than 100 rockets early on Sunday across a deep and wide area of northern Israel, some landing near the city of Haifa. The barrage came after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday killed at least 45 people, including one of Hezbollah\u2019s top leaders. Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem said at the funeral of one of the group\u2019s commanders killed: \u201cWe have entered a new phase, the title of which is the open-ended battle of reckoning.\u201d The exchanges of fire prompted the UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, to warn of the risk \u201cof transforming Lebanon [into] another Gaza\u201d. In other developments: Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said it had in recent days dealt Hezbollah \u201ca series of blows it could not have imagined\u201d. The Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said operations would continue until it was safe for evacuated people on the northern Israeli side of the border to return. Israel\u2019s president, Isaac Herzog, said Israel did not want a war with Lebanon but that it had a right to self-defence. Israel\u2019s civil defence agency, meanwhile, ordered all schools in the country\u2019s north to close. Israel\u2019s chief of the general staff, Herzi Halevi, said the military was well prepared for the next stages of fighting, which were coming in the next few days. \u201cWe will do whatever it takes to removes threats against Israel,\u201d he said in a televised statement. Israeli forces raided the office of global news channel Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and issued a 45-day closure order. The Israeli military said it closed the Al Jazeera TV office in Ramallah because it incited \u201cterror\u201d, an accusation the network vehemently denies. At least 41,431 Palestinian people have been killed and 95,818 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said. An Israeli airstrike killed at least seven people in the Kafr Qasem school in Beach camp \u2013 which was sheltering displaced families \u2013 in Gaza City on Sunday, Palestinian health officials said. Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards said 12 people had been arrested for being operatives collaborating with Israel and planning acts against Iran\u2019s security. The arrests were in six different Iranian provinces, it said. Israel is examining a plan to use siege tactics against Hamas in northern Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu was quoted by several Israeli media outlets as saying. The prime minister\u2019s office did not respond to a request for comment. The reports on Sunday cited unnamed sources at a closed parliament committee meeting."
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    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Monday briefing: Will Labour lift the gloom at its first conference in power?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/monday-briefing-will-labour-lift-the-gloom-at-its-first-conference-in-power;2024-09-23T05:46:54Z",
        "text": "Good morning. Since the party won the election in July, Labour\u2019s messaging has been downcast. Abandoning the high spirits that followed their seismic victory, Keir Starmer has opted for gloom-laden predictions of hard times ahead. The prime minister\u2019s message to the country late last month was that \u201cthings will get worse before they get better\u201d. Coming into office and immediately setting expectations so low is a political risk \u2013 if there was ever a moment to lead with hope and optimism, critics argue, it is now. As Labour\u2019s annual party conference kicks off in Liverpool, there are big questions about whether the government will move on from the pessimism that has characterised their first few months in power, and steer the tone and tenor of the conversation on to something else. In a conversation in yesterday\u2019s Observer, the prime minister was keen to stress that he offers more than just doom and gloom, with plans to provide a vision for what Britain could be. For today\u2019s newsletter, I spoke with Anushka Asthana, deputy political editor of ITV News, former Guardian journalist and author of Taken As Red, about what to expect from Labour\u2019s annual party conference this week. That\u2019s right after the headlines. Five big stories Israel-Gaza war | Seven people have been killed after an Israeli airstrike hit a school housing displaced people in western Gaza City, Palestinian health officials said. Meanwhile, Hezbollah has said it has entered an \u201copen-ended battle of reckoning\u201d with Israel after launching a series of rocket attacks on the north of the country as world powers implored both sides to step back from the brink of all-out war. Politics | Rachel Reeves will announce that she has ordered investigations into more than \u00a3600m worth of Covid contracts awarded under the Conservatives as Labour struggles to get back on the front foot over questions of ethics. Sudan | The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, is \u201cgravely alarmed\u201d at reports of a full-scale assault on the Sudanese city of al-Fashir by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and has called on its leader to halt the attack immediately, according to Guterres\u2019 spokesperson. Business | Fifty pubs a month closed for good across England and Wales in the first half of this year, with experts warning that tax rises in 2025 could make it even harder for some businesses to keep their doors open. Inflation | The price of petrol and diesel in the UK is falling at the fastest pace this year, with households paying about \u00a34 less to fill up a family car than they did a month ago. In depth: \u2018A lot of senior figures and MPs are desperate for a more optimistic tone\u2019 It has been 15 years since the Labour party last had a conference while in government. Twenty thousand people are descending on Liverpool, many of whom arrived yesterday, to lobby the government, hash out policy positions \u2026 and inevitably partake in terrible karaoke. So what awaits them? *** The vibes The non-stop pessimism from senior figures in government is deliberate for two main reasons, Anushka Asthana says. The first is to hammer home the bleak inheritance left by the previous government. \u201cThey want to be clear about where the country is right now \u2013 but they want to argue that it is not inevitable\u201d. \u201cWe had this exact same fight in 2010 when the Conservatives blamed the Labour government for the situation the country was in. They laid out a narrative of economic incompetence that became really entrenched and damaged the party for a long time,\u201d she says. The tables have now turned, and it is Labour\u2019s chance to lay out the damaging narrative against the opposition. The other reason is that hope and optimism in British politics in the past has been drummed up off the back of false promises. \u201cOne thing they think in Downing Street very strongly is that they don\u2019t want to give false hope and they want to be, in their view, realistic and honest,\u201d she adds. \u201cThey think the electorate has been left cynical and despondent as a result of past governments,\u201d and they want to remedy that. \u201cThe public is sick of boosterism\u201d, one Downing Street insider told the Guardian\u2019s Pippa Crerar, that is, a pattern of overpromising and under-delivering which has deeply damaged faith in politicians and politics. The difficulty is that \u201ca lot of senior figures and MPs are desperate for a more optimistic tone, and they don\u2019t believe that necessarily requires committing loads of money\u201d, Anushka says. They argue that a change of government for the first time in over a decade is reason for hope alone. Despite the overwhelming response that the tone is too glum, one source has told Anushka \u201cwe will adjust the base and the treble but we won\u2019t change the tune\u201d, meaning they still believe their overall framework is the right even if it is not landing particularly well. It seems as though there has been an acknowledgment that the fatalism of the past few months has to be balanced with some ideas about the future. One source told Jessica Elgot that the plan is to point to \u201call the things that we can begin this autumn and that is the story we can tell \u2013 that we will not allow our inheritance to stop the work of change\u201d. *** Resetting the agenda Starmer has come under significant scrutiny in the past few weeks. The decision to cut winter fuel payments for all but the poorest pensioners created a firestorm, and the prime minister is still battling the reputational damage over donations that he and his wife have accepted amounting to over \u00a3100,000 in gifts and freebies since December 2019. Despite No 10\u2019s insistence that the country does not care about this story, voters do in fact care deeply. A poll by More in Common found just 7% of the public think it is acceptable to take donations for senior ministers\u2019 clothing and only 8% think donations of hospitality to politicians are acceptable. \u201cThe difficulty is it feeds the narrative that politicians are on the take,\u201d Anushka says. \u201cIt\u2019s coming up on the doorstep and it looks hypocritical.\u201d While some of the donations have some semblance of an explanation \u2013 as prime minister, Starmer accepted corporate hospitality at Arsenal games because he cannot sit in regular seats for security reasons \u2013 others do not. Why, for instance, did he have to accept \u00a32,485 worth of designer glasses? Furthering the sense of hypocrisy is the zeal with which Starmer attacked Boris Johnson over donations a few years ago, when he dubbed the former prime minister \u201cMajor Sleaze\u201d. Similarly, Starmer is batting away criticism over chief of staff Sue Gray\u2019s \u00a3170,000 salary, despite attacking the Conservative government over the pay of former Tory chief adviser Dominic Cummings. \u201cAt one point, Starmer juxtaposed the pay rise for Cummings against pay freezes for public sector workers \u2013 well, now he can expect the Conservatives to juxtapose the pay rise for Sue Gray against the money taken off pensioners,\u201d Anushka says. The government is hoping that conference will be an opportunity to try to take back control of the agenda. However, Starmer\u2019s casual dismissal of the controversies is beginning to waver. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said the prime minister and Labour ministers will stop accepting clothing donations because they don\u2019t want voters to believe they are \u201cliving very different lives\u201d. *** What else can we expect? As the party seeks to move on from the toxic combination of scandal and misery, a number of policies will be pushed for promotion: planning reform, renters\u2019 rights, rail nationalisation, onshore wind, devolution workers rights and teacher recruitment, among many other issues. However, all of this threatens to be overshadowed by the spectre of the October budget which has been widely pitched as difficult and painful \u2013 expect spending cuts and tax rises. Meanwhile, the left of the Labour party will have a significantly diminished presence this year at the conference. The World Transformed, a leftwing political festival that for the past eight years has happened alongside the Labour conference as a fringe event, has been cancelled this year. Several senior figures to the left of the party, like former chancellor John McDonnell are suspended from the party, and others are frustrated with the leadership stance on the two-child benefit cap and the winter fuel allowance. As a result, the conference will probably be dominated by delegates from the party\u2019s centrist wing and will be a demonstration of the strength of Starmer\u2019s support across the party. \u201cBut I\u2019ve been an observer of politics for a long time and no prime minister can ever maintain control of all MPs, indefinitely,\u201d Anushka warns. Taken As Red will be released on 26 September and is available to pre-order at the Guardian Bookshop. What else we\u2019ve been reading Edward Helmore has all the details on the Succession-style struggle for the Murdoch empire that is under way in a Nevada courthouse. Nimo Chris Wilding \u2013 the son of Elizabeth Taylor \u2013 talks movingly to Simon Hattenstone about his mother and growing up in the shadow of a superstar: \u201cThere were crowds wherever she went; always a gaggle of photographers following, people gawping \u2026 it was horrible.\u201d Toby Moses, head of newsletters As a BBC documentary has delved into the abuse and sexual predation of Mohamed Al Fayed, former Vanity Fair editor Henry Porter looks back at his investigation to expose the Harrods owner almost three decades ago. Nimo Are you ready for your full-body health scan? Linda Geddes tried out a new machine that sounds like something out of Star Trek and promises to identify everything from heart conditions to your predisposition to certain cancers. Toby Transport for London has been navigating a cyber attack for weeks. Gwyn Topham writes that although there has been little impact on the physical service, the slow burning problems are likely going to prove considerably costly. Nimo Sport Football | Manchester City broke Arsenal\u2019s resistance with a 98th-minute leveller as the champions drew 2-2 at home to their nearest rivals \u2013 thanks to a scrappy goal from John Stones, pictured above \u2013 after the visitors had Leandro Trossard sent off just before half-time. Formula One | McLaren\u2019s Lando Norris dominated the Singapore Grand Prix beating Max Verstappen by 21 seconds, despite hitting the wall twice. Cycling | The double Olympic gold medallist Remco Evenepoel successfully defended the world time trial title he won in last year\u2019s World Road Championships in Glasgow, with victory in this year\u2019s event in Zurich. The front pages The Guardian leads on \u201cLabour to investigate \u00a3600m Covid contracts given under the Tories\u201d. The Times looks to the Labour party conference with \u201cGood times ahead if we seize them, says Reeves\u201d. The Telegraph takes a different line with \u201cReeves: UK must accept hard times or risk ruin\u201d. The i leads with \u201cReeves urged not to return to austerity, as Labour faces winter fuel revolt\u201d. The Financial Times leads with \u201cEuropean steelmakers press Brussels to tackle a flood of Chinese exports\u201d. The Mirror leads with Labour going after tax cheats with \u201cWe will get your money back\u201d. The Mail splashes with \u201cNow Rayner hires \u00a368,000 \u2018vanity photographer\u2019.\u201d The Sun\u2019s lead is \u201cDance floored\u201d, looking at the TV ratings for the BBC\u2019s live broadcast of Strictly Come Dancing. Today in Focus Born to rule? The hereditary peers about to lose their seats Helen Pidd meets Charles Courtenay, the 19th Earl of Devon, to discuss the history and fate of the UK\u2019s hereditary peers. Cartoon of the day | Edith Pritchett Sign up for Inside Saturday to see more of Edith Pritchett\u2019s cartoons, the best Saturday magazine content and an exclusive look behind the scenes The Upside A bit of good news to remind you that the world\u2019s not all bad Phil Daoust\u2019s latest Fit for ever column sees him ponder the question of whether \u2013 at 61 \u2013 irreversible damage had already been done to his skin. With cancer cases on the rise, he spoke to experts at Salford Royal hospital, to find out whether years of sun exposure and taking \u201cterrible\u201d care of his skin could lead to serious health consequences (his column also features a useful guide to what to look out for in new moles or ones that have changed in size, colour or shape). Thankfully, there were no major causes for concern, and as well as a comprehensive skin MOT, Phil did get some important information about how to protect himself in future, from staying out of the sun when it\u2019s at its hottest, to which sunscreen to slap on and when. \u201cI expect I\u2019ll fail more often than not,\u201d writes Phil. \u201cBut having apparently dodged a bullet, I\u2019m going to at least attempt to stay out of the firing line\u201d. Sign up here for a weekly roundup of The Upside, sent to you every Sunday Bored at work? And finally, the Guardian\u2019s puzzles are here to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until tomorrow. Quick crossword Cryptic crossword Wordiply"
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    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018A struggle to feel pride\u2019: coming-of-age film breaks new ground in S\u00e1mi culture;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/sami-coming-of-age-film-my-fathers-daughter-norway;2024-09-23T04:00:30Z",
        "text": "As a child in northern Norway in the 1980s and 90s, Egil Pedersen struggled to feel a sense of belonging. Growing up in a S\u00e1mi village, he sometimes felt rejected because of his lack of fluency in the S\u00e1mi language, and outside the community he was subjected to racist violence. So when Pedersen, now 47, had the opportunity to make his own feature film, he decided to make the kind of movie that would have made him feel less alone as a child. The result, Biru Unj\u00e1rga (meaning \u201cDamn Unj\u00e1rga\u201d in S\u00e1mi \u2013 Unj\u00e1rga is the name of a village in Finnmark, northern Norway) is the first S\u00e1mi coming-of-age film. Even before going on general release \u2013 it comes out in Norway on 27 September \u2013 the film is making waves. It had its world premiere at the Toronto film festival earlier this month and previews are selling out in cinemas across Finnmark. The team behind it hope to release the film, which in English is called My Fathers\u2019 Daughter, across the Nordics and globally. The film centres around Elvira, a teenager who, after being told that she was conceived via a Danish fertility clinic, fantasises about her father being the Danish Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. But when her father unexpectedly turns up and she finds out that he is actually S\u00e1mi, she embarks on a journey of rejecting and then accepting her true identity. Had there been such portrayals of young S\u00e1mi people on screen when he was growing up, Pedersen believes he might have embraced his identity earlier. \u201cI also think that I would think: \u2018Oh, there are other people like me.\u2019 Even though this was a girl in a lead role, I would still identify with her, or some parts of her, and I would feel less alone in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s what a good film can do.\u201d He hopes the comedy of the film will help spark discussions in a way that a more serious drama might not. \u201cI hope the humour will give the audience a way to discuss identity and confront their own thoughts about identity.\u201d Anne Lajla Utsi, the managing director of the International S\u00e1mi Film Institute, said it was a landmark moment for S\u00e1mi film and culture more broadly. \u201cIt is the first time ever we have a S\u00e1mi feature film where our young people are in the centre of the story. Our young generations need to see themselves, their stories and languages reflected in film, as this shows to ourselves and to the world that we are still here, and our existence has value.\u201d Its international success also makes an important contribution to the fight for S\u00e1pmi, the traditional S\u00e1mi territory spanning the northern parts of Norway, Finland and Sweden and the Kola peninsula in Russia, she added. \u201cIt manifests the importance of S\u00e1mi and Indigenous stories in an international context, and how important it is that we get to tell our own stories from our perspectives.\u201d Sarah Olaussen Eira, who plays Elvira, had never acted before being cast in the film, but, encouraged by friends, went to the audition for fun. The 17-year-old, who comes from a S\u00e1mi background, said a film made specifically for young S\u00e1mi people had been a long time coming. She is still at school, where she is studying music. But she said that starring in the film had given her a taste for acting and she hoped to do more in the future. \u201cMany young people are thankful to finally have a S\u00e1mi youth movie that they can maybe relate to in some way. The movie kind of shows the longing for trying to be something you\u2019re not and then eventually having to accept who you are. I\u2019m really grateful to be a part of that,\u201d she said. \u201cI know that in Norway there has been a struggle to feel pride about being S\u00e1mi for many people, but I hope that young people growing up Sami or people that are taking back their S\u00e1mi identity can finally be proud of being who they are.\u201d The first S\u00e1mi feature film directed by a S\u00e1mi director was the 1987 film Pathfinder, directed by Nils Gaup, which was nominated for an Oscar. But until recently, few S\u00e1mi films have broken into the mainstream. Lately, however, a number of films have been gaining international recognition. The 2016 film Sami Blood, directed by Amada Kernell, about the assimilation of the S\u00e1mi people, won international awards. Recent films include Ole Gi\u00e6ver\u2019s Let the River Flow, The Tundra Within Me by Sara Margrethe Oskal, and Je\u2019vida, directed by Katja Gauriloff."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;The flight to freedom of Phillip Mehrtens, the NZ pilot who survived 594 days in captivity;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/phillip-mehrtens-new-zealand-pilot-west-papua-rescue;2024-09-23T03:20:37Z",
        "text": "On 7 February 2023, Phillip Mehrtens\u2019 life took an unexpected and harrowing turn. The experienced New Zealand pilot landed his tiny commercial plane at Paro airfield, a runway in the isolated highlands of Indonesia\u2019s West Papua region. It was to be a short in and out: drop off his five passengers, pick up a group of 15 construction workers and fly back south. But soon after landing, the Susi Air plane was stormed. A group of independence fighters grabbed Mehrtens and his passengers then set the plane alight. All five passengers, including a young child, were released because they were Indigenous Papuans. Mehrtens was not so fortunate. The pilot, who was living in Bali with his Indonesian wife and child, was likely aware of the risks of flying into the largely inaccessible Nduga regency, the centre of the growing Papuan insurgency. But he could not have predicted that for the next 19 months the remote highlands would become his prison and he would become a bargaining chip in West Papua\u2019s protracted battle for independence from Indonesia. Shortly after the ambush, rebel spokesperson Sebby Sambom put out a statement saying the West Papua Liberation Army (TPN-PB) \u2013 the military wing of the Free Papua Organisation (OPM) \u2013 had seized Mehrtens because New Zealand, along with Australia and the United States, cooperates militarily with Indonesia. \u201cWe will never release the pilot we are holding hostage unless Indonesia recognises and frees Papua from Indonesian colonialism,\u201d Sambom said. As the weeks turned into months, concern about Mehrtens\u2019 safety grew. His location was kept secret and little was divulged about the conditions he was living in. Updates from his captors were scant, offering only that his welfare was \u201ctop priority\u201d and that he was healthy and well fed. Clues to his wellbeing and whereabouts came via intermittent photos and videos of him standing in the mountains, surrounded by Papuan fighters brandishing rifles. The imagery was released alongside TPN-PB\u2019s demands for the region\u2019s independence. Harsh conditions and death threats \u201cIt would have been tough going,\u201d says Damien Kingsbury, emeritus professor at Melbourne\u2019s Deakin University and a specialist in West Papuan politics. \u201cHe would have lived as his captors lived \u2013 essentially on the move. By and large they would have been staking out harsh conditions in the mountains,\u201d he says. \u201cIn the highlands, it gets quite cold.\u201d In May 2023, the situation escalated when the rebels threatened to kill Mehrtens if their demands for independence talks were not met within two months. In response, New Zealand authorities said they were doing everything they could to secure a peaceful resolution and Mehrtens\u2019 safe release, but the details of those delicate talks were closely guarded. Then, in February, exactly a year after his capture, the TPN-PB said it would free the pilot to protect humanity and safeguard human rights. Seven months later, it laid out its conditions for this release \u2013 \u201cto be followed\u201d by the Indonesian government, including allowing \u201copen access\u201d for media. The rebels\u2019 about-face was likely due to a number of factors, Kingsbury says. \u201cIt took some time for it to become clear to the TPN-PB \u2026 that there wasn\u2019t going to be any long-term benefit from keeping him \u2013 the best they could hope for was to be seen as having an humanitarian side and gaining some publicity for their cause.\u201d It is also likely Mehrtens became \u201chumanised\u201d to his captors over the lengthy period, he says, adding that is a \u201cfairly conventional social dynamic\u201d in hostage situations. \u201cMehrtens was given the opportunity to establish a relationship, they kept him alive, he speaks Indonesian \u2026 he became a person for them.\u201d On Saturday, after 594 days in captivity, the rebels honoured their plan and Mehrtens became a free man. Messages of hope In front of clicking cameras, a thin, unshaven Mehrtens sobbed as he video-called his family. Later, dressed in a dark grey wind jacket, he thanked those who had helped secure his release. \u201cToday I have been freed. I am very happy that shortly I will be able to go home and meet my family,\u201d Mehrtens told a news conference in the mining town of Timika. In a statement, his family said the period of Mehrtens\u2019 captivity had been \u201cvery difficult\u201d and they were \u201cextremely grateful and relieved\u201d he had been released. They thanked New Zealand and Indonesian authorities for prioritising peaceful negotiations in order to keep him safe. \u201cAs challenging as this has been, it would have been inordinately harder if we were not aware of how hard everyone was working and what actions were being taken,\u201d they said. They thanked General Egianus Kogoya, a regional commander in the Free Papua Movement, and his army for keeping Mehrtens in good health, and allowing him to get several messages to the family during his captivity. \u201cThose messages filled our souls and gave us hope and that we would eventually see Phil again.\u201d Mehrtens had been through \u201ca long and arduous ordeal\u201d, the family said, and requested privacy so he could adjust to life after captivity. Mehrtens arrived in Jakarta\u2019s air force base Halim Perdanakusumah just before midnight on Saturday and was greeted by Indonesian officials and New Zealand diplomats. He then had a private reunion with his family and, after nearly 600 days, spent his first night sleeping in a bed. His health was in \u201cremarkably good shape\u201d, said Winston Peters, New Zealand\u2019s foreign affairs minister. Peters said the negotiations had been \u201cnerve-racking\u201d. \u201cIt was always a concern of ours that we might not succeed. The hardest thing in an environment with no trust is to establish trust.\u201d Desperation in West Papua The case has drawn renewed attention to a long-running and increasingly deadly conflict in resource-rich Papua which has unfolded since it was brought under Indonesian rule in the 1960s, in a vote widely seen as a sham that was overseen by the United Nations. The area where Mehrtens was held remains an extremely dangerous place for West Papuans. TPN-PB regularly launch attacks and engage in skirmishes with Indonesian security forces, and the Indonesian military has been accused of brutality, including torture and murder of civilians. There is also a much larger, peaceful civil movement for independence in the region \u2013 which stems from Indonesia\u2019s violent repression of West Papuans. However, peaceful acts of civil disobedience by Indigenous West Papuans, such as raising the banned \u201cMorning Star\u201d flag, are met with police and military brutality and long jail sentences. In 2022, UN human rights experts called for urgent and unrestricted humanitarian access to the region because of serious concerns about \u201cshocking abuses against Indigenous Papuans, including child killings, disappearances, torture and mass displacement of people\u201d. Meanwhile, Indonesia tightly controls access for foreign journalists and human rights monitors. Andreas Harsono, who covers Indonesia for Human Rights Watch, says there is a lot of information still missing about how the release process played out, but he believes \u2013 at this stage \u2013 the recent negotiations were peaceful. He says Indonesia media is reporting that Mehrtens will meet with President Joko Widodo and possibly the minister of defence and president-elect, Prabowo Subianto. \u201cIf that is true, that means Jokowi or Prabawo \u2013 or both \u2013 were involved in restraining the Indonesian military from entering the Nduga area,\u201d Harsono said. The New Zealand side has played a big role in urging Indonesia not to use force, Harsono said, while adding that the hostage situation has increased Indonesia\u2019s militarisation of the region and escalated suffering for West Papuans."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;M\u0101ori language \u2018at risk\u2019 as a result of government policies, commissioner says;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/maori-language-at-risk-government-policies-new-zealand;2024-09-22T23:43:32Z",
        "text": "New Zealand\u2019s M\u0101ori language commissioner has described government policies to limit the use of the Indigenous language in the public service as \u201ca risk\u201d to the half-century effort to revive it. \u201cAny affront to the efforts that we have been making has to be taken seriously,\u201d the commissioner, Prof Rawinia Higgins, told the Guardian. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing a reaction \u2013 only from a small corner of people, but enough that we don\u2019t want that to snowball.\u201d This year M\u0101ori language week, held in September, comes at a time of fractious relations between M\u0101ori and the coalition government over its policies, which includes measures M\u0101ori leaders have said relegates the language, known as te reo, to a second-class status. Since being sworn in last December, several government ministers have ordered their departments to stop using M\u0101ori names. Other ministries have asked staff to stop using te reo M\u0101ori in briefing papers and to communicate primarily in English, while others have stopped funding language courses for staff. One of the government\u2019s coalition partners, NZ First, also plans to introduce a bill to make English an official language, despite it already being the main language in New Zealand. The prime minister, Christopher Luxon, insists he is a supporter of te reo, and has been taking taxpayer-funded lessons. \u201cIn New Zealand we\u2019re lucky to have this language and I\u2019m glad to celebrate it,\u201d he wrote in a Facebook post. He has insisted his government\u2019s policies are instead about making the public service easier to understand. But Higgins warned the policies had sent a worrying message about the language\u2019s status in society. \u201cA lot of those policies are not predicated on a language revitalisation strategy. Giving it prominence, it signals status,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a threat to English by any sense of the imagination. It says, \u2018OK, my language is seen as important.\u2019 \u201cWe\u2019ve brought the language back from the brink. Despite whatever affronts there may be, we\u2019ve got to continue.\u201d Luxon\u2019s office and the minister for M\u0101ori development, Tama Potaka, did not respond to requests for comment. Harsh assimilation policies in the early to mid-20th century \u2013 which saw some children face corporal punishment for speaking M\u0101ori \u2013 saw the language nearly wiped out. Government surveys in the early 1970s showed fewer than 5% of M\u0101ori children were able to speak it, with elders holding real fears for its extinction. In 1972, a petition by university students triggered a protest movement that led to what\u2019s widely known as the \u201cM\u0101ori renaissance\u201d, which saw the emergence of M\u0101ori immersion schools and broadcasting, as well as the recognition of M\u0101ori as an official language. Today, one in five M\u0101ori are able to speak the language with some level of proficiency. Modelling published this month by Michael Miller, a PhD candidate at research centre Te P\u016bnaha Matatini, found that around one in 25 New Zealanders now have some level of proficiency in the language. Enrolments in tertiary te reo M\u0101ori courses had increased by 93% over the past 10 years, Miller said, with both M\u0101ori and non-M\u0101ori showing interest. \u201cThere is enough momentum in the community for te reo M\u0101ori to keep growing but if the policy settings continue in the long term, they could have a negative effect\u201d. Dr Rachael Ka\u2019ai-Mahuta, the project\u2019s co-lead, said the research aimed to develop evidence into what would be the best possible interventions and resources for M\u0101ori revitalisation. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in the death narratives around te reo M\u0101ori \u2013 I think it has a bright future,\u201d she said. While the government is pushing policies to limit the language in the public service, te reo M\u0101ori has never been more popular. There are extensive waiting lists for classes, M\u0101ori songs often top the charts, Hollywood studios are releasing versions of movies in M\u0101ori, and last week M\u0101ori language week merchandise sold out in 10 minutes. Several M\u0101ori words that have become mainstream were also included in the Oxford dictionary of New Zealand English last week, including mahi (work), tikanga (customs), and waka jumping, a political term used when someone changes parties, which translates to changing boats. However, Higgins warned the language \u201chasn\u2019t passed a tipping point where those gains can\u2019t be lost\u201d. \u201cOur language revitalisation efforts started with protesting. I think it\u2019s fair to say some of the campaigns that have come out have pushed back against our efforts. This is a rallying call to remind people that we\u2019re still on this journey.\u201d Ultimately, Higgins said she was confident that any opposition was from a small sector of society. To those people, she said there was nothing to fear. \u201cIt\u2019s a defining marker of who we are as a country,\u201d she said. \u201cAs much as people might want to say that we\u2019re about rugby and sheep, I mean, we\u2019re not the only country that plays rugby; we\u2019re not the only country with sheep. But we are the only country where te reo M\u0101ori is the first language, and we need to embrace that.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Russia isolated at UN summit after surprise bid to derail pact;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/russia-isolated-at-un-summit-after-surprise-bid-to-derail-pact;2024-09-22T20:31:33Z",
        "text": "Russia was left badly isolated at a high-profile UN summit in New York when it made a surprise move to derail an ambitious pact designed to revive the UN \u2013 and failed. Russia\u2019s move to defer adoption of the agreement on the grounds that it supposedly represented western interests was rejected on Sunday by 143 votes to seven with 15 abstentions. The Russian delegation said that if the planned vote endorsing the high-profile \u201cpact for the future\u201d were not deferred pending further talks, it would seek to move an amendment asserting the key issues addressed in the pact are the subject of domestic jurisdiction in which the UN should not seek to intervene. But the overwhelming UN general assembly vote threw out Russia\u2019s call for deferment and its amendment. The Russian move, at the outset of the two-day \u201csummit for the future\u201d, looked diplomatically clumsy, if perhaps designed for domestic consumption. It angered speakers from the African Union (AU) and Mexico, underlining that Moscow had only limited support, notably from Belarus, Venezuela, Syria and Iran. The AU, led by the Republic of Congo, called for the Russian amendment to be rejected. The pact is seen by many in the global south as both a well-intended and necessary collective effort at UN renewal as well as a personal legacy for a relatively popular UN secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres. But the controversy underlined the extent to which ideological divisions have damaged multilateral cooperation at the UN, the very issue that the pact was seeking to address. Russia objected to 25 provisions in the draft pact, including asserting the primacy of national jurisdiction and rejecting language on universal access to sexual and reproductive health rights, as well as gender empowerment more broadly. With the Russian move crushed, Guterres told the summit that the pact\u2019s aim was \u201cto bring multilateralism back from the brink at a time when the world [is] heading off the rails\u201d. Twenty-first-century challenges \u2013 from debt in developing countries to the climate crisis \u2013 required 21st-century solutions. Graham Gordon, head of global advocacy at Christian Aid, said of the pact: \u201cThe key point of the document, given its inherent limits, is that it does provide pointers of what should be achieved in other forums including the IMF, at Cop and at the G20. The key test will be in 12 months in assessing how much momentum this provides. It is a striking document in its admission of how multilateralism is currently failing.\u201d Guterres had advocated for a Summit for the Future more than two years ago as an attempt to persuade world leaders in the wake of the global Covid outbreak that cooperation and multilateralism had to be revived. The pact, spanning 26 pages and 56 recommendations, says it is offering a new beginning for multilateralism and repeatedly asserts the primacy of international law. But the lack of new specifics has weakened its impact. The document covers reform and expansion of the UN security council to make the body more representative of the 21st century, a UN role in governing artificial intelligence, the phasing out of fossil fuels in energy systems, reform of multilateral financial institutions, a recommitment to full nuclear disarmament and modernising UN peacekeeping so it evolves into war prevention. Concrete ideas include a biennial UN summit on the global economy, an emergency platform for managing pandemics, food insecurity and environmental disasters, and a new UN oversight body of experts advising on the risks posed by AI for all economies. A major sticking point was western opposition to the UN playing a role in making international financial institutions more representative. A UN-led push to include a reference to a $500bn (\u00a3375bn) stimulus to put the sustainable development goals back on track was also rejected."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Germany: exit polls show Olaf Scholz\u2019s party narrowly beating far-right AfD in key state election \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/22/germany-brandenburg-state-election-afd-spd-exit-poll-latest-live-news-updates;2024-09-22T19:08:06Z",
        "text": "Germany\u2019s Social Democratic party (SPD) appears to have narrowly won an election in the state of Brandenburg, according to exit polls, with the far right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) taking second place. Dietmar Woidke, Brandenburg\u2019s leader, who had gambled his future on the result, saying he would resign if his SPD lost to the AfD, said he was relieved, \u2018considering the starting position we were in\u201d. He also urged SPD members to \u201cput on the euphoria brakes\u201d as the final result was not fully clear. At the AfD\u2019s election gathering, Hans-Christoph Berndt, its main candidate, claimed his party were the \u201creal victors\u201d of the evening. All eyes had been on Brandenburg, population-wise one of Germany\u2019s smallest states, after strong showings for the AfD earlier this month in Thuringia, where they came top with around 33% and in Saxony, where they came a narrow second behind the conservative CDU with 27.5%. And here are the latest ARD projections: The latest projections from ZDF put the SPD at 31.3% and the AfD at 29.5%. Alexander Clarkson, a lecturer for German and European Studies at King\u2019s College London, said the projected results show \u201cthat however much BSW and AfD are expanding across the former GDR, there are big differences in local history, culture and economic structures between East German L\u00e4nder that political analysis of Germany must take into account.\u201d Here are the latest images from Brandenburg\u2019s election night. And the updated projections from ARD: In this projection, the SPD is at 31.2% and the AfD at 29.9%. Here are updated projections from ZDF. The SPD is at 31.8%, and the AfD at 29.2%. Initial reactions are filtering in from party leaders after exit polls in Brandenburg show the Social Democrats in a narrow lead ahead of the far-right AfD. At the Brandenburg SPD\u2019s election gathering at the Old Post, a restaurant near the state parliament in Potsdam, there were jubilant cries as the news came in. One reporter on the scene called the response \u2018cathartic\u2019, after weeks of a nail biting campaign in which it looked like the party would lose to the AfD for the first time. Dietmar Woidke, Brandenburg\u2019s leader, who had gambled his future on the result, saying he would resign if his SPD lost to the AfD, took to the floor around 6.15pm telling supporters he was relieved, \u2018considering the starting position we were in\u201d. \u201cWe said we\u2019d take on this battle and we said our goal at the outset was to ensure our land didn\u2019t get a big brown stamp on it,\u201d he said. But he urged SPD members to \u201cput on the euphoria brakes\u201d as the final result was not fully clear. The far right AfD has called its performance in Brandenburg a huge success, thanking its campaigners and voters. A second exit poll, from ZDF, also gives the SPD a narrow lead: Social Democratic party (SPD): 32% Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD): 29% Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW): 12% Christian Democratic Union (CDU): 11.5% Greens: 4.5% Voting has ended in Brandenburg. Here\u2019s a first exit poll, from ARD: Social Democratic party (SPD): 31% Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD): 30% Christian Democratic Union (CDU): 12% Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW): 12% Greens: 5% A so-called \u2018firewall\u2019 has been put up by the established parties, meaning they will not form a coalition with the AfD. Polls will close in Brandenburg in 10 minutes. Stay tuned for exit poll data. Dietmar Woidke, Brandenburg\u2019s popular state leader from the SPD, who has been incumbent for 14 years, has upped the ante by pledging to resign if the AfD wins on Sunday. He has even excluded Olaf Scholz from his election campaign \u2013 despite the fact he and his wife live in the state capital, Potsdam \u2013 fearing the negative impact of his presence. The personalised campaign around Woidke, including a picture-driven fireside interview in which he talked about his pets and his playlist, has the cheeky campaign slogan: \u201cWenn Glatze, dann Woidke\u201d (If you want a skinhead, choose Woidke) \u2013 a cryptic reference to his bald head and the most physical of Nazi trademarks. He has repeatedly attempted to push voters\u2019 attention towards the state\u2019s economic successes. In Cottbus, about 75 miles (120km) south of Berlin, this includes the gleaming new teaching hospital, and plans to transform an old gravel pit into a huge lakeside leisure complex, both a result of multibillion euro funds to help east Germany\u2019s largest coal-producing region to exit from fossil fuels. As people seek answers as to why the AfD has managed to secure such a prominent position in German politics since its foundation in 2013, the question was put to author Jenny Erpenbeck at a reading of her widely acclaimed International Booker prize winning novel Kairos \u2013 set in the final days of the East German regime \u2013 at the Potsdam literary festival LIT:Potsdam on Saturday night. Erpenbeck, who was born in communist-run east Berlin in 1967, stressed she was no apologist for, or supporter of the AfD. But to understand something of the party\u2019s success, one only had to recognise the level of lingering discontentment which existed in eastern Germany today, over the way in which the reunification was carried out, she said, after 40 years of the GDR. Even 34 years since reunification, eastern Germans often felt greatly under-represented in Germany. \u201cForty years are 40 years,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I think the transition was difficult. You just need to look at the numbers: Only 2% of the management positions in companies, in universities, in the media are in eastern German hands. Let me put it this way: I think that easterners are also quite capable of being able to run a western newspaper. \u201cI think that there is simply a feeling people have that they are not really represented, that they are not heard. The east German-born theatre director, Frank Castorf, coined this beautiful expression: \u2018the AfD is the revenge of the East\u2019, and I believe that it really is like that. \u201cThere was such a long wait to really be noticed, and not just to be welcomed, but actually to be recognised as capable of taking on positions of responsibility.\u201d It remained a particularly sore point, she said, that the pensions of eastern Germans still remained below the level of those western Germans receive, \u201cwhich I think is hugely absurd. There has been a lot of injustice like this.\u201d These experiences had not been properly dealt with, or discussed, she said. \u201cThere\u2019s no complaints office, as it were. And this has led to a lot of dissatisfaction and unfortunately it\u2019s pretty late in the day now.\u201d LIT:Potsdam\u2019s moderator Denis Scheck was quick to point out the deep irony that a party \u201cas thoroughly West German as the AfD\u201d \u2013 having started its life in 2013 as a group mainly made up of western German professors and business people, and most of whose leaders now are western Germans \u2013 had so successful managed to \u201chijack this discontent\u201d. Erpenbeck responded: \u201cYes, it\u2019s an interesting and strange fact that the most prominent AfD politicians come from the West. I don\u2019t have much to say about this, other than that I\u2019m not voting for the AfD\u201d. Ahead of today\u2019s election in Brandenburg, polling showed the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) and the Social Democratic party (SPD) neck-and-neck for first place. On what has been a gloriously sunny autumn day in Brandenburg, voter turnout is thought to have been high. By 2pm local time, 46.1% of voters - 2.1 million are eligible, including 100,000 new voters, after the voting age was lowered to 16 - had cast their ballot, according to the state election registrar. At the same time on the last election day five years ago, 31.3% had been to the polling booth. Polling stations opened at 8am and will close at 6pm local time. Voters in the northern German state of Brandenburg are today deciding not only on the future make up of the regional parliament but holding what is being seen as the equivalent of a referendum on the future of the embattled coalition government of Olaf Scholz. His Social Democrats have ruled in Brandenburg, the state that surrounds Berlin like a doughnut, since reunification in 1990. All eyes are on the state, as the Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) was leading in the final pre-election polls with 28%, ahead of the Social Democratic party (SPD), and could be about to win the state for the first time. However, in what is being described as a neck and neck race, the SPD has considerably narrowed the gap in recent days, and in final polls was just a single percentage point behind the AfD, with 27%. The SPD\u2019s incumbent leader, Dietmar Woidke, has effectively gambled his party\u2019s success in the vote on his own popularity ratings, pledging to resign if the AfD beats his party. The AfD has called for the resignation of Chancellor Scholz in the event of its winning the state. In what has become an increasingly fractured political landscape in recent years (the AfD came into being 11 years ago), the newcomers, Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), a left-wing, conservative grouping which broke away from the far-left Die Linke and has been in existence since January, has a good chance of entering government. It was polling around 13% in final surveys. A so-called \u2018firewall\u2019 has been put up by the established parties, meaning they will not form a coalition with the AfD. This has the potential to make the BSW a kingmaker in any powerbroking. The Greens and pro-business FDP - the junior partners in Scholz\u2019s government, are at risk of failing to reach the 5% hurdle needed to get into parliament. Three weeks ago the AfD upended the status quo by winning the state election in Thuringia with 33% - the first time a far-right force had won a state election in post-war Germany - accompanied by a strong second place in neighbouring Saxony with more than 30%. Here are some images from election day in Brandenburg. About 2.5 million Brandenburgers are eligible to vote today in what may be one of the smallest German states population-wise, comprising a belt of rural, and suburban settlements surrounding Berlin. Yet, with its predicted boost for the far-right party, the race is drawing a huge amount of attention that belies the state\u2019s size. Three weeks ago, the Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) upended the status quo with its win in Thuringia \u2013 the first time a far-right force had won a state election in post-war Germany \u2013 accompanied by a strong second place in neighbouring Saxony with more than 30%. Marianne Spring-R\u00e4umsch\u00fcssel, an AfD representative on Cottbus city council, predicted a \u201cglorious\u201d victory for the AfD, which has been leading the polls in the state for more than a year. \u201cYou can smell it in the air.\u201d As the only state in eastern Germany where the Social Democrats have ruled continuously since German reunification in 1990, Brandenburg\u2019s vote is seen as a particular test for the embattled coalition government of the SPD chancellor, Olaf Scholz, which, according to a poll this week, only 3% of Germans are convinced is good for the country. With Brandenburg\u2019s vote being viewed as a referendum on Scholz\u2019s government, defeat for the SPD would be of deep symbolic significance, particularly before next autumn\u2019s Bundestag election. Read the full story here. Good afternoon and welcome to a special edition of the Europe live blog, focused on the state election in Brandenburg. Send thoughts and tips to lili.bayer@theguardian.com."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Hezbollah \u2018enters battle of reckoning\u2019 with Israel as world powers urge restraint;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/hezbollah-enters-battle-of-reckoning-with-israel-as-world-powers-urge-restraint;2024-09-22T18:58:56Z",
        "text": "Hezbollah has said it has entered an \u201copen-ended battle of reckoning\u201d with Israel after launching a series of rocket attacks on the north of the country as world powers implored both sides to step back from the brink of all-out war. In a significant escalation of the conflict, Israeli warplanes carried out their most intense bombardment in almost a year across southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah responded with its deepest rocket attacks into Israel since the start of the Gaza war. The events prompted the UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, to warn of the risk \u201cof transforming Lebanon [into] another Gaza\u201d. During a funeral for a top commander killed along with 44 other people in an Israeli strike on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Friday, Hezbollah\u2019s deputy secretary-general, Naim Qassem, said on Sunday that an \u201copen-ended battle of reckoning has started\u201d. \u201cThreats will not stop us,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are ready to face all military possibilities.\u201d As Israeli warplanes pounded border villages and more than 100,000 residents fled northwards, politicians in Beirut called for de-escalation to avoid a war as authorities said four people had been killed and nine injured over the weekend. But the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was also trenchant in his rhetoric. \u201cIn the last few days, we have inflicted on Hezbollah a sequence of blows that it did not imagine. If Hezbollah did not understand the message, I promise you it will understand the message,\u201d he said. \u201cNo country can tolerate shooting at its residents, shooting at its cities, and we, the state of Israel, will not tolerate it either \u2026 We will do everything necessary to restore security.\u201d The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said early on Sunday that hundreds of rockets had been fired into Israel from Lebanon, with some landing near the northern city of Haifa. They said rockets had been fired \u201ctoward civilian areas\u201d, pointing to a possible escalation after previous barrages had mainly been aimed at military targets. Six people were reported to have been injured. The UN\u2019s special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said in a statement on X: \u201cWith the region on the brink of an imminent catastrophe, it cannot be overstated enough: there is NO military solution that will make either side safer.\u201d As she wrote, the Israeli health ministry urged hospitals in northern Israel to transfer their operations to facilities with extra protection from rocket and missile fire. Rambam hospital in Haifa would transfer patients to its secure underground facility, the ministry said. Dr Noam Yehudai of the Tzafon Medical Center, said staff were preparing the sheltered areas to receive patients. \u201cWe are discharging patients whose medical condition allows for safe discharge to their homes, cancelling all elective surgeries until further notice, while urgent and oncological surgeries continue as scheduled,\u201d he said. Sarah Kiperwas from Krayot said: \u201cI heard a big blast around 6.30am. From our balcony, I could see flames and then they told us that someone got hurt. I am 68 years old and I have lived in this neighbourhood all my life. This is the fourth time in my life that my city has been hit. This time I believe it will be harder than the others. Hezbollah had been there for almost a year waiting to make our lives impossible. But we are ready to fight and finish it. \u201cNo one in the world would stand by if the enemy continues to bomb us.\u201d In Lebanon, a relentless week of attacks has made the conflict impossible to ignore. Three children and seven women were among those killed by the Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday that targeted the top Hezbollah leader Ibrahim Aqil, Lebanese authorities have said. His assassination followed a wave of attacks earlier in the week in which walkie-talkies and pagers commonly used by Hezbollah members exploded, killing 42 people and wounding more than 3,000. Israel is presumed to have been behind the operation, though it has not officially claimed responsibility. The sudden, brutal nature of the attacks shattered whatever sense of safety Lebanese people had felt. \u201cIt was the first time that I felt that the war is around us, that we\u2019re not safe any more. We don\u2019t know where the next Israeli attack will be. I\u2019m avoiding gatherings or unknown areas,\u201d said Amal Cherif, a 52-year-old activist and resident of central Beirut. The fighting between the IDF and Hezbollah militants is taking place in parallel to the unrelenting conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Seven people were killed on Sunday when an Israeli airstrike hit a school in western Gaza City that had been housing hundreds of displaced people, Palestinian health officials said. Eleven months into the war, the death toll among Palestinians has passed 41,000, according to health authorities in the territory. Most of the dead are civilians and the figure amounts to nearly 2% of Gaza\u2019s pre-war population, or one in 50 people. The conflict was triggered by Hamas\u2019s 7 October attack on Israel, in which 1,200 people were killed and about 250 taken hostage. World powers moved at the weekend to call for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. The White House national security spokesperson, John Kirby, said escalating the conflict was not in Israel\u2019s best interest. Washington was saying this \u201cdirectly to our Israeli counterparts\u201d and believed \u201cthere can be time and space for a diplomatic solution here and that\u2019s what we\u2019re working on\u201d, he told ABC. The EU called for an \u201curgent ceasefire\u201d and \u201crenewed intense diplomatic mediation efforts\u201d, a message echoed by the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, who noted the \u201cworrying escalation\u201d. Addressing the Labour party\u2019s annual conference, Lammy said a ceasefire would facilitate \u201ca political settlement, so that Israelis and Lebanese civilians can return to their homes and live in peace and security\u201d. Guterres, however, said the language used by both sides indicated a lack of desire to explore peace. \u201cIt is for me clear that both sides are not interested in a ceasefire. And that is a tragedy, because this is a war that must stop,\u201d he told CNN."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis live: Hezbollah deputy leader says conflict with Israel now an \u2018open-ended battle or reckoning\u2019 \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/22/middle-east-crisis-live-hezbollah-israel-lebanon-gaza-latest-news-updates;2024-09-22T18:57:45Z",
        "text": "Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah launched over 100 rockets early on Sunday across a wide and deep area of northern Israel, with some landing near the city of Haifa. The barrage came after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday killed at least 45 people, including one of Hezbollah\u2019s top leaders, as well as women and children. The Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said Israeli strikes on Lebanon would continue until it was safe for evacuated people in the north of Israel to return. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has in recent days dealt Hezbollah \u201ca series of blows it could not have imagined\u201d. Israel\u2019s president, Isaac Herzog, meanwhile, claimed that Israel does not want a war with Lebanon but stressed it has a right to self-defence. Hezbollah\u2019s deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem said that the Lebanese militant group had entered a new phase of its conflict with Israel which he described as an \u201copen-ended battle of reckoning\u201d. Israel\u2019s civil defence agency ordered all schools in the north of the country to close. Israeli forces raided the office of global news channel Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and issued a 45-day closure order. The Israeli military said that it closed the Al Jazeera TV office in Ramallah because it incited \u201cterror\u201d, an accusation the network vehemently denies. The United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, warned of an \u201cimminent catastrophe\u201d in the Middle East. At least 41,431 Palestinian people have been killed and 95,818 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said. An Israeli airstrike killed at least seven people in the Kafr Qasem school in Beach camp \u2013 which was sheltering displaced families \u2013 in Gaza City on Sunday, Palestinian health officials said. Twelve people were arrested in six different Iranian provinces for being \u201coperatives collaborating with the Zionist regime (Israel)\u201c and planning acts against the country\u2019s security, the Revolutionary Guards said, according to the Student News Network. Israel\u2019s chief of the general staff Herzi Halevi said in a televised statement the military was well-prepared for the next stages of fighting, which were coming in the next few days, but did not say what this would entail. \u201cWe will do whatever it takes to removes threats against Israel,\u201d Halevi said. So serious were the exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah this weekend, it is hard to be sure that the two sides have not already crossed the threshold of \u201call-out\u201d war. Israel\u2019s air force said it had struck 290 targets in southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing at least three. Hezbollah responded by launching 150 missiles, rockets and drones into Israel overnight, the deepest seen since violent hostilities broke out when the Iran-aligned group began launching rocket attacks in support of Hamas after 7 October. Missiles reached the suburbs of Israel\u2019s northern city of Haifa, and while casualties were modest \u2013 rescue teams treated a number of wounded \u2013 residential buildings were hit in Kiryat Bialik. Thousands of civilians were forced to seek shelter. Israel is examining a plan to use siege tactics against Hamas in northern Gaza, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quoted by several Israeli media outlets as saying. Netanyahu\u2019s office did not respond to a request for comment. The reports cited unnamed sources at a closed parliament committee meeting. The plan, published by retired military commanders and floated by some parliament members this month, suggests Palestinian civilians would be instructed to evacuate northern Gaza, which would then be declared a closed military zone. An estimated 5,000 Hamas militants remaining there would then be put under siege until they surrender. Army Radio reported that Netanyahu told lawmakers at parliament\u2019s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee that it was being examined. Public broadcaster Kan quoted Netanyahu as saying that the blueprint \u201cmakes sense\u201d and that \u201cit is one of the plans being considered but there are others as well.\u201d Seven people have been killed after an Israeli airstrike hit a school housing displaced people in western Gaza City, Palestinian health officials said, amid fears that Gaza\u2019s worsening humanitarian crisis might be forgotten as tensions boil between Hezbollah and Israel. The strike hit Kafr Qasem school in Beach camp on Sunday morning, officials in Gaza said. Among those killed was Majed Saleh, the director of the Hamas-run public works and housing ministry, they added. Israel\u2019s military said the strike had targeted Hamas fighters and that it had used aerial surveillance and taken other steps to limit the risk to civilians. Gaza\u2019s schools closed after the 7 October attack on Israel by Hamas, and most have been transformed into shelters. About 90% of Gaza\u2019s population of 2.3 million has been displaced, often multiple times. Six other Palestinians were killed in separate airstrikes in central and southern parts of Gaza, the medics said. Twelve people were arrested in six different Iranian provinces for being \u201coperatives collaborating with the Zionist regime (Israel)\u201c and planning acts against the country\u2019s security, the Revolutionary Guards said, according to the Student News Network. The Israeli health ministry on Sunday urged hospitals in northern Israel to transfer their operations to facilities with extra protection from rocket and missile fire. Rambam hospital in Haifa would transfer patients to its underground, secure facility, the ministry said. The Guardian obtained pictures of hospitals in the north of the country, preparing the sheltered areas for receiving patients from unsheltered departments. \u201cIn light of the new directives issued this morning, Tzafon Medical Center is taking immediate steps to prioritize the safety and well-being of our patients and staff amidst the escalating conflict,\u201d Dr. Noam Yehudai, from Tzafon Medical Center said. \u201cWe are discharging patients whose medical condition allows for safe discharge to their homes, canceling all elective surgeries until further notice'\u2019. Labour government ministers could be referred to police for potential complicity in war crimes in Gaza, the head of a Palestinian rights group said. Tayab Ali is chairman of the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), an independent organisation of lawyers, politicians and academics who aim to protect the rights of Palestinians through the law. Ali, who is also head of international law at London law firm Bindmans LLP, told a fringe event at the Labour Party conference that he will add Labour ministers to a list the organisation has already sent to Scotland Yard in relation to arming Israel. Earlier this year the ICJP handed evidence to Scotland Yard in relation to alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza under applicable UK legislation. Evidence was provided in relation to senior UK politicians, who have remained anonymous, but Ali said the names of five Conservative former ministers had been supplied. Labour MP for Brent West Barry Gardiner attended the fringe event and asked the panel about \u201cthe ramifications of complicity by the UK Government\u201d. Ali said their case against the previous government had been based on article 25 of the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) which outlines individual criminal responsibility for war crimes. He said: \u201cWhat\u2019s really important about that? Because when you talk about the ICC, it sounds like a foreign institution, but the Rome statute is incorporated in British law, so it makes it a crime here in the UK to be complicit in the same way. \u201cAnd actually even further, because in the UK, in domestic law, we have not just complicity in \u2013 and I\u2019ll read out the pertinent words \u2013 facilitating the commission of a crime, aids, abets or otherwise assists in its commission or its attempted commission, including providing the means for its commission. \u201cReally important keywords there, but also in domestic legislation, is the offence of conspiracy.\u201d Ali added: \u201cIf a person is about to do a bank robbery, they come to me and I think they\u2019re a bank robber, and they ask me to supply them with a weapon, a shotgun for example, I am conspiring with that person to commit that bank robbery. I am complicit in that. \u201cI see the same framework for supplying parts for F-35s. At the moment ICJP is looking very carefully at the Labour Party in Government. \u201cIf we find sufficient evidence that Labour Party Government ministers have been complicit in war crimes then we will add to our complaints already with Scotland Yard. \u201cBelieve me, I don\u2019t want to do that. I\u2019d much rather the Government, and even the last government, comply with international law.\u201d Lebanon\u2019s top Christian cleric Bechara Boutros al-Rai said in his sermon on Sunday that Lebanon was \u201cdeeply saddened\u201d by the casualties among civilians and within Hezbollah in this week\u2019s attacks, in a very rare case of the Christian leader expressing condolences to the group. \u201cWe direct an appeal to the [UN security council] to put an end to this war by all available means,\u201d Rai said. Israeli forces raided the Al Jazeera bureau in the West Bank on Sunday and issued a 45-day closure order, the Qatari broadcaster said. Footage showed heavily armed and masked troops entering the premises in Ramallah. The European Union said it is \u201cextremely concerned\u201d by the escalation of violence between Israel and Hezbollah, and is calling for an \u201curgent\u201d ceasefire. A statement from the EU read: \u201cThe European Union is extremely concerned by the escalation in Lebanon, following Friday\u2019s attacks in Beirut - where at least three children were also killed - and the increasing cross border violence between Israel and Hezbollah. \u201cHeavy attacks are reported also today, both in Israel and Lebanon. A ceasefire is urgent, across the Blue Line as in Gaza. \u201cCivilians on both sides are paying a high price. They will also be the ones suffering once again the most in a full-blown war that must be averted, including by renewed intense diplomatic mediation efforts.\u201d It added peace efforts will be high on the EU\u2019s agenda at the UN General Assembly. A regional military escalation is not in Israel\u2019s \u201cbest interest,\u201d White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby said on Sunday. \u201cWe don\u2019t believe that escalating this military conflict is in their best interest,\u201d Kirby said on ABC\u2019s This Week, adding that the United States was \u201csaying this directly to our Israeli counterparts.\u201d Kirby added: \u201cThe tensions are much higher now than they were even just a few days ago.\u201d But he added \u201cwe still believe that there can be time and space for a diplomatic solution here and that\u2019s what we\u2019re working on.\u201d Sarah Kiperwas, from Krayot, told the Guardian: \u201cI heard a big blast around 6.30am. \u201cFrom our balcony, I could see flames and then they told us that someone got hurt. \u201cI am 68 years old and I have lived in this neighbourhood all my life. This is the fourth time in my life that my city has been hit. \u201cThis time I believe it will be harder than the others. Hezbollah had been there for almost a year waiting to make our lives impossible. But we are ready to fight and finish it. \u201cNo one in the world would stand by if the enemy continues to bomb us.\u201d Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, has praised its ally, Hezbollah, after the Lebanese group launched overnight rocket strikes at northern Israel. Hamas said in a statement: Hamas saluted the resistance fighters in Lebanon for their resilience and bravery in facing the Zionist war machine and for their determination to continue fighting in support of the Palestinian people and their resistance in Gaza and the West Bank. Here are some more comments from Hezbollah\u2019s deputy leader Naim Qassem. \u201cWe admit that we are pained. We are humans. But as we are pained \u2014 you will also be pained,\u201d Kassem said at the funeral of top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Akil, who reportedly led the Radwan Force, a special forces unit tasked with cross-border attacks on Israel. He said a barrage of rockets fired by the group deep into Israel early on Sunday was only the beginning, vowing to destroy Israel\u2019s economy. We have this snap from the Reuters news agency. Hezbollah\u2019s deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem has said that the Lebanese militant group had entered a new phase of its conflict with Israel which he described as an \u201copen-ended battle of reckoning\u201d. \u201cThreats will not stop us... We are ready to face all military possibilities,\u201d he added. The comments were made earlier today during a funeral for a top commander killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Friday. Kenneth Roth, the former Human Rights Watch executive director, has said Al Jazeera has been one of the most important sources of information throughout Israel\u2019s war on Gaza, given the fact foreign journalists banned from entering the strip. Roth said Israel shut Al Jazeera\u2019s bureau in Ramallah because the network has exposed \u201cIsraeli repression - the apartheid\u201d in the occupied West Bank. He wrote in a post on X: Al Jazeera has been one of the most important sources of information on Israeli bombing and starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza and repression in the West Bank, so Israel shuts down its Ramallah bureau after already have shut its East Jerusalem bureau. Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, reposted Roth\u2019s message, saying: \u201cno witnesses allowed\u201d. Qatar-based media outlet Al Jazeera has condemned a raid by Israeli forces on its office in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank and the issuing of a 45-day closure order. The Israeli military said, without providing evidence, that it closed the Al Jazeera TV office in Ramallah because it incited \u201cterror\u201d. The closure order was signed after a legal opinion and intelligence assessment \u201cdetermined that the offices were being used to incite terror, to support terrorist activities and that the channel\u2019s broadcasts endanger the security and public order in both the area and the state of Israel as a whole,\u201d a military statement said. Al Jazeera, which says it has no affiliation with militant groups, has denounced the raid as a \u201ccriminal act\u201d by Israeli forces and has said it would take legal action to protect it rights and promised to continue its coverage. The network said: Israel\u2019s ongoing suppression of the free press is blatantly aimed at concealing its actions in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, in contravention of international and humanitarian law. Israel\u2019s direct targeting and killing of journalists, along with arrests, intimidation, and threats, will not deter Al Jazeera from its commitment to coverage. The Israeli government in May banned Al Jazeera from operating inside Israel, in a move authorised by an Israeli court, and raided a Jerusalem hotel the network used as its office, saying its broadcasts threatened national security. Al Jazeera has vehemently denied accusations by Israel that it is a terrorist mouthpiece. The network says that Israel systematically targets its employees in the Gaza Strip. Four of Al Jazeera\u2019s journalists have been killed since the war in Gaza began last October. As of 20 September 2024, preliminary investigations conducted by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) showed at least 116 journalists and media workers have been killed since the war began, making it the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992. The Israeli military has repeatedly accused journalists from Al Jazeera, a Qatari-based network, of links to Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, or its ally Islamic Jihad. Al Jazeera has fiercely denied Israel\u2019s accusations and said Israel systematically targets its employees in the Gaza Strip. Four of Al Jazeera\u2019s journalists have been killed since the war in Gaza began last October, and the network\u2019s office in Gaza was bombed. The broadcaster said the soldiers did not provide a reason for the closure order on Sunday. \u201cThere is a court ruling for closing down Al Jazeera for 45 days,\u201d an Israeli soldier told Al Jazeera\u2019s West Bank bureau chief Walid al-Omari in a conversation broadcast live on the network. \u201cI ask you to take all the cameras and leave the office at this moment,\u201d the soldier said, according to the footage. Omari said the order accused the network of \u201cincitement to and support of terrorism\u201d, according to Al Jazeera. \u201cTargeting journalists this way always aims to erase the truth and prevent people from hearing the truth,\u201d Omari said. The Foreign Press Association (FPA) has said it is \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d over the Israeli raid this morning that forced the closure of Al Jazeera\u2019s Ramallah bureau in the occupied West Bank. The Qatar-based channel aired live footage of the Israeli troops storming the channel\u2019s office and handing over a military closure order to one of the Al Jazeera TV staff before the broadcast was disrupted. In a statement posted to X, the FPA said: The Foreign Press Association is deeply troubled by this escalation, which threatens press freedom, and urges the Israeli government to reconsider these actions. Restricting foreign reporters and closing news channels signals a shift away from democratic values. Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah launched over 100 rockets early on Sunday across a wide and deep area of northern Israel, with some landing near the city of Haifa. The barrage came after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday killed at least 45 people, including one of Hezbollah\u2019s top leaders, as well as women and children. The Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said Israeli strikes on Lebanon would continue until it was safe for evacuated people in the north of Israel to return. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has in recent days dealt Hezbollah \u201ca series of blows it could not have imagined\u201d. Israel\u2019s president, Isaac Herzog, meanwhile, claimed that Israel does not want a war with Lebanon but stressed it has a right to self-defence. Israel\u2019s civil defence agency ordered all schools in the north of the country to close. The United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, warned of an \u201cimminent catastrophe\u201d in the Middle East. At least 41,431 Palestinian people have been killed and 95,818 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said. An Israeli airstrike killed at least seven people in the Kafr Qasem school in Beach camp \u2013 which was sheltering displaced families \u2013 in Gaza City on Sunday, Palestinian health officials said. Al Jazeera said armed and masked Israeli forces raided its office in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and issued a 45-day closure order. A Hezbollah spokesperson has said the war between the militant group and Israel has now entered a '\u201cnew phase\u201d and confirmed that they would keep up their attacks until these is a ceasefire in the war in Gaza. Speaking at a funeral for a Hezbollah member on Sunday, in quotes reported by the Associated Press, Hassan Fadlallah said: \u201cWe have a strong and capable resistance. All of [Hezbollah\u2019s] options are on the table, and it is prepared for any scenario, war or confrontation.\u201d Britain will keep under review possible new sanctions against Israeli settlers in the West Bank and will act if it has to, foreign minister David Lammy said on Sunday, adding he was concerned by actions that were inflaming tensions. Britain announced sanctions against Israeli settlers in February and May this year over what it said was extremist groups perpetrating settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Lammy, who became foreign minister in July after a Labour election victory, indicated the new government would take a similar approach and said that further sanctions were possible. \u201cWe are very worried about escalatory behaviour, very worried about inflamed tensions,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m absolutely clear: if we have to act, we will act, and I\u2019m in discussions with G7 partners particularly and European partners on that.\u201d The Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant has said Israeli strikes on Lebanon would continue until it was safe for evacuated people in the north of Israel to return. \u201cHezbollah has begun to feel some of the capabilities of the Israel Defense Forces \u2026 and we are seeing the results,\u201d Gallant said during a tour of the Israeli Air Force\u2019s command and control room. \u201cThese moves will continue until we reach a situation where we safely return the residents of the north to their homes. This is the goal, this is the mission, and we will do everything necessary to meet it,\u201d he added, in comments reporting by the Times of Israel. Hezbollah has vowed to fight on until a ceasefire in the war in Gaza, setting the stage for a long conflict. Israel\u2019s communications ministry has said it is working closely with telecommunications firms to \u201censure the continuation of landline, cellular and internet connections everywhere\u201d across the country. \u201cAs part of the ministry\u2019s preparations for an emergency, and under the direction of communications minister, the ministry distributed about 440 satellite phones to the heads of (local) councils and security officials,\u201d the ministry said in a statement, adding that it is \u201cprepared for an emergency and will continue to conduct regular situation assessments\u201d. It comes after Hezbollah responded to Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon with four rocket barrages early on Sunday morning and more than 140 rockets and drones fired into Israel\u2019s Jezreel Valley. At least 41,431 Palestinian people have been killed and 95,818 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The toll includes 40 deaths in the previous 24 hours, according to the ministry. The health ministry has said thousands of other dead people are most likely lost in the rubble of the enclave. We have some more information on the Israeli airstrike that Palestinian health officials said killed seven people in the Kafr Qasem school (in Beach refugee camp) in Gaza City on Sunday (see post at 10.28). Officials have said among those killed was Majed Saleh, the director of the public works and housing ministry. Israel\u2019s military claimed that the strike, that happened around 11am local time (0800 GMT), targeted Hamas fighters there. Hundreds of displaced Palestinian people were sheltering at the school. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a statement form his office. In it, he said Israel has in recent days dealt Hezbollah \u201ca series of blows it could not have imagined\u201d. \u201cIf Hezbollah has not understood the message, I promise you, it will understand the message,\u201d Netanyahu said, as he promised the return of northern residents who were evacuated due to attacks by Hezbollah in Lebanon. \u201cNo country can tolerate firing on its citizens, on its cities, and us \u2013 the State of Israel \u2013 will not tolerate it. We will do everything necessary to restore security,\u201d Netanyahu was quoted as saying. Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has been speaking to the media in New York ahead of the UN general assembly. According to the Hareetz reporter Allison Kaplan Sommer, he said Israel \u201chas created a real hell in Gaza\u201d and that \u201cthe crimes of the Zionist regime in Lebanon, even though they are being committed out of frustration, will not be left without response\u201d. \u201cThe main hurdle in achieving ceasefire and stopping this war has really been the support provided by the US and Western countries,\u201d Araghchi said, as he blamed western support for Israel being able to continue its devastating military actions. Al Jazeera has quoted Gaza\u2019s civil defence as saying that seven people have been killed by Israeli bombing of the Kafr Qasim school in western Gaza City, which has been housing hundreds of displaced people. Civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal reported \u201cseven martyrs and a number of wounded, including serious cases, as a result of Israeli shelling of Kafr Qasim school\u201d in the refugee camp. It follows reports of an attack yesterday on the al-Falah school in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, in which 21 people, including 13 children, were killed, according to Wafa, the Palestinian news agency. Trevor Phillips puts it to Isaac Herzog that Israel has been widely accused of being behind the deadly pager and walkie-talkie explosions in Lebanon last week, in which children were among those who were killed. Philips asks the Israeli president if this was a \u201clegitimate way to prosecute a war\u201d, given the fact there was no way of ensuring civilians were not killed in the attack. \u201cI reject out of hand any connection to this or that source of operation,\u201d Herzog said. He did not answer the question directly, but instead talked about the rocket attack \u2013 which Israel blamed on Hezbollah \u2013 that struck the predominantly Druze town of Majdal Shams in the mountainous Golan Heights, close to the border with Syria, in July, in which at least 12 people, including children, were killed. Herzog said that Israel, as a sovereign nation, has a right to defend itself. Israel\u2019s president, Isaac Herzog, has been interviewed by Sky News\u2019 Trevor Phillips on his Sunday morning politics programme in the UK. Herzog says that Israel \u201cdoes not want war\u201d with Lebanon, claiming that the conflict was \u201cinstigated\u201d by Iranian proxies in the region, including Hezbollah and Yemen\u2019s Houthis, as well as Hamas in Gaza. \u201cIsrael is fighting for its well being, its existence, its citizens. That\u2019s what we are doing. And we are doing whatever is the right thing to do,\u201d he said, adding that Lebanon has been hijacked by Hezbollah, which he described as a \u201cterror organisation\u201d. \u201cIt is being armed to its teeth by the Iranian empire of evil,\u201d he said, stressing that Israel wants to bring Israeli hostages back from Gaza and to return Israeli citizens \u201cback to their homes on the border with Lebanon\u201d. Israel\u2019s military said on Sunday that it intercepted a \u201csuspicious aerial target\u201d launched from the east, and that no damage or injuries were reported. Earlier, an official in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose coalition of Iranian-backed militias that oppose US support for Israel in the war on Gaza, said they launched cruise missile and explosive drone attacks at Israel. Pro-Iranian militias in Iraq have claimed responsibility for drone attacks on Israel multiple times since the outbreak of war in Gaza almost a year ago. You can read more about who the Islamic Resistance in Iraq are in this useful explainer by the Guardian\u2019s defence and security editor, Dan Sabbagh, here: William Christou is reporting from the Lebanese capital, Beirut Hezbollah has said it has struck industrial complexes belonging to Israeli defence company Rafael, just near Haifa, in northern Israel, early on Sunday morning. The group said in a statement said the attack was part of an \u201cinitial response\u201d to the pager and walkie-talkie attacks which left more than 3,000 wounded and 42 dead across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday. It is widely believed that Israel was behind the attacks, though it has not publicly claimed responsibility. Fighting in south Lebanon and north Israel reached its most intense yet overnight, with Israel launching wide-ranging air strikes which it said targeted Hezbollah missile launchers across Lebanon\u2019s south. Videos of the resulting explosions with visible shockwaves being filmed from afar widely circulated Lebanese social media. At least one was killed and another injured in the strikes, the Lebanese ministry of health said. In turn, Hezbollah shot a barrage of rockets at north Israel overnight, targeting Ramat David airbase south east of Haifa in the early hours of Sunday morning \u2014 the furthest the group has hit since fighting began in October. The renewed fighting comes days after Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said Israel was approaching a \u201cnew phase\u201d in the war with Hezbollah. Secretary general of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah said in a Thursday speech that the intensified Israeli attacks would not stop the group from continuing its attacks on Israel, until a ceasefire in Gaza was reached. Here are some of the latest images coming out of the newswires from northern Israel, where Hezbollah says it has fired rockets: The Israeli army have continued attacks across southern and central Gaza today, killing at least seven Palestinians, according to Wafa, the Palestinian news agency. Israeli artillery reportedly targeted the town of Khuza\u2019a, east of the southern city Khan Younis, killing two people. Emergency teams from the Palestinian Red Crescent later recovered the bodies of four people from the al-Attatirah area east of Rafah, after Israeli airstrikes. In another attack, Wafa reports that one person was killed after an Israeli army quadcopter \u2013 a drone with four propellers - opened fire on civilians west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. These reports have not yet been independently verified by the Guardian. The United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, has warned of an \u201cimminent catastrophe\u201d in the Middle East. \u201cWith the region on the brink of an imminent catastrophe, it cannot be overstated enough: there is no military solution that will make either side safer,\u201d she wrote in a brief statement on X. Welcome to our live coverage of Israel\u2019s war in Gaza and the wider Middle East crisis. Hezbollah launched more than 100 rockets early on Sunday from Lebanon targeting a wide area of northern Israel, according to Israel\u2019s military, with some landing near the city of Haifa. The rocket barrage overnight set off air raid sirens across northern Israel, sending thousands of people scrambling into shelters. The Israeli military said rockets had been fired \u201ctoward civilian areas\u201d, pointing to a possible escalation after previous barrages had mainly been aimed at military targets. In posts on X, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Lebanon launched two waves of attacks \u2013 the first about 85 rockets where some of them were intercepted, including crashes detected in the areas of Kiryat Bialik, Tzur Shalom and Moroshet. The second attack included 20 rockets after alerts were issued in the in the Jezreel Valley area, according to the IDF. Israel\u2019s Magen David Adom rescue service said it treated four people for shrapnel wounds, including a 76-year-old man who suffered minor injuries in Kiryat Bialik, a community near Haifa where buildings were damaged and cars set on fire. It was not immediately clear if the damage was caused by a rocket or an Israeli interceptor. Earlier, the Israeli military said it launched airstrikes on hundreds of targets in southern Lebanon in the wake of the deepest rocket attacks by Hezbollah into Israel since the start of the war in Gaza last October. The IDF said on Saturday night it launched two wave of attacks \u2013 one attacking about 290 targets, and a second targeting 110 sites. Earlier, Hezbollah posted on its Telegram channel that it had targeted the Israeli Ramat David airbase near Haifa on Saturday night with dozens of missiles in response to what it described as \u201crepeated Israeli attacks on Lebanon\u201d. The airbase is the furthest target the Lebanese group has hit in Israel since October, about 50km from the Lebanon-Israel border. Here is a recap of the latest developments: Hospitals in northern Israel have been instructed to transfer their operations to facilities with extra protection from rocket and missile fire, the health ministry said on Sunday. Rambam hospital in Haifa will transfer patients to its underground, secure facility, the ministry said. Meanwhile, the military\u2019s Home Front Command said schools and other educational institutions and activities would not be permitted in the north until at least Monday at 6pm local time. The death toll from an Israeli airstrike that targeted Hezbollah military commanders in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs has risen to 45, Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said on Sunday, updating an earlier toll of 37 from the Friday attack. News broadcaster Al Jazeera said on Sunday morning that Israeli forces raided its bureau in the West Bank\u2019s Ramallah city with a military order to close it for 45 days. The Qatar-based channel aired live footage of the Israeli troops entered the channel\u2019s office and handed over a closure order to one of the Al Jazeera TV staff. Al Jazeera\u2019s West Bank bureau chief, Walid al-Omari, reported that Israeli troops brought a truck to confiscate documents, devices and office property. In a statement, the Palestinian Journalists\u2019 Syndicate condemned the raid, saying \u201cthis arbitrary military decision is considered a new violation against journalistic and media works\u201d. The US state department has urged Americans in Lebanon to leave the country while commercial options remain available. \u201cAt this time, commercial flights are available, but at reduced capacity. If the security situation worsens, commercial options to depart may become unavailable,\u201d it added. The death toll from an Israeli strike on Saturday on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza city included \u201c13 children and six women\u201d, one of whom was pregnant, said civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal. The Gaza health ministry said at least 22 had died as a result of the strike. US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said he was worried about escalation between Israel and Lebanon. Sullivan, speaking with reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, said yesterday that he still sees a path to a ceasefire in Gaza but that the US is \u201cnot at a point right now where we\u2019re prepared to put something on the table\u201d. Attacks on Lebanon this week showed that the Israeli government planned to spread the war to the region, Turkey\u2019s president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan said, calling on western countries to take \u201cdeterrent steps\u201d against Israel\u2019s actions. Erdo\u011fan told a press conference that Israel\u2019s war in Gaza will top the agenda of his speech at the UN general assembly on Tuesday. \u201cIt is time for all countries with the mission of protecting world peace to come up with solutions that will stop Israel,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said. Iran unveiled its \u201cjihad\u201d single-stage liquid-fuel ballistic missile with a high-explosive detachable warhead and a range of 1,000km, according to state TV. The missiles were displayed on Saturday, along with other military hardware, during a parade marking the anniversary of the start of the 1980-88 war with Iraq. At least 41,391 Palestinians have been killed and 95,760 injured in Israel\u2019s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, Gaza\u2019s health ministry said on Saturday. Gaza\u2019s ministry of health does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its count. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, postponed his trip to the US by a day due to the security situation in the country\u2019s north. Netanyahu was due to travel to New York on 24 September, during which he is expected to address the annual UN general assembly. He issued a short statement after the Beirut airstrike, saying: \u201cOur goals are clear, and our actions speak for themselves.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Remorseless, ruthless, racist\u2019: my battle to expose Mohamed Al Fayed;https://www.theguardian.com/global/2024/sep/22/remorseless-ruthless-racist-my-battle-to-expose-mohamed-al-fayed;2024-09-22T06:00:02Z",
        "text": "A BBC documentary into the sexual predation of Mohamed Al Fayed, owner of Harrods from 1985 to 2010, found more than 20 women who testified to abuse by Fayed and five who were raped by him. Since the programme was aired last Thursday, lawyers representing the victims have said there are probably many more out there. That seems highly likely. As the former UK editor of Vanity Fair responsible for defending a libel case brought by Fayed in the mid-90s, I know of three who couldn\u2019t be included in the documentary and the anecdotal evidence from that period suggested that Fayed treated Harrods as a mini fiefdom where he had the right over any female employee he spotted on CCTV or met walking the floors of the department store. His abuse and the fear he instilled were open secrets. He never suffered the consequences of his crimes, the scale of which is mapped by the BBC film Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods and puts him on a level with Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein. While they ended up in jail, Fayed died peacefully, aged 94, in London last year, untroubled by the law or any remorse, his fortune still intact. That says much about the power he wielded as the Harrods boss, about the period in the UK before the #MeToo awakening, and the teams of publicists, lawyers, security guards, HR bosses and even doctors who smoothed his way and cleaned up after him, allowing the assaults and rapes to continue well into this century. Fayed did not prey upon and terrorise more than 20 young women without a lot of support. So much evidence was available and yet he was only seriously questioned once about sex abuse, after a teenage assistant at Harrods complained to the police of an assault in his office. At the time, she was 15 and he was nearly 80. The story was leaked by the police to the press (many police officers and journalists benefited from the distribution of Harrods hampers at Christmas time) and that placed the girl and her family under great pressure. Charges were dropped because she was confused about the day the attack took place. Why this one tiny error was a basis for not pursuing an assault on a minor in a workplace is anyone\u2019s guess, but it smells bad. That episode rings bells with me. From 1995 to 1997, I and the lawyer David Hooper, of Biddle &amp; Co, investigated Fayed, who had sued Vanity Fair and our reporter Maureen Orth over a profile that alleged he was a serial abuser and a racist, and that he spied on his staff, bugging their phones and using hidden cameras. Hooper and I are not professional investigators, so it\u2019s significant that by the summer of 1997 we had gathered enough evidence in those three areas, particularly on the sex abuse, to be confident of a good outcome at trial. Fayed was, indeed, an out-and-out racist \u2013 in one instance, reported by his former security head John Loftus, asking about a respected Harrods cleaner, \u201cWhat\u2019s a fucking Black woman who is too fat to clean doing here?\u201d He used ex-policemen to plant bugs in the homes and on the phones of his targets: we had a list of some 45 individuals whose phones were bugged, including Fayed\u2019s deputy chairman Christoph Bettermann. And Fayed used CCTV to spot likely victims on the floors of Harrods and to snoop on his closest colleagues. According to the ex-military policeman Bob Loftus, who was once on the inside of this creepy operation, he watched a well-known member of his staff who was having an affair with his secretary and showed the video around. The evidence came thick and fast, but along the way we had to contend with skulduggery and threats dreamed up by Fayed\u2019s security force of ex-policemen. We were constantly worried about our witnesses and, unusually in a libel case, were compelled to write to Fayed\u2019s lawyers on 21 May 1997 that \u201cpressure is being put on witnesses not to testify in a fashion which we will not tolerate and which we reserve the right to draw to the attention of the trial judge\u201d. There were telephoned threats and visits from ex-cops that warned young women they\u2019d never work again, and much worse. There were attempts to fit Hooper and me up with criminal charges. This was all standard for Fayed, which explains why so many of the women in the BBC documentary are still, one year after his death, nervous of speaking and why they required such sensitivity by the BBC director Erica Gornall and producer Cassie Cornish-Trestrail to draw out their stories. It is impossible to watch the film without seeing the lasting pain of their experiences. As with Weinstein, Fayed\u2019s sex attacks were gross, inept in their crudeness and very frightening. In 2022, I was contacted by a middle-aged British-born woman who had made a successful life in the US but was still haunted, three decades later, by the abuse and sadism she experienced at the hands of the Fayed family. In 1996 I learned of a case of a young US woman being interviewed as a designer for Fayed who had been briefly held prisoner and propositioned with an act so revolting that she couldn\u2019t bring herself to swear an affidavit. However, we learned that a cease and desist letter had been sent to Fayed by a well-connected relation, and we were able to request it in discovery, which meant he knew that we knew all about that appalling incident. The humiliation of others was the thing that drove Fayed, whether it was Tory MPs whom he bribed to ask parliamentary questions on his behalf then gleefully exposed, the senior managers of his businesses who were sacked and had their reputations trashed by Fayed\u2019s PR operation or the society beauty who had happened to float into his orbit and was mortified for life by the disgusting nature of his demand. To him, the humiliation of another person was confirmation of his own power, a point dismayingly missed in Peter Morgan\u2019s Netflix series The Crown, where a serial rapist in a silk dressing gown who demanded his victims call him \u201cPapa\u201d was rendered an affable and harmless rogue. By the summer of 1997, Fayed began to make moves to settle the case, principally in the person of Michael Cole, the ex-BBC journalist, so important in his defence in repeated scandals. A meeting between Cole and the then chief executive of Cond\u00e9 Nast UK, Sir Nicholas Coleridge, took place in a Turkish bath. Wearing only towels, they discussed terms without the risk of being bugged. No agreement was reached, but Cole felt able to declare in a letter in late June: \u201cYou already have my confirmation of Mr Fayed\u2019s willingness to see matters moved on \u2026 Blessed are the peacemakers, as I hope you would agree.\u201d As the journalist responsible for gathering evidence, I did not. At that time, our investigation was focused on the doctors used by Fayed to test the sexual health of young, white, female Harrods employees who were told that they were being given a medical at the company\u2019s expense. The \u201cmedical\u201d included invasive examinations, which they weren\u2019t warned about, and the deeply private reports were sent straight to Fayed. Those employees he suspected of being gay were told they must have an Aids test, the results of which were sent to him. At least five West End doctors were involved in these medically questionable examinations. Three were women, one of whom has moved to Australia and has, surprisingly, set up a women\u2019s health and wellbeing clinic that specialises in the menopause. All of them refused to help with the case, although their examinations could, in effect, be seen as a precursor to sexual abuse by Fayed. I felt very strongly that their work for Fayed and refusal to contribute evidence should be exposed in open court. That was one reason I wanted to continue. The other was Diana, Princess of Wales, who had a developing relationship with Fayed\u2019s son Dodi. Our concern was that if we settled, the evidence about his abuse and surveillance would never be available to her. So it was vital that she understood that all Fayed\u2019s properties were wired for audio and video, and that she could never be sure of having a private conversation on his premises, let alone being able to undress without being watched. Through intermediaries, we made our fears known. Diana\u2019s friend Rosa Monckton and her husband Dominic Lawson also repeatedly warned Diana. I have no idea whether she paid attention. By the end of July 1997, no agreement was reached. The holidays were upon us and things were closing down, but on 4 August we learned that George Carman, the celebrated QC of the time who was acting for Fayed, had blanched when reading our re-re-amended defence, which included the evidence of security head Bob Loftus and Fayed\u2019s former secretary. The judge delayed the trial by a year \u2013 to autumn 1998 \u2013 and commented that even without the latest 800 pages of evidence: \u201cyou would win this case if you proved only 75% of what you already have.\u201d He described the new allegations as \u201cvery serious, including conspiracy to commit several serious offences. It is a matter of public interest.\u201d That had been my line in a four-page memo to my bosses in New York when I listed the main findings of our investigation, some involving serious criminality. But the crucial point, which I made less well, was that we owed so much to the seven women who had agreed to testify, arguably a bigger step then than the one taken by the women who appeared in the BBC\u2019s documentary, although that, too, required extraordinary courage. In his prime, Fayed was a remorseless enemy to anyone who crossed him, and our witnesses had good reason to be fearful. Everything was swept away by the death of Diana and Dodi in Paris on 31 August. Si Newhouse, the owner of Cond\u00e9 Nast, decided to shut down the case immediately out of respect for the grieving father. Both sides absorbed their own costs, no damages were paid, and we agreed to place all evidence in locked storage. It seemed the right and humane decision in the immediate aftermath of the shocking deaths. But it wasn\u2019t, because of the countless women who have suffered since our case was settled, including many who were raped by a man who appeared unaffected by grief or regret. I argued we should act like a publication, not a business, and write another story revealing what we had discovered, but there was understandably no appetite to return to the subject of Mohamed Al Fayed. In one respect, I didn\u2019t go along with the settlement. All the boxes of evidence in my possession in September 1997 were placed in a secure setting, one that I controlled. Much of the material was generated by me and was my copyright. I have since allowed it to be consulted by journalists, including the makers of this important documentary that finally, after 27 years, nails Mohamed Al Fayed and gives his victims the voice they deserve."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Israel tells Lebanese to leave area where Hezbollah stores arms as it launches strikes;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/g-s1-24128/israel-tells-lebanese-to-leave-area-where-hezbollah-stores-arms-as-it-launches-strikes;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 03:59:15 -0400",
        "text": "The Israeli military on Monday called on people in southern Lebanon to immediately evacuate homes and other buildings where Hezbollah stores weapons and said it was carrying out \"extensive strikes.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Alcohol-free beer is gaining popularity, even at Oktoberfest;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/g-s1-24124/alcohol-free-beer-is-gaining-popularity-even-at-oktoberfest;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:44:14 -0400",
        "text": "At Weihenstephan, non-alcoholic wheat beer and lager now make up 10% of the volume. The increase over the last few years mirrors the statistics for the rest of Germany's beer industry."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;In U.N. vote, countries show willingness to move away from fossil fuels;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/22/nx-s1-5122497/united-nations-fossil-fuels-vote-2024;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:14:35 -0400",
        "text": "The body's call to speed up a transition from fossil fuels is part of a pact designed to bring countries together to tackle challenges in the 21st century."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Speaker Johnson announces plan to keep the government funded until Dec. 20;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/22/nx-s1-5122524/house-government-funding;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:59:36 -0400",
        "text": "The measure does not include any part of the SAVE Act, the election security proposal backed by former President Donald Trump.<br />"
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;After a week of attacks, Lebanon braces for more;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/22/nx-s1-5122422/after-a-week-of-attacks-lebanon-braces-for-more;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:14:14 -0400",
        "text": "After a week of unprecedented Israeli attacks in Lebanon and Hezbollah counterattacks, Lebanon is bracing for more attacks to come."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Tufts University lacrosse players hospitalized for days after workout;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/22/nx-s1-5122416/tufts-university-lacrosse-players-hospitalized-rhabdo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:51:48 -0400",
        "text": "Tufts University says it has launched an investigation after members of the men's lacrosse team were diagnosed with a dangerous medical condition."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Marxist-leaning Dissanayake sworn in as Sri Lanka president;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/23/marxist-leaning-dissanayake-sworn-in-as-sri-lanka-president?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:28:04 +0000",
        "text": "Video shows the moment Sri Lanka\u2019s new president, Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake, was sworn in."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Sri Lanka beat New Zealand by 63 runs in first Test at Galle;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/23/sri-lanka-beat-new-zealand-by-63-runs-in-first-test-at-galle?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:09:52 +0000",
        "text": "Sri Lanka wrapped up New Zealand&#039;s innings within four overs on the last day of the Test match at Galle."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Rescuers comb muddy riverbanks after floods kill six in Japan;https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/23/rescuers-comb-muddy-riverbanks-after-floods-kill-six-in-japan?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:58:36 +0000",
        "text": "Teams are searching for missing people after rains pounded the Noto region, triggering landslides and floods."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;What\u2019s behind India\u2019s latest #MeToo movement in Malayalam cinema?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/whats-behind-indias-latest-metoo-movement-in-malayalam-cinema?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:05:15 +0000",
        "text": "A probe panel&#039;s report has lifted the veil on widespread sex abuse in the industry, with more allegations emerging too."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Anura Kumara Dissanayake takes oath as Sri Lanka\u2019s next president;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/anura-kumara-dissanayake-takes-oath-as-sri-lankas-next-president?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:29:45 +0000",
        "text": "Marxist-leaning politician says he understands the complex challenges facing Sri Lanka and aims to meet people&#039;s hopes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;At least six killed in Japan after floods hit quake-stricken Noto Peninsula;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/at-least-six-killed-in-japan-after-floods-hit-quake-stricken-noto-peninsula?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:06:53 +0000",
        "text": "Record rain inundated the area, which was still rebuilding following January&#039;s 7.5 magnitude quake."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018That will be it\u2019: Trump says he won\u2019t run again if beaten in US election;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/that-will-be-it-trump-says-wont-run-again-if-beaten-in-november?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 03:24:24 +0000",
        "text": "Polls suggest Trump and rival Kamala Harris are neck and neck in the key swing states where elections are often decided."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Zelenskyy in US to present latest peace plan to Biden, Harris, Trump;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/zelenskyy-in-us-to-present-latest-peace-plan-to-biden-harris-trump?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 02:36:17 +0000",
        "text": "Ukrainian president begins high-stakes trip with visit to weapons factory in Pennsylvania."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Mayor of only Muslim-run city in US endorses Trump for election;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/mayor-of-only-muslim-governed-us-city-endorses-trump?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 02:24:36 +0000",
        "text": "Amer Ghalib, who leads city in battleground state of Michigan, says Republican is &#039;right choice&#039; despite disagreements."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 941;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-941?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:37:29 +0000",
        "text": "As the war enters its 941st day, these are the main developments."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Singapore gears up for biggest corruption trial in decades;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/singapore-gears-up-for-biggest-corruption-trial-in-decades?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:36:48 +0000",
        "text": "Ex-Transport Minister S Iswaran is accused of accepting gifts including F1 tickets and a Brompton bike from two tycoons."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;After vowing to halt Japan\u2019s economic decline, Kishida leaves mixed legacy;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/23/after-vowing-to-halt-japans-economic-decline-kishida-leaves-mixed-legacy?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:23:53 +0000",
        "text": "Japanese leader&#039;s &#039;new capitalism&#039; produced some positive results but economy still faces major obstacles, analysts say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Does the Israeli military have a clear battle plan?;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/9/22/does-the-israeli-military-have-a-clear-battle-plan?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:57:58 +0000",
        "text": "Almost a year into its war on Gaza, Israel is fighting on multiple fronts in the region."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;UN aims \u2018to bring multilateralism back\u2019 as it adopts Pact for the Future;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/un-aims-to-bring-multilateralism-back-as-it-adopts-pact-for-the-future?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:49:28 +0000",
        "text": "Members adopt blueprint for future to tackle wars, environmental threats and technological challenges facing humanity."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Scholz\u2019s SPD edges out far-right AfD in German state election;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/scholzs-spd-narrowly-ahead-of-far-right-in-east-german-state-projections?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:05:43 +0000",
        "text": "Ruling left-leaning party wins 31 percent of vote in Brandenburg against anti-immigration AfD&#039;s 29 percent."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;UK\u2019s Starmer under pressure over economy as Labour conference begins;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/uks-starmer-under-pressure-over-economy-as-labour-conference-begins?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:30:47 +0000",
        "text": "PM Keir Starmer promises to protect public services and rules out austerity measures as ruling party meets in Liverpool."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;US wants seats for Africa at UNSC \u2013 with a catch;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2024/9/22/us-wants-seats-for-africa-at-unsc-with-a?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:30:00 +0000",
        "text": "Seats on the UN Security Council without veto power is \u2018an insult,\u2019 argues former African diplomat Arikana Chihombori."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Questions for Wallace over war crimes bill change that would have protected SAS;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5ynkdxx9zo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:01:20 GMT",
        "text": "The change had the effect of pushing war crimes allegations against the SAS outside the cut off period for bringing a prosecution under normal circumstances."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Tesco's Aldi price match products are not always like-for-like, BBC finds;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0m0vrmlzgyo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:01:38 GMT",
        "text": "Some Tesco price-matches have lower proportions of the main ingredient than Aldi's, BBC Panorama finds."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;\u2018If mine is bigger, I\u2019m going to win\u2019: Getting zombie knives off the streets;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kjvnd1728o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:35:44 GMT",
        "text": "As zombie knife ban comes into force, BBC News finds true scale of crimes using \u201cstatement\u201d blades."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Boy not prosecuted over riots due to 'wrath' of parents;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj04qynvln5o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 02:20:48 GMT",
        "text": "Prosecutors opted not to take further action against a 14-year-old boy taken to a police station by his parents."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Former prison officer saw murder and suicide as a teenager, but says he got no support;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4grxydyd7do;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:25:46 GMT",
        "text": "A ex-prison officer says managers failed to help after he saw a murder and suicide on the same day."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Trump says he will not run again if he loses election;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj9ekdvxx2o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:49:23 GMT",
        "text": "For the second time in a week the Republican presidential candidate has acknowledged the prospect of defeat."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;ISG collapse 'devastating' for construction industry;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly3jzyyp49o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:56:31 GMT",
        "text": "It could lead to other firms in the supply chain going under, a trade body says."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'We were surrounded by Russian troops - but escaped';https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cx2kw2r5r9jo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:05:09 GMT",
        "text": "A small group of Ukrainian soldiers found themselves encircled in the village of Komyshivka."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Cathay bans couple who started row over reclining seat;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyvd4yjj8xo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:56:38 GMT",
        "text": "A Chinese woman said she was harassed by the couple seated behind her on a flight after reclining her seat."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Why do concert tickets now cost as much as a games console?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kdxlv8x05o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:07:10 GMT",
        "text": "Concert tickets have spiralled in recent years. Here, BBC Music Correspondent Mark Savage unpacks exactly what's behind it - and it's not just greed."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The Papers: 'Labour war on tax cheats' and winter fuel 'revolt';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr752zk3yn5o;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:04:51 GMT",
        "text": "Rachel Reeves speech at Labour's party conference on Monday dominates many of the front pages."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Is Reform UK's plan to get Farage into No 10 mission impossible?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp39yz3wdl9o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:14:19 GMT",
        "text": "The party is trying to professionalise to break the mould of British politics and win real power."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Why 'Comrade Kamala' memes are spreading among Latino exiles;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8jg11ynj7o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:43:27 GMT",
        "text": "The Democratic presidential nominee has been the subject of numerous misleading claims that she is a communist."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Six NHS schemes that could help fix the health service;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm28el83dxno;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:31:55 GMT",
        "text": "Labour is planning the biggest reimagining of the NHS in its history. Do these schemes provide the answer?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Living with an eating disorder dubbed the 'world's most dangerous';https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c0e1ny28gx0o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:18:38 GMT",
        "text": "When Lawrence Smith was a teenager, he developed the eating disorder diabulimia"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The fake heiress who vanished twice;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4grj1gpe2ro;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:22:26 GMT",
        "text": "A new BBC Sounds podcast examines the exploits of fraudster Violet Charlesworth."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Zelensky to present 'victory plan' to Biden, Harris and Trump;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y30244467o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:55:04 GMT",
        "text": "The Ukrainian leader is due to meet the US president before attending the UN General Assembly."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sri Lanka swears in new left-leaning president;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqxr03x4dvzo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 04:48:14 GMT",
        "text": "Anura Kumara Dissanayake is sworn in as Sri Lanka's ninth executive president in a simple ceremony."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Six dead after record rain causes floods in Japan;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1jdpzj3gjlo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 03:40:32 GMT",
        "text": "Ten people are missing after the cities of Wajima and Suzu were badly hit by flooding over the weekend."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Private school VAT hike 'unfair' for SEND pupils, parents say;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kjj40zrexo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:10:38 GMT",
        "text": "Parents of dyslexic children say there aren't the places or support at state schools."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Girl, 2, dies from same rare disorder as brother;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5ezgn6ge9o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:09:30 GMT",
        "text": "Isabelle Cooper's family thank supporters of their campaign for awareness of PPA2 deficiency."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The man taking knives off the streets;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jrvrlx;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:45:35 GMT",
        "text": "Faron Paul is a campaigner who helps young people in London get rid of their knives."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Man City players accuse Arsenal of 'dark arts' as Arteta hails 'miracle';https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cn8yrz10e5no;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:32:30 GMT",
        "text": "Manchester City forward Bernardo Silva says only one team came to play football in their 2-2 Premier League draw with Arsenal, who are accused of employing \"dark arts\" at Etihad Stadium."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Mentally, physically & tactically, Arsenal show why they are a force';https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cj31ne1v5l7o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:45:16 GMT",
        "text": "MOTD2 pundit Alan Shearer explains why Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta will be delighted with his players despite conceding a late equaliser at Manchester City."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Swearing punishment could speed up F1 exit - Verstappen;https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/articles/c0m0wwk7ejno;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:53:40 GMT",
        "text": "Max Verstappen says issues such as his punishment for swearing may \"decide my future\" and are \"really tiring\"."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Ravens run down Cowboys, Chiefs state case for defence;https://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/articles/cly263m7j7zo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:22:05 GMT",
        "text": "The Baltimore Ravens and Los Angeles Rams get their first wins of the season as the Kansas City Chiefs remain unbeaten on Sunday in week three of the NFL."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Red card chaos and Haaland 'housery' - MOTD analysis;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/videos/cr542vgq3mjo;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:04:25 GMT",
        "text": "Match of the Day 2 pundits Alan Shearer and Shay Given analyse the chaotic moments of a thrilling 2-2 draw between Manchester City and Arsenal."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Met Police sets out plans to be 'truly anti-racist';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wp1137qdpo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:27:21 GMT",
        "text": "The force is also overhauling its policy on intimate searches of children after the Child Q scandal."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Relief' as 12,000 benefit from new childcare subsidy;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3w1v3vn7no;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:29:01 GMT",
        "text": "One parent told BBC News NI that two days of childcare can cost almost half her monthly wages."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Seabed still being damaged in protection zones, campaigners warn;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1epx96w2j2o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:10:54 GMT",
        "text": "Marine protected areas were created in 2014, but fishing is not restricted in more than half of sites."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Man's tractor death organ donation saves four lives;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd1595pldyo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:12:07 GMT",
        "text": "Macauley Owen helped to save the lives of four others by donating his organs."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre au\u00a0Proche-Orient\u00a0: l\u2019arm\u00e9e isra\u00e9lienne continue de bombarder le sud et l\u2019est du Liban et envoie des messages d\u2019\u00e9vacuation aux habitants;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/23/en-direct-guerre-au-proche-orient-l-armee-israelienne-continue-de-bombarder-le-sud-et-l-est-du-liban-et-envoie-des-messages-d-evacuation-aux-habitants_6321740_3210.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:54:46 +0200",
        "text": "Un porte-parole de l\u2019arm\u00e9e isra\u00e9lienne a dit que ses frappes contre le Hezbollah vont \u00ab\u00a0se poursuivre dans un avenir proche\u00a0\u00bb. L\u2019Agence Nationale d\u2019Information libanaise et des journalistes de l\u2019AFP ont constat\u00e9 d\u2019intenses bombardements, notamment dans la plaine de la Bekaa, lundi."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;TDAH de l\u2019enfant\u00a0: comment am\u00e9liorer le diagnostic et la prise en charge des troubles du d\u00e9ficit de l\u2019attention;https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/09/23/tdah-de-l-enfant-comment-ameliorer-le-diagnostic-et-la-prise-en-charge_6329379_1650684.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:30:06 +0200",
        "text": "La Haute Autorit\u00e9 de sant\u00e9 d\u00e9voile ses recommandations de bonnes pratiques dans la prise en charge du trouble du d\u00e9ficit de l\u2019attention avec ou sans hyperactivit\u00e9 (TDAH) chez l\u2019enfant. Attendues autant des soignants que des familles, elles impliquent une formation massive des m\u00e9decins et une profonde r\u00e9organisation de l\u2019offre de soins."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct,\u00a0guerre en Ukraine\u00a0: l\u2019arm\u00e9e ukrainienne toujours en\u00a0difficult\u00e9 dans le\u00a0Donbass, o\u00f9 les soldats russes se\u00a0rapprochent de\u00a0la\u00a0ville de\u00a0Pokrovsk;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/23/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-l-armee-ukrainienne-toujours-en-difficulte-dans-le-donbass_6327490_3210.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:21:31 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019attaque ukrainienne dans la r\u00e9gion de Koursk n\u2019a pas eu l\u2019effet escompt\u00e9, rapporte le \u00ab\u00a0Financial Times\u00a0\u00bb. Sur le terrain, les troupes sont \u00e9puis\u00e9es par plus de deux ans de pr\u00e9sence sur le front."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: Eric Dupont-Moretti, en\u00a0quittant le\u00a0minist\u00e8re de\u00a0la\u00a0justice, pr\u00e9vient que revenir sur loi de\u00a0programmation de\u00a02023 serait une \u00ab\u00a0trahison\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/23/en-direct-gouvernement-barnier-une-premiere-reunion-a-matignon-lfi-denonce-une-sorte-de-braquage-en-bande-organisee_6325006_823448.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:17:28 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0La justice est sur la bonne voie et je suis optimiste pour son avenir\u00a0\u00bb, a-t-il\u00a0 dit, en pr\u00e9sence de son successeur, Didier Migaud. Lors de la premi\u00e8re r\u00e9union de son gouvernement \u00e0 Matignon, Michel Barnier a demand\u00e9 \u00e0 ses membres d\u2019\u00eatre \u00ab\u00a0irr\u00e9prochables et modestes\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Afrique du Sud, des chercheurs reconstituent des g\u00e9nomes humains vieux de\u00a010\u00a0000\u00a0ans;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/23/en-afrique-du-sud-des-chercheurs-reconstituent-des-genomes-humains-vieux-de-10-000-ans_6329375_3212.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:16:07 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019ADN contenu dans les restes retrouv\u00e9s dans l\u2019abri rocheux d\u2019Oakhurst (Sud) est proche de celui des groupes San et Kho\u00efkho\u00ef, qui vivent aujourd\u2019hui dans la m\u00eame r\u00e9gion."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En France, du mieux sur le front de la productivit\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/23/en-france-du-mieux-sur-le-front-de-la-productivite_6329373_3234.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:01:21 +0200",
        "text": "La valeur ajout\u00e9e produite en fonction du nombre d\u2019heures travaill\u00e9es a progress\u00e9 de 1,3\u00a0% par rapport \u00e0 2023, apr\u00e8s plusieurs ann\u00e9es de chute."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Guerre au Soudan\u00a0: au Darfour, la ville d\u2019El-Fasher ravag\u00e9e par les combats;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/23/guerre-au-soudan-au-darfour-la-ville-d-el-fasher-ravagee-par-les-combats_6329336_3212.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:44:22 +0200",
        "text": "Les paramilitaires du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Mohammed Hamdan Daglo ont lanc\u00e9 une offensive massive sur cette ville qu\u2019ils assi\u00e8gent depuis des mois."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Entre Isra\u00ebl et le Hezbollah, le pari risqu\u00e9 de l\u2019escalade;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/23/au-liban-la-riposte-du-hezbollah-contre-israel-entre-dans-une-nouvelle-phase_6329033_3210.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:33:54 +0200",
        "text": "Les frappes de part et d\u2019autre de la fronti\u00e8re se sont intensifi\u00e9es ces derni\u00e8res heures, marquant un pas suppl\u00e9mentaire dans la guerre d\u2019usure engag\u00e9e depuis octobre\u00a02023\u00a0apr\u00e8s l\u2019attaque du Hamas en Isra\u00ebl."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Allemagne, les sociaux-d\u00e9mocrates du SPD battent de justesse l\u2019extr\u00eame droite dans le Brandebourg;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/23/allemagne-le-spd-defait-l-extreme-droite-de-peu-dans-le-brandebourg_6329135_3210.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:30:55 +0200",
        "text": "Les r\u00e9sultats du scrutin r\u00e9gional dans ce bastion historique du SPD accordent un r\u00e9pit temporaire \u00e0 la coalition gouvernementale du chancelier Olaf Scholz"
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;D\u00e9but du proc\u00e8s du commissaire Fran\u00e7ois Thierry, l\u2019ex-patron des stups accus\u00e9 d\u2019avoir favoris\u00e9 un informateur;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/23/a-lyon-le-proces-du-commissaire-francois-thierry-pour-une-fausse-garde-a-vue-en-faveur-de-son-informateur_6329102_3224.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:17:17 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019ancien chef de l\u2019OCRTIS est jug\u00e9 devant la cour criminelle du Rh\u00f4ne pour \u00ab\u00a0faux\u00a0\u00bb et \u00ab\u00a0destruction de preuves\u00a0\u00bb par agent public pour son r\u00f4le, en\u00a02012, dans la fausse garde \u00e0 vue de Sofiane Hambli, consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un des plus gros importateurs de cannabis en France."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Proche-Orient\u00a0: le risque d\u2019une escalade entre Isra\u00ebl et le Hezbollah inqui\u00e8te la communaut\u00e9 internationale;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/23/proche-orient-le-risque-d-une-escalade-entre-israel-et-le-hezbollah-inquiete-la-communaute-internationale_6329066_3210.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:45:03 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Nous sommes pr\u00eats \u00e0 tous les sc\u00e9narios militaires\u00a0\u00bb face \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, a pr\u00e9venu le num\u00e9ro deux du mouvement libanais, Na\u00efm Qassem. L\u2019Etat h\u00e9breu poursuit ses frappes sur le pays du C\u00e8dre et a rappel\u00e9 son objectif de faire revenir ses habitants dans le nord du pays."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;D\u00e9but de saison compliqu\u00e9 pour DAZN, le nouveau diffuseur de la Ligue 1;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/23/debut-de-saison-complique-pour-dazn-le-nouveau-diffuseur-de-la-ligue-1_6329000_3234.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:00:04 +0200",
        "text": "Critiqu\u00e9e notamment pour ses offres d\u2019abonnement, la plate-forme britannique va annoncer, lundi 23\u00a0septembre, la prolongation de la r\u00e9duction lanc\u00e9e le 10\u00a0septembre pendant sept jours suppl\u00e9mentaires, jusqu\u2019au dimanche 29\u00a0septembre inclus."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Michel Barnier et son gouvernement au d\u00e9fi de durer;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/23/a-l-assemblee-nationale-michel-barnier-et-son-gouvernement-au-defi-de-durer_6328992_823448.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:31:04 +0200",
        "text": "Les chances du nouveau gouvernement, en minorit\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e, d\u00e9pend de l\u2019alignement d\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eats entre le NFP et le RN. Les deux blocs pourraient finir par se rencontrer sur le vote d\u2019une motion de censure, \u00e0 mesure que l\u2019opportunit\u00e9 d\u2019une nouvelle dissolution se repr\u00e9sente d\u00e8s juillet\u00a02025."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;D\u00e9but du proc\u00e8s du groupe SFAM-Indexia et de son fondateur, accus\u00e9s d\u2019arnaques \u00e0 l\u2019assurance et de pr\u00e9l\u00e8vements abusifs;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/23/proces-sfam-indexia-pour-les-arnaques-a-l-assurance-de-telephone-portable-des-consommateurs-en-colere-et-des-ex-salaries-amers_6328990_3234.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:00:06 +0200",
        "text": "Le proc\u00e8s pour pratiques commerciales frauduleuses du fondateur du courtier en assurances et de six soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de son groupe d\u00e9bute, lundi 23\u00a0septembre, \u00e0 Paris. Parmi les parties civiles, pr\u00e8s de 800\u00a0consommateurs et la CFDT."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;J. D.\u00a0Vance, le colistier de Trump \u00e0 droite toute;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/23/a-droite-toute-j-d-vance-colistier-de-trump-conforte-les-electeurs-republicains_6328984_3210.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 04:15:01 +0200",
        "text": "En meeting au c\u0153ur de la Pennsylvanie, Etat bascule pour l\u2019\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle de novembre, l\u2019\u00e9lu de l\u2019Ohio a m\u00e9thodiquement attaqu\u00e9 la candidate d\u00e9mocrate, Kamala Harris, devant des militants r\u00e9publicains soud\u00e9s derri\u00e8re Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Japon, le bilan des inondations monte \u00e0\u00a0six morts;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/23/au-japon-le-bilan-des-inondations-monte-a-six-morts_6328983_3210.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 04:05:50 +0200",
        "text": "Tout le week-end, dans le centre de l\u2019Archipel, des dizaines de rivi\u00e8res boueuses sont sorties de leur lit provoquant d\u2019immenses d\u00e9g\u00e2ts dans des zones d\u00e9j\u00e0 endommag\u00e9es par le s\u00e9isme survenu au d\u00e9but\u00a0de\u00a0janvier qui avait tu\u00e9 au moins 374\u00a0personnes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Etats-Unis\u00a0: un accord permet d\u2019\u00e9viter un shutdown\u00a0avant l\u2019\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/23/etats-unis-un-accord-permet-d-eviter-un-shutdown-avant-l-election-presidentielle_6328981_3210.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 03:21:38 +0200",
        "text": "En attendant l\u2019adoption compl\u00e8te du budget 2025, le financement de l\u2019Etat f\u00e9d\u00e9ral est prolong\u00e9 jusqu\u2019au 20\u00a0d\u00e9cembre, soit bien apr\u00e8s le scrutin du 5\u00a0novembre au cours duquel le contr\u00f4le de la Chambre des repr\u00e9sentants, celui du S\u00e9nat et celui de la pr\u00e9sidence pourraient \u00eatre d\u00e9cid\u00e9s par des r\u00e9sultats avec de faibles marges."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Un OM h\u00e9ro\u00efque l\u2019emporte \u00e0 Lyon dans les derni\u00e8res secondes;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/23/ligue-1-un-olympique-de-marseille-heroique-l-emporte-a-lyon-au-terme-d-un-match-fou_6328915_3242.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:40:42 +0200",
        "text": "R\u00e9duit \u00e0 dix d\u00e8s la cinqui\u00e8me minute, l\u2019OM s\u2019est impos\u00e9 3-2, dimanche soir, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 un but marqu\u00e9 dans le temps additionnel par Jonathan Rowe. Le club marseillais est deuxi\u00e8me, \u00e0 \u00e9galit\u00e9 de points avec le PSG, leader gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la diff\u00e9rence de buts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ce qu\u2019il faut retenir de l\u2019interview de Michel Barnier;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/ce-qu-il-faut-retenir-de-l-interview-de-michel-barnier_6328846_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:56:21 +0200",
        "text": "Au lendemain de l\u2019annonce de son gouvernement, le premier ministre \u00e9tait l\u2019invit\u00e9 du journal t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9 de France 2, dimanche soir."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Formule 1\u00a0: Lando Norris remporte le Grand Prix de Singapour et amenuise encore l\u2019\u00e9cart avec Max Verstappen;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/22/formule-1-lando-norris-remporte-le-grand-prix-de-singapour-et-amenuise-encore-l-ecart-avec-max-verstappen_6328580_3242.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:18:39 +0200",
        "text": "Le pilote britannique de l\u2019\u00e9curie McLaren signe sa troisi\u00e8me victoire de la saison et se rapproche du leader du championnat, Max Verstappen (Red Bull), deuxi\u00e8me dimanche."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Sri Lanka, Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, marxiste repenti, remporte l\u2019\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/22/au-sri-lanka-anura-kumara-dissanayaka-marxiste-repenti-remporte-l-election-presidentielle_6328577_3210.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:01:46 +0200",
        "text": "Le chef de la coalition de gauche a \u00e9t\u00e9 proclam\u00e9 vainqueur de l\u2019\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle, avec 42,3\u00a0% des suffrages, dimanche, devan\u00e7ant nettement le chef de l\u2019opposition au Parlement Sajith Premadasa et le pr\u00e9sident sortant Ranil Wickremesinghe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Le meilleur moyen de prolonger le plaisir des JO\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: \u00e0 la braderie des Jeux, on s\u2019arrache les souvenirs de Paris 2024;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/22/le-meilleur-moyen-de-prolonger-le-plaisir-des-jo-a-la-braderie-des-jeux-on-s-arrache-les-souvenirs-de-paris-2024_6328541_3242.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:54:30 +0200",
        "text": "Certains sont arriv\u00e9s dans la nuit pour s\u2019assurer de pouvoir acheter l\u2019un des v\u00eatements et objets des Jeux olympiques mis en vente, dimanche \u00e0 Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis), dans l\u2019une des braderies mise en place par Paris 2024."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: Agn\u00e8s Canayer, ministre d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9e \u00e0 la famille et \u00e0 la petite enfance, face \u00e0 des chantiers urgents;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/22/gouvernement-barnier-agnes-canayer-ministre-deleguee-a-la-famille-et-a-la-petite-enfance-face-a-des-chantiers-urgents_6328508_3224.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:41:45 +0200",
        "text": "Familles monoparentales, aide sociale \u00e0 l\u2019enfance, secteur de la petite enfance\u2026 De nombreux dossiers sont en suspens et n\u00e9cessiteront des r\u00e9ponses rapides de la part de cette s\u00e9natrice LR de Seine-Maritime."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: Catherine Vautrin passe de\u00a0la\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0vie quotidienne\u00a0\u00bb aux collectivit\u00e9s territoriales;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/gouvernement-barnier-catherine-vautrin-passe-de-la-vie-quotidienne-aux-collectivites-territoriales_6328442_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:02:38 +0200",
        "text": "Auparavant \u00e0 la t\u00eate du \u00ab\u00a0super minist\u00e8re\u00a0\u00bb du travail, de la sant\u00e9 et des solidarit\u00e9s, la chiraquienne a \u00e9t\u00e9 maintenue au gouvernement en tant que ministre du partenariat avec les territoires et de la d\u00e9centralisation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0C\u2019est un miracul\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: apr\u00e8s quatre ans de gal\u00e8re, Marc Marquez fait de nouveau peur en MotoGP;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/22/c-est-un-miracule-apres-quatre-ans-de-galere-marc-marquez-fait-de-nouveau-peur-en-motogp_6328010_3242.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:00:03 +0200",
        "text": "Vainqueur des deux derniers Grands Prix, le Catalan menace Francesco Bagnaia et Jorge Martin au championnat du monde. Les trois pilotes s\u2019expliqueront, dimanche, lors du Grand Prix d\u2019Emilie-Romagne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Qu\u00e9bec, l\u2019ordinateur quantique fran\u00e7ais se fraie un chemin face aux g\u00e9ants am\u00e9ricains;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/22/au-quebec-l-ordinateur-quantique-francais-se-fraie-un-chemin-face-aux-geants-americains_6327561_3234.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:00:08 +0200",
        "text": "Soutenue par le gouvernement qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, Sherbrooke est devenue l\u2019une des capitales mondiales de cette technologie. Les start-up Quandela et Pasqal en ont leur poste avanc\u00e9 vers les Etats-Unis."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chief Minister launches hi-tech ambulances to rush accident victims to hospitals within the golden hour across Kartnataka;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/chief-minister-launches-hi-tech-ambulances-to-rush-accident-victims-to-hospitals-within-the-golden-hour-across-kartnataka/article68673285.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:22:13 +0530",
        "text": "The ambulances are fitted with ventilators"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bereaved and destitute: Gazans a year after October 7;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/bereaved-and-destitute-gazans-a-year-after-october-7/article68672715.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:20:48 +0530",
        "text": "Two months before October 7 last year, he graduated with top marks and enrolled in Gaza's University College of Applied Sciences to study artificial intelligence and data science, days after the beginning of Gaza war, the Israeli military bombed part of the university"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Karnataka Governor seeking information on petty issues: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/karnataka-governor-seeking-information-on-petty-issues-chief-minister-siddaramaiah/article68673262.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:11:43 +0530",
        "text": "Asks why Kempanna Commission report was not tabled in Assembly when BJP ruled the State for four years"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Family of murdered Sri Lanka editor seek justice from new president;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/family-of-murdered-sri-lanka-editor-seek-justice-from-new-president/article68673252.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:07:07 +0530",
        "text": "The anti-establishment editor was murdered as he drove to work in January 2009 by attackers later identified by police as members of a military intelligence unit linked to the once-powerful Rajapaksa family"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Suspect in murder of Bengaluru woman identified: Karnataka Home Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/suspect-in-murder-of-mahalakshmi-identified-bengaluru-karnataka-home-minister/article68673106.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:00:41 +0530",
        "text": "The husband of the deceased, who had been questioned by the police, had expressed suspicion about the involvement of a person in her neighbourhood who the deceased allegedly had an affair with"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Ecuador cuts power in half of its provinces amid historic drought;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/ecuador-cuts-power-in-half-of-its-provinces-amid-historic-drought/article68673198.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:51:52 +0530",
        "text": "Ecuador is gripped by the worst drought in the country in 61 years and an energy crisis made worse by what the government says is lack of maintenance of existing dams and contracts to ensure new energy generation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Not obliged to respond to all communications from Raj Bhavan and government would use discretion to answer, Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwar;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/not-obliged-to-respond-to-all-communications-from-raj-bhavan-and-government-would-use-discretion-to-answer-karnataka-home-minister-g-parameshwar/article68673194.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:48:28 +0530",
        "text": "Acknowledging that the Governor is within his right to seek information from Ministers, the Home Minister said that the precedent is Chief Minister or Chief Secretary meeting the Governor to explain issues in certain circumstances, or the Home Minister meeting the Governor to explain the law and order situation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kadambari Jethwani harassment case: Accused Kukkala Vidyasagar remanded to Vijayawada sub-jail;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/kadambari-jethwani-harassment-case-accused-kukkala-vidyasagar-remanded-to-vijayawada-sub-jail/article68673115.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:48:04 +0530",
        "text": "\u201cA team of police arrested Vidyasagar at Tree of Life Resort, Bharatwala, Dehradun in Uttarakhand State,\u201d said NTR Police Commissioner, S.V. Rajashekar Babu"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Supreme Court to hear pleas against laws granting immunity to husbands in marital rape cases;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/supreme-court-to-hear-pleas-against-laws-granting-immunity-to-husbands-in-marital-rape-cases/article68673152.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:42:08 +0530",
        "text": "Advocate Indira Jaising, appearing for one of the litigants, mentioned that the pleas needed to be heard urgently; Justice Shankar favoured striking down the marital rape exception for being \"unconstitutional\" and said it would be \"tragic if a married woman's call for justice is not heard even after 162 years\""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Congress to decide on Maharashtra CM post after elections: Chennithala;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/congress-to-decide-on-maharashtra-cm-post-after-elections-chennithala/article68673143.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:40:29 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Chennithala also criticised the BJP government over its stance on simultaneous elections for the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;SMSIMSR\u2019s decision to charge \u20b922 lakh fee for private quota medical seats comes as a shock to students;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/smsimsrs-decision-to-charge-22-lakh-fee-for-private-quota-medical-seats-comes-as-a-shock-to-students/article68670656.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:31:03 +0530",
        "text": "The college did not charge any fee for government and private quota medical seats last year"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kiran Rao\u2019s \u2018Laapataa Ladies\u2019 is India\u2019s official submission to Oscars 2025;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/kiran-raos-laapataa-ladies-is-indias-official-submission-to-oscars-2025/article68673153.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:18:45 +0530",
        "text": "The announcement was made by the jury of the Film Federation of India (FFI), the apex body that annually selects the official entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, on Monday, September 23"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bodies of two MBBS students recovered from Jalatarangini waterfall; NDRF, SDRF deployed to trace other missing ones;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/bodies-of-two-mbbs-students-recovered-from-jalatarangini-waterfall-ndrf-sdrf-deployed-to-trace-other-missing-ones/article68672754.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:15:36 +0530",
        "text": "Five second-year MBBS students feared drowned in Jalatarangini waterfall on September 22, 2024; two were rescued by Odisha tourists; one girl is battling for life"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018This is Arvind Kejriwal\u2019s chair\u2019: Atishi takes charge as Delhi CM with an empty chair beside her;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/this-is-arvind-kejriwals-chair-atishi-takes-charge-as-delhi-cm-with-an-empty-chair-beside-her/article68673103.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:06:04 +0530",
        "text": "She had also underlined that she will be the Chief Minister only for a few months till the next Assembly election and making Arvind Kejriwal the CM again is her and the party\u2019s only intention"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;How this Bengaluru woman won \u20b99 lakh just by sleeping;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/how-this-bengaluru-woman-won-rs-9-lakh-just-by-sleeping/article68628981.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:02:52 +0530",
        "text": "Saishwari Patil, an investment banker from Bengaluru, turned her love for sleep into a lucrative project by winning a sleep internship"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nirmala Sitharaman agrees to consider providing assistance for infra projects in Puducherry;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/nirmala-sitharaman-agrees-to-consider-providing-assistance-for-infra-projects-in-puducherry/article68672958.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:02:32 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Punjab: Students of RGNUL in Patiala hold protest against vice-chancellor;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/punjab/punjab-students-of-rgnul-in-patiala-hold-protest-against-vice-chancellor/article68673086.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:01:38 +0530",
        "text": "According to the students, the vice-chancellor allegedly conducted a surprise check of the girls\u2019 hostel and questioned the dressing sense of the girls thus violating their privacy"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;R.G. Kar hospital rape-murder case:\u00a0 Trinamool Congress MLA appears before CBI;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rg-kar-hospital-rape-murder-case-trinamool-congress-mla-appears-before-cbi/article68673079.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:58:10 +0530",
        "text": "Nirmal Ghosh, TMC\u2019s Panihati MLA, arrived at CBI\u2019s CGO Complex office in Salt Lake in connection of the junior doctor rape-murder case."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kolkata doctor rape-murder: SC to hear suo motu plea on October 1;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kolkata-doctor-rape-murder-sc-to-hear-suo-motu-plea-on-october-1/article68673093.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:54:10 +0530",
        "text": "The top court, on September 17, said it was disturbed by the findings given in a status report filed by the CBI in the rape and murder case but refused to divulge the details"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PM Modi should resolve verification issues faced by non-creamy layer OBC candidates: Congress MP;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/pm-modi-should-resolve-verification-issues-faced-by-non-creamy-layer-obc-candidates-congress-mp/article68671142.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:41:56 +0530",
        "text": "Manickam Tagore said the \u201ccore of the problem revolves around the rejection of State Government-issued equivalence certificates\u2019 that confirm the class III/IV status of the candidates\u2019 parents.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Manjeera, Shelton, Srikanya, Sitara hotels under food safety department scanner in Rajamahendravaram;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/manjeera-shelton-srikanya-sitara-hotels-under-food-safety-department-scanner-in-rajamahendravaram/article68672773.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:40:25 +0530",
        "text": "In an official release, District Food Safety Officer V. Rukkayya has appealed to the public to share the information of poor food quality and poor hygiene conditions in the hotels"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Shanti Homam observed at Tirumala temple after the use of adulterated ghee was observed in TTD;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/shanti-homam-observed-at-tirumala-temple-after-the-use-of-adulterated-ghee-was-observed-in-ttd/article68672806.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:29:45 +0530",
        "text": "A mixture containing five elements derived from the cow was also sprinkled inside the temple kitchen, the place where the laddus are made"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;World leaders gather for United Nations General Assembly;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world-leaders-gather-for-united-nations-general-assembly/article68672915.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:12:11 +0530",
        "text": "More than 130 Presidents, Prime Ministers and monarchs are slated to speak along with dozens of Ministers"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Still a man's world: Only 87 women elected to Haryana Assembly since 1966 formation, no woman CM yet;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/haryana/still-a-mans-world-only-87-women-elected-to-haryana-assembly-since-1966-formation-no-woman-cm-yet/article68672866.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:11:34 +0530",
        "text": "Since Haryana was carved out from Punjab in 1966, the state, known for its skewed gender ratio, has sent only 87 women to the assembly"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Election Commission team in Jharkhand to review poll preparedness;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jharkhand-assembly/election-commission-team-in-jharkhand-to-review-poll-preparedness/article68672975.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:05:44 +0530",
        "text": "The team, on a two-day visit, will hold a series of meetings with political parties, enforcement agencies and government officials; Rajiv Kumar said the team would also meet district election officers, superintendents of police, inspector generals and deputy inspector generals"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Odisha swimmer Pratyasa Ray to get Ekalabya Puraskar this year;https://www.thehindu.com/sport/odisha-swimmer-pratyasa-ray-to-get-ekalabya-puraskar-this-year/article68672986.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:04:58 +0530",
        "text": "Ray secured six medals\u2014 four gold, one silver and a bronze\u2014 in the Khelo India University Games in Guwahati this year"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala man dies of suspected \u2018brain-eating\u2019 amoeba infection;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-man-dies-of-suspected-brain-eating-amoeba-infection/article68672946.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:01:14 +0530",
        "text": "A cerebrospinal fluid test has raised suspicions of amoebic meningoencephalitis. Further confirmation will depend on results of an amoebic PCR test"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India to get first national security semiconductor fabrication plant as part of collaboration with U.S.;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-to-get-first-national-security-semiconductor-fabrication-plant-as-part-of-collaboration-with-us/article68672914.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:55:02 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;HYDRAA demolishes structures in Hyderabad\u2019s Kavuri Hills colony park;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/hydraa-demolishes-structures-in-hyderabads-kavuri-hills-colony-park/article68672908.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:49:47 +0530",
        "text": "After demolition, the HYDRAA staff replanted the board indicating GHMC\u2019s ownership"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;EY employee death: Nirmala calls for stress management lessons, Congress fumes at 'victim-blaming';https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ey-employee-death-nirmala-calls-for-stress-management-lessons-congress-fumes-at-victim-blaming/article68672917.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:48:10 +0530",
        "text": "Congress general secretary, K C Venugopal lashed out at Ms. Sitharaman saying The ruling regime and the finance minister can only see the pain of corporate giants like Adani and Ambani, not the pain of the hardworking and toiling young generation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mild tremor hits Kutch in Gujarat; no casualty;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/gujarat/mild-tremor-hits-kutch-in-gujarat-no-casualty/article68672926.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:47:49 +0530",
        "text": "The tremor, of 3.3 magnitude, was recorded at 10.05 am, with its epicentre located 12 km west-south west of Rapar,"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Watch: Who is Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the new President of Sri Lanka?;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/watch-who-is-anura-kumara-dissanayake-the-new-president-of-sri-lanka/article68671891.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:39:50 +0530",
        "text": "To many Sri Lankans, the NPP became their vehicle of hope and AKD is their symbol of change."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;25 lakh Namma Metro passengers opt for QR code ticketing in Bengaluru;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/25-lakh-namma-metro-passengers-opt-for-qr-code-ticketing-in-bengaluru/article68670806.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:38:50 +0530",
        "text": "Namma Metro launched QR code ticketing in November 2022"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Haryana Assembly elections: Mayawati urges Dalit leaders to break ties with Congress, 'casteist parties';https://www.thehindu.com/elections/haryana-assembly/haryana-assembly-elections-mayawati-urges-dalit-leaders-to-break-ties-with-congress-casteist-parties/article68672868.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:28:22 +0530",
        "text": "The comments come amid attempts by the alliance of the BSP and the Indian National Lok Dal to position itself as a pro-Dalit alternative in Haryana"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israel army tells Lebanese to 'move away' from Hezbollah sites; dozens of Israeli air strikes on south, east Lebanon;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-army-tells-lebanese-to-move-away-from-hezbollah-sites-dozens-of-israeli-air-strikes-on-south-east-lebanon/article68672869.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:25:14 +0530",
        "text": "The Israeli military will engage in more extensive and precise strikes against terror targets which have been embedded widely throughout Lebanon, says Israeli military spokesman; Lebanon\u2019s official National News Agency said \u201cenemy warplanes launched more than 80 air strikes in half an hour\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Storing and viewing child sexually exploitative abuse material an offence under POCSO: Supreme Court;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/storing-and-viewing-child-sexually-exploitative-abuse-material-an-offence-under-pocso-supreme-court/article68672855.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:21:51 +0530",
        "text": "\u2018It is a groundbreaking judgement,\u2019 says CJI Chandrachud; Bench  bans the use of the term \u2018child pornography\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;T.N. CM Stalin congratulates Indian teams that won gold in 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tn-cm-stalin-congratulates-indian-teams-that-won-gold-in-45th-fide-chess-olympiad/article68671748.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:12:28 +0530",
        "text": "In a social media post, Mr. Stalin said: \u201cIndia continues to rise and shine!\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hema Committee report: One more case handed over to SIT;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/hema-committee-report-one-more-case-handed-over-to-sit/article68671544.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:56:40 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala rains: Yellow alert for seven districts on Monday;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-rains-yellow-alert-for-seven-districts-on-monday/article68671359.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:54:09 +0530",
        "text": "The State is likely to receive some isolated heavy spells for two days triggered by an east-west trough and two embedded upper air cyclonic circulations"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rupee rises 6 paise to 83.46 against U.S. dollar in early trade;https://www.thehindu.com/business/rupee-rises-6-paise-to-8346-against-us-dollar-in-early-trade/article68672798.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:50:34 +0530",
        "text": "At the interbank foreign exchange market, the Indian currency opened at 83.44 and fell to 83.49 before trading again at 84.46 against the greenback, registering a gain of 6 paise higher than its previous closing level"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;IMD forecasts rainfall in Hyderabad on Monday;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/imd-forecasts-rainfall-in-hyderabad-on-monday/article68672771.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:45:07 +0530",
        "text": "The expected impact includes water stagnation on roads and in low-lying areas, leading to traffic congestion at multiple locations"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;As UN meets, Haitians express hopelessness at finding an international solution to gang crisis;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/as-un-meets-haitians-express-hopelessness-at-finding-an-international-solution-to-gang-crisis/article68672788.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:40:11 +0530",
        "text": "As world leaders discuss the future of efforts to wrangle the gangs strangling Haiti, Haitians are expressing hopelessness over an international response to the tide of violence"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Malaysia arrests hundreds in child abuse probe;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/malaysia-arrests-hundreds-in-child-abuse-probe/article68672785.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:17:58 +0530",
        "text": "Police said they had arrested GISB leader Nasiruddin Ali along with 30 other members of the group after carrying out raids on scores of premises, including charity homes, businesses and religious schools"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Anura Kumara Dissanayake swearing-in ceremony LIVE updates: PM Modi, Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and others extend wishes to Sri Lanka\u2019s 9th President;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/anura-kumara-dissanayake-swearing-in-ceremony-as-sri-lanka-president-live-updates/article68672775.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:13:08 +0530",
        "text": "Chinese President Xi Jinping said he will deepen ties with Sri Lanka and hoped that the bilateral ties under China\u2019s Belt and Road project would \u2018bear more fruit\u2019"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Factory employee attacked with toilet cleaning liquid in Bengaluru;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/factory-employee-attacked-with-toilet-cleaning-liquid-in-bengaluru/article68672758.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:11:41 +0530",
        "text": "The attack took place when the victim was walking on the roadside while talking to his friend on the phone"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nine civilians injured in Russian air attack on Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian officials say;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/nine-civilians-injured-in-russian-air-attack-on-zaporizhzhia-ukrainian-officials-say/article68672759.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:10:39 +0530",
        "text": "According to Ukraine's Interior Ministry Russia used its KAB guided aerial bombs to strike Zaporizhzhia."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sri Lankan PM Gunawardena resigns;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sri-lankan-pm-gunawardena-resigns/article68672761.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:04:13 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;RSS affiliate expresses concerns over Bangladeshi infiltration;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rss-affiliate-expresses-concerns-over-bangladeshi-infiltration/article68670780.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:37:07 +0530",
        "text": "The tribal wing of the RSS, Akhil Bhartiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, which held a three-day long meeting in Samalkha district of Haryana, also expressed concern over conversions of tribal people"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Intervene to ensure fair application of OBC income test in civil services exams: Manickam Tagore to PM;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/intervene-to-ensure-fair-application-of-obc-income-test-in-civil-services-exams-manickam-tagore-to-pm/article68670530.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:21:36 +0530",
        "text": "Congress MP says because of the issue the candidates are facing significant obstacles related to the verification of their OBC Non-Creamy Layer status, which is preventing them from joining their designated services"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;KTR demands cancellation of AMRUT tenders, faults Union Ministers\u2019 silence;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/ktr-demands-cancellation-of-amrut-tenders-faults-union-ministers-silence/article68671100.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:19:58 +0530",
        "text": "Says he will soon spill beans on Kondangal LI Scheme tenders, award of a contract to Ponguleti\u2019s firm"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala govt can declare medical board as certifying authority for disability assessment, says HC;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-can-declare-medical-board-as-certifying-authority-for-disability-assessment-says-hc/article68670555.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:13:24 +0530",
        "text": "Division Bench makes the observation while disposing of an appeal filed by the State government against a single judge\u2019s verdict that the government can notify an authority to assess the percentage of disability only as per the Right of Persons with Disabilities Act"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Telangana Govt. working on restoring revenue administration at village level;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-govt-working-on-restoring-revenue-administration-at-village-level/article68670677.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:10:47 +0530",
        "text": "VRO, VRA system scrapped by the BRS Government leading to spurt in land issues"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Swiss voters reject environment, pensions reforms: official results;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/swiss-voters-reject-environment-pensions-reforms-official-results/article68671623.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:08:19 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;From blades to bars: U.K. charity tackles rising knife crime;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/from-blades-to-bars-uk-charity-tackles-rising-knife-crime/article68672714.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:05:31 +0530",
        "text": "In London alone, the number of knife or sharp instrument offences recorded by the police rose to more than 15,016 in 2023-24"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;How a city-farmer partnership is revolutionising solid waste management in Chickballapur;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/how-a-city-farmer-partnership-is-revolutionising-solid-waste-management-in-chickballapur/article68663956.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "A unique solid waste management Project at Chickballapur, a town near Bengaluru, has proved a win-win model for both farmers and civic administration"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Scholz\u2019s Social Democrats hold back the far right in German state vote;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/scholzs-social-democrats-hold-back-the-far-right-in-german-state-vote/article68672688.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:59:44 +0530",
        "text": "The Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz have won an election in the eastern German state of Brandenburg; the far-right Alternative for Germany was a close second with 29.2%"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Panchamasali quota agitation will be intensified, says seer;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/panchamasali-quota-agitation-will-be-intensified-says-seer/article68670993.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:57:16 +0530",
        "text": "Lawyers agitation committee has been formed"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Armstrong murder case accused\u00a0\u2018Seizing\u2019 Raja shot dead by police\u00a0on ECR in Chennai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/history-sheeter-seizing-raja-shot-dead-by-police-on-ecr-in-chennai/article68672683.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:46:31 +0530",
        "text": "\u2018Seizing\u2019 Raja alias N. Raja, who had had more than 30 criminal cases against him, was also wanted in the murder of BSP leader Armstrong"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;What is the controversy regarding Venezuela elections? | Explained;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/what-is-the-controversy-regarding-venezuela-elections-explained/article68671739.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "Why did the opposition accuse President Nicolas Maduro of fudging the results?"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;One person shot dead in land dispute between two groups in Ajmer district;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rajasthan/one-person-shot-dead-in-land-dispute-between-two-groups-in-ajmer-district/article68671077.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:20:51 +0530",
        "text": "The dispute escalated on Sunday, when the members of one group arrived at the site with the construction material and excavator machines"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PM Modi meets Palestinian PM Abbas in New York, expresses deep concern over Gaza humanitarian crisis;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-modi-meets-palestinian-pm-abbas-in-new-york-expresses-deep-concern-over-gaza-humanitarian-crisis/article68672665.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:20:47 +0530",
        "text": "Prime Minister Modi is in New York on the second leg of his three-day U.S. visit, where he met the leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Odisha CM Mohan Majhi orders a time-bound judicial probe into custodial abuse case;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/odisha/odisha-cm-orders-judicial-inquiry-into-army-officers-custodial-torture-sexual-assault-on-fiancee/article68672664.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:11:01 +0530",
        "text": "A court monitored investigation by Crime Branch of Odisha police has also been announced; Justice Chitta Ranjan Das has been requested to complete probe within 60 days; meanwhile, the state government has suspended five police personnel of the Bharatpur police station"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PM Modi on Chess Olympiad gold medals: \u2018A new chapter in India\u2019s sports trajectory\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-modi-on-chess-olympiad-gold-medals-a-new-chapter-in-indias-sports-trajectory/article68672661.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:04:51 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;China urges netizens to be vigilant against Taiwanese cyberattacks;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/china-urges-netizens-to-be-vigilant-against-taiwanese-cyberattacks/article68672646.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:49:40 +0530",
        "text": "Since the beginning of this year, Anonymous 64, part of Taiwan\u2019s cyber warfare wing, has sought to upload and broadcast content that denigrates China\u2019s political system and major policies, says China's National Security Ministry"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hezbollah declares \u2018open-ended battle of reckoning\u2019 with Israel;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/hezbollah-declares-open-ended-battle-of-reckoning-with-israel/article68671351.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:45:29 +0530",
        "text": "Hezbollah has launched more than 100 rockets across a wider and deeper area of northern Israel"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rival protesters clash in Bolivia as ex-President Evo Morales leads a march to the capital;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/rival-protesters-clash-in-bolivia-as-ex-president-evo-morales-leads-a-march-to-the-capital/article68672644.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:42:43 +0530",
        "text": "Bolivia\u2019s pro-government supporters and security forces have confronted protesters loyal to former President Evo Morales in a street melee"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tungabhadra crest gates will be replaced in a year after consulting riparian States, says D.K. Shivakumar;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/tungabhadra-crest-gates-will-be-replaced-in-a-year-after-consulting-riparian-states-says-dk-shivakumar/article68671187.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP alleges irregularities in procurement of medical equipment for govt. medical colleges in Karnataka;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/bjp-alleges-irregularities-in-procurement-of-medical-equipment-for-govt-medical-colleges-in-karnataka/article68671493.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.S. lawmakers reach deal to avoid pre-election shutdown;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-lawmakers-reach-deal-to-avoid-pre-election-shutdown/article68672621.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:54:36 +0530",
        "text": "The deal announced on September 22 excludes the voting provisions and extends funding only until December 20."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Morning Digest | Left leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake is Sri Lanka\u2019s President; PM Modi celebrates his return to power at U.S. diaspora event, and more;https://www.thehindu.com/news/morning-digest-september-23-2024/article68671879.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:40:20 +0530",
        "text": "Here is a select list of stories to start the day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PM Modi urges global tech CEOs to be part of India\u2019s growth story;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-modi-attends-tech-ceos-roundtable-in-new-york/article68672615.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:19:15 +0530",
        "text": "Among those PM Modi met include Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;KTR frustrated over future of BRS, says Komatireddy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/ktr-frustrated-over-future-of-brs-says-komatireddy/article68671727.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:23:00 +0530",
        "text": "Responding to BRS allegations on Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy said Mr. Rama Rao was worried about the party cadre and leaders leaving BRS seeing no hope and just to remain relevant he was resorting to baseless allegations"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Dubois destroys Joshua to retain IBF world heavyweight crown;https://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/dubois-destroys-joshua-to-retain-ibf-world-heavyweight-crown/article68672037.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:06:00 +0530",
        "text": "Dubois had spoken of his determination to \"legitimise\" his reign as IBF champion after being handed the belt that Oleksandr Usyk vacated in June"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Heavy rain alert for 11 districts of Telangana on Monday;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/heavy-rain-alert-for-11-districts-of-telangana-on-monday/article68671184.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 04:53:24 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Assam records 86% drop in rhino poaching since 2016: CM;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/assam/assam-records-86-drop-in-rhino-poaching-since-2016-cm/article68670734.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 03:44:00 +0530",
        "text": "Kaziranga National Park, the one-horned animal\u2019s best-known home, has a surveillance camp every 5.82 sq. km"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.P., Rajasthan, M.P. top in cases of atrocities on Dalits: report;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/up-rajasthan-mp-top-in-cases-of-atrocities-on-dalits-report/article68670887.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 03:06:44 +0530",
        "text": "Of the 51,656 cases registered under the law for Scheduled Castes (SCs) in 2022, Uttar Pradesh accounted for 23.78% of the total cases with 12,287, followed by Rajasthan at 8,651 (16.75%) and Madhya Pradesh at 7,732 (14.97%)"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;The laddu as a political weapon;https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-laddu-as-a-political-weapon/article68671356.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 02:12:14 +0530",
        "text": "The timing of Naidu\u2019s allegations is significant"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mahayuti ally RPI (A) seeks 10-12 seats for Assembly election;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/mahayuti-ally-rpi-a-seeks-10-12-seats-for-assembly-election/article68671530.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:28:53 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Violations galore as campaigning picks up for DUSU polls;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/violations-galore-as-campaigning-picks-up-for-dusu-polls/article68671296.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:19:12 +0530",
        "text": "As the campaigning has picked up, every nook and corner of the north campus of the university could be found littered with pamphlets and posters defacing campus walls."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tourist guides in Kerala to be covered under welfare board, says Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/tourist-guides-in-kerala-to-be-covered-under-welfare-board-says-minister/article68671592.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:14:51 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Huge quantity of tobacco products seized by City Police;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/huge-quantity-of-tobacco-products-seized-by-city-police/article68670338.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:12:58 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Labourer arrested for taking money from contractor;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/labourer-arrested-for-taking-money-from-contractor/article68670669.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:12:45 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Govt. teachers\u2019 demand on 7th Pay commission payout;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/govt-teachers-demand-on-7th-pay-commission-payout/article68670867.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:12:19 +0530",
        "text": "Teachers want union govt to contribute their share immediately"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Clearing of Prosopis juliflora to begin in city as government orders removal of the invasive species in non-forest areas;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/clearing-of-prosopis-juliflora-to-begin-in-city-as-government-orders-removal-of-the-invasive-species-in-non-forest-areas/article68671233.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:11:16 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chennai Metro Rail\u2019s first driverless train ready;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chennai-metro-rails-first-driverless-train-ready/article68670554.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:11:00 +0530",
        "text": "Despite a delay, the train, manufactured in Sri City, will be transported to the Poonamallee depot"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two caught in possession of MDMA;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/two-caught-in-possession-of-mdma/article68671120.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:08:17 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nobody trusts AAP chief now: Congress;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/nobody-trusts-aap-chief-now-congress/article68671652.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:07:39 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kejriwal betrayed Anna Hazare, gave up anti-corruption ideals: BJP;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/kejriwal-betrayed-anna-hazare-gave-up-anti-corruption-ideals-bjp/article68671535.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:07:17 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delta region gets its first mini TIDEL park;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/delta-region-gets-its-first-mini-tidel-park/article68671179.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:51:29 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Many footpaths in Kochi remain inaccessible to wheelchair users;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/many-footpaths-in-kochi-remain-inaccessible-to-wheelchair-users/article68661073.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:51:19 +0530",
        "text": "Differently abled people are finding it difficult to access shops and other establishments due to bollards on roads and the absence of ramps"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala fishermen call for meeting of Fisheries Management Council;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-fishermen-call-for-meeting-of-fisheries-management-council/article68670509.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:49:13 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Man stabs woman colleague in west Delhi\u2019s Raghubir Nagar, arrested;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/man-stabs-woman-colleague-in-west-delhis-raghubir-nagar-arrested/article68671846.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:47:53 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Absconding accused arrested by police in Salem;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/absconding-accused-arrested-by-police-in-salem/article68670550.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:47:06 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Centre should hold talks with new Sri Lankan govt. to sort out fishermen issue, says CPI(M);https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/centre-should-hold-talks-with-new-sri-lankan-govt-to-sort-out-fishermen-issue-says-cpim/article68670619.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:45:15 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Police seize 65kg of firecrackers from west Delhi, one arrested;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/police-seize-65kg-of-firecrackers-from-west-delhi-one-arrested/article68671836.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:43:55 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Govt. deceiving Singareni workers in sharing profit as bonus: KTR;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/govt-deceiving-singareni-workers-in-sharing-profit-as-bonus-ktr/article68671456.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:27:17 +0530",
        "text": "He says the bonus announced by Congress Govt. is only 16.9% out of \u20b94,701 cr profit, not 33% as being claimed"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;A collective for young artistes to learn nuances of different Koodiyattom styles;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/a-collective-for-young-artistes-to-learn-nuances-of-different-koodiyattom-styles/article68671279.ece;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:22:05 +0530",
        "text": "Cholliyattom is an informal platform for younger generation of Koodiyattom artistes following different styles to collaborate and to keep alive various Koodiyattom traditions and styles"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Modi celebrates his return to power at U.S. diaspora event;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/have-very-ambitious-goals-to-achieve-in-third-term-india-a-land-of-opportunities-modi/article68671807.ece;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:58:36 +0530",
        "text": "He spoke of the government\u2019s achievements since 2014 and said that India has emerged as a strong voice of the Global South and the world listened to it"
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Elite police motorcyclists to escort 2 new giant pandas from Hong Kong airport to Ocean Park;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279579/elite-police-motorcyclists-escort-2-new-giant-pandas-hong-kong-airport-ocean-park?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:46:06 +0800",
        "text": "Motorcycles in arrow formation will be responsible for the bears\u2019 40km journey from airport to theme park upon their arrival from Sichuan."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong urged to speed up installation of CCTV cameras in taxis after penalty system launch;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3279565/hong-kong-urged-speed-installation-cctv-cameras-taxis-after-penalty-system-launch?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:41:36 +0800",
        "text": "Industry leader Ng Kwan-sing makes the call after demerit point system aimed at ensuring taxi drivers acted professionally took effect on Sunday."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong molecular geneticist Dennis Lo endorsed by CUHK committee to be next president;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3279564/hong-kong-molecular-geneticist-dennis-lo-endorsed-cuhk-committee-be-next-president?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:41:25 +0800",
        "text": "Confirming Post\u2019s earlier report, varsity\u2019s council says it has arranged for Professor Lo to meet students, staff and alumni on Thursday."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong is attracting top talent but can it keep them?;https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3279328/hong-kong-attracting-top-talent-can-it-keep-them?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:30:09 +0800",
        "text": "Bringing in talented people won\u2019t help Hong Kong if the government doesn\u2019t address the high cost of living and lack of support for new arrivals."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Who\u2019s to blame? Hong Kong office glut to worsen as developers add fresh supply in 2025;https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3279489/whos-blame-hong-kong-office-glut-worsen-developers-add-fresh-supply-2025?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:00:23 +0800",
        "text": "Some 3 million square feet of supply will hit the market next year, likely delaying any recovery in office rentals, analysts say."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong scientists create bar-bending robot that can make life easier for construction workers;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279526/can-bar-bending-robot-make-life-easier-hong-kong-construction-workers?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:30:15 +0800",
        "text": "Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed a robot that can travel along pieces of rebar to bend or fix them"
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hongkongers urged to get flu jabs as experts warn cases likely to surge when mercury drops;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279492/hongkongers-urged-get-flu-jabs-experts-warn-cases-likely-surge-when-mercury-drops?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:30:18 +0800",
        "text": "Hospital Authority to launch seasonal influenza vaccination programmes this week, including school and care home outreach projects."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong molecular geneticist Dennis Lo \u2018sole candidate\u2019 to become CUHK president;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279477/hong-kong-molecular-biologist-dennis-lo-sole-candidate-become-cuhk-president?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:42:43 +0800",
        "text": "Source says Lo, famed for pioneering non-invasive prenatal test, to be offered similar employment package to outgoing CUHK head Rocky Tuan."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;MIDDLE EAST UPDATES \u2014 Israel warns residents in southern Lebanon to evacuate as strikes on Hezbollah targets ramp up. DW has more;https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-updates-israel-warns-residents-in-southern-lebanon-to-evacuate-as-strikes-on-hezbollah-targets-ramp-up-dw-has-more/live-70298131?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Israel has warned people to stay away from sites used by Hezbollah and has carried out new airstrikes in Lebanon. Hezbollah has warned of a \"new phase\" in its conflict with Israel. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hamilton's near heatstroke puts F1 driver safety in focus;https://www.dw.com/en/hamilton-s-near-heatstroke-puts-f1-driver-safety-in-focus/a-69704130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Both Mercedes drivers suffered from 'borderline heatstroke' at the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix. Not for the first time this year, questions are being raised about their safety."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Brandenburg election brings relief for ruling SPD;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-brandenburg-election-brings-relief-for-ruling-spd/a-70298529?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats managed to fight off the far-right AfD in the regional vote. However, questions about the future of Germany's ruling coalition remain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;War-torn Sudan faces cultural ruin;https://www.dw.com/en/war-torn-sudan-faces-cultural-ruin/a-70284737?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Sudan is sinking into war and chaos. Many cultural and world heritage sites have been destroyed or looted as millions of people are displaced."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Sri Lanka: Leftist Dissanayake sworn in as new president;https://www.dw.com/en/sri-lanka-leftist-dissanayake-sworn-in-as-new-president/a-70297993?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Anura Kumara Dissanayake is taking office as Sri Lanka attempts to stabilize itself in the wake of an economic crisis."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy: Naples house collapse kills mother and two kids;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-naples-house-collapse-kills-mother-and-two-kids/a-70296505?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The house is believed to have collapsed due to an explosion, local authorities said. The father of the kids and their 2-year-old brother were hospitalized after the incident."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oldest human DNA from South Africa decoded;https://www.dw.com/en/oldest-human-dna-from-south-africa-decoded/a-70296208?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "A study has found that a 10,000-year-old human genome is genetically similar to ethnic groups currently living in South Africa's Western Cape Province."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pakistan: Bomb kills police officer in diplomatic convoy;https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-bomb-kills-police-officer-in-diplomatic-convoy/a-70295770?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "A roadside bomb targeting a convoy of foreign diplomats killed one Pakistani police officer and wounded three others. The diplomats returned safely to Islamabad."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN reform plan adopted despite Russian opposition;https://www.dw.com/en/un-reform-plan-adopted-despite-russian-opposition/a-70295441?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The international community adopted a plan to reform the United Nations, called the \"Pact for the Future,\" despite Russian efforts to derail it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;SPD set to finish ahead of far-right AfD in Brandenburg vote;https://www.dw.com/en/spd-set-to-finish-ahead-of-far-right-afd-in-brandenburg-vote/live-70291788?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Projections in state elections in the eastern German state of Brandenburg give the Social Democrats a slim lead over the far-right AfD in the race to be the largest party. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods, landslides ravage central Japan after heavy rains;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-landslides-ravage-central-japan-after-heavy-rains/a-70295079?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Unprecedented rainfall caused flooding on the Noto Peninsula in central Japan, leaving at least one dead and eleven missing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Swiss voters reject biodiversity, pension reforms;https://www.dw.com/en/swiss-voters-reject-biodiversity-pension-reforms/a-70295253?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Voters in Switzerland have voted \"no\" to measures on biodiversity preservation and pension reforms, according to official initial results."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hezbollah deputy declares 'new phase' of battle with Israel;https://www.dw.com/en/hezbollah-deputy-declares-new-phase-of-battle-with-israel/live-70292455?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Hezbollah said it is in an \"open-ended battle of reckoning with Israel.\" Israeli's PM said the military \"landed a serious of blows on Hezbollah.\" DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Gaza's disabled cyclists deliver aid, inspiration and hope;https://www.dw.com/en/gaza-s-disabled-cyclists-deliver-aid-inspiration-and-hope/a-70269177?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "When the bombs started to fall in Gaza last October, the Gaza Sunbirds, a group of 25 cyclists whose legs were amputated, started using their bikes to deliver food and shelters to their neighbors."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Sri Lanka: Leftist Dissanayake declared president-elect;https://www.dw.com/en/sri-lanka-leftist-dissanayake-declared-president-elect/a-70294284?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been named president-elect by Sri Lanka's electoral commission. This follows an unprecedented count of people's second-preference votes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Iran: Coal miners trapped after deadly explosion;https://www.dw.com/en/iran-coal-miners-trapped-after-deadly-explosion/a-70292191?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "A suspected explosion has killed at least 31 people at a coal mine in Iran, according to the country's interior minister. Many others were believed to be trapped inside."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Why Meta is now banning Russian propaganda;https://www.dw.com/en/why-meta-is-now-banning-russian-propaganda/a-70290904?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all no longer allow content from Russian state media such as RT. The timing is hardly coincidental."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Iran testing new strategies to soothe an angry public?;https://www.dw.com/en/iran-testing-new-strategies-to-soothe-an-angry-public/a-70290551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "With the recent return of banned students and professors to universities and the new president's intention to curb harassment of women by the morality police, Tehran could be signaling the will to placate its critics."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Biden tells Quad allies: China 'testing us';https://www.dw.com/en/biden-tells-quad-allies-china-testing-us/a-70291803?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Biden was caught on hot mic saying that China was \"testing us all across the region.\" The comments came as the US president hosted a Quad summit with Australian, Japanese and Indian leaders."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brazil: Supreme Court orders further documents from X;https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-supreme-court-orders-further-documents-from-x/a-70291723?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Tech billionaire Elon Musk has agreed to appoint a legal representative in Brazil following a Supreme Court order in August. However, Judge Alexandre de Moraes has requested more proof of the lawyer's power of attorney."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New French government announced in shift to the right;https://www.dw.com/en/new-french-government-announced-in-shift-to-the-right/a-70291188?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "French President Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff revealed the new center-right government from the Elysee Palace with some new faces in key positions and some who will be returning to their positions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Campaigns and a concert on eve of vote;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-campaigns-and-a-concert-on-eve-of-vote/a-70290694?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Politicians made last-ditch pitches in Brandenburg before Sunday's state election, where the far-right AfD is in the running to be the largest party. Several German bands gathered in Potsdam opposing this prospect."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Female referee deletes Instagram after sexist messages;https://www.dw.com/en/female-referee-deletes-instagram-after-sexist-messages/a-70290706?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Albanian referee Emanuela Rusta is making fast progress, but the sport she works in is not. The official made the decision to get rid of her social media account after constant remarks about her appearance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Paratroopers land in Arnhem honoring Operation Market Garden;https://www.dw.com/en/paratroopers-land-in-arnhem-honoring-operation-market-garden/a-70290283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned World War II operations. The Allied bid to secure a Rhine crossing proved \"A Bridge too Far.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Homeless World Cup: 'We want to do something special';https://www.dw.com/en/homeless-world-cup-we-want-to-do-something-special/a-70218267?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "National football teams made up of homeless people from around the world will soon gather in South Korea for the Homeless World Cup. For many of the players, the stakes are much higher than just the trophy on offer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starting a new life after political imprisonment in Belarus;https://www.dw.com/en/starting-a-new-life-after-political-imprisonment-in-belarus/a-70274513?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned dozens of political prisoners in recent months. Husband and wife Dmitry Luksha and Polina Polovinko, who were released in early July, spoke with DW about their ordeal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Two arsenals destroyed in Russia, Kyiv says;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-two-arsenals-destroyed-in-russia-kyiv-says/live-70289171?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Ukraine has destroyed two ammunition depots in Russia, the Ukrainian military said. Meanwhile, three people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Immigrants in eastern Germany ask: Leave or stay?;https://www.dw.com/en/immigrants-in-eastern-germany-ask-leave-or-stay/a-70289695?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The far-right AfD, leading in some polls, has campaigned aggressively against immigrants in state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg. But those states also depend on immigrant labor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Are Western double standards undermining the global order?;https://www.dw.com/en/are-western-double-standards-undermining-the-global-order/a-70289453?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Global South has become increasingly critical of Western double standards. A study by the Munich Security Conference has warned that the rules-based international order is at stake."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How deadly is Ukraine's new 'dragon drone'?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-deadly-is-ukraine-s-new-dragon-drone/a-70287164?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Ukrainian armed forces have deployed a new kind of drone to defend their country, one filled with a pyrotechnic thermite mixture that rains fire down on enemy positions. Its use is highly controversial."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Fridays for Future protests draw 75,000 in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/fridays-for-future-protests-draw-75-000-in-germany/a-70287782?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Climate activists filled the streets of German cities from Berlin to Munich, calling on authorities to take stronger action. Meanwhile, a court jailed two elderly climate activists for sabotaging an oil pipeline."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Iceland: Police shoot 1st polar bear sighted in years;https://www.dw.com/en/iceland-police-shoot-1st-polar-bear-sighted-in-years/a-70287266?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Number of refugees reaches new high in 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-number-of-refugees-reaches-new-high-in-2024/a-70286816?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "There are more refugees living in Germany than ever in recent history, according to German government data. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has contributed to the increase in refugees in Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German border city prepares for flood;https://www.dw.com/en/german-border-city-prepares-for-flood/a-70285116?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Frankfurt an der Oder, the German city on the border with Poland, is getting ready for yet another major flood. Yet the climate crisis is barely an issue in the Brandenburg state election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Former Harrods boss Mohamed al Fayed accused of rape;https://www.dw.com/en/former-harrods-boss-mohamed-al-fayed-accused-of-rape/a-70284389?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The late Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women. The survivors, including some minors, were hired as secretaries and assistants when the abuse allegedly took place."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dutch 'Mocro mafia' sets off alarm bells in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-mocro-mafia-sets-off-alarm-bells-in-germany/a-69764909?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "German police have warned of Dutch organized crime networks moving into Germany after they intervened in a spectacular case of kidnapping and torture."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jahjaga: 'Blame should not be directed at the survivors, but at the perpetrators, who used rape as a weapon of war';https://www.dw.com/en/jahjaga-blame-should-not-be-directed-at-the-survivors-but-at-the-perpetrators-who-used-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war/a-70283271?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Former President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga has been advocating for the survivors of wartime sexual violence since her presidency. She speaks to DW about her fight to address and highlight this issue in Kosovo."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Heat pumps: Why Germany's heating revolution is stalling;https://www.dw.com/en/heat-pumps-why-germany-s-heating-revolution-is-stalling/a-70192621?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "It's a signature project of Germany's environmentalist Greens: Instead of heating homes with fossil fuels, Germans should use heat pumps based on air or groundwater. But demand for these devices has plummeted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Von der Leyen in Kyiv announces \u20ac35bn loan;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-von-der-leyen-in-kyiv-announces-\u20ac35bn-loan/live-70278769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Ursula von der Leyen said the loan would come from frozen Russian assets. The EU Commission president also said the bloc \"will help Ukraine in its brave efforts\" including winter preparation and EU accession. Follow DW"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starlink satellites are blinding astronomers' view of space;https://www.dw.com/en/starlink-satellites-are-blinding-astronomers-view-of-space/a-70273835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Starlink and other satellite networks are vital for providing high speed internet to remote communities, but unintended radiation leakages are making life difficult for astronomers who need clear skies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hungary and the Netherlands want to exit EU asylum policy;https://www.dw.com/en/hungary-and-the-netherlands-want-to-exit-eu-asylum-policy/a-70278674?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Right-wing governments like those in Hungary and the Netherlands are demanding an opt-out, but it's hard to see how countries could legally exit the EU's asylum policy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Tupperware parties empowered homebound suburban women;https://www.dw.com/en/how-tupperware-parties-empowered-homebound-suburban-women/a-70273741?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "As Tupperware files for bankruptcy, here's a look back at how the iconic US plastic kitchenware company and its \"Tupperware party\" business model became a cultural phenomenon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Slovakia seemingly unfazed by EU threat to withhold funding;https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-seemingly-unfazed-by-eu-threat-to-withhold-funding/a-70277869?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Fearing that PM Robert Fico is dismantling Slovak democracy, the European Commission is reportedly considering freezing billions in EU funds for Bratislava. Will the threat be enough to rein in Fico's illiberal ways?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;French police shoot dead 2 in New Caledonia operation;https://www.dw.com/en/french-police-shoot-dead-2-in-new-caledonia-operation/a-70278345?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Thousands of French police have been deployed to the overseas Pacific territory to quell unrest sparked by voting reforms proposed in Paris."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU Parliament recognizes Maduro rival as Venezuela president;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-parliament-recognizes-maduro-rival-as-venezuela-president/a-70276261?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The European Parliament has passed a resolution recognizing Venezuelan opposition figure Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia's claim to have won Venezuela's July election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Berlin considering how to support German carmaker Volkswagen;https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-considering-how-to-support-german-carmaker-volkswagen/a-70275918?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that Berlin is looking into ways to support ailing carmaker Volkswagen amid the threat of job cuts. The firm has been grappling with weak electric vehicle sales."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Axel Springer splits media, classified businesses;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-axel-springer-splits-media-classified-businesses/a-70274495?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Friede Springer and CEO Mathias D\u00f6pfner will own Springer's media operations, which include Germany's most-read newspaper Bild and US digital newspaper Politico."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Czech Republic struggling to mitigate risks as Russian firms flourish;https://www.dw.com/en/czech-republic-struggling-to-mitigate-risks-as-russian-firms-flourish/a-70181088?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Czechia hosts by far the highest number of Russian-owned companies of any EU state. Experts warn this cohort of over 12,500 firms pose economic and security risks that the government must eventually start to mitigate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oktoberfest: Beer and pretzels in a sustainable package;https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-beer-and-pretzels-in-a-sustainable-package/a-70235282?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "More than Bavarians in lederhosen balancing frothing beer mugs and fried sausages, the world's largest folk festival is becoming more inclusive and eco-friendly."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;COVID FLiRT variants KP.3 and XEC: What you need to know;https://www.dw.com/en/covid-flirt-variants-kp-3-and-xec-what-you-need-to-know/a-70266402?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another variant and become XEC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: EU plans \u20ac10 billion aid for affected members;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-eu-plans-\u20ac10-billion-aid-for-affected-members/live-70265849?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Polish city of Wroclaw hosted the leaders of the region's most affected by Storm Boris to discuss European aid. Days of flooding have wreaked death and destruction across Central Europe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Two European firms in focus of Hezbollah pager explosions;https://www.dw.com/en/two-european-firms-in-focus-of-hezbollah-pager-explosions/a-70248830?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Taiwanese company whose name appeared on the pagers that detonated across Lebanon has denied manufacturing the devices. That has put relatively unknown Hungarian and Bulgarian firms in the spotlight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: UN body warns Russia on power grid strikes;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-un-body-warns-russia-on-power-grid-strikes/live-70264350?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine says attacks on the country's electricity infrastructure by Russia may violate international humanitarian law. Meanwhile, Russia claims gains in Kursk. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine wants action after Belarus Olympic medalist ceremony;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-wants-action-after-belarus-olympic-medalist-ceremony/a-70262052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The ceremony, held on Belarus' National Unity Day, appears to violate the Olympic neutrality rules. Ukraine wants action, with the country's sports minister telling DW further sanctions are necessary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cities start fighting rental crisis triggered by overtourism;https://www.dw.com/en/cities-start-fighting-rental-crisis-triggered-by-overtourism/a-70228085?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "In many of Europe's hottest tourist destinations like Barcelona and Paris, locals struggle to access affordable housing. How much are vacation rentals to blame?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU to withhold \u20ac200 million from Hungary over asylum fine;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-withhold-\u20ac200-million-from-hungary-over-asylum-fine/a-70260506?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The EU Commission says it will withhold funds for Hungary after Budapest failed to pay a fine for violating asylum rules. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's nationalist Fidesz government has taken a hard line on migration"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Netherlands seeks EU migration opt-out;https://www.dw.com/en/netherlands-seeks-eu-migration-opt-out/a-70251015?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Netherlands says it plans to request an exemption from the EU's common migration and asylum policy. It comes after the right-wing coalition government announced plans for the country's \"strictest-ever asylum regime.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Exploding Hezbollah pagers: How did it happen?;https://www.dw.com/en/exploding-hezbollah-pagers-how-did-it-happen/a-70250960?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Lithium-ion batteries can catch fire or explode, but in the attack on pagers in Lebanon, the devices are more likely to have been hacked."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Slovakia's capital hit by biggest floods in 30 years;https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-s-capital-hit-by-biggest-floods-in-30-years/a-70251068?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The biggest flood in 30 years hit Slovakia's capital Bratislava this week, forcing dozens of people from their homes. The west of the country has also been badly hit."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Ammo depot in Russia's Tver region explodes;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-ammo-depot-in-russia-s-tver-region-explodes/live-70246486?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "A major Ukrainian drone attack on Russia caused a huge explosion in a large Russian arsenal in the western Tver region."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: AfD loses appeal on chairing Bundestag committees;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-afd-loses-appeal-on-chairing-bundestag-committees/a-70246675?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's top court has rejected a pair of appeals from the far-right AfD concerning the absence of its lawmakers chairing parliamentary committees. The court found the party was not automatically entitled to the posts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains \u2014 study;https://www.dw.com/en/pregnancy-completely-rewires-mothers-brains-study/a-70246399?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Neuroscientists scanned the brain of a pregnant woman and captured a 'widespread reorganization' of her brain before, during and after pregnancy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Use, and misuse, of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "As Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell become the latest celebs to endorse Kamala Harris, here's a look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Google wins legal battle against EU over \u20ac1.5 billion fine;https://www.dw.com/en/google-wins-legal-battle-against-eu-over-\u20ac1-5-billion-fine/a-70246709?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "After years of back and forth, an EU court annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it sold advertisements. The fine was one of three major penalties the EU has leveled against the tech giant in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Namibia's strategy to cull animals save them?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-namibia-s-strategy-to-cull-animals-save-them/a-70213343?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Does Namibia's plan to kill animals to save them, and help the human population from ongoing drought, stack up?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand shrinks;https://www.dw.com/en/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy-as-demand-shrinks/a-70245540?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Once popular for its colorful food storage containers, US firm Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy. The company succumbed to a plummeting demand for its products."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Second explosion shakes Cologne;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-second-explosion-shakes-cologne/a-70245020?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The explosion was the second in a week in Cologne's city center. Police said it was still too early to say if there was a connection. Sniffer dogs were on the site as officers investigated."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg: Black politician takes on German far-right AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-black-politician-takes-on-german-far-right-afd/a-70166368?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "German voters in Brandenburg are heading to the polls just weeks after the far-right AfD party's historic surge in two state elections. Can Cameroonian-born politician Adeline Abimnwi Awemo help turn the tide?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Intel's factory delay adds to Germany's economic woes;https://www.dw.com/en/us-intel-s-factory-delay-adds-to-germany-s-economic-woes/a-70241739?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has announced it is postponing a $30 billion investment in Germany due to financial problems at the firm. But is the German government still committed to the investments?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German police reintroduce spot controls at all borders;https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-reintroduce-spot-controls-at-all-borders/a-70240598?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany is reintroducing border checks at all its borders for at least six months. The aim is to help restrict migration. DW visited the border area between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands to see how it was working."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the arts are a thorn in the side of Germany's AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-arts-are-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-germany-s-afd/a-70239911?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German conservative Friedrich Merz to run for chancellor;https://www.dw.com/en/german-conservative-friedrich-merz-to-run-for-chancellor/a-70240130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "It's as good as official: liberal businessman Friedrich Merz, head of the conservative Christian Democrats, is set to be the party's lead candidate in upcoming German federal election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How new technologies can mitigate the risks of flooding;https://www.dw.com/en/how-new-technologies-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-flooding/a-70239314?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "With extreme weather, floods are getting as common in Europe as they are in Asia and Africa. From mobile barriers to specialized dams, people are finding solutions to life-threatening floods across the globe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Far right, center left in close race;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-far-right-center-left-in-close-race/a-70238419?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Sanssouci, Babelsberg, Tesla, BER airport \u2014 Brandenburg is a state with much to boast about when it comes to history or economy. Governed by the same party since 1990, the state may face a shake-up in upcoming election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China's technology drive leaves young people jobless;https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-technology-drive-leaves-young-people-jobless/a-70187883?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "China is investing billions to become a global tech power. But AI, robotics and quantum computing are not labor-intensive sectors, so what to do about the millions of young Chinese who can't find a job?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Volkswagen's crisis: How can Europe's car industry survive?;https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-s-crisis-how-can-europe-s-car-industry-survive/a-70231806?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "While Volkswagen and other European automakers are considering closing factories, Chinese rivals are searching for production sites on the continent. What's going wrong in Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Intel delays construction of Magdeburg factory;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-intel-delays-construction-of-magdeburg-factory/a-70235254?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has delayed a construction project by two years amid cost-saving measures. German Finance Minister Christian Lindner called for funds earmarked for subsidies to be used to plug a federal budget gap."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Worker killed in Oktoberfest roller coaster test;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-worker-killed-in-oktoberfest-roller-coaster-test/a-70232611?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Munich fire department said a worker was fatally injured during a test ride of a roller coaster at the Oktoberfest site."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's expanded border controls come into force;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-expanded-border-controls-come-into-force/live-70228054?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany has temporarily reintroduced controls on its western and northern borders as part of efforts to combat irregular migration and cross-border crime."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy's UniCredit raises eyebrows over Commerzbank move;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-s-unicredit-raises-eyebrows-over-commerzbank-move/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "UniCredit stunned markets by buying a 9% stake in Germany's second-largest lender. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, DW explores the next possible moves."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jens Stoltenberg set to head Munich Security Conference;https://www.dw.com/en/jens-stoltenberg-set-to-head-munich-security-conference/a-70213341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is to become the first non-German to head the renowned MSC. The former Norwegian Prime Minister has been a staunch advocate for increased defense spending by NATO member states."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's political landscape is more fractured than ever;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-political-landscape-is-more-fractured-than-ever/a-70211395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The AfD and BSW, two populist parties in Germany, won almost half of the votes in the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia. The result has fundamentally changed the German party system."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Alex Morgan: The greatest female footballer of all time?;https://www.dw.com/en/alex-morgan-the-greatest-female-footballer-of-all-time/a-70153127?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Marta may have won six FIFA player awards, but two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan is more of a household name. Teammate Megan Rapinoe achieved on and off the field, yet Morgan had a grace on the pitch few could match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's ter Stegen is happy the wait is finally over;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-ter-stegen-is-happy-the-wait-is-finally-over/a-70144838?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "National team goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has spoken of his frustration during years of being stuck behind Manuel Neuer, while at the same time paying tribute to his predecessor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australia's Raygun claims 'I knew people wouldn't understand my style';https://www.dw.com/en/australia-s-raygun-claims-i-knew-people-wouldn-t-understand-my-style/a-70135037?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Rachael \"Raygun\" Gunn, the 37-year-old Olympic breaker, says the criticism of her performance came from people's ignorance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Women's soccer: US shows up Europe on maternity care;https://www.dw.com/en/women-s-soccer-us-shows-up-europe-on-maternity-care/a-70117081?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "A recent lawsuit involving French club Olympique Lyon highlighted the disparities and room for improvement in women's football regarding pregnancies and maternity care."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Argentina: Court blocks Milei move to privatize football;https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-court-blocks-milei-move-to-privatize-football/a-70122667?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "A court in Buenos Aires has blocked President Javier Milei's plans to open up Argentinian football to private investment. The issue continues to split the country's most popular sport, with some even looking to Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's Leon Draisaitl signs record NHL contract;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-leon-draisaitl-signs-record-nhl-contract/a-70124333?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's Leon Draisaitl has signed an eight-year contract extension worth $112 million (\u20ac101.5 million). This will keep the superstar forward in Edmonton for a further eight years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India's archaic labor laws allow firms to exploit workers;https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-archaic-labor-laws-allow-firms-to-exploit-workers/a-70121341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Major international companies, including big tech firms, are exploiting India's labor laws and skirting overtime payment, say workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Open and the controversy over night sessions;https://www.dw.com/en/us-open-and-the-controversy-over-night-sessions/a-70121878?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "A new rule was meant to clamp down on matches at the US Open dragging on into the early hours of the next day. Still, some matches are finishing after 2:00 a.m. \u2013 to the detriment of players' health."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Germany live up to its chipmaking ambitions?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-germany-live-up-to-its-chipmaking-ambitions/a-70079606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The German government wants to build up its long-term chipmaking capabilities. But are they following through and attracting the companies needed to make the country a center of this all-important technology?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World Cup expansion gives hope to West Asian teams;https://www.dw.com/en/world-cup-expansion-gives-hope-to-west-asian-teams/a-70112089?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been dominating West Asian football, but the continent has four more assured spots at the 2026 World Cup. As third-round qualifying opens, the likes of Kuwait, Oman and Jordan may make it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ugandan Olympian set on fire in domestic assault;https://www.dw.com/en/ugandan-olympian-set-on-fire-in-domestic-assault/a-70118647?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Rebecca Cheptegei, who finished 44th in the Olympic marathon in Paris, suffered severe burns after allegedly being doused with petrol by her partner. Domestic violence against women remains a serious problem in Kenya."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German businesses worried about far-right gains in the east;https://www.dw.com/en/german-businesses-worried-about-far-right-gains-in-the-east/a-70112417?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the states of Saxony and Thuringia has raised concerns among business leaders about the economic future of eastern Germany. Will it hit jobs and investment?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis tickets: UK government to probe 'dynamic pricing';https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-tickets-uk-government-to-probe-dynamic-pricing/a-70109787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Ministers have promised an investigation after fans complained of inflated ticket prices for Oasis' 2025 reunion tour. But industry experts insist that \"dynamic pricing\" is not illegal and based on supply and demand."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis reunion tour tickets cause online frenzy;https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-reunion-tour-tickets-cause-online-frenzy/a-70099805?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Fans of the Manchester band Oasis faced long online queues on Saturday morning as tickets went on sale for the group's in-demand reunion concerts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Half the world lacks access to safe drinking water;https://www.dw.com/en/half-the-world-lacks-access-to-safe-drinking-water/a-70089835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "A new report shows 4.4 billion people across the world have no access to safe drinking water, more than double many previous estimates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Japan's youth break tradition by embracing perfume;https://www.dw.com/en/japan-s-youth-break-tradition-by-embracing-perfume/a-70091052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Once seen as ostentatious, an imposition on others, and unnecessary in a culture that famously enjoys bathing, perfumes and scents are finally trending among young Japanese."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is methane?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. Where does methane come from, and what can we do to stop it from getting into the atmosphere?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The unseen Holocaust movie: Jerry Lewis' lost film 'The Day the Clown Cried';https://www.dw.com/en/the-unseen-holocaust-movie-jerry-lewis-lost-film-the-day-the-clown-cried/a-70043956?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "At the Venice Film Festival, a new documentary will reveal never-before-seen footage from \"The Day the Clown Cried.\" The 1972 Holocaust movie by comedian Jerry Lewis was never released, but has gained near-mythic status."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Concerning' rise in unprotected sex among teenagers;https://www.dw.com/en/concerning-rise-in-unprotected-sex-among-teenagers/a-70079734?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "A majority of teenagers in Europe, Central Asia, and Canada do not use condoms. Experts warn of rising risks of STIs and unwanted pregnancies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Glammed up in the kitchen: Influencers drive 'tradwife' nostalgia;https://www.dw.com/en/glammed-up-in-the-kitchen-influencers-drive-tradwife-nostalgia/a-70071650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "The \"traditional wife\" trend celebrates orthodox gender roles. But does this thriving movement on TikTok and Instagram also serve the far-right political agenda?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Populists\u2019 rhetoric linked to growing unhappiness, study finds;https://www.dw.com/en/populists-rhetoric-linked-to-growing-unhappiness-study-finds/a-70072409?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Right-wing populism is rising across Europe, with Germany\u2019s AfD possibly becoming the first far-right party to win state elections since the Nazis. However, their rise won\u2019t bring greater happiness to their supporters."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Russia airspace ban on Western airlines helps Chinese rivals;https://www.dw.com/en/russia-airspace-ban-on-western-airlines-helps-chinese-rivals/a-70025268?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Russia has banned many European carriers from using its airspace in response to sanctions over Ukraine. That's boosted Chinese airlines' market share, but it's not the only reason Western carriers are struggling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Congo 'working blindly' in attempts to control Mpox outbreak;https://www.dw.com/en/congo-working-blindly-in-attempts-to-control-mpox-outbreak/a-70062357?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Only 40% of Mpox cases in DR Congo are laboratory tested, suggesting true number of cases could be five times higher than reported, according to Africa CDC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN chief Guterres warns of fast-rising Pacific ocean;https://www.dw.com/en/un-chief-guterres-warns-of-fast-rising-pacific-ocean/a-70055845?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "UN chief Antonio Guterres issued a global SOS regarding Pacific ocean temperatures, rising at three times the global average rate. He called for a cutdown on emissions and support for vulnerable countries."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Eating processed meats raises type 2 diabetes risk;https://www.dw.com/en/eating-processed-meats-raises-type-2-diabetes-risk/a-70051810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Two slices of ham a day are enough to raise type 2 diabetes risk by 15%, according to a new study. Meanwhile high-fat diets could increase the numbers of a toxic molecule known to cause the disease."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is groundwater?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-groundwater/a-68142894?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-23 02:00:06",
        "text": "Groundwater is crucial for agriculture and drinking water supplies. But what exactly is it, how does it form and how can we protect this precious underground resource from threats like pollution and climate change?"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis live: Israel launches further attacks on Hezbollah after almost 500 killed in Lebanon;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/24/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-lebanon-hezbollah-war-news;2024-09-24T08:53:54Z",
        "text": "Israeli army radio reports that another wave of Israeli airstrikes against Lebanon has begun. More details soon \u2026 Care International UK, an NGO which has been working in Lebanon for almost 20 years, has launched a humanitarian response to the crisis unfolding in Lebanon, with the local regional director, Hazem Fahmy, saying \u201cIt is shocking to witness once again in this region the total disregard for international law.\u201d Describing scenes of panic in the country has people sought to move away from araes being targeted by Israel\u2019s airstrikes, country director Michael Adams said: The situation is very tense here in Lebanon. All the roads leading to Beirut from the south and the Beqaa Valley are now flooded with people attempting to flee the bombardment, leaving everything behind. Civilians are paying the highest price, and women and girls are disproportionately affected. The people of Lebanon need help to cope with this new crisis, and quickly. Humanitarian agencies like Care and our partners cannot reach people under bombing. Humanitarians must also be protected. Many flights into and out of Beirut have been cancelled already today. Flights affected include those to Egypt, Germany, Iraq, Jordan, Switzerland, Turkey, the UAE. \u201cOngoing regional developments\u201d has been cited by Etihad Airways as their reason. While attention is focused on Israel\u2019s airstrikes on Lebanon, which have killed nearly 500 people in the last 24 hours, Israel also continues to carry out strikes on the Gaza Strip, which it has been bombarding for over 11 months. Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that \u201cparamedics recovered the bodies of five slain people and a number of wounded, following an Israeli raid that targeted a house\u201d in Khan Younis, while another two people were killed and five injured by a separate Israeli bombing in the area. The Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City has also again been a target, Wafa reports. The claims have not been independently verified. Israel\u2019s air force has confirmed that there was damage caused to buildings in the Upper Galilee area by the latest barrage of rockets from the direction of Lebanon, and that \u201cIsraeli fire and rescue services are currently operating to extinguish fires caused by the strikes in the area\u201d. It reported no casualties. Israeli and Lebanese media are reporting continued strikes on either side of the UN-drawn blue line that separates Israel and Lebanon. Haaretz reports that about 50 rockets have been fired into northern Israel, with at least one fire breaking out as a result. Lebanese outlets report airstrikes in the Beqaa Valley and north of the city of Baalbek. Charbel Massaad, an independent Maronite MP in Lebanon, has described Israel\u2019s airstrikes as \u201can attack not only on geography, but also on dignity, on rights and on the future of our generations.\u201d In a message to the Lebanese people carried by the state National News Agency, Massaad said: In these difficult times that our beloved country Lebanon is going through, and with the continued brutal Israeli aggression on our land, I find myself compelled to address you. The Israeli aggression that brutally targets our people, our homes, our villages and our cities is an attack not only on geography, but also on dignity, on rights and on the future of our generations. But we, as a people accustomed to steadfastness and we will steadfastly face all challenges. This critical moment requires all of us, regardless of any political or sectarian affiliation, to stand as one. Our unity is our strength. Israel seeks to sow fear and division among us, but we know very well how to confront such conspiracies. Just as we were victorious in the past, we will be victorious today, because we are right, and right always triumphs, and the will to live among the Lebanese is stronger than any aggression or conspiracy. The IDF has reported that warning sirens are sounding again in northern Israel. For the Guardian\u2019s First Edition newsletter today my colleagues Nimo Omer and senior international reporter Peter Beaumont spoke about the potential fallout of the intensification of this conflict. Here is a snippet: Hezbollah is one of the most heavily armed non-state militia groups in the world. Its army is tens of thousands strong and it is backed by Iran, so even though the attacks from Israel have put Hezbollah on the back-foot, it has not deterred them. \u201cIn militias like this the number two in command is always ready to step into the number one position,\u201d Peter says. Destabilising an organisation that is inherently fluid in that way is not straightforward. And when all that is needed to keep parts of Israel uninhabitable are a few rockets fired over the border, it is hard to see how Israel can achieve its goal through force alone. \u201cThe pager attack was significant in its ambition and most clearly signifies that Israel has moved on from the somewhat agreed upon red lines,\u201d Peter says. Both sides have acknowledged that their conflict of attrition, limited in its geography and scope, has entered a far more critical phase. As their airstrikes intensify, the Israeli military have flown jets low above Beirut to create thundering sonic booms that shook the capital, with critics decrying the tactic as a form of psychological warfare against civilian populations. \u201cIt\u2019s not just Hezbollah, Lebanese society is feeling under attack,\u201d Peter says. Read more here: Tuesday briefing \u2013 How to make sense of the new wave of violence in the Middle East Sign up here for our free daily newsletter, First Edition Israel\u2019s Magen David Adom reports that overnight one of its ambulances was damaged in a blast in the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. Zeina Khodr, reporting for Al Jazeera from Beirut, says that people in Lebanon are scared of what might happen next. She writes for the news network: Tens of thousands of people fled their homes and they really didn\u2019t have much time before they had to evacuate \u2026 We were in southern Lebanon and we saw people pack whatever they could to make their way further north \u2026 Whole families. People were scared. They were afraid and they were concerned about what would happen next. Some of the families we spoke to said that they had to escape while there was bombardment around them. There were nonstop airstrikes almost everywhere you looked. You didn\u2019t know which road was safe, even along the main highway linking south Lebanon to Beirut, we saw airstrikes along that highway. This is an impoverished society, a country where the economy has all but collapsed. And it\u2019s also a state which is nearly bankrupt. So there is a lot of concern among these people about how long they are going to be displaced because already in 11 months of fighting, 110,000 people have been displaced from border villages. Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government have banned Al Jazeera from operating inside Israel, and at the weekend raided and closed the news network\u2019s offices in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Turkey has condemned Israel\u2019s attacks on Lebanon as \u201cefforts to drag the region into chaos\u201d and called for a halt to support for Israel. In a statement late on Monday, the Turkish foreign ministry said countries that \u201cunconditionally support Israel\u201d were helping Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu \u201cshed blood for his political interests\u201d. \u201cIt is imperative that all institutions responsible for maintaining international peace and security, especially the UN security council, as well as the international community, take the necessary measures without delay,\u201d it said. Nato member Turkey has condemned Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza, which began in retaliation for Hamas\u2019 cross-border attack on 7 October. Ankara also halted all trade with Israel and applied to join a genocide case against Israel at the world court. Tens of thousands have reportedly fled for safety in southern Lebanon, after Israel on Monday warned people to evacuate areas where it claimed Hezbollah was storing weapons. Families loaded cars, vans and trucks with belongings and people, sometimes multiple generations in one vehicle. Children crammed on to parents\u2019 laps and suitcases were tied to car roofs. The US is sending a small number of additional troops to the Middle East due to escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, the Pentagon said on Monday, declining to specify the precise number or mission of the deployed forces. \u201cOut of an abundance of caution, we are sending a small number of additional US military personnel forward to augment our forces that are already in the region,\u201d air force Maj Gen Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesperson, told reporters. \u201cWe have more capability in the region today than we did on April 14th when Iran conducted its drone and missile attack against Israel,\u201d Ryder said, referring to Iran\u2019s attack by more than 300 missiles and drones, which caused only modest damage inside Israel thanks to air defence interceptions from the United States, Britain and other allies in the region. \u201cSo all of those forces combined provide us with the options to be able to protect our forces should they be attacked.\u201d The US capabilities in the region include the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group, fighter aircraft and air defences. The IDF has said it launched a fresh wave of strikes on Lebanon overnight, targeting positions from which rockets were fired towards Israel. In an update online, IDF officials said that \u201cwarplanes targeted dozens of sites\u201d in several areas in southern Lebanon. The statement said that secondary explosions were observed during the strikes \u201cindicating the presence of weapons stored in the buildings.\u201d The Guardian was unable to verify this. Monday saw some of the heaviest cross-border fire exchange in almost a year. Israel says it has started shifting its focus north to Hezbollah, which has been firing rockets into Israel in support of Hamas. Hello and welcome to the Guardian\u2019s continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. Israel has said it launched a fresh wave of strikes on Hezbollah overnight, targeting positions that had fired rockets into Israel. The IDF said it had attacked \u201cdozens of targets\u201d in several areas in southern Lebanon. The announcement comes a day after 492 people were killed in Lebanon by Israeli airstrikes. Almost 1,650 people were injured as well, according to the Lebanese health ministry. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said the military was changing the \u201csecurity balance\u201d along its northern border. Tens of thousands of people fled from south Lebanese towns and villages along the main road towards the capital, Beirut, in Israel\u2019s most intense barrage in nearly a year of cross-border clashes, as sirens were also heard in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The Lebanese health ministry said 35 children and 58 women were among those killed. More on that in a moment, first here\u2019s a summary of the day\u2019s other main events. Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said Israel\u2019s airstrikes in Lebanon on Monday destroyed tens of thousands of Hezbollah rockets. The Israeli military is preparing for the next stage of its operation in Lebanon after launching a wave of airstrikes against Hezbollah targets on Monday morning, the military chief of the general staff Herzi Halevi said. There is rising tension on the ground in Lebanon and a collective bracing to see whether Israel intends a ground invasion of its neighbour. Nasser Yassin, the Lebanese minister coordinating the crisis response, told Reuters 89 temporary shelters in schools and other facilities had been activated, with capacity for more than 26,000 people. Families from south Lebanon loaded cars, vans and trucks with belongings and people, sometimes multiple generations in one vehicle. As bombs rained down, children crammed on to parents\u2019 laps and suitcases were tied to car roofs. Highways north were gridlocked. The United States does not think Israeli escalation to force Hezbollah to reduce tensions will yield the desired outcome of de-escalation, a senior State Dept official said on Monday, effectively disagreeing with Israel\u2019s strategy. The conflict is a key focus for secretary of state Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the UN general assembly this week, where Washington had concrete ideas to prevent a broader war and would seek an \u201coff ramp\u201d to the tensions, the official told reporters in New York. The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (Unifil) issued a statement on Monday afternoon expressing \u201cgrave concern\u201d for the safety of civilians in southern Lebanon amid the most intense Israeli bombing campaign since last October and urging the need for de-escalation from both Hezbollah and Israel. Najib Mikati, Lebanon\u2019s caretaker prime minister, has called Israel\u2019s wave of airstrikes \u201ca genocide in every sense of the word\u201d. Mikati made the comments at the start of a cabinet meeting in Beirut on Monday in which he said that Israel\u2019s airstrikes aim to destroy Lebanon\u2019s towns and villages, according to an update from the Associated Press news agency. Mikati said that the Lebanese government was calling on the United Nations, the UN security council and world nations to \u201cdeter the aggression\u201d. France has requested an emergency UN security council meeting to discuss Lebanon. \u201cI have requested that an emergency meeting of the Security Council be held on Lebanon this week,\u201d French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot told the UN general assembly on Monday, calling on all sides to \u201cavoid a regional conflagration that would be devastating for everyone.\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Russia-Ukraine war live: War could be \u2018closer to end\u2019 than people think says Zelenskyy;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/24/volodymyr-zelenskyy-russia-ukraine-war-live-latest-news-updates;2024-09-24T08:34:28Z",
        "text": "Russia\u2019s overnight attack on Ukraine\u2019s central Poltava region damaged energy infrastructure which cut power to 20 settlements, local authorities have said. The attack also damaged several private residences in the region without causing any casualties, Poltava\u2019s regional governor said. Volodymr Zelenskyy held talks in New York with German, Indian and Japanese leaders on Monday trying to shore up support for Kyiv\u2019s war efforts. \u201cWe talked about how to make a just peace closer,\u201d the Ukrainian president said on Telegram after meeting with German chancellor Olaf Scholz. \u201cThe main thing is to maintain unity\u201d, he said, adding that he had discussed energy aid with the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, and that Delhi and Kyiv were \u201cdynamically developing\u201d their relations after a meeting with prime minister Narendra Modi. Here are some pictures of Zelenskyy from yesterday: We mentioned reports of Russian airstrikes on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, a frequent target for attacks, in the opening summary. Here is the latest on the situation there. Ukraine\u2019s state emergency service said that one man was killed and six injured, including a 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy, by \u201cmassive\u201d Russian airstrikes on the city over the course of two hours after 9pm local time on Monday evening. Airstrikes and drones set fire to an infrastructure facility and residential buildings, the regional governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram. A municipal official, Regina Kharchenko, said that 74 blocks of flats and 24 private houses were damaged in various districts of the city. Ukraine\u2019s presidential adviser Vladyslav Vlasiuk has been speaking to journalists. In comments carried by Reuters, he said that 60% of the foreign parts found in Russian weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine come via China. He said: If you take all the usual types of weapons and count the foreign made components \u2013 about 60% would be coming from China. We have had lengthy discussions with some manufacturers about this. The PRC (China) is the biggest problem I would say. At a summit in Washington over the summer, Nato accused Beijing of becoming \u201ca decisive enabler of Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine\u201d and demanded China halt shipments of \u201cweapons components\u201d and other technology vital to the Russian military. The final communique, approved by the 32 Nato members at the summit, also said that Beijing had become a large-scale supporter of Russia\u2019s \u201cdefence industrial base\u201d. \u201cThis includes the transfer of dual-use materials, such as weapons components, equipment, and raw materials that serve as inputs for Russia\u2019s defence sector,\u201d the declaration said. Beijing has denied providing direct military aid to Russia and has presented itself as a mediator trying to bring Moscow and Kyiv to the table to agree to a peace plan. We are restarting our live coverage of Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine and will give you the latest updates throughout the day. Here are the latest developments: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he believes the war with Russia is \u201ccloser to the end\u201d than many believe and called on allies to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s army. In excerpts of an interview with ABC News\u2019 Good Morning America, set to be broadcast in full on Tuesday, the president said: \u201cI think that we are closer to the peace than we think \u2026 We are closer to the end of the war.\u201d He added: \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re asking our friends, our allies, to strengthen us. It\u2019s very important.\u201d Zelenskyy told ABC that Vladimir Putin is \u201cafraid\u201d of Ukraine\u2019s Kursk operation, in which it has taken more than 1,000 square km of Russian territory. Zelenskyy is in the US to attend sessions at the UN general assembly as well as to present a \u201cvictory plan\u201d to US President Joe Biden and presidential hopefuls Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. After a bipartisan meeting with members of the US Congress, Zelenskyy said \u201cdecisive action now could hasten the just end of Russian aggression against Ukraine next year\u201d. The US played a \u201ccritical role\u201d in protecting freedom around the world, he said in a Telegram post, and praised the US Congress and both main parties for their \u201cunwavering commitment to this cause\u201d. His comments came as Republican presidential candidate Trump suggested Zelenskyy wanted Harris to win the November election. \u201cI think Zelenskyy is the greatest salesman in history. Every time he comes into the country, he walks away with 60 billion dollars,\u201d Trump said at a rally in Pennsylvania. \u201cHe wants them [the Democrats] to win this election so badly.\u201d Trump said if he wins the election, he would call Putin and Zelenskyy and urge them to reach a deal to end the war. Zelenskyy also held talks in New York with German, Indian and Japanese leaders on Monday trying to shore up support for Kyiv\u2019s war efforts. \u201cWe talked about how to make a just peace closer,\u201d Zelenskiy said on his Telegram messaging app after meeting with German chancellor Olaf Scholz. \u201cThe main thing is to maintain unity.\u201d He said he had discussed energy aid with Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida, and that Delhi and Kyiv were \u201cdynamically developing\u201d their relations after a meeting with prime minister Narendra Modi. Jails controlled by Russia are deliberately withholding medical care for Ukrainian prisoners, with doctors in one prison even taking part in what it called \u201ctorture\u201d, according to a commission mandated by the UN rights council. The commission, set up by the Human Rights Council to investigate violations in Ukraine since Russia\u2019s invasion, had already concluded that Moscow\u2019s occupying forces were using torture \u201csystematically\u201d. But in his oral report to the council, commission chair Erik Mose said torture had become a \u201ccommon and acceptable practice\u201d, with Russian authorities acting with \u201ca sense of impunity\u201d. Russian forces launched the latest of a series of strikes on Ukraine\u2019s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia on Monday evening, killing one person, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said. A city official, quoted by public broadcaster Suspilne, put the injury toll at five, including a 13-year-old girl. Strikes on the city earlier in the day and the previous night wounded at least 23. Russian forces have begun storming the eastern Ukrainian town of Vuhledar, a stronghold that has resisted Russian attack since the beginning of the war, according to Russian war bloggers and state media. Russian state media said the hilltop town in the Donetsk region, which some cast as a fortress due to its enduring resistance to Russian attack, was caught in a pincer movement by Russian forces and that battles were under way in the east of the settlement. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the UN general assembly, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said it was clear that Russia was receiving new weapons, including Iranian missiles despite Tehran\u2019s repeated denials."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;What is Hezbollah\u2019s role and influence in Lebanon?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/what-is-hezbollah-role-influence-lebanon-israel-pagers;2024-09-24T07:48:47Z",
        "text": "The escalating conflict between Israeli forces and Hezbollah has put a renewed focus on the battle-hardened Lebanese militant group. The two sides have been exchanging fire since the beginning of the war in Gaza in October last year, but the violence has increased markedly in the past week on the Lebanese side of the border, where Israel killed hundreds of people in strikes on Monday. The violence is seen as the most likely avenue for the war in Gaza to explode into an uncontrollable regional conflagration. Here is a guide to the \u201cParty of God\u201d and its position in \u2013 and testy relationship with \u2013 the fragile Lebanese state. What is Hezbollah? Hezbollah is a powerful Islamist movement that was founded by Iran during the middle of the Lebanese 1975-90 civil war. It was further shaped by its fight with Israeli forces after their 1982 invasion of Lebanon. While the US and other western governments deem it a terrorist organisation \u2013 and Hezbollah has conducted mass-casualty attacks on civilians \u2013 the group\u2019s reach extends far beyond militancy. The Shia Muslim movement has become a political and social powerhouse in Lebanon, running medical clinics, schools, a regional television network and even a hilltop museum that has been popular with European tourists. What is Hezbollah\u2019s position in Lebanon? For years, Hezbollah has played an official political role, with ministers in government and lawmakers in parliament. It holds the ministry of public works and the ministry of labour, and has often formed coalitions with other political parties, including Christian ones, under power-sharing agreements. Fractured, sectarian politics means the government in Lebanon has remained weak, politically divided and plagued by corruption. Currently, there is no president due to infighting. The upshot is that even Hebzollah\u2019s domestic adversaries are unable to reel in the group. Lebanon\u2019s prime minister, Najib Mikati, for example, describes himself as \u201cliberal\u201d and is not part of Hezbollah, but he has little control over what it does. It is widely accepted that Hezbollah could overpower the national army if it wanted to, although the group appears to have preferred to maintain its current status as a powerful player. How has Hezbollah become so influential? Lebanon\u2019s 15-year civil war, which was fought largely along religious and sectarian lines, ended with warring militias laying down their arms. Hezbollah, however, was the exception, keeping its weapons ostensibly to fight the Israeli forces that occupied southern Lebanon at the time. Hezbollah garnered widespread domestic support for pushing out Israel in 2000, even among Christian, Druze and Sunni Muslim sections of society outside its main Shia base in the south of Lebanon. It fought a five-week war with Israel in 2006. Substantial backing from allies in Iran and Syria has also allowed Hezbollah to play an outsized role in the Lebanese state. How popular is Hezbollah in Lebanon? The local support Hezbollah received as the only Lebanese force able to provide a deterrent to Israel\u2019s attacks has been chipped away over the years, most significantly after it helped the Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, suppress a pro-democracy uprising with bloody and lethal force. As Iran\u2019s most powerful proxy force in its region, Hezbollah could have been forced or at least coerced into fighting for Assad, who is a close ally to Tehran and part of its \u201caxis of resistance\u201d against Israel and the US. However, many Lebanese people saw Hezbollah\u2019s attacks on Syrians as an unjust intervention in a foreign conflict \u2013 one that risked drawing their fragile state into further unrest while it was still recovering from the scars of its own civil war, decades after it formally ended. What is Hezbollah\u2019s relationship with Hamas in Gaza? Hezbollah has allowed Hamas to operate in Lebanon and coordinates closely with the group. However, while they share a common enemy in Israel, they are certainly not strong allies. The Sunni Muslim Hamas is also considered an Iranian proxy force but it operates with independence, notably by initially backing anti-Assad forces during the Syrian civil war, which strained its relationship with Hezbollah."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ex-Harrods boss  says he witnessed Fayed\u2019s \u2018abhorrent\u2019 behaviour;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/ex-harrods-boss-says-he-witnessed-fayed-abhorrent-behaviour;2024-09-24T07:35:54Z",
        "text": "A former Harrods chief executive has told the BBC he was witness to \u201cabhorrent\u201d behaviour by the store\u2019s late owner Mohamed Al Fayed \u2013 but not sexual abuse. James McArthur, who was chief executive for what he described as a \u201cmost unpleasant 10 months\u201d in 2008, told the broadcaster he was not aware of any sexual abuse as five women allege they were raped by Fayed. Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, is facing allegations of sexual misconduct by a number of others. \u201cWhile Fayed\u2019s behaviour was often abhorrent in many ways, and professional relationships with him were largely dysfunctional, I was not aware of any sexual abuse by him \u2013 if I had been, I would have taken action,\u201d McArthur said in a written statement. He said he was not aware of a Metropolitan police investigation into Fayed over the alleged assault of a 15-year-old girl. \u201cI am absolutely horrified by the details of the allegations bravely brought to light,\u201d he said. \u201cMy heart goes out to Fayed\u2019s victims, and I do hope very much that they will get the justice and closure that they are seeking.\u201d Harrods has said it is conducting an ongoing internal review that includes \u201clooking at whether any current staff were involved in any of the allegations either directly or indirectly\u201d. This came after a former employee told BBC News that a manager who still works at the store failed to investigate after she complained about Fayed\u2019s inappropriate behaviour. Harrods said its internal review into possible staff involvement was supported by external counsel. It said: \u201cHarrods board has established a non-executive committee of the board to further consider the issues arising from the allegations. Harrods is also in direct communication with the Metropolitan police to ensure we are offering our assistance with any of their relevant inquiries.\u201d Harrods added on Monday that its \u201csettlement process was designed in consultation with independent external counsel and experts in personal injury litigation. All claims settled to date and moving forwards will be based on the guidance of these external individuals to ensure swift and impartial outcomes for the victims.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;As it meets against backdrop of Israel\u2019s bombing of Lebanon, is UN too broken to be fixed?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/israel-lebanon-un-general-assembly-united-nations;2024-09-24T07:02:54Z",
        "text": "As diplomats from nearly 200 member states gather in New York this week for the United Nations general assembly against the backdrop of a massive Israeli bombing campaign in southern Lebanon, a nagging question to be addressed is whether the UN is too broken to be fixed. UN officials are facing three intractable conflicts, in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan. While it remains one of the most important humanitarian organisations on Earth, overseeing relief efforts for refugees, natural disaster victims and others in dire need, the UN\u2019s principal security body appears to be powerless to intervene in some of the world\u2019s most grinding conflicts. Supporters say that the UN remains a key forum for conflict resolution that has prevented even worse outcomes. And its leadership has recognised the need for radical change, devoting a significant element of its Pact of the Future \u2013 an initiative of the secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, adopted after gruelling negotiations last week \u2013 to efforts to reform the security council, which controls key decisions in the UN regarding peace and security. The UN has billed the language of the agreement, which is non-binding, as containing the \u201cmost progressive and concrete commitment to security council reform since the 1960s, with plans to improve the effectiveness and representativeness of the council, including by redressing the historical under-representation of Africa as a priority\u201d. But before the summit, Guterres noted that the UN could not mediate conflicts where the parties taking part did not seek mediation, such as Russia and Ukraine or Israel and Hamas. The case of Russia, a member of the security council directly involved in a conflict, he added, showed that the security council had a problem \u201cnot only of effectiveness, but of legitimacy\u201d. \u201cWe will not solve all the problems of the world \u2026 The challenges are huge and probably many would give up but I can tell you we will not give up,\u201d Guterres told the FT last week. \u201cWe have no power, we have no money, the United Nations, but we have a voice and we have some convening capacity,\u201d he said, adding that those had been reflected in recent efforts on artificial intelligence addressed in the Pact of the Future. Behind closed doors, diplomats in conversation with the Guardian played down expectations for any major breakthroughs at the UN on those conflicts, suggesting that deep divisions between the US and Russia, along with China\u2019s gradually increasing independent influence, meant the security council was essentially paralysed to rule on a number of key issues. Slovenia\u2019s UN ambassador, Samuel \u017dbogar, the rotating president of the body, has condemned the \u201cpoisonous mood\u201d on the security council, blaming both Moscow and Washington, which both wield veto power. The shortage of funding for security efforts has put the institution at one of its most vulnerable moments in recent memory. Richard Gowan, the UN director at the International Crisis Group, described the issues of UN reform as a \u201cvicious circle\u201d, saying that the ability to reform the group depended on the states whose own influence would be threatened by that reform, as well as significant internal hurdles to ratifying the agreements if they were made. \u201cIt is so striking that the one thing I hear from a lot of diplomats here is it\u2019s getting harder and harder to really get capitals to listen to what the UN is doing,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I hear this from across the membership, because I think a lot of governments have just concluded the institution is losing relevance. \u201cAnd of course, if enough governments do that, then it becomes true.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Tuesday briefing: How to make sense of the new wave of violence in the Middle East;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/hezbollah-israel-escalation;2024-09-24T05:36:10Z",
        "text": "Good morning. At least 492 people have been killed after Israeli jets struck more than 1,300 alleged Hezbollah targets across Lebanon yesterday, in the most intense barrage in nearly a year of cross-border clashes. Roads were heavily congested with civilians desperate to flee the assault. Iran\u2019s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has accused Israel of seeking to create a wider conflict that Iran does not want to get directly dragged into. The bombardment follows a week of dizzying escalation in the region, with exploding pagers and walkie-talkies killing 42 people and leaving thousands injured, against a backdrop of intensifying rocket exchanges. The unprecedented assaults left Lebanon\u2019s militia group humiliated, with its leaders vowing revenge. For today\u2019s newsletter, I spoke with Peter Beaumont, a senior Guardian international reporter, about the potential fallout of the intensification of this conflict. That\u2019s right after the headlines. Five big stories Labour | The Conservatives\u2019 \u201cviolent indifference\u201d to the arts has resulted in communities across the country getting poor access to culture, Lisa Nandy has said ahead of a planned funding review. The culture secretary accused her Tory predecessors of \u201cvandalism\u201d as she pledged to get state funding to every community and make sure that private philanthropy reached beyond the major cities. Housing | Nationwide, Britain\u2019s biggest building society, is to let first-time buyers borrow up to six times their earnings in what has been labelled a \u201cgamechanging\u201d move that ramps up the mortgage price war. Environment | Rich countries could raise $5tn, five times the money that poor countries are demanding in climate finance, through windfall taxes on fossil fuels, ending harmful subsidies and a wealth tax on billionaires, research by the pressure group Oil Change International has shown. NHS | Nurses in England have rejected the 5.5% pay rise they were given for this year, in a move that may lead to further strikes in pursuit of higher salaries. France | A French court has begun hearing the cases against six new defendants as the mass rape trial that has sparked horror in the country entered its fourth week. Dominique Pelicot, who has admitted to the allegations, is accused of enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his drugged wife over nearly a decade. In depth: \u2018Israel has moved on from the somewhat agreed upon red lines\u2019 After last week\u2019s headline-grabbing pager explosions (for more, see Thursday\u2019s newsletter), Hezbollah launched more rockets into northern Israel, where schools remain closed, in retaliation, which was followed by a deadly Israeli strike in a residential neighbourhood in Beirut that killed the commander of Hezbollah\u2019s most elite unit and dozens more people. And over the weekend, Israel pummelled parts of southern Lebanon, striking 400 Hezbollah targets. As promised, Hezbollah responded, launching 150 missiles deeper into northern Israel than ever before. Israel\u2019s military is ramping up its attacks in the hopes that the militia group will fall back, but that has not happened. Instead, the leader of the group, Hassan Nasrallah, said: \u201cThreats will not stop us \u2026 We are ready to face all military possibilities\u201d, adding that \u201cwe have entered a new phase, namely an open reckoning\u201d with Israel. Israel\u2019s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made clear that despite the devastating consequences of a full-blown regional war, they plan to continue the assaults. In a statement released by his office, Netanyahu said: \u201cWe are not waiting for the threat to come, we\u2019re pre-empting it.\u201d It\u2019s been referred to as \u201cde-escalation through escalation\u201d. The international community has been united in its condemnation: UN secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has said he fears Lebanon could \u201cturn into another Gaza\u201d. President Joe Biden said the US would do \u201ceverything we can to keep a wider war from breaking out\u201d \u2013 though there is no sign of a ceasefire in Gaza any time soon, which is the only thing likely to halt rockets being fired into Israel from Lebanon, the attested goal of the Israeli assault. Hezbollah is one of the most heavily armed non-state militia groups in the world. Its army is tens of thousands strong and it is backed by Iran, so even though the attacks from Israel have put Hezbollah on the back-foot, it has not deterred them. \u201cIn militias like this the number two in command is always ready to step into the number one position,\u201d Peter says. Destabilising an organisation that is inherently fluid in that way is not straightforward. And when all that is needed to keep parts of Israel uninhabitable are a few rockets fired over the border, it is hard to see how Israel can achieve its goal through force alone. *** A new phase The latest attacks further compound the crisis of the cross-border conflict that Israel and Hezbollah have been locked in since October. \u201cThe pager attack was significant in its ambition and most clearly signifies that Israel has moved on from the somewhat agreed upon red lines,\u201d Peter says. Both sides have acknowledged that their conflict of attrition, limited in its geography and scope, has entered a far more critical phase. As their airstrikes intensify, the Israeli military have flown jets low above Beirut to create thundering sonic booms that shook the capital, with critics decrying the tactic as a form of psychological warfare against civilian populations. \u201cIt\u2019s not just Hezbollah, Lebanese society is feeling under attack,\u201d Peter says. Civilians are confused and fearful, fleeing cities and villages as the Israeli military issued evacuation orders before bombardments began. *** A ground invasion Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel is willing to take \u201cwhatever action is necessary\u201d against Hezbollah, triggering concerns about a ground invasion. Though an anonymous Israeli military official told AP that there are no immediate plans to put boots on the ground and they are focused on aerial operations, \u201cthe issue is that air power alone doesn\u2019t usually win these kinds of wars,\u201d Peter says. \u201cIsrael has been training very hard for fighting in the particular mountainous terrain in southern Lebanon so they are ready,\u201d he adds. \u201cFrom Hezbollah\u2019s point of view, the way that they\u2019re set up in the south, they can fight much more effectively if Israeli tanks cross the border.\u201d A full scale conflict would inevitably drag the US, Iran and its proxies into some kind of direct confrontation \u2013 something that neither country is ready for and has been trying to avoid since 7 October. However Israel\u2019s escalations are making that harder. *** Spread too thin? Israel\u2019s strategic justification for the escalation is that it wants to meaningfully and decisively defeat Hezbollah by pushing them north of the Litani river and having them agree to withdraw their forces, thus protecting Israeli civilians who live close to their northern border. Hezbollah have shown that they have the military capability and will to continue fighting and they will only stop firing rockets if there is a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, which still seems remote. Unlimited aerial bombardment would be devastating to Lebanon, but \u201cattrition is baked into the proposition of groups like Hezbollah so the idea that a punitive campaign is likely to be effective in destroying [them], I think is mistaken,\u201d Peter says. As the conflict escalates on the south Lebanon border, and tens of thousands of civilians on both sides of the border are displaced, Israel\u2019s military is at risk of becoming overstretched. \u201cIt is effectively operating on three fronts at the moment, in terms of two conventional conflicts in Gaza and the border with Lebanon, and also a very complicated security situation in the West Bank,\u201d Peter says. \u201cThat is a big ask for any military.\u201d What else we\u2019ve been reading In case you missed it, I loved this Observer interview with Succession star J Smith-Cameron, now making her London stage debut opposite Mark Rylance. Hannah J Davies, deputy editor, newsletters There is a lot of concern about the short and long term impact of smartphone usage on children. Amy Fleming asked four kids who don\u2019t have phones how they feel about being untethered from a time-sucking metal brick \u2013 even though all of their friends have one. Nimo Is adding cream really molto offensivo? How about onions? Rachel Roddy\u2019s got a recipe for carbonara like it\u2019s 1979, that strikes the balance between tradition and taste. Hannah The new season of Comfort Eating with Grace Dent is out and it\u2019s well worth a listen. For episode one, Grace is joined by the artist Rag\u2019n\u2019Bone Man to discuss oven chips and Shania Twain. Nimo This week\u2019s How we made is on Jet\u2019s 2003 earworm Are You Gonna Be My Girl, a song the band admit is \u201cmore I Want to Hold Your Hand than WAP\u201d, and whose innocent charm has stood the test of time. Hannah Sport Football | The Friedkin Group has agreed a deal to buy Everton, two months after pulling out of talks to purchase Farhad Moshiri\u2019s 94.1% shareholding. The US company, owned by the billionaire Dan Friedkin, held constructive negotiations with Everton\u2019s majority owner over the weekend as it sought to gazump interest from the Crystal Palace co-owner John Textor. Boxing | Anthony Joshua insists his career is \u201cfar from over\u201d after his fifth-round knockout defeat by Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. Joshua was aiming to become a three-time world champion by claiming the IBF world heavyweight title but instead suffered a damaging setback \u2013 the fourth of his career \u2013 after he was knocked out in front of a record-breaking official attendance of 98,128. Formula One | Drivers are united ahead of talks with the FIA over the Max Verstappen swearing row that engulfed the Singapore Grand Prix, amid widespread dissatisfaction with the sport\u2019s governing body. The front pages The Labour conference dominates front pages on Tuesday, as the Guardian says \u201cPM vows to end gloom as Labour seeks to lift spending restrictions\u201d. The Telegraph leads with \u201cLight at end of this tunnel, PM tells Britain\u201d. The i reports \u201cReeves looks at cutting benefits to find spending boost\u201d, while the Financial Times has \u201cReeves stokes borrowing rules debate with signal on higher capital spending\u201d. The Times leads with \u201cLabour to crack down on benefit fraudsters\u201d. The Mail says \u201cUnion boss: we\u2019ll seize control of UK economy\u201d. The Mirror reports on Labour\u2019s \u201cHillsborough Law\u201d, under the headline \u201cVictory for truth and justice\u201d. Finally, the Sun looks to Nick Knowles future on Strictly Come Dancing, with \u201cNick\u2019s strictly S.O.S\u201d. Today in Focus Inside a secret summit of Afghan women\u2019s rights activists Annie Kelly reports from a conference in Albania where Afghan women have spoken publicly about the Taliban\u2019s brutal crackdown on their freedom. Cartoon of the day | Ben Jennings The Upside A bit of good news to remind you that the world\u2019s not all bad A few years ago, 63-year-old Alida Alequin took an online ancestry test, \u201cjust for fun\u201d. The results changed her life \u2013 and her family\u2019s \u2013 more than she could have imagined. The test revealed a 22% match with a man who, she would go on to discover, had been abducted in the early 1950s from a playground in California. Her uncle Luis Armando Albino was taken at age six and raised by a couple who pretended he was their own child. Albino was missing for more than 70 years until Alequin started searching through old photos and newspaper clippings. Her inquiries turned up a picture of Luis as a boy with his brother, Roger, that prompted police to open a new missing persons case. Investigators tracked down Albino on the east coast and, with the help of the FBI, he was reunited in California with some of his family, including his brother and sister. \u201cWe didn\u2019t start crying until after the investigators left,\u201d Alequin said. \u201cI grabbed my mom\u2019s hands and said, \u2018We found him.\u2019 I was ecstatic.\u201d Alequin wants this happy end to a sad story to inspire other people. \u201cI was always determined to find him, and who knows, with my story out there, it could help other families going through the same thing,\u201d she said. \u201cI would say: don\u2019t give up.\u201d Sign up here for a weekly roundup of The Upside, sent to you every Sunday Bored at work? And finally, the Guardian\u2019s puzzles are here to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until tomorrow. Quick crossword Cryptic crossword Wordiply"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian; Old tensions in New Caledonia: curfews and colonialism resurface on anniversary of French takeover;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/new-caledonia-unrest-france-september-24;2024-09-24T04:04:32Z",
        "text": "New Caledonia was on edge on Tuesday, with fears tensions could spill over into fresh unrest as the territory marked the anniversary of the French takeover \u2013 and some independence figures prepared to issue calls for sovereignty. September 24 is a symbolic day in New Caledonia, long regarded as a day of mourning among the Indigenous Kanak population. This year the anniversary comes after months of deadly unrest and heightened tensions in the French Pacific territory between pro-independence Kanak people and the communities loyal to Paris. Authorities have stepped up the police presence, tightened curfews, and banned alcohol and gatherings over the four-day holiday period. While relative calm had returned to most of the territory in recent weeks, reports on Thursday that two men had been shot dead during a police operation south of Noum\u00e9a rekindled the anger of Kanak youth. In May, unrest in the territory erupted after news of plans in France for a bill to enlarge the electoral body for local elections. The move angered Kanak people \u2013 who make up about 41% of the population \u2013 over fears it would weaken their electoral power and undermine longstanding efforts to secure independence. Thirteen people, mostly Kanaks, and including two police officers, have been killed and nearly 3,000 people arrested over the violence. In Noum\u00e9a\u2019s Tuband district, where clashes have been frequent since May, barricades were erected ahead of Tuesday. The neighbourhood was covered in red, white and blue flags. They faced the Kanaky flags of the neighbourhood opposite, a symbol of two groups living next to each other, without ever really mixing. \u201cWe\u2019re not as scared as we were at the start of the riots, but we\u2019re not immune to young people wanting to mark the date,\u201d said Mathieu, a Tuband resident in his 50s. About 6,000 officers, gendarmes and firefighters were to be deployed across New Caledonia amid fears of fresh clashes. The loyalists have called on supporters in the capital, Noum\u00e9a, to mark the 171st anniversary of the French takeover by honking horns during a radio broadcast of France\u2019s national anthem, La Marseillaise. Separately, the National Council of Chiefs of the Kanak people was to meet on the neighbouring Mar\u00e9 island and was expected to unilaterally announce a declaration of sovereignty. Still, some in the independence movement downplayed the risk of violence on Tuesday. \u201cThere are rumours, but it won\u2019t be that. It won\u2019t be a declaration of independence for Kanaky,\u201d Marcel Toyon, one of the leaders of CCAT, the group coordinating pro-independence actions on the ground, said in a video posted on his Facebook page this week. In Mar\u00e9, Inaat ne Kanaky, the council of great customary chiefs, was to hold a ceremony to \u201cunilaterally declare the sovereignty of the chiefdoms over their customary territories,\u201d the council said. Rom\u00e9o Z\u00e9oula, a traditional leader from the neighbouring Lifou island, was to be at the ceremony. \u201cThis will be a symbolic gesture, to remind people that the taking of possession 171 years ago was not legitimate, and then we will pass on this work to all the country\u2019s customary authorities,\u201d Z\u00e9oula said. \u2018We shouldn\u2019t be afraid\u2019 In the Magenta district, which is regularly the scene of clashes between young people and the police, 30-year-old Abraham Neyoukoeo, like many other activists, also emphasised the need for recognition of the Kanak people. \u201cOur fight goes beyond the political dimension. It\u2019s a question of recognising our identity, as it always has been. Recognition of our identity and recognition that this land has been trodden for thousands of years, since the Lapita [Kanak ancestors] long before the arrival of the white man.\u201d On Tuesday, he and his friends peacefully flew the Kanaky flag \u201cto mark the occasion\u201d. The young man with long dreadlocks, who stood up to the police in the early days of the riots, sought to reassure people that \u201cthe independence we are fighting for is for all Caledonians.\u201d \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t be afraid, but we should get to know each other better,\u201d he said. Tensions have simmered for decades between Kanak people, who have long sought to break free from France after suffering from strict segregation policies and widespread discrimination. The recent outbreak comes at a time of political change in France, as new prime minister Michel Barnier formed a government on Saturday. Barnier\u2019s first decision on New Caledonia is likely to be whether to hold or postpone provincial elections scheduled for 15 December. Despite the concerns about what might unfold on 24 September, in Tuband, Mathieu, who arrived in New Caledonia about 15 years ago, remained optimistic about the territory\u2019s future. \u201cOur children have grown up here, it\u2019s our home, we\u2019ve invested everything here and we have no intention of leaving, even if we did think about it at the beginning \u2026 \u201cI think we should focus more on what brings us together rather than what separates us,\u201d he said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Family call on UK to ensure British activist goes free from Egyptian jail;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/alaa-abd-el-fattah-british-activist-egypt-jail;2024-09-24T04:00:28Z",
        "text": "The family of Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British activist and author imprisoned in Egypt, are calling on the UK government as well as the Egyptian authorities to ensure he walks free at the end of this month after five years in detention. \u201cLet\u2019s remember that this is an innocent man who has committed no crime, but even so he will have served his time on 29 September,\u201d said Abd el-Fattah\u2019s sister, Sanaa Seif. Abd el-Fattah\u2019s family fear what rights groups have described as Egypt\u2019s \u201crevolving door\u201d detention system where political prisoners are hit with fresh charges to prevent them from going free. Seif said she hoped the Egyptian authorities could prove responsive to the new government in London if it were to state that Abd el-Fattah had served his time and should be freed. She said David Lammy, the foreign secretary, was \u201cwell placed to deliver\u201d her brother\u2019s freedom if he chooses to act. Lammy has previously championed Abd el-Fattah\u2019s case, accusing the former Conservative government of letting down British citizens by failing to take action. While Lammy has not addressed Abd el-Fattah\u2019s case publicly since taking office, Seif and her family hope he will do in government what he demanded while in opposition. Abd el-Fattah, a figurehead of Egypt\u2019s 2011 uprising that overthrew the former dictator Hosni Mubarak, has spent the majority of the last decade in detention for his activism, mostly after a sweeping anti-democratic crackdown by President Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi, who came to power in a military coup a decade ago. The 42-year-old computer programmer and blogger, known for his writing about countering authoritarianism, was detained five years ago when authorities swept up well-known activists during a brief spate of anti-government protests. He became a British citizen while incarcerated in December 2021 through his mother, the human rights activist Laila Soueif. That month he was sentenced to five years in detention, accused of \u201cspreading false news and undermining national security\u201d, for sharing a social media post about torture. Abd el-Fattah\u2019s family say the upcoming date marking the end of his five years in prison, including a prolonged spell in pre-trial detention in a maximum-security prison where he was tortured on arrival, presents an opportunity for both governments. The US state department\u2019s most recent human rights report on Egypt cites \u201creports of significant numbers of political prisoners and detainees\u201d, including Abd el-Fattah, and rights groups say little to no progress has been made on this issue. The state department said this month it would seek congressional approval to grant Egypt an annual maximum in $1.3bn military aid. For the first time under Joe Biden, the state department said it would request that Cairo receive a portion of this sum normally conditioned on Egypt making tangible progress on human rights, including $95m tied to reducing the numbers of political prisoners, which several senators said Egypt had failed to do. Seif said: \u201cThe just thing would be for Alaa to have never served this sentence as he didn\u2019t commit a crime, he posted on social media about torture, but we\u2019re not even attempting to reach the just thing, just for the Egyptian authorities to stop renewing his unfair punishment. This is not a high bar. \u201cDavid Lammy is now the foreign minister, he needs to find a way to communicate to the Egyptian authorities that it\u2019s not acceptable that Alaa stays beyond his sentence.\u201d As the shadow foreign secretary, Lammy was pictured standing alongside Seif and her family when she staged a days-long sit-in, sleeping outside the Foreign Office in Whitehall in October 2022 to demand that the then foreign secretary, James Cleverly, meet them to explain how the government was acting to free Abd el-Fattah. Lammy told BBC Radio 4 a month later: \u201cWe have a \u00a34bn trade deal with Egypt, that is tremendous leverage. Why has it taken months and months for the Foreign Office to act? I\u2019ve been asking for them to act, and I\u2019ve got to tell you that UK citizens have been badly let down.\u201d While Egyptian authorities readily acknowledged Seif\u2019s British citizenship, acquired during her own detention in Egypt four years ago, they have so far stonewalled efforts to acknowledge her brother\u2019s. The Labour party pledged to introduce the right to consular assistance \u201cin cases of human rights violations\u201d in its most recent manifesto. \u201cAs the bare minimum, the Egyptian authorities have to acknowledge Alaa\u2019s British citizenship,\u201d Seif said. \u201cIt was insulting that they did this under the Conservative government, that the former prime minister spoke about Alaa but the other side didn\u2019t acknowledge it, while the British government did nothing about this and relations were fine.\u201d Despite the former prime minister Rishi Sunak telling Seif that his government was \u201ctotally committed to resolving your brother\u2019s case\u201d, many British officials declined to use opportunities to discuss Abd el-Fattah\u2019s detention with their Egyptian counterparts. Seif said: \u201cWe have a new government, and hopefully all of this was in the past, so I am hoping there is going to be a different attitude.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;The murder trial that captivated New Zealand ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/philip-polkinghorne-murder-trial-pauline-hanna-new-zealand-ntwnfb;2024-09-23T23:44:11Z",
        "text": "A successful eye surgeon accused of having a habit for methamphetamine and sex-workers. His wife, found dead at their home in an affluent Auckland suburb. For eight weeks, the trial captivated New Zealand. On Monday, the jury found 71-year-old ophthalmologist Philip Polkinghorne not guilty, bringing an end to a case that gripped the country, filling newspapers and TV bulletins for months. Polkinghorne stood accused of murdering his wife, Pauline Hanna, in 2021. The Crown alleged he fatally strangled her and staged her death to make it look like a suicide. The defence argued that Hanna, an overworked health sector executive, took her own life after struggling with depression. Murder trials are far from uncommon in New Zealand, where there is roughly one homicide every five days, according to police statistics. But in recent years, few cases have attracted the extraordinary degree of public attention as the Polkinghorne trial. Two of the country\u2019s largest news outlets, the New Zealand Herald and Stuff, ran daily live blogs and launched competing podcasts to cover every development, witness by witness, exhibit by exhibit. At the high court in Auckland, the public turned out in droves to watch the proceedings in person, regularly filling the public gallery to capacity, while both podcasts about the trial have climbed to the top three on Spotify\u2019s podcast rankings for New Zealand. James Hollings, an associate professor of journalism at Massey University, says the degree of media attention devoted to the trial was \u201cunusual\u201d, which he attributes to both local media\u2019s push for ratings during an otherwise \u201cquiet news spell\u201d and to the presence of the \u201cclassic features of the celebrity trial\u201d. \u201cIt ticks all the boxes of what makes a trial interesting, which is a high profile person, a mysterious death. It\u2019s got all the sort of tacky details of the sex workers and the double life.\u201d \u2018It will sound shocking\u2019 It all began on the morning of 5 April 2021, when Polkinghorne called police to report that he had found his wife\u2019s body in the couple\u2019s home in the wealthy Auckland suburb of Remuera, apparently hanged. Within an hour of attending the scene, police were treating the death as suspicious, although it took sixteen months for Polkinghorne to be charged with murder. As the trial opened, Crown prosecutor Alysha McClintock told the jury that the doctor was living a \u201cdouble life\u201d, which was becoming \u201charder and harder to keep from his wife\u201d. The Crown case was that a combination of drug use, infidelity and financial problems drove Polkinghorne to kill Hanna. \u201cHe staged the scene to make it look like his wife\u2019s death was a suicide,\u201d McClintock alleged. \u201cIt will sound shocking, like something out of a crime novel.\u201d The fact that Polkinghorne used methamphetamine was not in dispute, with the defendant pleading guilty on the first day of the trial to possessing the drug. While the defence maintained the doctor only used the drug recreationally, the Crown cast him as a \u201cheavy\u201d user whose behaviour was becoming increasingly erratic. An analysis of Polkinghorne\u2019s phone revealed that, in the days after Hanna\u2019s death, Polkinghorne searched \u201cleg edema after strangulation\u201d using a private web browser, and searched for how to delete iCloud storage. The court heard that WhatsApp messages sent minutes before calling police were also deleted, as were phone call logs. A central character in the Crown\u2019s case was Sydney-based escort Madison Ashton, with whom Polkinghorne was found at a luxury South Island lodge less than a month after Hanna\u2019s death. The court heard that Polkinghorne had transferred over $100,000 to Ashton, while messages deleted from Polkinghorne\u2019s phone indicated the pair were in a relationship and were planning for the future. Polkinghorne\u2019s relationship with Ashton wasn\u2019t his only extramarital entanglement. In the five years leading up to Hanna\u2019s death, Polkinghorne transferred a total of $300,000 to six women, three of whom were identified to the jury as sex workers, the court heard. Before her death, Hanna told relatives that she knew of her husband\u2019s infidelity, calling him a \u201csex fiend\u201d who \u201cwants to have sex with everyone\u201d. \u201cHe screws women, and he hurts me, but I know he loves me,\u201d the court heard Hanna say via a recorded conversation. Polkinghorne\u2019s lawyer, Ron Mansfield KC, said the evidence of extramarital affairs and drug use was a distraction, and that the Crown had failed to identify any forensic evidence of a murder. \u201cNo evidence at the scene, no evidence on the body. That would have to be the perfect murder. Can I suggest it\u2019s not. It\u2019s a phantom,\u201d Mansfield told the jury. Two forensic pathologists called by the defence concluded that the likely cause of death was suicide by hanging, both stressing the lack of injuries indicating a violent struggle. Defence witnesses also spoke of Hanna\u2019s struggles with depression. She had attempted suicide in the early 1990s, her sister said, while her GP confirmed Hanna had reported suicidal thoughts in 2019. Other witnesses spoke of the stress that Hanna was under in her job during the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, at times working about 100 hours a week. On Monday, Justice Lang read out a question he had received from the jury, which revealed that most of the jury did not believe there was enough evidence to show that Hanna committed suicide but some did not think the Crown had provided enough evidence to answer whether Polkinghorne had murdered Hanna. Three hours later, the jury returned its verdict: not guilty. Speaking outside court, Polkinghorne said: \u201cWe can now grieve and let Pauline rest in peace.\u201d Lifeline Aotearoa can be reached in New Zealand on 0800 543 354. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Benjamin Netanyahu considering mass clearance of northern Gaza;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-plan-northern-gaza-palestinian-civilians-hamas;2024-09-23T20:44:49Z",
        "text": "Benjamin Netanyahu is considering a plan to force Palestinian civilians out of northern Gaza and put Hamas militants who remain in the area under siege in order to force the release of hostages. The plan, published by retired military commanders and floated by some parliament members this month, calls for the area to be declared \u201ca closed military zone\u201d after civilians have been told to leave. The Likud MP Avichai Boaron said the plan was \u2018\u2018currently being evaluated by the government\u201d. \u201cAccording to the plan, the IDF will evacuate all the civilians who are in the north of Gaza, from the border to the Gaza River,\u201d Boaron told the Guardian. \u2018\u2018And after they will evacuate, the IDF will assume that only the terrorists will remain. When the civilians population has left, you can find and kill all the terrorists without harming the civilians.\u201d The Israeli national broadcaster, Kan, quoted the Israeli prime minister as saying the blueprint \u201cmakes sense\u201d and that it was \u201cone of the plans being considered\u201d. An Israeli official quoted by CNN confirmed the veracity of the quote but said: \u201cSeeing it positively does not mean adopting it.\u201d According to the UN, between 300,000 and 500,000 Palestinians, most of them displaced, are living in the northern part of Gaza. The retired Israel Defense Forces major general Giora Eiland, a former IDF strategist and a previous head of Israel\u2019s national security council, explained the main steps of the plan in a video published two weeks ago. \u201cThe reality today in Gaza is that [the Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar is really not stressed,\u201d he said in the video. \u201cThe right thing to do is to inform the approximately 300,000 residents who remained in the northern Gaza Strip, citizen residents, of the following: not that we are suggesting you leave the northern Gaza Strip; we are ordering you to leave the northern Gaza Strip. \u201cIn a week, the entire territory of the northern Gaza Strip will become military territory. And this military territory, as far as we are concerned, no supplies will enter it. That is why 5,000 terrorists who are in this situation, they can either surrender or starve.\u201d Most of Gaza\u2019s population has been displaced. An estimated 1 million people \u2013 half the population \u2013 are crammed into a designated humanitarian zone that comprises less than 15% of the territory and is lacking essential infrastructure and services, according to the UN. Humanitarian access to northern Gaza is especially difficult, it has said. The plan does not tackle the question of what would happen to Palestinian civilians who are unable or unwilling to leave, or how it will help with releasing the hostages. \u2018\u2018I hope this plan will help release the hostages,\u2019\u2019 says Boaron, who had collected signatures for the plan at the Knesset. \u2018\u2018But it will definitely help to defeat Hamas.\u2019\u2019 Prof Eyal Zisser, the vice-rector of Tel Aviv University and an expert on Lebanon and Arab-Israeli relations, said Netanyahu had so far refrained from detailing what his vision or plan was for the \u201cday after\u201d in Gaza or when the war would end. \u201cSince there is no chance in the near future for a deal or a ceasefire, this means that the current situation will continue as it is \u2013 limited military operations by Israel in the Gaza Strip, but not full occupation,\u201d Zisser said. \u201cThe fear in the Israeli army is that such a thing allows Hamas to restore its military capabilities and its ability to control the population, since a vacuum has been created which Hamas exploits. That is the reason behind the idea that some of the generals have had that in practice Israel will control and establish a kind of military government in the Gaza Strip.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israeli strikes kill 492 in heaviest daily toll in Lebanon since 1975-90 civil war;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/israel-lebanon-strikes-evacuation-hezbollah;2024-09-23T20:37:21Z",
        "text": "At least 492 people have been killed and 1,645 injured, Lebanon\u2019s health ministry has said, after a wave of Israeli airstrikes on alleged Hezbollah targets that left the country with its highest daily death toll since the end of the 1975-90 civil war. Tens of thousands of people fled from south Lebanese towns and villages along the main road towards the capital, Beirut, in Israel\u2019s most intense barrage in nearly a year of cross-border clashes, as sirens were also heard in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The Lebanese health ministry said 35 children and 58 women were among those killed. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said the military was changing the \u201csecurity balance\u201d along its northern border. \u201cI promised we would change the security balance, the balance of power in the north \u2013 and that is exactly what we are doing,\u201d the Israeli prime minister told a security meeting on Monday. The Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, said the Israeli military was preparing for the \u201cnext phases\u201d in Lebanon, saying he would elaborate later. \u201cEssentially, we are targeting combat infrastructure that Hezbollah has been building for the past 20 years. This is very significant,\u201d he said. The IDF said it had hit more than 1,300 Hezbollah targets in the previous 24 hours, in its biggest attack on the militant group since the Gaza war began last October, when Hezbollah began strikes in Israel in support of Hamas. Israel also carried out airstrikes in the Beqaa valley and its second airstrike on Beirut in a week, with what it said was a \u201climited\u201d airstrike in the southern suburb of Dahieh. Israeli media reported that the target of the strike was Ali Karaki, Hezbollah\u2019s number three military commander, although the group said he was in a safe location and unharmed by the attack. About 35 rockets were meanwhile fired from Lebanon towards the Safed area of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said, with some coming down in open areas close to the community of Ami\u2019ad. The US president, Joe Biden, who on Tuesday addresses the main debate of the United Nations general assembly in New York, said he was working to calm the situation. \u201cI\u2019ve been briefed on the latest developments in Israel and Lebanon. My team is in constant contact with their counterparts, and we\u2019re working to de-escalate,\u201d he said as he held talks with the UAE president, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at the White House. Earlier in the day, the IDF had warned Lebanese people in Beirut and other areas via a phone call to evacuate their residences and distance themselves from any buildings holding Hezbollah weapons. \u201cThe actions will continue until we achieve our goal to return the northern [Israel] residents safely to their homes,\u201d the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said in a video published by his office, setting the stage for a long conflict as Hezbollah has vowed to fight on until there is a ceasefire in Gaza. \u201cThese are days in which the Israeli public will have to show composure.\u201d Roads leading out of south Lebanon were jammed with traffic as people fled the relentless bombing, with areas that have served as safe zones for displaced people since last year suddenly in the crosshairs of the Israeli military. \u201cThe airstrikes have reached us, on the outskirts of [Tyre]. There was a strike just 100 metres behind the [displacement] centre, there were three of them,\u201d said Bilal Kashmar, a coordinator in a displacement centre in the southern city. He showed a video of a plume of smoke rising just across the street from the shelter that houses hundreds of families. \u201cThe displaced have stopped coming to us, those that want to flee are leaving the south entirely,\u201d Kashmar said. Tyre has hosted thousands of individuals displaced by fighting, as the city had largely been spared from airstrikes until now. Before Monday\u2019s fighting, more than 110,000 people had been displaced from south Lebanon. \u201cThe airstrikes aren\u2019t stopping, airstrike on airstrike. People are scared,\u201d said Hassan Dabouk, the head of Tyre\u2019s union of municipalities. Videos of collapsed buildings and of bombs falling from the sky and the resulting explosions shaking the hands of those filming circulated on social media as people tried to track the extent of Israel\u2019s campaign. In one video, a driver films as smoke fills the air on the road ahead of them after a strike. \u201cStop, stop, stop!\u201d one of the passengers yells as the video cuts. \u201cAn important thing to note is that the roads are not safe,\u201d Dabouk said. \u201cThere is bombing from where we are [in Tyre] all the way to Saida. One needs to think before they leave in this situation.\u201d People with family and friends leaving the south made public appeals for any empty apartments or rooms that could host their loved ones. Spontaneous initiatives to provide housing emerged, with individuals marshalling calls for available rooms, and hostels offering discounted rates for displaced people. \u201cWe are collecting numbers right now from people that have connections in safe areas, in Druze and Christian areas,\u201d said Faten Jebai, a journalist from south Lebanon. Jebai has urged those without a place to reach out to her, as she and other volunteers work to connect displaced people with those who will open up their homes or rent at low prices. \u201cMore than 80 members of my family are now leaving the south, so I am searching for them but also for my friends and friends of the family,\u201d Jebai added. The UN peacekeeping body in Lebanon (Unifil) asked its civilian staff to relocate from south Lebanon northwards, as a \u201cprecautionary measure\u201d as fighting in south Lebanon escalated on Monday. UN peacekeepers and critical staff will remain in the south. It issued a statement expressing \u201cgrave concern for the safety of civilians in southern Lebanon amidst the most intense Israeli bombing campaign since last October\u201d and urging de-escalation. \u201cAny further escalation of this dangerous situation could have far-reaching and devastating consequences, not only for those living on both sides of the blue line, but also for the broader region,\u201d the statement read. Since the beginning of the war between Hamas and Israel, the Israeli military and Hezbollah have engaged in a limited conflict of attrition. However, escalating strikes and counterstrikes have raised fears of an all-out conflict. Last week, walkie-talkies and pagers bought by Hezbollah for its members exploded, killing 42 people and wounding more than 3,000, and on Friday an Israeli strike on a Beirut suburb killed a top Hezbollah military commander and more than a dozen fighters, as well as dozens of civilians including children. On Sunday, Hezbollah launched about 150 rockets, missiles and drones into northern Israel in retaliation for Friday\u2019s strike. Hezbollah has vowed to continue its strikes in solidarity with the Palestinians and Hamas, a fellow Iran-backed militant group, while Israel says it is committed to returning Israelis to the border region who were evacuated when the rocket strikes began."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;New military conflict between Israel and Hezbollah would follow 40 years of shadow war;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/military-conflict-israel-hezbollah-lebanon-shadow-war;2024-09-23T19:07:12Z",
        "text": "For more than 40 years, a bloody and violent shadow war has raged between Israeli intelligence services and the Lebanon-based militant Shia Islamist organisation Hezbollah. One of the earliest defeats for Israel came in November 1982, five months after its forces had invaded Lebanon set on the destruction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, then based there. When the PLO\u2019s armed fighters were forced to leave Beirut, it appeared Israel had won a major victory. Then came a shattering blast which demolished the headquarters of the Shin Bet, Israel\u2019s internal intelligence service, in the coastal town of Tyre. Ninety-one people died in the explosion, which authorities blamed then and for years afterwards on a gas leak. In fact, it had been a massive suicide car bombing, among the first of its kind and organised by militant Islamists from among the Shia population of southern Lebanon. Those behind the blast went on to join Hezbollah, which was founded the following summer with supervision and support from the new Iranian revolutionary regime that had taken power in Tehran in 1979. The same young radical Shias successfully bombed the Shin Bet\u2019s headquarters in Tyre once more in November 1983, killing 28 Israelis and 32 Lebanese prisoners. They also caused hundreds of US and French casualties with other massive suicide attacks that Israeli services were powerless to prevent. Thus began one of the hardest-fought clandestine conflicts of recent decades anywhere in the world. Israel\u2019s military fought against Hezbollah until forced to withdraw from Lebanon in 1999 and again during a brief war in 2006, but its secret security services have had no respite. An acute shortage of human intelligence left the Israelis in the dark about Hezbollah\u2019s plans throughout much of the 1980s. The whereabouts of one particular individual \u2013 a young Lebanese Shia called Imad Mughniyeh who masterminded bombs, hijackings and kidnappings \u2013 remained unclear. There were several near misses but it take more than 20 years for the Israelis to catch up with their quarry when a car bomb killed Mughniyeh in Damascus in 2008. A major battlefield in the early 90s was South America, where Hezbollah was able to recruit support from among the large Lebanese Shia diaspora. When Israeli attack helicopters killed Abbas al-Musawi, the new leader of Hezbollah, in southern Lebanon in February 1992, the militant Islamist organisation sought its revenge in Argentina. First, the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was bombed, killing 29, then in 1994 a suicide bomber killed 85 in a Jewish community centre in the Argentine capital. Both attacks were blamed on Hezbollah by investigators. South America also emerged as a major hub of Hezbollah financing, with a wide variety of legal and illegal activities run by supporters there generating massive funds for the organisation. The sheer scale of the operations, often run from remote locations where local security services had a limited presence or knowledge, impeded Israel\u2019s efforts to shut them down. Through recent decades, Europe has been another theatre of hostilities in the shadow war. As Hezbollah sought to extend its logistics operations on the continent through dozens of companies, Israeli intelligence services have tried to block the group\u2019s efforts. A series of low-profile operations had some success, many due to the discreet assistance of local security services. An attempt by Hezbollah to avenge the death of Mughniyeh with an attack on the Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan was thwarted. But then in July 2012 a suicide bus bombing killed five young Israelis and a driver in the Black Sea resort of Burgas in Bulgaria. Investigators found evidence of links to Hezbollah. By then, the battle was raging across the globe. In 2012, intelligence analysts in the US identified multiple Hezbollah plots against Israeli or Jewish targets \u2013 including two in Bangkok and one each in Delhi, Tbilisi, Mombasa and Cyprus \u2013 in just a six month period. A diplomat in Delhi was injured during a spate of attacks with magnetic car bombs in a complex operation involving agents in Thailand and India, several of them linked to Iran and Hezbollah. North America has been primarily a logistics hub for Hezbollah, with major financing operations a priority. These have allegedly allowed sympathisers to send hundreds of millions of dollars back to Hezbollah, an important stream of funding for its expansive social welfare budget as well as military operations. In 2011, US officials claimed proceeds from car sales and narcotics trafficking were funnelled back to Lebanon through Hezbollah-controlled money laundering channels. Last year, a high-profile art collector was put on a US Treasury sanctions list and charged in the US over claims that he uses his collection, which has included masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Antony Gormley and Andy Warhol, to launder money for Hezbollah. Then there has been the tit-for-tat clandestine war closer to home. In 2023, David Barnea, the director of the Mossad, the main Israeli overseas intelligence service, described 27 Iranian plots against Israelis including in Georgia, Cyprus, Greece, and Germany. Hezbollah agents have been active in Iraq, Yemen and Syria, where thousands of its fighters deployed during the civil war. If there have been wins and losses on both sides over the decades, the balance appears to have tipped decisively in Israel\u2019s favour in recent months. Israeli officials have described attempts by Iranian operatives \u2013 or Hezbollah \u2013 to carry out assassinations in Israel. None have come close to success. Last week\u2019s pager and walkie-talkie attacks, which killed 42 and wounded about 3,000, are presumed to have been carried out by the Mossad and other Israeli services and have been seen by analysts as a resounding victory in the long covert conflict. At the same time, Hezbollah\u2019s high command has been decimated by a series of Israeli assassinations of senior military officials that suggest a flow of timely, precise inside intelligence, likely derived from a mix of intercepted communications, surveillance and agents within Hezbollah\u2019s ranks. \u201cThis is a huge intelligence coup \u2026 The Israelis are targeting the top and middle levels and that leaves [Hezbollah] blind, deaf and dumb,\u201d said Magnus Ranstorp, a veteran Hezbollah observer at the Swedish Defence University. The targeted assassinations also show that the Mossad and other agencies have long institutional memories. Fuad Shukr, the Hezbollah chief of staff who was killed by Israel in July, and Ibrahim Aqil, who was killed last week, were important members of Hezbollah\u2019s current military hierarchy and would have played major roles in any coming all-out war. Both were also founder members of Hezbollah and part of the network responsible for the bombings of 1982 and 1983."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;UN general assembly to open amid fears of all-out war in Middle East;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/un-general-assembly-to-open-amid-fears-of-all-out-war-in-the-middle-east;2024-09-23T18:28:19Z",
        "text": "The 79th United Nations general assembly is to open on Tuesday morning amid a massive bombing campaign in southern Lebanon that has brought Israel and the Shia militant group Hezbollah closer than ever to all-out war, despite fevered diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the conflict. On Monday, diplomats huddled behind the scenes at the United Nations headquarters and midtown Manhattan hotels for bilateral and ministerial meetings on issues from Atlantic Ocean ecology to Ukraine\u2019s energy supply, before what the UN bills as its own \u201cSuper Bowl of global diplomacy\u201d. At the same time, media livestreams showed Israeli shells and bombs raining down over southern Lebanon in strikes that killed at least 490 people and displaced thousands, according to the country\u2019s health minister. \u201cThe continuing Israeli aggression on Lebanon is a war of extermination in every sense of the word and a destructive plan that aims to destroy Lebanese villages and towns,\u201d the Lebanese prime minister, Najib Mikati, told a cabinet meeting, according to local media. He urged \u201cthe United Nations and the general assembly and influential countries \u2026 to deter the [Israeli] aggression\u201d. But key Israeli allies including the US voiced only muted criticism over the new bombing campaign, raising questions about what diplomatic pressure was being put on the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as his government claimed it was escalating the conflict in order to pressure Hezbollah into negotiations. Speculation remains over whether Netanyahu will attend the general assembly, as he may remain at home to manage the government during the escalating violence in southern Lebanon. As of Monday, he was still slated to arrive in New York towards the end of the week and address the UN on Thursday or Friday. Mikati has already cancelled his trip to the US. In a statement on Monday, Netanyahu issued a defiant message that \u201cIsrael\u2019s war\u201d was not with the people of Lebanon but with Hezbollah. \u201cFor too long, Hezbollah has been using you as human shields \u2026 once our operation is finished, you can come back safely to your homes,\u201d the message said. The United Nations interim force in Lebanon (Unifil), a peacekeeping mission, expressed \u201cgrave concern for the safety of civilians in southern Lebanon amidst the most intense Israeli bombing campaign since last October\u201d. The attacks harming civilians are \u201cnot only violations of international law but could amount to war crimes\u201d, the statement said. The Unifil commander, Lt Gen Aroldo L\u00e1zaro, had been in contact with Lebanese and Israeli parties, and had made efforts to \u201creduce tensions and halt the shelling\u201d, it said. UN peacekeepers were deployed to monitor a ceasefire along the so-called blue line between Israel and Lebanon under resolution 1701, which brought an end to the war between the two sides in 2006. The mission includes recording violations of the ceasefire. Netanyahu, a former UN ambassador in the 1980s, is famously critical of the institution, which he has accused of providing a forum for antisemitism and anti-Zionism. An appearance by the Israeli prime minister would probably spark a walkout of a number of UN delegations who have criticised Israel\u2019s war in Gaza. It would also come as a panel of judges from the international criminal court considers whether to charge him for war crimes. He \u201chates and mistrusts the institution but he does like coming here to tell us that we\u2019re all rubbish\u201d, said Richard Gowan, UN director at the International Crisis Group. The summit will mark Joe Biden\u2019s last address before the United Nations as the US president caps off five decades of government service with an effort to settle one of the globe\u2019s most intractable conflicts. He has said repeatedly that a diplomatic resolution remains possible in the nearly year-old war in Gaza sparked by Hamas\u2019s 7 October attack on Israel, but has been unable to secure a temporary ceasefire and hostage exchange that would be the first step of a potential peace deal between the two sides. Speaking with reporters after arriving at the White House on Marine One, he confirmed that he was worried about the rising tensions in the Middle East. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do everything we can to keep a wider war from breaking out. And we\u2019re still pushing hard,\u201d he said. On Monday Biden met Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in the first visit by a United Arab Emirates leader to the US since 1971. While Biden was successful at strengthening regional ties with Gulf states such as the UAE, relations have become increasingly strained over the US support for Israel in Gaza. Saudi Arabia last week said it would not recognise Israel unless it agreed to a two-state solution with an independent Palestine, and the Emirates have said they would not support postwar reconstruction in Gaza unless it was part of a plan to form an independent Palestinian state. The US vice-president, Kamala Harris, is to meet with Zayed later on Monday. Keir Starmer and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, will also attend this week\u2019s summit, where the UN will review a number of initiatives to reform its security council that will probably be blocked owing to divisions with other permanent members Russia and China."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;French interior minister vows to \u2018restore order\u2019 as critics warn of shift to right;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/new-french-interior-minister-bruno-retailleau-right;2024-09-23T17:48:18Z",
        "text": "The French interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, has promised to \u201crestore order\u201d by cracking down on crime and immigration, as critics on the left complained that the new government had leaned too far towards the \u201creactionary right\u201d. On Monday, as Michel Barnier\u2019s new cabinet began work after more than two months of unprecedented political crisis in France, Retailleau said: \u201cThe French people want more order \u2013 order in the streets, order at the borders.\u201d He vowed to \u201cspeak the truth\u201d about what he described as growing violence in France, saying: \u201cBarbarity is becoming almost a daily [occurrence].\u201d A Catholic conservative who for years was a senator on the hardline wing of Nicolas Sarkozy\u2019s rightwing party, Les R\u00e9publicains, Retailleau has become the symbol of the government\u2019s clear shift to the right. Retailleau, 63, a social conservative and vocal defender of law and order, calls himself \u201cunapologetically of the right\u201d, and in 2013 he joined street demonstrations to oppose same-sex marriage, alongside several other rightwing politicians now in government. This year he voted against the inclusion of the right to abortion in the French constitution. In 2021, Retailleau opposed a proposed bill to ban conversion practices that seek to suppress or \u201ccure\u201d a person\u2019s sexual orientation. Last year, during unrest over the death of a teenager of Algerian heritage in a police traffic stop, Retailleau was criticised for saying there was a kind of \u201cregression to ethnic origins\u201d at play on the streets. The Socialist leader, Olivier Faure, said on Monday that the Barnier administration was \u201cthe most rightwing government\u201d in France since the Fifth Republic began in 1958. He added: \u201cThe appointment of Bruno Retailleau at the interior ministry is the most striking example of that shift: it\u2019s the reactionary right taking power.\u201d Ludovic Mendes, a centrist MP, told BFMTV that Retailleau\u2019s appointment was \u201cthe return of the old French right\u201d. Emmanuel Macron shocked France by calling a sudden snap parliament election in June after his party was trounced by the Marine Le Pen\u2019s far-right National Rally in European elections. The snap vote did not deliver Macron\u2019s promised \u201cclarification\u201d of France\u2019s polarised politics. Instead it created confusion, with the national assembly split in three and no group winning an absolute majority of 289 seats. A left alliance came first in the election, after mass tactical voting to hold back Le Pen\u2019s anti-immigration party, but it was far off an absolute majority. Macron instead turned to the right, appointing Barnier, whose Les R\u00e9publicains have fewer than 50 seats in the 577-seat parliament, with a government made up of the right and centrists. Retailleau has long called for stricter policies on immigration. As a senator, he pushed last year for the most hardline measures in Macron\u2019s latest immigration law. These measures, including restricting access to social benefits and the introduction of immigration quotas, were so strict that Le Pen claimed the law as an \u201cideological victory\u201d for her anti-immigration platform. The Constitutional Council subsequently removed many of the measures it deemed anti-constitutional. It is not clear if Retailleau will try to reintroduce them. Retailleau comes from the Vend\u00e9e area in western France and grew up in a village not far from the ruined castle that would later become the Puy du Fou historical theme park \u2013 whose award-winning historical shows have been criticised by historians for traditionalist ideas that have fuelled culture wars. Retailleau, a keen horse rider, made regular appearances on horseback from the age of 17 in the theme park\u2019s huge open-air historical show about the Vend\u00e9e. He later served for years as a trusted right-hand man to Puy du Fou\u2019s creator, the French politician Philippe de Villiers, who represented traditionalist Catholic, Eurosceptic and national sovereignty politics. Retailleau worked in local politics and at the theme park before moving to Sarkozy\u2019s party in 2010. In 2017 he ran the presidential campaign of the right\u2019s Fran\u00e7ois Fillon, who quit after embezzlement allegations. Retailleau said as he took office that the new government must listen to all voters, including those \u201cfrom the first round\u201d, which could be taken to mean Le Pen\u2019s National Rally. Le Pen\u2019s party acknowledged that it held the key to whether Barnier\u2019s government survived or fell. The left plans to bring a no-confidence vote on 1 October after Barnier\u2019s general policy speech to parliament. But the left alone does not have the numbers to bring down the government. If Le Pen\u2019s party joins a no-confidence vote in the coming months, the government could fall. \u201cIt\u2019s us who decide if the government has a future or not,\u201d said the National Rally MP Jean-Philippe Tanguy. Barnier urged his ministers to \u201cshow respect for all our fellow citizens and all political parties and listen to everybody\u201d. He told them: \u201cNo bluster, please.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Iranian president accuses Israel of seeking wider conflict;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/iran-president-masoud-pezeshkian-israel-conflict-us;2024-09-23T17:44:11Z",
        "text": "Iran\u2019s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has accused Israel of fanning the flames of war in the Middle East and said he hoped Iran could avoid being dragged into acting in a way \u201cnot worthy\u201d of it, as he spoke to the media on his first official visit to the US. The reformist, who took office in July after winning an election on a ticket of better relations with the west, said during a roundtable with journalists as he attended the UN general assembly in New York that no one benefited from war and that anyone who said otherwise was deluding themselves. \u201cWe know more than anyone else that if a larger war were to erupt in the Middle East, it will not benefit anyone throughout the world. It is Israel that seeks to create this wider conflict,\u201d he said. Tensions soared immediately after his inauguration as the visiting political chief of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated in an operation in Tehran that was widely attributed to Israel. Pezeshkian said he was repeatedly told to hold back a response to the killing because Israel was within a week or two of signing a peace agreement, but that peace remained elusive. \u201cWe tried not to respond but unfortunately that elusive week never came,\u201d he said adding that he believed Iran had been lied to. \u201cThere is no winner in warfare, everyone loses in war and conflict. We are only deluding ourselves if we think someone will be victorious in a regional war.\u201d He also said: \u201cEvery day Israel is committing more atrocities and killing more and more people \u2013 old, young, men, women, children, hospitals, other facilities.\u201d Western diplomats are still assessing Pezeshkian after two months in office dominated by conflict in the region. He did not spell out how much damage had been done to the Iran-backed Lebanese militants Hezbollah in Israel\u2019s most recent wave of attacks and did not reply directly when asked if Iran would now respond more directly to Israel. \u201cWe always keep hearing, well, Hezbollah fired a rocket. If Hezbollah didn\u2019t even do that minimum, who would defend them?\u201d he said. \u201cCuriously enough, we keep being labelled as the perpetrator of insecurity. But look at the situation for where it is.\u201d He denied that Iran had not shown its own deterrence power, arguing that in its response to Israel\u2019s destruction of the Iranian consulate in Damascus, which killed at least 11 people including a senior commander in the al-Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, Iranian forces had penetrated Israel\u2019s Iron Dome air defences and shown that it could have killed civilians. Speaking on the record for an hour to a group of almost exclusively US reporters, Pezeshkian became most animated as he accused western politicians and media of double standards in demanding human rights while at the same time remaining silent over the horrors in Gaza. \u201cWhere else in the world where countries that on the surface are committed to human rights allow these killings?\u201d he asked. He said Iran was willing to reopen talks on the nuclear deal that broke down more than a year ago, insisting the religious fatwa against Iran possessing nuclear weapons remained, and it was part of the Islamic Republic\u2019s military doctrine. He was sitting alongside the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, who earlier said on Telegram that Tehran was focused on initiating a new round of nuclear negotiations. \u201cWe are prepared, and if the other parties are also prepared, we can have another beginning of the talks during this trip,\u201d Pezeshkian said. He noted that he had been among a group of MPs who had vehemently defended the Iran nuclear deal with the west, including providing the UN nuclear weapons inspectorate with unfettered access to Iran\u2019s nuclear programme. \u201cWe are still ready to sign up to the framework we agreed to,\u201d he said, adding that the US withdrawal from the deal initiated by Donald Trump in 2018 was \u201cillegal, unfair, unjust and not right\u201d. Pezeshkian denied Iran was running a series of proxy militia groups hostile to Israel, saying the west aimed to present Iran with an \u201cinhumane face\u201d. The Houthis in Yemen \u201ccannot be subjected to our will\u201d, he said. \u201cHow can we ask them to abstain from reacting to these crimes?\u201d He said he was seeking talks with the west about the war in Ukraine and said that during his presidency no short-range missiles had been sent from Iran to Russia for use in Ukraine, a formulation that leaves out the US intelligence claim that a contract to send missiles was probably signed last summer by his predecessor, Ebrahim Raisi. Pezeshkian said Iran did not support what he described as Russia\u2019s aggression in Ukraine, and he said the borders of countries should be respected. He scoffed at suggestions that Iran was funding anti-Israeli demonstrations, describing the allegation as absurd and pointing out that Iran was having a hard time covering its own payroll."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Elon Musk to present Atlantic Council global citizen award to Giorgia Meloni;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/elon-musk-to-present-atlantic-council-global-citizen-award-to-giorgia-meloni;2024-09-23T17:39:57Z",
        "text": "Elon Musk is to present Giorgia Meloni with the Atlantic Council\u2019s global citizen award in New York, as Italy\u2019s far-right prime minister resurrects links with allies of Donald Trump before the US presidential elections. Meloni will receive the prize during a gala dinner on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in recognition of her \u201cgroundbreaking role as Italy\u2019s first female prime minister, her strong support of the European Union and the transatlantic alliance, and her 2024 chairmanship of the Group of Seven\u201d. Some staff at the Atlantic Council told Politico\u2019s NatSec Daily that they objected to Meloni receiving the award, given her previous admiration for Vladimir Putin and her positions on LGBTQ+ issues and immigration. Anger mounted when the non-partisan thinktank then announced that Musk, with whom Meloni has nurtured close relations since coming to power in October 2022, would present the award. A source familiar with the situation said Meloni had learned she would receive the accolade about a year ago, and that the council\u2019s tradition was for the recipient to select who presents it. Meloni was asked to choose between the former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Musk. \u201cShe chose Musk, not because of Trump or for any political reason, but for his vision and because she considers him a friend and a prominent person,\u201d the source said. \u201cThe scenario has altered over the last month or so but it was too late to change it.\u201d The council\u2019s CEO, Frederick Kempe, brushed off concerns that the pairing could sully the thinktank\u2019s work. He said in a statement to NatSec Daily: \u201cOur staff includes individuals with a range of viewpoints, and it\u2019s not unusual for lively discussions and disagreements on various aspects of how we approach international affairs. This diversity of thought strengthens our work.\u201d Trump recently said he would appoint Musk to lead \u201ca government efficiency commission\u201d if he wins the election. Before taking power, Meloni was an explicit supporter of Trump, praising his brand of politics as a model for Italy and regularly travelling to his political gatherings. But she has also been savvy in building good relations with Joe Biden, bolstering Italy\u2019s Atlanticist credentials and staunchly supporting Ukraine. Meloni first met Musk in Rome in June last year and then invited him to attend her Atreju political festival in December, where he backed her crackdown on illegal immigration and urged Italian women to \u201cmake more babies\u201d. Raffaele Marchetti, a professor in international relations at Luiss University in Rome, said: \u201cFor Meloni, there are multiple benefits to this relationship. But first and foremost, he could potentially be an easy and solid entrance into the Trump government. She has made some contacts in the past, but Musk would mean a clear, wide-open door to Trump.\u201d Andrea Stroppa, a Rome-based employee of SpaceX who is described as a conduit between the pair, told La Repubblica that Musk appreciated Meloni because, like Trump, \u201cshe defends western values\u201d. Stefano Quintarelli, a tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist and former Italian MP, said Meloni would maintain good relations with the US administration regardless of whether Trump or Kamala Harris enters White House. \u201cMeloni is very good at finding ways to please one or the other,\u201d he said. Meloni also met the bosses of Open AI, Google and Motorola in New York on Monday. \u201cFirstly, she wants to understand more about the impact of AI and disruptive technologies and how to mitigate the negative impacts on the society without affecting the free market, and how to attract more investments in Italy,\u201d said Paolo Messa, a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. \u201cMusk is a big personality and there\u2019s a good feeling between the two of them, and so I think she is attracted more by his ingenuity rather than his political will.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Germany\u2019s SPD mulls deal with hard left in Brandenburg after far-right defeat;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/germany-social-democrats-sdp-brandenburg-election-aftermath;2024-09-23T17:22:09Z",
        "text": "The relief felt by Germany\u2019s Social Democrats at having narrowly won a regional election against the far right was tempered on Monday when it became clear they would need the support of hard-left Russophiles in order to form a government. Olaf Scholz\u2019s centre-left party pulled off an unexpected victory in Brandenburg on Sunday, receiving 31% of the vote after a mass tactical voting drive to exclude the far-right populist Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD). While there was relief at the SPD\u2019s headquarters in Berlin, there was no escaping the fact that Germany\u2019s political landscape has been profoundly shaken by a rise in support for populist extremists of different political shades. The AfD, touting proposals for mass deportations, achieved its best result in Brandenburg, a state the SPD has governed since reunification. The far-right party came second with 29% of the vote after a wave of youth support. Three other parties with whom the SPD would usually consider a partnership performed miserably, with the Greens failing to get into parliament at all. The leftist-conservative Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), which came in third with 13%, appears crucial to coalition talks. The SPD now faces negotiations with a party that is demanding a cancellation of plans to station US long-range missiles in Germany and is calling for Berlin to push for peace talks with Moscow rather than supply Ukraine with weapons. In a sobering recognition of the task ahead, Brandenburg\u2019s leader, the SPD\u2019s Dietmar Woidke, said: \u201cPolitical stability will not be easy to achieve.\u201d Kevin K\u00fchnert, the SPD\u2019s general secretary in Berlin, said the party had contacted the BSW, but admitted that it knew very little about its regional political strategy. He predicted \u201ca Pandora\u2019s box\u201d would open if and when talks began. Like the AfD, the BSW is anti-Nato, Kremlin-friendly and anti-migration, skilled at tuning into, as well as stoking, voters\u2019 fears over living costs, immigration and a sense that Scholz\u2019s government is endangering the safety of its own citizens by sending weapons to Ukraine. Analysts said the Brandenburg results reinforced the notion that extremist parties were increasingly able to set the agenda. The BSW is also the kingmaker in two other eastern states, Thuringia and Saxony, where recent elections resulted in strong showings for the AfD, with which mainstream parties refuse to govern. In Brandenburg, a coalition between the SPD and the Christian Democrats might have been a possibility, but the centre-right party won only 11% of the vote, its worst performance in the state. The result means that an alliance between the two mainstream parties would be one seat short of the necessary majority. Woidke\u2019s win was seen to have been partly as a result of him distancing himself from the increasingly unpopular Scholz. He had made it clear that the chancellor was not welcome on the campaign trail, even though Scholz and his wife live in the state capital, Potsdam. Woidke himself preferred to attribute his success to his party\u2019s effort to keep the far right out. The AfD had been leading in the polls for a year leading up to Sunday\u2019s election. Woidke claimed the SPD was the only party to have clearly stated its aim to keep the AfD out of power. Other parties had tried to bring national issues to the regional campaign and to focus on the poor standing of Scholz\u2019s government. On Monday, as he was received as a party hero at the SPD\u2019s Willy Brandt House headquarters, Woidke said: \u201cWe were the only political power in Brandenburg that said right from the start that we would win against the AfD. Others didn\u2019t have the guts to do so.\u201d Woidke\u2019s win was seen as a harbinger that the SPD could yet save itself before the federal election scheduled for a year\u2019s time. The party\u2019s poll ratings are at rock bottom, while Scholz\u2019s popularity rating is lower than any of his predecessors. The SPD co-leader Lars Klingbeil said: \u201cIt has become clear that if the SPD takes on the fight against the AfD, with a clear stance, then we have a chance to land in first place.\u201d In the event, however, three-quarters of SPD voters said they had been motivated by the desire to keep the AfD out of power, rather than a belief in the SPD\u2019s ability to govern. Voter participation was at its highest level ever, at 73%. The AfD\u2019s party leaders predicted that the mainstream parties\u2019 \u201cfirewall\u201d would be difficult to maintain in light of its growing electoral successes. Police said they were investigating reports and videos circling on social media appearing to show members of the party\u2019s youth wing singing along to an AI-manipulated song in which a plan to \u201cdeport millions\u201d of foreigners was feted. The AfD had put the issue of what it calls \u201cremigration\u201d at the centre of its campaign, with the slogan \u201cRe:migration \u2013 of course\u201d plastered on campaign posters and party memorabilia. Analysis of the Brandenburg result showed the AfD had made considerable gains compared with the last state election in 2019, in particular among young people, enjoying a 16.6% increase in support among 16- to 24-year-olds. By contrast, the Greens lost support in every age bracket, most starkly among the youngest group, dropping 25 percentage points."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;It is not hypocritical for Azerbaijan to call for a global truce at Cop29 | Letter;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/it-is-not-hypocritical-for-azerbaijan-to-call-for-a-global-truce-at-cop29;2024-09-23T17:09:14Z",
        "text": "Your report is correct to emphasise the importance of Cop29 in Azerbaijan for global efforts on climate action. It is also true that Azerbaijan\u2019s Cop presidency has offered a Cop truce initiative, akin to the Olympic truce, to cease hostilities in conflicts around the world for the duration of the conference (Azerbaijan accused of hypocrisy after calling for Cop29 global truce, 17 September). Azerbaijan\u2019s conflict with our neighbour Armenia lasted the better part of three decades. So the significance of Armenia moving to support Azerbaijan\u2019s ultimately successful bid to host Cop29 must not be understated. The peace that had eluded our nations for 30 years is at last in reach. So no \u2013 it is not \u201chypocrisy\u201d nor \u201ccynical PR\u201d that for Cop29 we are calling for a global truce. Nor, as seems to be suggested by activists quoted in the article, does Azerbaijan having a standing military make it so. By that logic, all peace-making should be abandoned and the UN security council dissolved. Moreover, the well-rehearsed allegation that Azerbaijan \u201cethnically cleansed\u201d lands illegally occupied for decades by Armenia has been debunked \u2013 including at a UN security council meeting called by Armenia. Nor has the status of those lands ever been \u201cdisputed\u201d \u2013 the UN and every country in the world, including Armenia\u2019s current leadership, recognise them as Azerbaijan\u2019s sovereign territory. Peace in our fractious region was unthinkable for decades. That our region, as a direct result of peace negotiations, can now host Cop29 should give hope to the world even in these times of heightened geopolitical tensions. Elin Suleymanov Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the UK"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Harrods investigating if any current staff were involved in Fayed\u2019s alleged abuse;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/harrods-investigating-if-any-current-staff-were-involved-in-fayeds-alleged-abuse;2024-09-23T16:54:49Z",
        "text": "Harrods is investigating whether any of its current staff were \u201cdirectly or indirectly involved\u201d in the alleged sexual abuse of women by its former owner Mohamed Al Fayed. With more than 100 women having come forward to allege being raped or assaulted by the Egyptian tycoon, the luxury store said it had launched a review and was in direct contact with Scotland Yard. Victims have called for key staff and associates of Fayed, who died at the age of 94 last year, to reveal what they knew of the alleged abuse, which is said to have stretched over a number of decades. Harrods said in a statement: \u201cAs part of our due diligence there is an ongoing internal review (supported by external counsel) including looking at whether any current staff were involved in any of the allegations either directly or indirectly. \u201cIn addition, the Harrods board has established a non-executive committee of the board to further consider the issues arising from the allegations. Harrods is also in direct communication with the Metropolitan police to ensure we are offering our assistance with any of their relevant inquiries.\u201d The development came as lawyers representing women who have accused of Fayed of crimes including rape described a redress scheme set up by Harrods as an attempted \u201cwhitewash\u201d. The store published a statement last Friday in which it condemned \u201cthe actions of an individual who was intent on abusing his power\u201d and encouraged women to come forward to it so that it could \u201csettle claims in the quickest way possible\u201d. Bruce Drummond, a barrister at the New Bailey chambers acting for the Justice for Harrods Survivors group, said he had concerns over the attempt to directly liaise with victims, and pointed out that the store\u2019s current managing director, Michael Ward, was appointed by Fayed in 2005. He said: \u201cMichael Ward should be clear on what he knew when and should have nothing to do with liaising with victims today. \u201cIt\u2019s a complete conflict of interest for Harrods to say they have an internal process in place to deal with this scandal. They have known for years about the systematic abuse that took place and only chose to half-heartedly act when they knew the accusations were going to be made public. \u201cHarrods cannot be marking their own homework. They are trying to whitewash this whole process. If they are serious about righting the wrongs of the past they should provide the survivors with independent counsel.\u201d Ward, 68, was appointed by Fayed in 2005 after previous roles as managing director of Lloyds Chemists and as a partner at the private equity firm Apax. He told an interviewer on 2020 that he had spent \u201cmany happy years with Mohamed\u201d, adding that he \u201csaw my ability to create wealth for him\u201d. He continued in his role after Fayed sold the business to the Qatar Investment Authority for \u00a31.5bn in 2010. He is believed to be the most highly paid director at Harrods, receiving \u00a32.1m last year, down from \u00a32.3m the previous year. In an interview in 2017, he described his greatest extravagances as \u201ccars, boats and houses\u201d. It is understood that Ward will not play any role in the settlement scheme. There is no suggestion he was involved in any of the allegations made against Fayed. Harrods said: \u201cThe Harrods settlement process was designed in consultation with independent external counsel and experts in personal injury litigation. All claims settled to date and moving forwards will be based on the guidance of these external individuals to ensure swift and impartial outcomes for the victims.\u201d Barristers announced their intention last Friday to bring a civil case against Harrods, where they said a system was put in place to protect Fayed during his decades of abuse. Harrods said in response that it was \u201cutterly appalled by the allegations of abuse perpetrated by Mohamed Al Fayed\u201d, adding that \u201cduring this time as a business we failed our employees who were his victims and for this we sincerely apologise\u201d. The store went on to claim that \u201cthe Harrods of today is a very different organisation to the one owned and controlled by Fayed between 1985 and 2010; it is one that seeks to put the welfare of our employees at the heart of everything we do.\u201d The company said it had sought since last year, when it claimed new evidence had emerged, to \u201csettle claims in the quickest way possible, avoiding lengthy legal proceedings for the women involved\u201d. It is understood that Harrods has settled a number of cases in the last 18 months and that it has not sought non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). During Fayed\u2019s time a number of settlements were made with NDAs, but the store is not expected to enforce the terms of those agreements. One alleged victim of Fayed\u2019s, named only as Joan, who is being represented by Leigh Day, said she believed there should also be a public inquiry into the failure to stop Fayed. Joan said: \u201cI note the admission by Harrods that it failed its employees and is setting up a scheme to compensate survivors. Although compensation is one important element of accountability, for decades it was money that enabled Al Fayed\u2019s trafficking. Money alone cannot fix it. \u201cThe abuse suffered by those that worked at Harrods carried on for years and involved others including security and human resources personnel, medical professionals, and others. Mohamed Al Fayed died without being brought to account, but there still must be accountability and justice to help ensure that this cannot happen again.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Living in Lebanon: how have you been affected by the recent violence?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/living-in-lebanon-how-have-you-been-affected-by-the-recent-violence;2024-09-23T15:33:52Z",
        "text": "Israeli strikes into Lebanon against Hezbollah targets have killed 182 people and injured 727 in, what the country\u2019s health ministry has said, is its single deadliest day of conflict since the 2006 war. We would like to hear from those living in Lebanon and who are part of the diaspora on how they have been affected. Though we\u2019d like to hear from you, your safety and security is most important. When responding and particularly if taking photographs or video please make sure you put your safety and the safety of others first."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Anura Kumara Dissanayake: who is Sri Lanka\u2019s new leftist president?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/anura-kumara-dissanayake-who-is-sri-lanka-new-leftist-president;2024-09-23T15:21:42Z",
        "text": "As he was sworn in as Sri Lanka\u2019s new president on Monday morning, Anura Kumara Dissanayake heralded a \u201cnew era of renaissance\u201d for the country. Many believe Dissanayake\u2019s election marks a significant political pivot for Sri Lanka, which has been ruled by a rotation of the same few parties and families for decades, leading to a continuing economic recession and deep-rooted mistrust of traditional political leaders. Swathes of the population said it was the promise of change that brought them to vote for the leftist leader for the first time last weekend. As the head of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), traditionally a staunchly Marxist party, Dissanayake had remained out in the political cold for years, winning just 3.8% of the vote in the previous election. The JVP had been dogged by its past involvement in some of the worst violence in Sri Lanka\u2019s history, after it launched a bloody insurrection in the 1970s and 80s against those it deemed to be capitalists and imperialists. Thousands were killed and in the decades since the JVP had struggled to shake off this reputation. But since he took over as leader of the party a decade ago, Dissanayake had sought to build a new chapter for the JVP and break away from its characterisation as a grouping of radical Marxist militants. He won the presidential election on Sunday as part of the National People\u2019s Power (NPP), a broader leftist coalition that has toned down some of the more extreme Marxist ideologies of the JVP and worked to make itself more palatable to the Sri Lankan electorate through its anti-corruption and pro-poor messaging. Unlike most of Sri Lanka\u2019s past presidents, Dissanayake was not born into a political background. Instead, his family were largely in agriculture, while his father was a low-level office worker. Dissanayake was the first student in his school to go to university. It was while studying for his science degree that he first threw himself into the leftist politics of the JVP, joining the student wing in the late 1980s when the violent insurrection and assassinations were continuing. With government death squads targeting known JVP members, Dissanayake was forced underground for a period and his parents\u2019 house was burned down in retaliation. The party was banned for several years but, driven by an anger at \u201cstate-led terror\u201d, Dissanayake remained within its ranks. He first entered mainstream politics in 2000 when he joined parliament as an MP for the JVP. He was made a cabinet minister in 2004 after his party joined the ruling alliance, but the coalition did not last and he resigned from the post a year later. Dissanayake became leader of the party in early 2014, and not long after made a first apology for the past violence committed by JVP. In 2019, the party led the formation of a larger socialist political coalition, the NPP, along with dozens of other smaller parties, activists and trade unions, in the hope of gaining power. It was not until economic and political disaster hit Sri Lanka in 2022 that Dissanayake\u2019s political star began to rise. As Sri Lanka found itself almost bankrupt, without foreign reserves to import basic food, fuel and medicines, and populations began to go hungry, people began to turn against traditional parties and political leaders. A mass protest movement led to the toppling of the president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his powerful family dynasty, who were accused of rampant corruption and misappropriation of state assets. While the JVP denied playing a big role in the movement, known as the aragalaya (struggle), in the aftermath of Rajapaksa\u2019s resignation, many of its leaders joined the NPP. Over the past two years the party mobilised a highly effective grassroots campaign to capitalise on the frustrations voiced by the aragalaya, and Dissanayake positioned himself as the opposite to the much-loathed political elites. His promises of transparency, to hold previous political leaders accountable for corruption and end the culture of privilege for MPs proved popular. So too was his promise to renegotiate the terms of a $3bn International Monetary Fund loan, which is seen as coming with punishing conditions of austerity. Nonetheless, his victory was not a resounding one and he won on Sunday with just 43% of the vote, one of the lowest victory margins ever in a presidential race. Not all, particularly among Sri Lanka\u2019s much-maligned Tamil community, have greeted Dissanayake\u2019s election with optimism. Historically the JVP has been a staunchly Sinhala Buddhist party, seen to work against the rights of Tamils who live in the north and east of the island, where they face economic and military repression. The JVP was supportive of the brutal actions taken against Tamil separatists during the 26-year civil war and has resisted calls for investigations into the human rights abuses that took place in the conflict. Speaking briefly after his inauguration, Dissanayake acknowledged that he was taking on a country submerged in catastrophe on multiple fronts. \u201cWe don\u2019t believe that a government, a single party or an individual would be able to resolve this deep crisis,\u201d he said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Tanzania opposition leaders arrested amid crackdown on dissent;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/tanzania-opposition-leaders-arrested-amid-crackdown-on-dissent;2024-09-23T15:00:17Z",
        "text": "Police in Tanzania have arrested three leaders of the main opposition party in a series of detentions to prevent a planned anti-government protest, the latest in a string of events that analysts and rights groups say erode hopes of a new style of politics under President Samia Suluhu Hassan. Freeman Mbowe, the chair of the Chadema party, was arrested on Monday in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, while speaking with journalists. The party\u2019s deputy chair, Tundu Lissu, was taken from his home in the city in a fleet of 11 vehicles, the party said. Godbless Lema, a central committee member, was also arrested, police said. \u201cDemonstration is our constitutional right,\u201d Mbowe said before police took him away. The arrests came on the day Chadema had planned to protest against the alleged disappearances and killings of its members and other government critics by security forces. The protest was banned by the police earlier this month. Jumanne Muliro, the commander of the Dar es Salaam special police zone, said 14 people, including Mbowe and Lissu, were arrested on Monday for disobeying the ban. Mbowe\u2019s daughter was also taken into custody moments after her father, and the Citizen newspaper reported that police arrested two journalists from its parent company, Mwananchi Communications, although one was later released. Riot police were positioned in different areas of the city to prevent the protest. Chadema has accused Hassan\u2019s administration of targeting critics. Numerous party members have gone missing recently. Earlier this month, Ali Mohamed Kibao, a member of the party\u2019s national secretariat who had been abducted by armed men, was found dead, severely beaten and his face doused with acid, Mbowe said. Hassan became president after the sudden death in 2021 of John Magufuli, whose rule was characterised by censorship and repression and whose administration used oppressive laws to clamp down on criticism and opposition. Her assumption of the presidency raised expectations that she would usher in a new era for Tanzania. She reversed some of Magufuli\u2019s policies, including lifting a ban on opposition rallies and that of four newspapers. But hopes have dimmed amid a wave of arrests, including of people planning protests against a port management deal last year, and last month\u2019s detention of Mbowe, Lissu and about 400 Chadema supporters. Analysts and rights groups say she is using the same authoritarian tactics as Magufuli, and that the situation is getting worse ahead of elections expected next year. Oryem Nyeko, a Tanzania researcher at Human Rights Watch, said that while there were \u201cpositive signs\u201d at the start of Hassan\u2019s presidency, \u201cit\u2019s starting to look like more of the same\u201d. \u201cThe arrests of Mbowe and Lissu send a troubling message about how tolerant the president is of the opposition,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re raising legitimate concerns about important issues and she should be listening to them, and addressing them, instead of clamping down on them.\u201d Tito Magoti, a Tanzanian human rights lawyer, said Hassan had \u201ctaken a more radical stance\u201d towards the opposition and civil liberties because she was feeling the pressure of more people wanting to participate in government and growing calls for respect for human rights."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Russia-Ukraine war: Images suggest Russia\u2019s new intercontinental ballistic missile suffered major test failure \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/23/russia-ukraine-war-live-volodymyr-zelenskyy-new-york-latest-news-updates;2024-09-23T14:49:57Z",
        "text": "Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in the US on Sunday for a crucial visit to present Kyiv\u2019s plan to end two-and-a-half years of war with Russia. The Ukrainian president will present his proposals \u2013 which he calls a \u201cvictory plan\u201d \u2013 to the US president, Joe Biden, as well as presidential hopefuls Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. After Washington, he is due to head to New York and the UN for a planned meeting of the security council tomorrow and a speech at the General Assembly on Wednesday. The Russian foreign ministry said at least 56 civilians were killed and 266 injured during Ukraine\u2019s seven-week-old incursion into Russia\u2019s western Kursk region, covering the period up to 20 September 2024. Russia has accused Ukrainian forces of holding some civilians against their will in the Russian region of Kursk, including 70-120 people in the town of Sudzha. Russia appears to have suffered a \u201ccatastrophic failure\u201d in a test of its Sarmat missile, a key weapon in the modernisation of its nuclear arsenal, according to experts. Experts have analysed images captured by Maxar on Saturday that show a crater about 60 metres (200 feet) wide at the launch silo at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. They revealed extensive damage that was not visible in pictures taken earlier in the month. Thank you for following today\u2019s latest news. This blog is closing now but you can read all our Ukraine coverage here. Iran\u2019s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said he sought talks with the west about Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine, as he denied providing missiles to Moscow which he condemned for \u201caggression\u201d during the conflict. \u201cWe are willing to sit down with the Europeans and the Americans to have a dialogue and negotiations. We have never approved of Russian aggression against Ukrainian territory,\u201d Pezeshkian told reporters as he attended the UN general assembly in New York. Earlier this month, the US accused Iran of transferring ballistic missiles to Russia for its war in Ukraine, a charge Tehran has denied. Pezeshkian, a reformist who was elected unexpectedly in July, has signalled his government is ready to consider a resumption of talks over its nuclear programmes. Russian forces attacked the city of Kramatorsk and the village of Shakhove in the Donetsk region, killing one person and injuring at least 10 others, governor Vadym Filashkin said, according to the Kyiv Independent. Seven people, including two children, were injured in the strike on Shakhove in the Pokrovsk district, in an attack that damaged 24 houses and three administrative buildings, he said. A child was among three civilians who were killed by Ukrainian shelling of a village in Russia\u2019s Belgorod border region, governor Vyacheslav Gladkov has said. Belgorod, a region more than 600km from Moscow, is just over half an hour\u2019s drive from the border with Ukraine, making it a vital stop for Russian supply lines, but also uniquely vulnerable to attack. It is adjacent to the Kursk region where Ukrainian forces pierced Russia\u2019s western border last month in an incursion that Moscow\u2019s forces are still fighting to repel. Russia appears to have suffered a \u201ccatastrophic failure\u201d in a test of its Sarmat missile, a key weapon in the modernisation of its nuclear arsenal, according to experts. Experts have analysed images captured by Maxar on Saturday that show a crater about 60 metres (200 feet) wide at the launch silo at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. They reveal extensive damage that was not visible in pictures taken earlier in the month. The RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is designed to deliver nuclear warheads to strike targets thousands of miles away in the US or Europe, but its development has been hit by delays and testing setbacks. \u201cBy all indications, it was a failed test. It\u2019s a big hole in the ground,\u201d Pavel Podvig, an analyst based in Geneva, who runs the Russian Nuclear Forces project, said. \u201cThere was a serious incident with the missile and the silo.\u201d Timothy Wright, research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the destruction of the area immediately surrounding the missile silo was suggestive of a failure soon after ignition. \u201cOne possible cause is that the first stage (booster) either failed to ignite properly or suffered from a catastrophic mechanical failure, causing the missile to fall back into or land closely adjacent to the silo and explode,\u201d he told Reuters. James Acton, nuclear specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, posted on X that the before-and-after satellite images were \u201cvery persuasive that there was a big explosion\u201d and said he was convinced that a Sarmat test had failed. The Kremlin has referred questions on Sarmat to the defence ministry. Earlier this month, Nato states Romania and Latvia saw Russian drones crash after breaching their airspace, prompting official calls for measures to act jointly to counter Russia air incursions. The Dutch defence minister, Ruben Brekelmans, was asked about Russian incursions into airspace in an interview with Delfi, the Dutch media outlet. He said he condemns such violations, which he described as \u201cdangerous\u201d for their potential to escalate the conflict. Brekelmans said Netherlands demonstrates its support to the Nato alliance by, for example, contributing F-35 fighter jets for \u201cair policing\u201d and deploying drones for surveillance. He added: I cannot make any specific statements yet about how we will deploy our systems, but we have to send a very clear signal and a very clear signal to Russia that these types of violations are not acceptable and Nato will act if necessary. The UK government\u2019s position on whether Ukraine would be given permission to fire Storm Shadow weapons in Russia \u201cremains unchanged\u201d, a spokesperson for the prime minister says. We remain in constant contact with the Ukrainians and will always listen to their position. As you can expect at UNGA (UN General Assembly), we will be focused on a number of issues; that includes ongoing support for Ukraine in their defence against Russia\u2019s aggression, but also a ceasefire in Gaza and a deescalation of tensions in Lebanon amongst others. On Storm Shadow, she added: When it comes to that, our position remains unchanged. I think, as the PM said following his trip to Washington just last week, our ongoing discussions on Ukraine are not about one specific bit of military equipment. They are broader discussions about strategy and about how we support Ukraine during what is a crucial period over the next few months and as we enter winter. Prior to a meeting with the US president Joe Biden during that trip, officials had said the UK prime minister Keir Starmer would press for Washington to back his plan to let Storm Shadow be used to strike inside Russia. As we reported in an earlier post, Russia has accused Ukrainian forces of holding some civilians against their will in the Russian region of Kursk, including 70-120 people in the town of Sudzha. Asked about this claim, Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesperson Heorhiy Tykhyi told Reuters that Ukraine abides by international humanitarian law and does not target civilians. Ukraine has accused Russia of seeking to illegally seize control of the strategically important Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait, as hearings opened at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in a high-stakes arbitration case between Kyiv and Moscow. \u201cRussia wants to take the Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait for itself, and so it has built a great gate at the entrance to keep international shipping out while allowing small Russian river vessels in,\u201d Ukrainian representative Anton Korynevych told a panel of arbitrators. The gate he referred to is a bridge built by Russia across the Kerch Strait after the annexation of Crimea. The 19-kilometer (12-mile) bridge linking the Black and Azov seas carries road and rail traffic on separate sections and is vital to sustaining Russia\u2019s military operations in southern Ukraine. \u201cThe bridge is unlawful and it must come down,\u201d Korynevych was quoted by the Associated Press as having told the arbitration panel. Ukraine filed the case in 2016, two years after Russia annexed Crimea. It accuses Moscow of subsequently breaching a UN maritime treaty by building the bridge, barring Ukrainian fishermen from waters they traditionally fished, damaging the environment and plundering underwater archeological sites. Kyiv is seeking unspecified compensation. Russia insists the arbitration court does not have jurisdiction and are arguing that the Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait constitute \u201cinternal waters\u201d that are not covered by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the treaty Ukraine alleges Russia is breaching. \u201cUkraine\u2019s accusations in this case are, of course, completely groundless and hopeless,\u201d Russian Agent Gennady Kuzmin told the panel. After Monday\u2019s two opening statements, the panel hearings will continue for days behind closed doors. A final ruling could take years. As we reported in an earlier post, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has visited a Pennsylvania ammunition factory to thank the workers who are producing one of the most critically needed munitions for his country\u2019s fight to fend off Russian ground forces. Here are some images of his visit: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to present a \u201cvictory plan\u201d in the country\u2019s war with Russia to the US president, Joe Biden, during his diplomatic visit to the US this week. The plan, details of which Zelenskyy has so far publicly held back, appears to be a big push from the Ukrainian leader to try to persuade Washington and other allies to provide further and deeper aid to his country in an effort to force Moscow to end the conflict on terms acceptable to Kyiv. Ukrainian officials have suggested that Russia could eventually be invited to a summit to discuss a resolution to the conflict under the new plan. Asked about Zelenskyy\u2019s initiative, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters earlier today: We believe that one should not analyse media reports. If information about it appears in official sources we will of course scrutinise it. There is a lot of contradictory and unreliable information on it out there, so we are very cautious about this. In an earlier post, we cited the Russian foreign ministry as saying that 31 civilians had been killed during Ukraine\u2019s incursion into Russia\u2019s Kursk region, which was launched on 6 August 2024. The figures provided by the ministry were as of 5 September 2024. The ministry has now updated its figures, saying at least 56 civilians were killed and 266 injured during Ukraine\u2019s seven-week-old incursion into Russia\u2019s western Kursk region, covering the period up to 20 September 2024. We have not yet verified these figures. It said 131,000 civilians had left the most dangerous areas of the region but accused Ukrainian forces of holding some civilians against their will, including 70-120 people in the town of Sudzha. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said earlier this month that his forces controlled 100 settlements in Kursk region over an area of more than 1,300 sq km (500 sq miles). Russian sources disputed this figure to Reuters and Russia says it has since taken back some villages in a counterattack. Relations with Russia should be reconsidered after its war in Ukraine is over, French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday. He was speaking in Paris during a meeting for peace organised by the Catholic community of Sant\u2019Egidio. You can watch the video here. The Kyiv Independent has the following report containing Macron\u2019s translated remarks: Speaking at an event in Paris, the French president urged people to imagine \u201ctomorrow\u2019s peace\u201d in Europe in a new form, and in a new reality. \u201cWe will have to think about a new form of organisation of Europe and rethink our relations with Russia after the war in Ukraine,\u201d Macron said. In the early months of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion, Macron was criticised over his calls to avoid \u201cthe humiliation\u201d of Russia, but later he hardened his stance. Paris has since delivered to Ukraine a number of long-range Scalp missiles, and Macron announced in February a coalition to supply Kyiv with \u201cmedium- and long-range missiles and bombs.\u201d Another of Macron\u2019s initiatives, sending military instructors to Ukraine, has reportedly been supported by some countries but so far seen no development. The French president said that building a new international order is \u201cthe biggest challenge\u201d and that today it is \u201cincomplete and unfair\u201d. \u201cWe need an order where some countries cannot block others, and where countries are represented with dignity, and therefore this should be done in much fairer bodies, such as the UN, the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund,\u201d Macron added. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has been giving his regular briefing to journalists. Here are some of the highlights from what he said: Peskov said he had no information about a test of Russia\u2019s RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, after arms experts said on the basis of satellite imagery that it appeared to have failed in a test this month. When asked about international chess governing body FIDE\u2019s ban on Russian and Belarusian players ,the Kremlin said that Ukraine and the west had put pressure on FIDE. Vladimir Putin will meet Mikhail Kovalchuk, the head of the Kurchatov nuclear research institute, on Monday. The Kremlin said it will study Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s so-called \u201cvictory plan\u201d if it sees official information on it. Details of the plan have not yet been released to the public. Russia\u2019s president, Vladimir Putin, has called for an expanded role for the Brics bloc on world\u2019s energy markets. Russia, which is the world\u2019s second largest oil exporter (behind Saudi Arabia) and has the biggest reserves of natural gas, hosts annual Energy Week International Forum later this week and it is expected to hold a meeting of Brics\u2019 energy ministers. \u201cIt is obvious that in the new geopolitical realities, cooperation in the energy sector should serve to strengthen national economies, help solve priority social problems, and improve people\u2019s quality of life,\u201d Putin was quoted by Reuters as having said in a letter to the forum\u2019s participants and guests. \u201cIt is crucial to agree on common principles for our countries in the just energy transition, and outline ways to strengthen the role of Brics in the global energy dialogue,\u201d he said about the forthcoming meeting of Brics energy ministers. In 2006, Brazil, Russia, India and China created the Bric group to challenge a world order dominated by the west. South Africa joined in 2010, making it Brics. Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) became members at the beginning of this year. After the Brics expansion, the alliance accounts for 42% of the global oil and gas reserves. Saudi Arabia has not yet officially joined the grouping, but Russia\u2019s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has said that Russia had invited Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, to attend a Brics summit in the city of Kazan next month. Ben Quinn is a senior reporter for the Guardian Fake news websites registered in the UK and made to resemble trusted British outlets are allegedly spreading disinformation about western companies operating in Ukraine. The suspected Russian propaganda operation has prompted calls by parliamentarians for a change in the law to force UK-registered news websites to reveal their ownership, as happens in the EU. While the sites \u2013 londoninsider.co.uk and talk-finance.co.uk \u2013 are in English and have been registered in the UK, their output has been picked up and disseminated in Ukraine, where the UK\u2019s media has a reputation for reliability and trustworthiness. The use of the sites has been highlighted by a US firm, Sarn, which is working in Ukraine in the energy and military hardware sectors. It said articles on the two sites had falsely accused it of arms trafficking, judicial fraud and embezzlement. Content on the sites appears to be AI-generated, while an analysis by a linguist engaged by Sarn suggested that the original text had been created by a Russian speaker. You can read the full story here: Ukraine\u2019s offensive in Russia\u2019s Kursk region had killed at least 31 civilians and injured 256 as of 5 September, the Russian foreign ministry has said. These figures have not yet been verified by the Guardian. Kyiv launched its Kursk offensive on 6 August in a bid to pull Moscow\u2019s forces away from eastern Ukraine, where the Russian army has captured a string of villages in recent months. The offensive, which Volodymyr Zelenskyy said has drawn tens of thousands of Russian troops away from the frontline, is being supported by swarms of drones and heavy weaponry, including western-made arms. Russia said 131,000 civilians had left the most dangerous areas of the Kursk region. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has given a wide-ranging interview to the New Yorker. In it he said that Donald Trump\u2019s running mate JD Vance is \u201ctoo radical\u201d in his ideas of how to end the war in Ukraine. Vance, who has criticised US aid packages to Ukraine and pushed for negotiations with Russia, suggested earlier this month that Trump\u2019s plan to end the war could include the establishment of a special demilitarized zone between Ukraine and Russia. Vance said that Ukraine would retain its sovereignty, but would have to give assurances to Moscow that it would not join Nato or any other allied institutions. \u201cThe idea that the world should end this war at Ukraine\u2019s expense is unacceptable. But I do not consider this concept of his a plan, in any formal sense,\u201d the Ukrainian president said in his interview with the New Yorker which was published on Sunday. \u201cI don\u2019t take Vance\u2019s words seriously, because, if this were a plan, then America is headed for global conflict. It will involve Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Taiwan, China, as well as many African countries. That approach would broadcast to the world the following implicit rule: I came, I conquered, now this is mine,\u201d he added. After Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Zelenskyy asked for his country to be admitted to the 32-member defensive alliance as soon as possible. Jens Stoltenberg, the outgoing Nato secretary general, said Ukraine\u2019s membership to Nato is not a \u201cquestion of if, but when\u201d, though he said Ukraine would not become a member during the war with Russia. In the New Yorker interview, Zelenskyy said Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, does not know how to stop the war even if he thinks he does. As we mentioned in the opening summary, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy began his visit to the US with a visit to the Scranton army ammunition plant, which produces components for artillery and mortar shells. He said in a post on X that he is grateful to American workers who are helping build \u201cthis incredible arsenal of global freedom\u201d. The Scranton plant is among the few facilities in the US that manufactures 155mm artillery shells, which are used in howitzer systems able to strike targets from a long distance. The plant is reported to have ramped up production of these shells in the last year. Ukraine has already received more than 3 million of them from the US. In Kherson, Russian shelling and airstrikes hit residential buildings, killing one 61-year-old woman and wounding seven people Sunday, governor Oleksandr Prokudin said. Russia controls part of the territory in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. They have both been regularly attacked by Russia during the war. In an update on Telegram, the air force of the armed forces of Ukraine said that two guided air missiles and four drones were detected in Ukrainian airspace overnight. Three of the drones were shot down by anti-aircraft defence in the Sumy region, while the other drone and two guided air missiles did not reach their targets, it added. Hello and welcome to the Ukraine live blog. I\u2019m Yohannes Lowe and the time in Kyiv has just gone past 10:30am. Here are the latest developments: Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in the US on Sunday for a crucial visit to present Kyiv\u2019s plan to end two-and-a-half years of war with Russia. The Ukrainian president will present his proposals \u2013 which he calls a \u201cvictory plan\u201d \u2013 to President Joe Biden, as well as presidential hopefuls Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and will also attend sessions at the UN general assembly. The visit comes after a summer of intense fighting, with Moscow advancing fast in eastern Ukraine and Kyiv holding on to swathes of Russia\u2019s Kursk region. Kyiv has for weeks pressed the west to allow it to use delivered long-range weapons to strike targets deep inside Russia \u2013 so far to no avail. The Ukrainian president urged his partners to help achieve \u201ca shared victory for a truly just peace\u201d, in a post on X with his nightly video address. \u201cThis fall will determine the future of this war,\u201d Zelenskyy said in the address, delivered from a plane. Ukrainian media later reported he landed in New York. He is also due to visit Washington later in the week. The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, indicated that delicate negotiations with the White House to allow Ukraine to use Storm Shadow missiles inside Russia are ongoing, arguing it was a time for \u201cnerve and guts\u201d. The apparent encouragement to Biden comes just over a week after Lammy and the prime minister, Keir Starmer, visited the US president in the White House but failed to resolve the sticking point between two countries. Speaking at a fringe event at the Labour party conference in Liverpool on Sunday, Lammy said it was \u201ca critical time for nerve and guts and patience and for fortitude on behalf of allies who stand with Ukraine\u201d. At least 16 civilians were injured, including a 15-year-old boy, on Sunday evening as a result of Russian airstrikes on the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian officials said on Monday. Rescuers evacuated residents from several damaged apartment buildings, Ukraine\u2019s interior ministry said on Telegram. The ministry said that according to preliminary information Russia used its KAB guided aerial bombs to strike Zaporizhzhia. Russia launched new strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv which hit high-rise apartment buildings, leaving at least 21 wounded in a second consecutive night-time attack, authorities said. The bombs fell on Saturday night on the district of Shevchenkivsky, north of the centre of Kharkiv, which is the second-largest Ukrainian city, local governor Oleh Syniehubov said. A firefighter was killed by a Ukrainian drone in Russia-controlled Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine, the Russian emergencies ministry said on Sunday. The drone\u2019s explosives detonated when Vyacheslav Glazunov, 33, was extinguishing a fire in the Novoaidar district triggered by fallen drones, the ministry said on Telegram. Another two firefighters were injured, it added."
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    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Susie Younger obituary;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/susie-younger-obituary;2024-09-23T14:49:31Z",
        "text": "My sister Susie Younger, who has died aged 88, spent much of her life helping poor and disadvantaged people in South Korea; she had moved there from Britain in the late 1950s. Working mainly with the Roman Catholic church in the city of Daegu, she helped to bring orphan children off the streets, set up a girls\u2019 home and vocational training centre for women, and trained up local people to produce cheap food. In 1969 she wrote a book on her early experiences in Korea, Never Ending Flower. Although she always remained deeply involved in Korea, Susie later moved to France, where she was based for three decades at the College of the Auxiliaries of the Apostolate in Lourdes, helping Catholic women from Korea and other Asian countries to develop and deepen their faith in preparation for better serving the Catholic church and communities in their home countries. Susie was the eldest daughter of Sir Kenneth Younger, a Labour MP who served in the 1945-51 Clement Attlee government, and his wife, Betty (nee Stewart). Born in London, Susie did her secondary education at St Christopher school in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. After gaining a PPE degree at Somerville College, Oxford, and a social science certificate from LSE, she spent a year in London as a social worker. Despite being from a non-religious family, she had become interested in Christianity shortly before going to Oxford, first as an Anglican and then a Roman Catholic. She decided to go to Korea in 1959 after meeting an Austrian Catholic woman, Maria, who was on her way there. Back then the country was still deeply impoverished after the Korean war, and when the two of them arrived in Daegu they began taking in orphan boys off the streets to prevent them falling into the clutches of criminal gangs. They had both brought some money with them, which they used to support their venture alongside financial help from the Catholic church in Korea. After a few years, with a Korean colleague, Lucia, Susie established a home in Daegu for poor young girls and women (which still exists), focusing on those at risk of being pulled into prostitution. She also established an integral vocational training centre to teach the women trades such as hairdressing and beauty treatments. In 1964 she secured some land outside the city that she rented free from the local authority, establishing a farm there that trained aspiring farmers to provide cheap food. She lived in poverty during her early years in Korea, contracting typhoid twice and using up any money she had on her projects. But she was also able to raise cash through her own Susie Younger Korean Trust and grants from charities. Susie left Korea for Lourdes in the early 70s, but always regarded herself as being under the authority of the Bishop of Daegu. Her role at Lourdes involved her in regular travel back to Korea and to other parts of Asia, particularly the Philippines. She retired in 2004 and returned to live in Daegu, where she was active in her Catholic community. In 2011 she was given honorary Korean citizenship, and she was still living in Daegu at her death. She is survived by me, her sister, Lucy, a nephew, Ned, and a great-niece, Juno."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;France\u2019s new government meets with focus on the budget and immigration \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/23/france-cabinet-new-government-macron-barnier-europe-latest-live-news-updates;2024-09-23T13:19:14Z",
        "text": "France\u2019s new government gathered for the first time. Michel Barnier, the prime minister, has set budget and migrant issues as top priorities. Bruno Retailleau, France\u2019s newly-named interior minister, gave a speech stressing that his priority will be to \u201crestore order\u201d. Germany\u2019s Social Democratic party (SPD) narrowly won yesterday\u2019s election in Brandenburg. The SPD\u2019s co-leader, Lars Klingbeil, said \u201cyesterday\u2019s election gives us courage that we can do it, but of course I also know that the challenges and the questions we have to deal with at national level are far from dealt with as a result of yesterday evening.\u201d The far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) party had made considerable gains among young people in Brandenburg. Sahra Wagenknecht has celebrated her party\u2019s performance in the Brandenburg state election, writing that there\u2019s no way around it. Three women died after their boat sank off the island of Samos, the Greek coastguard said. Michel Barnier, the French prime minister, has told his new ministers to work together as a team, BFMTV reports. He also asked them to be modest. Germany\u2019s Social Democratic party (SPD) narrowly won yesterday\u2019s election in Brandenburg \u2013 and the party leadership is now downplaying questions about Olaf Scholz\u2019s candidacy in next year\u2019s national election. \u201cYesterday\u2019s election gives us courage that we can do it, but of course I also know that the challenges and the questions we have to deal with at national level are far from dealt with as a result of yesterday evening,\u201d the party\u2019s co-leader, Lars Klingbeil, said today, the Associated Press reported. Klingbeil reiterated that that Scholz\u2019s candidacy isn\u2019t in question. \u201cThere is absolutely no wobbling,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the leadership of the party, the parliamentary group, among the state governors and ministers, there is no discussion about this in any place.\u201d France\u2019s new government gathered for the first time today. Michel Barnier, the prime minister, has set budget and migrant issues as top priorities, the Associated Press reported. In a televised interview on Sunday, Barnier said a key challenge for his government will be the 2025 budget bill and called for a \u201cnational effort required to redress the situation\u201d. \u201cI\u2019m not going to further increase the tax burden on all French people,\u201d the prime minister said, while also suggesting that \u201cthe wealthiest contribute to this national effort.\u201d In addition, Barnier vowed to \u201ccontrol and limit immigration\u201d and said numbers of migrants coming to France \u201chas become unbearable.\u201d The far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) party had made considerable gains among young people in the state election in Brandenburg yesterday, according to analysis by Infratest dimap and ARD. The AfD saw a 16.5 point increase in support among the 16 to 24 year olds, and an increase in support across every age bracket, decreasing the older the voter. The Greens lost support in every age bracket, in particular among the 16-24 year olds (minus 25 points). While the the Social Democratic party (SPD) was able to win the support of those who had previously voted for the Greens, the newcomer BSW of Sahra Wagenknecht, mainly took its support from the Linke. The AfD\u2019s gains mainly came from people who had previously voted for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Three women died after their boat sank today off the island of Samos, the Greek coastguard said, Reuters reported. More are feared missing. At least 30 people were believe to be on board the boat. Five have been rescued. Sahra Wagenknecht has celebrated her party\u2019s performance in the Brandenburg state election, writing that there\u2019s no way around it. BSW came in third place. Meanwhile, only 25% of French people say they are satisfied with Emmanuel Macron as president. 45% of French citizens say they are satisfied with Michel Barnier as prime minister, according to Ifop. The far right National Rally\u2019s Laure Lavalette said that the new French interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, gave a \u201cpositive\u201d speech but that \u201cwe expect rapid measures and priority action on immigration.\u201d Bruno Retailleau, France\u2019s newly-named interior minister, gave a speech stressing that his priority will be to \u201crestore order\u201d. Over the weekend, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, named a new government led by the prime minister, Michel Barnier. Retailleau, a conservative, got the interior ministry post, which includes the immigration portfolio. He has previously called for France to take a tougher stance on immigration. Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot, a centrist, was named foreign minister. Meanwhile, the current defence minister, S\u00e9bastien Lecornu, is staying. The newly-formed government has faced significant criticism from left-wing lawmakers. Good morning and welcome back to the Europe blog. Send thoughts and tips to lili.bayer@theguardian.com."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018We can feel our ancestors\u2019: one First Nation\u2019s fight to save Canada\u2019s old forests;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/canada-first-nation-forest-wildfire-logging;2024-09-23T11:00:38Z",
        "text": "Flying over squares of clearcuts and various shades of green marking conifer plantations in north central British Columbia, the pilot followed directions from David DeWit, a leader of Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en First Nation. DeWit\u2019s map of their territory\u2019s traditional trails reflected markers on the ground: circles carved into trees, which offered proof of the Nation\u2019s history in this area. As the helicopter approached Caas Tl\u2019aat Kwah (also known as Serb Creek), a 1,600-hectare (about 3,953-acre) watershed, the forest became a blanket of deep green, cleaved only by yellow-green wetlands threaded with glacial blue streams. \u201cWe want to conserve it for future generations,\u201d said Charlotte Euverman, the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en woman leading a fight to save this area, which includes a traditional feasting site. \u201cWe have to leave them something.\u201d Like most First Nations here, Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en never signed treaties with the Canadian or provincial governments. Nevertheless, the latter took the land and leased forested acreage to logging companies. Today just 20% of British Columbia\u2019s old-growth forests remain. In 2020, after decades of activist pressure, the province identified about a quarter of the remaining old growth as at high risk for logging and recommended a pause while deciding their fate. Yet today, logging has been deferred in less than half of the high-risk area. Now Caas Tl\u2019aat Kwah is in the crosshairs of a debate over the scope of First Nations\u2019 agency, biodiversity loss and protection \u2013 and the role industrial logging plays in amplifying Canada\u2019s forest fires, the effects of which are being felt across the globe. In summer 2023, more than 150,000 sq km (58,000 sq miles) burned across the country, an all-time record, carrying smoke across the continent and air pollution all the way to Europe and China. Caas Tl\u2019aat Kwah is not yet accessible by road, so the helicopter ride was the first opportunity for Nation member Sandra Harris to see it, despite the fact that her great-grandfather, Jack Joseph, once had a cabin there. The pilot set the helicopter down upon a boggy meadow, and DeWit, who is acting director of the Office of Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en, led the way through the trees to a newer cabin, where he gave a framed photo of Joseph pride of place. Harris explained the significance of seeing the land, saying: \u201cWe have a lot of stress in our lives with racism, working with colonial systems that are so unkind to our ways.\u201d The land is healing, she said. \u201cToday, we can feel our ancestors,\u201d Harris said. \u201cWe remember our stories when we are able to put our feet on the land \u2026 There\u2019s lots of good medicine there for us.\u201d Reducing fire severity Conventional wisdom has long held that increased fire severity is due not just to climate change but also dense overgrowth from fire suppression. The prescription has been to thin forests and set controlled burns. But a growing number of scientists now say that approach fails to recognize the role of industrial logging in increased fire severity: it kills complex communities of life that stabilize the water cycle. Logging makes an area much, much drier, and loggers often leave slash piles that are super dry and prone to ignition. While British Columbia requires logging companies to replant within a year, young plantations are extremely flammable. One scientific paper looked at 1,500 fires in western US states over 30 years and found that protected forests with higher levels of dense growth actually had lower fire severity than intensively managed areas of commercial logging. Another found that plantations planted after logging \u2013 rather than dense old growth \u2013 \u201cwere significant drivers of wildfire severity\u201d. Another found that clearcutting was a key factor leading to \u201cfrequent, high-severity fire\u201d. Other studies suggest that old growth reduces fire severity by retaining moisture and helping to generate rain. In an intact forest, dense, layered canopies of multiple species slow rain when it falls, and roots provide pathways for water to move underground, where it eventually supplies local waterways. Trees transpire water vapor and release particles that help form rain. Old trees transpire even through the dry season because their roots tap deep groundwater. As they pull up water, seedlings and weaker trees can access it through the soil and mycorrhizal fungal networks, says University of British Columbia forest ecologist Suzanne Simard, author of Finding the Mother Tree. Because trees feed mycorrhizas, most of the latter die after clearcutting and can no longer distribute water. When Canada requires logging companies to replant, they typically install just a few marketable species. Deciduous trees are less flammable \u2013 but also less marketable \u2013 so standard operating practice is to kill deciduous sprouts with herbicide, says Simard. Herbicides can also kill living matter in the soil, making it far less able to absorb water, and in turn increasing drought and landslides. Protecting endangered species The flanks of mountains rising from Serb Creek\u2019s wetlands contain interior cedar hemlock and Engelmann spruce subalpine fir ecosystems, with trees up to 350 years old. The province considers the watershed to be the jurisdiction of British Columbia Timber Supply (BCTS), a commercial arm of its Ministry of Forests. Under the 2020 old-growth plan, the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en notified BCTS that they support a logging deferral, which the Ministry of Forests acknowledged in a 2023 letter. However, recent maps accessed by Sierra Club BC show that BCTS had already mapped some of the area for potential cuts. The Ministry of Forests would not make someone available for an interview. But a spokesperson wrote in an email: \u201cDeferrals will remain in place until a long-term forest management approach is implemented.\u201d Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Nation is comprised of five clans, each made up of several houses. To the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en, Caas Tl\u2019aat Kwah is the jurisdiction of Kwen Bea Yex (House Beside the Fire) of the Laksilyu (Small Frog Clan). Euverman is a member of Kwen Bea Yex, and she explained her motivation to protect the watershed. \u201cCoastal tailed frog is my biggest reason. The frog is on our crest,\u201d she said. A species of special concern under Canada\u2019s Species at Risk Act, the frog is ancient. It is one of just two tailed frogs in the world, and its \u201ctail\u201d is actually used for making more frogs. Other species who survive in the Caas Tl\u2019aat Kwah watershed include wolverine, grizzly, wolf, mountain goat, moose, bull trout, cutthroat trout, western red cedar, whitebark pine and arboreal lichen, which feed endangered caribou. In recent years, British Columbia and Canada have both passed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which requires \u201cfree, prior, and informed consent\u201d. However, Canadian and provincial governments do not give Nations veto power over development projects within their territories. Local people are concerned because BCTS could ultimately decide to log Caas Tl\u2019aat Kwah. The Ministry of Forests spokesperson wrote: \u201cIf the temporary deferral is lifted \u2026 BC Timber Sales will \u2026 plan any potential future harvest [logging] in a way that would preserve the area\u2019s biodiversity, wildlife, cultural values and recreational opportunities.\u201d One of the most challenging aspects for the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en, says Harris, is that provincial rules change every couple of years, with each new government. In fact, British Columbia is holding an election next month, which could change priorities yet again. Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en laws, on the other hand are unchanging. \u201cOur stories help us learn our laws, what our responsibilities are,\u201d said Harris. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t change.\u201d Jens Wieting, senior forest and climate campaigner with Sierra Club BC, has seen \u201ccountless examples\u201d of this reality. \u201cA Nation is successful at opposing logging, only to confront the same struggle a few years later \u2013 and sometimes losing,\u201d he said. DeWit is skeptical that the province\u2019s old-growth plan could be protective. Instead, he wants Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en to protect Caas Tl\u2019aat Kwah according to its own governance traditions. That requires members of Kwen Bea Yex to decide that it\u2019s needed for cultural and ecological purposes and off-limits to commercial logging, he says. The House would then secure agreement from its Clan, followed by all the Clans. Then they\u2019d have a feast, which would ratify the agreement. Meanwhile, the fires continue. In August, 353 fires were burning across British Columbia, including a \u201cwildfire of note\u201d in Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territory. Racism and colonialism have left deep wounds, says Harris. But DeWit sounded an optimistic note, saying: \u201cWhen we heal the land, we will heal the people.\u201d This is an edited version of an article that was collaboratively published on Mongabay. Reporting for this story was supported by the Science Media Centre of Canada and the Sitka Foundation."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel strikes targets in Lebanon as Hezbollah launches deepest rocket attacks since start of Gaza war;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/israel-strikes-lebanon-hezbollah-deepest-rocket-attacks-since-start-gaza-war;2024-09-22T09:57:05Z",
        "text": "The Israeli military says it has launched airstrikes on hundreds of targets in southern Lebanon, as Hezbollah launched its deepest rocket attacks into Israel since the start of the Gaza war, prompting a UN official to warn of \u201cimminent catastrophe\u201d in the region. Fighting reached its most intense yet overnight, with Israel launching a wave of attacks that it said targeted Hezbollah missile launchers across Lebanon\u2019s south. At least one person was killed and another injured in the strikes, the Lebanese ministry of health said. Hezbollah responded with four rocket barrages early on Sunday morning and more than 140 rockets and drones fired into Israel\u2019s Jezreel Valley. Fresh clashes erupted early on Sunday, with the IDF saying hundreds of rockets had been fired into Israel from Lebanon, with some landing near the northern city of Haifa. The Israeli military said rockets had been fired \u201ctoward civilian areas\u201d, pointing to a possible escalation after previous barrages had mainly been aimed at military targets. Israel\u2019s Magen David Adom rescue service said it had treated four people for shrapnel wounds, including a 76-year-old man who was slightly wounded near Haifa. In a statement, the United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon warned the region risked disaster. \u201cWith the region on the brink of an imminent catastrophe, it cannot be overstated enough: there is NO military solution that will make either side safer,\u201d special coordinator Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert said on X. As she wrote, the Israeli health ministry urged hospitals in northern Israel to transfer their operations to facilities with extra protection from rocket and missile fire. Rambam hospital in Haifa would transfer patients to its underground, secure facility, the ministry said. Israel\u2019s civil defence agency ordered all schools in the north of the country to close. The successive barrages of rocket attacks launched by Hezbollah at the Israeli air force\u2019s Ramat David airbase, located 31 miles (50km) from the Lebanon border, were the deepest strikes it has claimed since hostilities began. The Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, delivered a speech at the airbase on Wednesday, telling air force personnel that Israel\u2019s war with Hezbollah had reached a \u201cnew phase\u201d. In July, Hezbollah released footage filmed by a drone over Haifa that highlighted Ramat David as part of an almost 10-minute long video marking military infrastructure in the densely populated city in northern Israel. On Saturday, Israel closed its northern airspace as it awaited Hezbollah retaliation for the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil, a veteran commander of the elite Radwan unit, along with more than a dozen other militants. Three children and seven women were among 37 people killed by the Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday that targeted the top Hezbollah leader, Lebanese authorities have said. The assassination followed a wave of attacks earlier in the week in which walkie-talkies and pagers commonly used by Hezbollah members exploded, killing 42 people and wounding more than 3,000. Israel is presumed to be behind the operation, though it has not officially claimed responsibility. On Sunday the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said: \u201cIn the last few days, we have inflicted on Hezbollah a sequence of blows that it did not imagine. If Hezbollah did not understand the message, I promise you - it will understand the message.\u201d He added: \u201cNo country can tolerate shooting at its residents, shooting at its cities - and we, the state of Israel, will not tolerate it either\u2026 We will do everything necessary to restore security.\u201d Israel has not visibly slowed its war in Gaza to focus on the north. On Saturday, its forces bombed a school-turned-shelter, killing at least 22 and injuring 30 others, mostly women and children, the Gaza health ministry said. Israel\u2019s military said the target was a Hamas base inside the school, without providing details or evidence. However, the most recent attacks suggest a potential strategic pivot by the Israeli military away from its focus on Hamas in Gaza and towards targeting Hezbollah. On 8 October, following the Hamas attacks on Israel, Hezbollah entered the conflict in support of the Palestinian militants, with an attack on northern Israel. Since then, Israel and Hezbollah have managed to avoid an all-out war, engaging instead in a limited conflict of attrition. Nevertheless, political and military experts argue that the recent escalation triggered by the pager attacks has transformed the conflict, potentially setting the stage for a full-scale war. \u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as a \u2018limited war\u2019 in Lebanon,\u201d said Alon Pinkas, who served as Israel\u2019s consul general in New York from 2000 to 2004 and is now a political analyst for Haaretz. \u201cAnyone who uses that term either conveniently forgot history or doesn\u2019t understand the current environment, and anyone who thinks \u2018escalation\u2019 and \u2018limited\u2019 are controllable constructs is delusional.\u201d On Sunday an Iraqi coalition of pro-Iran armed groups also claimed a drone attack on Israel. \u201cThe fighters of the Islamic Resistance of Iraq targeted on Sunday morning a strategic location in the occupied territories using drones,\u201d said the Iraqi coalition in a statement on Telegram, referring to Israel, adding it was carried out \u201cin support of our people in Gaza\u201d. The IDF confirmed the attack and said it had intercepted \u201cmultiple suspicious aerial targets\u201d coming from Iraq overnight. With Agence France-Presse and Associated Press"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy to present \u2018victory plan\u2019 during US visit ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-to-present-victory-plan-during-us-visit;2024-09-22T01:40:08Z",
        "text": "Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to carry out long-range strikes inside Russia with US-supplied weapons, and to earn \u201ca place in history\u201d by \u201cstrengthening Ukraine\u201d before he leaves office. Speaking before a crucial trip to the US, including the UN, to shore up support for Ukraine in the war, Zelenskyy said he would present a \u201cvictory plan\u201d to end the war. Zelenskyy on Sunday will visit the Pennsylvania ammunition factory that is producing one of the most critically needed munitions for his country\u2019s fight. He is expected to go to the Scranton army ammunition plant to kick off a busy week in the US shoring up support for Ukraine, officials told the Associated Press. This week he also will address the UN general assembly\u2019s annual gathering in New York and travel to Washington for talks with President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris. Zelenskyy also said on Saturday that the end of the war depended on the \u201cresolve\u201d of Kyiv\u2019s western allies in providing needed weaponry and permission to use it. Speaking in his nightly video address, he issued further pleas to boost supplies of weaponry to fend off the slow advance of Russian forces in the Donetsk region. Kyiv also seeks permission to use western weapons against targets deep inside Russia to pre-empt Moscow\u2019s air attacks on Ukraine\u2019s infrastructure, including energy facilities. Russian president Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia would be \u201cat war\u201d with the United States and its Nato allies if they allow Ukraine to use the long-range weapons. Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister said on Saturday that Russia is planning strikes on Ukrainian nuclear facilities before the winter, and urged the UN\u2019s nuclear watchdog and allies to establish permanent monitoring missions at the country\u2019s nuclear plants. There was no immediate comment from Moscow. Russia will take no part in any follow-up to the Swiss-organised \u201cpeace summit\u201d held in June as the process amounts to \u201cfraud\u201d, foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Saturday. Russia was not invited to the June meeting and dismissed it as meaningless without Moscow\u2019s participation. Zelenskyy has said he hopes to organise a follow-up meeting by the end of the year with Russia attending. Ukrainian officials said on Saturday their forces had hit two Russian munitions depots overnight, in attacks that illustrated its growing capability to strike targets deep inside Russia. A statement by Ukraine\u2019s military general staff said \u201cat least 2,000 tons\u201d of weaponry, including missiles supplied by North Korea, were destroyed at Tikhoretsk in southern Russia and Oktyabrsky in the western region of Tver. In the western Tver region, authorities announced on Saturday the temporary closure of a major federal road after the Ukrainian attack near the city of Toropets, about 380km northwest of Moscow and 500km from the Ukrainian border. Russian authorities temporarily closed a 100km stretch of a highway and evacuated passengers from a rail station after a blaze caused a series of explosions. Unverified images circulating on Telegram on Saturday showed a large ball of flame rising into the night sky and dozens of smoke trails from detonations. Russian forces struck a multi-storey apartment building in Ukraine\u2019s second-largest city, Kharkiv, on Saturday evening, injuring at least 12 people and prompting an evacuation of some of its residents, mayor Ihor Terekhov said. Terekhov said the Russians had deployed a guided bomb. A 12-year-old boy and two older women were killed as Russian missiles struck Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy\u2019s home town in central Ukraine, local governor Serhii Lysak said on Saturday. Lysak said the missiles hit \u201cin the middle of the night, when the city slept\u201d, wounding three more people, destroying two buildings and damaging another 20. Iran unveiled a new ballistic missile and an upgraded one-way attack drone at a military parade on Saturday, state media said, amid soaring regional tensions and allegations of arming Russia. Iran stands accused by western governments of supplying both drones and missiles to Russia for use in its war with Ukraine, a charge it has repeatedly denied."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Boeing makes a 'final offer' to striking workers, but union says it's not good enough;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/24/g-s1-24282/boeing-offer-striking-workers;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:27:44 -0400",
        "text": "Boeing said Monday it made a \u201cbest and final offer\u201d to striking machinists, but the workers' union said the proposal isn't good enough and there won't be a ratification vote before Boeing's deadline."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Erik Menendez says Netflix show is full of 'blatant lies' about him and his brother;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5123898/menendez-brothers-comment-netflix-monsters;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:49:56 -0400",
        "text": "In the 1990s, the Menendez brothers were put on trial for their parents' murder, becoming a media sensation that sharply divided public opinion on the brothers' motives."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;A GOP push to change how Nebraska awards its electoral votes appears to have stalled;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5123961/nebraska-electoral-college;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:55:05 -0400",
        "text": "Republicans have sought to have the state switch to a winner-take-all system. The change would block one of Vice President Harris' main paths to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Motel 6 is sold to an Indian hotel company for $525 million;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5123643/motel-6-oyo-blackstone-sold;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:23:46 -0400",
        "text": "The sale to Oyo, a travel business, will include the Studio 6 motel brand, which caters to customers seeking extended stays. The all-cash transaction is expected to be finalized by the end of the year."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;U.S. officials say Russia is embracing AI for its election influence efforts;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5123927/russia-artificial-intelligence-election;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:01:37 -0400",
        "text": "The cutting-edge technology makes it easier for Russia as well as Iran to quickly and more convincingly tailor polarizing content aimed at swaying American voters, intelligence officials said."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Israel Moves Closer to All-Out War With Hezbollah in Lebanon;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/1201324620/israel-moves-closer-to-all-out-war-with-hezbollah-in-lebanon;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:35:11 -0400",
        "text": "Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon kill over 350 and injure more than 1,000. The attacks were mostly in southern Lebanon where Hezbollah militants have been trading fire across the border with Israel since the war in Gaza began. Our correspondent is there in the south of Lebanon where civilians are fleeing the attacks any way they can."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;More forever wars?;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/1201324608/more-forever-wars;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:13:57 -0400",
        "text": "The US is trying to broker an end to the war between Israel and Hamas. Ceasefire talks begin and end and begin again. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has traveled to the region 10 times in the past year. <br /><br />And that's not the only war the US hopes to end. Russia and Ukraine have been fighting since 2014 when Russia first attacked. It launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022, more than two and a half years ago.<br /><br />The US and NATO have been supporting Ukraine's efforts to hold off Russia in a hope to preserve broader security and stability in Western Europe.<br /><br />The next occupant of the White House looks certain to inherit two major conflicts. <br /><br />Why are these wars lasting so long with no end in sight?<br /><br />For sponsor-free episodes of <em>Consider This,</em> sign up for C<em>onsider This+</em> via Apple Podcasts or at <a href=\"https://plus.npr.org/\">plus.npr.org</a>.<br /><br />Email us at <a href=\"mailto:considerthis@npr.org\">considerthis@npr.org</a>."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;California sues ExxonMobil for misleading public on plastic recycling;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5123619/california-sues-exxonmobil-for-misleading-public-on-plastic-recycling;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:27:09 -0400",
        "text": "California\u2019s lawsuit alleges that ExxonMobil has known for decades that recycling would not effectively stem the flow of plastic waste."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Octopuses and fish share leadership \u2014 and enforcement \u2014 in group hunting;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5120912/octopuses-and-fish-hunt-enforce;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:59:06 -0400",
        "text": "When octopuses and fish hunt in groups in the Red Sea, the leadership roles are more dynamic than researchers knew \u2014 as are some ways the animals enforce cooperation."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Stylish Olympic shooter Kim Yeji got an acting gig. She plays an assassin, of course;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5123474/kim-yeji-olympic-shooter-assassin;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:33:52 -0400",
        "text": "Kim Yeji, whose cool style and demeanor made her a \"main character\" of the Summer Olympics, has landed an acting gig and work with fashion brands. She says her athletic career remains her priority."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;New Zealand scientists discover new \u2018ghost shark\u2019 species;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/new-zealand-scientists-discover-new-ghost-shark-species?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:03:43 +0000",
        "text": "The fish with beak-like mouth, now named Harriotta avia, prowls exclusively in deep waters of Australia and New Zealand."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;What\u2019s the UN\u2019s new \u2018Pact for the Future\u2019, and why did Russia oppose it?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/whats-the-uns-new-pact-for-the-future-and-why-did-russia-oppose-it?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:38:33 +0000",
        "text": "Like many UN documents, it&#039;s packed with big goals but is short on specifics about how to achieve them."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Rights groups warn Myanmar military executing more anti-coup activists;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/rights-groups-warn-myanmar-military-executing-more-anti-coup-activists?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:19:52 +0000",
        "text": "A married couple reportedly executed on Monday with five more people facing the death penalty on Tuesday."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Video: Cars swept away in Tunisia flooding;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/24/video-cars-swept-away-in-tunisia-flooding?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:12:26 +0000",
        "text": "Video from Tunisia shows cars being swept away by torrents of flood water in Sousse after heavy rain that caused damage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Transformation of global energy sector to meet COP28 goals \u2018feasible\u2019: IEA;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/transformation-of-global-energy-sector-to-meet-cop28-goals-feasible-iea?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:04:07 +0000",
        "text": "Meeting renewable energy and efficiency targets requires a huge push to boost storage capacity and grid connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;China rolls out stimulus measures to boost ailing economy;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/24/china-rolls-out-stimulus-measures-to-boost-ailing-economy?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:41:56 +0000",
        "text": "China&#039;s central bank says measures will lower borrowing costs and inject more liquidity into market."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;For Harris and Trump, runaway US debt is the elephant in the room;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/24/for-harris-and-trump-runaway-us-debt-is-the-elephant-in-the-room?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:51:03 +0000",
        "text": "Both presidential candidates have unveiled costly proposals that would greatly add to the ballooning national debt."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Singapore ex-Transport Minister Iswaran pleads guilty in graft trial;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/singapore-ex-transport-minister-iswaran-pleads-guilty-to-corruption?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 04:07:59 +0000",
        "text": "Charges reduced from 35 to five as rare corruption trial involving a senior politician gets under way in city state."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russia\u2019s new Sarmat missile suffered \u2018catastrophic failure\u2019: Researchers;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/russias-new-sarmat-missile-suffered-catastrophic-failure-researchers?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 02:48:28 +0000",
        "text": "Satellite imagery of test site shows 60-metre crater and extensive damage that wasn&#039;t there previously."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 942;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-942?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:48:47 +0000",
        "text": "As the war enters its 942nd day, these are the main developments."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Biden administration designates UAE \u2018major defence partner\u2019 in rare move;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/biden-administration-designates-uae-major-defence-partner-in-rare-move?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:54:50 +0000",
        "text": "US-UAE boost military cooperation as Middle East tensions over war in Gaza surge and despite friction over Sudan war."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Myanmar anti-coup forces target Mandalay in struggle to oust military;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/myanmar-anti-coup-forces-target-mandalay-in-struggle-to-oust-military?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:44:58 +0000",
        "text": "Trained and guided by ethnic armed groups, Myanmar&#039;s volunteer fighting forces are challenging the generals&#039; grip."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Gunman who killed 10 in Colorado grocery store found guilty of murder;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/gunman-who-killed-10-in-colorado-grocery-store-found-guilty-of-murder?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:33:51 +0000",
        "text": "Jury rejects defence plea that Ahmad Alissa was insane and hearing voices prior to 2021 shooting."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Death toll climbs from Israeli strikes on Lebanon;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/23/death-toll-climbs-from-israeli-strikes-on-lebanon?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:20:43 +0000",
        "text": "Israeli strikes in Lebanon have killed hundreds of people and wounded more than 1,600."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel-Hezbollah war? | Start Here shorts;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/start-here/2024/9/23/israel-hezbollah-war-start-here-shorts?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:59:14 +0000",
        "text": "Are Israel and Lebanon&#039;s Hezbollah in an all-out war?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Egypt delivers more weapons to Somalia amid rising tensions with Ethiopia;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/egypt-delivers-second-stockpile-of-weapons-to-somalia-amid-ethiopia-tension?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:55:13 +0000",
        "text": "Ties between Egypt and Somalia have grown this year over their shared mistrust of Ethiopia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Southeast US under major storm warning as hurricane watches issued;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/southeast-us-under-major-storm-warning-as-hurricane-watches-issued?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:45:17 +0000",
        "text": "A system of storms in the Caribbean is forecast to develop into Hurricane Helene by the middle of this week."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;US plans to prohibit key Chinese software, hardware in connected vehicles;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/23/us-plans-to-prohibit-key-chinese-software-hardware-in-connected-vehicles?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:39:36 +0000",
        "text": "US is concerned about data collection on US drivers by connected Chinese vehicles and potential manipulation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;UN officials say \u2018atrocities must end\u2019 in Gaza as Israeli raids kill dozens;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/top-un-officials-say-atrocities-must-end-in-gaza-as-israel-kills-dozens?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:31:58 +0000",
        "text": "Heads of UN agencies say they cannot do their jobs &#039;in the face of overwhelming need and ongoing violence&#039;."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Rising death toll as Israel strikes civilian areas across Lebanon;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/23/rising-death-toll-as-israel-strikes-civilian-areas-across-lebanon?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:46:30 +0000",
        "text": "Israel conducted airstrikes across Lebanon on alleged Hezbollah sites that were in crowded civilian areas."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Why is Israel intensifying its crackdown on media coverage?;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/9/23/why-is-israel-intensifying-its-crackdown-on-media-coverage?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:42:37 +0000",
        "text": "Israel is expanding curbs on media freedom, with the Al Jazeera Media Network a main target."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Marxist-leaning Dissanayake wins Sri Lanka\u2019s election: What\u2019s next?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/marxist-leaning-dissanayake-wins-sri-lankas-election-whats-next?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:23:58 +0000",
        "text": "From an IMF deal he wants to renegotiate to parliamentary elections, president-elect faces key challenges."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Man accused in \u2018assassination attempt\u2019 left note with plan to kill Trump;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/man-accused-in-assassination-attempt-left-note-with-plan-to-kill-trump?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:58:40 +0000",
        "text": "Would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh left note; judge orders he remain detained at new court hearing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;The US Fed cut interest rates by more than expected. So what?;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/23/the-us-fed-cut-interest-rates-by-more-than-expected-so-what?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:38:26 +0000",
        "text": "Many households will have to wait for some time to feel the benefit of lower interest rates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel is deliberately targeting journalists in Gaza: Experts;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/israel-is-deliberately-targeting-journalists-in-gaza-experts?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:38:20 +0000",
        "text": "Press freedom groups point to a pattern of killing clearly identified journalists."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'We just had to leave': Fear and tension in Lebanon under deadly Israeli bombardment;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crl8xw7ww70o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:14:38 GMT",
        "text": "Thousands have fled southern Lebanon while others say they are leaving the capital Beirut."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Chris Mason: The weight and responsibilities of office sit heavily on the PM;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23k0npedlko;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:16:17 GMT",
        "text": "The prime minister will offer a bit of sunshine in his big conference speech, but not too much."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Ex-Harrods boss saw 'abhorrent' behaviour by Fayed;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy807zg8nxyo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:02:05 GMT",
        "text": "But James McArthur says he was not aware of sexual abuse at Harrods, including a police investigation."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Superdry boss says Shein allowed to 'dodge tax';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgny3vm6d1o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:44:23 GMT",
        "text": "The fashion giant gets an unfair tax break because it ships items direct to customers, Julian Dunkerton says."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'I'm on cloud nine now I've got my XL bully back';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78degw6wx0o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:54:12 GMT",
        "text": "Owners of the controversial breed express relief as magistrates reject multiple destruction orders."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Flood warnings across England as rain relents;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gq4qw7q48o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 03:35:30 GMT",
        "text": "It comes after more than a month's worth of rain fell in some areas, causing widespread disruption."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Space crew returns to Earth after longest stay on ISS;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ckgnzr1dx73o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:13:38 GMT",
        "text": "Two Russian cosmonauts, who spent 374 days in space, were aboard the Soyuz capsule."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'I left my son at school so he'd be taken into care';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2lnd5wj9z5o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:00:24 GMT",
        "text": "BBC Spotlight has discovered 44 disabled children have gone into care in Northern Ireland since the start of the pandemic."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'No money and no answers' two years after collapse of funeral firm;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cydvmdmlm6po;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:03:28 GMT",
        "text": "Margaret and David Fee paid thousands for funeral plans, then discovered the company they used had collapsed."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Harry's US visa application will stay private, judge rules;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy43l9wxn1zo;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:29:28 GMT",
        "text": "A US think-tank had sought the release of the records after Prince Harry wrote about drug use in his memoir."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Cold military logic takes over in Israel-Hezbollah conflict;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y8mlp9jyvo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:28:30 GMT",
        "text": "Israel\u2019s campaign is a high-risk strategy, in which Hezbollah\u2019s ability to respond cannot be ignored."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Jeremy Bowen: Israel feels it has weakened Hezbollah but escalation still risky;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kdg7jwvz7o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:27:28 GMT",
        "text": "Israel's allies and critics believe the way to cool this crisis is to get a ceasefire in Gaza - but no agreement is in sight."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Smoke from several Israeli strikes seen from Lebanon beach;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c8701224wvro;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:49:14 GMT",
        "text": "Video from the coast near the Israeli border shows plumes of smoke rising into the skyline."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Stunning images of birds showcased in photography award;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4d92n5p4do;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:12:52 GMT",
        "text": "A European goldfinch in flight, a hunting falcon and a trio of northern gannets diving into the ocean are among the winners."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Can families returning after centuries solve S Korea's population crisis?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v5mng4z45o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:09:35 GMT",
        "text": "Ethnic Koreans, whose ancestors migrated to Russia, are returning, but the move can be difficult."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Widower's battle against privacy laws for wedding photos on wife's phone;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyegzpx45xo;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:08:32 GMT",
        "text": "A man whose wife died suddenly cannot recover precious photos of their wedding from her phone."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The Papers: PM to 'end gloom' and donor 'breaks cover';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vpywnepv4o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 04:59:46 GMT",
        "text": "Many of Tuesday's front pages look ahead to the speech by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the Labour conference."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'I thought my panic attack was a heart attack';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd98n4wnk53o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:40:19 GMT",
        "text": "A man from County Tyrone is sharing his story of overcoming anxiety to help tackle the stigma around it."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;She's electric: Loch Lomond teen is celebrity powerboat star;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/crm2j0reylxo;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:43:21 GMT",
        "text": "Scottish pilot in E1 Series Oban Duncan now races on lakes across Europe in the glamorous powerboat series."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Meet Pesto: The fat baby penguin and viral superstar;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3w4nld5e3o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:49:34 GMT",
        "text": "The obscenely fluffy nine-month-old chick weighs more than both of his foster parents combined."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Abortion protests near Scottish clinics banned as buffer zones law goes live;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98y1ryd6d3o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:26:20 GMT",
        "text": "New legislation prevents anti-abortion protesters from gathering within 200m (656ft) of clinics."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Woman, 40, and girl, 8, found dead at home;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy43lx5qpvzo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:17:21 GMT",
        "text": "The two bodies were discovered in Salford following reports of concerns for their welfare, police say."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Company behind global IT outage to face questions in US;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr54m92ermgo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:18:25 GMT",
        "text": "Cancer delays, holidays ruined, businesses out of pocket - the CrowdStrike outage examined."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;S Korean man admits to burying partner in cement;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3wvwd09yyo;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:13:55 GMT",
        "text": "A man in his 50s admitted to killing his girlfriend, who had been presumed missing for 16 years."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Boeing union hits out over 'final' 30% pay rise offer;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg92528y51o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 02:04:51 GMT",
        "text": "More than 30,000 Boeing workers went on strike earlier this month after rejecting a 25% pay rise offer."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Scrap law making schools serve meat, urges Labour donor;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crejwrypryyo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:31:45 GMT",
        "text": "Dale Vince wants to talk to ministers about getting more vegan meals on to school menus in England."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Defaced Banksy gets \u2018anti-graffiti\u2019 protection;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly48kx3wxeo;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:14:44 GMT",
        "text": "An elephant mural is restored to its original state and protected from further graffiti."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Rachel Reeves speaks to Newscast after conference speech;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jsbz3y;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:18:00 GMT",
        "text": "The chancellor speaks to Adam after her speech"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What does 'momentous' Friedkin takeover mean for Everton?;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5y94z5gw00o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:26:48 GMT",
        "text": "Everton look set to have new owners after the Friedkin Group agreed to buy a majority stake in the club, so is the Toffees' takeover saga finally coming to an end?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Bills crush Jaguars as Commanders edge out Bengals;https://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/articles/c05gnpd905jo;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:39:15 GMT",
        "text": "Josh Allen throws four first-half touchdown passes as the Buffalo Bills thrash the Jacksonville Jaguars 47-10 to maintain their perfect start to the season."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;F1 Q&A: Are there problems between drivers and the FIA?;https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/articles/cdrjxxmke35o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:14:51 GMT",
        "text": "BBC F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your questions following the Singapore Grand Prix."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;How injured Rodri's absence could hurt Man City's trophy quest;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cx2yr18g0g7o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:37:27 GMT",
        "text": "How much would Manchester City miss midfielder Rodri if reports saying he will be out for a significant period prove correct?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Table at British Open 'should be burned' - Allen;https://www.bbc.com/sport/snooker/articles/ce3z0rp7lkxo;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:13:46 GMT",
        "text": "Mark Allen brands conditions at the British Open as \"absolutely embarrassing\" and says the table on which he beat Gary Wilson should be \"burned.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Grand National winner Blackmore sidelined with neck injury;https://www.bbc.com/sport/horse-racing/articles/c748n54dy04o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:28:25 GMT",
        "text": "Record-breaking jockey Rachael Blackmore will not ride 'in the coming weeks'  after injuring her neck in a fall."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Grieving mums unite as zombie knife ban enforced;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd409357g8o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:18:52 GMT",
        "text": "The three women say much more needs to be done to protect families from the dangers of knife crime."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Homeless system under strain as families wait months for housing;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0ejvewjg5o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:19:12 GMT",
        "text": "Annual data for homelessness is released after the Scottish government and councils have declared a housing emergency."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Widower's battle for wedding photos on wife's phone;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyegzpx45xo;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:08:32 GMT",
        "text": "A man whose wife died suddenly cannot recover precious photos of their wedding from her phone."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en Ukraine\u00a0: l\u2019arm\u00e9e russe a lanc\u00e9 son assaut sur Vouhledar, dans l\u2019oblast de Donetsk;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/24/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-l-armee-russe-a-lance-son-assaut-sur-vouhledar-dans-la-region-de-donetsk_6327490_3210.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:37:01 +0200",
        "text": "D\u2019apr\u00e8s les m\u00e9dias d\u2019Etat russes, la ville, situ\u00e9e sur un promontoire et parfois qualifi\u00e9e de forteresse en raison de sa longue r\u00e9sistance, a \u00e9t\u00e9 prise en tenailles par les forces russes, et des combats sont en cours dans ses quartiers est."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La Su\u00e8de accuse l\u2019Iran d\u2019une cyberattaque visant \u00e0\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0venger\u00a0\u00bb les autodaf\u00e9s du\u00a0Coran;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/24/la-suede-accuse-l-iran-d-une-cyberattaque-visant-a-venger-les-autodafes-du-coran_6331066_3210.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:25:51 +0200",
        "text": "Environ 15\u00a0000\u00a0messages\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0appelant \u00e0 la vengeance\u00a0\u00bb contre les profanateurs du livre saint de l\u2019islam\u00a0avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 envoy\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 2023. \u00ab\u00a0L\u2019enqu\u00eate nous a permis d\u2019\u00e9tablir l\u2019identit\u00e9 des pirates iraniens\u00a0\u00bb, selon le minist\u00e8re public su\u00e9dois."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Isra\u00ebl d\u00e9clenche une brusque escalade du conflit avec le Hezbollah, \u00e0 un fil de la guerre ouverte;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/24/brusque-escalade-entre-israel-et-le-liban_6331028_3210.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:55:17 +0200",
        "text": "Les avions isra\u00e9liens ont frapp\u00e9, lundi, 1 600 cibles au pays du C\u00e8dre, li\u00e9es au Hezbollah et \u00e0 ses stocks d\u2019armes, faisant au moins 492 morts. Au risque d\u2019un embrasement r\u00e9gional."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le projet de \u00ab\u00a0taxe EDF\u00a0\u00bb relance le d\u00e9bat sur le sort de l\u2019\u00e9lectricien national;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/24/le-projet-de-taxe-edf-relance-le-debat-sur-le-sort-de-l-electricien-national_6331030_3234.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:00:11 +0200",
        "text": "A la recherche de nouvelles ressources pour financer le budget de l\u2019Etat, le pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent gouvernement avait envisag\u00e9 de pr\u00e9lever 3\u00a0milliards d\u2019euros sur les revenus des capacit\u00e9s de production d\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Sophia Chikirou entendue par les juges\u00a0dans l\u2019affaire des comptes de campagne LFI de 2017;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/24/sophia-chikirou-entendue-par-les-juges-dans-l-affaire-des-comptes-de-campagne-lfi-de-2017_6330994_3224.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:43:16 +0200",
        "text": "Cette proche de Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon, \u00e0 la fois directrice de la communication et deuxi\u00e8me plus gros prestataire de sa campagne de 2017, est suspect\u00e9e d\u2019avoir factur\u00e9 des prestations avec une marge tr\u00e8s sup\u00e9rieure \u00e0 celles pratiqu\u00e9es par ses concurrents."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Burkina Faso\u00a0: la junte affirme avoir d\u00e9jou\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0plusieurs tentatives de\u00a0d\u00e9stabilisation\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/24/burkina-faso-la-junte-affirme-avoir-dejoue-plusieurs-tentatives-de-destabilisation_6330960_3212.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:34:36 +0200",
        "text": "Selon le ministre de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9, ce \u00ab\u00a0complot\u00a0\u00bb implique l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident de transition Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba et l\u2019ex-chef de la diplomatie Djibrill Bassol\u00e9."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Reportage | A Sa\u00efda, au Liban, une vague de d\u00e9plac\u00e9s sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0C\u2019est un cauchemar. On ne sait m\u00eame pas o\u00f9 aller\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/24/guerre-au-proche-orient-c-est-un-cauchemar-on-ne-sait-meme-pas-ou-aller-a-saida-au-liban-une-vague-de-deplaces-sans-precedent_6330681_3210.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:10:09 +0200",
        "text": "Des familles entass\u00e9es dans des voitures ont fui les frappes d\u2019Isra\u00ebl contre le Hezbollah dans le sud du Liban. A Sa\u00efda, plus au Nord, \u00e0 une quarantaine de kilom\u00e8tres de Beyrouth, les services de la ville et de la province ont \u00e9t\u00e9 surpris par l\u2019ampleur du d\u00e9sastre. En une journ\u00e9e, les bombardements isra\u00e9liens ont fait presque autant de morts qu\u2019en un an d\u2019affrontements."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: Antoine Armand, nouveau ministre de l\u2019\u00e9conomie, revient sur la \u00ab\u00a0gravit\u00e9 de la situation budg\u00e9taire\u00a0\u00bb en France;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/24/en-direct-gouvernement-barnier-les-dernieres-informations-politiques_6325006_823448.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:36:51 +0200",
        "text": "Si \u00ab\u00a0des pr\u00e9l\u00e8vements cibl\u00e9s sur les m\u00e9nages les plus ais\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb sont \u00ab\u00a0\u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tude\u00a0\u00bb, il a ajout\u00e9, mardi sur France Inter, que, selon lui, ce n\u2019est pas parce que \u00ab\u00a0les riches payent plus\u00a0\u00bb que \u00ab\u00a0nous irons mieux\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre au\u00a0Proche-Orient\u00a0: Isra\u00ebl poursuit ses bombardements sur le sud du\u00a0Liban au lendemain d\u2019une journ\u00e9e d\u2019intenses frappes meurtri\u00e8res;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/24/en-direct-guerre-au-proche-orient-apres-les-intenses-bombardements-israeliens-sur-le-liban-plus-de-490-morts-des-milliers-de-blesses-et-une-region-au-bord-d-une-guerre-totale_6321740_3210.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:28:21 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019arm\u00e9e isra\u00e9lienne dit avoir vis\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0environ 1\u00a0600 cibles terroristes dans le sud du Liban et dans la plaine de la Bekaa\u00a0\u00bb lundi. Des attaques qui ont tu\u00e9 plus de\u00a0490\u00a0personnes et bless\u00e9 des milliers d\u2019autres. \u00ab\u00a0Nous sommes presque au bord d\u2019une guerre totale\u00a0\u00bb, s\u2019alarme Josep Borrell, chef de la diplomatie europ\u00e9enne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Dans un contexte de p\u00e9nurie de m\u00e9dicament en France, une dizaine de laboratoires condamn\u00e9s \u00e0\u00a0verser 8\u00a0millions d\u2019euros pour ne pas avoir constitu\u00e9 de stocks;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/24/penurie-de-medicaments-une-dizaine-de-laboratoires-condamnes-a-verser-huit-millions-d-euros-pour-ne-pas-avoir-constitue-de-stocks-suffisants_6330721_3234.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:44:57 +0200",
        "text": "Ces sanctions in\u00e9dites prononc\u00e9es par l\u2019ANSM correspondent \u00e0 des manquements constat\u00e9s en\u00a02023. Elles concernent des produits pour lesquels une interruption de traitement peut mettre en danger la vie du patient \u00e0 court ou moyen terme."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Comment ont vot\u00e9 les ministres du gouvernement Barnier sur le mariage pour tous, l\u2019IVG dans la Constitution et les autres grandes lois soci\u00e9tales\u00a0?;https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2024/09/24/gouvernement-barnier-comment-les-nouveaux-ministres-ont-vote-les-dernieres-grandes-lois-societales_6330679_4355770.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:00:15 +0200",
        "text": "Plusieurs membres de ce gouvernement se sont oppos\u00e9s aux grandes lois soci\u00e9tales lorsqu\u2019ils si\u00e9geaient \u00e0 l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e nationale ou au S\u00e9nat."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;S\u00e9curit\u00e9\u00a0: Bruno Retailleau attendu sur la question des moyens;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/24/bruno-retailleau-attendu-sur-la-question-des-moyens_6330671_3224.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:36:45 +0200",
        "text": "Lors de sa prise de fonctions, lundi, le nouveau ministre de l\u2019int\u00e9rieur a pr\u00e9venu vouloir \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9tablir l\u2019ordre, r\u00e9tablir l\u2019ordre, r\u00e9tablir l\u2019ordre\u00a0\u00bb. Mais plus que des convictions, il lui faudra de l\u2019argent. Or, avec un d\u00e9ficit public excessif, la bataille financi\u00e8re s\u2019annonce rude."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A la Guadeloupe, les mineurs plac\u00e9s sous couvre-feu dans plusieurs secteurs apr\u00e8s des \u00ab\u00a0violences urbaines\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/outre-mer/article/2024/09/24/a-la-guadeloupe-les-mineurs-places-sous-couvre-feu-dans-plusieurs-secteurs-apres-des-violences-urbaines_6330661_1840826.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 04:55:30 +0200",
        "text": "Plusieurs quartiers de Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre, de Sainte-Rose, du Gosier et des Abymes sont concern\u00e9s \u00e0 partir de lundi, de\u00a022\u00a0heures \u00e0\u00a05\u00a0heures, heure locale."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Cr\u00e8che People &\u00a0Baby\u00a0: six et douze mois de prison avec sursis requis contre deux anciennes salari\u00e9es jug\u00e9es pour des violences sur des enfants;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/24/creche-people-baby-six-et-douze-mois-de-prison-avec-sursis-requis-contre-deux-anciennes-salariees-jugees-pour-des-violences-sur-des-enfants_6330622_3224.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 02:18:37 +0200",
        "text": "Les pr\u00e9venues sont poursuivies pour violences volontaires, physiques et psychologiques, sans incapacit\u00e9, sur neuf enfants au sein d\u2019un \u00e9tablissement de Villeneuve-d\u2019Ascq, dans la banlieue lilloise. Le proc\u00e8s se\u00a0d\u00e9roule \u00e0 huis clos \u00e0 Lille."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A la Martinique, le couvre-feu partiel est prolong\u00e9 jusqu\u2019au jeudi 26\u00a0septembre;https://www.lemonde.fr/outre-mer/article/2024/09/24/a-la-martinique-le-couvre-feu-partiel-est-prolonge-jusqu-a-jeudi_6330589_1840826.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:17:50 +0200",
        "text": "Le quartier de Sainte-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, \u00e0 Fort-de-France, est \u00e9galement concern\u00e9, alors qu\u2019il ne l\u2019\u00e9tait pas dans le pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent arr\u00eat\u00e9. En revanche, l\u2019interdiction des \u00ab\u00a0manifestations revendicatives\u00a0\u00bb non d\u00e9clar\u00e9es a \u00e9t\u00e9 lev\u00e9e."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Gr\u00e8ve \u00e0 Boeing\u00a0: la\u00a0hausse des salaires propos\u00e9e par le\u00a0groupe am\u00e9ricain pour mettre fin au mouvement \u00ab\u00a0ne va pas assez loin\u00a0\u00bb, selon le syndicat;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/23/boeing-adresse-une-offre-finale-aux-syndicats-pour-mettre-fin-a-dix-jours-de-greve_6330489_3234.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:08:24 +0200",
        "text": "Apr\u00e8s dix jours de gr\u00e8ve, l\u2019avionneur am\u00e9ricain consent \u00e0\u00a0une augmentation de\u00a030\u00a0% \u00e9tal\u00e9e sur quatre ans, une offre pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e comme sa \u00ab\u00a0meilleure et derni\u00e8re offre\u00a0\u00bb. Le syndicat \u00e0 l\u2019origine du mouvement va consulter ses membres."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Inceste\u00a0: douze ans de prison contre un grand-p\u00e8re identifi\u00e9 gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une bo\u00eete aux lettres Papillons;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/23/inceste-douze-ans-de-prison-contre-un-grand-pere-identifie-grace-a-une-boite-aux-lettres-papillons_6330423_3224.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:32:18 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019homme \u00e9tait jug\u00e9 \u00e0 Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) pour inceste sur trois de ses petites-filles. L\u2019un d\u2019elle avait 10\u00a0ans lorsqu\u2019une bo\u00eete aux lettres de l\u2019association Les Papillons, visant \u00e0 lib\u00e9rer la parole des enfants victimes de violences, a \u00e9t\u00e9 install\u00e9e dans son \u00e9cole primaire, \u00e0 Vonnas."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Enqu\u00eate | A la Martinique, les sols pollu\u00e9s au chlord\u00e9cone contraignent les agriculteurs \u00e0 s\u2019adapter;https://www.lemonde.fr/outre-mer/article/2024/09/23/a-la-martinique-les-sols-pollues-au-chlordecone-contraignent-les-agriculteurs-a-s-adapter_6328995_1840826.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:45:00 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Outre-mer, les batailles de la terre\u00a0\u00bb (1/4). Cet insecticide massivement utilis\u00e9 dans les bananeraies aux Antilles jusqu\u2019aux ann\u00e9es 1990 a durablement contamin\u00e9 les sols et les cours d\u2019eau, poussant cultivateurs et \u00e9leveurs \u00e0 modifier leurs pratiques et \u00e0 entamer une transition vers une agriculture durable."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les bouteilles en plastique bannies des courses \u00e0 pied organis\u00e9es \u00e0 Paris;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/23/paris-sans-bouteilles-le-plastique-a-usage-unique-banni-des-courses-a-pied-organisees-dans-la-capitale_6330291_3242.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:15:18 +0200",
        "text": "La mairie de Paris a annonc\u00e9, lundi, l\u2019interdiction de plastique \u00e0 usage unique dans toutes ses courses, comme les 20\u00a0km de Paris, \u00e0 la mi-octobre, ou le marathon de Paris."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Pavel Durov, le patron de Telegram, annonce un durcissement de la mod\u00e9ration;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/23/pavel-durov-le-patron-de-telegram-annonce-un-durcissement-de-la-moderation_6330258_4408996.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:05:59 +0200",
        "text": "Les r\u00e8gles de l\u2019application ont \u00e9t\u00e9 modifi\u00e9es. Elles pr\u00e9cisent d\u00e9sormais que des informations basiques sur les utilisateurs pourront \u00eatre transmises \u00e0 la justice."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Mali, l\u2019arm\u00e9e et le Groupe Wagner man\u0153uvrent dans la r\u00e9gion de Kidal;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/23/au-mali-l-armee-et-le-groupe-wagner-man-uvrent-dans-la-region-de-kidal_6330122_3212.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:20:27 +0200",
        "text": "Deux convois de dizaines de v\u00e9hicules militaires ont rejoint l\u2019ancien fief des ind\u00e9pendantistes, dans le nord du pays, depuis la mi-septembre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019atelier mon\u00e9taire des Gaulois d\u00e9couvert \u00e0 Corent, dans le Puy-de-D\u00f4me;https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/09/23/a-corent-dans-le-puy-de-dome-l-atelier-monetaire-des-gaulois-a-ete-decouvert_6330084_1650684.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:00:09 +0200",
        "text": "Les fouilles de Matthieu Poux ont mis en \u00e9vidence le processus de fabrication de la monnaie dans la capitale arverne, d\u00e9voilant plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement le portrait politico-socio-\u00e9conomique de la cit\u00e9."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Gil Av\u00e9rous, un ministre des sports qui veut des\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0progr\u00e8s\u00a0\u00bb, pas une \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9volution\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/23/gil-averous-un-ministre-des-sports-qui-veut-des-progres-pas-une-revolution_6330080_3242.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:51:05 +0200",
        "text": "Le maire de Chateauroux dit vouloir poursuivre l\u2019action d\u2019Am\u00e9lie Oud\u00e9a-Cast\u00e9ra au minist\u00e8re et \u00ab\u00a0prendre le temps de l\u2019\u00e9coute\u00a0\u00bb. La pr\u00e9sentation du budget et les \u00e9lections f\u00e9d\u00e9rales vont rapidement s\u2019inviter \u00e0\u00a0son agenda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A Paris, un proc\u00e8s li\u00e9 \u00e0 un trafic d\u2019images p\u00e9dopornographiques sur Telegram;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/23/le-proces-lie-a-un-trafic-d-images-pedopornographiques-sur-telegram-s-ouvre-mardi-a-paris_6330045_3224.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:30:05 +0200",
        "text": "Dix personnes majeures sont jug\u00e9es pour avoir administr\u00e9 et particip\u00e9 \u00e0 des canaux sur lesquels elles \u00e9changeaient ou vendaient des contenus impliquant des viols d\u2019enfants."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La Cour des comptes europ\u00e9enne \u00e9pingle les lacunes du soutien \u00e0 l\u2019agriculture biologique;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/23/la-cour-des-comptes-europeenne-epingle-les-lacunes-du-soutien-a-l-agriculture-biologique_6330037_3234.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:00:03 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019objectif europ\u00e9en d\u2019atteindre 25\u00a0% des terres agricoles des Ving-Sept\u00a0cultiv\u00e9es en agriculture biologique d\u2019ici \u00e0 2030 \u00ab\u00a0semble hors de port\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb, estime l\u2019institution."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;#metoo\u00a0: l\u2019ordre des m\u00e9decins lance une enqu\u00eate d\u2019envergure sur les violences sexistes et sexuelles dans le cadre professionnel;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/23/metoo-l-ordre-des-medecins-lance-une-enquete-d-envergure-sur-les-violences-sexistes-et-sexuelles-dans-le-cadre-professionnel_6330036_3224.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:58:44 +0200",
        "text": "Tous les m\u00e9decins inscrits \u00e0 l\u2019ordre et tous les docteurs juniors (internes dans leur derni\u00e8re phase de formation), recevront par e-mail un questionnaire, garantissant leur anonymat, et pourront r\u00e9pondre jusqu\u2019au 14\u00a0octobre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La grande panne de l\u2019industrie europ\u00e9enne;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/23/la-grande-panne-de-l-industrie-europeenne_6328985_3234.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 04:30:03 +0200",
        "text": "La production industrielle recule dans la plupart des pays de l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne. En cause, un manque de comp\u00e9titivit\u00e9 face \u00e0 la Chine et aux Etats-Unis, alors que le rapport Draghi a appel\u00e9 r\u00e9cemment \u00e0 des investissements massifs pour \u00e9viter un \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9crochage\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le gouvernement am\u00e9ricain veut interdire les\u00a0v\u00e9hicules connect\u00e9s int\u00e9grant de la technologie chinoise ou\u00a0russe;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/23/le-gouvernement-americain-veut-interdire-les-vehicules-connectes-integrant-de-la-technologie-chinoise-ou-russe_6329934_3210.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:06:23 +0200",
        "text": "Cette mesure porte sur les logiciels et les terminaux qui permettent \u00e0 un v\u00e9hicule de communiquer avec l\u2019ext\u00e9rieur, notamment pour l\u2019assistance \u00e0 la conduite et la conduite autonome. Elle s\u2019inscrit dans un\u00a0durcissement de l\u2019approche de Joe Biden vis-\u00e0-vis de la Chine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u00a0: manifester contre la vie ch\u00e8re, au risque de la prison;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/23/cote-d-ivoire-manifester-contre-la-vie-chere-au-risque-de-la-prison_6329830_3212.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:26:44 +0200",
        "text": "Apr\u00e8s que seize membres de la plate-forme Agir pour le peuple (AGIP) ont \u00e9t\u00e9 condamn\u00e9s \u00e0 six mois de prison ferme pour \u00ab\u00a0troubles \u00e0 l\u2019ordre public\u00a0\u00bb, des associations s\u2019inqui\u00e8tent de restrictions \u00e0 la libert\u00e9 d\u2019expression."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Allemagne, l\u2019incertitude sur les grands projets industriels affecte la cr\u00e9dibilit\u00e9 de la politique de Berlin;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/23/en-allemagne-l-incertitude-sur-les-grands-projets-industriels-affecte-la-credibilite-de-la-politique-de-berlin_6329797_3234.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:00:04 +0200",
        "text": "Les investissements d\u2019Intel, Wolfspeed et Northvolt\u00a0sont menac\u00e9s, en raison de conditions de march\u00e9 d\u00e9favorables."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Une berg\u00e8re obtient la reconnaissance de sa fracture en accident du travail apr\u00e8s un an de proc\u00e9dure;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/23/une-bergere-obtient-la-reconnaissance-de-sa-fracture-en-accident-du-travail-apres-un-an-de-procedure_6329762_3234.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:00:13 +0200",
        "text": "Son employeur l\u2019avait fait venir jusqu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019alpage pour prendre possession de son lieu de travail la veille du d\u00e9but de son contrat. Une pratique loin d\u2019\u00eatre isol\u00e9e, selon la CGT."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La mort de Yan Morvan, photographe des marges et des extr\u00eames;https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/09/23/la-mort-de-yan-morvan-photographe-des-marges-et-des-extremes_6329763_3382.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:00:06 +0200",
        "text": "Le photojournaliste, qui a couvert la guerre du Liban et c\u00f4toy\u00e9 le tueur en s\u00e9rie Guy Georges, est mort, le 20\u00a0septembre, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 70\u00a0ans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Chronique | \u00ab\u00a0Emmanuel Macron a coup\u00e9 le fil entre le vote des Fran\u00e7ais et la r\u00e9ponse qui leur est aujourd\u2019hui apport\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/09/23/gouvernement-barnier-emmanuel-macron-a-coupe-le-fil-entre-le-vote-des-francais-et-la-reponse-qui-leur-est-aujourd-hui-apportee_6328994_3232.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:45:00 +0200",
        "text": "Le gouvernement Barnier s\u2019inscrit dans la continuit\u00e9 du macronisme et se met dans la main du Rassemblement national, rel\u00e9gu\u00e9 en troisi\u00e8me position au soir du vote, gr\u00e2ce au\u00a0front r\u00e9publicain. Un rapport de force politique bien loin de ce qu\u2019ont exprim\u00e9 les Fran\u00e7ais dans les urnes en juillet."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Proc\u00e8s de Peter Cherif\u00a0: accus\u00e9 mutique, coupable par d\u00e9duction;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/23/attentat-de-charlie-hebdo-peter-cherif-accuse-mutique-coupable-par-deduction_6329693_3224.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:13:27 +0200",
        "text": "Le djihadiste a gard\u00e9 le silence, lundi, durant son interrogatoire devant la cour d\u2019assises sp\u00e9ciale de Paris. Faute d\u2019explications de sa part, il faut s\u2019en remettre aux t\u00e9moignages des enqu\u00eateurs pour cerner son r\u00f4le dans l\u2019attaque perp\u00e9tr\u00e9e par son ami Ch\u00e9rif Kouachi."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Inondations\u00a0\u00e0 Cannes\u00a0: la ville surprise t\u00f4t ce\u00a0matin par un\u00a0violent \u00e9pisode orageux;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/23/inondations-la-ville-de-cannes-surprise-tot-ce-matin-par-un-violent-episode-orageux_6329462_3244.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:03:31 +0200",
        "text": "Malgr\u00e9 les 80\u00a0centim\u00e8tres d\u2019eau \u00e0 certains endroits, le maire de Cannes, David\u00a0Lisnard, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 lundi qu\u2019il n\u2019y avait \u00ab\u00a0pas eu de bless\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb, seulement \u00ab\u00a0quelques personnes \u00e9vacu\u00e9es de leur voiture\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;D\u00e9but de saison compliqu\u00e9 pour DAZN, le nouveau diffuseur de la Ligue\u00a01;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/23/debut-de-saison-complique-pour-dazn-le-nouveau-diffuseur-de-la-ligue-1_6329000_3234.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:00:04 +0200",
        "text": "Critiqu\u00e9e notamment pour ses offres d\u2019abonnement, la plate-forme britannique a annonc\u00e9, lundi 23\u00a0septembre, la prolongation de la r\u00e9duction lanc\u00e9e le 10\u00a0septembre, pendant sept jours, jusqu\u2019au dimanche 29\u00a0septembre inclus."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;J. D.\u00a0Vance, le colistier de Trump, \u00e0 droite toute;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/23/a-droite-toute-j-d-vance-colistier-de-trump-conforte-les-electeurs-republicains_6328984_3210.html;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 04:15:01 +0200",
        "text": "En meeting au c\u0153ur de la Pennsylvanie, Etat bascule pour l\u2019\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle de novembre, l\u2019\u00e9lu de l\u2019Ohio a m\u00e9thodiquement attaqu\u00e9 la candidate d\u00e9mocrate, Kamala Harris, devant des militants r\u00e9publicains soud\u00e9s derri\u00e8re Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Guillaume Kasbarian, un lib\u00e9ral revendiqu\u00e9 au minist\u00e8re de la fonction publique;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/22/guillaume-kasbarian-un-liberal-revendique-au-ministere-de-la-fonction-publique_6328780_823448.html;Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:17:42 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019ancien ministre du logement succ\u00e8de \u00e0 Stanislas Guerini \u00e0 la t\u00eate du minist\u00e8re de la fonction publique, de la simplification et de la transformation de l\u2019action publique."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Trust urges DC to put an end to foul smell emanating from fishmeal factories at Ullal near Mangaluru;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/trust-urges-dc-to-put-an-end-to-foul-smell-emanating-from-fishmeal-factories-at-ullal-near-mangaluru/article68676750.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:14:04 +0530",
        "text": "The Trust feels that unabated odour has become a health hazard for residents"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Notorious gangster \u2018CD\u2019 had allegedly broken leg, hospitalised in prisoners\u2019 ward of Stanley Hospital;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/notorious-gangster-cd-had-allegedly-broken-leg-hospitalised-in-prisoners-ward-of-stanley-hospital/article68676843.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:10:13 +0530",
        "text": "Following the murder of BSP leader Armstrong, the city police intensified its drive against rowdy elements"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Haryana CM Nayab Saini targets Congress, calls it 'anti-Dalit' party;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/haryana-cm-nayab-saini-targets-congress-calls-it-anti-dalit-party/article68676921.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:04:32 +0530",
        "text": "His attack on the Congress comes a day after Amit Shah termed the grand old party as \u2018anti-Dalit\u2019, and said it \u2018insulted\u2019 Dalit leaders like Kumari\u00a0Selja and Ashok Tanwar"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pipelines used to draw water illegally from LBP canal removed;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/pipelines-used-to-draw-water-illegally-from-lbp-canal-removed/article68676923.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:59:39 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP is not able to tolerate the good work of Karnataka CM, says D.K. Shivakumar;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/ministers-santosh-lad-ramalinga-reddy-rule-out-resignation-of-karnataka-cm/article68676812.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:47:00 +0530",
        "text": "Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda said the State Government will appeal the ruling before a division bench of the High Court of Karnataka"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;MUDA case: Government will appeal CM Siddaramaiah prosecution ruling to Division Bench of High Court, says Krishna Byre Gowda;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/will-appeal-to-division-bench-of-the-high-court-says-krishna-byre-gowda/article68676859.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:45:15 +0530",
        "text": "The Revenue Minister alleged that the Opposition BJP had hatched a political conspiracy to destabilise the Congress and non-BJP governments in the country."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Actor-MLA Mukesh arrested in rape case, to be let off after medicals;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/actor-mla-mukesh-arrested-in-rape-case-to-be-let-off-after-medicals/article68676882.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:42:41 +0530",
        "text": "M. Mukesh to be released after medical examination as a lower court had earlier granted him anticipatory bail"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP demands immediate resignation of Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in the wake of HC dismissing his petition;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/bjp-demands-immediate-resignation-of-karnataka-chief-minister-siddaramaiah-in-the-wake-of-hc-dismissing-his-petition/article68676862.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:37:58 +0530",
        "text": "It is the first victory for the opposition BJP and JD(S), which had taken up a campaign against the alleged irregularities by the Congress government, says BJP Karnataka president B. Y. Vijayendra"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Temple chariot set on fire in Anantapur district;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/temple-chariot-set-on-fire-in-anantapur-district/article68676687.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:27:39 +0530",
        "text": "Police is investigating the case and are trying to identify the culprits with the help of CCTV footage in the vicinity"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Karnataka High Court upholds Governor\u2019s approval for investigation against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/karnataka-high-court-upholds-governors-approval-for-investigation-against-chief-minister-siddaramaiah/article68676821.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:19:48 +0530",
        "text": "Now the special court can proceed to pass order on complaints seeking probe by an independence agency"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Penalty collected by TANGEDCO: Micro units in Coimbatore demand refund;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/penalty-collected-by-tangedco-micro-units-in-coimbatore-demand-refund/article68676770.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:18:10 +0530",
        "text": "As many as 250 people representing 23 MSME associations in Coimbatore submitted a memorandum to the TANGEDCO officials"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Laddu row: A.P. CM Chandrababu Naidu asks Jagan whether he signed declaration before entering Tirumala temple;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/laddu-row-ap-cm-chandrababu-naidu-asks-jagan-whether-he-signed-declaration-before-entering-tirumala-temple/article68676797.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:14:43 +0530",
        "text": "\u2018If there is belief, non-Hindus should make a declaration as per the laid down tradition,\u2019 says CM Chandrababu Naidu"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israel-Hezbollah conflict: All you need to know about the escalating cross-border tension;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-conflict-war-pager-explosion-explained/article68676755.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:12:42 +0530",
        "text": "Many fear the escalating violence could lead to an all-out war between Israel and Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah, which would further destabilise a region already shaken by the fighting in Gaza"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Centre moves SC for withdrawing CPRF security to Unnao rape survivor, SC seeks her reply;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/centre-moves-sc-for-withdrawing-cprf-security-to-unnao-rape-survivor-sc-seeks-her-reply/article68676787.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:11:25 +0530",
        "text": "The Centre's counsel said no security cover is needed according to the threat analysis of the victim and her family members"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala High Court closes anticipatory bail pleas of actor Jayasurya;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-high-court-closes-anticipatory-bail-pleas-of-actor-jayasurya/article68674170.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:57:54 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Idukki medical college construction works to be completed within six months: Kerala Health Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/idukki-medical-college-construction-works-to-be-completed-within-six-months-kerala-health-minister/article68674983.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:54:03 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rahul Gandhi\u2019s quota remarks: Mayawati slams Congress\u2019 reservation policy; says it\u2019s \u2018duplicitous and deceptive\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rahul-gandhis-quota-remarks-mayawati-slams-congress-reservation-policy-says-its-duplicitous-and-deceptive/article68676689.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:42:28 +0530",
        "text": "\"In our country, they advocate for increasing it beyond 50%, while abroad they talk about abolishing reservations. People should be alert to their double standards,\" BSP chief Mayawati said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;M.K. Azhagiri\u2019s son Durai Dayanidhi discharged from CMC in Vellore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/mk-azhagiris-son-durai-dayanidhi-discharged-from-cmc-in-vellore/article68676666.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:40:09 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Dayanidhi was undergoing physiotherapy treatment at the hospital in Vellore town for the past six months."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israel, Hezbollah launch new attacks after deadly day in Lebanon | LIVE updates;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-hamas-hezbollah-war-gaza-live-updates/article68676724.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:37:05 +0530",
        "text": "Thousands of people fled southern Lebanon, jamming the main highway to Beirut in the biggest exodus since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala vlogger accused in sexual assault case arrested;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-vlogger-accused-in-sexual-assault-case-arrested/article68676688.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:25:43 +0530",
        "text": "Fayis Moroor (49), a vlogger and native of Kakkodi in Kozhikode, is accused of sexually and physically assaulting a woman who became acquainted with through social media"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;NIA raids 11 locations in Tamil Nadu in probe against Hizb-ut-Tahrir;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/nia-raids-tamil-nadu-probe-against-hizb-ut-tahrir-sept-24-2024/article68676691.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:24:27 +0530",
        "text": "Hizb-ut-Tahrir is a pan-Islamist organisation aspiring to establish an Islamic caliphate in the country"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;IIMA announces reservation in PhD admissions from 2025 as per 'govt guidelines';https://www.thehindu.com/education/iima-announces-reservation-in-phd-admissions-from-2025-as-per-govt-guidelines/article68676683.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:23:37 +0530",
        "text": "The institute, in response to a PIL, had said that it would implement reservations for the SCs, STs, OBCs as well as disabled candidates in doctoral programmes"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Netanyahu accuses Hezbollah of using civilians as human shields;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/netanyahu-accuses-hezbollah-of-using-civilians-as-human-shields/article68676550.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:19:56 +0530",
        "text": "Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanese people to move away from danger as the Israeli military pounded Hezbollah targets in the country\u2019s south and east"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Andhra Pradesh to have 400 Anna Canteens by the end of September;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/andhra-pradesh-to-have-400-anna-canteens-by-the-end-of-september/article68675301.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:18:17 +0530",
        "text": "\u201cDespite inheriting empty treasury with a debt of \u20b910 lakh crore, the alliance government has delivered many welfare and development works within the first 100 days of assuming power,\u201d says Minister Ponguru Narayana"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Govt to adopt global technologies for road, highway  development in Telangana;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/govt-to-adopt-global-technologies-for-road-highway-development-in-telangana/article68674198.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:18:01 +0530",
        "text": "R&amp;B Minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy held discussions with World Bank team"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Watch: PM SHRI or poor performance: Why did the Centre deny Samagra Shiksha funds?;https://www.thehindu.com/data/watch-pm-shri-or-poor-performance-why-did-the-centre-deny-samagra-shiksha-funds-data/article68676645.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:08:30 +0530",
        "text": "The Hindu Data team uses data to compare the performance of States across five objectives of the Samagra Shiksha scheme"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Dalits in Sigaranahalli village in Hassan district of Karnataka recall solidarity shown by CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury over temple entry ban;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/dalits-in-sigaranahalli-village-in-hassan-district-of-karnataka-recall-solidarity-shown-by-cpim-leader-sitaram-yechury-ban-entry-temple/article68673877.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:06:02 +0530",
        "text": "Sitaram Yechury visited Sigaranahalli in July 2016 and extended support to the struggle that women of the village led against a ban on their entry into a temple"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Import duty exemption on maize: BJP Andhra Pradesh president Purandeswari appeals to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/import-duty-exemption-on-maize-bjp-andhra-pradesh-president-purandeswari-appeals-to-finance-minister-nirmala-sitharaman/article68676450.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:02:24 +0530",
        "text": "Poultry sector provides livelihood for more than 10 lakh people in Andhra Pradesh"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018RBI must step in,\u2019 Congress on SBI \u2018buying\u2019 equity in defaulter Supreme Infrastructure;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rbi-must-step-in-congress-on-sbi-buying-equity-in-defaulter-supreme-infrastructure/article68676632.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:01:09 +0530",
        "text": "This arrangement creates a dangerous precedent in India's corporate debt landscape, it encourages other defaulting companies to seek similar deal, said the Congress general secretary"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;TTD laddu issue: Pawan Kalyan participates in \u2018suddhi\u2019 at Kanaka Durga temple;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/ttd-laddu-issue-pawan-kalyan-participates-in-suddhi-at-kanaka-durga-temple/article68676453.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:00:04 +0530",
        "text": "Andhra Pradesh Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan took \u2018Prayaschitta Diksha\u2019, as penance for the alleged use of \u2018animal fat\u2019 in Tirupati Laddu Prasadam."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hema Committee report: Actor-MLA Mukesh questioned by SIT;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/hema-committee-report-actor-mla-mukesh-being-questioned-by-sit/article68676614.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:56:56 +0530",
        "text": "A court had earlier granted Mukesh anticipatory bail with the condition that he should cooperate with the investigation team"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;West Bengal seeks urgent hearing of reservation case in SC;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal-seeks-urgent-hearing-of-reservation-case-in-sc/article68676536.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:47:37 +0530",
        "text": "The Calcutta High Court in May cancelled all Other Backward Classes (OBC) certificates issued in the State since 2010"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rhea Singha crowned Miss Universe India 2024;https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/fashion/rhea-singha-crowned-miss-universe-india-2024/article68676610.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:46:56 +0530",
        "text": "\u201cI am hopeful that India will win the Miss Universe crown again this year,\" Urvashi Rautela told media."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India-Bangladesh cricket match: Hindu Mahasabha calls for 'Gwalior Bandh' on October 6;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/madhya-pradesh/india-bangladesh-cricket-match-hindu-mahasabha-calls-for-gwalior-bandh-on-october-6/article68676534.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:41:30 +0530",
        "text": "Hindu Mahasabha's national vice-president Jaiveer Bharadwaj claimed that the \u201catrocities\u201d on Hindus were still going on in Bangladesh and it was not right to play cricket with Bangladesh"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Telangana HC serves notices to Speaker, ECI over 10 MLAs\u2019 defection;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-hc-serves-notices-to-speaker-eci-over-10-mlas-defection/article68674908.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:39:26 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Gang advertises infant boy for sale on WhatsApp, nabbed;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/gang-advertises-infant-boy-for-sale-on-whatsapp-nabbed/article68674943.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:29:18 +0530",
        "text": "The main offender in the case, Mahidi Ali alias Saleem hatched a plan to sell new-born babies to parents who did not have children, illegally for a huge commission."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Drunk man steals parked TGSRTC bus, detained;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/drunk-man-steals-parked-tgsrtc-bus-detained/article68675083.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:24:07 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Principal held for murdering girl in Dahod close to BJP-RSS, alleges Gujarat Congress;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/principal-held-for-murdering-girl-in-dahod-close-to-bjp-rss-alleges-gujarat-congress/article68676542.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:21:22 +0530",
        "text": "The school principal, Govind Nat, smothered the girl after she fended off his attempt to sexually molest her, said Superintendent of Police Rajdeepsinh Zala"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Alliance Air flight bound for Tirupati returns to Hyderabad after technical snag;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/alliance-air-flight-bound-for-tirupati-returns-to-hyderabad-after-technical-snag/article68676514.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:13:46 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Badlapur police encounter: Family challenges claim that assault case accused fired at cop first;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/badlapur-police-encounter-family-challenges-claim-that-assault-case-accused-fired-at-cop-first/article68676522.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:09:44 +0530",
        "text": "Akshay Shinde's father Anna Shinde said an inquiry should be conducted into his son's killing."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala High Court dismisses anticipatory bail plea of actor Siddique in rape case;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/rape-case-kerala-high-court-dismisses-anticipatory-bail-plea-of-actor-siddique/article68676516.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:02:41 +0530",
        "text": "Siddique contended in his petition that the complaint is part of a deliberate and calculated effort to implicate him falsely in the case and that the allegations are vague"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Telangana Health Minister criticises BRS fact-finding committee;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-health-minister-criticises-brs-fact-finding-committee/article68674019.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:01:23 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;NTF sub-committee proposes safety protocols, workload limits and grievance redressal;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/ntf-sub-committee-proposes-safety-protocols-workload-limits-and-grievance-redressal/article68674367.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:54:23 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;After floods, strife-torn Sudan battles cholera as disease kills 388 in two months;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/after-floods-strife-torn-sudan-battles-cholera-as-disease-kills-388-in-two-months/article68676499.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:43:22 +0530",
        "text": "The casualties from cholera included six dead and about 400 ill over the weekend, according to Sunday\u2019s report by the Health Ministry"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;The racial divide in South Africa\u2019s economy since the end of apartheid;https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/the-racial-divide-in-south-africas-economy-since-the-end-of-apartheid/article68673662.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:41:25 +0530",
        "text": "South Africa has struggled for years with low economic growth and high unemployment. The official unemployment rate was 33.5% in April-June of this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Funds trim bearish CBOT soybean bets awaiting Brazil rains;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/funds-trim-bearish-cbot-soybean-bets-awaiting-brazil-rains/article68676461.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:36:18 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Far-right leader Kickl within the reach\u00a0of power as Austria gears up for polls;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/far-right-leader-kickl-within-the-reach-of-power-as-austria-gears-up-for-polls/article68676497.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:35:08 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Trump opens up new markets with Bibles, silver coins;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/trump-opens-up-new-markets-with-bibles-silver-coins/article68676493.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:32:34 +0530",
        "text": "Though rarely seen at church, Mr. Trump says the Bible is his \u2018favorite book,\u2019 and around Easter he began selling the sacred text for $59.99 online"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Following Tirupati temple controversy, demand for Nandini ghee has gone up: Ex-KMF chairperson Balachandra Jarkiholi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/following-tirupati-temple-controversy-demand-for-nandini-ghee-has-gone-up-ex-kmf-chairperson-balachandra-jarkiholi/article68674398.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:28:46 +0530",
        "text": "We did not supply earlier as they quoted a lower price, he says"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.S. Fed rate cuts will put money in pockets, but a mood shift may take time;https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/us-fed-rate-cuts-will-put-money-in-pockets-but-a-mood-shift-may-take-time/article68673653.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:27:34 +0530",
        "text": "Recent surveys suggest that while the pace of price increases has declined dramatically, the public\u2019s mood is still marred by nearly two years of high inflation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;California becomes latest state to restrict student smartphone use at school;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/california-becomes-latest-state-to-restrict-student-smartphone-use-at-school/article68676305.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:27:23 +0530",
        "text": "California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law requiring school districts to restrict student phone use"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Forced to fight along Myanmar military, say Rohingya recruits;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/forced-to-fight-along-myanmar-military-say-rohingya-recruits/article68676466.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:27:05 +0530",
        "text": "Experts say at least 2,000 Rohingya have been recruited from refugee camps in Bangladesh this year"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Russia, Ukraine spar over Crimea bridge in court;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/russia-ukraine-spar-over-crimea-bridge-in-court/article68676460.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:20:52 +0530",
        "text": "The case dates back to September 2016, when Kyiv dragged Moscow to the Permanent Court of Arbitration to \u2018vindicate its rights as the coastal state\u2019; Russia claims the court lacks jurisdiction"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sitharaman to attend AIIB annual meet in Uzbekistan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/finance-minister-nirmala-sitharaman-uzbekistan-visit/article68676457.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:17:04 +0530",
        "text": "The Annual Meeting of Board of Governors of AIIB is scheduled on September 25 and 26"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;IMF to begin talks with new Lanka government led by President Dissanayake;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/imf-to-begin-talks-with-new-lanka-government-led-by-president-dissanayake/article68676449.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:13:19 +0530",
        "text": "Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe-led government was negotiating with the IMF for the release of the third tranche of the $2.9 billion facility when the presidential election was announced in July"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Telegram CEO Pavel Durov confirms change in policy to allow criminal suspects\u2019 IP addresses and phone numbers to be shared;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-confirms-change-in-policy-to-allow-criminal-suspects-ip-addresses-and-phone-numbers-to-be-shared/article68676442.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:10:03 +0530",
        "text": "Telegram\u2019s CEO Pavel Durov claimed that Search on Telegram has been abused by those selling illegal goods"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Biden, Harris meet UAE leader Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed on Sudan, Middle East;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/biden-harris-meet-uae-leader-sheikh-mohamed-bin-zayed-on-sudan-middle-east/article68676408.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:04:08 +0530",
        "text": "In a joint statement after their meeting, Joe Biden and Sheikh Mohamed said they \u201cshared concern about the risk of imminent atrocities\u201d as fighting continues in Sudan\u2019s war-torn Darfur region."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Singapore opens its first ministerial graft trial in nearly half a century;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/singapore-opens-its-first-ministerial-graft-trial-in-nearly-half-a-century/article68676420.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:01:40 +0530",
        "text": "The last Cabinet Minister charged with graft was Wee Toon Boon, who was found guilty in 1975 and jailed for accepting gifts in exchange for helping a businessperson"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tech giants Google, Nvidia to enhance AI focus, investments in India;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/tech-giants-google-nvidia-to-enhance-ai-focus-investments-in-india/article68676353.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:54:19 +0530",
        "text": "Technology giants Google and Nvidia will enhance their engagement in India with more focus on leveraging artificial intelligence technology in the country, top officials of the companies said on Monday"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Actor Trisha Krishnan settles dispute out of court; Madras HC orders refund of court fee;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/actor-trisha-krishnan-settles-dispute-out-of-court-madras-hc-orders-refund-of-court-fee/article68676316.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:41:53 +0530",
        "text": "The issue relates to possible damage to her residential building due to demolition of an adjacent property"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;MUDA case LIVE: Karnataka High Court dismisses CM Siddaramaiah\u2019s petition, upholds Governor\u2019s sanction for prosecution;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/karnataka-muda-case-verdict-reactions-siddaramaiah-live-september-24-2024/article68676298.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:41:36 +0530",
        "text": "Complaints are justified in registering complainant before the Governor and seeking approval for investigation as Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act requires prior approval for investigation from competent authority, the Governor in this case, the HC said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Telangana govt. working on providing multi-purpose family digital cards;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-govt-working-on-providing-multi-purpose-family-digital-cards/article68674645.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:34:25 +0530",
        "text": "Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy favours one State, one card model in Telangana"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Zelenskyy says Ukraine closer to end of war with Russia;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/zelenskiy-says-ukraine-closer-to-end-of-war-with-russia/article68676369.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:33:06 +0530",
        "text": "\"I think that we are closer to the peace than we think,\" Zelenskyy was quoted as saying."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;New U.S. rule would require GM, Ford to halt imports of cars they build in China, official says;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/new-us-rule-would-require-gm-ford-to-halt-imports-of-cars-they-build-in-china-official-says/article68676310.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:32:18 +0530",
        "text": "General Motors and Ford Motor would need to stop importing vehicles to the U.S. from China under a proposed rule cracking down on Chinese software and hardware, a U.S. Commerce Department official told Reuters"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Modi meets Sikh delegation in New York;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/modi-meets-sikh-delegation-in-new-york/article68676315.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:31:19 +0530",
        "text": "Prominent Sikh leader from Wisconsin Darshan Singh Dhaliwal also met the Prime Minister"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Dhangars demand ST status, hold protest rally;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/dhangars-demand-st-status-hold-protest-rally/article68673948.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:06:47 +0530",
        "text": "After the delay in passing a GR, the Dhangar community intensified their protest by blocking roads in several districts in Maharashtra, including Beed, \u2060Solapur, Kolhapur, Nashik, \u2060Pandharpur, and \u2060Akola."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Expendable\u2019 young men lining up to do gangs\u2019\u00a0bidding with little or no reward, say police;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/expendable-young-men-lining-up-to-do-gangs-bidding-with-little-or-no-reward-say-police/article68675490.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:02:57 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Frogs are as important as tigers\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/frogs-are-as-important-as-tigers/article68672667.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "Did you know that 95% of frogs that croak are male? Bengaluru-based ecologist Gururaja K.V. speaks on many fascinating aspects of amphibians and why they are so important to us"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Butai debuts with Bag Dancing, a tale of friendship and empathy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/butai-debuts-with-bag-dancing-a-tale-of-friendship-and-empathy/article68673490.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "\u2018Parents find ideas like mental health, death, destruction and war painful, and they want to protect their children from it. This play creates an opportunity for families to have a conversation opener\u2019"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Five wagons of goods train derail in West Bengal\u2019s New Maynaguri station;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/five-wagons-of-goods-train-derail-in-west-bengals-new-maynaguri-station/article68676323.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:52:26 +0530",
        "text": "According to Railway officials, the incident took place around 6.25 am on Tuesday."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Leveraging transit-oriented development to build productive cities;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/leveraging-transit-oriented-development-to-build-productive-cities/article68675329.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "Transport infrastructure is a prime driver of economic activity. As a case study of Bengaluru shows, improving accessibility to jobs, through safe and efficient transport modes, could significantly enhance workforce productivity"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;NDA government will complete Veligonda project, says Minister Gottipati Ravi Kumar;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/nda-government-will-complete-veligonda-project-says-minister-gottipati-ravi-kumar/article68673599.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:25:31 +0530",
        "text": "33/11 KV power substation constructed at a cost of \u20b93 crore inaugurated at Chakirala village"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Police officers foisted false case upon actor Kadambari Jethwani, says remand report;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/police-officers-foisted-false-case-upon-actor-kadambari-jethwani-says-remand-report/article68674760.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:24:52 +0530",
        "text": "Main accused Vidyasagar was produced before the Fourth Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Vijayawada; probe team suspects tampering of evidence"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;New trains, extension of services to be considered after completion of infrastructure work,\u00a0Mettupalayam rail users assured;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/new-trains-extension-of-services-to-be-considered-after-completion-of-infrastructure-work-mettupalayam-rail-users-assured/article68674798.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:43:51 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Test to identify the appropriate antibiotic to cure H.pylori infection, says Nobel Prize winner;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/test-to-identify-the-appropriate-antibiotic-to-cure-hpylori-infection-says-nobel-prize-winner/article68674033.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:40:41 +0530",
        "text": "Upon sensitivity testing by following bacteriologic principles, doing specific treatment could help to get high cure rates, according to Nobel laureate Barry Marshall"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mamata Banerjee distributes flood relief, warns of more rain;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/mamata-distributes-flood-relief-warns-of-more-rain/article68674921.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:28:00 +0530",
        "text": "The Chief Minister blames the release of water from the Damodar Valley Corporation for the inundation of several districts of south Bengal and threatens to sever ties with the DVC"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;In Bengal colleges, divorced or widowed women teachers to get preference in transfers;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/in-bengal-colleges-divorced-or-widowed-women-teachers-to-get-preference-in-transfers/article68674026.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:26:24 +0530",
        "text": "Any employee who is to be superannuated within three years from the date of application is also given preference"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sewage management in four Jharkhand districts paints \u2018very grim picture\u2019: NGT;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jharkhand/sewage-management-in-four-jharkhand-districts-paints-very-grim-picture-ngt/article68674897.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:21:14 +0530",
        "text": "The tribunal is hearing the issue of prevention and control of pollution in the Ganga river and the matter is being taken up State-wise and district-wise"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rajasthan\u2019s potential as global industrial hub being explored with new initiatives;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rajasthan/rajasthans-potential-as-global-industrial-hub-being-explored-with-new-initiatives/article68674211.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:18:26 +0530",
        "text": "Ms. Kumari said Bhilwara\u2019s status as the textile hub would also be promoted with greater efforts"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Odisha all set to join Centre\u2019s Ayushman Bharat health coverage scheme;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/odisha-all-set-to-join-centres-ayushman-bharat-health-coverage-scheme/article68674192.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:13:45 +0530",
        "text": "Though Odisha is running its own health scheme, AB PM-JAY will now run alongside this"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vaishali MP Veena Devi\u2019s son dies in road accident;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/vaishali-mp-veena-devis-son-dies-in-road-accident/article68675122.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:08:33 +0530",
        "text": "According to an eyewitness, he was going towards a fuel station in Karja on a bike when an unidentified vehicle hit him killing him on the spot"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Karnataka government wants 67% reservation for Kannadigas at Sangolli Rayanna Sainik School;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/karnataka-government-wants-67-reservation-for-kannadigas-at-sangolli-rayanna-sainik-school/article68673882.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Ensure compliance of minimum qualification as per UGC norms even for guest lecturers: Karnataka High Court;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/ensure-compliance-of-minimum-qualification-as-per-ugc-norms-even-for-guest-lecturers-karnataka-high-court/article68674623.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Karnataka government finally releases funds for primary school guest teachers;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/karnataka-government-finally-releases-funds-for-primary-school-guest-teachers/article68673429.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Suspend Munirathna and constitute ethics committee, Karnataka Law Minister tells Speaker;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/suspend-munirathna-and-constitute-ethics-committee-karnataka-law-minister-tells-speaker/article68674794.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;SIT launches probe against Karnataka MLA Munirathna amidst concerns over intimidation of witnesses and destruction of evidence;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/sit-launches-probe-against-karnataka-mla-munirathna-amidst-concerns-over-intimidation-of-witnesses-and-destruction-of-evidence/article68675038.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "The Yeshwanthpur police have registered a FIR against Sunandamma, a close associate of the MLA  Munirathna, for threatening the witness."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;No photo shoots or filming reels of Dasara elephants, Minister warns Karnataka forest officials;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/no-photo-shoots-or-filming-reels-of-dasara-elephants-minister-warns-karnataka-forest-officials/article68673892.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "\u2018Officials and staff who have shown negligence by allowing reels to be made should be given clear instructions to avoid such incidents\u2019"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PM Modi meets Armenian counterpart Pashinyan in New York;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-modi-meets-armenian-counterpart-pashinyan-in-new-york/article68676257.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:53:53 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Modi also met the Secretary of State of the Holy See here Cardinal Pietro Parolin"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;EAM Jaishankar meets Foreign Ministers of G4 nations in New York;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/eam-jaishankar-meets-foreign-ministers-of-g4-nations-in-new-york/article68676258.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:38:53 +0530",
        "text": "The G4 nations support each other\u2019s bids for permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Morning Digest | Israel launches intense airstrikes in southern Lebanon, killing 356, including 24 children; Reform global institutions for peace and development, PM Modi tells U.N., and more;https://www.thehindu.com/news/morning-digest-september-24-2024/article68675495.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:30:19 +0530",
        "text": "Here is a select list of stories to start the day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PM Modi meets Ukrainian President Zelenskyy before leaving U.S.;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-modi-meets-ukrainian-president-zelenskyy-reaffirms-indias-support-for-peaceful-resolution-of-conflict/article68676256.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:30:08 +0530",
        "text": "India\u2019s purchase of Russian oil not discussed, says Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tirumala laddu row: Former TTD Chairman takes vow to \u2018affirm his innocence\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/tirumala-laddu-row-former-ttd-chairman-takes-vow-to-affirm-his-innocence/article68674397.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 04:52:00 +0530",
        "text": "The police take way YSRCP leader B. Karunakar Reddy from the spot after warning him against engaging in any form of political activity in the temple town"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Experts in Hyderabad discuss recent trends in cyber security and emerging technologies;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/experts-in-hyderabad-discuss-recent-trends-in-cyber-security-and-emerging-technologies/article68674524.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 03:10:59 +0530",
        "text": "Speakers at a seminar throw light on IoT, AI and Machine Learning, uses of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in enhancing users\u2019 experiences by creating immersive environments for education"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Albania plans Sufi Muslim microstate within its borders;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/albania-plans-sufi-muslim-microstate-within-its-borders/article68674647.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 02:35:00 +0530",
        "text": "The tiny Vatican-like enclave within Albania\u2019s capital Tirana will serve as the political home for Bektashi Muslims"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CIAL announces airport development projects worth \u20b91,000 crore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/cial-announces-airport-development-projects-worth-1000-crore/article68674325.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:27:24 +0530",
        "text": "163 projects highlighting CIAL\u2019s sustainability goals, technological advancement, and passenger satisfaction to be implemented"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Madras varsity\u2019s convocation invitation raises questions on convener committee\u2019s authority;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/madras-varsitys-convocation-invitation-raises-questions-on-convener-committees-authority/article68671080.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:14:25 +0530",
        "text": "Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy says convenor will sign the degree certificates as interim V-C"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Weighing in on business as usual with China;https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/weighing-in-on-business-as-usual-with-china/article68674839.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:10:00 +0530",
        "text": "From strategic, security and economic angles, India would do well to take a differentiated policy towards economic relations with China"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Probe ordered against illegal waste dumping in quarries in Kannur;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/probe-ordered-against-illegal-waste-dumping-in-quarries-in-kannur/article68673961.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:08:06 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Alangad jaggery set to storm the world of sweet aficionados;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/alangad-jaggery-set-to-storm-the-world-of-sweet-aficionados/article68673728.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:07:36 +0530",
        "text": "Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ernakulam, to produce jaggery-based jalebi and laddu on a pilot basis"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP launches public outreach drive ahead of Assembly session;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/bjp-launches-public-outreach-drive-ahead-of-assembly-session/article68675482.ece;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:05:34 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Chinese research ship docks in Hong Kong on return stopover after deep-sea mission;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279755/chinese-research-ship-docks-hong-kong-return-stopover-after-deep-sea-mission?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:39:26 +0800",
        "text": "Shenhai Yihao, the mother ship of Jialong submersible, docks at Ocean Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui, with researchers set to give talks in the city."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong programmer and his father held for alleged illicit live-streaming of EPL games;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279754/hong-kong-customs-arrests-programmer-and-his-father-illegally-live-streaming-epl-games?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:32:41 +0800",
        "text": "Both men are suspected of streaming Premier League football games from Now TV paid channels to more than 200 viewers."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong court denies early release to student leader jailed for praising attack on police;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279752/hong-kong-court-denies-early-release-student-leader-jailed-praising-attack-police?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:29:52 +0800",
        "text": "Commissioner of Correctional Services decides no remission for Kinson Cheung, reasoning his act had endangered national security."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Businesses \u2018are not bystanders\u2019 in Hong Kong: John Lee\u2019s call to action after Beijing meeting;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3279745/businesses-are-not-bystanders-hong-kong-john-lees-call-action-after-beijing-meeting?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:55:54 +0800",
        "text": "Comments follow HKMAO director Xia Baolong\u2019s call for executives and entrepreneurs to remain united behind city leader to boost economy."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Bridging cultures through the silver screen;https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/asean-film-festival/article/3279689/bridging-cultures-through-silver-screen?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:05:09 +0800",
        "text": "[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.]\r \r As business, trade and travel between Hong Kong, mainland China and ASEAN countries expand, fostering cultural understanding is increasingly acknowledged as key to strengthening international collaboration.\r \r Beyond government efforts, the ASEAN Film Festival (AFF) is one of the latest initiatives driving cross-cultural dialogue through cinema. Building on last year\u2019s success, the second edition of AFF kicked off on September 5 in Hong Kong and will continue until September 28.\r \r For the first time in Hong Kong, this year\u2019s AFF features films from all ten ASEAN countries, offering over 20 free screenings to foster cross-cultural understanding and celebrate the rich diversity of ASEAN cultures.\r \r AFF, a non-profit initiative themed \u201cCollaboration and Co- Creation\u201d, is led by the Hong Kong-ASEAN Foundation (HKAF) with strong support from the Consulates-General of ASEAN countries in Hong Kong and more than 20 local and ASEAN partners.\r \r Hong Kong is proud to be associated with ASEAN films as the super connector \u00a0\r \r A celebration cocktail reception was hosted on September 20, which was attended by distinguished guests, including The Honourable Michael Wong Wai-lun, Acting Financial Secretary of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Mrs Ainatol Zahayu Mohammad, Dean of the ASEAN Consuls-General and Consul-General of Brunei Darussalam in Hong Kong, Mr Nicholas Ho Lik-chi, Commissioner for Belt & Road, the Government of HKSAR, The Honourable Bernard Charnwut Chan, HK-ASEAN Foundation Advisory Council Member, Mr Daryl Ng Win-kong, Chairman of Hong Kong-ASEAN Foundation, and the Consuls-General or representatives of Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, along with representatives from co-presenters, venue partners and supporting organisations of AFF 2024.\u00a0\r \r \u201cHong Kong, as a place where the East meets the West, and as the super connector between\u2026"
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s John Lee orders \u2018many drills\u2019 at Kai Tak stadium ahead of Coldplay shows, opening;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279726/hong-kongs-john-lee-orders-many-drills-kai-tak-stadium-ahead-opening-coldplay-shows?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:33:32 +0800",
        "text": "\u2018These drills should not only focus on the number of people, but also different time slots and weather conditions,\u2019 chief executive says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police need separate guidelines for mentally ill suspects: government adviser;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279721/hong-kong-police-need-separate-guidelines-handling-mentally-ill-suspects-government-adviser?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:17:20 +0800",
        "text": "Mental health advisory committee member says force can expect more cases involving mentally ill people, suggests dedicated training."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong to hold naming contest for 2 new giant pandas in October, John Lee says;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279716/hong-kong-hold-naming-contest-2-new-giant-pandas-october-says-john-lee?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:35:17 +0800",
        "text": "Hong Kong leader says the pair of giant pandas expected to arrive in city on Thursday will meet the public in December."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong Observatory cancels amber rainstorm alert;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279708/hong-kong-observatory-issues-amber-rainstorm-alert-heavy-showers-expected?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:58:43 +0800",
        "text": "Forecaster cancels signal at 1.45pm after raising it at 11.10am."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Spirit of Hong Kong Awards: 27 finalists in the running at annual event for unsung heroes;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279682/spirit-hong-kong-awards-27-finalists-running-annual-event-unsung-heroes?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:00:37 +0800",
        "text": "Awards, which are jointly organised by the Post and Sino Group, will also include two new categories: nurturing and entrepreneurship."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Newly merged Australian university to boost partnerships with city, attract Hongkongers;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3279654/newly-merged-australian-university-boost-partnerships-city-attract-hongkongers?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:30:16 +0800",
        "text": "Adelaide University can increase interactions with city\u2019s institutions, target growing number of mature students, co-vice-chancellors say."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong dazzled by drone shows but creative content, fewer rules needed, experts say;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279667/hong-kong-dazzled-drone-shows-creative-content-fewer-rules-needed-experts-say?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:30:07 +0800",
        "text": "Creativity is key to keep attracting people to drone shows while commercial elements also need to be strengthened, lawmaker says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;CityUHK launches 9 globally leading Flagship Programmes to cultivate a new generation of innovative leaders;https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/cityuhk-flagship-programmes/article/3279553/cityuhk-launches-9-globally-leading-flagship-programmes-cultivate-new-generation-innovative-leaders?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:00:08 +0800",
        "text": "[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.]\r \r City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) is committed to providing inspirational, interactive and innovative learning experiences. The University was recognised as the Most International University by Times Higher Education (THE) earlier in 2024. In partnership with top global universities, CityUHK introduced four Flagship Programmes in the 2024/25 academic year, and this will be expanded to nine Flagship Programmes in the 2025/26 academic year.\u00a0\r \r Characteristics of Flagship Programmes\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Globally oriented curriculum\u00a0\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Overseas academic/research exchanges at top universities\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Internships/placements in prestigious institutions\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Guaranteed admission to the respective PhD programme in Science/Engineering or the Postgraduate Certificate in Law (upon attainment of the entrance requirements)\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Flagship Scholarships covering a one-off exchange sponsorship of up to HK$500,000\r \r \r \r The nine Flagship Programmes are as follows:\r Starting in the 2024/25 academic year:\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0BBA Global Business\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Global Research Enrichment and Technopreneurship\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Pathway for Research, Innovation, and Multinational Engineering\r \r Starting in the 2025/26 academic year:\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0BSocSc Psychology [Stream: Wellbeing Enhancement and Care Management (WE-CARE) Programme]\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Creative Arts and Technology Excellence\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Data Empowerment: Learn, Transform and Achieve\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0International Sustainability Programme for Innovation, Research and Entrepreneurship\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Bachelor of Laws\r \r For more information about the Flagship Programmes and Flagship Scholarships, please visit the following website.\r \r CityUHK\u2019s global partnerships include (in order of QS World University Rankings):\r \r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Massachusetts Institute of Technology\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Imperial College London\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0University of Oxford\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Harvard University\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0University of Cambridge\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Cornell University\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0University of Toronto\r \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Columbia\u2026"
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong public hospitals to have 300 non-locally trained doctors by end of year;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279666/hong-kong-public-hospitals-have-300-non-locally-trained-doctors-end-year?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:28:36 +0800",
        "text": "Hospital Authority meet with counterparts in Macau and mainland China to bring in more doctors under healthcare professionals exchange plan."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong in big push to promote Kai Tak Sports Park ahead of opening, says John Lee;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279663/hong-kong-big-push-promote-kai-tak-sports-park-ahead-opening-says-john-lee?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:10:09 +0800",
        "text": "Chief executive says authorities are \u2018making every effort to promote the largest sports infrastructure project in Hong Kong\u2019s history\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Who is Hong Kong scientist Dennis Lo and what is sole candidate for top CUHK job best known for?;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3279659/who-hong-kong-scientist-dennis-lo-and-what-sole-candidate-top-cuhk-job-best-known?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:41:03 +0800",
        "text": "Molecular geneticist with a \u2018stellar reputation\u2019 is the only candidate in the running to take over as head of the Chinese University of Hong Kong."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong to create panel to name giant pandas being gifted to city by Beijing;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279658/hong-kong-create-panel-name-giant-pandas-being-gifted-city-beijing?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:26:32 +0800",
        "text": "Chief Executive John Lee expected to announce panel members on Tuesday, days before pandas arrived in city after 30-day quarantine."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong policies no different from overseas, John Lee says after journalist denied entry;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279657/award-winning-french-photojournalist-louise-delmotte-denied-entry-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:16:55 +0800",
        "text": "Post learns Associated Press journalist Louise Delmotte refused entry as tourist on September 14, after earlier being denied work visa extension."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Officer followed rules in shooting mentally ill man, Hong Kong police chief says;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279652/officer-followed-rules-shooting-mentally-ill-man-hong-kong-police-chief-says?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:31:17 +0800",
        "text": "Commissioner of Police Raymond Siu responds to complaints by widow that officers\u2019 action against her husband were \u2018unacceptable\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong boasts more fresh talent than Singapore in 5 industries, global survey finds;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279650/hong-kong-boasts-more-fresh-talent-singapore-5-industries-global-survey-finds?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:16:00 +0800",
        "text": "Report by Hays compares talent pools in 30 economies across five sectors, such as technology, engineering, manufacturing and life sciences."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;1 in 5 victims of \u2018naked-chat blackmail\u2019 in Hong Kong are students as young as 11 years old;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279643/1-5-victims-naked-chat-blackmail-hong-kong-are-students-young-11-years-old?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:55:08 +0800",
        "text": "Criminals employ \u2018scattergun approach\u2019 to befriend victims online before tricking them into disrobing during video chats, police say."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s Paul Chan pushes for global tech start-up summit to be hosted in city;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279632/hong-kongs-paul-chan-pushes-global-tech-start-summit-be-hosted-city?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:46:47 +0800",
        "text": "Financial Secretary Paul Chan sits down with organisers of South Summit during visit to Spain \u2013 the first leg of his European tour."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;DJ Peggy Gou, Grammy-winning Justice to headline Hypefest in Hong Kong in November;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279628/dj-peggy-gou-grammy-winning-justice-headline-hypefest-hong-kong-november?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:33:22 +0800",
        "text": "Organisers announce star-studded line-up of music festival, to be held in Hong Kong for the first time, on November 9 and 10."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong to test drone, flying car operations in \u2018step-by-step\u2019 plan but experts have doubts;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279616/hong-kong-test-drone-flying-car-operations-step-step-plan-experts-have-doubts?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:05:26 +0800",
        "text": "Cross-departmental and cross-border talks needed to help city tap into multi-trillion-dollar national low-altitude economy, experts say."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hongkongers\u2019 retirement portfolios will be harder to build as rates fall, analysts say;https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3279584/hongkongers-retirement-portfolios-will-be-harder-build-rates-fall-analysts-say?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:30:09 +0800",
        "text": "Lower interest rates will make it harder for Hongkongers to build an ideal retirement portfolio of more than US$2.6 million, analysts say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police raids in southwest target human traffickers;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-raids-in-southwest-target-human-traffickers/a-70307600?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Police raided more than 20 properties in southwestern Germany and arrested at least four people. The case pertains to trafficking people from the Caucasus region to work illegally and for less than the minimum wage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East: Thousands flee in Lebanon amid Israeli strikes;https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-thousands-flee-in-lebanon-amid-israeli-strikes/live-70307417?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Israel has said it is preparing for the \"next phases\" of operations targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon as concern grows over a wider conflict. Authorities said nearly 500 people were killed in Israeli strikes. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German Africa Prize 2024 awarded to Sierra Leone politician;https://www.dw.com/en/german-africa-prize-2024-awarded-to-sierra-leone-politician/a-70265707?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The German Africa Foundation calls Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the mayor of Freetown, an \"inspiration.\" In just six years, she has led Sierra Leone's capital into a model of sustainability."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How false memories make us who we are;https://www.dw.com/en/how-false-memories-make-us-who-we-are/a-70300263?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "We think of memory as a reliable recording of our lives. But we also have false memories, often pieced together from communal experience. Those false memories shape our identity, same as the real ones do."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hurricane John hits Mexico as Category 3 storm;https://www.dw.com/en/hurricane-john-hits-mexico-as-category-3-storm/a-70306616?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Residents of Mexico's southern Pacific coast have been warned to protect themselves against flooding and storm surge. Hurricane John made landfall in southern Mexico's Pacific coast as a Category 3 storm."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East updates: Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill hundreds;https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-updates-israeli-strikes-in-lebanon-kill-hundreds/live-70298131?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Israel has warned people to stay away from sites used by Hezbollah and has carried out new airstrikes in Lebanon. Hezbollah has warned of a \"new phase\" in its conflict with Israel. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US: Union slams Boeing's 'best and final offer';https://www.dw.com/en/us-union-slams-boeing-s-best-and-final-offer/a-70306602?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The plane-maker said it made a \"best and final offer\" to striking workers, including bigger raises and bonuses, but the union said the proposal wasn't good enough."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Japan: Tsunami advisory lifted after earthquake;https://www.dw.com/en/japan-tsunami-advisory-lifted-after-earthquake/a-70306344?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "After a strong earthquake, Japan issued a tsunami advisory for the remote Izu and Ogasawara Islands some 600 kilometers south of Tokyo. The country has since lifted the warning."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;At least 4 die as migrant ship sinks off Greek island;https://www.dw.com/en/at-least-4-die-as-migrant-ship-sinks-off-greek-island/a-70306276?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "A small boat carrying migrants from nearby Turkey sank in the eastern Aegean Sea off the Greek island of Samos, killing at least four people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tanzanian opposition leaders released on bail, Chadema party says;https://www.dw.com/en/tanzanian-opposition-leaders-released-on-bail-chadema-party-says/a-70301872?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Freeman Mbowe and Tundu Lissu were arrested ahead of a planned protest following the abduction and murder of a party leader earlier this month."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy eyes high-level talks on US trip;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-eyes-high-level-talks-on-us-trip/live-70298882?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Ukrainian president met Germany's Olaf Scholz and will also meet Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Meanwhile, Russia said 31 civilians had been killed in Kursk and 131,000 others have been forced to flee. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Man accused of Donald Trump assassination attempt left note;https://www.dw.com/en/man-accused-of-donald-trump-assassination-attempt-left-note/a-70303591?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The letter was found in a box that also contained ammunition, a metal pipe and four phones. The box had been left months earlier at the home of an unidentified witness who contacted authorities after the incident."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German supermarket finds \u20ac7M of cocaine in crates of bananas;https://www.dw.com/en/german-supermarket-finds-\u20ac7m-of-cocaine-in-crates-of-bananas/a-70303810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Police did not identify the discount supermarket chain. However, they said the cocaine was found at stores in several cities across the state of North Rhine-Westphalia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: SPD seeks coalition after slim win in Brandenburg;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-spd-seeks-coalition-after-slim-win-in-brandenburg/live-70298970?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats will seek coalition talks with upstart left party BSW, as working with the far-right runner-up AfD has been ruled out. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US elections: Trump win would hurt German exports, economic institute predicts;https://www.dw.com/en/us-elections-trump-win-would-hurt-german-exports-economic-institute-predicts/a-70303551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "According to an analysis by a Munich-based economic institute, Donald Trump's tariff plans on exports from abroad could cost the German economy dearly. Analysts also predict a new trade war with China."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US moves to ban Chinese, Russian tech from autonomous cars;https://www.dw.com/en/us-moves-to-ban-chinese-russian-tech-from-autonomous-cars/a-70302814?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The US Department of Commerce said Chinese and Russian technology in autonomous vehicles posed a threat to national security. China accused the US of \"discriminatory actions.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Sri Lanka: Can Anura Dissanayake revive a struggling nation?;https://www.dw.com/en/sri-lanka-can-anura-dissanayake-revive-a-struggling-nation/a-70301232?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Sri Lanka's new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, is tasked with leading the island nation out of its worst economic crisis in more than two generations."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India: Can opposition leader Kejriwal make a comeback?;https://www.dw.com/en/india-can-opposition-leader-kejriwal-make-a-comeback/a-70302318?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Arvind Kejriwal's sentencing in a bribery case has dented his image of an anti-corruption crusader. The known critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi now must fight back."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;With ter Stegen out for months, who do Germany turn to?;https://www.dw.com/en/with-ter-stegen-out-for-months-who-do-germany-turn-to/a-70302777?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Just weeks after being confirmed as Germany's new first-choice goalkeeper, Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has gone down with a potentially season-ending injury. Could Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann recall Manuel Neuer?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Volkswagen's crisis: How can Europe's car industry survive?;https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-s-crisis-how-can-europe-s-car-industry-survive/a-70231806?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "While Volkswagen and other European automakers are considering closing factories, Chinese rivals are searching for production sites on the continent. What's going wrong in Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Far-right gains in east Germany could deal blow to economy;https://www.dw.com/en/far-right-gains-in-east-germany-could-deal-blow-to-economy/a-70295769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "After elections in Thuringia and Saxony, the far-right AfD party has again massively gained in a poll in eastern Germany. Now the second-strongest force in Brandenburg, their success causes concerns among businesses."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany increases 'Deutschlandticket' price to \u20ac58;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-increases-deutschlandticket-price-to-\u20ac58/a-70300975?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The \"Deutschlandticket\" monthly travel pass allows passengers unlimited trips on local and regional trains, trams and buses. Starting in 2025, the ticket will be \u20ac9 more expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hamilton's near heatstroke puts F1 driver safety in focus;https://www.dw.com/en/hamilton-s-near-heatstroke-puts-f1-driver-safety-in-focus/a-69704130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Both Mercedes drivers suffered from 'borderline heatstroke' at the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix. Not for the first time this year, questions are being raised about their safety."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Brandenburg election brings relief for ruling SPD;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-brandenburg-election-brings-relief-for-ruling-spd/a-70298529?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats managed to fight off the far-right AfD in the regional vote. However, questions about the future of Germany's ruling coalition remain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Sudan crisis: Threat to culture 'unprecedented,' UNESCO says;https://www.dw.com/en/sudan-crisis-threat-to-culture-unprecedented-unesco-says/a-70284737?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Sudan is sinking into war and chaos. Many cultural and world heritage sites have been destroyed or looted as millions of people are displaced."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy: Naples house collapse kills mother and two kids;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-naples-house-collapse-kills-mother-and-two-kids/a-70296505?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The house is believed to have collapsed due to an explosion, local authorities said. The father of the kids and their 2-year-old brother were hospitalized after the incident."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;SPD set to finish ahead of far-right AfD in Brandenburg vote;https://www.dw.com/en/spd-set-to-finish-ahead-of-far-right-afd-in-brandenburg-vote/live-70291788?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Projections in state elections in the eastern German state of Brandenburg give the Social Democrats a slim lead over the far-right AfD in the race to be the largest party. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Swiss voters reject biodiversity, pension reforms;https://www.dw.com/en/swiss-voters-reject-biodiversity-pension-reforms/a-70295253?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Voters in Switzerland have voted \"no\" to measures on biodiversity preservation and pension reforms, according to official initial results."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Gaza's disabled cyclists deliver aid, inspiration and hope;https://www.dw.com/en/gaza-s-disabled-cyclists-deliver-aid-inspiration-and-hope/a-70269177?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "When the bombs started to fall in Gaza last October, the Gaza Sunbirds, a group of 25 Palestinian cyclists whose legs were amputated, started using their bikes to deliver food and shelters to their neighbors."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New French government announced in shift to the right;https://www.dw.com/en/new-french-government-announced-in-shift-to-the-right/a-70291188?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "French President Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff revealed the new center-right government from the Elysee Palace with some new faces in key positions and some who will be returning to their positions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Campaigns and a concert on eve of vote;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-campaigns-and-a-concert-on-eve-of-vote/a-70290694?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Politicians made last-ditch pitches in Brandenburg before Sunday's state election, where the far-right AfD is in the running to be the largest party. Several German bands gathered in Potsdam opposing this prospect."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Female referee deletes Instagram after sexist messages;https://www.dw.com/en/female-referee-deletes-instagram-after-sexist-messages/a-70290706?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Albanian referee Emanuela Rusta is making fast progress, but the sport she works in is not. The official made the decision to get rid of her social media account after constant remarks about her appearance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Paratroopers land in Arnhem honoring Operation Market Garden;https://www.dw.com/en/paratroopers-land-in-arnhem-honoring-operation-market-garden/a-70290283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned World War II operations. The Allied bid to secure a Rhine crossing proved \"A Bridge too Far.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Homeless World Cup: 'We want to do something special';https://www.dw.com/en/homeless-world-cup-we-want-to-do-something-special/a-70218267?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "National football teams made up of homeless people from around the world will soon gather in South Korea for the Homeless World Cup. For many of the players, the stakes are much higher than just the trophy on offer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starting a new life after political imprisonment in Belarus;https://www.dw.com/en/starting-a-new-life-after-political-imprisonment-in-belarus/a-70274513?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned dozens of political prisoners in recent months. Husband and wife Dmitry Luksha and Polina Polovinko, who were released in early July, spoke with DW about their ordeal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Two arsenals destroyed in Russia, Kyiv says;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-two-arsenals-destroyed-in-russia-kyiv-says/live-70289171?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Ukraine has destroyed two ammunition depots in Russia, the Ukrainian military said. Meanwhile, three people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Immigrants in eastern Germany ask: Leave or stay?;https://www.dw.com/en/immigrants-in-eastern-germany-ask-leave-or-stay/a-70289695?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The far-right AfD, leading in some polls, has campaigned aggressively against immigrants in state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg. But those states also depend on immigrant labor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Are Western double standards undermining the global order?;https://www.dw.com/en/are-western-double-standards-undermining-the-global-order/a-70289453?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Global South has become increasingly critical of Western double standards. A study by the Munich Security Conference has warned that the rules-based international order is at stake."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How deadly is Ukraine's new 'dragon drone'?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-deadly-is-ukraine-s-new-dragon-drone/a-70287164?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Ukrainian armed forces have deployed a new kind of drone to defend their country, one filled with a pyrotechnic thermite mixture that rains fire down on enemy positions. Its use is highly controversial."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Fridays for Future protests draw 75,000 in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/fridays-for-future-protests-draw-75-000-in-germany/a-70287782?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Climate activists filled the streets of German cities from Berlin to Munich, calling on authorities to take stronger action. Meanwhile, a court jailed two elderly climate activists for sabotaging an oil pipeline."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Iceland: Police shoot 1st polar bear sighted in years;https://www.dw.com/en/iceland-police-shoot-1st-polar-bear-sighted-in-years/a-70287266?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Number of refugees reaches new high in 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-number-of-refugees-reaches-new-high-in-2024/a-70286816?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "There are more refugees living in Germany than ever in recent history, according to German government data. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has contributed to the increase in refugees in Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German border city prepares for flood;https://www.dw.com/en/german-border-city-prepares-for-flood/a-70285116?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Frankfurt an der Oder, the German city on the border with Poland, is getting ready for yet another major flood. Yet the climate crisis is barely an issue in the Brandenburg state election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Former Harrods boss Mohamed al Fayed accused of rape;https://www.dw.com/en/former-harrods-boss-mohamed-al-fayed-accused-of-rape/a-70284389?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The late Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women. The survivors, including some minors, were hired as secretaries and assistants when the abuse allegedly took place."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dutch 'Mocro mafia' sets off alarm bells in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-mocro-mafia-sets-off-alarm-bells-in-germany/a-69764909?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "German police have warned of Dutch organized crime networks moving into Germany after they intervened in a spectacular case of kidnapping and torture."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jahjaga: 'Blame should not be directed at the survivors, but at the perpetrators, who used rape as a weapon of war';https://www.dw.com/en/jahjaga-blame-should-not-be-directed-at-the-survivors-but-at-the-perpetrators-who-used-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war/a-70283271?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Former President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga has been advocating for the survivors of wartime sexual violence since her presidency. She speaks to DW about her fight to address and highlight this issue in Kosovo."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Heat pumps: Why Germany's heating revolution is stalling;https://www.dw.com/en/heat-pumps-why-germany-s-heating-revolution-is-stalling/a-70192621?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "It's a signature project of Germany's environmentalist Greens: Instead of heating homes with fossil fuels, Germans should use heat pumps based on air or groundwater. But demand for these devices has plummeted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Von der Leyen in Kyiv announces \u20ac35bn loan;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-von-der-leyen-in-kyiv-announces-\u20ac35bn-loan/live-70278769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Ursula von der Leyen said the loan would come from frozen Russian assets. The EU Commission president also said the bloc \"will help Ukraine in its brave efforts\" including winter preparation and EU accession. Follow DW"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starlink satellites are blinding astronomers' view of space;https://www.dw.com/en/starlink-satellites-are-blinding-astronomers-view-of-space/a-70273835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Starlink and other satellite networks are vital for providing high speed internet to remote communities, but unintended radiation leakages are making life difficult for astronomers who need clear skies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hungary and the Netherlands want to exit EU asylum policy;https://www.dw.com/en/hungary-and-the-netherlands-want-to-exit-eu-asylum-policy/a-70278674?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Right-wing governments like those in Hungary and the Netherlands are demanding an opt-out, but it's hard to see how countries could legally exit the EU's asylum policy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Tupperware parties empowered homebound suburban women;https://www.dw.com/en/how-tupperware-parties-empowered-homebound-suburban-women/a-70273741?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "As Tupperware files for bankruptcy, here's a look back at how the iconic US plastic kitchenware company and its \"Tupperware party\" business model became a cultural phenomenon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Slovakia seemingly unfazed by EU threat to withhold funding;https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-seemingly-unfazed-by-eu-threat-to-withhold-funding/a-70277869?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Fearing that PM Robert Fico is dismantling Slovak democracy, the European Commission is reportedly considering freezing billions in EU funds for Bratislava. Will the threat be enough to rein in Fico's illiberal ways?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;French police shoot dead 2 in New Caledonia operation;https://www.dw.com/en/french-police-shoot-dead-2-in-new-caledonia-operation/a-70278345?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Thousands of French police have been deployed to the overseas Pacific territory to quell unrest sparked by voting reforms proposed in Paris."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU Parliament recognizes Maduro rival as Venezuela president;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-parliament-recognizes-maduro-rival-as-venezuela-president/a-70276261?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The European Parliament has passed a resolution recognizing Venezuelan opposition figure Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia's claim to have won Venezuela's July election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Berlin considering how to support German carmaker Volkswagen;https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-considering-how-to-support-german-carmaker-volkswagen/a-70275918?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that Berlin is looking into ways to support ailing carmaker Volkswagen amid the threat of job cuts. The firm has been grappling with weak electric vehicle sales."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Axel Springer splits media, classified businesses;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-axel-springer-splits-media-classified-businesses/a-70274495?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Friede Springer and CEO Mathias D\u00f6pfner will own Springer's media operations, which include Germany's most-read newspaper Bild and US digital newspaper Politico."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Czech Republic struggling to mitigate risks as Russian firms flourish;https://www.dw.com/en/czech-republic-struggling-to-mitigate-risks-as-russian-firms-flourish/a-70181088?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Czechia hosts by far the highest number of Russian-owned companies of any EU state. Experts warn this cohort of over 12,500 firms pose economic and security risks that the government must eventually start to mitigate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oktoberfest: Beer and pretzels in a sustainable package;https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-beer-and-pretzels-in-a-sustainable-package/a-70235282?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "More than Bavarians in lederhosen balancing frothing beer mugs and fried sausages, the world's largest folk festival is becoming more inclusive and eco-friendly."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;COVID FLiRT variants KP.3 and XEC: What you need to know;https://www.dw.com/en/covid-flirt-variants-kp-3-and-xec-what-you-need-to-know/a-70266402?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another variant and become XEC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: EU plans \u20ac10 billion aid for affected members;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-eu-plans-\u20ac10-billion-aid-for-affected-members/live-70265849?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Polish city of Wroclaw hosted the leaders of the region's most affected by Storm Boris to discuss European aid. Days of flooding have wreaked death and destruction across Central Europe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Two European firms in focus of Hezbollah pager explosions;https://www.dw.com/en/two-european-firms-in-focus-of-hezbollah-pager-explosions/a-70248830?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Taiwanese company whose name appeared on the pagers that detonated across Lebanon has denied manufacturing the devices. That has put relatively unknown Hungarian and Bulgarian firms in the spotlight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: UN body warns Russia on power grid strikes;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-un-body-warns-russia-on-power-grid-strikes/live-70264350?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine says attacks on the country's electricity infrastructure by Russia may violate international humanitarian law. Meanwhile, Russia claims gains in Kursk. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine wants action after Belarus Olympic medalist ceremony;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-wants-action-after-belarus-olympic-medalist-ceremony/a-70262052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The ceremony, held on Belarus' National Unity Day, appears to violate the Olympic neutrality rules. Ukraine wants action, with the country's sports minister telling DW further sanctions are necessary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cities start fighting rental crisis triggered by overtourism;https://www.dw.com/en/cities-start-fighting-rental-crisis-triggered-by-overtourism/a-70228085?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "In many of Europe's hottest tourist destinations like Barcelona and Paris, locals struggle to access affordable housing. How much are vacation rentals to blame?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU to withhold \u20ac200 million from Hungary over asylum fine;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-withhold-\u20ac200-million-from-hungary-over-asylum-fine/a-70260506?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The EU Commission says it will withhold funds for Hungary after Budapest failed to pay a fine for violating asylum rules. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's nationalist Fidesz government has taken a hard line on migration"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Netherlands seeks EU migration opt-out;https://www.dw.com/en/netherlands-seeks-eu-migration-opt-out/a-70251015?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Netherlands says it plans to request an exemption from the EU's common migration and asylum policy. It comes after the right-wing coalition government announced plans for the country's \"strictest-ever asylum regime.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Exploding Hezbollah pagers: How did it happen?;https://www.dw.com/en/exploding-hezbollah-pagers-how-did-it-happen/a-70250960?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Although the devices have lithium-ion batteries that can catch fire or explode, it is more likely the pagers were sabotaged."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: AfD loses appeal on chairing Bundestag committees;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-afd-loses-appeal-on-chairing-bundestag-committees/a-70246675?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's top court has rejected a pair of appeals from the far-right AfD concerning the absence of its lawmakers chairing parliamentary committees. The court found the party was not automatically entitled to the posts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains \u2014 study;https://www.dw.com/en/pregnancy-completely-rewires-mothers-brains-study/a-70246399?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Neuroscientists scanned the brain of a pregnant woman and captured a 'widespread reorganization' of her brain before, during and after pregnancy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Use, and misuse, of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "As Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell become the latest celebs to endorse Kamala Harris, here's a look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Google wins legal battle against EU over \u20ac1.5 billion fine;https://www.dw.com/en/google-wins-legal-battle-against-eu-over-\u20ac1-5-billion-fine/a-70246709?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "After years of back and forth, an EU court annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it sold advertisements. The fine was one of three major penalties the EU has leveled against the tech giant in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Namibia's strategy to cull animals save them?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-namibia-s-strategy-to-cull-animals-save-them/a-70213343?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Does Namibia's plan to kill animals to save them, and help the human population from ongoing drought, stack up?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand shrinks;https://www.dw.com/en/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy-as-demand-shrinks/a-70245540?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Once popular for its colorful food storage containers, US firm Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy. The company succumbed to a plummeting demand for its products."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Second explosion shakes Cologne;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-second-explosion-shakes-cologne/a-70245020?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The explosion was the second in a week in Cologne's city center. Police said it was still too early to say if there was a connection. Sniffer dogs were on the site as officers investigated."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg: Black politician takes on German far-right AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-black-politician-takes-on-german-far-right-afd/a-70166368?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "German voters in Brandenburg are heading to the polls just weeks after the far-right AfD party's historic surge in two state elections. Can Cameroonian-born politician Adeline Abimnwi Awemo help turn the tide?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Intel's factory delay adds to Germany's economic woes;https://www.dw.com/en/us-intel-s-factory-delay-adds-to-germany-s-economic-woes/a-70241739?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has announced it is postponing a $30 billion investment in Germany due to financial problems at the firm. But is the German government still committed to the investments?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German police reintroduce spot controls at all borders;https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-reintroduce-spot-controls-at-all-borders/a-70240598?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany is reintroducing border checks at all its borders for at least six months. The aim is to help restrict migration. DW visited the border area between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands to see how it was working."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the arts are a thorn in the side of Germany's AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-arts-are-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-germany-s-afd/a-70239911?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German conservative Friedrich Merz to run for chancellor;https://www.dw.com/en/german-conservative-friedrich-merz-to-run-for-chancellor/a-70240130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "It's as good as official: liberal businessman Friedrich Merz, head of the conservative Christian Democrats, is set to be the party's lead candidate in upcoming German federal election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How new technologies can mitigate the risks of flooding;https://www.dw.com/en/how-new-technologies-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-flooding/a-70239314?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "With extreme weather, floods are getting as common in Europe as they are in Asia and Africa. From mobile barriers to specialized dams, people are finding solutions to life-threatening floods across the globe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Far right, center left in close race;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-far-right-center-left-in-close-race/a-70238419?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Sanssouci, Babelsberg, Tesla, BER airport \u2014 Brandenburg is a state with much to boast about when it comes to history or economy. Governed by the same party since 1990, the state may face a shake-up in upcoming election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China's technology drive leaves young people jobless;https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-technology-drive-leaves-young-people-jobless/a-70187883?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "China is investing billions to become a global tech power. But AI, robotics and quantum computing are not labor-intensive sectors, so what to do about the millions of young Chinese who can't find a job?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Intel delays construction of Magdeburg factory;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-intel-delays-construction-of-magdeburg-factory/a-70235254?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has delayed a construction project by two years amid cost-saving measures. German Finance Minister Christian Lindner called for funds earmarked for subsidies to be used to plug a federal budget gap."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Worker killed in Oktoberfest roller coaster test;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-worker-killed-in-oktoberfest-roller-coaster-test/a-70232611?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Munich fire department said a worker was fatally injured during a test ride of a roller coaster at the Oktoberfest site."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's expanded border controls come into force;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-expanded-border-controls-come-into-force/live-70228054?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany has temporarily reintroduced controls on its western and northern borders as part of efforts to combat irregular migration and cross-border crime."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy's UniCredit raises eyebrows over Commerzbank move;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-s-unicredit-raises-eyebrows-over-commerzbank-move/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "UniCredit stunned markets by buying a 9% stake in Germany's second-largest lender. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, DW explores the next possible moves."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Alex Morgan: The greatest female footballer of all time?;https://www.dw.com/en/alex-morgan-the-greatest-female-footballer-of-all-time/a-70153127?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Marta may have won six FIFA player awards, but two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan is more of a household name. Teammate Megan Rapinoe achieved on and off the field, yet Morgan had a grace on the pitch few could match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's ter Stegen is happy the wait is finally over;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-ter-stegen-is-happy-the-wait-is-finally-over/a-70144838?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "National team goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has spoken of his frustration during years of being stuck behind Manuel Neuer, while at the same time paying tribute to his predecessor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australia's Raygun claims 'I knew people wouldn't understand my style';https://www.dw.com/en/australia-s-raygun-claims-i-knew-people-wouldn-t-understand-my-style/a-70135037?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Rachael \"Raygun\" Gunn, the 37-year-old Olympic breaker, says the criticism of her performance came from people's ignorance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Women's soccer: US shows up Europe on maternity care;https://www.dw.com/en/women-s-soccer-us-shows-up-europe-on-maternity-care/a-70117081?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "A recent lawsuit involving French club Olympique Lyon highlighted the disparities and room for improvement in women's football regarding pregnancies and maternity care."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Argentina: Court blocks Milei move to privatize football;https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-court-blocks-milei-move-to-privatize-football/a-70122667?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "A court in Buenos Aires has blocked President Javier Milei's plans to open up Argentinian football to private investment. The issue continues to split the country's most popular sport, with some even looking to Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's Leon Draisaitl signs record NHL contract;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-leon-draisaitl-signs-record-nhl-contract/a-70124333?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's Leon Draisaitl has signed an eight-year contract extension worth $112 million (\u20ac101.5 million). This will keep the superstar forward in Edmonton for a further eight years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India's archaic labor laws allow firms to exploit workers;https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-archaic-labor-laws-allow-firms-to-exploit-workers/a-70121341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Major international companies, including big tech firms, are exploiting India's labor laws and skirting overtime payment, say workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Open and the controversy over night sessions;https://www.dw.com/en/us-open-and-the-controversy-over-night-sessions/a-70121878?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "A new rule was meant to clamp down on matches at the US Open dragging on into the early hours of the next day. Still, some matches are finishing after 2:00 a.m. \u2013 to the detriment of players' health."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Germany live up to its chipmaking ambitions?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-germany-live-up-to-its-chipmaking-ambitions/a-70079606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The German government wants to build up its long-term chipmaking capabilities. But are they following through and attracting the companies needed to make the country a center of this all-important technology?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German businesses worried about far-right gains in the east;https://www.dw.com/en/german-businesses-worried-about-far-right-gains-in-the-east/a-70112417?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "The success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the states of Saxony and Thuringia has raised concerns among business leaders about the economic future of eastern Germany. Will it hit jobs and investment?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis tickets: UK government to probe 'dynamic pricing';https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-tickets-uk-government-to-probe-dynamic-pricing/a-70109787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Ministers have promised an investigation after fans complained of inflated ticket prices for Oasis' 2025 reunion tour. But industry experts insist that \"dynamic pricing\" is not illegal and based on supply and demand."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis reunion tour tickets cause online frenzy;https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-reunion-tour-tickets-cause-online-frenzy/a-70099805?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Fans of the Manchester band Oasis faced long online queues on Saturday morning as tickets went on sale for the group's in-demand reunion concerts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Half the world lacks access to safe drinking water;https://www.dw.com/en/half-the-world-lacks-access-to-safe-drinking-water/a-70089835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "A new report shows 4.4 billion people across the world have no access to safe drinking water, more than double many previous estimates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Japan's youth break tradition by embracing perfume;https://www.dw.com/en/japan-s-youth-break-tradition-by-embracing-perfume/a-70091052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Once seen as ostentatious, an imposition on others, and unnecessary in a culture that famously enjoys bathing, perfumes and scents are finally trending among young Japanese."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is methane?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. Where does methane come from, and what can we do to stop it from getting into the atmosphere?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The unseen Holocaust movie: Jerry Lewis' lost film 'The Day the Clown Cried';https://www.dw.com/en/the-unseen-holocaust-movie-jerry-lewis-lost-film-the-day-the-clown-cried/a-70043956?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "At the Venice Film Festival, a new documentary will reveal never-before-seen footage from \"The Day the Clown Cried.\" The 1972 Holocaust movie by comedian Jerry Lewis was never released, but has gained near-mythic status."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Concerning' rise in unprotected sex among teenagers;https://www.dw.com/en/concerning-rise-in-unprotected-sex-among-teenagers/a-70079734?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "A majority of teenagers in Europe, Central Asia, and Canada do not use condoms. Experts warn of rising risks of STIs and unwanted pregnancies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Populists\u2019 rhetoric linked to growing unhappiness, study finds;https://www.dw.com/en/populists-rhetoric-linked-to-growing-unhappiness-study-finds/a-70072409?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Right-wing populism is rising across Europe, with Germany\u2019s AfD possibly becoming the first far-right party to win state elections since the Nazis. However, their rise won\u2019t bring greater happiness to their supporters."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Congo 'working blindly' in attempts to control Mpox outbreak;https://www.dw.com/en/congo-working-blindly-in-attempts-to-control-mpox-outbreak/a-70062357?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Only 40% of Mpox cases in DR Congo are laboratory tested, suggesting true number of cases could be five times higher than reported, according to Africa CDC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN chief Guterres warns of fast-rising Pacific ocean;https://www.dw.com/en/un-chief-guterres-warns-of-fast-rising-pacific-ocean/a-70055845?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "UN chief Antonio Guterres issued a global SOS regarding Pacific ocean temperatures, rising at three times the global average rate. He called for a cutdown on emissions and support for vulnerable countries."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Eating processed meats raises type 2 diabetes risk;https://www.dw.com/en/eating-processed-meats-raises-type-2-diabetes-risk/a-70051810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Two slices of ham a day are enough to raise type 2 diabetes risk by 15%, according to a new study. Meanwhile high-fat diets could increase the numbers of a toxic molecule known to cause the disease."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is groundwater?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-groundwater/a-68142894?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-24 02:00:06",
        "text": "Groundwater is crucial for agriculture and drinking water supplies. But what exactly is it, how does it form and how can we protect this precious underground resource from threats like pollution and climate change?"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskyy to speak at UN general assembly and meet with Harris and Biden;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/25/russia-ukraine-war-live-volodymyr-zelenskyy-un-general-assembly-unga-us-visit-kamala-harris-joe-biden-donald-trump;2024-09-25T08:54:10Z",
        "text": "Denis Pushilin, the Russian-installed head of Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region, said on Wednesday that fighting was ongoing in Vuhledar, a longtime Ukrainian stronghold in the region, reports Reuters citing the Russian state news agency RIA. Russian forces have taken control of the town of Ukrainsk in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region, state news agency TASS cited local Russian-installed governor Denis Pushilin as saying on Wednesday. Ukraine\u2019s desire to use western missiles to strike targets in Russia will not be the \u201csole issue\u201d in Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s \u201cvictory plan\u201d, UK prime minister Keir Starmer has said. The US and UK have so far refused to give Kyiv permission to use the missiles they have supplied against targets in Russia, despite repeated pleas from Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian president has said that he is having to fight with his hands tied because he is unable to use the weapons to strike Russian airfields and military facilities which Russian president Vladimir Putin is using to launch deadly air raids, missiles and drones. Starmer is in New York for the United Nations general assembly, where Zelenskyy will present his plan for the next stage of the war to his allies. According to the Press Association (PA), Starmer said: I do think it\u2019s going to take quite a bit of time at the UN general assembly. And I think that\u2019s really important, because it\u2019s at a critical stage. Obviously, President Zelenskyy has a plan that he wants to walk through with all of us \u2013 we knew that was going to happen. The support for Ukraine is resolute. We supply quite a lot of capability already under the last government; we\u2019ve increased that under this government \u2013 that\u2019s not a criticism of the last government \u2013 and we will always listen very carefully to what Ukraine says it needs by way of capability. I don\u2019t think that will be a discussion, I don\u2019t think the victory plan will be about a sole issue like long-range missiles, it will be about a strategic, overarching route for Ukraine to find a way through this and succeed against Russian aggression.\u201d Pressed on when a decision will be made about the use of UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles within Russia, Starmer said: We will have discussions about a whole range of issues, and we will listen carefully to what President Zelenskyy\u2019s got to say, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen in the next few days.\u201d In a forceful speech to the UN security council, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on a broad alliance of nations to \u201cforce Russia into peace\u201d, saying that Vladimir Putin has violated the foundations of the United Nations and that the war \u201ccan\u2019t be conquered by talks\u201d alone. Addressing the council, of which Russia is a permanent member, Zelenskyy accused Moscow of committing \u201cinternational crimes\u201d by targeting Ukrainian civilians and energy infrastructure, and claimed he had proof that Putin is plotting to target three Ukrainian nuclear power plants to further degrade the country\u2019s energy grid. After thanking Ukraine\u2019s allies for their support, the Ukrainian leader appealed to countries further afield, calling on Brazil, India and countries across Africa and Latin America, to increase pressure on Russia to halt the war, saying \u201call [countries] are equally important for peace without exceptions\u201d. Many of those countries have economic or close diplomatic ties with Russia, and have given greater credence to Putin\u2019s claims that Russia was provoked into the war by the west. \u201cWe know some in the world want to talk to Putin,\u201d Zelenskyy said. \u201cTo meet, to talk, to speak. But what could they possibly hear from him? That he\u2019s upset because we are exercising our right to defend our people? Or that he wants to keep the war and terror going, just so no one thinks he was wrong?\u201d He added: \u201cIt\u2019s insane.\u201d The Ukrainian air force said on Wednesday it shot down 28 out of 32 drones and four out of eight missiles during an overnight Russian attack, reports Reuters. The air force said Russia launched four missiles at the southern region of Odesa. Its regional governor, Oleh Kiper, said a missile hit an open area and caused a fire which had since been put out. The debris also damaged two trucks without causing any casualties, Kiper added via the Telegram messaging app. Kyiv regional governor Ruslan Kravchenko said a drone attack on the region did not deal any damage to critical or residential infrastructure. Reuters reports that attacks on the north-eastern region of Kharkiv in the early hours of Wednesday damaged a hangar. Tuesday\u2019s guided bomb attack on the city of Kharkiv killed three people and injured 36 more, the regional governor Oleh Syniehubov added via the Telegram messaging app. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will speak at the UN general assembly on Wednesday, and is due to meet US presidential candidate Kamala Harris, as well as Joe Biden during his trip to the US this week. But, an official on Donald Trump\u2019s campaign said the Republican nominee will not meet this week with Zelenskyy while he is in the US. No meeting has been scheduled between the two, the official told the Associated Press (AP), despite a statement from Ukrainian officials last week that said Zelenskyy had planned to see the former president. Meanwhile, US president Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine had failed as he urged the UN to keep supporting Kyiv until victory. \u201cPutin\u2019s war has failed at its core aim. He set out to destroy Ukraine, but Ukraine is still free,\u201d Biden said in his last address as president to the UN general assembly. He said the war had led to a strategic reordering that strengthened Nato and brought two new countries, Finland and Sweden, into the security pact. \u201cWe cannot grow weary,\u201d he said, as Zelenskyy looked on. \u201cWe cannot look away. We will not let up on our support for Ukraine. Not until Ukraine wins a just and durable peace.\u201d More on that in a moment. In other developments: Donald Trump said the US needs to \u201cget out\u201d of the war in Ukraine and that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had no plan to do so. \u201cBiden and Kamala got us into this war in Ukraine, and now they can\u2019t get us out,\u201d Trump said in a speech in Georgia. The US does not have troops in Ukraine but has given military and humanitarian assistance. Speaking in Savannah, Trump raised two historical conflicts to suggest Moscow would not lose. \u201cWhat happens if they win? That\u2019s what they do, is they fight wars. As somebody told me the other day, they beat Hitler, they beat Napoleon. That\u2019s what they do. They fight. And it\u2019s not pleasant.\u201d The US will send Ukraine an undisclosed number of medium-range cluster bombs and an array of rockets, artillery and armoured vehicles in a military aid package totalling about $375m, US officials said on Tuesday. The expected announcement comes as global leaders meet at the UN general assembly. The latest package of weapons, provided through presidential drawdown authority, is one of the largest approved recently and will take stocks from Pentagon shelves to deliver the weapons more quickly to Ukraine. Including this latest package, the US has provided more than $56.2bn in security assistance to Ukraine since Russia invaded. It comes as nearly $6bn in funding for aid to Ukraine could expire at the end of the month unless Congress acts to extend the Pentagon\u2019s authority to send weapons from its stockpile to Kyiv. The US \u201cwill find a way\u201d before the end of Biden\u2019s term in January to make use of the remaining aid, a senior state department official said on Tuesday. \u201cI think it\u2019s very unlikely that President Biden will finish his term with appropriated funds unused for the purpose Congress allocated them,\u201d said the official. In a forceful speech to the UN security council, Zelenskyy called on a broad alliance of nations to \u201cforce Russia into peace\u201d, saying that Vladimir Putin has violated the foundations of the UN and that the war \u201ccan\u2019t be conquered by talks\u201d alone. Zelenskyy accused Moscow of committing \u201cinternational crimes\u201d by targeting Ukrainian civilians and energy infrastructure, and claimed he had proof that Putin is plotting to target three Ukrainian nuclear power plants to further degrade the country\u2019s energy grid. Zelenskyy said his \u201cvictory plan\u201d is not about negotiating with Russia, but finding a way of ending the conflict diplomatically. The head of the presidential office Andriy Yermak confirmed that an invitation to join Nato is part of Ukraine\u2019s so-called \u201cvictory plan\u201d, details of which have not been revealed yet by Zelenskyy, who is due to present it to Biden this week. Brazilian president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva advocated for a plan for talks between Russia and Ukraine to end the conflict, a proposal already rejected by Ukraine\u2019s president. Zelenskyy has rejected the proposal as \u201cdestructive\u201d and insisted his summit initiative is the only viable peace format. The Chinese-Brazilian proposal, which was made public in May, calls for de-escalating the situation and the resumption of direct dialogue without requiring Russia to pull back. Russian strikes on a residential quarter of Ukraine\u2019s north-eastern city of Kharkiv killed three civilians and wounded more than 30 on Tuesday afternoon, Ukrainian officials said. Kharkiv lies around 30km from the Russian border and has been pounded by Russian aerial attacks throughout the two-and-a-half-year war. \u201cThe targets of the Russian bombs were an apartment building, a bakery, a stadium. In other words, the everyday life of ordinary people,\u201d Zelenskyy said on social media. Russian lawmakers approved new measures to facilitate the army\u2019s ability to recruit suspected criminals for its war in Ukraine. Moscow has used prisoners extensively throughout its two and a half year campaign. Russia\u2019s State Duma, the lower house of parliament, on Tuesday backed a new bill that would allow defendants that are now on trial to sign up for the army."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis live: Israel launches further strikes on southern Lebanon after missile fired at Tel Aviv intercepted;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/25/middle-east-crisis-live-lebanon-says-only-us-can-end-war-as-israel-launches-new-attacks-on-countrys-south;2024-09-25T08:37:50Z",
        "text": "William Christou reports from Beirut for the Guardian An airstrike targeted the town of Maysaara, a town in the mountains north of Beirut, the farthest north Israel has struck since the beginning of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah last year. The strike comes just a few hours after Hezbollah launched a missile which it claimed was targeting the Mossad in Tel Aviv, which Israel says it intercepted. The strike on Maysaara, a little over 60 miles from the UN-drawn blue line that separates Israel and Lebanon, caused alarm in Lebanon. Many have looked at the mountains north of Beirut as a potential refuge in the case of a full-scale war with Israel, drawing on experience from the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel which left the area relatively untouched. On Tuesday night, an airstrike carried out on Jiyeh, about 10 miles south of Beirut, was heard across the capital city and the surrounding mountainsides. Israeli media claimed a senior leader in the Palestinian militant organisation Islamic Jihad was the target of the strike, though the organisation did not confirm the claims. Since the weekend, Israel\u2019s intensified aerial campaign on Lebanon has re-defined which areas of Lebanon are \u201csafe\u201d from fighting, as strikes repeatedly hit Beirut and areas immediately south \u2013 a previous red-line over the last year. Israel\u2019s military has announced it is carrying out more strikes on southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley. Nearly 560 people, including at least 50 children, have already been killed this week in Israel\u2019s bombing campaign, which it says is targeting weapons and terrorist infrastructure used by Hezbollah. Thousands of people have been injured and tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes. More details soon \u2026 UK for UNHCR has launched an emergency appeal for aid for Lebanon. Emma Cherniavsky, the chief executive, said: These devastating bombings in Lebanon are claiming innocent lives and forcing thousands to flee their homes. This is a region that has already been devastated by war, and the toll on civilians is unacceptable. An end to the hostilities is desperately needed. In the meantime, we urgently need donations to help UNHCR scale up emergency aid, and avert further suffering and devastation. Israeli media reports the Hostages and Missing Families Forum has severely criticised prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his plans to attend the UN general assembly in person. In a statement it said: While the country is burning and 101 hostages have been abandoned in the Hamas death tunnels for 355 days, the prime minister chooses another unnecessary show trip to the US. IDF International Spokesperson, LTC Nadav Shoshani, said the attempt to hit Tel Aviv this morning was the first time Hezbollah has fired towards Tel Aviv, and the group had deployed a surface-to-surface heavy long range missile. The missile, which was intercepted, was heading towards civilian areas of the city and Israel responded with an attack against the launcher, he told journalists. Hezbollah said the attack targeted headquarters of the Mossad intelligence agency, but Shoshani said it was directed at a different part of the city. \u201cThe Mossad headquarters is not in that area, it is a bit east and north of that area. Their missile triggered alerts in Netanya and Tel Aviv along the coastline,\u201d Shoshani said. \u201cHezbollah is definitely trying to escalate the situation\u201d, he said, but added the country treats all attacks against its citizens as an equal threat, whether in Haifa or Tel Aviv. \u201cAny fire towards Israel is something we do not accept, and we plan on acting to defend ourselves and remove the threat,\u201d he said. He said Israeli attacks \u201cin recent weeks\u201d had taken out a significant part of Hezbollah\u2019s arsenal and its chain of command, so although the group were trying to increase the number and range of their attacks on Israel, their capacity to do so had been reduced. Israel estimated that Hezbollah had 150,000 missiles at the start of the war. Shoshani, declined to say how many had been destroyed. Israel has brought in tighter restrictions, which include school closures, in northern parts of the country, including the city of Haifa. Shoshani said there are now over a million Israelis under these restrictions. Although an initial estimate would be up to 1.3 million people, many are thought to have headed south to stay with friends and relatives, he added. Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that \u201cseveral civilians were killed and others were injured on Wednesday after Israeli occupation warplanes targeted large areas in the Gaza Strip.\u201d It adds that \u201cIsraeli gunboats opened fire towards the western areas of the Gaza Strip\u201d and that agricultural land east of Khan Younis was targeted by aircraft. The claims have not been independently verified. Lebanon\u2019s minister of culture, Judge Mohammad Wissam El-Mortada, has been speaking to Sputnik Radio, and Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency is carrying some quotes from the interview. In it, he said \u201cLebanon is engaged in a confrontation in defence of everything that is humane in this world against the enemies of humanity. Israel is exceeding all restrictions.\u201d He said that the UN security council\u2019s limited reponse to the detonation of pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon \u201creflects its inability to carry out the minimum moral and humanitarian duty. What happened has brought down all international systems and humanitarian laws, which has affected their credibility and effectiveness, and posed a major challenge to humanity in every sense of the word.\u201d Echoing the view of foreign minister Abdallah Bou Habib, that only the US could stop the war, El-Mortada said \u201cWe believe that the United States, if it wants, can stop these crimes.\u201d Imran Khan, reporting for Al Jazeera from Marjayoun in Lebanon, has said \u201cOvernight there were way more airstrikes than I\u2019ve seen in previous days. There was also a barrage of outgoing Hezbollah fire. This was just in the area where I am. If you can imagine this is probably a microcosm of what is going on across the southern Lebanese border. The Israeli army say they are continuing to strike Hezbollah targets. And Hezbollah is actually ramping things up slightly and we are seeing a lot more outgoing rocket attacks than we\u2019ve seen perhaps in the last 24 hours.\u201d Al Jazeera has been banned from operating inside Israel, and Israeli authorities have raided and shut down the news network\u2019s Ramallah office in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israel\u2019s military has claimed to have intercepted \u201ca UAV approaching from the east \u2026 crossing into Israeli territory from Syria.\u201d It added \u201cThe UAV was intercepted by IDF fighter jets south of the Sea of Galilee. No damage or injuries were reported.\u201d The claims have not been independently verified. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees is bracing for a triple crisis as Israeli strikes on Lebanon add to the strain it is facing in Gaza and the West Bank, its chief has told AFP. Unrwa, founded in 1949, provides services, including education and healthcare, for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. With three of its area of operations turning into \u201cactive frontlines,\u201d the embattled agency already grappling with a severe financial shortfall is poised to come under even more pressure, said Unrwa\u2019s Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini. \u201cWe already have Gaza, we already have the West Bank, so we have two fields of operation which have become active frontlines,\u201d he said. \u201cWe (now) also have Lebanon, which would mean that basically three... contexts of operation will become humanitarian emergencies,\u201d he added, calling the situation a \u201ctriple tragedy.\u201d Faced with mounting Israeli strikes, Unrwa has paused some operations in Lebanon as it converts its schools into shelters for hundreds of people displaced from the south of the country. \u201cThe fear is that... we are going into a full-fledged war,\u201d Lazzarini told AFP. \u201cAnother concern is that parts of Lebanon becomes like Gaza.\u201d Israeli media is reporting that Benjamin Netanyahu is still planning to attend the UN general assembly in New York, but has adjusted his itinerary after Israel this week stepped up its assault on Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Israeli prime minister will now fly out to New York on Thursday and board a return flight on Saturday night. The decision has been openly criticised by an unnamed senior official in the government on Channel 12 news in Israel, who called it \u201creckless and irresponsible\u201d for Netanyahu to travel in person, when the speech could be delegated to a diplomat. In the last few minutes Israel\u2019s military reported that sirens have again sounded in northern Israel. A mother and her four children were killed by an Israeli airstrike near the city of Rafah, in southern Gaza late Tuesday, the Palestinian news agency Wafa has reported, as Israel continued its onslaught on the devastated enclave. Wafa said the family were killed when Israeli warplanes targeted a house belonging to the Abu Jazar family in an-Nasser town, north-east of Rafah, and reported that others were also injured. It was not possible for the Guardian to verify their deaths as Israel does not allow foreign journalists into the Strip. Hezbollah has confirmed that it fired a rocket targeting the Mossad\u2019s headquarters outside Tel Aviv early Wednesday. Hezbollah has blamed the Mossad for carrying out last week\u2019s pager and walkie-talkie attacks in Lebanon, in which 42 people including children were killed and thousands injured. Sirens had sounded in Tel Aviv early on Wednesday, sending residents to bomb shelters, though no casualties or damage was reported. The Israeli military later said it had intercepted a surface-to-surface missile crossing from Lebanon. Lebanon\u2019s foreign minister has suggested the US is the only country that can end the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and expressed disappointment in President Joe Biden\u2019s response so far. In remarks reported by Agence France Presse, Abdallah Bou Habib, said of Biden\u2019s speech to the UN on Tuesday: It was not strong, it is not promising, and it would not solve the Lebanese problem \u2026 We are still hoping. The United States is the only country that can really make a difference in the Middle East and with regard to Lebanon. Making a valedictory address to the UN general assembly, the US president, Joe Biden, urged Israel against an all-out war, but blamed the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia for an unprovoked attack on Israel after 7 October and for continuing to strike Israel since. Biden said the US was working tirelessly on a deal that would enable the populations on the Lebanese-Israeli border to return to their homes, but Iranian diplomats said they had been told through third parties that the US administration had admitted it was powerless to stop the Israeli bombardment. Bou Habib also said that the number of displaced Lebanese, which had numbered about 110,000 since 7 October and before Israel\u2019s latest offensive this week, was now probably \u201capproaching half a million\u201d. Noting that Israel had also seen displacement in the northern areas, he said, \u201cAll for what?\u201d Bou Habib also said he was convinced that Iran did not want conflict. \u201cI don\u2019t think they want to be involved in a war,\u201d he said. Hello and welcome to the Guardian\u2019s live coverage of the conflict in the Middle East. Israel has launched a series of fresh strikes on southern Lebanon, Lebanese media reported early Wednesday, the third consecutive day of a major Israeli assault on its northern neighbour in which hundreds of Lebanese have been killed. \u201cSince 5am enemy warplanes have launched strikes\u201d on several areas of southern Lebanon, the official National News Agency reported, adding that there were unspecified casualties. Israel confirmed its attacks, saying it had targeted Hezbollah. It also reported that \u201cenemy warplanes and drones\u201d had targeted multiple locations the Baalbek area in eastern Lebanon\u2019s Bekaa Valley after midnight, also reporting casualties there. At least two dozen people were killed by Israeli attacks targeting the militant group Hezbollah on Lebanon on Tuesday, bringing the death toll since Monday, when Israel killed hundreds of people in strikes across the country, to 569, including at least 50 children. In Israel, sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and the Israeli military said it had intercepted a missile crossing from Lebanon. No damage or casualties were reported. On a trip to the US, the Lebanese foreign minister meanwhile voiced disappointment with US President Joe Biden\u2019s response to the Israeli offensive, but nevertheless said only the US could bring an end to the conflict. \u201cIt was not strong. It is not promising and it would not solve this problem,\u201d Abdallah Bou Habib during a virtual event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, referring to Biden\u2019s speech at the United Nations earlier in the day. \u201cI [am] still hoping. The United States is the only country that can really make a difference in the Middle East and with regard to Lebanon.\u201d More on that soonest. In other developments: Thousands of Lebanese people fled the continuing bombing in the country\u2019s south on Tuesday as Israel said it was conducting \u201cextensive strikes\u201d on Hezbollah targets, including on the southern suburbs of Beirut, for the second day in a row and third time this week. Israel carried out an airstrike in Jiyeh, a seaside town 20 kilometers south of Beirut late Tuesday night. The strong explosion was heard across Beirut and the surrounding mountains. Hezbollah confirmed that an Israeli attack in Dahieh, Hezbollah\u2019s stronghold in Beirut, on Tuesday had killed Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi, also known as Abu Issa, the commander of Hezbollah\u2019s rocket and missile division. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said in a statement that the \u201cIsraeli enemy raid on Ghobeiri in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs killed six people and injured 15\u201d. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed to maintain the offensive against Hezbollah and said the group\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was leading Lebanon \u201cto the edge of the abyss\u201d. Israeli officials have said the recent rise in airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon is designed to force the group to agree to a diplomatic solution, cease its own attacks on Israel or unilaterally withdraw its forces from close to the contested border. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Daniel Hagari said Israel was striving for its current military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon to be as short as possible. But in his briefing with reporters on Tuesday, he added that Israel is also prepared for the operation to take time. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said Hezbollah has suffered \u201cextremely severe blows\u201d and Israel has \u201cmore strikes ready\u201d. Hezbollah said it had targeted several Israeli military targets including an explosives factory about 35 miles (56km) into Israel and the Megiddo airfield near the town of Afula, which it attacked three separate times. Officials in Israel said more than 50 missiles and rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern parts of the country on Tuesday morning, most of which were intercepted. Syrian air defences intercepted suspected Israeli missiles targeting the city of Tartous, Reuters reported, citing Syrian army sources. It comes after reports of multiple explosions heard over the Mediterranean port city early on Wednesday. The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, has told world leaders that Lebanon is on the brink of becoming a second Gaza, adding the crisis has \u201cbecome a non-stop nightmare that threatens to take the whole region down\u201d. In response, Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, accused the UN on Tuesday of not fulfilling its obligations in preventing rocket attacks into Israel by Hezbollah. The EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, described the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah as almost a \u201cfull-fledged war\u201d. World leaders gathered in New York for the opening of the 79th UN general assembly as diplomatic efforts appear to have had little impact so far on the tensions on the border between Israel and Lebanon. Israel\u2019s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, said his country is open to ideas for de-escalating the conflict in Lebanon. \u201cWe are not eager to start any ground invasion anywhere ... We prefer a diplomatic solution,\u201d Danon told reporters on Tuesday. Two staff members of the UN\u2019s refugee agency (UNHCR) were among the 558 people killed in Lebanon on Monday, the UN high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi said. The UN agency said it was \u201coutraged and deeply saddened by the killing of two beloved members of the UNHCR family in Lebanon\u201d and warned that the protection of civilians is a must under international humanitarian law. Nearly 30 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Nuseirat and Bureij camp refugee camps in central Gaza on Tuesday, according to hospital officials. A total of 29 Palestinians, including 14 children and 6 women, died as a result of the Israeli strikes on Tuesday, officials at Awda hospital said. The US president, Joe Biden, addressed the risk of a potential full-scale war in Lebanon. During an address to the United Nations general assembly on Tuesday, Biden said that a \u201cfull-scale war is not in anyone\u2019s interest\u201d and added that \u201ceven though the situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible.\u201d Britain is moving 700 troops to Cyprus to be ready for an emergency evacuation of UK citizens from Lebanon. The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, called for \u201crestraint and de-escalation\u201d at the border between Lebanon and Israel. Starmer made an unfortunate slip-up during his Labour party conference speech on Tuesday, calling for the return of \u201csausages\u201d from Gaza. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, called for coercive UN measures against Israel to be put on the agenda, including the use of force against Israel. Erdo\u011fan, in his UN general assembly speech, accused the US of continuing to arm Israel so it can continue its massacres when in public it pretends it is looking for a ceasefire."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;UK nationals in Lebanon: have you been affected by the strikes?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/uk-nationals-in-lebanon-have-you-been-affected-by-the-strikes;2024-09-25T08:04:52Z",
        "text": "As Israeli airstrikes continue to hit the south of Lebanon, Keir Starmer has urged UK citizens to leave the country immediately as the government moves 700 troops to Cyprus ready for an emergency evacuation. We would like to speak to UK nationals currently in Lebanon, and those who have recently left, about their situation. If you are a national of another country, including Lebanon, who has been affected, please get in touch here. We are also interested in hearing from British Lebanese people living in the UK about their concerns for loved ones in Lebanon. Please note that while we\u2019d like to hear from you, your security is most important. We recognise it may not always be safe or appropriate to record or share your experiences \u2013 so please think about this when considering whether to get in touch with the Guardian. IP addresses will be recorded on a third party web server, so for true anonymity use our SecureDrop service, however anything submitted on the form below will be encrypted and confidential if you wish to continue."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Bill proposing South Australians seeking later abortions give birth tantamount to \u2018forced birth\u2019, Greens say;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/south-australia-late-term-abortion-bill-liberal-party-greens-ntwnfb;2024-09-25T07:09:09Z",
        "text": "A new bill that would require South Australians seeking an abortion from 28 weeks to give birth has been denounced as tantamount to \u201cforced birth\u201d by the Greens, while the lead standards body in women\u2019s health called it an attempt to limit healthcare access. The bill was introduced into state parliament on Wednesday by Liberal frontbencher Ben Hood, though it is not Liberal policy and is unlikely to pass both houses to become law. Under the existing legislation, abortions after 22 weeks and six days are allowed in extreme circumstances where there is significant risk to mother or foetus. Under the proposed legislation, a woman needing an abortion after 27 weeks and six days would have to either keep the baby or adopt it out. Hood argued the bill would not remove a woman\u2019s right to end a pregnancy, because the pregnancy would end when the baby was born. \u201cIf a pregnancy must be ended, it requires that the baby be delivered alive,\u201d he said. \u201cThe bill ensures that the mother\u2019s decision to end her pregnancy is respected, but also that the child has an opportunity to live. \u201cIn fact, the innovation of this bill is that it allows a mother to end her pregnancy throughout all nine months and indeed, right up to birth.\u201d Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email The Liberal party will allow a conscience vote on the matter. Abortions were decriminalised in SA in 2021, and those reforms included the 22 weeks and six days\u2019 threshold and the conditions under which they occurred. Hood claimed 45 abortions had occurred after that threshold. SA Health data shows that in 2023, fewer than 1% of terminations (47) were performed after that stage, but fewer than five were performed after 27 weeks. Hood claimed those foetuses were \u201chealthy, viable babies\u201d and \u201cindividual unrepeatable human lives\u201d. \u201cOf these 47 terminations, 37 were conducted for the physical or mental health of the mother, and 10 were for fetal anomalies,\u201d SA Health said in a statement. \u201cIn the first 18 months after the legislation was implemented, there were less than five terminations performed after 27 weeks and no terminations after 29 weeks.\u201d Greens MLC Tammy Franks said later abortions were \u201cvery complex, often heartbreaking cases\u201d and that \u201cplaying politics with healthcare is dangerous folly\u201d. \u201cHis proposal would force birth upon children; victims of rape, incest and sexual slavery; or on much wanted pregnancies where the mother or the foetus will not survive his forced-birth plans for them,\u201d she said. \u201cThe SA Greens stand firmly against attempts to roll back hard-won reproductive rights. We will continue to fight for policies that ensure access to comprehensive healthcare, including reproductive services, without fear or stigma.\u201d Hood thanked anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe for her work on the bill. Howe has been pushing nationally for \u201cborn alive\u201d bills and wants \u201can Australia where abortion is unthinkable\u201d and is a labour migration specialist and law professor at the University of Adelaide. Gillian Gibson, the president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said abortion was \u201can essential healthcare service\u201d. \u201cA decision to terminate a pregnancy should be a discussion between women and their doctors,\u201d she said. \u201cAny attempt to further legislate abortion is an attempt to deny women access to health care.\u201d The SA Liberal leader, Vincent Tarzia, told ABC radio the proposal was not party policy but that Hood was a \u201crising star\u201d. Conservative SA senator Alex Antic has previously called him the \u201cRon DeSantis of South Australia\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Top Chinese economist disappears after criticising Xi Jinping in private chat \u2013 report;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/china-economist-zhu-hengpeng-disappearance-xi-jinping-wechat-comments;2024-09-25T05:50:34Z",
        "text": "A leading Chinese economist at a government thinktank has reportedly disappeared after being disciplined for criticising Xi Jinping in a private chat group. Zhu Hengpeng, 55, is believed to have made disparaging remarks about China\u2019s economy, and potentially about the Chinese leader specifically, in a private WeChat group. Zhu was subsequently detained in April and put under investigation, according to the Wall Street Journal which cited anonymous sources. Zhu worked for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Cass) for more than 20 years, most recently as the Institute of Economics deputy director and director of the Public Policy Research Center. He has reportedly not been seen in public since April when he spoke at an event organised by Chinese media outlet Caixin, which he had done previously. Efforts by the Wall Street Journal to contact him at home were unsuccessful. The Cass has not responded to queries from the Guardian. Earlier this month Hong Kong media reported a shakeup of the institute\u2019s senior ranks, with the director and secretary also removed from their posts at the same time Zhu was stripped of his role. The other two officials were reassigned, according to Sing Tao Daily, but Zhu was not, and is no longer listed on the Cass website. Websites related to his work at Tsinghua University have also been taken offline, although the Guardian could not confirm when. The Cass is a leading thinktank in China, which reports directly to the cabinet of the Chinese Communist party (CCP), the State Council, and has long been an influential policy advisor, sometimes providing relatively frank analysis. However under the increasingly authoritarian rule of Xi, criticism of the CCP and his individual leadership has become increasingly frowned upon, and treated punitively. China-based academics have previously told the Guardian of a growing fear among their profession of reporting or discussing negative assessments of China\u2019s economic, social, or political situation for fear of reprisals. Discussion of Xi as an individual, especially in online spaces which are censored and monitored, is largely avoided or done through vague or coded statements. Notices on the Cass website show staff engaging in several political education sessions in recent months, with a heavy focus on party loyalty and adherence to Xi Jinping Thought \u2013 the name given to the enshrined political ideology of the CCP leader. \u201cThe meeting emphasised that we must always bear in mind that the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is a political institution whose work is centred on scientific research, put strict enforcement of the party\u2019s political discipline first, work hard to enforce strict discipline and abide by rules,\u201d said a report on one July meeting, led by Cass president Gao Xiang. Gao, a Xi loyalist, was appointed to the role in 2022 and has overseen a campaign to improve party loyalty at the institution. The specifics of what Zhu wrote in the private WeChat group are not known, although Sing Tao Daily described it as \u201cimproperly discussed central policies\u201d. The Wall Street Journal also reported he allegedly made a reference to \u201cXi\u2019s mortality\u201d. China\u2019s economy is struggling, and there are concerns that the world\u2019s second-largest economy will miss its own 5% annual growth target, a relatively modest ambition by historic standards. On Tuesday the country\u2019s central bank announced the biggest stimulus efforts in years in a bid to boost growth, but experts expressed concern the measures, including a cut in interest rates, would not be sufficient. A growing crisis in China\u2019s property market has unfolded since authorities cracked down on excessive borrowing by developers, leading many to default on their debts. Property developers and owners continue to cope with high mortgage payments, dragging on their ability to invest and grow. Regulators have avoided making large-scale cuts to borrowing costs, fearing that the stimulus would reignite a boom in sales and values, creating a fresh property bubble. Additional reporting by Phillip Inman"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Wednesday briefing: What we learned from Keir Starmer\u2019s first conference speech as prime minister;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/first-edition-keir-starmer-conference-speech;2024-09-25T05:34:47Z",
        "text": "Good morning. There were few surprises in Keir Starmer\u2019s wide-ranging conference speech, his first in power. It was an attempt to inject positivity into the pessimistic and downcast narrative that has defined Labour since the party came to power in July, as he spoke of \u201ca Britain that belongs to you\u201d. But it was not a total break with the story that the prime minister has told so far about the country. \u201cTough\u201d decisions still have to be made, Starmer said, for long-term economic gains. There is \u201clight at the end of the tunnel\u201d for the country, but there will be a \u201cshared struggle\u201d before we reach better times. There was, he said, no sense in giving people \u201cfalse hope\u201d. There was a sense of optimism but it was, at every turn, lowered by Starmer\u2019s innate caution. Change \u2013 but with caveats and stipulations (and one odd gaffe). To get there, the prime minister is pitching \u201ca government of service\u201d to restore trust, arguing that the Conservatives not only left a \u201cfinancial\u201d and \u201csocietal black hole\u201d but also a \u201cpolitical blackhole\u201d. It follows a shift in rhetoric from his chancellor, Rachel Reeves, who is reportedly planning to use next month\u2019s budget to change the way public sector debt is assessed, which could allow billions of pounds more on spending on housing, roads and hospitals to encourage investment and spur on growth. Today\u2019s newsletter is on the main takeaways of the prime minister\u2019s speech and what it tells us about his plans for the country\u2019s future. That\u2019s right after the headlines. Five big stories Middle East | Israel began a third day of strikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, hours after Hezbollah confirmed the death of a senior commander, Ibrahim Qubaisi, in an airstrike on Beirut. Israel\u2019s offensive since Monday morning has killed 569 people, including 50 children, and wounded 1,835 in Lebanon, health minister Firass Abiad told Al Jazeera Mubasher TV. Britain is moving 700 troops to Cyprus to be ready for an emergency evacuation of UK citizens from Lebanon, as the prime minister urged those still in the country to leave immediately. Politics | Three hundred new state nurseries will open in England\u2019s schools by next September, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has promised, as the government hurries to find places before the introduction of free childcare. China | China has publicly acknowledged for the first time that it successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean, in a move likely to raise international concerns about the country\u2019s nuclear buildup. Environment | Planet-heating pollution doubled the chance of the extreme levels of rain that hammered central Europe in September, a study has found. US news | Missouri executed Marcellus \u201cKhaliifah\u201d Williams, 55, on death row on Tuesday, despite objections from prosecutors who sought to have his conviction overturned and have supported his claims of innocence. Williams was killed by lethal injection, ending a legal battle that has sparked widespread outrage as the office that originally tried the case suggested he was wrongfully convicted. In depth: \u2018The work of change has begun\u2019 In his speech, Starmer looked ahead more than he has so far in government. As expected, he still squarely laid the blame for the state of the nation on the previous government, emphasising the need to clear away \u201cTory rot\u201d. However, he also elaborated on how Labour would do so. He is marketing himself \u201cunapologetically\u201d as the \u201cun-populist prime minister\u201d writes Jessica Elgot in her analysis of the speech. Despite significant pushback, and a dipping favourability rating, Starmer has ultimately stood by the tough messaging. \u201cIt will be hard,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s not rhetoric, it\u2019s reality\u201d. Starmer is promising \u201cnational renewal\u201d, but stresses that it will take a decade \u2013 in other words, two terms \u2013 to get there. So how has he said Labour will fix things? *** What Starmer said Starmer wanted to make it clear that the government is already one of action and reform. \u201cThe work of change has begun\u201d, he said, listing a slew of issues that Labour have already started working on. The prime minister pointed to planning reform, the junior doctors\u2019 pay deal, renewable energy projects and GB Energy, education reform, the new Border Security Command, renters\u2019 rights and nationalisation of rail as examples of decisive action. At the same time, Starmer made clear the government is happy to make unpopular decisions, defending controversial cuts to winter fuel payments. He is happy to take the flak, Frances Ryan writes and his \u201ccocky dismissal of a pro-Gaza heckler only reinforced that\u201d. Starmer claims that by prioritising economic stability, prices will come down, NHS waiting lists will fall and the triple lock will be secured, leaving \u201cevery pensioner better off with Labour\u201d. However, the government\u2019s own equality analysis has shown that 780,000 pensioners who need the winter fuel payment will lose out on it when Labour begins means-testing the benefit. The short-term pain in this instance will leave older people in more vulnerable positions. *** The next steps At the top of the speech, Starmer pledged to introduce the Hillsborough law \u2013 a commitment he made while he was in opposition \u2013 before the next anniversary of the disaster in April 2025. The new legislation would introduce a legal duty of candour to all public bodies and will also help victims of other national scandals. Starmer also pledged to house all veterans in need, as well as young care leavers and domestic abuse survivors. The policy will mean these groups will be able to apply for social housing in any local authority in the UK for life. A significant chunk of the speech was also dedicated to the arts, a sector that, for years, has faced an acute crisis because of funding cuts. He also committed to cracking down on knife crime; introducing a real living wage; further devolution; a modern industrial strategy; a 10-year plan for the NHS; a teacher recruitment drive and foundation apprenticeships. There was very little detail on the cost and scope of some of these policies. All of this is positive, Frances Ryan writes, but she adds that Starmer\u2019s decision to go after \u201c(minuscule) benefit fraud and \u2018worklessness\u2019 while benefit rates don\u2019t even cover claimants\u2019 basic needs gave a grim insight into his priorities\u201d. On immigration, Starmer tried to walk a tightrope. On the one hand, he wanted to maintain the image that he was tough on immigration, promising to cut net migration and Britain\u2019s \u201ceconomic dependency upon it\u201d. Simultaneously, he tried to veer away from anti-immigrant sentiment, acknowledging the necessity of granting people asylum and strongly condemning the riots that took over many cities over the summer. Nesrine Malik described it as \u201cmuddled\u201d but a \u201cwelcome head-on engagement\u201d on the issue. There was little on foreign policy, despite the turmoil unfolding in the Middle East. Starmer called for \u201crestraint and de-escalation at the border\u201d between Israel and Hezbollah and urged \u201call parties to step back from the brink\u201d. *** A \u2018new\u2019 Labour Throughout the speech, another central theme emerged: the transformation of the Labour party championed by Starmer himself over the last five years. Obliquely referencing the left flank of the party, Starmer said that the change in Labour\u2019s values \u201care permanent and irreversible\u201d. \u201cNever forget that this opportunity is only here because we changed the party\u201d, he said. \u201cSome people think that Starmer\u2019s ministry lacks a plan,\u201d Professor Alan Finlayson writes, but \u201cthe speech made clear that in Starmer\u2019s ideology a changed Labour party is the programme\u201d. But the speech was only a small part of reclaiming the narrative: \u201cAway from the media glare, Starmer allies have been quietly keeping the doors sealed shut on Labour\u2019s wardrobe of discontents,\u201d Tom Belger, editor of LabourList writes. \u201cContentious motions by disgruntled local parties \u2013 on the two-child cap, Palestine and trans rights \u2013 were snuffed out before they reached the conference floor\u201d. As conference winds down today and the 20,000 attendees head home, the country will be looking to the October budget to get a more substantial idea of what lies ahead. What else we\u2019ve been reading I found Fleur Britten\u2019s account of cleaning up a beach in Ghana \u2013 littered with the remains of fast fashion past \u2013 totally terrifying. Hannah J Davies, deputy editor, newsletters This New York magazine profile of Ta-Nehisi Coates shows the radical thinker and author rebuke his cosy \u201cliberal darling\u201d goodwill with a singular righteous confrontation of the American media\u2019s complicity and ignorance of events unfolding in Gaza. Jason Okundaye, assistant editor, newsletters If you\u2019re struggling to get your 10 (10!) a day, Tim Dowling\u2019s guide to how to tell when fruit and veg is at its best might come in handy. Hannah EastEnders is a longstanding guilty pleasure, so it was great to read this revealing interview with the show\u2019s veteran star Rudolph Walker, who plays the lovable, rum-swigging Patrick. Jason From Diddy to Mohamed Al Fayed, Marina Hyde is compelling on the famous men accused of heinous offences, and the enablers who have long propped them up behind the scenes. Hannah Sport Football | Manchester City eased past Watford 2-1 in the Carabao Cup, though the victory over the Championship\u2019s eighth-placed side offered scant clues regarding how they may cope without key midfielder Rodri, who was missing for the first time since his serious knee injury. Christopher Nkunku plundered a hat-trick as Chelsea brushed past fourth-tier Barrow 5-0, while a youthful Aston Villa side defeated Wycombe. Cricket | On a chilly night at Chester-le-Street came an England performance to warm the cockles of the hardy home supporters. It was ended by late rain that swept in but not before captain Harry Brook\u2019s sublime unbeaten 110 helped defeat Australia by 46 runs, clawing one back in a previously one-sided series. Football | An AFC Wimbledon fan who has raised more than \u00a350,000 for his club after their stadium flooded said the support has been \u201cflabbergasting\u201d. The Cherry Red Records Stadium was hit with flooding and appeared to have a sinkhole in the pitch, after some areas of the country saw more than a month\u2019s worth of rain in 24 hours on Monday. The front pages The prime minister\u2019s conference speech dominated front pages on Wednesday, with the Guardian leading with \u201cKeep the faith and Britain will prosper, urges Starmer\u201d. The Financial Times has \u201cStarmer vows to fix Britain\u201d. The Telegraph says \u201cThe state will take back control\u201d and the Times reports \u201cBrace for the incoming storm, warns Starmer\u201d. The Mirror goes with \u201cTough love\u201d. i says \u201cEU willing to back down on new migration demand for all under-30s\u201d. The Mail leads with \u201cMarines ready for mass evacuation of Lebanon Brits\u201d. Today in Focus Hope, finally? Keir Starmer\u2019s first conference in power Helen Pidd spoke to Labour conference delegates at the Royal Albert docks who explained they were trying to balance a message that there will be tough decisions ahead while celebrating the changes the party had already made. Cartoon of the day | Martin Rowson The Upside A bit of good news to remind you that the world\u2019s not all bad Joseph Sissens (above) is the Royal Ballet\u2019s new principal dancer, one that the Guardian\u2019s dance critic Lyndsey Winship notes is known for \u201chis fine classical line and perfectly balletic feet\u201d but is equally \u201cone of the most convincing dancers in more modern styles\u201d. Sissens, 26, is one of only six dancers of colour in the company, and one of his new roles is to turn the spotlight on other talent. He is co-creating a Royal Opera House gala performance called Legacy that celebrates \u201cBlack and Brown excellence\u201d, with dancers from the UK and beyond, including New York\u2019s Alvin Ailey company. \u201cI call it a kaleidoscope of love,\u201d he told the Guardian about Legacy, a project he hopes will let its dancers put down \u201csome of the baggage, some of the bricks they might be carrying, and just relax for a second and be themselves\u201d. Lyndsey\u2019s sweeping interview with Sissens also surveys his path to the stage and his work as an activist following the murder of George Floyd. Legacy takes place at Linbury theatre, London, from 29 to 31 October. Sign up here for a weekly roundup of The Upside, sent to you every Sunday Bored at work? And finally, the Guardian\u2019s puzzles are here to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until tomorrow. Quick crossword Cryptic crossword Wordiply"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;High-speed Paris-to-Berlin rail link to launch in December;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/high-speed-train-between-paris-and-berlin-launch-december;2024-09-25T04:00:17Z",
        "text": "A new high-speed train linking Paris and Berlin is to launch in December, operators have announced. The daytime service will complement a popular night train route between the two capital cities that relaunched last year to much fanfare but has since been beset by technical problems. The daytime train service, which has been delayed by logistical issues and will take an hour longer than originally announced, will run between Berlin Hauptbahnhof and Paris Gare de L\u2019Est, stopping in Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, and Frankfurt S\u00fcd, and will take about eight hours. The fastest train journey now running between the French and German capitals takes just under nine hours, but requires two or three changes, making for a clunky and often unreliable experience. There will initially be just one service of the new train each day, leaving Paris at 9.55am, and arriving in Berlin just after 6pm. The return trip will leave Berlin at 11.54am, arriving in Paris just before 8pm. The operators SNCF and Deutsche Bahn say they hope passengers will see it as a relaxed alternative to flying, and a considerable improvement on the current route. Fares will start from \u20ac59 (about \u00a349) for a one-way second-class ticket and from \u20ac69 for a first-class seat. Prices will rise and fall according to demand. Reservations will open on 16 October, when rail enthusiast networks said they expected there would be a huge demand. There are about 530 seats on each train. DB and SNCF began cooperating in 2007, and since then fast-speed ICE and TGV trains have run on heavily used routes between Frankfurt and Paris and Stuttgart and Paris. The Berlin-Paris addition has been highly anticipated for years, not least with train operators across Europe under pressure to increase their services amid a political push to persuade people out of planes and cars, as well as a recent, post-pandemic trend for slow travel. The new route will widen travel options across the continent, train enthusiasts said on Tuesday, and act as useful add-ons to existing popular connections, such as the Frankfurt and Marseille route, which was launched in 2012, and Frankfurt to Bordeaux, which was introduced last year and runs in summer. Much excitement followed the reintroduction of a night-train service between Berlin and Paris last December, after a hiatus of about a decade. Operated by the Austrian Federal Railways (\u00d6BB) it has been beset by technical difficulties and has been suspended since last month due to construction work. It is due to get back on track by the end of next month."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;EU moving towards more xenophobic view of \u2018Europeanness\u2019, report warns;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/eu-moving-towards-more-xenophobic-view-of-europeanness-report-warns;2024-09-25T04:00:16Z",
        "text": "Voting patterns and polling data from the past year suggest the EU is moving towards a more ethnic, closed-minded and xenophobic understanding of \u201cEuropeanness\u201d that could ultimately challenge the European project, according to a major report. The report, by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), identifies three key \u201cblind spots\u201d across the bloc and argues their intersection risks eroding or radically altering EU sentiment. The report, shared exclusively with the Guardian, argues that the obvious \u201cwhiteness\u201d of the EU\u2019s politics, low engagement by young people and limited pro-Europeanism in central and eastern Europe could mould a European sentiment at odds with the bloc\u2019s original core values. \u201cMario Draghi has dominated the conversation in Brussels by focusing minds on the need to revive the bloc\u2019s economy, which is losing its competitive edge,\u201d said Pawel Zerka, the report\u2019s author and a senior ECFR policy fellow. \u201cBut if the economy is the EU\u2019s engine, then \u2018European sentiment\u2019 should be seen as its fuel. And what is currently happening to European sentiment requires urgent attention \u2013 otherwise we risk running out of fuel, or running on dirty fuel.\u201d Zerka defines \u201cEuropean sentiment\u201d as the sense of belonging to a common space, sharing a common future and subscribing to common values which he identifies as universalism, equality and secularism \u2013 and argues that these are being increasingly challenged. Despite a year of wars and elections, the report \u2013 based on data analysis and research by social and political scientists around Europe, and the third of its kind \u2013 said polling consistently showed large numbers of citizens in almost every EU member state continue to trust the bloc, are optimistic about its future and feel attached to it. It said strong European sentiment was also evidenced by a comparatively high 51% turnout in this year\u2019s European parliament elections, and the fact that a vast majority of the 27 national governments remain pro-European in outlook and policy. However, it said growing numbers feel \u201cexcluded\u201d, \u201cdisillusioned\u201d or \u201cuninterested\u201d in the EU, in particular people of colour and Muslims, and people in central and eastern Europe, and young voters feeling it is \u201ctoo white\u201d, \u201ctoo western\u201d or \u201ctoo boomer\u201d. Europeans of colour have been exposed to a huge surge in xenophobic narratives since the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, the report said, with Muslims often feeling alienated by many governments\u2019 support for Israel. Far-right parties\u2019 first-place finishes in the European elections in France, Italy, Belgium, Austria and Hungary, and strong showings in the Netherlands and Germany, had also fuelled a sharp increase in anti-immigration discourse. The report cites debate in Germany about a far-right plan to deport asylum seekers and German citizens of foreign origin, the use of anti-Muslim tropes by the likes of AfD and Italy\u2019s Lega, and the gradual mainstreaming of a \u201cxenophobic worldview\u201d. It also noted the \u201climited diversity inside the European institutions\u201d, pointing out that barely 3% of MEPs are from racial and ethnic minorities, against 10% in the EU population, and that many countries failed to field any candidates who were not white. \u201cThe \u2018whiteness\u2019 of the European parliament stands out against \u2026 the European football championships, the summer Olympics or the Eurovision song contest\u201d \u2013 despite far-right backlash against, for example, singer Aya Nakamura, Zerka wrote. Lukewarm pro-Europeanism in central and eastern Europe was also a growing concern, the report said, with voter turnout in the European elections below 40% in seven out of the 11 countries in the region reflecting a cooled enthusiasm. Data suggests some central and eastern Europeans are disappointed with the actual benefits of EU membership, while election results in countries such as Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Croatia showed increasing normalisation of Euroscepticism. Similarly, although surveys consistently show younger voters to be more pro-EU and tolerant than older generations, young people showed limited interest in European elections and, when they did vote, often did so for the radical right or left. The AfD came a close second among young German voters in this year\u2019s European elections, while in Poland the radical right Confederation won the youth vote with about 30%, and in France, a third of the young voted for the National Rally (RN). Zerka suggested this reflects a sense of not being represented by established political forces, which are often viewed as \u201cboomer\u201d parties, and warned a feeling of \u201cvoicelessness\u201d risked young people disengaging from or even rejecting the EU. The report, titled Welcome to Barbieland \u2013 a nod to Barbie\u2019s discovery that her home is not the utopia she thought it was \u2013 concluded that the threat to the European project was of a drift towards an \u201cethnic\u201d understanding of Europeanness in which xenophobia, already popular in many capitals, flourishes unchecked in \u201cthe language, policies and outlook of EU politics\u201d. Zerka said that to counter the challenge, parties must urgently diversify their voting base and membership. Countries could follow Austria, Belgium and Germany by lowering the voting age, and politicians must discuss much more with young people. Pro-European politicians must \u201cresist the temptation of staying quiet on \u2026 migration and diversity for short-term electoral gain\u201d, call out xenophobia and explain to voters that certain attitudes may undermine social peace in diverse societies. And the EU\u2019s civic identity must be reinforced by explaining the EU as \u201ca force for positive change\u201d, delivering on issues such as the economy, security and climate change but also on concerns around migration, Zerka argued. If a growing number of Europeans conclude the EU is neither representing them nor reflecting their concerns and values, EU sentiment could collapse entirely, he warned. Alternatively, it could \u201cflourish \u2013 but in a closed, xenophobic form\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018We\u2019re getting rid of everything\u2019: floods destroy homes and lives in Czech Republic;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/were-getting-rid-of-everything-floods-destroy-homes-and-lives-in-czech-republic;2024-09-25T03:00:15Z",
        "text": "Jarmila \u0160i\u0161mov\u00e1 did not know what to expect when rain began to pound the small town of Litovel in the Czech Republic, and she was not prepared for the nightmare that would await her once it stopped. The authorities told \u0160i\u0161mov\u00e1 to leave her home, so she took her children to their grandmother to wait out the storm. As the water level rose, a neighbour \u2013 one of the few on her street who stayed behind \u2013 checked the front of the house and saw the sandbags holding firm. But from the back, \u0160i\u0161mov\u00e1 would soon find out, the flood had burst into the building, drenching her belongings in dirty brown water. \u201cIt was devastating for me,\u201d said \u0160i\u0161mov\u00e1, a sales manager and single mother of three, gesturing to a skip full of furniture, clothes and toys. \u201cWe\u2019re getting rid of everything.\u201d Stories like \u0160i\u0161mov\u00e1\u2019s are being echoed around the world. The Czech Republic sat at the centre of a storm that has killed two dozen people across central Europe and prompted the EU to promise \u20ac10bn in aid to flood-stricken countries. It came as torrential rains swept through parts of Africa and Asia, triggering inundations that have killed more than 1,000 people. The UK was also hit by downpours on Monday, with more than a month\u2019s worth of rain in 24 hours in some parts of the country. The extreme levels of rain in Europe were made twice as likely by planet-heating pollution, a rapid attribution study found on Wednesday, and 7% stronger. Miroslav Trnka, a climate scientist from the Global Change Research Institute, said a 7% average increase may not sound like a lot but can be enough to render a dam useless. \u201cIt\u2019s a binary problem\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like flood defences partly work, they either don\u2019t work or fully work, and there is a relatively small space in between.\u201d In towns along the Czech Republic\u2019s border with Poland, where the floods hit hardest, residents described how the supercharged torrents of water tore their lives apart. In Krnov, where three people died, the city library said it lost more than 20,000 books to the flood waters and only had enough time to save the most important volumes from its collection. Jakub Mruz, the director of the library, said the loss was \u201cnegligible\u201d compared with what other people had experienced, but \u201cit is sad and painful for anyone who loves books to see something like this.\u201d In Jesenik, where one person died, nearly 500mm of rain fell in five days, aggravated by wind patterns in the mountains and the bare slopes on which bark beetles had ravaged spongy spruce forests. The sewage system in the city failed and the flood smeared a layer of toxic mud across its streets. \u201cNow it\u2019s dried up, people are breathing the dust and getting diarrhoea,\u201d said Adriana \u010cern\u00e1, an executive board member of People in Need, a humanitarian group working with the rescue services. \u201cFrom day to day the situation is getting better. But there\u2019s a big mess.\u201d Scientists have shown that warm air can hold more moisture \u2013 about 7% for each 1C increase in temperature \u2013 which allows for more violent rainfall if enough water is available. Mountain towns such as Jesenik are particularly vulnerable. A study last year found a 15% increase in extreme rainfall per degree of warming at high altitude \u2013 double that expected by the physical relationship between temperature and moisture content. In Litovel, further south, Petr \u0160vancr, whose guesthouse was inundated, estimated the damage would come to 2m Czech crowns (\u00a366,000). \u201cThe hotel\u2019s closed, the restaurant is closed, everything is closed. My life has closed \u2013 it\u2019s finished.\u201d \u0160i\u0161mov\u00e1, who moved to Litovel 10 years ago, said she had cried in recent days because she no longer knew if she wanted to live there. \u201cIf you have to start from zero, you can start anywhere,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if I want to be part of another flood in a few years.\u201d In 1997, central Europe was devastated by what was dubbed the \u201cflood of the century\u201d \u2013 a disaster that killed 56 people in Poland and 50 in the Czech Republic. Since then, investments in systems to predict rain, warn communities and manage water have lowered the death toll from floods even when rains have hit hard. But Michal \u017d\u00e1k, a meteorologist at Czech Television, said although more rain fell over the total period in 1997 than in 2024, the one-day maximum amounts were greater in the latest disaster. \u201cThe extremity of the precipitation in the models was quite impressive,\u201d said \u017d\u00e1k, who had been alarmed by the projections. \u201cI was not so sure it would really happen, but finally it did.\u201d Volunteers have been arriving to help clean up, with authorities asking that they register with aid groups before arrival. V\u00e1clav Kvapil, a carpenter who runs a guesthouse in a village near Jesenik with his wife, said they hosted 80 volunteers for free after prospective visitors cancelled their reservations. \u201cWe were surprised how many people wanted to come,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the end, we were forced to refuse some people because the house was so full.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;New ghost shark species with unusually long nose discovered in deep seas off New Zealand;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/ghost-shark-new-species-spookfish-discovered-new-zealand;2024-09-25T00:40:54Z",
        "text": "A new species of ghost shark, with an unusually long nose and a whip-like tail, has been discovered in the inky depths of New Zealand waters. Scientists at New Zealand\u2019s National Institute for Water and Atmospherics (Niwa) initially believed the creature was part of an existing species found around the world, but further investigation revealed it was new, genetically distinct, species. The newly described Australasian narrow-nosed spookfish is only found in New Zealand and Australian waters. Ghost sharks \u2013 also known as chimaeras and spookfish - are a group of cartilaginous fish closely related to sharks and rays. They have smooth skin, beak-like teeth and feed off crustaceans such as shrimp and molluscs. They are sometimes referred to as the ocean\u2019s butterflies for the way they glide through the water with their large pectoral fins. The mysterious fish are typically found at great ocean depths \u2013 up to 2,600 metres - and little is known about their biology or the threats they face. \u201cGhost sharks are incredibly under-studied, there is a lot we don\u2019t know about them,\u201d said Dr Brit Finucci, a fisheries scientist at Niwa who helped discover the new species. \u201cChimaeras are quite cryptic in nature \u2013 they can be hard to find in the deep ocean \u2026 and they generally don\u2019t get the same attention sharks do, when it comes to research.\u201d The new ghost shark was found in the Chathams Rise, roughly 750km east of New Zealand\u2019s coast. It is distinctive for its very elongated snout that can make up half of its entire body length and has likely evolved to aid its hunt for prey. The chocolate-brown fish can grow up to a metre long, has large milky-coloured eyes and a serrated dorsal fin to deter predators. Roughly 55 species of ghost shark have been discovered globally, with about 12 of those found in New Zealand and South Pacific waters. Scientists suspected it was a new species based off of its morphology \u2013 how it looks \u2013 but further genetic research was needed to confirm the theory. Discovering that it was indeed a distinct species was an exciting moment for Finucci. \u201cIt\u2019s really neat to be able to contribute to science,\u201d she said. \u201cUnderstanding the animal itself can feed into further research and whether they need conservation management.\u201d In a touching homage to her grandmother, Finucci gave the ghost shark the scientific name Harriotta avia: Harriotta being her grandmother\u2019s name, and avia meaning grandmother in Latin. \u201cI also liked the idea that \u2026 sharks and ghost sharks are the old, ancient, relatives of fish, and I was naming the animal after an ancient relative of mine.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis: Hezbollah confirms death of senior commander \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/24/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-lebanon-hezbollah-war-news;2024-09-24T23:54:57Z",
        "text": "This blog is now closing. You can read our full report on Israel\u2019s attack on Lebanon here. We\u2019ll be back soon with the latest live updates. Here\u2019s our earlier video of the aftermath of the attack on Dahieh in Beirut, in which senior Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Qubaisi was killed along with five other people: Hassan waited until the last minute to flee. As Israeli warplanes thundered overhead and bombs began to fall on the forests surrounding his home town of Deir al-Zahrani, south Lebanon, on Monday morning, he told himself he still had some time. For almost a year the town, 12 miles from the Israel-Lebanon border, had been mostly spared from the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that had engulfed much of south Lebanon. The bombs grew closer. His neighbours began to get calls from unknown numbers with a recorded message, the voice speaking classical Arabic with a strange accent: \u201cIf you are in a building where there are Hezbollah weapons, distance yourself from the village.\u201d Hassan had no idea if the homes around him contained weapons. Houses in the village began to get hit. \u201cCivilians, houses, they hit everything. When they started striking civilians, we had to flee. A few of my relatives were killed,\u201d Hassan, 23, said, sitting in a school in Dekwaneh, a suburb north of Beirut, which had been converted into a shelter for displaced people less than 24 hours earlier. Dier al-Zahrani was no longer safe as Israel carried out a devastating aerial barrage on swathes of south Lebanon and the Beqaa valley that killed 558 people, injured 1,835 and pushed tens of thousands to flee their homes. It was Lebanon\u2019s deadliest day in almost 50 years, bringing the death toll of the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel in September to more than 1,200, exceeding that of the brutal 2006 war between the two. Hassan and the six other members of his family grabbed a few possessions, crammed into a BMW sedan and headed towards Beirut. The United States has approved the sale of $740 million in Stinger missiles to Egypt, which has become an increasingly close partner over the Gaza crisis despite concerns on rights, Reuters reports. The State Department informed Congress that it was approving the sale of 720 Stinger missiles for use on existing systems. The sale will help \u201cimprove the security of a friendly country that continues to be an important force for political stability and economic growth in the Middle East,\u201d a State Department statement said. Congress can still block the sale, but such attempts are usually unsuccessful. The US has also continued to supply billions of dollars worth of weapons to Israel, even while calling on it to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza and stop escalating its conflict with Lebanon. Israel has also continued its deadly attacks on Gaza on Tuesday evening, the Palestinian news agency Wafa is reporting, killing at least seven Palestinians in the north of the strip. Israeli warplanes targeted a group of civilians in Mashrou\u2019 Beit Lahia, killing two and injuring others, Wafa reported. In the north-west of Gaza Israeli warplanes targeted an apartment killing five civilians, including a woman and two children. Several others were missing and others injured, the agency reported. It is not possible to independently verify reports from Gaza because Israel does not allow foreign journalists into Gaza. It has also been accused of targeting local Palestinian journalists as part of its campaign, with at least 116 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza as of Tuesday according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Hezbollah has confirmed the death of senior commander Ibrahim Qubaisi in an airstrike on Beirut. The Israeli military had earlier claimed to have killed him in a strike on Dahieh, Hezbollah\u2019s stronghold in Beirut, on Tuesday while Lebanon\u2019s health ministry confirmed that six people were killed in the attack and 15 injured. The Lebanese foreign minister Abdallah Bou Habib also said that the number of Lebanese displaced by the fighting had soared from around 110,000 before this week\u2019s Israeli attacks to \u201capproaching half a million\u201d now. Noting that Israel had also seen displacement in the northern areas, he said, \u201cAll for what?\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a very difficult situation \u2013 a very expensive, costly situation \u2013 in a time that the country is still weak economically,\u201d he said. Lebanese foreign minister Abdallah Bou Habib has expressed disappointment with US President Joe Biden\u2019s remarks about the escalating crisis between Lebanon and Israel, but said he held out hope that Washington could still intervene to help. Reuters quotes him as saying of Biden\u2019s earlier UN speech: It was not strong. It is not promising and it would not solve this problem \u2026 I [am] still hoping. The United States is the only country that can really make a difference in the Middle East and with regard to Lebanon. Habib was speaking at an event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. This is Helen Livingstone taking over the blog from L\u00e9onie Chao-Fong. Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: Thousands of Lebanese people fled the continuing bombing in the country\u2019s south on Tuesday as Israel said it was conducting \u201cextensive strikes\u201d on Hezbollah targets, including on the southern suburbs of Beirut, for the second day in a row and third time this week. Israel carried out an airstrike in Jiyeh, a seaside town 20 kilometers south of Beirut late Tuesday night. The strong explosion was heard across Beirut and the surrounding mountains. Israel\u2019s military said an attack in Dahieh, Hezbollah\u2019s stronghold in Beirut, on Tuesday had killed Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi, also known as Abu Issa, the commander of Hezbollah\u2019s rocket and missile division. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said in a statement that the \u201cIsraeli enemy raid on Ghobeiri in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs killed six people and injured 15\u201d. At least 569 people were killed from two days of Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah, according to the latest death toll by Lebanese health authorities. The death toll includes 50 children and 94 women. On Monday, Lebanon recorded more casualties than in any other single day since the 15-year civil war that started in 1975. Israel struck hundreds of Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon overnight and during Tuesday. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed to maintain the offensive against Hezbollah and said the group\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was leading Lebanon \u201cto the edge of the abyss\u201d. Israeli officials have said the recent rise in airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon is designed to force the group to agree to a diplomatic solution, cease its own attacks on Israel or unilaterally withdraw its forces from close to the contested border. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Daniel Hagari said Israel is striving for its current military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon to be as short as possible. But in his briefing with reporters on Tuesday, he added that Israel is also prepared for the operation to take time. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said Hezbollah has suffered \u201cextremely severe blows\u201d and Israel has \u201cmore strikes ready\u201d. Hezbollah said it had targeted several Israeli military targets including an explosives factory about 35 miles (56km) into Israel and the Megiddo airfield near the town of Afula, which it attacked three separate times. Officials in Israel said more than 50 missiles and rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern parts of the country on Tuesday morning, most of which were intercepted. Syrian air defences intercepted suspected Israeli missiles targeting the city of Tartous, Reuters reported, citing Syrian army sources. It comes after reports of multiple explosions heard over the Mediterranean port city early on Wednesday. The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, has told world leaders that Lebanon is on the brink of becoming a second Gaza, adding the crisis has \u201cbecome a non-stop nightmare that threatens to take the whole region down\u201d. In response, Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, accused the UN on Tuesday of not fulfilling its obligations in preventing rocket attacks into Israel by Hezbollah. The EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, described the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah as almost a \u201cfull-fledged war\u201d. World leaders gathered in New York for the opening of the 79th UN general assembly as diplomatic efforts appear to have had little impact so far on the tensions on the border between Israel and Lebanon. Israel\u2019s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, said his country is open to ideas for de-escalating the conflict in Lebanon. \u201cWe are not eager to start any ground invasion anywhere ... We prefer a diplomatic solution,\u201d Danon told reporters on Tuesday. Two staff members of the UN\u2019s refugee agency (UNHCR) were among the 558 people killed in Lebanon on Monday, the UN high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi said. The UN agency said it was \u201coutraged and deeply saddened by the killing of two beloved members of the UNHCR family in Lebanon\u201d and warned that the protection of civilians is a must under international humanitarian law. Nearly 30 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Nuseirat and Bureij camp refugee camps in central Gaza on Tuesday, according to hospital officials. A total of 29 Palestinians, including 14 children and 6 women, died as a result of the Israeli strikes on Tuesday, officials at Awda hospital said. The US president, Joe Biden, addressed the risk of a potential full-scale war in Lebanon. During an address to the United Nations general assembly on Tuesday, Biden said that a \u201cfull-scale war is not in anyone\u2019s interest\u201d and added that \u201ceven though the situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible.\u201d Britain is moving 700 troops to Cyprus to be ready for an emergency evacuation of UK citizens from Lebanon. The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, called for \u201crestraint and de-escalation\u201d at the border between Lebanon and Israel. Starmer made an unfortunate slip-up during his Labour party conference speech on Tuesday, calling for the return of \u201csausages\u201d from Gaza. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, called for coercive UN measures against Israel to be put on the agenda, including the use of force against Israel. Erdo\u011fan, in his UN general assembly speech, accused the US of continuing to arm Israel so it can continue its massacres when in public it pretends it is looking for a ceasefire. Israel carried out an airstrike in Jiyeh, a seaside town 20 kilometers south of Beirut late Tuesday night. The strong explosion was heard across Beirut and the surrounding mountains. The target of the strike was unknown, but a video filmed by local residents showed a car engulfed in flames, near a gas station. The airstrike comes off the back of two days of intense Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon, including the nation\u2019s capital city, killing 569 people. An Israeli strike has hit the Lebanese town of Jiyyeh for the first time, Reuters reported, citing two security sources. Jiyyeh is a seaside town 75 km north of the border with Israel, 23 km south of Beirut. The BBC\u2019s Nafiseh Kohnavard reported hearing an strong explosion: The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, said the government was \u201cramping up the contingency plans\u201d to rescue British nationals as he urged Israel and Lebanon to \u201cpull back from the brink\u201d. Speaking from a flight to New York, where he will discuss Lebanon with world leaders at the United Nations general assembly, Starmer said: The most important message from me this evening is to British nationals in Lebanon, to leave immediately and I just want to reinforce that. It is important that we be really, really clear: now is the time to leave. More broadly, I am worried about the situation and I think we need to be clear we need de-escalation, we need a ceasefire, we need to pull back from the brink. Britain is moving 700 troops to Cyprus to be ready for an emergency evacuation of UK citizens from Lebanon. The UK government said military teams were moving there to further support British nationals in Lebanon, where Israel has been bombarding the south of the country. The Royal Air Force also has aircraft and helicopters on standby to provide support if necessary. It is the first phase of contingency plans for Lebanon, as the government seeks to avoid the chaos seen when British nationals were evacuated from Afghanistan in 2021. The military teams will be supported by Border Force and Foreign Office officials. The president of the European council, Charles Michel, said Israel had the right to exist and defend itself but without inflicting \u201ccollective punishment\u201d on civilians. Michel, at an event on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York on Tuesday, said: Israel has the right to defend itself. Israel has the right to exist, and we support the right of Israel to exist and to defend itself. But defending itself, it doesn\u2019t mean collective punishment. It needs a principle of proportionality. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will speak at the UN general assembly on Friday, NBC News is reporting, citing an Israeli official. Netanyahu had originally been expected to address world leaders at the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday. Iran\u2019s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, addressed the UN general assembly for the first time on Tuesday after his predecessor, Ebrahim Raisi, was killed in a helicopter crash earlier this year. Pezeshkian said the world has witnessed the \u201ctrue nature of the Israeli regime\u201d over the past year, and urged the international community to bring about a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and \u201can end to the desperate barbarism\u201d of Israel in Lebanon \u201cbefore it engulfs the region and the world\u201d. The Iranian president said Israeli \u201cstate terrorism\u201d over the past few days in Lebanon \u201ccannot go unanswered\u201d. He said: The responsibility of all consequences will be borne by those governments who have thwarted all global efforts to end this horrific catastrophe. A senior Israeli official has claimed responsibility for the pager attacks targeting members of Hezbollah across Lebanon in simultaneous explosions last week, according to the BBC. The official told the broadcaster that the pager attack was followed by the assassination of senior Hezbollah leader Ibrahim Aqil and leadership of Hezbollah\u2019s elite Radwan special forces. They added: The purpose of this is to strengthen the deterrence against Hezbollah and make it reach a situation where it allows Israel to return the residents of the north to their homes safely. Another goal is to deter the entire Iranian axis. The UN security council will meet at 6pm ET (10pm GMT) on Wednesday to discuss the escalation in fighting in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah. Slovenia\u2019s mission to the UN, which holds the rotating presidency of the council, said: After consulting with the delegations... the Presidency intends to schedule the briefing on the situation in Lebanon for tomorrow. Syrian air defences intercepted suspected Israeli missiles targeting the city of Tartous, Reuters reported, citing Syrian army sources. It comes after reports of multiple explosions heard over the Mediterranean port city. From Al Jazeera\u2019s Zeina Khodr: Nearly 30 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Nuseirat and Bureij camp refugee camps in central Gaza on Tuesday, according to AP, citing hospital officials. A total of 29 Palestinians, including 14 children and 6 women, died as a result of the Israeli strikes on Tuesday, officials at Awda hospital said. Twins Osama and Bilal Fayad were two young men who were killed in the strikes in Nuseirat along with three women, the outlet reported. Their father. Ahmed Fayad. said: I raised those two boys.. they were killed together after being struck. They were born together and died together. The UK is expected to announce that it will send 700 troops to Cyprus to prepare for the possible evacuation of British nationals from Lebanon, according to the BBC. Britain\u2019s military has been preparing for months for the possibility of an emergency evacuation and the UK Foreign Office (FCDO) has urged British nationals to leave Lebanon. UK defence secretary John Healey, after an emergency Cobra meeting on Thursday, said: Our concern is always for the safety of British nationals and our advice to them is to leave Lebanon now, that hasn\u2019t changed. This was a meeting simply to make sure that we\u2019ve got plans in place for future developments. A senior military source told the BBC that the UK\u2019s next steps would depend on what Hezbollah and Israel do next and whether Lebanon\u2019s international airport remains open. Two British warships are already in the region and could be used to help evacuate people, Sky News reported. Here are some of the latest images from the newswires from Lebanon, where authorities say at least 569 people have been killed \u2013 including 50 children and 94 women \u2013 in Israeli strikes since Monday. It is now clear that last Tuesday\u2019s exploding pager operation was just a first step. What is now unfolding is an Israeli strategy of military escalation against Hezbollah, premised on the risky belief that the militant group can be bombed into a ceasefire before fighting in Gaza ends. Monday\u2019s wave of airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed at least 569 people and displaced many thousands, and there is little sign of the campaign slowing. Israel\u2019s air force has said it had dropped 2,000 bombs in 24 hours \u2013 and there can be little doubt that this is now a full-on war, though it is not yet an all-out conflict. Hezbollah, meanwhile, is in some disarray. First, hundreds of its operatives were wounded in the pager and subsequent walkie-talkie attack; then, commanders in its elite Radwan military unit were killed in an Israeli strike in southern Beirut on Friday. On Tuesday, Israel claimed it had killed Ibrahim Qubaisi, the head of Hezbollah\u2019s missile systems, again in an attack in the south of the Lebanese capital. Nevertheless, Hezbollah is also escalating its attacks. Read the full analysis by the Guardian\u2019s defence and security editor here: Israel escalation based on risky belief it can bomb Hezbollah into a ceasefire Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, accused the UN on Tuesday of not fulfilling its obligations in preventing rocket attacks into Israel by Hezbollah. Gallant, posting to X, responded to comments by the UN\u2019s secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, said Lebanon is on the brink of becoming a second Gaza, adding that the crisis has become \u201ca non-stop nightmare that threatens to take the entire region down\u201d. Gallant wrote that Hezbollah has \u201ctaken Lebanon hostage\u201d and referred to the UN resolution that requires Hezbollah to disarm. The UN is neither acknowledging their actions, nor fulfilling its fundamental obligation \u2013 preventing Hezbollah attacks and demanding the implementation of resolution 1701. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said Hezbollah has suffered \u201cextremely severe blows\u201d and Israel has \u201cmore strikes ready\u201d. Gallant, addressing Israeli troops on Tuesday, said: Today\u2019s Hezbollah is not the Hezbollah of a week ago. The sequence of blows it faced in its command and control, its operatives, its weapons, all these things are extremely severe blows. \u201cWe have more blows ready, we know what to do,\u201d he added in remarks carried by the Times of Israel. Iran is denying a report that it turned down a request from Hezbollah to enter the war because the timing is not right while the president Masoud Pezeshkian is in New York. The Iranian president is under domestic pressure over a denied news report that he told US reporters he was willing to disarm if Israel also disarmed. The number killed by Israeli air strikes in Lebanon in a counteroffensive against Hezbollah has risen to 569 since Monday morning, up from 558 earlier today, the Lebanese health minister said, according to reports. The minister was speaking to Al Jazeera Mubasher TV, Reuters reports. The death toll includes 50 children and 94 women, the minister, Firass Abiadtells, said. A different funeral scene: Israel is striving for its current military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon to be as short as possible, the Israeli chief military spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said. But he added when addressing reporters a few moments ago that Israel is also prepared for the operation to take time, Reuters reported. During the briefing, Hagari also said that Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets at Israel on Tuesday. Today, approximately 300 rockets were fired at Israel... injuring six civilians and soldiers, most of them lightly,\u201d he said. Hezbollah has issued a statement saying it has attacked Israel\u2019s Atlit Navy Base in the north of the country, using drones. The Navy base is just south of Haifa, the third largest city in Israel, a port which sits on the Mediterranean Sea in the north of the Jewish state very close to the border with southern Lebanon. The initial report has come in via the Reuters news agency and there are few details yet and we await further reports. The base is home to Israel\u2019s Navy commando unit. Hezbollah often makes use of swarms of drones in addition to rockets when it is attacking northern Israel. Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: Israel\u2019s military said it was conducting a new wave of \u201cwidespread strikes\u201d on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, the fourth wave of strikes on Tuesday. Israel\u2019s military said an attack in Dahieh, Hezbollah\u2019s stronghold in Beirut, had killed Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi, also known as Abu Issa, the commander of Hezbollah\u2019s rocket and missile division. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said in a statement that the \u201cIsraeli enemy raid on Ghobeiri in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs killed six people and injured 15\u201d. At least 558 people were killed from two days of Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah, according to the latest death toll by Lebanese health authorities. On Monday, Lebanon recorded more casualties than in any other single day since the 15-year civil war that started in 1975. Israel struck hundreds of Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon overnight and during Tuesday. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes in Lebanon, with the mayor of Sidon reporting that 10,000 internally displaced people had made their way to the city, of which 6,000 were in shelters. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed to maintain the offensive against Hezbollah and said the group\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was leading Lebanon \u201cto the edge of the abyss\u201d. Israeli officials have said the recent rise in airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon is designed to force the group to agree to a diplomatic solution, cease its own attacks on Israel or unilaterally withdraw its forces from close to the contested border. Hezbollah said it had targeted several Israeli military targets including an explosives factory about 35 miles (56km) into Israel and the Megiddo airfield near the town of Afula, which it attacked three separate times. Officials in Israel said more than 50 missiles and rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern parts of the country on Tuesday morning, most of which were intercepted. The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, has told world leaders that Lebanon is on the brink of becoming a second Gaza, adding the crisis has \u201cbecome a non-stop nightmare that threatens to take the whole region down\u201d. The EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, described the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah as almost a \u201cfull-fledged war\u201d. World leaders gathered in New York for the opening of the 79th UN general assembly as diplomatic efforts appear to have had little impact so far on the tensions on the border between Israel and Lebanon. Israel\u2019s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, said his country is open to ideas for de-escalating the conflict in Lebanon. \u201cWe are not eager to start any ground invasion anywhere ... We prefer a diplomatic solution,\u201d Danon told reporters on Tuesday. Two staff members of the UN\u2019s refugee agency (UNHCR) were among the 558 people killed in Lebanon on Monday, the UN high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi said. The UN agency said it was \u201coutraged and deeply saddened by the killing of two beloved members of the UNHCR family in Lebanon\u201d and warned that the protection of civilians is a must under international humanitarian law. At least six people were killed, including three women, after an Israeli airstrike hit a family house in central Gaza, according to Palestinian medical officials. The strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp on Tuesday also wounded 21 others, according to the Awda hospital in the camp, where the casualties were taken. The US president, Joe Biden, addressed the risk of a potential full-scale war in Lebanon. During an address to the United Nations general assembly on Tuesday, Biden said that a \u201cfull-scale war is not in anyone\u2019s interest\u201d and added that \u201ceven though the situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible.\u201d The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, called for \u201crestraint and de-escalation\u201d at the border between Lebanon and Israel. Starmer made an unfortunate slip-up during his Labour party conference speech on Tuesday, calling for the return of \u201csausages\u201d from Gaza. The Brazilian president, Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, dialed up his denunciation of Israel during his address to the UN general assembly. Lula, a longtime critic of the war in Gaza, said the Gaza Strip and West Bank were already suffering \u201cone of biggest humanitarian crises in recent times\u201d and voiced concern that the conflict was now spreading \u201cdangerously\u201d into Lebanon. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, called for coercive UN measures against Israel to be put on the agenda, including the use of force against Israel. Erdo\u011fan, in his UN general assembly speech, accused the US of continuing to arm Israel so it can continue its massacres when in public it pretends it is looking for a ceasefire. Israel\u2019s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, said his country is open to ideas for de-escalating the conflict in Lebanon. \u201cAs we speak there are important forces trying to come up with ideas and we are open-minded for that,\u201d he told reporters, according to Reuters. We are not eager to start any ground invasion anywhere ... We prefer a diplomatic solution. The charity ActionAid said its partner organisation was forced to suspend vital refugee and host community services in southern Lebanon following an escalation in attacks by Israeli forces. The Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering (RDFL), which works in the Bekaa Valley to provide protection services for Palestinian and Syrian refugees and host communities in Lebanon, has had to suspend its activities due to the escalating violence, ActionAid aid said. \u201cThere\u2019s a growing concern that the situation may worsen in the coming hours,\u201d Malak, a safe space offer at RDFL, said in a statement. People are arriving with nothing after being forced to abandon their homes. Their immediate needs must be addressed urgently. Our priority is ensuring their safety and providing shelter \u2013 whether through temporary accommodation in shelters, hotels, or with host families \u2013 and ensuring security, especially for vulnerable groups such as women, children, and the elderly. International airlines have suspended more flights to Lebanon amid an Israeli bombardment that authorities said had killed almost 560 people since Monday. The United Arab Emirates-based airline Emirates announced the temporary suspension of its flights to Beirut on Tuesday and Wednesday. Its sister airline flydubai also cancelled flights to Beirut on Tuesday and Wednesday. Qatar Airways, which operates two flights a day to the Lebanese capital, also cancelled services for two days. Air France on Tuesday extended the suspension of its Beirut flights until 1 October, which a spokesperson told AFP was due to the \u201csecurity situation\u201d. Flights to and from the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, suspended by Air France last week, were operating normally after resuming at the weekend, the spokesperson added. Germany\u2019s Lufthansa had already suspended Beirut flights until 26 October and on Tuesday it extended the suspension of flights to and from Tel Aviv and the Iranian capital, Tehran, up to and including 14 October in response to the tensions. Egypt\u2019s state-owned flag carrier Egyptair said it was suspending all of its flights to Beirut until the situation in Lebanon stabilised. The Jordanian Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission said on Monday that Royal Jordanian Airlines flights to Beirut had been suspended until further notice. Palestinian medical officials said at least six people were killed, including three women, after an Israeli airstrike hit a family house in central Gaza on Tuesday. The strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp also wounded 21 others, according to the Awda hospital in the camp, where the casualties were taken. The Brazilian president, Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, a longtime critic of the war in Gaza, has dialed up his denunciation of Israel during his address to the UN general assembly in New York. The South American leftist said the Gaza Strip and West Bank were already suffering \u201cone of biggest humanitarian crises in recent times\u201d and voiced concern that the conflict was now spreading \u201cdangerously\u201d into Lebanon. \u201cWhat began as an act of terror carried out by fanatics against innocent Israeli civilians has turned into the collective punishment of all the Palestinian people. There have been more than 40,000 fatal victims - the majority women and children,\u201d Lula said, adding: The right to self-defence has become the right to revenge that stands in the way of a deal for the liberation of hostages and delays a cease fire. Israel has bristled at criticism from left-wing Latin America leaders such as Lula, Mexico\u2019s Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador and Colombia\u2019s Gustavo Petro. Speaking at the UN after Lula, Petro also slammed the \u201cgenocide\u201d he said was unfolding in Gaza and called Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu \u201ca criminal\u201d. The White House said US officials were in talks with allies to help find an off-ramp to the escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah. \u201cWe\u2019re working on that in real time right here in New York and in capitals around the world,\u201d the White House\u2019s principal deputy national security adviser Jon Finer said at an Axios event on the sidelines of the UN general assembly on Tuesday. We\u2019re not going to reveal all the details of those sensitive conversations, but we very much want that conflict to de-escalate. Here are some of the latest images from the newswires from Beirut, as Israel said it was conducting \u201cwidespread strikes\u201d on Hezbollah targets, including on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital. Israel said an airstrike on Tuesday killed Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi, also known as Abu Issa, the commander of Hezbollah\u2019s rocket and missile division. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said the \u201cIsraeli enemy raid on Ghobeiri in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs killed six people and injured 15\u201d. Israel struck hundreds of Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon overnight and during Tuesday, with the death toll from the recent wave of attacks now nearing 560 people. The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, was heckled during his speech at the Labour conference on Tuesday over his party\u2019s position on the Israel-Hamas war. \u201cEvery child, every person, deserves to be respected for the contribution they make.\u201d\u201d Starmer said, to which a member of the audience shouted: Does that include the children of Gaza? Daniel Riley, 18, told reporters that he shouted out during Starmer\u2019s speech because \u201ceveryday we\u2019re still sending British bombs and British bullets that are being used in Lebanon and in Gaza right now and the prime minister \u2013 he could stop that, he could stop that right now but he doesn\u2019t.\u201d In his party conference speech, Starmer called for peace in the Middle East and urged \u201crestraint and de-escalation\u201d at the border between Lebanon and Israel. \u201cI call again for all parties to step back from the brink,\u201d he said. The British leader made an unfortunate slip-up where he called for the return of \u201csausages\u201d from Gaza. I call again for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the return of the sausages \u2013 the hostages \u2013 and a recommitment to the two-state solution: recognised Palestinian state alongside a safe and secure Israel.\u201d The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, called for coercive UN measures against Israel to be put on the agenda, including the use of force against Israel. Using an inflammatory second world war analogy, he said: Just as Hitler was stopped by an alliance of humanity so Netanyahu and his murder network must be stopped by an alliance of humanity. He accused the US of continuing to arm Israel so it can continue its massacres when in public it pretends it is looking for a ceasefire. And he asked the US, a fellow Nato member: How long are you going to be able to carry the shame of witnessing this massacre? ... Countries that have a say over Israel are openly complicit in this massacre. Addressing the UN general assembly in New York, Joe Biden said diplomacy was the only path to lasting security in the Middle East, adding he was working tirelessly to prevent a wider war in Lebanon that engulfs the entire region. A deal was needed \u201cthat will allow residents from both Israel and Lebanon to return to their homes on either side of the border,\u201d the US president said. He blamed Hezbollah for launching an unprovoked attack on Israel after October 7 and said the group was still launching rockets in Israel almost a year later. Full scale war is not in anyone\u2019s interest. Even if the situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible. Israel\u2019s military said it was currently conducting a new wave of \u201cwidespread strikes\u201d on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. It marks the fourth wave of strikes in Lebanon today. Two staff members of the UN\u2019s refugee agency (UNHCR) were among the 558 people killed in Lebanon on Monday, the UN high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi said. Dina Darwiche, a Lebanese woman who had worked for UNHCR for 12 years, was killed along with her son in an Israeli airstrike on Lebanon\u2019s Bekaa region on Monday, AP reported. Her husband and another son were seriously injured. Ali Basma, who worked as a cleaner for the agency\u2019s office in the city of Tyre for seven years, was killed in a separate strike in the south, it said. UNHCR said it was \u201coutraged and deeply saddened by the killing of two beloved members of the UNHCR family in Lebanon\u201d and warned that the protection of civilians is a must under international humanitarian law. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has issued a statement addressing Lebanese citizens telling them at the war is \u201cnot with you, our war is with Hezbollah.\u201d In a video message posted to X and translated by the BBC, the Israeli leader said that the head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was \u201cleading you to the brink of the abyss... Rid yourself from Nasrallah\u2019s grip, for your own good\u201d. He also warned that \u201canyone who has a missile in their living room and a rocket in their garage will not have a home\u201d. Joe Biden has been speaking in the UN general assembly headquarters in New York in his final time as the US president. Biden says the US is working to bring a \u201cgreater measure of peace and stability\u201d in the Middle East, and urged UN member states not to \u201cflinch from the horrors\u201d of the Hamas attacks on southern Israel on 7 October. He says it is times to finalise the terms of the ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, and calls for the hostages to be returned home, Hamas to lose its grip on Gaza, and an end to the war. Biden says the US has been determined to prevent a wider war from engulfing the entire Middle East region, as he moves on to the escalation between Hezbollah and Israel. Biden says: Full-scale war is not in anyone\u2019s interest \u2026 A diplomatic solution is still possible. In fact, it remains the only path to lasting security. He addresses the \u201crise of violence against innocent Palestinians\u201d on the occupied West Bank, and says it is time for a two-state solution \u201cwhere Israel enjoys security and peace full recognition and normalise relations with Palestinians.\u201d My colleague Chris Stein is covering Biden\u2019s speech in full on our US politics live blog. Israel has claimed to have killed Ibrahim Qubaisi, the head of Hezbollah\u2019s missile systems, in what it described as a targeted attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut. In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Qubaisi was killed in an airstrike carried out by Israeli fighter jets in the the Dahiyeh suburb. Other senior officers in Hezbollah\u2019s rocket and missile division were at the apartment where the commander was killed, the IDF said. From the Times of Israel\u2019s Emanuel Fabian: Earlier Israel\u2019s chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, had said \u201cHezbollah must not be given a break \u2013 we will speed up the offensive operations today.\u201d Lebanon\u2019s health minister Firass Abiad earlier reported the death toll from the Israeli strikes on Lebanon since Monday had reached nearly 560, including dozens of children and women. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes, with the mayor of Sidon reporting that 10,000 internally displaced people had made their way to the city, of which 6,000 were in shelters. The death toll in Lebanon comes on top of those killed and wounded in last week\u2019s detonation of pagers and walkie-talkies, with an official from the World Health Organization saying that some hospitals were being overwhelmed with casualties. The IDF has claimed to have dropped nearly 2,000 weapons on 1,500 Hezbollah targets inside Lebanon in the last day. Hezbollah, for its part, has continued to fire rockets into northern Israel, some of which have started fires. One person was reported to have been wounded by shrapnel, and there are unconfirmed reports of other Israeli injuries in the north of the country. Overnight Hezbollah said it had targeted Israeli military bases and an airfield. Iran\u2019s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said in an interview with US network CNN that Israel is \u201carmed to the teeth and has access to weapons systems that are far superior to anything else\u201d and that \u201cwe must not allow for Lebanon to become another Gaza. We must prevent the ongoing criminal acts being committed by Israel.\u201d Israel struck Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and the Iran-backed Islamist militant organisation fired rockets into northern Israel on Tuesday, a day after a wave of Israeli airstrikes killed nearly 500 people in Lebanon and sent tens of thousands fleeing for safety. Here\u2019s our latest video report: Unicef deputy representative to Lebanon Ettie Higgins has spoken at a press briefing in Geneva, saying any further escalation in the situation for the country\u2019s children is would be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d. She said: Children are in danger as I speak, exposed to ongoing attacks, displaced from their homes and unable to rely on an overstretched and under-sourced health system. Any further escalation in this conflict would be catastrophic for all children in Lebanon, but especially families from villages and towns in the south and the Bekaa, in Eastern Lebanon, who have been forced to leave their homes. These newly displaced add to the 112,000 people who have been displaced since October. Schools are closed today across the country, leaving children at home in fear. Their caregivers are themselves afraid of the uncertainty of the situation. This fear cannot be overstated, as the barrage of shelling and air raids continue, and increase, daily. We are ramping-up our response. We are preparing to deliver food, water, and essential supplies such as mattresses and hygiene kits to displaced families, especially those in collective shelters. Unicef urgently calls for an immediate de-escalation and for all parties to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law to ensure the protection of civilian infrastructure and civilians, including children, humanitarian workers and medical personnel. Yesterday was Lebanon\u2019s worst day in 18 years. This violence has to stop immediately or the consequences will be unconscionable. UN secretary-general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has said the world \u201ccannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza\u201d at the UN general assembly. Citing wars in Ukraine, the Gaza Strip and Sudan he denounced what he said was a growing number of governments and other groups who feel they are \u201centitled to a get out of jail free card.\u201d Without specifying who, he said: They can trample international law. They can violate the United Nations Charter. They can invade another country, lay waste to whole societies, or utterly disregard the welfare of their own people. And nothing will happen. The level of impunity in the world is politically indefensible and morally intolerable. On Lebanon specifically he said: Lebanon is at the brink. The people of Lebanon \u2013 the people of Israel \u2013 and the people of the world \u2013 cannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza. Speaking at his party\u2019s conference in Liverpool, the UK\u2019s prime minister Keir Starmer has called for \u201crestraint and de-escalation\u201d in Lebanon and \u201can immediate ceasefire in Gaza\u201d. To applause from delegates, PA Media quotes him saying: This is a time when great forces demand a decisive government prepared to face the future. We can see that again in the Middle East today. So I call again for restraint and de-escalation at the border between Lebanon and Israel. Again, all parties to pull back from the brink. I call again for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the return of the hostages, and a recommitment to the two-state solution, a recognised Palestinian state alongside a safe and secure Israel. And that\u2019s the message I will take to the UN general assembly when I travel there later today, alongside our steadfast support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.\u201d Hezbollah used a new rocket, Fadi 3, in an attack on an Israeli army base, the group announced in a message posted on Telegram on Tuesday, Reuters reports. The claim has not been independently verified. Reuters reports Lebanese sources have informed it that a leading member of Hezbollah, Ibrahim Qubaisi, head of Hezbollah\u2019s rocket unit, was killed in the Israeli airstrike on Beirut. More details soon \u2026 William Christou reports from Beirut for the Guardian Six people were killed and 15 injured by Israel\u2019s strike on Dahiyeh in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs, Lebanon\u2019s Ministry of Health said on Tuesday afternoon, as search and rescue operations continued. Israeli media has reported the strike was targeting a senior Hezbollah commander. More details soon \u2026 Here are some pictures of the scene in Beirut, where Israel has carried out what it described as a \u201ctargeted strike\u201d believed to be aimed at a senior Hezbollah commander. Local news sources report that rescue teams are attempting to reach civilians inside the building. Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency reports rescue teams are on the scene of an Israeli strike in the Beirut suburbs. The state news agency writes: A number of people were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a six-story residential building in the Ghobeiry area in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The National News Agency correspondent reported the airstrike destroyed three floors of an inhabited residential building, and rescue teams are trying to reach civilians in the building. In an operational update Israel\u2019s air force has said that it has dropped nearly 2,000 weapons on Lebanon in the last 24 hours. Israeli media is reporting that the target of the strike in Beirut was the head of Hezbollah\u2019s missile unit. More details soon \u2026 William Christou reports from Beirut for the Guardian Videos from the strike site appear to show crowds of people gathered in a rubble-filled street in Beirut. One video shows a severely damaged body lying on the roof of a car, in what appears to be someone who was ejected from the building by the airstrike. \u201cThis is the aggression of Israel. This is Israel! Don\u2019t you see what they are doing to us? Despite all of this, we will wipe them from the earth\u201d a man screams in the video, amid the sound of people calling for one another through the smoke. Reuters reports that at least one person has been killed in an Israeli strike on a southern suburb of Beirut, which security sources indicate was targeting a senior Hezbollah commander. More details soon \u2026 William Christou reports from Beirut for the Guardian Israel carried out an airstrike in Dahieh, the southern suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday afternoon \u2013 the second day in a row and third time this week it struck at Lebanon\u2019s capital city. Reuters, quoting security sources, said that a leader in Hezbollah was targeted by the strike. The strike hit the top floor of an apartment building in the Ghobeiri neighbourhood, with videos and pictures of the strike showing a collapsed roof with a large smoke cloud billowing from it. Yesterday, Israel carried out what it said was a targeted strike in Dahieh as well, targeting the third-in-command of Hezbollah\u2019s military wing, Ali Karaki. Hezbollah said in a statement that Karaki had survived the blast. The mayor of Sidon, Hazem Khader Badieh, has said that 10,000 refugees from the south of Lebanon spent the night in the city, with 6,000 of them in cities. He said the number of schools opening as shelters increased from four to \u201cabout 16.\u201d Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency quoted Badieh saying that international agencies need to \u201curgently extend a helping hand and provide the necessary supplies for the displaced, especially since a number of schools need maintenance and the provision of drinking water, electricity, and other necessary things.\u201d There are some indications that the strike on Beirut that Israel just announced was intended to take out a senior Hezbollah figure. Itay Blumental, who is a military correspondent for Israel\u2019s Channel 11, posted a picture purporting to be the targeted building, with a note that \u201cA security official tells me that the attack target in Beirut is a \u2018man\u2019s target\u2019 \u2013 that is, the assassination of a senior official.\u201d Security sources in Lebanon, meanwhile, have told Reuters that the target was \u201ca Hezbollah commander\u201d whose \u201cfate was not immediately clear\u201d. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has said that its jets have carried out a targeted strike in Beirut. Sky news reports that John Healey, the British defence secretary, will chair an emergency meeting on the Middle East. The White House national security spokesperson, John Kirby, has said that Americans should leave Lebanon while commercial options are available. Hezbollah said that Israel was dropping leaflets with a \u201cvery dangerous\u201d barcode onto Lebanon\u2019s eastern Bekaa Valley, warning that scanning the code would \u201cwithdraw all information\u201d from any device, Reuters reported. The Israeli military says it has started another round of strikes against Hezbollah targets. Jake Sullivan, the US national security advisor, has said that we are seeing continuing, sustained exchange of fire at the Israel-Lebanon border, Reuters reported. He also said that the challenge is that Hamas does not want to do a deal and that the hostages remain a top priority for the White House. Israel\u2019s army radio is carrying a quote from Israel\u2019s chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, who has said \u201cHezbollah must not be given a break \u2013 we will speed up the offensive operations today.\u201d Lebanon\u2019s health ministry reports that at least 50 children are among the 558 dead in Lebanon since Israel launched a series of airstrikes on Lebanon yesterday. Israeli media reports that one person has been wounded in northern Israel by rocket shrapnel. More details soon \u2026 Patrick Wintour, the diplomatic editor for the Guardian, reports from New York US-UK airstrikes in Yemen designed to end the Houthi disruption of commercial shipping have not seriously degraded the group\u2019s military capability, the vice-chair of the UN-recognised government in Yemen has said. Aidarous al-Zubaidi told the Guardian in an interview he feared the Houthis were using the strikes to rally support behind their cause by portraying the west as the aggressor in Yemen. Calling for a change to a better coordinated strategy between the west, the region and the Yemeni government, he said it was to time to accept that the Houthis were not interested in a power-sharing deal in the country \u2013 an offer made to them more than a year ago, first by Saudi Arabia and then the UN. Zubaidi heads Yemen\u2019s separatist Southern Transitional Council, which holds three seats on the eight-strong Presidential Leadership Council, the Aden-based coalition government opposed to the Houthis. Read more of Patrick Wintour\u2019s report here: US-UK airstrikes have not seriously hurt Houthis\u2019 capability, says Yemeni leader Haaretz in Israel reports that a political source has told it that part of the aim of Israel\u2019s airstrike assault on Lebanon was to act as a deterrent against Iran. The source told the Israeli media outlet: The operation in the north has two goals: ensuring the safe return of northern residents and signaling to the Iranian axis that Israel is unafraid to act decisively to prevent further escalation. Israel has additional potential targets in Lebanon and will not hesitate to strike if Hezbollah does not grasp the message. Iran\u2019s president, meanwhile, has told CNN in the US that Israel\u2019s actions could cause an escalation. Masoud Pezeshkian told the news network: The danger does exist that the fire of events that are taking place will expand to the entire region. We must not allow for Lebanon to become another Gaza at the hands of Israel. Hezbollah cannot do that alone. Hezbollah cannot stand alone against a country that is being defended and supported and supplied by western countries, European countries, and the United States of America. We must prevent the ongoing criminal acts being committed by Israel. Pezeshkian told interviewer Fareed Zakaria that Israel is \u201carmed to the teeth and has access to weapons systems that are far superior to anything else.\u201d In April this year, under Pezeshkian\u2019s predecessor Ebrahim Raisi, Tehran launched more than 300 drones and missiles towards Israel in its first ever direct attack on the state. Tehran said it was responding to a strike on an Iranian diplomatic building in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on 1 April that killed a senior figure in Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards and eight other officers. It blamed the strike on Israel. The death toll from the Israeli strikes on Lebanon since Monday reached 558, including 50 children and 94 women, with 1,835 wounded, health minister Firass Abiad said on Tuesday, Reuters reports. Israel\u2019s air force continued to strike on Tuesday morning, with the IDF claiming it had hit 1,600 Hezbollah terror targets inside the country. Hezbollah, for its part, has continued to fire rockets into northern Israel, some of which have started fires. Overnight Hezbollah said it had targeted Israeli military bases and an airfield. The death toll in Lebanon comes on top of those killed and wounded in last week\u2019s detonation of pagers and walkie-talkies, with an official from the World Health Organization saying that some hospitals were being overwhelmed with casualties. The Hamas-led health ministry in the Gaza Strip has claimed 41,467 Palestinians have been killed since Israel started its military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, with 95,921 people wounded. The Israeli campaign began after the surprise Hamas attack inside southern Israel on 7 October 2023 which killed nearly 1,200 people and during which more than 250 people were seized and abducted into Gaza, some of who are still being held hostage nearly a year later. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict, in which at least 116 journalists and media workers have been killed. Media access to Gaza has been limited by Israel, which has also banned Al Jazeera and raided and closed the new agency\u2019s office in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency reports that authorities in Sidon \u201care witnessing heavy crowding at the doors of gas stations and bakeries as a result of the large displacement from the south.\u201d It reports that security patrols have been sent to some locations \u201cto prevent any monopoly or exploitation of citizens in light of the state of war that we are living in.\u201d Israel\u2019s military has released an operational update on its latest wave of airstrikes against targets in Lebanon, which are so far known to have killed nearly 500 people including 35 children, and wounded thousands of others. Thousands of people have taken to Lebanon\u2019s roads to flee the attacks. In its statement on its official Telegram channel, the IDF says: A short while ago, with the direction of IDF intelligence, the IAF struck terror targets belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the Beqaa and several areas in southern Lebanon. Among the targets struck were buildings in which weapons were stored, command centers, and additional terrorist infrastructure sites. During the strikes, secondary explosions were identified, indicating that large amounts of weapons were stored in the buildings. The IDF will continue operating to dismantle and degrade Hezbollah\u2019s capabilities and terrorist infrastructure. The claims have not been independently verified. In diplomatic reaction to the Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said that Russia views Israel\u2019s actions as \u201cpotentially extremely dangerous\u201d and warned they could destabilise the region. The UN human rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk has made a general appeal for people with interests in the region to help calm the situation, saying they should exert their influence \u201cto avert further escalation and do everything they can to ensure full respect for international law.\u201d China has said it fully supports Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty, and said that foreign minister Wang Yi met his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib in New York, where world leaders and top diplomats are gathering for the UN general assembly. The Hamas-led health ministry in Gaza has raised the death toll of people it claims have been killed by Israel\u2019s military offensive there since 7 October to 41,467 Palestinians, with 95,921 wounded. In the same timeframe, Israel says 346 of its service personnel have been killed during ground operations inside Gaza. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict. With reports that the healthcare system in Lebanon is at risk of being overwhelmed by casualties from a series of Israeli airstrikes on the country, the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory has posted to social media a reminder that the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip is also under duress. It posted to say \u201cThe health crisis in Gaza is deepening. Only 17 of 36 hospitals remain functional \u2013 all partially. Just 57 of 132 primary healthcare facilities can operate. Shortages of fuel and medicine are crippling health facilities.\u201d Israel\u2019s army radio and Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency both reported a fresh wave of Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon on Tuesday morning as thousands continued to take to the roads to flee the south of the country. An official from Unicef said that at least 35 children had been killed so far in the airstrikes, which have killed nearly 500 people and wounded thousands of others. Reuters, citing an official from the World Health Organization, reports that some hospitals have been overwhelmed by the number of dead and injured, which come on top of last week\u2019s pager and walkie-talkie detonations that killed dozens and wounded thousands of others. That attack was widely attributed to an Israeli attempt to target Hezbollah operatives, although nobody has claimed responsibility for the mass sabotage of the electronic devices. Options for leaving the country are becoming limited, with over 30 flights cancelled at Beirut\u2019s international airport, with destinations in Europe and the Middle East affected. Qatar Airways, Turkish Airways and various airlines from the United Arab Emirates are among those who have withdrawn services. Before this week\u2019s escalation, tens of thousands of people had already been displaced from the southern area of Lebanon because of months of exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah and other anti-Israeli forces. About 60,000 people have also had to evacuate their homes in northern Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government has set as an explicit war goal for them to be able to return. Michael Adams, the Lebanon country director for Care International UK, said \u201cAll the roads leading to Beirut from the south and the Beqaa Valley are now flooded with people attempting to flee the bombardment, leaving everything behind. Civilians are paying the highest price\u201d. The Israeli air force claimed it struck about 1,600 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley. Earlier a barrage of about 50 rockets from the direction of Lebanon were fired at Israel, with some debris falling into open ground and starting fires. Israel\u2019s military reported that emergency services were attending, but there were no casualties. Hezbollah claimed it targeted several Israeli military targets overnight, and also the Megiddo airfield near the northern Israeli town of Afula. Israeli army radio reports that another wave of Israeli airstrikes against Lebanon has begun. More details soon \u2026 Care International UK, an NGO which has been working in Lebanon for almost 20 years, has launched a humanitarian response to the crisis unfolding in Lebanon, with the local regional director, Hazem Fahmy, saying \u201cIt is shocking to witness once again in this region the total disregard for international law.\u201d Describing scenes of panic in the country has people sought to move away from araes being targeted by Israel\u2019s airstrikes, country director Michael Adams said: The situation is very tense here in Lebanon. All the roads leading to Beirut from the south and the Beqaa Valley are now flooded with people attempting to flee the bombardment, leaving everything behind. Civilians are paying the highest price, and women and girls are disproportionately affected. The people of Lebanon need help to cope with this new crisis, and quickly. Humanitarian agencies like Care and our partners cannot reach people under bombing. Humanitarians must also be protected. Many flights into and out of Beirut have been cancelled already today. Flights affected include those to Egypt, Germany, Iraq, Jordan, Switzerland, Turkey, the UAE. \u201cOngoing regional developments\u201d has been cited by Etihad Airways as their reason. While attention is focused on Israel\u2019s airstrikes on Lebanon, which have killed nearly 500 people in the last 24 hours, Israel also continues to carry out strikes on the Gaza Strip, which it has been bombarding for over 11 months. Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that \u201cparamedics recovered the bodies of five slain people and a number of wounded, following an Israeli raid that targeted a house\u201d in Khan Younis, while another two people were killed and five injured by a separate Israeli bombing in the area. The Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City has also again been a target, Wafa reports. The claims have not been independently verified. Israel\u2019s air force has confirmed that there was damage caused to buildings in the Upper Galilee area by the latest barrage of rockets from the direction of Lebanon, and that \u201cIsraeli fire and rescue services are currently operating to extinguish fires caused by the strikes in the area\u201d. It reported no casualties. Israeli and Lebanese media are reporting continued strikes on either side of the UN-drawn blue line that separates Israel and Lebanon. Haaretz reports that about 50 rockets have been fired into northern Israel, with at least one fire breaking out as a result. Lebanese outlets report airstrikes in the Beqaa Valley and north of the city of Baalbek. Charbel Massaad, an independent Maronite MP in Lebanon, has described Israel\u2019s airstrikes as \u201can attack not only on geography, but also on dignity, on rights and on the future of our generations.\u201d In a message to the Lebanese people carried by the state National News Agency, Massaad said: In these difficult times that our beloved country Lebanon is going through, and with the continued brutal Israeli aggression on our land, I find myself compelled to address you. The Israeli aggression that brutally targets our people, our homes, our villages and our cities is an attack not only on geography, but also on dignity, on rights and on the future of our generations. But we, as a people accustomed to steadfastness and we will steadfastly face all challenges. This critical moment requires all of us, regardless of any political or sectarian affiliation, to stand as one. Our unity is our strength. Israel seeks to sow fear and division among us, but we know very well how to confront such conspiracies. Just as we were victorious in the past, we will be victorious today, because we are right, and right always triumphs, and the will to live among the Lebanese is stronger than any aggression or conspiracy. The IDF has reported that warning sirens are sounding again in northern Israel. For the Guardian\u2019s First Edition newsletter today my colleagues Nimo Omer and senior international reporter Peter Beaumont spoke about the potential fallout of the intensification of this conflict. Here is a snippet: Hezbollah is one of the most heavily armed non-state militia groups in the world. Its army is tens of thousands strong and it is backed by Iran, so even though the attacks from Israel have put Hezbollah on the back-foot, it has not deterred them. \u201cIn militias like this the number two in command is always ready to step into the number one position,\u201d Peter says. Destabilising an organisation that is inherently fluid in that way is not straightforward. And when all that is needed to keep parts of Israel uninhabitable are a few rockets fired over the border, it is hard to see how Israel can achieve its goal through force alone. \u201cThe pager attack was significant in its ambition and most clearly signifies that Israel has moved on from the somewhat agreed upon red lines,\u201d Peter says. Both sides have acknowledged that their conflict of attrition, limited in its geography and scope, has entered a far more critical phase. As their airstrikes intensify, the Israeli military have flown jets low above Beirut to create thundering sonic booms that shook the capital, with critics decrying the tactic as a form of psychological warfare against civilian populations. \u201cIt\u2019s not just Hezbollah, Lebanese society is feeling under attack,\u201d Peter says. Read more here: Tuesday briefing \u2013 How to make sense of the new wave of violence in the Middle East Sign up here for our free daily newsletter, First Edition Israel\u2019s Magen David Adom reports that overnight one of its ambulances was damaged in a blast in the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. Zeina Khodr, reporting for Al Jazeera from Beirut, says that people in Lebanon are scared of what might happen next. She writes for the news network: Tens of thousands of people fled their homes and they really didn\u2019t have much time before they had to evacuate \u2026 We were in southern Lebanon and we saw people pack whatever they could to make their way further north \u2026 Whole families. People were scared. They were afraid and they were concerned about what would happen next. Some of the families we spoke to said that they had to escape while there was bombardment around them. There were nonstop airstrikes almost everywhere you looked. You didn\u2019t know which road was safe, even along the main highway linking south Lebanon to Beirut, we saw airstrikes along that highway. This is an impoverished society, a country where the economy has all but collapsed. And it\u2019s also a state which is nearly bankrupt. So there is a lot of concern among these people about how long they are going to be displaced because already in 11 months of fighting, 110,000 people have been displaced from border villages. Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government have banned Al Jazeera from operating inside Israel, and at the weekend raided and closed the news network\u2019s offices in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Turkey has condemned Israel\u2019s attacks on Lebanon as \u201cefforts to drag the region into chaos\u201d and called for a halt to support for Israel. In a statement late on Monday, the Turkish foreign ministry said countries that \u201cunconditionally support Israel\u201d were helping Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu \u201cshed blood for his political interests\u201d. \u201cIt is imperative that all institutions responsible for maintaining international peace and security, especially the UN security council, as well as the international community, take the necessary measures without delay,\u201d it said. Nato member Turkey has condemned Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza, which began in retaliation for Hamas\u2019 cross-border attack on 7 October. Ankara also halted all trade with Israel and applied to join a genocide case against Israel at the world court. Tens of thousands have reportedly fled for safety in southern Lebanon, after Israel on Monday warned people to evacuate areas where it claimed Hezbollah was storing weapons. Families loaded cars, vans and trucks with belongings and people, sometimes multiple generations in one vehicle. Children crammed on to parents\u2019 laps and suitcases were tied to car roofs. The US is sending a small number of additional troops to the Middle East due to escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, the Pentagon said on Monday, declining to specify the precise number or mission of the deployed forces. \u201cOut of an abundance of caution, we are sending a small number of additional US military personnel forward to augment our forces that are already in the region,\u201d air force Maj Gen Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesperson, told reporters. \u201cWe have more capability in the region today than we did on April 14th when Iran conducted its drone and missile attack against Israel,\u201d Ryder said, referring to Iran\u2019s attack by more than 300 missiles and drones, which caused only modest damage inside Israel thanks to air defence interceptions from the United States, Britain and other allies in the region. \u201cSo all of those forces combined provide us with the options to be able to protect our forces should they be attacked.\u201d The US capabilities in the region include the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group, fighter aircraft and air defences. The IDF has said it launched a fresh wave of strikes on Lebanon overnight, targeting positions from which rockets were fired towards Israel. In an update online, IDF officials said that \u201cwarplanes targeted dozens of sites\u201d in several areas in southern Lebanon. The statement said that secondary explosions were observed during the strikes \u201cindicating the presence of weapons stored in the buildings.\u201d The Guardian was unable to verify this. Monday saw some of the heaviest cross-border fire exchange in almost a year. Israel says it has started shifting its focus north to Hezbollah, which has been firing rockets into Israel in support of Hamas. Hello and welcome to the Guardian\u2019s continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. Israel has said it launched a fresh wave of strikes on Hezbollah overnight, targeting positions that had fired rockets into Israel. The IDF said it had attacked \u201cdozens of targets\u201d in several areas in southern Lebanon. The announcement comes a day after 492 people were killed in Lebanon by Israeli airstrikes. Almost 1,650 people were injured as well, according to the Lebanese health ministry. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said the military was changing the \u201csecurity balance\u201d along its northern border. Tens of thousands of people fled from south Lebanese towns and villages along the main road towards the capital, Beirut, in Israel\u2019s most intense barrage in nearly a year of cross-border clashes, as sirens were also heard in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The Lebanese health ministry said 35 children and 58 women were among those killed. More on that in a moment, first here\u2019s a summary of the day\u2019s other main events. Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said Israel\u2019s airstrikes in Lebanon on Monday destroyed tens of thousands of Hezbollah rockets. The Israeli military is preparing for the next stage of its operation in Lebanon after launching a wave of airstrikes against Hezbollah targets on Monday morning, the military chief of the general staff Herzi Halevi said. There is rising tension on the ground in Lebanon and a collective bracing to see whether Israel intends a ground invasion of its neighbour. Nasser Yassin, the Lebanese minister coordinating the crisis response, told Reuters 89 temporary shelters in schools and other facilities had been activated, with capacity for more than 26,000 people. Families from south Lebanon loaded cars, vans and trucks with belongings and people, sometimes multiple generations in one vehicle. As bombs rained down, children crammed on to parents\u2019 laps and suitcases were tied to car roofs. Highways north were gridlocked. The United States does not think Israeli escalation to force Hezbollah to reduce tensions will yield the desired outcome of de-escalation, a senior State Dept official said on Monday, effectively disagreeing with Israel\u2019s strategy. The conflict is a key focus for secretary of state Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the UN general assembly this week, where Washington had concrete ideas to prevent a broader war and would seek an \u201coff ramp\u201d to the tensions, the official told reporters in New York. The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (Unifil) issued a statement on Monday afternoon expressing \u201cgrave concern\u201d for the safety of civilians in southern Lebanon amid the most intense Israeli bombing campaign since last October and urging the need for de-escalation from both Hezbollah and Israel. Najib Mikati, Lebanon\u2019s caretaker prime minister, has called Israel\u2019s wave of airstrikes \u201ca genocide in every sense of the word\u201d. Mikati made the comments at the start of a cabinet meeting in Beirut on Monday in which he said that Israel\u2019s airstrikes aim to destroy Lebanon\u2019s towns and villages, according to an update from the Associated Press news agency. Mikati said that the Lebanese government was calling on the United Nations, the UN security council and world nations to \u201cdeter the aggression\u201d. France has requested an emergency UN security council meeting to discuss Lebanon. \u201cI have requested that an emergency meeting of the Security Council be held on Lebanon this week,\u201d French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot told the UN general assembly on Monday, calling on all sides to \u201cavoid a regional conflagration that would be devastating for everyone.\u201d."
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        "label": "The Guardian;A path towards freedom: the new route to Europe for desperate Chinese migrants;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/a-path-towards-freedom-the-new-route-to-europe-for-desperate-chinese-migrants;2024-09-24T23:02:10Z",
        "text": "In a sleepy Bosnian town, barely five miles from the border with the European Union, a crumbling old water tower is falling into ruin. Inside, piles of rubbish, used cigarette butts and a portable wood-fired stove offer glimpses into the daily life of the people who briefly called the building home. Glued on to the walls is another clue: on pieces of A4 paper, the same message is printed out, again and again: \u201cIf you would like to travel to Europe (Italy, Germany, France, etc) we can help you. Please add this number on WhatsApp\u201d. The message is printed in the languages of often desperate people: Somali, Nepali, Turkish, the list goes on. The last translation on the list indicates a newcomer to this unlucky club. It is written in Chinese. Biha\u0107 water tower was once used to replenish steam trains travelling across the former Yugoslavia. Now it provides shelter to a different kind of person on the move: migrants making the perilous journey through the Balkans, with the hope of crossing into Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina\u2019s neighbour in the EU. Zhang* arrived in Bosnia in April with two young children in tow. The journey he describes as walking \u201ctowards the path of freedom\u201d started months earlier in Langfang, a city in north China\u2019s Hebei province. So far it has taken them through four countries, cost thousands of pounds, led to run-ins with the aggressive Croatian border police, and has paused, for now, in a temporary reception centre for migrants on the outskirts of Sarajevo. The camp, which is home to more than 200 people, is specifically for families, vulnerable people and unaccompanied minors. As well as the rows of dormitories set among the rolling Balkan hills, there is a playground with children skipping rope and an education centre. But it is a lonely life. It\u2019s rare to meet another Chinese speaker. To pass the time, Zhang occasionally helps out in the canteen. \u201cStaying here is not a very good option,\u201d Zhang says, as his son and daughter chase after each other in the courtyard. But \u201cif I go back to China, what awaits me is either being sent to a mental hospital or a prison.\u201d The fear of what the future held for him and his children propelled the 39-year-old from Shandong province on a journey so difficult and dangerous that many struggle to understand why someone from China would embark on it. Most of Zhang\u2019s new neighbours come from war-torn countries in the Middle East. Until recently, Zhang had a stable job working for a private company in the world\u2019s second-biggest economy, earning an above average salary. But the political environment in China left him feeling that he had no choice other than to leave. In September, the Guardian travelled to Bosnia to meet some of the Chinese migrants attempting the dangerous Balkan route, to reveal the personal and political factors behind the new migrant population on the frontier of Europe. \u2018No one wants to leave his country if they are safe\u2019 Zhang is one of a small but growing number of Chinese people who are travelling to the Balkans with the hope of getting into the EU by whatever means necessary. He and his children were apprehended four times as they tried to cross into Europe. Armed with little more than some vague tips he\u2019d seen on the messaging app Telegram, and the map on his smartphone, he headed to various towns on the Bosnia-Croatia border to try his luck. But every time they were caught. Most recently, he tried to cross into Metkovi\u0107, a small town in the south of Croatia where the border is fortified mainly by a small ridge of forested mountains. But after camping overnight in the wilderness with sinister-looking brown snakes, the family were caught once again by the notoriously tough Croatian border police, and hauled back into Bosnia. \u201cGoing into other countries in this way is not very honourable for me, to be honest,\u201d Zhang says. \u201cWe know that there are many countries where people hate people like us \u2026 but no one wants to leave his country if they are safe\u201d. He says he only made the journey because of his family. \u201cMy children are very young,\u201d Zhang says, referring to his 10-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter. \u201cI couldn\u2019t explain to them what\u2019s really happening. I just told the children that I wanted to give them a better life \u2026 they have no future [in China] at all\u201d. In 2022, of the more than 14,000 people caught trying to illegally cross Bosnia\u2019s borders, two were Chinese. In 2023, that number had increased to 148. The majority of them were caught trying to cross into Croatia, according to the border police of Bosnia. They said that more than 70 Chinese people were apprehended in the first half of this year. And under a bilateral agreement, the Croatia can deport people without the right to remain in the EU country back to Bosnia. In 2021, three Chinese people were admitted to Bosnia and Herzegovina in this way. In 2023, it was 260. In recent years, the surging numbers of Chinese people trying to cross into the US via the treacherous southern border has become a political talking point in Washington, with US authorities deporting more than 100 migrants on a charter flight earlier this year and working with neighbouring countries to try to deter further arrivals. David Stroup, a lecturer of Chinese politics at the University of Manchester, says that the rapid expansion of China\u2019s surveillance state during the pandemic combined with a gloomy economic outlook were some of the driving forces for this new wave of Chinese migrants. \u201cThe lockdowns created a sense that ordinary people who were just living their lives could somehow find themselves under heavy observation of the state or subjected to long arbitrary periods of lockdown and confinement,\u201d Stroup said. Part of the reason that Bosnia is an attractive staging post for Chinese migrants, is that like its neighbour Serbia, it offers visa-free travel. Aleksandra Kova\u010devi\u0107, spokesperson for Bosnia\u2019s Service for Foreigner\u2019s Affairs, a government department, said that Chinese people were \u201cgaining statistical significance as persons who increasingly violate migration regulations of Bosnia and Herzegovina\u201d. She said that along with Turkish citizens, Chinese people were trying to use legal entry into Bosnia as a way to \u201cillegally continue their journey to the countries of western Europe\u201d. But why? Zhang\u2019s \u2018first awakening\u2019 Zhang\u2019s winding path to Bosnia started more than a decade ago. In 2012, thousands of people across China participated in anti-Japanese protests, triggered by an escalation in the dispute between China and Japan over contested islets in the East China Sea. But Zhang publicly questioned the official narrative that the archipelago was an undisputed part of Chinese territory. He was arrested and accused of inciting the subversion of state power. \u201cThat was my first awakening,\u201d he says. Many ordinary Chinese occasionally feel the rough end of the government\u2019s tight control over public speech. Most learn to keep their head down and, begrudgingly or not, quietly navigate the invisible red lines that dictate what can be freely talked about. But Zhang couldn\u2019t bear it. Over the years, rumours about his political views rippled throughout his community. A teacher at his son\u2019s school accused Zhang of being unpatriotic, in front of the whole class. He and his wife quarrelled and ultimately separated, in part because she \u201ccouldn\u2019t stand that kind of gossip\u201d. Things truly came to a head in the pandemic, three years in which \u201cthe government locked people up in their homes like animals\u201d. In November 2022, a fire in an apartment building in Urumqi, a city in far west China, killed 10 people, with many blaming strict public health controls for preventing the victims from escaping. Anger spread online and in the streets, as hundreds of people in cities across China participated in the first mass anti-government protests since Xi Jinping came to power. Zhang was one of them. In the following days, several of his friends were arrested. Zhang thinks that the only reason he was spared was because he didn\u2019t bring his phone with him, making it harder for the police to trace his movements. But the disappearance of his friends convinced him that he had to leave. \u201cChina\u2019s control over speech is getting tighter and tighter. They don\u2019t allow people to talk about political parties, and no matter if the government is doing a good or bad job, they don\u2019t allow people to talk about it. It is limiting people\u2019s freedom of speech tremendously, and that\u2019s the most important thing I can\u2019t accept,\u201d Zhang says. \u201cThe economy is secondary\u201d. Since China\u2019s zero-Covid regime was abruptly lifted, shortly after the 2022 protests, hordes of people have been leaving the country. Some are fed up with the political repression, which has spread far and wide under the current regime. Others feel hopeless about the economy, which has struggled to recover since the pandemic, with high youth unemployment rates and stagnant wages. For many, the bargain between the party and the people, that living standards will continue to improve so long as you keep your head down, no longer holds water. So scores of people are finding ways out through the cracks. Some are using student or work visas to relocate to places where they can live and talk more freely, with new diaspora communities emerging in cities such as Bangkok, Tokyo, and Amsterdam. But others, often lower middle class people who don\u2019t have the funds or the qualifications to emigrate by official means, are choosing more dangerous escape routes. The phenomenon has become so widely discussed online that it has it\u2019s own buzzword: runxue, or run philosophy, a coded term for emigration. Exact numbers are hard to come by as many people do not formally register their intention to leave, especially if they are planning on entering another country illegally. But in 2023, there were 137,143 asylum seekers from China, according to the UN\u2019s refugee agency. That is more than five times the number registered a decade earlier, when Xi\u2019s rule had just started. Stuck at the border One potential pathway is the deadly Dari\u00e9n Gap, part of the migrant corridor that connects south and Central America with the southern border of the United States. Better known for attracting desperate Latin Americans, in recent years the number of Chinese people making that journey has surged. In the six months to April 2024, 24,367 Chinese nationals were apprehended by the US border police at the border with Mexico. That is more than the number of Chinese people who were apprehended in the whole of the previous financial year. In March alone, the number of times that the US border police encountered Chinese nationals increased by 8,500% compared with March 2021. The Dari\u00e9n Gap route has been popular among Chinese migrants in part because they could start the journey in Ecuador, which allowed Chinese people to visit visa-free. In June, Ecuador suspended the visa waiver agreement, citing a \u201cworrying increase\u201d in arrivals from China. Immigration officials describe the flow of migrants as being like a living organism. Its size swells and morphs, but it rarely shrinks. So when one door closes, the people on the move don\u2019t stop moving, they just find another window. For Zhang, the door to America, his first choice, closed when he was already en route. He had booked tickets to Ecuador via Singapore and Madrid early in the new year. But in Singapore the family was blocked from boarding the Spain-bound flight, with airline staff saying that the Spanish authorities had refused them entry. He was stranded, with no plan B. It was a kindly Czech couple who found him crying in the airport who suggested he try Europe, he says. So he booked a flight to Belgrade. His hope is to find a way to northern Europe, where there is freedom of speech and employment opportunities. Other Chinese people have had the same idea. In the first eight months of this year, there were 569 new asylum applications from Chinese nationals in Germany, more than double the total number for 2022. In the Netherlands, 409 Chinese people applied for asylum last year, up from 151 the year before. Some staff at the migrant reception centres gently encourage people to apply for asylum in Bosnia rather than continuing on into Europe. But with high unemployment and a byzantine application process, most people would rather keep moving. Jing* a Chinese man living at another migrant centre near Sarajevo, tried to enter across the border into Croatia \u201csix or seven times\u201d. Now he has applied for asylum in Bosnia, \u201cbut I don\u2019t think anything will come of it,\u201d he says. He fled China after completing an eight-month prison sentence for anti-government comments he posted on X. Now he has run out of money and luck. In the corner of a cemetery on the outskirts of Biha\u0107, another unlikely journey from China to Bosnia has ended. Kai Zhu is buried here. Little is known about him, other than his year of birth, 1964, and the fact that he had expressed an intention to apply for asylum in Bosnia. Staff at the migrant reception centre where he died say that he had mental as well as physical health problems, and that his only acquaintance was another Chinese man in the camp, who soon moved on. On 31 August, Asim Karabegovi\u0107, a volunteer with SOS Balkanroute, an NGO, buried him in a corner of Humci cemetery that since 2019 has been reserved for migrants who have died on the EU\u2019s doorstep. In the distance behind the rows of tombstones, the mountains that mark the border with Croatia form an imposing horizon. Karabegovi\u0107 says that the lonely traveller is the first Chinese person he has buried. His wooden tombstone reads only, \u201cKai Zhu, 1964 \u2013 2024\u201d. Additional research by Chi-hui Lin and D\u017eemal \u0106ati\u0107 *Names have been changed"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;UK moves 700 troops to Cyprus ready to evacuate Britons from Lebanon;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/uk-moves-700-troops-to-cyprus-ready-to-evacuate-britons-from-lebanon;2024-09-24T21:30:08Z",
        "text": "Britain is moving 700 troops to Cyprus to be ready for an emergency evacuation of UK citizens from Lebanon, as the prime minister urged those still in the country to leave immediately. The government said military teams were moving there to further support British nationals in Lebanon, where Israel has been bombarding the south of the country. The Royal Air Force also has aircraft and helicopters on standby to provide support if necessary. It is the first phase of contingency plans for Lebanon, as the government seeks to avoid the chaos seen when British nationals were evacuated from Afghanistan in 2021. The military teams will be supported by Border Force and Foreign Office officials. Keir Starmer said the government was \u201cramping up the contingency plans\u201d to rescue British nationals as he urged Israel and Lebanon to \u201cpull back from the brink\u201d. Speaking from a flight to New York, where he will discuss Lebanon with world leaders at the United Nations general assembly, Starmer said: \u201cThe most important message from me this evening is to British nationals in Lebanon, to leave immediately and I just want to reinforce that. \u201cIt is important that we be really, really clear: now is the time to leave. More broadly, I am worried about the situation and I think we need to be clear we need de-escalation, we need a ceasefire, we need to pull back from the brink.\u201d Lebanon\u2019s health ministry has said at least 569 people have been killed and 1,645 injured, after a wave of Israeli airstrikes that left the country with its highest death toll since the end of the 1975-90 civil war. It said the death toll includes 50 children and 94 women. The new British troops add to a significant military presence of UK forces at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and the Royal Navy ships of RFA Mounts Bay and HMS Duncan. The defence secretary, John Healey, left the Labour conference early and held a meeting with ministers, intelligence chiefs and diplomats on Tuesday afternoon to test government planning. In New York, the US president, Joe Biden, addressed the UN general assembly on Tuesday and said a \u201cfull-scale war is not in anyone\u2019s interest\u201d. \u201cEven though the situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible,\u201d he added. The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, told world leaders that Lebanon was on the brink of becoming a second Gaza, adding that the crisis had \u201cbecome a non-stop nightmare that threatens to take the whole region down\u201d. The EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, described the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah as almost a \u201cfull-fledged war\u201d. They spoke as world leaders gathered in New York for the opening of the 79th UN general assembly, with diplomatic efforts having had little impact so far on the tensions and violence between Israel and Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Zelenskyy appeals to global south to help \u2018force Russia into peace\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/zelenskyy-united-nations-security-council;2024-09-24T20:28:54Z",
        "text": "In a forceful speech to the UN security council, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on a broad alliance of nations to \u201cforce Russia into peace\u201d, saying that Vladimir Putin has violated the foundations of the United Nations and that the war \u201ccan\u2019t be conquered by talks\u201d alone. Addressing the council, of which Russia is a permanent member, Zelenskyy accused Moscow of committing \u201cinternational crimes\u201d by targeting Ukrainian civilians and energy infrastructure, and claimed he had proof that Putin is plotting to target three Ukrainian nuclear power plants to further degrade the country\u2019s energy grid. After thanking Ukraine\u2019s allies for their support, the Ukrainian leader appealed to countries further afield, calling on Brazil, India and countries across Africa and Latin America, to increase pressure on Russia to halt the war, saying \u201call [countries] are equally important for peace without exceptions\u201d. Many of those countries have economic or close diplomatic ties with Russia, and have given greater credence to Putin\u2019s claims that Russia was provoked into the war by the west. \u201cWe know some in the world want to talk to Putin,\u201d Zelenskyy said. \u201cTo meet, to talk, to speak. But what could they possibly hear from him? That he\u2019s upset because we are exercising our right to defend our people? Or that he wants to keep the war and terror going, just so no one thinks he was wrong?\u201d He added: \u201cIt\u2019s insane.\u201d Zelenskyy later this week will travel to the White House to meet with Joe Biden and discuss his \u201cvictory plan\u201d \u2013 a roadmap for Ukraine to end the war with greater western support. In his speech, he said that further pressure was needed to conclude a peace with Russia after it had been \u201cdoing things that cannot possibly be justified under the UN charter\u201d. \u201cThat\u2019s why this war can\u2019t be conquered by talks,\u201d Zelenskyy said. \u201cAction is needed \u2026 Putin has broken so many international laws and rules that he won\u2019t stop. Russia can only be forced into peace, and that is exactly what\u2019s needed, forcing Russia into peace as the sole aggressor in this war, the sole violator of the UN charter.\u201d In an interview that aired on ABC on Tuesday, Zelenskyy said Ukraine needed greater support from the west to win the war, but conceded that the time for negotiations was nearing. He has repeatedly called on the US and UK to drop their restrictions on the use of long-range missiles against targets deep inside Russia, despite concerns in the Biden administration that those attacks could lead to further escalation of the war. \u201cI think that we are closer to the peace than we think,\u201d Zelenskyy said in the interview. \u201cWe are closer to the end of the war. We just have to be very strong, very strong. \u201cThe plan of victory is strengthening of Ukraine. That\u2019s why we\u2019re asking our friends, our allies, to strengthen us. It\u2019s very important.\u201d At the security council meeting, Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, said the body\u2019s priority must be halting Russia\u2019s growing cooperation with Iran and North Korea. He accused both countries of providing arms that have allowed Russia to sustain its war in Ukraine, and called on members of the security council to support a \u201cjust peace\u201d that \u201cupholds the principles of the UN charter\u201d. In a likely reference to the proposal that Zelenskyy is set to discuss with Biden, Blinken said Ukraine is \u201cprepared to engage in negotiations\u201d to end the war. Blinken said Iran had provided Russia with drones, ballistic missiles \u2013 including a shipment of hundreds of missiles earlier this month \u2013 and training, in exchange for which Russia is sharing nuclear technology and \u201cspace information\u201d. He did not specify what nuclear technology Russia had provided Iran. North Korea, Blinken said, had provided \u201ctrainloads of weapons and ammunition \u2026 including ballistic missiles and launchers, and millions of artillery rounds\u201d. He also accused China, another permanent member of the security council, of being a \u201ctop provider of machine tools, microelectronics and other items that Russia is using to rebuild, restock and ramp up its war machine and sustain its brutal war\u201d. But in calling the war a \u201ctextbook example\u201d of the kind of security threat that the council had been developed to address, Blinken offered few insights into how the White House will amass a diplomatic coalition to stop the war, especially when two members accused of fueling it also sit on the security council."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ayatollah Sayyid al-Milani obituary;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/ayatollah-sayyid-al-milani-obituary;2024-09-24T18:44:53Z",
        "text": "My friend and mentor Ayatollah Sayyid al-Milani, who has died aged 80, belonged to that rare breed, a traditionally trained Muslim cleric who was also a trailblazer in the advancement of inter-religious understanding. Milani\u2019s open-mindedness, forward thinking and widely recognised status as the spiritual leader of the UK\u2019s 100,000-plus Shia community allowed him to provide guidance to British Muslims in difficult times, notably after 9/11, at the beginning of the invasion of Iraq and during the rise of Islamic State. He came to the UK from his homeland of Iraq in 1987, and was imam at the Al-Khoei Islamic Centre in north west London from 1989 until his death. He was also one of the founders of the Al-Khoei Foundation, a charity that looks after the education and social welfare of Shia Muslims around the globe. For many years he was the UK representative of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abualqasim al-Khoei. A passionate believer in religious pluralism who objected to intolerance and conflict, Milani took part in various initiatives and conferences promoting dialogue between religions, including the Social Doctrine of the Church symposium at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan in 2014. The following year he hosted the Dialogue and Peaceful Coexistence conference at the Al-Khoei Foundation in London. Milani was born in the holy Shia city of Karbala in Iraq to Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abbas Hossaini Milani and his wife, Agha Begum Qazwini. After attending al-Muntada al-Nashr school in Najaf, he went on to the Najaf Seminary before becoming a teacher there of jurisprudence and theology, and writing a six-volume work on jurisprudence that is still studied in Iraq. Over time, however, he came under threat from Saddam Hussein, and three of his brothers, Mahmud, Hosayn and Mohsin, were killed by Saddam\u2019s regime. In the mid-1980s he and his family fled to Iran and then to Syria, where he continued to be monitored and harassed by Saddam\u2019s agents, until he was allowed to settle in the UK. Aside from Milani\u2019s work as an imam and with the Al-Khoei Foundation, he undertook a period of study at Oxford University, obtaining a PhD in comparative philosophy in 1999. Later he was influential in making sure that the GCSE curriculum in British schools covered Shia Islam, and he also became a consultant with the Religious Education Council and the Christian-Muslim Forum. An expert on Islamic law, he wrote several books on the topic, including Islamic Commercial Law (2021) and Islamic Theology (2016). His many lectures were collected on his own website, almilani.com. Milani also took a great interest in the arts, including by co-producing my ethnomusicological film, Ten Days (2007), and the composer Roxanna Panufnik\u2019s classical work Abraham (2011). He is survived by his wife, Malihe Shahid Abdullah Hosseini, whom he married in 1962, eight children, 28 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018It was horrifying\u2019: Lebanon reels after day of deadly airstrikes;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/it-was-horrifying-lebanon-reels-after-day-of-deadly-airstrikes;2024-09-24T17:42:33Z",
        "text": "Hassan waited until the last minute to flee. As Israeli warplanes thundered overhead and bombs began to fall on the forests surrounding his home town of Deir al-Zahrani, south Lebanon, on Monday morning, he told himself he still had some time. For almost a year the town, 12 miles from the Israel-Lebanon border, had been mostly spared from the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that had engulfed much of south Lebanon. The bombs grew closer. His neighbours began to get calls from unknown numbers with a recorded message, the voice speaking classical Arabic with a strange accent: \u201cIf you are in a building where there are Hezbollah weapons, distance yourself from the village.\u201d Hassan had no idea if the homes around him contained weapons. Houses in the village began to get hit. \u201cCivilians, houses, they hit everything. When they started striking civilians, we had to flee. A few of my relatives were killed,\u201d Hassan, 23, said, sitting in a school in Dekwaneh, a suburb north of Beirut, which had been converted into a shelter for displaced people less than 24 hours earlier. Dier al-Zahrani was no longer safe as Israel carried out a devastating aerial barrage on swathes of south Lebanon and the Beqaa valley that killed 558 people, injured 1,835 and pushed tens of thousands to flee their homes. It was Lebanon\u2019s deadliest day in almost 50 years, bringing the death toll of the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel in September to more than 1,200, exceeding that of the brutal 2006 war between the two. Hassan and the six other members of his family grabbed a few possessions, crammed into a BMW sedan and headed towards Beirut. \u201cAs we put the bags in the car, we were telling ourselves that maybe it would stop, that maybe there would be something that let us stay. But we found nothing that stopped us from leaving,\u201d Hassan said. As Hassan fled northwards, the fighting followed. Thousands crowded the potholed, narrow roads of the south as Israeli jets and drones circled above them, occasionally shooting off a missile. \u201cIt was horrifying\u2019; there was a strike here, there, we saw it all in front of us. We could see the smoke, hear the sounds of the missiles. Everyone was rushing, our car was hit [by other cars] twice,\u201d Hassan said. A video showed drivers hastily pulling off to the side as an Israeli bomb falls just ahead of them on the Zahrani-Mslihiyeh road that Hassan was driving on. It took Hassan seven hours to reach Beirut \u2013 a journey that usually takes an hour and a half. Others in his family had yet to reach the capital city, almost 24 hours after leaving. Messages circulated on WhatsApp groups, asking for anyone with a motorcycle to meet cars with wounded people stuck on the highway and take them to hospitals. As displaced people arrived to Beirut, crisis cells, set up months before, sprang into action. Schools were converted into ad-hoc shelters and began to be fitted out with water, food and mattresses. \u201cWe have 12 schools that are welcoming people, with a capacity for 2,500 people. Nine are already full, but we will open more,\u201d Fadi Baghdadi, the official media officer for the Beirut disaster risk management cell, said on Monday night. By Tuesday morning, lists were published of the dozens of schools across Beirut and the surrounding villages of Mount Lebanon that had been converted into shelters. Official efforts were bolstered by a wave of donations and private initiatives to house the displaced. Individuals began to offer up their homes; hotels in Beirut offered steeply discounted rates and churches opened up their doors for weary travellers. A message from a Syrian man went viral after he invited Lebanese to come to stay with him and his neighbours in Homs, central Syria. \u201cWe have tried our best to give them the basic needs such as mattresses, blankets, hygiene kits, water and food,\u201d Rafka Rayees, an emergency use worker from Caritas Lebanon, said at the displacement shelter in Dekwaneh. She had come to the centre the previous afternoon and had worked through the night to get it up and running. The centre was hosting 1,100 people, mostly older people, children and families. Children milled about the grounds of the converted school, moving shyly as they adjusted to their new environment. Cars were arriving steadily, packed with belongings and people whose fatigue was plain on their faces, having driven overnight. \u201cHere, the situation is OK. We don\u2019t know where we\u2019re sleeping yet,\u201d Hassan said, shrugging. A woman emerged from inside the school, waving her finger at administrators who had just arrived. \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t be treated like this! There\u2019s no electricity in the floor above, we shouldn\u2019t have to be humiliated,\u201d she yelled. \u201cThe cases here in the centre are so severe because there\u2019s a lot of kids and lots of elderly. They don\u2019t want to do anything, they just want to go back home because of the trauma and the situation,\u201d Rayees said. She rushed away to do an inspection tour of the facility with a team of volunteers in tow. The brutality of Monday\u2019s bombings was still fresh in the minds of many at the shelter. Entire families had been wiped out. Everyone knew someone who had been killed or injured. For some, it was the second time they had been displaced in less than a year. \u201cWe left Majdal Zoun in February and we came to Dahieh [in the southern suburbs of Beirut]; it seemed safer than the south\u201d, Fatima, 20, said. She left Majdal Zoun, in the south of Lebanon, after her cousin, a six-year-old girl, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in February. Fatima said: \u201cWe started to hear the planes and everything in Dahieh as well. My daughter became scared of the planes and the sonic booms. When they hit Dahieh last night, we came here.\u201d Just two hours later, another airstrike would hit Dahieh \u2013 the second time in less than a day. Six people were killed and 15 were injured in the strike, which Israel said was a targeted assassination of a senior commander in Hezbollah\u2019s rocket corps. \u201cThere\u2019s so much destruction and we haven\u2019t even started, it\u2019s just beginning. Maybe soon there will be no safe places for us to go to,\u201d Hassan said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel escalation based on risky belief it can bomb Hezbollah into a ceasefire;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/escalation-suggests-israel-gambling-on-bombing-hezbollah-into-ceasefire;2024-09-24T17:25:10Z",
        "text": "It is now clear that last Tuesday\u2019s exploding pager operation was just a first step. What is now unfolding is an Israeli strategy of military escalation against Hezbollah, premised on the risky belief that the militant group can be bombed into a ceasefire before fighting in Gaza ends. Monday\u2019s wave of airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed at least 558 people and displaced many thousands, and there is little sign of the campaign slowing. Israel\u2019s air force has said it had dropped 2,000 bombs in 24 hours \u2013 and there can be little doubt that this is now a full-on war, though it is not yet an all-out conflict. Hezbollah, meanwhile, is in some disarray. First, hundreds of its operatives were wounded in the pager and subsequent walkie-talkie attack; then, commanders in its elite Radwan military unit were killed in an Israeli strike in southern Beirut on Friday. On Tuesday, Israel claimed it had killed Ibrahim Qubaisi, the head of Hezbollah\u2019s missile systems, again in an attack in the south of the Lebanese capital. Nevertheless, Hezbollah is also escalating its attacks. As Yehoshua Kalisky of the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies thinktank has observed, its rocket and drone attacks into northern Israel in support of Hamas had amounted to strikes against \u201ctargets and communities in the Upper Galilee\u201d. Weapons used included \u201cshort-range rockets carrying approximately 20kg of explosives\u201d \u2013 a modest amount. Since Sunday, however, Hezbollah has begun using short-range missiles, the Fadi-1 and Fadi-2, with ranges of 50 and 65 miles respectively \u2013 targeting around the northern city of Haifa. Though not particularly accurate, the Fadi-2 carries an explosive payload of about 170kg, Kalisky writes, part of a short- and medium-range stockpile estimated to run into \u201cthe tens of thousands\u201d. But while Israel has killed hundreds of people, Hezbollah has only been able to wound small numbers in return. That does not amount to a deterrent to Israel, so it is no surprise that the country\u2019s top military commander, Herzi Halevi, promised to \u201cspeed up the offensive operations today\u201d \u2013 because Jerusalem knows it holds the military initiative. Assaf Orion, a former brigadier-general in the Israel Defense Forces and its chief of strategy between 2010 and 2015, argues that the dynamic of the conflict is now \u201cheading for more escalation\u201d. He said: \u201cI don\u2019t see Hezbollah succumbing and yielding. It\u2019s a question of image and power; they cannot be seen as bending the knee.\u201d The reality is that Hezbollah has to keep posing a threat to Israel\u2019s north to keep the conflict running on the terms under which it is being played out. Last week, Israel\u2019s security cabinet introduced a fresh war aim: the safe return of approximately 65,000 people displaced from the north \u2013 but, if anything, the immediate conflict risks displacing more Israelis from their homes as the range of attacks increases. Israel, meanwhile, has been targeting missile launch sites in the south of Lebanon, but one four-year-old estimate by the Alma Centre, an Israeli thinktank, has suggested there are 28 more in Beirut in civilian areas. This means that a bombing campaign aimed at parts of the Lebanese capital cannot be ruled out in a further escalation, an uneasy prospect given Israel\u2019s intense bombing of Gaza. Hezbollah has many more missiles in reserve \u2013 20,000-40,000 ballistic missiles with ranges of up to 300km, estimates the CSIS thinktank, and a small number of guided missiles, perhaps 150 to 400. Though Israel has confidence in its Iron Dome and other air defence systems, if a small number do get through, landing perhaps in built-up areas, there is a real risk to civilians \u2013 and then further escalation. If the heightened conflict continues much longer, the question will become whether Israel will consider a ground invasion of southern Lebanon, through rough terrain to the line of the Litani River, where Hezbollah has built an extensive tunnel network. But it is a risky option, against a well-armed and experienced group with perhaps 30,000 fighters and similar numbers in reserve, and trying to demilitarise the area may not halt missile attacks from farther north. The situation is evidently becoming more fraught. Hezbollah has allies in pro-Tehran militias in Syria and Iraq and, of course, Iran itself. Though few experts believe Iran wants to be drawn into a confrontation with Israel (notably, Tehran eschewed a reprisal after the assassination of Hamas\u2019s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in August) there will be anxiety in Iran if Hezbollah continues to be hit hard. Diplomatically, there appears to be \u201cno off-ramp right now\u201d, Orion added, while months of efforts to bring peace to Gaza, led by the US, Qatar and Egypt, have failed to bear fruit. Israel\u2019s leaders \u2013 still smarting from the failure to predict Hamas\u2019s surprise attack on 7 October \u2013 now believe they have the military superiority to force Hezbollah into a defeat, while Hezbollah only has to show it can still pose a threat to prevent Israelis from the north returning home. It is a toxic combination."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Meloni-themed restaurant opens near asylum-seeker camp in Albania;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/giorgia-meloni-themed-restaurant-opens-near-asylum-seeker-camp-in-albania;2024-09-24T17:02:09Z",
        "text": "A restaurant dedicated to Giorgia Meloni has opened in the vicinity of a camp in Albania where the asylum claims of people who seek to enter the EU by sea will be processed as part of a controversial pact promoted by the Italian far-right prime minister. Trattoria Meloni, a seafood restaurant in the northern port of Sh\u00ebngjin, was opened by Gjergj Luca, a restaurant owner who is close to the Albanian prime minister, Edi Rama. The restaurant is filled with 70 portraits of Meloni, whose Brothers of Italy, a party with neofascist origins, leads Italy\u2019s ruling coalition. There is a smiling Meloni, a serious Meloni, an angry Meloni, and Meloni as a child, teenager and politician. \u201cWhen cuisine, art and politics come together, you can make beautiful things,\u201d Luca told AFP. Meloni and Rama first hatched the migration plan, branded by human rights associations as illegal under international law but tacitly endorsed by the EU, last summer. Meloni visited the site of the Sh\u00ebngjin centre in June, before the restaurant opened. It is one of two centres expected to begin processing asylum claims in the coming weeks. Under the Italy-funded deal, men crossing the Mediterranean from north Africa and intercepted by the Italian coastguard will be taken to Albania. The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, was criticised by human rights groups and his Labour party backbenchers after expressing \u201cgreat interest\u201d in the migration pact during a meeting with Meloni in Rome last week while vowing to send \u00a34m to support her controversial crackdown on irregular migration. Meloni once said Italy should repatriate migrants and then \u201csink the boats that rescued them\u201d. In the past she has also called for a naval blockade of north Africa. However, the centres have been largely welcomed by local people for creating jobs in an impoverished region of Albania. Luca, the son of a famous Albanian actor and a former actor himself, said he was charmed by Meloni\u2019s personality, calling her \u201cextraordinary\u201d. He said he hopes she will come back to taste his food and admire her portraits, which adorn every inch of the restaurant\u2019s walls. The portraits were all painted by Helidon Haliti, a well-known Albanian artist. Meloni is a \u201cvery interesting, strong character and, even if her political convictions aren\u2019t my own, that hasn\u2019t stopped me from doing a passionate job,\u201d Haliti told AFP. \u201cDid I need a permission to paint her portrait?\u201d he added. \u201cDid Andy Warhol need permission to paint Marilyn Monroe? In postmodernism, it\u2019s allowed, and I think that with Meloni, I\u2019ve succeeded.\u201d Meloni was also the key protagonist in a deal signed in July 2023 between the EU and Tunisia that meant paying the north African country millions of euros to stop migrant boats from leaving, as well as to invest in businesses and education, all with the aim of deterring migration. The policy bore little fruit in the early stages, but now the deal, along with another \u2013 first struck by Italy in 2017 \u2013 that equips and trains the Libyan coastguard to stop people leaving, is credited with reducing inflows. The deal with Libya essentially pushes people back to detention camps where they face torture and other abuses. Shocking abuse against migrants in Tunisia was reported by the Guardian last week. Agence France-Presse contributed to this report"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;UN chief calls Middle East crisis \u2018nightmare\u2019 amid push for Lebanon ceasefire;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/un-chief-calls-middle-east-crisis-nightmare-as-diplomats-push-for-ceasefire-in-lebanon;2024-09-24T16:05:31Z",
        "text": "The UN secretary general has told world leaders that Lebanon is on the brink of becoming a second Gaza, adding that the crisis has \u201cbecome a non-stop nightmare that threatens to take the whole region down\u201d. Ant\u00f3nio Guterres made his warning as diplomats meeting in New York for the UN general assembly battled to impose a ceasefire in Lebanon and to hold Israel back from a possible ground invasion. Using an inflammatory second world war comparison, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, likened the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to Hitler and called for sanctions or a UN resolution justifying the use of force to deter Israel. Making a valedictory address to the UN general assembly, the US president, Joe Biden, urged Israel against an all-out war, but blamed the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia for an unprovoked attack on Israel after 7 October and for continuing to strike Israel since. Biden said the US was working tirelessly on a deal that would enable the populations on the Lebanese-Israeli border to return to their homes, but Iranian diplomats said they had been told through third parties that the US administration had admitted it was powerless to stop the Israeli bombardment. Biden said: \u201cA full-blown war is in no one\u2019s interest. Even as the situation escalates, a diplomatic solution is still possible.\u201d He said too many people on both sides of the border had been displaced. He also called on Israel to accept a ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza, a step Hezbollah has said would bring its missile strikes on Israel to an end. Biden said: \u201cI proposed with Qatar and Egypt a ceasefire agreement and [to end] the hostage-taking [by Hamas]. It was approved by the UN security council. Now it is time for the parties to finalise terms, bring the hostages home and ensure the security of Israel and Gaza, free from the grip of Hamas.\u201d In response to Guterres\u2019 speech, Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said that Hezbollah has \u201ctaken Lebanon hostage\u201d. \u201cThe UN is neither acknowledging their actions, nor fulfilling its fundamental obligation \u2013 preventing Hezbollah attacks and demanding the implementation of resolution 1701,\u201d he said of the resolution that requires Hezbollah to disarm. The Lebanese prime minister, Najib Mikati, flew to New York to make representations to the US to order Israel to end the bombardment while France, with support from Egypt and Jordan, called for an emergency meeting of the UN security council. US officials insisted they had concrete proposals to lower the tension but there is no sign that Israel or Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia, are willing to dial down the fighting yet. Israeli officials have told reporters that they are seeking \u201cde-escalation through escalation\u201d, driving Hezbollah and its backer Iran to the negotiating table by demonstrating Tel Aviv\u2019s military superiority. But in remarks on the sidelines of the summit, US officials have voiced doubt that this policy could work, and said they are focused on \u201creducing tensions \u2026 and breaking the cycle of strike-counterstrike\u201d. \u201cI can\u2019t recall, at least in recent memory, a period in which an escalation or intensification led to a fundamental de-escalation and led to profound stabilisation of the situation,\u201d a senior state department official said in a briefing. The official did not say whether the administration believed Israel was planning to launch a ground invasion. The US is not able to communicate directly with the new Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, but through the president\u2019s meetings with Turkey, the EU and Guterres, it has been told of Pezeshkian\u2019s anger. He said his country could not allow Hezbollah to stay alone under attack from a fully armed Israel and described the UN\u2019s action as inexplicable. Pezeshkian, who had come to the UN hoping to issue an appeal for coexistence with the west, found himself propelled into warning he could not allow Hezbollah to \u201cstand alone against a country that is being defended and supported and supplied by western countries, European countries and the United States of America. The danger does exist that the fire of events that are taking place [in Lebanon] will expand to the entire region\u201d. When asked whether Iran would counsel Hezbollah to restrain itself in its response to Israeli strikes, Pezeshkian said Hezbollah was facing a country that is \u201carmed to the teeth and has access to weapons systems that are far superior to anything else\u201d. He added: \u201cWe must not allow Lebanon to become another Gaza at the hands of Israel\u201d. The Iranian leader later met with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, according to the Elys\u00e9e Palace, during which Macron urged him to \u201csupport a general de-escalation and use its influence with destabilizing actors.\u201d Diplomats in New York expressed fears that there is an Israeli appetite for a ground invasion if the violence escalates. The British foreign secretary, David Lammy, spoke to Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Sayeed Abbas Araghchi, on the margins of the security council, and urged him and the Lebanese government to try to persuade Hezbollah to drop its position that the attacks will continue until Israel agrees an immediate and full ceasefire with Hamas. But Iran feels it has heard promises of an imminent ceasefire before and is deeply sceptical about any promise that Israel will follow suit if Iran de-escalates. Erdo\u011fan led a series of speakers accusing Israel of behaving with impunity as he called for UN \u201ccoercive measures\u201d against Israel to be put on the agenda, including the use of force. The Turkish president said \u201cjust as Hitler was stopped by an alliance of humanity so Netanyahu and his murder network must be stopped by an alliance of humanity.\u201d He accused the US of continuing to arm Israel in the background so it could carry on with its massacres, when in front of the stage it pretends it was looking for a ceasefire. He asked the US, a fellow Nato member: \u201cHow long are you going to be able to carry the shame of witnessing this massacre?\u201d The EU foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, said the escalation between Israel and Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah was already almost a full-fledged war. \u201cIf this is not a war situation, I don\u2019t know what you would call it,\u201d he said. US officials have been acknowledging for weeks that although most of the ceasefire terms are agreed between Israel and Hamas, the remaining gaps are large and unbridgeable. Guterres, as he opened the general assembly\u2019s main debate, set the Middle East crisis in the context of a whirlwind set of crises engulfing the whole world that together represent \u201can era of epic transformation\u201d. On Israel, he said nothing could justify the abhorrent acts of terror committed by Hamas against Israelis on 7 October but added that \u201cnothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people\u201d. Addressing those who go on undermining the goal of a two-state solution, he said: \u201cWhat is the alternative? How could the world accept a one-state future that includes such a large number of Palestinians without any freedom, rights or dignity?\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Outrage as Hungary presides over EU talks on democratic standards;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/outrage-as-hungary-presides-over-eu-meeting-on-democratic-standards;2024-09-24T15:52:49Z",
        "text": "Hungary\u2019s government has presided over EU talks on upholding democratic standards across the continent, in a development one prominent MEP described as \u201coutrageous\u201d. Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s government has been under an EU sanctions procedure since 2018 for posing a \u201csystemic threat\u201d to democracy and the rule of law. Around \u20ac19bn (\u00a316bn) of EU funds are frozen over concerns about the government\u2019s control over judges, academic freedom and its failure to tackle corruption. It is now being fined \u20ac1m a day on top of a \u20ac200m penalty by the EU\u2019s highest court for refusing to comply with European law guaranteeing the rights of asylum seekers. Despite that catalogue of complaints, it fell to Hungary, as holder of the EU\u2019s rotating presidency, to chair a meeting of European affairs ministers in Brussels on Tuesday on the EU\u2019s annual rule of law report. This document assesses the integrity of the separation of powers, anti-corruption measures and freedom of the press across all 27 member states and four EU candidate countries Published in July, the EU report concluded that the absence of investigations and prosecutions of high-level corruption cases in Hungary remained \u201ca serious concern\u201d, and voiced alarm about the independence of public service media and the \u201cvilification\u201d of civil society groups, among other issues. Daniel Freund, a German Green MEP and prominent critic of the Orb\u00e1n government, said allowing Hungary to chair a meeting on the rule of law should never have happened. \u201cThat a country that is under an article 7 \u2013 a fundamental value sanction \u2013 procedure, that has billions of its EU funds frozen for rule of law violations, that has just been fined \u20ac200m, plus \u20ac1m a day for rule of law violations, is now chairing the debate on the situation of the rule of law is outrageous.\u201d The EU\u2019s other member states should have stepped in to prevent Hungary from chairing the meeting, he said. Asked about the credibility of Hungary chairing EU discussions on the rule of law, Hungary\u2019s EU affairs minister, J\u00e1nos B\u00f3ka, responded: \u201cHungary performed its duties as presidency as an honest broker sincerely cooperating with all member states and institutions and I received no other indication from any other member state or institution.\u201d Didier Reynders, the EU justice commissioner, did not respond directly to the question, but said the commission was at the disposal of EU ministers to organise discussions under the article 7 sanctions procedure \u201cbut that depends [on] the agenda of the presidency\u201d. During the meeting, ministers criticised Hungary for its failure to stress support for Ukraine under its six-month presidency programme. Sweden\u2019s EU affairs minister, Jessica Rosencrantz, said many countries had intervened in support of Ukraine. \u201cI was very clear in demanding both that Hungary is an honest broker and it was very regrettable that they didn\u2019t stress support for Ukraine in their working programme,\u201d she said. She said it was right for Hungary to chair the debate as it was \u201cvery important for the Hungarian presidency to hear all these very clear and strong points\u201d on Ukraine and the rule of law. Since taking over the EU\u2019s six-month rotating presidency on 1 July, Orb\u00e1n has infuriated EU leaders with a self-styled peace mission to Moscow, Beijing and Donald Trump\u2019s private residence at Mar-a-Lago. In response, some ministers have boycotted informal EU meetings in Hungary, but the EU\u2019s usual calendar in Brussels has mostly continued as usual. The European Commission said last week it would deduct the \u20ac200m unpaid court fine from Hungary\u2019s forthcoming EU payments and that it had issued a request for payment of the daily rolling fines worth \u20ac93m to Budapest. At the meeting, Sweden and Finland said EU funds should be more tightly linked to respect for the rule of law. Rosencrantz and her Finnish counterpart, Joakim Strand, said that the commission \u201cshould continue to make full use\u201d of an EU regulation that tied EU funds to compliance with respecting the rule of law and tackling corruption. \u201cOur taxpayers need to trust that the EU\u2019s common funds are used appropriately and responsibly,\u201d they wrote in a joint letter to the commission."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Canada\u2019s Tories target Trudeau as they seek seismic shift in political landscape;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/canada-conservative-bid-unseat-justin-trudeau-tories;2024-09-24T15:00:33Z",
        "text": "Canada\u2019s Conservative party will make its first bid to unseat prime minister Justin Trudeau this week, the latest attempt in its decade-long aim of restoring the Tories to power. Buoyed by favourable polls, a cost of living crisis and an increasingly unpopular prime minister, the Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, will introduce a motion of non-confidence in the minority government: a long-shot bid to force the government to call an election. The move, which lawmakers will debate on Wednesday, is doomed to fail, with smaller parties agreeing to temporarily support the incumbent Liberal party. But the attack underscores the fragile state of Canada\u2019s governing party and the raw political calculation leaders are making as they jockey for position before the next federal election, which must occur before the fall of 2025. One polling aggregator has the Conservatives winning a strong majority, relegating all other parties to \u201calso-ran\u201d status. Another has Poilievre\u2019s Tories at 42% support, with the Liberals at 24%. When Trudeau eked out an electoral victory in 2021, his party was forced into its second consecutive minority government, meaning the Liberals lacked sufficient representation in parliament to pass legislation on their own. In order to implement their agenda, the Liberals were forced to make a \u201cconfidence and supply\u201d pact with the leftwing New Democrats (NDP). But earlier this month, the NDP withdrew from the agreement, saying the Liberals \u201cdon\u2019t deserve another chance\u201d. The move cast the country in political uncertainty and reflected a political landscape that has changed dramatically since the agreement was first made. In his ninth year as prime minister, Trudeau is deeply unpopular and facing calls within his party to step down to avoid a deeply embarrassing electoral loss that could push the party to a distant third-place finish. \u201cI think you are only here for another year,\u201d a steelworker told Trudeau in a recent exchange that captured the fatigue and frustration many Canadians feel towards the prime minister. Jagmeet Singh, the NDP leader, has failed to convert his own political popularity into electoral success and also faces evergreen questions over the relevance of a party whose legislative aims seem indistinguishable from those of the Liberals. \u201cThey don\u2019t want to run to election anytime soon,\u201d said Lori Turnbull, director of Dalhousie University\u2019s school of public administration. \u201cThey still have to prove that they got something out of this deal and he needs to show that party has its own agenda, apart from what they\u2019ve done for the Liberals for the past two and a half years.\u201d Poilievre, the combative Conservative leader, has found immense success in his laser-focused attack on Trudeau\u2019s handling of a protracted cost-of-living crisis. The chief target of Poilievre\u2019s attacks has been Canada\u2019s nationwide carbon tax, a levy once heralded as a global model that is now all but doomed by national politics. Poilievre\u2019s attacks on the tax have landed him unlikely allies: Singh recently backed away from the carbon levy, after supporting it for years, incorrectly suggesting the revenue-neutral tax put an unfair burden on \u201cworking people\u2019s shoulders\u201d. Economists and political scientists agree that lower-income Canadians come out ahead under the scheme, with nearly 80% of residents receiving more in quarterly payments than they pay in tax. Poilievre has also targeted Singh for propping up a Liberal government which Singh himself has suggested is captive to corporate interests. \u201cHe is a fake, a phony and a fraud. How can anyone ever believe what this sellout NDP leader says in the future?\u201d Poilievre said to Singh during a sitting of parliament last week. Singh\u2019s withdrawal of support for the Liberals might have harmed his own electoral prospects, but inadvertently benefited another leader: Yves-Fran\u00e7ois Blanchet of the sovereigntist Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois. Blanchet has stepped in to fill the void left by the NDP\u2019s exit from the confidence and supply agreement, but he has been open about the hardheaded political calculus behind the move. \u201cIt\u2019s not [about] supporting the government. It\u2019s [about] not having them fall, soon,\u201d Blanchet told CBC News. \u201cFirst, I will let this vote instigated by the Conservatives go through. They will lose it, and by the way lose face, and this is what they deserve presently because they are not doing politics in a clean way \u2026 I ask for things and if I don\u2019t get it, [the government] will fall. And that\u2019s the end to it.\u201d The Bloc\u2019s rise, in tandem with the renewed popularity of Quebec\u2019s sovereigntist movement, has also come at a cost for the Liberals. In a surprise byelection defeat last week, Trudeau\u2019s party lost the riding of LaSalle\u2013\u00c9mard\u2013Verdun, a district that had been held almost exclusively by Liberals for more than 50 years. It followed another defeat in June, when the Liberals lost a safe seat in downtown Toronto. The two losses reflect a souring public opinion of Trudeau\u2019s government: the cost of living has surged alongside a housing shortage and policy failures and mismanagement have eroded strong support for immigration. Despite such setbacks, Turnbull said that the Liberals were still in a position of comparative strength. \u201cAs much as the Liberals look to be in a very weak position \u2013 because of the polling, because of the byelection losses, because ministers are leaving and staffers are leaving \u2013 even though it\u2019s a complete mess, they still have a really significant minority in the House of Commons,\u201d she said. \u201cIn order for there to be a loss of confidence, all three opposition parties would have to agree. And I don\u2019t think we\u2019re there yet.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018It grows this anger within people\u2019: how Australia treats those fleeing humanitarian disaster depends on where they came from \u2013 and when;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/it-grows-this-anger-within-people-how-australia-treats-those-fleeing-humanitarian-disaster-depends-on-where-they-came-from-and-when;2024-09-24T15:00:30Z",
        "text": "Hassan Elhassan has been sick, and his voice carries a quiet weariness. But, as ever, there\u2019s work to be done. The 33-year-old works as a consultant for a Sydney IT firm, but his day runs far beyond the nine-to-five. As soon as he finishes work, he commutes to a second job \u2013 a six-hour-shift at a local cafe that often closes up after midnight. It\u2019s a work ethic driven by a desperate need to support his family of six. \u201cThey are all dependent on me,\u201d the Sudanese-Australian tells Guardian Australia. \u201cWe are struggling throughout this whole time, with no visible end to it.\u201d Elhassan has lived and worked in Australia for eight years, but his parents and siblings arrived in Australia just one year ago on hastily arranged visitor visas. They were fleeing Sudan\u2019s violent collapse, the latest iteration of intractable civil war during which 20,000 people have been killed and 10 million displaced. With his family\u2019s assets lost to war and bank accounts inaccessible, Elhassan has moved house to accommodate them and burned through what little savings he had to support them. Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email It means he can no longer afford to apply for a partner visa to reunite with his wife from whom he has been separated for over 18 months. Today, his family live on the shaded uncertainty of bridging visas. They can access healthcare in Australia, but can not access income or housing support. They are forbidden from working or studying. Newer arrivals from Sudan, he notes, have even fewer rights. Elhassan\u2019s family situation is a stark illustration of Australia\u2019s inconsistent response to migrants who have fled humanitarian crises around the world. For some national cohorts, there are specialist humanitarian visas which grant access to Medicare and social services, work and study rights and pathways to permanent residency. For other groups, there are only some \u2013 or none \u2013 of these. \u201cWhy are Sudanese [people] treated differently?\u201d Elhassan asks. \u201cIt grows this anger within people.\u201d Some can barely survive in Australia Over the past three decades, Australia had issued at least 25 different visa types to assist people forced from their homes by humanitarian emergency, according to a policy paper from the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. \u201cWhen crises threaten lives, the Australian government often steps up \u2013 but not always in a predictable, efficient, equitable and effective way, if responses to Afghanistan, Ukraine, Sudan and Gaza are anything to go by,\u201d the policy brief reads. \u201cFor some people escaping these conflicts, travel to Australia has been relatively easy; for others, impossible,\u201d the brief, written by Prof Jane McAdam and Dr Regina Jefferies, says. \u201cSome people who reach Australia have rights to work, study, healthcare and support, while others are barely surviving.\u201d The brief found asylum seekers from Ukraine were able to apply for temporary visas, which were valid for three years, carried work and study rights and allowed access to healthcare. For Afghans escaping the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in August 2021, 15,000 humanitarian visas were offered by the Australian government over four years. However, those visa holders could not then apply for permanent protection from within Australia. But the Australian government did not create a special humanitarian visa regime for people fleeing conflicts in Gaza or Sudan, leaving those people to apply for a limited number of visitor visas. The brief proposes an \u201cemergency visa\u201d to help people forced to flee humanitarian crises overseas, arguing a dedicated visa would streamline and depoliticise Australia\u2019s response to emergencies overseas. \u201cWe only need to look at Australia\u2019s response to recent crises around the world to see how different it\u2019s been if you contrast the visa situation for people fleeing Gaza than from those fleeing Ukraine,\u201d Prof McAdam told the Guardian. \u201cAustralia has extremely well established, longstanding and rigorous systems in place to check identity and security \u2026 but clearly there are political elements at play otherwise we wouldn\u2019t have seen such diverse responses to the four conflicts.\u201d The proposed emergency visa would allow people to travel quickly to Australia, be valid for at least 12 months and have a pathway to a permanent visa if it was not safe or possible for a person to return home. Critically, the visa would provide access to government services, including Medicare and Centrelink, as well as the right to work and to study. People from an affected country already in Australia would be automatically granted a visa extension. The Guardian put the policy proposal to the office of the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, who acknowledged \u201ca lot of thought has gone into the proposal\u201d and noted \u201csome of the features described are worthy of consideration\u201d. \u2018We could care for them\u2019 The call for an emergency framework has been echoed by others working in the humanitarian sector, including the Refugee Council of Australia and Amnesty International. \u201cWe raised this as early as [December last year], when we first saw the initial numbers arriving from Gaza and that there was absolutely nothing on the ground,\u201d Settlement Services International\u2019s (SSI) chief executive, Violet Roumeliotis, told the Guardian. She said settlement services were not told where and when new arrivals were landing in the country, where they were living or what support they were entitled to. \u201cPeople are going straight to the community, and the first you know about it is when people present with a range of issues,\u201d she said. \u201cThey are homeless or they have no income support, they are unwell and have no access to health.\u201d Community networks are also feeling the pressure. Amad Mohamed, a representative of the Sudanese Australian Advocacy Network, says he has been getting calls for help every day. \u201cThey have no home to go back to \u2026 Their life has been in danger.\u201d \u201cWhen they\u2019ve reached a refuge, they are actually struggling to access services.\u201d Roumeliotis said the government services needed were available: \u201cIt is just a matter of coordinating and activating it.\u201d And when the system works, it can work well. When Afghans fleeing the fall of Kabul arrived in Australia, SSI members were at the airport. \u201cWe were there from the moment they arrived, and then they were in our care. We were able to refer them to diaspora communities and other supports, state-based and civil society organisations,\u201d Roumeliotis said. What followed was a coordinated briefing of police and housing, education and health officials, on the needs of arrivals. Roumeliotis said the call for a consistent response to those fleeing humanitarian crises was made more acute by Australia\u2019s current political debate on visas. \u201c[It] vilifies a whole community,\u201d she says. \u2018No light on the horizon\u2019 In western Sydney, Hassan Elhassan says he is out of the house from 8am to midnight, almost every day, \u201cwith no light on the horizon\u201d. He says it is hard to watch his parents and younger siblings struggling to adjust to Australia, the language and cultural barriers, and feeling further isolated by the restrictions of their visa regimes. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of adding to the pressure \u2026 struggling throughout this whole time and with no visible end to it. \u201cBecause we don\u2019t know, we don\u2019t know when it\u2019s just going to come to a conclusion.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Firm disclosed phone data of shot Tanzanian politician, UK tribunal hears;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/firm-disclosed-phone-data-of-shot-tanzanian-politician-tundu-lissu-uk-tribunal;2024-09-24T14:58:53Z",
        "text": "Gunmen tried to assassinate a Tanzanian opposition politician after a telecoms company secretly passed his mobile phone data to the government, according to evidence heard in a London tribunal. The mobile phone company Tigo provided 24/7 phone call and location data belonging to Tundu Lissu to Tanzanian authorities in the weeks before the attempt on his life in September 2017. The arrangement, which Tigo does not deny, was revealed in a claim by a former internal investigator for the company that was heard at the Central London employment tribunal this month. Michael Clifford, a former Metropolitan police officer, claims that Millicom, the owner of the Tigo brand, sacked him for raising concerns about the affair. \u201cMr Clifford\u2019s case is that he was treated to his detriment, frozen out by [Millicom] and automatically unfairly dismissed because he made protected disclosures, or \u2018blew the whistle\u2019, in respect of matters of the utmost seriousness and public interest importance,\u201d Clifford\u2019s lawyers said in written submissions. Lissu was attacked in his car in the parking bay of his parliamentary residence in Dodoma on 7 September 2017. The car was sprayed with bullets and he received severe injuries. Nobody has been prosecuted for his attempted murder. Five days later, Clifford began investigating after hearing on a conference call that Millicom had been providing Lissu\u2019s mobile phone data to the Tanzanian government. He later handed a summary of his findings to his superiors, his lawyers said. The report concluded that \u201cinformation had been provided to the Tanzanian government since 22 August 2017\u201d, the lawyers said. \u201cFrom 29 August 2017, the intensity of the tracking increased and [Millicom] used its human and electronic resources to livetrack 24/7 the location of two of Mr Lissu\u2019s mobile phones.\u201d The data was passed to the government via WhatsApp messages, which Millicom was later asked to delete. No formal legal request for the data appeared to have been filed. \u201cIn the claimant\u2019s reasonable belief, this information tended to show that [Millicom] was involved in an attempted political assassination and act of terrorism,\u201d Clifford\u2019s lawyers said. Clifford claims that after escalating his concerns, his relationship with his managers began to break down and they began to marginalise him within the company, before making him redundant in the autumn of 2019. Millicom disputes Clifford\u2019s claim. The company provides telecoms services to emerging markets in Latin America and also operated in parts of Africa during the period Clifford was employed. Its position is that at the time Clifford was dismissed, it was in the process of winding down a substantial proportion of its activities in Africa and that as such, his role was redundant. It said Clifford had been asked to investigate the Lissu affair and had reported his findings as requested. It said that after receipt of Clifford\u2019s report it had taken local legal advice, and some employees had been subject to disciplinary action. It argued that Clifford was now retroactively asserting that his reports were internal whistleblowing, rather than merely the ordinary work he would be expected to carry out in his role as an investigator for the company. The case has taken four years to reach trial, partly as a result of efforts by Millicom to have Clifford\u2019s claim heard under reporting restrictions. At one point the firm argued that unless it was granted a secrecy order it would be unable to defend the claim. The secrecy application was dismissed earlier this year. A spokesperson for Millicom said she could not comment because the legal dispute with Clifford was ongoing. She said an announcement last week that Millicom\u2019s executive chair, Mauricio Ramos, was retiring was unrelated to the case. Tanzania remains a dangerous country in which to be a member of the political opposition, despite a change of president in 2021. On Monday, police arrested Lissu and at least a dozen others before planned protests against killings and disappearances of opposition politicians."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Thousands of lives will be lost if Kyiv denied permission to use western weapons in Russia, Zelenskyy says \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/24/volodymyr-zelenskyy-russia-ukraine-war-live-latest-news-updates;2024-09-24T14:56:12Z",
        "text": "Joe Biden, the US president, said Vladimir Putin\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has failed as he urged the UN to keep supporting Kyiv until it is victorious. \u201cPutin\u2019s war has failed at its core aim. He set out to destroy Ukraine, but Ukraine is still free,\u201d Biden said in his last address as president to the UN general assembly. Excerpts from a Good Morning America interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and first lady Olena Zelenska have been released. In them, Zelenskyy discussed recent reports that Russia has been using Chinese satellites and taking photos of the details of the objects on nuclear facilities. \u201cIn our experience, if Russia takes photos of a certain object then there is a threat of strikes against the nuclear objects. That is a nuclear terror,\u201d he said. Zelenskyy said his \u201cvictory plan\u201d \u2013 which he is due to present to Joe Biden during his visit to the US this week \u2013 is not about negotiating with Russia, but finding a way of ending the conflict diplomatically. The head of the presidential office Andriy Yermak confirmed that an invitation to join Nato is part of Ukraine\u2019s so-called \u201cvictory plan\u201d, details of which have not been revealed yet by Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy said tens of thousands of lives will be lost and thousands of schools destroyed if he is denied permission by the US to use long-range western weapons to strike deep inside Russia. Zelenskyy will speak at the UN general assembly on Wednesday, and is due to meet US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, as well as Joe Biden during his trip to the US this week. Zelenskyy said Russian strikes killed three people and injured at least 24 in the north-east Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Tuesday afternoon. He called for the UN general assembly to discuss Russia\u2019s attacks on his country. Russia plans to maintain defence spending at an historic high in 2025, Bloomberg News reported, suggesting that the Kremlin intend to continue its invasion of Ukraine for the foreseeable future. Ukraine\u2019s presidential adviser Vladyslav Vlasiuk said that 60% of the foreign parts found in Russian weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine come via China. Thank you for following today\u2019s latest news. This blog is closing now but you can read all our Ukraine coverage here. Russian strikes killed three people and injured at least 24 in the north-east Ukrainian city of Kharkiv this afternoon, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. \u201cThe targets of the Russian bombs were an apartment building, a bakery, a stadium. In other words, the everyday life of ordinary people,\u201d the Ukrainian president said in a post on X. \u201cSo far, we know of 3 killed and 24 injured,\u201d he said. Zelenskyy, who is in the US for the latest round of international diplomacy on the war, called for the UN general assembly to discuss Russia\u2019s attacks on his country. \u201cWe just need to stop the terror. To have security. To have a future. We need Russia to end this criminal and unprovoked aggression that violates all global rules,\u201d he said. The US president, Joe Biden, has been speaking at the UN general assembly in New York. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, desperate for more weapons from the west, has been carefully listening to what he is saying. \u201cThe good news is Putin\u2019s war has failed at his core aim,\u201d Biden said. He then promised to continue to support Kyiv until it achieves a \u201cdurable peace\u201d. Biden said: He set out to destroy Ukraine, but Ukraine is still free. He set out the weaken Nato, but Nato is bigger, stronger, more united than ever before, with two new members, Finland and Sweden, but we cannot let up. The world now has another choice to make. Will we sustain our support to help Ukraine win this war, to preserve its freedom, or walk away and let aggression be renewed and a nation be destroyed. I know my answer. We cannot grow weary. We cannot look away, and we will not let up on our support for Ukraine, not until Ukraine wins a just and durable peace in the UN Charter. You can follow the latest developments at the UN general assembly in our US politics live blog. Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, met with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, yesterday in New York. Here is a translated readout from Zelenskyy\u2019s office summarising what was discussed: The head of state thanked India for supporting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Narendra Modi discussed the implementation of cooperation in the areas agreed upon during the historic visit of the prime minister of India to Kyiv a month ago. At that time, it was about intensifying trade, economic and defense cooperation, involving India in postwar reconstruction, as well as interaction in the fields of education, science and culture. During the meeting, special attention was paid to strengthening cooperation on international platforms, in particular within the framework of the UN and G20, as well as the implementation of the peace formula and preparation for the second peace summit. Zelenskyy last met with Modi in August during the Indian leader\u2019s historic visit to Kyiv. The trip was the first to Ukraine by an Indian leader since the country\u2019s 1991 independence from the Soviet Union. It follows a period of strained relations. Zelenskiy criticised Modi\u2019s trip to Moscow in July, which occurred on the same day Russian missiles flattened a children\u2019s hospital in Kyiv, sparking a global outcry. More on the Russian attack reported in Kharkiv. \u201cRussia is terrorising the Kharkiv region with impunity \u2026 A direct strike on a residential building,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets wrote on Telegram. Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said the building had already been attacked by Russia at the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. \u201cIt was almost repaired, windows were installed, it was insulated, and prepared for heating season. The enemy hit it second time,\u201d Terekhov said. Russia attacked at least four districts in the afternoon, Terekhov added, including the most densely populated area of the city. Several apartment blocks were also reportedly damaged. Kharkiv, Ukraine\u2019s second largest city located about 30 km (18 miles) from the Russian border, and the surrounding region regularly come under Russian attacks. Moscow\u2019s troops extensively use highly destructive guided bombs that Ukrainian air defences struggle to intercept. At least three people were killed and 15 were injured in a Russian strike on Kharkiv, local authorities said, Reuters reported. Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, met with his colleagues from the Nordics and Baltics on the sidelines of the UN general assembly. \u201cWe spoke about strengthening Ukraine\u2019s energy resilience ahead of winter and ensuring Russia\u2019s accountability,\u201d he said. Excerpts from a Good Morning America interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and first lady Olena Zelenska have been released. In them, Zelenskyy discussed recent reports that Russia has been using Chinese satellites and taking photos of the details of the objects on nuclear facilities. \u201cIn our experience, if Russia takes photos of a certain object then there is a threat of strikes against the nuclear objects. That is a nuclear terror,\u201d he said. Zelenskyy said his \u201cvictory plan\u201d \u2013 which he is due to present to Joe Biden during his visit to the US this week \u2013 is not about negotiating with Russia, but finding a way of ending the conflict diplomatically. The head of the presidential office Andriy Yermak confirmed that an invitation to join Nato is part of Ukraine\u2019s so-called \u201cvictory plan\u201d, details of which have not been revealed yet by Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy said tens of thousands of lives will be lost and thousands of schools destroyed if he is denied permission by the US to use long-range western weapons to strike deep inside Russia. Zelenskyy will speak at the UN general assembly on Wednesday and is also due to meet US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Russia plans to maintain defence spending at an historic high in 2025, Bloomberg News reported, suggesting that the Kremlin intend to continue its invasion of Ukraine for the foreseeable future. Ukraine\u2019s presidential adviser Vladyslav Vlasiuk said that 60% of the foreign parts found in Russian weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine come via China. In the opening summary, we reported that Russian forces have begun storming the eastern Ukrainian town of Vuhledar, a stronghold that has resisted Russian attack since the beginning of the war. These reports came mainly from Russian war bloggers and state media. Unverified video on Russian state media showed Vuhledar, which had a population of over 14,000 before the war, under heavy artillery and aerial bombardment. Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Ukrainian security council\u2019s centre for countering disinformation, said Russia\u2019s use of guided aerial bombs had helped it to advance in the area. He said: (Vuhledar) used to be easy to defend, it is on high ground. But with the active arrival of guided aerial bombs at the front, the enemy managed to destroy it and move to the flank. Guided aerial bombs and aviation are the only things that allow the enemy infantry to move. Separately, Ukraine\u2019s Deep State open-source intelligence analysts said on Telegram that Russian troops were trying to encircle Vuhledar and had been pounding it with artillery and guided bombs. Ukraine\u2019s first lady Olena Zelenska has expressed her desire to help ensure the return of thousands of Ukrainian children forcibly taken by Russia An estimated 19,500 Ukrainian children are being held in Russia, having been forcibly transferred or deported to Russia or the territories it has occupied. \u201cThey are being told that nobody is looking for them in Ukraine. Nobody needs them in Ukraine,\u201d Zelenska told Good Morning America (GMA). She said it is \u201cdangerous\u201d to keep waiting, but adds that returning the children has been a very slow process (388 children have been returned from Russia, she says). \u201cIf we are going to bring our children back at this rate, we will need more than 30 years to bring them back,\u201d Zelenska told GMA. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been pleading with allies for months to let Ukraine fire western missiles including long-range US Atacms and British Storm Shadows into Russia to limit Moscow\u2019s ability to launch attacks. He is expected to reiterate these pleas during his diplomatic visit to the US this week, when he will meet Joe Biden. The Ukrainian president is asked by Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts what would happen if he is denied permission to use the western weapons to strike deep inside Russia. Zelenskyy replied: Putin will continue to destroy us, to kill people, to kill children, absolutely. He will act in this way. We will lose thousands of schools and tens of thousands of lives. That is what will be happening. He thanked the American people for all their help and support so far and said \u201cwe are closer to the peace than we think\u201d. In the interview with Good Morning America, Volodymyr Zelenskyy also discusses recent reports that Russia has been using Chinese satellites and taking photos of the details of the objects on nuclear facilities. He said: In our experience, if Russia takes photos of a certain object then there is a threat of strikes against the nuclear objects. That is a nuclear terror. Such things we share with many leaders who can influence Russia and influence Putin. Zelenskyy did not say whether the Chinese satellites that Russia has used were commercial satellites or controlled by the Chinese government. In a post on X on Saturday, Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha wrote: \u201cAccording to Ukrainian intelligence, [the] Kremlin is preparing strikes on Ukrainian nuclear energy critical objects ahead of winter.\u201d The attacks would focus on the transmission substations and other \u201copen distribution devices\u201d at the nuclear stations, he wrote. Beijing has said that China\u2019s position on Ukraine was to \u201cpromote peace talks and political settlement\u201d and that it does not provide direct military aid to Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and first lady Olena Zelenska have sat down with Good Morning America to discuss the \u201cvictory plan\u201d the Ukrainian leader is to present to the US President Joe Biden during his diplomatic visit to the US this week. Zelenskyy said the plan is not about negotiating with Russia, but finding a way of ending the conflict diplomatically. \u201cOnly with a strong position we can speak,\u201d he said, stressing that asking western allies to bolster Ukrainian defences will help force Russia into stopping the war. Zelenskyy said he wants to discuss the plan with both presidential candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, along with Biden. \u201cI would want that no matter who is elected that Ukraine does not suffer,\u201d he told Good Morning America. His comments come after Trump claimed in a speech on Monday that Zelenskyy wants the Democrats to in the US presidential election in November. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, during a visit to Russia next month to attend the Brics summit, a government spokesperson shas aid. The visit to the Brics summit in the Volga valley city of Kazan from 22 October to 24 will be Pezeshkian\u2019s first to Russia since he took office in late July. \u201cThe president will visit the Russian Federation and participate in the BRICS summit,\u201d Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani told reporters. He \u201cwill also hold bilateral meetings with the president of Russia,\u201d she added. The spokesperson said that a \u201cstrategic partnership agreement\u201d between Iran and Russia \u201cis almost finalised\u201d, without elaborating on the details. The two governments, which both face sweeping western sanctions, have forged strong ties in various sectors, including military cooperation. The latest sanctions, targeting Iran\u2019s air transport links, were imposed over its alleged supply of ballistic missiles to Russia for use in its war in Ukraine, something Tehran denies. In 2006, Brazil, Russia, India and China created the Bric group to challenge a world order dominated by the west. South Africa joined in 2010, making it Brics. Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates became members at the beginning of this year. An invitation to join Nato is part of Ukraine\u2019s so-called \u201cvictory plan\u201d, the head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak confirmed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to present a \u201cplan for victory\u201d in the war to the US president, Joe Biden, during this week\u2019s visit to the US. The plan, details of which Zelenskyy has so far publicly held back, appears to be a big push from the Ukrainian leader to try to persuade Washington and other allies to provide further and deeper aid to his country in an effort to force Moscow to end the conflict on terms acceptable to Kyiv. Ukrainian officials have suggested that Russia could eventually be invited to a summit to discuss a resolution to the conflict under the new plan. \u201cUkraine\u2019s invitation to Nato is part of the victory plan,\u201d Yermak wrote on Telegram on Tuesday. The Kyiv Independent reports that Ukraine would ask for Nato membership within the months, not years, though this has not officially been confirmed by Kyiv. Yermak said Zelenskyy\u2019s plan \u201ccontains a clear vision of the steps that must be taken to ensure a just and lasting peace\u201d, adding that it contains both diplomatic and military terms. He said Ukraine must have the tactical advantage on the battlefield for Moscow to stop its war. Despite stopping Russian advances in \u201cmost directions\u201d, Yermak said Ukrainian forces still lacked sufficient resources and technology to produce \u201ceverything we need\u201d. Ukraine is urging its allies to increase and speed up the delivery of military aid packages, including drones, long-range systems and artillery shells. After Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked for his country to be admitted to Nato, the 32-member defensive alliance, as soon as possible. Jens Stoltenberg, the outgoing Nato secretary general, said Ukraine\u2019s membership to Nato is not a \u201cquestion of if, but when\u201d, though he said Ukraine would not become a member during the war with Russia. In an earlier post, we mentioned that the Kremlin\u2019s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, was asked what Russia\u2019s response to a possible decision by the west to allow Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with western missiles would be. Here is some more of what Peskov told journalists at the briefing: Please re-listen and re-read the statements that the president has made on this issue \u2013 I mean on the topic of possible permission for the use of western weapons deep into the territory of Russia. The statement that the president made in St. Petersburg. The position of the Russian Federation is very clearly stated there. Russia would be forced to take what Russian President Vladimir Putin called \u201cappropriate decisions\u201d based on the new threats. Peskov did not specify what these \u201cdecisions\u201d would be, but he has previously spoken of the option of arming the west\u2019s enemies with Russian weapons to strike western targets abroad. Speaking in St. Petersburg on 12 September, Putin had said: \u201cIf this decision (on missiles) is taken, it will mean nothing less than the direct involvement of Nato countries, the United States and European countries in the war in Ukraine. This will be their direct participation, and this, of course, will significantly change the very essence, the very nature of the conflict.\u201d Ukraine\u2019s President Voldymyr Zelenskyy called on the US president, Joe Biden again on Saturday to allow Ukraine to carry out long-range strikes inside Russia. He wants to be able to use British, French and Italian Storm Shadow missiles, as well as US-made Atacms to hit airbases and other military targets inside Russia. Russia plans to maintain defence spending at an historic high in 2025, Bloomberg News reports, suggesting that the Kremlin intend to continue its invasion of Ukraine for the foreseeable future. The Kremlin is increasing up the spending as its forces slowly advance in eastern Ukraine. The Russian government has raised personal and corporate taxes to plug holes in the budget. Here is an excerpt of the Bloomberg article, which you can read in full here if you have a subscription: Draft three-year budget proposals seen by Bloomberg News show the government intends to increase defense spending to 13.2tn rubles ($142bn) in 2025 from 10.4tn rubles projected for this year, putting it at 6.2% of gross domestic product. Military expenditure is planned to decline to 5.6% of GDP in 2026 and 5.1% in 2027, according to Bloomberg calculations based on the draft data. Spending on national defense and domestic security is projected to consume around 40% of Russia\u2019s total budget disbursement in 2025 as Putin continues to shift the economy to a war footing with the invasion of Ukraine already deep into its third year. That\u2019s greater than the combined allocation for education, health care, social policies and the national economy, according to the budget draft that\u2019s likely to be submitted to Russia\u2019s parliament soon. One person has been killed and two others injured by a Russian attack in which guided aerial bombs were used on the eastern Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka, the Dontesk regional governor, Vadym Filashkin, said. The attack this morning damaged two unspecified infrastructure facilities, Filashkin said. The eastern town lies about 12 kilometers (8 miles) from Chasiv Yar, a stragetically important town on high ground where Ukrainian forces are attempting to stave off Russian westward advances. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has been giving his regular briefing to journalists. Here are some of the highlights from what he said: Peskov said Russia has no alternative but to achieve all of its aims in its war in Ukraine (what the Kremlin frames as its \u201cspecial military operation\u201d). He said that as soon as the aims were achieved, the conflict would end. Vladimir Putin will today hold talks with German Gref, the CEO of Russia\u2019s largest lender Sberbank. It is not clear what the agenda for the meeting is. Peskov said people should re-listen to Putin\u2019s statements in St Petersburg to understand Russia\u2019s response to a possible decision by the west to allow Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with western missiles. In St Petersburg in June, Putin said he could deploy conventional missiles within striking distance of the US and its European allies if they allowed Ukraine to strike deeper into Russia with long-range western weapons. In an interview with the New York Times published yesterday, Petr Pavel, the Czech president, said that Ukraine \u201cwill have to be realistic\u201d about its prospects of recovering territory occupied by Russia. \u201cThe most probable outcome of the war will be that a part of Ukrainian territory will be under Russian occupation, temporarily,\u201d he said. Pavel, a former senior Nato general that has been a staunch supporter of Ukraine during the full-scale Russian invasion, said that \u201ctemporary thing\u201d could last years. Pavel said there were \u201ca number of examples\u201d of territories held temporarily by Moscow, without specifying what ones. Pavel told the New York Times that a defeat of either Ukraine or Russia \u201cwill simply not happen\u201d, adding that the end of the war would probably be \u201csomewhere in between\u201d. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for a withdrawal of all Russian troops, the restoration of Ukraine\u2019s post-Soviet borders and a means to bring Russia to account for its full-scale invasion, which was launched in February 2022. Zelenskyy, who had refused to engage in direct talks with Russia, seemed to pivot slightly over the summer, indicating that direct talks with Moscow could begin as soon as November. Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has triggered a significant rise in homelessness, according to a new report, with almost a quarter of those sleeping rough or in emergency shelters people who have had to flee from their homes. The exact number of homeless people in Ukraine is not known, but the charity Depaul International surveyed more than 200 people living on the street or in emergency shelters. The findings highlight the war\u2019s profound toll on Ukraine\u2019s civilians, with more than 3.5 million people internally displaced since the conflict started. Many of the 6.2 million Ukrainian refugees across Europe are also at risk of homelessness. Anna Skoryk, the interim chief executive of Depaul Ukraine, told the Guardian: \u201cEvery day more people lose their homes because of occupation, shelling or because they\u2019re close to the frontline. We cannot help everyone alone.\u201d The UN reported in February that 2m homes had been destroyed or damaged. Meanwhile, Russian forces continue to advance in eastern Ukraine, prompting the evacuation from Pokrovsk of about 20,000 people in the past month. You can read the full story by my colleague, Liz Cookman, here: Russia\u2019s overnight attack on Ukraine\u2019s central Poltava region damaged energy infrastructure which cut power to 20 settlements, local authorities have said. The attack also damaged several private residences in the region without causing any casualties, Poltava\u2019s regional governor said. Volodymr Zelenskyy held talks in New York with German, Indian and Japanese leaders on Monday trying to shore up support for Kyiv\u2019s war efforts. \u201cWe talked about how to make a just peace closer,\u201d the Ukrainian president said on Telegram after meeting with German chancellor Olaf Scholz. \u201cThe main thing is to maintain unity\u201d, he said, adding that he had discussed energy aid with the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, and that Delhi and Kyiv were \u201cdynamically developing\u201d their relations after a meeting with prime minister Narendra Modi. Here are some pictures of Zelenskyy from yesterday: We mentioned reports of Russian airstrikes on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, a frequent target for attacks, in the opening summary. Here is the latest on the situation there. Ukraine\u2019s state emergency service said that one man was killed and six injured, including a 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy, by \u201cmassive\u201d Russian airstrikes on the city over the course of two hours after 9pm local time on Monday evening. Airstrikes and drones set fire to an infrastructure facility and residential buildings, the regional governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram. A municipal official, Regina Kharchenko, said that 74 blocks of flats and 24 private houses were damaged in various districts of the city. Ukraine\u2019s presidential adviser Vladyslav Vlasiuk has been speaking to journalists. In comments carried by Reuters, he said that 60% of the foreign parts found in Russian weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine come via China. He said: If you take all the usual types of weapons and count the foreign made components \u2013 about 60% would be coming from China. We have had lengthy discussions with some manufacturers about this. The PRC (China) is the biggest problem I would say. At a summit in Washington over the summer, Nato accused Beijing of becoming \u201ca decisive enabler of Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine\u201d and demanded China halt shipments of \u201cweapons components\u201d and other technology vital to the Russian military. The final communique, approved by the 32 Nato members at the summit, also said that Beijing had become a large-scale supporter of Russia\u2019s \u201cdefence industrial base\u201d. \u201cThis includes the transfer of dual-use materials, such as weapons components, equipment, and raw materials that serve as inputs for Russia\u2019s defence sector,\u201d the declaration said. Beijing has denied providing direct military aid to Russia and has presented itself as a mediator trying to bring Moscow and Kyiv to the table to agree to a peace plan. We are restarting our live coverage of Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine and will give you the latest updates throughout the day. Here are the latest developments: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he believes the war with Russia is \u201ccloser to the end\u201d than many believe and called on allies to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s army. In excerpts of an interview with ABC News\u2019 Good Morning America, set to be broadcast in full on Tuesday, the president said: \u201cI think that we are closer to the peace than we think \u2026 We are closer to the end of the war.\u201d He added: \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re asking our friends, our allies, to strengthen us. It\u2019s very important.\u201d Zelenskyy told ABC that Vladimir Putin is \u201cafraid\u201d of Ukraine\u2019s Kursk operation, in which it has taken more than 1,000 square km of Russian territory. Zelenskyy is in the US to attend sessions at the UN general assembly as well as to present a \u201cvictory plan\u201d to US President Joe Biden and presidential hopefuls Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. After a bipartisan meeting with members of the US Congress, Zelenskyy said \u201cdecisive action now could hasten the just end of Russian aggression against Ukraine next year\u201d. The US played a \u201ccritical role\u201d in protecting freedom around the world, he said in a Telegram post, and praised the US Congress and both main parties for their \u201cunwavering commitment to this cause\u201d. His comments came as Republican presidential candidate Trump suggested Zelenskyy wanted Harris to win the November election. \u201cI think Zelenskyy is the greatest salesman in history. Every time he comes into the country, he walks away with 60 billion dollars,\u201d Trump said at a rally in Pennsylvania. \u201cHe wants them [the Democrats] to win this election so badly.\u201d Trump said if he wins the election, he would call Putin and Zelenskyy and urge them to reach a deal to end the war. Zelenskyy also held talks in New York with German, Indian and Japanese leaders on Monday trying to shore up support for Kyiv\u2019s war efforts. \u201cWe talked about how to make a just peace closer,\u201d Zelenskiy said on his Telegram messaging app after meeting with German chancellor Olaf Scholz. \u201cThe main thing is to maintain unity.\u201d He said he had discussed energy aid with Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida, and that Delhi and Kyiv were \u201cdynamically developing\u201d their relations after a meeting with prime minister Narendra Modi. Jails controlled by Russia are deliberately withholding medical care for Ukrainian prisoners, with doctors in one prison even taking part in what it called \u201ctorture\u201d, according to a commission mandated by the UN rights council. The commission, set up by the Human Rights Council to investigate violations in Ukraine since Russia\u2019s invasion, had already concluded that Moscow\u2019s occupying forces were using torture \u201csystematically\u201d. But in his oral report to the council, commission chair Erik Mose said torture had become a \u201ccommon and acceptable practice\u201d, with Russian authorities acting with \u201ca sense of impunity\u201d. Russian forces launched the latest of a series of strikes on Ukraine\u2019s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia on Monday evening, killing one person, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said. A city official, quoted by public broadcaster Suspilne, put the injury toll at five, including a 13-year-old girl. Strikes on the city earlier in the day and the previous night wounded at least 23. Russian forces have begun storming the eastern Ukrainian town of Vuhledar, a stronghold that has resisted Russian attack since the beginning of the war, according to Russian war bloggers and state media. Russian state media said the hilltop town in the Donetsk region, which some cast as a fortress due to its enduring resistance to Russian attack, was caught in a pincer movement by Russian forces and that battles were under way in the east of the settlement. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the UN general assembly, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said it was clear that Russia was receiving new weapons, including Iranian missiles despite Tehran\u2019s repeated denials."
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    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Equality \u2018downgrade\u2019 in European Commission dismays rights groups;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/equality-downgrade-european-commission-rights-groups-ursula-von-der-leyen;2024-09-24T14:00:56Z",
        "text": "More than 50 rights organisations from across Europe have expressed their \u201cshock and dismay\u201d at Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s decision to do away with the standalone EU position of equality commissioner, describing it as a \u201cdowngrading\u201d of the fight against discrimination. Von der Leyen presented her lineup for the new commission in Brussels earlier this month. Her 27 commissioner designates \u2013 senior EU officials who hold positions akin to government ministers \u2013 included Hadja Lahbib, currently Belgium\u2019s foreign minister, who was tasked with a portfolio that spans preparedness and crisis management as well as equality. The announcement, which marked a stark change in tone from 2019 when von der Leyen announced the EU\u2019s first ever commissioner for equality, was swiftly criticised. \u201cThis is unacceptable,\u201d the European Women\u2019s Lobby said on social media. \u201cEquality deserves its own commissioner, not just a footnote in an overloaded portfolio.\u201d The European Disability Forum said the decision set a \u201cdangerous precedent\u201d by rolling back previous achievements. \u201cWe are outraged by this downgrade,\u201d said Yannis Vardakastanis, of the forum. \u201cIt is a slap in the face for millions of people and risks all the progress that the commission has made so far regarding our rights.\u201d In the previous commission, also led by von der Leyen, the decision to launch a commission focused solely on equality was cited as proof that creating a more equal EU was a major priority for her. The commission was tasked with charting out strategies that ranged from gender inclusion to anti-racism plans and LGBTIQ equality. The appointments for von der Leyen\u2019s new team, which veers to the right after far-right parties surged in the recent EU elections, still need to be approved by the European parliament. Katrin Langensiepen, a German Green who describes herself as the only female MEP with a visible disability in the parliament, called von der Leyen\u2019s decision to sideline equality \u201calarming\u201d at a time when rights were being steadily eroded. \u201cWith this decision, von der Leyen has made it clear that equality is not a priority for her,\u201d Langensiepen said. \u201cEspecially in times when we are experiencing a gender backlash, marginalised groups are being attacked and diversity is not a matter of course, equality should have been at the top of the commission\u2019s list.\u201d The view was backed this week by 57 civil society organisations who signed an open letter expressing their fear that the combined portfolio would lead to equality issues being eclipsed by crisis management. \u201cThis new configuration risks undermining the consistent and diligent implementation of the equality agenda, as crises like pandemics, wars and economic or environmental disasters will likely dominate the commissioner\u2019s time and focus,\u201d the letter says. It points to von der Leyen\u2019s delay in announcing her commissioners as she scrambled to put together a gender-balanced team. At the end of a long, drawn-out process of negotiation, four of the six powerful vice-president nominees are women, while the overall team of EU commissioners is 40% female. \u201cWe were hopeful that this signalled a commitment to strengthen the equality portfolio,\u201d the letter says. \u201cInstead, we are disappointed that this delay appears to have been more of a performative gesture regarding an expected \u2018gender quota\u2019 than a genuine commitment to substance.\u201d Signed by groups whose work ranges from combating poverty and homelessness to protecting LGBTQ+ rights, the letter calls for clarification on how the wide-ranging portfolio would work and whether it would be equipped with the resources and capacity needed to protect and advance equality. Several of the signatories are Roma rights groups, whose efforts to deal with challenges such as accessing decent housing and segregation have been imperilled by the lack of any MEPs who identify as Roma in the new parliament. Sabine Saliba, of Eurochild, said the mixed portfolio could also jeopardise efforts to protect the rights of children, including those with disabilities, Roma children and children with a migrant background. \u201cConsidering global conflicts, the increasing effects of climate change and the importance of non-discrimination policies, we believe these issues warrant more focused attention,\u201d she said. Age Platform Europe, a network of organisations protecting the rights of older people, said it was particularly concerned that the mandate letter for the portfolio made no mention of the fight against age discrimination. This omission was a \u201cclear downgrade\u201d from the mandate of the past commissioner, said Maciej Kucharczyk, of the platform. \u201cAt a time when inequalities are increasing in our societies across all population and age groups, the EU must step up \u2013 not scale down \u2013 its efforts.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Fresh Egypt arms shipment to Somalia raises regional tensions;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/fresh-egypt-arms-shipment-to-somalia-raises-regional-tensions-ethiopia;2024-09-24T13:28:55Z",
        "text": "Egypt has sent a second arms shipment to Somalia\u2019s federal government in the space of a month, drawing criticism from its longstanding rival Ethiopia, amid concern about rising tensions in the Horn of Africa. Egypt\u2019s foreign ministry confirmed that a shipment had been sent, which it said was intended to \u201cbuild the capabilities of the Somali army\u201d to \u201cachieve security and stability, combat terrorism, and uphold its sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity\u201d. Ethiopia\u2019s foreign minister, Taye Atske Selassie, said he was concerned that \u201cexternal forces would further exacerbate a fragile security\u201d situation and that the weapons could end up in the hands of terrorists. In a post on X, Somalia\u2019s state minister for foreign affairs, Ali Omar said: \u201cSurprised to see Ethiopia raising concerns over Somalia receiving arms to defend its sovereignty and combat terror.\u201d Egypt has been locked in a long-running dispute with Ethiopia over the latter\u2019s construction of a major dam on the Blue Nile, which provides 95% of its fresh water. Somalia has meanwhile fallen out with Ethiopia over a memorandum Ethiopia signed with the breakaway region of Somaliland to lease a portion of its coast, describing it as an attempt to \u201cannex\u201d its territory. The two issues, previously separate, have bled into each other as Egypt and Somalia increasingly coordinate their efforts against Ethiopia over their respective water disputes. \u201cThese are all states which are fiscally at their limit,\u201d said Harry Verhoeven, an expert on infrastructure and energy in the Horn of Africa. He added that the posturing carried a risk that things could get out of hand in a region already struggling with multiple conflicts. \u201cPoliticians know the fires they start and they can\u2019t always control them.\u201d More than 20 million people are already internally displaced across east Africa, according to the International Migration Organisation, owing to conflict and extreme weather. In a statement posted on X, Somaliland, which has governed itself since it declared independence from Somalia in 1991, warned that the weapons deliveries risked triggering an \u201carms race\u201d that could jeopardise regional security. Somaliland and Ethiopia signed a memorandum of understanding in January that has upended the region\u2019s fragile status quo. The full details of what was agreed remain murky, causing one western diplomat to dub it a \u201cmemorandum of misunderstanding\u201d, but Somaliland has said Ethiopia would become the first country to recognise its independence, while Ethiopia would be granted sea access on its coast. Ethiopia became landlocked in the early 1990s when Eritrean rebels declared independence in the north and has long sought alternative routes through other coastal neighbours. The pact could set the stage for Addis Ababa to re-emerge as a maritime power in the future as Houthi attacks on Israeli and American ships in the Red Sea highlight the dangers of over-reliance on Djibouti, which carries virtually all of Ethiopia\u2019s international trade. The deal has infuriated officials in Mogadishu, who fear it could cut the country in two and provide Ethiopia a permanent naval base on its territory. Speaking at a conference earlier this month, Ethiopia\u2019s intelligence chief, Redwan Hussien, confirmed Somali fears when he said Ethiopia was not only seeking commercial access to ports and lamented previous episodes in Ethiopian history when the country failed to stake a claim to the Horn of Africa\u2019s coast. \u201cNow is the right time to fulfil it and have access to the sea,\u201d he said. Somalia initially opted for diplomatic means to thwart the deal but has dialled up the rhetoric and hardened its position over the summer. In an audience Q&amp;A on a local news channel this month, Somalia\u2019s foreign minister, Ahmed Moalim Fiqi, said his government would consider supporting rebels fighting Ethiopia if it implemented the deal. \u201cWe have not reached that stage, there is a hope there will be a solution. But it is a path open to us,\u201d Fiqi said. Somalia has also drawn Egypt into the standoff. It fears that Ethiopia\u2019s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam (Gerd) along the Blue Nile, the largest hydroelectric dam in Africa, threatens its water security. Attempts by Egypt and Ethiopia to reach an agreement have failed and in a letter to the UN security council, Egypt\u2019s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, said Ethiopia had used negotiations as a cover and that Egypt would take its own measures to preserve its interests. The military pact agreed between Cairo and Mogadishu, signed in mid-August, has paved the way for Egypt to join the UN-backed African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia\u2019s fight against the al-Qaida-affiliated al-Shabaab group. The mandate for the African Union transition mission in Somalia is set to expire at the end of this year, and Egypt has muscled in to create a role for itself in its successor, the AU support and stabilisation mission in Somalia. The deepening cooperation between Cairo and Mogadishu has rattled officials in Ethiopia, who have been careful not to name Egypt in their public statements but have frequently referred to \u201cexternal actors aiming to destabilise the region\u201d. In January, after the visit to Cairo of the Somali president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, first visit of the year to Cairo, Redwan, Ethiopia\u2019s intelligence director, appealed to his Somali counterparts, warning that Egypt\u2019s motivation in Somalia was \u201cnot amity towards Somalia but animosity towards Ethiopia\u201d. Redwan added that Ethiopia had demonstrated its commitment to Somalia\u2019s security through the \u201cblood and sweat\u201d of its troops, which have been deployed to Somalia on a bilateral basis and with AU peacekeeping forces for over a decade against al-Shabaab. The memorandum between Ethiopia and Somaliland has been met with widespread international criticism, with the Arab League, the European Union and most recently the US expressing their objections. Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia\u2019s prime minister, has addressed the issues of sea access and the use of the Nile in existential terms for his country and views both projects as linchpins of his plans to drive growth in Ethiopia and turn it into a manufacturing power. External attempts to diffuse the situation have failed to deliver a breakthrough. In late August, Djibouti\u2019s foreign minister, Mohamud Ali Youssouf, said in an interview with Voice of America that his country offered Ethiopia commercial access to another port along its coast but not military access and was still waiting for a response. Two rounds of indirect talks in Ankara mediated by Turkey, which has strong ties to both governments, have also failed to bear fruit. Somalia has demanded that Ethiopia rescind the memorandum before direct talks can take place."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Austria elections: could the far-right FP\u00d6 take power and what are its plans?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/austria-elections-could-the-far-right-fpo-take-power-and-what-are-its-plans;2024-09-24T13:00:29Z",
        "text": "Austrians head to the polls on Sunday for parliamentary elections that polling suggests are likely to be won, for the first time in the country\u2019s postwar history, by the far-right, anti-immigration Freedom party (FP\u00d6). The FP\u00d6 is unlikely to secure an outright majority in the 183-seat Nationalrat (National Council), the lower house of the parliament, however, and so would need to negotiate an agreement with a coalition partner to form a government, which may not be easy. The FP\u00d6\u2019s first entry into government in 2000 was met with widespread protests and sanctions from Brussels. If it repeats the feat \u2013 possibly as the lead coalition partner \u2013 it would now join several other far-right parties in power in the EU, including in Italy and the Netherlands. What is the FP\u00d6? One of Europe\u2019s oldest far-right parties, the FP\u00d6 was founded in 1956. Despite being initially headed by a former Nazi functionary and SS officer, it was a relatively moderate liberal party until the mid-1980s, when it veered radically right under the firebrand leader J\u00f6rg Haider. The party has twice been the junior partner in short-lived coalition governments with the conservative Austrian People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP), after finishing second in the parliamentary elections of 1999 with 27% of the vote and third in 2017 with 26% of the vote. Both coalitions ended early. Bitter FP\u00d6 infighting led to the collapse of the first in 2002, and the so-called Ibizagate scandal in 2019 forced the resignation of the party\u2019s then leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, and torpedoed the second after 18 months in office. What is its programme? Now led by the controversial former interior minister Herbert Kickl, the FP\u00d6 is nativist, anti-immigration, hostile to Islam and staunchly Eurosceptic. One of its MEPs, Harald Vilimsky, has described its electoral mission as \u201ckicking the establishment in the butt\u201d. The FP\u00d6\u2019s programme, \u201cFortress Austria, Fortress of Freedom\u201d, plans to cut provision for irregular migrants and asylum seekers to a bare minimum, block family reunification for migrants already in Austria, and promote \u201cremigration\u201d, particularly for offenders. It also wants to cut corporate tax and wage costs, and in foreign policy it is opposed to EU sanctions against Russia and further aid to Ukraine. The FP\u00d6 has signed and renewed a \u201ccooperation agreement\u201d with Vladimir Putin\u2019s United Russia party. Who else is running and what do the polls say? Polling at between 27% and 29%, the FP\u00d6 has been ahead since late 2022, finished first in May\u2019s European elections, and leads the centre-right \u00d6VP (25-26%) of the outgoing chancellor, Karl Nehammer, by about three points. In third place are the Social Democrats (SP\u00d6), the traditional centre-left party, on 20-21%, followed at some distance by the liberals of NEOS-New Austria on about 10% and the Greens (part of the outgoing government coalition) on about 7%. Polls suggest two other parties could qualify for seats in the assembly: the Beer party, led by the lead singer of the punk band Turbobier who wants \u201cpolitics depoliticised\u201d (4%), and the Communist party (KP\u00d6), which has not had an MP since the 1950s but is on 3%. What have been the election\u2019s key issues? The cost of living has been a major voter concern, with Austria\u2019s headline inflation rate stuck for nearly two years above the average for the 27-member EU, growth consistently below it, and the far right blaming migration and the war in Ukraine. Tougher immigration rules feature \u2013 to varying degrees \u2013 in the manifestos of all three main parties, while security has become an issue since Vienna police said last month they had foiled a plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert. Three suspects in the case are the teenage sons of immigrants. Widespread flooding that killed five people in Austria this month has pushed the climate up the agenda (and slightly boosted the \u00d6VP). Austria still depends heavily on Russian gas and is under mounting pressure to reduce its consumption. What kind of government could emerge? His many critics say Kickl, 55, uses Nazi-era tropes (which he denies), is close to Moscow, will seriously upset relations with Brussels and is generally too toxic to work with \u2013 or at least to work under, which may prove a vital distinction. Kickl and other FP\u00d6 figures have been under investigation since April for allegedly using public funds while in government to take out media ads in exchange for favourable party coverage. The party has said the advertising was taken out for \u201cproper reasons\u201d. The \u00d6VP\u2019s Nehammer has ruled out joining a government headed by the FP\u00d6 leader, saying Kickl is far more radical than his predecessors. Austria\u2019s president, Alexander van der Bellen, has also criticised Kickl and noted he is not obliged to name him chancellor if the FP\u00d6 wins. The \u00d6VP could consider going into coalition with the far-right party if Kickl were prepared to let someone else be prime minister (as the Dutch far-right leader, Geert Wilders, did earlier this year), but Kickl has so far given no hint that he would be open to this. An \u00d6VP victory also remains possible, in which case a coalition with the FP\u00d6 may be more likely: the two parties have governed together before, their positions \u2013 especially on the economy and immigration \u2013 are not far apart, and Kickl would have no claim to be PM. In any event, polls suggest the centre-right party is likely to be kingmaker, able to choose between a coalition \u2013 on its preferred terms \u2013 with the FP\u00d6, or a possible three-way alliance with the centre-left SP\u00d6 and either the Greens or the liberals of NEOS. When will we know the result? Polling stations close at 5pm CET and usually highly reliable projections are released soon after. The result is usually almost certain by the end of the evening, after all but postal ballots are counted. The final count including postal votes can take another day or two. Van der Bellen, a former leader of the Greens, asks a party \u2013 usually, but not necessarily, the largest in the new parliament \u2013 to form a government, and negotiations on a detailed coalition agreement could take several weeks or even months."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Man confessing on TV to mother\u2019s murder starts media ethics row in Italy;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/man-confessing-mother-murder-media-ethics-italy-lorenzo-carbone;2024-09-24T12:55:40Z",
        "text": "The broadcast of a TV interview in which a man confessed to a news reporter that he had murdered his mother has caused a row over media ethics in Italy. Lorenzo Carbone, 50, made the confession outside his home in Spezzano di Fiorano, a town in the province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region, during the interview aired on the Mediaset talkshow Pomeriggio5 on Monday afternoon. Visibly distressed, he replied to questions from the reporter Fabio Giuffrida. Carbone said his mother had been living with dementia and that he \u201ccouldn\u2019t take it any longer\u201d. \u201cI strangled her, I don\u2019t know why I did it. Every now and then she made me angry as she kept repeating herself.\u201d Police had been searching for him since Sunday, when the body of Loretta Levrini was found in her bed by her daughter. Carbone said he fled to Pavullo, a nearby town, where he walked the streets before returning to the home he had shared with his mother. The journalist, whose crew had found the murder suspect outside his home by chance during their coverage of the story, immediately called the police. Tagged \u201cExclusive\u201d, the interview, along with Carbone\u2019s arrest on suspicion of murder, was broadcast a few minutes later on the show presented by Myrta Merlino. Merlino came under fire for choosing to run the interview. \u201cWhat happened today on Pomeriggio5 is very serious,\u201d Gaia Tortora, the deputy director of the TV channel TG La7, wrote on X. \u201cThis is not our job. Tearing up the code of ethics, we are hitting rock bottom.\u201d Ermes Antonucci, a journalist with Il Foglio newspaper, questioned the need to broadcast an interview \u201cwith a man in an evident state of confusion\u201d. \u201cWasn\u2019t it enough to call the police, as was fortunately done, and then explain what happened, without airing the video? The media circus has reached a real low point.\u201d Merlino told Corriere della Sera she had \u201creasoned as a journalist\u201d in choosing to air the video and would do the same again. \u201cI received a call from the correspondent a few minutes before going live,\u201d she added. \u201cI had little time to decide. I only care about one thing: that it doesn\u2019t damage the investigation. The man was wanted. The police were called and authorised me to broadcast the images of the interview.\u201d The interview was broadcast on the same day a high-profile femicide trial opened in Venice after the brutal murder of the university student Giulia Cecchettin, 22, in November last year. Her former partner, Filippo Turetta, has previously confessed before a judge to the murder. Official statistics show that a woman is killed every three days in Italy."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israeli strikes on Lebanon continue as Iran says Hezbollah \u2018cannot stand alone\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-iran-united-nations;2024-09-24T10:52:41Z",
        "text": "Thousands of Lebanese people fled the continuing bombing in the country\u2019s south on Tuesday as Israel said it was conducting \u201cextensive strikes\u201d on Hezbollah targets, including on the southern suburbs of Beirut, for the second day in a row and third time this week. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed to maintain the offensive against Hezbollah and said the group\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was leading Lebanon \u201cto the edge of the abyss\u201d while world leaders meeting at the United Nations general assembly in New York called for the de-escalation of the conflict, which has claimed hundreds of lives this week. \u201cI say to the people of Lebanon: Our war is not with you. Our war is with Hezbollah,\u201d Netanyahu said on Tuesday afternoon, speaking at an Israeli military intelligence base. \u201cI told you yesterday to evacuate homes in which there is a missile in the living room and a rocket in the garage. Whoever [does not] will no longer have a home.\u201d The new strike in Dahieh, Hezbollah\u2019s stronghold in the Lebanese capital, was typical of those which have targeted leaders of the group over recent months. A missile hit the top floor of an apartment building in the Ghobeiri neighbourhood, with images of the strike showing a collapsed roof with a large smoke cloud billowing from it. Videos posted to social media showed crowds of people gathered in a rubble-filled street and badly burned human remains. \u201cThis is the aggression of Israel. This is Israel! Don\u2019t you see what they are doing to us? Despite all of this, we will wipe them from the earth,\u201d a man screamed in the video. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said in a statement that the \u201cIsraeli enemy raid on Ghobeiri in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs killed six people and injured 15\u201d. Israel\u2019s military said the attack had killed Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi, also known as Abu Issa, the commander of Hezbollah\u2019s rocket and missile division. Israel struck hundreds of Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon overnight and during Tuesday, with the death toll from the recent wave of attacks now nearing 560 people. Hezbollah, which is sponsored by Iran, said it had targeted several Israeli military targets including an explosives factory about 35 miles (56km) into Israel and the Megiddo airfield near the town of Afula, which it attacked three separate times. Officials in Israel said more than 50 missiles and rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern parts of the country on Tuesday morning, most of which were intercepted. The fighting has raised fears that the US, Israel\u2019s close ally, and Iran will be drawn into a wider conflict. On Tuesday Iran\u2019s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, expressed fears of a regional conflagration but said Hezbollah, which Iran helped to found in 1983, \u201ccannot stand alone\u201d against Israel. \u201cHebzollah cannot stand alone against a country that is being defended and supported and supplied by western countries, by European countries and the United States,\u201d Pezeshkian told CNN. The EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, described the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah as almost a \u201cfull-fledged war\u201d, as world leaders gathered in New York for the opening of the 79th UN general assembly. Israel\u2019s UN ambassador said on Tuesday it was exploring \u201cconcrete ideas\u201d for de-escalating the conflict. \u201cAs we speak there are important forces trying to come up with ideas and we are open-minded for that,\u201d Danny Danon told reporters. \u201cWe are not eager to start any ground invasion anywhere ... We prefer a diplomatic solution.\u201d But diplomatic efforts appear to have had little impact so far, with Lebanon recording more casualties on Monday than in any other single day since the 15-year civil war that started in 1975. Israeli officials have said the recent rise in airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon is designed to force the group to agree to a diplomatic solution, cease its own attacks on Israel or unilaterally withdraw its forces from close to the contested border. Many experts and officials question the assumption that air power or other military operations can achieve such strategic aims. Others point out that Hezbollah has repeatedly pledged to stop firing into Israel if there is a ceasefire in Gaza. About 60,000 people were evacuated from northern Israel in the days after the 7 October raid by Hamas into southern Israel that triggered the current conflict, and they have been prevented from returning by the ongoing exchanges of fire across the contested border with Lebanon. In Lebanon, approximately 100,000 people had been displaced even before the escalation of the conflict in recent days. Yoav Gallant, Israel\u2019s defence minister, has said the campaign of airstrikes will continue until the residents are back in their homes. \u201cThis is the most difficult week for Hezbollah since its establishment \u2013 the results speak for themselves,\u201d Gallant said. \u201cEntire units were taken out of battle as a result of the activities conducted at the beginning of the week in which numerous terrorists were injured.\u201d The Israeli military said Israeli strikes had hit long-range cruise missiles, heavyweight rockets, short-range rockets and explosive drones. Though Hezbollah has remained defiant, the groupwas already reeling from heavy losses last week when thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by its members exploded. That operation killed 42 and wounded several thousand. It was widely blamed on Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility. In Lebanon, displaced families slept in shelters hastily set up in schools in Beirut and the coastal city of Sidon. With hotels quickly booked to capacity or rooms priced beyond the means of many families, those who did not find shelter slept in their cars, in parks or along the seaside. Fatima Chehab, who came with her three daughters from the area of Nabatieh, said her family had been displaced twice in quick succession. \u201cWe first fled to stay with my brother in a nearby area, and then they bombed three places next to his house,\u201d she said. Some people waited for hours in gridlocked traffic to get to what they hoped would be safety. Issa Baydoun fled the village of Shihine in southern Lebanon when it was bombed and came to Beirut in a convoy of cars with his extended family. They slept in the vehicles on the side of the road after discovering that the shelters were full. He rejected Israel\u2019s contention that it hit only military targets. \u201cWe evacuated our homes because Israel is targeting civilians and attacking them,\u201d Baytown said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we left our homes, to protect our children.\u201d The Israeli military has warned residents in eastern and southern Lebanon to evacuate ahead of its widening air campaign against what it said were Hezbollah weapons sites. Israel and some analysts have said that Hezbollah has deliberately stored missiles and other armaments in homes or other civilian buildings to use local communities as a \u201chuman shield\u201d. Well-wishers in Lebanon offered up empty apartments or rooms in their houses to those displaced in social media posts, while volunteers set up a kitchen at an empty petrol station in Beirut to cook meals for the displaced. In the eastern city of Baalbek, the state-run National News Agency reported that queues formed at bakeries and petrol stations as residents rushed to stock up on essential supplies in anticipation of further airstrikes. Meanwhile, the border crossing with Syria saw big traffic jams as a result of people escaping from Lebanon to the neighbouring country. The Alma Centre, a security research centre in Israel, said Hezbollah had launched more than 300 rockets deep into northern and central parts of the country in the past 24 hours. New alarms warning of rockets sounded in the northern Israeli towns of Kiryat Shmona and Margaliot late on Tuesday afternoon."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;US-UK airstrikes have not seriously hurt Houthis\u2019 capability, says Yemeni leader;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/us-uk-airstrikes-not-hurt-houthi-military-capability-yemen;2024-09-24T10:21:08Z",
        "text": "US-UK airstrikes in Yemen designed to end the Houthi disruption of commercial shipping have not seriously degraded the group\u2019s military capability, the vice-chair of the UN-recognised government in Yemen has said. Aidarous al-Zubaidi told the Guardian in an interview he feared the Houthis were using the strikes to rally support behind their cause by portraying the west as the aggressor in Yemen. Calling for a change to a better coordinated strategy between the west, the region and the Yemeni government, he said it was time to accept that the Houthis were not interested in a power-sharing deal in the country \u2013 an offer made to them more than a year ago, first by Saudi Arabia and then the UN. Zubaidi heads Yemen\u2019s separatist Southern Transitional Council, which holds three seats on the eight-strong Presidential Leadership Council, the Aden-based coalition government opposed to the Houthis. The Houthis are an Iran-backed group that swept to power in the Yemeni capital, Sana\u2019a, a decade ago, driving Saudi-backed forces south towards Aden where they set up their headquarters. They began aerial drone and missile strikes on the Red Sea in November in what they said was solidarity with Palestinians in the war between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. Commercial shipping companies that normally use the Red Sea have been forced to take long and expensive detours around the Cape of Good Hope and to accept higher insurance costs. Operation Prosperity Guardian was established in December largely by the US and UK to protect shipping and strike back at the Houthis. Zubaidi said: \u201cThe airstrikes, instead of deterring the Houthis, are having the opposite effect. In a way, it is helping the Houthis and making them stronger. The local popular perception is that the Houthis occupy the high ground because they are mobilising people around the idea they are being attacked by the UK and the US, and the Houthis are mounting a defence. \u201cWhat is more, these operations are not really effective militarily. The Arab coalition, one way or another, has been attacking Houthi rocket launchers for the past eight years, but the Houthis have been able to adapt and find new solutions on how to hide their capabilities. They have built up resilience. The problem is [there is] no joined up approach involving the region and Presidential Leadership Council. It is a US-British operation alone. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that at the Red Sea ports of Hodeidah and Salif, ships have been arriving without inspection containing high quality weapons from both the Iranians and Russians.\u201d The deliveries had given the Houthis the capability to target Israel, he said. The negative assessment of the impact of Operation Prosperity Guardian from a Yemeni group so opposed to the Houthis will not be easy to dismiss. \u201cEvents over the past year require a shift in thinking. The past peace process is no longer viable,\u201d said Zubaidi, who is in New York as a member of the Yemen government delegation to the UN general assembly. \u201cThe Houthis now regard themselves as the state in Yemen and do not recognise the government in Aden, and say they only want to talk to the west.\u201d He said that after a decade in power the Houthis had indoctrinated a younger generation into its narrow sectarian ideology. \u201cThere is not likely to be an internal counter-revolution against the Houthis soon,\u201d he said. A coordinated international, regional and local strategy to contain and weaken the Houthis was needed, requiring political, military and economic tracks, he said. That must include a strategy to start re-exporting oil and building national revenues independent of Saudi grants, he said. He conceded that the Presidential Leadership Council assembled by the Saudis in April 2022 was politically divided, lacked proper procedural rules and needed reform."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;The murder trial that captivated New Zealand;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/philip-polkinghorne-murder-trial-pauline-hanna-new-zealand-ntwnfb;2024-09-23T23:44:11Z",
        "text": "A successful eye surgeon accused of having a habit for methamphetamine and sex-workers. His wife, found dead at their home in an affluent Auckland suburb. For eight weeks, the trial captivated New Zealand. On Monday, the jury found 71-year-old ophthalmologist Philip Polkinghorne not guilty, bringing an end to a case that gripped the country, filling newspapers and TV bulletins for months. Polkinghorne stood accused of murdering his wife, Pauline Hanna, in 2021. The Crown alleged he fatally strangled her and staged her death to make it look like a suicide. The defence argued that Hanna, an overworked health sector executive, took her own life after struggling with depression. Murder trials are far from uncommon in New Zealand, where there is roughly one homicide every five days, according to police statistics. But in recent years, few cases have attracted the extraordinary degree of public attention as the Polkinghorne trial. Two of the country\u2019s largest news outlets, the New Zealand Herald and Stuff, ran daily live blogs and launched competing podcasts to cover every development, witness by witness, exhibit by exhibit. At the high court in Auckland, the public turned out in droves to watch the proceedings in person, regularly filling the public gallery to capacity, while both podcasts about the trial have climbed to the top three on Spotify\u2019s podcast rankings for New Zealand. James Hollings, an associate professor of journalism at Massey University, says the degree of media attention devoted to the trial was \u201cunusual\u201d, which he attributes to both local media\u2019s push for ratings during an otherwise \u201cquiet news spell\u201d and to the presence of the \u201cclassic features of the celebrity trial\u201d. \u201cIt ticks all the boxes of what makes a trial interesting, which is a high profile person, a mysterious death. It\u2019s got all the sort of tacky details of the sex workers and the double life.\u201d \u2018It will sound shocking\u2019 It all began on the morning of 5 April 2021, when Polkinghorne called police to report that he had found his wife\u2019s body in the couple\u2019s home in the wealthy Auckland suburb of Remuera, apparently hanged. Within an hour of attending the scene, police were treating the death as suspicious, although it took sixteen months for Polkinghorne to be charged with murder. As the trial opened, Crown prosecutor Alysha McClintock told the jury that the doctor was living a \u201cdouble life\u201d, which was becoming \u201charder and harder to keep from his wife\u201d. The Crown case was that a combination of drug use, infidelity and financial problems drove Polkinghorne to kill Hanna. \u201cHe staged the scene to make it look like his wife\u2019s death was a suicide,\u201d McClintock alleged. \u201cIt will sound shocking, like something out of a crime novel.\u201d The fact that Polkinghorne used methamphetamine was not in dispute, with the defendant pleading guilty on the first day of the trial to possessing the drug. While the defence maintained the doctor only used the drug recreationally, the Crown cast him as a \u201cheavy\u201d user whose behaviour was becoming increasingly erratic. An analysis of Polkinghorne\u2019s phone revealed that, in the days after Hanna\u2019s death, Polkinghorne searched \u201cleg edema after strangulation\u201d using a private web browser, and searched for how to delete iCloud storage. The court heard that WhatsApp messages sent minutes before calling police were also deleted, as were phone call logs. A central character in the Crown\u2019s case was Sydney-based escort Madison Ashton, with whom Polkinghorne was found at a luxury South Island lodge less than a month after Hanna\u2019s death. The court heard that Polkinghorne had transferred over $100,000 to Ashton, while messages deleted from Polkinghorne\u2019s phone indicated the pair were in a relationship and were planning for the future. Polkinghorne\u2019s relationship with Ashton wasn\u2019t his only extramarital entanglement. In the five years leading up to Hanna\u2019s death, Polkinghorne transferred a total of $300,000 to six women, three of whom were identified to the jury as sex workers, the court heard. Before her death, Hanna told relatives that she knew of her husband\u2019s infidelity, calling him a \u201csex fiend\u201d who \u201cwants to have sex with everyone\u201d. \u201cHe screws women, and he hurts me, but I know he loves me,\u201d the court heard Hanna say via a recorded conversation. Polkinghorne\u2019s lawyer, Ron Mansfield KC, said the evidence of extramarital affairs and drug use was a distraction, and that the Crown had failed to identify any forensic evidence of a murder. \u201cNo evidence at the scene, no evidence on the body. That would have to be the perfect murder. Can I suggest it\u2019s not. It\u2019s a phantom,\u201d Mansfield told the jury. Two forensic pathologists called by the defence concluded that the likely cause of death was suicide by hanging, both stressing the lack of injuries indicating a violent struggle. Defence witnesses also spoke of Hanna\u2019s struggles with depression. She had attempted suicide in the early 1990s, her sister said, while her GP confirmed Hanna had reported suicidal thoughts in 2019. Other witnesses spoke of the stress that Hanna was under in her job during the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, at times working about 100 hours a week. On Monday, Justice Lang read out a question he had received from the jury, which revealed that most of the jury did not believe there was enough evidence to show that Hanna committed suicide but some did not think the Crown had provided enough evidence to answer whether Polkinghorne had murdered Hanna. Three hours later, the jury returned its verdict: not guilty. Speaking outside court, Polkinghorne said: \u201cWe can now grieve and let Pauline rest in peace.\u201d Lifeline Aotearoa can be reached in New Zealand on 0800 543 354. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org"
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Hezbollah fires missile at Tel Aviv after heavy Israeli strikes on Lebanon;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/25/g-s1-24452/hezbollah-fires-missile-tel-aviv;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 03:23:49 -0400",
        "text": "Hezbollah launched a ballistic missile at Tel Aviv early Wednesday, after Israel carried out strikes on Lebanon that killed hundreds of people and the militants fired rockets across northern Israel."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Haitian group seeks charges against Trump and Vance over false Springfield claims;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/25/g-s1-24436/haitian-group-charges-trump-vance-springfield;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 01:29:36 -0400",
        "text": "Charges brought by private citizens are rare, but not unheard of, in Ohio. State law requires a hearing to take place before the affidavit can move forward."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;U.S. to hand over pest inspections of Mexican avocados to Mexico;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/25/g-s1-24437/us-to-hand-over-pest-inspections-of-mexican-avocados-to-mexico;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 01:12:48 -0400",
        "text": "Threats and violence against inspectors have caused the U.S. to suspend inspections in the past. California growers question Mexico's inspectors would be better equipped to withstand the pressure."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Ryan Routh is charged with attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/24/g-s1-24421/donald-trump-assassination-attempt-charges-ryan-routh;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:41:42 -0400",
        "text": "In addition to attempting to assassinate a presidential candidate, Routh was charged with possessing a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime and assaulting a federal officer."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Going once \u2026 going twice: Alex Jones\u2019 cameras, mics, Infowars show, vitamin site;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/24/g-s1-24410/alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-sandy-hook-judge;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:37:44 -0400",
        "text": "A federal bankruptcy judge has ruled that a plan to sell off the assets of Jones' media company, Free Speech Systems, can move ahead. Net proceeds will go to the Sandy Hook families who Jones defamed."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Trump vows to 'steal' jobs from other countries in winding speech on economic plans;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/24/g-s1-24359/trump-economy-speech-savannah-georgia-tariffs-steal-jobs;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:12:44 -0400",
        "text": "Former President Donald Trump called for a \"manufacturing renaissance\" in a Savannah, Ga. speech on Tuesday, proposing measures some economists say would raise prices on Americans."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;A new poll of young voters shows Harris with a commanding 31 point lead over Trump;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/24/nx-s1-5124957/kamala-harris-donald-trump-young-voters-harvard-youth-poll;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:25:13 -0400",
        "text": "The poll from the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics shows Harris well ahead among likely voters 18 to 29. It\u2019s a promising sign for Harris, who is banking on high levels of youth support."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;US Capitol statue of Johnny Cash depicts Arkansas's history and progress;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/24/nx-s1-5122467/johnny-cash-capitol-statue;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:02:36 -0400",
        "text": "Arkansas unveiled a new statue of Johnny Cash in the U.S. Capitol. Cash, the first musician to be honored in the building, replaces a statue of a Confederate general."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;The state of Maryland sues Dali ship owner and manager over the Key Bridge collapse;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/24/nx-s1-5124788/maryland-lawsuit-against-owners-dali-cargo-ship-baltimore;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:57:57 -0400",
        "text": "State leaders argue that the cargo ship was not fit to sail on March 26, and its owner, Grace Ocean Private Limited, and manager, Synergy Marine Group, failed to take precautions to prevent the crash."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;How Do Russians Really Feel About the War in Ukraine?;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/24/1201394721/how-do-russians-really-feel-about-the-war-in-ukraine;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:49:16 -0400",
        "text": "In Russia, polls consistently show support for the war in Ukraine somewhere around 70%. But a recent independent study of Russians' opinions indicates the picture is more complex. We hear more from our correspondent in Moscow. <br /><br />And in Ukraine, couples who are separated by the war can now propose and get married online over an app. The service is so popular there is a months-long wait for virtual ceremonies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;The \u2018brilliant\u2019 way Israel kills innocents;https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/25/the-brilliant-way-israel-kills-innocents?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:17:34 +0000",
        "text": "In the minds of Israel&#039;s cheerleaders, children killed in its &#039;sophisticated&#039; plots are nothing but an inconvenience."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah fires missile at Mossad HQ near Israel\u2019s Tel Aviv;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/hezbollah-fires-missile-at-mossad-hq-near-tel-aviv?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:15:27 +0000",
        "text": "Israel&#039;s army says projectile it brought down was first fired from Lebanon to reach central Israel."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Big threats\u2019: Trump briefed on alleged assassination threats from Iran;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/big-threats-trump-briefed-on-alleged-assassination-threats-from-iran?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:27:03 +0000",
        "text": "Intelligence officials warn Republican presidential hopeful of &#039;real and specific threats from Iran&#039;, his campaign says."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Only the beginning\u2019: Sri Lankans hope for deep changes under new president;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/only-the-beginning-sri-lankans-hope-for-deep-changes-under-new-president?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:01:39 +0000",
        "text": "Anura Kumara Dissanayake&#039;s call for unity amid ethnic divisions and pro-people economic reforms resonate on the island."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Pakistan retain Shan Masood as Test cricket captain despite poor record;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/25/pakistan-retain-shan-masood-as-test-cricket-captain-despite-poor-record?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 06:32:09 +0000",
        "text": "Pakistan have lost all five Tests under Masood&#039;s captaincy, including a shock home series loss against Bangladesh."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Zelenskyy tells UN that Russia must be \u2018forced into peace\u2019;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/zelenskyy-tells-un-that-russia-must-be-forced-into-peace?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:30:33 +0000",
        "text": "Ukrainian president stresses Russia, which invaded in February 2022, has been the &#039;sole aggressor&#039; of the war."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Thailand to allow same-sex couples to marry in January;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/thailand-to-allow-same-sex-couples-to-marry-in-january?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 04:25:03 +0000",
        "text": "Activists hail &#039;monumental step&#039; as Thai king signs the country&#039;s marriage-equality bill into law."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;China says test-launched ICBM with \u2018dummy warhead\u2019 into Pacific;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/china-says-test-launched-icbm-with-dummy-warhead-into-pacific?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 04:13:32 +0000",
        "text": "First public test-launch of missile likely to raise concerns about China&#039;s nuclear build-up."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Former FTX executive Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years for fraud;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/25/former-ftx-executive-caroline-ellison-sentenced-to-two-years-for-fraud?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 03:31:54 +0000",
        "text": "The former CEO of Alameda Research served as a key prosecution witness against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 943;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-943?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 03:19:46 +0000",
        "text": "As the war enters its 943rd day, these are the main developments."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Iran\u2019s President Pezeshkian says Tehran ready to improve ties with West;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/irans-president-pezeshkian-says-tehran-ready-to-improve-ties-with-west?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:46:58 +0000",
        "text": "Iranian leader tellsUN meeting his country is &#039;ready to engage&#039; on nuclear deal if all participants act &#039;in good faith&#039;."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah says senior leader killed amid Israeli bombardment;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/lebanons-hezbollah-says-senior-leader-killed-amid-israeli-bombardment?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:17:43 +0000",
        "text": "Lebanese armed group confirms death of Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi hours after Israel said he was targeted in air strike."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri despite conviction doubts;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/marcellus-williams-executed-in-missouri-despite-conviction-doubts?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:07:12 +0000",
        "text": "The 55-year-old was convicted in 2003 over the killing of Lisha Gayle in what appeared to be a burglary gone wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;US charges suspected Trump gunman with attempted assassination;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/us-charges-suspected-trump-gunman-with-attempted-assassination?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 01:00:42 +0000",
        "text": "Ryan Routh was remanded in custody after being charged in a Florida court over incident on Florida golf course."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Video shows huge explosion from Israeli strike south of Beirut;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/24/video-shows-huge-explosion-from-israeli-strike-south-of-beirut?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:20:33 +0000",
        "text": "Surveillance video captured the massive explosion from an Israeli strike on a building in Lebanon\u2019s Saadiyat."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Blinken ignored US assessments that Israel blocked aid to Gaza: Report;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/blinken-ignored-us-assessments-that-israel-blocked-aid-to-gaza-report?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 22:46:50 +0000",
        "text": "Acknowledging Israel blocked US aid to Palestinians would have triggered a ban on arms transfers to Israel."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Biden urges de-escalation as Israel bombards Lebanon;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/biden-urges-de-escalation-as-israel-bombards-lebanon?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:35:01 +0000",
        "text": "US president tells UN General Assembly no one wants to see &#039;full-scale war&#039; amid fears of worsening regional conflict."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Iranian president says \u2018ready to engage\u2019 on nuclear deal;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/24/iranian-president-says-ready-to-engage-on-nuclear-deal?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:30:58 +0000",
        "text": "Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the UN General Assembly that his country is \u2018ready to engage\u2019 on the JCPOA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Trump calls for taking other nations\u2019 companies but lays out few specifics;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/24/trump-calls-for-taking-other-nations-companies-but-lays-out-few-specifics?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:19:57 +0000",
        "text": "Trump said he would cut corporate taxes for companies that produced goods in the US but didn&#039;t offer details."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Strategic partnership\u2019: US admits Qatar to visa waiver programme;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/strategic-partnership-us-admits-qatar-to-visa-waiver-programme?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:17:50 +0000",
        "text": "Move means Qatari citizens will be allowed to travel visa-free to the US for up to 90 days, and vice versa."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Voices of Lebanon: People fleeing for their lives as Israel attacks;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/24/voices-of-lebanon-people-fleeing-for-their-lives-as-israel-attacks?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:03:46 +0000",
        "text": "People around the country speak of their fear, their tension and their yearning for home."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Disastrous failure\u2019: How Biden emboldened Israel to attack Lebanon;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/disastrous-failure-how-biden-emboldened-israel-to-attack-lebanon?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:56:47 +0000",
        "text": "US failure to end Gaza war and prevent escalation in Lebanon is leading the region to all-out war, analysts say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Maldivian president condemns Israeli attacks on Al Jazeera;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/24/maldivian-president-condemns-israeli-attacks-on-al?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:53:50 +0000",
        "text": "Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu condemned Israeli \u2018acts of terrorism\u2019 and attacks on journalists."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Maldives leader says Israel must be held to account for \u2018genocide\u2019 in Gaza;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/maldives-leader-says-israel-must-be-held-to-account-for-genocide-in-gaza?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:14:54 +0000",
        "text": "Mohamed Muizzu also tells the UNGA that Israel is targeting journalists to cover up its &#039;crimes&#039; in Gaza and Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Palestinian child mourns father killed by Israeli strike;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/24/palestinian-child-mourns-father-killed-by-israeli-strike?traffic_source=rss;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:50:58 +0000",
        "text": "\u201cOh God, I have no one but him.\u201d A young Palestinian boy mourned his father who was killed by an Israeli air attack."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Britons told by PM to leave Lebanon immediately;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dyj0n740po;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:47:16 GMT",
        "text": "The UK is sending 700 troops to nearby Cyprus to prepare for a possible evacuation of its nationals."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Growing unease in NHS about government labelling it 'broken', BBC told;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k0449747o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:05:14 GMT",
        "text": "Health leaders are worried patients may be put off seeking help, the BBC learns."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;One in three children are short-sighted, global study suggests;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0m099zm4wyo;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:05:57 GMT",
        "text": "There was a notable rise after Covid when children spent less time outdoors, researchers say."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Phillip Schofield to make TV return in Cast Away;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3dvkyljzk7o;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:07:40 GMT",
        "text": "The 62-year-old will appear in Channel 5\u2019s Cast Away which sees him stranded on an island for 10 days."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Bowen: Israel is gambling Hezbollah will crumple but it faces a well-armed, angry enemy;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93pg1qpxxzo;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:56:47 GMT",
        "text": "The Lebanese armed group has - like Israel - spent years preparing and is more formidable than Hamas in Gaza."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Nike and Sky ads banned over online tactics;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg3q8rjzlro;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:04:36 GMT",
        "text": "Advertising standards found the ads were misleading in the way information was presented."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Europe\u2019s deadly floods are glimpse of future climate;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5zx2zx5xvo;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 03:06:20 GMT",
        "text": "A new study shows that the record-breaking rainfall was made more likely and intense by climate change."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Remarkable' boy survived life support switch-off, judge says;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3r7klxeyo;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:42:21 GMT",
        "text": "Doctors had expected the child would die after UK court ruled his ventilator should be turned off."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Ex-police officer wins \u00a31.1m after discrimination;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkdxe778l7o;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:06:14 GMT",
        "text": "Thames Valley Police told Katrina Hibbert she must stop running a party business, a tribunal hears."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Timeline of sex abuse allegations;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj4521d4q6o;Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:50:49 GMT",
        "text": "Here are some of the key moments and sex abuse claims amid Fayed\u2019s almost 40-year reign at the top of his business empire."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Fayed accusers subjected to 'intrusive tests' to complain about doctor;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gr2lvdmkyo;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:44:27 GMT",
        "text": "At least two doctors are reported to have carried out the examinations, including invasive sexual health tests."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;How the BBC uncovered abuse allegations against the Harrods boss;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6x635wpjxo;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:30:15 GMT",
        "text": "Five women who worked at the luxury store say they were raped by the billionaire - BBC documentary reveals."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The culture of fear that protected a predator;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9j0kxgmvyo;Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:05:30 GMT",
        "text": "One woman says the head of security for the former Harrods boss threatened her when she tried to speak out."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Watch on iPlayer;https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0023ff5;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:00 GMT",
        "text": "A BBC investigation into allegations of rape and attempted rape by Mohamed Al Fayed, the former owner of Harrods. Did the luxury store protect a billionaire predator?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Why artist collabs are more popular than ever;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c869py46e8yo;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:03:40 GMT",
        "text": "Fall Out Boy, Neck Deep and Ella Henderson explain why teaming up with artists is such an attractive choice."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Ian Rankin: How the death of my mum led me to Rebus;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0310wr01ro;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:10:05 GMT",
        "text": "The Rebus author says his writing style darkened after his mother died when he was just 19."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The Papers: PM braces for 'storm' and Britons told leave Lebanon;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgxnww3z7eo;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 04:55:54 GMT",
        "text": "Many of Wednesday's front pages reflect on the prime minister's party conference speech."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The town pushing to delay smartphones for children;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2r4rxjd9o;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:20:59 GMT",
        "text": "William Ransom Primary School is inviting all the towns schools to join their smartphone pledge."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Why Pakistan's female doctors don't feel safe;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y9g751xg4o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:32:11 GMT",
        "text": "Women working in Pakistan\u2019s hospitals say they face sexual harassment, violence and verbal abuse."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;An 11th lawsuit for Sean 'Diddy' Combs as he sits in jail;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kjxd3m528o;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 03:01:03 GMT",
        "text": "Criminal charges against the 54-year-old could land him in prison - and the list of accusers is growing."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Murdoch family fights in secret over future of media empire;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v6z4ezr00o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:26:47 GMT",
        "text": "A succession drama has played out in a Reno courtroom - and the outcome is likely to be withheld from the public."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Son gave hospital \u2018clear evidence\u2019 his mum planned to take her own life;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99vy4eevxmo;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:09:11 GMT",
        "text": "Christopher MacRae's mother Sara died at the Royal Edinburgh psychiatric hospital in March 2020."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Thai king signs same-sex marriage bill into law;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn03we6zpk1o;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:05:47 GMT",
        "text": "The law, which was approved by the Senate in June, will come into force on 22 January next year."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Zelensky looks to Biden to back Ukraine 'victory plan';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07n811zyp2o;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:44 GMT",
        "text": "Kyiv is hoping for a strong show of support from the US leader before he leaves the White House."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;More women accuse tribunal judge of bullying;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyl7v2g220o;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:46:40 GMT",
        "text": "Three more women accuse an employment tribunal judge of bullying during hearings."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Trump vows to 'take other countries' jobs' in economic speech;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly3qnrpvg9o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:54:12 GMT",
        "text": "Trump pledged that companies who manufactured in the US would receive benefits, while those who did business elsewhere would face steep costs"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Ultra-rare 25p coin set to fetch hundreds at auction;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77xnnkmr6do;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:17:14 GMT",
        "text": "A rare 25p coin could fetch up to \u00a3700 when it goes under the hammer at an auction in Wiltshire."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sex Education star cast in Potter-inspired play;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98y1ge08ywo;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:11:21 GMT",
        "text": "Asa Butterfield will portray a fictional young actor who missed out on playing Harry Potter."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Starmer's tunnel vision;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jskn23;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:15:00 GMT",
        "text": "The PM promises light at the end of the proverbial"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;America and... the World;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct6fbb;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:50:00 GMT",
        "text": "What is the US relationship with the world today and how would Trump and Harris shape it?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Ex-Real Madrid & Man Utd defender Varane retires aged 31;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/ced0yjn3wj0o;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:52:12 GMT",
        "text": "Former Manchester United, Real Madrid and France defender Raphael Varane retires from football at the age of 31."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;A plane crash, fireworks disaster & car tragedy - how Twente shaped Ten Hag;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c3rlnwg4q1lo;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:34:04 GMT",
        "text": "The Manchester United manager faces a club close to his heart on Wednesday, but also one where tragedies defined his fledgling career."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Brook responds to his critics with bat and words;https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/articles/crr5zee8759o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:58:37 GMT",
        "text": "England's stand-in captain Harry Brook responds to his critics with the bat and with his words with a breakout one-day international century."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;England's Brook gets first ODI century;https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/videos/cz0418xye14o;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:50:42 GMT",
        "text": "Watch the best shots from England captain Harry Brook as he hits a brilliant first ODI century off 87 balls in the third ODI against Australia."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Murder arrest over Ibiza balcony fall death;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9qvw04qgxro;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:32:54 GMT",
        "text": "A 27-year-old man from London is held on suspicion of murdering Robyn Eve Maines who died in Ibiza."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Disgusting' drug dealing in hospital condemned;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy94d2zy1rqo;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:00:54 GMT",
        "text": "The Belfast health trust says increased drug taking and dealing on its sites is a worrying trend."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Survivor says abusers are domestic terrorists;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3e9vze538qo;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:50:28 GMT",
        "text": "A report warns that violence against women remains \"shockingly high\" in Wales."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0L\u2019appel du premier ministre \u00e0 Marine Le Pen est grave\u00a0\u00bb selon Fran\u00e7ois Hollande\u00a0; pour G\u00e9rard Larcher, le gouvernement doit \u00ab\u00a0parler \u00e0 tout le monde\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/25/en-direct-gouvernement-barnier-l-appel-du-premier-ministre-a-marine-le-pen-est-grave-selon-francois-hollande-pour-gerard-larcher-le-gouvernement-doit-parler-a-tout-le-monde_6325006_823448.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:55:54 +0200",
        "text": "La cheffe de file du RN avait interpell\u00e9 le premier ministre en s\u2019indignant des propos de son ministre de l\u2019\u00e9conomie, Antoine Armand, qui avait affirm\u00e9 que sa porte serait ouverte \u00e0 tous les partis, \u00ab\u00a0pour peu qu\u2019ils soient dans l\u2019arc r\u00e9publicain\u00a0\u00bb, excluant de fait le parti d\u2019extr\u00eame droite."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La Chine effectue un rare test de missile balistique intercontinental dans le Pacifique;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/25/la-chine-effectue-un-rare-test-de-missile-balistique-intercontinental-dans-le-pacifique_6332947_3210.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:49:12 +0200",
        "text": "Ce lancement survient dans un contexte de rivalit\u00e9 sino-am\u00e9ricaine dans le Pacifique, de tensions entre\u00a0P\u00e9kin et Manille en mer de Chine m\u00e9ridionale, et d\u2019hostilit\u00e9 entre les autorit\u00e9s chinoises et celles de\u00a0Ta\u00efwan."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Fin des concessions autorouti\u00e8res, \u00e9tat du r\u00e9seau ferroviaire\u00a0: le r\u00e9gulateur des transports alerte le gouvernement;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/25/fin-des-concessions-autoroutieres-etat-du-reseau-ferroviaire-le-regulateur-des-transports-alerte-le-gouvernement_6332946_3234.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:45:11 +0200",
        "text": "Le pr\u00e9sident de l\u2019Autorit\u00e9 de r\u00e9gulation des transports, Thierry Guimbaud, pointe plusieurs risques sur l\u2019\u00e9volution des tarifs et l\u2019efficience des modes de transport."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en Ukraine\u00a0: Donald Trump promet de \u00ab\u00a0sortir\u00a0\u00bb les Etats-Unis du conflit s\u2019il est \u00e9lu;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/25/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-donald-trump-promet-de-sortir-les-etats-unis-du-conflit-s-il-est-elu_6327490_3210.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:43:23 +0200",
        "text": "Outre cette promesse de \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9gler la guerre en Ukraine\u00a0\u00bb, l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident am\u00e9ricain a assur\u00e9 qu\u2019il mettrait \u00ab\u00a0fin au chaos au Moyen-Orient\u00a0\u00bb s\u2019il remporte l\u2019\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle, sans plus de d\u00e9tails."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre au\u00a0Proche-Orient\u00a0: quelle est la situation au Liban pendant la campagne de bombardements d\u2019Isra\u00ebl\u00a0? Notre correspondante r\u00e9pond \u00e0 vos questions;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/25/en-direct-guerre-au-proche-orient-quelle-est-la-situation-au-liban-pendant-la-campagne-de-bombardements-d-israel-notre-correspondante-repond-a-vos-questions_6321740_3210.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:39:27 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019arm\u00e9e isra\u00e9lienne a men\u00e9 de nouveaux bombardements \u00ab\u00a0de grande envergure dans le sud du Liban et dans la r\u00e9gion de la Bekaa\u00a0\u00bb. Le dernier bilan des autorit\u00e9s libanaises fait \u00e9tat de 558 morts et 1\u00a0835 bless\u00e9s. H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Sallon, notre correspondante au Liban, r\u00e9pond \u00e0 vos questions \u00e0 partir de 11\u00a0heures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A la Martinique, retour au calme apr\u00e8s \u00ab\u00a0un d\u00e9ferlement in\u00e9dit de violences\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/outre-mer/article/2024/09/25/a-la-martinique-retour-au-calme-apres-un-deferlement-inedit-de-violences_6332870_1840826.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:10:24 +0200",
        "text": "En marge du mouvement contre la vie ch\u00e8re lanc\u00e9 d\u00e9but septembre, des violences urbaines ont touch\u00e9 l\u2019\u00eele des Cara\u00efbes. \u00ab\u00a0La situation s\u00e9curitaire (\u2026) est tout \u00e0 fait r\u00e9tablie. Les deux derni\u00e8res nuits ont \u00e9t\u00e9 calmes\u00a0\u00bb, a affirm\u00e9 mardi le pr\u00e9fet."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Pourquoi l\u2019\u00e9conomie russe r\u00e9siste, malgr\u00e9 l\u2019inflation et les p\u00e9nuries de main-d\u2019\u0153uvre;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/25/l-economie-russe-resiste-malgre-l-inflation-et-les-penuries-de-main-d-uvre_6332571_3234.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 04:00:08 +0200",
        "text": "Le pays le plus sanctionn\u00e9 au monde, depuis le d\u00e9clenchement de l\u2019\u00ab\u00a0op\u00e9ration sp\u00e9ciale\u00a0\u00bb en Ukraine en f\u00e9vrier 2022, a enregistr\u00e9 une croissance de 4\u00a0% sur un an, au deuxi\u00e8me trimestre. Mais l\u2019\u00e9conomie russe, encore plus d\u00e9pendante de l\u2019Etat et de son industrie de guerre, est rattrap\u00e9e par des handicaps structurels, certains redoutant une stagflation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Plus de 500\u00a0radios locales d\u2019Afrique de l\u2019Ouest lancent un appel \u00e0 la protection des journalistes au Sahel;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/25/plus-de-500-radios-locales-d-afrique-de-l-ouest-lancent-un-appel-a-la-protection-des-journalistes-au-sahel_6332867_3212.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:03:01 +0200",
        "text": "Au Burkina Faso, au Mali, au Niger et au Tchad, les journalistes sont pris entre la violence des groupes arm\u00e9s et les pressions des autorit\u00e9s, selon Reporters sans fronti\u00e8res."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au proc\u00e8s de Peter Cherif, l\u2019accus\u00e9 reconna\u00eet avoir servi de \u00ab\u00a0traducteur\u00a0\u00bb pendant la prise en otage de trois humanitaires fran\u00e7ais par Al-Qaida au Y\u00e9men;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/25/peter-cherif-reconnait-avoir-servi-de-traducteur-pendant-la-prise-en-otage-de-trois-humanitaires-francais-par-al-qaida-au-yemen_6332866_3224.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:00:04 +0200",
        "text": "Alors qu\u2019il avait refus\u00e9 pendant une semaine de s\u2019exprimer sur son implication dans l\u2019attentat de \u00ab\u00a0Charlie Hebdo\u00a0\u00bb, l\u2019accus\u00e9 a reconnu contre toute attente, mardi, son r\u00f4le de ge\u00f4lier de trois otages en\u00a02011."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La Francophonie l\u00e8ve la suspension de la Guin\u00e9e, qui participera \u00e0 son sommet en France;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/25/la-francophonie-leve-la-suspension-de-la-guinee-qui-participera-a-son-sommet-en-france_6332797_3212.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:26:09 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019Organisation internationale de la Francophonie avait suspendu la Guin\u00e9e en\u00a02021, apr\u00e8s le coup d\u2019Etat ayant port\u00e9 au pouvoir la junte du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Mamadi Doumbouya."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les nuits \u00ab\u00a0tropicales\u00a0\u00bb, o\u00f9 la temp\u00e9rature ne descend pas au-dessous de 20 \u00b0C, se multiplient en France;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/25/les-nuits-tropicales-s-intensifient-et-se-multiplient-partout-en-france_6332590_3244.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 06:00:11 +0200",
        "text": "Cons\u00e9quence directe du r\u00e9chauffement climatique, ces chaleurs nocturnes sont en forte hausse, augmentant les risques sanitaires et l\u2019\u00e9puisement des plus fragiles, m\u00eame au nord du pays."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A la Guadeloupe, le couvre-feu pour les mineurs \u00e9tendu apr\u00e8s des violences urbaines;https://www.lemonde.fr/outre-mer/article/2024/09/25/guadeloupe-le-couvre-feu-pour-les-mineurs-etendu-apres-des-violences-urbaines_6332595_1840826.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 06:31:01 +0200",
        "text": "Neuf secteurs suppl\u00e9mentaires ont \u00e9t\u00e9 ajout\u00e9s au sept d\u00e9j\u00e0 concern\u00e9s. Le couvre-feu est applicable\u00a0jusqu\u2019au 28\u00a0septembre\u00a0au matin."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Premi\u00e8res dissonances au sein du gouvernement de Michel Barnier;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/25/le-gouvernement-barnier-connait-ses-premieres-dissonances_6332579_823448.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:23:34 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019appel du premier ministre \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0la coh\u00e9sion\u00a0\u00bb et \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0la fraternit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb n\u2019a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 entendu. Des divergences de vues ont ponctu\u00e9 la journ\u00e9e de mardi et ont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 l\u2019emprise de l\u2019extr\u00eame droite sur ce nouvel ex\u00e9cutif."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019OMS s\u2019inqui\u00e8te de l\u2019emprise des r\u00e9seaux sociaux sur les jeunes Europ\u00e9ens;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/25/l-oms-s-inquiete-de-l-emprise-des-reseaux-sociaux-sur-les-jeunes-europeens_6332572_4408996.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 04:19:15 +0200",
        "text": "Selon une large \u00e9tude men\u00e9e en\u00a02022, 11\u00a0% des adolescents montrent des signes d\u2019utilisation probl\u00e9matique des r\u00e9seaux sociaux, pr\u00e9sentant des sympt\u00f4mes similaires \u00e0 ceux de l\u2019addiction. Ils \u00e9taient 7\u00a0% quatre ans auparavant."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019homme suspect\u00e9 d\u2019avoir voulu tirer sur Donald Trump en Floride inculp\u00e9 de tentative d\u2019assassinat;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/25/l-homme-suspecte-d-avoir-voulu-tirer-sur-donald-trump-en-floride-inculpe-de-tentative-d-assassinat_6332504_3210.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:19:38 +0200",
        "text": "Ryan Routh avait \u00e9t\u00e9 mis en fuite par les agents du Secret Service, qui l\u2019avaient rep\u00e9r\u00e9 avec une arme pr\u00e8s\u00a0du golf sur lequel jouait le candidat r\u00e9publicain \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidentielle. Donald Trump fait, en outre, l\u2019objet de\u00a0menaces \u00ab\u00a0concr\u00e8tes\u00a0\u00bb de meurtre de la part de l\u2019Iran, selon son \u00e9quipe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La justice am\u00e9ricaine poursuit Visa pour pratiques anticoncurrentielles;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/25/la-justice-americaine-poursuit-visa-pour-pratiques-anticoncurrentielles_6332471_3210.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 01:17:16 +0200",
        "text": "Le gouvernement am\u00e9ricain accuse l\u2019\u00e9metteur de cartes de paiement d\u2019imposer des accords d\u2019exclusivit\u00e9 aux banques et aux commer\u00e7ants, obligeant ces derniers \u00e0 r\u00e9percuter les co\u00fbts sur les consommateurs."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Emile Louis\u00a0: l\u2019enqu\u00eate sur de possibles nouvelles victimes du tueur en s\u00e9rie relanc\u00e9e;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/24/l-enquete-sur-de-possibles-nouvelles-victimes-d-emile-louis-relancee_6332372_3224.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 22:40:15 +0200",
        "text": "Dans le cadre de la disparition d\u2019une femme en\u00a01975, de nouvelles fouilles ont d\u00e9but\u00e9 \u00e0 Rouvray, \u00e0 une vingtaine de kilom\u00e8tres d\u2019Auxerre, dans le \u00ab\u00a0cimeti\u00e8re\u00a0\u00bb des victimes d\u2019Emile Louis dans l\u2019Yonne, o\u00f9 le tueur en s\u00e9rie a enterr\u00e9 plusieurs de ses victimes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au sein de Public S\u00e9nat, le d\u00e9part de Christopher Baldelli \u00e0 R\u00e9els TV inqui\u00e8te;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/24/au-sein-de-public-senat-le-depart-de-christopher-baldelli-a-reels-tv-inquiete_6332339_3234.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 22:11:18 +0200",
        "text": "Le PDG de la cha\u00eene parlementaire a annonc\u00e9, lundi 23\u00a0septembre, qu\u2019il quitterait son poste fin novembre pour rejoindre la t\u00eate de la future cha\u00eene priv\u00e9e qui sera lanc\u00e9e en mars\u00a02025 par le milliardaire tch\u00e8que Daniel Kretinsky."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Apr\u00e8s le meurtre de Philippine, une \u00e9tudiante retrouv\u00e9e dans le bois de Boulogne, un homme de 22\u00a0ans \u00ab\u00a0en situation irr\u00e9guli\u00e8re\u00a0\u00bb interpell\u00e9 en Suisse;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/24/apres-la-mort-de-philippine-etudiante-retrouvee-dans-le-bois-de-boulogne-un-homme-de-22-ans-interpelle-en-suisse_6332306_3224.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:25:37 +0200",
        "text": "Selon le parquet, le suspect de nationalit\u00e9 marocaine, \u00ab\u00a0en situation irr\u00e9guli\u00e8re sur le territoire fran\u00e7ais, a \u00e9t\u00e9 condamn\u00e9 en octobre\u00a02021, pour des faits de viol commis en\u00a02019\u00a0\u00bb, alors qu\u2019il \u00e9tait mineur. Il avait \u00e9t\u00e9\u00a0lib\u00e9r\u00e9, en fin de peine, au mois de juin\u00a02024\u00a0et \u00e9tait vis\u00e9 par une OQTF."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au lendemain de son investiture, le nouveau pr\u00e9sident du Sri Lanka convoque des \u00e9lections l\u00e9gislatives anticip\u00e9es;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/24/au-lendemain-de-son-investiture-le-nouveau-president-du-sri-lanka-convoque-des-elections-legislatives-anticipees_6332273_3210.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:12:25 +0200",
        "text": "Comme il s\u2019y \u00e9tait engag\u00e9, Anura Kumara Dissanayake a dissous le parlement et fix\u00e9 au 14\u00a0novembre la date des l\u00e9gislatives anticip\u00e9es, pr\u00e8s d\u2019un an avant la fin de la mandature actuelle."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Mes romans s\u2019inscrivent dans la tradition du r\u00e9alisme\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: entretien exclusif avec Sally Rooney, l\u2019autrice de \u00ab\u00a0Normal people\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2024/09/24/sally-rooney-mes-romans-s-inscrivent-dans-la-tradition-du-realisme-et-je-vois-mes-personnages-comme-des-personnes_6332207_3260.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:51:44 +0200",
        "text": "La romanci\u00e8re irlandaise, star mondiale de la g\u00e9n\u00e9ration Y depuis la parution en\u00a02016\u00a0de \u00ab\u00a0Conversations entre amis\u00a0\u00bb, publie un nouveau livre, \u00ab\u00a0Intermezzo\u00a0\u00bb, l\u2019histoire de deux fr\u00e8res aux amours compliqu\u00e9s."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La Su\u00e8de accuse l\u2019Iran d\u2019une cyberattaque visant \u00e0\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0venger\u00a0\u00bb les autodaf\u00e9s du\u00a0Coran;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/24/la-suede-accuse-l-iran-d-une-cyberattaque-visant-a-venger-les-autodafes-du-coran_6331066_3211.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:49:07 +0200",
        "text": "Environ 15\u00a0000\u00a0messages\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0appelant \u00e0 la vengeance\u00a0\u00bb contre les profanateurs du livre saint de l\u2019islam\u00a0avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 envoy\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 2023. \u00ab\u00a0L\u2019enqu\u00eate nous a permis d\u2019\u00e9tablir l\u2019identit\u00e9 des pirates iraniens\u00a0\u00bb, selon le minist\u00e8re public su\u00e9dois."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les d\u00e9put\u00e9s PS ne voteront pas le texte d\u2019abrogation de la r\u00e9forme des retraites du RN, un \u00ab\u00a0mensonge social\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/24/abrogation-de-la-reforme-des-retraites-les-deputes-socialistes-ne-voteront-pas-le-texte-du-rn-un-mensonge-social_6332140_823448.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:54:45 +0200",
        "text": "Cette proposition de loi d\u2019abrogation sera d\u00e9battue le 31\u00a0octobre. Face \u00e0 l\u2019opposition annonc\u00e9e de la droite et du camp pr\u00e9sidentiel, le texte doit obtenir le soutien de la gauche pour esp\u00e9rer passer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019Ile-de-France annonce un plan antibruit de 100\u00a0millions d\u2019euros, sans s\u2019attaquer \u00e0 la place de la voiture en r\u00e9gion francilienne;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/24/l-ile-de-france-annonce-un-plan-antibruit-de-100-millions-d-euros-sans-s-attaquer-a-la-place-de-la-voiture-en-region-francilienne_6332073_3244.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:29:59 +0200",
        "text": "Une vingtaine de mesures, pr\u00e9sent\u00e9es par la pr\u00e9sidente du Conseil r\u00e9gional, Val\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse (LR), vise \u00e0 diminuer de 30\u00a0%, d\u2019ici \u00e0 2030, l\u2019exposition \u00e0 la pollution sonore, surtout li\u00e9e au bruit routier et prot\u00e9ger les 500\u00a0000\u00a0Franciliens qui en souffrent le plus."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Birmanie, le bilan du typhon Yagi s\u2019alourdit \u00e0 419 morts;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/24/en-birmanie-le-bilan-du-typhon-yagi-s-alourdit-a-419-morts_6332072_3210.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:25:30 +0200",
        "text": "Yagi a travers\u00e9 le nord du Vietnam, le Laos, la Tha\u00eflande et la Birmanie courant septembre, faisant des centaines de morts dans la r\u00e9gion."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Francis Ford Coppola\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Le cin\u00e9ma n\u2019a pas de r\u00e8gles, il les casse\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/09/24/francis-ford-coppola-le-cinema-n-a-pas-de-regles-il-les-casse_6330666_3246.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:30:09 +0200",
        "text": "Apr\u00e8s treize ans d\u2019absence, le cin\u00e9aste am\u00e9ricain revient avec \u00ab\u00a0Megalopolis\u00a0\u00bb, dont il raconte au \u00ab\u00a0Monde\u00a0\u00bb la tortueuse gen\u00e8se."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ile-de-France\u00a0: le trafic TER et RER sera r\u00e9duit au nord de Paris pendant les vacances de la Toussaint pour des travaux;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/24/ile-de-france-le-trafic-ter-et-rer-sera-reduit-au-nord-de-paris-pendant-les-vacances-de-la-toussaint-pour-des-travaux_6332035_3234.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:59:19 +0200",
        "text": "Le trafic sera fortement perturb\u00e9 du vendredi\u00a025 au dimanche 27\u00a0octobre, puis les week-ends du 1er au 3\u00a0novembre et du 23 au 24\u00a0novembre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Tchad, un Russe proche de Wagner arr\u00eat\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019a\u00e9roport de N\u2019Djamena;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/24/au-tchad-quatre-influenceurs-russes-arretes-a-l-aeroport-de-n-djamena_6331935_3212.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:16:47 +0200",
        "text": "Maxim Chougale\u00ef, directeur de la Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des valeurs nationales, proche de feu Evgueni Prigojine, le fondateur du Groupe Wagner, est d\u00e9tenu avec trois de ses coll\u00e8gues dans un lieu inconnu."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le monde doit \u00ab\u00a0arr\u00eater d\u2019armer les g\u00e9n\u00e9raux\u00a0\u00bb au Soudan, exhorte Joe Biden \u00e0 l\u2019ONU;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/24/le-monde-doit-arreter-d-armer-les-generaux-au-soudan-exhorte-joe-biden-a-l-onu_6331901_3210.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:01:45 +0200",
        "text": "Une guerre oppose depuis avril\u00a02023 l\u2019arm\u00e9e, dirig\u00e9e par le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al-Bourhane, aux paramilitaires des Forces de soutien rapide (FSR) de son ex-adjoint, le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Mohammed Hamdan Daglo."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Dans le Sud-Est, le trafic a\u00e9rien perturb\u00e9 apr\u00e8s la panne d\u2019une antenne, frapp\u00e9e par la foudre;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/24/dans-le-sud-est-le-trafic-aerien-perturbe-apres-la-panne-d-une-antenne-frappee-par-la-foudre_6331867_3234.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:51:23 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Le mat\u00e9riel a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9par\u00e9 et le signal r\u00e9tabli\u00a0\u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 la direction g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de l\u2019aviation civile. A Marseille, douze vols ont \u00e9t\u00e9 annul\u00e9s et sept retard\u00e9s. A Nice, treize vols au d\u00e9part et \u00e0 l\u2019arriv\u00e9e ont \u00e9t\u00e9 annul\u00e9s et 81 vols retard\u00e9s."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;B\u00e9nin\u00a0: arrestation de l\u2019homme d\u2019affaires Olivier Boko, consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un possible successeur du pr\u00e9sident Patrice Talon;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/24/au-benin-arrestation-de-l-homme-d-affaires-olivier-boko-proche-du-president-patrice-talon_6331758_3212.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:39:45 +0200",
        "text": "Oswald Homeky, ancien ministre des sports, a lui aussi \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9 dans la nuit de lundi \u00e0 mardi, selon plusieurs de ses amis."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La\u00a0loi sur le mariage homosexuel promulgu\u00e9e en Tha\u00eflande, une premi\u00e8re en Asie du Sud-Est;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/24/la-loi-sur-le-mariage-homosexuel-promulguee-en-thailande-une-premiere-en-asie-du-sud-est_6331725_3210.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:37:22 +0200",
        "text": "La nouvelle l\u00e9gislation modifie les r\u00e9f\u00e9rences aux hommes, aux femmes, aux maris et aux \u00e9pouses, pour les remplacer par des termes non genr\u00e9s, en l\u2019occurrence \u00ab\u00a0individus\u00a0\u00bb et \u00ab\u00a0partenaires de mariage\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Budget\u00a0: Antoine Armand recadr\u00e9 par Michel Barnier, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 critiqu\u00e9 par Marine Le Pen;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/24/budget-antoine-armand-annonce-qu-il-recevra-finalement-tous-les-partis-apres-avoir-ete-critique-par-marine-le-pen_6331655_823448.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:13:19 +0200",
        "text": "La cheffe de file du RN avait interpell\u00e9 le premier ministre en s\u2019indignant des propos de son ministre de l\u2019\u00e9conomie. Dans la matin\u00e9e, Antoine Armand avait affirm\u00e9 que sa porte serait ouverte \u00e0 tous les partis, \u00ab\u00a0pour peu qu\u2019ils soient dans l\u2019arc r\u00e9publicain\u00a0\u00bb, excluant de fait le RN."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La Prix Nobel de la paix Narges Mohammadi, emprisonn\u00e9e en Iran, lance un appel \u00e0 l\u2019aide \u00e0 l\u2019ONU pour mettre fin aux exactions de T\u00e9h\u00e9ran contre la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile;https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/09/24/narges-mohammadi-prix-nobel-de-la-paix-lettre-ouverte-a-antonio-guterres-et-aux-representants-des-gouvernements-siegeant-a-l-onu-pour-mettre-fin-aux-executions-en-iran_6331378_3232.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:00:09 +0200",
        "text": "A l\u2019occasion de l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des Nations unies du 24\u00a0au 30\u00a0septembre \u00e0 New York, la journaliste iranienne a \u00e9crit de sa prison une lettre aux principaux dirigeants, que \u00ab\u00a0Le Monde\u00a0\u00bb publie, pour qu\u2019ils demandent la fin des ex\u00e9cutions, la lib\u00e9ration des prisonniers politiques et l\u2019arr\u00eat de la r\u00e9pression des femmes et de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile en Iran."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Kenya, le pr\u00e9sident William Ruto pousse les jeunes \u00e0 \u00e9migrer;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/24/au-kenya-le-president-william-ruto-pousse-les-jeunes-a-emigrer_6331449_3212.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:42:27 +0200",
        "text": "Nairobi n\u00e9gocie des accords avec des pays \u00e0 la population vieillissante, comme l\u2019Allemagne et le Canada, pour y envoyer des travailleurs. Une fa\u00e7on de faire rentrer des devises, mais aussi d\u2019\u00e9loigner une jeunesse hostile au chef de l\u2019Etat."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Une ex-\u00e9pouse d\u2019un \u00e9mir du groupe Etat islamique sera jug\u00e9e en France pour g\u00e9nocide contre la minorit\u00e9 y\u00e9zidie;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/24/une-ex-epouse-d-un-emir-du-groupe-etat-islamique-sera-jugee-en-france-pour-genocide-contre-la-minorite-yezidie_6331414_3224.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:11:47 +0200",
        "text": "Sonia Mejri, n\u00e9e en France, est soup\u00e7onn\u00e9e d\u2019avoir, au printemps 2015, r\u00e9duit en esclavage une adolescente y\u00e9zidie en Syrie, alors qu\u2019elle vivait avec son ancien mari, consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme l\u2019un des cr\u00e9ateurs de la cellule des op\u00e9rations ext\u00e9rieures de l\u2019EI."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Enqu\u00eate sur les \u00ab\u00a0Tanguy\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Rester chez mes parents, c\u2019est le filet de s\u00e9curit\u00e9, \u00e7a me permet de rembourser mon pr\u00eat, de mettre de l\u2019argent de c\u00f4t\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2024/09/24/les-tanguy-je-n-ai-pas-completement-choisi-de-vivre-avec-mes-parents-mais-je-ne-suis-pas-malheureux_6330659_4401467.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 04:30:01 +0200",
        "text": "Entre contraintes \u00e9conomiques, injonction \u00e0 l\u2019autonomie et confort du nid familial, quelque cinq millions de jeunes adultes, dont 1,3\u00a0million sont en emploi, vivent encore chez leurs parents."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Fin de vie\u00a0: en Suisse, plusieurs arrestations apr\u00e8s l\u2019utilisation d\u2019une capsule d\u2019assistance au suicide;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/24/fin-de-vie-en-suisse-plusieurs-arrestations-apres-l-utilisation-d-une-capsule-d-assistance-au-suicide_6331376_3210.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:36:45 +0200",
        "text": "Un suicide assist\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019aide de la capsule Sarco (pour sarcophage) a eu lieu pour la premi\u00e8re fois lundi, selon les m\u00e9dias helv\u00e9tiques.\u00a0La capsule \u00ab\u00a0a \u00e9t\u00e9 saisie et [le corps de la] personne d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9e a \u00e9t\u00e9 transport\u00e9 (\u2026) pour une autopsie\u00a0\u00bb, selon la police."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Nouvelle-Cal\u00e9donie, des manifestations sans d\u00e9bordements \u00e0 l\u2019occasion de la\u00a0date anniversaire du\u00a024\u00a0septembre;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/24/en-nouvelle-caledonie-les-commemorations-du-24-septembre-cristallisent-le-fosse-entre-communautes_6331342_823448.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:50:16 +0200",
        "text": "Chaque communaut\u00e9 a comm\u00e9mor\u00e9 de son c\u00f4t\u00e9 le d\u00e9but de la colonisation de l\u2019archipel, il y a 171\u00a0ans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La d\u00e9put\u00e9e Sophia Chikirou mise en examen dans l\u2019affaire des comptes de campagne LFI de 2017;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/24/sophia-chikirou-entendue-par-les-juges-dans-l-affaire-des-comptes-de-campagne-lfi-de-2017_6330994_3224.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:43:16 +0200",
        "text": "Cette proche de Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon, \u00e0 la fois directrice de la communication et deuxi\u00e8me plus gros prestataire de sa campagne de 2017, est suspect\u00e9e d\u2019avoir factur\u00e9 des prestations avec une marge tr\u00e8s sup\u00e9rieure \u00e0 celles pratiqu\u00e9es par ses concurrents."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au coll\u00e8ge Pablo-Neruda d\u2019Aulnay-sous-Bois, un plan pour casser la s\u00e9gr\u00e9gation et \u00ab\u00a0montrer que l\u2019excellence existe aussi dans ces quartiers\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/24/au-college-pablo-neruda-d-aulnay-sous-bois-un-plan-pour-casser-la-segregation-et-montrer-que-l-excellence-existe-aussi-dans-ces-quartiers_6330660_3224.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 04:45:03 +0200",
        "text": "Dans cet \u00e9tablissement de Seine-Saint-Denis class\u00e9 en \u00e9ducation prioritaire renforc\u00e9e, des \u00ab\u00a0sections attractives\u00a0\u00bb de culture antique, de maths et de sciences ont \u00e9t\u00e9 lanc\u00e9es d\u00e9but septembre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire championne africaine de l\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 des genres, un titre controvers\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/24/la-cote-d-ivoire-championne-africaine-de-l-egalite-des-genres-un-titre-controverse_6331203_3212.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:38:32 +0200",
        "text": "Selon l\u2019OCDE, le pays est le meilleur \u00e9l\u00e8ve du continent en mati\u00e8re de lutte contre les discriminations \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard des femmes. Mais pour les ONG f\u00e9ministes locales, ce classement refl\u00e8te davantage l\u2019\u00e9volution du cadre juridique que des normes sociales."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;TikTok supprime les comptes des m\u00e9dias russes RT et\u00a0Sputnik;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/24/tiktok-supprime-les-comptes-des-medias-russes-rt-et-sputnik_6331135_4408996.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:02:31 +0200",
        "text": "D\u00e9j\u00e0 suspendus dans l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne et au Royaume-Uni, ces comptes sont d\u00e9sormais inaccessibles partout dans le monde. Une d\u00e9cision qui fait \u00e9cho \u00e0 une mesure similaire prise la semaine derni\u00e8re par le groupe Meta (Facebook, Instagram)."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Dans un contexte de p\u00e9nurie de m\u00e9dicaments en France, une dizaine de laboratoires condamn\u00e9s \u00e0\u00a0verser 8\u00a0millions d\u2019euros pour ne pas avoir constitu\u00e9 de stocks;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/24/penurie-de-medicaments-une-dizaine-de-laboratoires-condamnes-a-verser-huit-millions-d-euros-pour-ne-pas-avoir-constitue-de-stocks-suffisants_6330721_3234.html;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:44:57 +0200",
        "text": "Ces sanctions in\u00e9dites prononc\u00e9es par l\u2019ANSM correspondent \u00e0 des manquements constat\u00e9s en\u00a02023. Elles concernent des produits pour lesquels une interruption de traitement peut mettre en danger la vie du patient \u00e0 court ou moyen terme."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Badlapur encounter: Bombay High Court says probe into death of sexual assault case accused should be fair, impartial;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/badlapur-encounter-bombay-high-court-says-probe-into-death-of-sexual-assault-case-accused-should-be-fair-impartial/article68681119.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:26:04 +0530",
        "text": "Why the accused was shot in the head, and not on hand or legs first? the court asked."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Cash management firm staffer held for misappropriating \u20b91 crore in Chennai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/cash-management-firm-staffer-held-for-misappropriating-1-crore-in-chennai/article68674719.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:21:38 +0530",
        "text": "When the firm audited its accounts recently, it was found that one of the staffers, Prabhu, as well as others, allegedly misappropriated \u20b91 crore from the firm"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Initiative launched to strengthen 670 public libraries, 1000 private libraries across Telangana;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/initiative-launched-to-strengthen-670-public-libraries-1000-private-libraries-across-telangana/article68679005.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:20:20 +0530",
        "text": "Telangana Governor launches \u2018Granthalayala Deepti\u2019 to bring younger generation to libraries"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;China test-fires intercontinental ballistic missile into Pacific Ocean amid Taiwan tension;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/china-test-fires-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-into-pacific-ocean-amid-taiwan-tension/article68681080.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:13:55 +0530",
        "text": "Tests of China\u2019s intercontinental ballistic missiles into international waters are rare"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Seven researchers of KLE Technological University in Hubballi among top 2% of scientists, according to Stanford University;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/seven-researchers-of-kle-technological-university-in-hubballi-among-top-2-of-scientists-according-to-stanford-university/article68674698.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:06:51 +0530",
        "text": "In a record of sorts, seven faculty members and scientists of KLETU have been named among the top 2% of the world\u2019s most influential scientists in a list compiled by Stanford University, in collaboration with Elsevier"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hemant Soren writes to PM Modi demanding to release dues of \u20b91.36 lakh crore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jharkhand/hemant-soren-writes-to-pm-modi-demanding-to-release-dues-of-136-lakh-crore/article68681019.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:59:42 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Soren said that the Central Government should make a decision on their rights and their money soon and should not become an obstacle in the development of Jharkhand"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Train schedules disrupted after derailment near Vijayapura in north Karnataka;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/train-schedules-disrupted-after-derailment-near-vijayapura-in-north-karnataka/article68681000.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:50:27 +0530",
        "text": "Some trains cancelled, some diverted"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mahayuti won't cross 100-seat mark in Maharashtra; its vote share will reduce, claims NCP (SP);https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/mahayuti-wont-cross-100-seat-mark-in-maharashtra-its-vote-share-will-reduce-claims-ncp-sp/article68681055.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:48:30 +0530",
        "text": "NCP (SP) spokesperson Mahesh Tapase expressed confidence that Mahayuti's vote share would actually go down by 20%"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;DUSU poll vandalism: Delhi High Court warns of election deferral; slams excessive spending;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/dusu-polls-delhi-hc-issues-warning-against-defacing-public-property/article68681037.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:47:26 +0530",
        "text": "\u201cIf they [candidates] can put up posters, they can pay for the removal also. They all have deep pockets, they can pay for it,\u201d the Delhi High Court remarked"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Quarterly holidays of T.N. schools extended until October 7;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/quarterly-holidays-extended-for-schools-in-tn-until-october-7/article68680896.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:47:00 +0530",
        "text": "The schools were initially set to reopen on October 3. However, after requests from various teachers\u2019 associations, the holidays were extended"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Andhra Pradesh Government to issue free duplicate certificates for flood-affected citizens;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/andhra-pradesh-government-to-issue-free-duplicate-certificates-for-flood-affected-citizens/article68679208.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:26:17 +0530",
        "text": "Government provides free duplicate documents for flood-affected citizens in Andhra Pradesh to restore normalcy post unprecedented floods"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;14 Deputy Commissioners, 45 Excise Superintendents and 21 Assistant Commissioners of Excise Department transferred in State;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/14-deputy-commissioners-45-excise-superintendents-and-21-assistant-commissioners-of-excise-department-transferred-in-state/article68680838.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:24:02 +0530",
        "text": "Special Enforcement Bureau abolished, officers to report to APSBCL Managing Director"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;What is BJP's vision to ensure Haryana's farmers make decent living, Congress asks PM Modi;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/haryana-assembly/what-is-bjps-vision-to-ensure-haryanas-farmers-make-decent-living-congress-asks-pm-modi/article68680931.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:12:43 +0530",
        "text": "Haryana's farmers have completely lost trust in the BJP, says Congress leader Jairam Ramesh"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Krishnaiah\u2019s exit will not weaken party: YSRCP;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/krishnaiahs-exit-will-not-weaken-party-ysrcp/article68679277.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:08:13 +0530",
        "text": "YSRCP leaders express disappointment over R. Krishnaiah\u2019s resignation, accusing Naidu of undermining democracy by purchasing Opposition members"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Heavy rain alert for seven Telangana districts on Wednesday, thunderstorm warning across State;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/heavy-rain-alert-for-seven-telangana-districts-on-wednesday-thunderstorm-warning-across-state/article68677755.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:07:31 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;High-level department inquiry on into Kerala ADGP\u2019s \u2018secret meetings\u2019 with RSS leadership;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/high-level-department-enquiry-on-into-kerala-adgps-secret-meetings-with-rss-leadership/article68680914.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:07:24 +0530",
        "text": "Police team headed by State Police Chief issued a notice last week to one Jayakumar, an RSS worker who allegedly accompanied M.R. Ajith Kumar to the purported secret meetings in Thrissur and later at Kovalam in 2023"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Male leopard walks close to Godavari river islands to prey on deer, Black Bucks in Andhra Pradesh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/male-leopard-walks-close-to-godavari-river-islands-to-prey-on-deer-black-bucks-in-andhra-pradesh/article68680598.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:06:17 +0530",
        "text": "Sighted first on September 6, the Leopard moved out of reserve forest to enter into Kadiyam flower nurseries; drones were deployed to trace its movements in the nurseries"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;7 United is an innovative canned rice beer from the Northeast;https://www.thehindu.com/food/features/7-united-is-a-canned-rice-beer-from-the-northeast/article68673383.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:05:52 +0530",
        "text": "With 7 United, Keenan K Marak pays tribute to traditional rice beers of the northeast"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Doctors at GGH Mahabubnagar deliver 41 babies in 24 hours;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/doctors-at-ggh-mahabubnagar-deliver-41-babies-in-24-hours/article68678022.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:04:19 +0530",
        "text": "Of those, 30 deliveries were performed via Caesarean section, while the remaining 11 were natural births"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kangana withdraws remark calling for bringing back farm laws, expresses regret;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kangana-withdraws-remark-calling-for-bringing-back-farm-laws-expresses-regret/article68680938.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:00:17 +0530",
        "text": "She said she might have disappointed many with her statements on the contentious laws which she regretted"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;AIADMK\u2019s women workers stage demonstration in Chennai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/aiadmks-women-workers-stage-demonstration-in-chennai/article68677332.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:59:44 +0530",
        "text": "Former Ministers B. Valarmathi and S. Gokula Indira led the protest near Valluvar Kottam"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Ready for probe, but won\u2019t quit: CM Siddaramaiah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/ready-for-probe-but-wont-quit-cm-siddaramaiah/article68679388.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:56:00 +0530",
        "text": "Chief Minister Siddaramaiah refuses to resign despite opposition demands, citing innocence and readiness to face investigation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Master plan for development of Kaleshwaram temple and arrangements for next year\u2019s Saraswati Pushkaralu discussed;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/master-plan-for-development-of-kaleshwaram-temple-and-arrangements-for-next-years-saraswati-pushkaralu-discussed/article68678616.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:53:59 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;KSRTC offers Dasara tour packages from Mangaluru and Udupi during Navaratri festival;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/ksrtc-offers-dasara-tour-packages-from-mangaluru-and-udupi-during-navaratri-festival/article68680794.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:50:36 +0530",
        "text": "The packages will be offered from October 3 to 12"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Uttam Kumar Reddy to review pending irrigation projects in erstwhile Mahabubnagar;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/uttam-kumar-reddy-to-review-pending-irrigation-projects-in-erstwhile-mahabubnagar/article68680893.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:45:16 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jan Vishwas bill 2.0 to decriminalise minor offences possible in budget session next year: Goyal;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jan-vishwas-bill-20-to-decriminalise-minor-offences-possible-in-budget-session-next-year-goyal/article68680886.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:43:41 +0530",
        "text": "He also said that these measures to improve the business environment of the country among other steps are helping to boost FDI into the country"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Telangana Congress leader Jagga Reddy accuses BJP of conspiracy in Tirumala laddu controversy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/cong-leader-jagga-reddy-accuses-bjp-of-conspiracy-in-tirumala-laddu-controversy/article68680825.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:40:17 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Reddy emphasised that the core issue\u2014the alleged desecration of the Tirumala Laddu\u2014is being overshadowed by political manoeuvring."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;'Guided tour not good': Omar Abdullah slams govt for inviting foreign diplomats to see J&K polls;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jammu-and-kashmir-assembly/guided-tour-not-good-omar-abdullah-slams-govt-for-inviting-foreign-diplomats-to-see-jk-polls/article68680859.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:37:48 +0530",
        "text": "This \"guided tour\" is not a good thing, says Omar Abdullah, alleging the Centre wants to take credit for the people's participation in these polls \"which is a betrayal with the people here\""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;In Ukraine\u2019s Pokrovsk, some quietly waiting for Russian troops;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/in-ukraines-pokrovsk-some-quietly-waiting-for-russian-troops/article68680885.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:35:28 +0530",
        "text": "Residents of Pokrovsk remain defiant in the face of Russian invasion, refusing to flee despite increasing danger and propaganda"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tracking the Israel-Lebanon feud | Timeline;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-lebanon-war-a-timeline-of-events/article68680600.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:29:01 +0530",
        "text": "Since the pager attacks on Hezbollah members, Israel has been carrying out aerial strikes on Lebanon. The assault on September 23, 2024, claimed over 500 lives, marking one of the deadliest incidents in the ongoing Israel-Lebanon conflict in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tirupati laddu row: Centuries-old inscriptions at Tirumala temple record how ghee must be handled for prasadam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/tirupati-laddu-row-centuries-old-inscriptions-at-tirumala-temple-record-how-ghee-must-be-handled-for-prasadam/article68678868.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:25:34 +0530",
        "text": "Focus is back on ancient writings amid ongoing row over alleged use of adulterated ingredient"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Make in India\u2019 led to rise in exports, strengthening of economy: PM Modi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/make-in-india-led-to-rise-in-exports-strengthening-of-economy-pm-modi/article68680791.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:25:08 +0530",
        "text": "Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, \u201cThe programme illustrates the collective resolve of 140 crore Indians to make the nation a powerhouse of manufacturing and innovation\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Justice Shakdher sworn in as Chief Justice of Himachal HC;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/himachal-pradesh/justice-shakdher-sworn-in-as-chief-justice-of-himachal-hc/article68680797.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:12:17 +0530",
        "text": "Justice Shakdher will have a short tenure as Himachal High Court Chief Justice as his retirement is due on October 18"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Over 16,000 2BHK houses for people affected by the Musi riverfront development project;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/over-16000-2bhk-houses-for-people-affected-by-the-musi-riverfront-development-project/article68678818.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:12:14 +0530",
        "text": "Value of structure and land for those who have pattas in the buffer zone and 2 BHKs"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Six killed as van hits roadside tree at Mettathur in Kallakurichi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/six-killed-as-van-hits-roadside-tree-at-mettathur-in-kallakurichi/article68680631.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:11:08 +0530",
        "text": "The 22 passengers were returning from Tiruchendur when the driver of the van lost control of the vehicle and smashed into the tree"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Madhya Pradesh High Court's new Chief Justice Suresh Kumar Kait takes oath;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/madhya-pradesh/madhya-pradesh-high-courts-new-chief-justice-suresh-kumar-kait-takes-oath/article68680762.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:08:21 +0530",
        "text": "Justice Suresh Kumar Kait sworn in as Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court in presence of dignitaries"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Lebanon's Hezbollah says it launched rocket targeting Mossad base near Tel Aviv;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/lebanons-hezbollah-says-it-launched-rocket-targeting-mossad-base-near-tel-aviv/article68680723.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:05:41 +0530",
        "text": "A single surface-to-surface missile was intercepted by air defence systems after it was detected crossing from Lebanon, Israeli military said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jharkhand electoral roll: 1.78 lakh PVTGs enrolled; focus on inclusive, participative polls, says Election Commission official;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jharkhand/jharkhand-electoral-roll-178-lakh-pvtgs-enrolled-focus-on-inclusive-participative-polls-says-election-commission-official/article68680709.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:59:34 +0530",
        "text": "Altogether, 2.59 crore electors are registered in the State where the tenure of the Assembly is due to expire on January 5, 2025"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vocalist RK Padmanabha turns 75;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/vocalist-rk-padmanabha-turns-75/article68672957.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:56:40 +0530",
        "text": "Vocalist RK Padmanabha is a man of many talents. As he turns 75 this week, we take a look at his achievements from over the years..."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hema Committee report: SIT questions actor Edavela Babu;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/hema-committee-report-sit-questions-actor-edavela-babu/article68680715.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:49:12 +0530",
        "text": "Edavela Babu was earlier booked by Ernakulam Town North police, including for rape charges, on a complaint by a woman actor"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Joe Biden, Bill Clinton rally behind Bangladesh interim leader Yunus;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/joe-biden-bill-clinton-rally-behind-bangladesh-interim-leader-muhammad-yunus/article68680739.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:45:07 +0530",
        "text": "President Biden meets Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, supporting Bangladesh\u2019s new reform agenda after ousting autocratic government"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Stop making \u2018casual\u2019 comments in court that reveal individual communal or gender bias, Supreme Court tells judges;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sc-closes-proceedings-initiated-over-objectionable-comments-made-by-karnataka-hc-judge/article68680708.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:44:35 +0530",
        "text": "\u2018You cannot call any part of the territory of India \u2018Pakistan\u2019\u2026 This is fundamentally wrong,\u2019 CJI observed, referring to videos of Karnataka HC Judge, Justice V. Srishananda, who had referred to a part of Bengaluru as \u2018Pakistan\u2019"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Asha Lawrence lodges police complaint of assault at farewell of her father M.M. Lawrence;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/asha-lawrence-lodges-police-complaint-of-assault-at-farewell-of-her-father-mm-lawrence/article68680688.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:41:46 +0530",
        "text": "The complaint, among others, named her brother and senior government pleader M.L. Sajeevan, CPI(M) district secretary C.N. Mohanan and her brother-in-law Boban Varghese"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Norms not followed in issuing bank guarantees to agencies, engineers tell panel on KLIP;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/norms-not-followed-in-issuing-bank-guarantees-to-agencies-engineers-tell-panel-on-klip/article68678892.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:39:50 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP MP Nishikant Dubey flags feedback on Waqf bill, seeks MHA probe;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bjp-mp-dubey-flags-feedback-on-waqf-bill-seeks-mha-probe/article68680690.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:38:28 +0530",
        "text": "This investigation must cover the possible roles of fundamentalist organisations, individuals like Zakir Naik, and foreign powers like the ISI and China, as well as their proxies"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Smoke from flight delays Dubai-bound aircraft at Chennai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/smoke-from-flight-delays-dubai-bound-aircraft-at-chennai/article68680525.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:38:12 +0530",
        "text": "The flight, which was to depart at 10 p.m. on Tuesday, was delayed and left at around 12.15 a.m."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Cyberabad police book YouTuber for sexually assaulting a woman;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/youtuber-booked-for-sexually-assaulting-a-woman/article68679014.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:36:26 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Eateries, shops to remain open till 1 a.m. in Hyderabad;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/eateries-shops-to-remain-open-till-1-am-in-hyderabad/article68679195.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:31:20 +0530",
        "text": "The extended timings also cover ice cream parlours, dhabas, and several other food-related outlets"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Elusive leopard finally rescued at Electronic City in Bengaluru;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/elusive-leopard-finally-rescued-at-electronic-city-in-bengaluru/article68680604.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:29:40 +0530",
        "text": "\u201cSoon after the leopard was trapped it was micro chipped and taken to Bannerghatta National Park for medical examination. It will be released after necessary procedure,\u201d an official said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Badlapur police encounter: Accused said he would not spare anyone in van, says officer;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/badlapur-police-encounter-accused-said-he-would-not-spare-anyone-in-van-says-officer/article68680675.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:25:41 +0530",
        "text": "Mumbra police registered an FIR against Akshay Shinde for \u2018attempt to murder\u2019 for opening fire on a police officer."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala veterinary student\u2019s death: University reinstates suspended dean and assistant warden of Pookode college;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-veterinary-students-death-university-reinstates-suspended-dean-and-assistant-warden-of-pookode-college/article68680669.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:25:40 +0530",
        "text": "Their suspension followed a police probe into circumstances surrounding alleged persecution and subsequent suicide of second-year veterinary student J. S. Sidharthan, whose body was discovered hanging in hostel toilet on February 18, 2024."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;M.S. Ramachandra Rao sworn in as Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jharkhand/ms-ramachandra-rao-sworn-in-as-chief-justice-of-jharkhand-hc/article68680662.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:16:19 +0530",
        "text": "Justice Rao, who headed the Himachal Pradesh High Court, had been assigned the role of the Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delegation of diplomats visiting Kashmir to witness elections;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jammu-and-kashmir-assembly/delegation-of-diplomats-visiting-kashmir-to-witness-elections/article68680644.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:14:05 +0530",
        "text": "The delegation comprised diplomats from Delhi-based missions of the U.S., Mexico, Guyana, South Korea, Somalia, Panama, Singapore, Nigeria, Spain, South Africa, Norway, Tanzania, Rwanda, Algeria, and the Philippines"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Russia mulls Bill to curb \u2018childless propaganda\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/russia-mulls-bill-to-curb-childless-propaganda/article68680645.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:10:53 +0530",
        "text": "Russia is facing  an ageing population and low birth rates"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Veteran BJP leader Suryakanta Vyas passes away;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/veteran-bjp-leader-suryakanta-vyas-passes-away/article68680603.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:06:16 +0530",
        "text": "Six-time MLA from Soorsagar and earlier City constituency started her political career as a councilor and played significant role in Jodhpur's development during the governments of Vasundhara Raje and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Govt floats tender for new Shivaji Maharaj statue in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/govt-floats-tender-for-new-shivaji-maharaj-statue-in-maharashtras-sindhudurg/article68680599.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:03:49 +0530",
        "text": "The statue will be built at a cost of \u20b920 crore and the government has set a six-month timeframe for the completion of the work"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hyundai Motor India IPO green-lit by SEBI;https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/hyundai-motor-india-ipo-green-lit-by-sebi/article68680606.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:00:10 +0530",
        "text": "Hyundai would become the first carmaker to go public in India in two decades, following Maruti Suzuki's IPO in 2003."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;UDF convener in Wayanad submits resignation;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/udf-convener-in-wayanad-submits-resignation/article68678587.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:58:27 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Shuhaib murder: Supreme Court refuses to interfere with Kerala HC verdict on CBI probe;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/shuhaib-murder-supreme-court-refuses-to-interfere-with-kerala-hc-verdict-on-cbi-probe/article68677855.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:57:59 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;140-year-old Nizam Club in Hyderabad operating without FSSAI licence;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/140-year-old-nizam-club-in-hyderabad-operating-without-fssai-licence/article68680425.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:47:58 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Reliance Jio, Vodafone, Bharti Airtel, and BSNL heads discuss AGR, OTP apps exclusion from licensing rules with Union Minister Scindia: Sources;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/reliance-jio-vodafone-bharti-airtel-and-bsnl-heads-discuss-agr-otp-apps-exclusion-from-licensing-rules-with-union-minister-scindia-sources/article68680496.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:47:21 +0530",
        "text": "Telecom operators in a meeting with Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia expressed concerns over regulator Trai excluding messaging and calling apps like WhatsApp and Telegram in its recommendation on new licensing rules"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Elephant menace: A.P. and Karnataka Forest Departments to sign a MoU on Sept 27;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/elephant-menace-ap-and-karnataka-forest-departments-to-sign-a-mou-on-sept-27/article68680498.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:41:55 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;China probes U.S. fashion group over 'unreasonable' Xinjiang boycott;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/china-probes-us-fashion-group-over-unreasonable-xinjiang-boycott/article68680529.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:30:10 +0530",
        "text": "PVH was \"suspected of violating normal market trading principles\" on products from Xinjiang, and \"adopting discriminatory measures\""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;GoM meet in Goa: No further exemption in GST for long-term land lease;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/goa/gom-meet-in-goa-no-further-exemption-in-gst-for-long-term-land-lease/article68680497.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:08:23 +0530",
        "text": "The Group of Ministers unanimously agreed and recommended that no further exemption is required. GST at applicable rates will continue to be levied on the same"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018India isn\u2019t trying to control every political move of every neighbour\u2019: Jaishankar;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/india-isnt-trying-to-control-every-political-move-of-every-neighbour-s-jaishankar/article68680473.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:04:31 +0530",
        "text": "India\u2019s External Affairs Minister clarifies India\u2019s financial assistance to neighbouring countries is not politically motivated or controlling"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Trinamool leader Anubrata Mondal returns from prison, reaffirms support for Mamata;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/trinamool-leader-anubrata-mondal-returns-from-prison-reaffirms-support-for-mamata/article68678158.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:58:10 +0530",
        "text": "Released from Tihar Jail, he gets hero\u2019s welcome at his residence; yet to hold talks with CM Mamata"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Joe Biden will be most proud of deepening partnership with India: White House;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/joe-biden-will-be-most-proud-of-deepening-partnership-with-india-white-house/article68680479.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:54:39 +0530",
        "text": "We are pursuing a defence relationship on various systems that will make not just the Indian people safer, but people safer throughout the Indo-Pacific, says White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;7 killed as car rams into trailer truck in Gujarat's Sabarkantha;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/gujarat/7-persons-killed-as-car-rams-into-trailer-truck-in-gujarats-sabarkantha/article68680468.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:37:24 +0530",
        "text": "The car was carrying several persons from Shamlaji to Ahmedabad when it hit the trailer from behind"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Inflation in Mexico eases below forecast;https://www.thehindu.com/business/inflation-in-mexico-eases-below-forecast/article68680469.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:32:46 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Switzerland police take action over death using \u2018suicide pod\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/switzerland-police-take-action-over-death-using-suicide-pod/article68680463.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:29:08 +0530",
        "text": "The capsule has raised a host of legal and ethical questions in Switzerland, where active euthanasia is banned but assisted dying has been legal for decades"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tuvalu fights to keep maritime boundaries amid alarming rise in sea levels;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/tuvalu-fights-to-keep-maritime-boundaries-amid-alarming-rise-in-sea-levels/article68680454.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:22:05 +0530",
        "text": "NASA scientists project that by 2050, daily tides will submerge half of the main atoll of Funafuti, home to 60% of Tuvalu\u2019s residents"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP distances itself from Kangana Ranaut\u2019s remarks on repealed farm laws;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/doesnt-reflect-partys-view-bjp-distances-itself-from-kangana-ranauts-remarks-on-farm-laws/article68680430.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:12:39 +0530",
        "text": "Kangana Ranaut purportedly said \u201cFarm laws that have been repealed should be brought back\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Fashion suppliers want brands to help with EU green regulations;https://www.thehindu.com/business/fashion-suppliers-want-brands-to-help-with-eu-green-regulations/article68677484.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:08:23 +0530",
        "text": "New rules on workers\u2019 rights and emissions could transform how clothing is made and sold in garment factories across Asia; major European brands must ensure their suppliers are conducting due diligence to protect workers and communities from the adverse effects of their operations"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Opening up BMTC, BMRCL data: Can it ease first, last-mile connectivity woes in Bengaluru?;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/opening-bmtc-bmrcl-data-can-it-ease-first-last-mile-connectivity-woes-in-bengaluru/article68675355.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "The recently launched \u2018Enroute: A mobility-as-a-service challenge\u2019 has offered a glimpse of how this could potentially change public transport in Bengaluru"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mumbai Metro Aqua line Phase-1 to start in first week of October;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/mumbai-metro-aqua-line-phase-1-to-start-in-first-week-of-october/article68678894.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:58:26 +0530",
        "text": "It will run between Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), a business hub, and Aarey, making vital stops at two airport stations"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;College managements urge govt. to clear fee reimbursement dues;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/college-managements-urge-government-to-clear-fee-reimbursement-dues/article68678321.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:48:05 +0530",
        "text": "College associations express disappointment with Congress government\u2019s handling of education sector, urge payment of fee reimbursement arrears"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Why has Bombay HC invalidated Centre\u2019s proposed \u2018fact-checking\u2019 unit? | Explained;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/why-has-bombay-hc-invalidated-centres-proposed-fact-checking-unit-explained/article68668079.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:30:00 +0530",
        "text": "Justice A.S. Chandurkar struck down the amended IT Rules, 2021, which empowered the Centre to establish a \u2018fact-checking unit\u2019 tasked with ordering the removal of false or misleading information about itself. What does the ruling say and what happens next?"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;How Donald Trump\u2019s social media redux is shaping political discourse ahead of the U.S. Presidential Election 2024;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/how-donald-trumps-social-media-redux-is-shaping-political-discourse-ahead-of-the-us-presidential-election-2024/article68676989.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:29:46 +0530",
        "text": "Donald Trump\u2019s social media use is as erratic and unpredictable as his rhetoric. However, X owner Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are both readying their platforms for his growing political presence ahead of the U.S. presidential election"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Autorickshaw workers\u2019 union highlights charter of demands;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/autorickshaw-workers-union-highlights-charter-of-demands/article68676870.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:20:51 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Iran's president urges U.S. to begin new era of relations with Tehran;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/irans-president-urges-us-to-begin-new-era-of-relations-with-tehran/article68680362.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:03:45 +0530",
        "text": "Iranian President Pezeshkian calls for a new era in U.S.-Iran relations, emphasising cooperation, security concerns, and joint work"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.S. intelligence warns Trump on 'real' assassination threat from Iran: Campaign;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-intelligence-warns-trump-on-real-assassination-threat-from-iran-campaign/article68680361.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:59:10 +0530",
        "text": "Two apparent assassination attempts have been made in the same number of months on the life of the 78-year-old Republican presidential candidate"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India sharing info between Russia and Ukraine; hoping to usher in peace: EAM Jaishankar;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-sharing-info-between-russia-and-ukraine-hoping-to-usher-in-peace-eam-jaishankar/article68680363.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:50:07 +0530",
        "text": "External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar says, there are not many countries and leaders who had the willingness or ability to engage both sides"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Russia 'can only be forced into peace,\" Zelenskyy tells UN;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/russia-can-only-be-forced-into-peace-zelenskyy-tells-un/article68680359.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:41:10 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Zelenskyy also joined the United States in pressuring Iran and North Korea for alleged military support to Russia"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Karnataka High Court ruling on MUDA case probe a political setback to Siddaramaiah?;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/karnataka-high-court-ruling-on-muda-case-probe-a-political-setback-to-siddaramaiah/article68678347.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:07:00 +0530",
        "text": "The Congress high command knows well the popularity of the Chief Minister in Karnataka and that his support was crucial for the party in the coming elections elsewhere too"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bihar power utility meets all-time high demand of 8,005 MW;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/bihar-power-utility-meets-all-time-high-demand-of-8005-mw/article68678641.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:06:51 +0530",
        "text": "The government is spending \u20b9 15,343 crores as subsidy this year, ensuring that consumers receive electricity at a lower cost, which has contributed to a consistent increase in demand."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bihar government to launch drive to kill Nilgai and wild boars;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/bihar-government-to-launch-drive-to-kill-nilgai-and-wild-boars/article68679079.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:04:00 +0530",
        "text": "The drive will start in five districts namely, East Champaran, Vaishali, Buxar, Siwan and Samastipur; according to an estimate, there are about three lakh Nilgai and 67,000 wild boars in these districts"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Morning Digest | Many prominent leaders will face poll test in J&K elections today; in final address at U.N. Assembly, Joe Biden says world is at \u2018inflection point\u2019, and more;https://www.thehindu.com/news/morning-digest-september-25-2024/article68679410.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:00:40 +0530",
        "text": "Here is a select list of stories to start the day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Scheme of providing six eggs a week for school children to begin on September 25 , but teachers say prescribed prices are too low;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/scheme-of-providing-six-eggs-a-week-for-school-children-to-begin-on-september-25-but-teachers-say-prescribed-prices-are-too-low/article68677232.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;NIA charge sheets two more persons in Shivamogga ISIS conspiracy case;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/nia-charge-sheets-two-more-persons-in-shivamogga-isis-conspiracy-case/article68677205.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Niranjan\u2019s life could have been saved had the playground gate been repaired properly and on time, say residents;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/niranjanas-life-could-have-been-saved-had-the-playground-gate-been-repaired-properly-and-in-time-say-residents/article68678576.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;SWR to begin new MEMU trains on Tumakuru, Yeshwanthpur, Hosur, and Banaswadi routes on September 28;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/swr-to-launch-memu-trains-on-tumakuru-yeshwanthpur-hosur-and-banaswadi-routes-on-september-28/article68678251.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Karnataka welfare board for gig and transport workers is first of its kind in India, says Siddaramaiah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/karnataka-welfare-board-for-gig-and-transport-workers-is-first-of-its-kind-in-india-says-siddaramaiah/article68676917.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Siddaramaiah stressed the significance of road safety. \u201cAs Chief Minister, I have personally overseen several initiatives aimed at reducing fatalities and improving road safety infrastructure,\u201d he said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Yelahanka gas plant commissioned after 10 years being in the pipeline;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/yelahanka-gas-plant-commissioned-after-10-years-being-in-the-pipeline/article68678444.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;D.K. Shivakumar goes on night rounds to check road conditions in Bengaluru, says no action against any officials after deadline to fill potholes ends;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/dk-shivakumar-goes-on-night-rounds-to-check-road-condition-in-bengaluru-no-action-against-any-officials-after-deadline-to-fill-potholes-ends/article68677966.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "Before going to the US, Mr. Shivakumar had warned jurisdictional officers of being held accountable and suspended if he found any potholes after the 15-day deadline"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Munirathna remanded in SIT custody till October 5;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/munirathna-remanded-in-sit-custody-till-october-5/article68678278.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "There are three cases against Munirathna"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Anti-stigma campaigns crucial to promoting mental well being and reducing treatment gap, says NIMHANS paper;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/anti-stigma-campaigns-crucial-to-promoting-mental-well-being-and-reducing-treatment-gap-says-nimhans-paper/article68678483.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;EY employee death: Working women get only 7 to 10 hours of rest in a day, data shows;https://www.thehindu.com/data/ey-employee-death-working-women-get-only-7-to-10-hours-of-rest-in-a-day-data-shows/article68678015.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "Working women get only 7-10 hours for rest every day, due to work at both office and home"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two naxalites killed in Chhattisgarh\u2019s Sukma district, claims police;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/chhattisgarh/two-naxalites-killed-in-chhattisgarhs-sukma-district-claims-police/article68677951.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 06:59:08 +0530",
        "text": "Police claims to have recovered some articles used by the Naxalites"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Congress deals with veterans demands as BJP works out caste equations for Rajasthan by-poll;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rajasthan/cong-deals-with-veterans-demands-as-bjp-works-out-caste-equations-for-rajasthan-by-poll/article68678023.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 06:51:42 +0530",
        "text": "The BJP has ruled out any alliances with smaller parties."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rahul\u2019s claim that Modi has lost confidence is baseless, laughable: Kishan Reddy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rahuls-claim-that-modi-has-lost-confidence-is-baseless-laughable-kishan-reddy/article68678471.ece;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 06:46:03 +0530",
        "text": "The Union Minister said confidence in Mr. Gandhi had eroded within the Congress party, especially after his repeated attempts to \u201cmalign India\u2019s reputation on foreign soil\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s Muslim community urges government funding for body accrediting halal eateries;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279908/hong-kongs-muslim-community-urges-government-funding-body-accrediting-halal-eateries?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:51:25 +0800",
        "text": "Other measures proposed include Ramadan food fairs and festivals to promote Muslim culture as well as more prayer rooms at shopping centres."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s 2 new giant pandas get official send-off in Sichuan before much-awaited arrival;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279895/hong-kongs-2-new-giant-pandas-get-official-send-sichuan-much-awaited-arrival?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:00:45 +0800",
        "text": "An An and Ke Ke will touch down on Cathay Pacific flight on Thursday and are set to meet public in December."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong policeman dies, wife injured in car crash on Iceland holiday;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279893/hong-kong-policeman-dies-wife-injured-car-crash-iceland-holiday?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:54:10 +0800",
        "text": "Man worked for the force\u2019s Marine North division, while wife is attached to Marine Harbour division."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong customs warns cross-border shoppers not to bring raw meat and eggs into city;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279885/hong-kong-customs-warns-cross-border-shoppers-not-bring-raw-meat-and-eggs-city?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:52:35 +0800",
        "text": "Department says number of cases so far this year has surpassed 2023 tally by 30 per cent, as health authorities warn of hygiene risks."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;31 pupils among 43 arrested in crackdown on Hong Kong criminal syndicates recruiting teens;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279880/31-pupils-among-43-arrested-crackdown-hong-kong-criminal-syndicates-recruiting-teens?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:16:47 +0800",
        "text": "Investigations reveal four syndicates offered money and free drugs to recruit teenagers in Wong Tai Sin."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong court remands teaching assistant in custody after guilty plea for DSE exam leak;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279874/hong-kong-court-remands-teaching-assistant-custody-after-guilty-plea-dse-exam-leak?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:26:55 +0800",
        "text": "Court hears Lau Kwan-hei leaked questions from university entrance exam\u2019s English test on Xiaohongshu, breaching confidentiality terms."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Monitor lizard \u2018Aberdeen\u2019, long-time animal ambassador in Hong Kong, dies at 16;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279871/monitor-lizard-aberdeen-longtime-animal-ambassador-hong-kong-dies-16?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:15:23 +0800",
        "text": "Veterinary investigation suggests death might be related to lizard\u2019s age, as centre says species usually lives 10 to 15 years in human care."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;\u2018Golden week\u2019 break to attract 850 mainland Chinese tours to Hong Kong. But is it enough?;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279863/golden-week-break-attract-850-mainland-chinese-tours-hong-kong-it-enough?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:26:20 +0800",
        "text": "Tourism representatives have called for better long-term plans to attract more visitors to city."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Want to fly private with a pet or eat hotpot on a jet? This Hong Kong firm has you covered;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279862/want-fly-private-pet-or-eat-hotpot-jet-hong-kong-firm-has-you-covered?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:25:40 +0800",
        "text": "Vivien Lau, newly appointed CEO of Hong Kong Business Aviation Centre, says it will offer more tailor-made services to cash in on market."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Art unites and overrides geopolitics, can help Hong Kong tourism, Italian princess says;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279815/art-unites-and-overrides-geopolitics-can-help-hong-kong-tourism-italian-princess-says?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:30:07 +0800",
        "text": "Princess Camilla of Bourbon Two Sicilies says Hong Kong can be Asia\u2019s art capital as she auctions her prized Van Gogh masterpiece."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;HSBC to extend US$641 million in pre-approved loans to aid Hong Kong SMEs;https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3279832/hsbc-extend-us641-million-preapproved-loans-aid-hong-kong-smes?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:00:53 +0800",
        "text": "Initiative aims to ease access to capital for entrepreneurs who are looking to invest at the beginning of a rate-cut cycle."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Spirit of Hong Kong Awards: traditional Chinese medicine practitioner targets wider audience;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279804/spirit-hong-kong-awards-traditional-chinese-medicine-practitioner-targets-wider-audience?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:00:12 +0800",
        "text": "Lam Kar-yeung has been selected as a finalist for the Spirit of Hong Kong Awards 2024 in the culture category."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;How Hong Kong\u2019s safe streets empower women to thrive;https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3279606/how-hong-kongs-safe-streets-empower-women-thrive?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:30:07 +0800",
        "text": "The city\u2019s steadfast commitment to protecting women offers essential lessons for the global community in turbulent times."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Van Gogh painting owned by princess may fetch US$50 million at Hong Kong auction, setting record;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279812/van-gogh-painting-owned-princess-may-fetch-us50-million-hong-kong-auction-setting-record?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:30:07 +0800",
        "text": "Les canots amarr\u00e9s, owned by Princess Camilla of Bourbon Two Sicilies, will set record for most expensive painting sold in Asia if work fetches US$50 million estimate."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Forget laissez-faire, Hong Kong must halt property market decline;https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3279711/forget-laissez-faire-hong-kong-must-halt-property-market-decline?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:30:07 +0800",
        "text": "The government must move away from non-intervention and get busy if it wants to end the real estate slowdown weighing on the rest of the economy."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hearing over media access to car registration database begins in Hong Kong;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279814/hearing-over-media-access-car-registration-database-begins-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:06:29 +0800",
        "text": "Revamped policy inconsistent with ruling by Court of Final Appeal, lawyer for Hong Kong Journalists Association says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Cathay Pacific denies firing cabin crew over row between mainland passenger, Cantonese couple;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3279813/cathay-pacific-denies-firing-cabin-crew-over-row-between-mainland-passenger-cantonese-couple?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:44:50 +0800",
        "text": "Airline issues clarification contradicting claim by mainland woman involved in row on flight from Hong Kong to London."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Authorities cracking down on land grabs in Hong Kong, but experts call for more action;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279808/authorities-cracking-down-land-grabs-hong-kong-experts-call-more-action?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:54:41 +0800",
        "text": "Development Bureau says 11 detached houses had illegally occupied government land at luxury residential estate in Tai Tam."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong murder accused assaulted mentally disabled victim during \u2018exorcism\u2019, court told;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279805/hong-kong-man-charged-murder-assaulted-mentally-disabled-victim-during-exorcism-court?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:41:45 +0800",
        "text": "Dunsany Cheung, 54, hit his 21-year-old victim\u2019s head on wall repeatedly and forced alcohol down her throat, court hears."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong expects 10 million trips at border crossings over National Day holiday period;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279802/hong-kong-expects-10-million-trips-border-crossings-over-national-day-holiday-period?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:03:22 +0800",
        "text": "Immigration Department warns travellers to expect longer waiting times than usual from this weekend until October 7."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong overtakes Singapore as Asia\u2019s top financial centre, influential ranking shows;https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3279796/hong-kong-overtakes-singapore-asias-top-financial-centre-influential-ranking-shows?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:47:27 +0800",
        "text": "Hong Kong regains top billing in Asia from Singapore for the first time since September 2022, when the city remained closed due to the pandemic."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Why is the US trying to kill off Hong Kong\u2019s trade autonomy?;https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3279705/why-us-trying-kill-hong-kongs-trade-autonomy?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:30:07 +0800",
        "text": "Hong Kong\u2019s capitalist system depends on its ability to exercise its trade and economic freedoms enshrined in the Basic Law. The city must defend them."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong fencer Cheung Ka-long reveals secret to success in epic Olympic gold medal bout;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279794/hong-kong-fencer-cheung-ka-long-reveals-secret-success-epic-olympic-gold-medal-bout?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:53:39 +0800",
        "text": "Fencing legend also says he was in \u2018really poor\u2019 condition before the Paris Games."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong Disneyland to bump ticket prices by up to 13%, unveils deals for annual pass holders;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279792/hong-kong-disneyland-bump-ticket-prices-13-unveils-deals-annual-pass-holders?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:31:14 +0800",
        "text": "One-day tickets will cost 5 to 7 per cent more and annual membership prices will increase by 3 to 13 per cent starting Wednesday."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;PhD student fined HK$5,000 for splashing semen onto woman\u2019s buttocks on Hong Kong campus;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279784/phd-student-fined-hk5000-splashing-semen-womans-buttocks-hong-kong-campus?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:41:07 +0800",
        "text": "Lai Changwei, 26, fined for indecent assault on 22-year-old woman after defence argues he was under enormous pressure at time of crime."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s Cathay to fly direct to Dallas, step up Vancouver and Toronto routes;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3279777/hong-kongs-cathay-fly-direct-dallas-step-vancouver-and-toronto-routes?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:30:07 +0800",
        "text": "Flag carrier aims to offer 108 weekly return flights to North America by May next year, with cargo operations also set for expansion."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong programmer and father held for alleged illicit live-streaming of EPL games;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279754/hong-kong-customs-arrests-programmer-and-his-father-illegally-live-streaming-epl-games?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:32:41 +0800",
        "text": "Men suspected of streaming Premier League football games from Now TV paid channels to more than 200 viewers."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong court denies early release for student leader jailed for praising attack on police;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279752/hong-kong-court-denies-early-release-student-leader-jailed-praising-attack-police?utm_source=rss_feed;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:29:52 +0800",
        "text": "Application by Kinson Cheung dismissed after commissioner of correctional services and national security committee argue against his early release."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Green co-leaders Lang and Nouripour resign;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-green-co-leaders-lang-and-nouripour-resign/a-70319586?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The co-leaders of Germany's Greens, Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour, have announced they're stepping down. The party suffered a disastrous state election in Brandenburg, dropping below 5% and losing its seats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East: Hezbollah fires missile at Tel Aviv;https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-hezbollah-fires-missile-at-tel-aviv/live-70318800?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Hezbollah said it targeted a Mossad base after one of the group's leaders was killed in a strike on Beirut. Israel intercepted the missile and said it was the first time Hezbollah had targeted Tel Aviv. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Why are sea levels rising?;https://www.dw.com/en/why-are-sea-levels-rising/a-70281203?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Rising oceans are posing a global threat, particularly to low lying islands and coastal cities. What is driving this and how can we respond? Here's what you need to know."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dutch 'Mocro mafia' sets off alarm bells in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-mocro-mafia-sets-off-alarm-bells-in-germany/a-69764909?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "German police have warned of Dutch organized crime networks moving into Germany after a series of explosions in Cologne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;CERN at 70: Smashing elementary particles for humanity;https://www.dw.com/en/cern-at-70-smashing-elementary-particles-for-humanity/a-70298947?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "CERN has been an epicenter of scientific breakthroughs since 1954, including the discovery of the Higgs boson. Scientists there hope a new, larger particle smasher will lead them to more discoveries for years to come."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;75 years of Frankfurt Book Fair: World stage for protests;https://www.dw.com/en/75-years-of-frankfurt-book-fair-world-stage-for-protests/a-70283991?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The Cold War, neo-Nazis, as well as Iran's fatwa on Salman Rushdie all had an impact on the Frankfurt Book Fair, which turns 75 this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US: Man in Missouri executed despite conviction doubts;https://www.dw.com/en/us-man-in-missouri-executed-despite-conviction-doubts/a-70318262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Marcellus Williams was convicted for a 1998 murder. The execution went ahead, even after the prosecutor's office that originally convicted Williams in the meantime expressed doubts about the integrity of the case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Sri Lanka's new president calls for snap parliamentary polls;https://www.dw.com/en/sri-lanka-s-new-president-calls-for-snap-parliamentary-polls/a-70318106?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved the present government and called for snap elections in Sri Lanka. The move could help him consolidate power in the parliament."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US: Trump warned of alleged Iranian assassination threats;https://www.dw.com/en/us-trump-warned-of-alleged-iranian-assassination-threats/a-70318065?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Donald Trump has been briefed by US intelligence officials on \"real and specific\" assassination threats against him from Iran."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Trump shooting suspect charged with attempted assassination;https://www.dw.com/en/trump-shooting-suspect-charged-with-attempted-assassination/a-70317946?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The gunman accused of plotting to kill Donald Trump at his Florida golf course has been indicted on three additional charges, including attempted assassination."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy says Iran, N. Korea 'accomplices';https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-says-iran-n-korea-accomplices/live-70307515?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denounced Iran and North Korea for providing weapons to Russia. He also said Moscow must be forced into any just peace. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Switzerland: Police investigate 1st use of 'suicide capsule';https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-police-investigate-1st-use-of-suicide-capsule/a-70314117?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Swiss police say they have detained several people and opened a criminal case a day after the first use of the \"Sarco\" capsule to end a person's life. Assisted dying is legal in Switzerland in some circumstances."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN General Assembly: Biden warns against Lebanon escalation;https://www.dw.com/en/un-general-assembly-biden-warns-against-lebanon-escalation/live-70312260?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine have taken center stage at the UN gathering in New York. US President Joe Biden said a full-scale war in Lebanon was in no one's interest. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East: Hezbollah confirms death of commander Kobeisi;https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-hezbollah-confirms-death-of-commander-kobeisi/live-70307417?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Israel has launched further airstrikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, a day after more than 550 people were killed in similar attacks. Hezbollah has confirmed the death of top commander Iman Kobeissi. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Deutsche Bahn: New train to link Berlin and Paris in 8 hours;https://www.dw.com/en/deutsche-bahn-new-train-to-link-berlin-and-paris-in-8-hours/a-70314292?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The first direct high-speed train service between both cities will be running from December, according to Deutsche Bahn. It will offer a journey without transfers, with stops in Frankfurt, Strasbourg and Karlsruhe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister: Eating habit survey shows developing tastes;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-eating-habit-survey-shows-developing-tastes/a-70309258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "A new government study points to changing tastes in food, but not a desire for rules, according to the agriculture minister. One thing stays constant \u2014 a pleasing taste was the most important factor for respondents."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Conflict keeps millions of children out of school in West and Central Africa;https://www.dw.com/en/conflict-keeps-millions-of-children-out-of-school-in-west-and-central-africa/a-70313033?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The future education of an estimated 2.8 million children in West and Central Africa is in jeopardy due to conflicts. The situation is particularly dire in Nigeria and Cameroon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Escalation in Lebanon: What is Israel trying to achieve?;https://www.dw.com/en/escalation-in-lebanon-what-is-israel-trying-to-achieve/a-70312958?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "While Israel says its attacks on Lebanon's Hezbollah are necessary to regain safety in the border region, analysts point to three different key factors."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Albanian PM has announced plans for the creation of a 27-acre sovereign state for a Sufi Muslim order in Tirana.;https://www.dw.com/en/albanian-pm-has-announced-plans-for-the-creation-of-a-27-acre-sovereign-state-for-a-sufi-muslim-order-in-tirana/a-70314510?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Albanian PM Edi Rama says he wants to establish a sovereign microstate for an Islamic Sufi order, the Shia Bektashi Muslims in Tirana. While welcomed by the order, the move has also been greeted with skepticism."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;North Korea and women's youth football: A perfect match;https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-and-women-s-youth-football-a-perfect-match/a-70313505?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "North Korea's young women have won their third U20 World Cup, so why is the isolated state so good at this level of the game?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany decries UniCredit bid for Commerzbank 'unfriendly';https://www.dw.com/en/germany-decries-unicredit-bid-for-commerzbank-unfriendly/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Italy's UniCredit stunned markets by clandestinely raising its stake in Germany's second-largest lender to 21%. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, the government stands by its side."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Amazon: Who should pay for its protection?;https://www.dw.com/en/amazon-who-should-pay-for-its-protection/a-70309693?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The world\u2019s largest rainforest is battling deforestation, drought and record wildfires. Where is the money to save it coming from?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU divided over higher tariffs for Chinese EV imports;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-divided-over-higher-tariffs-for-chinese-ev-imports/a-70250391?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Despite \"constructive talks\" between the EU and China recently, the impasse over planned EU tariffs on China-made electric vehicles hasn't been resolved. The spat could escalate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police raids in southwest target human traffickers;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-raids-in-southwest-target-human-traffickers/a-70307600?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Police raided more than 20 properties in southwestern Germany and arrested at least four people. The case pertains to trafficking people from the Caucasus region to work illegally and for less than the minimum wage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How false memories make us who we are;https://www.dw.com/en/how-false-memories-make-us-who-we-are/a-70300263?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "We think of memory as a reliable recording of our lives. But we also have false memories, often pieced together from communal experience. Those false memories shape our identity the same as the real ones do."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;At least 4 die as migrant ship sinks off Greek island;https://www.dw.com/en/at-least-4-die-as-migrant-ship-sinks-off-greek-island/a-70306276?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "A small boat carrying migrants from nearby Turkey sank in the eastern Aegean Sea off the Greek island of Samos, killing at least four people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy eyes high-level talks on US trip;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-eyes-high-level-talks-on-us-trip/live-70298882?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The Ukrainian president met with Germany's Olaf Scholz in New York. Meanwhile, Russia said 31 civilians had been killed in Kursk and 131,000 others have been forced to flee. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German supermarket finds \u20ac7M of cocaine in crates of bananas;https://www.dw.com/en/german-supermarket-finds-\u20ac7m-of-cocaine-in-crates-of-bananas/a-70303810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Police did not identify the discount supermarket chain. However, they said the cocaine was found at stores in several cities across the state of North Rhine-Westphalia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: SPD seeks coalition after slim win in Brandenburg;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-spd-seeks-coalition-after-slim-win-in-brandenburg/live-70298970?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats will seek coalition talks with upstart left party BSW, as working with the far-right runner-up AfD has been ruled out. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goalie ter Stegen's injury leaves Germany coach in a bind;https://www.dw.com/en/goalie-ter-stegen-s-injury-leaves-germany-coach-in-a-bind/a-70302777?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Just weeks after being confirmed as Germany's new first-choice goalkeeper, Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has gone down with a potentially season-ending injury. Could Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann recall Manuel Neuer?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Volkswagen's crisis: How can Europe's car industry survive?;https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-s-crisis-how-can-europe-s-car-industry-survive/a-70231806?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "While Volkswagen and other European automakers are considering closing factories, Chinese rivals are searching for production sites on the continent. What's going wrong in Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Far-right gains in east Germany could deal blow to economy;https://www.dw.com/en/far-right-gains-in-east-germany-could-deal-blow-to-economy/a-70295769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "After elections in Thuringia and Saxony, the far-right AfD party has again massively gained in a poll in eastern Germany. Now the second-strongest force in Brandenburg, their success causes concerns among businesses."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany increases 'Deutschlandticket' price to \u20ac58;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-increases-deutschlandticket-price-to-\u20ac58/a-70300975?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The \"Deutschlandticket\" monthly travel pass allows passengers unlimited trips on local and regional trains, trams and buses. Starting in 2025, the ticket will be \u20ac9 more expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hamilton's near heatstroke puts F1 driver safety in focus;https://www.dw.com/en/hamilton-s-near-heatstroke-puts-f1-driver-safety-in-focus/a-69704130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Both Mercedes drivers suffered from 'borderline heatstroke' at the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix. Not for the first time this year, questions are being raised about their safety."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Brandenburg election brings relief for ruling SPD;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-brandenburg-election-brings-relief-for-ruling-spd/a-70298529?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats managed to fight off the far-right AfD in the regional vote. However, questions about the future of Germany's ruling coalition remain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Sudan crisis: Threat to culture 'unprecedented,' UNESCO says;https://www.dw.com/en/sudan-crisis-threat-to-culture-unprecedented-unesco-says/a-70284737?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Sudan is sinking into war and chaos. Many cultural and world heritage sites have been destroyed or looted as millions of people are displaced."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy: Naples house collapse kills mother and two kids;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-naples-house-collapse-kills-mother-and-two-kids/a-70296505?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The house is believed to have collapsed due to an explosion, local authorities said. The father of the kids and their 2-year-old brother were hospitalized after the incident."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;SPD set to finish ahead of far-right AfD in Brandenburg vote;https://www.dw.com/en/spd-set-to-finish-ahead-of-far-right-afd-in-brandenburg-vote/live-70291788?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Projections in state elections in the eastern German state of Brandenburg give the Social Democrats a slim lead over the far-right AfD in the race to be the largest party. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Swiss voters reject biodiversity, pension reforms;https://www.dw.com/en/swiss-voters-reject-biodiversity-pension-reforms/a-70295253?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Voters in Switzerland have voted \"no\" to measures on biodiversity preservation and pension reforms, according to official initial results."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Gaza's disabled cyclists deliver aid, inspiration and hope;https://www.dw.com/en/gaza-s-disabled-cyclists-deliver-aid-inspiration-and-hope/a-70269177?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "When the bombs started to fall in Gaza last October, the Gaza Sunbirds, a group of 25 Palestinian cyclists whose legs were amputated, started using their bikes to deliver food and shelters to their neighbors."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New French government announced in shift to the right;https://www.dw.com/en/new-french-government-announced-in-shift-to-the-right/a-70291188?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "French President Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff revealed the new center-right government from the Elysee Palace with some new faces in key positions and some who will be returning to their positions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Campaigns and a concert on eve of vote;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-campaigns-and-a-concert-on-eve-of-vote/a-70290694?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Politicians made last-ditch pitches in Brandenburg before Sunday's state election, where the far-right AfD is in the running to be the largest party. Several German bands gathered in Potsdam opposing this prospect."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Female referee deletes Instagram after sexist messages;https://www.dw.com/en/female-referee-deletes-instagram-after-sexist-messages/a-70290706?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Albanian referee Emanuela Rusta is making fast progress, but the sport she works in is not. The official made the decision to get rid of her social media account after constant remarks about her appearance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Paratroopers land in Arnhem honoring Operation Market Garden;https://www.dw.com/en/paratroopers-land-in-arnhem-honoring-operation-market-garden/a-70290283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned World War II operations. The Allied bid to secure a Rhine crossing proved \"A Bridge too Far.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Homeless World Cup: 'We want to do something special';https://www.dw.com/en/homeless-world-cup-we-want-to-do-something-special/a-70218267?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "National football teams made up of homeless people from around the world will soon gather in South Korea for the Homeless World Cup. For many of the players, the stakes are much higher than just the trophy on offer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starting a new life after political imprisonment in Belarus;https://www.dw.com/en/starting-a-new-life-after-political-imprisonment-in-belarus/a-70274513?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned dozens of political prisoners in recent months. Husband and wife Dmitry Luksha and Polina Polovinko, who were released in early July, spoke with DW about their ordeal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Two arsenals destroyed in Russia, Kyiv says;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-two-arsenals-destroyed-in-russia-kyiv-says/live-70289171?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Ukraine has destroyed two ammunition depots in Russia, the Ukrainian military said. Meanwhile, three people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Immigrants in eastern Germany ask: Leave or stay?;https://www.dw.com/en/immigrants-in-eastern-germany-ask-leave-or-stay/a-70289695?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The far-right AfD, leading in some polls, has campaigned aggressively against immigrants in state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg. But those states also depend on immigrant labor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Are Western double standards undermining the global order?;https://www.dw.com/en/are-western-double-standards-undermining-the-global-order/a-70289453?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The Global South has become increasingly critical of Western double standards. A study by the Munich Security Conference has warned that the rules-based international order is at stake."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How deadly is Ukraine's new 'dragon drone'?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-deadly-is-ukraine-s-new-dragon-drone/a-70287164?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The Ukrainian armed forces have deployed a new kind of drone to defend their country, one filled with a pyrotechnic thermite mixture that rains fire down on enemy positions. Its use is highly controversial."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Fridays for Future protests draw 75,000 in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/fridays-for-future-protests-draw-75-000-in-germany/a-70287782?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Climate activists filled the streets of German cities from Berlin to Munich, calling on authorities to take stronger action. Meanwhile, a court jailed two elderly climate activists for sabotaging an oil pipeline."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Iceland: Police shoot 1st polar bear sighted in years;https://www.dw.com/en/iceland-police-shoot-1st-polar-bear-sighted-in-years/a-70287266?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Number of refugees reaches new high in 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-number-of-refugees-reaches-new-high-in-2024/a-70286816?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "There are more refugees living in Germany than ever in recent history, according to German government data. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has contributed to the increase in refugees in Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German border city prepares for flood;https://www.dw.com/en/german-border-city-prepares-for-flood/a-70285116?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Frankfurt an der Oder, the German city on the border with Poland, is getting ready for yet another major flood. Yet the climate crisis is barely an issue in the Brandenburg state election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Former Harrods boss Mohamed al Fayed accused of rape;https://www.dw.com/en/former-harrods-boss-mohamed-al-fayed-accused-of-rape/a-70284389?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The late Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women. The survivors, including some minors, were hired as secretaries and assistants when the abuse allegedly took place."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jahjaga: 'Blame should not be directed at the survivors, but at the perpetrators, who used rape as a weapon of war';https://www.dw.com/en/jahjaga-blame-should-not-be-directed-at-the-survivors-but-at-the-perpetrators-who-used-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war/a-70283271?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Former President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga has been advocating for the survivors of wartime sexual violence since her presidency. She speaks to DW about her fight to address and highlight this issue in Kosovo."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Heat pumps: Why Germany's heating revolution is stalling;https://www.dw.com/en/heat-pumps-why-germany-s-heating-revolution-is-stalling/a-70192621?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "It's a signature project of Germany's environmentalist Greens: Instead of heating homes with fossil fuels, Germans should use heat pumps based on air or groundwater. But demand for these devices has plummeted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Von der Leyen in Kyiv announces \u20ac35bn loan;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-von-der-leyen-in-kyiv-announces-\u20ac35bn-loan/live-70278769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Ursula von der Leyen said the loan would come from frozen Russian assets. The EU Commission president also said the bloc \"will help Ukraine in its brave efforts\" including winter preparation and EU accession. Follow DW"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starlink satellites are blinding astronomers' view of space;https://www.dw.com/en/starlink-satellites-are-blinding-astronomers-view-of-space/a-70273835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Starlink and other satellite networks are vital for providing high speed internet to remote communities, but unintended radiation leakages are making life difficult for astronomers who need clear skies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hungary and the Netherlands want to exit EU asylum policy;https://www.dw.com/en/hungary-and-the-netherlands-want-to-exit-eu-asylum-policy/a-70278674?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Right-wing governments like those in Hungary and the Netherlands are demanding an opt-out, but it's hard to see how countries could legally exit the EU's asylum policy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Tupperware parties empowered homebound suburban women;https://www.dw.com/en/how-tupperware-parties-empowered-homebound-suburban-women/a-70273741?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "As Tupperware files for bankruptcy, here's a look back at how the iconic US plastic kitchenware company and its \"Tupperware party\" business model became a cultural phenomenon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Slovakia seemingly unfazed by EU threat to withhold funding;https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-seemingly-unfazed-by-eu-threat-to-withhold-funding/a-70277869?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Fearing that PM Robert Fico is dismantling Slovak democracy, the European Commission is reportedly considering freezing billions in EU funds for Bratislava. Will the threat be enough to rein in Fico's illiberal ways?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;French police shoot dead 2 in New Caledonia operation;https://www.dw.com/en/french-police-shoot-dead-2-in-new-caledonia-operation/a-70278345?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Thousands of French police have been deployed to the overseas Pacific territory to quell unrest sparked by voting reforms proposed in Paris."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU Parliament recognizes Maduro rival as Venezuela president;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-parliament-recognizes-maduro-rival-as-venezuela-president/a-70276261?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The European Parliament has passed a resolution recognizing Venezuelan opposition figure Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia's claim to have won Venezuela's July election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Berlin considering how to support German carmaker Volkswagen;https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-considering-how-to-support-german-carmaker-volkswagen/a-70275918?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that Berlin is looking into ways to support ailing carmaker Volkswagen amid the threat of job cuts. The firm has been grappling with weak electric vehicle sales."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Axel Springer splits media, classified businesses;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-axel-springer-splits-media-classified-businesses/a-70274495?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Friede Springer and CEO Mathias D\u00f6pfner will own Springer's media operations, which include Germany's most-read newspaper Bild and US digital newspaper Politico."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Czech Republic struggling to mitigate risks as Russian firms flourish;https://www.dw.com/en/czech-republic-struggling-to-mitigate-risks-as-russian-firms-flourish/a-70181088?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Czechia hosts by far the highest number of Russian-owned companies of any EU state. Experts warn this cohort of over 12,500 firms pose economic and security risks that the government must eventually start to mitigate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oktoberfest: Beer and pretzels in a sustainable package;https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-beer-and-pretzels-in-a-sustainable-package/a-70235282?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "More than Bavarians in lederhosen balancing frothing beer mugs and fried sausages, the world's largest folk festival is becoming more inclusive and eco-friendly."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;COVID FLiRT variants KP.3 and XEC: What you need to know;https://www.dw.com/en/covid-flirt-variants-kp-3-and-xec-what-you-need-to-know/a-70266402?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another variant and become XEC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe floods: EU plans \u20ac10 billion aid for affected members;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-floods-eu-plans-\u20ac10-billion-aid-for-affected-members/live-70265849?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The Polish city of Wroclaw hosted the leaders of the region's most affected by Storm Boris to discuss European aid. Days of flooding have wreaked death and destruction across Central Europe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Two European firms in focus of Hezbollah pager explosions;https://www.dw.com/en/two-european-firms-in-focus-of-hezbollah-pager-explosions/a-70248830?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The Taiwanese company whose name appeared on the pagers that detonated across Lebanon has denied manufacturing the devices. That has put relatively unknown Hungarian and Bulgarian firms in the spotlight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine wants action after Belarus Olympic medalist ceremony;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-wants-action-after-belarus-olympic-medalist-ceremony/a-70262052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The ceremony, held on Belarus' National Unity Day, appears to violate the Olympic neutrality rules. Ukraine wants action, with the country's sports minister telling DW further sanctions are necessary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cities start fighting rental crisis triggered by overtourism;https://www.dw.com/en/cities-start-fighting-rental-crisis-triggered-by-overtourism/a-70228085?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "In many of Europe's hottest tourist destinations like Barcelona and Paris, locals struggle to access affordable housing. How much are vacation rentals to blame?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Exploding Hezbollah pagers: How did it happen?;https://www.dw.com/en/exploding-hezbollah-pagers-how-did-it-happen/a-70250960?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Although the devices have lithium-ion batteries that can catch fire or explode, it is more likely the pagers were sabotaged."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: AfD loses appeal on chairing Bundestag committees;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-afd-loses-appeal-on-chairing-bundestag-committees/a-70246675?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Germany's top court has rejected a pair of appeals from the far-right AfD concerning the absence of its lawmakers chairing parliamentary committees. The court found the party was not automatically entitled to the posts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains \u2014 study;https://www.dw.com/en/pregnancy-completely-rewires-mothers-brains-study/a-70246399?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Neuroscientists scanned the brain of a pregnant woman and captured a 'widespread reorganization' of her brain before, during and after pregnancy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Use, and misuse, of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "As Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell become the latest celebs to endorse Kamala Harris, here's a look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Google wins legal battle against EU over \u20ac1.5 billion fine;https://www.dw.com/en/google-wins-legal-battle-against-eu-over-\u20ac1-5-billion-fine/a-70246709?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "After years of back and forth, an EU court annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it sold advertisements. The fine was one of three major penalties the EU has leveled against the tech giant in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Namibia's strategy to cull animals save them?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-namibia-s-strategy-to-cull-animals-save-them/a-70213343?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Does Namibia's plan to kill animals to save them, and help the human population from ongoing drought, stack up?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand shrinks;https://www.dw.com/en/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy-as-demand-shrinks/a-70245540?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Once popular for its colorful food storage containers, US firm Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy. The company succumbed to a plummeting demand for its products."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Second explosion shakes Cologne;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-second-explosion-shakes-cologne/a-70245020?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The explosion was the second in a week in Cologne's city center. Police said it was still too early to say if there was a connection. Sniffer dogs were on the site as officers investigated."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg: Black politician takes on German far-right AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-black-politician-takes-on-german-far-right-afd/a-70166368?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "German voters in Brandenburg are heading to the polls just weeks after the far-right AfD party's historic surge in two state elections. Can Cameroonian-born politician Adeline Abimnwi Awemo help turn the tide?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Intel's factory delay adds to Germany's economic woes;https://www.dw.com/en/us-intel-s-factory-delay-adds-to-germany-s-economic-woes/a-70241739?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has announced it is postponing a $30 billion investment in Germany due to financial problems at the firm. But is the German government still committed to the investments?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German police reintroduce spot controls at all borders;https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-reintroduce-spot-controls-at-all-borders/a-70240598?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Germany is reintroducing border checks at all its borders for at least six months. The aim is to help restrict migration. DW visited the border area between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands to see how it was working."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the arts are a thorn in the side of Germany's AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-arts-are-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-germany-s-afd/a-70239911?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German conservative Friedrich Merz to run for chancellor;https://www.dw.com/en/german-conservative-friedrich-merz-to-run-for-chancellor/a-70240130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "It's as good as official: liberal businessman Friedrich Merz, head of the conservative Christian Democrats, is set to be the party's lead candidate in upcoming German federal election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How new technologies can mitigate the risks of flooding;https://www.dw.com/en/how-new-technologies-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-flooding/a-70239314?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "With extreme weather, floods are getting as common in Europe as they are in Asia and Africa. From mobile barriers to specialized dams, people are finding solutions to life-threatening floods across the globe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Far right, center left in close race;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-far-right-center-left-in-close-race/a-70238419?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Sanssouci, Babelsberg, Tesla, BER airport \u2014 Brandenburg is a state with much to boast about when it comes to history or economy. Governed by the same party since 1990, the state may face a shake-up in upcoming election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China's technology drive leaves young people jobless;https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-technology-drive-leaves-young-people-jobless/a-70187883?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "China is investing billions to become a global tech power. But AI, robotics and quantum computing are not labor-intensive sectors, so what to do about the millions of young Chinese who can't find a job?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Intel delays construction of Magdeburg factory;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-intel-delays-construction-of-magdeburg-factory/a-70235254?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has delayed a construction project by two years amid cost-saving measures. German Finance Minister Christian Lindner called for funds earmarked for subsidies to be used to plug a federal budget gap."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Alex Morgan: The greatest female footballer of all time?;https://www.dw.com/en/alex-morgan-the-greatest-female-footballer-of-all-time/a-70153127?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Marta may have won six FIFA player awards, but two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan is more of a household name. Teammate Megan Rapinoe achieved on and off the field, yet Morgan had a grace on the pitch few could match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's ter Stegen is happy the wait is finally over;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-ter-stegen-is-happy-the-wait-is-finally-over/a-70144838?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "National team goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has spoken of his frustration during years of being stuck behind Manuel Neuer, while at the same time paying tribute to his predecessor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australia's Raygun claims 'I knew people wouldn't understand my style';https://www.dw.com/en/australia-s-raygun-claims-i-knew-people-wouldn-t-understand-my-style/a-70135037?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Rachael \"Raygun\" Gunn, the 37-year-old Olympic breaker, says the criticism of her performance came from people's ignorance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Women's soccer: US shows up Europe on maternity care;https://www.dw.com/en/women-s-soccer-us-shows-up-europe-on-maternity-care/a-70117081?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "A recent lawsuit involving French club Olympique Lyon highlighted the disparities and room for improvement in women's football regarding pregnancies and maternity care."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Argentina: Court blocks Milei move to privatize football;https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-court-blocks-milei-move-to-privatize-football/a-70122667?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "A court in Buenos Aires has blocked President Javier Milei's plans to open up Argentinian football to private investment. The issue continues to split the country's most popular sport, with some even looking to Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's Leon Draisaitl signs record NHL contract;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-leon-draisaitl-signs-record-nhl-contract/a-70124333?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Germany's Leon Draisaitl has signed an eight-year contract extension worth $112 million (\u20ac101.5 million). This will keep the superstar forward in Edmonton for a further eight years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India's archaic labor laws allow firms to exploit workers;https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-archaic-labor-laws-allow-firms-to-exploit-workers/a-70121341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Major international companies, including big tech firms, are exploiting India's labor laws and skirting overtime payment, say workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Germany live up to its chipmaking ambitions?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-germany-live-up-to-its-chipmaking-ambitions/a-70079606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The German government wants to build up its long-term chipmaking capabilities. But are they following through and attracting the companies needed to make the country a center of this all-important technology?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German businesses worried about far-right gains in the east;https://www.dw.com/en/german-businesses-worried-about-far-right-gains-in-the-east/a-70112417?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "The success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the states of Saxony and Thuringia has raised concerns among business leaders about the economic future of eastern Germany. Will it hit jobs and investment?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis tickets: UK government to probe 'dynamic pricing';https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-tickets-uk-government-to-probe-dynamic-pricing/a-70109787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Ministers have promised an investigation after fans complained of inflated ticket prices for Oasis' 2025 reunion tour. But industry experts insist that \"dynamic pricing\" is not illegal and based on supply and demand."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis reunion tour tickets cause online frenzy;https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-reunion-tour-tickets-cause-online-frenzy/a-70099805?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Fans of the Manchester band Oasis faced long online queues on Saturday morning as tickets went on sale for the group's in-demand reunion concerts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Half the world lacks access to safe drinking water;https://www.dw.com/en/half-the-world-lacks-access-to-safe-drinking-water/a-70089835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "A new report shows 4.4 billion people across the world have no access to safe drinking water, more than double many previous estimates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is methane?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. Where does methane come from, and what can we do to stop it from getting into the atmosphere?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The unseen Holocaust movie: Jerry Lewis' lost film 'The Day the Clown Cried';https://www.dw.com/en/the-unseen-holocaust-movie-jerry-lewis-lost-film-the-day-the-clown-cried/a-70043956?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "At the Venice Film Festival, a new documentary will reveal never-before-seen footage from \"The Day the Clown Cried.\" The 1972 Holocaust movie by comedian Jerry Lewis was never released, but has gained near-mythic status."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Concerning' rise in unprotected sex among teenagers;https://www.dw.com/en/concerning-rise-in-unprotected-sex-among-teenagers/a-70079734?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "A majority of teenagers in Europe, Central Asia, and Canada do not use condoms. Experts warn of rising risks of STIs and unwanted pregnancies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Populists\u2019 rhetoric linked to growing unhappiness, study finds;https://www.dw.com/en/populists-rhetoric-linked-to-growing-unhappiness-study-finds/a-70072409?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Right-wing populism is rising across Europe, with Germany\u2019s AfD possibly becoming the first far-right party to win state elections since the Nazis. However, their rise won\u2019t bring greater happiness to their supporters."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Congo 'working blindly' in attempts to control Mpox outbreak;https://www.dw.com/en/congo-working-blindly-in-attempts-to-control-mpox-outbreak/a-70062357?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "Only 40% of Mpox cases in DR Congo are laboratory tested, suggesting true number of cases could be five times higher than reported, according to Africa CDC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN chief Guterres warns of fast-rising Pacific ocean;https://www.dw.com/en/un-chief-guterres-warns-of-fast-rising-pacific-ocean/a-70055845?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-25 02:00:08",
        "text": "UN chief Antonio Guterres issued a global SOS regarding Pacific ocean temperatures, rising at three times the global average rate. He called for a cutdown on emissions and support for vulnerable countries."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis live: Israel and Hezbollah expected to respond to ceasefire proposal;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/26/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-plan-us-france-netanyahu;2024-09-26T08:59:21Z",
        "text": "Here from our video team are the clips of Najib Mikati, the caretaker prime minister of Lebanon, and Danny Danon, Israel\u2019s UN envoy speaking at the UN security council. Mikati told the council that Israel was violating his country\u2019s sovereignty \u201cby sending its war planes and drones to our skies, by killing our civilians, including youth, women and children, destroying homes and forcing families to flee\u201d. Danon said Israel did not seek a full-scale war. Yesterday, Israel\u2019s top general said the country is preparing for a possible ground operation into Lebanon. The death toll after three days of Israeli bombardment of Lebanon this week has passed 600, with thousands more injured. Patrick Wintour is the Guardian\u2019s diplomatic editor The former UK ambassador to Lebanon, Tom Fletcher, who remains closely in touch with diplomats at the UN, said the joint statement backing a 21 day ceasefire in Lebanon signed by the US, France, the UK, the EU and three other countries, including three Gulf States, has to be used to bring about change on the ground. If that happens, he said it could represent a watershed in the crisis and even a moment when diplomacy fought back. He also praised the UK\u2019s foreign secretary David Lammy for \u201ccoming out impressively early and hard\u201d in favour of an immediate ceasefire in the way a Labour government failed to do in the 2006 Lebanese crisis He said \u201cwe have got to use this scaffolding so it turns into something that matters on the ground and not just to pause it for 21 days\u201d. He set out three headline priorities \u201cGet all sides to step back from escalation. There are signs that Israel is holding back from hitting Beirut and there are signs of Hezbollah holding back from hitting Tel Aviv at scale. Maybe this shows the mutual recognition of the dangers of escalation.\u201d \u201cGet the official Lebanese army on the ground on the Israel Lebanon border \u2013 not Hezbollah not Iran \u2013 get state authority back into the south Lebanon border.\u201d Return to persuading both sides \u2013 Hamas and Israel \u2013 to re-engage with the Gaza ceasefire agreement. \u201cIt is that agreement that gets th- e hostages out, the aid in and in the end potentially opens the conditions for the two state solution\u201d. In the message diplomats will be relaying to Benjamin Netanyahu when he reaches New York, Fletcher suggested Hezbollah, already degraded and its popularity reduced, would only be strengthened if a ground invasion goes ahead \u201cHezbollah has lost a lot of support but the second those tanks cross that border into Lebanon. Hezbollah starts to redraw confidence and rebuild support in the population\u201d, he said. Israel\u2019s air force has stated that after \u201cwarnings that were activated in the western Galilee area, about 45 launches were detected that crossed the territory of Lebanon.\u201d It said \u201csome of them were intercepted and the rest fell in open areas.\u201d At least 23 people, all of them Syrian and most of them women or children, were killed in an Israeli strike on a three-storey building in the Lebanese town of Younine late on Wednesday, mayor Ali Qusas has told Reuters. Qusas said another eight people were wounded. The UN estimates there are about 750,000 Syrian refugees inside Lebanon. Israel claimed overnight it struck \u201capproximately 75\u201d Hezbollah targets inside Lebanon. The Israeli military reports that warning sirens are sounding again in Upper Galilee. Israel\u2019s hardline finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has rejected appeals for a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah, saying the only option for the north of Israel is for Hezbollah to be crushed. In a post to social media, Smotrich, part of Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s coalition government, said: The campaign in the north should end in one scenario \u2013 crushing Hezbollah and denying its ability to harm the residents of the north. The enemy must not be given time to recover from the heavy blows it received and to reorganize for the continuation of the war after 21 days. Surrender of Hezbollah or war, that\u2019s the only way we will return the residents and security to the north and the country. The far-right finance minister has previously described in explicit terms his active effort to annex the Israeli-occupied West Bank permanently to Israel, and has said \u201cMy life\u2019s mission is to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state.\u201d Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency reports that trade unions in the country have called on people to show solidarity, and for \u201cthe owners of food establishments, bakeries, gas stations and pharmacies to keep their establishments open, and facilitate everything necessary for our people.\u201d In a statement the trade unions also called on \u201cmerchants not to raise prices and not to exploit people.\u201d The Jerusalem Post reports that community leaders of northern Israel are unhappy with the prospect of a ceasefire with Hezbollah, claiming that a deal would lead to another 7 October style attack in the future, but from Hezbollah in the north. It quotes the Upper Galilee regional council\u2019s chairman, Amir Sofer, who said \u201cThere is a time for negotiations, this is not the time. This is a time for war. We must not be misled by international pressure.\u201d Metula regional council chairman David Azulai said the government would be responsible for the next 7 October if it did a deal. The Jerusalem Post quotes him saying: They want to do exactly what Hamas did in the south. Remember, we have been in this situation for a whole year. In the past week, the army has fought as it should, as we expect, to bring us back home. It seems we are again taking two steps back. In an operational update on its official Telegram channel, Israel\u2019s military claims that overnight it struck \u201capproximately 75 terror targets belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation\u201d in Beqaa and in southern Lebanon. It claimed the targets included \u201cweapons storage facilities, ready-to-fire launchers, terrorists, and terrorist infrastructure,\u201d citing Lebanese authorities have reported four people killed. The claims have not been independently verified. Emanuel Fabian, military correspondent at the Times of Israel, reports that rockets appear to have been fired from inside the Gaza Strip aimed at Israel this morning, and he reports that \u201caccording to the IDF, several rockets were launched at troops inside the Gaza Strip\u201d. He said there were no reports of injuries, and none of the rockets crossed into Israel. Israel\u2019s opposition leader has called for Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government to accept the US-French proposal of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, but says his country should only do so for a period of seven days. In a post to social media, Yair Lapid said: The state of Israel should announce this morning that it accepts the Biden-Macron ceasefire proposal, but only for seven days in order not to allow Hezbollah to restore its command and control systems. We will not accept any proposal that does not include removing Hezbollah from our northern border. Any proposal that is put forward must allow the residents of the north to immediately return safely to their homes and lead to the renewal of negotiations for the kidnapping deal. Any violation \u2013 even the slightest \u2013 of the cease fire, will lead to Israel attacking again with its full force and in all areas of Lebanon. Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that in an Israeli raid on Al-Ain camp, west of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, one Palestinian has been shot and then detained by Israeli security forces. Three others, including a woman, have also been detained. Authorities in Lebanon have reported four people dead on Thursday after Israeli airstrikes on the south of the country continued. The state National News Agency reports that a Syrian national was killed in Qana, and three people were killed in an Israeli air raid on Aita al-Shaab. Israeli media reports that a planned rally by the family and friends of hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza for Saturday is to be postponed due to \u201csecurity and safety concerns\u201d. It was scheduled to take place at the Begin Gate in Tel Aviv. Israeli authorities believe that about 101 hostages are still in captivity in Gaza, having been held there for nearly a year. Patrick Wintour and Andrew Roth report for the Guardian in New York The US and France have called for a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to make way for broader negotiations, as the UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, told a UN security council meeting that \u201chell is breaking loose\u201d in Lebanon. The joint statement issued by US president Joe Biden and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron said: \u201cIt is time for a settlement on the Israel-Lebanon border that ensures safety and security to enable civilians to return to their homes. The exchange of fire since October 7th, and in particular over the past two weeks, threatens a much broader conflict, and harm to civilians.\u201d The two leaders, who met on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York, said they had worked on a temporary ceasefire \u201cto give diplomacy a chance to succeed and avoid further escalations across the border\u201d. They urged Israel and Lebanon to back the move, which was also endorsed by the UK, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. A senior US administration official said on Wednesday night that both Israel and Lebanon, which was understood to be representing Hezbollah in the negotiations, were expected to respond to the call \u201cin the coming hours\u201d. Read more from Patrick Wintour and Andrew Roth in New York here: France and US push for 21-day Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire in Lebanon as UN chief warns \u2018hell is breaking loose\u2019 Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Middle East crisis. The US and France have called for a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to make way for broader negotiations. A senior US administration official said on Wednesday night that both Israel and Lebanon, which was understood to be representing Hezbollah in the negotiations, were expected to respond to the call \u201cin the coming hours.\u201d The US officials said that the 21-day period was chosen in order to provide space in order to negotiate a more comprehensive agreement between the two sides to allow residents to return to their homes along the Israel-Lebanon border without fear of further violence or an \u201c7 October-like attack in the future\u201d. More on that in a moment, first here\u2019s a summary of the day\u2019s other main events. At least 72 people were killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon on Wednesday and hundreds were wounded, according to figures by the Lebanese health ministry. The geographic scope of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah has widened, after Israel targeted the mountains north of Beirut for the first time in the war, and Hezbollah aimed a long-range missile at Tel Aviv, drawing an Israeli warning that it was preparing a major response. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it hit more than 2,000 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in the past three days. Israel\u2019s top general has said the country is preparing for a possible ground operation into Lebanon. As an intense bombing campaign inside Lebanon stretched in to a third day, Maj Gen Herzi Halevi said the airstrikes aimed to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure and prepare for the possibility of Israeli troops crossing the border. \u201cWe are preparing the process of a manoeuvre,\u201d he told troops during a visit to Israel\u2019s north on Wednesday. However the Pentagon said an Israeli ground offensive in Lebanon did not appear \u201cimminent\u201d. Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said the US was making \u201ca full-court press\u201d for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. She referred reporters to Israel for questions about its operations and plans. France\u2019s foreign minister has told the UN security council that his country and the United States are working to hammer out a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel to allow time for broader negotiations. \u201cA diplomatic solution is indeed possible. In recent days, we\u2019ve worked with our American partners on a temporary ceasefire platform of 21 days to allow for negotiations,\u201d Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot told the 15-member UN security council. Najib Mikati, the caretaker prime minister of Lebanon, has told the UN security council that Israel is violating his country\u2019s sovereignty \u201cby sending its war planes and drones to our skies, by killing our civilians, including youth, women and children, destroying homes and forcing families to flee\u201d. Mikati says hospitals are overwhelmed and unable to accept any more victims. Danny Danon, Israel\u2019s UN envoy, has said that his country does not seek a full-scale war. Danon has accused Iran of being the \u201cdriving force\u201d behind the instability sweeping the Middle East. Danon also said that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to arrive in the US on Thursday to address the UN general assembly."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Nato says report of Russia-China weapons programme \u2018deeply concerning\u2019 \u2013 Ukraine war live;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/26/russia-ukraine-war-nato-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskyy-unga;2024-09-26T08:38:04Z",
        "text": "Reuters reports that in addition to the news that parts of the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine were left without power after a Russian strike on critical infrastructure there (see 09.08am BST), Ukraine\u2019s national grid operator has also reported outages in the central Poltava and northern Chernihiv regions. On Thursday morning, Kyiv\u2019s air force said it had recorded the launch of several hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, but offered no immediate details, according to Reuters. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the United Nations that Russia is planning to attack Ukrainian nuclear power plants as he repeated his calls for unity from world leaders in order to force Russia to the negotiating table to conclude a \u201cjust peace\u201d. His comments came as Vladimir Putin on Wednesday escalated his nuclear rhetoric, telling a group of senior officials that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if it was attacked by any state with conventional weapons. In a speech to the UN general assembly on Wednesday, the Ukrainian leader said he had received information that Russia was gathering intelligence on Ukrainian nuclear power plants in preparation for a potential strike. \u201cAny missile or drone strike, any critical incident in the energy system could lead to a nuclear disaster \u2026 a day like that must never come,\u201d Zelenskyy said in an address in the general assembly hall. \u201cAnd Moscow needs to understand this, and this depends in part on your determination to put pressure on the aggressor.\u201d He added: \u201cThese are nuclear power plants, they must be safe.\u201d Zelenskyy also said that the war in Ukraine could threaten the region with instability and the potential for a nuclear catastrophe if Russia went forward with the attacks. \u201cIf, God forbid, Russia causes a nuclear disaster at one of our nuclear power plants, the radiation will not respect state borders,\u201d he said, comparing the consequences to the Chornobyl nuclear accident of 1986. \u201cAnd unfortunately, various nations could feel that devastating effects.\u201d You can read the full article by Andrew Roth in New York and Pjotr Sauer, here: Russia unleashed an overnight airstrike on Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least one person and damaging critical infrastructure, authorities said. According to Reuters, Kyiv\u2019s military said Russian forces fired 78 attack drones and six missiles over various regions across the country during the hours-long attack. Air defences destroyed 66 drones and four missiles, it added. One woman was killed in a missile strike on southern Ukraine\u2019s Odesa and another eight people were wounded in a guided-bomb attack on the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, interior minister Ihor Klymenko said on social media. Around a dozen drones were destroyed over the capital Kyiv, where 20 cars and a residential gas pipe were damaged, said Serhiy Popko, head of the local military administration. Parts of the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk were left without power after a Russian strike on critical infrastructure there, said regional governor Svitlana Onyshchuk. Vladimir Putin has escalated his nuclear rhetoric, telling a group of senior officials that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if it was attacked by any state with conventional weapons. His remarks on Wednesday came during a meeting with Russia\u2019s powerful security council where he also announced changes to the country\u2019s nuclear doctrine. The comments marked Russia\u2019s strongest warning yet to the west against allowing Ukraine to launch deep strikes into Russian territory using long-range western missiles. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has been asking for months for permission to use British Storm Shadow missiles and US-made Atacms missiles to hit targets deeper inside Russia. Putin said that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if Moscow received \u201creliable information\u201d about the start of a massive launch of missiles, aircraft or drones against it. Putin also warned that a nuclear power supporting another country\u2019s attack on Russia would be considered a participant in aggression, issuing a thinly veiled threat to the west as foreign leaders continue to mull whether to allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons. Putin said the clarifications were carefully calibrated and commensurate with the modern military threats facing Russia. \u201cWe see the modern military and political situation is dynamically changing and we must take this into consideration. Including the emergence of new sources of military threats and risks for Russia and our allies,\u201d he said. Zelenskyy\u2019s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, dismissed the new nuclear doctrine, saying: \u201cRussia no longer has any instruments to intimidate the world apart from nuclear blackmail. These instruments will not work.\u201d You can read the full piece here: A Nato spokesperson said a Reuters report that Russia has established a weapons programme in China to develop and produce long-range attack drones for use in its war against Ukraine was \u201cdeeply concerning\u201d and that Nato \u201callies are consulting on this matter\u201d. The White House national security council said it appeared to be an instance of a Chinese company providing lethal assistance to a US-sanctioned Russian firm. The White House had not seen anything to suggest the Chinese government was aware of the transactions involved, but China had a responsibility to ensure companies were not providing lethal aid to Russia for use by its military, a spokesperson added. IEMZ Kupol, a subsidiary of Russian state-owned arms company Almaz-Antey, has developed and flight-tested a new drone model called Garpiya-3 (G3) in China with the help of local specialists, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing two sources from a European intelligence agency and documents it had reviewed. More on that in a moment. In other developments: Former president Donald Trump said Ukraine should have made concessions to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, instead of going to war with its invading neighbour, describing the Ukrainian people as \u201cdead\u201d and the country \u201cdemolished\u201d. Speaking at an event in North Carolina on Wednesday, the Republican presidential nominee \u2013 who is not expected to meet the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on his trip to the US \u2013 said: \u201cThe worst deal would\u2019ve been better than what we have now.\u201d Trump added: \u201cWhat deal can we make? It\u2019s demolished \u2026 The people are dead. The country is in rubble.\u201d The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, meanwhile, demanded that Ukraine fire its ambassador to Washington as the feud between Trump and Zelenskyy escalated and Republicans accused the Ukrainian leader of election interference. In a public letter, Johnson demanded that Zelenskyy fire the Ukrainian ambassador, Oksana Markarova, over a visit to a munitions factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania, calling it a \u201cpartisan campaign event designed to help Democrats\u201d. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, announced $375m in military aid for Ukraine on Wednesday, in a package that includes Himars precision rocket launchers, cluster munitions and light tactical vehicles. \u201cThe United States is committed to Ukraine\u2019s defence against Russia\u2019s brutal aggression,\u201d Blinken said in a statement, adding Washington would \u201cdeploy this new assistance as quickly as possible\u201d. Zelenskyy told the United Nations that Russia was planning to attack Ukrainian nuclear power plants as he repeated his calls for unity from world leaders in order to force Russia to the negotiating table to conclude a \u201cjust peace\u201d. In a speech to the UN general assembly on Wednesday, the Ukrainian leader said he had received information that Russia was gathering intelligence on Ukrainian nuclear power plants in preparation for a potential strike. In further comments, Zelenskyy said Ukraine\u2019s peace plan must be supported by world leaders, and that alternative initiatives to hold talks with Putin would simply aid the Russian president. Zelenskyy in particular targeted a joint proposal by China and Brazil, which have proposed a six-point peace plan for the Ukraine war without Kyiv\u2019s backing. \u201cIf someone in the world seeks alternatives \u2026 it likely means they themselves want to do a part of what Putin is doing \u2026 the question arises: what is the true interest?\u201d Zelenskyy said. \u201cEveryone must understand: you will not boost your power at Ukraine\u2019s expense.\u201d Zelenskyy also criticised the UN security council, saying it was \u201cimpossible to truly and fairly resolve matters of war and peace because too much depends in the security council on the veto power\u201d. Russia is one of five permanent members of the security council and it exercises a veto power over any decisions taken by the body. Zelenskyy\u2019s comments came as Vladimir Putin escalated his nuclear rhetoric, telling a group of senior officials that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if it was attacked by any state with conventional weapons. The Russian president told the country\u2019s powerful security council that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if Moscow received \u201creliable information\u201d about the start of a massive launch of missiles, aircraft or drones against it. The UN chief also criticised the powerful but deeply divided security council at a high-level meeting on Wednesday for a failure of leadership to end the war in Ukraine as well as wars in Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere. \u201cPeace demands action. And peace demands leadership,\u201d the secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, told the 15-member council charged with ensuring international peace and security. \u201cInstead, we\u2019re seeing deepening geopolitical divisions and mistrust.\u201d Russia said on Wednesday it had captured two more villages in Ukraine and was attacking in the town of Vuhledar, a longtime Ukrainian stronghold. Russia\u2019s defence ministry said its forces had taken the villages of Hostre and Hryhorivka, though the claim could not be independently confirmed. State news agency Ria cited the Russian-installed head of the Donetsk region, Denis Pushilin, as saying that fighting was taking place inside Vuhledar, which had a prewar population of 14,000. The Ukrainian governor of the region, Vadym Filashkin, said Russia\u2019s troops had not reached the outskirts of Vuhledar but its reconnaissance groups were operating there. Disinformation attributable to Russian and Belarusian services spiked on the internet by about 300% during the first days of severe flooding in Poland, the country\u2019s deputy premier and digitalisation minister was quoted on Wednesday as saying. The worst floods in at least two decades left many towns in central Europe, including south-western Poland, submerged earlier this month, and the government warned of a spread of disinformation at the same time. Russia on Wednesday struck the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk with guided bombs, killing at least two people and wounding 19, regional governor Vadym Filashkin said. The Donetsk region governor said in a video post from the scene there were fears that the toll could grow."
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    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Japanese man who spent 46 years on death row cleared of murders;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/iwao-hakamada-acquitted-murder-japan-death-row;2024-09-26T07:08:18Z",
        "text": "A Japanese man who spent almost half a century on death row has been found not guilty of multiple murders, in a closely watched trial that has raised questions about Japan\u2019s use of the death penalty. Iwao Hakamada, 88, was sentenced to hang in 1968 after being found guilty of murdering his boss, his wife and their two teenage children, and setting fire to their home two years earlier. The former professional boxer spent 46 years on death row \u2013 believed to be the longest time spent on death row of any prisoner worldwide \u2013 until he was freed in 2014 when new evidence emerged and a retrial was ordered. Hakamada has consistently protested his innocence and said investigators forced him to confess, while his lawyers alleged police had fabricated evidence. There was no immediate decision on whether prosecutors would appeal against the verdict, which was reported by Kyodo news agency and other Japanese media outlets. Hakamada\u2019s defence lawyers have urged prosecutors not to challenge the ruling, given his age. The presiding judge at Shizuoka district court, Koshi Kunii, acknowledged that three pieces of evidence had been fabricated, including Hakamada\u2019s \u201cconfession\u201d and items of clothing that prosecutors claimed he had been wearing at the time of the murders. \u201cInvestigators tampered with clothes by getting blood on them,\u201d the ruling said, and criticised the use of \u201cinhumane interrogations meant to force a statement \u2026 by imposing mental and physical pain\u201d. It said: \u201cThe prosecution\u2019s records were obtained by effectively infringing on the defendant\u2019s right to remain silent, under circumstances extremely likely to elicit a false confession.\u201d Hakamada\u2019s 91-year-old sister, Hideko Hakamada, who has campaigned tirelessly on behalf of her brother, told reporters before Thursday\u2019s verdict: \u201cFor so long we have fought a battle that has felt endless. But this time, I believe it will be settled.\u201d Prosecutors had again demanded the death penalty, but legal experts had suggested Hakamada would be acquitted, pointing to four other retrials involving death row inmates in postwar Japan who had their convictions overturned. Hakamada, whose physical and mental health deteriorated during his long incarceration, was not present at Thursday\u2019s ruling and has been represented by his sister during the retrial. The outcome rested on the reliability of bloodstained clothes that prosecutors said Hakamada had been wearing at the time of the murder, at a miso factory in central Japan where he was a live-in employee. When it ordered a retrial in March 2023 after years of legal wrangling, the Tokyo high court said there was a strong possibility that the clothing had been planted in a tank of miso by investigators. Defence lawyers said DNA tests on the clothes proved the blood was not Hakamada\u2019s. The high court had initially decided not to reopen Hakamada\u2019s case \u2013 a cause celebre for opponents of capital punishment \u2013 but reversed its decision after the supreme court ordered it to reconsider in 2020. Hundreds of people had queued outside the district court on Thursday in the hope of securing a seat in the public gallery, while supporters held up banners demanding Hakamada\u2019s acquittal. Hakamada initially denied robbing and fatally stabbing the victims but confessed after what he later described as a brutal police interrogation that included physical abuse. Campaigners said his ordeal had exposed flaws in Japan\u2019s criminal justice system and the cruelty of capital punishment. Death row inmates in Japan \u2013 one of only two G7 countries along with the US that retains the death penalty \u2013 are notified of their execution, by hanging, only hours in advance and given no opportunity to speak to their lawyers or families. Their final conversation is usually with a Buddhist priest. \u201cWe are overjoyed by the court\u2019s decision to exonerate Iwao Hakamada,\u201d said Boram Jang, an east Asia researcher at Amnesty International. \u201cAfter enduring almost half a century of wrongful imprisonment and a further 10 years waiting for his retrial, this verdict is an important recognition of the profound injustice he endured for most of his life. It ends an inspiring fight to clear his name by his sister Hideko and all those who supported him. \u201cAs we celebrate this long overdue day of justice for Hakamada, we are reminded of the irreversible harm caused by the death penalty. We strongly urge Japan to abolish the death penalty to prevent this from happening again.\u201d The death penalty has high levels of public support in Japan. A 2019 government poll found that 80% of respondents viewed capital punishment as \u201cunavoidable\u201d, while only 9% supported abolition. Hakamada\u2019s case is \u201cjust one of countless examples of Japan\u2019s so-called \u2018hostage justice\u2019 system\u201d, said Teppei Kasai, an Asia programme officer for Human Rights Watch. \u201cSuspects are forced to confess through long and arbitrary periods of detention\u201d and there was often \u201cintimidation during interrogations\u201d. With Agence France-Presse"
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        "label": "The Guardian;Thursday briefing: How central Europe is recovering from days of historic floods;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/first-edition-central-europe-floods;2024-09-26T05:45:25Z",
        "text": "Good morning. Many thousands of people across central Europe are still trying to piece their sodden homes and lives back together, after Storm Boris brought an unprecedented four-day deluge earlier this month. The waters may have retreated, but the floods exposed once again the severe costs of global heating. The growing prevalence of extreme weather events is bringing the price of the climate emergency right to our doorsteps \u2013 or in the case of the latest floods, surging right over them and into our homes. For today\u2019s newsletter, I spoke to the Guardian\u2019s Europe environment correspondent, Ajit Niranjan, about what he saw when he visited the flooded out townspeople of Austria and the Czech Republic \u2013 and what this latest natural disaster tells us about the world\u2019s preparedness for the climate emergency. Five big stories Middle East | Israel\u2019s top general said the country is preparing for a possible ground operation into Lebanon, as an intense bombing campaign stretched to a third day. At least 72 people were killed on Wednesday and hundreds were wounded. The Pentagon said an Israeli ground offensive did not appear \u201cimminent\u201d and that the US was making \u201ca full-court press\u201d for a diplomatic solution. UN | The US and France have called for a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to make way for broader negotiations, as the UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, told a UN security council meeting that \u201chell is breaking loose\u201d in Lebanon. Russia | Vladimir Putin has escalated his nuclear rhetoric, telling a group of senior officials that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if it was attacked by any state with conventional weapons. Budget | Keir Starmer\u2019s promised tax crackdown on non-doms could yield no extra funds for the Treasury, leaving a \u00a31bn hole in the government\u2019s planned spending for schools and hospitals. Labour planned to use the money raised from wealthy individuals who are registered overseas for tax purposes to invest in ailing public services. Health | One in four black men in the UK have been refused a prostate cancer test by their GP despite having twice the risk of developing the disease than the overall adult male population, a report has found. In depth: \u2018This tragedy is not an anomaly\u2019 The sheer scale of the recent flooding was extraordinary. As Aijt puts it, \u201cif you imagine a map of Europe and look at the Czech Republic and Austria in the middle, surrounding that was this huge storm.\u201d Predicted in advance by meteorologists, there was unprecedented rain that lasted for four apocalyptic days. \u201cOver those four days, it was the heaviest rainfall over that region we\u2019ve seen,\u201d says Ajit. \u201cIt unleashed these record-breaking amounts of rain onto Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia\u201d. He adds: \u201cOnce rain falls, if you haven\u2019t properly adapted to it, or the amounts that fall are just too much and they overwhelm the flood defences that you have, then you have this catastrophic flooding, and that\u2019s what we saw.\u201d Broadcast footage showed torrents of water surging down the streets of towns and cities, washing away everything in their path and lapping at the upper floors of buildings. One Romanian mayor described what happened to his town as \u201ca catastrophe of epic proportions\u201d. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes \u2013 many of whom have since returned to pick over the devastation left behind. Ajit recalls speaking to one woman in the Czech town of Litovel, a mother of three, who was counting the costs of the disaster. \u201cShe was stood there outside her house pointing to this skip of children\u2019s toys and furniture that had all been ruined,\u201d he says. \u201cShe was weighing up whether she should move because she didn\u2019t want to deal with a flood again. And that kind of psychological thing I find really hard to hear.\u201d *** The rising tide of the climate crisis Of course, no individual event can be pinned definitively on the climate crisis. But scientists from World Weather Attribution have calculated that global heating made the extreme rainfall seen in Europe in September twice as likely. The scale of the rainfall seen had also been made 7% higher by global heating, the experts suggested. As Bogdan Chojnicki, a climate scientist at Pozna\u0144 University of Life Sciences and co-author of the study, put it, \u201cif humans keep filling the atmosphere with fossil fuel emissions, the situation will be more severe\u201d. It is just the latest of a string of dire weather events, which experts are clear have become more prevalent as a result of climate change, and will continue to proliferate in the years ahead. In Europe alone this year alone, there were scorching heatwaves, causing deadly wildfires in countries including Portugal. The EU\u2019s crisis management commissioner Janez Lenarcic warned last week, \u201cMake no mistake. This tragedy is not an anomaly. This is fast becoming the norm for our shared future.\u201d *** The \u2018huge success\u2019 of adapting Despite the devastation he has witnessed, Ajit is keen to point out that the impact of the floods could have been significantly greater, were it not for recent investment in adapting to the changing climate. A total of 24 deaths have been reported so far, he says. \u201cThat\u2019s tragic, that\u2019s horrific: scientists and engineers keep telling me we don\u2019t need to be seeing this number of deaths. But it\u2019s also worth saying that if the same flood had hit 20 years ago, it would have been much, much worse.\u201d Part of the explanation is improved forecasting. \u201cThe huge success story is the early warning systems: from climate scientists getting better at predicting where rain will fall, how much, when, through to setting up the systems to that when they realise there\u2019s a problem coming, they communicate that to the local authorities, the fire services. They can then evacuate people who need to evacuate.\u201d Some of the worst-hit countries have also invested heavily in flood defences, however \u2013 including a major project to store water around Vienna, rather than let it inundate the city. *** Fear of another flood Ajit stresses that while great strides have been made in some countries, the scale of the challenge ahead in adapting to the rapidly changing climate is immense. \u201cThe levels of investment that we\u2019ve seen so far, they\u2019ve saved so many lives, but there are so many more lives they could save.\u201d As well as building flood defences, that will have to mean calling a halt to development on flood plains. \u201cWe\u2019re settling and building on areas that previously had been left to nature, and where if there were a flood it wouldn\u2019t hurt anyone because there wasn\u2019t anyone there,\u201d Ajit says. Of course, by far the bigger prize would come from halting the fossil fuel pollution that is driving the crisis in the first place. \u201cSome extreme weather events are locked in \u2013 coastal flooding is just going to get worse and worse even if we stopped all greenhouse gas pollution tomorrow,\u201d says Ajit. \u201cBut with a lot of other extreme weather events it is quite pegged to cumulative emissions. So if we stopped doing things now, it would stop things getting even worse.\u201d Yet he is not convinced that even catastrophic events such as Storm Boris are acting as a wake up call for politicians and the public. \u201cI think we haven\u2019t seen strong evidence of that happening in the rich world yet.\u201d Meanwhile, as flood-hit families survey their ruined belongings, he says, \u201cthe sense of uncertainty, the apprehension, the anxiety that this is going to happen again, or maybe it\u2019s going to get worse \u2013 all of these thoughts are just circling around in so many people\u2019s heads.\u201d For more from Ajit on his reporting of the floods, sign up here to get Down to Earth, the Guardian\u2019s climate newsletter, later today What else we\u2019ve been reading There is ample evidence that shows the two-child benefit cap is a key driver of child poverty and abolishing it the most cost-effective way of lifting hundreds of thousands of children over the poverty line. In this striking article, Amelia Gentleman spoke with two parents about how the punitive, austerity era policy changed their lives. Nimo \u201cNo one wants to leave his country if they are safe\u201d \u2013 this compelling piece by Amy Hawkins tells some of the human stories behind the growing phenomenon of Chinese migrants trying to escape political repression at home, in this case by heading for the Balkans. Heather Datacentres are springing up across Latin America to meet the \u201cexpanding needs of the digital world\u201d, Thomas Graham writes. In Quer\u00e9taro, locals are worried about the impact of the resource-heavy centres on the already scarce water supply and the changing climate. Nimo \u201cWe are essentially devoted to the study of what you would now call memes\u201d \u2013 Oliver Wainwright celebrates a makeover for \u201cthe world\u2019s weirdest library\u201d, the Warburg Institute, in this intriguing piece, which made me want to go and take a look for myself. Heather The enduring friendship between actor Will Ferrell and former Saturday Night Live head writer Harper Steele is front and centre in a new Netflix documentary in which the pair embark on a roadtrip after Steel came out as transgender at 61. Guy Lodge\u2019s interview with them is a demonstration of the humanity that anchors the documentary, during a time when trans-rights in many states across the US are under threat. Nimo Sport Football | Manchester United were left to rue another frustrating result, this time held by FC Twente to a 1-1 draw at home in their Europa League opener, with Christian Eriksen going from scoring hero to culprit. The 17-year-old Ethan Nwaneri scored a double on his full debut as Arsenal put five past Bolton in the Carabao Cup. Liverpool came from behind to rout West Ham 5-1, with two goals each from Diogo Jota and Cody Gakpo. London Marathon | The London Marathon raised a record \u00a373.5m ($98.28m) for charity, race organisers said on Wednesday in what they described as the world\u2019s largest annual one-day fundraising event. The collection surpassed the previous world record of \u00a366.4m, set in 2019, on 21 April when more than 53,000 runners completed the 44th London Marathon. Football | Premier League executives are to gather for the first time today since the hearing began into Manchester City\u2019s alleged 130 breaches of league rules. The so-called \u201ctrial of the century\u201d, concerning allegations that span nine seasons and which accuse City of deliberately withholding information from the competition of which they have been champions in six of the past seven years \u2013 they deny all charges \u2013 will undoubtedly be of concern to clubs, even if it is not expected to reach a conclusion for months. The front pages The Guardian leads with \u201cIsrael warns of Lebanon ground offensive as ceasefire calls grow\u201d. The Telegraph says \u201cIsraeli boots ready to hit the ground in Lebanon\u201d and the i reports \u201cUK tells Netanyahu to step back from brink as Israel prepares for invasion\u201d. The Financial Times says \u201cStarmer clears way to spending boost as OECD urges rewrite of fiscal rules\u201d. The Times has \u201cInmates to win points for shorter jail terms\u201d. The Mirror splashes with \u201cMum of 5 dies after butt lift treatment\u201d. The Sun has \u201cMaddie suspect \u2013 I did snatch child\u201d. Today in Focus The bravery of Gis\u00e8le Pelicot in the rape trial horrifying France For more than a decade Gis\u00e8le Pelicot\u2019s husband drugged her and invited other men to allegedly rape her. When she found out, she made an extraordinary decision. Angelique Chrisafis reports. Cartoon of the day | Ben Jennings The Upside A bit of good news to remind you that the world\u2019s not all bad The bottom of the ocean is lined with a lot of treasure. Underwater archaeologist Mensun Bound, who was the director of exploration on the team that discovered Ernest Shackleton\u2019s ship Endurance, has written a new book tracing the world\u2019s maritime history through shipwrecked objects he has found over the course of his career. The items span thousands of years and range vastly: from 50kg of 16th century gold to a cannon fired in the Battle of Trafalgar \u2013 the only known cannon in existence proven to have been fired during the most famous sea battle there has ever been. Bound is also one of the only experts to have seen an ancient bronze helmet from 600BC in person. \u201cIt was made using superb metalwork skills, which we simply couldn\u2019t do ourselves today,\u201d he says. The helmet has since gone missing and no one knows it\u2019s whereabouts. And finally, in an almost miraculous discovery, Bound found a Bible from the Endurance ship that was still in relatively good condition. He still finds it \u201camazing\u201d that all 28 of the crew survived that shipwreck, and the Bible did too. \u201cIt should not have happened,\u201d he says. Sign up here for a weekly roundup of The Upside, sent to you every Sunday Bored at work? And finally, the Guardian\u2019s puzzles are here to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until tomorrow. Quick crossword Cryptic crossword Wordiply"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;France and US push for 21-day Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire in Lebanon as UN chief warns \u2018hell is breaking loose\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/lebanon-temporary-ceasefire-plan-hezbollah-israel;2024-09-26T05:00:57Z",
        "text": "The US and France have called for a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to make way for broader negotiations, as the UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, told a UN security council meeting that \u201chell is breaking loose\u201d in Lebanon. Israel\u2019s top general has said the country is preparing for a possible ground operation into Lebanon after an intense three-day bombing campaign that has killed more than 600 people, further fuelling fears of a regional conflict. The joint statement issued by US president Joe Biden and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron said: \u201cIt is time for a settlement on the Israel-Lebanon border that ensures safety and security to enable civilians to return to their homes. The exchange of fire since October 7th, and in particular over the past two weeks, threatens a much broader conflict, and harm to civilians.\u201d The two leaders, who met on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York, said they had worked on a temporary ceasefire \u201cto give diplomacy a chance to succeed and avoid further escalations across the border\u201d. They urged Israel and Lebanon to back the move, which was also endorsed by the UK, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. A senior US administration official said on Wednesday night that both Israel and Lebanon, which was understood to be representing Hezbollah in the negotiations, were expected to respond to the call \u201cin the coming hours\u201d. Officials in a background briefing also emphasised that the ceasefire proposal does not apply to the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The US said that the 21-day period was chosen in order to provide space in order to negotiate a more comprehensive agreement between the two sides to allow residents to return to their homes along the Israel-Lebanon border without fear of further violence or an \u201cOctober 7th-like attack in the future\u201d. The statement from the 12-member bloc said: \u201cThe situation between Lebanon and Israel since October 8th, 2023 is intolerable and presents an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation. This is in nobody\u2019s interest, neither of the people of Israel nor of the people of Lebanon.\u201d The announcement came at the conclusion of a heated UN security council meeting, which saw Lebanon\u2019s prime minister accuse Israel of violating his country\u2019s sovereignty. Najib Mikati said Lebanese hospitals were overwhelmed and unable to accept any more victims. Israel\u2019s UN envoy told the security council said that his country did not seek a full-scale war and that Iran was the \u201cdriving force\u201d behind the instability sweeping the Middle East. For his part, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said the US and UK\u2019s \u201cunwavering support for Israel has given them carte blanche for all sorts of sinister behaviour\u201d. There have been tensions between the US and its European allies about whether to call for an immediate ceasefire at the security council. The UK foreign secretary David Lammy backed an immediate ceasefire, saying it was time to pull back from the brink, adding \u201ca full blown war is not in the interests of Israeli or Lebanese people\u201d. He said nothing justified Hezbollah\u2019s attacks and urged Iran to use its influence to persuade Hezbollah to agree to a ceasefire. But US diplomats indicated an unconditional ceasefire call in the form of a joint security council statement could be seen as accepting a moral equivalence between the behaviour of Israel and Hezbollah, a group that is labelled a terrorist group by the US. The proposal for a temporary three-week cessation of hostilities might provide a platform to reopen stalled talks on the discussions over a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in Gaza. Hezbollah has said it will stop its strikes if Hamas agrees to a Gaza ceasefire, but there is no sign currently of either the Hamas leadership or the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu coming to an agreement. Netanyahu was due to arrive in New York on Thursday, and is expected to set out whether he supports a 21-day break in hostilities. The US deputy envoy Robert Wood said \u201cdiplomacy will only become more difficult\u201d if the conflict escalates further, adding he was gravely concerned by reports that hundreds of Lebanese civilians had died in recent days. But he insisted the origin of the conflict was the hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians, and 65,000 Israeli civilians, who have been displaced due to Hezbollah\u2019s decision on 8 October to break the peace that has largely endured. He said that no one wanted to see a repeat of the war in 2006, adding \u201cthe war must end with a comprehensive undertaking that has real implementation mechanisms\u201d. No details of the implementation mechanisms were set out by the US envoy, but it is not likely to be backed by Hezbollah if it infringes on its sovereignty."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Mexico\u2019s snub to King Felipe rekindles colonialism row with Spain;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/mexicos-snub-to-king-felipe-rekindles-colonialism-row-with-spain;2024-09-26T05:00:25Z",
        "text": "A festering diplomatic row between Mexico and Spain has been reopened after the Latin American country\u2019s leftwing president-elect refused to invite King Felipe to her inauguration because of his failure to apologise for crimes committed against Mexico\u2019s Indigenous people during the conquest 500 years ago. In 2019, Mexico\u2019s president, Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador wrote to King Felipe and Pope Francis, calling for them to apologise for the \u201cabuses\u201d of the conquest and the colonial period. \u201cI have sent a letter to the king of Spain and another to the pope calling for a full account of the abuses and urging them to apologise to the Indigenous peoples [of Mexico] for the violations of what we now call their human rights,\u201d L\u00f3pez Obrador said in a video, which he posted to his social media accounts. At the time, the Spanish government refused to apologise, saying it \u201cprofoundly rejected\u201d the letter and its content, adding: \u201cThe arrival of the Spanish on Mexican soil 500 years ago cannot be judged in the light of contemporary considerations. Our closely related peoples have always known how to view our shared history without anger and from a shared perspective, as free peoples with a common heritage and an extraordinary future.\u201d That response has failed to placate L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s successor and ally, Claudia Sheinbaum, who said her predecessor\u2019s call had been roundly ignored. \u201cUnfortunately, the letter in question was never replied to directly, as best diplomatic practice requires,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cInstead, part of the letter was leaked to the media and the Spanish foreign ministry then released a press statement. The Mexican government has not received a direct clarification nor answer regarding this matter.\u201d Although Spain\u2019s socialist prime minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, has been invited to the swearing-in ceremony on 1 October, King Felipe has not. The snubbing of the king prompted Spain to announce that it would not participate in the inauguration \u201cat any level\u201d. Speaking at a news conference at the UN general assembly on Wednesday, S\u00e1nchez lamented what he termed an \u201cunacceptable and inexplicable decision\u201d by the incoming Mexican government. \u201cSpain and Mexico are brother countries \u2013 and that\u2019s why the exclusion of our head of state seems unacceptable,\u201d he said. \u201cLet\u2019s not forget that this head of state has taken part in all the swearings-in \u2013 all of them \u2013 as a prince and then as a king and a head of state. That\u2019s why we can\u2019t accept his exclusion and that\u2019s why we\u2019ve told the Mexican government that there will be no Spanish diplomatic representation whatsoever.\u201d S\u00e1nchez said that his administration was also a \u201cprogressive\u201d government and suggested the decision was down to political manoeuvring. \u201cBehind all this is an enormous sadness because we\u2019re two brother countries \u2013 two brother countries that can\u2019t enjoy the best political relations because of a certain person\u2019s political interests,\u201d he said. L\u00f3pez Obrador vowed to champion Mexico\u2019s poor and Indigenous people. Unlike millions of mixed-race Mexicans he is almost entirely of Spanish descent, his grandparents having emigrated from Asturias and Cantabria in northern Spain. Cort\u00e9s led a small squadron of soldiers \u2013 equipped with horses, armed with diseases such as smallpox, and abetted by Indigenous groups at odds with the Aztecs \u2013 to Mexico City (then known as Tenochtitl\u00e1n) in 1519. The Spanish sacked the city two years later and proceeded to convert the Indigenous populations to Catholicism. Cort\u00e9s has long occupied a controversial place in Mexican history. His indigenous mistress, La Malinche, is still seen as a traitorous figure \u2013 with her name forming the epithet malinchista, someone who prefers the foreign to the domestic."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Rwandan forces and M23 rebels shelled refugee camps in DRC, report claims;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/rwandan-forces-and-m23-rebels-shelled-refugee-camps-in-drc-report-claims;2024-09-26T04:00:25Z",
        "text": "Rwandan forces and M23 rebels have shelled refugee camps and other highly populated areas in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on many occasions this year, Human Rights Watch has claimed. The NGO also accused the DRC\u2019s armed forces and its allied militias of putting the camps\u2019 residents in danger by stationing their artillery nearby in its report alleging violation of international humanitarian and human rights law in the longstanding war in the central African country. Decades-long fighting among regional armies and rebels in eastern DRC has killed and displaced millions. Most of the displaced live in the eastern provinces of the country, including North Kivu, where M23, with assistance from the Rwandan army, has managed to take control in many areas. More than half a million people have been forced into camps near Goma, the capital of North Kivu, as the rebel group advances. The researchers for the report interviewed 65 witnesses, camp authorities and victims of abuses in six displacement camps around Goma. They also spoke with 31 humanitarian, diplomatic, UN, and military sources and analysed photos and videos of attack sites, images of weapon remains, and satellite imagery. The researchers said they had found five instances since January in which Rwandan and M23 forces fired artillery and rockets at displacement camps or inhabited places near Goma. In one incident in May, the report says, Rwandan or M23 forces killed at least 17 civilians, most of them children, when they fired at least three rockets into the 8\u00e8me Cepac camp. The report says the DRC army stationed its artillery near the camps, putting the residents at risk. The researchers further alleged that alongside a group of its allied militia known as the Wazalendo, members of the DRC army raped women in camps and others who were looking for food and firewood close by. They also shot people inside, killing some and wounding others, the report alleges. M23 fighters raped women \u201cwho crossed the frontline\u201d in search of food, the report says. Government spokespeople for Rwanda and the DRC did not respond to requests for comment. The suffering of displaced people around Goma \u201cis difficult to overstate\u201d, said Cl\u00e9mentine de Montjoye, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. \u201cMany said they feel stuck between a rock and hard place, facing abuses by all sides despite having fled to Goma in the hopes of finding safety,\u201d de Montjoye said. \u201cThey don\u2019t feel safe where they are, but can\u2019t move to a safe place.\u201d She said the abuse patterns and increase in the use of explosive weapons in or near refugee camps around the city are a relatively new development. There are more than a hundred armed groups in eastern DRC. The UN, US and EU have in the past issued sanctions for human rights violations against some of their leaders, as well as DRC and Rwandan officials who support the entities. Jason Stearns, founder of the non-profit Congo Research Group, said the DRC\u2019s policy of conducting counterinsurgency by bringing in other combatants, such as the Wazalendo militia and other countries\u2019 troops, has \u201ccomplicated the battlefield and aggravated the violence for the civilian population\u201d. Delphin Ntanyoma, visiting researcher in peace and conflict studies at the University of Leeds, says the findings show that it is \u201cextremely urgent\u201d for all parties to see the importance of complying with international humanitarian law, invest their efforts in protecting civilians, and allow passage of humanitarian aid. \u201cI truly believe that local populations in North Kivu and across the eastern DRC want peace,\u201d he said. \u201cAll parties should work and consider that military options won\u2019t bring lasting peace. Dialogues and talks should tackle the root causes of conflict to avoid cycles of violence.\u201d The report called on the UN, the African Union and governments to push the conflicting sides to protect civilians."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;US and France working on Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire plan \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/25/middle-east-crisis-live-lebanon-says-only-us-can-end-war-as-israel-launches-new-attacks-on-countrys-south;2024-09-26T01:02:13Z",
        "text": "We\u2019re going to end our live coverage here. For the latest on the UN security council and the ongoing crisis on the Israel-Lebanon border, the Guardian\u2019s diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour, has this new report: At least 72 people were killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon on Wednesday and hundreds were wounded, according to figures by the Lebanese health ministry. The geographic scope of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah has widened, after Hezbollah aimed a long-range missile at Tel Aviv and Israel targeted the mountains north of Beirut for the first time in the war, drawing an Israeli warning that it was preparing a major response. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it hit more than 2,000 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in the past three days. Israel\u2019s top general has said the country is preparing for a possible ground operation into Lebanon. As an intense bombing campaign inside Lebanon stretched in to a third day, Maj Gen Herzi Halevi said the airstrikes aimed to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure and prepare for the possibility of Israeli troops crossing the border. \u201cWe are preparing the process of a manoeuvre,\u201d he told troops during a visit to Israel\u2019s north on Wednesday. The Pentagon said an Israeli ground offensive in Lebanon did not appear \u201cimminent\u201d. Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said the US was making \u201ca full-court press\u201d for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. She referred reporters to Israel for questions about its operations and plans. France\u2019s foreign minister has told the UN security council that his country and the United States are working to hammer out a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel to allow time for broader negotiations. \u201cA diplomatic solution is indeed possible. In recent days, we\u2019ve worked with our American partners on a temporary ceasefire platform of 21 days to allow for negotiations,\u201d Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot told the 15-member UN security council. Najib Mikati, the prime minister of Lebanon, has told the UN security council that Israel is violating his country\u2019s sovereignty \u201cby sending its war planes and drones to our skies, by killing our civilians, including youth, women and children, destroying homes and forcing families to flee\u201d. Mikati says hospitals are overwhelmed and unable to accept any more victims. Danny Danon, Israel\u2019s UN envoy, has said that his country does not seek a full-scale war. Danon has accused Iran of being the \u201cdriving force\u201d behind the instability sweeping the Middle East. Danon also said that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to arrive on Thursday and address the UN general assembly on Friday. Families fleeing the escalating conflict in Lebanon are pouring into Syria in growing numbers, waiting for hours in heavy traffic to reach the relative safety of another war-torn country, the Associated Press is reporting. UN officials have estimated that thousands of Lebanese and Syrian families had already made the journey. Those numbers are expected to grow. From Monday, lines of buses and cars extended for several kilometres from the Syrian border and some families were seen making the journey on foot. Once in Syria, people waited hours more to be processed by overwhelmed border officials, AP reported. \u201cMany will have to spend the night outdoors waiting their turn,\u201d Rula Amin, a spokesperson for the UN\u2019s refugee agency, said in a statement. Amin said some of the people arriving from Lebanon had visible injuries suffered from recent attacks. The Times of Israel has reported that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has wrapped a security cabinet meeting and is now heading to Ben Gurion Airport for his flight to the UN general assembly in New York. Israel\u2019s envoy to the UN said earlier today that Netanyahu would address the UN on Friday. The UN security council meeting has ended now, with EU foreign affairs envoy Josep Borrell giving the final address. As the final representatives were speaking, French foreign minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot said that, in the last few hours, important progress had been made on a temporary ceasefire. He added that efforts would continue over the coming hours. Asked separately whether a ceasefire could be reached soon, Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati said \u201chopefully, yes.\u201d Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araqchi tells the UN security council that the situation in the region is \u201cextremely explosive\u201d. Araqchi says the US and UK\u2019s \u201cunwavering support for Israel has given them carte blanche for all sorts of sinister behaviour\u201d. Without a ceasefire in Gaza there will be no guarantee for peace in the region. The international community cannot afford to remain silent \u2026 the UN security council \u2026 must shoulder its responsibility and respond decisively.\u201d Danny Danon, Israel\u2019s UN envoy, has said that his country does not seek a full-scale war. However, Israel is under attack. In the last 24 hours, northern and central Israel have faced a new wave of relentless attacks. With over 150 rockets launched deep into Israeli territory.\u201d Danon accuses Iran of being the \u201cdriving force\u201d behind the instability sweeping the Middle East. Israel\u2019s UN envoy has told the UN security council that \u201cno nation would sit idly by as its citizens are attacked\u201d, as he outlines the situation for Israeli citizens in the north of the country. Over the past week, Israel has been conducting precise strikes in Lebanon against Hezbollah\u2019s command centres, launching sites, weapons stalls and their leadership.\u201d As he ends his address, Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati urges the UN security council to put pressure on Israel for an \u201cimmediate ceasefire on all fronts\u201d. Najib Mikati, the prime minister of Lebanon, has told the UN security council that Israel is violating his country sovereignty \u201cby sending its war planes and drones to our skies, by killing our civilians, including youth, women and children, destroying homes and forcing families to flee\u201d. Mikati says hospitals are overwhelmed and unable to accept any more victims. We are witnessing today an unprecedented escalation \u2026 the aggressor is claiming that they are only targeting combatants and weapons, but I assure you that the hospitals are full of civilians.\u201d UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, tells the UN security council \u201cwe are on the precipice\u201d. He says that the \u201crockets must stop now. The airstrikes must stop now. Talks must start now\u201d Lammy has said the UK has worked with the France and US to implement a ceasefire. We talk of the danger of full scale regional war, but the truth is we are already witnessing conflict on multiple fronts, in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Lebanon and in the Red Sea.\u201d Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said prior to the security council meeting that the region was on the brink of a full-scale catastrophe and warned that Tehran would not remain indifferent in case of war in Lebanon. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the UN general assembly, Araqchi said Israel had crossed \u201call red lines\u201d and that the UN security council must intervene to restore peace and stability. The US representative at the UN security council has said \u201cdiplomacy will only become more difficult amid a further escalation of this conflict\u201d, adding that \u201cIsrael has a right to defend itself against Hezbollah\u2019s attacks.\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s build up of weapons \u2013 many of which are supplied by Iran \u2013 and it\u2019s presence along the blue line \u2026 has long been a source of instability. No one wants to see a repeat of the full blown war which occurred in 2006.\u201d As we mentioned earlier, France\u2019s foreign minister has told the UN security council that his country and the United States are working to hammer out a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel to allow time for broader negotiations, \u201cA diplomatic solution is indeed possible. In recent days, we\u2019ve worked with our American partners on a temporary ceasefire platform of 21 days to allow for negotiations,\u201d Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot told the 15-member UN security council. He said the plan would be made public soon. \u201cWe are counting on both parties to accept it without delay, in order to protect civilian populations and allow for diplomatic negotiations to begin,\u201d he said. Barrot will head to Lebanon at the end of the week and said Paris had worked with the parties in defining the parameters for a diplomatic way out of the crisis under UN security council resolution 1701. \u201cIt\u2019s a demanding path, but it is a possible path,\u201d he said. Resolution 1701 \u2013 adopted after a month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006 \u2013 expanded the mandate of a UN peacekeeping force, allowing it to help the Lebanese army keep parts of the south free of weapons or armed personnel other than those of the Lebanese state. It has sparked friction with Hezbollah, which effectively controls southern Lebanon despite the presence of the Lebanese army. Sergei Ryabkov, Russia\u2019s deputy foreign minister is speaking at the UN security council now, saying that \u201cour worst forecasts are coming to pass.\u201d He calls last weeks detonation of Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon \u201cterrorism\u201d. France\u2019s minister for Europe and foreign affairs has told the security council that the ceasefire plan that he is working on with the United States would last for 21 days to allow for negotiations. Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot said the full plan would be made public very soon and he was counting on all parties to accept it. Barrot warns that Lebanon is already considerably weakened \u2013 but it would not be able to be restored if there was a war between Israel and Hezbollah. Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot, France\u2019s minister for Europe and foreign affairs has said war is not inevitable. Barrot, who called for this UN security council meeting, is outlining a plan that France has been working on with the US to end the crisis. He says he will travel to Beirut at the end of the week to work with leaders there. Barrot warns that the situation in Lebanon \u201cmay reach the point of no return\u201d. Just before this meeting got under way, Israel\u2019s envoy to the United Nations said his country would prefer a diplomatic solution in Lebanon, but added that if diplomacy fails Israel would use all means at its disposal. Danny Danon also said that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to arrive on Thursday and address the UN general assembly on Friday. \u201cStop the killing and destructions, tone down the rhetoric and threats, step back from the brink\u201d, Guterres says as he ends his speech to the UN security council. The people of Lebanon, the people of Israel and the people of the world cannot afford for Lebanon to become another Gaza.\u201d Guterres has told the UN security council that Monday was the \u201cbloodiest day in Lebanon in a generation.\u201d Guterres has also said that people is Israel have come under threat as well and that Hezbollah continues to launch rockets at military and civilian position in Israel. \u201cEarlier this week the UN special coordinator for Lebanon travelled to Israel for consultations, underscoring that military escalation is in no ones interest \u2026 Despite the dangerous conditions our peacekeepers remain in position.\u201d The representative from Slovenia \u2013 which holds the security council\u2019s rotating president has opened the meeting and handed over to UN secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres. Guterres begins by saying \u201chell is breaking loose in Lebanon\u201d and that the country is \u201con the brink\u201d. He has called on the communities of norther Israel and southern Lebanon to be able to return to their homes. The UN security council is getting set to meet to discuss the Middle East. As we wait for that meeting to begin, here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: At least 72 people were killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon on Wednesday and hundreds were wounded, according to figures by the Lebanese health ministry. The geographic scope of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah has widened, after Hezbollah aimed a long-range missile at Tel Aviv and Israel targeted the mountains north of Beirut for the first time in the war, drawing an Israeli warning that it was preparing a major response. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it hit more than 2,000 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in the past three days. Three days of Israeli bombardment has killed more than 600 people in Lebanon, according to authorities. At least a quarter of them are women and children. The UN said 90,000 people had been displaced since Monday, on top of more than 200,000 people who had left their homes in southern Lebanon over the past year as Hezbollah and Israel exchanged fire over the border. Israel\u2019s top general has said the country is preparing for a possible ground operation into Lebanon. As an intense bombing campaign inside Lebanon stretched in to a third day, Maj Gen Herzi Halevi said the airstrikes aimed to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure and prepare for the possibility of Israeli troops crossing the border. \u201cWe are preparing the process of a manoeuvre,\u201d he told troops during a visit to Israel\u2019s north on Wednesday. The Pentagon said an Israeli ground offensive in Lebanon did not appear \u201cimminent\u201d. Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said the US was making \u201ca full-court press\u201d for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. She referred reporters to Israel for questions about its operations and plans. Israel\u2019s Maj Gen Halevi\u2019s comments came amid growing international pressure for a negotiated ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel. The US is in \u201cactive discussions\u201d with Israeli officials as well as other countries to negotiate a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah, a US official said. A US-led initiative to secure a ceasefire has the support of France and Arab countries, but it relies on Hezbollah agreeing to stop firing on Israel before any ceasefire in Gaza is secured. France has called a UN security council meeting on Lebanon for Wednesday to discuss ideas around de-escalation. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel is delivering blows to Hezbollah that it could never imagine, promising not to rest until residents of northern Israel return home. Netanyahu is due to be out of the country to travel to the UN general assembly in New York. With Israel and Hezbollah now in effect at war, world leaders repeatedly warned of the dangers of a full-blown regional conflict at the UN general assembly in New York on Wednesday. But as they called for de-escalation, they prepared for the opposite: from Moscow to London and Washington, governments told citizens in Lebanon to return home while they could, as airlines cancelled flights from Beirut. The US president, Joe Biden, warned over the need to avoid \u201call-out war\u201d in the region. \u201cAn all-out war is possible,\u201d Biden said on Wednesday, adding that he believed an opportunity also existed \u201cto have a settlement that can fundamentally change the whole region\u201d. Biden has been widely criticised for mishandling the escalating Middle East crisis. Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, said Washington and its allies were working tirelessly to avoid a full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah. Blinken claimed Israel has a legitimate interest in seeking to remove Hezbollah from the borders of northern Israel and rebuffed calls to take a tougher line over the Israeli bombardment. The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, called for an end to Israel\u2019s \u201cescalation\u201d in Lebanon along with the rocket attacks by Hezbollah on Israel. Macron said he would send his newly appointed foreign minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, to Lebanon this week as part of efforts to prevent a full-fledged war. The White House said Biden met with Macron on the sidelines of the UN general assembly on Wednesday to discuss \u201cefforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah and prevent a wider war\u201d. The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, said he was \u201cvery concerned\u201d about the increasing escalation between Israel and Hezbollah. The UK is closely monitoring Beirut\u2019s international airport amid fears it may be forced to close due to escalating fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, which would probably lead to an evacuation of British and other foreign nationals from Lebanon. The UK government announced it would send \u00a35m ($6.6m) in aid to Lebanon. Israel continued to bombard the Gaza Strip as well as Lebanon. The health ministry in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday reported the killing of 85 people and the injury of 104 others by the Israeli military in the last 24 hours. The total figures since 7 October, given by the ministry, are as at least 41,495 Palestinians killed and 96,006 wounded. Israeli forces detained at least 35 people in the occupied West Bank in the last 24 hours, according to a statement from the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner\u2019s Society. The latest figure takes the total number of arrests since 7 October to more than 10,900. A Lebanese official said there are serious efforts, led by the US, to end fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. The aim of negotiations is to reach a temporary four-week ceasefire, AP reported, citing the Lebanese official. Talks are ongoing in New York where Lebanon\u2019s prime minister, Najib Mikati, is attending the UN general assembly. A new deal will be based on implementing UN security council resolution 1701 that ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, he said. Local media have reported that if reached, the deal will begin with a four-week ceasefire during which there will be talks for on further issues including land border demarcation and boosting Lebanese army presences along the border area. The White House said the US president, Joe Biden, met with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York on Wednesday. The two leaders discussed \u201cefforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah and prevent a wider war\u201d, according to the White House. At least 72 people were killed in Israeli attacks on Wednesday in Lebanon and hundreds were wounded, according to a Reuters compilation of Lebanese health ministry statements. An 87-year-old French citizen was killed on Monday after the building he was living in near the Lebanese city of Tyre collapsed following a \u201cpowerful explosion\u201d nearby, according to the French embassy in Lebanon. The statement said no other French citizens were known to have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon in the past three days. The UK government has announced it will send \u00a35m ($6.61m) in aid to Lebanon. The government has also reopened its \u201cregister your presence\u201d portal, which British nationals in Lebanon can fill in to notify the UK government of their whereabouts. \u201cThe situation in Lebanon is deeply concerning,\u201d Anneliese Dodds, the UK\u2019s development minister, said in a statement. While we continue to urge British nationals to leave and have launched our \u2018register your presence portal\u2019 to aid their departure, the UK will always be a strong supporter of the Lebanese people. That is why we are providing \u00a35 million to Unicef to support civilians who have been displaced and are facing a humanitarian emergency. She added: We need to see an immediate ceasefire from both sides to prevent further civilian casualties and ensure that displaced people can return to their homes. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Rear Adm Daniel Hagari said more than 2,000 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon have been struck by the Israeli air force in the past three days. Hagari, at a press conference on Wednesday, said: Today, we continued to strike in Lebanon. Fighter jets struck hundreds of targets, to destroy Hezbollah capabilities. The former US president, Donald Trump, said he would threaten to blow Iran \u201cto smithereens\u201d if he was re-elected to the White House and a candidate faced threats from Tehran. The Republican presidential candidate, at a campaign event in North Carolina on Wednesday, said: If I were the president, I would inform the threatening country \u2013 in this case, Iran \u2013 that if you do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens. We are going to blow it to smithereens. The comments came after US intelligence officials reportedly briefed Trump about a suspected Iranian plot to kill him. Trump told supporters: As you know, there have been two assassination attempts on my life that we know of, and they may or may not involve \u2013 but possibly do \u2013 Iran. Trump went on to say he and the US have been \u201cthreatened very directly by Iran\u201d and that a firm message needed to reach Tehran about the consequences. The best way to do it is through the office of the president, that (if) you do any attacks on former presidents or candidates for president, your country gets blown to smithereens, as we say. Emmanuel Macron, France\u2019s president, in his speech to the UN general assembly on Wednesday, said he would be dispatching his newly appointed foreign minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, to Lebanon this week as part of efforts to prevent a full-fledged war. France has historical ties with Lebanon and has been working with the US on an initiative to stop the fighting and open the door to more diplomacy, Reuters reported, citing diplomats. The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, called for an end to Israel\u2019s \u201cescalation\u201d in Lebanon along with the rocket attacks by Hezbollah on Israel. \u201cThere cannot be, must not be war in Lebanon,\u201d Macron said in a speech to the UN general assembly in New York on Wednesday. We are firmly calling on Israel to stop the escalation in Lebanon and Hezbollah to stop firing towards Israel. On the subject of Gaza, Macron said that while Israel had a right to defend itself, the war had lasted too long and needed to end now. He said: There is no justification, no explanation for thousands of civilian Palestinian deaths. Too many civilians are dead. The US is in \u201cactive discussions\u201d with Israeli officials as well as other countries to negotiate a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah, AFP reported, citing a US official. As we reported earlier, Israeli sources told Reuters that the US and France are working on ceasefire proposals but that no significant progress has been made so far. The proposal put forward by Washington includes a truce in the north of Israel to allow for a diplomatic solution, the Times of Israel is reporting. The Pentagon\u2019s spokesperson, Sabrina Singh, said the US military is not providing intelligence support to Israel for its operations in Lebanon. She added that the US was making \u201ca full-court press\u201d for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. The Pentagon said an Israeli ground operation inside Lebanon does not appear \u201cimminent\u201d, despite comments from Israel\u2019s top general ordering troops to prepare for a possible ground incursion. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t look like something is imminent,\u201d the Pentagon\u2019s deputy press secretary, Sabrina Singh, told journalists on Wednesday. She added: We certainly don\u2019t want to see any action taken that could lead to further escalation in the region \u2026 We want to see a diplomatic resolution and a solution to prevent an all-out war. She referred reporters to Israel for questions about its operations and plans. As we reported earlier, Israel\u2019s chief of staff, Maj Gen Herzi Halevi, said earlier today that the country is preparing for a possible ground operation into Lebanon. The Islamic Resistance of Iraq, an umbrella group for Iranian-backed Iraqi militias, has claimed responsibility for a drone strike on the port of Israel\u2019s southern city of Eilat on Wednesday. A statement published on the group\u2019s Telegram reads: The Islamic Resistance in Iraq attacked a strategic target in Eilat on Wednesday \u2026 using drones. Israeli rescue services said two people suffered minor injuries from the attack, and that it caused minimal damage. The US has announced new sanctions on individuals and groups associated with Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah. In a post on X, US state department spokesperson Matthew Miller said: The US state department has announced sanctions on one individual and four entities, as well as the blockage of nine vessels for their involvement in illicit activity that financially supports Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force and Hezballah. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, on Wednesday told the Lebanese prime minister, Najib Mikati, that an international solution is urgently needed to stop Israel\u2019s aggression across the region. In a post on X, Erdogan\u2019s office added: President Erdogan said Israel was disregarding fundamental human rights, committing a genocide in front of the world, noting that stopping this and the humanitarian crisis that emerged as a result of the attacks was a humanitarian duty. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York, Reuters reports. The Palestine Red Crescent Society has set up a new shelter camp for Palestinians who have been forcibly displaced by Israeli forces across Gaza. In a new post on X, the PRCS announced that the shelter camp in Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, was built in collaboration with the Saudi Center for Culture and Heritage and includes 125 tents. Here is the Guardian\u2019s explainer by Oliver Holmes on Hezbollah\u2019s role and influence in Lebanon: The escalating conflict between Israeli forces and Hezbollah has put a renewed focus on the battle-hardened Lebanese militant group. The two sides have been exchanging fire since the beginning of the war in Gaza in October last year, but the violence has increased markedly in the past week on the Lebanese side of the border, where Israel killed hundreds of people in strikes on Monday. The violence is seen as the most likely avenue for the war in Gaza to explode into an uncontrollable regional conflagration. Here is a guide to the \u201cParty of God\u201d and its position in \u2013 and testy relationship with \u2013 the fragile Lebanese state. For the full story, click here: The UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, has criticized the security council for its \u201cdivisions and mistrust\u201d which has in turn prevented the wars in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan from being stopped. On Wednesday, Guterres said: Peace demands action. And peace demands leadership \u2026 Instead, we\u2019re seeing deepening geopolitical divisions and mistrust. Pointing to repeated violations of the UN charter and international law, Guterres added: It is imperative that council members spare no effort to work together to find common ground. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said that Israel is delivering blows to Hezbollah that it could never imagine, promising not to rest until residents of northern Israel return home. Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, was asked if he would put troops on the ground to help evacuate Britons if that becomes necessary. The prime minister said: I\u2019m not going to get into the details of evacuation plans. As you would expect, we put contingency measures in place. But here in New York, in the UN General Assembly, I\u2019m being very, very clear this is a dangerous situation now and all parties need to pull back from the brink, to de escalate. We need a ceasefire and this needs to be sorted out by diplomatic means. Very, very clear messaging on that, very firm messaging on that along with key allies. But I am very concerned about the increasing escalation which is not just day on day, but almost hour on hour at the moment. Joe Biden, the US president, has said in an interview with ABC that an all out war is possible in the Middle East but that there is also a possibility of a settlement. The White House deputy national security adviser, Jon Finer, has told Axios\u2019 Barak Ravid that the Biden administration sees a path to de-escalating the situation. \u201cWe are working on it in real time in New York and in capitals around the world,\u201d Finer said. An Israeli official has told the country\u2019s public broadcaster that \u201cwe have no problem\u201d discussing a settlement with the Americans as long as it would bring security for residents of the north but that \u201cat this moment it seems there is no partner on the other side.\u201d The United States and France are working on ceasefire proposals but no significant progress has been made so far, Reuters reported citing three Israeli officials. The chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Herzi Halevi, has told troops that jets have been striking \u201cto prepare the ground for your possible entry\u201d and also to continue hitting Hezbollah. He told the troops to prepare. The goal, he said, is to safely return the residents of the north. He added: To achieve that, we are preparing the process of a maneuver, which means your military boots, your maneuvering boots, enter enemy territory, enter villages that Hezbollah has prepared as large military outposts, with underground infrastructure, staging points, and launchpads into our territory and carry out attacks on Israeli civilians. Your entry into those areas with force, your encounter with Hezbollah operatives, that they will see what it means to face a professional, highly skilled, and battle-experienced force. You are coming in much stronger and far more experienced than they are. The Lebanese health minister, Firass Abiad, said at least 51 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon today, Reuters reported. The Israeli Air Force said fighter jets hit 280 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon today. The IDF said the air force conducted strikes against 60 Hezbollah intelligence targets. Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, has said that Washington and its allies were working tirelessly to avoid a full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah, Reuters reported. \u201cRisk of escalation in the region is acute,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cthe best answer is diplomacy, and our coordinated efforts are vital to preventing further escalation.\u201d In a statement the army said the move \u201cwill allow the continuation of the fighting effort against the Hezbollah terror organisation, the protection of the citizens of the state of Israel, and the creation of the conditions for the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes.\u201d About 60,000 Israelis are thought to have evacuated their homes in the north of the country due to the constant exchanges of fire between Israel and anti-Israeli forces operating from inside Lebanon, including Hezbollah. While diplomatic focus has shifted to the escalation of fighting between Israel, Hezbollah and other anti-Israeli forces in the north, to Israel\u2019s south-west the it military operation in the Gaza Strip continues. Here are some of the latest pictures sent over the news wires from Gaza. Citing a joint statement from the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner\u2019s Society, Al Jazeera reports that Israeli forces detained at least 35 people in the Israeli-occupied West Bank during the last 24 hours, taking the total number of arrests since 7 October to more than 10,900. Israel\u2019s military has now claimed to have struck \u201c280 Hezbollah terror targets\u201d in Lebanon today, and says in a statement on its official Telegram channel that \u201cthe IDF is continuing to conduct strikes against additional targets.\u201d The Times of Israel reports that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has convened a security cabinet meeting for 8pm local time (6pm BST) tonight, ahead of scheduled his trip to New York to speak at the UN general assembly. After three days of concentrated airstrikes on Lebanon by Israel, the International Organization for Migration said on Wednesday that there were at least 90,530 newly displaced people. Nearly 40,000 were in 283 shelters, Reuters reports. A large number of people in northern Israel and southern Lebanon had already been forced to flee their homes after nearly a year of fighting between Israel, Hezbollah and other anti-Israeli forces. Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government has set as a war goal returning the people in northern Israel to their homes. Al Jazeera spoke to 63-year-old Souad Mahde, who had fled her village Qsaibah in the south. She told the news network, which is banned in Israel: The day before yesterday, strikes started getting closer and planes were in the sky. We were scared. The first thing I thought of was to take some clothes. Just the basics, and medicine, of course. Nothing more than that. No one cares any more about things like the house because fear takes over. Our way out was very slow. The traffic was horrible. There were strikes here and there until we reached Beirut. It took us until evening. Even in Beirut, there is an atmosphere of war. Of course, we are in a war. The UN high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) in Lebanon has said it is \u201cgravely concerned about the serious escalation in Lebanon\u201d, while UK for UNHCR has launched an emergency appeal for aid Israel\u2019s military has issued an operational update on its attacks in Lebanon, claiming to have targeted Hezbollah intelligence operations. In a statement on its official Telegram channel, the IDF said: Today, guided by the Intelligence Directorate, fighter jets struck 60 terrorist targets belonging to Hezbollah\u2019s intelligence directorate. The strikes destroyed intelligence-gathering tools, command centres, and additional infrastructure used by the enemy to build an intelligence situational assessment. The claims have not been independently verified. Reuters has confirmed the earlier report that Palestinian officials have refused the return of 88 bodies by Israel to Gaza on the grounds that Israel had not disclosed details about who they are and where it killed them. The bodies were brought into Gaza in a container loaded on a truck through an Israeli-controlled crossing, but, according to Palestinian officials, there was no information provided about the names or ages of the victims or locations where they died. Health officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis refused to receive them and bury them. Rowena Mason is the Guardian\u2019s Whitehall editor The UK prime minister Keir Starmer has arrived at the UN general assembly where he will have various meetings on the Middle East and Ukraine, before making a speech on Thursday. Asked for his message to Britons in Lebanon, he said they should not wait to be evacuated at a later date and should \u201cleave and leave immediately\u201d via commercial flights. He told reporters I am very worried about the escalation. I\u2019m calling for all parties to step back from the brink, to de-escalate. We need a ceasefire so this can be sorted out diplomatically. But I have a very important message for British nationals in Lebanon which is: the time to leave is now. The contingency plans are being ramped up but don\u2019t wait for those, there are still commercial flights. It\u2019s very important that they hear my message, which is to leave and to leave immediately. Lebanese flag carrier Middle East Airlines remains one of the few operators still scheduling departures from Beirut International airport. There are flights still today to Cairo, Istanbul, Jeddah, Larnaca and Riyadh. There were already thousands of internally displaced people in Lebanon after nearly a year of Israel, Hezbollah and other anti-Israeli forces exchanging fire over the UN-drawn blue line that separates Israel and Lebanon. The tens of thousands fleeing the Israeli airstrikes this week have added to the stress on Lebanon\u2019s resources. Here are some images from over the news wires of relief efforts in Sidon, where 10,000 people had fled to by Tuesday. Israeli government spokesperson David Mencer has confirmed that Benjamin Netanyahu is still expecting to attend the UN general assembly in New York in person despite criticism of his plans from the families of those being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. The US has said it is deeply concerned by reports of a Hezbollah rocket attack aimed at Israel\u2019s intelligence service, but still believes a diplomatic solution can de-escalate tensions, Reuters reports. White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said in an interview with CNN on Wednesday that the development was \u201cdeeply concerning,\u201d adding \u201cEvidence again ... that Israel is facing a legitimate threat from a terrorist group backed by Iran.\u201d He said the US continues to support Israel\u2019s right to defend itself, and that \u201cNo nation should have to live with these threats right across their border, right next door.\u201d Since Israel began an intense series of airstrikes which it claims are aimed at Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Monday nearly 600 people have been killed, and thousands more have been wounded. Tens of thousands have been displaced from their home. The deaths and injuries come on top of the dozens killed and thousands injured in Lebanon last week, when pagers and walkie-talkies were detonated in what has been widely attributed to an Israeli attack. Yesterday the Israeli air force claimed it had dropped nearly 2,000 weapons on 1,500 Hezbollah targets in the previous 24 hours. The death toll across Lebanon from Israeli strikes on Wednesday has now reached 22, according to a Reuters tally of health ministry statements. Earlier this morning health minister Firass Abiad told Al Jazeera Mubasher TV that since Monday, the Israeli offensive had killed 569 people, including 50 children, and wounded 1,835 in Lebanon, suggesting a new total death toll of 591. It announcement came as Israel unleashed more airstrikes on Lebanon and Hezbollah militants fired salvoes of rockets into Israel, including a longer-range projectile that set off air raid sirens in Tel Aviv and across central Israel. Israel said it intercepted the projectile, and there were no reports of casualties or damage from that incident, although two people were reported to have been moderately wounded when rockets struck a kibbutz in northern Israel. Half a million people are estimated to have been displaced in Lebanon, foreign minister Abdallah Bou Habib said. At least 15 people were killed and around 50 wounded in Israeli strikes across Lebanon on Wednesday on five different locations, according to a Reuters compilation of Lebanese health ministry statements. Israel has expanded the zones it has been striking since Tuesday night, with attacks for the first time on the beach resort town of Jiyyeh just south of Beirut and Maaysrah. The strikes also took place in Bint Jbeil, Tebnin and Ain Qana in the south, the village of Joun in the Chouf district near the southern city of Sidon, and Maaysrah in northern Keserwan district. It is just approaching 2pm in Beirut, Tel Aviv and Gaza City. Here is a summary of the latest headlines: The geographic scope of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah has widened, with the Israeli air force carrying out strikes farther north into Lebanon before, and Hezbollah targeting Tel Aviv with a missile for the first time There are reports of deaths, including that of an infant, after widespread Israeli strikes on Lebanon. The death toll from Israeli attacks this week has already nearly reached 600, with thousands more wounded and tens of thousands of people forced to flee their homes Israel\u2019s military said a single surface-to-surface missile was intercepted by air defence systems, and it was \u201ca heavy missile, going towards Tel Aviv, towards civilian areas in Tel Aviv\u201d. In addition at least 40 projectiles have been fired into northern Israel from the direction of Lebanon, and Israel\u2019s military also intercepted a drone it said came from the direction of Syria. Two people are reported to have been moderately wounded. Israel continues to bombard the Gaza Strip as well as Lebanon. The Hamas-led health ministry in the Gaza Strip has reported the killing of 85 people and the injury of 104 others by military action in the past 24 hours. The total figures since 7 October are given by the ministry as at least 41,495 Palestinians killed and 96,006 wounded The Hostages and Missing Families Forum in Israel has severely criticised prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his plans to attend the UN general assembly in person. \u201cWhile the country is burning and 101 hostages have been abandoned in the Hamas death tunnels for 355 days, the prime minister chooses another unnecessary show trip to the US,\u201d it said in a statement Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has proclaimed Hezbollah to be \u201cvictorious\u201d, and said \u201cLebanon\u2019s Hezbollah, which is standing up firmly for Gaza and putting itself in the middle of these bitter events, is taking part in jihad on the path of God\u201d Russia has advised its citizens to leave Lebanon. There are about 3,000 Russian citizens in the country International travel has become limited with most airlines suspending flights to and from Beirut International airport. Lebanon\u2019s own Middle East Airlines continues to serve destinations in the Middle East, Paris, Athen and Larnaca Pope Francis called Israeli strikes on Lebanon a \u201cterrible escalation\u201d of the Middle East conflict. He did not specifically identify Israel, but said he was \u201csaddened by news from Lebanon in recent days that bombardments have caused much destruction and many victims\u201d UK for UNHCR has launched an emergency appeal for aid for Lebanon. Emma Cherniavsky, the chief executive, said \u201cThese devastating bombings in Lebanon are claiming innocent lives and forcing thousands to flee their homes. This is a region that has already been devastated by war, and the toll on civilians is unacceptable\u201d Israeli media reports that two people have been moderately wounded after a barrage of rockets was fired into northern Israel. The impacts were in kibbutz Sa\u2019ar, close to Nahariya. Al Jazeera reports that the Hamas-led government media office in Gaza has said it has refused to receive a container of 88 bodies from Israeli authorities because Israel is not disclosing the names, ages or origins of the bodies. In a statement it called this an \u201cinhumane and criminal move\u201d. Lebanon\u2019s state National News Agency reports that six people, including an infant, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Bint Jbeil. The claim has not been independently verified. Russia has advised its citizens to leave Lebanon due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov earlier said \u201cAll measures are now being taken to recommend our citizens to leave the territory of Lebanon as soon as possible, using the available opportunities of commercial transportation. This is necessary to ensure the safety of these citizens.\u201d When questioned at his daily press briefing, Tass reports, Peskov said there were 3,000 Russians in the country. The IDF has announced that it has begun \u201cconducting strikes in the area of Nabatieh\u201d in Lebanon. Reports on Wednesday morning so far appear to show a widened arena of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. The militant group claimed to have targeted the Mossad in Tel Aviv. The Israeli military said a single surface-to-surface missile was intercepted by air defence systems, and it was \u201ca heavy missile, going towards Tel Aviv, towards civilian areas in Tel Aviv.\u201d Meanwhile, in Lebanon, at least three people have been killed and nine injured by an Israeli strike on the town of Maysaara, which is in the mountains north of Beirut, the farthest north Israel has struck since the beginning of fighting. Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has added to his earlier comments about Hezbollah with a post on his official social media channels which says \u201cLebanon\u2019s Hezbollah, which is standing up firmly for Gaza and putting itself in the middle of these bitter events, is taking part in jihad on the path of God,\u201d adding in Arabic \u201cHezbollah is victorious.\u201d Israel continues to bombard the Gaza Strip as well as Lebanon. The Hamas-led health ministry in the Gaza Strip has reported the killing of 85 people and the injury of 104 others by military action in the past 24 hours. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict. The total figures since 7 October are given by the ministry as at least 41,495 Palestinians killed and 96,006 wounded. During the same time period, Israel says \u201c346 soldiers have fallen in combat\u201d during its ground offensive in Gaza Palestinian news agency Wafa reports \u201cThousands of victims are still trapped under the rubble or scattered on the roads, as ambulance and civil defence teams are facing difficulties in reaching them due to the continued Israeli attacks, the massive amount of debris and the shortage of fuel and heavy equipment.\u201d Here are some of the latest images sent to us over the news wires from Lebanon. Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday \u201cThe organisational strength and human resources of Hezbollah is very strong and will not be critically hit by the killing of a senior commander, even if that is clearly a loss,\u201d Reuters reports. Pope Francis called Israeli strikes on Lebanon a \u201cterrible escalation\u201d of the Middle East conflict on Wednesday at the end of his weekly general audience at the Vatican. The pope said the attacks were \u201cunacceptable\u201d and urged the international community to do everything possible to halt the fighting. Reuters reports Francis did not specifically identify Israel, but said he was \u201csaddened by news from Lebanon in recent days that bombardments have caused much destruction and many victims\u201d. Lebanese health minister Firas Abiad has been at Beirut International Airport, where a shipment of medical aid from Turkey was arriving. A large number of flights to and from Beirut have been cancelled, due to the ongoing Israeli airstrikes across the country. Middle East Airlines is still scheduling flights to various destinations across the Middle East, but Athens, Paris and Larnaca are the only European destinations where flights are scheduled to depart for. On its official Telegram channel Israel\u2019s military has stated that it intercepted \u201cseveral projectiles\u201d out of \u201capproximately 40 projectiles\u201d fired into the Upper Galilee region. No casualties have been reported. At least three people have been killed and nine injured, reports Lebanon\u2019s health ministry, after an Israeli airstrike on Maysaara. William Christou reports from Beirut for the Guardian An airstrike targeted the town of Maysaara, a town in the mountains north of Beirut, the farthest north Israel has struck since the beginning of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah last year. The strike comes just a few hours after Hezbollah launched a missile which it claimed was targeting the Mossad in Tel Aviv, which Israel says it intercepted. The strike on Maysaara, a little over 60 miles from the UN-drawn blue line that separates Israel and Lebanon, caused alarm in Lebanon. Many have looked at the mountains north of Beirut as a potential refuge in the case of a full-scale war with Israel, drawing on experience from the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel which left the area relatively untouched. On Tuesday night, an airstrike carried out on Jiyeh, about 10 miles south of Beirut, was heard across the capital city and the surrounding mountainsides. Israeli media claimed a senior leader in the Palestinian militant organisation Islamic Jihad was the target of the strike, though the organisation did not confirm the claims. Since the weekend, Israel\u2019s intensified aerial campaign on Lebanon has re-defined which areas of Lebanon are \u201csafe\u201d from fighting, as strikes repeatedly hit Beirut and areas immediately south \u2013 a previous red-line over the last year. Israel\u2019s military has announced it is carrying out more strikes on southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley. Nearly 560 people, including at least 50 children, have already been killed this week in Israel\u2019s bombing campaign, which it says is targeting weapons and terrorist infrastructure used by Hezbollah. Thousands of people have been injured and tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes. More details soon \u2026 UK for UNHCR has launched an emergency appeal for aid for Lebanon. Emma Cherniavsky, the chief executive, said: These devastating bombings in Lebanon are claiming innocent lives and forcing thousands to flee their homes. This is a region that has already been devastated by war, and the toll on civilians is unacceptable. An end to the hostilities is desperately needed. In the meantime, we urgently need donations to help UNHCR scale up emergency aid, and avert further suffering and devastation. Israeli media reports the Hostages and Missing Families Forum has severely criticised prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his plans to attend the UN general assembly in person. In a statement it said: While the country is burning and 101 hostages have been abandoned in the Hamas death tunnels for 355 days, the prime minister chooses another unnecessary show trip to the US. IDF International Spokesperson, LTC Nadav Shoshani, said the attempt to hit Tel Aviv this morning was the first time Hezbollah has fired towards Tel Aviv, and the group had deployed a surface-to-surface heavy long range missile. The missile, which was intercepted, was heading towards civilian areas of the city and Israel responded with an attack against the launcher, he told journalists. Hezbollah said the attack targeted headquarters of the Mossad intelligence agency, but Shoshani said it was directed at a different part of the city. \u201cThe Mossad headquarters is not in that area, it is a bit east and north of that area. Their missile triggered alerts in Netanya and Tel Aviv along the coastline,\u201d Shoshani said. \u201cHezbollah is definitely trying to escalate the situation\u201d, he said, but added the country treats all attacks against its citizens as an equal threat, whether in Haifa or Tel Aviv. \u201cAny fire towards Israel is something we do not accept, and we plan on acting to defend ourselves and remove the threat,\u201d he said. He said Israeli attacks \u201cin recent weeks\u201d had taken out a significant part of Hezbollah\u2019s arsenal and its chain of command, so although the group were trying to increase the number and range of their attacks on Israel, their capacity to do so had been reduced. Israel estimated that Hezbollah had 150,000 missiles at the start of the war. Shoshani, declined to say how many had been destroyed. Israel has brought in tighter restrictions, which include school closures, in northern parts of the country, including the city of Haifa. Shoshani said there are now over a million Israelis under these restrictions. Although an initial estimate would be up to 1.3 million people, many are thought to have headed south to stay with friends and relatives, he added. Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that \u201cseveral civilians were killed and others were injured on Wednesday after Israeli occupation warplanes targeted large areas in the Gaza Strip.\u201d It adds that \u201cIsraeli gunboats opened fire towards the western areas of the Gaza Strip\u201d and that agricultural land east of Khan Younis was targeted by aircraft. The claims have not been independently verified. Lebanon\u2019s minister of culture, Judge Mohammad Wissam El-Mortada, has been speaking to Sputnik Radio, and Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency is carrying some quotes from the interview. In it, he said \u201cLebanon is engaged in a confrontation in defence of everything that is humane in this world against the enemies of humanity. Israel is exceeding all restrictions.\u201d He said that the UN security council\u2019s limited reponse to the detonation of pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon \u201creflects its inability to carry out the minimum moral and humanitarian duty. What happened has brought down all international systems and humanitarian laws, which has affected their credibility and effectiveness, and posed a major challenge to humanity in every sense of the word.\u201d Echoing the view of foreign minister Abdallah Bou Habib, that only the US could stop the war, El-Mortada said \u201cWe believe that the United States, if it wants, can stop these crimes.\u201d Imran Khan, reporting for Al Jazeera from Marjayoun in Lebanon, has said \u201cOvernight there were way more airstrikes than I\u2019ve seen in previous days. There was also a barrage of outgoing Hezbollah fire. This was just in the area where I am. If you can imagine this is probably a microcosm of what is going on across the southern Lebanese border. The Israeli army say they are continuing to strike Hezbollah targets. And Hezbollah is actually ramping things up slightly and we are seeing a lot more outgoing rocket attacks than we\u2019ve seen perhaps in the last 24 hours.\u201d Al Jazeera has been banned from operating inside Israel, and Israeli authorities have raided and shut down the news network\u2019s Ramallah office in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israel\u2019s military has claimed to have intercepted \u201ca UAV approaching from the east \u2026 crossing into Israeli territory from Syria.\u201d It added \u201cThe UAV was intercepted by IDF fighter jets south of the Sea of Galilee. No damage or injuries were reported.\u201d The claims have not been independently verified. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees is bracing for a triple crisis as Israeli strikes on Lebanon add to the strain it is facing in Gaza and the West Bank, its chief has told AFP. Unrwa, founded in 1949, provides services, including education and healthcare, for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. With three of its area of operations turning into \u201cactive frontlines,\u201d the embattled agency already grappling with a severe financial shortfall is poised to come under even more pressure, said Unrwa\u2019s Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini. \u201cWe already have Gaza, we already have the West Bank, so we have two fields of operation which have become active frontlines,\u201d he said. \u201cWe (now) also have Lebanon, which would mean that basically three... contexts of operation will become humanitarian emergencies,\u201d he added, calling the situation a \u201ctriple tragedy.\u201d Faced with mounting Israeli strikes, Unrwa has paused some operations in Lebanon as it converts its schools into shelters for hundreds of people displaced from the south of the country. \u201cThe fear is that... we are going into a full-fledged war,\u201d Lazzarini told AFP. \u201cAnother concern is that parts of Lebanon becomes like Gaza.\u201d Israeli media is reporting that Benjamin Netanyahu is still planning to attend the UN general assembly in New York, but has adjusted his itinerary after Israel this week stepped up its assault on Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Israeli prime minister will now fly out to New York on Thursday and board a return flight on Saturday night. The decision has been openly criticised by an unnamed senior official in the government on Channel 12 news in Israel, who called it \u201creckless and irresponsible\u201d for Netanyahu to travel in person, when the speech could be delegated to a diplomat. In the last few minutes Israel\u2019s military reported that sirens have again sounded in northern Israel. A mother and her four children were killed by an Israeli airstrike near the city of Rafah, in southern Gaza late Tuesday, the Palestinian news agency Wafa has reported, as Israel continued its onslaught on the devastated enclave. Wafa said the family were killed when Israeli warplanes targeted a house belonging to the Abu Jazar family in an-Nasser town, north-east of Rafah, and reported that others were also injured. It was not possible for the Guardian to verify their deaths as Israel does not allow foreign journalists into the Strip. Hezbollah has confirmed that it fired a rocket targeting the Mossad\u2019s headquarters outside Tel Aviv early Wednesday. Hezbollah has blamed the Mossad for carrying out last week\u2019s pager and walkie-talkie attacks in Lebanon, in which 42 people including children were killed and thousands injured. Sirens had sounded in Tel Aviv early on Wednesday, sending residents to bomb shelters, though no casualties or damage was reported. The Israeli military later said it had intercepted a surface-to-surface missile crossing from Lebanon. Lebanon\u2019s foreign minister has suggested the US is the only country that can end the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and expressed disappointment in President Joe Biden\u2019s response so far. In remarks reported by Agence France Presse, Abdallah Bou Habib, said of Biden\u2019s speech to the UN on Tuesday: It was not strong, it is not promising, and it would not solve the Lebanese problem \u2026 We are still hoping. The United States is the only country that can really make a difference in the Middle East and with regard to Lebanon. Making a valedictory address to the UN general assembly, the US president, Joe Biden, urged Israel against an all-out war, but blamed the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia for an unprovoked attack on Israel after 7 October and for continuing to strike Israel since. Biden said the US was working tirelessly on a deal that would enable the populations on the Lebanese-Israeli border to return to their homes, but Iranian diplomats said they had been told through third parties that the US administration had admitted it was powerless to stop the Israeli bombardment. Bou Habib also said that the number of displaced Lebanese, which had numbered about 110,000 since 7 October and before Israel\u2019s latest offensive this week, was now probably \u201capproaching half a million\u201d. Noting that Israel had also seen displacement in the northern areas, he said, \u201cAll for what?\u201d Bou Habib also said he was convinced that Iran did not want conflict. \u201cI don\u2019t think they want to be involved in a war,\u201d he said. Hello and welcome to the Guardian\u2019s live coverage of the conflict in the Middle East. Israel has launched a series of fresh strikes on southern Lebanon, Lebanese media reported early Wednesday, the third consecutive day of a major Israeli assault on its northern neighbour in which hundreds of Lebanese have been killed. \u201cSince 5am enemy warplanes have launched strikes\u201d on several areas of southern Lebanon, the official National News Agency reported, adding that there were unspecified casualties. Israel confirmed its attacks, saying it had targeted Hezbollah. It also reported that \u201cenemy warplanes and drones\u201d had targeted multiple locations the Baalbek area in eastern Lebanon\u2019s Bekaa Valley after midnight, also reporting casualties there. At least two dozen people were killed by Israeli attacks targeting the militant group Hezbollah on Lebanon on Tuesday, bringing the death toll since Monday, when Israel killed hundreds of people in strikes across the country, to 569, including at least 50 children. In Israel, sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and the Israeli military said it had intercepted a missile crossing from Lebanon. No damage or casualties were reported. On a trip to the US, the Lebanese foreign minister meanwhile voiced disappointment with US President Joe Biden\u2019s response to the Israeli offensive, but nevertheless said only the US could bring an end to the conflict. \u201cIt was not strong. It is not promising and it would not solve this problem,\u201d Abdallah Bou Habib during a virtual event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, referring to Biden\u2019s speech at the United Nations earlier in the day. \u201cI [am] still hoping. The United States is the only country that can really make a difference in the Middle East and with regard to Lebanon.\u201d More on that soonest. In other developments: Thousands of Lebanese people fled the continuing bombing in the country\u2019s south on Tuesday as Israel said it was conducting \u201cextensive strikes\u201d on Hezbollah targets, including on the southern suburbs of Beirut, for the second day in a row and third time this week. Israel carried out an airstrike in Jiyeh, a seaside town 20 kilometers south of Beirut late Tuesday night. The strong explosion was heard across Beirut and the surrounding mountains. Hezbollah confirmed that an Israeli attack in Dahieh, Hezbollah\u2019s stronghold in Beirut, on Tuesday had killed Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi, also known as Abu Issa, the commander of Hezbollah\u2019s rocket and missile division. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said in a statement that the \u201cIsraeli enemy raid on Ghobeiri in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs killed six people and injured 15\u201d. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed to maintain the offensive against Hezbollah and said the group\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was leading Lebanon \u201cto the edge of the abyss\u201d. Israeli officials have said the recent rise in airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon is designed to force the group to agree to a diplomatic solution, cease its own attacks on Israel or unilaterally withdraw its forces from close to the contested border. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Daniel Hagari said Israel was striving for its current military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon to be as short as possible. But in his briefing with reporters on Tuesday, he added that Israel is also prepared for the operation to take time. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said Hezbollah has suffered \u201cextremely severe blows\u201d and Israel has \u201cmore strikes ready\u201d. Hezbollah said it had targeted several Israeli military targets including an explosives factory about 35 miles (56km) into Israel and the Megiddo airfield near the town of Afula, which it attacked three separate times. Officials in Israel said more than 50 missiles and rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern parts of the country on Tuesday morning, most of which were intercepted. Syrian air defences intercepted suspected Israeli missiles targeting the city of Tartous, Reuters reported, citing Syrian army sources. It comes after reports of multiple explosions heard over the Mediterranean port city early on Wednesday. The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, has told world leaders that Lebanon is on the brink of becoming a second Gaza, adding the crisis has \u201cbecome a non-stop nightmare that threatens to take the whole region down\u201d. In response, Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, accused the UN on Tuesday of not fulfilling its obligations in preventing rocket attacks into Israel by Hezbollah. The EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, described the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah as almost a \u201cfull-fledged war\u201d. World leaders gathered in New York for the opening of the 79th UN general assembly as diplomatic efforts appear to have had little impact so far on the tensions on the border between Israel and Lebanon. Israel\u2019s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, said his country is open to ideas for de-escalating the conflict in Lebanon. \u201cWe are not eager to start any ground invasion anywhere ... We prefer a diplomatic solution,\u201d Danon told reporters on Tuesday. Two staff members of the UN\u2019s refugee agency (UNHCR) were among the 558 people killed in Lebanon on Monday, the UN high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi said. The UN agency said it was \u201coutraged and deeply saddened by the killing of two beloved members of the UNHCR family in Lebanon\u201d and warned that the protection of civilians is a must under international humanitarian law. Nearly 30 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Nuseirat and Bureij camp refugee camps in central Gaza on Tuesday, according to hospital officials. A total of 29 Palestinians, including 14 children and 6 women, died as a result of the Israeli strikes on Tuesday, officials at Awda hospital said. The US president, Joe Biden, addressed the risk of a potential full-scale war in Lebanon. During an address to the United Nations general assembly on Tuesday, Biden said that a \u201cfull-scale war is not in anyone\u2019s interest\u201d and added that \u201ceven though the situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible.\u201d Britain is moving 700 troops to Cyprus to be ready for an emergency evacuation of UK citizens from Lebanon. The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, called for \u201crestraint and de-escalation\u201d at the border between Lebanon and Israel. Starmer made an unfortunate slip-up during his Labour party conference speech on Tuesday, calling for the return of \u201csausages\u201d from Gaza. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, called for coercive UN measures against Israel to be put on the agenda, including the use of force against Israel. Erdo\u011fan, in his UN general assembly speech, accused the US of continuing to arm Israel so it can continue its massacres when in public it pretends it is looking for a ceasefire."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;He\u2019s 130, with three eyes and two girlfriends: meet New Zealand\u2019s beloved tuatara Henry;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/henry-new-zealand-tuatara-age-130;2024-09-25T23:30:17Z",
        "text": "About 130 years ago \u2013 as New Zealand women celebrated their world-first right to vote, athletes competed in the first international Olympic Games, and the first motion pictures were flickering into view \u2013 a tiny mottled green reptile with a spiny back was hatching on a small New Zealand island. The baby tuatara \u2013 a unique and rare reptile endemic to New Zealand \u2013 emerged from his burrow into the forest floor, where he miraculously evaded birds, rats and cannibalistic adult tuatara to reach his full adult size \u2013 nearly one kilo in weight and half a metre in length \u2013 by the time he was 35. Over the next few decades, he fossicked about Stephens Island at the northern tip of the South Island, hunting by night and sunning himself by day. Then, at roughly 80 years old, his time in the wild ended. In 1970, he was transported to a museum in Invercargill, the country\u2019s southern-most city, to begin a new life in the public eye as \u2018Henry the tuatara\u2019. Now believed to be between 110 and 130 years old, Henry is likely the world\u2019s oldest living tuatara and New Zealand\u2019s oldest resident. He is also the most famous and beloved of his species. New Zealand has no native land-based snakes or turtles, and the majority of its 150 or so reptiles are lizards. But while the tuatara \u2013 New Zealand\u2019s largest reptile \u2013 may look like a lizard, it is not one. Rather, it is the sole survivor of the ancient reptile order Sphenodontia, which walked the Earth with dinosaurs 225m years ago. They are considered a taonga (treasured) species for M\u0101ori and hold a special place in the hearts of New Zealanders, appearing on coins, stamps, and in children\u2019s books and cartoons. The reptiles have also long fascinated scientists \u2013 they have a parietal or \u201cthird\u201d eye on the top of their head which detects light. They are one of the slowest growing reptiles in the world, while boasting the fastest swimming sperm of any reptiles studied to date. They can take 16 months to hatch, reproduce past the age of 100 and live up to 200 years, making them one of the longest-living creatures. Once widespread across New Zealand, tuatara now survive primarily on a scattering of offshore islands where introduced predators have been eliminated. Some, such as Henry, live in state-of-the-art digs, where their environment, diet and health is closely monitored. An audience with Henry Caroline Dawson, a living-species officer with the Invercargill city council, treads carefully between mossy logs and plants inside a new open-air tuatara enclosure in Invercargill\u2019s Queens Park animal reserve. The council-built facility replicates a natural living environment for tuatara and is the only one of its kind in New Zealand. \u201cWe have to be really careful where we stand, some tuatara like to live in the logs,\u201d Dawson warns. She lifts a large concrete lid covering a man-made burrow. Inside is a tuatara but it is not Henry. This one is Lucy, a smaller 70-year-old female \u2013 one of Henry\u2019s two live-in girlfriends. \u201cWhen I first started working with tuatara I thought \u2018these guys are so boring\u2019,\u201d Dawson says, heaving open the lid of another burrow, which is empty. \u201cAnd then I fed one,\u201d she says. \u201cWow, they are so quick \u2013 they are like killing machines.\u201d Dawson lifts the last lid in Henry\u2019s enclosure and peers in. \u201cThere he is, there\u2019s the man,\u201d she says, brimming with excitement. Henry, unperturbed by the intrusion, is lying still next to Mildred, his other septuagenarian girlfriend. During cooler months, tuatara are slow-moving and rarely eat; come summer, they venture out to hunt and sunbathe. Gently, Dawson picks him up and places him on a nearby log. \u201cIsn\u2019t he amazing?\u201d she says, and he is. The ancient reptile\u2019s skin is the colours of a dappled forest floor. From the top of his wide strong head to the tip of his tail runs a line of pearly spikes. His big black eyes are as glossy as obsidian and, with his head poised high, he looks as royal as his monarch namesake, Henry VIII. Henry grants his visitors a brief audience, and with the late-afternoon sun slipping behind the trees and the air cooling, he decides it is time to return to his warm burrow. Henry has not always been so amenable \u2013 for 17 years, he was so irascible he had to be completely isolated from other tuatara. Sex, meanwhile, was of little interest to him \u2013 when handlers tried to mate him with Mildred 40 years ago, he twice bit off her tail. In 2007, the removal of a cancerous tumour on his genitals changed all that \u2013 including his personality and his libido \u2013 and the following year, Henry made international headlines when he became a first-time father, aged 111. During his long life, Henry has clocked up a list of headline-grabbing experiences, including meeting Prince Harry in 2015, starring in an award-winning documentary and holding the world record for living in captivity for over 46 years. In June \u2013 after a year hidden from public view \u2013 Henry and another 16 tuatara were moved into their new enclosure. Henry\u2019s housewarming \u2013 a public celebration of his new digs \u2013 attracted 2,000 people, who lined up for hours to glimpse him. Dawson bids Henry goodnight and locks the enclosure\u2019s door behind her. \u201cEverybody loves tuatara and everybody loves Henry,\u201d Dawson says. \u201c[He\u2019s] magnificent, he is an icon.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;US thwarts French and British push for Lebanon ceasefire call at UN;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/us-thwarts-french-and-british-push-for-lebanon-ceasefire-call-at-un;2024-09-25T21:45:03Z",
        "text": "An effort led by France and Britain to secure a joint statement by the UN security council calling for a ceasefire in Lebanon has stalled in the face of US objections. Washington is eager to avoid any suggestion there is any equivalence of blame for the eruption of the crisis that has led to the loss of life of hundreds of people in Lebanon. Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, has been firm in asserting Israel has a legitimate problem to solve, blaming Hezbollah\u2019s continued rocket fire into Israel ever since the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October. At one point there had been suggestions the UN security council, due to start late Wednesday, would be deferred overnight to secure agreement on a joint statement, but diplomats said such hopes were fast fading. The differences emerged at a G7 dinner on Tuesday night. Both Emmanuel Macron, the French president, and David Lammy, the UK foreign secretary, went public in calls for a ceasefire to end the fighting. France and UK had also called for a ceasefire in meetings with allies in Paris a week ago. European sources said the US had been working on a different, more complex, formula, and was sensitive to Israeli pressure or wording that would be seen to block its military offensive to degrade Hezbollah. In a round of morning TV interviews Blinken was careful not to call for a ceasefire in Lebanon, referring instead to a diplomatic agreement. He told ABC News that Hezbollah had started firing rockets into Israel after the deadly attacks of 7 October, saying: \u201cPeople who lived in northern Israel had to flee their homes \u2013 homes were destroyed; villages were destroyed \u2013 about 70,000 Israelis. Israel started responding. You have Lebanese in southern Lebanon who\u2019ve also had to flee their homes. We want to see people get back to their homes. The best way to do that is through a diplomatic agreement \u2013 [one that] pulls the forces back, creates space and security so that people can get back to their homes, kids can get back to school.\u201d Joe Biden also told ABC television that all-out war was possible, but added: \u201cWe\u2019re still in play to have a settlement that can fundamentally change the whole region.\u201d In his address to the general assembly, Macron was more forthright, saying: \u201cThere cannot be, must not be war in Lebanon.\u201d At a meeting with the Qatari prime minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Blinken only referred to seeking a ceasefire in Gaza \u2013 the precondition Hezbolllah set for ending its relatively low-level but hugely disruptive assault on Israel. Blinken also repeated his claim that it was Hamas and not Israel that was holding up a ceasefire agreement in Gaza. Saying that 15 of the 18 paragraphs in the ceasefire agreement were signed off, he said: \u201cThe problem we have right now is that Hamas hasn\u2019t been engaging on it for the last couple of weeks, and its leader has been talking about an endless war of attrition. Now, if he really cares about the Palestinian people, he\u2019d bring this agreement over the finish line. \u201cHard decisions remain to be made by Israel. But the problem right now in terms of bringing this across the finish line is Hamas, its refusal to engage in a meaningful way,\u201d he added. In contrast, the foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan and Iraq said in a joint statement: \u201cIsrael is pushing the region towards total war.\u201d The Lebanese foreign minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, said the US approach was \u201cnot promising\u201d, adding: \u201cIt will not solve the Lebanese problem. The US is the only country that can really make a difference in the Middle East with regard to Lebanon.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;US announces $424m in Sudan aid amid pleas to stop \u2018senseless\u2019 war;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/us-un-sudan-aid-war;2024-09-25T19:16:54Z",
        "text": "The United States has announced $424m in new aid for displaced and starving Sudanese, with the US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, saying all options for civilian protection must now be considered by the international community. Describing the war in Sudan as horrific and shaming for the whole world, she said it was now necessary \u201cto compel, insist and demand that the warring parties agree a humanitarian pause to allow aid to flow and for citizens to flee\u201d. She said in the vast Zamzam refugee camp in North Darfur children were dying at a rate faster than one every two hours. Thomas-Greenfield said: \u201cEvery day children are dying, starving and wasting. Everyone should feel a sense of shame and embarrassment that this is happening on our watch. This humanitarian catastrophe is a man-made one brought about by a senseless war. We cannot simply look away or give in to compassion collapse.\u201d Sudan has been plunged into a devastating war for more than a year after fighting broke out between the two main factions of the military regime. On one side are the Sudanese armed forces, who remain broadly loyal to Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the country\u2019s de facto ruler. Against him are the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Thomas-Greenfield said all parties had a responsibility, but said the RSF must immediately halt its deadly assault on the North Darfur capital of El Fasher. \u201cPeople in Sudan have endured 17 months of hell, and the suffering continues to grow,\u201d said the UN\u2019s top relief official, Joyce Msuya. Her remarks, on the margins of the UN general assembly, skirted around the external forces that have been arming both warring sides \u2013 notably the supply of weapons alleged to have been given to the RSF by the United Arab Emirates. The World Health Organization said this month at least 20,000 people had been killed in the conflict. But some estimates are far higher, with the US envoy on Sudan, Tom Perriello, saying that up to 150,000 people may have died. Writing for the Guardian, the shadow foreign secretary, Andrew Mitchell, urged British ministers to \u201crequest that the UN security council receives regular briefings on the latest satellite imagery and analysis, because that is often where we can see most clearly the belligerents on the move\u201d. Mitchell, who has visited Sudan, said: \u201cOur ministers must also communicate their expectations to the secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, that when he reports back to the security council on protection recommendations he supports the call for the deployment of an independent and impartial force with a mandate to protect civilians in Sudan. \u201cThis protection of civilians report by the secretary general needs to be made public and then its recommendations must be both implemented and monitored by the security council.\u201d Pointing out that the UK is the lead pen holder on Sudan and the protection of civilians, he wrote that \u201cthe UK had a special responsibility to ensure this is done\u201d. Katy Crosby from the NGO Mercy Corps expressed deep disappointment that a two-hour UN meeting had skirted around many of the fundamental issues. She said: \u201cMany of the exact same expressions of concern and calls for more aid to be allowed into Sudan were expressed in almost the exact same room here in New York at a high-level meeting here a year ago.\u201d She said the proposal for civilian protection had the potential to be significant, but said \u201cnowhere in Sudan is safe, and it is not clear how selected civilian protected areas would work, or the implications for the rest of the country\u201d. Pointing out that Sudan is classified as the world\u2019s largest humanitarian catastrophe, she said it was \u201cheartening that the US had stepped up with more funding, but it was deeply disappointing that other countries have not done more, or circled back to see if they had provided the funds they had promised\u201d. She added she could only hope Joe Biden had been more direct behind closed doors when he met with the leaders of the UAE this week."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel preparing for possible ground offensive in Lebanon, military chief says;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/israel-hezbollah-beirut-tel-aviv-lebanon-cross-border-conflict-expands;2024-09-25T18:44:58Z",
        "text": "Israel\u2019s top general has said the country is preparing for a possible ground operation into Lebanon amid growing international pressure for a negotiated ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel. As an intense bombing campaign inside Lebanon stretched into a third day, Israel\u2019s chief of staff, Maj Gen Herzi Halevi, said the airstrikes aimed to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure and prepare for the possibility of Israeli troops crossing the border. Halevi told troops during a visit to Israel\u2019s north: \u201cWe are preparing the process of a manoeuvre, which means your military boots, your manoeuvring boots, will enter enemy territory, enter villages that Hezbollah has prepared as large military outposts, with underground infrastructure, staging points and launchpads into our territory [from which to] carry out attacks on Israeli civilians.\u201d Despite Halevi\u2019s comments, the Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said a ground offensive did not appear \u201cimminent\u201d. Earlier on Wednesday, Hezbollah aimed a long-range missile at Tel Aviv and Israel targeted the mountains north of Beirut for the first time in the war, drawing an Israeli warning that it was preparing a major response. Halevi\u2019s comments came amid growing pressure from the US for a pause in the fighting and a warning from Joe Biden over the need to avoid \u201call-out war\u201d in the region. \u201cAn all-out war is possible,\u201d the US president told ABC, adding that he believed an opportunity also existed \u201cto have a settlement that can fundamentally change the whole region\u201d. Biden, who has been widely criticised for mishandling the escalating Middle East crisis, suggested that getting Israel and Hezbollah to agree to a ceasefire could help achieve a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. But while the US-led initiative to secure a ceasefire with Hezbollah has the support of France and Arab countries, it relies on Hezbollah agreeing to stop firing on Israel before any ceasefire in Gaza is secured. France has called a UN security council meeting on Lebanon for Wednesday to discuss ideas around de-escalation. Hezbollah has long insisted that any cessation of firing on its part is contingent on an end to Israeli operations in Gaza, where negotiations over a ceasefire-for-hostages deal have been bogged down for months. It was unclear whether Halevi\u2019s public comments and the diplomatic efforts were connected, with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, due to be out of the country for four days from Thursday for the UN general assembly. Later on Wednesday evening, Israeli officials were pessimistic about any chance of a ceasefire. In Lebanon, authorities said on Wednesday that the death toll after three days of Israeli bombardment had passed 600, with thousands more injured. The UN said 90,000 people had been displaced since Monday, on top of more than 200,000 people who had left their homes in southern Lebanon over the past year as Hezbollah and Israel exchanged fire over the border. With Israel and Hezbollah now in effect at war, world leaders gathered for the UN general assembly in New York repeatedly warned of the dangers of a full-blown regional conflict. But as they called for de-escalation, they prepared for the opposite: from Moscow to London to Washington, governments told citizens in Lebanon to return home while they could, as airlines cancelled flights from Beirut. Israel says its campaign against Hezbollah is needed so 60,000 people evacuated from border regions can return home. It has so far been confined to aerial attacks, but on Wednesday, Israel\u2019s military called up two reserve brigades for operations in the north and signalled that troops would soon be ready to cross the border. Maj Gen Uri Gordin, the head of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) northern command, told soldiers from an armoured corps that the war was in a \u201cdifferent phase\u201d and they should \u201cstrongly prepare\u201d for action. \u201cWe need to change the security situation,\u201d he told troops in a clip shared on army radio. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled southern Lebanon to escape Israeli bombs, but Wednesday\u2019s strike on Maysaara, about 60 miles (100km) north of the border, fuelled fears that Israel could also unleash heavy attacks on other parts of the country. In the scramble to save their lives, thousands of people had reversed the refugee flow seen for more than a decade and crossed from Lebanon into Syria, aid agencies said. Hezbollah attempted to strike Tel Aviv for the first time on Wednesday but Israel intercepted the surface-to-surface missile with air defences, and no damage was reported. The Shia militant group said it was targeting intelligence headquarters, in an apparent signal that it can still pose a serious threat even after days of intensive Israeli attacks which have killed many top commanders and destroyed much of its arsenal. An Israeli military spokesperson said the unguided missile had been heading towards civilian areas along the coast. \u201cThe Mossad headquarters is not in that area; it is a bit east and north of that area,\u201d the IDF\u2019s international spokesperson, Lt Col Nadav Shoshani, told a briefing. In the southern Israeli city of Eilat, a building near the port was struck by a drone, injuring two people in an attack claimed by an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq. Israel estimated that Hezbollah had 150,000 rockets and missiles at the start of the war and has not said how many have been destroyed. Senior commanders killed include the head of the elite Radwan force last week, and on Tuesday the head of the missile and rocket force, Ibrahim Qubaisi. Israel\u2019s successful strikes have decimated the top of Hezbollah\u2019s chain of command, but Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, one of Hezbollah\u2019s key backers, said on Wednesday that the group would survive the death of senior leaders, Reuters reported. \u201cThe organisational strength and human resources of Hezbollah is very strong and will not be critically hit by the killing of a senior commander, even if that is clearly a loss,\u201d he said. Over decades of conflict, Hezbollah has previously managed to rebound from heavy blows and fight Israeli forces to a standstill, despite a vast disparity in military technology. As it braces for further retaliation, Israel has brought in tighter restrictions, which include school closures, for more than 1 million people in northern parts of the country, including the city of Haifa. One rocket hit an assisted living home in Safed City, starting a fire, but no casualties were reported. In Tel Aviv, after the morning missile scare, life returned to something like normal on Wednesday, with kite surfers enjoying the sea off its beaches. Bar Zinderman, 34, said racing to a bomb shelter with his two-year-old son Ar on Wednesday morning had been frightening, but that he backed the decision to attack Hezbollah. \u201cI think we are doing the right thing,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had no choice but to fight against two enemies at our borders, who forced thousands of my fellow countrymen to evacuate. I hope that our pressure on them will soon lead to an agreement to end this war.\u201d Nabih Berri, the speaker of Lebanon\u2019s parliament, said he was making \u201cgreat efforts\u201d to reach a diplomatic solution between Israel and Hezbollah, in coordination with the US and his own government. The next 24 hours would be decisive, he added. Lebanon\u2019s foreign minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, said the US was the only country that could end the conflict, but expressed disappointment after Biden addressed the UN on Tuesday. His remarks were \u201cnot strong\u201d and \u201cwould not solve the Lebanese problem\u201d, Bou Habib said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Vladimir Putin warns west he will consider using nuclear weapons;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/vladimir-putin-warns-west-nuclear-weapons;2024-09-25T18:44:05Z",
        "text": "Vladimir Putin has escalated his nuclear rhetoric, telling a group of senior officials that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if it was attacked by any state with conventional weapons. His remarks on Wednesday came during a meeting with Russia\u2019s powerful security council where he also announced changes to the country\u2019s nuclear doctrine. The comments marked Russia\u2019s strongest warning yet to the west against allowing Ukraine to launch deep strikes into Russian territory using long-range western missiles. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has been asking for months for permission to use British Storm Shadow missiles and US-made Atacms missiles to hit targets deeper inside Russia. Putin said that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if Moscow received \u201creliable information\u201d about the start of a massive launch of missiles, aircraft or drones against it. Putin also warned that a nuclear power supporting another country\u2019s attack on Russia would be considered a participant in aggression, issuing a thinly veiled threat to the west as foreign leaders continue to mull whether to allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons. Putin said the clarifications were carefully calibrated and commensurate with the modern military threats facing Russia. \u201cWe see the modern military and political situation is dynamically changing and we must take this into consideration. Including the emergence of new sources of military threats and risks for Russia and our allies,\u201d he said. Zelenskyy\u2019s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, dismissed the new nuclear doctrine, saying: \u201cRussia no longer has any instruments to intimidate the world apart from nuclear blackmail. These instruments will not work.\u201d Several influential foreign policy hawks have previously pressed Putin to adopt a more assertive nuclear posture towards the west, lowering its threshold for using nuclear weapons in order to deter the west against providing more direct military support to Ukraine. The current doctrine was set out by Putin in June 2020 in a six-page decree. In the early days of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin frequently invoked Moscow\u2019s nuclear arsenal, the world\u2019s biggest, repeatedly pledging to use all means necessary to defend Russia. He later seemed to moderate his rhetoric, but officials close to the Russian president have recently warned Nato countries they risked provoking nuclear war if they gave the green light for Ukraine to use long-range weapons. Earlier this month, Putin said that the west would be directly fighting with Russia if it gave such permission to Ukraine \u2013 and that Russia would be forced to make \u201cappropriate decisions\u201d, without spelling out what those measures could be."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Zelenskyy is pitching his \u2018victory plan\u2019 on adverse terrain;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/zelenskyy-is-pitching-his-victory-plan-on-adverse-terrain;2024-09-25T18:22:29Z",
        "text": "Volodymyr Zelenskyy has come to the US with a mission: to sell his vision for a Ukrainian victory despite the growing odds against Kyiv in its war with Russia. The Ukrainan president spoke out forcefully on Tuesday and Wednesday in the security council and then at the general assembly of the United Nations, calling on other countries to back Ukraine\u2019s proposal for a \u201cjust peace\u201d and refrain from holding alternative talks with Vladimir Putin. But the real work will come on Thursday, when Zelenskyy meets Joe Biden at the White House to present his \u201cvictory plan\u201d, a closely held Ukrainian proposal for an end to the war without a full capitulation to Moscow. It is clear that Zelenskyy is facing an uphill battle in ensuring essential military aid from the US in the run-up to a crucial November presidential election, as well as fending off a Russian assault on key Ukrainian positions and the country\u2019s energy grid before the winter. During his trip to the US, Zelenskyy must navigate an increasingly complex political landscape, where the Biden administration has proved to be a cautious ally in agreeing to Ukrainian requests for greater military aid and lifting restrictions on long-range missile strikes into Russia. On Wednesday, NBC reported that the White House had overruled Pentagon officials who had proposed providing Ukraine with white phosphorus munitions for use on the battlefield. At the same time, the coming elections could deliver a victory for Donald Trump, an erratic politician who has said he would cut off aid to Ukraine if elected president to hasten a deal to end the war. Trump will not meet Zelenskyy during the Ukrainian leader\u2019s trip to the US this week, his aides have told US outlets, despite earlier plans to arrange talks. Trump at a campaign rally in Savannah, Georgia this week praised Russia\u2019s military record and criticised Zelenskyy as a the \u201cgreatest salesman on earth\u201d, erroneously claiming that \u201cevery time Zelenskyy comes to the United States, he walks away with $100bn\u201d. The collapse in talks followed Zelenskyy\u2019s remarks in an interview with the New Yorker in which he praised Trump but called his running mate, JD Vance, \u201ctoo radical\u201d. In the interview, Zelenskyy did say that he had spoken with Trump by telephone and that \u201chis message was as positive as it could be, from my point of view. \u2018I understand,\u2019 \u2018I will lend support,\u2019 and so on.\u201d But he sharply criticised Vance, who had earlier said a peace in Ukraine could entail Russia retaining the Ukrainian land it had occupied and establish a demilitarised zone with a heavily fortified frontline to prevent another Russian invasion. \u201cHis message seems to be that Ukraine must make a sacrifice,\u201d Zelenskyy said in the interview. \u201cThis brings us back to the question of the cost and who shoulders it. The idea that the world should end this war at Ukraine\u2019s expense is unacceptable. But I do not consider this concept of his a plan, in any formal sense. \u201cIt\u2019s just sloganeering,\u201d he added. Those remarks have angered Republicans, who will be crucial allies for Ukraine whether or not Trump wins the White House in November, as support in Congress will be essential for ensuring future military aid packages. \u201cI don\u2019t mind him going to a munitions plant thanking people for helping Ukraine. But I think his comments about JD Vance and President Trump were out of bounds,\u201d said the Republican senator Lindsey Graham, according to US-based Punchbowl News. Graham was referring to Zelenskyy\u2019s recent visit to a factory in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. In advance of the meetings in Washington, US officials said that the plan would include requests for significant support in three areas: military aid, economic support, and political \u201cassurances that their future is part of the west\u201d, according to a senior state department official briefed on parts of the plan. \u201cThey\u2019re sort of testing elements out, but I think we won\u2019t know the full nature of the package until the president has a chance to hear it first on Thursday,\u201d the official said. In particular, Ukrainian officials had been in consultations with US officials about what military support they would need in order to prevent further losses on the frontlines. Russian forces are threatening Ukraine\u2019s position in the Kursk region after Ukraine\u2019s surprise offensive into Russian territory, as well as the crucial Ukrainian road and rail hub of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region. A US official said: \u201cThe focus of the discussion is about helping them maintain the battlefield they\u2019ve got, to prepare for 2025 so that they\u2019re able to show Putin that they can fight. And then, have a discussion whether they\u2019d be open to looking at a ceasefire, or anything else. \u201cIt\u2019ll be their decision, and we\u2019re just trying to be sure that they\u2019re prepared to make the choices that they feel is in the best interest of the Ukrainian people.\u201d The White House and European allies are understood to be trying to rein in a Ukrainian wishlist that some have described as maximalist. Asked about the gap between what Ukraine is asking for and what the US is ready to provide, the US official replied: \u201cI don\u2019t see it as a real gap. Again, it\u2019s a substantive conversation about what the military strategy is and the way that different weapons from different sources might play a role. So it\u2019s not a gap, it\u2019s a problem to be analysed in terms of a ceasefire.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Can Israel avoid same pitfalls of past ground offensive in Lebanon?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/can-israel-avoid-same-pitfalls-of-past-ground-offensive-in-lebanon;2024-09-25T18:06:14Z",
        "text": "No two wars are alike, even those fought between the same two combatants on the same terrain. But many of the challenges remain the same. Israel\u2019s most senior military commander has told troops that airstrikes will continue inside Lebanon as the Israeli military prepares for a possible ground operation. If its forces do cross the northern border they are likely to face obstacles they have seen before. When Israeli tanks rolled into southern Lebanon in 2006 (not for the first time) they found an opponent who had changed dramatically since Israel\u2019s withdrawal from Lebanon six years earlier. Even in that short time, Hezbollah had organised and developed its capabilities. In the scrubby border zone overlooked by steep rocky ridges, combat tunnels had been prepared. New tactics and weapons had been adapted that would harry the Israeli forces as they entered. Tanks in particular were vulnerable to anti-tank missiles, while fighters from Hezbollah and its allied group the Amal Movement fired mortars on the units of advancing Israeli infantry as they picked they way through groves and tobacco plots. For those (including this writer) who witnessed the fighting close up, it was instructive. In that war \u2013 as in this one \u2013 Israeli jets and drones controlled the air, pounding infrastructure and Hezbollah positions unopposed. Israeli gunboats, often sitting over the horizon, shelled the coast, threatening the main coastal highway daily. But approaching the border, it was a very different picture. Then, as now, Hezbollah had well-prepared positions. Rockets would erupt from a hidden position on nearby hillsides, drawing Israeli counter-strikes, both from jets and artillery on the border, that it seemed impossible to survive. But often, after a pause of a few hours, the rockets would fire again from the same place, initiating a repeat of the cycle. In his comments to soldiers, the Israeli chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, appeared to nod to the reality that any ground incursion, if it is ordered, would be difficult and opposed. \u201cWe are preparing the process of a manoeuvre, which means your military boots, your manoeuvring boots, will enter enemy territory, enter villages that Hezbollah has prepared as large military outposts, with underground infrastructure, staging points, and launchpads into our territory [from which to] carry out attacks on Israeli civilians,\u201d he told Israel Defense Forces troops on Wednesday. \u201c[In] your entry into those areas with force, your encounter with Hezbollah operatives, [you] will show them what it means to face a professional, highly skilled, and battle-experienced force. You are coming in much stronger and far more experienced than they are. You will go in, destroy the enemy there, and decisively destroy their infrastructure.\u201d The reality is that any ground campaign will be a far more complex undertaking than the intelligence-led attacks Israel has been pursuing in its exploding-pager gambit and the subsequent airstrikes. The failures of the 2006 war \u2013 outlined in the subsequent Winograd commission \u2013 had their own fathers, including in a troika of inexperienced Israeli wartime leaders: the then chief of staff, Dan Halutz, a former fighter pilot who struggled to coordinate ground movements, as well as the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, and defence minister, Amir Peretz. As the Haaretz military correspondent Amos Harel wrote in 2016, a decade after the war: \u201cIDF divisions were moved around aimlessly, with the government and army incapable of defining a manoeuvre that would gain the upper hand.\u201d And while the IDF has improved its armour to better defend against mobile anti-tank weapons and prepare for fighting in Lebanon, it remains unclear whether an Israel ground incursion can avoid the same pitfalls. Or whether, indeed, its goals any more realistic. Hezbollah is much better armed than it was in 2006, its militants more combat-experienced after years fighting in Syria, but Israel seems to be falling into the same conceptual trap of misunderstanding the nature of the Islamist group. While the pager operation and Israeli strikes have been successful in removing a layer of leadership and command and control, the essence of Hezbollah as a Lebanese force \u2013 as opposed to its function as a strategic proxy for Iran - ultimately remains intact. At its heart it remains a locally embedded force dispersed through cities, villages and the countryside with a single and well-understood task: to oppose Israeli troops. And while Hezbollah has experienced a moment of \u201cshock and awe\u201d in the pager and walkie-talkie attacks, and airstrikes, Israel has its own disadvantages \u2013 not least an increasing overstretch not only in its military capacity, but in a growing exhaustion in Israeli society after a year of war. Many of the same units that have been fighting in Gaza have been moved north. A deepening crisis on the West Bank is also draining as the conflict in Gaza continues. The IDF has long boasted of fighting on multiple fronts, but the long, grim operation against Hamas remains uncompleted and with no obvious plan for a day after. That campaign has also demonstrated the shortfalls in Israeli military thinking \u2013 not least the notion that manoeuvre warfare can defeat non-state actors that sometimes behave like conventional forces but can also default to unconventional warfare. If history has anything to teach us \u2013 and following Israel\u2019s past invasions of Lebanon in 1978 (then targeting PLO bases in Operation Litani), in 1985 (leading to an occupation that lasted until 2000), and 2006 \u2013 any ground incursion is more likely than not to fall short of its objectives."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel has \u2018legitimate problem\u2019 with Hezbollah on border, says Blinken;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/israel-has-legitimate-grievance-over-hezbollahs-presence-on-border-says-blinken;2024-09-25T17:51:50Z",
        "text": "Israel has a legitimate interest in seeking to remove Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, from the borders of northern Israel, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said as he rebuffed calls to take a tougher line over the Israeli bombardment. Speaking before an emergency meeting of the security council in New York, Blinken emphasised that he would prefer a diplomatic solution to the crisis, but his tone is unlikely to be seen as a warning to Israel to stop, or to reconsider its plan for a ground offensive. \u201cIsrael\u2019s got a legitimate problem here. Starting on 8 October, Hezbollah in the north, from southern Lebanon, started lobbing rockets and missiles into Israel,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople living in northern Israel had to flee their homes \u2013 about 70,000 \u2013 and Israel understandably, legitimately, wants a secure environment so people can return home.\u201d He added: \u201cThe best way to get that is through diplomacy, an agreement to pull back forces, allow people to return home in northern Israel \u2013 also many Lebanese in southern Lebanon forced from their homes. We want to get people back home. The best way to do that is not war; it\u2019s diplomacy.\u201d Blinken also reverted to his claim that it was Hamas, and not Israel, that was holding up a ceasefire agreement in Gaza \u2013 the precondition set by Hezbollah to stop the fighting with Israel. Insisting 15 of the 18 paragraphs in the ceasefire agreement had been signed off, he said: \u201cThe problem we have right now is that Hamas hasn\u2019t been engaging on it for the last couple of weeks, and its leader has been talking about an endless war of attrition. Now, if he really cares about the Palestinian people, he\u2019d bring this agreement over the finish line.\u201d Blinken added: \u201cHard decisions remain to be made by Israel. But the problem right now in terms of bringing this across the finish line is Hamas, its refusal to engage in a meaningful way.\u201d The Lebanese foreign minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, has described the US approach as \u201cnot promising\u201d, adding: \u201cIt will not solve the Lebanese problem. The US is the only country that can really make a difference in the Middle East with regard to Lebanon.\u201d The Israeli ambassador to the UN, Daniel Meron, said: \u201cWe have been restrained now for 12 months, but \u2026 life in the north of Israel has to go back to what it was.\u201d He reiterated Israel\u2019s claim that it was \u201cdoing everything it can\u201d to avoid hitting civilian targets, saying: \u201cHezbollah is using civilians in Lebanon as human shields.\u201d \u201cThey would like us to shoot back and hit civilians so that we can be blamed for killing civilians,\u201d he said. The foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan and Iraq, meanwhile, said in a joint statement that \u201cIsrael is pushing the region towards total war\u201d, condemning what it called Israeli aggression against Lebanon. Qatar said at a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council that the crisis was becoming more and more worrying. Iran so far shows no signs of sending direct help to Hezbollah, which it supports, and Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, admitted that the group his country had helped to create had suffered damage. But he added: \u201cUntil today, the victory has been on the side of the Palestinian resistance and Hezbollah. The final victory in this battle will belong to the resistance front and Hezbollah.\u201d A White House official said that the US would come to Israel\u2019s aid if Iran came to the aid of Hezbollah. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, met the Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, in New York urging him to use his influence to persuade Hezbollah to accept a ceasefire. Pezeshkian is under conflicting pressures: unwilling to abandon the group his country helped create, or the Palestinian cause, but reluctant to go into a direct war with Israel that will undermine his goal of improving relations with the west. In his speech to the UN, in the face of criticism at home, he declared: \u201cI intend to establish solid foundations for my country to enter the new era and play a constructive and effective role. To establish a foundation in the emerging global system, to remove the obstacles and challenges and to organise the relations of my country based on the requirements and realities of today\u2019s world.\u201d In Iran, Hassan Khomenei, one of the grandsons of the leader of the 1979 revolution, Ruhollah Khomenei, sent a letter to the Hezbollah leadership offering to volunteer in support of the resistance."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Zelenskyy warns of Russia threat at UN as Putin steps up nuclear rhetoric;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/russia-ukraine-zelensky-un-speech;2024-09-25T17:34:25Z",
        "text": "Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the United Nations that Russia is planning to attack Ukrainian nuclear power plants as he repeated his calls for unity from world leaders in order to force Russia to the negotiating table to conclude a \u201cjust peace\u201d. His comments came as Vladimir Putin on Wednesday escalated his nuclear rhetoric, telling a group of senior officials that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if it was attacked by any state with conventional weapons. In a speech to the UN general assembly on Wednesday, the Ukrainian leader said he had received information that Russia was gathering intelligence on Ukrainian nuclear power plants in preparation for a potential strike. \u201cAny missile or drone strike, any critical incident in the energy system could lead to a nuclear disaster \u2026 a day like that must never come,\u201d Zelenskyy said in an address in the general assembly hall. \u201cAnd Moscow needs to understand this, and this depends in part on your determination to put pressure on the aggressor.\u201d He added: \u201cThese are nuclear power plants, they must be safe.\u201d Zelenskyy also said that the war in Ukraine could threaten the region with instability and the potential for a nuclear catastrophe if Russia went forward with the attacks. \u201cIf, God forbid, Russia causes a nuclear disaster at one of our nuclear power plants, the radiation will not respect state borders,\u201d he said, comparing the consequences to the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986. \u201cAnd unfortunately, various nations could feel that devastating effects.\u201d Zelenskyy last month accused Russian forces of starting a fire on the site of the giant Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, with its six Soviet-built reactors, making it Europe\u2019s largest. Russia captured the nuclear plant soon after its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and the plant has come under repeated attacks that both sides have accused each other of carrying out. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly voiced concerns over the safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, calling for \u201cmaximum restraint from all sides\u201d. As Zelenskyy was speaking in New York, Putin addressed Russia\u2019s powerful security council on Wednesday, making his strongest warning yet to the west against allowing Ukraine to launch deep strikes into Russian territory using long-range western missiles. Putin said Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if Moscow gets \u201creliable information about start of mass cross-border attack by air from strategic and tactical aviation, cruise missiles, drones and hypersonic weapons\u201d. The Russian leader added that proposals had been made to change Russia\u2019s nuclear doctrine, and said he would like to underscore one of the proposed key changes. \u201cIt is proposed that aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear state, be considered as their joint attack on the Russian Federation,\u201d Putin said, in a thinly veiled threat to the west as foreign leaders continue to mull whether to allow Ukraine to use their long-range weapons. Putin frequently invoked Moscow\u2019s nuclear arsenal, the world\u2019s biggest, in the early days of its invasion of Ukraine, repeatedly pledging to use all means necessary to defend Russia. He later seemed to moderate his rhetoric, but officials close to the Russian president have recently warned Nato countries they risk provoking nuclear war if they were to give the green light for Ukraine to use long-range weapons. Earlier this month, Putin said the west would be directly fighting with Russia if it gave such permission to Ukraine \u2013 and that Russia would be forced to make \u201cappropriate decisions\u201d, without spelling out what those measures could be. Zelenskyy is expected to travel to Washington to present his \u201cvictory plan\u201d to Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday. The plan is a roadmap for Ukraine to end the war on its own terms, and is understood to include significant requests from the US and its allies for additional arms and economic and political support for Ukraine in the long term. The Ukrainian president is expected to meet with Kamala Harris, who is running neck and neck with Donald Trump in the US presidential election. The Republican nominee is not expected to meet with Zelenskyy during the trip, and has threatened to severely cut aid to Ukraine if elected. In campaign rallies this week, Trump reiterated that he would \u201cget out of Ukraine\u201d if elected president. In his speech, Zelenskyy said Ukraine\u2019s peace plan must be supported by world leaders, and that alternative initiatives to hold talks with Putin would simply aid the Russian president. Zelenskyy in particular targeted a joint proposal by China and Brazil, who have proposed a six-point peace plan for the Ukraine war without Kyiv\u2019s backing. \u201cIf someone in the world seeks alternatives \u2026 it likely means they themselves want to do a part of what Putin is doing \u2026 the question arises: what is the true interest?\u201d Zelenskyy said. \u201cEveryone must understand. You will not boost your power at Ukraine\u2019s expense.\u201d Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, Brazil\u2019s president, had spoken of the plan earlier on Wednesday and Zelenskyy\u2019s remarks appeared targeted at him. \u201cMaybe somebody wants a Nobel prize for their political biography for a frozen truce instead of real peace, but the only prizes Putin will give you in return are more suffering and disasters,\u201d Zelenskyy said. In his speech, Zelensky also criticised the UN security council, saying it was \u201cimpossible to truly and fairly resolve matters of war and peace, because too much depends in the security council on the veto power\u201d. Russia is one of five permanent members of the security council and it exercises a veto power over any decisions taken by the body. Without revealing additional details about the plan, which has been kept largely secret, Zelenskyy indicated it would not be adopted directly through the UN. \u201cWhen the aggressor exercises veto power, the UN is powerless to stop the war,\u201d said Zelenskyy. \u201cBut the peace formula \u2026 there is no veto power in it. That\u2019s why it\u2019s the best opportunity for peace.\u201d Russian troops are threatening the Ukrainian road-and-rail hub of Pokrovsk in an onslaught that western officials say are leading to the killing of 1,000 Russian soldiers each day. A Russian-guided bomb strike on Ukraine\u2019s eastern city of Kramatorsk on Wednesday killed at least two people and injured 12 more, including three children, according to the Donetsk region governor, Vadym Filashkin."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018It\u2019s impossible to get a flight\u2019: Britons tell of scramble to leave Lebanon;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/its-impossible-to-get-a-flight-britons-tell-of-scramble-to-leave-lebanon;2024-09-25T17:29:49Z",
        "text": "British nationals in Lebanon have described their struggle to leave after several airlines cancelled flights, amid growing fears of an imminent Israeli ground invasion. Tensions in the Middle East have continued to increase as Israel carried out a new wave of \u201cextensive\u201d strikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday. The chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Herzi Halevi, told troops the strikes were \u201cto prepare the ground for your possible entry\u201d, prompting fears the region was on the brink of war. Keir Starmer reiterated calls for British nationals in Lebanon to leave because of the escalating tensions between Israel and the Iran-backed military group Hezbollah. Starmer said the government was \u201cramping up\u201d its contingency plans, as 700 British troops were sent to Cyprus to prepare for a possible evacuation. However, British citizens in Lebanon have expressed their concerns that some have been unable to leave because airlines have cancelled flights and ceased operating, on safety grounds. While Rafik Hariri international airport is operating, Turkish Airlines, Emirates, Air France and Air Arabia, among others, have temporarily cancelled flights. Middle East Airlines\u2019 website said flights to London were sold out for at least the next week. Two British citizens, Khaled Arab and his wife, were among those trapped in Beirut after travelling to Lebanon to see family earlier this month. Arab said the British embassy had not contacted them and they were unable to leave. \u201cIt\u2019s impossible to get a seat on any flight; there are only Middle East Airline flights,\u201d Arab, 74, who lives in London, said. \u201cIt\u2019s a really drastic situation.\u201d He said he was in a relatively safe area but criticised the embassy\u2019s lack of communication. \u201cUnless they do not deem it that dangerous or critical, they\u2019re not doing anything,\u201d he said. \u201cThey just sent a warning a while ago to say \u2018leave the country\u2019. I haven\u2019t heard anything else.\u201d There are thought to be about 10,000 British nationals in Lebanon. In an interview with the Guardian, the Lebanese ambassador to the UK, Rami Mortada, said: \u201cWe understand these concerns. The situation is unfolding by the hour and it looks like a very worrying situation for us Lebanese, and clearly for the expat community in Lebanon. We understand these concerns and we would be ready to provide all the assistance needed.\u201d This week has been the deadliest in Lebanon since the month-long Israel-Hezbollah war of 2006, with more than 560 people killed and 1,800 wounded by Israeli airstrikes. Israel said it was responding to missiles fired by Hezbollah into northern Israel, which has displaced about 60,000 people. The UN said on Wednesday that 90,000 people in Lebanon had been displaced by the conflict so far. That is in addition to the more than 111,000 people displaced since last October. Arab\u2019s niece Dalia Salaam Rishani said she was \u201clucky to escape\u201d Lebanon on Saturday but was immensely concerned for her family stranded there, including her mother and brother. \u201cI feel scared for my family \u2026 People are paralysed, most of them are trying to scramble out,\u201d she said. \u201cThere will be a huge impact and anyone who has a British passport will be scrambling to leave the country, which, to be very honest, is going to be extremely difficult.\u201d Rishani, 57, also criticised the UK government for its response, describing it as \u201ctoo little, too late\u201d. \u201cThey just said, \u2018Please leave.\u2019 How can we leave?\u201d she asked. Her cousin Hayat Fakhouri, who lives in Beirut but was born in London, said she had decided to stay in Lebanon. She said people were \u201cextremely anxious, very tense, very confused\u201d about the future. \u201cI personally decided to stay because I have my father here who will not leave, I don\u2019t want to leave \u2026 I\u2019ve got my dogs and my horses and my friends. I don\u2019t feel that I want to leave my country, my homeland and leave loved ones behind,\u201d she said. One British man who returned to the UK two weeks ago from Lebanon, said he was beside himself with worry for his wife, who is still in the country. \u201cMy wife is still teaching at a university in Beirut. Whatever happens, I don\u2019t think she\u2019ll leave the country as it\u2019s our home, her family are there, and it\u2019s where our life is. As soon as I can, I plan on going back to be with her. We\u2019ll just ride it out,\u201d he said. A Foreign Office spokesperson said the safety of British nationals was its \u201cnumber one priority\u201d and it was working to de-escalate tensions. \u201cThe ongoing mortar and artillery exchanges and airstrikes means the risk of escalation remains high. That\u2019s why we are continuing to advise people to leave now while commercial routes remain available,\u201d they said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;UK ministers monitoring Beirut airport in case Lebanon evacuation required;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/uk-ministers-monitoring-beirut-airport-in-case-lebanon-evacuation-required;2024-09-25T17:24:45Z",
        "text": "The UK is closely monitoring Beirut\u2019s international airport amid fears it may be forced to close by escalating fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, which would probably lead to an evacuation of British and other foreign nationals from Lebanon. Defence sources said a halt to commercial flights out of the country would be a \u201cbig trigger\u201d to launch what would most probably be an international evacuation by sea, though for now an emergency rescue is not thought imminent. Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, called on Britons to leave promptly via commercial flights, and would not be drawn on describing how a rescue might be conducted if air travel was suspended. \u201cI have a very important message for British nationals in Lebanon which is: the time to leave is now. The contingency plans are being ramped up but don\u2019t wait for those, there are still commercial flights. It\u2019s very important that they hear my message, which is to leave and to leave immediately,\u201d Starmer said. Later Starmer, who is in New York for the UN general assembly, was asked if it might be necessary to deploy British troops in Lebanon to help with a rescue. \u201cI\u2019m not going to get into the details of evacuation plans,\u201d he said, but added that ministers had \u201cput contingency measures in place\u201d \u2013 and warned that fighting in Lebanon was escalating \u201calmost hour on hour\u201d. On Tuesday, Britain said it was moving 700 troops to Cyprus, including members of the Royal Marines, to \u201cfocus on contingency planning\u201d and help those leaving by commercial routes. They would be supported by members of Border Force and officials from the Foreign Office to help with advice and immigration processing. It is estimated there are about 6,000 British nationals and dual nationals, as well as their dependants, remaining in Lebanon. About 10,000 more have left in the last week. The number of US citizens was estimated at 86,000 in 2022, while French citizens in the country are thought to number about 23,000. A No 10 spokesperson said: \u201cWe have always said we stand by Israel\u2019s right to self-defence but the PM\u2019s message is that we are concerned by the situation and we need to see an immediate ceasefire and a focus on an immediate political settlement.\u201d Israeli airstrikes over the past three days have been concentrated in Hezbollah\u2019s stronghold in south Lebanon, aimed at forcing the Iran-aligned militant group to halt attacks on northern Israel. More than 500 Lebanese have been killed in the bombing. However, the two sides appear to be gradually escalating, with Israel bombing the mountains north of Beirut and Hezbollah targeting Tel Aviv on Wednesday. Israeli experts have accused Hezbollah of hiding long-range missile launch sites in areas near the capital. Any bombing in that area would represent a significant escalation. The Lebanese carrier Middle East Airlines is still operating flights from Beirut to cities in Europe and Middle East, though many other carriers have suspended their services. However, it is not immediately clear how many seats are available. British sources said the most likely evacuation route would be via sea to Cyprus, though the situation is described as changeable. Navy vessels available are the auxiliary ship Mounts Bay, a military landing craft that can carry several hundred, and the warship HMS Duncan, though merchant shipping could also be deployed. That scenario would mirror the rescue from Beirut that was organised during the last Lebanese war in July 2006. Warships evacuated 4,500 British nationals, starting five days after Israel announced an air and sea blockade of Lebanon in response to a cross-border raid by Hezbollah. An airlift is an alternative possibility if it is safe to conduct one. British troops could be deployed, with the permission of the Lebanese government, to secure a port or airport evacuation area as happened previously in Afghanistan. But there is no prospect of troops rescuing Britons from their homes in the country. John Healey, the defence secretary, chaired a meeting with ministers, intelligence heads and diplomats on Tuesday afternoon to discuss evacuation plans. Discussions continued on Wednesday but there were no immediate plans to hold a Cobra emergency meeting, a probable prelude to an evacuation. Labour ministers are anxious to avoid the chaos of the evacuation of Kabul in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, when thousands of people crowded at the airport in the hope of escape, while the Foreign Office in particular was criticised for being unprepared to handle the crisis. Rami Mortada, Lebanon\u2019s ambassador to the UK, said his country would be ready to help with evacuations. \u201cThe situation is unfolding by the hour and it looks like a very worrying situation for us Lebanese and clearly for the expat community in Lebanon. We would be ready to provide all the assistance needed,\u201d he said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskyy calls for \u2018real peace\u2019; UK prime minister asks how Russia \u2018can show its face\u2019 at UN amid war \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/25/russia-ukraine-war-live-volodymyr-zelenskyy-un-general-assembly-unga-us-visit-kamala-harris-joe-biden-donald-trump;2024-09-25T17:05:09Z",
        "text": "That\u2019s it from me, L\u00e9onie Chao-Fong, and the Russia-Ukraine war live blog today. Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine\u2019s president, made a defiant address at the UN general assembly in New York on Wednesday, accusing Russia of plotting potentially catastrophic attacks on Ukrainian nuclear plants and taking aim at China and Brazil for proposing an alternative to his own peace formula. \u201cYou will not boost your power at Ukraine\u2019s expense,\u201d Zelenskyy warned. Zelenskyy will head to the White House on Thursday to see Joe Biden, the US president, and present what he describes as a \u201cvictory plan\u201d. Zelenskyy is also expected to meet with the US presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The Ukrainian leader has been seeking permission to use British-French-made Storm Shadow missiles on Russian territory, with UK support, but negotiations with the US are still continuing as the weapons use some US technology. Keir Starmer, Britain\u2019s prime minister, told Russia he does not know how it can show its face at the United Nations after invading Ukraine and treating its own citizens as \u201cbits of meat to fling into the grinder\u201d. Starmer, addressing the UN security council on Wednesday, accused Russia of violating the UN charter because its invasion of Ukraine was illegal, threatened global security and had caused \u201ccolossal human suffering\u201d. Starmer was pressed on whether a decision would be made about the use of UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles within Russia. The UK prime minister said: \u201cWe will have discussions about a whole range of issues, and we will listen carefully to what President Zelenskyy\u2019s got to say, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen in the next few days.\u201d He added the discussions would not be about the \u201csole issue like long-range missiles\u201d but a \u201cstrategic, overarching route for Ukraine to find a way through this and succeed against Russian aggression\u201d. The Kremlin called a plan by Zelenskyy to force Russia to make peace a fatal mistake that would have consequences for Kyiv. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia wanted peace, but that it was impossible to force the issue. Sergei Lavrov, Russia\u2019s foreign minister, met with Wang Yi, his Chinese counterpart, on the sidelines of the UN general assembly. The pair discussed \u201cprospects for resolving the Ukrainian crisis\u201d and measures to counter \u201cthe West\u2019s escalation of the situation in the Asia-Pacific Region\u201d, according to a readout of the meeting by Russia\u2019s state-owned Tass news agency. Mette Frederiksen, Denmark\u2019s prime minister, blasted China for supporting Russia in its war against Ukraine. Frederiksen, in an interview on Wednesday, said Russia would not be able to continue its full-scale war \u201cwithout help from China\u201d, adding: \u201cWe cannot continue a situation where China helps Russia in a war \u2026 in Europe, without consequences. They have to be held responsible for their activities.\u201d Russia\u2019s troops have not reached the outskirts of Ukraine\u2019s eastern town of Vuhledar, but its reconnaissance groups are operating there, said Vadym Filashkin, the governor of Donetsk region, on Wednesday. Russia said it had captured two more villages in Ukraine, though this has not been confirmed, and was attacking Vuhledar, a longtime Ukrainian stronghold. Two people were killed and 12 others injured after a Russian guided-bomb strike on Ukraine\u2019s eastern city of Kramatorsk on Wednesday, the Donetsk regional governor said. Russian troops used three highly destructive bombs in the attack on the town\u2019s centre that damaged two apartment blocks, shops and cars, he said. An 80-year-old woman died as a result of Russian shelling in Kherson, Alexander Prokudin, the head of the regional military administration, said on Telegram. \u201cAs a result of another shelling, two people who were on the street were injured,\u201d he added. Ukrainian forces captured about 24 Russian soldiers and killed \u201cseveral dozen\u201d others during an operation to recapture an aggregate plant in the town of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region, according to Ukrainian reports. Nato plans to coordinate the transport of a large number of wounded troops away from frontlines in case of a war with Russia, potentially via hospital trains as air evacuations may not be feasible, according to a senior general. Sergei Lavrov, Russia\u2019s foreign minister, met with Wang Yi, his Chinese counterpart, on Wednesday while on the sidelines of the UN general assembly. The pair discussed \u201cprospects for resolving the Ukrainian crisis\u201d and measures to counter \u201cthe West\u2019s escalation of the situation in the Asia-Pacific Region\u201d, according to a readout of the meeting by Russia\u2019s state-owned Tass news agency. A statement from the Russian foreign ministry reads: A thorough exchange of views was held on global and Eurasian security, including the Ukrainian crisis, measures to counter the West\u2019s escalation in the Asia-Pacific Region and around Taiwan, as well as on a number of other regional issues. The meeting was held \u201cin a traditionally trusting and constructive manner, characteristic of Russian-Chinese strategic partnership\u201d, the Russian ministry said. Keir Starmer\u2019s trip to the United Nations general assembly in New York is his third trip to the US in three months. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, is also attending to present his \u201cvictory plan\u201d to Joe Biden and the US presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Zelenskyy has been seeking permission to use British-French-made Storm Shadow missiles on Russian territory, with UK support, but negotiations with the US are still continuing as the weapons use some US technology. Pressed on when a decision would be made about the use of UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles within Russia, Starmer said: We will have discussions about a whole range of issues, and we will listen carefully to what President Zelenskyy\u2019s got to say, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen in the next few days. He added the discussions would not be about the \u201csole issue like long-range missiles\u201d but a \u201cstrategic, overarching route for Ukraine to find a way through this and succeed against Russian aggression\u201d. Starmer, addressing the UN\u2019s security council meeting, says members must ensure accountability for those violating the UN charter. The greatest violation of the charter in a generation has been committed by one of his council\u2019s permanent members \u2013 Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is illegal. It threatens global security, it\u2019s caused colossal human suffering. The UK prime minister says he wonders \u201chow Russia can show its face in this building\u201d of the UN and accuses Moscow of \u201ctreating your own citizens as bits of meat to fling into the grinder\u201d. Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine has triggered a global energy crisis and a global food crisis, he says, and \u201cnow the world looks on\u201d as Moscow deepens its military ties with North Korea and Iran. Starmer says: There can be no equivocation. They must be held accountable. Aggression cannot pay. Borders cannot be redrawed by force. Russia started this illegal war. It must end it and get out of Ukraine. Starmer says the UK stands with the 89 countries who have made clear that Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity \u201cmust be the basis of any just and lasting peace\u201d. He says that any process that does not recognise this fact will only be used as a pretext by Russia to \u201cregroup and come again\u201d. In this moment of deepening conflict, the world looks to this council more than ever to provide leadership for peace, preserve our collective security and protect the most vulnerable. The United Kingdom will always play its full part in fulfilling that responsibility. Starmer calls on the UN security council to seek political solutions \u201cthat can break repeated cycles of violence\u201d such as in the Middle East, a region he describes as being \u201con the brink\u201d. The UK leader says there needs to be an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, and the implementation of a plan that allows Israeli and Lebanese civilians to return to their homes safely. \u201cThat security will come through diplomacy, not escalation,\u201d Starmer says. There is no military solution here, nor is there a military-only solution to the conflict in Gaza. Starmer says the security council must demand an \u201cimmediate, full and complete\u201d ceasefire in Gaza with the release of all the hostages. He calls for a \u201cpolitical route\u201d to that agreement that \u201cprovides a bridge to a better future, a credible and irreversible path towards a viable Palestinian state alongside a safe and secure state of Israel\u201d. On the war in Sudan, Starmer repeats his call for both parties to commit to a ceasefire and says he supports the UN secretary general\u2019s envoy in his efforts towards peace. We must keep working to bring this war to an end, and we must ensure that those responsible for committing atrocities are held accountable. Starmer, addressing the UN\u2019s security council, urges international consensus on delivering humanitarian support. \u201cThis should be a bare minimum, yet too often we\u2019re falling short,\u201d he says. The UK leader says the council must address the situation in Gaza. \u201cLet the hostages go,\u201d he says. We must face up to humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza that continues to deepen by the day. Israel must grant humanitarian access to civilians in line with its obligations under international humanitarian law. There can be no more excuses. Starmer says Israel must open more crossings to allow vital life-saving aid to flow into Gaza, and to provide a safe environment for the UN and other humanitarian organisations to operate to relieve the civilian suffering in Gaza. The UK has restarted funding to the UN\u2019s agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, and is supporting Unicef to deliver water, healthcare and specialist treatment for malnourished children, he says. The situation in Sudan also demands \u201curgent attention\u201d, Starmer says. Millions are facing emergency or famine conditions exacerbated by deliberate attempts to prevent aid reaching those in need. This is now the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today, and the worst displacement crisis, with over 10 million people driven from their homes. He says the UK has doubled its aid for the victims of the war but \u201cmuch more is needed\u201d, adding: \u201cThe world must step in.\u201d Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, is addressing the UN security council meeting where he began by paying tribute to those \u201cwho see these terrible conflicts and walk towards them with no agenda other than helping those in need\u201d. The UN and International Committee of the Red Cross have lost staff this month in Gaza, Lebanon and Donetsk, Starmer says, adding that more than 200 aid workers have been killed so far this year, including British citizens. The UN\u2019s security council must \u201cdeliver its responsibility for global peace and security\u201d, Starmer says, noting that he will use his speech today to call to action in three key areas. Here\u2019s more on the Russian strike on Ukraine\u2019s eastern city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region that killed two people and injured 12 others, including three children. Journalists with Agence France-Presse at the scene of the strike saw what appeared to be two separate hits around a kilometre (0.6 miles) apart, both in residential areas. Thick plumes of smoke were billowing from a partially destroyed 10-storey block of flats, the agency said. The strike also destroyed a five-storey apartment block and nearby restaurants. A local resident, Tatyana Rybakova, said she had \u201ccrawled away from the window\u201d after a loud bang, as she pointed to the place where her flat used to be in one of the destroyed buildings. She said: I understand I have been left without a home: that I do understand. Another resident, Lyudmyla Shalayeva, said she was cleaning her flat when she saw an explosion and barely had time to shelter in her hall. She said: We\u2019re scared every day. But we didn\u2019t expect any shelling right here at us ... Who can expect that? A Russian guided-bomb strike on Ukraine\u2019s eastern city of Kramatorsk on Wednesday killed at least two people and injured 12 more, including three children, according to Vadym Filashkin, the Donetsk region governor. Russian troops used three highly destructive bombs in the attack on the town\u2019s centre that damaged two apartment blocks, shops and cars, Filashkin posted to Telegram, according to Reuters. He wrote: This is another war crime of the Russians and another sad reminder that there are no absolutely safe places left in the Donetsk region. Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister, has posted to X to say that \u201cthere are no alternatives\u201d to the peace formula put forward by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He added that Zelenksyy, in his address to the UN general assembly today, \u201cdrew the world\u2019s attention to the threats of Russian aggression and the need of unity, not division\u201d. Denmark\u2019s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has blasted China for supporting Russia in its war against Ukraine and said Moscow would not be able to continue its aggression without help from Beijing. Frederiksen, in an interview with Politico on Wednesday, name-checked China as part of a group of four countries including Russia, North Korea and Iran, whose close cooperation \u201chas huge global consequences\u201d. She said: I don\u2019t think it would be possible for Russia to have a full-scale war for more than two-and-a-half years now without help from China. We cannot continue a situation where China helps Russia in a war \u2026 in Europe, without consequences. They have to be held responsible for their activities. She added that the consequences for Beijing must be political, and warned that \u201cwe cannot allow ourselves to be na\u00efve\u201d. You cannot on the one hand let Russia attack another European country and continue like nothing has happened. Zelenskyy says the world must restore nuclear safety and for energy to stop being used as a weapon. He says food security must be ensured and that all the captured Ukrainian soldiers and civilians must be returned home. The Ukrainian president says the UN charter must be upheld to guarantee his country\u2019s right to territorial integrity and sovereignty. Russian occupiers must withdraw and \u201cwe must hold those responsible for war crimes accountable,\u201d he says. We need to make it clear the war is over. This is the peace formula. Concluding his address to the UN general assembly, Zelenskyy says: I want peace for my people, real peace and just peace, and I am asking for your support from all nations of the world. We do not divide the world. I ask the same of you. Do not divide the world. Be united nations, and that will bring us peace. Zelenskyy says that nearly 100 nations and international organisations have supported the peace formula that he has proposed, including countries that have \u201cgone through wars themselves, and those accustomed to peace are all were equal\u201d. The Ukrainian president says he has met with leaders from across the world during this UN general assembly summit, and that they all \u201cshare the same understanding\u201d. \u201cIt must be a real, just peace,\u201d Zelenskyy says. He says that unfortunately it is \u201cimpossible\u201d to resolve matters of war at the UN because too much depends in the UN\u2019s security council on member\u2019s veto power. When the aggressor exercises veto power, the UN is powerless to stop the war. But the peace formula \u2026 there is no veto power in it. That\u2019s why it\u2019s the best opportunity for peace. Zelenskyy says other proposals put forward by other countries not only \u201cignore the interests and suffering of Ukrainians who are affected by the war the most\u201d but that they also ignore reality and give Vladimir Putin the \u201cpolitical space to continue the war\u201d. He says \u201cmaybe somebody wants a Nobel Prize instead of real peace\u201d for parallel or alternative attempts to put forward settlement plans, \u201cbut the only prizes Putin will give you in return are more suffering and disasters.\u201d Zelenskyy says it is the Ukrainian people who are suffering the consequences of Russia\u2019s war \u2013 it is Ukrainian children who are \u201clearning to distinguish the sounds of different types of artillery and drone\u201d. It is the Ukrainian people who are forcefully separated because Vladimir Putin \u201cdecided he could do whatever he wants\u201d. He says that every world leader who supports Ukraine understands how Russia wants more territory, \u201cwhich is insane\u201d, and is working to seize more land \u201cwhile wanting to destroy its neighbour\u201d. Zelenskyy says: That\u2019s why we say there can be no just peace without Ukraine. Zelenskyy says every neighbour country of Russia in Europe and central Asia knows that \u201cthe war will come to them as well\u201d. Zelenskyy says the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, is looking for ways to \u201cbreak the Ukrainian spirit\u201d, including by targeting his country\u2019s energy infrastructure with deliberate Russian attacks on Ukraine\u2019s power plants and entire energy grid. Russia has destroyed all our thermal power plants and a large part of our hydroelectric capacity. This is how Putin is preparing for winter, hoping to torment millions of Ukrainians \u2026 Putin wants to leave them in the dark and [force] Ukraine to suffer and surrender. The Ukrainian president says he has recently received a report that Putin plans to attack the country\u2019s nuclear power plants and infrastructure. Zelenskyy warns that any missile or drone strike or any critical incident in Ukraine\u2019s energy system could lead to a \u201cnuclear disaster\u201d, adding: A day like that must never come \u2026 These are nuclear power plants. They must be safe. He adds that if \u201cGod forbid, Russia causes a nuclear disaster at one of our nuclear power plants, radiation will not respect state borders.\u201d Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has begun his address to the UN general assembly in New York. He begins by speaking about the day Russian tanks fired directly at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The Russian army stormed the plant \u201cbrutally\u201d and without thinking about the potentially \u201cdisastrous\u201d consequences. It was \u201cone of the most horrifying moments of the war\u201d, Zelenskyy says. Zelenskyy says this is why nuclear safety plays a key part of the peace formula that he presented. \u201cMost in the world understand what\u2019s at stake,\u201d he says. Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, who will be stepping down from his role on 1 October, has posted on X about his meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy (see 12.02pm BST). Calling Zelenskyy his \u201cgood friend\u201d, Stoltenberg said they agreed that \u201cUkraine\u2019s future is in Nato\u201d. Stoltenberg added: We will continue to work together to bring that day closer, and to help Ukraine prevail in its fight for freedom.\u201d Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is shortly due to address the UN general assembly. He is expected to seek support for Ukraine in the war against Russia, and to present his \u201cvictory plan\u201d \u2013 a roadmap for Ukraine to end the war with greater western backing. In a forceful speech to the UN security council on Tuesday, Zelenskyy called on a broad alliance of nations to \u201cforce Russia into peace\u201d, saying that Vladimir Putin has violated the foundations of the UN and that the war \u201ccan\u2019t be conquered by talks\u201d alone. Zelenskyy accused Moscow of committing \u201cinternational crimes\u201d by targeting Ukrainian civilians and energy infrastructure, and claimed he had proof that Putin is plotting to target three Ukrainian nuclear power plants to further degrade the country\u2019s energy grid. In his speech, he added that further pressure was needed to conclude peace with Russia after it had been \u201cdoing things that cannot possibly be justified under the UN charter\u201d. He has repeatedly called on the US and UK to drop their restrictions on the use of long-range missiles against targets deep inside Russia, despite concerns in the Biden administration that those attacks could lead to further escalation of the war. At the UN general assembly in New York, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, will be pushing for a deal on the use of Storm Shadow missiles against Russia, supported by the UK. Asked about Zelenskyy\u2019s prospects of success, UK prime minister Keir Starmer told reporters it was \u201cat a critical stage\u201d. Starmer said: Obviously, President Zelensky has a plan that he wants to walk through with all of us \u2026 The support for Ukraine is resolute. We supply quite a lot of capability already under the last government; we\u2019ve increased that under this government \u2013 that\u2019s not a criticism of the last government \u2013 and we will always listen very carefully to what Ukraine says it needs by way of capability.\u201d He said the long-range Storm Shadow missiles would not be the sole issue under discussion but it would also be about \u201cthe strategic overarching route for Ukraine to find a way through this and succeed against Russian aggression\u201d. Starmer\u2019s trip is taking place as negotiations continue with the White House to allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons on Russian territory. David Lammy, the UK foreign secretary, argued this week it was time for \u201cnerve and guts\u201d to allow a change of policy. But Starmer\u2019s visit to Washington to see the US president, Joe Biden, earlier this month did not resolve sticking points over the use of the British and French-made weapons, which also rely on US technology. Even if a breakthrough is made on the talks this week, it is unlikely any decisions on the missiles will be announced at this week\u2019s summit. The Kyiv Independent reports that a member of Ukraine\u2019s military intelligence has claimed that Ukrainian forces captured about 24 Russian soldiers and killed \u201cseveral dozen\u201d others during an operation to recapture an aggregate plant in the town of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region. According to the publication, a special forces officer \u201cwith the call sign Viking\u201d revealed details of the operation on national television on Wednesday. The officer added that a further four Russian soldiers \u201ctried to leave the plant and were neutralized outside the perimeter\u201d. \u201cThe battle lasted a little over a week. There was intense shelling from the enemy. The enemy at the factory put up a lot of resistance, but in the end we completed the task,\u201d the Kyiv Independent reported the officer as saying. We reported earlier that Russia\u2019s troops had not reached the outskirts of Ukraine\u2019s eastern town of Vuhledar but its reconnaissance groups are operating there. Russia said on Wednesday it had captured two more villages in Ukraine, though this has not been confirmed, and was attacking Vuhledar, a longtime Ukrainian stronghold. Vuhledar is a fortified mining town that has anchored Ukrainian defences in the southern Donetsk region since the start of the war in 2022. Asked about the attack on Vuhledar, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: \u201cThe dynamic is positive.\u201d Reuters reported that analysts at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said Russia appeared to be intensifying a push on Vuhledar but its capture would not substantially alter Moscow\u2019s prospects for further advances, as it already controlled most of the main roads running into the town. Russian emergency services said that a Ukrainian drone had dropped a munition on the territory of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant on Wednesday though there was no damage according to report from Russian state news agency RIA carried by Reuters. Reuters and the Guardian have not been able to confirm this report. Ukraine\u2019s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe, has been controlled by Russian forces since March 2022, and remains close to the frontline between the two sides. An 80-year-old woman has died as a result of Russian shelling in Kherson, the head of the regional military administration, Alexander Prokudin said on Telegram. \u201cAs a result of another shelling, two people who were on the street were injured. An 80-year-old woman was fatally wounded,\u201d he wrote. Russia has not commented on this and the Guardian has not been able to verify this news from the battlefield. Nato plans to coordinate the transport of a large number of wounded troops away from frontlines in case of a war with Russia, potentially via hospital trains as air evacuations may not be feasible, according to a senior general. The future scenario for medical evacuations will differ from allies\u2019 experience in Afghanistan and Iraq, Lt Gen Alexander Sollfrank, the head of Nato\u2019s logistics command, told Reuters in an interview. In a conflict with Russia, western militaries would likely be faced with a much larger war zone, a higher number of injured troops and at least a temporary lack of air superiority close to the frontlines, the German general said. \u201cThe challenge will be to swiftly ensure high-quality care for, in the worst case, a great number of wounded,\u201d he said without specifying how many injured troops Nato would expect, reports Reuters. The planning for medical evacuations is part of a much broader drive by Nato, prompted by Russia\u2019s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, to overhaul and boost its ability to deter and defend against any Russian assault. The German military has said it expects Russia to be able to attack a Nato country as soon as 2029, while Russian president Vladimir Putin casts the west as the aggressor for arming Ukraine. Sollfrank runs Nato\u2019s Joint Support and Enabling Command (JSEC), tasked with coordinating the swift movement of troops and tanks across Europe as well as logistical preparations such as the storage of munitions on Nato\u2019s eastern flank. Recently, reports Reuters, JSEC \u2013 which is based in the southern German town of Ulm \u2013 staged an exercise in coordination of patient flows. Should a conflict with Russia arise, wounded troops will not only need to be transported over a larger distance than in other wars of recent years, Sollfrank said. Russian air defences and jets would threaten medical evacuation flights in a way that insurgents in Afghanistan or Iraq could not, likely creating a need for hospital trains that can transport more casualties at the same time than aircraft. \u201cAir superiority will have to be achieved in the first place. It will require time to succeed over the entire length and depth of the frontline,\u201d Sollfrank told Reuters. He added: For planning reasons, all options to take a great number of wounded to medical installations need to be considered, which includes trains but potentially also buses.\u201d Differing medical regulations between countries are another hurdle to overcome, Sollfrank said. A \u201cmilitary medical Schengen\u201d, akin to the political Schengen zone that allows free movement within most of the EU, could be a solution. It could entail an area of free passage for sensitive medications such as narcotics or strong painkillers, which would be needed to treat wounded troops but whose cross-border transport is regulated. Russia\u2019s troops have not reached the outskirts of Ukraine\u2019s eastern town of Vuhledar but its reconnaissance groups are operating there, said the governor of Donetsk region, Vadym Filashkin, on Wednesday, according to Reuters. \u201cOur defenders are trying to knock them out. The town has not been captured,\u201d he said in televised comments. Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has posted on his X account about a meeting with the outgoing Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg at the UN general assembly. Zelenskyy wrote: I thanked him [Stoltenberg] for supporting Ukraine throughout his tenure as secretary general of the alliance and for his efforts to unite the world in helping Ukraine and strengthening our army. We discussed the need to enhance Ukraine\u2019s air defence, the continued efforts on an invitation for our state to join Nato as soon as possible, and the importance of the timely implementation of all agreements reached at the alliance\u2019s Washington summit.\u201d The Ukrainian president also shared posts of meetings with other notable figures, including the president of Vietnam, T\u00f4 L\u00e2m, Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, and Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan. On the previous post (see 11.10am BST), Reuters has some additional background and quotes. The Russian parliament\u2019s said its initial backing to legislation that would ban nationals from countries that allow people to change their gender from adopting Russian children, is a move that is essential to uphold \u201ctraditional values\u201d. Russia itself last year introduced a ban on people legally or medically changing their gender, part of a widening crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights. The adoption legislation, which had already been conceptually approved by the government, on Wednesday won the backing of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in the first of three readings. According to Reuters, the law\u2019s authors cast it as a measure aimed at protecting adopted Russian children from what they describe as potentially dangerous conditions in countries that belong to the Nato military alliance, which backs Ukraine in the war against Russia. \u201cThis decision is aimed at protecting childhood and traditional values,\u201d Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of the Duma and a close ally of president Vladimir Putin said after it had been voted on. Volodin added: It is necessary to protect our children from the dangers they may face when they are adopted or fostered by citizens of foreign countries where gender reassignment is allowed.\u201d Russia\u2019s parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of a bill to ban the adoption of Russian children in countries where gender reassignment is legal, in another ultra-conservative social measure as its troops fight in Ukraine, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Lawmakers voted almost unanimously to back the proposed law in a first reading, with 397 in favour and one against. \u201cWith this law we are protecting the child, we are doing everything for the child not to end up in a country where same-sex marriage and sex change is allowed,\u201d Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said. There is some more detail on Reuters about the Kremlin calling a plan by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to force Russia to make peace a \u201cfatal mistake\u201d (see 10.08am BST). In a call with reporters, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: Such a position is a fatal mistake, a systemic mistake. This is a profound misconception that will inevitably have consequences for the Kyiv regime.\u201d Peskov said that Russia wants peace, but the issue cannot be forced, adding: A position based on an attempt to force Russia into peace is an absolutely fatal mistake, because it is impossible to force Russia into peace. Russia is a supporter of peace, but on the condition that the foundations of its security are ensured.\u201d Putin said in June that Russia would end the war in Ukraine only if Kyiv agreed to drop its ambitions to join Nato and to hand over the entirety of four regions claimed by Moscow, demands Kyiv swiftly rejected as tantamount to surrender. Ukraine and its western allies say Putin must be prevented from winning the war because, if not stopped, he will threaten other neighbouring states. Reuters is reporting that Russia\u2019s defence ministry said on Wednesday that its forces had taken control of the villages of Hostre and Hryhorivka in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region. No more details have been provided. Russia\u2019s president, Vladimir Putin, will chair a meeting of Russia\u2019s security council on Wednesday on nuclear deterrence, the Kremlin said, as Moscow weighs how to respond to Ukraine\u2019s requests to western countries to allow it to strike deep into Russia with long-range western missiles. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov described Wednesday\u2019s meeting as an important event. \u201cThere will be a speech by the president. The rest, for obvious reasons, will be marked \u2018top secret\u2019,\u201d Peskov told reporters, according to Reuters. Russia has said it is in the process of revising its nuclear doctrine which sets out the circumstances in which it might resort to the use of nuclear weapons. Russia will not test a nuclear weapon as long as the US refrains from testing, Putin\u2019s point man for arms control said on Monday after speculation that the Kremlin might abandon its post-Soviet nuclear test moratorium. The Kremlin on Wednesday called a plan by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to force Russia to make peace a fatal mistake that would have consequences for Kyiv, reports Reuters. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia wanted peace, but that it was impossible to force the issue. Zelenskyy told the UN security council on Tuesday that the war between Russia and Ukraine could not be calmed by talks alone and that Moscow must be forced into peace. Denis Pushilin, the Russian-installed head of Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region, said on Wednesday that fighting was ongoing in Vuhledar, a longtime Ukrainian stronghold in the region, reports Reuters citing the Russian state news agency RIA. Russian forces have taken control of the town of Ukrainsk in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region, state news agency TASS cited local Russian-installed governor Denis Pushilin as saying on Wednesday. Ukraine\u2019s desire to use western missiles to strike targets in Russia will not be the \u201csole issue\u201d in Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s \u201cvictory plan\u201d, UK prime minister Keir Starmer has said. The US and UK have so far refused to give Kyiv permission to use the missiles they have supplied against targets in Russia, despite repeated pleas from Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian president has said that he is having to fight with his hands tied because he is unable to use the weapons to strike Russian airfields and military facilities which Russian president Vladimir Putin is using to launch deadly air raids, missiles and drones. Starmer is in New York for the United Nations general assembly, where Zelenskyy will present his plan for the next stage of the war to his allies. According to the Press Association (PA), Starmer said: I do think it\u2019s going to take quite a bit of time at the UN general assembly. And I think that\u2019s really important, because it\u2019s at a critical stage. Obviously, President Zelenskyy has a plan that he wants to walk through with all of us \u2013 we knew that was going to happen. The support for Ukraine is resolute. We supply quite a lot of capability already under the last government; we\u2019ve increased that under this government \u2013 that\u2019s not a criticism of the last government \u2013 and we will always listen very carefully to what Ukraine says it needs by way of capability. I don\u2019t think that will be a discussion, I don\u2019t think the victory plan will be about a sole issue like long-range missiles, it will be about a strategic, overarching route for Ukraine to find a way through this and succeed against Russian aggression.\u201d Pressed on when a decision will be made about the use of UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles within Russia, Starmer said: We will have discussions about a whole range of issues, and we will listen carefully to what President Zelenskyy\u2019s got to say, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen in the next few days.\u201d In a forceful speech to the UN security council, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on a broad alliance of nations to \u201cforce Russia into peace\u201d, saying that Vladimir Putin has violated the foundations of the United Nations and that the war \u201ccan\u2019t be conquered by talks\u201d alone. Addressing the council, of which Russia is a permanent member, Zelenskyy accused Moscow of committing \u201cinternational crimes\u201d by targeting Ukrainian civilians and energy infrastructure, and claimed he had proof that Putin is plotting to target three Ukrainian nuclear power plants to further degrade the country\u2019s energy grid. After thanking Ukraine\u2019s allies for their support, the Ukrainian leader appealed to countries further afield, calling on Brazil, India and countries across Africa and Latin America, to increase pressure on Russia to halt the war, saying \u201call [countries] are equally important for peace without exceptions\u201d. Many of those countries have economic or close diplomatic ties with Russia, and have given greater credence to Putin\u2019s claims that Russia was provoked into the war by the west. \u201cWe know some in the world want to talk to Putin,\u201d Zelenskyy said. \u201cTo meet, to talk, to speak. But what could they possibly hear from him? That he\u2019s upset because we are exercising our right to defend our people? Or that he wants to keep the war and terror going, just so no one thinks he was wrong?\u201d He added: \u201cIt\u2019s insane.\u201d The Ukrainian air force said on Wednesday it shot down 28 out of 32 drones and four out of eight missiles during an overnight Russian attack, reports Reuters. The air force said Russia launched four missiles at the southern region of Odesa. Its regional governor, Oleh Kiper, said a missile hit an open area and caused a fire which had since been put out. The debris also damaged two trucks without causing any casualties, Kiper added via the Telegram messaging app. Kyiv regional governor Ruslan Kravchenko said a drone attack on the region did not deal any damage to critical or residential infrastructure. Reuters reports that attacks on the north-eastern region of Kharkiv in the early hours of Wednesday damaged a hangar. Tuesday\u2019s guided bomb attack on the city of Kharkiv killed three people and injured 36 more, the regional governor Oleh Syniehubov added via the Telegram messaging app. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will speak at the UN general assembly on Wednesday, and is due to meet US presidential candidate Kamala Harris, as well as Joe Biden during his trip to the US this week. But, an official on Donald Trump\u2019s campaign said the Republican nominee will not meet this week with Zelenskyy while he is in the US. No meeting has been scheduled between the two, the official told the Associated Press (AP), despite a statement from Ukrainian officials last week that said Zelenskyy had planned to see the former president. Meanwhile, US president Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine had failed as he urged the UN to keep supporting Kyiv until victory. \u201cPutin\u2019s war has failed at its core aim. He set out to destroy Ukraine, but Ukraine is still free,\u201d Biden said in his last address as president to the UN general assembly. He said the war had led to a strategic reordering that strengthened Nato and brought two new countries, Finland and Sweden, into the security pact. \u201cWe cannot grow weary,\u201d he said, as Zelenskyy looked on. \u201cWe cannot look away. We will not let up on our support for Ukraine. Not until Ukraine wins a just and durable peace.\u201d More on that in a moment. In other developments: Donald Trump said the US needs to \u201cget out\u201d of the war in Ukraine and that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had no plan to do so. \u201cBiden and Kamala got us into this war in Ukraine, and now they can\u2019t get us out,\u201d Trump said in a speech in Georgia. The US does not have troops in Ukraine but has given military and humanitarian assistance. Speaking in Savannah, Trump raised two historical conflicts to suggest Moscow would not lose. \u201cWhat happens if they win? That\u2019s what they do, is they fight wars. As somebody told me the other day, they beat Hitler, they beat Napoleon. That\u2019s what they do. They fight. And it\u2019s not pleasant.\u201d The US will send Ukraine an undisclosed number of medium-range cluster bombs and an array of rockets, artillery and armoured vehicles in a military aid package totalling about $375m, US officials said on Tuesday. The expected announcement comes as global leaders meet at the UN general assembly. The latest package of weapons, provided through presidential drawdown authority, is one of the largest approved recently and will take stocks from Pentagon shelves to deliver the weapons more quickly to Ukraine. Including this latest package, the US has provided more than $56.2bn in security assistance to Ukraine since Russia invaded. It comes as nearly $6bn in funding for aid to Ukraine could expire at the end of the month unless Congress acts to extend the Pentagon\u2019s authority to send weapons from its stockpile to Kyiv. The US \u201cwill find a way\u201d before the end of Biden\u2019s term in January to make use of the remaining aid, a senior state department official said on Tuesday. \u201cI think it\u2019s very unlikely that President Biden will finish his term with appropriated funds unused for the purpose Congress allocated them,\u201d said the official. In a forceful speech to the UN security council, Zelenskyy called on a broad alliance of nations to \u201cforce Russia into peace\u201d, saying that Vladimir Putin has violated the foundations of the UN and that the war \u201ccan\u2019t be conquered by talks\u201d alone. Zelenskyy accused Moscow of committing \u201cinternational crimes\u201d by targeting Ukrainian civilians and energy infrastructure, and claimed he had proof that Putin is plotting to target three Ukrainian nuclear power plants to further degrade the country\u2019s energy grid. Zelenskyy said his \u201cvictory plan\u201d is not about negotiating with Russia, but finding a way of ending the conflict diplomatically. The head of the presidential office Andriy Yermak confirmed that an invitation to join Nato is part of Ukraine\u2019s so-called \u201cvictory plan\u201d, details of which have not been revealed yet by Zelenskyy, who is due to present it to Biden this week. Brazilian president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva advocated for a plan for talks between Russia and Ukraine to end the conflict, a proposal already rejected by Ukraine\u2019s president. Zelenskyy has rejected the proposal as \u201cdestructive\u201d and insisted his summit initiative is the only viable peace format. The Chinese-Brazilian proposal, which was made public in May, calls for de-escalating the situation and the resumption of direct dialogue without requiring Russia to pull back. Russian strikes on a residential quarter of Ukraine\u2019s north-eastern city of Kharkiv killed three civilians and wounded more than 30 on Tuesday afternoon, Ukrainian officials said. Kharkiv lies around 30km from the Russian border and has been pounded by Russian aerial attacks throughout the two-and-a-half-year war. \u201cThe targets of the Russian bombs were an apartment building, a bakery, a stadium. In other words, the everyday life of ordinary people,\u201d Zelenskyy said on social media. Russian lawmakers approved new measures to facilitate the army\u2019s ability to recruit suspected criminals for its war in Ukraine. Moscow has used prisoners extensively throughout its two and a half year campaign. Russia\u2019s State Duma, the lower house of parliament, on Tuesday backed a new bill that would allow defendants that are now on trial to sign up for the army."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Draconian curbs on protest are dangerous | Letters;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/draconian-curbs-on-protest-are-dangerous;2024-09-25T17:03:04Z",
        "text": "The UK\u2019s repression of peaceful protest is far from a well\u2011intentioned yet misguided attempt to balance the rights of its citizens (Britain now stifles peaceful dissent like a repressive regime. It\u2019s time to roll back our anti-protest laws, 10 September). This country is only wedded to the rule of law and freedom of expression as long as there is no serious challenge to the ruling class. Draconian steps to curb protest show where the interests of the powerful really lie \u2013 in protecting their own status at all costs. I say this as someone currently in prison for engaging in non\u2011violent direct action. The ruling class will never legitimise civilian actions that challenge their dominance, not in the name of \u201cfreedom of expression\u201d, not even in the name of \u201cdemocracy\u201d. However, it is a dangerous game to play. It only takes a glance at global history to see that suppressing dissent is like compressing gas. It eventually explodes. Silencing protest does not make the problem disappear \u2013 quite the opposite. It creates a breeding ground for the far right to exploit neglected communities and unleash their discontent through violence. Cressida Gethin HMP Send, Surrey \u2022 Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Covid furlough gap that still rankles  | Brief letters;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/covid-furlough-gap-that-still-rankles;2024-09-25T17:02:58Z",
        "text": "While the chancellor is at it (Rachel Reeves orders investigations into \u00a3600m of Covid contracts, 22 September), she might investigate why thousands of self-employed people prevented from working for the best part of 18 months received nothing and had to survive on savings and the generosity of friends and family. Michael Heaton Warminster, Wiltshire \u2022 Could someone please explain to me how the \u201coutfit\u201d consisting of what appear to be several hundred yards of Christmas tree streamers and a sunburst headdress, in your picture from Kevin Germanier\u2019s fashion show in the print edition (Rise and shine, 25 September), fits the description of \u201cready-to-wear\u201d? By whom? Jill Wallis Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire \u2022 My father, son of a fruit wholesaler, taught me that to test the ripeness of a pineapple, you pick it up by one of the leaves of its top. It is only ripe if the leaf comes away and the pineapple falls (Ready or not? The expert guide to buying fruit \u2013 so it is always ripe and delicious, 25 September). Elisabeth Crowe Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire \u2022 Would the Earl of Devon be happy having root canal treatment from someone whose only qualification was that his great-grandfather was a good dentist (\u2018This is our culture\u2019: what Earl of Devon thinks hereditary peers bring to Lords, 23 September) Geraint Hopkins Llanharan, Rhondda Cynon Taf \u2022 Doesn\u2019t Keir Starmer remember that the \u201clight at the end of the tunnel\u201d (Opinion, 24 September) is the light of the oncoming train? Didn\u2019t he listen to John Peel? Marian Nyman Whitstable, Kent \u2022 Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Demonstrations being held in Italy against \u2018repressive\u2019 security bill;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/demonstrations-being-held-in-italy-against-repressive-security-bill;2024-09-25T17:01:22Z",
        "text": "Demonstrations are being held across Italy on Wednesday evening in protest against a new security bill described as \u201crepressive\u201d and \u201cdangerous for the country\u2019s democracy\u201d. The 24 laws contained in the bill, which passed its first hurdle in the lower house of parliament last week and now needs approval in the senate, is the latest attempt by Giorgia Meloni\u2019s far-right government to get tough on law and order. It comes down especially hard on climate activists and migrants. Under the laws, anyone who blocks roads or railways will face a jail term and fines of up to \u20ac300,000 (\u00a3250,000), while penalties will be more severe for those who protest against \u201cstrategic\u201d public works, such as the Italy-France high-speed rail project TAV, and a bridge connecting Sicily to mainland Italy. If passed, the laws will also give authorities and the police the power to enforce wider surveillance in prisons and pre-deportation migration detention centres, with rioting criminalised and \u201cpassive resistance\u201d to orders, including hunger strikes, carrying sentences of between one and five years. Another element of the bill envisages the criminalisation of businesses that sell sim cards to people who do not have ID documents and a residence permit. Cgil, Italy\u2019s largest and most powerful trade union, said the bill was \u201cdangerous for the country\u2019s democracy\u201d and has joined forces with a number of associations, including Anpi, the anti-fascist group, to organise protests against the bill\u2019s \u201cfreedom-killing idea of security\u201d. \u201cThe right wing continues to regard security only in terms of repression and punishment of social struggles,\u201d the associations said in a joint statement. \u201c[The government] is making penalties more harsh and introducing new crimes that will hit the most peaceful forms of protest and compress the spaces for democracy in our country.\u201d Opposition parties are also joining the demonstrations. The centre-left Democratic party said: \u201cThe security bill is an attack on individual and collective freedoms. It represses dissent and aims to create subjects instead of citizens.\u201d Angelo Bonelli, the leader of the Greens and Left Alliance, said the bill would \u201ctransform our country into a permanent police state\u201d. \u201cIf this authoritarian measure is approved by the senate, the government will be able to arrest and \u2018silence\u2019 workers who protest against losing their job, and any young activist who fights against social, environmental and ecological injustices,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019re facing an authoritarian and freedom-killing drift that cannot leave us indifferent. Protesting is a civil duty.\u201d Valentina D\u2019Orso, a deputy with the Five Star Movement, accused the government of \u201cwriting a series of legal, ethical and civil aberrations. This includes the crime of revolt against orders issued, even in migrant centres and facilities housing unaccompanied foreign minors.\u201d Matteo Salvini, Italy\u2019s deputy prime minister, has asked for the bill\u2019s approval to be given \u201cutmost priority\u201d. He has long pushed for jail time and stiffer fines for climate activists amid a series of roadblock protests and activism targeting famous artworks, monuments and cultural sites. There have already been examples of alleged repression against climate activists. On 14 October, a Rome court will rule on whether to approve a request from the city\u2019s police headquarters to put Giacomo Baggio Zilio, a member of Ultima Generazione (Last Generation), under surveillance. The request came after Zilio\u2019s involvement in the group\u2019s nonviolent protests. The activist also alleges he was a victim of police aggression after a protest in May. \u201cA state begins to increase repression when it feels insecure,\u201d Zilio said in a statement issued by Ultima Generazione on Wednesday. \u201cIf the population can no longer criticise, then this is not a democratic situation. Here there is a government that does not listen, and this does not only concern us, it concerns the workers who strike and block the streets, it concerns the students.\u201d Ultima Generazione activists said they would bombard Rome\u2019s police headquarters with emails in response to the surveillance request, adding that the security bill would not stop their protests: \u201cUntil the government really listens to the reasons for the protests carried out by Giacomo and many other people and decides to seriously address the climate crisis and the devastation that it is already causing to our country, [to] the people who live there, there will always be those who peacefully, but with all the necessary anger and hope, will take to the streets to protest.\u201d A Climate Rights International report last week exposed the increasingly heavy-handed treatment of climate activists in wealthy democratic countries in the global north, including Australia, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US. The report found the measures in these countries \u2013 such as lengthy prison sentences, preventive detention and harassment \u2013 were a violation of governments\u2019 legal responsibility to protect basic rights to freedom of expression, assembly, and association. The Italian government\u2019s security bill follows a crackdown on illegal raves and juvenile crime."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Scottish salmon farm cleared tonnes of dead fish before inspection, charity says;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/scottish-salmon-farm-dunstaffnage-cleared-dead-fish-before-inspection-animal-charity-claims;2024-09-25T16:54:44Z",
        "text": "The removal of tonnes of dead fish from a salmon farm before a Scottish parliament fact-finding mission there gave a misleading impression of conditions, an animal rights charity says. Footage secretly filmed by Animal Equality UK shows salmon being disposed of on Monday morning before a visit to Dunstaffnage salmon farm, near Oban, later that day by committee members carrying out an inquiry into the industry. The committee said the footage raised questions about fish mortality. Animal Equality UK said tracking data also showed a delousing boat visited the farm three days earlier and dead floating fish were filmed there on the Saturday. Scottish Sea Farms, which operates the facility and supplies M&amp;S, said removing dead or dying fish was a daily procedure, unconnected to the visit by MSPs. It also denied that the boat referred to by Animal Equality UK was engaged in delousing. The Holyrood rural affairs and islands (RAI) committee is conducting an inquiry into salmon farming as a follow-up to its 2018 inquiry, which expressed concern about \u201cextremely high mortality rates\u201d at certain sites. It also said the industry had not yet identified an effective way to deal with \u201cthe significant challenge presented by sea lice infestation\u201d. Abigail Penny, executive director of Animal Equality UK, said: \u201cTo remove tonnes of dead fish just hours before politicians arrive to investigate is outrageous and depicts a wholly inaccurate image of the industry. We urge the RAI committee to see the industry for what it truly is: deceptive and deadly. \u201cGiven the unnatural conditions, sea lice and diseases run rampant on many Scottish salmon farms. So, while tragic, its unsurprising death rates reached an all-time high over recent years. The 2018 committee already recognised these fatal flaws in the farming system and called for urgent action, but rather than effectively tackle these serious and pervasive issues, this latest move suggests that industry representatives would prefer to hide the truth.\u201d Data published in July last year by Salmon Scotland showed 56.5% of salmon at Dunstaffnage died during the production cycle. Scottish Sea Farms said that was a result of a micro-jellyfish event and the mortality rate in the current production cycle was 3%. The RAI committee is scheduled to hear formal evidence from salmon farming representatives on Wednesday next week. Its inquiry is said to be assessing \u201cwhat progress has been made in developing the industry since 2018 and how the various fish health, environmental and climate change challenges it faces are being addressed\u201d. A spokesperson for the committee said: \u201cWe have heard concerns about fish mortality on salmon farms during the wide range of evidence taken throughout our inquiry and this footage raises further questions for the committee.\u201d Dr Ralph Bickerdike, head of fish health and welfare at Scottish Sea Farms, said: \u201cThe footage clearly shows our Dunstaffnage farm team following the company\u2019s standard operating procedure with routine pen-side checks and regular moribund and mortality removal. \u201cContrary to the claims made by Animal Equality UK, this is an essential part of our duty of care and something we do daily wherever conditions allow, whether we have a farm visit scheduled or not.\u201d M&amp;S said it was for Scottish Sea Farms to comment."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Iran president\u2019s high-wire appeal for diplomacy buffeted by winds of war;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/iran-masoud-pezeshkian-un-speech;2024-09-25T16:29:01Z",
        "text": "On his first visit to the US, Iran\u2019s new president has spoken of a \u201cnew era of cooperation\u201d with the west. It is an offer that intrigued diplomats, but left them struck by the constraints \u2013 ideological, internal and geopolitical \u2013 standing in the way of a substantive change in relations. Masoud Pezeshkian came to New York for his first UN general assembly since his election asking the west to look at Iran again \u2013 largely by challenging the double standards that led to its silence about the massacres in Gaza. He has insisted Israel and the US, not Tehran, were the region\u2019s troublemakers. \u201cWe do not wish to be the cause of instability in the Middle East,\u201d he said in a whirlwind round of interviews and meetings, including with the French president, Emmanuel Macron. \u201cThey are dragging us to a point where we do not wish to go,\u201d the Iranian leader said of Israel. \u201cThere is no winner in warfare. We are only deluding ourselves if we believe that.\u201d More informal, instinctive and less forbidding than his conservative predecessor Ebrahim Raisi, Pezeskhian revived the moribund Iranian reformist movement, overcoming a highly filtered system to win a surprise electoral victory in July. In his first two months in office, he has tried to pick his way through a polarised system, insisting Iran will only thrive if it is cohesive and he acts through consensus. He frequently trades on his personal integrity and modesty. His own life story, that of a heart surgeon and father who raised his children alone after he lost his wife in a car accident many years ago, is unusual. He has frequently said he will resign if he feels he is not having any impact reforming his country. He came to New York with a stripped down delegation of 12, including two veteran diplomats who signed the nuclear deal with the west in 2015: Javad Zarif and Abbas Araghchi. Yet at home he faces an army of conservative critics ready to pounce on any mistake, like admission of Iran\u2019s weakness or, above all, any sign of softness to Israel. Some of these critics have not reconciled themselves to their defeat, and believe they are aligned with the 85-year-old uncompromising supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. It was notable at the outset of his UN speech that Pezeshkian asserted his personal mandate, saying: \u201cI entered the election campaign with a program based on \u2018reforms\u2019, \u2018national unity\u2019, \u2018constructive interaction with the world\u2019 and \u2018economic development\u2019 and I managed to gain the trust of my compatriots at the polls.\u201d He also has a battle to counter the west\u2019s distrust. Behnam Ben Taleblu from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies dismissed him as \u201coffering a change of style not substance. He is proof that the Islamic Republic is hoping to dupe the world by merely putting lipstick on a pig.\u201d Pezeshkian\u2019s high-wire act is more difficult since his message of coexistence came as Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militia Iran had helped found, is in a battle for survival, and he is facing calls from both Lebanon and within Iran to come to the militia\u2019s aid before its leadership is destroyed and the whole so-called \u201ccircle of fire\u201d that it has laid around Israel is doused. At the same time western diplomats need his help to persuade Hezbollah to end its attacks on Israel that the group has said it will continue until Israel agrees to an immediate and complete ceasefire in Gaza. But even if Iran was inclined to help, a moot point, Pezeshkian feels he has been burned by listening before to those that called on Iran not to seek revenge for Israel\u2019s July assassination of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Pezeshkian recalled Iran had been urged afterwards to show restraint to avoid a wider war. \u201cThey kept telling us we are within reach of peace, perhaps in a week or so,\u201d he told a briefing of western reporters including the Guardian. But he said that the promised elusive peace never came. That briefing proved to be a source of controversy. Bloomberg headlined its account: \u201cIran\u2019s President Says He\u2019s Prepared to Ease Tensions With Israel\u201d. When domestic critics said Pezeshkian\u2019s remarks were \u201cnaive and a source of national shame\u201d, Iranian officials said correctly he had never said he wished to ease tensions with Israel, an entity he had accused of killing children and bombing hospitals. The Bloomberg headline was based on his quote: \u201cWe\u2019re willing to put all our weapons aside so long as Israel is willing to do the same. We\u2019re not seeking to destabilize the region.\u201d The Iranians said he had been referring to weapons of mass destruction, such as Israel\u2019s nuclear bomb, and pointed out he had added: \u201cBut we cannot have outside actors come in, arm one side to the teeth and prevent the other side from having the means to defend themselves.\u201d His planned formal press conference was cancelled. By the time he spoke to the UN on Tuesday, the message about whether Iran feels it can intervene to defend Hezbollah remained unclear. \u201cNaturally blind Israeli state terrorism cannot go unanswered,\u201d he said. \u201cThe responsibility for all consequences will be borne by those governments who have thwarted all global efforts to end this horrific catastrophe and have the audacity to call themselves the champion of human rights.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Keir Starmer lambasts Russia over Ukraine at UN security council;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/keir-starmer-lambasts-russia-over-ukraine-at-un-security-council;2024-09-25T16:00:09Z",
        "text": "Keir Starmer has told Russia he does not know how it can show its face at the United Nations after invading Ukraine and treating its own citizens as \u201cbits of meat to fling into the grinder\u201d. Addressing the UN security council, of which Russia is one of five permanent members, Starmer delivered a direct message to Moscow that it should not be present at the meeting. He accused Russia of violating the UN charter because its invasion of Ukraine was illegal, threatened global security and had caused \u201ccolossal human suffering\u201d. \u201cWe must ensure accountability for those violating the UN charter and this council must recommit to the values that it sets out,\u201d he said. \u201cThis should go without saying. Yet, the greatest violation of the charter in a generation has been committed by one of this council\u2019s permanent members.\u201d He drew attention to the 35,000 civilians who have been killed or injured, the 6 million forced to flee and almost 20,000 Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia. The British prime minister added: \u201cI think of Yaroslav Bazylevych, whose wife and three daughters were killed earlier this month by a Russian strike on civilians in Lviv. And I wonder how Russia can show its face in this building. \u201cSix hundred thousand Russian soldiers have also been killed or wounded in this war. And for what? The UN charter, which they sit here to uphold, speaks of human dignity. Not treating your own citizens as bits of meat to fling into the grinder.\u201d As well as calling for accountability for Russia, Starmer also addressed the conflicts in the Middle East, saying the region was \u201con the brink\u201d. He called for diplomacy and an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, and an immediate, full and complete ceasefire in relation to Israel\u2019s war in Gaza with the release of all the hostages. \u201cWe need a political route to that agreement, which provides a bridge to a better future. A credible and irreversible path towards a viable Palestinian state,\u201d he said. \u201cAlongside a safe and secure state of Israel. This is the only way to provide security and justice for both Israelis and Palestinians.\u201d Starmer\u2019s trip to the United Nations general assembly in New York is his third trip to the US in three months. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is also attending to present his \u201cvictory plan\u201d to Joe Biden and the US presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Zelenskyy has been seeking permission to use British-French made Storm Shadow missiles on Russian territory, with UK support, but negotiations with the US are still continuing as the weapons use some US technology. Pressed on when a decision would be made about the use of UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles within Russia, Starmer said: \u201cWe will have discussions about a whole range of issues, and we will listen carefully to what President Zelenskyy\u2019s got to say, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen in the next few days.\u201d He added the discussions would not be about the \u201csole issue like long-range missiles\u201d but a \u201cstrategic, overarching route for Ukraine to find a way through this and succeed against Russian aggression\u201d. Addressing the UN security council on Tuesday, Zelenskyy accused Moscow of committing \u201cinternational crimes\u201d by targeting Ukrainian civilians and energy infrastructure, and claimed he had proof that Putin was plotting to target three Ukrainian nuclear power plants to further degrade the country\u2019s energy grid."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;GMC urged to investigate doctors over Harrods sexual health test claims;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/gmc-urged-to-investigate-doctors-over-harrods-sexual-health-test-claims;2024-09-25T16:00:09Z",
        "text": "Women who claim they were sexually assaulted by Mohamed Al Fayed have called for an investigation into why doctors allegedly subjected them and other Harrods staff to sexual health examinations before sharing the results with the company. They have urged the General Medical Council (GMC) to investigate doctors who allegedly tested Fayed\u2019s staff for sexually transmitted diseases before he sexually assaulted them or attempted to. Natacha says she was sexually abused as a 19-year-old by Fayed when working in a supporting role to the billionaire\u2019s private personal assistant. She says she was sent for a medical by Dr Ann Coxon when she joined Harrods. Coxon, who is still practising in Harley Street, allegedly subjected her to a gynaecological examination and tested for Aids and sexually transmitted diseases without her consent. Natacha, represented by New Bailey Chambers, which is acting for the Justice for Harrods Survivors group, said: \u201cAnn Coxon has questions to answer about the medical examinations that she carried out on behalf of Mohamed Al Fayed. The examinations carried out by Dr Coxon were intrusive and wholly unnecessary.\u201d She added: \u201cThey also resulted in many employees\u2019 confidential medical information being inappropriately shared within Harrods, including my own. This should not have happened. We will be making a formal complaint to the General Medical Council and would expect them to investigate.\u201d Last week, a BBC documentary, Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods, claimed that Fayed raped five women and sexually assaulted at least 15 others during his time as owner of Harrods from 1985 to 2010. The investigation named two doctors, Coxon and Dr Wendy Snell, who allegedly carried out gynaecological tests and sexual health examinations on women who worked in Fayed\u2019s office. Snell died in 2022. Coxon has been approached for comment. A GMC spokesperson said: \u201cThe alleged sexual abuse conducted by Mohamed Al Fayed against multiple women is horrifying. \u201cThe allegations relating to medical staff working for Mr Al Fayed are deeply concerning. If we identify any potential fitness-to-practise concerns about individual doctors, we will thoroughly examine all relevant information and take action as appropriate.\u201d Henry Porter, the former editor of Vanity Fair who investigated Fayed for years, said at least five West End doctors were involved in examinations. Since the documentary was broadcast, scores of other alleged victims have come forward, including some who claimed they faced similar tests and examinations. Lawyers representing women who Fayed allegedly abused said they had received more than 200 inquiries from further potential survivors since the broadcast. The law firm Leigh Day is representing a woman, whom it is calling Joan, who claims she was sexually abused and trafficked at Harrods. Leigh Day claims other former Harrods female staff were asked to undergo gynaecological tests, sexual health examinations or both. When some of them went to doctors asking for such tests, the doctors expressed shock and questioned why Harrods had requested such tests. Leigh Day says the doctors said to have carried out the tests should be investigated. The Leigh Day partner Richard Meeran, who represents Joan, called for \u201can investigation by the GMC into the role of medical professionals who allegedly conducted gynaecological tests and sexual health examinations on women working on the shop floor of a department store, or in its executive offices, and who allegedly passed these sensitive and private results to Harrods and Al Fayed\u201d. He added: \u201cOur client feels strongly that the actions of these medical professionals must be included in a statutory public inquiry.\u201d Tamara, who worked as a personal assistant to Fayed in the early 1990s, told the BBC: \u201cWe were told to go for a medical checkup with Dr Ann Coxon in Harley Street \u2026 Things should be confidential between a doctor and a patient. She certainly did not conform to that.\u201d She claims Fayed confronted her with a bottle of Dettol disinfectant saying: \u201cWho have you been fucking?\u201d She claimed Fayed had seen Coxon\u2019s medical report which claimed she had contracted a sexually transmitted disease. She also claimed that Fayed later attempted to rape her. Tamara told the documentary: \u201cI think the doctor who did my medical should be held accountable, providing information to Mohamed which he used to take advantage of us.\u201d Katherine, an executive assistant in Harrods in 2005, showed the BBC a letter Snell had sent her, reporting the results of a smear test, blood tests and \u201cgynaecological swabs, including chlamydia\u201d. She told the programme: \u201cThere is no benefit to anybody in knowing what my sexual health is unless you\u2019re planning to sleep with somebody, which I find quite chilling now.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Taliban to be taken to international court over gender discrimination;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/taliban-to-be-taken-to-international-court-over-gender-discrimination;2024-09-25T15:47:19Z",
        "text": "The Taliban are to be taken to the international court of justice for gender discrimination by Canada, Australia, Germany and the Netherlands in a groundbreaking move. The move announced at the UN general assembly is the first time the ICJ, based in The Hague, has been used by one country to take another to court over gender discrimination. The case is being brought under the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, which was adopted by the general assembly in 1979 and brought into force in 1981. Afghanistan, prior to the 2021 Taliban takeover of the country, ratified the convention in 2003. In the first legal move of this type since the Taliban took over, it is expected that Afghanistan would have six months to provide a response before the ICJ would hold a hearing and probably propose provisional measures. Advocates of the course argue that even if the Taliban refuse to acknowledge the court\u2019s authority, an ICJ ruling would have a deterrent effect on other states seeking to normalise diplomatic relations with the Taliban. Signatories to the ICJ are expected to abide by its rulings. There has been concern that the UN has held talks with the Taliban in which women\u2019s issues have been excluded from the agenda in an attempt to persuade the Taliban to attend. The initiative has the support of three female foreign ministers: Penny Wong from Australia, Annalena Baerbock from Germany, and M\u00e9lanie Joly from Canada. It is also being backed by the Dutch foreign minister, Caspar Veldkamp. In the latest round of suppression in Afghanistan the Taliban have decreed that Afghan women are prohibited from speaking in public, prompting an online campaign in which Afghan women sing in protest. At a UN side event this week the actor Meryl Streep said: \u201cA female cat has more freedom than a woman. A cat may go sit on her front stoop and feel the sun on her face. She may chase a squirrel into the park. A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan today because the public parks have been closed to women and girls by the Taliban. A bird may sing in Kabul, but a girl may not.\u201d The countries involved in the litigation say they are willing to negotiate with the Taliban in good faith to end gender discrimination, but will, if the necessary stages prove fruitless, seek a hearing at the ICJ. Last month, the Taliban published a new set of vice and virtue laws that said women must not leave the house without being fully covered and could not sing or raise their voices in public. Streep spoke alongside Afghan activists and human rights defenders, who called on the UN to act to protect and restore the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan Asila Wardak, a leader of the Women\u2019s Forum on Afghanistan, said that the system of what has been described as gender apartheid being imposed on women and girls in Afghanistan, was not just an Afghan issue, but part of the \u201cglobal fight against extremism\u201d. Akila Radhakrishnan, strategic legal advisor on gender justice at the Atlantic Council thinktank, said: \u201cThis case, by centering violations of women\u2019s rights not only has the potential to deliver much needed justice to the women and girls of Afghanistan, but also forge new precedents for gender justice.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Leaders of Germany\u2019s Greens resign after state election defeats;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/leaders-germany-greens-party-resign-state-elections-ricarda-lang-omid-nouripour;2024-09-25T15:20:13Z",
        "text": "The leaders of Germany\u2019s Greens, partners in the embattled central government of Olaf Scholz, have announced their resignation, saying that a series of election defeats requires a radical reset. Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour, joint leaders since 2022, said on Wednesday that the environmental party, a trailblazer in Europe and the first to have MPs elected to a national parliament, faced its deepest crisis in a decade after the result of the Brandenburg state election on Sunday. \u201cIt is time to lay our beloved party\u2019s fate in others\u2019 hands,\u201d said Nouripour. The surprise announcement comes at a time when Germany\u2019s political landscape has been shaken by the rise of the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) and the unexpected success of a fledgling populist leftist-conservative party, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW). Support for both those parties led to feverish tactical voting in recent state elections, contributing to the Greens being knocked out of government in Brandenburg and Thuringia and only narrowly escaping a wipeout in Saxony. The party also took a drubbing in June\u2019s European parliamentary elections. On Wednesday, Lang said the resulting questions over the future direction of the party, especially with a federal election scheduled for a year\u2019s time, were inextricably linked to the question: \u201cWhat sort of country do we want to be?\u201d This included whether the government would stick to its agenda to become climate-neutral or \u201cretreat from that altogether\u201d, she said. Political analysts said the Green leaders\u2019 move would not directly affect Scholz\u2019s government \u2013 in which Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock are the leading Green figures, holding the economic and foreign affairs portfolios respectively \u2013 but that it would contribute to a general sense of political uncertainty in Germany. The three-way coalition\u2019s poll ratings are at a record low, and Scholz has the lowest popularity rating of any chancellor ever. The German Greens are not the only ones to be struggling across Europe. When Austria goes to the polls at the weekend, the Green party there is expected to perform particularly badly. One of the key issues is the supply of gas, with the Green-led energy ministry under pressure to wean the country off Russian exports, on which Austria is dependent for 83% of its needs, and build up alternative sources instead. The German Greens have been accused of losing their way, in particular since entering the federal government. Having to deal with the realpolitik of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with its resulting energy crisis, has forced the party into making decisions that appeared to go against its ideals. In the recent election campaigns, it often appeared to be the punchbag for parties across the spectrum. Accusations were rife that the party was trying to \u201cdictate\u201d the lives of ordinary Germans \u2013 from which type of heating system to use, to which car to drive \u2013 with the BSW and AfD going so far as to compare the Greens to the Communist regime of the former German Democratic Republic. The party has also lost a larger proportion of its younger voters at recent elections than any other party. In Sunday\u2019s Brandenburg poll, for instance, it saw its support in the 16-to-24 age bracket drop by 24 percentage points, a bigger fall than in any other age range. Lang and Nouripour will remain in post until November, when the party\u2019s annual conference in Wiesbaden will be dominated by the leadership election. Habeck acknowledged his share of responsibility for the Greens\u2019 election results and welcomed the chance for an open debate over the party\u2019s future. \u201cThe Greens will reorder their ranks to start the catchup ahead of the elections with a new drive,\u201d he said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;EU fund to stem migration from Africa \u2018fails to address risks\u2019 \u2013 watchdog;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/eu-fund-to-stem-migration-africa-europe-risks-european-court-of-auditors;2024-09-25T15:19:56Z",
        "text": "A \u20ac5bn EU fund aiming to stem the mass movement of people from Africa to Europe lacks focus and fails to address the risk of human rights abusers benefiting from European money, the bloc\u2019s spending watchdog has found. In a report on Wednesday, the European court of auditors intensified its previous criticism of the EU trust fund for Africa, which was set up in 2015 by European leaders seeking to curb the growing numbers of people making dangerous sea crossings in an attempt to reach Europe. While the funds have largely been spent, the criticism from the EU\u2019s official spending watchdog carries added weight after recent EU deals with Egypt and Tunisia aimed at stopping migration and shoring up stability on Europe\u2019s southern border. Couched in the cautious language of auditors, the ECA report is a quietly devastating critique of one of the EU\u2019s flagship policies, at a time when migration remains high on the political agenda. The trust fund, the auditors said, was \u201cstill not properly focused on priorities\u201d, and spread too thinly to be effective while \u201chuman rights risks are not properly addressed\u201d. The ECA also questioned whether the EU-Africa trust fund had succeeded in its goal of \u201caddress[ing] the root causes of instability, forced displacement and irregular migration\u201d. \u201cEven after seven years, and despite the lessons learned and a midterm review, the commission is still unable to identify and report on the most efficient and effective approaches to reducing irregular migration and forced displacements in Africa,\u201d the report stated. Some of the starkest findings concern Libya, where the EU has a controversial agreement to fund the country\u2019s coastguard to carry out search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean. Migrants returned to Libya have been detained in government-run detention centres where, according to NGO reports, they have been subject to torture, sexual violence and beatings. The ECA noted that EU-funded equipment in Libya, such as boats, could be used by people \u201cother than the intended beneficiaries\u201d while EU-funded cars and buses \u201cmay have facilitated the transfer of migrants\u201d to detention centres, \u201cexacerbating overcrowding\u201d. Similarly, EU-funded equipment for detention centres, the ECA said, could have been sold or \u201cmay have potentially benefited criminal organisations\u201d. The EU audit team visited Libya, but were not able to visit a detention centre. Nor could Libyan authorities tell the auditors who was responsible for detention centres that had been closed down having previously benefited from EU funds. More broadly, the auditors concluded that contract clauses threatening to freeze EU funds if a violation of human rights was found were \u201cnot applied systematically\u201d especially \u201crelating to security, border management or other sensitive activities\u201d. The auditors said the commission had no \u201cformal procedures for reporting and assessing alleged human rights violations\u201d and urged it to fill this gap. \u201cWe found that human rights risk had not been comprehensively addressed by the commission,\u201d said Bettina Jakobsen, the ECA member who led the audit. She added that the commission had \u201cdone what it could\u201d by hiring a third-party organisation to monitor human rights in Libya, but there was still \u201ca lack of formal procedures at the commission for reporting, recording and following up on allegations of human rights violations in relation to EU-funded projects\u201d. Since its launch in 2015, the trust fund has funded projects in 27 countries. While \u20ac4.4bn comes from the EU budget, the remainder comes from national governments, including Switzerland, Norway and the UK. David Cameron, the former UK prime minister, who signed the UK up to the trust fund, said at the time that a \u201creal partnership\u201d was needed \u201cwith the countries from which these people are coming\u201d to try to stem the numbers of people trying to reach Europe. Last week, on a visit to Italy, Keir Starmer, the current UK prime minister, said he was impressed with the \u201cupstream work\u201d done by Giorgia Meloni\u2019s government aimed at stopping people coming to Europe. Nearly nine years after the plan was announced at a high-profile summit in Valletta, the ECA concluded not enough projects were linked to \u201cthe most urgent aspects of the migration crisis\u201d. It cited the example of an EU-funded music radio station in the Sahel. In an unnamed country, a school without any electricity supply was provided with a blender. In other cases, projects ran aground with no apparent follow-up. In 2021 the EU funded a solar-power chicken shed big enough for 1,000 birds and slaughter house in the Lake Chad and Sahel region. When auditors visited it was empty and the youth association running the project said it wasn\u2019t economically viable. A sample of 115 EU-backed business, infrastructure and equipment investments assessed by the ECA found that 33 were no longer operational and 66 were at risk of closing down or falling out of use. Jakobsen said EU-funded projects had partially achieved their objectives, but overall outcomes could not be measured. \u201cThe scope of the fund is so broad that it can almost fund everything in development, humanitarian aid and security, which makes it perhaps a little bit difficult to say that it has achieved all the output that it would like. It has resulted in output, but the outcome could not be measured and the sustainability was not there.\u201d In a statement the commission said respect of human rights was considered at every stage of a project and that it examined incidents of alleged abuses \u201con a case-by-case basis\u201d based on substantiated evidence. \u201cHowever, the commission recognises that this procedure should be further strengthened and formally documented as recommended by ECA.\u201d The commission added that in Libya, \u201cit operates in a fast evolving political and security context where suspending EU assistance is unlikely to improve the situation\u201d. It added that the trust fund had \u201calready delivered a significant share of its planned outputs\u201d and that the commission was applying lessons learned in current and future EU programmes."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018This was a peaceful town. Everything has changed\u2019: the Israelis under Hezbollah fire;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/this-was-a-peaceful-town-everything-has-changed-the-israelis-under-hezbollah-fire;2024-09-25T13:51:12Z",
        "text": "In southern Lebanon, Israel has launched an unprecedented barrage of airstrikes, killing hundreds as thousands flee. In the small town of Kiryat Bialik in northern Israel, however, an eerie silence prevails \u2013 one occasionally interrupted by sirens and the thundering explosions of Hezbollah rockets and missiles being intercepted by air defences. Some of the missiles get through. At about 6.30am on Sunday, Ami Aziza, 40, had just enough time to usher his family into their safe room, a fortified space found in many Israeli homes. Three seconds later, an Iranian-made Fajr-3 rocket struck their small street, lined with low-rise homes and flats, leaving a crater and setting vehicles ablaze. Three people were injured. \u201cIf the rocket had fallen two metres further, it would have destroyed my house,\u201d said Aziza, as he, along with other residents, tried to clear the debris of the strike from his home. \u201cThis was a peaceful town. And we want to go back to our normal lives, to our work. We want our children to go back to school. We want a diplomatic solution of this conflict. Since this new war with Lebanon started, everything has changed.\u201d In the aftermath of the 7 October attacks, Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas in Gaza, has traded almost daily fire with Israeli troops along the Lebanon-Israel border. But in a significant escalation of the conflict, Israeli warplanes this week carried out one of most intense bombardments since the end of the 1975-90 civil war, while Hezbollah responded with its deepest rocket attacks into Israel since the start of the Gaza war. Since then, Kiryat Bialik, situated along the long arc of Haifa Bay and one of four towns and two neighbourhoods north of Haifa known collectively as the Krayot, has found itself under increasing threat. \u201cIn the Bible, the Lebanese are our cousins,\u201d said 61-year-old Ilan Itach, who, along with his nephew, son and daughter-in-law, spent hours locked in the safe room of his flat on Sunday as a result of explosions that preceded the rocket\u2019s impact on the street outside his home. \u201cAfter the strike, one of my six-year-old granddaughters said to me: \u2018Grandpa, why don\u2019t they like us? What did we do to them? How many gods are in the sky?\u2019 \u2018Only one,\u2019 she told me.\u201d In one of the buildings in Kiryat Bialik, a large Israeli flag hangs from the roof, riddled with shrapnel. On the street hit by the rocket, dozens of soldiers from the Home Front Command were being briefed by their captain on the emergency measures to take in case of another attack, while air raid sirens echoed across dozens of cities, from Haifa to Nazareth, from the Upper Galilee area to the southern Golan Heights. The prospect of a third war with Lebanon, following the conflicts of 1982 and 2006, is on the tip of almost every political observer\u2019s tongue, as Israel continues its \u201cextensive strikes\u201d on Hezbollah targets \u2013 including attacks in the southern suburbs of Beirut for the third day in a row and the fourth time this week. \u201cWe know we will endure numerous casualties on the home front,\u201d said Ofek Cohen, whose grandfather lost an eye and sustained injuries all over his body from the Hezbollah strike. \u201cBut we are confident and determined to continue the fight. If we do not put an end to it now, we will face even greater suffering at the hands of Hezbollah.\u201d Cohen\u2019s grandfather, Joseph, 77, was taken with three other injured people to Rambam hospital in Haifa, which on Sunday was ordered by the health ministry to relocate hundreds of patients from wards to a vast two-level underground parking facility with space for 1,400 cars. In less than eight hours, the hospital staff transferred approximately 700 people, including cancer patients and pregnant women. \u201cWe have an infectious diseases ward, operating rooms, a paediatric unit, a dialysis ward, a unit for the injured, and even an obstetrics department, as well as an air filtration system in case of a chemical attack,\u201d said the hospital\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cWe cannot take any risks during the current escalation with Lebanon, whose border is just 30 kilometres away. During the 2006 war, no one thought that a hospital would need a shelter, yet three missiles landed very close to the facility.\u201d By Tuesday, four babies had been born in the underground car park. Joseph Cohen sat on a bed in what until last week was a parking space with a bandage over his face where his eye once was. \u201cWhen I heard the siren, we went down to the first floor to enter the safe room,\u201d he said. \u201cFirst, my nephew, daughter-in-law, and son entered, and I, who was supposed to enter last, was a metre away from the fortified room when a massive explosion threw me into the air.\u201d He described the situation in Lebanon as \u201ca war even crueller and longer than the previous one\u201d, but said that in Israel \u201ceverybody was ready for it.\u201d He added: \u201cHezbollah has been trying to push us to the sea for years. The response of the Israeli government is not only right, but it\u2019s a shame we didn\u2019t launch an offensive in Lebanon earlier, because we could have avoided many losses.\u201d Outside the hospital, Haifa, with its beautiful mosques and breathtaking views of the Mediterranean, is close to deserted. The military has mandated the closure of the beach and restricted outdoor gatherings to 30 people. In a city that for decades has been Israel\u2019s model for what a \u201cmixed\u201d Jewish-Arab city could be, relations have become strained since the attack on 7 October, with Palestinian Israeli citizens being subjected to pressure by the police and military. Today, according to official figures, 33,000 Arabs live in Haifa making up 12% of its 280,000 population. In the shade of an olive tree in front of a downtown bar, along the long Ben Gurion Avenue, a group of elderly Palestinian people were chatting in the warm hours of a Tuesday afternoon. Some of them have lived in Haifa since before the foundation of the state of Israel. \u201cI\u2019m a Palestinian Christian, and I live in the same house where I was born in this city,\u201d said Simon, 70. \u201cUntil 7 October, we lived together in peace with Jews here in Haifa. But now, you feel the tensions in the air. Today, coexistence is as difficult as avoiding raindrops. If you write something about the war or say something, the police will come to your house. Israel is stronger than the people it is currently fighting. \u201cBut in wars, there are no winners,\u201d he added. \u201cThere is only one side that loses more than the other.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;New Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon as Hezbollah confirms death of senior commander;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/israel-lebanon-strikes-hezbollah-commander-ibrahim-qubaisi-latest-news-death-toll;2024-09-25T12:26:59Z",
        "text": "Israel began a third day of strikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, hours after Hezbollah confirmed the death of a senior commander in an airstrike on Beirut and a Lebanese minister said only Washington could help end the fighting. Lebanese media reported that Israeli airstrikes had targeted several areas in the country\u2019s south, beginning at around 5am, causing unspecified casualties. Hezbollah meanwhile said it had launched a rocket targeting Mossad headquarters near Tel Aviv. Sirens had sounded in the Israeli city early on Wednesday, sending residents into bomb shelters, however the Israeli military later said it had intercepted the missile and no casualties or damage were reported. Earlier on Wednesday, Hezbollah had confirmed that senior commander Ibrahim Qubaisi was among six people killed by an Israeli airstrike on an apartment block in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, as Israel had claimed earlier. Israel said Qubaisi headed the group\u2019s missile and rocket force. Israel\u2019s offensive since Monday morning has killed 569 people, including 50 children, and wounded 1,835 in Lebanon, health minister Firass Abiad told Al Jazeera Mubasher TV. Tuesday\u2019s attacks came after Monday\u2019s barrages racked up the highest death toll in any single day in Lebanon since the 15-year civil war that started in 1975. Israel\u2019s new offensive against Hezbollah has stoked fears that nearly a year of conflict between Israel and the militant Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza is escalating and could destabilise the Middle East. Britain urged its nationals to leave Lebanon and said it was moving 700 troops to Cyprus to help its citizens evacuate. The UN security council said it would meet on Wednesday to discuss the conflict. \u201cLebanon is at the brink. The people of Lebanon \u2013 the people of Israel \u2013 and the people of the world \u2013 cannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza,\u201d UN secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said. At the UN, which is holding its general assembly this week, US President Joe Biden made a plea for calm. \u201cFull-scale war is not in anyone\u2019s interest. Even if a situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible,\u201d he said. Lebanon\u2019s foreign minister Abdallah Bou Habib criticised Biden\u2019s address as \u201cnot strong, not promising\u201d and said the US was the only country \u201cthat can really make a difference in the Middle East and with regard to Lebanon.\u201d Washington is Israel\u2019s longtime ally and biggest arms supplier. The US \u201cis the key \u2026 to our salvation,\u201d he told an event in New York City hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Up to half a million people are estimated to have been displaced in Lebanon, said Bou Habib. He said Lebanon\u2019s prime minister hoped to meet with US officials over the next two days. In Lebanon, displaced families slept in shelters hastily set up in schools in Beirut and the coastal city of Sidon. With hotels quickly booked to capacity or rooms priced beyond the means of many families, those who did not find shelter slept in their cars, in parks or along the seaside. Fatima Chehab, who came with her three daughters from the area of Nabatieh, said her family had been displaced twice in quick succession. \u201cWe first fled to stay with my brother in a nearby area, and then they bombed three places next to his house,\u201d she said. Some people waited for hours in gridlocked traffic to get to what they hoped would be safety. Issa Baydoun fled the village of Shihine in southern Lebanon when it was bombed and came to Beirut in a convoy of cars with his extended family. They slept in the vehicles on the side of the road after discovering that the shelters were full. He rejected Israel\u2019s contention that it hit only military targets. \u201cWe evacuated our homes because Israel is targeting civilians and attacking them,\u201d Baytown said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we left our homes, to protect our children.\u201d The UN\u2019s high commissioner for refugees in Lebanon said one of its staffers and her young son were among those killed Monday in the Bekaa region, while a cleaner under contract was killed in a strike in the south. Early on Wednesday, an Israeli strike hit the seaside town of Jiyeh, 75km (46 miles) north of the border with Israel, two security sources said. The US and fellow mediators Qatar and Egypt have so far been unsuccessful in their efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in the nearly year-old war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, a Hezbollah ally. Hezbollah has said it will cease firing rockets at Israel if it agrees a ceasefire in Gaza. Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian, whose country and Israel are arch-enemies, told the UN general assembly the international community must \u201csecure a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and bring an end to the desperate barbarism of Israel in Lebanon, before it engulfs the region and the world.\u201d Israel\u2019s military said its air force conducted \u201cextensive strikes\u201d on Tuesday on Hezbollah targets across southern Lebanon, including weapons storage facilities and dozens of launchers that were aimed at Israeli territory. Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said the attacks had weakened Hezbollah and would continue. Hezbollah \u201chas suffered a sequence of blows to its command and control, its fighters, and the means to fight. These are all severe blows,\u201d he told Israeli troops. He accused the UN of shirking its responsibility to prevent Hezbollah\u2019s attacks into Israel. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed to maintain the offensive against Hezbollah and said the group\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was leading Lebanon \u201cto the edge of the abyss\u201d. Hezbollah said it launched rockets at the Dado military base in northern Israel and attacked the Atlit naval base south of Haifa with drones, among other targets. An Israeli military spokesperson said six soldiers and civilians had been injured, most not seriously. Suspected Israeli missiles were also launched at the Syrian port city of Tartous and were intercepted by Syrian air defences, Syrian army sources said. The Israeli military declined to comment on the report. Since the Gaza war started in October, Israel has intensified a years-long air campaign targeting Iran-aligned armed groups and their weapons transfers in Syria. Funerals were held on Tuesday for people killed in Lebanon by Israel\u2019s bombardment. In the coastal city of Saksakiyeh, Mohammed Helal was defiant as he mourned his daughter Jouri. \u201cWe are not afraid. Even if they kill, dissect and destroy us,\u201d he said. Reuters contributed to this report"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018One death is too many\u2019: abortion bans usher in US maternal mortality crisis;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/abortion-bans-healthcare-maternal-mortality;2024-09-25T11:00:02Z",
        "text": "In Louisiana, doctors will no longer be able to carry a lifesaving medication with them during pregnancy emergencies. In Texas, the infant mortality rate is soaring. In Idaho, pregnant people drive hours just to give birth. And in Oklahoma and Georgia, women are bleeding out in hospital parking lots and facing dangerous infections before they can find care \u2013 and sometimes, that care comes too late. The limitations and outright bans on abortion that have taken hold in half of the US in the wake of the Dobbs decision have wreaked enormous changes to the reproductive health landscape. The restrictions put a growing burden on the health and wellbeing of patients and providers, even as more Americans find it difficult to find and access care. \u201cThe United States is, and has been for quite some time, in the midst of a maternal and infant mortality crisis,\u201d said Dr Jamila Perritt, a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist and president of Physicians for Reproductive Health. Banning access to reproductive healthcare, including abortion care, is \u201cdirectly causing an increase in morbidity and mortality in our community\u201d, she said. \u201cWe have really robust evidence that shows us that when people have sought abortion care and are unable to obtain it, their psychological, social, physical and emotional health is harmed.\u201d Maternal and infant mortality will probably increase because of the restrictions \u2013 especially if national limitations, like enforcement of the Comstock Act, are put into place. \u201cI expect in the next few years, we\u2019re going to start to see the infant mortality, pre-term birth, maternal mortality, and maternal morbidity numbers rise for everyone, and particularly for folks from racially marginalized and low-socioeconomic communities,\u201d said Rachel Hardeman, professor of reproductive health and founding director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity at the University of Minnesota. Calculating mortality is often a complicated and controversial endeavor. When maternal mortality dropped in 2022, anti-abortion advocates credited the success to the Dobbs decision. But that\u2019s not the case, according to new research in Jama Network Open. Maternal deaths surged during the first two years of the pandemic, when Covid, a deadly illness during pregnancy, accounted for one-quarter of all maternal deaths. But in 2022, that rate dropped to levels similar to pre-pandemic levels, from 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2021 to 22.3 in 2022. That rate is still higher than maternal mortality rates in peer nations, and research indicates it will increase if officials clamp down on abortion nationally \u2013 which, with the Comstock Act, would require no additional anti-abortion legislation or bans. Right now, \u201cpeople can still travel to other states, but once there\u2019s a federal ban, that won\u2019t be an option any more,\u201d says Amanda Jean Stevenson, co-author of the new Jama research and a sociologist at the University of Colorado Boulder. \u201cAnd there could be this very different set of outcomes when people\u2019s options are gone.\u201d In the United States, more than 80% of pregnancy-related deaths and more than 60% of infant deaths in the first week are preventable \u2013 and those figures were estimated before the Dobbs decision. Because of abortion restrictions, there are already significant challenges to accessing reproductive healthcare \u2013 and it\u2019s not just abortion care. In Louisiana, misoprostol \u2013 a drug used for medication abortion and other lifesaving purposes \u2013 will be labeled a controlled substance beginning on 1 October. One of its uses is keeping patients from bleeding out after childbirth, which is the No 1 cause of postpartum mortality. Yet physicians cannot keep controlled substances in their emergency carts, and they fear they won\u2019t have enough time to fill prescriptions for patients when minutes and even seconds make the difference between life and death. In the year following Texas\u2019s abortion ban, child mortality shot up by 12.9% \u2013 compared with a 1.8% increase in the rest of the country, according to a recent study. Congenital anomalies are the leading cause of infant death in the US \u2013 but while they went down by 3.1% in the rest of the country, they went up by 22.9% in Texas. \u201cThat study was chilling. That is a huge change,\u201d Stevenson said. It echoed previous research finding that states with the most restrictive abortion laws saw 16% more infant deaths between 2014 and 2018. The trauma and costs of carrying to term pregnancies that are incompatible with life inflict an incalculable toll on families and providers. States are closing obstetric units and losing experienced providers who worry about not being able to offer lifesaving care as patients die on the table in front of them, and facing jail time if they provide care. More than two-thirds (68%) of obstetricians and gynecologists say the Dobbs decision has made it harder for them to respond to pregnancy-related emergencies, according to the non-partisan health research organization KFF. They also believe it has worsened mortality in pregnancy while increasing racial and ethnic inequities, and fewer doctors are now interested in entering the field. In 2022, soon after the Dobbs decision, medical residency applications dropped for states with bans. More than half of doctors surveyed in states with bans and limitations said they were very concerned about legal repercussions to providing the standard of care in pregnancy. \u201cThat can just exacerbate already pretty large gaps in the workforce,\u201d said Usha Ranji, associate director for women\u2019s health policy at KFF. In the past two years, more than 100 hospitals have closed their obstetric units entirely, according to a new March of Dimes report. More than one-third of US counties are now maternity care deserts, with no obstetricians or places to give birth. North Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska, Oklahoma and Nebraska have the least access to maternity care. The majority of rural hospitals (57%) no longer deliver babies, with more than 100 of the rural hospitals ending labor and delivery services in the past five years. \u201cWe\u2019ve created policy and legislation to limit access to abortions and also have closed the exact places that people need to go to get care if they are pregnant,\u201d Hardeman said. That puts pressure on neighboring states that still provide care, she said. \u201cWhere you live matters for your health. And I think that the Dobbs decision and the fall of Roe have demonstrated that in a very real and very obvious way, because there are literally places in this country where there is essentially no access to reproductive healthcare,\u201d she said. \u201cIt started out in rural spaces, but more and more, there\u2019s reports popping up of labor and delivery units closing in, like, urban Chicago.\u201d In states with restrictions on abortion, women of color and pregnant people from low-income communities often suffer the most, said Hardeman. \u201cTaking away access to reproductive healthcare is exacerbating those disparities.\u201d Black women die because of pregnancy at twice the national rate, and three times more than white women, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. \u201cThe fact that black women and birthing people are dying at three to four times greater risk than white women is shameful \u2013 and it\u2019s preventable,\u201d Perritt said. It\u2019s important to shore up protections for reproductive health for all Americans before health complications and mortality rise even more, she said. \u201cOne death is too much. One is too many.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Attempt to arrest Brazilian music star highlights boom in online gambling;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/arrest-overturned-gusttavo-lima-online-gambling;2024-09-25T10:00:24Z",
        "text": "In less than 24 hours, Gusttavo Lima, one of the most famous Brazilian country singers, sang at a rodeo in rural S\u00e3o Paulo state, watched Akon perform at the Rock in Rio festival, jetted to Miami \u2013 and became the target of an arrest warrant on suspicion of money laundering. A judge issued the warrant late on Monday, saying Lima was suspected of links to illegal online gambling. A spokesperson for the singer, whose real name is Nivaldo Batista Lima, described the warrant as \u201cunjust and without legal grounds\u201d, adding that \u201cthe artist\u2019s innocence will be duly proven\u201d, and the arrest order was overturned a day later. But the attempt to arrest a star with 13 million monthly listeners on Spotify dominated local news headlines \u2013 and cast a spotlight on how a sudden boom in unregulated online gambling has become a growing criminal headache and public health crisis for Brazil.Online gambling companies have grown exponentially since the Covid-19 pandemic, many of them with links to international companies and local criminal groups. New rules to regulate online gambling will come into force on 1 January, but experts warn that the regulations will be insufficient to combat what many are calling Brazil\u2019s \u201cepidemic\u201d of online gambling addiction. A series of recent studies have laid bare the scale of the problem: in addition to getting into debt, more Brazilians are using money they would have spent on entertainment or even food to bet online, and growing numbers are dropping out of applying to university for the same reason. \u201cWe\u2019re already completely overwhelmed,\u201d said Hermano Tavares, a psychiatrist who created the outpatient gambling program of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo hospital in 1998. The program, which can accommodate 100 new cases yearly, currently has 240 on the books, with another 240 on the waiting list. \u201cThe Brazilian healthcare system is still not prepared to start dealing with these cases,\u201d said Tavares. The crisis has also been felt at Gamblers Anonymous, the 12-step recovery programme whose first Brazilian group was established in Rio in 1993. In the past 12 months alone, groups have been formed in seven more cities, including the first one in the Amazon. Online gambling was legalised at the end of Michel Temer\u2019s government in 2018, but no regulations were implemented during far-right Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s four-year term. Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva\u2019s government approved the regulations at the end of 2023, giving companies a year to comply. More than 100 companies have registered to pay a five-year licence fee of R$30m (\u00a34.1 million). But Tavares argued that the regulation is \u201cexcessively\u201d focused on fiscal concerns \u2013 specifically preventing capital flight, and securing tax revenue \u2013 rather than on gamblers\u2019 health. Fernando Haddad, Brazil\u2019s finance minister, whose office oversees the gambling market, has denied that the regulations are focussed on raising money for the government. \u201cIt has nothing to do with revenue. It has to do with a pandemic that has taken hold in the country \u2026 which is the issue of psychological gambling addiction,\u201d he told reporters last week. Haddad said that public education campaigns will be launched to warn the public about the impact gambling may have on their health and personal finances. But health specialists say the rules should be tougher, with a total block on any financial transactions between midnight and 8am. Under the new rules, companies are only required to offer bettors the option to set such limits themselves. While the regulations have yet to come into force, actions against illegal betting companies have primarily been led by the police, focusing on money-laundering cases, such as the one Lima was alleged to have been involved in. Judge Andr\u00e9a Calado da Cruz, who issued the warrant, alleged that Lima \u2013 a rising star of sertanejo, the accordion-driven country genre that currently dominates the Brazilian music industry \u2013 gave \u201cshelter\u201d to the owner of a betting company and his wife, who were wanted on charges of money laundering. The warrant for the couple was also later overturned by an appellate judge. Da Cruz also alleged that Lima had received at least R$15.71m (\u00a32.1m) through companies of which he is the sole shareholder from companies accused of laundering money from online gambling and jogo do bicho, a Brazilian popular illegal lottery; and R$22.23m (\u00a33m) for selling a jet to one of the companies. The singer\u2019s PR office said in a statement that the singer \u201cwould never be complicit in any act contrary to the laws of our country, and neither he nor his companies are involved in the subject of the police operation\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Scurvy, hypothermia and cannibalism: DNA sheds light on victim of Northwest Passage expedition;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/sir-john-franklin-1845-expedition-sailor-identified;2024-09-25T09:00:24Z",
        "text": "For more than a century, the bones of sailors who joined polar explorer Sir John Franklin\u2019s ill-fated Northwest Passage expedition lay scattered on the rocky shores of an Arctic island. Weatherbeaten and bleached, nearly a quarter of the anonymous remains bore the marks of cannibalism, reflecting a grim coda to the famed expedition. Now, one of those men has been identified as Capt James Fitzjames from London, a discovery stemming from years of study by researchers at two Canadian universities, who isolated his DNA from a single molar and traced it to living relatives. Fitzjames, a member of the Royal Navy, had previously sailed to Syria, Egypt, China and the Americas before serving as captain on HMS Erebus which, alongside HMS Terror, departed England in 1845, with the hope of traversing the Northwest Passage. The famed and closely watched expedition ended in disaster, with all 129 crew members succumbing to the hostile elements of the Arctic. Between 1847 and 1859, at least 36 expeditions set out in search of Franklin\u2019s lost ships, but all ended in failure. It wasn\u2019t until researchers turned to Inuit oral history that they were able to locate the final resting place of the Erebus and the Terror in the past decade. The remains of the crewmen were located much earlier at two sites on the south-west coast of King William Island, Nunavut. Search teams located boats lashed to large sleds, apparently bound for the Back River. \u201cWhat was the plan following the desertion of the ships? Did they travel as a single group? How do we understand the bodies of 20 sailors in this one spot? There are so many questions we still have and we\u2019re trying to get a better understanding of what was happening,\u201d said Douglas Stenton, adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Waterloo and lead author on the research. \u201cIt\u2019s challenging and it\u2019s fascinating; no other British polar exploration suffered such a catastrophic loss as the Franklin Expedition.\u201d It was Fitzjames, captain of the Erebus, who helped author the last known message from the expedition, a note discovered at Victory Point on King William Island that read: \u201cSir John Franklin died on the 11th of June 1847 and the total loss by deaths in the Expedition has been to this date nine officers and 15 men \u2026 [We] start on tomorrow 26th for Backs Fish River.\u201d The site where Fitzjames and at least a dozen others perished was located by searchers in the 1860s, who heard Inuit stories that the survivors resorted to cannibalism \u2013 news that rocked Victorian England. That testimony was given some support in the late 1990s by the late anthropologist Anne Keenleyside, who found marks consistent with human-made cuts on nearly a quarter of the bones. But until recently, there was no idea who these individuals were, apart from the fact that they were members of the expedition. In 2013, Stenton and the team received permission to remove remains from the site, including eight mandibles discovered by Keenleyside. In 2017, following a large exhibition of the Franklin expedition in Greenwich, Stenton and the team asked possible relatives to donate DNA samples for their bio-archaeology project and were inundated with offers. \u201cYou have to be related in a very specific way for the purposes of our study. We have about, I think, 25 descendants so far that we\u2019ve obtained genetic profiles from,\u201d he said. A molar from one mandible, etched with knife marks, proved a match with one of those 25 and the team soon realized they were holding the remains of Captain James Fitzjames. The results were published on Tuesday in the Journal of Archaeological Science. Fitzjames is just the second of those 105 to be positively identified: John Gregory, an engineer aboard the Erebus, was identified by the same team in 2021 after they extracted DNA from his skull. Recent excavations suggest that a combination of scurvy, hypothermia and possibly cannibalism killed the crew after they abandoned the two stranded vessels. For Stenton, the latest findings provide a deeper human element to a voyage shrouded in mystery and despair. \u201cIt just speaks to the desperate conditions that they faced at that site,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat exactly was going on at that site that brought them to that point? This was survival cannibalism and it was a very desperate measures that some of the men took \u2013 and sadly, it only prolonged their suffering. It\u2019s an incredible level of desperation that they must have endured.\u201d Stenton says a \u201cdiagnostic\u201d approach to the evidence has helped reshape narratives surrounding the end days of the expedition. Among those discrepancies: Inuit oral history was \u201cindisputable\u201d in locating the site of the two wrecks, achieving success where three dozen search efforts fell short. But other aspects of their testimony have been more challenging to corroborate. \u201cThe Inuit account of the site [where Fitzjames\u2019s remains were found] had a very graphic description of cannibalistic activity: a huge pile of bones that had been broken and boiled for marrow,\u201d said Stenton. \u201cWe\u2019re not the first archaeologists to be at that site. We\u2019re the last ones. And there\u2019s no evidence of that at the site, of breaking of bones for marrow, and no bone fragments \u2013 an \u2018archeological signature\u2019. These are the kinds of things that can be challenging to try and reconcile. We\u2019re not about trying to prove somebody\u2019s wrong. We\u2019re just trying to understand what happened.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ukraine war briefing: Trump expected to snub Zelenskyy as Biden backs Kyiv;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/ukraine-war-briefing-trump-expected-to-snub-zelenskyy-as-biden-backs-kyiv;2024-09-25T00:24:41Z",
        "text": "An official on Trump\u2019s campaign said the Republican nominee will not meet this week with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy while he is in the US. No meeting has been scheduled between the two, the official told the Associated Press, despite a statement from Ukrainian officials last week that said Zelenskyy had planned to see the former president. Donald Trump said the US needs to \u201cget out\u201d of the war in Ukraine and that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had no plan to do so. \u201cBiden and Kamala got us into this war in Ukraine, and now they can\u2019t get us out,\u201d Trump said in a speech in Georgia. The US does not have troops in Ukraine but has given military and humanitarian assistance. Speaking in Savannah, Trump raised two historical conflicts to suggest Moscow would not lose. \u201cWhat happens if they win? That\u2019s what they do, is they fight wars. As somebody told me the other day, they beat Hitler, they beat Napoleon. That\u2019s what they do. They fight. And it\u2019s not pleasant.\u201d Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine had failed as he urged the UN to keep supporting Kyiv until victory. \u201cPutin\u2019s war has failed at its core aim. He set out to destroy Ukraine, but Ukraine is still free,\u201d Biden said in his last address as president to the UN general assembly. He said the war had led to a strategic reordering that strengthened Nato and brought two new countries, Finland and Sweden, into the security pact. \u201cWe cannot grow weary,\u201d he said, as Zelenskyy looked on. \u201cWe cannot look away. We will not let up on our support for Ukraine. Not until Ukraine wins a just and durable peace.\u201d The US will send Ukraine an undisclosed number of medium-range cluster bombs and an array of rockets, artillery and armoured vehicles in a military aid package totalling about $375m, US officials said on Tuesday. The expected announcement comes as global leaders meet at the UN general assembly. The latest package of weapons, provided through presidential drawdown authority, is one of the largest approved recently and will take stocks from Pentagon shelves to deliver the weapons more quickly to Ukraine. Including this latest package, the US has provided more than $56.2bn in security assistance to Ukraine since Russia invaded. It comes as nearly $6bn in funding for aid to Ukraine could expire at the end of the month unless Congress acts to extend the Pentagon\u2019s authority to send weapons from its stockpile to Kyiv. The US \u201cwill find a way\u201d before the end of Biden\u2019s term in January to make use of the remaining aid, a senior state department official said on Tuesday. \u201cI think it\u2019s very unlikely that President Biden will finish his term with appropriated funds unused for the purpose Congress allocated them,\u201d said the official. In a forceful speech to the UN security council, Zelenskyy called on a broad alliance of nations to \u201cforce Russia into peace\u201d, saying that Vladimir Putin has violated the foundations of the United Nations and that the war \u201ccan\u2019t be conquered by talks\u201d alone. Zelenskyy accused Moscow of committing \u201cinternational crimes\u201d by targeting Ukrainian civilians and energy infrastructure, and claimed he had proof that Putin is plotting to target three Ukrainian nuclear power plants to further degrade the country\u2019s energy grid. Zelenskyy said his \u201cvictory plan\u201d is not about negotiating with Russia, but finding a way of ending the conflict diplomatically. The head of the presidential office Andriy Yermak confirmed that an invitation to join Nato is part of Ukraine\u2019s so-called \u201cvictory plan\u201d, details of which have not been revealed yet by Zelenskyy, who is due to present it to Biden this week. Zelenskyy will speak at the UN general assembly on Wednesday, and is due to meet US presidential candidate Kamala Harris, as well as Joe Biden during his trip to the US this week. Brazilian president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva advocated for a plan for talks between Russia and Ukraine to end the conflict, a proposal already rejected by Ukraine\u2019s president. Zelenskyy has rejected the proposal as \u201cdestructive\u201d and insisted his summit initiative is the only viable peace format. The Chinese-Brazilian proposal, which was made public in May, calls for de-escalating the situation and the resumption of direct dialogue without requiring Russia to pull back. Russian strikes on a residential quarter of Ukraine\u2019s north-eastern city of Kharkiv killed three civilians and wounded more than 30 on Tuesday afternoon, Ukrainian officials said. Kharkiv lies around 30km from the Russian border and has been pounded by Russian aerial attacks throughout the two-and-a-half-year war. \u201cThe targets of the Russian bombs were an apartment building, a bakery, a stadium. In other words, the everyday life of ordinary people,\u201d Zelenskyy said on social media. Russian lawmakers approved new measures to facilitate the army\u2019s ability to recruit suspected criminals for its war in Ukraine. Moscow has used prisoners extensively throughout its two and a half year campaign. Russia\u2019s State Duma, the lower house of parliament, on Tuesday backed a new bill that would allow defendants that are currently on trial to sign up for the army."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Japanese court acquits a man in a 1966 murder retrial after decades on death row;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/26/g-s1-24624/japanese-court-acquits-a-man-in-a-1966-murder-retrial;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:54:22 -0400",
        "text": "A court ruled Thursday that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder. He spent 48 years behind bars, making him the world's longest-serving death row inmate."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;A History of Hezbollah (Throwback);https://www.npr.org/2024/09/26/1201730546/a-history-of-hezbollah-throwback;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:59 -0400",
        "text": "Hezbollah is a Lebanese paramilitary organization and political party that's directly supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the wake of the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, and Israel's invasion of Gaza, there have been escalating attacks between Hezbollah and Israel across the border they share.<br /><br />Today on the show: a history of Hezbollah."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;A zoo in Finland is returning pandas to China because they're too expensive to keep;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/26/g-s1-24620/a-zoo-in-finland-is-returning-pandas-to-china-because-theyre-too-expensive-to-keep;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:11:31 -0400",
        "text": "The zoo has agreed with Chinese authorities to return two giant pandas to China more than eight years ahead of schedule because they have become too expensive to maintain amid declining visitors."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;U.S. and allies call for an immediate 21-day cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/25/g-s1-24617/us-and-allies-call-for-an-immediate-21-day-cease-fire-between-israel-and-hezbollah;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:48:08 -0400",
        "text": "The U.S., France and other allies jointly called Wednesday for an immediate 21-day cease-fire to allow for negotiations in the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted, sources say;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/25/g-s1-24613/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-has-been-indicted;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:18:46 -0400",
        "text": "New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a grand jury on federal criminal charges. The indictment detailing the charges against Adams, a Democrat, was still sealed late Wednesday."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;What the U.S. Military is Learning from the Drone War in Ukraine;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/25/1201499008/what-the-u-s-military-is-learning-from-the-drone-war-in-ukraine;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:31:28 -0400",
        "text": "As the war in Ukraine drags on, the U.S. military is keeping a close eye on how drones are changing the conflict. They are used by both Russia and Ukraine to watch troop movements, identify targets and drop bombs. We go to the woods of Louisiana to see what lessons the U.S. Army is incorporating into its training and understand what it might mean for future wars."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Trying to stay safe in a wildfire? There's an app that can help;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/25/g-s1-24534/wildfire-app-watch-duty-firefighting;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:56:51 -0400",
        "text": "Watch Duty, a free app for tracking wildfires, has taken off in the Western U.S. as more of the region experiences destructive wildfires and the overwhelming task of staying informed.<br />"
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Congress approves funding bill to avoid government shutdown;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/25/g-s1-24518/stopgap-funding-bill-congress;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:41:33 -0400",
        "text": "The House and Senate both overwhelmingly approved legislation funding federal agencies through December 20."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Three years after the U.S. withdrawal, former Afghan forces are hunted by the Taliban;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/25/nx-s1-5099028/former-afghan-army-and-police-hunted-by-the-taliban;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:35:38 -0400",
        "text": "The Taliban have been targeting thousands of Afghan National Army soldiers and police officers, accusing them of being American spies."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians struggle to access water;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/25/g-s1-24207/palestinians-west-bank-water-israel;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:16:49 -0400",
        "text": "For Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, access to water has been a struggle for years. But since last Oct. 7, water has become even harder for them to obtain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Sudan\u2019s army launches major offensive to retake Khartoum;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/sudans-army-launches-major-offensive-to-retake-khartoum?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:11:42 +0000",
        "text": "This is a breaking news story, more details to follow."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Aafia Siddiqui: \u201cVictim of all victims\u201d | Part I;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/centre-stage/2024/9/26/aafia-siddiqui-victim-of-all-victims-part-i?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:10:52 +0000",
        "text": "Clive Stafford Smith, lawyer for Aafia Siddiqui, who he says is a victim of circumstance following the 9/11 attacks."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;US, France lead call for temporary ceasefire along Israel-Lebanon border;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/us-france-lead-call-for-temporary-ceasefire-along-israel-lebanon-border?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:33:30 +0000",
        "text": "Israeli military and Hezbollah continue to trade fire in intense attacks despite appeal for pause in hostilities."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Video: New York mayor says he expects criminal charges;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/26/video-new-york-mayor-says-he-expects-criminal-charges?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:24:45 +0000",
        "text": "The mayor of New York City Eric Adams has been indicted on criminal charges that are yet to be made public."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Japan court acquits former boxer of murder after decades on death row;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/japan-court-acquits-former-boxer-of-murder-after-decades-on-death-row?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:24:00 +0000",
        "text": "Judge acknowledges Iwao Hakamada was wrongfully convicted for murders at miso factory in 1966."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Lazio fans detained with weapons before Europa League match in Germany;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/26/lazio-fans-detained-with-weapons-before-europa-league-match-in-germany?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:22:58 +0000",
        "text": "German police held about 60 fans overnight and banned them from the stadium as Lazio played Dynamo Kyiv in Hamburg."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2024: Teams, India vs Pakistan, full schedule;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/26/icc-womens-t20-world-cup-2024-teams-india-vs-pakistan-full-schedule-timings-venues-dates?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:09:53 +0000",
        "text": "All you need to know about the groups, format, fixtures, match start times and venues for the tournament."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israeli attacks against journalists, media freedom decried at UNSC;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/israeli-attacks-against-journalists-media-freedom-decried-at-unsc?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 05:56:16 +0000",
        "text": "Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu says attacks are meant to prevent the world from knowing what is happening in Gaza."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Trump hits out at Zelenskyy for not striking deal to end war in Ukraine;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/trump-lashes-zelenskyy-for-not-striking-deal-to-end-war-in-ukraine?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:42:12 +0000",
        "text": "Republican presidential candidate says even &#039;worst deal&#039; would be better than current level of death and destruction."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Japan sends warship through Taiwan Strait for first time;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/japan-sends-warship-through-taiwan-strait-for-first-time?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:03:19 +0000",
        "text": "The Sazanami sailed south through the 180-kilometre waterway with ships from Australia and New Zealand."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel \u2018spreading terror\u2019, Lebanon\u2019s PM tells UN Security Council;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/israel-spreading-terror-lebanons-pm-tells-un-security-council?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:54:55 +0000",
        "text": "UNSC told that France, US working on 21-day ceasefire proposal as fighting between Israel, Hezbollah intensifies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Putin outlines new rules for Russian use of vast nuclear arsenal;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/putin-outlines-new-rules-for-russian-use-of-vast-nuclear-arsenal?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 02:50:14 +0000",
        "text": "Comments appear to significantly lower the threshold for Russia to use its vast nuclear arsenal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel, Iran give different accounts of Lebanon conflict;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/26/israel-iran-give-different-accounts-of-lebanon-conflict?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 02:06:32 +0000",
        "text": "Israel and Iran gave different accounts of the same conflict in Lebanon during a UN Security Council meeting."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;New York City Mayor Eric Adams indicted amid corruption probes;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/new-york-mayor-eric-adams-indicted-amid-corruption-probe?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:55:03 +0000",
        "text": "Retired police captain becomes first sitting mayor of New York City to face federal charges."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 944;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-944?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:39:05 +0000",
        "text": "As the war enters its 944th day, these are the main developments."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;The secret of \u2018Blue Zones\u2019 where people reach 100? Fake data, says academic;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/the-secret-of-blue-zones-where-people-reach-100-fake-data-says-academic?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:00:19 +0000",
        "text": "University College London researcher is on a mission to debunk shoddy research into the world&#039;s oldest people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Hell is breaking loose in Lebanon,\u2019 warns UN Secretary-General;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/25/hell-is-breaking-loose-in-lebanon-warns-un-secretary-general?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:04:39 +0000",
        "text": "\u201cHell is breaking loose in Lebanon\u201d warned UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Ecuador battles wildfires near capital as drought grips South America;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/ecuador-battles-wildfires-near-capital-as-drought-grips-south-america?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:50:26 +0000",
        "text": "About 2,000 firefighters, rescue workers and members of the military are fighting blazes around Quito."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Canada\u2019s Trudeau survives no-confidence vote in latest test for his gov\u2019t;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/canadas-trudeau-survives-no-confidence-vote-in-latest-test-for-his-govt?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:33:41 +0000",
        "text": "No-confidence motion fails to pass in House of Commons, but Justin Trudeau faces more challenges ahead."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Two-state solution the \u2018only solution\u2019, Spanish PM tells UNGA;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/25/two-state-solution-the-only-solution-spanish-pm-tells-unga?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:17:04 +0000",
        "text": "A two-state solution between Israel and Palestine is the \u201conly possible solution,\u201d the Spanish Prime Minister said."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;As Israel attacks, displaced Lebanese people come together in Beirut;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/25/coffee-on-the-street-in-hamra-stories-of-lebanese-displacement?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:35:47 +0000",
        "text": "As Israel&#039;s bombs rain down on the south, Lebanese people are fleeing northwards, trying to find safety."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Nowhere near winning this,\u2019 Haiti\u2019s PM says of battle against gangs;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/nowhere-near-winning-this-haitis-pm-says-of-battle-against-gangs?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:32:41 +0000",
        "text": "Prime Minister Garry Conille offers grim view of progress in anti-gang mission on sidelines of UN General Assembly."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Can diplomacy succeed in bringing peace to the Middle East?;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/9/25/can-diplomacy-succeed-in-bringing-peace-to-the-middle-east?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:03:17 +0000",
        "text": "World leaders meet at the United Nations amid growing fears of an all-out regional war."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;IMF approves $7bn funding agreement for Pakistan;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/imf-approves-7bn-funding-agreement-for-pakistan?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:38:32 +0000",
        "text": "Approval comes more than two months after international lender and Islamabad said they had agreed on programme."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Macron urges end to Israeli \u2018escalation\u2019 and Hezbollah rocket fire;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/25/macron-urges-end-to-israeli-escalation-and-hezbollah-rocket-fire?traffic_source=rss;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:52:11 +0000",
        "text": "&quot;We are firmly calling on Israel to stop the escalation in Lebanon and Hezbollah to stop firing towards Israel.&quot;"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;How Al Fayed built a corrupt system of enablers to carry out his sexual abuse;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8ejd9l00lo;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 05:03:01 GMT",
        "text": "Doctors, senior personal assistants and security staff enabled the Harrods owner\u2019s assaults, witnesses say."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Chris Mason: Starmer's willingness to be unpopular comes with risks;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20jx91xe2do;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:01:05 GMT",
        "text": "Even a colossal majority may offer little shield from the wrath of the disappointed, if delivery is deemed to fall short."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;World's longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y9x6zrkrro;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:39:43 GMT",
        "text": "After more than half a century on death row Iwao Hakamada, 88, has been acquitted of murder."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Inmates with restraining orders wrongly let out early;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy43kkw7pn2o;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:42:13 GMT",
        "text": "The government has confirmed 37 prisoners jailed for breaching restraining orders were mistakenly released."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;We danced with joy then hid among the dead \u2013 Nova survivors recall Hamas massacre;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c0qznj3l5ypo;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:04:54 GMT",
        "text": "A new BBC documentary provides a harrowing glimpse into the Hamas attack at the Nova music festival in Israel, in which hundreds of people were killed."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Earth to briefly gain second 'moon', scientists say;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3dvxgrmk95o;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:47:49 GMT",
        "text": "Earth is about to get a second moon for a couple of months, but it won't be visible for most people."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Covid inquiry rejects clinicians\u2019 anonymity plea;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07n8zp9zp0o;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:11:07 GMT",
        "text": "The UK Health Security Agency argued naming the junior officials could put them at risk of abuse."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Musk hits back after being shunned from UK summit;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c756d56d2dro;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:39:57 GMT",
        "text": "There is concern about his social media posts about the UK during last month\u2019s riots, the BBC understands."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Putin proposes new rules for using nuclear weapons;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yjej0rvw0o;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:11:39 GMT",
        "text": "Russia's leader says strikes by a non-nuclear state aided by a nuclear power can be considered a joint attack"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Arrests after woman dies following 'BBL procedure';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2m829lmk9o;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:05:40 GMT",
        "text": "Alice Webb, 33, died on Tuesday morning after reportedly undergoing a \"Brazilian butt lift\"."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Dame Judi Dench and John Cena to voice Meta AI chatbot;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6258zn1663o;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:58:59 GMT",
        "text": "The firm also unveiled the first working prototype of Meta's augmented-reality glasses, called Orion."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What is Hezbollah and why is Israel attacking Lebanon?;https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67307858;Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:00:55 GMT",
        "text": "Escalating cross-border hostilities have heightened fears of an all-out conflict."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Labour's plan to build 1.5m homes \u2013 can it be delivered?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgw7x4y5rzo;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:40:29 GMT",
        "text": "Are planning reforms and social housing enough to meet the government's ambitious plan?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The Papers: Israel prepares for Lebanon 'push' and Starmer's penthouse stay;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yjqj1ngy7o;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:01:16 GMT",
        "text": "Reports on the possible entry of Israeli troops into Lebanon dominate Thursday's front pages."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Holly was murdered by her husband after years of abuse - now her family want to help others;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wndv05qr8o;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 05:14:05 GMT",
        "text": "The family of Holly Bramley, who was killed by her husband, want to help others avoid their pain."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;In Pictures: 10,000 miles across US as seen through train window;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kdgyply3wo;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:44:56 GMT",
        "text": "Photographer Katie Edwards captures America from the window of a train."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Britons 'stuck' in Lebanon as PM says 'leave now';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrjg825r7zo;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:36:56 GMT",
        "text": "UK nationals tell the BBC they are struggling to get out of Lebanon, after the PM tells them to leave."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;RSPCA launches review of its farm animal welfare scheme;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj9nl88k0mo;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:17:58 GMT",
        "text": "More than 200 farms are inspected amid concerns an animal welfare certification scheme is failing."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;New queens prepare to land on Drag Race UK runway;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c204y20rjnro;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:43:45 GMT",
        "text": "The hit series is set for another rhinestone-covered ride to find the country's next drag superstar."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Wi-fi hack at train stations displays message about terror attacks;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr75znv47xpo;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:22:36 GMT",
        "text": "The rail operator says its wi-fi system has been targeted and an investigation is ongoing."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;New York City Mayor Eric Adams indicted on federal charges;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cglkeyjzez2o;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:50:53 GMT",
        "text": "Adams, 64, is the first mayor in city history to face criminal charges while in office"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Banks must refund fraud up to \u00a385,000 in five days;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy94vz4zd7zo;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:19:42 GMT",
        "text": "Victims tricked into sending money to scammers must be refunded within five days under new rules."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Comedian Janey Godley receiving end-of-life care;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7xv79dp0jo;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:51:32 GMT",
        "text": "The 63-year-old announced on social media that her cancer had spread and she was going into a hospice."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Are Israeli troops going into Lebanon?;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jssvgz;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:02:00 GMT",
        "text": "And how is the UK responding?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Keir Starmer\u2019s interview - the analysis;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0023803;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:23:00 GMT",
        "text": "Amol and Nick with their take on Keir Starmer\u2019s first Today interview since becoming PM."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Heavyweight permutations - what next after Dubois' win?;https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/articles/c4gr2gm51zpo;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:19:29 GMT",
        "text": "BBC Sport tries to unravel the heavyweight division and what could happen next after Daniel Dubois scored his shock Wembley win."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Twente wanted it more' - so are Man Utd showing any improvement?;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c2lnkd7r2y1o;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:23:07 GMT",
        "text": "As Manchester United were held to a 1-1 Europa League draw by Twente, BBC Sport looks at what improvements, if any, the Reds are showing this season."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;From Test match to wedding - Stone's Pakistan dash;https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/articles/cn7yx3y1rpxo;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 05:32:05 GMT",
        "text": "Olly Stone is less than two weeks away from getting married, the only complication is the wedding in Norfolk is the day after England's first Test in Pakistan."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Meet the record-breakers & future stars given EFL Cup chance;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cz9p5d2d48yo;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:57:22 GMT",
        "text": "The EFL Cup has its critics, but it remains an important competition when it comes to blooding emerging Premier League talent."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Draper beats Bellucci to reach Japan Open last 16;https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/articles/cy0ljwnx49ro;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:12:54 GMT",
        "text": "Britain's Jack Draper beats Mattia Bellucci 6-4 6-2 to reach the last 16 of the Japan Open."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Man City's Miedema unlocks her phone secrets;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/videos/cgmg83kwzg2o;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 05:27:16 GMT",
        "text": "Manchester City forward Vivianne Miedema reveals her phone habits to BBC Sport's Liam MacDevitt, including her alarm etiquette, the team-mate she'd call in an emergency and her taste in music."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Disabled woman 'lifted off bus' after ramp broke;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c206pd1jl8no;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:41:20 GMT",
        "text": "Joanne Sansome, who uses a motorised wheelchair, says accessing public transport is not always easy."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Quick' cancer DNA test offers hope for thousands;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crl8x6rr68zo;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 05:06:50 GMT",
        "text": "The new cancer test means a quicker diagnosis and better treatment options for patients."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Risque de pluie-inondation\u00a0: six d\u00e9partements du Centre-Est et du Centre plac\u00e9s en vigilance orange jeudi;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/26/risque-de-pluie-inondation-six-departements-du-centre-est-et-du-centre-places-en-vigilance-orange-jeudi_6333721_3245.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:43:23 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Une perturbation tr\u00e8s pluvieuse va perdurer sur un axe s\u2019\u00e9tendant du sud de la Nouvelle-Aquitaine au nord des Alpes et au Jura\u00a0\u00bb, signale M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en Ukraine\u00a0: Volodymyr Zelensky re\u00e7u jeudi par Joe Biden et Kamala Harris \u00e0 la Maison Blanche;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/26/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-recu-jeudi-par-joe-biden-et-kamala-harris-a-la-maison-blanche_6327490_3210.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:32:42 +0200",
        "text": "Le pr\u00e9sident ukrainien devrait pr\u00e9senter son \u00ab\u00a0plan de la victoire\u00a0\u00bb et plaider une nouvelle fois pour que les Occidentaux laissent son arm\u00e9e frapper en profondeur le territoire russe, ce dont les Etats-Unis, principal pourvoyeur d\u2019armes, n\u2019ont pas voulu entendre parler jusqu\u2019ici."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Japon\u00a0: Iwao Hakamada, qui a pass\u00e9 quarante-six\u00a0ans dans le couloir de la mort, finalement acquitt\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/26/japon-iwao-hakamada-qui-a-passe-quarante-six-ans-dans-le-couloir-de-la-mort-finalement-acquitte_6334594_3210.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:32:26 +0200",
        "text": "Le juge a mis en cause l\u2019enqu\u00eate et les m\u00e9thodes d\u2019interrogatoire qui ont conduit \u00e0 sa condamnation \u00e0 mort en\u00a01968. Les soutiens de M.\u00a0Hakamada esp\u00e8rent que les procureurs ne feront pas appel de ce jugement."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Vid\u00e9o | Enqu\u00eate sur l\u2019Institut libre de journalisme, l\u2019\u00e9cole cr\u00e9\u00e9e par la droite identitaire pour conqu\u00e9rir les m\u00e9dias;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/video/2024/09/26/enquete-sur-l-ecole-creee-par-la-droite-reactionnaire-pour-conquerir-les-medias_6334270_3224.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 05:45:08 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Le Monde\u00a0\u00bb d\u00e9voile comment l\u2019Institut libre de journalisme (ILDJ), une \u00e9cole parisienne proche des r\u00e9seaux de Vincent Bollor\u00e9 et du milliardaire catholique Pierre-Edouard St\u00e9rin, alimente les m\u00e9dias de la droite r\u00e9actionnaire mais aussi au-del\u00e0."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Niger, les joyaux de la cit\u00e9 historique d\u2019Agadez menac\u00e9s par les inondations;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/26/au-niger-les-joyaux-de-la-cite-historique-d-agadez-menaces-par-les-inondations_6334589_3212.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:03:29 +0200",
        "text": "Les fortes pluies engendr\u00e9es par le changement climatique fragilisent les monuments embl\u00e9matiques de la ville, inscrite en\u00a02013\u00a0au Patrimoine mondial de l\u2019Unesco."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Megalopolis\u00a0\u00bb de Francis Ford Coppola, chef-d\u2019\u0153uvre ou navet\u00a0? Posez vos questions \u00e0 nos critiques;https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/live/2024/09/26/megalopolis-de-francis-ford-coppola-chef-d-oeuvre-ou-navet-posez-vos-questions-a-nos-critiques_6334586_3246.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:00:02 +0200",
        "text": "Mathieu Macheret et Murielle Joudet, critiques au \u00ab\u00a0Monde\u00a0\u00bb et dont les avis sur le film du cin\u00e9aste am\u00e9ricain sont oppos\u00e9s, \u00e9changent avec vous actuellement."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre au\u00a0Proche-Orient\u00a0: Benyamin N\u00e9tanyahou attendu aux Nations unies, 75\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0cibles militaires\u00a0\u00bb du Hezbollah frapp\u00e9es par l\u2019arm\u00e9e isra\u00e9lienne;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/26/en-direct-guerre-au-proche-orient-benyamin-netanyahou-attendu-aux-nations-unies-75-cibles-militaires-du-hezbollah-frappees-par-l-armee-israelienne_6321740_3210.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:59:52 +0200",
        "text": "Les Etats-Unis, la France, l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne et plusieurs pays, dont des pays arabes, appellent \u00e0 un \u00ab\u00a0cessez-le-feu imm\u00e9diat de vingt et un jours \u00bb sur la fronti\u00e8re entre le Liban et Isra\u00ebl afin d\u2019\u00e9viter l\u2019escalade militaire"
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: pour Eric Ciotti, le nouveau ministre de l\u2019int\u00e9rieur, Bruno Retailleau, \u00ab\u00a0tient les m\u00eames discours\u00a0\u00bb que son camp;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/26/en-direct-gouvernement-barnier-pour-eric-ciotti-le-nouveau-ministre-de-l-interieur-bruno-retailleau-tient-les-memes-discours-que-nous_6325006_823448.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:28:26 +0200",
        "text": "Questionn\u00e9 au micro de BFM-TV et RMC jeudi matin, il a consid\u00e9r\u00e9 que le ministre de l\u2019int\u00e9rieur tenait \u00ab\u00a0les m\u00eames discours\u00a0\u00bb que la famille politique form\u00e9e par l\u2019alliance form\u00e9e par le pr\u00e9sident d\u00e9missionnaire des R\u00e9publicains avec le Rassemblement national."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Tunisie\u00a0: nouvelle peine de six mois de prison pour Ayachi Zammel, candidat \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/26/tunisie-nouvelle-peine-de-six-mois-de-prison-pour-ayachi-zammel-candidat-a-l-election-presidentielle_6334582_3212.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:23:54 +0200",
        "text": "Le leader du parti d\u2019opposition Azimoun, d\u00e9j\u00e0 condamn\u00e9 une semaine plus t\u00f4t \u00e0 vingt mois de prison, \u00e9tait poursuivi pour falsification de documents."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;D\u00e9forestation, voitures thermiques... L\u2019avenir incertain du pacte vert europ\u00e9en, attaqu\u00e9 sur plusieurs fronts;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/26/l-avenir-incertain-du-pacte-vert-europeen-attaque-sur-plusieurs-fronts_6334306_3244.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:00:20 +0200",
        "text": "Les droites europ\u00e9ennes, mais aussi l\u2019Italie ou l\u2019Allemagne, m\u00e8nent l\u2019offensive contre deux textes embl\u00e9matiques\u00a0: l\u2019un contre la d\u00e9forestation, l\u2019autre pour interdire la mise sur le march\u00e9 de voitures \u00e0 moteur thermique apr\u00e8s 2035."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le tramadol et la cod\u00e9ine seront prescrits sur ordonnance infalsifiable \u00e0\u00a0partir du 1\u1d49\u02b3\u00a0d\u00e9cembre;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/26/opioides-tramadol-et-codeine-seront-prescrits-sur-ordonnance-infalsifiable-a-partir-du-1-decembre_6334443_3224.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:50:59 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019agence du m\u00e9dicament tente d\u00e9j\u00e0 depuis des ann\u00e9es de contr\u00f4ler les risques li\u00e9s \u00e0 la prise de ces m\u00e9dicaments, qui ont notamment provoqu\u00e9 une crise sanitaire in\u00e9dite aux Etats-Unis."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Transport a\u00e9rien\u00a0: une ONG veut frapper les passagers au portefeuille pour r\u00e9duire les \u00e9missions de CO\u2082\u00a0du secteur;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/26/transport-aerien-une-ong-veut-frapper-les-passagers-au-portefeuille-pour-reduire-les-emissions-de-co2-du-secteur_6334344_3234.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:30:14 +0200",
        "text": "Le R\u00e9seau Action Climat propose une s\u00e9rie de mesures pour \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9duire le trafic a\u00e9rien de mani\u00e8re juste et efficace\u00a0\u00bb. L\u2019id\u00e9e la plus notable consiste \u00e0 taxer plus fortement les voyageurs qui prennent souvent l\u2019avion."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Face au violent d\u00e9rapage des comptes publics, le gouvernement veut surtout tailler dans les d\u00e9penses;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/26/face-au-violent-derapage-des-comptes-publics-le-gouvernement-veut-surtout-tailler-dans-les-depenses_6334236_823448.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 05:29:29 +0200",
        "text": "Le d\u00e9ficit risque de d\u00e9passer les 6\u00a0% du PIB en\u00a02024. Les nouveaux ministres de Bercy promettent un budget 2025 \u00ab\u00a0de v\u00e9rit\u00e9 et d\u2019effort\u00a0\u00bb, ax\u00e9 sur des \u00e9conomies substantielles. Quant aux hausses d\u2019imp\u00f4ts, elles resteront limit\u00e9es."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Canada, le\u00a0gouvernement de\u00a0Justin Trudeau r\u00e9siste \u00e0\u00a0une motion de\u00a0censure;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/26/au-canada-le-gouvernement-de-justin-trudeau-resiste-a-une-motion-de-censure_6334164_3210.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:48:18 +0200",
        "text": "Les conservateurs n\u2019ont pas r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 obtenir l\u2019appui des deux autres partis de\u00a0l\u2019opposition, n\u00e9cessaire pour renverser le gouvernement. Ils ont annonc\u00e9 leur intention de d\u00e9poser d\u00e8s jeudi une seconde motion de censure, dont le vote aura lieu la\u00a0semaine prochaine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Eric Adams, le maire de New York cern\u00e9 par les enqu\u00eates du FBI et les appels \u00e0 la d\u00e9mission;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/26/appels-a-la-demission-du-maire-democrate-de-new-york-eric-adams-cerne-par-les-enquetes-du-fbi_6334131_3210.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:03:25 +0200",
        "text": "A un an de l\u2019\u00e9lection municipale, l\u2019ancien policier afro-am\u00e9ricain de Brooklyn, \u00e2g\u00e9 de 64\u00a0ans, et son entourage sont l\u2019objet d\u2019investigations portant sur des soup\u00e7ons de financement illicite de sa campagne de 2021\u00a0et de corruption."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ligue Europa\u00a0: Nice frustr\u00e9 par la Real Sociedad pour son entr\u00e9e en lice (1-1);https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/26/ligue-europa-nice-frustre-par-la-real-sociedad-pour-son-entree-en-lice-1-1_6334064_3242.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:21:58 +0200",
        "text": "Les Aiglons se contentent d\u2019un r\u00e9sultat nul \u00e0 domicile malgr\u00e9 une forte domination en seconde p\u00e9riode. Evann Guessand a m\u00eame vu son penalty repouss\u00e9 par le gardien espagnol Alex Remiro."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La Meurthe-et-Moselle instaure un revenu jeunes, une premi\u00e8re en\u00a0France;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/25/la-meurthe-et-moselle-instaure-un-revenu-jeunes-une-premiere-en-france_6334031_3224.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:58:03 +0200",
        "text": "A partir du 1\u1d49\u02b3\u00a0octobre, le d\u00e9partement va exp\u00e9rimenter un \u00ab\u00a0revenu d\u2019\u00e9mancipation jeunes\u00a0\u00bb de 500\u00a0euros pour des personnes de 16 \u00e0 25\u00a0ans, ayant peu ou pas de revenus et n\u2019\u00e9tant pas \u00e9ligibles aux autres aides."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le th\u00e9\u00e2tre confront\u00e9 \u00e0 une insidieuse censure\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0C\u2019est comme si une partie de la population devait \u00eatre pr\u00e9serv\u00e9e. Mais pr\u00e9serv\u00e9e de quoi\u00a0?\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/09/25/le-theatre-confronte-a-une-insidieuse-censure-c-est-comme-si-une-partie-de-la-population-devait-etre-preservee-mais-preservee-de-quoi_6332589_3246.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 06:00:11 +0200",
        "text": "Pression des \u00e9lus, autocensure, enjeux \u00e9conomiques\u2026 Plusieurs pi\u00e8ces, abordant des sujets suppos\u00e9s \u00ab\u00a0clivants\u00a0\u00bb comme l\u2019immigration, peinent \u00e0 \u00eatre accueillies en tourn\u00e9e dans certaines salles municipales en France."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Meurtre de Philippine\u00a0: Bruno Retailleau veut \u00ab\u00a0faire \u00e9voluer notre arsenal juridique\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0; Laurent Wauquiez r\u00e9clame une mission flash de l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/25/meurtre-de-philippine-bruno-retailleau-veut-faire-evoluer-notre-arsenal-juridique-laurent-wauquiez-reclame-une-mission-flash-de-l-assemblee_6333127_823449.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:08:28 +0200",
        "text": "Le suspect, \u00e2g\u00e9 de 22\u00a0ans, avait \u00e9t\u00e9 condamn\u00e9 pour viol et \u00e9tait sous le coup d\u2019une obligation de quitter le\u00a0territoire fran\u00e7ais non ex\u00e9cut\u00e9e. Une information judiciaire a \u00e9t\u00e9 ouverte pour homicide et viol."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Fr\u00e9quences TNT\u00a0: le Conseil d\u2019Etat rejette les recours en r\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9 de C8, NRJ12 et Le M\u00e9dia;https://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2024/09/25/frequences-tnt-le-conseil-d-etat-rejette-les-recours-en-refere-de-c8-nrj12-et-le-media_6333828_3236.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:34:28 +0200",
        "text": "La plus haute autorit\u00e9 administrative pr\u00e9cise qu\u2019elle \u00e9tudiera le fond de la d\u00e9cision de l\u2019Arcom de ne pas renouveler les fr\u00e9quences TNT de ces cha\u00eenes d\u2019ici \u00e0 la fin de novembre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ubisoft reporte \u00ab\u00a0Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows\u00a0\u00bb dans un contexte financier moins bon qu\u2019anticip\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/25/ubisoft-reporte-assassin-s-creed-shadows-dans-un-contexte-financier-moins-bon-qu-anticipe_6333793_4408996.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:07:23 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019\u00e9diteur fran\u00e7ais Ubisoft a report\u00e9 au 14\u00a0f\u00e9vrier\u00a02025 la sortie du prochain \u00e9pisode de sa saga afin de peaufiner ce dernier opus, le plus important de la franchise. Cette d\u00e9cision intervient \u00e0 la suite du succ\u00e8s moindre qu\u2019anticip\u00e9 du jeu \u00ab\u00a0Star Wars Outlaws\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Pourquoi Stellantis fait entrer le constructeur automobile chinois Leapmotor en Europe;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/25/pourquoi-stellantis-fait-entrer-le-constructeur-automobile-chinois-leapmotor-en-europe_6333792_3234.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:00:07 +0200",
        "text": "En \u00e9change d\u2019un acc\u00e8s au march\u00e9 europ\u00e9en, le fabricant de v\u00e9hicules met sa technologie au service du groupe franco-am\u00e9ricano-italien."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Fauthoux, un nouvel entra\u00eeneur qui \u00ab\u00a0r\u00eave de basket total\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 la t\u00eate des Bleus;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/25/frederic-fauthoux-un-nouvel-entraineur-qui-reve-de-basket-total-a-la-tete-des-bleus_6333759_3242.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:57:42 +0200",
        "text": "Ancien meneur international, le Landais a \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9, mercredi, aux commandes de l\u2019\u00e9quipe de France masculine de basket-ball pour quatre ans, prenant la suite de Vincent Collet."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Jo\u00ebl Guerriau, accus\u00e9 d\u2019avoir drogu\u00e9 une d\u00e9put\u00e9e, ne si\u00e9gera plus au S\u00e9nat \u00ab\u00a0jusqu\u2019\u00e0 nouvel ordre\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/25/joel-guerriau-accuse-d-avoir-drogue-une-deputee-ne-siegera-plus-au-senat-jusqu-a-nouvel-ordre_6333725_3224.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:39:46 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019\u00e9lu, re\u00e7u mercredi par G\u00e9rard Larcher qui lui demande de d\u00e9missionner, est soup\u00e7onn\u00e9 d\u2019avoir administr\u00e9 de l\u2019ecstasy \u00e0 Sandrine Josso en novembre\u00a02023. L\u2019expertise du t\u00e9l\u00e9phone de M.\u00a0Guerriau a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 des recherches autour du viol et des drogues, selon des sources cit\u00e9es par l\u2019Agence France-Presse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Laurent Saint-Martin mise \u00ab\u00a0prioritairement\u00a0\u00bb sur des \u00e9conomies pour faire face \u00e0 un nouveau d\u00e9rapage du d\u00e9ficit;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/25/budget-2025-laurent-saint-martin-mise-prioritairement-sur-des-economies-pour-faire-face-a-un-nouveau-derapage-du-deficit_6333724_823448.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:31:16 +0200",
        "text": "Retard\u00e9e par la dissolution de l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e nationale et la nomination tardive d\u2019un gouvernement, la pr\u00e9sentation du budget\u00a02025 interviendra la semaine du 9\u00a0octobre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Mathieu Fulla, historien\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Reconqu\u00e9rir un \u00e9lectorat hostile \u00e0 la gauche implique un travail de terrain ardu\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/09/25/mathieu-fulla-historien-reconquerir-un-electorat-hostile-a-la-gauche-implique-un-travail-de-terrain-ardu_6333437_3232.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:00:02 +0200",
        "text": "Les strat\u00e9gies oppos\u00e9es de Fran\u00e7ois Ruffin et de Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon pour faire gagner la gauche pourraient ne pas porter leurs fruits d\u2019ici \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle de 2027, estime le sp\u00e9cialiste de l\u2019histoire des gauches en Europe, dans une tribune au \u00ab\u00a0Monde\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Reportage | A Cuba, \u00ab\u00a0on recherche de la nourriture tous les jours et maintenant de l\u2019eau\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/25/a-cuba-on-recherche-de-la-nourriture-tous-les-jours-et-maintenant-de-l-eau_6332948_3210.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0200",
        "text": "Autrefois exportatrice agricole, l\u2019\u00eele doit d\u00e9sormais importer jusqu\u2019\u00e0 son sucre. La quasi-totalit\u00e9 de la population rencontre des difficult\u00e9s pour se nourrir."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le pr\u00e9fet de police de Paris \u00ab\u00a0favorable\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 une prolongation du recours \u00e0 la vid\u00e9osurveillance algorithmique exp\u00e9riment\u00e9e pendant les JO;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/25/le-prefet-de-police-de-paris-se-dit-favorable-a-une-prolongation-du-recours-a-la-videosurveillance-algorithmique_6333125_3224.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:40:29 +0200",
        "text": "Laurent Nu\u00f1ez a \u00e9voqu\u00e9, mercredi devant les d\u00e9put\u00e9s, un \u00ab\u00a0bilan positif\u00a0\u00bb de l\u2019utilisation, durant les Jeux olympiques et paralympiques, de l\u2019intelligence artificielle pour analyser les images issues de cam\u00e9ras de surveillance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Deux ans de prison pour Caroline Ellison, ex-associ\u00e9e et petite amie de Sam Bankman-Fried, le fondateur de FTX;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/25/deux-ans-de-prison-pour-caroline-ellison-ex-associee-et-petite-amie-de-sam-bankman-fried-le-fondateur-de-ftx_6333120_3210.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:20:05 +0200",
        "text": "Elle avait \u00e9t\u00e9 un t\u00e9moin important de l\u2019accusation au proc\u00e8s de la superstar d\u00e9chue des cryptomonnaies, condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 vingt-cinq ans de prison\u00a0pour l\u2019une des pires fraudes financi\u00e8res de l\u2019histoire r\u00e9cente."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La protection des lanceurs d\u2019alerte progresse mais\u00a0des lacunes persistent, selon le D\u00e9fenseur des\u00a0droits;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/25/la-protection-des-lanceurs-d-alerte-progresse-mais-des-lacunes-persistent-selon-le-defenseur-des-droits_6333019_3224.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:45:36 +0200",
        "text": "Dans un rapport, portant sur les ann\u00e9es 2022-2023, l\u2019institution ind\u00e9pendante observe \u00ab\u00a0qu\u2019un tournant a\u00a0\u00e9t\u00e9 pris par le droit des lanceurs d\u2019alerte\u00a0\u00bb, \u00ab\u00a0nettement plus favorable\u00a0\u00bb sur les protections apport\u00e9es."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Vous tuez nos fils\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: au S\u00e9n\u00e9gal, des passeurs de migrants sur le banc des accus\u00e9s;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/25/vous-tuez-nos-fils-au-senegal-des-passeurs-de-migrants-sur-le-banc-des-accuses_6332983_3212.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:29:30 +0200",
        "text": "Face aux drames successifs de l\u2019\u00e9migration, les arrestations de trafiquants pr\u00e9sum\u00e9s ont fortement augment\u00e9 ces derniers mois, tout comme leurs d\u00e9f\u00e8rements devant la justice."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Rapha\u00ebl Varane, champion du monde 2018, prend sa retraite \u00e0 31\u00a0ans, us\u00e9 par les blessures;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/25/raphael-varane-champion-du-monde-2018-prend-sa-retraite-a-31-ans-use-par-les-blessures_6332950_3242.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:19:11 +0200",
        "text": "D\u00e9tenteur de l\u2019un des plus beaux palmar\u00e8s du football fran\u00e7ais, le d\u00e9fenseur central a annonc\u00e9, mercredi sur Instagram, raccrocher d\u00e9j\u00e0 les crampons."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Fin des concessions autorouti\u00e8res, \u00e9tat du r\u00e9seau ferroviaire\u00a0: l\u2019\u00ab\u00a0alerte rouge\u00a0\u00bb du r\u00e9gulateur des transports;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/25/fin-des-concessions-autoroutieres-etat-du-reseau-ferroviaire-le-regulateur-des-transports-alerte-le-gouvernement_6332946_3234.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:45:09 +0200",
        "text": "Le pr\u00e9sident de l\u2019Autorit\u00e9 de r\u00e9gulation des transports, Thierry Guimbaud, pointe plusieurs risques sur l\u2019\u00e9volution des tarifs et l\u2019efficience des modes de transport."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Donald Trump \u00e9voque de \u00ab\u00a0grandes menaces\u00a0\u00bb pour sa vie venant de l\u2019Iran;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/25/l-homme-suspecte-d-avoir-voulu-tirer-sur-donald-trump-en-floride-inculpe-de-tentative-d-assassinat_6332504_3210.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:19:38 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019\u00e9quipe de campagne du candidat r\u00e9publicain \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidentielle affirme que les services de renseignement am\u00e9ricains avaient averti l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident des risques. T\u00e9h\u00e9ran rejette ces accusations."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bridge over LC 2 Pattabiram partially opened to traffic;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/bridge-across-level-crossing-2-pattabiram-partially-opened-to-traffic/article68682842.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:14:31 +0530",
        "text": "The State government had sanctioned \u20b978.31 crore for the construction of the bridge"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Harris attacks 'biggest loser' Trump on US economy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/harris-attacks-biggest-loser-trump-on-us-economy/article68685017.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:12:39 +0530",
        "text": "Kamala Harris warned that Trump's plans to bring back huge tariffs on foreign imports would hurt middle class Americans in their wallets"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;GST rate rationalisation: GoM discusses pruning 12% slab, next meeting on October 20;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/gst-rate-rationalisation-gom-discusses-pruning-12-slab-next-meeting-on-october-20/article68685382.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:06:05 +0530",
        "text": "West Bengal has suggested that the decision taken at the 23rd meeting of the GST Council in which tax rates were slashed on 178 items by pruning the 28% slab should be revisited"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;MUDA case: BJP stages protest in Bengaluru demanding resignation of Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah citing High Court verdict;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/protest-by-bjp-in-bengaluru-demanding-resignation-of-karnataka-cm-siddaramaiah-high-court-verdict-muda-site-case/article68685402.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:00:01 +0530",
        "text": "The protesters were taken into custody by the police"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to visit India by end of October: Ambassador Philipp Ackermann;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/german-chancellor-olaf-scholz-to-visit-india-by-end-of-october-ambassador-philipp-ackermann/article68685374.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:59:40 +0530",
        "text": "We will have a very rich agenda of subjects that will be discussed on many levels, says German Ambassador to India, Philipp Ackermann"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Former Kerala MLA and Congress leader K.P. Kunhikannan passes away;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/former-kerala-mla-and-congress-leader-kp-kunhikannan-passes-away/article68685344.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:55:48 +0530",
        "text": "K.P. Kunhikannan died following complications from injuries he had sustained in a car accident. He was 74"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Durga puja organisers tweak theme to give message on women's safety amid R.G. Kar issue;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/durga-puja-organisers-tweak-theme-to-give-message-on-womens-safety-amid-rg-kar-issue/article68685366.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:51:36 +0530",
        "text": "Every year, several puja organisers in West Bengal choose themes, mainly social issues and current incidents, and use their pandals, idols and lighting arrangements to depict them"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Supreme Court reserves verdict on plea against NCLAT order stopping insolvency proceedings against Byju's;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/supreme-court-reserves-verdict-on-plea-against-nclat-order-stopping-insolvency-proceedings-against-byjus/article68685329.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:51:34 +0530",
        "text": "A bench headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud asked the Insolvency Resolution Professional (IRP) to maintain the status quo till the apex court delivers its judgement on the matter"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Dharmendra Pradhan attacks Opposition-ruled States over rising unemployment rates among youth;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/dharmendra-pradhan-attacks-opposition-ruled-states-over-rising-unemployment-rates-among-youth/article68685336.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:40:36 +0530",
        "text": "Youth are being robbed of their futures, especially young women, who have been shockingly abandoned by their own governments, says Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Book on evolution of postal system released in Chennai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/book-on-evolution-of-postal-system-released-in-chennai/article68682818.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:36:59 +0530",
        "text": "Authored by Arunkumar Narasimhan, the book gives a thorough description of mailboxes under the sea and post offices in volcanoes and other extremely remote places in the world"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Los Angeles mayor welcomes announcement of Indian Consulate;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/los-angeles-mayor-welcomes-announcement-of-indian-consulate/article68685314.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:34:00 +0530",
        "text": "Los Angeles is home to more than 1,50,000 Indian Americans"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Haryana Assembly election: JJP\u2019s Dushyant Chautala faces uphill task in Uchana Kalan;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/haryana-assembly/haryana-assembly-election-jjps-dushyant-chautala-faces-uphill-task-in-uchana-kalyan/article68682518.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:30:52 +0530",
        "text": "The former Deputy CM is facing angry voters who are upset that his party did not stand with farmers during stir against farm laws"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Judges to hear arguments in Trump's appeal of civil fraud verdict;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/judges-to-hear-arguments-in-trumps-appeal-of-civil-fraud-verdict/article68685243.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:26:52 +0530",
        "text": "Donald Trump is asking the court to reverse Judge Arthur Engoron's ruling in February that he lied about his wealth on paperwork given to banks, insurers and others to make deals and secure loans"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bail for Senthilbalaji: Celebrations erupt in his hometown Karur in T.N.;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/bail-for-senthilbalaji-celebrations-erupt-in-his-hometown-karur-in-tamil-nadu/article68684931.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:21:46 +0530",
        "text": "The cadre burst crackers at vantage points in Karur, including the roads leading up to the bus stand and Jawahar Bazaar"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tirupati laddu row: Prayagraj temples ask devotees to offer coconut, fruits instead of sweets;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tirupati-laddu-row-prayagraj-temples-ask-devotees-to-offer-coconut-fruits-instead-of-sweets/article68685235.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:19:06 +0530",
        "text": "Several prominent temples in the Sangam city, including Alop Shankari Devi, Bade Hanuman, and Mankameshwar, have announced these restrictions"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hurricane Helene is expected to bring devastation during landfall on Florida's north-western coast;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/hurricane-helene-is-expected-to-bring-devastation-during-landfall-on-floridas-north-western-coast/article68685201.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:16:09 +0530",
        "text": "Hurricane warnings and flash flood warnings extended far beyond the coast up into south-central Georgia; the governors of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas have all declared emergencies in their states"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Yashwanth Naik from Telangana becomes youngest ever to scale Mt. Gorichen in Arunachal Pradesh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/yashwanth-naik-from-telangana-youngest-ever-to-scale-mt-gorichen-in-arunachal-pradesh/article68685261.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:13:08 +0530",
        "text": "He made history by ascending Mount Gorichen on September 19, 2024, following an 18-day expedition"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mayawati questions U.P. govt's food safety move, calls it electoral politics;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttar-pradesh/mayawati-questions-up-govts-food-safety-move-calls-it-electoral-politics/article68685199.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:02:36 +0530",
        "text": "BSP supremo Mayawati said although there are already very strict laws regarding adulteration especially in food items, still due to the government\u2019s negligence, the market of adulteration is \u201cflourishing\u201d everywhere"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Senthilbalaji will come out of jail with renewed vigour, says T.N. CM Stalin;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/senthilbalaji-will-come-out-of-jail-with-renewed-vigour-says-tn-cm-stalin/article68685196.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:54:57 +0530",
        "text": "The CM said in a social media post that even during the Emergency, \u201cno one was lodged in jail for such a long period\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;At least four dead amid heavy rains, 16 flights diverted; Mumbai on \u2018orange\u2019 alert;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/several-dead-amid-heavy-rains-16-flights-diverted-mumbai-on-orange-alert/article68685016.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:54:05 +0530",
        "text": "IMD has issued an orange alert for Mumbai, highlighting heavy rainfall and a red alert for Palghar district on September 26"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mumbai court sentences Sanjay Raut to 15 days in prison in defamation case filed by Kirit Somaiya\u2019s wife;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/mumbai-court-sentences-sanjay-raut-to-15-days-in-prison/article68685134.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:51:54 +0530",
        "text": "The case was filed by Medha Kirit Somaiya, wife of BJP leader Kirit Somaiya, over Sanjay Raut\u2019s allegations of her involvement in a \u20b9100 crore toilet scam"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Dravidar Kazhagam, Congress leaders welcome SC order granting bail to Senthilbalaji;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/dravidar-kazhagam-leader-congress-mp-welcome-sc-order-granting-bail-to-senthilbalaji/article68685092.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:43:03 +0530",
        "text": "Welcoming the order, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K. Selvaperunthagai termed it \u201ca victory for truth and the downfall of autocracy\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Indian nationals \u2018strongly advised\u2019 to leave Lebanon; government mulls evacuation plans;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/indian-embassy-urges-citizens-to-leave-lebanon-amid-escalating-violence/article68685032.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:34:22 +0530",
        "text": "This is the first advisory by India since the pager attacks targeted Lebanon a week earlier"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delhi High Court extends interim protection from arrest for Puja Khedkar;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/delhi-high-court-extends-interim-protection-from-arrest-for-puja-khedkar/article68685054.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:31:39 +0530",
        "text": "Counsel for the Delhi Police urged the court to allow a short adjournment, saying a \"larger conspiracy has come to light\", which involves forgery and creation of documents"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bombay HC formally strikes down Centre\u2019s Fact Check Unit, calls amended IT rules \u2018unconstitutional\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bombay-hc-formally-strikes-down-centres-fact-check-unit-calls-amended-it-rules-unconstitutional/article68684934.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:30:12 +0530",
        "text": "A Division Bench of judges Justice A.S. Gadkari and Justice Neela Gokhale of the Bombay High Court observed, \u2018In view of the majority opinion, the rule 3(1)(v) is declared unconstitutional and is struck down\u2019"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delhi Assembly proceedings briefly adjourned amid sloganeering;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-assembly-proceedings-bjp-mlas-protest-aap-government/article68685006.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:28:05 +0530",
        "text": "BJP MLAs were marshalled out of the Delhi Assembly House after they protested in the well of the House demanding tabling of CAG reports"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chennai police arrest three from West Bengal in SBI reward points scam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chennai-police-arrest-three-from-west-bengal-in-sbi-reward-points-scam/article68682178.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:27:35 +0530",
        "text": "The police said the scam involves sending fake messages on the expiry of reward points, after which bank users are asked to click on a link and download an APK file that eventually gives scamsters access to sensitive information"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two killed, five injured in separate road accidents in Andhra Pradesh\u2019s Krishna district;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/two-killed-five-injured-in-separate-road-accidents-in-andhra-pradeshs-krishna-district/article68684796.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:24:44 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;4 addl commissioners, 5 DSPs and more among 169 officers sanctioned to HYDRAA;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/4-addl-commissioners-5-dsps-and-more-among-169-posts-sanctioned-to-hydraa/article68682387.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:23:38 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Man United stunned 1-1 by Dutch club Twente in revamped Europa League;https://www.thehindu.com/sport/football/man-united-stunned-1-1-by-dutch-club-twente-in-revamped-europa-league/article68684984.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:19:24 +0530",
        "text": "99% is not enough, You have to give 100%. You have kill the game. You have to finish it off, says Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;FM Nirmala Sitharaman discusses enhancing bilateral cooperation with Uzbekistan President;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/fm-nirmala-sitharaman-discusses-enhancing-bilateral-cooperation-with-uzbekistan-president/article68684954.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:14:03 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Worm in dal triggers food safety inspection at Taj Mahal Hotel in Abids;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/worm-in-dal-triggers-food-safety-inspection-at-taj-mahal-hotel-in-abids/article68682560.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:13:51 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jr. NTR urged to save Vizag Steel from privatisation;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/jr-ntr-urged-to-save-vizag-steel-from-privatisation/article68684638.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:08:26 +0530",
        "text": "The steel union leaders and activists have been agitating for the last 1,300 days to protect the plant from privatisation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;AAP\u2019s strength falls to 59 in Delhi Assembly; BJP\u2019s to seven;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/aaps-strength-falls-to-59-in-delhi-assembly-bjps-to-seven-congress-does-not-have-any-mla/article68684965.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:08:20 +0530",
        "text": "Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said in the Assembly House on September 26 that Ramvir Singh Bidhuri and Rajendra Pal Gautam submitted their resignation as MLAs"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Dr. BRAOU in Hyderabad erupts in protest as Telangana govt decides to allot land to JNAFAU;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/dr-braou-in-hyderabad-erupts-in-protest-as-telangana-govt-decides-to-allot-land-to-jnafau/article68682696.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:08:06 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Amazon\u2019s Great Indian Festival Sale 2024 starts for Prime members: Apple, Samsung, OnePlus, realme, iQOO phone prices drop;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/amazons-great-indian-festival-sale-2024-starts-for-prime-members-apple-samsung-oneplus-realme-iqoo-phone-prices-drop/article68684860.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:06:47 +0530",
        "text": "Amazon\u2019s Great Indian Festival sale has started for Prime members, with offers on phones from brands such as Apple, Samsung, OnePlus, realme, and iQOO"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Zelenskyy visiting White House as partisan divide grows over Ukraine war;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/zelenskyy-visiting-white-house-as-partisan-divide-grows-over-ukraine-war/article68684911.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:06:39 +0530",
        "text": "As for U.S. support for Ukraine, Donald Trump complained that \u201cwe continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal\" to end the war"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pensioners protest for restoration of Old Pension Scheme;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/pensioners-protest-for-restoration-of-old-pension-scheme/article68682908.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:02:53 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Maoists\u2019 bid to attack security camp thwarted;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/maoists-bid-to-attack-security-camp-thwarted/article68683565.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:57:41 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rohit, Virat not playing Duleep Trophy, not good for Indian cricket: Sanjay Manjrekar;https://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/rohit-virat-not-playing-duleep-trophy-not-good-for-indian-cricket-sanjay-manjrekar/article68684872.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:49:11 +0530",
        "text": "I am not worried, but I am sure somebody made a note of the fact that they would have been better off had they played some red-ball cricket, says former Indian cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Rare embodiment of simplicity, visionary statesman\u2019: Congress hails Manmohan Singh as he turns 92;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rare-embodiment-of-simplicity-visionary-statesman-congress-hails-manmohan-singh-as-he-turns-92/article68684840.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:47:20 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Singh was India's PM between 2004 and 2014, and was the country's finance minister in the government headed by P.V. Narasimha Rao during 1991-96, a period marked by transformative economic reforms"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bengaluru\u2019s Vastrabharana brings in saris for all seasons;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/bengalurus-vastrabharana-brings-in-saris-for-all-seasons/article68677978.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:44:05 +0530",
        "text": "The 32nd edition of Vastrabharana by the Crafts Council of Karnataka is back in Bengaluru this week"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pulitzer winner Jhumpa Lahiri declines award over New York museum's keffiyeh ban;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pulitzer-winner-jhumpa-lahiri-declines-award-over-new-york-museums-keffiyeh-ban/article68684841.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:42:18 +0530",
        "text": "New York City's Noguchi Museum fired three employees for wearing keffiyeh head scarves, an emblem of Palestinian solidarity"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Japanese court acquits former boxer Iwao Hakamada in 1966 murder retrial after decades on death row;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/japanese-court-acquits-former-boxer-in-1966-murder-retrial-after-decades-on-death-row/article68684851.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:36:42 +0530",
        "text": "Iwao Hakamada's acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death-row convict to be found not guilty in a retrial in postwar Japanese criminal justice."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nitin Madhukar Jamdar sworn in as Chief Justice of Kerala High Court;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/nitin-madhukar-jamdar-sworn-in-as-chief-justice-of-kerala-high-court/article68684839.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:34:20 +0530",
        "text": "Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan administers the oath of office. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan also in attendance during swearing-in ceremony"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;NASA, Boeing, Coast Guard representatives to testify about implosion of Titan submersible;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/nasa-boeing-coast-guard-representatives-to-testify-about-implosion-of-titan-submersible/article68684821.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:33:58 +0530",
        "text": "The whole idea behind the company was to make money, says former OceanGate operations director David Lochridge"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Putin revises Russia\u2019s nuclear doctrine as he issues strongest warning yet to West over Ukraine war involvement;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/putin-revises-russias-nuclear-doctrine-as-he-issues-strongest-warning-yet-to-west-over-ukraine-war-involvement/article68684714.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:33:37 +0530",
        "text": "Since Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, he and other Kremlin voices have frequently threatened the West with Russia's nuclear arsenal to discourage it from ramping up support for Kyiv."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Telangana Govt officials raze four-storeyed building on Malkapur Lake;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-govt-officials-raze-four-storied-building-inside-malkapur-lake/article68684769.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:32:42 +0530",
        "text": "Officials cited absence of No Objection Certificate from Irrigation Department to carry out the demolition"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Heavy overnight rains batter several areas in and around Chennai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/heavy-overnight-rains-batter-several-areas-in-and-around-chennai/article68684600.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:29:50 +0530",
        "text": "The western parts of Chennai, including Avadi and Ambattur, were among the areas that recorded very heavy rainfall of 13 cm and 12 cm till 6 a.m. on Thursday"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Hell is breaking loose in Lebanon,\u2019 U.N. chief warns Security Council;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/hell-is-breaking-loose-in-lebanon-un-chief-warns-security-council/article68684743.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:19:38 +0530",
        "text": "He said an all-out war must be avoided at all costs. \u201cIt would surely be an all-out catastrophe.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Suspect detained after explosion at California courthouse injures five people;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/suspect-detained-after-explosion-at-california-courthouse-injures-5-people/article68684784.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:19:05 +0530",
        "text": "Authorities arrested the suspect outside the courthouse while he was trying to enter his car. He was found wearing body armour underneath his jacket, and he was not injured in the blast"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sensex, Nifty reach fresh all-time high levels in early trade;https://www.thehindu.com/business/sensex-nifty-reach-fresh-all-time-high-levels-in-early-trade/article68684740.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:15:23 +0530",
        "text": "From the 30 Sensex firms, Maruti, Nestle, Tata Motors, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies, Bajaj Finserv, Tata Consultancy Services, ITC, and Bharti Airtel were the biggest gainers"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mumbai rains: 45-year-old woman drowns in nullah; high-level probe ordered;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/mumbai-rains-45-year-old-woman-drowns-in-nullah-in-andheri-after-waterlogging/article68684748.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:10:36 +0530",
        "text": "BMC Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani has ordered a high-level inquiry into the death of the woman and asked to submit a report within three days"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Govt extends AFSPA in parts of Nagaland, Arunachal;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/arunachal-pradesh/govt-extends-afspa-in-parts-of-nagaland-arunachal/article68684741.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:09:25 +0530",
        "text": "The Home Ministry said a further review of the law and order situation in Nagaland has been undertaken"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Threat of wild animals: Kanthallur natives call off protest after Kerala govt. intervention;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/threat-of-wild-animals-kanthallur-natives-call-off-protest-after-kerala-govt-intervention/article68682783.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:07:42 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Haryana's young female grapplers pin hope on Phogat for safety, return to akhadas;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/haryana-assembly/haryanas-young-female-grapplers-pin-hope-on-phogat-for-safety-return-to-akhadas/article68684710.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:03:41 +0530",
        "text": "Several young female wrestlers in Haryana are rooting for Vinesh Phogat to become the sports minister in the hope that it would facilitate their return to the akhadas"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Supreme Court grants bail to former Tamil Nadu Minister Senthilbalaji;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/former-tn-minister-senthilbalaji-granted-bail-by-sc-in-money-laundering-case/article68684717.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:01:10 +0530",
        "text": "Senthilbalaji was arrested last year by the ED in a case linked to an alleged cash-for-jobs scam when he was the Transport Minister in an earlier AIADMK government"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Five destinations in Karnataka proposed for iconic tourism centre development;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/five-destinations-in-karnataka-proposed-for-iconic-tourism-centre-development/article68659683.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:58:40 +0530",
        "text": "Lakkundi, Anjanadri, Saundatti and Aihole in north Karnataka, and Roerich Devika Rani Estate near Bengaluru listed as potential sites"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;House help who stole \u20b910 lakh cash from Mohan Babu\u2019s residence arrested;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/house-help-who-stole-10-lakh-cash-from-mohan-babus-residence-arrested/article68683179.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:54:10 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;J&K Assembly Election: Nearly 40% migrant Kashmiri Pandits turn out to vote in Jammu;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jammu-and-kashmir-assembly/jk-assembly-election-nearly-40-migrant-kashmiri-pandits-turn-out-to-vote-in-jammu/article68684673.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:45:53 +0530",
        "text": "The highest number of 2,796 votes were polled in the Habakadal constituency, which was once a bastion of Kashmiri Pandits, followed by 909 in Lal Chowk, and 417 in Zadibal"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Australia\u2019s decision to extend life of coal mines slammed;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/australias-decision-to-extend-life-of-coal-mines-slammed/article68684656.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:36:25 +0530",
        "text": "These approvals will have consequences for everyday Australians who are forced to live on the forefront of climate damage, says Gavan McFadzean, climate manager at the Australian Conservation Foundation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PM Modi\u2019s visit to Pune cancelled due to heavy rains;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-modis-visit-to-pune-cancelled-due-to-heavy-rains/article68684670.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:30:58 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Modi was scheduled to flag off a Metro train in Pune on Thursday (September 26, 2024)"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Congress\u2019 Jairam Ramesh questions PM Modi\u2019s silence on key issues during Pune visit;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/congress-jairam-ramesh-questions-pm-modis-silence-on-key-issues-during-pune-visit/article68684646.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:20:00 +0530",
        "text": "Congress leader Jairam Ramesh questioned the government\u2019s inaction over the mass exodus of manufacturing units from Pune\u2019s Chakan industrial area"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Zelenskyy\u2019s victory plan to U.S. sets Ukraine\u2019s terms in a desperate war against Russia;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/zelenskyys-victory-plan-sets-ukraines-terms-in-a-desperate-war-against-russia/article68684629.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:17:49 +0530",
        "text": "The victory plan that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will present to the White House this week asks the Biden administration to do something it has not done in two and a half years of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion: take swift action to support Kyiv\u2019s campaign"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: Bengal government preventing us from organising convention, say junior doctors;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/kolkata-doctor-rape-murder-case-bengal-government-preventing-us-from-organising-convention-say-junior-doctors/article68684619.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:11:46 +0530",
        "text": "The doctors also alleged that false cases have been slapped against those who have expressed solidarity with their movement and joined democratic protests in Bengal"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Armed ethnic group in Myanmar battles to hold prized city;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/armed-ethnic-group-in-myanmar-battles-to-hold-prized-city/article68684630.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:05:01 +0530",
        "text": "Most fled during the weeks of fighting that culminated in the city\u2019s capture last month"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Singing fools\u2019 troupe\u00a0uses satire to attack Uganda government;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/singing-fools-troupe-uses-satire-to-attack-uganda-government/article68684626.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:02:33 +0530",
        "text": "The troupe\u2019s name means \u201cmentally unstable\u201d, which they chose when they formed in 2020 in the hope it would provide some protection from the authorities"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hezbollah uses Fadi rockets with more power but little precision against Israel;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/hezbollah-uses-fadi-rockets-with-more-power-but-little-precision-against-israel/article68684624.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:00:21 +0530",
        "text": "Fadi is a tactical multi-use ground-to-ground rocket"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BAPS Mandir in U.S.\u2019 Sacramento vandalised with anti-Hindu messages;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/baps-mandir-in-us-sacramento-vandalised-with-anti-hindu-messages/article68684603.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:49:05 +0530",
        "text": "The messages included phrases such as \"Hindus go back\""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BBMP playground tragedy: Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar hands over \u20b910 lakh cheque\u00a0to family of victim in Bengaluru;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/bbmp-playground-tragedy-deputy-cm-dk-shivakumar-hands-over-10-lakh-cheque-to-family-of-victim-in-bengaluru/article68683088.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:39:32 +0530",
        "text": "The compensation comprised \u20b95 lakh from the BBMP and an additional \u20b95 lakh from the Congress party"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Harris surprises many with pro-gun stance;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/harris-surprises-many-with-pro-gun-stance/article68684568.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:32:56 +0530",
        "text": "Ms. Harris has mentioned owning a firearm in the past, but she has mostly kept that quiet, in line with her party's emphasis on curtailing access to guns while Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that Ms. Harris would try to take away Americans' guns"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jewellery worth \u20b91.84 crore robbed in broad daylight in Kerala\u2019s Thrissur;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/jewellery-worth-184-crore-robbed-in-broad-daylight-in-thrissur/article68684545.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:28:48 +0530",
        "text": "Incidentally, the footage of the filmy style action was accidentally caught in the CCTV of a private bus behind the victim\u2019s car"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Karnataka Minister defends recruitment of Urdu speakers to Anganwadis;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/karnataka-minister-defends-recruitment-of-urdu-speakers-to-anganwadis/article68684514.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:25:44 +0530",
        "text": "We hire staff who speak the language of the children, says Lakshmi Hebbalkar"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mumbai rains LIVE: BMC to probe death of woman who fell in drain; 16 flights diverted as rains wreak havoc;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/mumbai-rains-imd-red-alert-weather-live-updates-september-26/article68684559.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:14:51 +0530",
        "text": "IMD has issued an orange alert for Mumbai; at least four people have been killed in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Behind the scenes with Rambo Circus, now performing in Bengaluru;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/behind-the-scenes-with-rambo-circus-now-performing-in-bengaluru/article68673442.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "In the era of social media, smaller screens and reduced attention spans, things have not been getting easier for circus artistes who try to continue putting up their best performances amid challenges"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Brewed in Bengaluru: Cothas Coffee aims high in its 75th year;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/brewed-in-bengaluru-cothas-coffee-aims-high-in-its-75th-year/article68677027.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "As the company enters the next leg of its journey, the brand that has become a household name by now seems to be gearing up to take its ambitions beyond the seas"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two arrested for theft at Lalithaa Jewellery in Hyderabad;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/two-arrested-for-theft-at-lalithaa-jewellery-in-hyderabad/article68683067.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:43:41 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;HYDRAA conducts inspections in Ameenpur to inquire allegations of park encroachments;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/hydraa-conducts-inspections-in-ameenpur-to-inquire-allegations-of-park-encroachments/article68683125.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:42:23 +0530",
        "text": "HYDRAA commissioner ordered for the survey to be completed in 15 days"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pakistan says the IMF has approved a $7 billion loan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pakistan-says-the-imf-has-approved-a-7-billion-loan/article68684520.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:30:48 +0530",
        "text": "Pakistani officials say the executive board of the International Fund has approved a new $7 billion loan for the country; Islamabad will receive the loan in installments over 37 months"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Trudeau survives vote of confidence in Canadian parliament, new threat looms;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/trudeau-survives-vote-of-confidence-in-canadian-parliament-new-threat-looms/article68684496.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:59:37 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Trudeau became more politically vulnerable this month when the smaller New Democratic Party tore up a 2022 deal to keep him in power until an election scheduled for end-October 2025"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Japan warship asserts right to sail through Taiwan Strait;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/japan-warship-asserts-right-to-sail-through-taiwan-strait/article68684489.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:57:25 +0530",
        "text": "China's Liaoning aircraft carrier sailed between two Japanese islands near Taiwan for the first time, accompanied by two destroyers recently; Tokyo said the ships entered its contiguous zone, an area up to 24 nautical miles from the Japanese coast, and called the incident \"totally unacceptable\""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;EC team to visit Maharashtra to review poll preparedness;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/ec-team-to-visit-maharashtra-to-review-poll-preparedness/article68682113.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:22:18 +0530",
        "text": "Chief Minister Eknath Shinde recently suggested that the polls are likely to be held in mid-November"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Union Minister Kishan Reddy takes exception to Rahul Gandhi\u2019s remarks on Maharaja Hari Singh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/union-minister-kishan-reddy-takes-exception-to-rahul-gandhis-remarks-on-maharaja-hari-singh/article68682242.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:19:04 +0530",
        "text": "The Union Minister says every family in the region had a photo of Maharaja Hari Singh as they respected the positive development and reforms that he ushered in; claims Rahul is speaking the language of separatists"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;West Bengal activists call for public hearings on gender-based violence at workplace;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/west-bengal-activists-call-for-public-hearings-on-gender-based-violence-at-workplace/article68682073.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:16:49 +0530",
        "text": "The public hearings will be conducted between November 9 to 20 and any person who wants to speak about their experiences can reach out and share their account through writing or any other method they seem fit"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Enforce law to check sound pollution: Tripura HC;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tripura/enforce-law-to-check-sound-pollution-tripura-hc/article68682157.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:11:14 +0530",
        "text": "The court instructed the government to prevent the spread of noise from loudspeakers, music speakers, generators, and blasting crackers"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bengaluru colleges see good placements with recruitment, salary packages going up;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/bengaluru-colleges-see-good-placement-with-recruitment-salary-packages-going-up/article68681756.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "In addition to IT firms, the service sector, marketing, finance, and banking industries have emerged as leading recruiters this year"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Morning Digest: Rains lash Mumbai after long break; vehicles and trains crawl, flights diverted; Israel tells its troops to prepare for a possible ground operation in Lebanon, and more;https://www.thehindu.com/news/morning-digest-september-26-2024/article68683512.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:31:04 +0530",
        "text": "Here is a select list of stories to start the day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;France and the U.S. are working on a plan for a 21-day cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/france-and-the-us-are-working-on-a-plan-for-a-21-day-cease-fire-between-israel-and-hezbollah/article68684471.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:24:07 +0530",
        "text": "The U.S. and other international mediators have tried and failed for months to broker a cease-fire in Gaza that also would release hostages held by Hamas"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;In-service quota for PHC doctors wanting to pursue PG courses increased to 20%;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/in-service-quota-for-phc-doctors-wanting-to-pursue-pg-courses-increased-to-20/article68683408.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:13:17 +0530",
        "text": "Amendments made to G.O. 85, allowing doctors to pursue a course of their choice in any branch and even go for second PG course at their own expense, says Health Minister Satya Kumar, and appeals to the striking doctors to resume their duties immediately"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Yogi a game changer for Uttar Pradesh, says Vice President Dhankhar;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttar-pradesh/yogi-a-game-changer-for-uttar-pradesh-says-vice-president-dhankhar/article68683052.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:03:00 +0530",
        "text": "Law and order defines democracy and the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath defines law and order, says Vice President"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Former CM Champai Soren accuses Hemant Soren govt. of risking his life by withdrawing security;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jharkhand/former-cm-champai-soren-accuses-hemant-soren-govt-of-risking-his-life-by-withdrawing-security/article68683309.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:42:00 +0530",
        "text": "Jharkhand Police denies charges saying as per the rules, he has more security forces than expected"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israel tells its troops to prepare for a possible ground operation in Lebanon;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-tells-its-troops-to-prepare-for-a-possible-ground-operation-in-lebanon/article68683579.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:11:08 +0530",
        "text": "Israel says it targeted Hezbollah weapons and rocket launchers in attacks that have killed more than 600 people, at least a quarter of them women and children, according to Lebanese health officials"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;AICF announces \u20b93.2 crore rewards for Olympiad-winning teams;https://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/aicf-announces-rs-32-crore-rewards-for-olympiad-winning-teams/article68683570.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 02:58:00 +0530",
        "text": "Each player from the winning teams will receive \u20b925 lakh, while the captains of the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams, Abhijeet Kunte and Srinath Narayanan, will be rewarded with \u20b915 lakh each"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Input on infiltration by 900 Kuki militants could not be substantiated on the ground, says Manipur security advisor;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/manipur/input-on-infiltration-by-900-kuki-militants-could-not-be-substantiated-on-the-ground-says-manipur-security-advisor/article68683420.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 02:42:41 +0530",
        "text": "Manipur Security Advisor, DGP urge people not to believe in unverified information"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;In Kerala, a war of words over political Islam;https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/in-kerala-a-war-of-words-over-political-islam/article68682392.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:54:52 +0530",
        "text": "The IUML\u2019s role in maintaining harmony in Kerala is crucial"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two workers die of suffocation in waste disposal tank in Thrissur;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/two-workers-die-of-suffocation-in-waste-disposal-tank-in-thrissur/article68682379.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:30:53 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP backs Church in its land dispute with Waqf Board at Munambam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/bjp-backs-church-in-its-land-dispute-with-waqf-board-at-munambam/article68682187.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:30:23 +0530",
        "text": "Party says it will support the protest action against \u201cillegal\u201d claims made by Waqf Board on more than 400 acres"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rise in retinal disorders a challenge, say ophthalmologists;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/rise-in-retinal-disorders-a-challenge-say-ophthalmologists/article68681929.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:27:15 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Man held on charge of theft;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/man-held-on-charge-of-theft/article68681870.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:26:53 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Land approval for waste treatment plant brings relief for Thrikkakara municipality;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/land-approval-for-waste-treatment-plant-brings-relief-for-thrikkakara-municipality/article68681812.ece;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:26:36 +0530",
        "text": "Municipality faced challenges in identifying suitableland due to public protests and disputes with the Revenue dept."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s Greater Bay Airlines to serve 3 more destinations in Japan;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3280056/hong-kongs-greater-bay-airlines-serve-3-more-destinations-japan?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:54:06 +0800",
        "text": "Airline will operate flights to Yonago in Tottori prefecture, Tokushima prefecture on Shikoku and Sendai in Miyagi prefecture."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;New World promotes Eric Ma to CEO, replacing Adrian Cheng after revenue plunge;https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3280053/new-world-promotes-eric-ma-ceo-replacing-adrian-cheng-after-revenue-plunge?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:51:59 +0800",
        "text": "Adrian Cheng Chi-kong stepped down as New World\u2019s CEO, handing over to Eric Ma Siu-cheung the job that he had held for four years."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong customs seizes HK$150 million worth of smuggled electronics, other items;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280052/hong-kong-customs-seizes-hk150-million-worth-smuggled-electronics-other-items?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:49:38 +0800",
        "text": "Authorities say goods found in two separate shipments bound for Taiwan and Singapore as part of possible ruse to smuggle them to mainland."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong scammers use fraudulent crypto shops to rob 13 investors of HK$14.8 million;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280031/hong-kong-scammers-use-fraudulent-crypto-shops-rob-13-investors-hk148-million?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:04:57 +0800",
        "text": "Police say scammers offer better exchange rates to attract targets, lure victims to make legitimate trades before making off with large sum."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Historic joint declaration on Hong Kong\u2019s future gets first signing \u2013 from SCMP archive;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3277007/historic-joint-declaration-hong-kongs-future-gets-first-signing-scmp-archive?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:45:08 +0800",
        "text": "Four decades ago, Britain and China initialled a draft of the joint declaration on Hong Kong\u2019s future status."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;\u2018Dragon Slaying Brigade\u2019 leader appeals to Hong Kong court to further reduce sentence;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280025/dragon-slaying-brigade-leader-appeals-hong-kong-court-further-reduce-sentence?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:25:34 +0800",
        "text": "Wong Chun-keung, 26, expresses remorse and promises to \u2018improve\u2019 himself, but judge underlines acquittals in case that cast doubt on his testimony."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong home rents surge to near record highs as flat prices sink further;https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3280022/hong-kong-home-rents-surge-near-record-highs-flat-prices-sink-further?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:09:43 +0800",
        "text": "A seasonal influx of renters and bets on further declines in home prices are driving the trends, analysts say."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong government rebuts Human Rights Watch report decrying city\u2019s declining academic freedom;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3280004/hong-kong-government-rebuts-human-rights-watch-report-decrying-citys-declining-academic-freedom?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:19:04 +0800",
        "text": "Government says report by US-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch filled with \u2018malicious smears\u2019 and disregards chaos of 2019 campus riots."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Christmas gifts: giant pandas An An and Ke Ke to meet Hongkongers in December;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279984/hong-kongs-2-new-giant-pandas-and-ke-ke-touch-down-city-soon?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:26:52 +0800",
        "text": "Bears get official welcome at ceremony attended by Chief Secretary Eric Chan and tourism minister Kevin Yeung at the airport."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;New World Development, retail unit, suspended from trading following Adrian Cheng report;https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3279985/new-world-development-retail-unit-suspended-trading-following-adrian-cheng-report?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:23:08 +0800",
        "text": "New World Development and another listed unit were suspended from trading following a report about the company\u2019s future leadership."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Spirit of Hong Kong Awards: blind psychologist gives back despite hardship;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3279934/spirit-hong-kong-awards-blind-psychologist-gives-back-despite-hardship?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:00:09 +0800",
        "text": "Jennifer Wong has been selected as a finalist for the Spirit of Hong Kong Awards 2024 in the perseverance category."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;\u2018We\u2019re agile, energetic\u2019: don\u2019t underrate ourselves, tycoon Michael Kadoorie tells Hong Kong;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3279962/were-agile-energetic-dont-underrate-ourselves-tycoon-michael-kadoorie-tells-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:30:12 +0800",
        "text": "Media-shy energy and hotel tycoon Kadoorie and his son and heir apparent Philip discuss future of country\u2019s economy in rare interview."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Watchdog looking into dumpling shop in Hong Kong over controversial job ad;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279968/watchdog-looking-dumpling-shop-hong-kong-over-controversial-job-ad?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:32:52 +0800",
        "text": "Yuan Ji Yun Jiao dumpling shop job notice prioritising female migrants from Guangdong province drew online backlash."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong investigates after Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter water turns white;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279965/hong-kong-investigates-after-part-causeway-bay-shore-turns-white?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:52:19 +0800",
        "text": "White-coloured waste water seen being discharged from stormwater drain near Victoria Park Road."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Western media urged to stop telling \u2018one-sided stories\u2019 about Hong Kong, mainland China;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3279964/western-media-urged-stop-telling-one-sided-stories-about-hong-kong-mainland-china?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:26:21 +0800",
        "text": "Beijing is considering further easing mainland entry requirements for Hong Kong\u2019s non-permanent residents, spokesman indicates."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Beijing officials make twin call for Hong Kong businessmen to support growth;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3279959/beijing-officials-make-twin-call-hong-kong-businessmen-support-growth?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:47:09 +0800",
        "text": "Xia Baolong and Zheng Yanxiong urge entrepreneurs to turn their patriotism into action and learn from counterparts in Guangdong."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Japanese schools in Hong Kong bolster security measures after Shenzhen stabbing: diplomat;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279958/japanese-schools-hong-kong-bolster-security-measures-after-shenzhen-stabbing-diplomat?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:44:51 +0800",
        "text": "Kenichi Okada, country\u2019s consul general in Hong Kong, also requested a minute of silence for the boy, 10, during Japanese festival in city."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;To recline or not? A look at in-flight rules after Cathay bans Cantonese couple over seat row;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3279955/recline-or-not-look-flight-rules-after-cathay-bans-cantonese-couple-over-seat-row?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:31:03 +0800",
        "text": "The Post unpacks protocols, common misconduct on flights and what can get you blacklisted."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong must up its game on \u2018mega events\u2019, sports sector lawmaker says;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279956/hong-kong-must-its-game-mega-events-sports-sector-lawmaker-says?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:30:38 +0800",
        "text": "Lawmaker Kenneth Fok says most of the city\u2019s mega events are regional or district activities rather than top-tier ones."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong to host auction of US$46.5 million Mark Rothko piece once owned by Jho Low;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279953/hong-kong-host-auction-us465-million-mark-rothko-piece-once-owned-jho-low?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:01:17 +0800",
        "text": "Sotheby\u2019s says sale of Untitled (Yellow and Blue) represents Asia\u2019s first auction of late artist\u2019s major work."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Japan urges Hong Kong to make \u2018correct decision\u2019 by lifting 10-prefecture seafood ban;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279940/japan-urges-hong-kong-make-correct-decision-lifting-10-prefecture-seafood-ban?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:10:12 +0800",
        "text": "Call from Kenichi Okada, country\u2019s consul general in Hong Kong, in response to progress in talks between Tokyo, Beijing about lifting curbs."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong semi-private schools to increase fees by nearly 5% on average, most in 5 years;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3279933/hong-kong-semi-private-schools-increase-fees-nearly-5-average-most-5-years?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:31:11 +0800",
        "text": "Fees on average will rise by 5.36 per cent at private schools and 4.53 per cent at international ones."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong to distribute Xi Jinping book to schools, hold sharing session with principals;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3279931/hong-kong-distribute-xi-jinping-book-schools-hold-sharing-session-principals?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:19:19 +0800",
        "text": "Education Bureau will send out copies next month, first time schools have received books on discourse of country\u2019s leader."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Adrian Cheng to step down as New World CEO, likely to be replaced by COO Eric Ma: sources;https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3279929/adrian-cheng-step-down-new-worlds-ceo-take-non-executive-role-sources-say?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:52:08 +0800",
        "text": "Cheng, born in 1979, will become the non-executive vice-chairman of New World, giving up his title of chief executive officer, sources say."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;\u2018Sichuan-flavoured\u2019 food to help Hong Kong\u2019s 2 incoming pandas adjust to new home;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279895/hong-kongs-2-new-giant-pandas-get-official-send-sichuan-much-awaited-arrival?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:00:45 +0800",
        "text": "Pandas will be met by city\u2019s No 2 official in a welcoming ceremony at Hong Kong airport."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong policeman dies, wife hurt in Iceland when car crashes into 2-metre-deep river;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3279893/hong-kong-policeman-dies-wife-injured-car-crash-iceland-holiday?utm_source=rss_feed;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:54:10 +0800",
        "text": "Icelandic police tell the Post man lost control of rental car on gravel path, crashing into Fossa River in north of country."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy to pitch 'victory plan' to Biden;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-to-pitch-victory-plan-to-biden/live-70329113?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy is traveling to Washington D.C. to present President Joe Biden with a strategy \u2014a 'victory plan' \u2014 to win the war against Russia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'After Hitler': Changing views of Nazism in postwar Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/after-hitler-changing-views-of-nazism-in-postwar-germany/a-70323500?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "From secret adoration to loud dismay, Germans have come to terms with the Nazi past over 80 years in very different ways, as a new exhibition shows."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China on the agenda as Vietnam's leader meets Joe Biden;https://www.dw.com/en/china-on-the-agenda-as-vietnam-s-leader-meets-joe-biden/a-70321467?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "US President Joe Biden and ruling Communist Party Chief To Lam met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly as Vietnam positions itself between the US and China."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pakistan army says 8 militants killed in restive northwest;https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-army-says-8-militants-killed-in-restive-northwest/a-70328892?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Pakistani military says eight militants have been killed in a raid on a former bastion of the Pakistani Taliban. The group is allied with the Taliban rulers in neighboring Afghanistan."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NYC Mayor Eric Adams indicted on criminal charges \u2014 reports;https://www.dw.com/en/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-indicted-on-criminal-charges-reports/a-70327293?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Eric Adams has been indicted in a federal corruption investigation and is the first mayor in New York City history to face a federal charge while in office."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Japan acquits world's longest-serving death row prisoner;https://www.dw.com/en/japan-acquits-world-s-longest-serving-death-row-prisoner/a-70327319?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "An 88-year-old man who was sentenced to death in 1968 for killing a family was cleared of all charges following a retrial in Japan. He spent most of his life on death row."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Japan sends warship into Taiwan Strait for first time;https://www.dw.com/en/japan-sends-warship-into-taiwan-strait-for-first-time/a-70326923?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Japan's media said that Tokyo sent a warship to patrol the Taiwan Strait, which China claims to hold jurisdiction over. The action came after China sailed an aircraft carrier between two Japanese islands."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East: US, EU, Arab states urge Lebanon cease-fire;https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-us-eu-arab-states-urge-lebanon-cease-fire/live-70326834?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Nations led by the US and France have issued a statement calling for a 21-day cease-fire across the Israel-Lebanon border. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati says he is hopeful it could end the conflict. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU votes to lower protections for wolves;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-votes-to-lower-protections-for-wolves/a-70326607?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Following a celebrated scheme to bring wolves back to Europe, strict protections look set to be downgraded. Animal groups have argued the decision is politically motivated."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Europe help contain spiraling violence in Lebanon?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-europe-help-contain-spiraling-violence-in-lebanon/a-70325262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "As Israel-Hezbollah fighting ramps up, the EU is calling for de-escalation. Internal divisions have hindered the bloc's diplomacy in the Middle East since 2023, but experts say France may now have a role to play."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pakistan: Many killed as Shiite and Sunni tribes clash;https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-many-killed-as-shiite-and-sunni-tribes-clash/a-70325662?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Authorities say they are working with tribal elders to broker peace after days of deadly violence in the restive Kurram district on the border with Afghanistan."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN General Assembly: African leaders call for Gaza ceasefire and UN reforms;https://www.dw.com/en/un-general-assembly-african-leaders-call-for-gaza-ceasefire-and-un-reforms/a-70322742?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Leaders from across Africa have renewed their calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas. They also demand a permanent African representation on the UN Security Council."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Russia: Putin calls for new nuclear deterrence doctrine;https://www.dw.com/en/russia-putin-calls-for-new-nuclear-deterrence-doctrine/a-70325672?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Russian President Vladimir Putin said that aggression by a non-nuclear state supported by a nuclear power could be conisdered a joint attack."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Government crisis deepens as Green leaders resign;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-government-crisis-deepens-as-green-leaders-resign/a-70324309?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Green Party co-chairs Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour are stepping down. The move could make things even harder for Germany's fractious coalition government."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tropical Storm Helene grows into hurricane, nears Florida;https://www.dw.com/en/tropical-storm-helene-grows-into-hurricane-nears-florida/a-70324822?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The hurricane is expected to make landfall in Florida, with over 40 million people in three US states currently under storm warnings."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Fact check: No, these images don't show Hezbollah strikes on Israel;https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-no-these-images-don-t-show-hezbollah-strikes-on-israel/a-70312934?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Hezbollah rockets have been hitting Israeli cities, an unprecedented development since the beginning of the conflict; however, many images claiming to show the aftermath of these attacks are fake."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU auditors say Africa fund 'spread too thinly'' to reduce migration;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-auditors-say-africa-fund-spread-too-thinly-to-reduce-migration/a-70323528?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Auditors say that the EU's five billion euro Africa fund was \"spread too thinly,\" to address migration, that job creation was overstated and human righs risks were not properly addressed"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy warns UN on nuclear plant safety;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-warns-un-on-nuclear-plant-safety/live-70322985?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the UN General Assembly that intelligence suggested Russia was planning to attack nuclear plants still in Ukrainian hands. Meanwhile, Russia claimed more gains in Donetsk. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police investigate blast at Cologne cafe;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-investigate-blast-at-cologne-cafe/a-70323612?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "One suspect turned himself in after an overnight explosion in Cologne with another one still on the run, according to police. The latest blast is not believed to be connected to a recent wave of drug-related violence."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Torn patellar tendon: A rare but serious knee injury;https://www.dw.com/en/torn-patellar-tendon-a-rare-but-serious-knee-injury/a-70323136?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen sustained a torn patellar tendon on the weekend. DW fills you in on how serious an injury it is, how it is treated, and how long it could take for him to return to the pitch."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New LUNA facility will prepare astronauts for moon landings;https://www.dw.com/en/new-luna-facility-will-prepare-astronauts-for-moon-landings/a-70313230?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The moon may be 384,400 kilometers away, but an accurate replica of its surface has opened in Germany. Astronauts from around the world will use it to train for missions to the moon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Charges pressed in Schumacher family blackmail case;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-charges-pressed-in-schumacher-family-blackmail-case/a-70321726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Prosecutors in Wuppertal have filed charges against three men accused of trying to blackmail Michael Schumacher's family for millions. They allegedly threatened to public compromising data online unless they were paid."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German far-right AfD party taps into young voters' fears, disillusionment;https://www.dw.com/en/german-far-right-afd-party-taps-into-young-voters-fears-disillusionment/a-70319700?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "More and more young Germans support the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. It capitalizes on their pessimistic outlook and disappointment with other parties, experts say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe's AI bosses sound warning on soaring compliance costs;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-s-ai-bosses-sound-warning-on-soaring-compliance-costs/a-70243489?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Recent decisions by US tech giants to withhold their latest artificial intelligence (AI) models from the European market have raised concerns over the level of regulation now impacting tech firms in the bloc."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Climate change made Central Europe floods more likely: study;https://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-made-central-europe-floods-more-likely-study/a-70318772?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The recent deadly floods in Central Europe have shown \"the devastating results\" of burning fossil fuels, scientists say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Greece worried about consequences of German border checks;https://www.dw.com/en/greece-worried-about-consequences-of-german-border-checks/a-70320699?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Athens is worried that Germany's reintroduction of border checks could have a knock-on effect across Europe and see migrants being returned to Greece."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Flood warnings on Oder River in eastern Brandenburg;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-flood-warnings-on-oder-river-in-eastern-brandenburg/a-70319284?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The highest flood warning level is in effect for a short stretch of the Oder River in Brandenburg where it marks the German border with Poland. In some more rural areas, it has already burst its banks."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UEFA 's reassessment of Spain's handball doesn't help Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/uefa-s-reassessment-of-spain-s-handball-doesn-t-help-germany/a-70320827?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "In one of the most memorable incidents at the Euros, Spain's Marc Cucurella blocked a German shot with his hand, but no penalty was called. Now UEFA has admitted that the referee got it wrong \u2014 but it changes nothing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Green co-leaders Lang and Nouripour resign;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-green-co-leaders-lang-and-nouripour-resign/a-70319586?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The co-leaders of Germany's Greens, Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour, have announced they're stepping down. The party suffered a disastrous state election in Brandenburg, dropping below 5% and losing its seats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Why are sea levels rising?;https://www.dw.com/en/why-are-sea-levels-rising/a-70281203?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Rising oceans are posing a global threat, particularly to low lying islands and coastal cities. What is driving this, and how can we respond? Here's what you need to know."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dutch 'Mocro mafia' sets off alarm bells in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-mocro-mafia-sets-off-alarm-bells-in-germany/a-69764909?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "German police have warned of Dutch organized crime networks moving into Germany after a series of explosions in Cologne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;CERN at 70: Smashing elementary particles for humanity;https://www.dw.com/en/cern-at-70-smashing-elementary-particles-for-humanity/a-70298947?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "CERN has been an epicenter of scientific breakthroughs since 1954, including the discovery of the Higgs boson. Scientists there hope a new, larger particle smasher will lead them to more discoveries for years to come."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;75 years of Frankfurt Book Fair: World stage for protests;https://www.dw.com/en/75-years-of-frankfurt-book-fair-world-stage-for-protests/a-70283991?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Cold War, neo-Nazis, as well as Iran's fatwa on Salman Rushdie all had an impact on the Frankfurt Book Fair, which turns 75 this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy says Iran, N. Korea 'accomplices';https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-says-iran-n-korea-accomplices/live-70307515?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denounced Iran and North Korea for providing weapons to Russia. He also said Moscow must be forced into any just peace. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Switzerland: Police investigate 1st use of 'suicide capsule';https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-police-investigate-1st-use-of-suicide-capsule/a-70314117?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Swiss police say they have detained several people and opened a criminal case a day after the first use of the \"Sarco\" capsule to end a person's life. Assisted dying is legal in Switzerland in some circumstances."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Deutsche Bahn: New train to link Berlin and Paris in 8 hours;https://www.dw.com/en/deutsche-bahn-new-train-to-link-berlin-and-paris-in-8-hours/a-70314292?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The first direct high-speed train service between both cities will be running from December, according to Deutsche Bahn. It will offer a journey without transfers, with stops in Frankfurt, Strasbourg and Karlsruhe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister: Eating habit survey shows developing tastes;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-eating-habit-survey-shows-developing-tastes/a-70309258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "A new government study points to changing tastes in food, but not a desire for rules, according to the agriculture minister. One thing stays constant \u2014 a pleasing taste was the most important factor for respondents."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Albanian PM has announced plans for the creation of a 27-acre sovereign state for a Sufi Muslim order in Tirana.;https://www.dw.com/en/albanian-pm-has-announced-plans-for-the-creation-of-a-27-acre-sovereign-state-for-a-sufi-muslim-order-in-tirana/a-70314510?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Albanian PM Edi Rama says he wants to establish a sovereign microstate for an Islamic Sufi order, the Shia Bektashi Muslims in Tirana. While welcomed by the order, the move has also been greeted with skepticism."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;North Korea and women's youth football: A perfect match;https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-and-women-s-youth-football-a-perfect-match/a-70313505?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "North Korea's young women have won their third U20 World Cup, so why is the isolated state so good at this level of the game?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany decries UniCredit bid for Commerzbank 'unfriendly';https://www.dw.com/en/germany-decries-unicredit-bid-for-commerzbank-unfriendly/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Italy's UniCredit stunned markets by clandestinely raising its stake in Germany's second-largest lender to 21%. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, the government stands by its side."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The true cost of protecting the Amazon and who should pay;https://www.dw.com/en/the-true-cost-of-protecting-the-amazon-and-who-should-pay/a-70309693?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The world\u2019s largest rainforest is battling deforestation, drought and record wildfires. Where is the money to save it coming from?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU divided over higher tariffs for Chinese EV imports;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-divided-over-higher-tariffs-for-chinese-ev-imports/a-70250391?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Despite \"constructive talks\" between the EU and China recently, the impasse over planned EU tariffs on China-made electric vehicles hasn't been resolved. The spat could escalate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police raids in southwest target human traffickers;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-raids-in-southwest-target-human-traffickers/a-70307600?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Police raided more than 20 properties in southwestern Germany and arrested at least four people. The case pertains to trafficking people from the Caucasus region to work illegally and for less than the minimum wage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How false memories make us who we are;https://www.dw.com/en/how-false-memories-make-us-who-we-are/a-70300263?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "We think of memory as a reliable recording of our lives. But we also have false memories, often pieced together from communal experience. Those false memories shape our identity the same as the real ones do."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;At least 4 die as migrant ship sinks off Greek island;https://www.dw.com/en/at-least-4-die-as-migrant-ship-sinks-off-greek-island/a-70306276?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "A small boat carrying migrants from nearby Turkey sank in the eastern Aegean Sea off the Greek island of Samos, killing at least four people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy eyes high-level talks on US trip;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-eyes-high-level-talks-on-us-trip/live-70298882?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Ukrainian president met with Germany's Olaf Scholz in New York. Meanwhile, Russia said 31 civilians had been killed in Kursk and 131,000 others have been forced to flee. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German supermarket finds \u20ac7M of cocaine in crates of bananas;https://www.dw.com/en/german-supermarket-finds-\u20ac7m-of-cocaine-in-crates-of-bananas/a-70303810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Police did not identify the discount supermarket chain. However, they said the cocaine was found at stores in several cities across the state of North Rhine-Westphalia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: SPD seeks coalition after slim win in Brandenburg;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-spd-seeks-coalition-after-slim-win-in-brandenburg/live-70298970?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats will seek coalition talks with upstart left party BSW, as working with the far-right runner-up AfD has been ruled out. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goalie ter Stegen's injury leaves Germany coach in a bind;https://www.dw.com/en/goalie-ter-stegen-s-injury-leaves-germany-coach-in-a-bind/a-70302777?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Just weeks after being confirmed as Germany's new first-choice goalkeeper, Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has gone down with a potentially season-ending injury. Could Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann recall Manuel Neuer?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Volkswagen's crisis: How can Europe's car industry survive?;https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-s-crisis-how-can-europe-s-car-industry-survive/a-70231806?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "While Volkswagen and other European automakers are considering closing factories, Chinese rivals are searching for production sites on the continent. What's going wrong in Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Far-right gains in east Germany could deal blow to economy;https://www.dw.com/en/far-right-gains-in-east-germany-could-deal-blow-to-economy/a-70295769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "After elections in Thuringia and Saxony, the far-right AfD party has again massively gained in a poll in eastern Germany. Now the second-strongest force in Brandenburg, their success causes concerns among businesses."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany increases 'Deutschlandticket' price to \u20ac58;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-increases-deutschlandticket-price-to-\u20ac58/a-70300975?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The \"Deutschlandticket\" monthly travel pass allows passengers unlimited trips on local and regional trains, trams and buses. Starting in 2025, the ticket will be \u20ac9 more expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hamilton's near heatstroke puts F1 driver safety in focus;https://www.dw.com/en/hamilton-s-near-heatstroke-puts-f1-driver-safety-in-focus/a-69704130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Both Mercedes drivers suffered from 'borderline heatstroke' at the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix. Not for the first time this year, questions are being raised about their safety."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Brandenburg election brings relief for ruling SPD;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-brandenburg-election-brings-relief-for-ruling-spd/a-70298529?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats managed to fight off the far-right AfD in the regional vote. However, questions about the future of Germany's ruling coalition remain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Sudan crisis: Threat to culture 'unprecedented,' UNESCO says;https://www.dw.com/en/sudan-crisis-threat-to-culture-unprecedented-unesco-says/a-70284737?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Sudan is sinking into war and chaos. Many cultural and world heritage sites have been destroyed or looted as millions of people are displaced."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy: Naples house collapse kills mother and two kids;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-naples-house-collapse-kills-mother-and-two-kids/a-70296505?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The house is believed to have collapsed due to an explosion, local authorities said. The father of the kids and their 2-year-old brother were hospitalized after the incident."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;SPD set to finish ahead of far-right AfD in Brandenburg vote;https://www.dw.com/en/spd-set-to-finish-ahead-of-far-right-afd-in-brandenburg-vote/live-70291788?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Projections in state elections in the eastern German state of Brandenburg give the Social Democrats a slim lead over the far-right AfD in the race to be the largest party. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Swiss voters reject biodiversity, pension reforms;https://www.dw.com/en/swiss-voters-reject-biodiversity-pension-reforms/a-70295253?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Voters in Switzerland have voted \"no\" to measures on biodiversity preservation and pension reforms, according to official initial results."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Gaza's disabled cyclists deliver aid, inspiration and hope;https://www.dw.com/en/gaza-s-disabled-cyclists-deliver-aid-inspiration-and-hope/a-70269177?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "When the bombs started to fall in Gaza last October, the Gaza Sunbirds, a group of 25 Palestinian cyclists whose legs were amputated, started using their bikes to deliver food and shelters to their neighbors."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New French government announced in shift to the right;https://www.dw.com/en/new-french-government-announced-in-shift-to-the-right/a-70291188?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "French President Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff revealed the new center-right government from the Elysee Palace with some new faces in key positions and some who will be returning to their positions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Campaigns and a concert on eve of vote;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-campaigns-and-a-concert-on-eve-of-vote/a-70290694?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Politicians made last-ditch pitches in Brandenburg before Sunday's state election, where the far-right AfD is in the running to be the largest party. Several German bands gathered in Potsdam opposing this prospect."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Female referee deletes Instagram after sexist messages;https://www.dw.com/en/female-referee-deletes-instagram-after-sexist-messages/a-70290706?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Albanian referee Emanuela Rusta is making fast progress, but the sport she works in is not. The official made the decision to get rid of her social media account after constant remarks about her appearance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Paratroopers land in Arnhem honoring Operation Market Garden;https://www.dw.com/en/paratroopers-land-in-arnhem-honoring-operation-market-garden/a-70290283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned World War II operations. The Allied bid to secure a Rhine crossing proved \"A Bridge too Far.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Homeless World Cup: 'We want to do something special';https://www.dw.com/en/homeless-world-cup-we-want-to-do-something-special/a-70218267?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "National football teams made up of homeless people from around the world will soon gather in South Korea for the Homeless World Cup. For many of the players, the stakes are much higher than just the trophy on offer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starting a new life after political imprisonment in Belarus;https://www.dw.com/en/starting-a-new-life-after-political-imprisonment-in-belarus/a-70274513?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned dozens of political prisoners in recent months. Husband and wife Dmitry Luksha and Polina Polovinko, who were released in early July, spoke with DW about their ordeal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Two arsenals destroyed in Russia, Kyiv says;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-two-arsenals-destroyed-in-russia-kyiv-says/live-70289171?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Ukraine has destroyed two ammunition depots in Russia, the Ukrainian military said. Meanwhile, three people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Immigrants in eastern Germany ask: Leave or stay?;https://www.dw.com/en/immigrants-in-eastern-germany-ask-leave-or-stay/a-70289695?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The far-right AfD, leading in some polls, has campaigned aggressively against immigrants in state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg. But those states also depend on immigrant labor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Are Western double standards undermining the global order?;https://www.dw.com/en/are-western-double-standards-undermining-the-global-order/a-70289453?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Global South has become increasingly critical of Western double standards. A study by the Munich Security Conference has warned that the rules-based international order is at stake."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How deadly is Ukraine's new 'dragon drone'?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-deadly-is-ukraine-s-new-dragon-drone/a-70287164?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Ukrainian armed forces have deployed a new kind of drone to defend their country, one filled with a pyrotechnic thermite mixture that rains fire down on enemy positions. Its use is highly controversial."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Fridays for Future protests draw 75,000 in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/fridays-for-future-protests-draw-75-000-in-germany/a-70287782?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Climate activists filled the streets of German cities from Berlin to Munich, calling on authorities to take stronger action. Meanwhile, a court jailed two elderly climate activists for sabotaging an oil pipeline."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Iceland: Police shoot 1st polar bear sighted in years;https://www.dw.com/en/iceland-police-shoot-1st-polar-bear-sighted-in-years/a-70287266?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Number of refugees reaches new high in 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-number-of-refugees-reaches-new-high-in-2024/a-70286816?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "There are more refugees living in Germany than ever in recent history, according to German government data. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has contributed to the increase in refugees in Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German border city prepares for flood;https://www.dw.com/en/german-border-city-prepares-for-flood/a-70285116?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Frankfurt an der Oder, the German city on the border with Poland, is getting ready for yet another major flood. Yet the climate crisis is barely an issue in the Brandenburg state election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Former Harrods boss Mohamed al Fayed accused of rape;https://www.dw.com/en/former-harrods-boss-mohamed-al-fayed-accused-of-rape/a-70284389?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The late Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women. The survivors, including some minors, were hired as secretaries and assistants when the abuse allegedly took place."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jahjaga: 'Blame should not be directed at the survivors, but at the perpetrators, who used rape as a weapon of war';https://www.dw.com/en/jahjaga-blame-should-not-be-directed-at-the-survivors-but-at-the-perpetrators-who-used-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war/a-70283271?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Former President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga has been advocating for the survivors of wartime sexual violence since her presidency. She speaks to DW about her fight to address and highlight this issue in Kosovo."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Heat pumps: Why Germany's heating revolution is stalling;https://www.dw.com/en/heat-pumps-why-germany-s-heating-revolution-is-stalling/a-70192621?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "It's a signature project of Germany's environmentalist Greens: Instead of heating homes with fossil fuels, Germans should use heat pumps based on air or groundwater. But demand for these devices has plummeted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Von der Leyen in Kyiv announces \u20ac35bn loan;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-von-der-leyen-in-kyiv-announces-\u20ac35bn-loan/live-70278769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Ursula von der Leyen said the loan would come from frozen Russian assets. The EU Commission president also said the bloc \"will help Ukraine in its brave efforts\" including winter preparation and EU accession. Follow DW"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starlink satellites are blinding astronomers' view of space;https://www.dw.com/en/starlink-satellites-are-blinding-astronomers-view-of-space/a-70273835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Starlink and other satellite networks are vital for providing high speed internet to remote communities, but unintended radiation leakages are making life difficult for astronomers who need clear skies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hungary and the Netherlands want to exit EU asylum policy;https://www.dw.com/en/hungary-and-the-netherlands-want-to-exit-eu-asylum-policy/a-70278674?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Right-wing governments like those in Hungary and the Netherlands are demanding an opt-out, but it's hard to see how countries could legally exit the EU's asylum policy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Tupperware parties empowered homebound suburban women;https://www.dw.com/en/how-tupperware-parties-empowered-homebound-suburban-women/a-70273741?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "As Tupperware files for bankruptcy, here's a look back at how the iconic US plastic kitchenware company and its \"Tupperware party\" business model became a cultural phenomenon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Axel Springer splits media, classified businesses;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-axel-springer-splits-media-classified-businesses/a-70274495?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Friede Springer and CEO Mathias D\u00f6pfner will own Springer's media operations, which include Germany's most-read newspaper Bild and US digital newspaper Politico."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Czech Republic struggling to mitigate risks as Russian firms flourish;https://www.dw.com/en/czech-republic-struggling-to-mitigate-risks-as-russian-firms-flourish/a-70181088?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Czechia hosts by far the highest number of Russian-owned companies of any EU state. Experts warn this cohort of over 12,500 firms pose economic and security risks that the government must eventually start to mitigate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oktoberfest: Beer and pretzels in a sustainable package;https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-beer-and-pretzels-in-a-sustainable-package/a-70235282?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "More than Bavarians in lederhosen balancing frothing beer mugs and fried sausages, the world's largest folk festival is becoming more inclusive and eco-friendly."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;COVID FLiRT variants KP.3 and XEC: What you need to know;https://www.dw.com/en/covid-flirt-variants-kp-3-and-xec-what-you-need-to-know/a-70266402?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another variant and become XEC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Two European firms in focus of Hezbollah pager explosions;https://www.dw.com/en/two-european-firms-in-focus-of-hezbollah-pager-explosions/a-70248830?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Taiwanese company whose name appeared on the pagers that detonated across Lebanon has denied manufacturing the devices. That has put relatively unknown Hungarian and Bulgarian firms in the spotlight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine wants action after Belarus Olympic medalist ceremony;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-wants-action-after-belarus-olympic-medalist-ceremony/a-70262052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The ceremony, held on Belarus' National Unity Day, appears to violate the Olympic neutrality rules. Ukraine wants action, with the country's sports minister telling DW further sanctions are necessary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cities start fighting rental crisis triggered by overtourism;https://www.dw.com/en/cities-start-fighting-rental-crisis-triggered-by-overtourism/a-70228085?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "In many of Europe's hottest tourist destinations like Barcelona and Paris, locals struggle to access affordable housing. How much are vacation rentals to blame?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Exploding Hezbollah pagers: How did it happen?;https://www.dw.com/en/exploding-hezbollah-pagers-how-did-it-happen/a-70250960?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Although the devices have lithium-ion batteries that can catch fire or explode, it is more likely the pagers were sabotaged."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains \u2014 study;https://www.dw.com/en/pregnancy-completely-rewires-mothers-brains-study/a-70246399?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Neuroscientists scanned the brain of a pregnant woman and captured a 'widespread reorganization' of her brain before, during and after pregnancy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Use, and misuse, of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "As Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell become the latest celebs to endorse Kamala Harris, here's a look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Google wins legal battle against EU over \u20ac1.5 billion fine;https://www.dw.com/en/google-wins-legal-battle-against-eu-over-\u20ac1-5-billion-fine/a-70246709?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "After years of back and forth, an EU court annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it sold advertisements. The fine was one of three major penalties the EU has leveled against the tech giant in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Namibia's strategy to cull animals save them?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-namibia-s-strategy-to-cull-animals-save-them/a-70213343?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Does Namibia's plan to kill animals to save them, and help the human population from ongoing drought, stack up?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand shrinks;https://www.dw.com/en/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy-as-demand-shrinks/a-70245540?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Once popular for its colorful food storage containers, US firm Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy. The company succumbed to a plummeting demand for its products."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Intel's factory delay adds to Germany's economic woes;https://www.dw.com/en/us-intel-s-factory-delay-adds-to-germany-s-economic-woes/a-70241739?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has announced it is postponing a $30 billion investment in Germany due to financial problems at the firm. But is the German government still committed to the investments?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the arts are a thorn in the side of Germany's AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-arts-are-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-germany-s-afd/a-70239911?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How new technologies can mitigate the risks of flooding;https://www.dw.com/en/how-new-technologies-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-flooding/a-70239314?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "With extreme weather, floods are getting as common in Europe as they are in Asia and Africa. From mobile barriers to specialized dams, people are finding solutions to life-threatening floods across the globe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China's technology drive leaves young people jobless;https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-technology-drive-leaves-young-people-jobless/a-70187883?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "China is investing billions to become a global tech power. But AI, robotics and quantum computing are not labor-intensive sectors, so what to do about the millions of young Chinese who can't find a job?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Alex Morgan: The greatest female footballer of all time?;https://www.dw.com/en/alex-morgan-the-greatest-female-footballer-of-all-time/a-70153127?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Marta may have won six FIFA player awards, but two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan is more of a household name. Teammate Megan Rapinoe achieved on and off the field, yet Morgan had a grace on the pitch few could match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's ter Stegen is happy the wait is finally over;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-ter-stegen-is-happy-the-wait-is-finally-over/a-70144838?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "National team goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has spoken of his frustration during years of being stuck behind Manuel Neuer, while at the same time paying tribute to his predecessor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australia's Raygun claims 'I knew people wouldn't understand my style';https://www.dw.com/en/australia-s-raygun-claims-i-knew-people-wouldn-t-understand-my-style/a-70135037?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Rachael \"Raygun\" Gunn, the 37-year-old Olympic breaker, says the criticism of her performance came from people's ignorance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Women's soccer: US shows up Europe on maternity care;https://www.dw.com/en/women-s-soccer-us-shows-up-europe-on-maternity-care/a-70117081?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "A recent lawsuit involving French club Olympique Lyon highlighted the disparities and room for improvement in women's football regarding pregnancies and maternity care."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India's archaic labor laws allow firms to exploit workers;https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-archaic-labor-laws-allow-firms-to-exploit-workers/a-70121341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Major international companies, including big tech firms, are exploiting India's labor laws and skirting overtime payment, say workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Germany live up to its chipmaking ambitions?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-germany-live-up-to-its-chipmaking-ambitions/a-70079606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "The German government wants to build up its long-term chipmaking capabilities. But are they following through and attracting the companies needed to make the country a center of this all-important technology?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis tickets: UK government to probe 'dynamic pricing';https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-tickets-uk-government-to-probe-dynamic-pricing/a-70109787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Ministers have promised an investigation after fans complained of inflated ticket prices for Oasis' 2025 reunion tour. But industry experts insist that \"dynamic pricing\" is not illegal and based on supply and demand."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis reunion tour tickets cause online frenzy;https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-reunion-tour-tickets-cause-online-frenzy/a-70099805?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Fans of the Manchester band Oasis faced long online queues on Saturday morning as tickets went on sale for the group's in-demand reunion concerts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Half the world lacks access to safe drinking water;https://www.dw.com/en/half-the-world-lacks-access-to-safe-drinking-water/a-70089835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "A new report shows 4.4 billion people across the world have no access to safe drinking water, more than double many previous estimates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is methane?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. Where does methane come from, and what can we do to stop it from getting into the atmosphere?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Concerning' rise in unprotected sex among teenagers;https://www.dw.com/en/concerning-rise-in-unprotected-sex-among-teenagers/a-70079734?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "A majority of teenagers in Europe, Central Asia, and Canada do not use condoms. Experts warn of rising risks of STIs and unwanted pregnancies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Populists\u2019 rhetoric linked to growing unhappiness, study finds;https://www.dw.com/en/populists-rhetoric-linked-to-growing-unhappiness-study-finds/a-70072409?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-26 02:00:05",
        "text": "Right-wing populism is rising across Europe, with Germany\u2019s AfD possibly becoming the first far-right party to win state elections since the Nazis. However, their rise won\u2019t bring greater happiness to their supporters."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis live: Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire talks will continue \u2018in coming days\u2019, says Netanyahu;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/27/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-gaza-war-hamas-middle-east-news-latest-updates;2024-09-27T08:55:29Z",
        "text": "The Philippines said on Friday it will evacuate 11,000 citizens from Lebanon the moment Israeli forces cross the border to launch a ground offensive against Hezbollah, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Israeli bombing of Iran-backed Hezbollah strongholds around neighbouring Lebanon has killed hundreds of people this week, while the militant group has retaliated with rocket barrages. Israel has rejected a US-backed 21-day ceasefire call, and its military chief has told soldiers to prepare for a possible ground offensive. \u201cA ground invasion will lead to mandatory repatriation,\u201d foreign undersecretary Eduardo de Vega said at a press conference in Manila, adding the plan was to move thousands out of the country via the sea. He did not provide other details, according to AFP. Manila had earlier urged Filipinos to leave Lebanon before airlines stopped flying to Beirut but most of its citizens did not heed the call, Filipino diplomats said. Millions of Filipinos work overseas \u2013 with large numbers concentrated in the Middle East \u2013 due to limited job opportunities at home. About 90% of those working in Lebanon are women migrant domestic workers, reports AFP. \u201cTo some of them, getting killed in war is preferable to starving to death,\u201d de Vega said, adding there have so far been no Filipino casualties from the Israeli air campaign against Hezbollah. After Israel\u2019s war with Hamas erupted last year following the group\u2019s 7 October attack, Manila began voluntary repatriations of its citizens from the areas affected by the fighting. So far, only 500 Filipinos have taken up the government\u2019s offer to leave Lebanon, De Vega said. Filipino ambassador to Beirut Raymond Balatbat said 196 Filipinos have fled southern Lebanon, where the Israeli campaign has been concentrated. Most Filipinos working in the country are based in central Lebanon around Beirut, he added. Anthony Mandap, consul general at the Philippine embassy in Tel Aviv, said there are no plans as of now to repatriate 30,000 Filipinos working in Israel, reports AFP. The Israeli military said drones and rockets crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon on Friday, as Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah claimed a rocket attack on the Israeli city of Tiberias (see 9am BST). The drones infiltrated the coastal area of Rosh HaNikra and were intercepted by the military\u2019s defences, the Israeli military said, adding several rockets were also intercepted. An Israeli airstrike on Friday killed five Syrian soldiers near the border with Lebanon, the Syrian state news agency, Sana, reported, citing a military source. \u201cThe Israeli enemy carried out an aerial attack \u2026 on one of our military positions near Kfar Yabus on the Syrian-Lebanese border,\u201d Sana quoted the source as saying, adding that five Syrian soldiers were killed and one was wounded. The raid came a day after the Israeli army said its warplanes struck \u201cinfrastructure along the Syria-Lebanon border used by Hezbollah to transfer weapons from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon\u201d. According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said Israeli warplanes targeted a crossing that links Syria\u2019s Qusayr area to Lebanon, causing \u201ca number of wounded\u201d. The UK-based monitor, which relies on a network of sources on the ground, said it was the first such strike on Syria since Israel intensified its attacks on Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah this week. Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah militant group said its forces fired a salvo of rockets at the Israeli city of Tiberias on Friday, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). In a statement, Hezbollah said it was responding to Israel\u2019s \u201csavage\u201d strikes on Lebanese towns and civilians. The Israeli military said drones and projectiles had crossed its territory from Lebanon. Here are some of the latest images coming in on the newswires: Ten global unions have filed a complaint urging Israel to pay back wages for more than 200,000 Palestinian workers deprived of salaries since the start of the war in Gaza. The complaint, lodged at the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Friday, seeks unpaid wages and withheld benefits for workers employed in Israel before the 7 October attacks there by fighters from Palestinian militant group Hamas. According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the unions cited \u201cmillions of dollars of lost income, causing severe financial insecurity \u2026 and widespread hardship for the affected workers and their families, who have no access to judicial remedies\u201d. Israel has ratified the ILO convention on the protection of unpaid wages, which is legally binding on signatories. According to the complaint, 13,000 workers from the Gaza Strip have not been paid for work done before 7 October. In addition, nearly 200,000 Palestinian workers from the West Bank have not been allowed to enter Israel since the war erupted nearly one year ago and have not been paid for work done before it began, reports AFP. The ILO estimates average daily wages for Palestinians employed in Israel under regular work permits at $79 a day, while for informal workers, weekly pay ranged from $565 to $700. \u201cThese workers have experienced widespread wage theft due to the suspension of work permits and the unilateral termination of their contracts,\u201d the unions said. They include the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers\u2019 Associations (IUF) and the Building and Wood Workers\u2019 International (BWI). AFP reports that the ILO can decide to name a committee to review the complaint and the Israeli government\u2019s response, or in serious cases form an investigative committee. An Israeli strike at about 3am local time on Friday killed nine people from the same family in the southern Lebanese border-town of Shebaa, including four children, mayor Mohammad Saab has told Reuters. No further information was provided. The House of Commons foreign affairs committee chairwoman has warned a ground invasion by Israel into Lebanon could favour Hezbollah and its legitimacy, reports the Press Association (PA). Asked about escalating conflict in the Middle East, Emily Thornberry told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today programme: I think that we need to be aware that we have perhaps more clout than we have done recently, and I think we\u2019re in a fairly unique position, so \u2026 we are in a position to be able to pull people together. I think that the UN general assembly meeting at this time means that many other nations can be pulled behind the declaration that has been made, and that will make it stronger. We don\u2019t know whether or not Israel is bluffing about a ground war. We do know that in 2006 that they got very bogged down, that at the moment they may be ahead because they\u2019re using air power and surprise, but a ground war may well be different. And actually, the poor Lebanese, who you know many of whom do not want Hezbollah in the bottom of their country, certainly don\u2019t want to have the Israelis. And Hezbollah may well end up with more legitimacy as a result of that ground invasion.\u201d Israeli teams had meetings to discuss the US ceasefire proposals with Lebanon on Thursday and will continue discussions in the days ahead, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday, adding that he appreciated the US efforts. \u201cOur teams met (Thursday, 26 September) to discuss the US initiative and how we can advance the shared goal of returning people safely to their homes. We will continue those discussions in the coming days,\u201d he said in a statement, reports Reuters. The comments came after Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz said on Thursday there would be no ceasefire in the north, where Israeli jets have been carrying out the heaviest bombardment against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement in decades. On Thursday, after Netanyahu left for New York where he is attending the UN general assembly, his office issued a statement saying the prime minister had ordered Israeli troops to continue fighting with full force in Lebanon. Reuters reports that Netanyahu\u2019s statement made no reference to the comments of Katz and other Israeli politicians, who have also rejected a ceasefire, saying only that there had been \u201ca lot of misreporting around the US-led ceasefire initiative\u201d. \u201cIsrael shares the aims of the US-led initiative of enabling people along our northern border to return safely and securely to their homes,\u201d the statement said. \u201cIsrael appreciates the US efforts in this regard because the US role is indispensable in advancing stability and security in the region,\u201d it said. Israeli strikes over the past week have hit hundreds of targets in southern Lebanon and much deeper into the country, killing more than 600 people, reports Reuters. At the same time, Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets and missiles at targets in Israel, including one fired at Tel Aviv. Israel\u2019s air defence systems have intercepted many of the missiles, ensuring the damage has been relatively limited. The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has urged his Israeli counterpart to \u201clisten to the international community\u201d amid fears of an escalating conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon. The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, also declared that the world \u201ccannot allow any party to obstruct\u201d peace in the Middle East as she pressed for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon. Speaking hours after the Israeli government rejected growing international calls to agree to a three-week ceasefire with Hezbollah, Albanese had a sharp message for Benjamin Netanyahu. \u201cI say to prime minister Netanyahu that he needs to listen to the international community, just like the other players in that region need to listen to the international community,\u201d he told reporters in Melbourne. \u201cThe calls are very clear when you have the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, other nations all calling for a de-escalation of this conflict.\u201d In New York, Wong addressed the UN security council and emphasised the urgent need for \u201cde-escalation\u201d and \u201cdialogue\u201d. \u201cHezbollah are terrorists that have not complied with security council resolution 1701, but Lebanese civilians should not pay the price,\u201d Wong said. \u201cLebanon cannot become the next Gaza. Just as in Gaza, Australia calls for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon.\u201d In a pointed message to Israel, Wong said: \u201cWar has rules \u2013 even when confronting terrorists; even when defending borders.\u201d Israeli and US officials have met to discuss a US-backed ceasefire proposal with Hezbollah, the office of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late on Thursday. The meetings \u2013 which happened in New York on the sidelines of the UN general assembly, would continue in the days ahead, Netanyahu\u2019s office said, adding that they appreciated the US efforts. The statement came after Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz said on Thursday there would be no ceasefire in the north, where Israeli jets have been carrying out the heaviest bombardment against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement in decades. On Thursday, after Netanyahu left for New York where he is attending the UN general assembly, his office issued a statement saying the prime minister had ordered Israeli troops to continue fighting with full force in Lebanon. More on that in a moment, but first here is a summary of the day\u2019s other main events: Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel \u201cwill not stop\u201d its attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon despite calls from the US, France and other allies for an immediate three-week ceasefire. The Israeli prime minister told reporters that his government\u2019s policy was clear as he landed in New York on Thursday. \u201cWe are continuing to strike Hezbollah with full force, and we will not stop until we reach all our goals,\u201d Netanyahu said. The US and France called for a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to make way for broader negotiations. A joint statement calling for \u201ca diplomatic settlement\u201d of the crisis was also endorsed by the UK, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. It called for an urgent cessation of hostilities, which presented \u201can unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation\u201d. Lebanon\u2019s minister for foreign affairs, Abdallah Bouhabib, has said his country is enduring a crisis that \u201cthreatens its very existence\u201d. Speaking at the UN general assembly, he has said that his government welcomed yesterday\u2019s ceasefire plan raised by the US and France \u2013 and demanded it be implemented. US officials hope to persuade Netanyahu to accept the ceasefire proposal by the time he addresses the UN general assembly on Friday. They argue that a pause in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah could also provide a breathing space in which to revive long-stalled negotiations with Israel and Hamas over the release of Israeli hostages in return for a truce in Gaza. Hezbollah has yet to respond to the call for a truce, although it and its backer, Iran, have previously insisted it would halt its strikes only if there is a ceasefire in Gaza. Israeli airstrikes continued in Lebanon on Thursday, in which health authorities said 92 people had been killed. Two people were killed and 15 others injured, including a woman in critical condition, after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Thursday, according to Lebanon\u2019s health ministry. Israel said it carried out a strike that it said killed one of the heads of the Hezbollah air force unit, Mohammad Surur. Hezbollah later confirmed his death. Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthi movement said it had targeted the northern Israeli town of Safed with dozens of rockets on Thursday in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Later on Thursday, air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and across central Israel. The IDF said the sirens were triggered by a missile fired from Yemen, which it said was intercepted by Israel\u2019s Arrow missile defence system."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Lebanon ceasefire hopes fade as Netanyahu issues contradictory statements ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-hopes-fade-netanyahu;2024-09-27T08:11:57Z",
        "text": "Optimism that a three-week ceasefire could be reached between Hezbollah and Israel appeared to recede as Benjamin Netanyahu issued a pair of contradictory statements on the proposal within hours of each other. In the latest statement from Netanyahu\u2019s office, issued overnight on Friday, the Israeli prime minister chided reporting on the issue as he confirmed Israel had been consulted regarding a US-led ceasefire proposal. \u201cIsrael shares the aims of the US-led initiative of enabling people along our northern border to return safely and securely to their homes. Israel appreciates the US efforts in this regard because the US role is indispensable in advancing stability and security in the region,\u201d the statement read. A previous release earlier on Thursday, however, had said that reporting \u201cabout a ceasefire is incorrect. This is an American-French proposal that the prime minister has not even responded to.\u201d Netanyahu\u2019s twin statements appeared to replicate his response to previous US-led diplomatic initiatives over a Gaza ceasefire, where Israel has suggested it is more open to talks in private before reversing in the face of opposition from his coalition members. Not for the first time US officials appear to have been wrongfooted by Netanyahu, saying initially they had believed his government was \u201conboard\u201d with the plan for a 21-day ceasefire when it was announced by the US, France and other allies, saying the proposal had been \u201ccoordinated\u201d with Israel. \u201cWe had every reason to believe that in the drafting of it and in the delivery of it, that the Israelis were fully informed and fully aware of every word in it,\u201d John Kirby, the White House national security spokesperson, told reporters on Thursday, adding that the US \u201cwouldn\u2019t have done it if we didn\u2019t believe that it would be received with the seriousness with which it was composed\u201d. The late-night statement came after Abdallah Bou Habib, Lebanon\u2019s foreign minister, urged all parties to implement the proposal, saying the escalating violence threatened his country\u2019s \u201cvery existence\u201d. Speaking at the UN general assembly in New York, Bou Habib said the US-French ceasefire proposal was an \u201copportunity to generate momentum, to take steps towards ending this crisis\u201d. Earlier, the office of Netanyahu \u2013 who is addressing the UN general assembly on Friday \u2013 said the IDF would \u201ccontinue fighting with full force\u201d to achieve its war goals. Those war goals include the safe return home of more than 60,000 Israelis forced to abandon their homes in northern Israel by Hezbollah bombing, which began on 8 October last year, the day after the start of the Gaza war. On Thursday, Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said nearly 700 people had been killed this week, as Israel dramatically escalated strikes it says are targeting Hezbollah\u2019s military capacities. The IDF said a strike on a southern suburb of Beirut killed the head of Hezbollah\u2019s drone force, Mohammad Surur. Israel has carried out several strikes in Beirut this week, targeting senior Hezbollah commanders. After the Beirut explosion, dozens of rockets were fired toward the northern Israeli city of Safed, with one hitting a street in a nearby town. In total, 175 projectiles were fired from Lebanon on Thursday, the military said. Most were intercepted or fell in open areas, some sparking wildfires. The IDF said on Friday it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen that set off air raid sirens across Israel\u2019s populous central area, including Tel Aviv. Another missile from Yemen landed in central Israel about two weeks ago. The strikes came after Israel\u2019s military chief said on Wednesday the country was preparing for a possible ground operation in Lebanon. On Thursday, the Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee reiterated that the military was preparing for a ground operation while awaiting a decision on whether to go ahead, and that the air force had reduced Hezbollah\u2019s weapons stockpile and was working to prevent the transfer of further arms from Iran. Hezbollah has yet to respond to the call for a truce, although it and its backer Iran have previously said it would halt its strikes only if there is a ceasefire in Gaza. Emmanuel Macron \u2013 who was a co-backer with Joe Biden of the 21-day ceasefire proposal \u2013 said Netanyahu would have to take responsibility for a regional escalation if he did not agree to the truce. \u201cThe proposal that was made is a solid proposal,\u201d the French president said, adding that the plan supported by the US and the EU had been prepared with Netanyahu himself. The domestic political repercussions of a ceasefire for Netanyahu were made clear when his national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, told the prime minister that his party, Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power), would not vote with the coalition if the government agreed a ceasefire with Hezbollah. \u201cWe will not abandon the residents of the north. Every day that this ceasefire is in effect and Israel does not fight in the north, Otzma Yehudit is not committed to the coalition,\u201d Ben-Gvir said at a party meeting. The leader of the opposition Democrats party, Yair Golan, also argued against committing to a three-week ceasefire, saying Israel should initially agree to a truce of a few days to see how well it was enforced."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Japan\u2019s ruling party picks Shigeru Ishiba to become next PM;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/japan-shigeru-ishiba-prime-minister-liberal-democratic-party;2024-09-27T07:29:55Z",
        "text": "Shigeru Ishiba, a veteran moderate, will next week be installed as Japan\u2019s prime minister after he was elected leader of the governing Liberal Democratic party (LDP). The 67-year-old, a former defence minister, beat his rightwing rival Sanae Takaichi, who was attempting to become the country\u2019s first female prime minister, by 215 votes to 194 in a runoff election at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Friday. The vote was triggered when the outgoing prime minister, Fumio Kishida, announced he would not seek re-election as LDP president amid damaging fundraising scandals and low approval ratings. Citing the need for new blood after a bruising few months for his party, Kishida had said that his successor must lead a \u201cnew LDP\u201d. In brief comments to lawmakers before the runoff, Ishiba, who had described the contest as his \u201cfinal political battle\u201d, called for a fairer and kinder Japan. \u201cWe will put an end to the widespread distrust in the LDP,\u201d he said. \u201cOnce the election is over, we will put our hearts into protecting Japan, local areas, rules and the people of Japan.\u201d Despite his popularity among the public, another candidate, Shinjiro Koizumi, who at 43 would have become Japan\u2019s youngest postwar prime minister, was knocked out of the race in the first round of voting, along with six others. Koizumi, the son of the former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, may have spooked the party with a promise to hold a snap election if elected leader. Having been chosen to steer the party out of the doldrums, Ishiba must address growing anger over rising living costs and navigate a volatile regional security environment fuelled by an increasingly assertive China and nuclear-armed North Korea. A defence expert who builds plastic models of warplanes and ships in his free time, Ishiba has proposed an Asian version of Nato and voiced strong support for Taiwanese democracy. He has also called for the creation of a disaster-management agency in a country that is often struck by powerful earthquakes and typhoons. The result has dealt a significant blow to the political legacy of the assassinated former leader Shinzo Abe, with whom Ishiba often disagreed. Takaichi was a disciple of Abe\u2019s economic programme and shared his revisionist views on Japan\u2019s wartime history. Tobias Harris, the founder of the Japan Foresight political risk advisory firm, described the race as \u201ca battle for the soul of the LDP, pitting Takaichi, Abe\u2019s intellectual successor on economic and foreign policy, against Ishiba, an idealistic reformer who fundamentally rejects not just Abenomics but much of his foreign policy thinking and his approach to politics\u201d. Takaichi\u2019s stock had risen in the years since her first unsuccessful bid for the LDP leadership in 2021 \u2013 a contest won by Kishida. She attempted to fill the ideological vacuum left by Abe\u2019s violent death in 2022, and benefited in Friday\u2019s vote from securing the support of Taro Aso, an influential former prime minister. But the wait for Japan\u2019s first female prime minister continues. Women comprise just 10.3% of the lower house of parliament, ranking 163rd for female representation among 190 countries in a report by the Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union in April. Agencies contributed to this report"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Kokoda track shut indefinitely after PNG landowners demand payments ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/kokoda-track-shut-to-walkers-png-landowners-protest-government-payments-marape;2024-09-27T07:17:30Z",
        "text": "The historic Kokoda track has been closed indefinitely as local landowners demand outstanding payments from the Papua New Guinea government. Earlier in the month, Australians walking the 138km Kokoda track had treks cancelled while others were stalled for long periods as protests by landowners closed sections of the trail. Mount Kodu landowners have now closed off the track and are petitioning the PNG prime minister, James Marape, to pay the outstanding commitment the government made to them of 40m PNG kina (A$14.8m). In 2008, the landowners forwent a A$12bn Mount Kodu mine project at the PNG government\u2019s request in order to preserve the Kokoda track. They signed an memorandum of understanding with the PNG government in 2010 as compensation for foregoing the mine project, including K430m in loyalties to the Kodu and Kokoda track landowners, and another K152m to the Kokoda Track Authority for community livelihood development projects and programs. The PNG government committed to paying K5m every year from 2010 until 2020, when the memorandum of understanding would be reviewed. However, the government only paid K10m and K5m in 2011 and 2012 respectively. Kodu Resource Owners Association deputy chairman, Chillion Biloi, said the organisation felt \u201cforgotten \u2026 despite the fact that we have forgone the mine with major infrastructure developments and revenues in the billions of kina\u201d. He said the track will remain closed until the PNG government responds to the demands in the petition \u2013 which was supported by all track corridor communities, the Hiri Koiari district and the Central Province government. Charlie Lynn, the owner of tour company Adventure Kokoda, said the track was \u201cclosed without any notice at all\u201d. He has had to cancel six trips over the last two weeks, and airlift 10 stranded trekkers out of the jungle, leaving the company A$50,000 out of pocket. Lynn said those who had their tours cancelled will be disappointed, with many trekkers having taken time off work to physically prepare for the hike. But he was also concerned about the impact on local tour operators. More than 3,000 trekkers walk the Kokoda track each year to pay tribute to Australian and PNG soldiers who died in the second world war. In April 2024, the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and Marape walked the track. According to Lynn, the situation is due to \u201cgross mismanagement\u201d since the Australian government took control of the track in 2009. \u201cIf the track is not opened up today \u2026 tourism for the rest of the year is shot,\u201d Lynn said. The PNG prime minister\u2019s chief of staff, Andy Hetra, said the government would respond to the petition this week. A spokesperson for Australia\u2019s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said the department wants to see an early resolution, but the reopening of the track is ultimately a matter for the PNG government. The PNG Tourism Promotion Authority could not be reached for comment."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel accused of breaking global labor law by withholding Palestinian worker pay;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/israel-palestinian-workers-pay;2024-09-27T07:00:05Z",
        "text": "Ten trade unions have accused Israel of breaching international labor law by holding back pay and benefits from more than 200,000 Palestinian workers since 7 October. The Israeli government stands accused of \u201cblatant\u201d violations of the International Labour Organization\u2019s (ILO) protection of wages convention, tipping many Palestinians into extreme poverty. Workers from Gaza and the West Bank, employed in Israel, did not receive payment for work completed prior to last October \u2013 when Hamas militants led an attack that killed nearly 1,200 people in southern Israel \u2013 and have received no wages since, according to the complaint. The attack triggered an Israeli assault on Gaza that has killed more than 41,000 Palestinians and laid waste to much of the territory. A complaint filed on Friday aims to recover the wages of Palestinian workers who previously worked in Israel. \u201cTwo hundred thousand workers in the West Bank lost their jobs,\u201d said Assaf Adiv, executive director of Maan Workers Association, an independent workers\u2019 organization in Israel. \u201cThey did not receive any compensation and have been suffering ever since from extreme poverty. \u201cThousands of workers who risk entering Israel without permits face repression, humiliation and even death. Workers are a major social layer in Palestinian society that is peaceful and doesn\u2019t associate with Hamas and thus should not be punished.\u201d According to ILO estimates, the average daily wage for Palestinian workers in Israel was 297.30 shekels ($79), with average weekly wages ranging from 2,100-2,600 shekels ($565-$700). Israel revoked work permits for about 13,000 Palestinian workers from the Gaza Strip to work legally in Israel following the Hamas attack on 7 October, according to a legal brief on the complaint, leaving those workers with unpaid wages from September and October. Those wages would have normally been paid on 9 October. An additional nearly 200,000 Palestinian workers from the West Bank employed in Israel have not been permitted to enter Israel, and have received no termination notices, according to the brief, which argues they are owed wages stipulated by their employment contracts for their previous work and subsequent months. The unions allege that Israel is violating the ILO\u2019s protection of wages convention, which has been ratified by a hundred member states, including Israel in 1959. A May report from the ILO estimated that, since 7 October, unemployment for Palestinians has been at an all-time high. \u201cEconomic production losses throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory are estimated at almost US$19 million per day,\u201d it stated. \u201cWhen the war started, we returned home during the initial phase of the conflict. Since then, we haven\u2019t received any salaries or found any work,\u201d said Khaled Jamal Muhammad Karkash, a Palestinian worker. \u201cWe\u2019re trying our best to find something to do to meet some of our needs. I\u2019m the breadwinner for my family. No one else is working at home.\u201d Another Palestinian worker, Mahmoud Salhab, had also been working in Israel, but since last October has not been allowed back to work. \u201cI\u2019m the primary breadwinner, and I have a four-year degree, yet I can\u2019t find a job,\u201d said Salhab. \u201cSince the first war, I\u2019ve only been working four days a month, just enough to cover basic necessities like bread and oil. I was engaged before the war, but now, I\u2019ve not finished building my house, I can\u2019t afford to get married.\u201d More than 500,000 jobs have been lost in Gaza and the West Bank, according to the International Labour Organization, worsening an already dire economic landscape for Palestinians. In March, Mohamed Mustafa, the Palestinian prime minister, claimed the unemployment rate was at 89%. \u201cWhen I visited the West Bank earlier this year, I witnessed the economic destitution experienced by the families of Palestinian workers employed in Israel,\u201d said Luc Triangle, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation. \u201cAs always, working people are enduring the worst of the continuing conflict. Through this petition, we want to ensure that the much-needed back pay is paid out to workers who are struggling to make ends meet.\u201d The trade unions behind the complaint represent some 207 million workers across more than 160 countries. They include the Building and Wood Workers\u2019 International, Education International, the IndustriAll Global Union, the International Federation of Journalists, the International Trade Union Confederation, the International Transport Workers\u2019 Federation, the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers\u2019 Associations, Public Services International, and UNI Global Union. The Trade Union Advisory Committee to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development also signed on to the complaint."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Friday briefing: What we know about the young people who rioted this summer \u2013 and why;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/first-edition-summer-riots-young-people;2024-09-27T05:45:03Z",
        "text": "Good morning. As autumn arrives here in the UK, the nine days of rage and violence that erupted on the streets of more than 20 cities in late July and early August seem a long time ago. But the sentencing of the more than 1,200 participants in the summer riots goes on, and politicians are continuing to wrestle with their causes. Guardian reporters have been speaking to victims, crunching the numbers and reporting from the courts, to try to understand more about what happened in those chaotic days \u2013 and why. Today, we speak to the Guardian\u2019s North of England editor, Josh Halliday, who covered the Southport riot, and has recently spent time in the youth courts, where children as young as 12 were tried for their part in the disorder. First, today\u2019s headlines. Five big stories Middle East | Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel \u201cwill not stop\u201d its attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon despite calls from the US, France and other allies for an immediate three-week ceasefire. \u201cWe are continuing to strike Hezbollah with full force, and we will not stop until we reach all our goals,\u201d Netanyahu said. UK-US relations | Keir Starmer has met Donald Trump for a two-hour dinner in New York, as he sought to establish a good relationship with the Republican presidential candidate. The prime minister was accompanied by his foreign secretary David Lammy, who described Trump as a neo-Nazi sympathiser in 2018 but has since said he would work with him in office. New York | Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, has been charged with accepting bribes and illegal campaign contributions from foreign sources after an indictment was filed against the leader of one of the world\u2019s biggest cities. Covid inquiry | A senior doctor repeatedly broke down in tears as he described how the Covid crisis for NHS staff was like having to respond to a \u201cterrorist attack every day\u201d, with infected patients \u201craining from the sky\u201d. Technology | Elon Musk has hit back at the UK government after he was not invited to an international investment summit following his controversial social media posts during last month\u2019s riots. In depth: \u2018It came back to wanting to be part of something\u2019 Rioting kicked off in Southport on 30 July, in the wake of a horrific attack on a children\u2019s dance class in which three young girls were murdered. Fuelled by online disinformation, many hundreds of people took to the streets in the days that followed, in towns and cities including Plymouth, Middlesbrough and Sunderland. In perhaps the most horrific scenes, rioters in Rotherham tried to set light to a hotel housing asylum seekers. Despite the racist motives behind much of the disorder, Josh says his experience watching some of the youngest rioters is that they had few overtly political views. Instead, many seemed to have been drawn to the scene by curiosity, fuelled by what they were seeing online. \u201cThey\u2019d seen it on social media, their friends had told them about it, and they\u2019d gone to see what was happening,\u201d says Josh. In his piece on Thursday, he recounted the case of a 16-year-old boy caught on video hurling a rock at police from the steps of Bolton\u2019s cenotaph. His solicitor said the boy\u2019s political views were \u201cgenerally nonexistent,\u201d and his parents said he was not racist and had a mixed-race sibling. Asked to explain what the cenotaph represented, he replied: \u201cI don\u2019t even know what that is\u201d. *** Different treatment Analysis this week by the Guardian\u2019s data team of the first 500 people charged in connection with the rioting suggests their average age was older than in 2011, when disorder broke out in Tottenham, north London. Back then, just 5.6% of those charged were over 40. Among those sampled by the Guardian this time, it was 34.6% \u2013 more than a third. Josh injects a word of caution, however. \u201cThe Crown Prosecution Service treats kids very differently now compared to 2011,\u201d he says. \u201cWhereas kids would have been hauled before the courts, this time around the CPS will have looked at it and it\u2019s only really the exceptional cases that result in a charge.\u201d Of those cases that have ended up in the courts, some of which involved children as young as 11 or 12, he says social media appears to have been important. \u201cIt came back to wanting to be part of something \u2013 because friends were there [and posted] on TikTok or other social media. I think that\u2019s a very interesting factor.\u201d *** Local rabble rousers Another finding of the analysis chimes closely with what Josh witnessed on the night of the Southport riot. While local leaders were keen at the time to suggest the violence had been promulgated by out-of-town rabble rousers, three quarters of those charged lived within five miles of where the violence broke out. \u201cYou sort of sensed people were fairly local, because you saw people say, \u2018alright mate, I haven\u2019t seen you for a while\u2019: it was people who knew each other from school,\u2019\u201d he says. Josh\u2019s first-hand experience also corroborates another finding: that many of those joining in the clashes were from less affluent areas. The Guardian\u2019s number-crunchers found that well over half of those convicted in their sample came from one of the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. They were also likely to come from areas with high levels of ill health. *** \u2018They feel the government has done nothing for them\u2019 Josh says his experience from reporting on the riots and their aftermath, as well as the Guardian\u2019s findings about the profile of those involved, helps to throw light on the factors that may have allowed far-right politics to take hold. He points out that the summer disorder followed the cost of living crisis, when inflation spiralled. \u201cResearch academics have shown for years that there\u2019s a very close link between periods of financial hardship and civil unrest. And it\u2019s those communities in Rotherham, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, that feel the pinch more than anywhere else. So there is that kind of anger that builds up.\u201d He adds that what Keir Starmer called in his conference speech this week \u201clegitimate\u201d concerns about migration, may have been fuelled by government policy in some of those areas. \u201cThe Home Office has moved asylum seekers into these areas because housing is cheap. Several houses on one street become turned into multiple occupancy dwellings by contractors like Serco and G4S, in these overwhelmingly white areas which are struggling with deprivation and ill health\u201d. This can create a \u201cdifficult atmosphere,\u201d he says, adding, \u201cit\u2019s really unfair on vulnerable asylum seekers to plonk them in these areas where there is not the support network there for them.\u201d Starmer\u2019s much-praised reaction to the riots was to fast-track justice for those involved. \u201cI will never let a minority of violent, racist, thugs terrorise our communities,\u201d he told Labour conference, to applause. What we have learned about those involved and their circumstances suggests other responses may be relevant too, however \u2013 including tackling deprivation in areas where, as Josh puts it, \u201cthey feel like the government has done nothing for them\u201d. What else we\u2019ve been reading Sirin Kale\u2019s interview with TOWIE\u2019s Lauren Goodger is a sensitive look at the huge highs and tragic lows of life in the reality TV spotlight. Hannah J Davies, deputy editor, newsletters We all know about the harm that social media can cause to kids, but rare birds and flowers are suffering too, as detailed in this piece by Elle Hunt, about the hordes that descend when a wildlife sighting goes viral. Heather \u201cIt\u2019s time to be a man and vote for a woman\u201d: Carter Sherman has a fascinating Guardian US piece about how masculinity has become a hot political topic in the run-up to November\u2019s election. Hannah As the dust settles from Labour conference, Aditya Chakrabortty argues in this trenchant column that evidence gathered by Keir Starmer\u2019s own backers suggests it is living standards and the NHS voters really care about \u2013 not Starmer\u2019s goal of growth. Heather In case you missed it earlier in the week, here are Anna Berrill\u2019s batch-cooking ideas to help you through autumn, from squash soup loaded with veggie goodness to \u201cemergency cookies\u201d. Hannah Sport Football | Tottenham defeated Qarabag 3-0 in their Europa League curtain-raiser, despite having centre-back Radu Dragusin sent off after just seven minutes. Brennan Johnson scored his third goal in as many games. Cricket | Day one of the County Championship\u2019s final week of the season was a washout at five grounds. Lancashire reduced Worcestershire to 22 for five, before a 63-run eighth-wicket partnership hauled Worcestershire to 119 for seven. Rain restricted play at Trent Bridge to 15.2 overs \u2013 Notts were 33 for two against Warwickshire. Football | The number of arrests at football matches in England and Wales increased by 14% in 2023-24, but the number of matches at which incidents were reported fell. Police said the numbers were evidence of a more \u201cproactive\u201d approach to dealing with trouble at grounds. The front pages The Guardian leads with \u201cNetanyahu says Lebanon strikes will go on, despite ceasefire call\u201d. The Financial Times looks ahead to next month\u2019s budget with \u201cReeves ready to tone down tax raid on rich non-doms\u201d. i reports \u201cBudget rule change risks higher interest rates for longer, Reeves warned\u201d, and the Times says \u201cReeves set to profit by tweaking debt rules\u201d. Boris Johnson\u2019s upcoming memoir leads the Mail with \u201cBoris: My \u2018manly\u2019 pep talk with Harry in bid to stop Megxit\u201d. The Telegraph has \u201cI told Harry not to leave UK, reveals Johnson\u201d. The Mirror splashes with a story on Mohamed Al Fayed and asks \u201cHow did he escape justice?\u201d. Something for the weekend Our critics\u2019 roundup of the best things to watch, read and listen to right now TV Nobody Wants This (Netflix) Joanne (Kristen Bell), a freewheeling thirtysomething, hosts a successful podcast about sex and relationships. She is as agnostic as the next gentile-about-town. Noah (Adam Brody), a rabbi, has just broken up with his long-term girlfriend. The attraction is instant, mutual and ever more difficult to resist. It is also that rarest thing \u2013 utterly convincing to the audience. You will want to go with them to what, hopefully, will not be a bitter end. Lucy Mangan Music Mustafa \u2013 Dunya At only 28, Mustafa Ahmed has already been an acclaimed performance poet, a founder member of the Canadian hip-hop collective Halal Gang, and a director. His debut album brings together an aggregation of talent including Rosal\u00eda and Nicolas Jaar, who colour his songs in tasteful autumnal shades. Despite its primarily urban setting, it gives off a surprisingly strong aroma of damp wood and bonfire smoke. Alexis Petridis Film Paul McCartney and Wings: One Hand Clapping This engrossing hour-long documentary was shot on analogue video in 1974 by cameraman and VFX veteran David Litchfield, as the band worked in Abbey Road on a potential live-in-studio album featuring Wings standards, early McCartney compositions and covers. It was to be called One Hand Clapping but both album and film fell appropriately silent. Now the film is restored and rereleased, and it\u2019s a complete joy. Peter Bradshaw Podcast Wonder of Stevie This podcast is such a treat for Stevie Wonder fans, with an impressive analysis of his golden period in the 1970s. Host Wesley Morris has an enviably heavyweight guest list: Barack Obama reveals how loving Wonder\u2019s music was a litmus test for his relationship with Michelle, while Deniece Williams has brilliant stories about Wonder\u2019s very rock\u2019n\u2019roll tour with the Rolling Stones (yes, there were nights at the Playboy Mansion). Hannah Verdier Today in Focus The deadliest week in Lebanon for decades On Monday, about 600 people were killed and almost 2,000 injured in Israel\u2019s intense bombing campaign. It was the deadliest single day in Lebanon since the country\u2019s civil war. William Christou and Michael Safi speak to people affected in Lebanon, and discuss Israel\u2019s threats of a ground invasion. Cartoon of the day | Ben Jennings The Upside A bit of good news to remind you that the world\u2019s not all bad The world is nasty, brutish place much of the time. So why not enjoy some funny pictures of animals. The Comedy wildlife photography awards 2024 feature a skating Stellar\u2019s sea eagle, a crooning fan-throated lizard and the above image of a camp Flemish mantis. \u201cOn my way back in the car from a photo walk around a marsh near my town (Onda in Spain), I braked suddenly,\u201d said photographer Jose Miguel Gallego Molina. \u201cThis was when I first saw my friend, the Flemish mantis. You can imagine the faces inside the passing vehicles, seeing a car with its indicators on, the door open, and a madman lying on the ground with his camera.\u201d Sign up here for a weekly roundup of The Upside, sent to you every Sunday Bored at work? And finally, the Guardian\u2019s puzzles are here to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until Monday. Quick crossword Cryptic crossword Wordiply"
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    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Labour urged to scrap UK road schemes such as \u00a39bn Lower Thames Crossing;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/labour-uk-road-schemes-lower-thames-crossing-rail-public-transport;2024-09-27T05:00:04Z",
        "text": "Campaign groups have urged the government to cancel major road building schemes including the Lower Thames Crossing, amid growing speculation that ministers could divert money earmarked for new roads into rail and other public transport. The transport secretary, Louise Haigh, is due to decide in a week whether to sign off a development consent order [DCO] for the \u00a39bn road crossing linking Essex and Kent. Labour has already made clear that it is looking to fill what the chancellor has described as a \u201c\u00a322bn black hole\u201d in the nation\u2019s finances. While Rachel Reeves has said she backs building infrastructure, the road schemes are poor value for money according to Treasury calculations, and could free up funding for rail projects. The campaign groups have both highlighted huge savings from axing parts of what the Conservative government had billed as the biggest road building scheme in a generation when it launched its road investment strategy a decade ago. The Campaign for Better Transport said the government could save \u00a310.5bn from cancelling the Lower Thames Crossing along with the A66 Northern TransPennine upgrade, a project championed by Rishi Sunak. Reeves has been considering private finance options to fund the construction of the crossing. The chancellor cancelled two significant and long-planned road schemes on taking office in July: the duelling of the A303 with a new tunnel at Stonehenge, and the A27 Arundel bypass. Haigh is also conducting a review of the Department for Transport\u2019s (DfT) capital spending, ahead of the October budget, having announced that she had inherited almost \u00a33bn in unfunded commitments at the DfT. The Transport Action Network last week submitted a report to Haigh recommending 16 schemes to be axed or paused, with a total value of more than \u00a315bn. Comments by the rail minister, Lord Hendy, in a parliamentary debate and in a video address at the Labour party conference suggested that spending across all transport modes would be reviewed against each other \u2013 potentially diverting road funds to rail. In a letter to Haigh, the campaigners urged her to cancel the \u201clarge and unnecessary\u201d road projects, by not granting a DCO for the Lower Thames Crossing on 4 October, and to revoke DCOs already signed off for road building by the previous government. They argue that rather than increasing road capacity for lorries, the government should spend money on maintaining and repairing Britain\u2019s existing, pothole-ridden roads, and on upgrading rail freight routes \u2013 freeing up road space for a fraction of the cost. National Highways argues that its planned 14-mile, six lane road tunnel under the Thames is needed to meet the demands of traffic east of London, where the Dartford Crossing\u2019s tunnels and bridge are struggling to cope. It estimates that congestion on the existing crossing costs the UK more than \u00a3200m a year. However, Michael Solomon Williams of Campaign for Better Transport, said: \u201cSpending \u00a39bn on a road that can\u2019t even carry a bus is utterly nonsensical and if approved by the transport secretary would completely undermine the government\u2019s net zero commitments. Building new roads doesn\u2019t cut congestion, it does the opposite. Chris Todd, the director of Transport Action Network, said: \u201cIf we are to improve productivity and kickstart growth we need to make sure we\u2019re investing in infrastructure that delivers. Many schemes in the roads program simply don\u2019t, they make things worse. We need to repurpose that funding to drive modal shift, accelerate decarbonisation, protect nature and improve health and wellbeing.\u201d Among proposed rail freight schemes are upgrades from the Channel tunnel to Wembley that would allow rail freight trains to run directly from Europe to the Midlands; and electrification of 60 miles of track that would enable electric trains to run to London Gateway, Felixstowe, and Liverpool\u2019s Seaforth ports, and terminals in Leeds and Birmingham, which together would only costs \u00a3142m. Maggie Simpson, the director general of Rail Freight Group, said: \u201cInvesting in rail freight is key to meeting government\u2019s targets for economic growth and climate change \u2026 keeping HGVs off the road and reducing transport carbon emissions.\u201d The DfT was approached for comment."
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    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018He knew what Mohamed was doing\u2019: Fayed security chief accused of facilitating abuse;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/mohamed-al-fayed-security-chief-accused-facilitating-abuse-john-macnamara;2024-09-27T04:00:02Z",
        "text": "It was May 1991 and Mohamed Al Fayed was in a foul mood: \u201cI told you, no sex with anybody else, no relationship with anybody else.\u201d The target of the then 62-year-old billionaire\u2019s ire was Jen, 20, who had worked in his personal office at Harrods since the age of 16. \u201cI said: \u2018What do you mean?\u2019 He proceeded to list a whole bunch of times, places, dates, where I\u2019d been seen with my boyfriend from the food hall, and these weren\u2019t necessarily during the week. They were at weekends. They weren\u2019t necessarily in London. They were in Surrey. \u201cThe dates were very, very specific, the locations and everything was 100% accurate. Mohamed said to me: \u2018You do know that John Macnamara [Fayed\u2019s head of security] worked for the Met police. He was very senior in the Met police.\u2019\u201d Over her four and a half years at Harrods, having joined the luxury store in Knightsbridge as a management trainee in 1986, Jen claims to have been repeatedly groped and sexually assaulted \u2013 and at one point strangled \u2013 by Fayed. It started with him \u201cteasing\u201d her with a dildo he kept on his desk and built up to an alleged attempted rape in Fayed\u2019s Park Lane apartment, she said. She had not spoken a word of it to her family until a week ago. Fayed was a monster, she said, but it was not the Egyptian businessman\u2019s death last year at 94 that persuaded her it was safe to talk to lawyers preparing a claim against Harrods. The clincher, she said, was learning that John Macnamara was dead. \u201cIt\u2019s just knowing that that person\u2019s not around, that that person can\u2019t hurt you any more,\u201d she said. \u201cHe knew what Mohamed was doing to us, and was mopping up some of that stuff to make sure it didn\u2019t get any further.\u201d Macnamara, a former deputy head of Scotland Yard\u2019s fraud squad with special responsibility for the public sector corruption unit, was Fayed\u2019s right-hand man; always at his shoulder, a keeper of secrets and loyal to his boss right up until his own death aged 83 in 2019. He had been taken on by Fayed in 1987 as director of security for House of Fraser (Stores) Ltd after retiring at 51 from the Met with the rank of detective chief superintendent. He was promoted in 1994 to oversee all of Fayed\u2019s security needs, deploying his knowledge of covert surveillance and a myriad of other dark arts to target his boss\u2019s enemies, as chronicled in court documents and his own admissions to parliamentary hearings related to claims that Fayed had made cash payments to the MP Neil Hamilton in return for placing parliamentary questions. It was Macnamara whom Fayed put in charge of trying to prove the veracity of conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and his son Dodi Fayed. Macnamara admitted at the official coroner\u2019s inquiry to lying about how much alcohol had been drunk by the chauffeur Henri Paul on the night of their deaths in August 1997. When Hermina da Silva, a Portuguese nanny to Mohamed Al Fayed\u2019s children, said she would not keep silent over being sacked for rebuffing her employer\u2019s aggressive advances, it was Macnamara who assured his underlings she would soon be arrested. And she was, for stealing property from Fayed\u2019s brother\u2019s apartment on Park Lane. She was later released without charge and went on to be awarded \u00a312,000 compensation. It was Macnamara who was tasked with closing down a prospective article about Fayed in Vanity Fair in 1995, and then pursuing the journalists and sources behind it. And multiple women say it was Macnamara who sought to break their will to speak out. The author and journalist Tom Bower knew Macnamara well. Fayed was a key source for Bower\u2019s book on the Harrods owner\u2019s former business partner and rival, Tiny Rowland. Macnamara, a keen digger of dirt, was the conduit. \u201cThe reason he appointed Macnamara [at Harrods] is because Tiny Roland had appointed Macnamara\u2019s predecessor at the fraud squad,\u201d Bower told the Guardian. \u201cHe copied Rowland \u2013 and the reason they chose the fraud team was because they\u2019re both fraudsters, and they needed their expertise.\u201d Macnamara, despite having retired from the Met years earlier, appeared to have retained close relationships with officers. \u201cI once went with him to Chelsea police station, and he was sort of handing out all these hampers and bottles of champagne. It was amazing,\u201d Bower said. Fayed had spotted Jen within weeks of her joining the store, while she was on secondment to the fifth floor \u201cmanagement suite\u201d. \u201cOver those four and a half years, I was subjected to initially sexual harassment and mental abuse, and then sexual assaults and then attempted rape,\u201d she said. She has no doubt that Macnamara knew everything. \u201cHe was very cold and quite direct,\u201d she said. \u201cThere had been times when he\u2019d seen me in tears or coming out of Mohamed\u2019s office in a state.\u201d Fayed provided Jen with a flat on Park Lane. All the employees believed their phones were being tapped, and the regular replacement of the film in the cameras in the offices by Macnamara\u2019s people let them know that nothing was going unnoticed in the building. Jen discovered Fayed was also watching her in the apartment when he called her after she had just got out of the bath. \u201cI had a problem with my back, so I was laid on my bed with my legs up against the wall, and I was naked. The phone was by my bed, and I picked up the phone, and he just said: \u2018Why are you lying like that?\u2019 It just turned me cold.\u201d She quietly started to look for a new job but one day when coming into work she was told to go to the office of one of Fayed\u2019s aides, where she also found Macnamara waiting for her. \u201cThey said: \u2018We understand that you\u2019ve been disloyal and we know that you\u2019re looking for another job. Nobody chooses to leave Mohamed\u2019s employment; he chooses when you leave. \u201c\u2018So what we\u2019re going to do now is you\u2019re going to write a letter of resignation, and we\u2019re going to tell you what to write, and you\u2019re going to write it, and you\u2019re going today, and that\u2019s it.\u2019 So they stood over me, the two of them, and John told me what to write.\u201d She was escorted off the shop floor by security guards and thrown on to the pavement \u201clike a criminal\u201d, she said. Jen said her next experience of Fayed came after she had reluctantly agreed to speak anonymously to the journalist Maureen Orth, who was writing an expos\u00e9 in Vanity Fair. \u201cI was working in a hotel, and I had a phone call from John Macnamara completely out of the blue. He said: \u2018I know that you\u2019re talking to Maureen Orth. So this is just a phone call to remind you what you were told when you left Harrods, that you are not to speak about Mohamed Al Fayed. \u201c\u2018And if you do decide to do that, then I would like to remind you that I know where your parents live and I know where you live. And wouldn\u2019t it be a shame if something happened to either them or you.\u2019 And he hung up.\u201d Last week a BBC documentary revealed allegations that five women were raped by Fayed, with several others alleging sexual misconduct. On Thursday, the Met called on survivors who had not yet come forward to do so. A spokesperson said: \u201cWe must ensure we fully explore whether any other individuals could be pursued for any criminal offences.\u201d Lawyers are continuing to build a case against Harrods for its alleged failure to protect Fayed\u2019s employees. The managing director of Harrods, Michael Ward, who was appointed by Fayed in 2006, has publicly apologised, saying the billionaire had presided over a \u201ctoxic culture of secrecy, intimidation, fear of repercussion and sexual misconduct\u201d. Jen said there were others who were yet to face justice \u2013 and also other women who had yet to start to process their trauma. \u201cThis time last week, my family didn\u2019t know anything,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s just the last week that\u2019s given me a huge amount of courage to talk to my parents, my brother, my husband. I feel now it\u2019s about doing what we can to make sure that if there are other people out there that are still struggling, that we can get them to come forward and have some help.\u201d"
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    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis threatens Lebanon\u2019s \u2018very existence\u2019, foreign minister tells UN \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/26/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-plan-us-france-netanyahu;2024-09-27T00:22:56Z",
        "text": "This live blog will close shortly. For the latest on the crisis and the diplomatic efforts to bring it to an end, you can read this report from our diplomatic editor: Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel \u201cwill not stop\u201d its attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon despite calls from the US, France and other allies for an immediate three-week ceasefire. The Israeli prime minister told reporters that his government\u2019s policy was clear as he landed in New York on Thursday. \u201cWe are continuing to strike Hezbollah with full force, and we will not stop until we reach all our goals,\u201d Netanyahu said. The US and France called for a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to make way for broader negotiations. A joint statement calling for \u201ca diplomatic settlement\u201d of the crisis was also endorsed by the UK, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. It called for an urgent cessation of hostilities, which presented \u201can unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation\u201d. Lebanon\u2019s minister for foreign affairs, Abdallah Bouhabib, has said his country is enduring a crisis that \u201cthreatens its very existence\u201d. Speaking at the UN general assembly, he has said that his government welcomed yesterday\u2019s ceasefire plan raised by the US and France \u2013 and demanded it be implemented. US officials hope to persuade Netanyahu to accept the ceasefire proposal by the time he addresses the UN general assembly on Friday. They argue that a pause in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah could also provide a breathing space in which to revive long-stalled negotiations with Israel and Hamas over the release of Israeli hostages in return for a truce in Gaza. Hezbollah has yet to respond to the call for a truce, although it and its backer, Iran, have previously insisted it would halt its strikes only if there is a ceasefire in Gaza. Israeli airstrikes continued in Lebanon on Thursday, in which health authorities said 92 people had been killed. Two people were killed and 15 others wounded, including a woman in critical condition, after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Thursday, according to Lebanon\u2019s health ministry. Israel said it carried out a strike that it said killed one of the heads of the Hezbollah air force unit, Mohammad Surur. Hezbollah later confirmed his death. Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthi movement said it had targeted the northern Israeli town of Safed with dozens of rockets on Thursday in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Later on Thursday, air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and across central Israel. The IDF said the sirens were triggered by a missile fired from Yemen, which it said was intercepted by Israel\u2019s Arrow missile defence system. \u201cTime is of the essence,\u201d Lebanon\u2019s Abdallah Bouhabib has told the UN general assembly, as he wraps up his speech. The Lebanese foreign minister has said there is a need \u201cto embrace a political process to end the crisis which is escalating.\u201d Diplomacy is not always easy, but diplomacy is the only way to save innocent lives \u2026 Lebanon views the US-French initiative as an opportunity to generate momentum, to take steps towards ending this crisis. Diplomacy needs to succeed, there is no other way.\u201d The shortest path for the return of displaced people across the Israel-Lebanon border is an \u201cimmediate ceasefire, as stipulated by [yesterday\u2019s] US-France declaration\u201d, Lebanon\u2019s foreign minister, Abdallah Bouhabib has said. Bouhabib says peace is incumbent on Israel\u2019s government, but there can be no lasting peace without a \u201ctwo-state solution\u201d. We are at a very difficult time, marred by tragic escalation of violence in Lebanon.\u201d At the UN general assembly Lebanon\u2019s foreign minister, Abdallah Bouhabib, has described last week\u2019s pager and walkie-talkie attacks as \u201cdetestable\u201d. He said the explosions that occurred across the country left hundreds in critical conditions many of whom were \u201cdisfigured, maimed, lost limbs and lost vision\u201d. On Tuesday and Wednesday last week, thousands of pagers and walkie-talkie radios belonging to members of Hezbollah detonated across the country in simultaneous explosions. Hezbollah has blamed Israel and vowed to retaliate. Lebanon is \u201ccounting on the support of the international community\u201d to help it implement UN resolution 1701, the minister for foreign affairs, Abdallah Bouhabib, has said. That resolution \u2013 adopted after a month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006 \u2013 expanded the mandate of a UN peacekeeping force, allowing it to help the Lebanese army keep parts of the south free of weapons or armed personnel other than those of the Lebanese state. Bouhabib has said Lebanon will fully implement the resolution and deploy 100,000 extra soldiers to the south of the country. In the past, resolution 1701 has sparked friction with Hezbollah, which effectively controls southern Lebanon despite the presence of the Lebanese army. Lebanon\u2019s minister for foreign affairs, Abdallah Bouhabib, has said his country is enduring a crisis that \u201cthreatens its very existence\u201d. Speaking at the UN general assembly, he has said that his government welcomed yesterday\u2019s ceasefire plan raised by the US and France \u2013 and demanded it be implemented. At yesterday\u2019s UN security council meeting, Lebanon\u2019s prime minister, Najib Mikati, accused Israel of violating his country\u2019s sovereignty. Annalena Baerbock, Germany\u2019s minister for foreign affairs, has said broader regional escalation in the Middle East will \u201cnot bring anyone long-lasting security\u201d. She has called the lack of progress on a ceasefire deal frustrating, but during her speech at the UN general assembly said that \u201cresignation was not an option\u201d. More on the death of Mohammed Srur, the head of Hezbollah\u2019s drone unit, who was killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Thursday. Srur \u2013 born in 1973 \u2013 studied mathematics and was among a number of top advisers sent by Hezbollah to Yemen to train the country\u2019s Houthi rebels, who are also backed by Iran, a source close to Hezbollah told the AFP news agency. It was the fourth attack in a week targeting Hezbollah commanders in the densely populated area, one of the group\u2019s strongholds. Lebanon\u2019s official National News Agency said \u201cthree missiles\u201d targeted \u201ca residential apartment in a 10-storey building\u201d. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said in a statement that two people were killed in the attack and 15 wounded, \u201cincluding a woman in critical condition\u201d. At the UN general assembly, leaders continue to give their addresses. We\u2019re still waiting to hear from Lebanon\u2019s foreign minister, but currently, Alexander Schallenberg, Austria\u2019s foreign affairs minister is speaking. Schallenberg has said it is \u201cwishful thinking to think that a full-scale escalation between Israel and Hezbollah could be controlled\u201d. The result would be a firestorm engulfing the whole regions and beyond. And in the end, everyone would lose.\u201d The leader of Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels, Abdul Malik al-Huthi, said in a televised address earlier Thursday the Iran-backed group \u201cwill not hesitate to support Lebanon and Hezbollah\u201d as cross-border fire between the Lebanese group and Israel intensified. Late on Thursday, the Israeli military said it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen. Sirens went off in several areas of central Israel \u201cas a result of a missile that was fired from Yemen\u201d, the Israel Defense Forces said on messaging platform Telegram. \u201cThe missile that was fired from Yemen was successfully intercepted by the \u2019Arrow\u2019 Aerial Defense System. Sirens and explosions were heard after the interception and falling shrapnel,\u201d it added. Since November, the Houthis have targeted Red Sea shipping with drones and missiles, saying the actions are in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza war. The United States appears to be continuing in its efforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. The White House said that US and Israeli officials, including US Middle East envoy Brett McGurk, would hold discussions on Thursday in New York, regarding the proposed temporary ceasefire. Secretary of state Antony Blinken was due to meet with Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer as well. Israel\u2019s army has said that after the interception of the missile from Yemen \u201csirens and explosions were heard\u201d and falling shrapnel. The IDF has said that sirens were active across central Israel with \u201cmillions of Israelis\u201d running to shelter. Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel \u201cwill not stop\u201d its attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon despite calls from the US, France and other allies for an immediate three-week ceasefire. The Israeli prime minister told reporters that his government\u2019s policy was clear as he landed in New York on Thursday. \u201cWe are continuing to strike Hezbollah with full force, and we will not stop until we reach all our goals,\u201d Netanyahu said. The US and France called for a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to make way for broader negotiations. A joint statement calling for \u201ca diplomatic settlement\u201d of the crisis was also endorsed by the UK, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. It called for an urgent cessation of hostilities, which presented \u201can unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation\u201d. But Israel rejected the proposal for a ceasefire and demanded that the fight against Hezbollah continue. Netanyahu\u2019s office distanced the Israeli government from the ceasefire plan, which it described as \u201can American-French proposal that the prime minister has not even responded to\u201d. Israel\u2019s foreign minister, Israel Katz, said \u201cthere will be no ceasefire in the north\u201d. Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich insisted that continuing the war against Hezbollah was the only way forward. Interior security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir threatened that his party would quit Netanyahu\u2019s coalition government if a permanent ceasefire were agreed to. US officials hope to persuade Netanyahu to accept the ceasefire proposal by the time he addresses the UN general assembly on Friday. They argue that a pause in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah could also provide a breathing space in which to revive long-stalled negotiations with Israel and Hamas over the release of Israeli hostages in return for a truce in Gaza. Hezbollah has yet to respond to the call for a truce, although it and its backer, Iran, have previously insisted it would halt its strikes only if there is a ceasefire in Gaza. Israeli airstrikes continued in Lebanon on Thursday, in which health authorities said 92 people had been killed. Two people were killed and 15 others wounded, including a woman in critical condition, after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Thursday, according to Lebanon\u2019s health ministry. Israel said it carried out a strike that it said killed one of the heads of the Hezbollah air force unit, Mohammad Surur. Hezbollah later confirmed his death. Herzi Halevi, the chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces, said the Israeli military will continue striking Hezbollah. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said he had approved the \u201ccontinued IDF offensive activity\u201d against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The head of the Israeli air force, Tomer Bar, said its top priority now is to prevent all weapons transfers from Iran to Hezbollah. Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthi movement said it had targeted the northern Israeli town of Safed with dozens of rockets on Thursday in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Later on Thursday, air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and across central Israel. The IDF said the sirens were triggered by a missile fired from Yemen, which it said was intercepted by Israel\u2019s Arrow missile defence system. More than 1,500 people have been killed in almost a year of cross-border violence between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, according to figures from the Lebanese government on Thursday. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said 19 Syrian refugees and a Lebanese citizen had been killed in one strike in north-east Lebanon on Thursday, bringing the death toll from several days of Israeli bombardment to more than 630 people, about a quarter of whom the ministry said were women or children. Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, warned that a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah \u201ccould be devastating for both parties\u201d. Austin urged both sides to accept proposals for a 21-day ceasefire, while he was on a trip to London to meet his British and Australian counterparts, John Healey and Richard Marles. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said countries around the world were united in wanting a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Blinken is scheduled to meet with Israeli officials in New York on Thursday. Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon to create space for diplomacy to resolve the conflict. \u201cI call on Israel and Hezbollah to stop the violence, step back from the brink. We need to see an immediate ceasefire to provide space for a diplomatic settlement,\u201d he said in his first speech at the UN general assembly in New York on Thursday. Israel said it had secured an $8.7bn (\u00a36.5bn) aid package from the US to support its ongoing military efforts and to maintain a qualitative military edge in the region. The announcement came after talks between Israel\u2019s ministry of defense director general, Eyal Zamir, and the US acting under secretary for defence for policy, Amanda Dory, according to Israel\u2019s defence ministry. Germany\u2019s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, warned that the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah could spark a \u201cregional conflagration\u201d. Scholz met on Thursday with the Israeli opposition politician, Benny Gantz, who quit Israel\u2019s war cabinet in June, citing a lack of a postwar plan for Gaza. Germany was among the group of nations that called \u201cfor an immediate 21-day ceasefire across the Lebanon-Israel border\u201d. Mahmoud Abbas urged world leaders to stop the war in the Gaza Strip, saying Israel had almost entirely destroyed the Palestinian territory and it was no longer fit for life. The Palestinian Authority president, speaking at the UN general assembly on Thursday, urged leaders to \u201cstop sending weapons to Israel\u201d, adding that the Palestinian people \u201cwill not leave \u2026 Palestine is our homeland\u201d. At least 11 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza on Thursday. The Israeli military confirmed it had struck the school, in the Jabalia refugee camp, but claimed the attack had been aimed at Hamas militants hiding there. Six people were killed when a missile struck a house in Khan Younis on Thursday, Gaza\u2019s health ministry said. Gaza\u2019s health ministry has accused the Israeli army of treating exhumed Palestinian bodies in an \u201cinhumane\u201d manner. It said the Israeli army deposited a container containing 88 dead Palestinians \u201cwithout any data or information that could help identify\u201d them. Israel rejected the accusation, saying that it treated the bodies of the deceased \u201cwith dignity and respect\u201d. Police in Norway have put out an international search warrant for a Norwegian Indian man in connection with the sale of pagers to Hezbollah that exploded last week, killing dozens of people. Rinson Jose, 39, the founder of a Bulgarian company that is alleged to be part of the pager supply chain, went missing during a work trip to the US last week. Air raid sirens were reported in Tel Aviv and across central Israel on Thursday. According to a statement by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the sirens were triggered by a missile fired from Yemen. The missile was intercepted by Israel\u2019s Arrow missile defence system, it said. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said 92 people have been killed by Israeli strikes around the country over the past 24 hours. In a series of statements, it said Israeli raids killed 40 people in towns and villages in the south, 48 in two eastern regions and four in the east-of-central Mount Lebanon Governorate, AFP reported. The health ministry said 153 people have been wounded in these attacks. The White House said the Biden administration had believed that Israel was \u201con board\u201d with a proposal for a 21-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah when the US, France and other allies announced the proposal on Wednesday night. John Kirby, the White House\u2019s national security spokesperson, told reporters on Thursday: We had every reason to believe that in the drafting of it and in the delivery of it, that the Israelis were fully informed and fully aware of every word in it. We wouldn\u2019t have done it if we didn\u2019t believe that it would be received with the seriousness with which it was composed. Kirby said it was unclear why Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, appeared to dismiss the idea of a ceasefire and vowed to \u201ccontinue to hit Hezbollah with all our might\u201d. Kirby said: I certainly can\u2019t begin to speculate about what considerations went into that statement, whether they were political or operational or otherwise. Those are questions that he needs to be asked and should be given the opportunity to answer. Hezbollah has confirmed the death of Mohammad Surur, who Israel Defense Forces earlier said had been killed in an airstrike on Beirut earlier on Thursday. The Israeli military described Surur as in charge of Hezbollah\u2019s drone operations. Hezbollah did not provide details on his role. Starmer also calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and says it \u201cshames us all that the suffering\u201d in the Palestinian territory continues to grow. The answer to that is diplomacy, he says, as well as the release of all the hostages and the unfettered flow of aid to those in need. That is the only way to break this devastating cycle of violence and begin the journey towards a political solution for the long term, which delivers the long-promised Palestinian state alongside a safe and secure Israel. He says world leaders must also work together for peace, adding that the world \u201ccannot look away\u201d. Starmer says there are \u201cpositive, practical\u201d things that world leaders can do together, starting with \u201caddressing the rising tide of conflict and preventing a regional war in the Middle East\u201d. He tells the UN general assembly: I call on Israel and Hezbollah to stop the violence, step back from the brink. The UK leader urges an immediate ceasefire to provide space for a diplomatic settlement, and says Britain is working with allies to that end. \u201cBecause further escalation serves no one,\u201d Starmer says, adding: It offers nothing but more suffering for innocent people on all sides, and the prospect of a wider war that no one can control and with consequences that none of us can foresee. Starmer says his Labour government was elected \u201cto change Britain\u201d, but that Britain\u2019s success can never be separated from events beyond it. He says the UK is \u201cchanging our approach on the global stage\u201d, adding: My message today is this: we are returning the UK to responsible global leadership, because I think the international system can be better. We need it to be better. He says a sense of \u201cfatalism\u201d has taken hold, but urges world leaders to not accept \u201cthis slide into greater conflict, instability and injustice\u201d. The UK\u2019s prime minister, Keir Starmer, is addressing the UN general assembly in New York. Starmer begins his speech by describing himself as someone \u201cwith a deep belief\u201d in the principles of the UN and the value of international cooperation. He says that as a student, he read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and that it had a \u201cprofound impact\u201d on him. He says that as a lawyer, he worked to protect those rights and that the declaration still inspires him now as prime minister. But the idea of \u201cequal and inalienable\u201d rights based on a foundation of \u201cfreedom, justice and peace\u201d feel like a \u201cdistant hope\u201d now, Starmer says: Conflict touches more countries now than at any time in the history of this assembly. Around the world, more fires are breaking out and burning with a greater intensity, exacting a terrible toll in Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine, Sudan, Myanmar, Yemen and beyond. Emmanuel Macron, France\u2019s president, has warned Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel\u2019s prime minister, that it would be a \u201cmistake\u201d to refuse a ceasefire in Lebanon. Netanyahu would have to take \u201cresponsibility\u201d for a regional escalation if he does not agree to US-French calls for a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Macron said at a news conference in Montreal on Thursday, AFP reported. Macron said he did not think comments by Israeli officials on the proposed ceasefire were definitive, Reuters reported. Macron said: We will work hard in the hours to come in order to convince Israel to commit and indeed deliver the ceasefire for 21 days. \u201cThe proposal that was made is a solid proposal,\u201d the French leader said, adding that the plan supported by the US and the EU had been prepared with Netanyahu himself. He added that France is opposed to Lebanon becoming a new Gaza, as he called on Israel to stop its strikes and Hezbollah to stop retaliating. Here are some images from pro-Palestinian protests in New York, London and Geneva on Thursday. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel\u2019s prime minister, arrived in New York earlier today before his speech at the UN general assembly on Friday. Adele Khodr, regional director for the Middle East at the UN\u2019s children\u2019s agency (Unicef), has condemned the killing of Palestinian children after four schools were struck in northern Gaza this week. Khodr, posting on X, said children were among the casualties of an Israeli airstrike on al-Faluja school in the Jabalia refugee camp on Thursday, which killed at least 11 people. The school, which was used as a centre in the recent polio vaccination campaign, is now \u201ctotally destroyed\u201d, she said, adding: As conflict expands in the region, the Gaza Strip continues to be struck by bombardments. We must not look away. Gaza children are still being killed every day. This must stop, children must be protected. Ceasefire now. The Palestinian human rights group Al Mezan Center for Human Rights shared footage showing the aftermath of an Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Thursday. Gaza officials said the strike on al-Faluja school in the Jabalia refugee camp killed 15 people, including women and children, and injured dozens of others. The New York Times said it had verified videos showing people carrying body parts and badly injured children. The Israeli military said Hamas fighters had been using the school to plan attacks on Israel and its forces, without providing evidence. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its fighter jets hit 220 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Thursday. The targets included buildings used by the terror group, rocket launchers used in attacks on northern Israel, weapon depots, and operatives, according to the military. Western diplomats in New York were deeply gloomy about the fate of the 21-day ceasefire call made by the US and other states on Wednesday, saying there is little sign that Benjamin Netanyahu was being privately more emollient than in public. Some US officials claimed the surprise US backing of the ceasefire came after an Israeli understanding that the call might be supported by Netanyahu. The US said private talks were continuing in New York at the UN. The diplomats added there was no evidence as yet that Netanyahu would promise Israel will not commit ground troops, but Netanyahu has a long history of juggling pressure from the US and from the extreme right in his cabinet. UK efforts both by the prime minister, Keir Starmer, and David Lammy, the foreign secretary, to secure a meeting either with Netanyahu or Ron Dermer, Israel\u2019s chief of strategy, in New York did not bear fruit, possibly reflecting Israel\u2019s unhappiness over the UK imposing a limited ban on arms exports. The UK led on the ceasefire call but feels it has shot its bolt with the arms exports announcement, and cannot do anything punitive further simply due to Lebanon. It does not exclude actions against extremist members of the Israeli government if that is agreed as part of a legal process. Some diplomats insist the US shifted from being clearly against a ceasefire \u2013 the position at a G7 dinner \u2013 to backing one on Wednesday afternoon. US officials have briefed that it has always been leading the ceasefire call. But it seems possible that the French president, Emmanuel Macron, influenced Joe Biden when they met on Wednesday, or that internal US divisions over the ceasefire calls had been resolved. The best hope is that outside the context of the UN, an institution the Israelis despise, Netanyahu might hold back against Hezbollah. Iran has said it is not possible to detach a ceasefire in Lebanon from the ceasefire in Gaza, the linkage made by Hezbollah. One source said Iran has folded its arms and is not going to do anything further to help. The gathering of pro-Palestinian protesters outside the New York public library has gotten bigger. At least 300 people are here, with lots of law enforcement present. Many people in the crowd are holding signs accusing Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel who arrived in New York today and will address the UN tomorrow, of being a war criminal. One woman is wearing a sign that reads \u201cagainst antisemitism &amp; for a free Palestinian, not a contradiction\u201d. Another protester is holding a \u201cwanted\u201d sign with Netanyahu\u2019s face on it. Across the street, one or two people are holding Israeli flags. The US has accused Russia of holding talks on weapon transfers with Yemen\u2019s Houthi movement, marking Tehran\u2019s deepening ties to Moscow. Russia was \u201ccutting its own deals\u201d with the Houthis to allow their ships to sail through the Red Sea unharmed, Tim Lenderking, the US special envoy for Yemen, told AFP on Thursday. \u201cWe have confirmation that the Russians and the Houthis are in dialogue about ways to cooperate,\u201d including on weapon transfers, he said on the sidelines of the UN general assembly, adding: We don\u2019t know that weapons are being transferred as we speak, but it\u2019s come to the point that we\u2019re all sounding the alarm bell to make sure that this does not happen. \u201cThe notion that the Russians would provide the Houthis with lethal weapons is deeply alarming to the countries of the region,\u201d he said. His comments came after Reuters reported that Iran had brokered ongoing secret talks between Russia and the Houthis to transfer anti-ship missiles to the Iran-backed militant group. Citing sources, it said that Russia has yet to decide to transfer the Yakhont missiles \u2013 also known as P-800 Oniks \u2013 which experts say could allow the Houthis to more accurately strike commercial vessels in the Red Sea and increase the threat to the US and European warships defending them. Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthi movement said it targeted the northern Israeli town of Safed with dozens of rockets on Thursday in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon. The leader of the Houthis, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, condemned Israeli strikes on Lebanon in a televised address, adding that the attacks were aimed at blocking Hezbollah, which is also backed by Iran, from \u201csupporting Gaza and the Palestinian people\u201d, AFP reported. The group \u201cwill not hesitate to support Lebanon and Hezbollah\u201d, he said. Since November, the Houthis have targeted Red Sea shipping with drones and missiles in what they said is solidarity with Palestinians in the war between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. Turkey\u2019s president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, said Israel\u2019s attacks on Lebanon will continue as long as the west remains silent. Reuters reports that Erdo\u011fan spoke to Turkish journalists in New York before leaving the UN general assembly on Thursday. The Turkish leader is reported to have said that Israel\u2019s airstrikes on Lebanon were proof that it was trying to spread the war in Gaza to the wider region, adding that the UN was powerless to stop it. He reportedly said: As the world remains silent and western countries give the Israeli leadership weapons support, these massacres will sadly continue. We stressed this in our meetings. The US ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, has backed calls from the US, France and other allies for an immediate 21-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The ceasefire is the \u201cbest way for diplomacy to restore safety for citizens to return to their homes\u201d, Lew posted on X. The unacceptable risk of broader regional escalation demands immediate action. A large group of pro-Palestinian protesters have gathered in front of the New York public library. Many protesters in the crowd of at least 100 people are holding Palestinian flags, wearing keffiyehs and holding signs reading \u201cend all US aid to Israel\u201d and \u201cstop the war machine\u201d, among other statements The group are chanting \u201cfree, free Palestine\u201d and standing on the stairs of the library. An 87-year-old French woman was killed after her home collapsed following a \u201cstrong explosion\u201d in southern Lebanon, the French foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday: We are sorry to announce the death on Monday of an 87-year-old fellow countrywoman in a village near the city of Tyre. The building where she lived collapsed following a large explosion nearby. It added that it was not aware of any other French victims of the conflict. An Israeli airstrike hit a school sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza on Thursday, the territory\u2019s health ministry said. At least 11 people were killed in the strike on al-Faluja school in the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza\u2019s health ministry said. The Palestinian news agency Wafa put the death toll at 15. The Israeli military confirmed it had struck the school, saying it had been targeting Hamas militants inside who were planning attacks on Israeli troops. Among those wounded or killed in the strike were women and children, Gaza\u2019s health ministry said. More than 41,000 people have been killed since Israel launched its military campaign in Gaza, and more than 96,000 people have been injured, according to the latest figures released on Thursday by Gaza\u2019s health ministry. More than half the dead have been women and children, including about 1,300 children under the age of two, according to AP. The Israeli military said it had launched new airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon on Thursday evening, after top officials flatly rejected a US-backed call for a 21-day ceasefire. The Israel Defense Force (IDF) issued a statement saying: The IDF is currently striking Hezbollah terror targets in southern Lebanon. This comes as Benjamin Netanyahu has made a defiant trip to New York to address the United Nations general assembly tomorrow, so far rejecting international calls to de-escalate in Lebanon and agree to ceasefires with Hezbollah there and with Hamas in Gaza. A group of around 40 people protesting against Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel\u2019s war in Gaza are gathered in Manhattan on 47th Street and First Avenue, a few blocks from the United Nations headquarters, where the Israeli prime minister will speak tomorrow. Protesters are carrying Israeli flags and signs that read \u201cbring the hostages home\u201d, \u201cend the war\u201d and \u201csend Netanyahu to the Hague\u201d. That last slogan refers to the international criminal court (ICC), based in the Netherlands. In May, the ICC\u2019s prosecutor, Karim Khan, requested the court issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. A panel of judges is still considering the request which, if granted, would oblige countries that are signatories to the ICC to detain Netanyahu if he were to visit. The US, however, is not a signatory to the ICC and is not bound by its actions. Israel last week challenged Khan\u2019s request. When Netanyahu\u2019s name is mentioned in a speech by protesters at the rally today, the crowd chants \u201cshame, shame, shame\u201d. \u201cNetanyahu will lie to the world, like he lies to us Israelis,\u201d one speaker said to the crowd, referring to his scheduled speech tomorrow to the UN. \u201cStop killing children, end the war, sign the deal, bring the hostages home,\u201d the speaker continued. \u201cThere is no military solution.\u201d The White House insisted this afternoon that a US-led international call for a ceasefire in Lebanon had been \u201ccoordinated\u201d with Israel, despite Israel later rejecting the truce and vowing to keep fighting Hezbollah. \u201cThe statement was indeed coordinated with the Israeli side,\u201d Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, told reporters at the daily media briefing in the west wing at the White House in Washington DC, moments ago, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. Jean-Pierre said talks were continuing at the United Nations general assembly in New York. Elsewhere at the White House, Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has just arrived before a planned bilateral meeting with Joe Biden at which he intends to present a \u201cvictory plan\u201d to the US president, expected to include a request to use long-range US missiles to strike deeper into Russia \u2013 which has the US nervous of being dragged into direct conflict with Russia. Zelenskyy will then meet separately with Kamala Harris, the US vice-president, who is the Democratic party\u2019s nominee for president in this November\u2019s election. There\u2019s more on this in our US politics blog, which is following that news as it happens. Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: Two people were killed and 15 others wounded, including a woman in critical condition, after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Thursday, according to Lebanon\u2019s health ministry, taking the death toll from Israeli strikes in Lebanon overnight and during the day on Thursday to 28. Israel said it carried out a strike that it said killed one of the heads of the Hezbollah air force unit, Mohammad Surur. Benjamin Netanyahu said his country is striking Hezbollah \u201cwith full force\u201d and will not stop until its goals are achieved. Israel\u2019s prime minister spoke to reporters as he landed in New York on Thursday to attend the UN general assembly, where protesters were arrested after calling for the Israeli leader to be arrested and for an end to US support for Israel. Herzi Halevi, the chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces, said the Israeli military will continue striking Hezbollah. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said he had approved the \u201ccontinued IDF offensive activity\u201d against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The head of the Israeli air force, Tomer Bar, said its top priority now is to prevent all weapons transfers from Iran to Hezbollah. More than 1,500 people have been killed in almost a year of cross-border violence between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, according to figures from the Lebanese government on Thursday. In addition to the Beirut strike that authorities said killed two people, Israeli attacks in the Tyre district of Lebanon killed three people and wounded 17 others on Thursday, according to authorities. At least 23 people, all of them Syrian and most of them women and children, were killed in an Israeli strike on a three-storey building in the Lebanese town of Younine late on Wednesday, according to the mayor. The US and France called for a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to make way for broader negotiations. A joint statement calling for \u201ca diplomatic settlement\u201d of the crisis was also endorsed by the UK, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. But Israeli ministers rejected the proposal for a ceasefire and demanded that the fight against Hezbollah continue. Israel\u2019s foreign minister, Israel Katz, ruled out Israel accepting the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, saying: \u201cThere will be no ceasefire in the north.\u201d Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich insisted that continuing the war against Hezbollah was the only way forward. Interior security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir threatened that his party would quit Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s coalition government if a permanent ceasefire was agreed to. Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, warned that a full scale war between Israel and Hezbollah \u201ccould be devastating for both parties\u201d. Austin urged both sides to accept proposals for a 21-day ceasefire, while he was on a trip to London to meet his British and Australian counterparts, John Healey and Richard Marles. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said countries around the world were united in wanting a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Blinken is scheduled to meet with Israeli officials in New York on Thursday. Israel said it had secured an $8.7bn (\u00a36.5bn) aid package from the US to support its ongoing military efforts and to maintain a qualitative military edge in the region. The announcement came after talks between Israel\u2019s ministry of defense director general, Eyal Zamir, and the US acting under secretary for defence for policy, Amanda Dory, according to Israel\u2019s defence ministry. Qatar\u2019s foreign ministry said there is no direct link between Gaza truce talks and calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Foreign ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said his government had received \u201chorrific reports\u201d from Lebanon about Israel \u201ctargeting whole families in a way that is similar to the atrocities in Gaza\u201d. Germany\u2019s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, warned that the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah could spark a \u201cregional conflagration\u201d. Scholz met on Thursday with the Israeli opposition politician, Benny Gantz, who quit Israel\u2019s war cabinet in June, citing a lack of a postwar plan for Gaza. Germany was among the group of nations that called \u201cfor an immediate 21-day ceasefire across the Lebanon-Israel border\u201d. Mahmoud Abbas urged world leaders to stop the war in the Gaza Strip, saying Israel had almost entirely destroyed the Palestinian territory and it was no longer fit for life. The Palestinian Authority president, speaking at the UN general assembly on Thursday, urged leaders to \u201cstop sending weapons to Israel\u201d, adding that the Palestinian people \u201cwill not leave \u2026 Palestine is our homeland\u201d. At least 13 people were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip on Thursday, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. Six people were killed when a missile struck a house in Khan Younis, and a further seven people were killed and others were injured in the bombing of al-Faluja school in Jabalia, it said. Gaza\u2019s health ministry has accused the Israeli army of treating exhumed Palestinian bodies in an \u201cinhumane\u201d manner. It said the Israeli army deposited a container containing 88 dead Palestinians \u201cwithout any data or information that could help identify\u201d them. Israel rejected the accusation, saying that it treated the bodies of the deceased \u201cwith dignity and respect\u201d. An Israeli strike on Thursday hit the Syrian end of a small bridge that provides a crossing into Lebanon, according to Lebanese transport minister Ali Hamieh. Israel\u2019s military said it targeted \u201cinfrastructure along the Syria-Lebanon border used by Hezbollah to transfer weapons from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon\u201d. It said the weapons had been used by Hezbollah against Israeli civilians. Norway\u2019s police issued an international search request for a man linked to the sale of pagers to Hezbollah that exploded across Lebanon last week. Rinson Jose, a Norwegian-Indian man, disappeared while on a work trip to the US last week. Jose, 39, is a founder of a Bulgarian company that was reportedly part of the pager supply chain. More than 1,500 people have been killed in almost a year of cross-border violence between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, according to figures by the Lebanese government. Figures released by Lebanon\u2019s disaster management unit and reported by AFP show that 1,540 people have been killed, 60 of them in the past 24 hours. In addition, 5,410 have been wounded, it said. The head of the Israeli air force said its top priority now is to prevent all weapons transfers from Iran to Hezbollah. Maj Gen Tomer Bar, at a meeting with officers reported by the Times of Israel, said: We in Lebanon are now going to prevent any possibility of weapon transfers from Iran, in the face of what we have taken away so far from Hezbollah. Gaza\u2019s health ministry has accused the Israeli army of treating exhumed Palestinian bodies in an \u201cinhumane\u201d manner. It said the Israeli army deposited a container containing 88 dead Palestinians \u201cwithout any data or information that could help identify\u201d them, AFP reported. The ministry accused Israel of \u201cexhuming graves and stealing bodies\u201d, saying it held Israel \u201cfully responsible for the inhumane and unethical treatment of the bodies\u201d. The Israeli army rejected the accusation, saying that it treated the bodies of the deceased \u201cwith dignity and respect\u201d. A spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it was not involved in the transfer of the bodies to Khan Younis in southern Gaza because they did not have proper documentation. They said: The Red Cross declined to participate in the reception of the bodies because it did not comply with the applicable protocols. There are no data, lists, or evidence identifying these bodies, and we have no information about them whatsoever. We emphasise the right of all families to receive information about their relatives and loved ones and to carry out burial ceremonies in a manner that respects human dignity. Germany\u2019s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has warned that the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah could spark a \u201cregional conflagration\u201d. \u201cAll parties have a responsibility to find a diplomatic solution,\u201d Scholz said in a post to X after meeting with the Israeli opposition politician, Benny Gantz, who quit Israel\u2019s war cabinet in June, citing a lack of a postwar plan for Gaza. During a visit to Berlin, Gantz also met with Germany\u2019s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and other officials to discuss Israel\u2019s war against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Germany has joined a group of nations that called \u201cfor an immediate 21-day ceasefire across the Lebanon-Israel border\u201d. Norway\u2019s police have issued an international search request for a man linked to the sale of pages to Hezbollah that exploded across Lebanon last week. Rinson Jose, a Norwegian-Indian man, disappeared while on a work trip to the US last week, Reuters reported. Jose, 39, is a founder of a Bulgarian company that was reportedly part of the pager supply chain. \u201cA missing persons case has been opened and we have issued an international search for the person,\u201d Oslo police confirmed to news agencies. Hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies detonated across Lebanon last week, killing at least 37 people and wounding nearly 3,000 in an attack widely blamed on Israel. Bulgarian authorities opened an investigation after reports that a Bulgarian-registered company open by a Norwegian \u2013 Norta Global -had imported the devices and then delivered them to Hezbollah. Norta Global was founded by 2022 by Jose, according to Bulgaria\u2019s corporate registry. Lloyd Austin, the US secretary of defence, warned that a full scale war between Israel and Hezbollah \u201ccould be devastating for both parties\u201d as he urged both sides to accept proposals for a 21 day ceasefire, on a trip to London to meet his British and Australian counterparts. But the senior administration official declined an opportunity to say that there would be limits to US military support for Israel if it embarked on a ground invasion of Lebanon, focusing instead on emphasising the possible costs of full scale fighting to Jerusalem. \u201cA full-scale war between LH [Lebanese Hezbollah] and Israel could be devastating for both parties and it could lead to a larger conflict throughout the region,\u201d Austin said at a press conference in Greenwich, south London. \u201cThat\u2019s not in the best interests of anyone.\u201d Austin said he spoke to Yoav Gallant, Israel\u2019s defence minister, frequently and was urging him to pursue \u201cdiplomacy in every step\u201d. But when pressed if the US would consider withholding military support if Israel refused to agree to a truce and press ahead with a ground invasion, Austin demurred. The defence secretary said the US had been \u201ccommitted from the very beginning\u201d to helping provide Israel with \u201cthings that are necessary for them to be able to protect their sovereign territory - and that hasn\u2019t changed and won\u2019t change\u201d. Israel said it has secured a $8.7bn (\u00a36.5bn) aid package from the US to support its ongoing military efforts and to maintain a qualitative military edge in the region. The package includes $3.5bn (\u00a32.6bn) for essential wartime procurement, which has already been received and earmarked for critical military purchases, and $5.2bn (\u00a33.9bn) designated for air defense systems including the Iron Dome anti-missile system, David\u2019s Sling and an advanced laser system, according to Reuters. The announcement came after talks between Israel\u2019s ministry of defense director general, Eyal Zamir, and the US acting under secretary for defence for policy, Amanda Dory, according to Israel\u2019s defence ministry. A statement from the Israeli ministry reads: This substantial investment will significantly strengthen critical systems such as Iron Dome and David\u2019s Sling while supporting the continued development of an advanced high-powered laser defense system currently in its later stages of development. The ministry said the deal underscores the \u201cstrong and enduring strategic partnership between Israel and the United States and the ironclad commitment to Israel\u2019s security\u201d, particularly in addressing regional security threats from Iran and Iranian-backed militias. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said countries around the world were united in wanting a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Blinken, in an interview with MSNBC on Thursday, pushed the US proposal for an immediate 21-day ceasefire, saying it would help bring about a longer-lasting diplomatic resolution. The US secretary said: The world is speaking clearly for virtually all of the key countries in Europe and in the region on the need for the ceasefire. He added that he would be meeting with Israeli officials in New York later today. Blinken is scheduled to meet with Israel\u2019s minister for strategic affairs, Ron Dermer. We reported earlier that Qatar\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson, Majed al-Ansari, held a press conference where he said there is no direct link between Gaza truce talks and calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Qatar is receiving \u201chorrific reports\u201d from Lebanon about Israel \u201ctargeting whole families in a way that is similar to the atrocities in Gaza,\u201d al-Ansari also told reporters on Thursday. He added that the Qatari government is seeing \u201cno discrimination between civilian and militant in these attacks\u201d. Here are some of the latest images from Beirut, after Israel carried out a strike which it said killed one of the heads of the Hezbollah air force unit, Mohammad Surur. Two people were killed and 15 others wounded, including a woman in critical condition, according to Lebanon\u2019s health ministry. The latest figure takes he death toll from Israeli strikes in Lebanon overnight and during the day on Thursday to 28. A member of Israel\u2019s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s entourage said Israel \u201cwon\u2019t go to a ceasefire now\u201d amid an escalation with Hezbollah in Lebanon. The subject did not come up in the cabinet meetings on Wednesday, the official told the Times of Israel, adding: We are continuing the plan for the war that was approved by the prime minister. The chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Herzi Halevi, said the Israeli military will continue striking Hezbollah, after the IDF said it killed the head of one of the militant group\u2019s air force units. The Times of Israel\u2019s Emanuel Fabian quoted Halevi saying: We need to continue attacking Hezbollah, we have been waiting for this opportunity for years. He added: We are constantly working to achieve achievements, to eliminate more senior officials, to thwart the transfer of weapons, to [destroy] Hezbollah\u2019s firepower [capabilities, and to attack it in all of Lebanon. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke as he landed in New York on Thursday to attend the UN general assembly meeting. Netanyahu told reporters that Israel is striking Hezbollah \u201cwith full force\u201d and will not stop until its goals are achieved, according to Associated Press. Israel\u2019s \u201cpolicy is clear. We are continuing to strike Hezbollah with full force. And we will not stop until we reach all our goals, chief among them the return of the residents of the north securely to their homes,\u201d he said. The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, warned there was a risk of all-out war between Hezbollah and Israel but said a diplomatic solution was still viable. Austin, speaking at a joint press conference with his UK and Australian counterparts, John Healey and Richard Marles, said: We now face the risk of an all-out war. Another full-scale war (could) be devastating for both Israel and Lebanon. He added: Let me be clear, Israel and Lebanon can choose a different path, despite the sharp escalation in recent days, a diplomatic solution is still viable. From my colleague Dan Sabbagh: Abbas says he acknowledges the American people marching in the streets and in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, and he says he is \u201cgrateful\u201d to them. The Palestinian Authority president presents his proposal for the day after the end of the war in the Gaza Strip. He says first of all, there needs to be a \u201ccomprehensive and permanent\u201d ceasefire in Gaza and \u201can end to the military aggressions\u201d in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Second, humanitarian aid must be delivered urgently, Abbas says, \u201cbecause there is nothing in Gaza\u201d. Third, a \u201cfull Israeli withdrawal on the Gaza Strip\u201d, he says, rejecting the establishment of buffer zones or the taking of any part of Gaza. We will not allow the displacement of any Palestinians and eviction of the Palestinians from their lands. Fourth, the protection of the UN refugees for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) and humanitarian organisations from Israel\u2019s actions, Abbas says. Fifth, he says he demands international protection for the Palestinians on the lands of their occupied land. \u201cWe are not fighting Israel. We cannot fight Israel, and we don\u2019t want to fight, but we want protection.\u201d Sixth, he calls for the state of Palestine to shoulder its responsibilities in Gaza and impose its full mandate and jurisdiction on it. Abbas says the Israeli government launched an \u201call-out war of genocide\u201d against Gaza, and that now the Lebanese people are being subjected to a \u201cwar of genocide\u201d. Israel must stop the war in Lebanon and Palestine. We condemn this aggression, and we demand that it stops immediately. The Palestinian Authority president says the international community must immediately impose sanctions on Israel. He says it is a \u201cregret\u201d that the US obstructed three times the draft resolution of the UN security council demanding Israel to observe a ceasefire. This is the United States, the very country that was the only member in the security council that voted against granting the state of Palestine for membership in the UN. We don\u2019t deserve membership in the eyes of America, so they use a veto against it. Abbas says Israel, \u201cwhich refuses to implement United Nations resolutions, does not deserve to be a member\u201d of the UN. \u201cThis country does not deserve to be a member in this organisation.\u201d Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas says he is not here at the UN general assembly in New York to respond to the \u201clies\u201d of Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also scheduled to address world leaders later this week. Abbas says: Stop killing children and women. Stop the genocide. Stop sending weapons to Israel. This madness cannot continue. The entire world is responsible for what is happening to our people in Gaza and the West Bank. Abbas says that following the Hamas attacks on 7 October, he condemned the killing of civilians on both sides, and stressed the need to immediately to stop the war. Instead of heeding the voice of reason, the Israeli government took advantage of what happened to launch an all-out war of genocide against Gaza. The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is addressing the UN general assembly in New York. \u201cWe will not leave. We will not leave. We will not leave,\u201d he begins his speech by saying, to the applause of the chamber. Palestine is our homeland. It is the land of our fathers, our grandfathers. It will remain ours. And if anyone were to leave, it would be occupying usurpers. Abbas says that the Palestinian people have been subjected to \u201cone of the most heinous crimes of our era\u201d for almost a year now. It is a \u201ccrime of a full-scale war of genocide\u201d that Israel is perpetuating, he says. We reported just now that the Israel Defense Forces said the commander of the Hezbollah\u2019s air force unit, Mohammad Surur, was killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut on Thursday. Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approved the airstrike from his plane en route to New York, his office said. The UK defence secretary, John Healey, is holding a press conference alongside his US and Australian counterparts, Lloyd Austin and Richard Marles, following trilateral talks in London. Healey says the recent Aukus discussions have been held \u201cunder a cloud of growing global insecurity\u201d, and that defence ministers \u201creinforced the need to stand together against Russian aggression, towards peace in the Middle East, and steadfast behind Ukraine.\u201d The head of one of Hezbollah\u2019s air force units, Mohammad Surur, was killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Thursday, Reuters reported, citing security sources. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement posted to X that fighter jets attacked in Beirut and killed Surur. Jacob Magid, who is US bureau chief for the Times of Israel, has just posted this report to social media, saying Israel had been making positive noises about a ceasefire in private before a series of ministers and the prime minister\u2019s office came out today with statements dismissive of the proposal. He wrote: Israel and Lebanon privately gave mediators their support for a 21-day ceasefire on the Blue Line before it was announced in a joint statement led by the US and France last night, a senior western diplomat tells the Times of Israel. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly distanced himself from the proposal after it was announced, saying Israel has yet to formally respond and that the IDF would continue striking Hezbollah with full force. The western diplomat says Netanyahu\u2019s conduct is extension of how he handled the Gaza hostage talks where he has privately agreed to show flexibility only to make public statement immediately afterward aimed at calming his political base but that risked thwarting progress. During the course of today Israel\u2019s foreign minister Israel Katz has said there would be \u201cno ceasefire in the north\u201d and interior security minister Itamer Ben-Gvir has threatened to collapse Netanyahu\u2019s coalition government if a permanent ceasefire with Hezbollah is agreed. The IDF has said that in the last hour \u201capproximately 40 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory\u201d in the Upper Galilee area. There are no reports of any casualties. A group of Jewish and Palestinian protesters are being arrested after blocking a street near the UN in New York City where the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to address the general assembly. At least 25 people from Jewish Voice for Peace and the Palestinian Youth Movement have been arrested so far. This is the first of several actions planned today, with protesters calling for Netanyahu to be arrested and for an end of US support \u2013 military, fuel and diplomatic \u2013 for Israel as the death toll in Gaza and Lebanon continues to rise. Israel\u2019s defense minister Yoav Gallant has approved \u201cthe continued IDF offensive activity\u201d against Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to a statement from his office. Gallant, who continued presence in the role has been the subject of some recent sepuculation, met with Israel\u2019s chief of staff Lt Gen Herzi Halevi to approve the plans alongside other senior military figures. The Times of Israel reports that during the meeting they observed this afternoon\u2019s Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut, which is believed to have targeted a senior Hezbollah commander. Gallant posted to social media: By approving the following offensive operations on the northern front, together with the chief of staff, the head of the intelligence division and the head of the operations division in the IDF we are continuing the sequence of operations to eliminate Hezbollah terrorists, to dismantle their offensive formations, and to destroy their missiles and rockets. We have additional tasks to complete to enable the return of the residents of the north [of Israel] to their homes. We will continue to throw Hezbollah off balance and deepen its plight. This is the latest picture sent over the news wire of the scene in Beirut where Israel has claimed to carry out a precise strike, which Israeli media has been briefed was targeted at a senior Hezbollah commander. The US, Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK, and Qatar have issued a joint statement calling for \u201ca diplomatic settlement\u201d of the crisis between Israel, Lebanon and Hezbollah and an immediate ceasefire. It called on the parties in the conflict to respect previous UN security council resolutions regarding Lebanon and Gaza. The statement reads: The situation between Lebanon and Israel since 8 October 2023 is intolerable and presents an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation. This is in nobody\u2019s interest, neither of the people of Israel nor of the people of Lebanon. It is time to conclude a diplomatic settlement that enables civilians on both sides of the border to return to their homes in safety. Diplomacy however cannot succeed amid an escalation of this conflict. Thus we call for an immediate 21 day ceasefire across the Lebanon-Israel border to provide space for diplomacy towards the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement consistent with UNSCR 1701, and the implementation of UNSCR 2735 regarding a ceasefire in Gaza We call on all parties, including the Governments of Israel and Lebanon, to endorse the temporary ceasefire immediately consistent with UNSCR 1701 during this period, and to give a real chance to a diplomatic settlement. We are then prepared to fully support all diplomatic efforts to conclude an agreement between Lebanon and Israel within this period, building on efforts over the last months, that ends this crisis altogether. It was published just after Israel had announced it had carried out a \u201cprecise\u201d strike on Beirut, which Israeli media has been briefed was aimed at a senior Hezbollah commander. Israel\u2019s military has been carrying out exercises in the north of the country to prepare for a ground incursion into Lebanon. For its part, Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets into Israel, and in an earlier statement said it had struck at defence industry targets near Haifa. Over 600 people have been killed and thousands more wounded in Lebanon since Israel launched its intense aerial bombardment on Monday. It claims to be targeting infrastructure used by Hezbollah, including striking a bridge that marked a crossing point between Syria and Lebanon. Haaretz reports that western diplomats from countries supporting the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire proposal, speaking on condition of anonymity, have said comments by Israeli ministers today look to be an attempt to damage negotiations, and risk bringing all-out war to the region. Haaretz quoted one official saying a message by foreign minister Israel Katz that there would be no ceasefire in the north \u201clooks like a deliberate attempt to damage the negotiations\u201d. Another official told the Israeli news outlet \u201cOur interest right now is to prevent an all-out war that could cause thousands of deaths. These statements don\u2019t help.\u201d Zeina Khodr of Al Jazeera has published this video on social media of what appears to be an Israeli strike in the suburbs of Beirut. She writes: Fourth strike in southern suburbs in less than a week. Ambulances at the scene. Area near strike cordoned off. Apartment targeted. Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that at least 13 more people have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, where Israel\u2019s military campaign has continued for nearly a year. It reported that six people were killed when a missile struck a house in Khan Younis, and a further seven people were killed and others were injured in the bombing of Al-Faluja school in Jabalia. The IDF has claimed in a message on its official Telegram channel that it carried out a strike on \u201cterrorists [who] were operating inside a command and control centre embedded inside a compound that previously served as the al-Faluja school.\u201d The claims have not been independently verified. Al Jazeera reports: Footage of the attack\u2019s aftermath, verified by Al Jazeera, shows frantic scenes in the school\u2019s vicinity, with rescuers carrying dead bodies and maimed victims on stretchers away from the rubble. Al Jazeera has been banned from operating in Israel by Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government, and Israeli security forces have also raided and shut down the news network\u2019s office in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The Hamas-led health ministry in Gaza has claimed Israel\u2019s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 41,534 Palestinians and wounded 96,092 since 7 October. Over the same time period Israel\u2019s military has said 346 of its service personnel have been killed during the Gaza ground offensive, which was launched after the 7 October attack inside southern Israel by Hamas, which killed nearly 1,200 people and during which over 250 people were taken hostage. Israeli authorities believe 101 people are still being held captive in Gaza, nearly a year after being abducted. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict. Israeli media is being briefed that the target of an Israeli strike in the suburbs of Beirut is \u201cthe head of Hezbollah\u2019s aerial forces\u201d. Itay Blumental, military correspondent for Israel\u2019s Channel 11, has published a short video which purports to be from the scene. The Guardian has not independently verified the source of the video. The IDF has announced on its official Telegram channel that on Thursday morning it conducted exercises in northern Israel simulating \u201ccombat in thicketed, mountainous terrain\u201d. It said in the statement \u201cDuring the exercise, the troops enhanced their operational and logistical readiness for various combat scenarios in enemy territory on the northern front.\u201d Israeli media reports that Israel\u2019s interior security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has said his party Otzma Yehudit will vote against a temporary ceasefire with Hezbollah, and his party will quit Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s coalition government if a permanent ceasefire is agreed. More details soon \u2026 Reuters reports that \u201ca large blast was heard in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Thursday afternoon, and a thick cloud of smoke emanated from the area.\u201d Israel\u2019s military has announced \u201cThe IDF is currently carrying out precise strikes in Beirut.\u201d Israel\u2019s army radio has published two images which claim to be from the scene. The Guardian has not independently verified the images. 57 rockets have been fired from Lebanon toward Israel since the morning, the Israeli military has said, Haaretz reported. Israel\u2019s air force said it is continuing to hit targets with the aim of damaging and destroying Hezbollah\u2019s capabilities and infrastructure. Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency reports that Israeli attacks in the Tyre district of Lebanon have killed three people and wounded 17 others. It cited the health ministry for the figures. In a statement posted to its official Telegram channel, Israel\u2019s military has claimed that it has targeted \u201cinfrastructure along the Syria-Lebanon border used by Hezbollah to transfer weapons from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon, which the terrorist organization used against Israeli civilians.\u201d Lebanese transport minister Ali Hamieh earlier told the Reuters news agency that an Israeli strike on Thursday hit the Syrian end of a small bridge that provides a crossing into Lebanon. He said he did not immediately know whether the crossing was still usable. Zeina Khodr, reporting for Al Jazeera from Beirut writes that the situation there is \u201ca massive displacement crisis\u201d. She reports: We have heard the minister of interior say that shelters are accommodating more than 70,000 people. Some of the displaced are having to rent apartments, and some are staying with friends and relatives, but no doubt this is a crisis for a near-bankrupt state. Lebanon is a country that has been living off international aid for years now and does not have enough funds to help people in need. This is not going to be easy and it seems that we\u2019re just at the beginning. An Israeli strike on Thursday hit the Syrian end of a small bridge that provides a crossing into Lebanon, Lebanese transport minister Ali Hamieh told Reuters. Hamieh said he did not immediately know whether the crossing was still usable. Israel has repeatedly claimed it is attacking what it describes as \u201cHezbollah terror targets\u201d in its operation in Lebanon. To date over 600 people have been killed and thousands more injured, with tens of thousands of people displaced from their homes in southern Lebanon after three days of intense aerial attacks from Israel. In the same time period, Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets into northern Israel, and targeted as far south as Tel Aviv with a longer-range missile that was intercepted. AFP quotes Qatar\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson saying there is no direct link between Gaza truce talks and calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. \u201cI\u2019m not aware of a direct link, but obviously both mediations are hugely overlapping when you are talking about the same parties, for the most part, that are taking part,\u201d foreign ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari told reporters. Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli figures have ruled out a 21-day ceasefire with Hezbollah which had been proposed by US president Joe Biden and French president Emmanuel Macron, and endorsed by several other countries in Europe and the Middle East. Reuters reports that Israel\u2019s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir\u2019s faction are due to hold an emergency meeting today. Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s coalition government has become increasingly fractious over recent months. Hezbollah has claimed it again launched rockets at Israeli defence industry targets near Haifa AFP reports that in a statement the Iran-backed group said \u201cDefending Lebanon and its people [we] bombed the Rafael military industry complexes \u2026 with salvoes of rockets.\u201d Israel\u2019s military has announced it has launched further attacks on Lebanon. It says it is \u201cstriking Hezbollah terror targets\u201d. Israel\u2019s foreign minister Israel Katz has ruled out Israel accepting a US-French proposed 21-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, saying: \u201cThere will be no ceasefire in the north.\u201d In a message posted to social media, Katz said: \u201cThere will be no ceasefire in the north. We will continue to fight against the terrorist organization Hezbollah with all our might until victory and the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes.\u201d Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office also appeared dismissive of the proposal, saying \u201cThe news about a ceasefire \u2013 not true. This is an American-French proposal, to which the prime minister did not even respond.\u201d Netanyahu\u2019s office said, instead, that \u201cthe prime minister instructed the IDF to continue the fighting with full force\u201d. Over 600 people have been killed and thousands wounded in Lebanon since Israel began an intense bombing campaign on Monday. About 60,000 Israelis have fled their homes in northern Israel due to continual fighting between Israel, Hezbollah and other anti-Israeli forces based in Lebanon. On the Lebanese side of the UN-drawn blue line that separates the two countries, tens of thousands of Lebanese have also been internally displaced. Earlier Israel\u2019s hardline far-right finance minister, who has previously described it as his life\u2019s mission to thwart the creation of a Palestinian state, also rejected the idea of a ceasefire. Bezalel Smotrich said \u201cThe campaign in the north should end in one scenario \u2013 crushing Hezbollah.\u201d Israel\u2019s military claimed that overnight it struck \u201capproximately 75 terror targets belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation\u201d in Beqaa and in southern Lebanon. Authorities in Lebanon reported at least four more people killed this morning, and that 23 Syrians, mostly women and children, were killed by an Israeli strike on Younine in Lebanon during the night. The US and France had called for a temporary ceasefire to make way for broader negotiations. The joint statement issued by US president Joe Biden and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron said: \u201cIt is time for a settlement on the Israel-Lebanon border that ensures safety and security to enable civilians to return to their homes. The exchange of fire since October 7th, and in particular over the past two weeks, threatens a much broader conflict, and harm to civilians.\u201d The Jerusalem Post earlier reported that community leaders of northern Israel are unhappy with the prospect of a ceasefire, with one regional council\u2019s chairman saying \u201cThere is a time for negotiations, this is not the time. This is a time for war.\u201d Here from our video team are the clips of Najib Mikati, the caretaker prime minister of Lebanon, and Danny Danon, Israel\u2019s UN envoy speaking at the UN security council. Mikati told the council that Israel was violating his country\u2019s sovereignty \u201cby sending its war planes and drones to our skies, by killing our civilians, including youth, women and children, destroying homes and forcing families to flee\u201d. Danon said Israel did not seek a full-scale war. Yesterday, Israel\u2019s top general said the country is preparing for a possible ground operation into Lebanon. The death toll after three days of Israeli bombardment of Lebanon this week has passed 600, with thousands more injured. Patrick Wintour is the Guardian\u2019s diplomatic editor The former UK ambassador to Lebanon, Tom Fletcher, who remains closely in touch with diplomats at the UN, said the joint statement backing a 21 day ceasefire in Lebanon signed by the US, France, the UK, the EU and three other countries, including three Gulf States, has to be used to bring about change on the ground. If that happens, he said it could represent a watershed in the crisis and even a moment when diplomacy fought back. He also praised the UK\u2019s foreign secretary David Lammy for \u201ccoming out impressively early and hard\u201d in favour of an immediate ceasefire in the way a Labour government failed to do in the 2006 Lebanese crisis He said \u201cwe have got to use this scaffolding so it turns into something that matters on the ground and not just to pause it for 21 days\u201d. He set out three headline priorities \u201cGet all sides to step back from escalation. There are signs that Israel is holding back from hitting Beirut and there are signs of Hezbollah holding back from hitting Tel Aviv at scale. Maybe this shows the mutual recognition of the dangers of escalation.\u201d \u201cGet the official Lebanese army on the ground on the Israel Lebanon border \u2013 not Hezbollah not Iran \u2013 get state authority back into the south Lebanon border.\u201d Return to persuading both sides \u2013 Hamas and Israel \u2013 to re-engage with the Gaza ceasefire agreement. \u201cIt is that agreement that gets th- e hostages out, the aid in and in the end potentially opens the conditions for the two state solution\u201d. In the message diplomats will be relaying to Benjamin Netanyahu when he reaches New York, Fletcher suggested Hezbollah, already degraded and its popularity reduced, would only be strengthened if a ground invasion goes ahead \u201cHezbollah has lost a lot of support but the second those tanks cross that border into Lebanon. Hezbollah starts to redraw confidence and rebuild support in the population\u201d, he said. Israel\u2019s air force has stated that after \u201cwarnings that were activated in the western Galilee area, about 45 launches were detected that crossed the territory of Lebanon.\u201d It said \u201csome of them were intercepted and the rest fell in open areas.\u201d At least 23 people, all of them Syrian and most of them women or children, were killed in an Israeli strike on a three-storey building in the Lebanese town of Younine late on Wednesday, mayor Ali Qusas has told Reuters. Qusas said another eight people were wounded. The UN estimates there are about 750,000 Syrian refugees inside Lebanon. Israel claimed overnight it struck \u201capproximately 75\u201d Hezbollah targets inside Lebanon. The Israeli military reports that warning sirens are sounding again in Upper Galilee. Israel\u2019s hardline finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has rejected appeals for a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah, saying the only option for the north of Israel is for Hezbollah to be crushed. In a post to social media, Smotrich, part of Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s coalition government, said: The campaign in the north should end in one scenario \u2013 crushing Hezbollah and denying its ability to harm the residents of the north. The enemy must not be given time to recover from the heavy blows it received and to reorganize for the continuation of the war after 21 days. Surrender of Hezbollah or war, that\u2019s the only way we will return the residents and security to the north and the country. The far-right finance minister has previously described in explicit terms his active effort to annex the Israeli-occupied West Bank permanently to Israel, and has said \u201cMy life\u2019s mission is to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state.\u201d Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency reports that trade unions in the country have called on people to show solidarity, and for \u201cthe owners of food establishments, bakeries, gas stations and pharmacies to keep their establishments open, and facilitate everything necessary for our people.\u201d In a statement the trade unions also called on \u201cmerchants not to raise prices and not to exploit people.\u201d The Jerusalem Post reports that community leaders of northern Israel are unhappy with the prospect of a ceasefire with Hezbollah, claiming that a deal would lead to another 7 October style attack in the future, but from Hezbollah in the north. It quotes the Upper Galilee regional council\u2019s chairman, Amir Sofer, who said \u201cThere is a time for negotiations, this is not the time. This is a time for war. We must not be misled by international pressure.\u201d Metula regional council chairman David Azulai said the government would be responsible for the next 7 October if it did a deal. The Jerusalem Post quotes him saying: They want to do exactly what Hamas did in the south. Remember, we have been in this situation for a whole year. In the past week, the army has fought as it should, as we expect, to bring us back home. It seems we are again taking two steps back. In an operational update on its official Telegram channel, Israel\u2019s military claims that overnight it struck \u201capproximately 75 terror targets belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation\u201d in Beqaa and in southern Lebanon. It claimed the targets included \u201cweapons storage facilities, ready-to-fire launchers, terrorists, and terrorist infrastructure,\u201d citing Lebanese authorities have reported four people killed. The claims have not been independently verified. Emanuel Fabian, military correspondent at the Times of Israel, reports that rockets appear to have been fired from inside the Gaza Strip aimed at Israel this morning, and he reports that \u201caccording to the IDF, several rockets were launched at troops inside the Gaza Strip\u201d. He said there were no reports of injuries, and none of the rockets crossed into Israel. Israel\u2019s opposition leader has called for Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government to accept the US-French proposal of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, but says his country should only do so for a period of seven days. In a post to social media, Yair Lapid said: The state of Israel should announce this morning that it accepts the Biden-Macron ceasefire proposal, but only for seven days in order not to allow Hezbollah to restore its command and control systems. We will not accept any proposal that does not include removing Hezbollah from our northern border. Any proposal that is put forward must allow the residents of the north to immediately return safely to their homes and lead to the renewal of negotiations for the kidnapping deal. Any violation \u2013 even the slightest \u2013 of the cease fire, will lead to Israel attacking again with its full force and in all areas of Lebanon. Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that in an Israeli raid on Al-Ain camp, west of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, one Palestinian has been shot and then detained by Israeli security forces. Three others, including a woman, have also been detained. Authorities in Lebanon have reported four people dead on Thursday after Israeli airstrikes on the south of the country continued. The state National News Agency reports that a Syrian national was killed in Qana, and three people were killed in an Israeli air raid on Aita al-Shaab. Israeli media reports that a planned rally by the family and friends of hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza for Saturday is to be postponed due to \u201csecurity and safety concerns\u201d. It was scheduled to take place at the Begin Gate in Tel Aviv. Israeli authorities believe that about 101 hostages are still in captivity in Gaza, having been held there for nearly a year. Patrick Wintour and Andrew Roth report for the Guardian in New York The US and France have called for a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to make way for broader negotiations, as the UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, told a UN security council meeting that \u201chell is breaking loose\u201d in Lebanon. The joint statement issued by US president Joe Biden and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron said: \u201cIt is time for a settlement on the Israel-Lebanon border that ensures safety and security to enable civilians to return to their homes. The exchange of fire since October 7th, and in particular over the past two weeks, threatens a much broader conflict, and harm to civilians.\u201d The two leaders, who met on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York, said they had worked on a temporary ceasefire \u201cto give diplomacy a chance to succeed and avoid further escalations across the border\u201d. They urged Israel and Lebanon to back the move, which was also endorsed by the UK, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. A senior US administration official said on Wednesday night that both Israel and Lebanon, which was understood to be representing Hezbollah in the negotiations, were expected to respond to the call \u201cin the coming hours\u201d. Read more from Patrick Wintour and Andrew Roth in New York here: France and US push for 21-day Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire in Lebanon as UN chief warns \u2018hell is breaking loose\u2019 Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Middle East crisis. The US and France have called for a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to make way for broader negotiations. A senior US administration official said on Wednesday night that both Israel and Lebanon, which was understood to be representing Hezbollah in the negotiations, were expected to respond to the call \u201cin the coming hours.\u201d The US officials said that the 21-day period was chosen in order to provide space in order to negotiate a more comprehensive agreement between the two sides to allow residents to return to their homes along the Israel-Lebanon border without fear of further violence or an \u201c7 October-like attack in the future\u201d. More on that in a moment, first here\u2019s a summary of the day\u2019s other main events. At least 72 people were killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon on Wednesday and hundreds were wounded, according to figures by the Lebanese health ministry. The geographic scope of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah has widened, after Israel targeted the mountains north of Beirut for the first time in the war, and Hezbollah aimed a long-range missile at Tel Aviv, drawing an Israeli warning that it was preparing a major response. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it hit more than 2,000 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in the past three days. Israel\u2019s top general has said the country is preparing for a possible ground operation into Lebanon. As an intense bombing campaign inside Lebanon stretched in to a third day, Maj Gen Herzi Halevi said the airstrikes aimed to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure and prepare for the possibility of Israeli troops crossing the border. \u201cWe are preparing the process of a manoeuvre,\u201d he told troops during a visit to Israel\u2019s north on Wednesday. However the Pentagon said an Israeli ground offensive in Lebanon did not appear \u201cimminent\u201d. Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said the US was making \u201ca full-court press\u201d for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. She referred reporters to Israel for questions about its operations and plans. France\u2019s foreign minister has told the UN security council that his country and the United States are working to hammer out a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel to allow time for broader negotiations. \u201cA diplomatic solution is indeed possible. In recent days, we\u2019ve worked with our American partners on a temporary ceasefire platform of 21 days to allow for negotiations,\u201d Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot told the 15-member UN security council. Najib Mikati, the caretaker prime minister of Lebanon, has told the UN security council that Israel is violating his country\u2019s sovereignty \u201cby sending its war planes and drones to our skies, by killing our civilians, including youth, women and children, destroying homes and forcing families to flee\u201d. Mikati says hospitals are overwhelmed and unable to accept any more victims. Danny Danon, Israel\u2019s UN envoy, has said that his country does not seek a full-scale war. Danon has accused Iran of being the \u201cdriving force\u201d behind the instability sweeping the Middle East. Danon also said that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to arrive in the US on Thursday to address the UN general assembly."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Netanyahu says Israel \u2018will not stop\u2019 attacks on Hezbollah despite ceasefire calls;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/netanyahu-israel-attacks-lebanon-hezbollah-ceasefire-calls;2024-09-26T22:02:21Z",
        "text": "Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel \u201cwill not stop\u201d its attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon despite calls from the US, France and other allies for an immediate three-week ceasefire aimed at containing the spread of a conflict that is beginning to engulf Lebanon. The calls for an immediate ceasefire were backed on Thursday night by Lebanon\u2019s minister for foreign affairs, Abdallah Bouhabib, who told the UN general assembly his country was enduring a crisis that \u201cthreatens its very existence\u201d. Bouhabib welcomed the US/French initiative, saying \u201cDiplomacy is not always easy, but diplomacy is the only way to save innocent lives \u2026 Lebanon views the US-French initiative as an opportunity to generate momentum, to take steps towards ending this crisis.\u201d Bouhabib said peace was incumbent on Israel\u2019s government, and that there can be no lasting peace without a \u201ctwo-state solution\u201d. Israeli airstrikes continued in Lebanon on Thursday, killing 92 people including the head of Hezbollah\u2019s drone force, Mohammad Surur, and at least 150 rockets were fired from Lebanon at northern Israel, according to the Israeli military. The Israeli prime minister told reporters that his government\u2019s policy was clear as he landed in New York, where he is due to address the UN general assembly on Friday. \u201cWe are continuing to strike Hezbollah with full force, and we will not stop until we reach all our goals \u2013 chief among them the return of the residents of the north securely to their homes,\u201d Netanyahu said. His office had earlier distanced the Israeli government from the ceasefire plan, which it described as \u201can American-French proposal that the prime minister has not even responded to\u201d. The prime minister\u2019s office said Netanyahu had \u201cdirected the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] to continue fighting with full force, according to the plan that was presented to him. The fighting in Gaza will also continue until all the objectives of the war have been achieved.\u201d Those war goals include the safe return home of more than 60,000 Israelis forced to abandon their homes in northern Israel by Hezbollah bombing, which began on 8 October last year, the day after the start of the Gaza war. US officials hope to persuade Netanyahu to accept the ceasefire proposal by the time he addresses the UN general assembly on Friday. They argue that a pause in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah could also provide a breathing space in which to revive long-stalled negotiations with Israel and Hamas over the release of Israeli hostages in return for a truce in Gaza. On Thursday, the White House said the Biden administration had believed that Israel was \u201con board\u201d with the proposal. John Kirby, the White House\u2019s national security spokesperson, said \u201cwe had every reason to believe that in the drafting of it and in the delivery of it, that the Israelis were fully informed and fully aware of every word in it. We wouldn\u2019t have done it if we didn\u2019t believe that it would be received with the seriousness with which it was composed.\u201d Kirby said it was unclear why Netanyahu appeared to dismiss the idea. The US, France and some of their allies had on Wednesday called for an urgent cessation of hostilities, which they said presented \u201can unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation\u201d. \u201cWe call for an immediate 21-day ceasefire across the Lebanon-Israel border to provide space for diplomacy,\u201d a joint statement said. \u201cWe call on all parties, including the governments of Israel and Lebanon, to endorse the temporary ceasefire immediately.\u201d The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said on Thursday that it would be \u201ca mistake\u201d for Netanyahu to refuse a ceasefire in Lebanon, which he warned could not become \u201canother Gaza\u201d. Hezbollah has yet to respond to the call for a truce, although it and its backer, Iran, have previously insisted it would halt its strikes only if there is a ceasefire in Gaza, while the Israeli response has been overwhelmingly negative. After Netanyahu\u2019s remarks, the defence minister said he had met the country\u2019s top generals to discuss further military operations on the Israel\u2019s northern front. \u201cWe are continuing our sequence of operations \u2013 eliminating Hezbollah terrorists, dismantling Hezbollah\u2019s offensive infrastructure and destroying rockets and missiles,\u201d Yoav Gallant said. \u201cWe have additional missions to complete in order to ensure the safe return of Israel\u2019s northern communities to their homes. We will continue throwing Hezbollah off balance and deepening their loss.\u201d US officials have urged Israel to accept a ceasefire on the grounds that it could lead to a negotiated withdrawal of Hezbollah forces from the border area, from where they have been firing rockets and missiles at Israel. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has argued that diplomacy is the best way to create conditions to allow residents to return to their homes. \u201cGetting into a full-scale war is not the way to achieve that objective,\u201d he told the US TV channel MSNBC. \u201cThere\u2019s no way in that situation that people are going to be able to go back.\u201d But western diplomats gathered in New York for the UN general assembly expressed doubt that Netanyahu would agree to such a deal, despite his long history of juggling contrary demands from the US and the extreme right in his cabinet. Meanwhile, efforts by the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, and foreign secretary, David Lammy, to secure a New York meeting with either Netanyahu or his strategic affairs minister, Ron Dermer, did not bear fruit, possibly reflecting Israel\u2019s unhappiness over the UK\u2019s limited ban on arms exports. The families of the Gaza hostages have also said they are pushing for any Lebanon ceasefire deal to include clauses on Gaza, focused on securing the release of the roughly 70 hostages thought to still be alive and the bodies of about 30 others. An Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Thursday hit a school sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians, killing at least 11 people and wounding 22, including women and children, according to Gaza\u2019s health ministry. The Israeli military confirmed it had struck the school, in the Jabalia refugee camp, but claimed the attack had been aimed at Hamas militants hiding there. Hezbollah has said that it will continue fighting Israel as long as the IDF keeps up its military operations in Gaza, but the ranks of the Iran-backed Shia militia have been shattered over the past nine days by a coordinated attack using booby-trapped communications devices, followed by a withering aerial bombing campaign. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said 19 Syrian refugees and a Lebanese citizen had been killed in one strike in north-east Lebanon on Thursday, bringing the death toll from several days of Israeli bombardment to about 700 people, about a quarter of whom the ministry said were women or children. The UK was one of the allies that backed the US-French call for a 21-day ceasefire. \u201cI urge President Netanyahu and the Lebanese Hezbollah leaders to pay heed to the combined voices at the United Nations to do just that,\u201d the British defence secretary said after a meeting with his US and Australian counterparts in London. John Healey said 700 British troops had been sent to Cyprus to help a potential emergency evacuation of civilians from Lebanon should a full-scale war break out. The domestic political repercussions of a ceasefire for Netanyahu were made clear when his national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, told the prime minister that his party, Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power), would not vote with the coalition if the government agreed a ceasefire with Hezbollah. \u201cWe will not abandon the residents of the north. Every day that this ceasefire is in effect and Israel does not fight in the north, Otzma Yehudit is not committed to the coalition,\u201d Ben-Gvir said at a party meeting. The leader of the opposition Democrats party, Yair Golan, also argued against committing to a three-week ceasefire, saying Israel should initially agree to a truce of a few days, and see how well it was enforced. Israel has said it is prepared to launch a ground incursion into Lebanon alongside its aerial bombing, and on Thursday the IDF announced its troops had completed training drills near the northern border, simulating combat in Lebanon. The IDF called up two reserve brigades at short notice on Wednesday to deploy to the northern border, where they will join Israel\u2019s 98th Paratrooper Division, which was put under the control of the northern command last week. However, Haaretz described this as \u201ca relatively limited reserve call-up\u201d. The Israeli newspaper said that after the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, in the run-up to the ground invasion of Gaza, \u201chundreds of thousands of reservists were called up, as were several divisions\u201d. Haaretz\u2019s military correspondent, Amos Harel, argued that an Israeli invasion of Lebanon \u201cis still not a done deal\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Harris decries Trump\u2019s \u2018proposals of surrender\u2019 as Zelenskyy visits White House;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/zelenskyy-biden-white-house;2024-09-26T21:49:45Z",
        "text": "Kamala Harris, the US vice-president, has indirectly denounced the Trump campaign\u2019s policy on ending Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine as \u201cproposals of surrender\u201d as the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Washington to present his own \u201cvictory plan\u201d. Addressing Zelenskyy at the White House, Harris said that \u201csome in my country\u201d would pressure Ukraine to accept a peace deal in which it surrendered its sovereign territory and neutrality in order to make peace with Vladimir Putin. \u201cThese proposals are the same as those of Putin, and let us be clear, they are not proposals for peace,\u201d she said. \u201cInstead, they are proposals for surrender, which is dangerous and unacceptable.\u201d While she did not mention Donald Trump or JD Vance by name, those terms for peace closely resemble ones laid out by the Republican vice-presidential nominee in an interview earlier this month. Zelenskyy had publicly denounced Vance as \u201ctoo radical\u201d after those remarks, sparking a conflict with Trump allies that has culminated with accusations of election interference and Republican calls for Ukraine to fire its ambassador to Washington. In an apparent U-turn late on Thursday, Trump told reporters he would meet Zelenskyy at Trump Tower in New York on Friday morning. At a press conference he rejected Harris\u2019 criticisms and insisted that he only wants to stop the \u201chorror show that\u2019s gone on\u201d. When asked if Ukraine should give up territory, Trump was non-committal, saying: \u201cLet\u2019s get some peace \u2026 We need peace. We need to stop the death and destruction.\u201d Before announcing the meeting with Zelenskyy, Trump posted on social media a purported message from the Ukrainian president asking to see him. The message, which was not confirmed by Ukrainian officials, said \u201cwe have to strive to understand each other.\u201d The decision to publicly disclose what appeared to be private communications was a reminder of the tension that has been brewing between Trump and Zelenskyy. Harris\u2019s remarks came after Zelenskyy met Joe Biden at the White House for the formal presentation of Zelenskyy\u2019s high-stakes proposal, which he has said can end the war with Russia with additional American aid. The White House issued a short statement after the meeting, saying that the \u201ctwo leaders discussed the diplomatic, economic, and military aspects of President Zelenskyy\u2019s plan and tasked their teams to engage in intensive consultations regarding next steps\u201d. \u201cPresident Biden is determined to provide Ukraine with the support it needs to win,\u201d the statement said. Zelenskyy has kept the details of the plan secret, but US officials have said it includes additional American aid to prevent a Ukrainian rout on the battlefield and \u201cprovide the [Ukrainian] people with the assurance that their future is part of the west\u201d. Zelenskyy faces an uphill battle in securing support for the plan, because of caution among senior officials in the Biden administration about providing Russia with a pretext to escalate the conflict further, and the looming November presidential elections that could lead to a re-election of Donald Trump. Before the meeting, Biden announced more than $8bn in military assistance to Kyiv, calling it a \u201csurge in security assistance for Ukraine and a series of additional actions to help Ukraine win this war\u201d. The aid includes the provision of a medium-range \u201cglide bomb\u201d munition fired from fighter jets that would allow Ukrainian forces to strike Russian troops and supply lines at safer distances. The allocation included $5.5bn from the Ukraine security assistance initiative fund by the end of the year, as well as an additional $2.4bn in security assistance via the Department of Defense. The package includes additional Patriot air defense batteries and missiles, unmanned aerial systems, and measures to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s defense industrial base, Biden said. The US will also expand training for additional F-16 fighter pilots, with an extra 18 pilots to be trained next year. But Biden was not expected to grant a key Ukrainian request that has been supported by the UK \u2013 permission to use arms such as long-range Atacms ballistic missiles to strike targets deeper inside Russia \u2013 due to fears of escalating the conflict with Russia. \u201cThere is no announcement that I would expect [on that],\u201d the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, told reporters before the meeting. Zelenskyy said in a social media post: \u201cWe will use this assistance in the most effective and transparent way possible to achieve our main common goal: a victorious Ukraine, a just and lasting peace, and transatlantic security.\u201d Biden also announced that he would convene a high-level meeting of the Ukraine defense contact group to coordinate aid to Ukraine among more than 50 allies as he enters the lame-duck period of his final three months in office. US media have reported that the Biden administration and European allies have been skeptical of Zelenskyy\u2019s plan to achieve victory, which is understood to need to secure maximal support from the west before potential negotiations with Russia. \u201cI\u2019m unimpressed. There\u2019s not much new there,\u201d a senior official told the Wall Street Journal. Zelenskyy had said the plan included decisions that can be taken \u201csolely\u201d by the United States and \u201cis based on decisions that should take place from October through December\u201d \u2013 meaning the end of Biden\u2019s term in office. The meeting came amid rising tensions between Zelenskyy and Trump, who has attacked the Ukrainian leader for \u201cmaking little nasty aspersions toward your favourite president: me\u201d. Zelenskyy, in an interview with the New Yorker published this week, said he believed Trump \u201cdoesn\u2019t really know how to stop the war\u201d and criticised Vance for describing a vision for peace that included Ukraine ceding territories currently occupied by Russia. Before the meetings, Zelenskyy met members of Congress on Capitol Hill. On Wednesday, the House speaker, Mike Johnson, a Republican, accused Zelenskyy of election interference and demanded he fire his ambassador to Washington over a visit to an ammunitions factory in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Johnson claimed the Ukrainian ambassador had failed to invite any Republicans to the event and called it a \u201cpartisan campaign event designed to help Democrats\u201d. Zelenskyy sought to reduce tensions on Thursday as he thanked the US for the new arms package and praised political leaders\u2019 \u201cstrong bipartisan support\u201d in \u201cUkraine\u2019s just cause of defeating Russian aggression\u201d. Nonetheless, US and European officials have noted with varying levels of alarm the potential for a Trump administration to sharply reduce US aid to Ukraine in order to force Zelenskyy to accept terms for a ceasefire. Asked whether the Democrats wanted to \u201cTrump-proof\u201d aid to Ukraine before a potential Trump presidency, a senior state department official said: \u201cI don\u2019t ever talk in those terms\u201d but that the primary goal was to make sure Ukraine \u201chas all the equipment it needs to keep fighting and manpower and other things\u201d. \u201cAt the end of the year, regardless of who wins our election in December, as at the end of this fighting season, Zelenskyy and Putin need to look at the battlefield and say, here\u2019s what we think next year will look like,\u201d the official said. \u201cAnd the primary factor there is, do I think the other side has all the equipment it needs to keep fighting and manpower and other things?\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Sexual assault claims made over Mohamed Al Fayed\u2019s Fulham tenure;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/sexual-assault-claims-mohamed-al-fayed-fulham-football-club;2024-09-26T18:52:01Z",
        "text": "Sexual assault allegations have been made relating to Mohamed Al Fayed\u2019s 16 years of ownership of Fulham FC, lawyers representing accusers have said. More than 200 women have come forward with allegations since a BBC documentary last week reported claims that Fayed raped five women who worked at Harrods. The new allegations include several relating to Fayed\u2019s time at Fulham, according to a spokesperson for Justice for Harrods Survivors, a group of barristers representing the alleged victims. The billionaire Egyptian owned the club between 1997 and 2013, during which time he invested about \u00a3200m to help get the team into the top flight. A spokesperson for Fulham said the club \u201cremain in the process of establishing whether anyone at the club is or has been affected by the reports concerning Mr Al Fayed\u201d. The Football Association said it was \u201caware of the reports and will remain in contact with Fulham FC to monitor the matter\u201d. During Fayed\u2019s time at the club it established its first professional women\u2019s team. Gaute Haugenes, who managed Fulham\u2019s women\u2019s team between 2001 and 2003, told the BBC last week that the allegations had not come as \u201cthe biggest surprise\u201d. Referring to members of staff at Fulham, he said: \u201cWe were aware he liked young, blond girls. So we just made sure that situations couldn\u2019t occur. We protected the players.\u201d On Thursday, Dr Ann Coxon, who worked for Al Fayed, denied carrying out sexual health tests on Harrods staff, a claim made by multiple women who worked at the department store. Asked by the BBC on a London street whether she had conducted such tests, she replied \u201cno\u201d, an answer she repeated when asked whether she regretted having worked for Al Fayed. The Metropolitan police said they were investigating a number of new allegations against Fayed in addition to 19 allegations made between 2005 and his death in 2023 at the age of 94. The force said it would carry out \u201cfull reviews of all existing allegations\u201d of incidents said to have taken place between 1979 and 2013 to ensure there were \u201cno new lines of inquiry based on new information which has emerged\u201d. Police said that although it was not possible to bring criminal proceedings against someone who had died, \u201cwe must ensure we fully explore whether any other individuals could be pursued for any criminal offences\u201d. The Met said officers were making contact with lawyers representing alleged victims to \u201censure they have the opportunity to speak with us and report any offences\u201d. Commander Stephen Clayman said: \u201cWe recognise the significance of the allegations made against Mohamed Al Fayed and the impact this has had on those affected. We have specialist teams to ensure all those victims who make contact with us are supported in the best way possible. \u201cI understand that for many years many people have sought answers in relation to this case. We will do everything possible to update on our progress when we can, but it is crucial we do this thoroughly and we do it right.\u201d The Met said complaints made by 19 women were reported to the force between 2005 and 2023, including three allegations of rape, 15 sexual assault complaints and one related to trafficking. Police approached the Crown Prosecution Service five times, including two occasions where a full file of evidence was passed on, in 2009 and 2015. No further action was taken against Fayed in respect of the original complaints."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon \u2013 a visual guide;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/israeli-airstrikes-on-lebanon-a-visual-guide;2024-09-26T18:26:01Z",
        "text": "A nearly year-long exchange of fire between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah dramatically escalated this week as Israel launched a huge number of strikes into Lebanon. Israel\u2019s political and military leadership said the attacks are intended to destroy Hezbollah\u2019s capabilities and prepare for a potential ground invasion. The Israeli strikes have targeted southern Lebanon, from where Hezbollah has fired rockets and missiles into Israel, and increasingly its strongholds in southern Beirut and the Bekaa valley, where Israel claims the group stores thousands of rockets. Hezbollah has directed a smaller number of strikes south, which Israel largely claims to have intercepted. A missile attack on Tel Aviv that was stopped by air defences represented its deepest attack yet into Israel. Hezbollah emerged as a force in the 1980s during the Lebanese civil war and fought Israel in southern Lebanon up to its withdrawal from the country in 2000. The two sides also went to war for 34 days in 2006. The current exchange of fire began on 8 October 2023, the day after the Hamas attack on Israel, when Hezbollah said it was firing at Israeli positions in solidarity with the Palestinians and pledging its support to Hamas. The Israeli airstrikes on Monday were by far the most deadly of the period since then and killed 558 people. Since the exchanges began, Hezbollah has fired an estimated 80,00 rockets at northern Israel and also hit military bases with drones. Israel had before Monday conducted air and artillery strikes against southern Lebanon and Hezbollah targets on a much smaller scale. This weeks\u2019 action by Israel followed attacks using sabotaged pagers and walkie-talkies last week that were widely blamed on Israel and an airstrike that killed a top commander in south Beirut. The UN says more than 110,000 Lebanese have left their homes in the south with approximately 70,000 people displaced in northern Israel. Israel has said the return of these people to their communities is a war aim. The extent of devastation in southern Lebanon this week is not fully known. Satellite images from the Bekaa valley have shown what appears to be smoke coming from areas in the villages that Israel has been targeting. Israel has also carried out strikes it says are targeting Hezbollah commanders. Many of these have been in Beirut, but also in southern Lebanon and Syria. On Thursday, Israel said a strike had killed a Hezbollah drone commander, Mohammed Hussein Surour."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Norwegian police seek missing man over pagers in Hezbollah blasts;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/norwegian-police-seek-missing-man-pagers-hezbollah-blasts;2024-09-26T17:54:59Z",
        "text": "Police in Norway have put out an international search warrant for a Norwegian Indian man in connection with the sale of pagers to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah that exploded last week, killing dozens of people. Rinson Jose, 39, the founder of a Bulgarian company that is alleged to be part of the pager supply chain, went missing during a work trip to the US last week. On Thursday, Oslo police said: \u201cYesterday, the Oslo police district received a missing person report in connection with the pager case. A missing persons case has been opened and we have sent out an international warrant for the person.\u201d Jose declined to comment on the pagers when he was contacted by Reuters on 18 September and hung up after being asked about the Bulgarian business. He then failed to respond to multiple calls and messages. His employer, DN Media Group, said Jose, who works in the Norwegian media company\u2019s sales department, departed for a conference in Boston on 17 September and since the following day the company had been unable to contact him. According to Bulgaria\u2019s corporate registry, Jose founded Norta Global Ltd, based in the capital, Sofia, in 2022. Bulgarian authorities have investigated the company\u2019s role in supplying the pagers but did not find evidence that they were made in or exported from Bulgaria. Jose is a Norwegian citizen and was born in another country, the broadcaster NRK reported. The unprecedented pager attacks, which have been blamed on Israel, led to the death of 12 people, including two children, and wounded up to 2,800 others. The following day, 25 people were killed and more than 450 wounded when walkie-talkies exploded in Lebanese supermarkets, at funerals and on streets."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018A violent atmosphere\u2019: Brazil\u2019s alarming rise in police officer suicides;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/brazil-suicide-police-officers;2024-09-26T17:50:41Z",
        "text": "Rafaela Drumond decided to become a police officer during law school, and completed her training second in her class. Soon afterwards, she secured a transfer to a station near her parents\u2019 home town in Caranda\u00ed, in a rural part of Brazil\u2019s Minas Gerais state. \u201cThat was the tragedy of her life,\u201d said Rafaela\u2019s father, Aldair . After she allegedly faced sexual harassment from a fellow officer, Rafaela went to the commanding officer to file a complaint. \u201cThe chief put them in a room and said: \u2018Sort it out between yourselves,\u2019\u201d said Aldair. From then on, Rafaela \u2013 the only woman in a station of about 20 officers \u2013 was bullied relentlessly by the chief, the inspector and other colleagues. Months later, Rafaela took her own life. Her death in June 2023 was one of 152 suicides among Brazilian law enforcement agents last year, the highest number on record and a 13.4% increase from 2022, according to a new report released on Thursday. \u201cThe number of public security officers who commit or attempt suicide is steadily rising,\u201d says the report, produced by the Institute for Research, Prevention, and Studies on Suicide (IPPES) and the Public Labour Prosecution Office. The new figures, which include state and federal police, firefighters, municipal guards and prison officers, reinforce a shocking finding in another recent report (which focused solely on state police): that self-inflicted deaths have become the leading cause of fatality among Brazilian police officers, surpassing for the first time deaths in the line of duty. In a country known for its almost daily conflicts between criminals and police, experts are struggling to understand what is happening. \u201cThere\u2019s no single explanation for the increase in suicides,\u201d said the sociologist Dayse Miranda, president of IPPES and one of the report\u2019s coordinators. Among the many factors involved are punishing workloads and frequent abuses of authority by commanding officers. Due to their low salaries, officers are often forced to take on secondary jobs, Miranda said. But there is also the aspect of facing daily violence in a country with murder rates comparable to those in war zones. On any working day, a police officer may lose a colleague or take someone\u2019s life; last year, 6,393 people in the country were killed by the police. \u201cIt\u2019s well known that this violent atmosphere contributes to the deterioration of police officers\u2019 mental health,\u201d said the sociologist Fernanda Novaes Cruz, who also coordinated the IPPES report. Among last year\u2019s deaths, 9% were women \u2013 slightly below the proportion of female officers in the forces, which ranges from 12% to 16%. Twelve men and two women killed their wives, partners or exes before taking their own lives. Three of the murdered women had protective orders against their killers. The study also highlighted that \u201cthere is a widespread shortage of mental health professionals, particularly psychiatrists, available to security forces,\u201d said Cruz. According to the researchers, the phenomenon is underreported, as some forces still refuse to share their statistics. And the figures might not reveal the full picture, as the family of an agent who takes their own life loses the right to a full pension and a funeral with honors. \u201cNot only the police but society as a whole still views suicide with considerable prejudice,\u201d Miranda said. One of the report\u2019s proposals is that there should be regulations on the use of firearms for officers undergoing psychiatric treatment. Aldair believes a similar measure could have helped in his daughter\u2019s case. \u201cIn the months leading up to her death, Rafaela experienced several mental health episodes at work \u2026 They could have taken her weapon away, but they didn\u2019t,\u201d he said. After an investigation into the harassment allegations at Rafaela\u2019s station, the inspector was charged with the slander but the case was eventually dismissed; the station chief was fined R$2,000 ($365) for negligence. Rafaela\u2019s family has filed a civil lawsuit in an attempt to hold the state of Minas Gerais accountable for failing to protect her mental health and prevent her death. That case is still pending. Months after Rafaela\u2019s death, Aldair created an institute named after his daughter to provide support to victims of harassment not only in the police force but across all professions. \u201cWe want to offer others what was not provided to my daughter, which was support,\u201d he said. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counsellor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. In Brazil, you can call Centro de Valoriza\u00e7\u00e3o da Vida on 188. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Covid on the rise as experts say England has \u2018capitulated\u2019 to the virus;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/covid-on-the-rise-as-experts-say-england-has-capitulated-to-the-virus;2024-09-26T17:17:49Z",
        "text": "Covid is on the rise in England, and experts have warned that more must be done to prevent and control infections after a \u201ccapitulation to the virus\u201d. Prof Danny Altmann, an immunologist at Imperial College London, said those working in the field were perplexed by the current attitude to the battle against Covid, as the latest figures showed an increase in hospital admissions. The latest data for England from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) showed that hospital admissions increased to 3.71 per 100,000 population for the week between 16 and 22 September 2024, compared with 2.56 per 100,000 the previous week. The percentage of people with symptoms who have tested positive for Covid, based on tests at sentinel \u201cspotter\u201d laboratories, has also risen in the last week to 11.8% compared with 9.1% in the previous week. Altmann described the prevailing stance on the virus as a \u201ccapitulation\u201d. \u201cTo those who work in this field, the current attitude of acceptance to losing this war of attrition against Covid is puzzling and a little desperate,\u201d he said. \u201cThe data, both in the UK and US, show that the current Omicron subvariants are hugely successful at punching through any dwindling population immunity, so that we tolerate huge prevalence of around 12%. Our capitulation to the virus is a combination of a population where most are now many months or years from their last vaccine dose, and that vaccine dose was in any case poorly cross-protective for the very distinct current variants. \u201cClearly, there is behavioural polarisation between those who are worried by this and look for mitigation, and those who think we must learn live with it and paid too high a price for our earlier measures,\u201d he said. Dr Simon Williams, from Swansea University, added that surveys suggest there is also a large group of people who are not thinking much about Covid at all. \u201cPart of this is psychological \u2013 for two to three years it was something people had to think about all the time and is something that for many had many negative memories and feelings attached to it,\u201d he said. While Altmann said debate around measures needed to be properly informed and data-driven and to avoid extreme stances, it was important not to trivialise the impact of the virus. \u201cThose at the weaker end of the immune response spectrum may often experience four or more breakthrough infections per year. These may range from mild to those needing several days off work, with all the associated economic costs, plus any additional NHS burden,\u201d he said. Altmann also stressed the impact of long Covid, noting that it is thought to affect around 400 million people globally \u2013 with 3% lost workforce and a global cost estimate of $1tn annually \u2013 and can arise even in vaccinated people following reinfection. The latest Covid data comes as a new variant is expected to become prevalent in the coming months. Known as XEC, it was first identified in Germany over the summer, and cases have already been identified in the UK. It is thought to have emerged from two other Covid variants, themselves descended from the BA.2.86 variant. However, experts have said that, at present, XEC is not thought to cause different symptoms from previous variants and does not appear to be fuelling a surge in cases. It is also expected that Covid vaccinations and past infections will continue to offer protection against severe disease. While bookings for the NHS autumn Covid booster jabs opened this week, Altmann said they should be offered more widely, together with increased use of lateral flow testing to avoid the spread of Covid. Williams added that it was strange that more had not been done to clean indoor air and improve ventilation in public spaces including schools. But while he backed offering boosters more widely, he also raised concerns: \u201cI worry that again this autumn we will see a relatively low uptake of the booster among priority groups, including younger adults with a compromised immune system.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018We always felt safer here\u2019: Tel Aviv unmoved by Hezbollah missile attack;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/tel-aviv-israel-hezbollah-missile-lebanon;2024-09-26T16:43:58Z",
        "text": "Air raid sirens blared in Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning as, for the first time, Hezbollah fired a surface-to-surface missile at the coastal city. A few minutes after the incident, beachgoers flooded the bustling promenade, playing beach volley, cycling and kite surfing. \u201cWas there an attack this morning?\u201d asked Eyal Kadosh, 31, confused, while resting on a bench with a friend after their daily workout. \u201cWell, I\u2019m here, what should happen will happen anyway.\u201d Despite the looming prospect of an all-out conflict with Hezbollah, as an intense bombing campaign inside Lebanon stretched into a fourth day, the lives of Tel Avivians seem unaffected, consumed by a sense of near invulnerability. The unprecedented attack did not appear to burst what is sometimes seen as the city\u2019s bubble while conflict rages elsewhere. \u201cI went to the shelter as soon as I heard the air siren, but I\u2019m not afraid,\u201d said Ravit, a 28-year-old teacher, on the promenade. \u201cI think the Hezbollah threat is like others we have faced before. But I believe in our army, and as long as they tell me I can go to the beach, I will go to the beach.\u201d Tel Aviv, known to some in Israel as \u201cthe state of Tel Aviv\u201d, with its luxury hotels and restaurants and its vibrant nightlife, has a reputation as a place to escape the Israel-Palestinian crisis. When the city hosted the Eurovision song contest in 2019, against a backdrop of a three-day conflict that claimed the lives of 23 Palestinians and four Israelis in the southern region, contestants never skipped a beat. \u201cWe are used to life under these threats,\u201d said Jonatan, 28, \u201cLast night I went out and I knew that some rockets might come, but I thought: what\u2019s the difference if I stay at home?\u201d \u201cPart of it is also geography,\u201d said Yoni, 33. \u201cBeing at centre, far from the threats from the south in Gaza and far from the north with Hezbollah in Lebanon, we always felt relatively safer here.\u201d Tel Aviv, boasting the country\u2019s stock exchange, a high concentration of tech enterprises and esteemed cultural establishments, has always stood as a stronghold for Israeli liberals. In the aftermath of Hamas\u2019s attack on Israel on 7 October last year, in which 1,200 people died and about 250 were kidnapped, the city became the \u201ccapital of hostages\u201d as protesters flooded its streets daily to demand a deal for the return of those held captive in Gaza. Demonstrators blocked roads, lit fires and clashed with police, who often used water cannon to disperse the crowds. For months, Tel Aviv was the most vibrant political voice across the country. Every day, thousands assembled in a bustling public plaza outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art known as Hostages Square, where a Shabbat table was set up surrounded by about 200 vacant chairs symbolising those who had been captured. Hundreds of people queued at stands selling T-shirts, flags and merchandise bearing the rallying cry \u201cBring them home NOW\u201d. Then, slowly, the mood changed. On Wednesday evening, Hostages Square was desolately empty. Despite protesters continuing to gather in the plaza at weekends, few believe in the sudden return of the hostages. As the anniversary approaches of the attack that triggered a war that has disrupted the lives of millions, hope for a deal between Hamas and the Israeli government seems to have almost entirely vanished from the media. The protest lived on as dozens of young women and men gathered near the exit of an underpass next to the IDF headquarters in downtown Tel Aviv, blocking hundreds of vehicles while silently displaying photos of the hostages. Meanwhile, Yigal, a 35-year-old lawyer, sat in the nearly deserted square bar surrounded by vacant tables. \u201cUntil a few months ago, people here in Tel Aviv still had hope to put pressure on the government, but things have changed,\u201d he said. \u201cToday we have even stopped talking about Gaza, and Lebanon is almost the only topic of discussion.\u201d Yonathan, 35, said: \u201cWe are under threat from different fronts. As much as the hostage deal is crucial, I feel like the priorities have changed in this country.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Calls grow for US investigation into Israeli killing of Turkish American activist;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/aysenur-ezgi-eygi-investigation-israel;2024-09-26T16:22:54Z",
        "text": "The family of a Turkish American woman shot by the Israeli military while attending a protest in the West Bank have been joined by a growing chorus of US lawmakers demanding that their government launch its own investigation into the killing. Autopsies conducted in the West Bank town of Nablus and Turkey found that Ay\u015fenur Ezgi Eygi was shot in the head. Shortly after the incident, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that it was \u201chighly likely that she was hit indirectly and unintentionally by IDF fire which was not aimed at her\u201d. The White House has called for Israel to investigate Eygi\u2019s death but friends and family has expressed skepticism that such an inquiry will lead to any accountability. \u201cWe are not putting our faith or trust in a military that deliberately shot and killed an individual to investigate themselves of their own crime,\u201d said Juliette Majid, who graduated alongside Eygi from the university of Washington in Seattle. \u201cWhat I want is justice and accountability, which to me looks like a US-led criminal investigation \u2026 I want the US to hold [the Israeli military] accountable. At the end of the day, we shouldn\u2019t be in this situation, Ay\u015fenur should be coming home alive,\u201d she said. Eygi\u2019s family\u2019s call for a US-led inquiry has been echoed by senator Patty Murray and congresswoman Pramila Jayapal of Washington state who wrote to Joe Biden and the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, demanding that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launch an investigation. \u201cWe fear that if this pattern of impunity does not end with Ms Eygi, it will only continue to escalate,\u201d they said, pointing to the killing of activist Rachel Corrie \u2013 also from Washington state \u2013 in 2003 at a protest in Gaza, and calling on the US government to better protect American citizens overseas. Murray and Jayapal demanded a written response from the Biden administration by 24 September addressing their calls for an independent investigation, what the US government knew about her killing and how it would protect US citizens overseas. With no apparent response from the administration, more than 100 members of congress \u2013 including leading Democratic party officials Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Eric Swalwell as well as senator Bernie Sanders \u2013 have sent a second letter to Biden, Blinken, and the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, demanding a US-led investigation . \u201cGiven the evidence, we believe the United States must independently investigate whether this was a homicide. To walk away without asking further questions gives Israeli forces unacceptable license to act with impunity,\u201d they wrote. \u201cThere must be accountability for Ms Eygi\u2019s death.\u201d The lawmakers demanded a written report to Eygi\u2019s family, delivered by 4 October, including details of whether the US government will investigate her killing and a timeline for the inquiry, as well as how the US government would respond should the Israeli government refuses to cooperate with their investigation. \u201cI hope the US government is listening not just to their own officials who represent their constituents, but also the general public who want to see justice for a US citizen murdered abroad,\u201d said Majid. She added that promises by Turkey to launch an investigation through the public prosecution in Ankara provided \u201ca little bit of hope\u201d, but that she and Eygi\u2019s family want to see the US government wield its influence. \u201cI want to see my own government step up,\u201d she said. Eygi was born in Turkey but she and her parents moved to Washington state when she was a child. The 26-year-old was buried in her family\u2019s hometown on the Turkish coast earlier this month. The US president, meanwhile, has yet to contact Eygi\u2019s family. \u201cI think it\u2019s incredibly shameful that president Biden in particular hasn\u2019t reached out to the family to offer his condolences at the very least, and at most promise justice and accountability for an American citizen,\u201d said Majid. \u201cHe was supposed to be providing protection.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Eswatini opposition leader in critical condition after alleged poisoning;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/mlungisi-makhanya-eswatini-opposition-leader-in-critical-but-stable-condition-after-alleged-poisoning;2024-09-26T15:40:54Z",
        "text": "The leader of Eswatini\u2019s main opposition party is in a critical but stable condition after allegedly being poisoned in what allies say is an assassination attempt. Mlungisi Makhanya is in a hospital in South Africa after the alleged poisoning on Monday night at his home in the capital, Pretoria, where he was living in exile from Africa\u2019s last absolute monarchy, said Penuel Malinga, the secretary general of the People\u2019s United Democratic Movement (Pudemo). \u201cThis is a clear assassination attempt by the [Eswatini] state,\u201d Malinga alleged. Alpheous Nxumalo, an Eswatini government spokesperson, rejected the claim. \u201cIt is not in our policy as the government to either kill or poison people who hold a different political view in our country,\u201d he said. \u201cMr Makhanya was not wanted in Eswatini,\u201d he said, adding that the allegation against the government \u201cremains without evidence\u201d. Eswatini has been led by King Mswati III since 1986, when he succeeded his father at the age of 18. Mswati rules the landlocked southern African country by decree and political parties are banned from participating in elections. Now 56, he is due to take his 16th wife and has been criticised for his lavish lifestyle in a country where most people live in poverty. Malinga said Makhanya had been served poisoned food and locked in his bedroom by an unnamed cook. Those who came to his aid when he phoned for help had to break the door down, he said. Malinga said that doctors expected Makhanya, who was currently unable to speak, to recover in around two weeks. \u201cA case of attempted murder was opened \u2026 on 23 September 2024 following a suspected food poisoning incident,\u201d said Brenda Muridili, a spokesperson for South African police in the province, Gauteng. \u201cThe investigating team is following several lead[s] and no one has been arrested yet.\u201d Last year, Thulani Maseko, a human rights lawyer and Pudemo member, was shot dead at home in Eswatini in front of his wife and children. The government promised to investigate, but no one has yet been brought to justice. Makhanya had called it a political assassination. Hours before Maseko\u2019s death, the king had said activists \u201cstarted the violence first\u201d, adding: \u201cPeople should not shed tears and complain about mercenaries killing them.\u201d At least 46 people were killed by security forces in response to pro-democracy protests in the country of 1.2 million people in 2021, according to Human Rights Watch."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Archaeologists use AI to discover 303 unknown geoglyphs near Nazca Lines;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/nazca-lines-peru-new-geoglyphs;2024-09-26T15:11:13Z",
        "text": "Archaeologists using artificial intelligence (AI) have discovered hundreds of new geoglyphs depicting parrots, cats, monkeys, killer whales and even decapitated heads near the Nazca Lines in Peru, in a find that nearly doubles the number of known figures at the enigmatic 2,000-year-old archaeological site. A team from the Japanese University of Yamagata\u2019s Nazca Institute, in collaboration with IBM Research, discovered 303 previously unknown geoglyphs of humans and animals \u2013 all smaller in size than the vast geometric patterns that date from AD200-700 and stretch across more than 400 sq km of the Nazca plateau. The new figures, which date back to 200BC, provide a new understanding of the transition from the Paracas culture to the Nazcas, who later created the iconic hummingbird, monkey and whale figures that make up part of the Unesco World Heritage site, Peru\u2019s most popular tourist attraction after Machu Picchu. \u201cThe use of AI in research has allowed us to map the distribution of geoglyphs more quickly and accurately,\u201d said the archaeologist Masato Sakai of Yamagata University, presenting the research at a press conference at the Japanese embassy in Lima on Monday. The use of AI combined with low-flying drones revolutionised the speed and rate at which the geoglyphs were discovered, according to a research paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper said while it \u201ctook nearly a century to discover a total of 430 figurative Nazca geoglyphs\u201d, using an AI system covering the entire Nazca region it \u201ctook just six months to discover 303 new figurative geoglyphs\u201d. The AI model efficiently spotted many of the smaller relief-type geoglyphs which were harder to see with the naked eye. It was also able to analyse vast quantities of geospatial data generated by drones to identify areas where more geoglyphs might be found. Johny Isla, Peru\u2019s chief archaeologist for the Nazca Lines, said the use of drones and AI represented a quantum leap for archaeological study in the area. \u201cWith a drone, you can cover several kilometers in a day,\u201d he said by phone from Nazca. \u201cWhat used to take three or four years, can now be done in two or three days.\u201d He added that the newly discovered geoglyphs were so small \u2013 between three to seven metres across \u2013 that they would not have been detected by the flyovers of the past which discovered the giant images, lines and trapezoids that crisscross Nazca\u2019s vast desert plain. The mysterious lines that attract tens of thousands of tourists every year include a mysterious humanoid figure known as the \u201castronaut\u201d, animals and vast geometric patterns including perfectly formed spirals and trapezoids which stretch for miles. The new geoglyphs also differed from Nazca culture\u2019s vast geometric patterns and zoomorphic figures in their meaning, Isla explained. \u201cWe can say that these geoglyphs were made by humans for humans, they often show scenes from everyday life, he said. \u201cWhereas the geoglyphs of the Nazca period are gigantic figures made on mostly flat surfaces to be seen by their gods.\u201d The older, smaller geoglyphs could have been used as signs, he said, or represented family or kinship groups but probably lacked the ritual significance linked to water and fertility of the larger, latterly drawn lines. The new figures included large linear geoglyphs, mainly representing wild animals, but they also included gory figures showing humans holding decapitated heads, abstract humanoids and domesticated camelids, such as llamas and alpacas."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;White House pledges further $8bn in aid as Zelenskyy visits \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/26/russia-ukraine-war-nato-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskyy-unga;2024-09-26T15:07:20Z",
        "text": "We will be closing this blog soon, but you can stay up to date on the Guardian\u2019s Russia and Ukraine coverage here. Our US team will be covering Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s visit to the White House later in the latest US politics live blog: US president Joe Biden will host Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at 1.45pm local time (5.45pm GMT/6.45pm BST), the White House said. The Ukrainian leader and Kamala Harris will deliver remarks at 3.05pm local time before their meeting in the vice-president\u2019s office. Here is a recap of today\u2019s latest developments: US President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a \u201csurge\u201d in assistance to Ukraine, including nearly $8bn in military aid and new long-range munitions, ahead of a meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. \u201cToday, I am announcing a surge in security assistance for Ukraine and a series of additional actions to help Ukraine win this war,\u201d Biden said in a statement, which did not, however, mention Kyiv\u2019s hoped-for green light to fire US-made long-range missiles into Russia. Biden on Thursday said he would convene a high-level meeting of 50 of Ukraine\u2019s allies in Germany in October. \u201cI will convene a leader-level meeting of the Ukraine defence contact group in Germany next month to coordinate the efforts of the more than 50 countries supporting Ukraine in its defence against Russian aggression,\u201d he said in a statement. Zelenskyy said that the almost $8bn in military aid announced by the US on Thursday will help his country achieve victory against Russia. \u201cWe will use this assistance in the most effective and transparent way possible to achieve our main common goal: a victorious Ukraine, a just and lasting peace, and transatlantic security,\u201d Zelenskyy said in a social media post. Ahead of his White House visit, Zelenskyy met a handful of senators on Capitol Hill before heading across the Capitol to talk to House members, including the Republican chairs of several committees. Zelenskyy will present his \u201cvictory plan\u201d to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Thursday, but a row with Donald Trump underscored how the US election could soon upend support for Kyiv. Trump accused Zelenskyy on the eve of the visit of refusing to strike a deal with Moscow and once again questioned why the US was giving billions of dollars to Kyiv. Additionally, the US House speaker, Mike Johnson, has demanded that Ukraine fire its ambassador to Washington, Oksana Markarova, over a visit to a munitions factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania, last week. The Kremlin said on Thursday that changes outlined by president Vladimir Putin to Russia\u2019s nuclear weapons documents should be considered a signal to the west that there will be consequences if western powers participate in attacks on Russia. \u201cIt must be considered a specific signal. A signal that warns these countries of the consequences if they participate in an attack on our country by various means, not necessarily nuclear,\u201d Peskov told reporters of changes outlined by Putin. Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister has discussed ways to achieve a lasting peace in Ukraine with his Chinese counterpart at the UN general assembly, Kyiv said on Thursday. Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi met Ukrainian counterpart Andriy Sybiga and the head of Zelenskyy\u2019s office, Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said. Wang earlier discussed the war in Ukraine with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov at the UN general assembly in New York. Putin said on Thursday that Russia should strengthen what he called its global leadership in the nuclear power sphere. Putin, who was speaking at the Russian energy week forum, also said that Moscow would continue to cooperate with OPEC+, saying that Russia fulfilled its obligations on energy supplies. The EU on Thursday rejected as \u201creckless and irresponsible\u201d a plan by president Vladimir Putin to authorise a nuclear response to a massive air attack on Russia. \u201cNot for the first time, Putin is playing [a] gamble with his nuclear arsenal,\u201d EU foreign policy spokesperson Peter Stano told reporters. \u201cWe of course strongly reject these threats.\u201d \u201cThis is just the continuation of the very irresponsible and unacceptable behaviour on the side of Putin,\u201d the Stano said of the latest threat. A Nato spokesperson said a Reuters report that Russia has established a weapons programme in China to develop and produce long-range attack drones for use in its war against Ukraine was \u201cdeeply concerning\u201d and that Nato \u201callies are consulting on this matter\u201d. The White House national security council said it appeared to be an instance of a Chinese company providing lethal assistance to a US-sanctioned Russian firm. The White House had not seen anything to suggest the Chinese government was aware of the transactions involved, but China had a responsibility to ensure companies were not providing lethal aid to Russia for use by its military, a spokesperson added. Ukraine and Russia are to exchange 13 children, displaced by Moscow\u2019s invasion, reuniting them with their families after mediation by Qatar, officials in the Gulf state said on Thursday. The \u201cfamily reunification process involves the safe reunification of nine minors and one adult with their families in Ukraine,\u201d a Qatari official said. \u201cIt will also include the reunification of four minors with their families in Russia.\u201d Russian attacks on Ukraine\u2019s east on Thursday killed at least three people and injured five more, regional authorities said. Donetsk region governor Vadym Filashkin said on the Telegram messenger that one person was killed and three others injured near the town of Chasiv Yar. In the night hours, Filashkin added, two people were killed and two injured in Russian shelling of nearby Toretsk. Russia conducted another massive combined strike on Ukraine\u2019s energy system overnight, Ukrainian prime minister Denys Shmyhal said on Thursday. In particular, three power transmission facilities were targeted, he said on the Telegram messenger, including one in the southern Mykolaiv region. Shmyhal said the attacks did not achieve their goal and Ukraine\u2019s energy system was operating in a \u201cbalanced mode\u201d. Russia unleashed an overnight airstrike on Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least one person and damaging critical infrastructure, authorities said. Kyiv\u2019s military said Russian forces fired 78 attack drones and six missiles over various regions across the country during the hours-long attack. Air defences destroyed 66 drones and four missiles, it added. One woman was killed in a missile strike on southern Ukraine\u2019s Odesa and another eight people were injured in a guided-bomb attack on the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, interior minister Ihor Klymenko said on social media. Around a dozen drones were destroyed over the capital Kyiv, where 20 cars and a residential gas pipe were damaged, said Serhiy Popko, head of the local military administration. Parts of the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk were left without power after a Russian strike on critical infrastructure there, said regional governor Svitlana Onyshchuk. Ukraine\u2019s national grid operator also reported outages in the central Poltava and northern Chernihiv regions. On Thursday morning, Kyiv\u2019s air force said it had recorded the launch of several hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, but offered no immediate details The UN lacks the funds needed to help Ukraine through the winter, as Russian bombardments have wiped out half the capacity of the power grid, the UN\u2019s refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Thursday. \u201cThe reality is that the funding situation for organisations like ours is far too low at this time of the year \u2013 we are 47-percent funded,\u201d UNHCR\u2019s representative in Ukraine, Karolina Lindholm Billing, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Lindholm Billing added: \u201cIt\u2019s critical that Ukraine receives support to repair damaged energy infrastructure, to create decentralised energy generation capacity.\u201d The UK said on Thursday it had sanctioned five new ships and two other shipping entities under its Russian sanctions regime. Earlier this month the UK slapped sanctions on 10 further ships in Russia\u2019s so-called \u201cshadow fleet\u201d of vessels which it says use illicit practices to avoid western restrictions on Russian oil. The UN lacks the funds needed to help Ukraine through the winter, as Russian bombardments have wiped out half the capacity of the power grid, the UN\u2019s refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Thursday. \u201cThe reality is that the funding situation for organisations like ours is far too low at this time of the year \u2013 we are 47-percent funded,\u201d UNHCR\u2019s representative in Ukraine, Karolina Lindholm Billing, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Ukraine is bracing for a difficult cold season after Moscow\u2019s bombing campaign has ravaged its critical infrastructure. \u201cThe expectations and asks from the authorities for support from organisations like UNHCR is actually increasing,\u201d Lindholm Billing said. AFP reports that Ukraine currently has 3.6 million internally displaced people, but advances by the Russian army in the eastern Donetsk region and an increase in airstrikes are forcing more to flee their homes. \u201cAlmost 99,000 people have been evacuated or fled from frontline villages in Donetsk region since 1 August,\u201d Lindholm Billing said. The UNHCR assists local Ukrainian organisations to house those displaced and helps the most vulnerable with supplies to help get them through the winter. About 650,000 people receive aid such as warm clothing or kits to better insulate their homes. \u201cIf we can get the funds, I am convinced we\u2019ll be able to help them,\u201d said Lindholm Billing. European officials in countries neighbouring Ukraine fear that unless there is urgent help to fix power supplies there could be a new wave of refugees entering the EU this winter. AFP reports that the UNHCR since the summer has seen increasing numbers of people citing power cuts or lack of electricity as a key reason for leaving the country. A sharp increase in Russian strikes and a harsh winter could see a big leap in the numbers fleeing, said Lindholm Billing. \u201cSo the main message is that it\u2019s critical that Ukraine receives support to repair damaged energy infrastructure, to create decentralised energy generation capacity,\u201d she added. Ukraine and Russia are to exchange 13 children, displaced by Moscow\u2019s invasion, reuniting them with their families after mediation by Qatar, officials in the Gulf state said on Thursday. Russia has been accused of forcibly deporting thousands of Ukrainian children from schools, hospitals and orphanages in parts of the country controlled by its forces. The \u201cfamily reunification process involves the safe reunification of nine minors and one adult with their families in Ukraine,\u201d a Qatari official said, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). \u201cIt will also include the reunification of four minors with their families in Russia.\u201d The nine Ukrainian children, aged between 12 and 17, with one 19-year-old sibling accompanying them, include a child who lost his one remaining parent after the invasion and others who were staying with relatives when they were separated from their family, reports AFP. Also among the Ukrainian minors are two teenagers with cerebral palsy, one of whom was placed in a children\u2019s home before the war. Both are accompanied by medical teams for their return. The Russian children, aged between two and seven, include two who were in care centres before the war started, while the other two had been staying with relatives. Qatari representatives will host the children at the embassy in Moscow before they are reunited with their families in Ukraine or elsewhere in Russia. Ukraine has said 20,000 children were taken to Russia following Moscow\u2019s February 2022 invasion. Ukraine says the invading forces took them illegally to Russia, and accuses the Russian authorities of trying to wipe out their Ukrainian identity. Teenagers that returned to Ukraine have said they were subjected to Russian patriotic education and made to praise the Russian army. Moscow has denied forcibly taking children to Russia, saying that minors were moved for their own safety if they were without parental care. The exchange is the latest in a series of family reunifications brokered by Qatar that has seen scores of children returned to Ukraine and Russia after visits by Qatar\u2019s prime minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani to Kyiv and Moscow last year. \u201cQatar remains committed to its efforts to support the reunification of separated families and to ensure the safety, welfare and the reunification of children with their families,\u201d the Qatari official said, according to AFP. Ahead of his White House visit, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy met a handful of senators on Capitol Hill before heading across the Capitol to talk to House members, including the Republican chairs of several committees, reports the Associated Press (AP). Russian attacks on Ukraine\u2019s east on Thursday killed at least three people and injured five more, regional authorities said. According to Reuters, Donetsk region governor Vadym Filashkin said on the Telegram messenger that one person was killed and three others injured near the town of Chasiv Yar, which Russian troops have been pressing their assault on for months. In the night hours, Filashkin added, two people were killed and two injured in Russian shelling of nearby Toretsk. Moscow\u2019s troops have been steadily inching forward towards the strategic hub of Pokrovsk, and recently advanced towards the town of Vuhledar, further to the south. Here is some further information on Joe Biden\u2019s pledge of nearly $8bn in military aid for Ukraine (see 11.48am BST), via Agence France-Presse (AFP). The sum includes $5.5bn to be authorised before it expires at the end of the US fiscal year on Monday. Another $2.4bn was pledged via the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), meaning it will not immediately arrive on the battlefield, as the munitions need to be procured from the defence industry or partners, rather than drawn from US stockpiles. AFP reports that Biden also announced Washington would provide Ukraine with the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) long-range munition, \u201cto enhance Ukraine\u2019s long-range strike capabilities.\u201d The US has provided around $175bn in both military and economic assistance to Ukraine during the war, despite frequent opposition from Republicans. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has echoed many of Russian president Vladimir Putin talking points about previous US policy being to blame for the Russian invasion, and has been critical of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for years. At an election rally on Wednesday, Trump called the Ukrainian president \u201cprobably the greatest salesman on Earth\u201d. \u201cWe continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal, Zelenskyy,\u201d he said. Republicans were livid after Zelenskyy told The New Yorker magazine this week that Trump and his running mate JD Vance did not understand the war\u2019s complexity. Trump has claimed that he could arrange a peace deal within 24 hours if elected, but Kyiv fears it would involve ceding swathes of territory seized by Russia. The Biden administration had announced another $375m on Wednesday, including munitions for HIMARS precision rocket launchers, cluster munitions and light tactical vehicles, reports AFP. UK prime minister Keir Starmer has told Russia he does not know how it can show its face at the UN after invading Ukraine and treating Russian citizens as \u201cbits of meat to fling into the grinder\u201d. Speaking at the UN security council, of which Russia is one of five permanent members, the UK prime minister delivered a direct message to Moscow that it should not be present at the meeting. Ukraine\u2019s defence ministry said \u201cwe are grateful to our American friends for their ironclad support.\u201d Russia conducted another massive combined strike on Ukraine\u2019s energy system overnight, Ukrainian prime minister Denys Shmyhal said on Thursday, reports Reuters. In particular, three power transmission facilities were targeted, he said on the Telegram messenger, including one in the southern Mykolaiv region. Shmyhal said the attacks did not achieve their goal and Ukraine\u2019s energy system was operating in a \u201cbalanced mode\u201d. President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia should strengthen what he called its global leadership in the nuclear power sphere, reports Reuters. Putin, who was speaking at the Russian energy week forum, also said that Moscow would continue to cooperate with OPEC+, saying that Russia fulfilled its obligations on energy supplies. The EU on Thursday rejected as \u201creckless and irresponsible\u201d a plan by president Vladimir Putin to authorise a nuclear response to a massive air attack on Russia, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Putin on Wednesday announced an updated nuclear doctrine that would allow the use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states when they are supported by nuclear powers \u2013 a clear reference to Ukraine and its western backers. \u201cNot for the first time, Putin is playing [a] gamble with his nuclear arsenal,\u201d EU foreign policy spokesperson Peter Stano told reporters. \u201cWe of course strongly reject these threats.\u201d The proposed broadening of Russia\u2019s nuclear rules, which Putin himself has the power to approve, comes as Ukraine seeks permission from western allies to use long-range weaponry to strike targets deep inside Russia. Kyiv says it is necessary to target Russia\u2019s airfields and military infrastructure that it uses to launch attacks on Ukraine. The US and other western countries are cautious about enabling further escalation. Earlier on Thursday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the planned changes should be seen as a \u201cspecific signal\u201d to the west. Western powers have accused Putin of dangerous nuclear sabre-rattling throughout the Ukraine conflict. The Kremlin leader has issued multiple apparent threats about Moscow\u2019s willingness to deploy nuclear weapons. \u201cThis is just the continuation of the very irresponsible and unacceptable behaviour on the side of Putin,\u201d the EU\u2019s Stano said of the latest threat, which came as many world leaders attended the UN general assembly in New York. Putin\u2019s stance was all the more \u201creckless,\u201d Stano said, coming from the leader of a permanent member of the UN security council. US president Joe Biden on Thursday said he would convene a high-level meeting of 50 of Ukraine\u2019s allies in Germany in October. \u201cI will convene a leader-level meeting of the Ukraine defence contact group in Germany next month to coordinate the efforts of the more than 50 countries supporting Ukraine in its defence against Russian aggression,\u201d he said in a statement, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the almost $8bn in military aid announced by the US on Thursday will help his country achieve victory against Russia. \u201cWe will use this assistance in the most effective and transparent way possible to achieve our main common goal: a victorious Ukraine, a just and lasting peace, and transatlantic security,\u201d Zelenskyy said in a social media post. In the post on X, Zelenskyy wrote: I am grateful to Joe Biden, US Congress and its both parties, Republicans and Democrats, as well as the entire American people for today\u2019s announcement of major US defence assistance for Ukraine totalling $7.9bn and sanctions against Russia. On behalf of the Ukrainian people and our brave warriors on the frontlines, I thank our closest ally, the United States, for finding a way to allocate the remaining security assistance to Ukraine and ensure that the Presidential authority is not expired by the end of the US financial year. We will use this assistance in the most efficient and transparent manner to achieve our major common goal: victory for Ukraine, just and lasting peace, and transatlantic security. I am grateful to the United States for providing the items that are most critical to protecting our people. An additional Patriot air defence battery, other air defence capabilities and interceptors, drones, long-range missiles, and air-to-ground munitions, as well as funds to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s defence industrial base. I also appreciate the decision to expand programs to train more of our pilots to fly F-16s, as well as the strong sanctions measures imposed to further limit Russia\u2019s ability to fund its aggression against Ukraine. Ukraine and the United States remain close allies dedicated to defending freedom, human life, and shared security in Europe and beyond. We have always valued the strong bipartisan support in the United States and among Americans for Ukraine\u2019s just cause of defeating Russian aggression.\u201d US President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a \u201csurge\u201d in assistance to Ukraine, including nearly $8bn in military aid and new long-range munitions, ahead of a meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. \u201cToday, I am announcing a surge in security assistance for Ukraine and a series of additional actions to help Ukraine win this war,\u201d Biden said in a statement, which did not, however, mention Kyiv\u2019s hoped-for green light to fire US-made long-range missiles into Russia, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). The UK said on Thursday it had sanctioned five new ships and two other shipping entities under its Russian sanctions regime, reports Reuters. Earlier this month the UK slapped sanctions on 10 further ships in Russia\u2019s so-called \u201cshadow fleet\u201d of vessels which it says use illicit practices to avoid western restrictions on Russian oil. Russia rejects western pressure to limit its oil exports, and in the past year there has been a growth in the number of tankers transporting cargoes that are not regulated or insured by conventional western providers. Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister has discussed ways to achieve a lasting peace in Ukraine with his Chinese counterpart at the UN general assembly, Kyiv said on Thursday. According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi, who had earlier met Russia\u2019s top diplomat, told a security council session this week that diplomacy was the only solution to the war in Ukraine. Wang met Ukrainian counterpart Andriy Sybiga and the head of president Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s office, Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said. Wang was photographed shaking hands with Sybiga, who was appointed this month in a reshuffle. The Ukrainians \u201cthanked China for supporting Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d, Kyiv said. The pair \u201cexchanged views on the principles of achieving a comprehensive, fair and lasting peace for Ukraine based on the UN Charter\u201d, Sybiga was quoted as saying on the ministry\u2019s Telegram channel, according to AFP. The meeting also \u201cfocused on next steps to develop bilateral relations and trade\u201d and \u201cdiscussed plans for further contacts at the highest level\u201d, the ministry said. Wang earlier discussed the war in Ukraine with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov at the UN general assembly in New York. \u201cThe two sides exchanged views on the issues including the Ukraine crisis,\u201d Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said on Thursday. Wang said bilateral ties had \u201cgone through ups and downs, but the most important thing is that as long as we adhere to permanent good-neighbourly relations \u2026 China-Russia ties will move forward\u201d. AFP report that the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement that the talks were \u201cconstructive\u201d and discussed \u201cthe prospects of regulating the Ukraine crisis\u201d. China and Russia have strengthened ties in recent years, and bilateral trade has soared to record highs since Moscow invaded Ukraine in 2022. Western governments have accused Beijing of providing political cover and economic support during Russia\u2019s war of aggression, a stance rejected by China, which says it has maintained a neutral posture in the conflict. Chinese president Xi Jinping will also attend the Brics summit of emerging economies in Russia next month. Agence France-Presse (AFP) has more detail on the comments by Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov (see 10.45am BST). \u201cIt must be considered a specific signal. A signal that warns these countries of the consequences if they participate in an attack on our country by various means, not necessarily nuclear,\u201d Peskov told reporters of changes outlined by president Vladimir Putin to Russia\u2019s nuclear weapons documents. The Kremlin said on Thursday that changes outlined by president Vladimir Putin to Russia\u2019s nuclear weapons documents should be considered a signal to the west that there will be consequences if western powers participate in attacks on Russia, reports Reuters. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Russia would make a decision on whether not to publish the updated nuclear documents, adding that adjustments to the document on state nuclear deterrence were being formulated. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will present his \u201cvictory plan\u201d to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Thursday, but a row with Donald Trump underscored how the US election could soon upend support for Kyiv, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Zelenskyy\u2019s trip to the White House is set to feature the announcement of a surge in US support, although it is unclear whether he will get the green light he wants for Ukraine to fire US-made long-range missiles into Russia. Republican presidential contender Trump, who faces Democratic vice-president Harris in November\u2019s close election, had also been due to meet Zelenskyy but their talks now appear to be on ice, reports AFP. Trump accused Zelenskyy on the eve of the visit of refusing to strike a deal with Moscow and once again questioned why the US was giving billions of dollars to Kyiv. Biden will host Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at 1.45pm local time (5.45pm GMT/6.45pm BST), the White House said. The Ukrainian leader and Harris will deliver remarks at 3.05pm local time before their meeting in the vice-president\u2019s office. Zelenskyy was also due to visit the US Congress. During a meeting at the UN on Wednesday, Biden \u201cinformed president Zelenskyy that he has directed a surge in US security assistance to Ukraine, which will be announced publicly\u201d on Thursday, the White House said. Zelenskyy gave a defiant address at the UN general assembly on Wednesday in a bid to rally international support amid an increasingly difficult situation on the battlefield. The Ukrainian has for several weeks touted the so-called \u201cvictory plan\u201d he will present to Biden, but has given no details of his proposals to end the war, which is now in its third year, reports AFP. The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, has demanded that Ukraine fire its ambassador to Washington as the feud between Donald Trump and Volodymr Zelenskyy escalated and Republicans accused the Ukrainian leader of election interference. In a public letter, Johnson demanded that Zelenskyy fire the Ukrainian ambassador, Oksana Markarova, over a visit to a munitions factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania, last week where the Ukrainian president thanked workers for providing desperately needed shells to his outgunned forces. Johnson complained that Markarova had organised the visit to the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant as a \u201cpartisan campaign event designed to help Democrats\u201d. The event was attended by the Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who has campaigned in support of Kamala Harris. \u201cThe facility was in a politically contested battleground state, was led by a top political surrogate for Kamala Harris, and failed to include a single Republican because \u2013 on purpose \u2013 no Republicans were invited,\u201d Johnson wrote in a letter on congressional letterhead addressed to the Ukrainian embassy. \u201cThe tour was clearly a partisan campaign event designed to help Democrats and is clearly election interference,\u201d the letter continued. \u201cThis shortsighted and intentionally political move has caused Republicans to lose trust in Ambassador Markarova\u2019s ability to fairly and effectively serve as a diplomat in this country. She should be removed from her post immediately.\u201d On the same day, Trump in a campaign event in North Carolina attacked Zelenskyy directly and accused him of \u201crefusing\u201d to negotiate a peace deal with Vladimir Putin. Reuters reports that in addition to the news that parts of the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine were left without power after a Russian strike on critical infrastructure there (see 09.08am BST), Ukraine\u2019s national grid operator has also reported outages in the central Poltava and northern Chernihiv regions. On Thursday morning, Kyiv\u2019s air force said it had recorded the launch of several hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, but offered no immediate details, according to Reuters. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the United Nations that Russia is planning to attack Ukrainian nuclear power plants as he repeated his calls for unity from world leaders in order to force Russia to the negotiating table to conclude a \u201cjust peace\u201d. His comments came as Vladimir Putin on Wednesday escalated his nuclear rhetoric, telling a group of senior officials that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if it was attacked by any state with conventional weapons. In a speech to the UN general assembly on Wednesday, the Ukrainian leader said he had received information that Russia was gathering intelligence on Ukrainian nuclear power plants in preparation for a potential strike. \u201cAny missile or drone strike, any critical incident in the energy system could lead to a nuclear disaster \u2026 a day like that must never come,\u201d Zelenskyy said in an address in the general assembly hall. \u201cAnd Moscow needs to understand this, and this depends in part on your determination to put pressure on the aggressor.\u201d He added: \u201cThese are nuclear power plants, they must be safe.\u201d Zelenskyy also said that the war in Ukraine could threaten the region with instability and the potential for a nuclear catastrophe if Russia went forward with the attacks. \u201cIf, God forbid, Russia causes a nuclear disaster at one of our nuclear power plants, the radiation will not respect state borders,\u201d he said, comparing the consequences to the Chornobyl nuclear accident of 1986. \u201cAnd unfortunately, various nations could feel that devastating effects.\u201d You can read the full article by Andrew Roth in New York and Pjotr Sauer, here: Russia unleashed an overnight airstrike on Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least one person and damaging critical infrastructure, authorities said. According to Reuters, Kyiv\u2019s military said Russian forces fired 78 attack drones and six missiles over various regions across the country during the hours-long attack. Air defences destroyed 66 drones and four missiles, it added. One woman was killed in a missile strike on southern Ukraine\u2019s Odesa and another eight people were injured in a guided-bomb attack on the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, interior minister Ihor Klymenko said on social media. Around a dozen drones were destroyed over the capital Kyiv, where 20 cars and a residential gas pipe were damaged, said Serhiy Popko, head of the local military administration. Parts of the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk were left without power after a Russian strike on critical infrastructure there, said regional governor Svitlana Onyshchuk. Vladimir Putin has escalated his nuclear rhetoric, telling a group of senior officials that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if it was attacked by any state with conventional weapons. His remarks on Wednesday came during a meeting with Russia\u2019s powerful security council where he also announced changes to the country\u2019s nuclear doctrine. The comments marked Russia\u2019s strongest warning yet to the west against allowing Ukraine to launch deep strikes into Russian territory using long-range western missiles. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has been asking for months for permission to use British Storm Shadow missiles and US-made Atacms missiles to hit targets deeper inside Russia. Putin said that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if Moscow received \u201creliable information\u201d about the start of a massive launch of missiles, aircraft or drones against it. Putin also warned that a nuclear power supporting another country\u2019s attack on Russia would be considered a participant in aggression, issuing a thinly veiled threat to the west as foreign leaders continue to mull whether to allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons. Putin said the clarifications were carefully calibrated and commensurate with the modern military threats facing Russia. \u201cWe see the modern military and political situation is dynamically changing and we must take this into consideration. Including the emergence of new sources of military threats and risks for Russia and our allies,\u201d he said. Zelenskyy\u2019s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, dismissed the new nuclear doctrine, saying: \u201cRussia no longer has any instruments to intimidate the world apart from nuclear blackmail. These instruments will not work.\u201d You can read the full piece here: A Nato spokesperson said a Reuters report that Russia has established a weapons programme in China to develop and produce long-range attack drones for use in its war against Ukraine was \u201cdeeply concerning\u201d and that Nato \u201callies are consulting on this matter\u201d. The White House national security council said it appeared to be an instance of a Chinese company providing lethal assistance to a US-sanctioned Russian firm. The White House had not seen anything to suggest the Chinese government was aware of the transactions involved, but China had a responsibility to ensure companies were not providing lethal aid to Russia for use by its military, a spokesperson added. IEMZ Kupol, a subsidiary of Russian state-owned arms company Almaz-Antey, has developed and flight-tested a new drone model called Garpiya-3 (G3) in China with the help of local specialists, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing two sources from a European intelligence agency and documents it had reviewed. More on that in a moment. In other developments: Former president Donald Trump said Ukraine should have made concessions to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, instead of going to war with its invading neighbour, describing the Ukrainian people as \u201cdead\u201d and the country \u201cdemolished\u201d. Speaking at an event in North Carolina on Wednesday, the Republican presidential nominee \u2013 who is not expected to meet the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on his trip to the US \u2013 said: \u201cThe worst deal would\u2019ve been better than what we have now.\u201d Trump added: \u201cWhat deal can we make? It\u2019s demolished \u2026 The people are dead. The country is in rubble.\u201d The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, meanwhile, demanded that Ukraine fire its ambassador to Washington as the feud between Trump and Zelenskyy escalated and Republicans accused the Ukrainian leader of election interference. In a public letter, Johnson demanded that Zelenskyy fire the Ukrainian ambassador, Oksana Markarova, over a visit to a munitions factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania, calling it a \u201cpartisan campaign event designed to help Democrats\u201d. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, announced $375m in military aid for Ukraine on Wednesday, in a package that includes Himars precision rocket launchers, cluster munitions and light tactical vehicles. \u201cThe United States is committed to Ukraine\u2019s defence against Russia\u2019s brutal aggression,\u201d Blinken said in a statement, adding Washington would \u201cdeploy this new assistance as quickly as possible\u201d. Zelenskyy told the United Nations that Russia was planning to attack Ukrainian nuclear power plants as he repeated his calls for unity from world leaders in order to force Russia to the negotiating table to conclude a \u201cjust peace\u201d. In a speech to the UN general assembly on Wednesday, the Ukrainian leader said he had received information that Russia was gathering intelligence on Ukrainian nuclear power plants in preparation for a potential strike. In further comments, Zelenskyy said Ukraine\u2019s peace plan must be supported by world leaders, and that alternative initiatives to hold talks with Putin would simply aid the Russian president. Zelenskyy in particular targeted a joint proposal by China and Brazil, which have proposed a six-point peace plan for the Ukraine war without Kyiv\u2019s backing. \u201cIf someone in the world seeks alternatives \u2026 it likely means they themselves want to do a part of what Putin is doing \u2026 the question arises: what is the true interest?\u201d Zelenskyy said. \u201cEveryone must understand: you will not boost your power at Ukraine\u2019s expense.\u201d Zelenskyy also criticised the UN security council, saying it was \u201cimpossible to truly and fairly resolve matters of war and peace because too much depends in the security council on the veto power\u201d. Russia is one of five permanent members of the security council and it exercises a veto power over any decisions taken by the body. Zelenskyy\u2019s comments came as Vladimir Putin escalated his nuclear rhetoric, telling a group of senior officials that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if it was attacked by any state with conventional weapons. The Russian president told the country\u2019s powerful security council that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if Moscow received \u201creliable information\u201d about the start of a massive launch of missiles, aircraft or drones against it. The UN chief also criticised the powerful but deeply divided security council at a high-level meeting on Wednesday for a failure of leadership to end the war in Ukraine as well as wars in Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere. \u201cPeace demands action. And peace demands leadership,\u201d the secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, told the 15-member council charged with ensuring international peace and security. \u201cInstead, we\u2019re seeing deepening geopolitical divisions and mistrust.\u201d Russia said on Wednesday it had captured two more villages in Ukraine and was attacking in the town of Vuhledar, a longtime Ukrainian stronghold. Russia\u2019s defence ministry said its forces had taken the villages of Hostre and Hryhorivka, though the claim could not be independently confirmed. State news agency Ria cited the Russian-installed head of the Donetsk region, Denis Pushilin, as saying that fighting was taking place inside Vuhledar, which had a prewar population of 14,000. The Ukrainian governor of the region, Vadym Filashkin, said Russia\u2019s troops had not reached the outskirts of Vuhledar but its reconnaissance groups were operating there. Disinformation attributable to Russian and Belarusian services spiked on the internet by about 300% during the first days of severe flooding in Poland, the country\u2019s deputy premier and digitalisation minister was quoted on Wednesday as saying. The worst floods in at least two decades left many towns in central Europe, including south-western Poland, submerged earlier this month, and the government warned of a spread of disinformation at the same time. Russia on Wednesday struck the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk with guided bombs, killing at least two people and wounding 19, regional governor Vadym Filashkin said. The Donetsk region governor said in a video post from the scene there were fears that the toll could grow."
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        "label": "The Guardian;Italy revives policy of failing badly behaved pupils to \u2018bring back respect\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/italy-pupils-grades-for-conduct-law;2024-09-26T14:50:58Z",
        "text": "Italy has reinstated a measure to fail badly behaved pupils as concerns grow over aggression directed at teachers. The \u201cgrades for conduct\u201d policy, similar to a measure first introduced by Benito Mussolini\u2019s fascist government in 1924, is part of an education bill that was approved in parliament on Wednesday, and gives schools the power to fail students based purely on their behaviour. Middle school and high school pupils who score five or less out of 10 on conduct will fail the year and face having to repeat it even if their academic standard is up to par. High school students who only score six on conduct will have to do a civic education test. Marks in behaviour will also greatly influence the sitting of the crucial maturit\u00e0 school-leaving exam. Giuseppe Valditara, the education minister in Giorgia Meloni\u2019s far-right government, said: \u201cThe grades-for-conduct reform restores the importance of individual responsibility, makes respect of people and public goods central and restores the authoritativeness of teachers.\u201d Meloni has previously said the change would \u201cbring back respect\u201d in schools. Fines of between \u20ac500 (\u00a3415) and \u20ac10,000 have been introduced for acts of aggression or violence towards school staff. The law, embraced by ANP, Italy\u2019s association of headteachers, follows a more than 110% rise in aggressive incidents towards teaching staff since the beginning of the year compared with 2023. In many cases teachers have needed medical treatment, while in others the perpetrators were the pupils\u2019 parents. Students often clash with their teachers over the use of mobile phones in class. Antonello Giannelli, the ANP president, said the measure was \u201ca step forward\u201d. \u201cWe have heard of too many cases of undisciplined and out-of-the-ordinary behaviour,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is right that students are called to reflect on their responsibilities as a consequence of their actions.\u201d Tommaso Martelli, the coordinator of a national student union, said the move was aimed at \u201creinforcing an authoritarian and punitive culture\u201d. \u201cThe possibility of being failed for violations of the rules now makes the grades for conduct measure something that can be used as a further repressive tool in our schools,\u201d he said. The original Mussolini-era measure remained in place until the mid-1970s, before it was scrapped in elementary and middle schools after student protests. It underwent modifications over the years before being removed in all schools in 2000. The package of measures, already approved in the senate, passed in the lower house with 154 votes in favour, 97 against and seven abstentions. Anna Ascani, a politician with the centre-left Democratic party, said the conduct rule marked \u201ca return to a time that we would prefer to forget\u201d."
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    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018This is the normalisation of racism\u2019: apprehension at prospect of election success for Austria\u2019s far right;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/this-is-the-normalisation-of-racism-apprehension-at-prospect-of-election-success-for-austrias-far-right;2024-09-26T14:20:03Z",
        "text": "After winning the EU elections in June, Austria\u2019s far-right Freedom party (FP\u00d6) seized the moment, calling for the appointment of a EU \u201cremigration\u201d commissioner to be tasked with the forced return of migrants and citizens with a migration background to their countries of origin. The muted reaction that followed was a sharp contrast to Germany, where months earlier, allegations that members of the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) had attended a meeting at which they discussed remigration dominated headlines and prompted tens of thousands to take to the streets in protest. The difference was not lost on Farid Hafez, a senior researcher at Georgetown University. In Austria, \u201cthere was no outcry,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is the normalisation of racism that the far right has achieved and that has become a very normal part of daily Austrian politics.\u201d This view will be tested on Sunday as Austrians head to the polls for parliamentary elections. Polls suggest that the anti-migrant, anti-Islam FP\u00d6, founded in the 1950s by former Nazis, could narrowly emerge as the most voted for party for the first time in the country\u2019s postwar history. The victory would be a show of strength for the party, which in 2000 was catapulted into Austria\u2019s mainstream politics \u2013 leaving the country facing isolation in Europe and fending off international scorn \u2013 after it achieved the best result for any far-right party in western Europe since the second world war. The party\u2019s 90-page manifesto calls for homogeneity, pledging to promote remigration, reduce the granting of asylum and block family reunification for people already in Austria. While polls suggest the FP\u00d6 will fall short of an outright majority, leaving it reliant on negotiations with a coalition partner to form a government, its decades-long rise to power has left many in the country reeling. \u201cThe Freedom party is, historically speaking, a party that was established by ex-Nazis for ex-Nazis,\u201d said Hafez, who is from Austria and now works with Georgetown\u2019s The Bridge Initiative, a multiyear research project on Islamophobia. \u201cFor me, as a political scientist of colour, I believe at the end of the day, one should not underestimate the fact that these people are coming from a deeply racist ideology.\u201d In its first three decades the party languished on the fringes. In the early 2000s, it seized on anti-Islam rhetoric to try to gain votes by stirring up fears. As the strategy proved successful, the conservative Austrian People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP) followed suit, closing mosques and attempting to ban headscarves in schools. \u201cSo in a way, what we have witnessed since then is that Islamophobia has become so mainstream that it is no longer confined to the far-right,\u201d said Hafez. About 700,000 people in Austria, from practising Muslims to those with Muslim backgrounds, had been left to bear the brunt of this discourse. \u201cMuslims are not in a safe place,\u201d said Hafez. The issue is exacerbated by Austria\u2019s citizenship rules, which rank among the most restrictive in the EU, leaving many Muslims without the right to vote. In essence, said Hafez, they are \u201can easy target to hit and nobody will hit back\u201d. The Austrian NGO Civil Courage and Anti-Racism Work, or Zara, said the impact of this political discourse had been \u201cclear and felt deeply\u201d by many in Austria, citing consequences including arson attacks on asylum centres and police violence. \u201cThis political discourse legitimises hate speech, discrimination, and violence, often targeting women in hijabs, asylum seekers, and Bipoc (Black, Indigenous and people of colour),\u201d it said. If Sunday\u2019s elections yield an FP\u00d6-led government, the organisations that provide crucial support to these communities could be weakened, further eroding the social safety net for these vulnerable groups, it added. Bernhard Weidinger, a senior researcher of rightwing extremism at the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance, said the FP\u00d6 had long sought to recast debate through the lens of migration. \u201cIt has shown a strong tendency to basically \u2018ethnicise\u2019 any political debate on any topic,\u201d he said. \u201cWhether we\u2019re talking about crime or housing, the welfare state, the job market \u2013 the Freedom party would always try to \u2026 frame it as a foreigner problem or an immigration problem.\u201d Years of this strategy had left an indelible mark, he said. \u201cIt has an effect on how people perceive the situation. It\u2019s interesting that the Freedom party does well in areas where there are very few foreigners. So these people don\u2019t experience immigration first-hand. But they read about it, they hear about it.\u201d Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik, a politics professor at the University of Vienna, said that unlike some of the populist radical-right parties that had cropped up across Europe in recent years, the FP\u00d6\u2019s 70 years of existence and two stints as a junior partner in short-lived coalition governments have given it a singular influence over Austrian politics. \u201cIt has definitely shaped the discourse on immigration more than most other parties have.\u201d This influence has had a direct impact on people\u2019s lives, said Valerie Mussa, of the Islamic Religious Community in Austria. \u201cAnti-Muslim racism has really become an everyday experience for many Muslims in Austria, be it on the street, public transport, schools, housing market and labour market. \u201cIt\u2019s not only physical and verbal attacks or graffiti on mosques, but it\u2019s also institutional discrimination and the increase in online hate.\u201d As a result, Mussa said, many view Sunday\u2019s election with mixed feelings. \u201cThe elections offer us the opportunity to shape the future of the country. But there are a lot of concerns about what the following years will look like, what policies they will decide on, what rights they will try to cut. We don\u2019t know what the future will bring.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Hong Kong: Stand News journalists given jail terms for \u2018sedition\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/hong-kong-stand-news-journalists-given-jail-terms-for-sedition;2024-09-26T13:44:39Z",
        "text": "The former editor-in-chief of Hong Kong\u2019s Stand News has been sentenced to jail on sedition charges for the publication of news reports and other articles that prosecutors said tried to promote \u201cillegal ideologies\u201d. Chung Pui-kuen, 55, the former editor-in-chief and the former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam, 36, were found guilty of conspiring to publish seditious materials in late August after almost a year of delays. The parent company of the now-defunct Stand News, Best Pencil Ltd, was also convicted. The pair have been on bail since the conviction but both spent almost a year in jail since they were arrested. On Thursday, the district court sentenced Chung to 21 months in prison, meaning he will have to serve another 10 months. Lam was released after the judge said he had factored in his poor health and other mitigating factors, including his short time in the role overseeing the outlet. Lam\u2019s defence team had told the court earlier that a deteriorating kidney condition meant \u201cany mistakes or delay in treatment could endanger his life\u201d, according to the Hong Kong Free Press. The judge, who was more than two hours late to proceedings, ordered Lam to be released immediately. Chung and Lam were first arrested on 29 December 2021 after police raided the outlet\u2019s newsroom. In October 2022, they pleaded not guilty. Chung chose to testify in court and spent 36 of the trial\u2019s 57 days in the witness box and defended Stand News and its commitment to press freedom. \u201cThe media should not self-censor but report,\u201d Chung said. \u201cFreedom of speech should not be restricted on the grounds of eradicating dangerous ideas, but rather it should be used to eradicate dangerous ideas.\u201d However, the court had found 11 articles \u2013 mostly opinion pieces \u2013 published by Stand News to be seditious. The 11 were drawn from 17 that prosecutors had said sought to promote \u201cillegal ideologies\u201d and to incite hatred against the governments in Hong Kong and China and the 2020 national security law. The judge found Chung responsible for publishing 10 of the offending pieces, and Lam one. The Stand News case has been seen as a bellwether for Hong Kong\u2019s diminishing media freedoms, and the increasing risk for journalists continuing to operate in the city. The sentencing comes a week after revelations that dozens of journalists had been harassed in a \u201csystemic and organised attack\u201d that included death threats and threatening letters sent to their employers, families, and landlords. Stand News was raided six months after authorities raided and shut down the pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily, and arrested its founder, the media mogul and activist Jimmy Lai, as well as several executives and editors including his son. In the wake of the raids on Stand News, which also targeted the home of its news editor, Ronson Chan, the outlet removed its content from online and shut down. The raid on Stand News prompted the independent outlet Citizen News to announce within days that it would cease operations, citing the increasingly risky media environment. Launched in 2014, Stand News had been a significant source of news about the 2019 pro-democracy protests and the harsh crackdown by authorities, and was seen by Hongkongers as one of the city\u2019s most credible outlets, according to surveys. Its reporters had been on the frontline of reporting protests including those that turned violent. Its then-reporter Gwyneth Ho livestreamed her reporting from Yuen Long station as gangs attacked protesters and commuters and then the reporter herself. In 2020 Ho announced herself as a candidate for Hong Kong\u2019s legislative elections but was later disqualified. In 2021 she was jailed for taking part in an \u201cunofficial assembly\u201d at a Tiananmen Square massacre vigil, and this year was convicted as one of the \u201cHong Kong 47\u201d for running unofficial pre-election primaries in 2020. A profile of Ho as an election candidate was among the 11 articles deemed seditious by the court. Others included a feature on student protests, three commentaries by the self-exiled former legislator and pro-democracy campaigner Nathan Law, and four others by veteran journalist and journalism teacher Allan Au. Au\u2019s subjects included a piece on \u201cnew words in 2020\u201d relating to the national security crackdown, and criticisms of the national security law and a related trial. Another article by Au accusing authorities of using the sedition law \u2013 under which the Stand News editors were convicted \u2013 as \u201clawfare\u201d. The sedition law dates back to the British colonial era and had been little used until authorities began charging pro-democracy figures with its crimes after the 2019 protests. It was repealed in March after Hong Kong introduced its own domestic national security law."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Thrown like a rag doll\u2019: British tourist narrowly survives hippo attack in Zambia;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/british-tourist-narrowly-survives-hippo-attack-zambia;2024-09-26T09:49:45Z",
        "text": "A man narrowly survived after being dragged to the bottom of a river and \u201cthrown through the air like a rag doll\u201d when he was attacked by hippo while canoeing on holiday in Zambia. Roland Cherry, who was on a five-week holiday through southern Africa with his wife, Shirley, sustained severe bite wounds across his body, including a 25cm (10in) wound to his abdomen, as well as a thigh injury and dislocated shoulder in the attack. Nurses at a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, where the 63-year-old was later taken for treatment, said they had never met a survivor of a hippo attack, as most were fatal. \u201cI do remember thinking: \u2018Oh no, what a way to go \u2026 I\u2019m not ready to die\u2019 and I thought this was it, because nobody survives hippo attacks,\u201d he told the BBC. \u201cI remember looking down at my legs thinking: \u2018That\u2019s not good.\u2019 There was bits of flesh sticking out of my torn shorts and blood over my abdomen.\u201d He said had held no ill will towards the animal as he was \u201cconscious we were in their territory\u201d but he was not \u201cnot very fond\u201d of what the hippo did to him. The couple from Warwickshire were on a group guided safari along the Kafue River on 25 June, the third week of their trip, when their canoe was struck by a hippo from underneath and lifted out of the water. Shirley, who was in the front of the canoe, managed to swim to the riverbank but Cherry dislocated his shoulder as the canoe capsized and was unable to swim. \u201cThe instructions were to swim to safety but I couldn\u2019t swim so I was really a sitting duck, trying to swim with one arm, which was never going to end well \u2013 and then it grabbed me,\u201d he said. Cherry said the hippo \u201cgrabbed me in its jaws and took me under to the bottom of the river\u201d, and although he could not recall seeing the hippo, he thought his \u201ctime was up\u201d. The hippo released Cherry at the bottom of the river and his lifejacket lifted him back to the surface, where he took a \u201cbig gulp of air\u201d before the hippo came for him again. \u201cI was grabbed again and thrown through the air like a rag doll but towards the bank, which was the godsend,\u201d he said. It was there that he was able to \u201cbum-shuffle\u201d to safety and a motorboat transported him away from the river. Cherry was due to be taken away immediately by air ambulance but when it did not arrive, he was instead taken to Mtendere Mission general hospital in the nearby village of Chirundu, and credits the staff there with saving his life. \u201cAs soon as we arrived, this little African hospital swung into action. Without thinking twice or asking for my insurance details, they assessed the hippo damage and whisked me away into theatre to clean my wounds,\u201d he said. \u201cIf they hadn\u2019t acted so promptly there is a strong likelihood that sepsis would have set in, which could have proved fatal.\u201d After hours of wrangling with their insurance company, Cherry was later taken to Milpark hospital in Johannesburg, where he underwent six operations. He hopes to raise \u00a320,000 to help buy medical equipment for the Mtendere Mission hospital to thank them. \u201cWhile recovering in my hospital bed, I had time to think and reflect. What struck me most from this near-death experience was the kindness of strangers,\u201d he said, adding that he wanted to \u201coffer something back to the hospital that had almost certainly saved my life\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ukraine war briefing: Report of Russian weapons programme in China \u2018deeply concerning\u2019, Nato says;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/ukraine-war-briefing-report-of-russian-weapons-programme-in-china-deeply-concerning-nato-says;2024-09-26T00:48:44Z",
        "text": "A Nato spokesperson said a Reuters report that Russia has established a weapons programme in China to develop and produce long-range attack drones for use in its war against Ukraine was \u201cdeeply concerning\u201d and that Nato \u201callies are consulting on this matter\u201d. The White House national security council said it appeared to be an instance of a Chinese company providing lethal assistance to a US-sanctioned Russian firm. The White House had not seen anything to suggest the Chinese government was aware of the transactions involved, but China had a responsibility to ensure companies weren\u2019t providing lethal aid to Russia for use by its military, a spokesperson added. IEMZ Kupol, a subsidiary of Russian state-owned arms company Almaz-Antey, has developed and flight-tested a new drone model called Garpiya-3 (G3) in China with the help of local specialists, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing two sources from a European intelligence agency and documents it had reviewed. Former president Donald Trump said Ukraine should have made concessions to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, instead of going to war with its invading neighbour, describing the Ukrainian people as \u201cdead\u201d and the country \u201cdemolished\u201d. Speaking at an event in North Carolina on Wednesday, the Republican presidential nominee \u2013 who is not expected to meet the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on his trip to the US \u2013 said: \u201cThe worst deal would\u2019ve been better than what we have now.\u201d Trump added: \u201cWhat deal can we make? It\u2019s demolished \u2026 The people are dead. The country is in rubble.\u201d The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, meanwhile, demanded that Ukraine fire its ambassador to Washington as the feud between Trump and Zelenskyy escalated and Republicans accused the Ukrainian leader of election interference. In a public letter, Johnson demanded that Zelenskyy fire the Ukrainian ambassador, Oksana Markarova, over a visit to a munitions factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania, calling it a \u201cpartisan campaign event designed to help Democrats\u201d. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, announced $375m in military aid for Ukraine on Wednesday, in a package that includes Himars precision rocket launchers, cluster munitions and light tactical vehicles. \u201cThe United States is committed to Ukraine\u2019s defence against Russia\u2019s brutal aggression,\u201d Blinken said in a statement, adding Washington would \u201cdeploy this new assistance as quickly as possible\u201d. Zelenskyy told the United Nations that Russia was planning to attack Ukrainian nuclear power plants as he repeated his calls for unity from world leaders in order to force Russia to the negotiating table to conclude a \u201cjust peace\u201d. In a speech to the UN general assembly on Wednesday, the Ukrainian leader said he had received information that Russia was gathering intelligence on Ukrainian nuclear power plants in preparation for a potential strike. In further comments, Zelenskyy said Ukraine\u2019s peace plan must be supported by world leaders, and that alternative initiatives to hold talks with Putin would simply aid the Russian president. Zelenskyy in particular targeted a joint proposal by China and Brazil, which have proposed a six-point peace plan for the Ukraine war without Kyiv\u2019s backing. \u201cIf someone in the world seeks alternatives \u2026 it likely means they themselves want to do a part of what Putin is doing \u2026 the question arises: what is the true interest?\u201d Zelenskyy said. \u201cEveryone must understand: you will not boost your power at Ukraine\u2019s expense.\u201d Zelenskyy also criticised the UN security council, saying it was \u201cimpossible to truly and fairly resolve matters of war and peace because too much depends in the security council on the veto power\u201d. Russia is one of five permanent members of the security council and it exercises a veto power over any decisions taken by the body. Zelenskyy\u2019s comments came as Vladimir Putin escalated his nuclear rhetoric, telling a group of senior officials that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if it was attacked by any state with conventional weapons. The Russian president told the country\u2019s powerful security council that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if Moscow received \u201creliable information\u201d about the start of a massive launch of missiles, aircraft or drones against it. The UN chief also criticised the powerful but deeply divided security council at a high-level meeting on Wednesday for a failure of leadership to end the war in Ukraine as well as wars in Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere. \u201cPeace demands action. And peace demands leadership,\u201d the secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, told the 15-member council charged with ensuring international peace and security. \u201cInstead, we\u2019re seeing deepening geopolitical divisions and mistrust.\u201d Russia said on Wednesday it had captured two more villages in Ukraine and was attacking in the town of Vuhledar, a longtime Ukrainian stronghold. Russia\u2019s defence ministry said its forces had taken the villages of Hostre and Hryhorivka, though the claim could not be independently confirmed. State news agency Ria cited the Russian-installed head of the Donetsk region, Denis Pushilin, as saying that fighting was taking place inside Vuhledar, which had a prewar population of 14,000. The Ukrainian governor of the region, Vadym Filashkin, said Russia\u2019s troops had not reached the outskirts of Vuhledar but its reconnaissance groups were operating there. Disinformation attributable to Russian and Belarusian services spiked on the internet by about 300% during the first days of severe flooding in Poland, the country\u2019s deputy premier and digitalisation minister was quoted on Wednesday as saying. The worst floods in at least two decades left many towns in central Europe, including south-western Poland, submerged earlier this month, and the government warned of a spread of disinformation at the same time. Russia on Wednesday struck the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk with guided bombs, killing at least two people and wounding 19, regional governor Vadym Filashkin said. The Donetsk region governor said in a video post from the scene there were fears that the toll could grow."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskyy calls for \u2018real peace\u2019; UK prime minister asks how Russia \u2018can show its face\u2019 at UN amid war \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/25/russia-ukraine-war-live-volodymyr-zelenskyy-un-general-assembly-unga-us-visit-kamala-harris-joe-biden-donald-trump;2024-09-25T17:05:09Z",
        "text": "That\u2019s it from me, L\u00e9onie Chao-Fong, and the Russia-Ukraine war live blog today. Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine\u2019s president, made a defiant address at the UN general assembly in New York on Wednesday, accusing Russia of plotting potentially catastrophic attacks on Ukrainian nuclear plants and taking aim at China and Brazil for proposing an alternative to his own peace formula. \u201cYou will not boost your power at Ukraine\u2019s expense,\u201d Zelenskyy warned. Zelenskyy will head to the White House on Thursday to see Joe Biden, the US president, and present what he describes as a \u201cvictory plan\u201d. Zelenskyy is also expected to meet with the US presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The Ukrainian leader has been seeking permission to use British-French-made Storm Shadow missiles on Russian territory, with UK support, but negotiations with the US are still continuing as the weapons use some US technology. Keir Starmer, Britain\u2019s prime minister, told Russia he does not know how it can show its face at the United Nations after invading Ukraine and treating its own citizens as \u201cbits of meat to fling into the grinder\u201d. Starmer, addressing the UN security council on Wednesday, accused Russia of violating the UN charter because its invasion of Ukraine was illegal, threatened global security and had caused \u201ccolossal human suffering\u201d. Starmer was pressed on whether a decision would be made about the use of UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles within Russia. The UK prime minister said: \u201cWe will have discussions about a whole range of issues, and we will listen carefully to what President Zelenskyy\u2019s got to say, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen in the next few days.\u201d He added the discussions would not be about the \u201csole issue like long-range missiles\u201d but a \u201cstrategic, overarching route for Ukraine to find a way through this and succeed against Russian aggression\u201d. The Kremlin called a plan by Zelenskyy to force Russia to make peace a fatal mistake that would have consequences for Kyiv. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia wanted peace, but that it was impossible to force the issue. Sergei Lavrov, Russia\u2019s foreign minister, met with Wang Yi, his Chinese counterpart, on the sidelines of the UN general assembly. The pair discussed \u201cprospects for resolving the Ukrainian crisis\u201d and measures to counter \u201cthe West\u2019s escalation of the situation in the Asia-Pacific Region\u201d, according to a readout of the meeting by Russia\u2019s state-owned Tass news agency. Mette Frederiksen, Denmark\u2019s prime minister, blasted China for supporting Russia in its war against Ukraine. Frederiksen, in an interview on Wednesday, said Russia would not be able to continue its full-scale war \u201cwithout help from China\u201d, adding: \u201cWe cannot continue a situation where China helps Russia in a war \u2026 in Europe, without consequences. They have to be held responsible for their activities.\u201d Russia\u2019s troops have not reached the outskirts of Ukraine\u2019s eastern town of Vuhledar, but its reconnaissance groups are operating there, said Vadym Filashkin, the governor of Donetsk region, on Wednesday. Russia said it had captured two more villages in Ukraine, though this has not been confirmed, and was attacking Vuhledar, a longtime Ukrainian stronghold. Two people were killed and 12 others injured after a Russian guided-bomb strike on Ukraine\u2019s eastern city of Kramatorsk on Wednesday, the Donetsk regional governor said. Russian troops used three highly destructive bombs in the attack on the town\u2019s centre that damaged two apartment blocks, shops and cars, he said. An 80-year-old woman died as a result of Russian shelling in Kherson, Alexander Prokudin, the head of the regional military administration, said on Telegram. \u201cAs a result of another shelling, two people who were on the street were injured,\u201d he added. Ukrainian forces captured about 24 Russian soldiers and killed \u201cseveral dozen\u201d others during an operation to recapture an aggregate plant in the town of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region, according to Ukrainian reports. Nato plans to coordinate the transport of a large number of wounded troops away from frontlines in case of a war with Russia, potentially via hospital trains as air evacuations may not be feasible, according to a senior general. Sergei Lavrov, Russia\u2019s foreign minister, met with Wang Yi, his Chinese counterpart, on Wednesday while on the sidelines of the UN general assembly. The pair discussed \u201cprospects for resolving the Ukrainian crisis\u201d and measures to counter \u201cthe West\u2019s escalation of the situation in the Asia-Pacific Region\u201d, according to a readout of the meeting by Russia\u2019s state-owned Tass news agency. A statement from the Russian foreign ministry reads: A thorough exchange of views was held on global and Eurasian security, including the Ukrainian crisis, measures to counter the West\u2019s escalation in the Asia-Pacific Region and around Taiwan, as well as on a number of other regional issues. The meeting was held \u201cin a traditionally trusting and constructive manner, characteristic of Russian-Chinese strategic partnership\u201d, the Russian ministry said. Keir Starmer\u2019s trip to the United Nations general assembly in New York is his third trip to the US in three months. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, is also attending to present his \u201cvictory plan\u201d to Joe Biden and the US presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Zelenskyy has been seeking permission to use British-French-made Storm Shadow missiles on Russian territory, with UK support, but negotiations with the US are still continuing as the weapons use some US technology. Pressed on when a decision would be made about the use of UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles within Russia, Starmer said: We will have discussions about a whole range of issues, and we will listen carefully to what President Zelenskyy\u2019s got to say, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen in the next few days. He added the discussions would not be about the \u201csole issue like long-range missiles\u201d but a \u201cstrategic, overarching route for Ukraine to find a way through this and succeed against Russian aggression\u201d. Starmer, addressing the UN\u2019s security council meeting, says members must ensure accountability for those violating the UN charter. The greatest violation of the charter in a generation has been committed by one of his council\u2019s permanent members \u2013 Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is illegal. It threatens global security, it\u2019s caused colossal human suffering. The UK prime minister says he wonders \u201chow Russia can show its face in this building\u201d of the UN and accuses Moscow of \u201ctreating your own citizens as bits of meat to fling into the grinder\u201d. Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine has triggered a global energy crisis and a global food crisis, he says, and \u201cnow the world looks on\u201d as Moscow deepens its military ties with North Korea and Iran. Starmer says: There can be no equivocation. They must be held accountable. Aggression cannot pay. Borders cannot be redrawed by force. Russia started this illegal war. It must end it and get out of Ukraine. Starmer says the UK stands with the 89 countries who have made clear that Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity \u201cmust be the basis of any just and lasting peace\u201d. He says that any process that does not recognise this fact will only be used as a pretext by Russia to \u201cregroup and come again\u201d. In this moment of deepening conflict, the world looks to this council more than ever to provide leadership for peace, preserve our collective security and protect the most vulnerable. The United Kingdom will always play its full part in fulfilling that responsibility. Starmer calls on the UN security council to seek political solutions \u201cthat can break repeated cycles of violence\u201d such as in the Middle East, a region he describes as being \u201con the brink\u201d. The UK leader says there needs to be an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, and the implementation of a plan that allows Israeli and Lebanese civilians to return to their homes safely. \u201cThat security will come through diplomacy, not escalation,\u201d Starmer says. There is no military solution here, nor is there a military-only solution to the conflict in Gaza. Starmer says the security council must demand an \u201cimmediate, full and complete\u201d ceasefire in Gaza with the release of all the hostages. He calls for a \u201cpolitical route\u201d to that agreement that \u201cprovides a bridge to a better future, a credible and irreversible path towards a viable Palestinian state alongside a safe and secure state of Israel\u201d. On the war in Sudan, Starmer repeats his call for both parties to commit to a ceasefire and says he supports the UN secretary general\u2019s envoy in his efforts towards peace. We must keep working to bring this war to an end, and we must ensure that those responsible for committing atrocities are held accountable. Starmer, addressing the UN\u2019s security council, urges international consensus on delivering humanitarian support. \u201cThis should be a bare minimum, yet too often we\u2019re falling short,\u201d he says. The UK leader says the council must address the situation in Gaza. \u201cLet the hostages go,\u201d he says. We must face up to humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza that continues to deepen by the day. Israel must grant humanitarian access to civilians in line with its obligations under international humanitarian law. There can be no more excuses. Starmer says Israel must open more crossings to allow vital life-saving aid to flow into Gaza, and to provide a safe environment for the UN and other humanitarian organisations to operate to relieve the civilian suffering in Gaza. The UK has restarted funding to the UN\u2019s agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, and is supporting Unicef to deliver water, healthcare and specialist treatment for malnourished children, he says. The situation in Sudan also demands \u201curgent attention\u201d, Starmer says. Millions are facing emergency or famine conditions exacerbated by deliberate attempts to prevent aid reaching those in need. This is now the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today, and the worst displacement crisis, with over 10 million people driven from their homes. He says the UK has doubled its aid for the victims of the war but \u201cmuch more is needed\u201d, adding: \u201cThe world must step in.\u201d Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, is addressing the UN security council meeting where he began by paying tribute to those \u201cwho see these terrible conflicts and walk towards them with no agenda other than helping those in need\u201d. The UN and International Committee of the Red Cross have lost staff this month in Gaza, Lebanon and Donetsk, Starmer says, adding that more than 200 aid workers have been killed so far this year, including British citizens. The UN\u2019s security council must \u201cdeliver its responsibility for global peace and security\u201d, Starmer says, noting that he will use his speech today to call to action in three key areas. Here\u2019s more on the Russian strike on Ukraine\u2019s eastern city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region that killed two people and injured 12 others, including three children. Journalists with Agence France-Presse at the scene of the strike saw what appeared to be two separate hits around a kilometre (0.6 miles) apart, both in residential areas. Thick plumes of smoke were billowing from a partially destroyed 10-storey block of flats, the agency said. The strike also destroyed a five-storey apartment block and nearby restaurants. A local resident, Tatyana Rybakova, said she had \u201ccrawled away from the window\u201d after a loud bang, as she pointed to the place where her flat used to be in one of the destroyed buildings. She said: I understand I have been left without a home: that I do understand. Another resident, Lyudmyla Shalayeva, said she was cleaning her flat when she saw an explosion and barely had time to shelter in her hall. She said: We\u2019re scared every day. But we didn\u2019t expect any shelling right here at us ... Who can expect that? A Russian guided-bomb strike on Ukraine\u2019s eastern city of Kramatorsk on Wednesday killed at least two people and injured 12 more, including three children, according to Vadym Filashkin, the Donetsk region governor. Russian troops used three highly destructive bombs in the attack on the town\u2019s centre that damaged two apartment blocks, shops and cars, Filashkin posted to Telegram, according to Reuters. He wrote: This is another war crime of the Russians and another sad reminder that there are no absolutely safe places left in the Donetsk region. Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister, has posted to X to say that \u201cthere are no alternatives\u201d to the peace formula put forward by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He added that Zelenksyy, in his address to the UN general assembly today, \u201cdrew the world\u2019s attention to the threats of Russian aggression and the need of unity, not division\u201d. Denmark\u2019s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has blasted China for supporting Russia in its war against Ukraine and said Moscow would not be able to continue its aggression without help from Beijing. Frederiksen, in an interview with Politico on Wednesday, name-checked China as part of a group of four countries including Russia, North Korea and Iran, whose close cooperation \u201chas huge global consequences\u201d. She said: I don\u2019t think it would be possible for Russia to have a full-scale war for more than two-and-a-half years now without help from China. We cannot continue a situation where China helps Russia in a war \u2026 in Europe, without consequences. They have to be held responsible for their activities. She added that the consequences for Beijing must be political, and warned that \u201cwe cannot allow ourselves to be na\u00efve\u201d. You cannot on the one hand let Russia attack another European country and continue like nothing has happened. Zelenskyy says the world must restore nuclear safety and for energy to stop being used as a weapon. He says food security must be ensured and that all the captured Ukrainian soldiers and civilians must be returned home. The Ukrainian president says the UN charter must be upheld to guarantee his country\u2019s right to territorial integrity and sovereignty. Russian occupiers must withdraw and \u201cwe must hold those responsible for war crimes accountable,\u201d he says. We need to make it clear the war is over. This is the peace formula. Concluding his address to the UN general assembly, Zelenskyy says: I want peace for my people, real peace and just peace, and I am asking for your support from all nations of the world. We do not divide the world. I ask the same of you. Do not divide the world. Be united nations, and that will bring us peace. Zelenskyy says that nearly 100 nations and international organisations have supported the peace formula that he has proposed, including countries that have \u201cgone through wars themselves, and those accustomed to peace are all were equal\u201d. The Ukrainian president says he has met with leaders from across the world during this UN general assembly summit, and that they all \u201cshare the same understanding\u201d. \u201cIt must be a real, just peace,\u201d Zelenskyy says. He says that unfortunately it is \u201cimpossible\u201d to resolve matters of war at the UN because too much depends in the UN\u2019s security council on member\u2019s veto power. When the aggressor exercises veto power, the UN is powerless to stop the war. But the peace formula \u2026 there is no veto power in it. That\u2019s why it\u2019s the best opportunity for peace. Zelenskyy says other proposals put forward by other countries not only \u201cignore the interests and suffering of Ukrainians who are affected by the war the most\u201d but that they also ignore reality and give Vladimir Putin the \u201cpolitical space to continue the war\u201d. He says \u201cmaybe somebody wants a Nobel Prize instead of real peace\u201d for parallel or alternative attempts to put forward settlement plans, \u201cbut the only prizes Putin will give you in return are more suffering and disasters.\u201d Zelenskyy says it is the Ukrainian people who are suffering the consequences of Russia\u2019s war \u2013 it is Ukrainian children who are \u201clearning to distinguish the sounds of different types of artillery and drone\u201d. It is the Ukrainian people who are forcefully separated because Vladimir Putin \u201cdecided he could do whatever he wants\u201d. He says that every world leader who supports Ukraine understands how Russia wants more territory, \u201cwhich is insane\u201d, and is working to seize more land \u201cwhile wanting to destroy its neighbour\u201d. Zelenskyy says: That\u2019s why we say there can be no just peace without Ukraine. Zelenskyy says every neighbour country of Russia in Europe and central Asia knows that \u201cthe war will come to them as well\u201d. Zelenskyy says the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, is looking for ways to \u201cbreak the Ukrainian spirit\u201d, including by targeting his country\u2019s energy infrastructure with deliberate Russian attacks on Ukraine\u2019s power plants and entire energy grid. Russia has destroyed all our thermal power plants and a large part of our hydroelectric capacity. This is how Putin is preparing for winter, hoping to torment millions of Ukrainians \u2026 Putin wants to leave them in the dark and [force] Ukraine to suffer and surrender. The Ukrainian president says he has recently received a report that Putin plans to attack the country\u2019s nuclear power plants and infrastructure. Zelenskyy warns that any missile or drone strike or any critical incident in Ukraine\u2019s energy system could lead to a \u201cnuclear disaster\u201d, adding: A day like that must never come \u2026 These are nuclear power plants. They must be safe. He adds that if \u201cGod forbid, Russia causes a nuclear disaster at one of our nuclear power plants, radiation will not respect state borders.\u201d Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has begun his address to the UN general assembly in New York. He begins by speaking about the day Russian tanks fired directly at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The Russian army stormed the plant \u201cbrutally\u201d and without thinking about the potentially \u201cdisastrous\u201d consequences. It was \u201cone of the most horrifying moments of the war\u201d, Zelenskyy says. Zelenskyy says this is why nuclear safety plays a key part of the peace formula that he presented. \u201cMost in the world understand what\u2019s at stake,\u201d he says. Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, who will be stepping down from his role on 1 October, has posted on X about his meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy (see 12.02pm BST). Calling Zelenskyy his \u201cgood friend\u201d, Stoltenberg said they agreed that \u201cUkraine\u2019s future is in Nato\u201d. Stoltenberg added: We will continue to work together to bring that day closer, and to help Ukraine prevail in its fight for freedom.\u201d Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is shortly due to address the UN general assembly. He is expected to seek support for Ukraine in the war against Russia, and to present his \u201cvictory plan\u201d \u2013 a roadmap for Ukraine to end the war with greater western backing. In a forceful speech to the UN security council on Tuesday, Zelenskyy called on a broad alliance of nations to \u201cforce Russia into peace\u201d, saying that Vladimir Putin has violated the foundations of the UN and that the war \u201ccan\u2019t be conquered by talks\u201d alone. Zelenskyy accused Moscow of committing \u201cinternational crimes\u201d by targeting Ukrainian civilians and energy infrastructure, and claimed he had proof that Putin is plotting to target three Ukrainian nuclear power plants to further degrade the country\u2019s energy grid. In his speech, he added that further pressure was needed to conclude peace with Russia after it had been \u201cdoing things that cannot possibly be justified under the UN charter\u201d. He has repeatedly called on the US and UK to drop their restrictions on the use of long-range missiles against targets deep inside Russia, despite concerns in the Biden administration that those attacks could lead to further escalation of the war. At the UN general assembly in New York, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, will be pushing for a deal on the use of Storm Shadow missiles against Russia, supported by the UK. Asked about Zelenskyy\u2019s prospects of success, UK prime minister Keir Starmer told reporters it was \u201cat a critical stage\u201d. Starmer said: Obviously, President Zelensky has a plan that he wants to walk through with all of us \u2026 The support for Ukraine is resolute. We supply quite a lot of capability already under the last government; we\u2019ve increased that under this government \u2013 that\u2019s not a criticism of the last government \u2013 and we will always listen very carefully to what Ukraine says it needs by way of capability.\u201d He said the long-range Storm Shadow missiles would not be the sole issue under discussion but it would also be about \u201cthe strategic overarching route for Ukraine to find a way through this and succeed against Russian aggression\u201d. Starmer\u2019s trip is taking place as negotiations continue with the White House to allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons on Russian territory. David Lammy, the UK foreign secretary, argued this week it was time for \u201cnerve and guts\u201d to allow a change of policy. But Starmer\u2019s visit to Washington to see the US president, Joe Biden, earlier this month did not resolve sticking points over the use of the British and French-made weapons, which also rely on US technology. Even if a breakthrough is made on the talks this week, it is unlikely any decisions on the missiles will be announced at this week\u2019s summit. The Kyiv Independent reports that a member of Ukraine\u2019s military intelligence has claimed that Ukrainian forces captured about 24 Russian soldiers and killed \u201cseveral dozen\u201d others during an operation to recapture an aggregate plant in the town of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region. According to the publication, a special forces officer \u201cwith the call sign Viking\u201d revealed details of the operation on national television on Wednesday. The officer added that a further four Russian soldiers \u201ctried to leave the plant and were neutralized outside the perimeter\u201d. \u201cThe battle lasted a little over a week. There was intense shelling from the enemy. The enemy at the factory put up a lot of resistance, but in the end we completed the task,\u201d the Kyiv Independent reported the officer as saying. We reported earlier that Russia\u2019s troops had not reached the outskirts of Ukraine\u2019s eastern town of Vuhledar but its reconnaissance groups are operating there. Russia said on Wednesday it had captured two more villages in Ukraine, though this has not been confirmed, and was attacking Vuhledar, a longtime Ukrainian stronghold. Vuhledar is a fortified mining town that has anchored Ukrainian defences in the southern Donetsk region since the start of the war in 2022. Asked about the attack on Vuhledar, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: \u201cThe dynamic is positive.\u201d Reuters reported that analysts at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said Russia appeared to be intensifying a push on Vuhledar but its capture would not substantially alter Moscow\u2019s prospects for further advances, as it already controlled most of the main roads running into the town. Russian emergency services said that a Ukrainian drone had dropped a munition on the territory of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant on Wednesday though there was no damage according to report from Russian state news agency RIA carried by Reuters. Reuters and the Guardian have not been able to confirm this report. Ukraine\u2019s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe, has been controlled by Russian forces since March 2022, and remains close to the frontline between the two sides. An 80-year-old woman has died as a result of Russian shelling in Kherson, the head of the regional military administration, Alexander Prokudin said on Telegram. \u201cAs a result of another shelling, two people who were on the street were injured. An 80-year-old woman was fatally wounded,\u201d he wrote. Russia has not commented on this and the Guardian has not been able to verify this news from the battlefield. Nato plans to coordinate the transport of a large number of wounded troops away from frontlines in case of a war with Russia, potentially via hospital trains as air evacuations may not be feasible, according to a senior general. The future scenario for medical evacuations will differ from allies\u2019 experience in Afghanistan and Iraq, Lt Gen Alexander Sollfrank, the head of Nato\u2019s logistics command, told Reuters in an interview. In a conflict with Russia, western militaries would likely be faced with a much larger war zone, a higher number of injured troops and at least a temporary lack of air superiority close to the frontlines, the German general said. \u201cThe challenge will be to swiftly ensure high-quality care for, in the worst case, a great number of wounded,\u201d he said without specifying how many injured troops Nato would expect, reports Reuters. The planning for medical evacuations is part of a much broader drive by Nato, prompted by Russia\u2019s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, to overhaul and boost its ability to deter and defend against any Russian assault. The German military has said it expects Russia to be able to attack a Nato country as soon as 2029, while Russian president Vladimir Putin casts the west as the aggressor for arming Ukraine. Sollfrank runs Nato\u2019s Joint Support and Enabling Command (JSEC), tasked with coordinating the swift movement of troops and tanks across Europe as well as logistical preparations such as the storage of munitions on Nato\u2019s eastern flank. Recently, reports Reuters, JSEC \u2013 which is based in the southern German town of Ulm \u2013 staged an exercise in coordination of patient flows. Should a conflict with Russia arise, wounded troops will not only need to be transported over a larger distance than in other wars of recent years, Sollfrank said. Russian air defences and jets would threaten medical evacuation flights in a way that insurgents in Afghanistan or Iraq could not, likely creating a need for hospital trains that can transport more casualties at the same time than aircraft. \u201cAir superiority will have to be achieved in the first place. It will require time to succeed over the entire length and depth of the frontline,\u201d Sollfrank told Reuters. He added: For planning reasons, all options to take a great number of wounded to medical installations need to be considered, which includes trains but potentially also buses.\u201d Differing medical regulations between countries are another hurdle to overcome, Sollfrank said. A \u201cmilitary medical Schengen\u201d, akin to the political Schengen zone that allows free movement within most of the EU, could be a solution. It could entail an area of free passage for sensitive medications such as narcotics or strong painkillers, which would be needed to treat wounded troops but whose cross-border transport is regulated. Russia\u2019s troops have not reached the outskirts of Ukraine\u2019s eastern town of Vuhledar but its reconnaissance groups are operating there, said the governor of Donetsk region, Vadym Filashkin, on Wednesday, according to Reuters. \u201cOur defenders are trying to knock them out. The town has not been captured,\u201d he said in televised comments. Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has posted on his X account about a meeting with the outgoing Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg at the UN general assembly. Zelenskyy wrote: I thanked him [Stoltenberg] for supporting Ukraine throughout his tenure as secretary general of the alliance and for his efforts to unite the world in helping Ukraine and strengthening our army. We discussed the need to enhance Ukraine\u2019s air defence, the continued efforts on an invitation for our state to join Nato as soon as possible, and the importance of the timely implementation of all agreements reached at the alliance\u2019s Washington summit.\u201d The Ukrainian president also shared posts of meetings with other notable figures, including the president of Vietnam, T\u00f4 L\u00e2m, Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, and Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan. On the previous post (see 11.10am BST), Reuters has some additional background and quotes. The Russian parliament\u2019s said its initial backing to legislation that would ban nationals from countries that allow people to change their gender from adopting Russian children, is a move that is essential to uphold \u201ctraditional values\u201d. Russia itself last year introduced a ban on people legally or medically changing their gender, part of a widening crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights. The adoption legislation, which had already been conceptually approved by the government, on Wednesday won the backing of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in the first of three readings. According to Reuters, the law\u2019s authors cast it as a measure aimed at protecting adopted Russian children from what they describe as potentially dangerous conditions in countries that belong to the Nato military alliance, which backs Ukraine in the war against Russia. \u201cThis decision is aimed at protecting childhood and traditional values,\u201d Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of the Duma and a close ally of president Vladimir Putin said after it had been voted on. Volodin added: It is necessary to protect our children from the dangers they may face when they are adopted or fostered by citizens of foreign countries where gender reassignment is allowed.\u201d Russia\u2019s parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of a bill to ban the adoption of Russian children in countries where gender reassignment is legal, in another ultra-conservative social measure as its troops fight in Ukraine, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Lawmakers voted almost unanimously to back the proposed law in a first reading, with 397 in favour and one against. \u201cWith this law we are protecting the child, we are doing everything for the child not to end up in a country where same-sex marriage and sex change is allowed,\u201d Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said. There is some more detail on Reuters about the Kremlin calling a plan by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to force Russia to make peace a \u201cfatal mistake\u201d (see 10.08am BST). In a call with reporters, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: Such a position is a fatal mistake, a systemic mistake. This is a profound misconception that will inevitably have consequences for the Kyiv regime.\u201d Peskov said that Russia wants peace, but the issue cannot be forced, adding: A position based on an attempt to force Russia into peace is an absolutely fatal mistake, because it is impossible to force Russia into peace. Russia is a supporter of peace, but on the condition that the foundations of its security are ensured.\u201d Putin said in June that Russia would end the war in Ukraine only if Kyiv agreed to drop its ambitions to join Nato and to hand over the entirety of four regions claimed by Moscow, demands Kyiv swiftly rejected as tantamount to surrender. Ukraine and its western allies say Putin must be prevented from winning the war because, if not stopped, he will threaten other neighbouring states. Reuters is reporting that Russia\u2019s defence ministry said on Wednesday that its forces had taken control of the villages of Hostre and Hryhorivka in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region. No more details have been provided. Russia\u2019s president, Vladimir Putin, will chair a meeting of Russia\u2019s security council on Wednesday on nuclear deterrence, the Kremlin said, as Moscow weighs how to respond to Ukraine\u2019s requests to western countries to allow it to strike deep into Russia with long-range western missiles. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov described Wednesday\u2019s meeting as an important event. \u201cThere will be a speech by the president. The rest, for obvious reasons, will be marked \u2018top secret\u2019,\u201d Peskov told reporters, according to Reuters. Russia has said it is in the process of revising its nuclear doctrine which sets out the circumstances in which it might resort to the use of nuclear weapons. Russia will not test a nuclear weapon as long as the US refrains from testing, Putin\u2019s point man for arms control said on Monday after speculation that the Kremlin might abandon its post-Soviet nuclear test moratorium. The Kremlin on Wednesday called a plan by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to force Russia to make peace a fatal mistake that would have consequences for Kyiv, reports Reuters. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia wanted peace, but that it was impossible to force the issue. Zelenskyy told the UN security council on Tuesday that the war between Russia and Ukraine could not be calmed by talks alone and that Moscow must be forced into peace. Denis Pushilin, the Russian-installed head of Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region, said on Wednesday that fighting was ongoing in Vuhledar, a longtime Ukrainian stronghold in the region, reports Reuters citing the Russian state news agency RIA. Russian forces have taken control of the town of Ukrainsk in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region, state news agency TASS cited local Russian-installed governor Denis Pushilin as saying on Wednesday. Ukraine\u2019s desire to use western missiles to strike targets in Russia will not be the \u201csole issue\u201d in Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s \u201cvictory plan\u201d, UK prime minister Keir Starmer has said. The US and UK have so far refused to give Kyiv permission to use the missiles they have supplied against targets in Russia, despite repeated pleas from Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian president has said that he is having to fight with his hands tied because he is unable to use the weapons to strike Russian airfields and military facilities which Russian president Vladimir Putin is using to launch deadly air raids, missiles and drones. Starmer is in New York for the United Nations general assembly, where Zelenskyy will present his plan for the next stage of the war to his allies. According to the Press Association (PA), Starmer said: I do think it\u2019s going to take quite a bit of time at the UN general assembly. And I think that\u2019s really important, because it\u2019s at a critical stage. Obviously, President Zelenskyy has a plan that he wants to walk through with all of us \u2013 we knew that was going to happen. The support for Ukraine is resolute. We supply quite a lot of capability already under the last government; we\u2019ve increased that under this government \u2013 that\u2019s not a criticism of the last government \u2013 and we will always listen very carefully to what Ukraine says it needs by way of capability. I don\u2019t think that will be a discussion, I don\u2019t think the victory plan will be about a sole issue like long-range missiles, it will be about a strategic, overarching route for Ukraine to find a way through this and succeed against Russian aggression.\u201d Pressed on when a decision will be made about the use of UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles within Russia, Starmer said: We will have discussions about a whole range of issues, and we will listen carefully to what President Zelenskyy\u2019s got to say, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen in the next few days.\u201d In a forceful speech to the UN security council, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on a broad alliance of nations to \u201cforce Russia into peace\u201d, saying that Vladimir Putin has violated the foundations of the United Nations and that the war \u201ccan\u2019t be conquered by talks\u201d alone. Addressing the council, of which Russia is a permanent member, Zelenskyy accused Moscow of committing \u201cinternational crimes\u201d by targeting Ukrainian civilians and energy infrastructure, and claimed he had proof that Putin is plotting to target three Ukrainian nuclear power plants to further degrade the country\u2019s energy grid. After thanking Ukraine\u2019s allies for their support, the Ukrainian leader appealed to countries further afield, calling on Brazil, India and countries across Africa and Latin America, to increase pressure on Russia to halt the war, saying \u201call [countries] are equally important for peace without exceptions\u201d. Many of those countries have economic or close diplomatic ties with Russia, and have given greater credence to Putin\u2019s claims that Russia was provoked into the war by the west. \u201cWe know some in the world want to talk to Putin,\u201d Zelenskyy said. \u201cTo meet, to talk, to speak. But what could they possibly hear from him? That he\u2019s upset because we are exercising our right to defend our people? Or that he wants to keep the war and terror going, just so no one thinks he was wrong?\u201d He added: \u201cIt\u2019s insane.\u201d The Ukrainian air force said on Wednesday it shot down 28 out of 32 drones and four out of eight missiles during an overnight Russian attack, reports Reuters. The air force said Russia launched four missiles at the southern region of Odesa. Its regional governor, Oleh Kiper, said a missile hit an open area and caused a fire which had since been put out. The debris also damaged two trucks without causing any casualties, Kiper added via the Telegram messaging app. Kyiv regional governor Ruslan Kravchenko said a drone attack on the region did not deal any damage to critical or residential infrastructure. Reuters reports that attacks on the north-eastern region of Kharkiv in the early hours of Wednesday damaged a hangar. Tuesday\u2019s guided bomb attack on the city of Kharkiv killed three people and injured 36 more, the regional governor Oleh Syniehubov added via the Telegram messaging app. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will speak at the UN general assembly on Wednesday, and is due to meet US presidential candidate Kamala Harris, as well as Joe Biden during his trip to the US this week. But, an official on Donald Trump\u2019s campaign said the Republican nominee will not meet this week with Zelenskyy while he is in the US. No meeting has been scheduled between the two, the official told the Associated Press (AP), despite a statement from Ukrainian officials last week that said Zelenskyy had planned to see the former president. Meanwhile, US president Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine had failed as he urged the UN to keep supporting Kyiv until victory. \u201cPutin\u2019s war has failed at its core aim. He set out to destroy Ukraine, but Ukraine is still free,\u201d Biden said in his last address as president to the UN general assembly. He said the war had led to a strategic reordering that strengthened Nato and brought two new countries, Finland and Sweden, into the security pact. \u201cWe cannot grow weary,\u201d he said, as Zelenskyy looked on. \u201cWe cannot look away. We will not let up on our support for Ukraine. Not until Ukraine wins a just and durable peace.\u201d More on that in a moment. In other developments: Donald Trump said the US needs to \u201cget out\u201d of the war in Ukraine and that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had no plan to do so. \u201cBiden and Kamala got us into this war in Ukraine, and now they can\u2019t get us out,\u201d Trump said in a speech in Georgia. The US does not have troops in Ukraine but has given military and humanitarian assistance. Speaking in Savannah, Trump raised two historical conflicts to suggest Moscow would not lose. \u201cWhat happens if they win? That\u2019s what they do, is they fight wars. As somebody told me the other day, they beat Hitler, they beat Napoleon. That\u2019s what they do. They fight. And it\u2019s not pleasant.\u201d The US will send Ukraine an undisclosed number of medium-range cluster bombs and an array of rockets, artillery and armoured vehicles in a military aid package totalling about $375m, US officials said on Tuesday. The expected announcement comes as global leaders meet at the UN general assembly. The latest package of weapons, provided through presidential drawdown authority, is one of the largest approved recently and will take stocks from Pentagon shelves to deliver the weapons more quickly to Ukraine. Including this latest package, the US has provided more than $56.2bn in security assistance to Ukraine since Russia invaded. It comes as nearly $6bn in funding for aid to Ukraine could expire at the end of the month unless Congress acts to extend the Pentagon\u2019s authority to send weapons from its stockpile to Kyiv. The US \u201cwill find a way\u201d before the end of Biden\u2019s term in January to make use of the remaining aid, a senior state department official said on Tuesday. \u201cI think it\u2019s very unlikely that President Biden will finish his term with appropriated funds unused for the purpose Congress allocated them,\u201d said the official. In a forceful speech to the UN security council, Zelenskyy called on a broad alliance of nations to \u201cforce Russia into peace\u201d, saying that Vladimir Putin has violated the foundations of the UN and that the war \u201ccan\u2019t be conquered by talks\u201d alone. Zelenskyy accused Moscow of committing \u201cinternational crimes\u201d by targeting Ukrainian civilians and energy infrastructure, and claimed he had proof that Putin is plotting to target three Ukrainian nuclear power plants to further degrade the country\u2019s energy grid. Zelenskyy said his \u201cvictory plan\u201d is not about negotiating with Russia, but finding a way of ending the conflict diplomatically. The head of the presidential office Andriy Yermak confirmed that an invitation to join Nato is part of Ukraine\u2019s so-called \u201cvictory plan\u201d, details of which have not been revealed yet by Zelenskyy, who is due to present it to Biden this week. Brazilian president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva advocated for a plan for talks between Russia and Ukraine to end the conflict, a proposal already rejected by Ukraine\u2019s president. Zelenskyy has rejected the proposal as \u201cdestructive\u201d and insisted his summit initiative is the only viable peace format. The Chinese-Brazilian proposal, which was made public in May, calls for de-escalating the situation and the resumption of direct dialogue without requiring Russia to pull back. Russian strikes on a residential quarter of Ukraine\u2019s north-eastern city of Kharkiv killed three civilians and wounded more than 30 on Tuesday afternoon, Ukrainian officials said. Kharkiv lies around 30km from the Russian border and has been pounded by Russian aerial attacks throughout the two-and-a-half-year war. \u201cThe targets of the Russian bombs were an apartment building, a bakery, a stadium. In other words, the everyday life of ordinary people,\u201d Zelenskyy said on social media. Russian lawmakers approved new measures to facilitate the army\u2019s ability to recruit suspected criminals for its war in Ukraine. Moscow has used prisoners extensively throughout its two and a half year campaign. Russia\u2019s State Duma, the lower house of parliament, on Tuesday backed a new bill that would allow defendants that are now on trial to sign up for the army."
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        "label": "NPR;Alabama puts man to death in the country's second nitrogen gas execution;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/26/g-s1-24807/alabama-puts-man-to-death-in-the-countrys-second-nitrogen-gas-execution;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:42:56 -0400",
        "text": "Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man convicted of killing three people, the second time the method that has generated debate about its humaneness has been used in the country."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Voting-tech company settles with right-wing network over false election claims;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/26/nx-s1-5130183/newsmax-smartmatic-settlement-defamation-election-lawsuit;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:14:24 -0400",
        "text": "Smartmatic sued Newsmax for defamation over false claims related to the 2020 presidential election. The trial was supposed to begin next week."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Over 90,000 people in Lebanon had to flee Israel's bombardments this week;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/26/nx-s1-5127325/israel-hezbollah-conflict-lebanon-displaced-residents;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:03:55 -0400",
        "text": "With Israel and Hezbollah locked in the fiercest fighting in decades, many Lebanese have taken refuge in schools, hotels and other shelters."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;The FDA approves a new type of schizophrenia drug;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/26/nx-s1-5123694/for-the-first-time-in-decades-the-fda-has-approved-a-new-type-of-schizophrenia-drug;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:42:30 -0400",
        "text": "The Food and Drug Administration, as expected, approved KarXT, the first new type of drug for schizophrenia in decades. It appears to be effective, but its main advantage is milder side effects."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Jordan's Unique Position in a Region at War;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/26/1201730553/jordans-unique-position-in-a-region-at-war;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:27:35 -0400",
        "text": "The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza approaches the one year mark. Violence between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon continues to escalate. And there are fears that Iran will get deeply involved with these conflicts. In a volatile moment in the region, Jordan balances a unique set of relationships with all these countries. We hear from Ayman Safadi, who is Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, about what he thinks it will take to end the conflicts.  <br /><br />For more coverage of differing views on these conflicts, go to npr.org/mideastupdates"
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;DOJ watchdog: federal prison not doing enough to prevent inmate suicides;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/26/nx-s1-5127733/lewisburg-federal-prison-doj-oversight;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:45:11 -0400",
        "text": "Lewisburg federal prison, a facility located in central Pennsylvania where thousands of inmates often pass through on their way to other federal institutions, was found to have problems with addressing mental health risks, healthcare quality, leaking infrastructure and employee conduct."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins walks back racist comments about Haitians after backlash;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/26/nx-s1-5129844/clay-higgins-racist-comments-haitians-backlash;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:58:11 -0400",
        "text": "The Republican congressman has been criticized for amplifying false claims about Haitian immigrants. \"You never want to intentionally hurt someone\u2019s feelings,\" he apologized in part on Thursday."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;3D mammograms show benefits over 2D imaging, especially for dense breasts;https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/26/nx-s1-5129834/3d-mammogram-dense-breast-tomosynthesis;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:52:13 -0400",
        "text": "A new study shows 3D imaging found potentially serious cancers earlier and reduced the need for callback for further screening."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Could 'uncommitted' voters sway the election?;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/26/g-s1-24645/could-uncommitted-voters-sway-the-election;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:09:51 -0400",
        "text": "<em>New Yorker</em> writer Andrew Marantz visited Michigan to understand the uncommitted movement, a group of pro-Palestinian, anti-war activists and voters who emerged during the 2024 Democratic primary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Sayeeda Warsi quits Conservatives over UK party\u2019s lurch to \u2018far right\u2019;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/sayeeda-warsi-quits-conservatives-over-uk-partys-lurch-to-far-right?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:25:51 +0000",
        "text": "Former co-chair criticises party&#039;s &#039;hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities&#039;."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Shigeru Ishiba to become Japan\u2019s next PM after winning ruling party vote;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/shigeru-ishiba-to-become-japans-next-pm-after-winning-ruling-party-vote?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:16:06 +0000",
        "text": "The ex-defence minister wins the leadership election of Liberal Democratic Party which holds a majority in parliament."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Houthi missile\u2019 seen over Israeli city before interception;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/27/houthi-missile-seen-over-israeli-city-before-interception?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:07:19 +0000",
        "text": "Sirens sounded across Tel Aviv as Israel\u2019s military said it shot down a Yemeni missile on Thursday night."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2024: Full list of squads for the 10 nations;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/27/icc-womens-t20-world-cup-2024-full-list-of-squads-for-the-10-nations-india-pakistan-australia-england-sri-lanka?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:57:25 +0000",
        "text": "From champions Australia to challengers India, here&#039;s how the squads line up for the ICC Women&#039;s T20 World Cup 2024."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russia rattles the nuclear sabre again, as Ukraine devastates its munitions;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/russia-rattles-the-nuclear-sabre-again-as-ukraine-devastates-its-munitions?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:46:44 +0000",
        "text": "Ukraine may have destroyed three months\u2019 worth of Russian ammunition in one night using its drones."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Trump to meet Zelenskyy after Harris promises \u2018unwavering\u2019 Ukraine support;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/trump-to-meet-zelenskyy-after-harris-promises-unwavering-ukraine-support?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:06:21 +0000",
        "text": "The Republican candidate for US president has claimed he could rapidly make a deal to end the Ukraine war."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Myanmar military urges anti-coup forces to give up struggle and join talks;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/myanmar-military-urges-anti-coup-forces-to-give-up-struggle-and-join-talks?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 03:52:34 +0000",
        "text": "Surprise call comes with the generals, who seized power in 2021, under major pressure from their opponents."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;One killed as \u2018extremely dangerous\u2019 Hurricane Helene slams into Florida;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/one-killed-as-extremely-dangerous-hurricane-helene-slams-into-us?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 03:44:19 +0000",
        "text": "The National Hurricane Center&#039;s director has said an &#039;unsurvivable scenario&#039; will play out in areas of Florida&#039;s coast."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 945;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-945?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 02:07:08 +0000",
        "text": "As the war enters its 945th day, these are the main developments."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Lebanese FM says Israeli occupation is root cause of current crisis;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/27/lebanese-fm-says-israeli-occupation-is-root-cause-of-current-crisis?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 01:01:49 +0000",
        "text": "Lebanese FM Abdallah Bou Habib told the UN General Assembly he welcomes a US and French ceasefire proposal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Who\u2019s in the running to be Japan\u2019s next prime minister?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/whos-in-the-running-to-be-japans-next-prime-minister?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:10:58 +0000",
        "text": "Japan&#039;s governing party is choosing a new leader in a race analysts say is more unpredictable than usual."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Irresponsible\u2019: EU Council president condemns escalation in Lebanon;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/26/irresponsible-eu-council-president-condemns-escalation-in-lebanon?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:44:27 +0000",
        "text": "EU Council President Charles Michel at the UN General Assembly condemned the ongoing escalation in Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Haitian advocates push to hold Trump, Vance accountable for false claims;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/haitian-advocates-push-to-hold-trump-vance-accountable-for-false-claims?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:38:30 +0000",
        "text": "Advocates say effort in Ohio to charge Donald Trump and JD Vance aims to end impunity for spreading anti-migrant claims."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Mallorca fan sentenced after racist abuse of Vinicius and Chukwueze;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/26/mallorca-fan-sentenced-after-racist-abuse-of-vinicius-and-chukwueze?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:07:21 +0000",
        "text": "Year-long sentence for football fan who racially abused Real Madrid&#039;s Vinicius Junior and Villarreal&#039;s Samuel Chukwueze."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Netanyahu says strikes will continue in Lebanon \u2018with full force\u2019;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/26/netanyahu-says-strikes-will-continue-in-lebanon-with-full?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:53:26 +0000",
        "text": "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country\u2019s strikes in Lebanon will continue \u201cwith full force.&quot;"
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Will Israel ever be held to account for its actions in Gaza?;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/9/26/will-israel-ever-be-held-to-account-for-its-actions-in-gaza?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:53:15 +0000",
        "text": "Palestinian authorities demand answers after Israel sent a truck containing 88 decomposed bodies to Gaza."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Oklahoma executes man despite parole board recommending life be spared;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/oklahoma-executes-man-despite-parole-board-recommending-life-be-spared?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:34:59 +0000",
        "text": "US execution comes days after that of Marcellus Williams in Missouri, where victim&#039;s family also asked for clemency."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel launches new Lebanon attacks despite growing calls for ceasefire;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/israel-launches-new-lebanon-attacks-despite-growing-calls-for-ceasefire?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:51:06 +0000",
        "text": "Dozens killed in Israeli attacks, Lebanon&#039;s health ministry says, as Israel claims it killed Hezbollah senior commander."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel strikes school sheltering displaced people;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/26/israel-strikes-school-sheltering-displaced-people?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:38:25 +0000",
        "text": "An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced families in Jabalia in northern Gaza killed at least 14 people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018A nightmare\u2019: Lebanese Americans anxious, angry as Israel attacks homeland;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/a-nightmare-lebanese-americans-anxious-angry-as-israel-attacks-homeland?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:29:28 +0000",
        "text": "Lebanese community members in US are pushing through grief, fear and outrage to help people back home."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Abbas slams US\u2019s diplomatic support for Israel\u2019s war on Gaza in UN speech;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/abbas-slams-uss-diplomatic-support-for-israels-war-on-gaza-in-un-speech?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:39:52 +0000",
        "text": "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the Palestinian Authority should govern Gaza after Israel&#039;s war is over."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Militias must withdraw from all areas\u2019 says Sudan\u2019s Al-Burhan;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/26/militias-must-withdraw-from-all-areas-says-sudans-al-burhan?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:30:33 +0000",
        "text": "General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan\u2019s army chief, urged an end to the war in Sudan."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Zelenskyy visits White House as partisan divide grows ahead of US vote;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/zelenskyy-visits-white-house-as-partisan-divide-grows-ahead-of-us-vote?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:26:06 +0000",
        "text": "Biden administration pledges &#039;surge&#039; in support, but friction growing between Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Syria funding crisis leaves vital Idlib hospital on brink of closure;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/syria-funding-crisis-leaves-vital-idlib-hospital-on-brink-of-closure?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:20:37 +0000",
        "text": "Medical services at Bab al-Hawa hospital in northwest Syria are about to stop, and patients&#039; options are slim."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Tunisian presidential candidate Zammel sentenced to six months in prison;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/tunisian-presidential-candidate-zammel-sentenced-to-six-months-in-prison?traffic_source=rss;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:03:27 +0000",
        "text": "Ayachi Zammel sentenced on charges of falsifying documents days before Tunisia&#039;s presidential election."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What satellite data shows about missile damage in Lebanon;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cjwdqx6e2yjo;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 02:16:34 GMT",
        "text": "After rocket attacks between Hezbollah and Israeli forces ramped up, the damage in southern Lebanon is clear"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Online obsession with Nicola Bulley became a 'monster', family tells BBC;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvym5g02rdo;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:47:27 GMT",
        "text": "A new documentary, called the Search For Nicola Bulley, hears from Lancashire Police and Nicola\u2019s family."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Starmer meets Trump for the first time for two-hour dinner;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2439897mg2o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:23:35 GMT",
        "text": "The UK's \"special relationship\" with the US sits above whoever holds office, the prime minister says."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;BBC reporter's 'ill-looking' AI clone fails to fool colleagues;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cdje9nz7ll1o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:27:50 GMT",
        "text": "Cyber Correspondent Joe Tidy has an AI clone of himself built to see how sophisticated they can be."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Rape me, not my daughters' - Sudan's horrific war;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3zq40qq25o;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:56:29 GMT",
        "text": "The BBC hears horrific accounts of rape from women trapped in the conflict between the army and the RSF."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sycamore Gap sapling gifted in memory of boy with cancer;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0gkn11je4o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:46:11 GMT",
        "text": "The National Trust is encouraging people to apply for 'Tree of Hope' descendants of the famous sycamore."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Treasury reconsidering Labour plan for non-dom tax status;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04pe3653k7o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:36:21 GMT",
        "text": "The change follows concerns over how much money will be raised, should wealthy foreigners leave the UK."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Roads and train lines flooded after more downpours;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9dj2nry7qo;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:55:23 GMT",
        "text": "Part of the M5 is closed and some rail lines are closed after more downpours hit parts of England and Wales."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Doctor denies carrying out 'intrusive' STI tests for Fayed;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77x1k1j5reo;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:04:57 GMT",
        "text": "Dr Ann Coxon is accused of carrying out \u201cintrusive\u201d medical examinations on Harrods staff."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Can diplomacy bring Middle East ceasefire? Early signs don't bode well;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz04depp2nro;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:39:32 GMT",
        "text": "The new plan packages up a series of regional objectives that have remained out of reach for diplomats for nearly two decades."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Watch: Deserted streets in Israel's border towns;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cp8e5w1j13zo;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:16:37 GMT",
        "text": "Paul Adams visits the border town of Kiryat Shmona as rockets continue to be fired from Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Iran faces dilemma of restraint or revenge for attacks on ally Hezbollah;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clylgv2dk3yo;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:25:58 GMT",
        "text": "Iran has sought to strike an unusually conciliatory tone in the face of attacks on its ally Hezbollah."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;They were arrested for posting during the riots \u2013 will it change anything?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr548zdmz3jo;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:59:28 GMT",
        "text": "Charges following disorder felt significant, but for social media giants there was no day of reckoning."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Could cruise ship stuck in Belfast for five months finally be about to set sail?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20pn3wyykyo;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:31:04 GMT",
        "text": "The Villa Vie Residences cruise ship should have left four months ago but has been held up by repairs."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Kim Kardashian: Elizabeth Taylor inspired me - let her legacy continue;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98ype90313o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 01:02:46 GMT",
        "text": "Kim Kardashian on having the final interview with Elizabeth Taylor and how the star inspires her."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Ros Atkins on... Why the US election is crucial to Ukraine;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cn5zypyv4gqo;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:05:56 GMT",
        "text": "The BBC's analysis editor looks at why Volodymyr Zelensky is presenting his 'victory plan' to US political leaders."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Will Ferrell on being his trans friend's road trip ally;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wklzkey8ro;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:26:14 GMT",
        "text": "Will Ferrell and Harper Steel go on a journey of discovery across the US in a new documentary."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Weekly quiz: How did Pesto the baby penguin make a splash?;https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-69373629;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:54:45 GMT",
        "text": "Test how closely you've been paying attention to what has been going on over the past seven days."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Judge says controversial women-only art exhibit is legal;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvglvy6gn54o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 03:55:11 GMT",
        "text": "A Tasmanian court has overturned an anti-discrimination ruling that shut down the Ladies Lounge."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Naomi Campbell banned from being charity trustee;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70zn97q1n8o;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:18:11 GMT",
        "text": "The model cannot be involved at charities for five years after an inquiry discovered mismanagement."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'We\u2019re sharing and rationing ADHD meds to get by\u2019;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8elp63p3eko;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:11:29 GMT",
        "text": "One woman tells the BBC she has resorted to sharing medication with others on similar prescriptions."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;29,000 gambling ads in first weekend of Premier League, says research;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c4g07v7x70lo;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:01:50 GMT",
        "text": "The amount of betting adverts, including pitchside hoardings and shirt logos, almost trebled during the opening weekend of the Premier League season compared to last year, new research says."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Michael Mosley's widow accepts podcast honour;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7j9ze52lyo;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:33:09 GMT",
        "text": "The late presenter's series Just One Thing is inducted into the British Podcast Awards' Hall of Fame."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Daily Telegraph tipped to go to US bidder at auction;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czegl8p0p5po;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:40:45 GMT",
        "text": "British-born Dovid Efune who owns the New York Sun is considered by several parties as the frontrunner."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Protection officer says he warned Palace about Fayed;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp39nl7p031o;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:03:58 GMT",
        "text": "More than 200 women say they were raped or sexually assaulted by the former Harrods boss."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Braced for war: Life inside Lebanon;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct6dtj;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:50:00 GMT",
        "text": "Israel and Hezbollah\u2019s intensifying conflict is affecting a country already on edge"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Stuck for two and a half hours' - Qarabag's Tottenham nightmare;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cr548pj381go;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:31:38 GMT",
        "text": "Qarabag manager Gurban Gurbanov says his team were not given enough time to prepare after being stuck in traffic for two and a half hours en route to Thursday's Europa League match at Tottenham."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sutton's predictions v Maximo Park frontman Paul Smith;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c07nzkyr577o;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:59:46 GMT",
        "text": "BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton takes on Maximo Park frontman Paul Smith with his predictions for this weekend's Premier League fixtures."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Ricciardo replaced by Lawson at RB for rest of 2024;https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/articles/c5y076prkero;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:05:08 GMT",
        "text": "Daniel Ricciardo is replaced at RB by Liam Lawson for the remainder of the 2024 season."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The British coach building Seahawks' new 'Legion of Boom';https://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/articles/c77x1jvyn54o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:44:34 GMT",
        "text": "British coach Aden Durde is making a positive start to life in Seattle after being tasked with rebuilding the Seahawks' defence."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Thomas beaten by Brown at lucrative Athlos NYC event;https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/ce8d033z430o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:14:14 GMT",
        "text": "American Olympic 200m champion Gabby Thomas is edged by Brittany Brown as many of the world's top women's track athletes competed for record prizes at the inaugural Athlos NYC."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Allen makes 147 after saying table should be 'burned';https://www.bbc.com/sport/snooker/articles/cg56vp56yevo;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:32:18 GMT",
        "text": "Mark Allen makes a 147 maximum break at the British Open, having previously said the tables at the tournament should be \"burned\"."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Stranded drivers rescued as flooding closes M5;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx9v30dnq9o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:02:30 GMT",
        "text": "Both carriageways are expected to remain closed for a number of hours while crews pump water away."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Crossbow domestic abuse victim urges others to seek help;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wkgq85p1go;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:58:38 GMT",
        "text": "Chelsea Hamilton was beaten, punched and attacked with a knife in incidents across three years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en Ukraine\u00a0: un sommet pr\u00e9sid\u00e9 par Joe Biden et rassemblant cinquante\u00a0pays alli\u00e9s pr\u00e9vu le\u00a012\u00a0octobre en Allemagne;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/27/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-un-sommet-preside-par-joe-biden-et-rassemblant-cinquante-pays-allies-prevu-le-12-octobre-en-allemagne_6327490_3210.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:53:35 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019objectif de cette r\u00e9union de haut niveau est de \u00ab\u00a0coordonner avec les partenaires internationaux une assistance suppl\u00e9mentaire \u00e0 l\u2019Ukraine\u00a0\u00bb, pr\u00e9cise un communiqu\u00e9 de la Maison Blanche."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le ministre de la justice, Didier Migaud, se dit favorable \u00e0\u00a0l\u2019inscription du\u00a0consentement dans la\u00a0loi;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/27/le-ministre-de-la-justice-didier-migaud-se-dit-favorable-a-l-inscription-du-consentement-dans-la-loi_6336320_823448.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:40:43 +0200",
        "text": "En mars, Emmanuel Macron s\u2019\u00e9tait dit favorable \u00e0 une \u00e9volution de la d\u00e9finition du viol. Dans le contexte du proc\u00e8s de Mazan, o\u00f9 une cinquantaine d\u2019hommes sont jug\u00e9s pour le viol de Gis\u00e8le Pelicot, le d\u00e9bat refait surface."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre au\u00a0Proche-Orient\u00a0: l\u2019arm\u00e9e isra\u00e9lienne dit que des drones et des projectiles ont franchi son territoire \u00e0 partir du Liban;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/27/en-direct-guerre-au-proche-orient-l-armee-israelienne-dit-que-des-drones-et-des-projectiles-ont-franchi-son-territoire-a-partir-du-liban_6321740_3210.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:31:39 +0200",
        "text": "Le Hezbollah a affirm\u00e9 avoir tir\u00e9 une salve de roquettes sur Tib\u00e9riade, en basse Galil\u00e9e, dans le nord d\u2019Isra\u00ebl. Le mouvement islamiste dit riposter aux frappes d\u2019Isra\u00ebl contre les localit\u00e9s et les civils libanais."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019ouragan H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, qui a fait trois morts aux Etats-Unis, s\u2019est affaibli mais reste \u00ab\u00a0extr\u00eamement dangereux\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/27/l-ouragan-helene-s-est-affaibli-mais-reste-extremement-dangereux_6336312_3244.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:18:59 +0200",
        "text": "La temp\u00eate, qui a travers\u00e9 la Floride, est pass\u00e9e, vendredi, en cat\u00e9gorie\u00a01 sur une \u00e9chelle de\u00a05. Elle devrait encore \u00ab\u00a0s\u2019affaiblir \u00e0 mesure qu\u2019elle continue de se d\u00e9placer vers le nord-nord-est\u00a0\u00bb, selon le service m\u00e9t\u00e9orologique national."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Japon, Shigeru Ishiba, \u00e9lu nouveau chef du\u00a0Parti lib\u00e9ral-d\u00e9mocrate, sera le prochain premier ministre;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/27/japon-shigeru-ishiba-elu-nouveau-chef-du-parti-liberal-democrate-et-prochain-premier-ministre_6336269_3210.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:36:04 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019ancien ministre de la d\u00e9fense et l\u2019agriculture de 67\u00a0ans a battu, vendredi, Sanae Takaichi, qui ambitionnait d\u2019\u00eatre la premi\u00e8re femme \u00e0 occuper ce poste, en obtenant 215\u00a0voix contre 194\u00a0au dernier tour d\u2019une \u00e9lection interne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le proc\u00e8s des viols de Mazan, un tournant historique\u00a0?;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/27/le-proces-des-viols-de-mazan-un-tournant-historique_6335880_3224.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:00:00 +0200",
        "text": "Au-del\u00e0 du large \u00e9cho m\u00e9diatique que rencontre le proc\u00e8s de Dominique Pelicot et de cinquante autres accus\u00e9s devant la cour criminelle d\u2019Avignon, des questions \u00e9mergent sur la signification soci\u00e9tale de cette affaire, dont les cons\u00e9quences politiques et juridiques restent \u00e0 \u00e9crire."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Dans l\u2019est de la RDC, l\u2019arm\u00e9e attaque les FDLR, un groupe arm\u00e9 jusqu\u2019alors alli\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/27/dans-l-est-de-la-rdc-l-armee-attaque-les-fdlr-un-groupe-arme-jusqu-alors-allie_6336266_3212.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:29:09 +0200",
        "text": "Cr\u00e9\u00e9es par d\u2019anciens responsables hutu du g\u00e9nocide des Tutsi, les Forces d\u00e9mocratiques de lib\u00e9ration du Rwanda sont l\u2019ennemi jur\u00e9 de Kigali, qui a exig\u00e9 du gouvernement congolais qu\u2019il les neutralise."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, actualit\u00e9 politique\u00a0: Rapha\u00ebl Glucksmann dit travailler \u00ab\u00a0\u00e0 une reconstruction de la social-d\u00e9mocratie\u00a0\u00bb en vue de 2027;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/27/en-direct-gouvernement-barnier-le-premier-ministre-reunit-ses-ministres-vendredi-pour-preparer-sa-declaration-de-politique-generale_6325006_823448.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:38:18 +0200",
        "text": "A trois ans de la prochaine pr\u00e9sidentielle, le leader de Place publique estime que \u00ab\u00a0si la gauche veut gouverner, elle doit se lib\u00e9rer de M\u00e9lenchon et ses affid\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb, d\u00e9plorant la strat\u00e9gie du premier secr\u00e9taire du Parti socialiste, Olivier Faure."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;R\u00e9v\u00e9lations sur le fichage \u00e0 grande \u00e9chelle de personnalit\u00e9s g\u00eanantes pour l\u2019industrie agrochimique;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/27/revelations-sur-le-fichage-a-grande-echelle-de-personnalites-genantes-pour-l-industrie-agrochimique_6336026_3244.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:58:11 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Bonus Eventus files\u00a0\u00bb (1/3). Une plate-forme am\u00e9ricaine priv\u00e9e baptis\u00e9e \u00ab\u00a0Bonus Eventus\u00a0\u00bb a accumul\u00e9 et partag\u00e9 des informations personnelles sur des scientifiques et des militants critiques des OGM ou des produits phytosanitaires pour mieux les d\u00e9cr\u00e9dibiliser, d\u00e9voilent \u00ab\u00a0Le Monde\u00a0\u00bb et un collectif de m\u00e9dias."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Peter Cherif sort de son silence et nie toute implication dans l\u2019attentat de \u00ab\u00a0Charlie Hebdo\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/27/peter-cherif-sort-de-son-silence-et-nie-toute-implication-dans-l-attentat-de-charlie-hebdo_6335984_3224.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:53:27 +0200",
        "text": "A l\u2019approche de la fin de son proc\u00e8s, jeudi, l\u2019accus\u00e9 a clam\u00e9 son innocence. Il avait jusqu\u2019alors refus\u00e9 de r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 toute question ayant trait \u00e0 l\u2019attentat commis par son ami Ch\u00e9rif Kouachi."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Pourquoi la Russie a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de faire \u00e9voluer sa doctrine nucl\u00e9aire;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/27/pourquoi-la-russie-a-decide-de-faire-evoluer-sa-doctrine-nucleaire_6335948_3210.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:28:23 +0200",
        "text": "Vladimir Poutine a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9largir les conditions d\u2019emploi de son arsenal atomique. Si Moscou avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 prof\u00e9r\u00e9 de telles menaces, c\u2019est la premi\u00e8re fois depuis le d\u00e9but de la guerre en Ukraine qu\u2019il les formalise. Une r\u00e9ponse implicite \u00e0 l\u2019offensive de Kiev dans la r\u00e9gion de Koursk."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019ouragan H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, jug\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0extr\u00eamement dangereux\u00a0\u00bb, a touch\u00e9 terre en Floride;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/26/l-ouragan-helene-devient-majeur-la-floride-se-prepare-a-des-inondations-catastrophiques_6335579_3244.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:04:28 +0200",
        "text": "La temp\u00eate, qui s\u00e9vit dans le nord-ouest de l\u2019Etat, est pass\u00e9e, jeudi, en cat\u00e9gorie\u00a04 sur une \u00e9chelle de\u00a05, avec des vents soufflant \u00e0\u00a0225\u00a0kilom\u00e8tres par heure, selon le Centre national am\u00e9ricain des ouragans. Plus de 1,25\u00a0million de clients \u00e9taient priv\u00e9s d\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 en soir\u00e9e."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le gouvernail de certains Boeing\u00a0737\u00a0sous la menace d\u2019un probl\u00e8me technique;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/27/le-gouvernail-de-certains-boeing-737-sous-la-menace-d-un-probleme-technique_6335844_3210.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 04:04:06 +0200",
        "text": "Le dispositif utilis\u00e9 par les pilotes pour diriger les avions risque d\u2019\u00eatre partiellement bloqu\u00e9 par le gel en raison d\u2019un d\u00e9faut d\u2019\u00e9tanch\u00e9it\u00e9 d\u2019une pi\u00e8ce livr\u00e9e \u00e0 un peu plus de 350\u00a0exemplaires. Un r\u00e9gulateur incite une v\u00e9rification en urgence."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ligue Europa\u00a0: Lyon commence du\u00a0bon pied en\u00a0disposant de\u00a0l\u2019Olympiakos;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/27/ligue-europa-lyon-commence-du-bon-pied-en-disposant-de-l-olympiakos_6335810_3242.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 02:36:47 +0200",
        "text": "Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 des buts de Rayan Cherki et Sa\u00efd Benrahma, l\u2019Olympique lyonnais, \u00e0 la peine en championnat, a remport\u00e9 son premier match europ\u00e9en de la saison (2-0)."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au S\u00e9n\u00e9gal, le premier ministre, Ousmane Sonko, d\u00e9nonce une \u00ab\u00a0corruption g\u00e9n\u00e9ralis\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb sous l\u2019ancien pouvoir;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/27/au-senegal-le-premier-ministre-ousmane-sonko-denonce-une-corruption-generalisee-sous-l-ancien-pouvoir_6335777_3212.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 01:23:19 +0200",
        "text": "Le nouveau chef du gouvernement, en place depuis avril\u00a02024, accuse d\u2019anciens ministres et l\u2019ex-pr\u00e9sident, Macky Sall, d\u2019avoir manipul\u00e9 les chiffres des finances publiques. Il annonce l\u2019ouverture d\u2019enqu\u00eates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A Washington, Volodymyr Zelensky s\u2019invite dans l\u2019\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle am\u00e9ricaine;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/27/a-washington-volodymyr-zelensky-s-inscrit-dans-l-election-presidentielle-americaine_6335744_3210.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 01:14:56 +0200",
        "text": "Apr\u00e8s avoir pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 son \u00ab\u00a0plan de la victoire\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 Joe Biden, le pr\u00e9sident ukrainien a rencontr\u00e9, jeudi, la vice-pr\u00e9sidente, Kamala Harris, candidate d\u00e9mocrate \u00e0 la Maison Blanche, qui lui a renouvel\u00e9 son soutien. Il doit s\u2019entretenir aussi avec Donald Trump, vendredi."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Procurations frauduleuses \u00e0 Marseille\u00a0: jusqu\u2019\u00e0 trois ans de prison avec sursis et dix ans d\u2019in\u00e9ligibilit\u00e9 requis;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/26/procurations-frauduleuses-a-marseille-jusqu-a-trois-ans-de-prison-avec-sursis-et-dix-ans-d-ineligibilite-requis_6335645_3224.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:02:16 +0200",
        "text": "Deux anciens maires Les R\u00e9publicains, un directeur de cabinet, un commandant de police ou encore des secr\u00e9taires de mairie sont poursuivis pour avoir \u00e9tabli 194\u00a0documents ill\u00e9gaux lors des \u00e9lections municipales de 2020."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Un an de prison avec sursis requis contre Nicolas Bedos pour agressions et harc\u00e8lement sexuels;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/26/un-an-de-prison-avec-sursis-requis-contre-nicolas-bedos-pour-agressions-et-harcelement-sexuels_6335310_3225.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:13:28 +0200",
        "text": "A la barre, l\u2019acteur et r\u00e9alisateur a soutenu \u00ab\u00a0ne se souvenir de rien\u00a0\u00bb de cette soir\u00e9e o\u00f9 il f\u00eatait la grossesse de\u00a0sa\u00a0compagne. La femme qui a port\u00e9 plainte contre lui l\u2019accuse de s\u2019\u00eatre dirig\u00e9 vers elle, t\u00eate baiss\u00e9e, avant de tendre la main droite au niveau de son sexe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La vie ch\u00e8re en outre-mer, un probl\u00e8me de longue date jamais r\u00e9solu;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/26/la-vie-chere-en-outre-mer-un-probleme-de-longue-date-jamais-resolu_6335545_823448.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:30:10 +0200",
        "text": "Alors que des mouvements de protestation sont apparus en Martinique et \u00e0 La R\u00e9union, les r\u00e9formes structurelles manquent. La gauche appelle le premier ministre \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0retrouver un volontarisme politique\u00a0\u00bb sur le sujet."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Meurtre de Philippine\u00a0: des f\u00e9ministes et \u00e9lus de gauche appellent \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0ne pas se tromper de d\u00e9bat\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/26/meurtre-de-philippine-des-feministes-et-elus-de-gauche-appellent-a-ne-pas-se-tromper-de-debat_6335478_3224.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:53:28 +0200",
        "text": "Plusieurs associations f\u00e9ministes ainsi que des \u00e9lus de gauche appellent \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0penser ce crime\u00a0\u00bb sous le\u00a0prisme des f\u00e9minicides et de la r\u00e9cidive, non sous celui de l\u2019immigration. Emmanuel Macron a, lui, exprim\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0l\u2019\u00e9motion de toute la nation\u00a0\u00bb et convenu qu\u2019il fallait \u00ab\u00a0chaque jour mieux prot\u00e9ger les Fran\u00e7ais\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le maire de Saint-Brieuc agress\u00e9, le suspect hospitalis\u00e9 en psychiatrie;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/26/le-maire-de-saint-brieuc-agresse-le-suspect-hospitalise-en-psychiatrie_6335445_3224.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:30:33 +0200",
        "text": "Pendant la campagne des europ\u00e9ennes, le m\u00eame homme avait perturb\u00e9 une r\u00e9union publique de Rapha\u00ebl Glucksmann, durant laquelle il avait injuri\u00e9 le maire de la ville."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le Royaume-Uni se vide de ses pubs;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/26/le-royaume-uni-se-vide-de-ses-pubs_6335344_3234.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:00:06 +0200",
        "text": "Le pays a perdu plus de 50\u00a0d\u00e9bits de boissons par mois lors du premier semestre 2024. D\u00e9j\u00e0 durement touch\u00e9e par l\u2019inflation et le Brexit, l\u2019industrie a subi plusieurs hausses d\u2019imp\u00f4ts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Tribune | \u00ab\u00a0Nous, anciens ministres de la sant\u00e9, nous associons pour rappeler l\u2019importance du maintien de l\u2019aide m\u00e9dicale de l\u2019Etat\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/09/26/nous-anciens-ministres-de-la-sante-nous-associons-pour-rappeler-l-importance-du-maintien-de-l-aide-medicale-de-l-etat_6335298_3232.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:55:34 +0200",
        "text": "Huit anciens\u00a0ministres de la sant\u00e9 mettent en garde, dans une tribune au \u00ab\u00a0Monde\u00a0\u00bb, contre la remise en cause de l\u2019AME, comme le souhaite le ministre de l\u2019int\u00e9rieur, Bruno Retailleau."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France place la Guadeloupe en alerte rouge \u00ab\u00a0fortes pluies et orages\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/outre-mer/article/2024/09/26/la-guadeloupe-en-vigilance-rouge-fortes-pluies-et-orages_6335299_1840826.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:58:10 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0L\u2019intensit\u00e9 de ces averses est remarquable. L\u2019\u00e9pisode va rester tr\u00e8s intense jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la fin de la journ\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb, a pr\u00e9venu M\u00e9t\u00e9o France dans son bulletin"
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Elon Musk propos\u00e9 pour le prix Sakharov par\u00a0l\u2019extr\u00eame droite europ\u00e9enne;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/26/elon-musk-propose-pour-le-prix-sakharov-par-l-extreme-droite-europeenne_6335258_3210.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:25:45 +0200",
        "text": "Le propri\u00e9taire de X et de SpaceX est pourtant en conflit ouvert avec la Commission europ\u00e9enne, qui\u00a0pourrait infliger \u00e0 son r\u00e9seau social une tr\u00e8s lourde amende pour de possibles violations de\u00a0son\u00a0nouveau r\u00e8glement sur les services num\u00e9riques."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le risque d\u2019effacement du Tibet \u00e0 l\u2019\u0153uvre dans les mus\u00e9es fran\u00e7ais;https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/09/26/le-risque-d-effacement-du-tibet-a-l-uvre-dans-les-musees-francais_6334308_3246.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:00:27 +0200",
        "text": "Une controverse mettant en cause le Mus\u00e9e du quai Branly et le Mus\u00e9e Guimet, \u00e0 Paris, soul\u00e8ve la question des possibles ing\u00e9rences du r\u00e9gime de P\u00e9kin, d\u00e9cid\u00e9 \u00e0 supprimer toute m\u00e9moire d\u2019un pays jadis ind\u00e9pendant."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Gabon, la fili\u00e8re bois au d\u00e9fi de l\u2019industrialisation et de la certification;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/26/au-gabon-la-filiere-bois-au-defi-de-l-industrialisation-et-de-la-certification_6335251_3212.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:00:20 +0200",
        "text": "Apr\u00e8s le p\u00e9trole, l\u2019exploitation des for\u00eats est un pilier de l\u2019\u00e9conomie du pays, premier exportateur africain de bois. Si le march\u00e9 chinois s\u2019est effondr\u00e9 en\u00a02023, les nouvelles autorit\u00e9s continuent d\u2019appeler \u00e0 la valorisation de cette ressource."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Financement de l\u2019audiovisuel public\u00a0: malgr\u00e9 l\u2019urgence, le S\u00e9nat joue la prudence;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/26/financement-de-l-audiovisuel-public-malgre-l-urgence-le-senat-joue-la-prudence_6335249_3234.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:00:10 +0200",
        "text": "Il est imp\u00e9ratif de doter l\u2019audiovisuel public d\u2019un financement p\u00e9renne avant la fin de 2024. Pourtant, les s\u00e9nateurs n\u2019ont pas mis le sujet \u00e0 l\u2019ordre du jour de leurs premi\u00e8res s\u00e9ances. Pour \u00e9carter tout risque d\u2019\u00e9chec, ils pr\u00e9f\u00e8rent attendre que Michel Barnier se positionne et ils visent un examen de la loi au plus t\u00f4t la semaine du 21\u00a0octobre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Apr\u00e8s l\u2019\u00e9borgnement de J\u00e9r\u00f4me Rodrigues, figure des \u00ab\u00a0gilets jaunes\u00a0\u00bb, le parquet requiert un proc\u00e8s contre un policier;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/26/apres-l-eborgnement-de-jerome-rodrigues-figure-des-gilets-jaunes-le-parquet-requiert-un-proces-contre-un-policier_6335213_3224.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:37:09 +0200",
        "text": "Le parquet de Paris a demand\u00e9 un proc\u00e8s pour violences avec arme contre Brice C., accus\u00e9 d\u2019avoir mutil\u00e9 J\u00e9r\u00f4me Rodrigues lors d\u2019une manifestation des \u00ab\u00a0gilets jaunes\u00a0\u00bb en\u00a02019."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Dette\u00a0: regain de tension sur les taux d\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat fran\u00e7ais;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/26/dette-regain-de-tension-sur-les-taux-d-interet-francais_6335180_3234.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:29:31 +0200",
        "text": "La France se finance d\u00e9sormais plus cher que la Gr\u00e8ce ou l\u2019Espagne. Avec le risque de r\u00e9duire encore davantage les marges de man\u0153uvre budg\u00e9taires."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Proc\u00e8s des viols de Mazan\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Dans l\u2019excitation, je\u00a0n\u2019ai pas fait attention\u00a0\u00bb au fait que Gis\u00e8le Pelicot ne se r\u00e9veillait pas, reconna\u00eet un accus\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/26/proces-des-viols-de-mazan-dans-l-excitation-je-n-ai-pas-fait-attention-au-fait-que-gisele-pelicot-ne-se-reveillait-pas-reconnait-un-accuse_6335179_3224.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:27:18 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Je reconnais les faits, mais je ne suis pas all\u00e9 pour la violer, je n\u2019\u00e9tais pas au courant\u00a0\u00bb qu\u2019elle serait inconsciente, a tent\u00e9 d\u2019expliquer Fabien\u00a0S., un des cinquante et un hommes accus\u00e9s d\u2019avoir viol\u00e9 Mme\u00a0Pelicot."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Allemagne, l\u2019\u00e9conomie devrait encore se contracter en\u00a02024;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/26/en-allemagne-l-economie-devrait-encore-se-contracter-en-2024_6335178_3234.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:19:51 +0200",
        "text": "Les plus grands instituts \u00e9conomiques du pays tablent sur un recul du PIB de 0,1\u00a0% en\u00a02024. La reprise, attendue pour 2025, devrait rester mod\u00e9r\u00e9e."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Guerre au Soudan\u00a0: l\u2019arm\u00e9e lance une offensive sur Khartoum, largement aux mains des paramilitaires;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/26/guerre-au-soudan-l-armee-lance-une-offensive-sur-khartoum-largement-aux-mains-des-paramilitaires_6335109_3212.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:51:37 +0200",
        "text": "Des frappes a\u00e9riennes et des tirs d\u2019artillerie ont secou\u00e9 la capitale, jeudi, et les forces du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al-Bourhane auraient franchi deux ponts-cl\u00e9s sur le Nil."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Partout sur la plan\u00e8te, les barri\u00e8res douani\u00e8res s\u2019\u00e9rigent et le ton monte contre les exc\u00e9dents g\u00e9ants de la Chine;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/26/partout-sur-la-planete-les-barrieres-douanieres-s-erigent-et-le-ton-monte-contre-les-excedents-geants-de-la-chine_6334307_3234.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:00:09 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019activisme commercial des Chinois fait d\u00e9ferler sur le monde un surplus de biens qui d\u00e9stabilise les \u00e9conomies et exacerbe les tensions. De son c\u00f4t\u00e9, P\u00e9kin tente de contourner les droits de douane en investissant localement."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Kevin Mayer vise Los Angeles 2028\u00a0et au-del\u00e0, si son corps le lui permet;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/26/kevin-mayer-vise-los-angeles-2028-et-au-dela-si-son-corps-le-lui-permet_6335041_3242.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:00:08 +0200",
        "text": "Le d\u00e9cathlonien fran\u00e7ais, forfait de derni\u00e8re minute aux Jeux de Paris et perclus de blessures ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, souhaite participer aux prochains Jeux olympiques, et esp\u00e8re m\u00eame poursuivre sa carri\u00e8re jusqu\u2019\u00e0 ceux de 2032."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Dominique Edd\u00e9, \u00e9crivaine libanaise\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Que veulent les Isra\u00e9liens pour eux-m\u00eames dans l\u2019avenir\u00a0?\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/09/26/dominique-edde-ecrivaine-libanaise-benyamin-netanyahou-a-pris-le-temps-en-otage_6334232_3232.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:45:01 +0200",
        "text": "La romanci\u00e8re explique, dans une tribune au \u00ab\u00a0Monde\u00a0\u00bb, que l\u2019\u00ab\u00a0ivresse militaire\u00a0\u00bb port\u00e9e par Benyamin Netanyahou est vou\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chec. Elle appelle les puissances occidentales \u00e0 cesser de le suivre aveugl\u00e9ment."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Lactalis va r\u00e9duire sa collecte de lait en France, une \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9flagration\u00a0\u00bb pour les \u00e9leveurs, selon la FNSEA;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/26/lactalis-va-reduire-sa-collecte-de-lait-en-france-une-deflagration-pour-les-eleveurs-selon-la-fnsea_6334804_3234.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:51:13 +0200",
        "text": "Pour amortir l\u2019impact de cette d\u00e9cision\u00a0sur la taille des troupeaux de vache \u00e0 lait en France, et donner du\u00a0temps aux \u00e9leveurs pour s\u2019organiser, le groupe s\u2019engage \u00e0 ce que la r\u00e9duction des volumes \u00ab\u00a0soit progressive entre 2024 et 2030\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Maroc, d\u00e9couverte d\u2019un complexe agricole vieux de 5\u00a0000\u00a0ans, l\u2019un des plus anciens et des plus vastes d\u2019Afrique;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/26/au-maroc-decouverte-d-un-complexe-agricole-vieux-de-5-000-ans-l-un-des-plus-anciens-et-des-plus-vastes-d-afrique_6334770_3212.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:11:42 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019identification \u00e0 Oued Beht d\u2019un site pr\u00e9historique de production de c\u00e9r\u00e9ales et de c\u00e9ramiques bouscule les connaissances sur le degr\u00e9 de complexit\u00e9 du Nord-Ouest africain \u00e0 la fin du n\u00e9olithique et sur ses interactions avec la p\u00e9ninsule Ib\u00e9rique."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Chez Atos, la fin de la restructuration financi\u00e8re ouvre de nouveaux d\u00e9fis;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/26/chez-atos-la-fin-de-la-restructuration-financiere-ouvre-de-nouveaux-defis_6334735_3234.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:00:03 +0200",
        "text": "La sauvegarde financi\u00e8re du groupe d\u2019informatique est sur le point d\u2019\u00eatre adopt\u00e9e. Mais il demeure lest\u00e9 d\u2019une dette co\u00fbteuse et va devoir rapidement relancer son activit\u00e9."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Affaire Delphine Jubillar\u00a0: le mari renvoy\u00e9 devant les assises pour le meurtre de son \u00e9pouse;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/26/affaire-delphine-jubillar-le-mari-renvoye-devant-les-assises-pour-le-meurtre-de-son-epouse_6334734_3224.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:59:59 +0200",
        "text": "Dans cette affaire o\u00f9 il n\u2019y a ni corps, ni aveux, ni t\u00e9moin, ni sc\u00e8ne de crime, ni preuve irr\u00e9futable, les enqu\u00eateurs ont la conviction que C\u00e9dric Jubillar a tu\u00e9 celle qui venait de lui annoncer son intention de divorcer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Sur Telegram, des utilisateurs recrut\u00e9s pour des actes de sabotage prorusses en Europe;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/26/sur-telegram-des-utilisateurs-recrutes-pour-des-actes-de-sabotage-prorusses-en-europe_6334667_4408996.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:41:51 +0200",
        "text": "Une enqu\u00eate de plusieurs m\u00e9dias montre que des rabatteurs ont cherch\u00e9 \u00e0 embaucher, pour quelques milliers d\u2019euros, des personnes acceptant d\u2019attaquer des d\u00e9p\u00f4ts de carburant ou des v\u00e9hicules militaires."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Iwao Hakamada, qui a pass\u00e9 46\u00a0ans dans le couloir de la mort au Japon, finalement acquitt\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/26/japon-iwao-hakamada-qui-a-passe-quarante-six-ans-dans-le-couloir-de-la-mort-finalement-acquitte_6334594_3210.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:32:26 +0200",
        "text": "Le juge a mis en cause l\u2019enqu\u00eate et les m\u00e9thodes d\u2019interrogatoire qui ont conduit \u00e0 sa condamnation \u00e0 mort en\u00a01968. Les soutiens de M.\u00a0Hakamada esp\u00e8rent que les procureurs ne feront pas appel de ce jugement."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Megalopolis\u00a0\u00bb, de Francis Ford Coppola, chef-d\u2019\u0153uvre ou navet\u00a0? Retrouvez le d\u00e9bat de nos critiques;https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/live/2024/09/26/megalopolis-de-francis-ford-coppola-chef-d-oeuvre-ou-navet-posez-vos-questions-a-nos-critiques_6334586_3246.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:00:02 +0200",
        "text": "Mathieu Macheret et Murielle Joudet, critiques au \u00ab\u00a0Monde\u00a0\u00bb et dont les avis sur le film du cin\u00e9aste am\u00e9ricain sont oppos\u00e9s, ont r\u00e9pondu \u00e0 vos questions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Eric Adams, le maire de New York, inculp\u00e9 pour corruption, refuse de d\u00e9missionner;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/26/appels-a-la-demission-du-maire-democrate-de-new-york-eric-adams-cerne-par-les-enquetes-du-fbi_6334131_3210.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:03:25 +0200",
        "text": "A un an de l\u2019\u00e9lection municipale, l\u2019ancien policier afro-am\u00e9ricain de Brooklyn, \u00e2g\u00e9 de 64\u00a0ans, a \u00e9t\u00e9 mis en accusation pour financement illicite de sa campagne de 2021\u00a0par des int\u00e9r\u00eats turcs."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Meurtre de Philippine\u00a0: Bruno Retailleau veut \u00ab\u00a0faire \u00e9voluer notre arsenal juridique\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0; Laurent Wauquiez r\u00e9clame une mission flash de l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/25/meurtre-de-philippine-bruno-retailleau-veut-faire-evoluer-notre-arsenal-juridique-laurent-wauquiez-reclame-une-mission-flash-de-l-assemblee_6333127_823449.html;Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:08:28 +0200",
        "text": "Le suspect, \u00e2g\u00e9 de 22\u00a0ans, avait \u00e9t\u00e9 condamn\u00e9 pour viol et \u00e9tait sous le coup d\u2019une obligation de quitter le\u00a0territoire fran\u00e7ais non ex\u00e9cut\u00e9e. Une information judiciaire a \u00e9t\u00e9 ouverte pour homicide et viol."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Movers, shakers and melody makers battle it out to be crowned KroaKING 2024;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/movers-shakers-and-melody-makers-battle-it-out-to-be-crowned-kroaking-2024/article68682683.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:28:48 +0530",
        "text": "The finals of KroaKING, one of the best loved singing contests in the city, are scheduled this weekend"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;When HDK is out on bail, BJP has no moral right to seek my resignation: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/when-hdk-is-out-on-bail-bjp-has-no-moral-right-to-seek-my-resignation-karnataka-cm-siddaramaiah/article68689540.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:24:14 +0530",
        "text": "Siddaramaiah pointed out that an FIR had been registered against H.D. Kumaraswamy, who is part of the BJP-led government at the Centre"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;HC quashes special court nod to Indrani Mukerjea to travel abroad;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/hc-quashes-special-court-nod-to-indrani-mukerjea-to-travel-abroad/article68689633.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:13:08 +0530",
        "text": "The CBI had petitioned against the special court order on the grounds that Mukerjea was facing trial for a serious offence and that there was a possibility of her fleeing the country"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala Opposition Leader declares Statewide protest seeking Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan\u2019s resignation;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-opposition-leader-declares-statewide-protest-seeking-chief-minister-pinarayi-vijayans-resignation/article68689641.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:09:44 +0530",
        "text": "V.D. Satheesan says Kerala is witnessing a standstill in governance with Chief Minister\u2019s move to evade crucial questions on various allegations raised by LDF legislator P.V. Anvar"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Brillante Piano Festival brings harmonies in ebony and ivory to Bengaluru;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/brillante-piano-festival-brings-harmonies-in-ebony-and-ivory-to-bengaluru/article68676590.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:00:17 +0530",
        "text": "Brillante, a multi-genre piano festival, is making its debut in Bengaluru this weekend"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Met issues 'yellow' alert in Himachal Pradesh, over 40 roads closed;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/himachal-pradesh/met-issues-yellow-alert-in-himachal-pradesh-over-40-roads-closed/article68689638.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:55:17 +0530",
        "text": "A total of 47 roads including National Highway 707 were closed for vehicular traffic"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Dwayne Bravo retires from all forms of cricket, joins KKR as mentor;https://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/dwayne-bravo-retires-from-all-forms-of-cricket-joins-kkr-as-mentor/article68689616.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:50:57 +0530",
        "text": "Bravo's last season of the Caribbean Premier League was cut short due to an injury that he sustained earlier this week."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sri Lanka orders audit of Indian firms' visa outsourcing contract alongside scandal-hit Dubai company;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sri-lanka-orders-audit-of-indian-firms-visa-outsourcing-contract-alongside-scandal-hit-dubai-company/article68689558.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:34:07 +0530",
        "text": "A forensic audit has been ordered on Indian firms GBS Technology and IVS Global FZCO along with VFS Global which were in April awarded the multimillion-dollar contract as a technology partner to process the visa applications of foreigners"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;11-year-old boy killed as sacrifice for school\u2019s prosperity in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Hathras by owner; five held;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttar-pradesh/11-year-old-boy-killed-as-sacrifice-for-schools-prosperity-in-uttar-pradeshs-hathras-by-owner-five-held/article68689573.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:32:32 +0530",
        "text": "The student was abducted from the school's hostel by teacher Ramprakash Solanki, Dinesh Baghel, and school owner Jasodhan Singh, confirms Ashok Kumar Singh, ASP, Hathras"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Coimbatore Drugs Control Dept. warns of severe action against pharmacies selling abortion pills over the counter;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/coimbatore-drugs-control-dept-warns-of-severe-action-against-pharmacies-selling-abortion-pills-over-the-counter/article68686976.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:22:46 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Donald Trump, Keir Starmer meet for two-hour New York dinner: reports;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/donald-trump-keir-starmer-meet-for-two-hour-new-york-dinner-reports/article68689546.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:19:46 +0530",
        "text": "Donald Trump hosted the Labour Party leader at Trump Tower"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chennai| Try K-Drama fried chicken, and more Korean street food at Samchon Bunsik;https://www.thehindu.com/food/dining/chennai-try-k-drama-fried-chicken-and-more-korean-street-food-at-samchon-bunsik/article68677405.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:15:25 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Poet Keki N. Daruwalla dies at 87;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/poet-keki-n-daruwalla-dies-at-87/article68689542.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:14:01 +0530",
        "text": "The Sahitya Akademi Award winner was known for his short stories"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Assam Police apprehends three Bangladesh nationals for crossing international border;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/assam/three-bangladeshi-nationals-apprehended-handed-over-to-authorities/article68689488.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:06:11 +0530",
        "text": "Maintaining strict vigil along the Indo-Bangladesh border, Assam Police identified three Bangladeshi infiltrators near the international border, says Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Madras High Court\u2019s bail direction ordering closure of YouTube channel \u2018unwarranted\u2019, \u2018extraneous\u2019: Supreme Court;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/madras-high-courts-bail-direction-ordering-closure-of-youtube-channel-unwarranted-extraneous-supreme-court/article68689424.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:00:33 +0530",
        "text": "The Bench had issued a notice to the state government, however, Supreme Court also had asked YouTuber Felix Jerald to comply with other bail conditions"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Justice Shriram Kalpathi Rajendran sworn in as Chief Justice of Madras High Court;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/justice-shriram-kalpathi-rajendran-sworn-in-as-chief-justice-of-madras-high-court/article68689507.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:55:05 +0530",
        "text": "Justice Rajendran earlier served as a judge of the Bombay High Court and succeeded Justice R. Mahadevan, who was elevated to the Supreme Court of India."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Former Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba chosen to lead Japan\u2019s ruling party;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/former-defence-minister-shigeru-ishiba-chosen-to-lead-japans-ruling-party/article68689401.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:55:02 +0530",
        "text": "Shigeru Ishiba will become the new Prime Minister of Japan next week"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Stock market fraud: Wife arrested, husband flees;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/stock-market-fraud-wife-arrested-husband-flees/article68689402.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:52:58 +0530",
        "text": "Couple swindled \u20b95.2 crore from Kozhikode native"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Schwing Stetter India launches all-women service centre in Chennai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/schwing-stetter-india-launches-all-women-service-centre-in-chennai/article68687266.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:51:21 +0530",
        "text": "Located in Poonamallee, the German manufacturer\u2019s service centre will be staffed by a team of 17 skilled women technicians"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Father of Badlapur case accused moves High Court seeking burial spot;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/father-of-badlapur-case-accused-moves-high-court-seeking-burial-spot/article68689443.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:42:30 +0530",
        "text": "The father of the accused has sought the court\u2019s direction to the local civic body to arrange a spot to bury his son. The court said it would hear the plea in the afternoon."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israel strike in Lebanon kills Hezbollah drone unit head;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-strike-in-lebanon-kills-hezbollah-drone-unit-head/article68689405.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:41:13 +0530",
        "text": "The Israeli military said in a statement that its fighter jets had \u201ctargeted and eliminated\u201d Srur, identifying him as \u201cthe commander of Hezbollah\u2019s air unit.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;MCD Mayor Shelly Oberoi declares Standing Committee polls illegal ahead of elections today;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/mcd-standing-committee-polls-friday/article68689427.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:40:24 +0530",
        "text": "The House has been adjourned till October 5"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India will not buy LNG from Russia's Arctic LNG 2 project, says Union Petroleum Ministry Secretary;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-will-not-buy-lng-from-russias-arctic-lng-2-project-says-union-petroleum-ministry-secretary/article68689413.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:38:32 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;P.V. Anvar to move Kerala High Court for judicial probe into contraband gold interceptions by plainclothes police squads;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/pv-anvar-to-move-kerala-high-court-for-judicial-probe-into-contraband-gold-interceptions-by-plainclothes-police-squads/article68689400.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:36:29 +0530",
        "text": "Speaking to reporters in Malappuram, Anvar demanded that Kerala High Court investigate the 188 gold smuggling cases registered by District Anti-Narcotics Special Action Force when Sujith Das, IPS, was District Police Chief in Malappuram"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP MLA Balmukund Acharya holds 'purification ceremony' to 'convert' turncoat Congress councillors into 'Sanatanis';https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rajasthan/bjp-mla-balmukund-acharya-holds-purification-ceremony-to-convert-turncoat-congress-councillors-into-sanatanis/article68689404.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:33:54 +0530",
        "text": "They have been cleansed of any impurity or corruption, says BJP MLA Balmukund Acharya"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;RBSK doctors subjected to increased surveillance, claims T.N. Medical Officers Association;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/rbsk-doctors-subjected-to-increased-surveillance-claims-tn-medical-officers-association/article68686667.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:32:23 +0530",
        "text": "The doctors attached to Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram were subjected to video calls from persons claiming to be from the National Health Mission, the association alleged"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Punjab BJP rejects reports of Sunil Jakhar quitting as state unit chief;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/punjab/punjab-bjp-rejects-reports-of-sunil-jakhar-quitting-as-state-unit-chief/article68689358.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:25:18 +0530",
        "text": "Sunil Jakhar had joined the BJP in May 2022, three months after the Congress lost the Punjab assembly poll"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Injury is fine now, next big target is 2025 World Championship: Neeraj Chopra;https://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/injury-is-fine-now-next-big-target-is-2025-world-championship-neeraj-chopra/article68689307.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:21:26 +0530",
        "text": "Neeraj Chopra battled an adductor muscle niggle throughout the year and it also affected his performance at both the Olympics and the DL finale, where he also competed with a fractured left hand"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Take inspiration from Chakali Ilamma\u2019s life\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/take-inspiration-from-chakali-ilammas-life/article68687642.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:20:44 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Agricultural labourers affected by starvation in Chennai set to leave for West Bengal after treatment;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/agricultural-labourers-affected-by-starvation-in-chennai-set-to-leave-for-west-bengal/article68687462.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:20:36 +0530",
        "text": "Chennai Corporation had rescued the labourers after they collapsed from starvation at Chennai Central Railway Station"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Row over ordination of deacons in Syro-Malabar Church: Protest meeting begins;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/row-over-ordination-of-deacons-in-syro-malabar-church-protest-meeting-begins/article68689330.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:19:53 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hong Kong outlet \u2018Stand News\u2019 editor jailed for sedition;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/hong-kong-outlet-stand-news-editor-jailed-for-sedition/article68689303.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:16:47 +0530",
        "text": "The sentencing of Chung Pui-kuen is the latest crackdown on free speech in Hong Kong, which has seen critics of China jailed or forced into exile"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Badlapur encounter | \u201cPolice won\u2019t clap if attacked\u201d: Fadnavis defends police action , denounces glorification;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/police-cant-clap-they-will-shoot-devendra-fadnavis-on-badlapur-encounter/article68689357.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:16:09 +0530",
        "text": "We don\u2019t believe in encounters, says Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Measures identified to ease vehicular congestion in Cyberabad;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/measures-identified-to-ease-vehicular-congestion-in-cyberabad/article68686448.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:05:43 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Daily Quiz | On Bhagat Singh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/daily-quiz-on-bhagat-singh/article68689341.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:05:13 +0530",
        "text": "A quiz on the life and works of Bhagat Singh"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CPI(M) leader P. Jayarajan criticises LDF legislator P.V. Anvar for repeated allegations against party;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/cpim-leader-p-jayarajan-criticises-ldf-legislator-pv-anvar-for-repeated-allegations-against-party/article68689279.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:00:56 +0530",
        "text": "P. Jayarajan questions Anvar\u2019s press conferences, suggesting that there \u2018may be a conspiracy\u2019 behind the MLA\u2019s actions"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Gujarat: 27 Tamil Nadu pilgrims stranded on flooded causeway in Bhavnagar rescued in overnight operation;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/gujarat/gujarat-27-tamil-nadu-pilgrims-stranded-on-flooded-causeway-in-bhavnagar-rescued-in-overnight-operation/article68689164.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:00:31 +0530",
        "text": "A bus carrying 29 persons, mostly pilgrims from Tamil Nadu got stuck on the raised path on a stream near Koliyak village on Thursday evening"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vital organs of braindead man harvested on two persons;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/vital-organs-of-braindead-man-harvested-on-two-persons/article68686853.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:54:36 +0530",
        "text": "The doctors appealed to Santosh\u2019s family to donate his organs so that they would benefit those in need; overcoming their grief, they agreed to do so"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Punjab Women Commission writes to President, seeks removal of RGNUL Vice Chancellor;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/punjab-women-commission-writes-to-president-seeks-removal-of-rgnul-vice-chancellor/article68689259.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:48:53 +0530",
        "text": "The students of the law university have been protesting against Vice Chancellor Jai Shankar Singh for allegedly violating the privacy of female students at their hostel and have been demanding his resignation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CPI(M), Kerala government parry LDF legislator P.V. Anvar\u2019s accusations against CM\u2019s office, family;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/cpim-kerala-government-parry-ldf-legislator-pv-anvars-accusations-against-cms-office-family/article68689255.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:46:34 +0530",
        "text": "Pinarayi Vijayan accuses Anvar of becoming \u2018a mouthpiece\u2019 for anti-Left forces to defame CPI(M) and Kerala government"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Woman arrested for Deepavali chit fund fraud in Chennai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/woman-arrested-for-deepavali-chit-fund-fraud-in-chennai/article68687377.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:45:01 +0530",
        "text": "The accused had collected \u20b954 lakh from several persons via three intermediaries under the guise of a Deepavali chit fund scheme"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Irrigation projects in north-coastal Andhra Pradesh close to full reservoir level;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/irrigation-projects-in-north-coastal-andhra-pradesh-close-to-full-reservoir-level/article68686638.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:44:38 +0530",
        "text": "According to the daily water level status reports of irrigation projects almost all 16 irrigation projects in the region are almost close to the full reservoir level"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Telangana forest section officer, beat officer assaulted by encroachers;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-forest-section-officer-beat-officer-assaulted-by-encroachers/article68689218.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:33:58 +0530",
        "text": "The FSO Vinod and FBO Sharath were admitted to a private hospital with serious injuries on head and other body parts"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mpox confirmed in Kerala native who returned from UAE;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/mpox-confirmed-in-kerala-native-who-returned-from-uae/article68689167.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:32:39 +0530",
        "text": "Samples from 29-year-old Ernakulam native tested at National Institute of Virology lab in Alappuzha confirms Mpox infection"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;ED searches Telangana Revenue Minister Ponguleti\u2019s premises;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/ed-searches-telangana-ministers-premises-others-in-money-laundering-case/article68689193.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:30:07 +0530",
        "text": "The ED teams from New Delhi arrived at 5.30 a.m. on September 27 morning and started searching at the Minister\u2019s residence in Narsingi apart from his offices in Jubilee Hills and Banjara Hills. ."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hurricane Helene makes landfall in northwestern Florida as Category-4 storm;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/hurricane-helene-makes-landfall-in-northwestern-florida-as-category-4-storm/article68689185.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:29:23 +0530",
        "text": "In western Cuba, Helene knocked out power to more than 2,00,000 homes and businesses as it brushed past the island"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hyderabad-based theatre group The Torn Curtains to stage a play at The Park in Visakhapatnam;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/hyderabad-based-theatre-group-the-torn-curtains-to-stage-a-play-at-the-park-in-visakhapatnam/article68680560.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:27:12 +0530",
        "text": "\u2018Tea with Everything\u2019 is a series of plays based on stories by Anton Chekov"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CEO of a herbal healthcare company among six arrested for Alprazolam trade;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/ceo-of-a-herbal-healthcare-company-among-six-arrested-for-alprazolam-trade/article68689223.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:26:11 +0530",
        "text": "The officer said Naveen Aggarwal, who also owns Nutriley Pvt. Ltd. had won the Indian Achiever's Award in 2023"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Parliament's standing committees constituted: BJP's Mahtab to head Finance, Shashi Tharoor given External Affairs;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/parliaments-standing-committees-constituted-bjps-mahtab-to-head-finance-shashi-tharoor-given-external-affairs/article68689188.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:25:59 +0530",
        "text": "The department-related standing committees, which have representation from across party lines, act as mini parliaments and keep a tab on the functioning of various ministries."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;A variety of events lined up for World WIldlife Week at Indira Gandhi Zoological Park in Visakhapatnam;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/a-variety-of-events-lined-up-for-world-wildlife-week-at-indira-gandhi-zoological-park-in-visakhapatnam/article68685318.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:23:34 +0530",
        "text": "World Wildlife Week will be celebrated from October 2 to 8 in Visakhapatnam\u2019s Indira Gandhi Zoological Park"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kadambari Jethwani case: a relentless fight for justice;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/kadambari-jethwani-case-a-relentless-fight-for-justice/article68679379.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:22:31 +0530",
        "text": "In a sequence of events that can seem stranger than fiction, a Mumbai-based actor has found herself in the crosshairs of an insidious nexus between a powerful individual and a handful of unscrupulous police officers who bent the law to their will. Sumit Bhattacharjee writes how the her struggle for justice has revealed deep-seated corruption within the elite of the Andhra Pradesh police"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Divya Kala Mela in Visakhapatnam showcases talents of differently-abled entrepreneurs from across India;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/divya-kala-mela-in-visakhapatnam-showcases-talents-of-differently-abled-entrepreneurs-from-across-india/article68684937.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:20:56 +0530",
        "text": "Differently-abled enterprenuers from across India have set up their stalls at the Divya Kala Mela in Visakhapatnam"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chennai police bust prostitution racket, detain two;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chennai-police-bust-prostitution-racket-detain-two/article68687333.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:16:44 +0530",
        "text": "Two men have been allegedly running the racket under the guise of a manpower consultancy company"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Clash erupts at Dehradun railway station over minor girl's interfaith relationship, case registered against \"unknown miscreants\";https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttarakhand/clash-erupts-at-dehradun-railway-station-over-minor-girls-interfaith-relationship-case-registered-against-unknown-miscreants/article68689192.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:16:30 +0530",
        "text": "A spat escalated after a crowd gathered and led to arguments resulting in stone pelting and vandalism of vehicles"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PM Modi to inaugurate Pune Metro virtually on Sunday;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-modi-to-inaugurate-pune-metro-virtually-on-sunday/article68689171.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:00:36 +0530",
        "text": "PM Modi will also lay the foundation of the Swargate-Katraj Metro stretch."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Heavy rain in Sikkim triggers multiple landslides, bridge damaged;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sikkim/heavy-rain-in-sikkim-triggers-multiple-landslides-bridge-damaged/article68689143.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:56:31 +0530",
        "text": "With the bridge down, Mangan district headquarters in Sikkim is cut off from the rest of the State."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Autorickshaws in Belagavi to install meters in October;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/autorickshaws-in-belagavi-to-install-meters-in-october/article68687259.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:54:37 +0530",
        "text": "The decision was taken at the meeting of the District Road Safety Committee and Regional Transport Office Authority on September 25"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018North Korea capable of building double-digit number of nuclear bombs\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/north-korea-capable-of-building-double-digit-number-of-nuclear-bombs/article68689166.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:54:19 +0530",
        "text": "South Korean agency said North Korea likely has about 70 kilograms of plutonium and an unspecified but considerable amount of weapons-grade uranium that would be enough to build \u201cat least a double-digit number\u201d of weapons"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rebels, armies attack people displaced in DRC, says HRW;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/rebels-armies-attack-people-displaced-in-drc-says-hrw/article68689158.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:50:15 +0530",
        "text": "The rights group said many of the victims were women and children"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kursk sees \u2018coexistence\u2019\u00a0of Russians, Ukraine troops;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/kursk-sees-coexistence-of-russians-ukraine-troops/article68689146.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:47:07 +0530",
        "text": "The Ukrainian soldiers said living conditions are difficult and civilians have to rely on their own reserves and vegetable gardens"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Centre hikes minimum wage rates for workers up to \u20b91,035 per day;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/centre-hikes-minimum-wage-rates-for-workers-up-to-1035-per-day/article68689131.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:45:43 +0530",
        "text": "The new wage rates will take effect from October 1, 2024."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;China admits economy facing new \u2018problems\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/china-admits-economy-facing-new-problems/article68689138.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:43:20 +0530",
        "text": "Beijing has this week unveiled a raft of measures to boost its ailing economy"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Please don\u2019t eat my cat\u2019: Trump parody song goes viral;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/please-dont-eat-my-cat-trump-parody-song-goes-viral/article68689126.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:39:11 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Trump during the presidential debate claimed that migrants in Ohio \u201care eating the dogs, eating the cats\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Voting for DU Students Union elections begins;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-university-student-union-election-updates/article68689103.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:35:43 +0530",
        "text": "Students from different DU colleges are casting their votes to elect new representatives for the central panel positions of president, vice president, secretary and joint secretary"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;German economy to shrink further in 2024, think-tanks issue statement;https://www.thehindu.com/business/german-economy-to-shrink-further-in-2024-think-tanks-issue-statement/article68687574.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:35:39 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;China\u2019s intercontinental missile sends waves across Indo-Pacific;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/chinas-intercontinental-missile-sends-waves-across-indo-pacific/article68689116.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:35:16 +0530",
        "text": "China rarely tests ICBMs out in international waters;\u00a0it choosing the Pacific Ocean as the location for the test comes across as both a display of increased nuclear capabilities and a warning to the United States and its allies in the region, experts say"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vietnam coffee prices fall ahead of new harvest;https://www.thehindu.com/business/vietnam-coffee-prices-fall-ahead-of-new-harvest/article68689104.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:32:19 +0530",
        "text": "Traders said the weather until now remained supportive for the trees but trade was quiet."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Thirst for power complicates ESG investors\u2019 love affair with tech stocks;https://www.thehindu.com/business/thirst-for-power-complicates-esg-investors-love-affair-with-tech-stocks/article68689081.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:25:52 +0530",
        "text": "Tech firms report increased emissions, raising concerns among ESG fund managers who want to show their portfolios do well also by environment;\u00a0investors press tech giants for more data on AI\u2019s environmental impact; AI boom could boost data center power demand by 2030: Goldman Sachs"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;A special event to mark the Golden jubilee of Chitra Visweswaran\u2019s dance academy;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/a-special-event-to-mark-the-golden-jubilee-of-chitra-visweswarans-dance-academy/article68685151.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:17:04 +0530",
        "text": "As Chidambaram Academy of Performing Arts (CAPA) completes 50 years,  Bharatanatyam exponent Chitra Visweswaran talks about how teaching lends a new perspective to creativity"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.S. experiencing worst border crisis in history of world: Trump;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-experiencing-worst-border-crisis-in-history-of-world-trump/article68689036.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:14:04 +0530",
        "text": "The architect of this destruction is Kamala Harris, says Presidential candidate Donald Trump"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Trump to meet Ukraine's Zelenskyy after Harris pledges support;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/trump-to-meet-ukraines-zelenskyy-after-harris-pledges-support/article68689018.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:12:10 +0530",
        "text": "Biden announces $8 billion in military aid for Ukraine; Harris takes veiled jab at Trump over his stance"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;After break with CPI(M), LDF legislator Anvar strives to stave off political wilderness;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/after-break-with-cpim-ldf-legislator-anvar-strives-to-stave-off-political-wilderness/article68687595.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:10:40 +0530",
        "text": "Nilambur MLA will hold a public meeting in Malappuram on Sunday to present his case against the CM and his office. He is casting himself as the champion of the ordinary person\u2019s struggle, chiefly minorities and left secularists"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Harris leads Trump in several battleground States, various polls say;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/harris-leads-trump-in-several-battleground-states-various-polls-say/article68689014.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:57:12 +0530",
        "text": "Kamala Harris is leading in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia Donald Trump is leading in Arizona"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Floods fuel political tensions as heavy rains continue to disrupt life in West Bengal;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/floods-fuel-political-tensions-as-heavy-rains-continue-to-disrupt-life-in-west-bengal/article68686664.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:56:18 +0530",
        "text": "Political war of words persists over DVC water release, BJP officials claim Mamata played politics to create a distraction from the West Bengal doctors\u2019 protests"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;A.P.\u2019s lands freehold scheme: preliminary inquiry reveals 680 acres transferred illegally;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/aps-lands-freehold-scheme-preliminary-inquiry-reveals-680-acres-transferred-illegally/article68687086.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:41:06 +0530",
        "text": "Six districts were selected, and the report revealed that here were serious violations in the registration of the lands"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Security forces recover arms, explosives in Manipur;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/manipur/security-forces-recover-arms-explosives-in-manipur/article68688979.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:31:45 +0530",
        "text": "Manipur Police and Central Reserve Police Force conduct joint operations in Kangpokpi district\u2019s Haraothel and Lambung hilltops."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Riding out a storm: how six field personnel of South Central Railway averted a major disaster;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/riding-out-a-storm-how-six-field-personnel-of-south-central-railway-averted-a-major-disaster/article68685901.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:26:40 +0530",
        "text": "Keen vigil and quick thinking by six field personnel of South Central Railway helped avert a major disaster and save thousands of lives earlier this month. Their alertness revealed washed-out tracks at 15 locations, prompting emergency measures. Stranded passengers were safely transported, and rapid repairs were completed within 60 hours.\u00a0V. Geetanath\u00a0chronicles this remarkable response at a time when Indian Railways has been grappling with a rising number of accidents, often linked to human errors"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nampally and Bahadurpura constitute over 50% of the structures in Musi river bed;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/nampally-and-bahadurpura-constitute-over-50-of-the-structures-in-musi-river-bed/article68687450.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:13:18 +0530",
        "text": "Tension prevailed at Chaitanyapuri and New Maruthi Nagar as residents objected to the marking of their homes"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Reasi terror attack: NIA searches underway in two districts of J&K;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/reasi-terror-attack-nia-searches-underway-in-two-districts-of-jk/article68688964.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:09:59 +0530",
        "text": "The move follows the terror attack that occured on June 9, where nine persons, including seven pilgrims from outside J& were killed and 41 injured when terrorists opened fire at the bus."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Department restructured ahead of new excise policy in Andhra Pradesh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/department-restructured-ahead-of-new-excise-policy-in-andhra-pradesh/article68687548.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:09:40 +0530",
        "text": "In fact, the previous YSRCP government created a Special Enforcement Bureau and delegated enforcement powers of the Excise department to it"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;SJCC\u2019s Hashmi Theatre Forum bats for educational theatre in colleges;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/sjccs-hashmi-theatre-forum-bats-for-educational-theatre-in-colleges/article68685874.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "Some of the high points of Hashmi\u2019s Theatre Forum include performing at Rahul Gandhi\u2019s Bharat Jodo Yatra in Tumkur and doing street theatre during the COVID-19 pandemic\u00a0in around 100 low-income settlement areas"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Science and the City: Sci560 captures Bengaluru\u2019s rich legacy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/science-and-the-city-sci560-captures-bengalurus-rich-legacy/article68680444.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "Sci560, a new exhibition that opened at Science Gallery Bengaluru, uses a selection of objects from the city\u2019s various institutions to offer insights into the science and innovation that shaped it"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Beaches beckon tourists to coastal Karnataka as tourism season begins;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/beaches-beckon-tourists-to-coastal-karnataka-as-tourism-season-begins/article68682167.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "Beaches along the western coast of India, including those on the Karnataka coast, are known for their serenity and calm waters of the Arabian Sea"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Gang\u00a0breaks open three ATM kiosks in Kerala\u2019s Thrissur, decamps with lakhs of rupees;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/gang-breaks-open-three-atm-kiosks-in-thrissur-decamp-with-lakhs-of-rupees/article68688917.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:56:24 +0530",
        "text": "According to reports, burglars with gas cutter targeted ATM kiosks at Shoranur Road, Mapranam and Kolazhy along the same route between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Japan's LDP picks new leader to replace outgoing PM Kishida;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/japans-ldp-picks-new-leader-to-replace-outgoing-pm-kishida/article68688916.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:20:13 +0530",
        "text": "Polls suggest three candidates have the edge in a record nine-strong field: Shinjiro Koizumi, Sanae Takaichi and Shigeru Ishiba"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Elon Musk's X says Brazil access essential for democracy, promises legal processes;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/elon-musks-x-says-brazil-access-essential-for-democracy-promises-legal-processes/article68688918.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:10:00 +0530",
        "text": "We will continue to defend freedom of expression and due process of law, says the social media platform."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Gunfire erupts near Guinea\u2019s presidential palace; military locks down area;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/gunfire-erupts-near-guineas-presidential-palace-military-locks-down-area/article68688897.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:49:44 +0530",
        "text": "Shots have been fired near the presidential palace in Guinea\u2019s capital Conakry, and the army briefly locked down the city center and evacuated it"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;After objections by Supreme Court, West Bengal govt. removes provisions in Ratri Sathi  initiative;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/west-bengal-assembly/after-objections-by-supreme-court-west-bengal-govt-removes-provisions-in-ratri-sathi-initiative/article68687053.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:28:38 +0530",
        "text": "Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee\u2019s remarks that the new police recruits will undergo training and duty at the same time has sparked controversy"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kolkata court gives death penalty to man for rape and murder of minor under the POCSO Act;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/kolkata-court-gives-death-penalty-to-man-for-rape-and-murder-of-minor-under-the-pocso-act/article68686993.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:21:10 +0530",
        "text": "Widespread protests had erupted in the State when the crime occurred in March 2023 and the victim\u2019s body was discovered from the accused\u2019s home"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nanjangud rasabale: A tale of revival;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/nanjangud-rasabale-a-tale-of-revival/article68680562.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:13:00 +0530",
        "text": "The famed Nanjangud rasabale banana variety, which had become scarce because of a fungal disease, has begun to thrive again, thanks to enthusiastic farmers and the intervention of scientists. The Hindu Jahnavi T.R. visits the villages where this GI-tagged variety of banana is grown to record both the success story and the challenges ahead."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Four men assault minor boy for gang rivalry in Delhi\u2019s Jahangirpuri, arrested;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/four-men-assault-minor-boy-for-gang-rivalry-in-delhis-jahangirpuri-arrested/article68687336.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:06:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;DRM inspects 3rd line works Rayagada-Ladda section;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/drm-inspects-3rd-line-works-rayagada-ladda-section/article68687653.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:55:04 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israel-Hezbollah conflict: air raid sirens sound across Tel Aviv;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-hezbollah-conflict-air-raid-sirens-sound-across-tel-aviv/article68688879.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:47:04 +0530",
        "text": "Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu vows to carry out \u201cfull force\u201d strikes against Hezbollah until it ceases firing rockets across the border"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Morning Digest: PM Modi launches 3 PARAM Rudra supercomputers,  pilgrims from Tamil Nadu stranded in a flooded river in Gujarat\u2019s Bhavnagar, and more;https://www.thehindu.com/news/morning-digest-september-27-2024/article68688047.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:33:37 +0530",
        "text": "Here is a select list of stories to start the day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;China on 'high alert' after Japan warship sails through Taiwan Strait;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international//article68686697.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:08:35 +0530",
        "text": "The United States and its allies are increasingly crossing through the 180-km Taiwan Strait to reinforce its status as an international waterway, angering China"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Biden announces 'surge' in Ukraine military assistance;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/biden-announces-surge-in-ukraine-military-assistance/article68686633.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:47:32 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Biden pledged nearly $8 billion in military aid, including $5.5 billion to be authorized before it expires at the end of the U.S. fiscal year"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Air strikes in Khartoum as Sudan army attacks paramilitary positions;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/air-strikes-in-khartoum-as-sudan-army-attacks-paramilitary-positions/article68686689.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:33:49 +0530",
        "text": "Since the war began, much of its worst fighting has been in densely populated areas, and both sides have been accused of indiscriminately bombing residential areas"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Floods leave Bhavani Island in a state of disarray;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/floods-leave-bhavani-island-in-a-state-of-disarray/article68687440.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:00:08 +0530",
        "text": "Most of the tourist attractions on the island suffer extensive damage, initial plans to revive and reopen it by Dasara prove unfeasible"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Many names missing in list of flood victims, complain residents of 38th, 39th divisions in Vijayawada;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/many-names-missing-in-list-of-flood-victims-complain-residents-of-38th-39th-divisions-in-vijayawada/article68687527.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 04:59:51 +0530",
        "text": "Government officials are yet to visit their houses to enumerate the flood loss, they say"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Taliban say no one faces discrimination in Afghanistan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/taliban-say-no-one-faces-discrimination-in-afghanistan/article68686669.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 03:49:00 +0530",
        "text": "The Taliban say it\u2019s absurd to accuse them of gender discrimination and other human rights violations, as four countries vow to hold Afghanistan\u2019s rulers accountable under international law for their treatment of women and girls"
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police\u2019s HK$3 million Scameter raffle: how to participate and what you can win;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280232/hong-kong-polices-hk3-million-scameter-raffle-how-participate-and-what-you-can-win?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:57:07 +0800",
        "text": "The Post breaks down this unprecedented publicity drive by police and what sweeteners are available for participants."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police arrest 50 in 7-day crackdown on scammers that stole HK$110 million;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280197/hong-kong-police-arrest-50-7-day-crackdown-scammers-stole-hk110-million?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:44:01 +0800",
        "text": "Force highlights new ruse that targets those planning trips to Japan by offering fake currency exchange deals with favourable rates."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong will never be \u2018just another Chinese city\u2019, finance chief says after meeting top UK officials;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3280196/hong-kong-will-never-be-just-another-chinese-city-finance-chief-paul-chan-tells-uk-officials?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:41:49 +0800",
        "text": "Paul Chan also seeks to defend local business environment by saying Hong Kong \u2018will never be just another Chinese city\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;3 from Vietnam jailed for  for running illegal Hong Kong diner selling dog, cat meat;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280190/3-vietnam-jailed-over-17-months-running-illegal-hong-kong-diner-selling-dog-cat-meat?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:54:50 +0800",
        "text": "Trio are illegal immigrants who had operated the restaurant from a tenement flat in Mong Kok."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Xi Jinping\u2019s economic rally cry, Hong Kong takes Singapore\u2019s crown: SCMP\u2019s 7 highlights;https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3280124/xi-jinpings-economic-rally-cry-hong-kong-takes-singapores-crown-scmps-7-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:30:08 +0800",
        "text": "From Xi\u2019s call at an unexpected Politburo meeting to Hong Kong regaining top billing, here are a few highlights from SCMP\u2019s recent reporting."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Incoming CUHK head says university \u2018back on track\u2019 after Hong Kong protests;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3280142/hong-kong-scientist-dennis-lo-approved-serve-next-head-chinese-university?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:00:55 +0800",
        "text": "Molecular geneticist was sole candidate to succeed outgoing Rocky Tuan, who was embroiled in controversy following 2019 social unrest."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Panda Watch: twins\u2019 eyes open wider, spotlight shared with Hong Kong newcomers An An and Ke Ke;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3280087/panda-watch-twins-eyes-open-wider-spotlight-shared-hong-kong-newcomers-and-ke-ke?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:00:18 +0800",
        "text": "Twins pass six-week mark, as adult panda pair touch down in city to begin 30-day quarantine at Ocean Park."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Spirit of Hong Kong Awards: wuxia author goes digital to share stories with youth;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280060/spirit-hong-kong-awards-wuxia-author-goes-digital-share-stories-youth?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:00:11 +0800",
        "text": "Chan Mei-to has written 11 novels, more than 400 short stories and is encouraging young people to write and engage with Chinese culture."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Jailing of Hong Kong journalists for sedition will have chilling effect on media, experts say;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280108/jailing-hong-kong-journalists-sedition-will-have-chilling-effect-media-experts-say?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:30:14 +0800",
        "text": "But Stand News case is unlikely to have significant impact on industry given increased caution journalists now take in doing their jobs, they say."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police launch lucky draws with HK$3 million in prizes to boost Scameter app downloads;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280058/hong-kong-police-launch-lucky-draws-hk3-million-prizes-boost-scameter-app-downloads?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:00:08 +0800",
        "text": "Electric vehicle among prizes up for grabs, as force looks to encourage anti-scam app downloads to combat surge in fraud cases."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Chinese consulate helping Hongkonger barred from leaving South Korea\u2019s Jeju Island;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280106/hong-kong-woman-barred-leaving-south-korean-island-after-bathhouse-incident?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:30:32 +0800",
        "text": "Woman, 67, was arrested, but not charged, after taking photos of a traditional bathhouse and its patrons despite a \u2018no-photography\u2019 rule."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong museum to showcase Olympic medals from local, mainland Chinese athletes;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3280105/hong-kong-museum-showcase-olympic-medals-local-mainland-chinese-athletes?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:24:33 +0800",
        "text": "Display at Museum of History part of exhibition marking anniversary of country\u2019s establishment, with Science Museum to also host exhibits."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong to boost cross-border traffic arrangements for National Day celebrations;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3280103/hong-kong-boost-cross-border-traffic-arrangements-national-day-celebrations?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:11:21 +0800",
        "text": "Authorities seek to avoid repeat of chaos on New Year\u2019s Eve last year when thousands of mainland Chinese were stuck in city after fireworks show."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Van Gogh painting auctioned for US$27.6 million, below estimates, at Christie\u2019s Hong Kong;https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3280102/van-gogh-painting-auctioned-us276-million-below-estimates-christies-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:10:45 +0800",
        "text": "US$27.6 million for early Van Gogh work a good price, observer says as Christie\u2019s talks up results of auction where most bidding was low."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Contender to lead Chinese University of Hong Kong vows to protect academic freedoms;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3280101/contender-lead-chinese-university-hong-kong-vows-protect-academic-freedoms?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:07:26 +0800",
        "text": "Professor Dennis Lo also calls for more focus on AI field during sit-down sessions with students, staff and alumni ahead of council\u2019s decision."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong tech firms tap city\u2019s first AI supercomputing service to accelerate R&D;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280100/hong-kong-tech-firms-tap-citys-first-ai-supercomputing-service-accelerate-rd?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:39:16 +0800",
        "text": "Science Park offering service that allows companies to pay for access powerful technology that can accelerate tasks such as AI model training."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong equality watchdog urges employers to tailor workplace to staff with dementia;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280094/hong-kong-equality-watchdog-urges-employers-tailor-workplace-staff-dementia?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:32:39 +0800",
        "text": "Advice from Equal Opportunities Commission includes giving staff with condition familiar tasks and putting up clear workplace signage."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong court jails 2 former Stand News editors for up to 21 months for sedition;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280092/hong-kong-court-jails-2-former-stand-news-editors-21-months-sedition?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:26:59 +0800",
        "text": "After already spending time in prison, Chung Pui-kuen will serve nine months, while Patrick Lam walked out of court a free man."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Alibaba sets US$142 million promotion to waive delivery fees for Hong Kong\u2019s Taobao users;https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3280088/alibaba-sets-us142-million-promotion-waive-delivery-fees-hong-kongs-taobao-users?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:08:28 +0800",
        "text": "Delivery charges on the city\u2019s Taobao users will be waived for certain orders that cost more than US$14 during this fourth quarter."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;No Hong Kong public secondary school at risk of closure in new academic year: authorities;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3280086/no-hong-kong-public-secondary-school-risk-closure-new-academic-year-authorities?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:56:32 +0800",
        "text": "Education Bureau says secondary schools can add nine more Form One classes, while primary schools can launch three more Primary One classes."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;\u2018Double happiness\u2019: new pandas join \u2018big Hong Kong family\u2019, set for Christmas unveiling;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3280084/double-happiness-new-pandas-join-big-hong-kong-family-set-christmas-unveiling?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:48:42 +0800",
        "text": "Chief Secretary Eric Chan hails arrival of An An and Ke Ke ahead of National Day holiday period, as Ocean Park prepares for December debut."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong developer Lai Sun prices The Parkland in Yuen Long at 10-year low to lure buyers;https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3280073/hong-kong-developer-lai-sun-prices-parkland-yuen-long-10-year-low-lure-buyers?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:30:13 +0800",
        "text": "The first batch of 50 units at The Parkland in Yuen Long has an average price of HK$9,278 per square foot."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Singapore Airlines offers Hong Kong fliers tickets for regional destinations discounted by up to 60%;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3280078/singapore-airlines-offers-hong-kong-fliers-tickets-regional-destinations-discounted-60?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:03:48 +0800",
        "text": "Move set to put pressure on Cathay Pacific to also offer discounts as competition among regional rivals intensifies."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s New World promotes Eric Ma to CEO, replacing Adrian Cheng after record loss;https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3280053/new-world-promotes-eric-ma-ceo-replacing-adrian-cheng-after-revenue-plunge?utm_source=rss_feed;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:51:59 +0800",
        "text": "Adrian Cheng Chi-kong stepped down as New World\u2019s CEO, handing over to Eric Ma Siu-cheung the job that he had held for four years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Argentina's poverty rate soars past 50% under Javier Milei;https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-s-poverty-rate-soars-past-50-under-javier-milei/a-70341471?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Staunch libertarian Javier Milei has implemented a range of austerity measures since taking office. His government blamed previous administrations for the dire economic situation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Chinese nuclear submarine sank during construction, US says;https://www.dw.com/en/chinese-nuclear-submarine-sank-during-construction-us-says/a-70340219?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Zhou-class attack submarine is China's newest nuclear submarine. Satellite images indicate that it sank between May and June, according to US defense officials."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ishiba to be Japan's next prime minister;https://www.dw.com/en/ishiba-to-be-japan-s-next-prime-minister/a-70340462?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The former defense minister won the race to lead Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and is all but assured to become prime minister after Fumio Kishida's said he would not stand for re-election."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy to meet Trump in New York;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-to-meet-trump-in-new-york/live-70340009?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The former US president and Republican candidate has previously described US military aid to Ukraine as a waste of money. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hurricane Helene makes landfall in northwestern Florida;https://www.dw.com/en/hurricane-helene-makes-landfall-in-northwestern-florida/a-70339954?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Helene strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane before making landfall in Florida. The storm is expected to be one of the biggest in decades."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East updates: Germany backs Lebanon cease-fire;https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-updates-germany-backs-lebanon-cease-fire/live-70339753?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany\u2019s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told the UN General Assembly that \"a broader regional escalation\" in the Middle East would not bring \"long-lasting security.\" DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Joe Biden signs order to curb new gun technologies;https://www.dw.com/en/joe-biden-signs-order-to-curb-new-gun-technologies/a-70339751?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The new executive order announced by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris seeks to counter the threats posed by 3D-printed and converted guns in the US."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine: Kamala Harris slams Ukraine 'surrender' proposal;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-kamala-harris-slams-ukraine-surrender-proposal/live-70329113?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Without naming her political rival ex-US President Donald Trump, Harris took jabs at his suggestion that Ukraine should accept a truce to end the war. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NYC Mayor Eric Adams indicted on criminal corruption charges;https://www.dw.com/en/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-indicted-on-criminal-corruption-charges/a-70327293?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Eric Adams has been indicted in a federal corruption investigation and is the first mayor in New York City history to face a federal charge while in office."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US, EU, Ukraine slam Russia's nuclear deterrence doctrine;https://www.dw.com/en/us-eu-ukraine-slam-russia-s-nuclear-deterrence-doctrine/a-70336251?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The US, EU and Kyiv all lambasted Russian President Vladimir Putin's \"irresponsible\" plans to amend the doctrine. The Kremlin meanwhile defended the move, describing it as a warning to the west."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UN General Assembly: Abbas tells leaders to end war in Gaza;https://www.dw.com/en/un-general-assembly-abbas-tells-leaders-to-end-war-in-gaza/live-70335512?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The gathering in New York has largely been dominated by concerns about Russia's war in Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, and the possibility of further escalation in Lebanon. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No red lines: Will Arab leaders go beyond angry words to bring peace?;https://www.dw.com/en/no-red-lines-will-arab-leaders-go-beyond-angry-words-to-bring-peace/a-70333738?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "They have accused Israel of genocide and of pushing the entire Middle East toward war. But is there anything Arab leaders can really do to bring about a cease-fire? And do they even want to?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Turkey is competing with China for influence in Africa;https://www.dw.com/en/how-turkey-is-competing-with-china-for-influence-in-africa/a-70301293?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Turkey is increasing its engagement in several African countries in an effort to boost its influence and trade. But with China and Russia being the dominant players there, Ankara is struggling to find its role."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Congo: Displaced people caught between conflict and crisis;https://www.dw.com/en/congo-displaced-people-caught-between-conflict-and-crisis/a-70322796?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "In eastern Congo, people are trapped between relentless fighting in their villages and overcrowded camps with scarce food and rampant mpox. Survival is a daily struggle in the conflict-ridden region."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palau: A Pacific island on the front line of climate change;https://www.dw.com/en/palau-a-pacific-island-on-the-front-line-of-climate-change/a-70331559?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "One of the smallest nations in the world is threatened by rising sea levels, higher tides, flooding and more frequent and powerful storms. And there are dozens of other Pacific states in the same boat."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine: Biden calls Germany meeting of Kyiv allies;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-biden-calls-germany-meeting-of-kyiv-allies/a-70331606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "US President Joe Biden has said he will convene a high-level meeting of 50 Ukrainian allies in Germany next month. He also announced nearly $8 billion in military aid to Ukraine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Will Formula 1 return to South Africa?;https://www.dw.com/en/will-formula-1-return-to-south-africa/a-70269906?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The last F1 race in Africa was in 1993. A return could be in the cards, but what would it mean for the country and the continent?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pakistan: Police blasphemy killings raise new concerns;https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-police-blasphemy-killings-raise-new-concerns/a-70331902?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Activists say two separate cases of police killing men accused of blasphemy have opened a new dimension in a long-running human rights problem for Pakistan."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hong Kong: Stand News editor sentenced to 21 months in jail;https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-stand-news-editor-sentenced-to-21-months-in-jail/a-70327895?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The landmark sedition case is seen as a barometer for press freedom in Hong Kong. Stand News was one of the last media outlets in the former British colony that dared to criticize authorities amid a crackdown by Beijing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India: Dozens drown during Hindu festival;https://www.dw.com/en/india-dozens-drown-during-hindu-festival/a-70331602?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "At least 46 people have drowned, 37 of them children, at events to celebrate a Hindu festival. The ceremony involves bathing in local rivers and streams."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'After Hitler': Changing views of Nazism in postwar Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/after-hitler-changing-views-of-nazism-in-postwar-germany/a-70323500?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "From secret adoration to loud dismay, Germans have come to terms with the Nazi past over 80 years in very different ways, as a new exhibition shows."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Europe help contain spiraling violence in Lebanon?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-europe-help-contain-spiraling-violence-in-lebanon/a-70325262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "As Israel-Hezbollah fighting ramps up, the EU is calling for de-escalation. Internal divisions have hindered the bloc's diplomacy in the Middle East since 2023, but experts say France may now have a role to play."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Government crisis deepens as Green leaders resign;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-government-crisis-deepens-as-green-leaders-resign/a-70324309?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Green Party co-chairs Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour are stepping down. The move could make things even harder for Germany's fractious coalition government."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy warns UN on nuclear plant safety;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-warns-un-on-nuclear-plant-safety/live-70322985?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the UN General Assembly that intelligence suggested Russia was planning to attack nuclear plants still in Ukrainian hands. Meanwhile, Russia claimed more gains in Donetsk. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police investigate blast at Cologne cafe;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-investigate-blast-at-cologne-cafe/a-70323612?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "One suspect turned himself in after an overnight explosion in Cologne with another one still on the run, according to police. The latest blast is not believed to be connected to a recent wave of drug-related violence."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Torn patellar tendon: A rare but serious knee injury;https://www.dw.com/en/torn-patellar-tendon-a-rare-but-serious-knee-injury/a-70323136?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen sustained a torn patellar tendon on the weekend. DW fills you in on how serious an injury it is, how it is treated, and how long it could take for him to return to the pitch."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New LUNA facility will prepare astronauts for moon landings;https://www.dw.com/en/new-luna-facility-will-prepare-astronauts-for-moon-landings/a-70313230?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The moon may be 384,400 kilometers away, but an accurate replica of its surface has opened in Germany. Astronauts from around the world will use it to train for missions to the moon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Charges pressed in Schumacher family blackmail case;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-charges-pressed-in-schumacher-family-blackmail-case/a-70321726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Prosecutors in Wuppertal have filed charges against three men accused of trying to blackmail Michael Schumacher's family for millions. They allegedly threatened to public compromising data online unless they were paid."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German far-right AfD party taps into young voters' fears, disillusionment;https://www.dw.com/en/german-far-right-afd-party-taps-into-young-voters-fears-disillusionment/a-70319700?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "More and more young Germans support the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. It capitalizes on their pessimistic outlook and disappointment with other parties, experts say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Climate change made Central Europe floods more likely: study;https://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-made-central-europe-floods-more-likely-study/a-70318772?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The recent deadly floods in Central Europe have shown \"the devastating results\" of burning fossil fuels, scientists say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe's AI bosses sound warning on soaring compliance costs;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-s-ai-bosses-sound-warning-on-soaring-compliance-costs/a-70243489?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Recent decisions by US tech giants to withhold their latest artificial intelligence (AI) models from the European market have raised concerns over the level of regulation now impacting tech firms in the bloc."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Greece worried about consequences of German border checks;https://www.dw.com/en/greece-worried-about-consequences-of-german-border-checks/a-70320699?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Athens is worried that Germany's reintroduction of border checks could have a knock-on effect across Europe and see migrants being returned to Greece."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Flood warnings on Oder River in eastern Brandenburg;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-flood-warnings-on-oder-river-in-eastern-brandenburg/a-70319284?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The highest flood warning level is in effect for a short stretch of the Oder River in Brandenburg where it marks the German border with Poland. In some more rural areas, it has already burst its banks."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UEFA 's reassessment of Spain's handball doesn't help Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/uefa-s-reassessment-of-spain-s-handball-doesn-t-help-germany/a-70320827?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "In one of the most memorable incidents at the Euros, Spain's Marc Cucurella blocked a German shot with his hand, but no penalty was called. Now UEFA has admitted that the referee got it wrong \u2014 but it changes nothing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Green co-leaders Lang and Nouripour resign;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-green-co-leaders-lang-and-nouripour-resign/a-70319586?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The co-leaders of Germany's Greens, Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour, have announced they're stepping down. The party suffered a disastrous state election in Brandenburg, dropping below 5% and losing its seats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Why are sea levels rising?;https://www.dw.com/en/why-are-sea-levels-rising/a-70281203?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Rising oceans are posing a global threat, particularly to low lying islands and coastal cities. What is driving this, and how can we respond? Here's what you need to know."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dutch 'Mocro mafia' sets off alarm bells in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-mocro-mafia-sets-off-alarm-bells-in-germany/a-69764909?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "German police have warned of Dutch organized crime networks moving into Germany after a series of explosions in Cologne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;CERN at 70: Smashing elementary particles for humanity;https://www.dw.com/en/cern-at-70-smashing-elementary-particles-for-humanity/a-70298947?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "CERN has been an epicenter of scientific breakthroughs since 1954, including the discovery of the Higgs boson. Scientists there hope a new, larger particle smasher will lead them to more discoveries for years to come."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;75 years of Frankfurt Book Fair: World stage for protests;https://www.dw.com/en/75-years-of-frankfurt-book-fair-world-stage-for-protests/a-70283991?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Cold War, neo-Nazis, as well as Iran's fatwa on Salman Rushdie all had an impact on the Frankfurt Book Fair, which turns 75 this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy says Iran, N. Korea 'accomplices';https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-says-iran-n-korea-accomplices/live-70307515?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denounced Iran and North Korea for providing weapons to Russia. He also said Moscow must be forced into any just peace. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Switzerland: Police investigate 1st use of 'suicide capsule';https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-police-investigate-1st-use-of-suicide-capsule/a-70314117?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Swiss police say they have detained several people and opened a criminal case a day after the first use of the \"Sarco\" capsule to end a person's life. Assisted dying is legal in Switzerland in some circumstances."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Deutsche Bahn: New train to link Berlin and Paris in 8 hours;https://www.dw.com/en/deutsche-bahn-new-train-to-link-berlin-and-paris-in-8-hours/a-70314292?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The first direct high-speed train service between both cities will be running from December, according to Deutsche Bahn. It will offer a journey without transfers, with stops in Frankfurt, Strasbourg and Karlsruhe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister: Eating habit survey shows developing tastes;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-eating-habit-survey-shows-developing-tastes/a-70309258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "A new government study points to changing tastes in food, but not a desire for rules, according to the agriculture minister. One thing stays constant \u2014 a pleasing taste was the most important factor for respondents."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Albanian PM has announced plans for the creation of a 27-acre sovereign state for a Sufi Muslim order in Tirana.;https://www.dw.com/en/albanian-pm-has-announced-plans-for-the-creation-of-a-27-acre-sovereign-state-for-a-sufi-muslim-order-in-tirana/a-70314510?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Albanian PM Edi Rama says he wants to establish a sovereign microstate for an Islamic Sufi order, the Shia Bektashi Muslims in Tirana. While welcomed by the order, the move has also been greeted with skepticism."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;North Korea and women's youth football: A perfect match;https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-and-women-s-youth-football-a-perfect-match/a-70313505?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "North Korea's young women have won their third U20 World Cup, so why is the isolated state so good at this level of the game?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany decries UniCredit bid for Commerzbank 'unfriendly';https://www.dw.com/en/germany-decries-unicredit-bid-for-commerzbank-unfriendly/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Italy's UniCredit stunned markets by clandestinely raising its stake in Germany's second-largest lender to 21%. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, the government stands by its side."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The true cost of protecting the Amazon and who should pay;https://www.dw.com/en/the-true-cost-of-protecting-the-amazon-and-who-should-pay/a-70309693?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The world\u2019s largest rainforest is battling deforestation, drought and record wildfires. Where is the money to save it coming from?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU divided over higher tariffs for Chinese EV imports;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-divided-over-higher-tariffs-for-chinese-ev-imports/a-70250391?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Despite \"constructive talks\" between the EU and China recently, the impasse over planned EU tariffs on China-made electric vehicles hasn't been resolved. The spat could escalate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police raids in southwest target human traffickers;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-raids-in-southwest-target-human-traffickers/a-70307600?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Police raided more than 20 properties in southwestern Germany and arrested at least four people. The case pertains to trafficking people from the Caucasus region to work illegally and for less than the minimum wage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How false memories make us who we are;https://www.dw.com/en/how-false-memories-make-us-who-we-are/a-70300263?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "We think of memory as a reliable recording of our lives. But we also have false memories, often pieced together from communal experience. Those false memories shape our identity the same as the real ones do."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;At least 4 die as migrant ship sinks off Greek island;https://www.dw.com/en/at-least-4-die-as-migrant-ship-sinks-off-greek-island/a-70306276?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "A small boat carrying migrants from nearby Turkey sank in the eastern Aegean Sea off the Greek island of Samos, killing at least four people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy eyes high-level talks on US trip;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-eyes-high-level-talks-on-us-trip/live-70298882?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Ukrainian president met with Germany's Olaf Scholz in New York. Meanwhile, Russia said 31 civilians had been killed in Kursk and 131,000 others have been forced to flee. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German supermarket finds \u20ac7M of cocaine in crates of bananas;https://www.dw.com/en/german-supermarket-finds-\u20ac7m-of-cocaine-in-crates-of-bananas/a-70303810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Police did not identify the discount supermarket chain. However, they said the cocaine was found at stores in several cities across the state of North Rhine-Westphalia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: SPD seeks coalition after slim win in Brandenburg;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-spd-seeks-coalition-after-slim-win-in-brandenburg/live-70298970?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats will seek coalition talks with upstart left party BSW, as working with the far-right runner-up AfD has been ruled out. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goalie ter Stegen's injury leaves Germany coach in a bind;https://www.dw.com/en/goalie-ter-stegen-s-injury-leaves-germany-coach-in-a-bind/a-70302777?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Just weeks after being confirmed as Germany's new first-choice goalkeeper, Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has gone down with a potentially season-ending injury. Could Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann recall Manuel Neuer?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Volkswagen's crisis: How can Europe's car industry survive?;https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-s-crisis-how-can-europe-s-car-industry-survive/a-70231806?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "While Volkswagen and other European automakers are considering closing factories, Chinese rivals are searching for production sites on the continent. What's going wrong in Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Far-right gains in east Germany could deal blow to economy;https://www.dw.com/en/far-right-gains-in-east-germany-could-deal-blow-to-economy/a-70295769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "After elections in Thuringia and Saxony, the far-right AfD party has again massively gained in a poll in eastern Germany. Now the second-strongest force in Brandenburg, their success causes concerns among businesses."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany increases 'Deutschlandticket' price to \u20ac58;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-increases-deutschlandticket-price-to-\u20ac58/a-70300975?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The \"Deutschlandticket\" monthly travel pass allows passengers unlimited trips on local and regional trains, trams and buses. Starting in 2025, the ticket will be \u20ac9 more expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hamilton's near heatstroke puts F1 driver safety in focus;https://www.dw.com/en/hamilton-s-near-heatstroke-puts-f1-driver-safety-in-focus/a-69704130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Both Mercedes drivers suffered from 'borderline heatstroke' at the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix. Not for the first time this year, questions are being raised about their safety."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Brandenburg election brings relief for ruling SPD;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-brandenburg-election-brings-relief-for-ruling-spd/a-70298529?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats managed to fight off the far-right AfD in the regional vote. However, questions about the future of Germany's ruling coalition remain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Sudan crisis: Threat to culture 'unprecedented,' UNESCO says;https://www.dw.com/en/sudan-crisis-threat-to-culture-unprecedented-unesco-says/a-70284737?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Sudan is sinking into war and chaos. Many cultural and world heritage sites have been destroyed or looted as millions of people are displaced."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy: Naples house collapse kills mother and two kids;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-naples-house-collapse-kills-mother-and-two-kids/a-70296505?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The house is believed to have collapsed due to an explosion, local authorities said. The father of the kids and their 2-year-old brother were hospitalized after the incident."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;SPD set to finish ahead of far-right AfD in Brandenburg vote;https://www.dw.com/en/spd-set-to-finish-ahead-of-far-right-afd-in-brandenburg-vote/live-70291788?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Projections in state elections in the eastern German state of Brandenburg give the Social Democrats a slim lead over the far-right AfD in the race to be the largest party. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Swiss voters reject biodiversity, pension reforms;https://www.dw.com/en/swiss-voters-reject-biodiversity-pension-reforms/a-70295253?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Voters in Switzerland have voted \"no\" to measures on biodiversity preservation and pension reforms, according to official initial results."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Gaza's disabled cyclists deliver aid, inspiration and hope;https://www.dw.com/en/gaza-s-disabled-cyclists-deliver-aid-inspiration-and-hope/a-70269177?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "When the bombs started to fall in Gaza last October, the Gaza Sunbirds, a group of 25 Palestinian cyclists whose legs were amputated, started using their bikes to deliver food and shelters to their neighbors."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New French government announced in shift to the right;https://www.dw.com/en/new-french-government-announced-in-shift-to-the-right/a-70291188?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "French President Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff revealed the new center-right government from the Elysee Palace with some new faces in key positions and some who will be returning to their positions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Campaigns and a concert on eve of vote;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-campaigns-and-a-concert-on-eve-of-vote/a-70290694?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Politicians made last-ditch pitches in Brandenburg before Sunday's state election, where the far-right AfD is in the running to be the largest party. Several German bands gathered in Potsdam opposing this prospect."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Female referee deletes Instagram after sexist messages;https://www.dw.com/en/female-referee-deletes-instagram-after-sexist-messages/a-70290706?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Albanian referee Emanuela Rusta is making fast progress, but the sport she works in is not. The official made the decision to get rid of her social media account after constant remarks about her appearance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Paratroopers land in Arnhem honoring Operation Market Garden;https://www.dw.com/en/paratroopers-land-in-arnhem-honoring-operation-market-garden/a-70290283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned World War II operations. The Allied bid to secure a Rhine crossing proved \"A Bridge too Far.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Homeless World Cup: 'We want to do something special';https://www.dw.com/en/homeless-world-cup-we-want-to-do-something-special/a-70218267?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "National football teams made up of homeless people from around the world will soon gather in South Korea for the Homeless World Cup. For many of the players, the stakes are much higher than just the trophy on offer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starting a new life after political imprisonment in Belarus;https://www.dw.com/en/starting-a-new-life-after-political-imprisonment-in-belarus/a-70274513?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned dozens of political prisoners in recent months. Husband and wife Dmitry Luksha and Polina Polovinko, who were released in early July, spoke with DW about their ordeal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Two arsenals destroyed in Russia, Kyiv says;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-two-arsenals-destroyed-in-russia-kyiv-says/live-70289171?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Ukraine has destroyed two ammunition depots in Russia, the Ukrainian military said. Meanwhile, three people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Immigrants in eastern Germany ask: Leave or stay?;https://www.dw.com/en/immigrants-in-eastern-germany-ask-leave-or-stay/a-70289695?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The far-right AfD, leading in some polls, has campaigned aggressively against immigrants in state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg. But those states also depend on immigrant labor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Are Western double standards undermining the global order?;https://www.dw.com/en/are-western-double-standards-undermining-the-global-order/a-70289453?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Global South has become increasingly critical of Western double standards. A study by the Munich Security Conference has warned that the rules-based international order is at stake."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How deadly is Ukraine's new 'dragon drone'?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-deadly-is-ukraine-s-new-dragon-drone/a-70287164?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Ukrainian armed forces have deployed a new kind of drone to defend their country, one filled with a pyrotechnic thermite mixture that rains fire down on enemy positions. Its use is highly controversial."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Fridays for Future protests draw 75,000 in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/fridays-for-future-protests-draw-75-000-in-germany/a-70287782?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Climate activists filled the streets of German cities from Berlin to Munich, calling on authorities to take stronger action. Meanwhile, a court jailed two elderly climate activists for sabotaging an oil pipeline."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Iceland: Police shoot 1st polar bear sighted in years;https://www.dw.com/en/iceland-police-shoot-1st-polar-bear-sighted-in-years/a-70287266?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Number of refugees reaches new high in 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-number-of-refugees-reaches-new-high-in-2024/a-70286816?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "There are more refugees living in Germany than ever in recent history, according to German government data. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has contributed to the increase in refugees in Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Former Harrods boss Mohamed al Fayed accused of rape;https://www.dw.com/en/former-harrods-boss-mohamed-al-fayed-accused-of-rape/a-70284389?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The late Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women. The survivors, including some minors, were hired as secretaries and assistants when the abuse allegedly took place."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jahjaga: 'Blame should not be directed at the survivors, but at the perpetrators, who used rape as a weapon of war';https://www.dw.com/en/jahjaga-blame-should-not-be-directed-at-the-survivors-but-at-the-perpetrators-who-used-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war/a-70283271?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Former President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga has been advocating for the survivors of wartime sexual violence since her presidency. She speaks to DW about her fight to address and highlight this issue in Kosovo."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Heat pumps: Why Germany's heating revolution is stalling;https://www.dw.com/en/heat-pumps-why-germany-s-heating-revolution-is-stalling/a-70192621?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "It's a signature project of Germany's environmentalist Greens: Instead of heating homes with fossil fuels, Germans should use heat pumps based on air or groundwater. But demand for these devices has plummeted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starlink satellites are blinding astronomers' view of space;https://www.dw.com/en/starlink-satellites-are-blinding-astronomers-view-of-space/a-70273835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Starlink and other satellite networks are vital for providing high speed internet to remote communities, but unintended radiation leakages are making life difficult for astronomers who need clear skies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Tupperware parties empowered homebound suburban women;https://www.dw.com/en/how-tupperware-parties-empowered-homebound-suburban-women/a-70273741?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "As Tupperware files for bankruptcy, here's a look back at how the iconic US plastic kitchenware company and its \"Tupperware party\" business model became a cultural phenomenon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Czech Republic struggling to mitigate risks as Russian firms flourish;https://www.dw.com/en/czech-republic-struggling-to-mitigate-risks-as-russian-firms-flourish/a-70181088?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Czechia hosts by far the highest number of Russian-owned companies of any EU state. Experts warn this cohort of over 12,500 firms pose economic and security risks that the government must eventually start to mitigate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oktoberfest: Beer and pretzels in a sustainable package;https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-beer-and-pretzels-in-a-sustainable-package/a-70235282?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "More than Bavarians in lederhosen balancing frothing beer mugs and fried sausages, the world's largest folk festival is becoming more inclusive and eco-friendly."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;COVID FLiRT variants KP.3 and XEC: What you need to know;https://www.dw.com/en/covid-flirt-variants-kp-3-and-xec-what-you-need-to-know/a-70266402?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another variant and become XEC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Two European firms in focus of Hezbollah pager explosions;https://www.dw.com/en/two-european-firms-in-focus-of-hezbollah-pager-explosions/a-70248830?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Taiwanese company whose name appeared on the pagers that detonated across Lebanon has denied manufacturing the devices. That has put relatively unknown Hungarian and Bulgarian firms in the spotlight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine wants action after Belarus Olympic medalist ceremony;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-wants-action-after-belarus-olympic-medalist-ceremony/a-70262052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The ceremony, held on Belarus' National Unity Day, appears to violate the Olympic neutrality rules. Ukraine wants action, with the country's sports minister telling DW further sanctions are necessary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cities start fighting rental crisis triggered by overtourism;https://www.dw.com/en/cities-start-fighting-rental-crisis-triggered-by-overtourism/a-70228085?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "In many of Europe's hottest tourist destinations like Barcelona and Paris, locals struggle to access affordable housing. How much are vacation rentals to blame?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Exploding Hezbollah pagers: How did it happen?;https://www.dw.com/en/exploding-hezbollah-pagers-how-did-it-happen/a-70250960?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Although the devices have lithium-ion batteries that can catch fire or explode, it is more likely the pagers were sabotaged."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains \u2014 study;https://www.dw.com/en/pregnancy-completely-rewires-mothers-brains-study/a-70246399?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Neuroscientists scanned the brain of a pregnant woman and captured a 'widespread reorganization' of her brain before, during and after pregnancy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Use, and misuse, of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "As Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell become the latest celebs to endorse Kamala Harris, here's a look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Google wins legal battle against EU over \u20ac1.5 billion fine;https://www.dw.com/en/google-wins-legal-battle-against-eu-over-\u20ac1-5-billion-fine/a-70246709?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "After years of back and forth, an EU court annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it sold advertisements. The fine was one of three major penalties the EU has leveled against the tech giant in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Namibia's strategy to cull animals save them?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-namibia-s-strategy-to-cull-animals-save-them/a-70213343?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Does Namibia's plan to kill animals to save them, and help the human population from ongoing drought, stack up?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand shrinks;https://www.dw.com/en/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy-as-demand-shrinks/a-70245540?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Once popular for its colorful food storage containers, US firm Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy. The company succumbed to a plummeting demand for its products."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Intel's factory delay adds to Germany's economic woes;https://www.dw.com/en/us-intel-s-factory-delay-adds-to-germany-s-economic-woes/a-70241739?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has announced it is postponing a $30 billion investment in Germany due to financial problems at the firm. But is the German government still committed to the investments?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the arts are a thorn in the side of Germany's AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-arts-are-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-germany-s-afd/a-70239911?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How new technologies can mitigate the risks of flooding;https://www.dw.com/en/how-new-technologies-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-flooding/a-70239314?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "With extreme weather, floods are getting as common in Europe as they are in Asia and Africa. From mobile barriers to specialized dams, people are finding solutions to life-threatening floods across the globe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China's technology drive leaves young people jobless;https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-technology-drive-leaves-young-people-jobless/a-70187883?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "China is investing billions to become a global tech power. But AI, robotics and quantum computing are not labor-intensive sectors, so what to do about the millions of young Chinese who can't find a job?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Alex Morgan: The greatest female footballer of all time?;https://www.dw.com/en/alex-morgan-the-greatest-female-footballer-of-all-time/a-70153127?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Marta may have won six FIFA player awards, but two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan is more of a household name. Teammate Megan Rapinoe achieved on and off the field, yet Morgan had a grace on the pitch few could match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's ter Stegen is happy the wait is finally over;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-ter-stegen-is-happy-the-wait-is-finally-over/a-70144838?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "National team goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has spoken of his frustration during years of being stuck behind Manuel Neuer, while at the same time paying tribute to his predecessor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Australia's Raygun claims 'I knew people wouldn't understand my style';https://www.dw.com/en/australia-s-raygun-claims-i-knew-people-wouldn-t-understand-my-style/a-70135037?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Rachael \"Raygun\" Gunn, the 37-year-old Olympic breaker, says the criticism of her performance came from people's ignorance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India's archaic labor laws allow firms to exploit workers;https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-archaic-labor-laws-allow-firms-to-exploit-workers/a-70121341?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Major international companies, including big tech firms, are exploiting India's labor laws and skirting overtime payment, say workers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Germany live up to its chipmaking ambitions?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-germany-live-up-to-its-chipmaking-ambitions/a-70079606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "The German government wants to build up its long-term chipmaking capabilities. But are they following through and attracting the companies needed to make the country a center of this all-important technology?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oasis tickets: UK government to probe 'dynamic pricing';https://www.dw.com/en/oasis-tickets-uk-government-to-probe-dynamic-pricing/a-70109787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "Ministers have promised an investigation after fans complained of inflated ticket prices for Oasis' 2025 reunion tour. But industry experts insist that \"dynamic pricing\" is not illegal and based on supply and demand."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Half the world lacks access to safe drinking water;https://www.dw.com/en/half-the-world-lacks-access-to-safe-drinking-water/a-70089835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "A new report shows 4.4 billion people across the world have no access to safe drinking water, more than double many previous estimates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is methane?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. Where does methane come from, and what can we do to stop it from getting into the atmosphere?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Concerning' rise in unprotected sex among teenagers;https://www.dw.com/en/concerning-rise-in-unprotected-sex-among-teenagers/a-70079734?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-27 02:00:06",
        "text": "A majority of teenagers in Europe, Central Asia, and Canada do not use condoms. Experts warn of rising risks of STIs and unwanted pregnancies."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel says it has killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/israel-says-it-has-killed-hezbollah-leader-hassan-nasrallah;2024-09-28T08:56:40Z",
        "text": "The Israeli military has said it has killed Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a series of strikes on a southern suburb of Beirut. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had targeted Hezbollah\u2019s underground headquarters. The announcement by the IDF on Saturday morning came after overnight speculation about Nasrallah\u2019s fate, the leader of Hezbollah for three decades. According to sources in Israel, the Israeli security cabinet had previously pulled back from plans to kill Nasrallah, but having established that the Hezbollah leader was due to attend a meeting at the command complex, approved a plan to kill him. The news was initially broken by the military spokesperson Lt Col Nadav Shoshani in a brief post on X saying: \u201cHassan Nasrallah is dead.\u201d In a statement issued shortly afterwards, the IDF said Nasrallah had been killed along with Hezbollah\u2019s southern front commander, Ali Karki, as well as other Hezbollah commanders who were attending the meeting. Following precise intelligence from the IDF and the Israeli security establishment, IAF fighter jets conducted a targeted strike on the central headquarters of the Hezbollah terrorist organisation which was located underground, embedded under a residential building in the Dahieh area of Beirut. \u201cThe strike was conducted while Hezbollah\u2019s senior chain of command was operating form the headquarters and advancing terrorist activities against citizens of the state of Israel,\u201d the statement added. Number two in the organisation, Hashem Safieddine, who could succeed Nasrallah, was reportedly also targeted in Israel\u2019s Friday airstrike on Beirut. It is unknown how the next leader of Hezbollah might govern the group and how they will choose to retaliate for Nasrallah\u2019s killing. The killing also threatens to involve Iran, Hezbollah\u2019s principal backer, who thus far has been reluctant to involve itself in the fighting between its Lebanese ally and Israel. Iran\u2019s embassy in Beirut said on X that Israel\u2019s strike on Dahieh was a \u201cdangerous gamechanging escalation that changes the rules of the game\u201d and warned that its perpetrator would be \u201cpunished appropriately\u201d. Shortly before Israel carried out the strike on what it said was Hezbollah\u2019s main military headquarters in Beirut, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed to keep fighting in Lebanon during a speech at the UN general assembly in New York, crushing hope that Israel would agree to a 21-day truce proposed by the US and France. \u201cThere is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach, and that is true of the entire Middle East,\u201d Netanyahu thundered at the UN podium. Among Hezbollah\u2019s constituents, Nasrallah was viewed with a prophet-like fervour, seen as the liberator of south Lebanon from Israel\u2019s 18-year occupation. At Hezbollah rallies, supporters chant \u201cLabaik ya Hussein and Labaik ya Nasrallah\u201d \u2013 \u201cO Hussein, O Nasrallah, I am here for you\u201d \u2013 shouting their devotion to Hussein, a key figure in Shia Islam, and Nasrallah. When Nasrallah spoke, his televised addresses beamed to cafes and homes across Lebanon, supporters would tune in for guidance on political, spiritual and cultural issues. Many Lebanese attribute the failure of the 2019 revolution to a speech by Nasrallah, when he told his supporters it was time to get off the streets, depriving the protest movement of its non-sectarian character. Hezbollah\u2019s death leaves Hezbollah\u2019s public face essentially leaderless. Whoever replaces the enigmatic former secretary general will have to deal with an organisation that over the last year, has lost almost every senior military leader and is on the backpedal from an Israeli bombing campaign across Lebanon. The death of the leader also throws the fate of the Lebanese state into question. Hezbollah is deeply embedded in the state, controlling a key share of parliament and exercising influence over several ministries such as the directorate of general security. Lebanon\u2019s foreign policy is largely dictated by the group, particularly when it comes to neighbouring states like Israel."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis live: Israel says it has killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in major escalation of conflict;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/28/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-steps-up-attacks-on-hezbollah-targets-in-lebanon-amid-rising-fears-of-wider-war;2024-09-28T08:53:18Z",
        "text": "A source close to Hezbollah has told to Agence France-Presse (AFP) that contact with Hassan Nasrallah had been lost since Friday evening. The Israeli military claims that Hezbollah\u2019s leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed alongside Hezbollah commanders in Friday\u2019s airstrikes on Beirut, the Lebanese capital, which, before last week was a place rarely targeted directly by Israel. The military said the strikes killed Ali Karake, who the statement identified as commander of Hezbollah\u2019s southern front, and an unspecified number of other Hezbollah commanders. The IDF said fighter jets conducted a \u201ctargeted strike\u201d on the central headquarters of Hezbollah located \u201cunderground embedded under a residential building in the area of Dahiyeh in Beirut\u201d. It said the strike was launched while the Lebanese militant group\u2019s \u201csenior chain of command\u201d was operating from the Dahiyeh suburb of southern Beirut. These claims have not yet been independently verified. In a statement, the Israeli military said of Nasrallah: During Hassan Nasrallah\u2019s 32-year reign as the secretary-general of Hezbollah, he was responsible for the murder of many Israeli civilians and soldiers, and the planning and execution of thousands of terrorist activities. He was responsible for directing and executing terrorist attacks around the world in which civilians of various nationalities were murdered. Nasrallah was the central decision-maker and the strategic leader of the organisation. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) chief, Herzl Halevi, has given comments following the confirmation of Hassan Nasrallah\u2019s death. \u201cWhoever threatens the state of Israel, we\u2019ll know how to get to him: in the north, in the south and in more distant places,\u201d he said in quotes carried by Hareetz, the Israeli daily. \u201cThis is not the last of the toolbox, there are more tools to go,\u201d he said, adding that the IDF is prepared on all fronts. Halevi said that the attack on Beirut that killed Nasrallah was planned for a long time and \u201ccame at the right time in a very sharp way\u201d. The Israeli army has officially announced the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Nasrallah, who had been the leader of the Iran-backed militant group for 32 years, was reported to have been the target of Friday\u2019s strikes on Beirut. In a post on X, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said he \u201cwill no longer be able to terrorize the world\u201d. Hezbollah are yet to issue a response to the military\u2019s announcement. Killing Nasrallah has marked a staggering escalation on the Israeli side. For much of the early conflict with Hezbollah (which began on 8 October \u2013 a day after Hamas\u2019 attacks on southern Israel) it was understood Israel would not assassinate the group\u2019s most senior leaders. However, this understanding has not been honoured over recent months, with Israel killing several senior members of Hezbollah. Under Nasrallah\u2019s leadership, Hezbollah has helped train fighters from Hamas and militias in Iraq and Yemen, and reportedly obtained missiles and rockets from Iran for use against Israel. You can find out more about his policy and ideological origins in this profile here. Thousands of residents in Beirut\u2019s densely populated southern suburbs slept in parks, on streets or in cars overnight as they flee southern Lebanon to try to avoid Israeli attacks. Many people fleeing Israeli bombardment ended up camping out in Martyrs\u2019 square, Beirut\u2019s main public space. Hawra al-Husseini, 21, was among those who did. She described a \u201cvery difficult night\u201d after fleeing Dahiyeh to sleep in the square with her family. \u201cMissiles rained down over our home. I will never forget the children\u2019s screams,\u201d she told AFP. \u201cWe\u2019re going back home (in the southern suburbs), but we\u2019re scared. It\u2019s impossible to live in this country any more.\u201d Hala Ezzedine, 55 also slept in the square. She had fled the Burj al-Barajneh neighbourhood in Dahiyeh where strikes took place. \u201cWhat did the (Lebanese) people do to deserve this?\u201d she asked, adding that her home had been destroyed by Israeli strikes during the 2006 war. \u201cThey want to wage war but what wrong did we do? We don\u2019t have to go through what happened in Gaza.\u201d South Beirut resident Rihab Naseef, 56, who spent the night in a church yard, spoke to Agence France-Presse (AFP) about his fears of the conflict escalating. Naseef said: I expected the war to expand, but I thought it would be limited to (military) targets, not civilians, homes, and children. I didn\u2019t even pack any clothes, I never thought we would leave like this and suddenly find ourselves on the streets. I\u2019m anxious and afraid of what may happen. I left my home without knowing where I\u2019m going, what will happen to me, and whether I will return. As we have been reporting, Israel launched a series of attacks in the southern suburbs of Beirut overnight. Israel issued fresh warnings for people to leave part of the densely populated Dahiyeh suburbs before dawn on Saturday, forcing many families to spend the night on the streets. Israel\u2019s military have now said jet fighters have attacked \u201cdozens\u201d of Hezbollah targets in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, with airstrikes continuing in the south. The strikes targeted buildings where weapons were stored and sites where rockets were launched into Israel, the military claimed. In a statement issued this morning, the Israeli military said: Over the past two hours, the IAF (air force) conducted extensive strikes on dozens of terror targets belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation in the area of Beqaa (east) and in different areas of southern Lebanon. Numerous reports have said that Hezbollah\u2019s long-time leader Hassan Nasrallah was the target of Israel\u2019s strikes on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Friday evening. There has been no official confirmation of whether Nasrallah was killed in the strikes or not. The Israeli Defense Forces said the military carried out a \u201cvery accurate\u201d strike on Hezbollah headquarters, but did not mention Nasrallah\u2019s name. Media outlets quoted Hezbollah sources as saying he was \u201calive and well\u201d but the Iran-backed militant group haven\u2019t yet made an official statement. The unprecedented five hours of continuous strikes early on Saturday followed Friday\u2019s attack in which several whole apartment blocks were levelled, by far the most powerful by Israel on Beirut since October. The apparent targeting of Nasrallah \u2013 who has been the leader of Hezbollah for 32 years \u2013 marks the most alarming escalation in almost a year of war between Hezbollah and Israel, as my colleague Peter Beaumont explains in this analysis piece. Nasrallah represents Iran\u2019s most important regional asset and has long been seen as linchpin in the so-called axis of resistance. The Syrian foreign ministry has issued a statement following the Israeli attacks on Beirut that many officials fear could lead to a wider regional conflict. The ministry was quoted as saying in a statement: The Syrian Arab republic strongly condemns all these continuous crimes, and renews its affirmation that the Israeli terrorist entity\u2019s insistence on shedding blood and committing all kinds of war crimes and crimes against humanity that are blasphemy, will lead the region to a dangerous acceleration that is impossible to predict its consequences. Zeina Khodr of Al Jazeera has also put up a video on X with footage of downtown Beirut and cited a \u201cmassive displacement crisis\u201d as Lebanese left southern neighbourhoods amid Israeli strikes. She quotes a woman telling her: \u201cThe 2006 war was nothing compared to what we witnessed last night.\u201d Television journalist Ali Hashem has posted a short video on X of southern Beirut filmed from above, saying it is \u201cshrouded in a thick grey cloud\u201d. The Israeli military says it killed the leader of Hamas in southern Syria on Friday night, naming him as Ahmed Muhammad Fahd. Israel\u2019s Arabic-language military spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, posted on X in Arabic saying (in a translation to English) that \u201cthe so-called Ahmed Fahd was responsible for carrying out numerous terrorist operations against IDF forces and the state of Israel from the southern Syrian area, including launching rockets towards the Golan Heights area\u201d. Adraee said Israeli air force warplanes carried out the attack under the guidance of the intelligence service and the northern command. Fahd was liquidated when he planned to carry out another terrorist plot in the immediate future. Israeli fighter jets\u2019 bombardment of Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs overnight into Saturday sent panicked families fleeing the area. After heavy shelling sounded across the city on Friday, Israel issued fresh warnings for people to leave part of the densely populated Dahiyeh suburb before dawn on Saturday. Agence France-Presse reports hundreds of families spent the night on the streets, seeking shelter in central Beirut\u2019s Martyrs\u2019 Square or along the seaside boardwalk area. Syrian refugee and father of six Radwan Msallam said they had \u201cnowhere to go\u201d, telling AFP: We were at home when there was the call to evacuate. We took our identity papers, some belongings and we left. Israel said it was attacking Hezbollah\u2019s headquarters and weapons facilities, while US and Israeli media reported that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was the target, although a source close to the group said he was \u201cfine\u201d. The explosions that shook southern Beirut were the fiercest to hit Hezbollah\u2019s stronghold since Israel and Hezbollah last went to war in 2006. The Israel Defence Forces says it has intercepted more projectiles fired from Lebanon. The IDF posted on X that it occurred after warnings were activated a short time ago in several areas in the north of the country, \u201cin the Samaria area and in the Menasha area\u201d. Five launches were detected that crossed the territory of Lebanon, most of the launches were intercepted. Our full report with the latest on Israel\u2019s fresh series of attacks in Beirut and Lebanon has gone live \u2013 see it here: Lebanon\u2019s health ministry has said hospitals in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs will be evacuated after the heavy Israeli strikes in the area, urging hospitals in unaffected areas to stop admitting non-urgent cases. A ministry statement on Saturday called on hospitals unaffected by Israeli strikes to \u201cstop receiving non-emergency cases until the end of next week in order to make space to receive patients from hospitals in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs which will be evacuated due to the developments in the aggression\u201d, Agence France-Presse reported. The health ministry has yet to provide an updated toll for strikes. Welcome to our continuing live coverage of Israel\u2019s strikes in Lebanon and the wider Middle East crisis \u2013 it\u2019s just gone 8.20am in Beirut and Tel Aviv. A wave of air raids hit Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs early on Saturday as Israel stepped up attacks on Hezbollah, after a massive strike on the Iran-backed movement\u2019s command centre that apparently targeted leader Hassan Nasrallah. Reuters witnesses heard more than 20 airstrikes before dawn on Saturday. Thousands of Lebanese fled their homes in the southern suburbs and congregated in squares, parks and sidewalks in central Beirut and seaside areas. Israel\u2019s military said early on Saturday that about 10 projectiles had crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory and that \u201csome\u201d had been intercepted. They were detected after sirens sounded in the Upper Galilee area, a military statement said. An unprecedented five hours of continuous strikes early on Saturday followed Friday\u2019s attack, by far the most powerful by Israel on Beirut during nearly a year of war with Hezbollah and making a sharp escalation of the conflict, Reuters reported. The latest escalation has sharply increased fears the conflict could spiral out of control, potentially drawing in Iran, Hezbollah\u2019s principal backer, as well as the United States. There was no immediate confirmation of Nasrallah\u2019s fate after Friday\u2019s heavy strikes, but a source close to Hezbollah told Reuters he was not reachable. The militant group has not made a statement. In other developments: The Lebanese health ministry said six people were killed and 91 injured in Friday\u2019s attack. The toll appeared likely to rise much higher as rescue workers cleared the rubble. Several apartment blocks in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood were reduced to rubble, and footage from the scene showed huge slabs of concrete topped by piles of twisted metal and wreckage. Several craters were visible, into one of which a car had fallen. Israel\u2019s military earlier ordered southern Beirut residents to evacuate and warned it was planning to strike three specific buildings in the area. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) posted a map of certain areas of Dahiyeh and said residents \u201cwere obliged to evacuate the buildings immediately and move away from them at a distance of no less than 500 meters\u201d. Hezbollah responded to Israel\u2019s Friday attack on Beirut by bombing Safed, a city in north Israel, with a rocket salvo \u201cin response to Israeli attacks on cities, villages and civilians\u201d. The Iran-backed group announced more attacks at Karmiel and Sa\u2019ar. Israel braced for potential retaliation from Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well as from Yemen and Iran, urging residents of Golan Heights, Safed and Merom HaGalil to stay near protected areas. The Israeli military claimed to have killed the commander of Hezbollah\u2019s missile unit in southern Lebanon, Muhammad Ali Ismail, and his deputy, Hossein Ahmed Ismail, in fighter-jet attacks. The IDF also said on X that \u201cwith them other commanders and terrorists of Hezbollah were eliminated\u201d. Hundreds of families crammed into vehicles and fled Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs overnight into Saturday after Israel\u2019s strikes and warnings to evacuate. Bottlenecks formed in the middle of the night on normally deserted streets of the capital, many of them in darkness due to power cuts. Joe Biden has directed the Pentagon to \u201cassess and adjust as necessary\u201d American forces in the Middle East, the White House said after Friday\u2019s attacks. The US president said earlier on Friday the US had \u201cno knowledge of or participation\u201d in the strike. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office said he had personally approved the strike, and announced that he had cut short his US visit and would return immediately to Israel. The European Union\u2019s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, voiced regret that no power, including the US, could \u201cstop\u201d Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the Israeli prime minister appeared determined to crush militants in Gaza and Lebanon. Tens of thousands of people protested in Iranian cities and in the Yemeni capital to condemn Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza, Agence France-Presse journalists and state media reported. The strikes came shortly after Netanyahu gave a bellicose speech in the UN general assembly and shrugged off global appeals for a ceasefire in Lebanon and Gaza. Instead the Israeli prime minister denounced the UN as an \u201cantisemitic swamp\u201d and insisted Israel was \u201cwinning\u201d its wars on multiple fronts. Many national delegations walked out in protest as he took the floor. The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, reiterated his call for a Middle East ceasefire, saying: \u201cGaza remains the epicentre of violence, and Gaza is the key to ending it.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Russia-Ukraine war live: seven reported killed in Sumy after Russian strikes on hospital;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/28/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-putin-latest-news;2024-09-28T08:44:37Z",
        "text": "Here are some images from this morning\u2019s Russian attack on a medical centre in Sumy. Authorities said Russian kamikaze drones struck the hospital twice: once destroying several floors of the building and killing one, and again while patients were evacuating. At least even people were killed and 12 people were injured in the consecutive attack. Australia\u2019s ABC News is rejecting Moscow\u2019s claims that two of its journalists acted illegally by entering the Ukrainian-occupied Kursk region in Russia. The Russian news agency Tass reported on Friday that the Russian Federal Security Service had \u201cinitiated and is investigating criminal cases\u201d against the broadcaster\u2019s Europe correspondent Kathryn Diss and camera operator Fletcher Yeung, as well as Romanian journalist Barbu Mircea, for the crime of \u201cIllegal crossing of Russia\u2019s State Border\u201d \u2013 a crime punishable by up to five years\u2019 imprisonment. Diss and Yeung were escorted by a Ukrainian military unit to Sudzha in the Kursk region on 31 August, marking the first time the broadcaster had entered Russia since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. \u201cWe reject Russia\u2019s claim that the ABC\u2019s reporters have done anything illegal,\u201d an ABC spokesperson said. \u201cThey were reporting from occupied territory in a war zone and in full compliance with international law. \u201cTheir reporting was done in the interests of keeping the public fully informed on a story of international importance.\u201d More here: The regional military administration for the Sumy oblast has updated the death toll in Saturday\u2019s attack on a medical centre. Seven people have now been killed, with 12 reported seriously injured. The regional military administration said on Telegram that Russian forces used Shakhed unmanned aerial drones to carry out the attack. A policeman was among those killed \u2013 this comes as rescuers continue searching the rubble that once was a police administration building in the central city of Kryvyi Rih. A Russian missile attack that struck this five-storey building on Friday killed at least three people and injured six others. At least six people were killed Saturday morning following two consecutive Russian strikes on a medical centre in Sumy, a city in northeastern Ukraine. Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine\u2019s interior minister, said on Telegram that one person died in the initial shelling that destroyed several floors of the hospital \u2013 but during the evacuation of the hospital\u2019s patients, Russian forces struck again, killing more. A policeman was one of the six confirmed dead. The deadly attack came after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Donald Trump in New York amid concerns over the future of US aid to Ukraine if Trump \u2013 who has frequently made complimentary remarks about Vladimir Putin \u2013 wins in November. The sit-down lasted less than an hour, during which Trump told Zelesnkyy that if he won November\u2019s presidential election he would get the Ukraine war \u201cresolved very quickly\u201d. \u201cWe have a very good relationship, and I also have a very good relationship, as you know, with President Putin,\u201d Trump said as he stood next to Zelenskyy before the meeting. \u201cAnd I think if we win, I think we\u2019re going to get it resolved very quickly \u2026 I really think we\u2019re going to get it \u2026 but, you know, it takes two to tango.\u201d Zelenskyy described the meeting as \u201cvery productive\u201d. Elsewhere: China and Brazil on Friday pressed ahead with an effort to gather developing countries behind a plan to end Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine \u2013 an effort that Zelenskyy has dismissed as one that serves Moscow\u2019s interests. Seventeen countries attended a meeting on the sidelines of the UN general assembly chaired by China\u2019s foreign minister, Wang Yi, and Brazilian foreign policy adviser Celso Amorim. Wang told reporters they discussed the need to prevent escalation in the war, avoid the use of weapons of mass destruction and prevent attacks on nuclear power plants. Zelenskyy, in a speech to the assembly earlier this week, questioned why China and Brazil were proposing an alternative to his own peace formula. Proposing \u201calternatives, half-hearted settlement plans, so-called sets of principles\u201d would only give Moscow the political space to continue the war, he said. US secretary of state Antony Blinken, speaking after a meeting with Wang, underscored strong US concerns about China\u2019s support for Russia\u2019s defence industrial base. He told reporters that China, while saying it seeks an end to the Ukraine conflict, \u201cis allowing its companies to take actions that are actually helping Putin continue the aggression. That doesn\u2019t add up.\u201d South Korea\u2019s foreign minister said Russia was engaging in illegal arms trade with North Korea, reiterating statements by the US, Ukraine and independent analysts that Pyongyang is supplying rockets and missiles in return for economic and other military assistance from Moscow. Misuse of Russia\u2019s right to veto as a permanent member of the UN security council is hindering the UN\u2019s efforts to end war, foreign minister Cho Tae-yul said during the UN general assembly on Saturday. Finland will place a key Nato base less than 200 kilometers (125 miles) from its border with Russia, \u201csending a message\u201d to its eastern neighbour, the defence ministry said Friday. Finland became a Nato member last year, dropping decades of military non-alignment after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. A Russian drone may have breached the national airspace of Nato member Romania for \u201ca very brief period of under three minutes\u201d overnight during an attack on neighbouring Ukraine, the Romanian defence ministry said on Friday. Three people were killed in the attack, according to Ukrainan officials. Russia\u2019s FSB security service is investigating three foreign journalists for reporting in parts of Russia\u2019s Kursk region occupied by Ukrainian forces, bringing the total of such investigations to 12. The three, Kathryn Diss and Fletcher Yeung from Australia\u2019s ABC News and Romanian journalist Mircea Barbu, are being investigated for illegally crossing the Russian border, state news agency Ria Novosti reported."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;British nationals urged to leave Lebanon immediately;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/british-nationals-urged-to-leave-lebanon-immediately;2024-09-28T08:05:29Z",
        "text": "British nationals in Lebanon have been urged to leave the country immediately as the violence escalates between Israel and Hezbollah. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said on Friday night that British nationals in Lebanon should leave on the next available flight. It added: \u201cWe are working to increase capacity and secure seats for British nationals to leave.\u201d British nationals in Lebanon should register their presence on the FCDO\u2019s website to stay up to date with the latest information, it said in a statement. On Saturday, the Israeli government said it had killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, with the Israeli Defence Forces posting on X that he would \u201cno longer be able to terrorise the world\u201d. It comes after a series of massive explosions levelled multiple apartment buildings in Beirut on Friday night. Ettie Higgins, Unicef\u2019s deputy representative in Lebanon, said \u201cthousands and thousands\u201d of people had fled southern Beirut, while hospitals were \u201coverwhelmed\u201d and water pumping stations had been destroyed. \u201cEven the most basic essential services of healthcare and water are now being rapidly, rapidly depleted,\u201d she told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today programme on Saturday. \u201cThere was already a humanitarian crisis in Lebanon given that it\u2019s been hosting over 1 million refugees from Syria for over a decade, so it\u2019s rapidly escalating into a catastrophe.\u201d She added that 50 children had been killed, and that she expected the figure to rise as the airstrikes continued. Israel has insisted the strikes have targeted Hezbollah military installations or senior figures. The UK defence secretary, John Healey, said that the fighting presented a \u201crisk that this escalates into something that is much wider and much more serious\u201d. The Israeli army chief, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, told troops on Wednesday that ongoing airstrikes were \u201cto prepare the ground for your possible entry and to continue degrading Hezbollah\u201d. Asked about the potential ground invasion on Friday, Healey replied: \u201cWe\u2019re watching this really carefully. That will be a matter for the Israelis. At the moment, it\u2019s airstrikes. At the moment, there are missiles from the Lebanese Hezbollah directed at Israel. This conflict serves no one.\u201d Healey said his first concern was the safety of British nationals in Lebanon. \u201cThe travel advice remains the same \u2013 don\u2019t go to Lebanon. If you are in Lebanon, then get out, and there are still commercial flights leaving so people can do that. \u201cBut I left Labour conference earlier this week to chair a Cobra committee in government because we are making the preparations you\u2019d expect of government ahead of any potential developments in the future.\u201d According to the PA Media news agency, the government has successfully asked airlines to increase capacity on routes out of Lebanon, with FCDO teams in Beirut ordered to support the British consulate. It is thought they are ready to facilitate evacuations by sea or air, which could be triggered if the security environment degrades further and British nationals are no longer able to leave via other routes. About 5,000 British citizens are in Lebanon, and the United Nations said more than 90,000 Lebanese people had been displaced in recent days."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis: Israel launches more strikes in Lebanon \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/27/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-gaza-war-hamas-middle-east-news-latest-updates;2024-09-28T05:26:58Z",
        "text": "We\u2019re shutting this blog now and moving to a fresh live blog here as it approaches 8.25am in Beirut and Tel Aviv. A rundown on key recent developments is below, and our latest full report on Israel\u2019s strikes in Beirut can be seen here. Israel launched its heaviest air attack on Beirut in almost a year of conflict with Hezbollah, levelling a number of buildings in a southern suburb in an apparent attempt to kill the Lebanese militant group\u2019s leader and a key ally of Iran, Hassan Nasrallah. The Lebanese health ministry said six people were killed and 91 injured, while some early estimates put the number of dead at 300. More casualties were expected as rescue workers cleared rubble. Several apartment blocks in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood were reduced to rubble, and footage from the scene showed huge slabs of concrete topped by piles of twisted metal and wreckage. Several craters were visible, into one of which a car had fallen. Israel\u2019s military earlier ordered southern Beirut residents to evacuate and warned it was planning to strike three specific buildings in the area. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) posted a map of certain areas of Dahiyeh and said residents \u201cwere obliged to evacuate the buildings immediately and move away from them at a distance of no less than 500 meters\u201d. Israeli media reported the strike on Beirut as an attempt to kill Hassan Nasrallah. There has been no immediate confirmation of the Hezbollah leader\u2019s fate, with a source close to Hezbollah telling Reuters he was not reachable. The Lebanese group has not made a statement. Hezbollah responded by Israel\u2019s strike on Beirut by bombing Safed, a city in north Israel, with a rocket salvo \u201cin response to Israeli attacks on cities, villages and civilians\u201d. The Iran-backed militant group announced more attacks at Karmiel and Sa\u2019ar. Israel braced for potential retaliation from Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well as from Yemen and Iran, urging residents of Golan Heights, Safed and Merom HaGalil to stay near protected areas. Video of the Israeli strikes on Beirut suggested they were carried out with ground-penetrating munitions known as bunker busters. In some footage, a vertical jet of flame was visible as a bomb appeared to explode beneath the ground. The Israeli military claimed to have killed the commander of Hezbollah\u2019s missile unit in southern Lebanon, Muhammad Ali Ismail, and his deputy, Hossein Ahmed Ismail, in fighter-jet attacks. The IDF also said on X that \u201cwith them other commanders and terrorists of Hezbollah were eliminated\u201d. Hundreds of families crammed into vehicles and fled Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs overnight into Saturday after Israel\u2019s strikes and warnings to evacuate. Bottlenecks formed in the middle of the night on normally deserted streets of the capital, many of them in darkness due to power cuts. Joe Biden, the US president, has directed the Pentagon to \u201cassess and adjust as necessary\u201d American forces in the Middle East, the White House said after Friday\u2019s attacks on Beirut. Biden earlier on Friday said the US had \u201cno knowledge of or participation\u201d in the strike. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office said he had personally approved the strike, and announced that he had cut short his US visit and would return immediately to Israel. The US secretary of state said Israel\u2019s objective in Lebanon was an \u201cimportant and legitimate one\u201d. Antony Blinken said the US and other countries who had joined calls for a 21-day ceasefire believed that diplomacy and a ceasefire was the best way forward. The European Union\u2019s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, voiced regret that no power, including the US, could \u201cstop\u201d Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the Israeli prime minister appeared determined to crush militants in Gaza and Lebanon. Tens of thousands of people have protested in Iranian cities and in the Yemeni capital to condemn Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza, Agence France-Presse journalists and state media reported. The strikes came shortly after Netanyahu gave a bellicose speech in the UN general assembly and shrugged off global appeals for a ceasefire in Lebanon and Gaza. Instead the Israeli prime minister denounced the UN as an \u201cantisemitic swamp\u201d and insisted Israel was \u201cwinning\u201d its wars on multiple fronts. Many national delegations walked out in protest as he took the floor. The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, reiterated his call for a Middle East ceasefire, saying: \u201cGaza remains the epicentre of violence, and Gaza is the key to ending it.\u201d Lebanon\u2019s health ministry has said hospitals in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs will be evacuated after the heavy Israeli strikes in the area, urging hospitals in unaffected areas to stop admitting non-urgent cases. A ministry statement on Saturday called on hospitals unaffected by Israeli strikes to \u201cstop receiving non-emergency cases until the end of next week in order to make space to receive patients from hospitals in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs which will be evacuated due to the developments in the aggression\u201d, Agence France-Presse reported. The health ministry has yet to provide an updated toll for strikes. The BBC\u2019s Nafiseh Kohnavard has been posting again from Beirut: The Israeli military says it has intercepted a number of rockets after detecting that 10 were being launched at the Upper Galilee area of northern Israel, Reuters has snapped. More here around Israel\u2019s attack on Hezbollah\u2019s headquarters in Beirut in huge blasts that levelled multiple high-rise apartment buildings on Friday. Israel Defence Forces spokesperson Rear Adm Daniel Hagari said the headquarters was located underground beneath residential buildings. The series of blasts at around nightfall reduced six apartment towers to rubble in Haret Hreik, a densely populated, predominantly Shiite district of Beirut\u2019s Dahiyeh suburbs, according to Lebanon\u2019s national news agency. A wall of billowing black and orange smoke rose into the sky as windows were rattled and houses shaken some 30km (20 miles) north of Beirut. Footage showed rescue workers clambering over large slabs of concrete, surrounded by high piles of twisted metal and wreckage. Several craters were visible, one with a car toppled into it. A stream of residents carrying their belongings were seen fleeing along a main road out of the district. Israel provided no immediate comment about the type of bomb or how many it used, but the resulting explosion levelled an area greater than a city block. The Israeli army has in its arsenal 2,000-pound (about 900kg), US-made \u201cBunker Buster\u201d guided bombs designed specifically for hitting subterranean targets. Richard Weir, crisis and weapons researcher with Human Rights Watch, said the blasts were consistent with that class of bomb. Circling back to Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s address to the UN general assembly in New York on Friday, the Israeli leader signalled to the world that the multiple conflicts in the Middle East were far from resolved and vowed to continue battling Hezbollah and defeat Hamas in Gaza until \u201ctotal victory\u201d. Shortly after he spoke, blasts rocked Beirut and the Israeli military said it had struck Hezbollah\u2019s headquarters, prompting Netanyahu to cut short his trip to New York by a day and make unusual travel on the Jewish Sabbath to get home, as the Associated Press reports. The Israeli prime minister told the UN general assembly that \u201cIsrael has every right to remove this threat and return our citizens to their home safely \u2013 and that\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re doing\u201d , eliciting applause from supporters in the gallery of the general assembly. We\u2019ll continue degrading Hezbollah until all our objectives are met. When Netanyahu entered the hall and was introduced, boos and raised voices echoed, and many delegates walked out through various exits. Meanwhile, the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said Washington was not informed beforehand of Friday\u2019s Israeli strike on Beirut. President Joe Biden was being kept abreast of developments, he said. There has been no immediate confirmation of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah\u2019s fate after Israel\u2019s heavy strikes, with a source close to Hezbollah telling Reuters he was not reachable, the news agency reports. The Iran-backed Lebanese group has not made a statement. Israel has not said whether it tried to hit Nasrallah, but a senior Israeli official said top Hezbollah commanders were targeted. \u201cI think it\u2019s too early to say ... Sometimes they hide the fact when we succeed,\u201d the Israeli official told reporters when asked if the strike on Friday had killed Nasrallah. Earlier, a source close to Hezbollah told Reuters that Nasrallah was alive. Iran\u2019s Tasnim news agency also reported he was safe. A senior Iranian security official told Reuters that Tehran was checking his status. Reuters witnesses say they heard more than 20 airstrikes before dawn on Saturday amid Israel\u2019s wave of air raids striking Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs. Abandoning their homes in the area, thousands of Lebanese congregated in squares, parks and sidewalks in downtown Beirut and seaside areas. \u201cThey want to destroy Dahiye, they want to destroy all of us,\u201d said Sari, a man in his 30s who gave only his first name, referring to the suburb he had fled after an Israeli evacuation order. Nearby, the newly displaced in Beirut\u2019s Martyrs Square rolled mats on to the ground to tried to sleep. An unprecedented five hours of continuous strikes early on Saturday followed a huge Israeli attack on Friday that apparently targeted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah \u2013 by far Israel\u2019s most powerful attack on Beirut during nearly a year of war with Hezbollah. Tens of thousands of people have protested in Iranian cities and in the Yemeni capital to condemn Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza, Agence France-Presse journalists and state media reported. The demonstrations in Tehran and other Iranian cities on Friday were responding to a call by authorities on Wednesday to demonstrate in support of the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon \u201cand to condemn the barbaric crimes of the Zionist regime in Palestine\u201d, the official IRNA news agency said. Hezbollah is part of the \u201caxis of resistance\u201d, Iran-aligned armed groups across the Middle East that have targeted Israel, as well as US forces, in support of Palestinian militants Hamas. The alliance also includes Yemen\u2019s Houthis, who organised a demonstration by tens of thousands in the capital, Sana\u2019a, on Friday a day after firing a missile at Israel. In Tehran after Friday prayers, a protest took place around Enghelab Square in the city centre, an AFP journalist said. Demonstrators carried portraits of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah as well as Palestinian and Hezbollah flags. \u201cIsrael is destroyed. Lebanon is victorious,\u201d they chanted, deploring \u201ca bloodbath in Lebanon\u201d. Protesters also burned Israeli and US flags. State television aired footage of other demonstrations in Semnan, Qom, Kashan, Kermanshah, Shiraz and Bandar Abbas. In Sanaa, which has been held by the Iran-backed Houthis for a decade, tens of thousands of chanting protesters gathered, many waving rifles and placards. \u201cWe say to our brothers in Lebanon that you will be victorious, God willing,\u201d said Houthi supporter Mortada al-Mutawkil. This war is not the first nor the last with the Israeli enemy, but God willing it will be more painful for Israel than the 2006 war. In Bahrain, which is an Israeli ally and keeps a tight rein on demonstrations, two protests denounced the war in Gaza and bombing campaign on Lebanon. Several hundred people marched in a village north of Manama, voicing solidarity with Gaza and Lebanon, and in the capital scores of people raised Palestinian and Lebanese flags and called for an end to ties with Israel. \u201cThe people demand an end to normalisation,\u201d the protesters chanted. In case you missed this earlier, here\u2019s a visual guide to Israel\u2019s airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon this week, amid estimates that 180,000 civilians have been displaced in both countries. The Israel Defence Forces has posted on X that it \u201crecently attacked\u201d additional Hezbollah targets in Bekaa, \u201cdeep in Lebanon\u201d. The valley is about 30km east of Beirut. The European Union\u2019s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, has voiced regret that no power, including the US, can \u201cstop\u201d Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the Israeli prime minister appears determined to crush militants in Gaza and Lebanon. \u201cWhat we do is to put all diplomatic pressure to a ceasefire, but nobody seems to be able to stop Netanyahu, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank,\u201d Agence France-Presse reports Borrell telling journalists as he attended the UN general assembly on Friday. Borrell backed an initiative by France and the US for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon, which Israel has brushed aside as it steps up strikes on Hezbollah targets. He said Netanyahu had made clear that the Israelis \u201cdon\u2019t stop until Hezbollah is destroyed\u201d, much as in its nearly year-old campaign in Gaza against fellow Iranian-backed militant group Hamas. Borrell said in English: If the interpretation of being destroyed is the same as with Hamas, then we are going to go for a long war. The outgoing EU foreign affairs chief again called for diversifying diplomacy from the US, which has tried for months unsuccessfully to seal a ceasefire in Gaza that would include the release of hostages. \u201cWe cannot rely just on the US,\u201d Borrell said. \u201cThe US tried several times \u2013 they didn\u2019t succeed.\u201d Here are some of the latest images coming in from Beirut amid Israel\u2019s continuing strikes on the Lebanese capital. Hundreds of families crammed into vehicles and fled Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs overnight into Saturday after Israel\u2019s strikes and warnings to evacuate, Agence France-Presse reports. Bottlenecks formed in the middle of the night on normally deserted streets of the capital, many of them in darkness due to power cuts. In central Beirut\u2019s Martyrs\u2019 Square, or along the seaside corniche boardwalk area, desolate men, women and young children were walking around or sitting on the ground. \u201cWe were at home when there was the call to evacuate. We took our identity papers, some belongings and we left,\u201d said Syrian refugee Radwan Msallam, who lives in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs. The father of six children aged between three and 17 said they had \u201cnowhere to go\u201d, adding that they could not return to Syria. Rescuers worked through the night searching for survivors in Friday\u2019s strikes, the biggest to hit Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs since Hezbollah and Israel fought a month-long war in 2006. Hezbollah\u2019s Al-Manar television said seven buildings were destroyed in the strikes. Israel\u2019s Arabic-language military spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, has just issued a warning to residents in southern Beirut, including in a building in front of a school, saying they are located \u201cnear Hezbollah interests\u201d and should evacuate immediately for their own safety. Adraee\u2019s post in Arabic on X (translated to English) says: #\u0639\u0627\u062c\u0644 Urgent warning to the residents of the southern suburb in #\u0628\u064a\u0631\u0648\u062a : Burj Al-Barajneh neighbourhood, in the building in front of Al-Amir School and the buildings adjacent to it. Burj Al-Barajneh neighborhood, in the building that houses Ronnie Caf\u00e9 and the buildings adjacent to it. Hadath Beirut neighborhood, in front of Al Bayan School and the buildings adjacent to it You are located near Hezbollah interests and for your safety and the safety of your loved ones, you are obliged to evacuate the buildings immediately and move away from them at a distance of no less than 500 metres. The Israeli military says it is striking strategic Hezbollah targets in the Beirut area including weapons production, storage and command centres, Reuters has just snapped. Satellite images of Chouaghir, in northern Lebanon, before and after the Israeli strikes this week: The Israeli military claims to have killed the commander of Hezbollah\u2019s missile unit in southern Lebanon, Muhammad Ali Ismail, and his deputy, Hossein Ahmed Ismail, in fighter-jet attacks. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) also said in the post in Hebrew (translated to English) on X that \u201cwith them other commanders and terrorists of Hezbollah were eliminated\u201d. The IDF also posted that Muhammad Ali Ismail \u201cis responsible for many acts of terrorism from his sector towards the territory of the state of Israel\u201d, including launching rockets towards Israel and launching a surface-to-surface missile towards the centre of the country last Wednesday. The IDF said: Their assassination joins the assassination of the head of Hezbollah\u2019s missile and rocket array, the terrorist Ibrahim Muhammad Kabisi, and the assassination of other senior officials in Hezbollah\u2019s missile and rocket array. It was not possible to verify the IDF\u2019s claims. The BBC correspondent Nafiseh Kohnavard has posted a photo from Beirut on X saying it was a picture of a strike that just occurred. Our windows keep shaking. More strikes are being heard in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs, Reuters has just snapped, citing a news agency witness. Hezbollah denied that any weapons or arms depots are located in buildings that were hit in the Israeli strike on Beirut suburbs, Reuters quoted the Lebanese group\u2019s media office as saying in a statement on Saturday. This is Adam Fulton picking up our live coverage Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: Israel\u2019s military conducted strikes early on Saturday in the south of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, after ordering residents to evacuate and warning it was planning to strike three specific buildings in the area. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) posted a map of certain areas of Dahiyeh and said residents \u201cwere obliged to evacuate the buildings immediately and move away from them at a distance of no less than 500 meters\u201d. \u201cIn the coming hours we are going to strike strategic capability that Hezbollah placed underground, under three buildings in the heart of the Dahiyeh,\u201d IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari told reporters late on Friday. Earlier on Friday, Israel\u2019s military said it struck the central headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut in its heaviest air attack on Beirut in almost a year of conflict with the Lebanese militant group. Six loud explosions were heard across the Lebanese capital late on Friday afternoon. A number of buildings in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh were levelled. Residents of Dahiyeh and a nearby Palestinian refugee camp, Burj al-Barajneh, fled the area following the strikes. Israeli media reported the strike on Beirut as an attempt to kill Hezbollah\u2019s leader and key Iran ally, Hassan Nasrallah. Other media outlets quoted Hezbollah sources saying he was \u201calive and well\u201d. Hezbollah issued a statement saying there was \u201cno truth to any statement\u201d about the Israeli attack, without specifying what statements it was referring to. IDF spokesperson Hagari said it was still looking into the results of its strike, but that it was \u201cvery accurate\u201d. At least six people were killed and 91 others were injured by the Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday, according to the Lebanese health ministry, who cautioned that the death toll would likely rise. Some early estimates put the number of dead at 300. More casualties are expected as rescue workers clear rubble. Hezbollah responded by bombing Safed, a city in north Israel, with a rocket salvo \u201cin response to Israeli attacks on cities, villages and civilians\u201d. The Iran-backed militant group announced more attacks at Karmiel and Sa\u2019ar, but did not put out a statement regarding the fate of Nasrallah. Israel braced itself for potential retaliation from Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well as from Yemen and Iran, urging residents of Golan Heights, Safed, Merom HaGalil, to stay near protected areas. Video of the Israeli strikes on Beirut suggested they were carried out with ground-penetrating munitions known as bunker busters. In some footage, a vertical jet of flame was visible as a bomb appeared to explode beneath the ground. Joe Biden, the US president, has directed the Pentagon to \u201cassess and adjust as necessary\u201d American forces in the Middle East, the White House said after a wave of Israeli strikes in Beirut on Friday. Biden earlier on Friday said the US had \u201cno knowledge of or participation\u201d in the massive Israeli airstrike in Beirut. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office said he had personally approved the strike, and announced that he had cut short his US visit and would return immediately to Israel. Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, said Israel\u2019s objective in Lebanon is an \u201cimportant and legitimate one\u201d. Blinken, at a news conference on Friday, said the US and other countries who have joined calls for a 21-day ceasefire believe that diplomacy and a ceasefire is the best way forward. The strikes came shortly after a bellicose speech by Netanyahu in the UN general assembly. Netanyahu shrugged off global appeals for a ceasefire in Lebanon and Gaza, and instead denounced the UN as an \u201cantisemitic swamp\u201d and insisted that Israel is \u201cwinning\u201d its wars on multiple fronts. Many national delegations walked out in protest as he took the floor. The UN\u2019s secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, reiterated his call for a ceasefire in the Middle East. Guterres said; \u201cGaza remains the epicentre of violence, and Gaza is the key to ending it\u201d. He added: \u201cThe death spiral must end for Gaza, for the people of Palestine and Israel, for the region and for the world.\u201d Even if he was not harmed in the strike, targeting Nasrallah would mark a staggering escalation on the Israeli side. The Hezbollah leader represents Iran\u2019s most important regional asset and has long been seen as linchpin in the so-called axis of resistance. The presence of Hezbollah\u2019s large rocket arsenal on Israel\u2019s northern border has long acted as a deterrent to an Israeli attack on Iran and its nuclear programme. Iran\u2019s embassy in Beirut said the airstrike represented \u201ca dangerous game-changing escalation that changes the rules of the game\u201d and warned that its perpetrator would be \u201cpunished appropriately\u201d. Najib Mikati, the caretaker prime minister of Lebanon, said the Israeli attack on Beirut shows that Israel \u201cdoes not care\u201d about global calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon. Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip shot and killed an aid worker from a US based charity, firing on her car in what government officials told her family was a case of mistaken identity. The car in which Islam Hijazi, Gaza programme manager at Heal Palestine, was travelling was intercepted on Thursday in the area of Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip. Iran\u2019s foreign minister has accused Israel of using US-made \u201cbunker buster\u201d bombs to strike Beirut on Friday, according to Reuters. Abbas Araghchi reportedly told a UN security council meeting: \u201cJust this morning, the Israeli regime used several 5,000-pound bunker busters that had been gifted to them by the United States to hit residential areas in Beirut.\u201d Senior Hezbollah commanders were the target of Israel\u2019s attack on the group\u2019s central headquarters in Beirut\u2019s suburbs. The fate of Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah\u2019s leader, remains unclear. The Canadian government is booking seats on commercial flights to help its citizens leave Lebanon, the country\u2019s foreign minister said. M\u00e9lanie Joly urged Canadian citizens to leave Lebanon as soon as they can. She said in a statement on social media: \u201cCanada has secured seats for Canadians on the limited commercial flights available. If a seat is available, please take it.\u201d This week, Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 700 people in Lebanon, an escalation that has raised fears of an even more destructive conflict. Joly urged Canadians to register with the embassy in Beirut if they needed help leaving and said loans were available to those requiring financial assistance. Upon being asked what his message would be to his 20-year old son, Nimrod Cohen, who was kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October, 55-year-old Yehuda Cohen said: \u201cOne of the reasons why I\u2019m interviewing everywhere is the chance that he\u2019ll hear from me because I want to give him strength ... He\u2019s having a difficult time there so mentally I want to keep him strong and the only way is for him to hear me, hear his mother, hear his relatives so I\u2019m telling Nimrod, \u2018Stay strong, we are fighting for you, all over the world.\u2019\u201d Cohen, was has been protesting Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s UN speech outside Netanyahu\u2019s luxury Loews Regency hotel on Park Avenue, added: \u201cI\u2019ve been ... doing interviews just to keep the issue on the table, to keep Nimrod valuable for Hamas to keep him alive and to fight for a hostage deal so my son will be again a free man like he should be.\u201d Yehuda Cohen, 55, the father of 20-year-old Nimrod Cohen who was kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October, condemned Benjamin Netanyahu outside his luxury Loews Regency hotel on Park Avenue. \u201cWe are here today, this week because Netanyahu is here. Netanyahu wants to \u2026 show off. He came here for a speech in the UN while there is an intense war in Israel and he\u2019s dealing with himself,\u201d said Cohen. \u201cHe\u2019s actually ruling on the blood of Israeli civilians, Israeli soldiers and of course the Israeli hostages and we want to make a stop to that. He must either go for a hostage deal or resign and just vanish from our lives,\u201d Cohen continued, adding, \u201cHe\u2019s trying to stay forever, he\u2019s trying to break down the [judicial] system in Israel \u2026 and stay prime minister forever. He would even take [Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya] Sinwar as his personal assistant if this will help him stay in power. He doesn\u2019t care for Israel.\u201d As Netanyahu took the UN stage earlier on Friday, several diplomats walked out in protest. And away from the general assembly, there were further protests against the Israeli leader\u2019s handling of the war in Gaza. Idit Hertzberg, 74, was one of the approximately two dozen anti-Netanyahu protestors outside his luxury Loews Regency hotel on Park Avenue. Speaking about Netanyahu, Hertzberg said: \u201cWe want to change his policy and to bring our hostages home. Bring them home, whatever the price would be. If he needs to cease the fire, temporarily or for a long time, we need them home. No way this goes on for more than a year \u2026 There are little babies, old people, no way can they go on being in these caves.\u201d Hertzberg added, \u201c[Netanyahu] is here. We cannot change the fact. He is going to speak \u2026 The same degree of speaking, [we want to see him] doing.\u201d Before Israel launched a new air attack against Lebanon on Friday, the last day of the UN general assembly brought together different groups protesting for different causes. Supporters of the religious movement Falun Gong gathered in a designated protest area near the UN. Supporters of embattled Pakistani politician Imran Khan posted a banner calling for his release. Supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist party wore headbands and held a banner. Anti-war protesters held Palestinian flags aloft. Joe Biden, the US president, has directed the Pentagon to \u201cassess and adjust as necessary\u201d American forces in the Middle East, the White House said after a wave of Israeli strikes in Beirut on Friday. A statement by the White House reads: He has directed the Pentagon to assess and adjust as necessary US force posture in the region to enhance deterrence, ensure force protection, and support the full range of US objectives. Israel plans to ramp up its strikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut, according to the Times of Israel. The report comes after Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it would strike three buildings in the Dahiyeh suburb of southern Beirut. Citing Israeli military sources, the paper says the IDF plans to strike more Hezbollah sites in Dahiyeh. The coming days are expected to be complex, the paper writes. Images and videos are emerging following the latest Israeli air attack on southern suburbs of Beirut early on Saturday. From Al Jazeera\u2019s Ali Hashem: From the BBC\u2019s Nafiseh Kohnavard: The Israeli military confirmed it was conducting strikes in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs. A statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reads: The IDF (military) is currently conducting targeted strikes on weapons belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation that were stored beneath civilian buildings. Blasts have been reported in Beirut, after the Israeli military said it was conducting airstrikes in the Lebanese capital\u2019s southern suburbs, where it had warned residents to evacuate. From the BBC\u2019s Nafiseh Kohnavard: At least six people were killed and 91 were wounded in Israel\u2019s strike on Beirut\u2019s southern suburb on Friday, according to the latest figure by Lebanon\u2019s health ministry. The Lebanese ministry added that the toll was not final. IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari also said that the Israeli military would not allow any weapons transfers to Hezbollah, including via Beirut\u2019s international airport. Here\u2019s more from Hagari\u2019s remarks, reported by the Times of Israel: Air Force planes are now patrolling the Beirut airport area \u2026 We are announcing, we will not allow enemy flights with weapons to land at the civilian airport in Beirut. This is a civilian airport, for civilian use, and it must stay that way. Daniel Hagari, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson, in a televised address, said the IDF is still looking into the results of its strike on Beirut earlier today. Hagari said the \u201cvery accurate\u201d strikes hit the main Hezbollah headquarters, which he said was located underground beneath residential buildings. Israeli media have reported that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was the principle target of Friday\u2019s air attack on Beirut\u2019s southern suburb. A preliminary death toll by the Lebanese health ministry said two people were killed and 76 others injured as a result of the Israeli strike. More casualties are expected as rescue workers clear rubble. \u201cWe will update as soon as we know. Our strike was very accurate,\u201d Hagari said. As we reported earlier, the IDF spokesperson also warned that Israel would strike three buildings in south Beirut \u201cin the coming hours\u201d and called on residents to evacuate them. Hagari said: The force of the explosions as a result of the missiles which are under the buildings may cause damage to the buildings and even their collapse. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has warned that it will strike areas of southern Beirut in the \u201ccoming hours\u201d and called on civilians to leave those areas. The statement by IDF spokesperson Rear Adm Daniel Hagari comes after the IDF ordered residents of Dahiyeh, the southern suburb of Beirut, to evacuate certain areas as they were \u201clocated near Hezbollah interests\u201d. A map posted by an Israeli military spokesperson showed different neighbourhoods of Dahiyeh, pointing to specific buildings in al-Laylakeh and al-Hadath, both densely populated areas of Beirut. Hagari reiterated the warning to residents of three buildings in Dahiyeh to evacuate. He said: In the coming hours we are going to strike strategic capability that Hezbollah placed underground, under three buildings in the heart of the Dahiyeh. Danny Danon, Israel\u2019s ambassador to the UN, said Israeli military airstrikes on Friday targeted a meeting of \u201cbad people\u201d in Beirut. He declined to confirm whether Israel was targeting the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, but said Nasrallah is a \u201cbad actor\u201d and \u201ca terrorist\u201d. The Hezbollah chief has \u201cblood on his hands\u201d, Danon added. Israel\u2019s apparent attempt to assassinate Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a massive strike on an underground headquarters in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs marks the most alarming escalation in almost a year of war between the Shia militant organisation as Israel. Immediately after a highly bellicose speech by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN general assembly \u2013 where he appeared to directly threaten Iran as well as promise to continue \u201cdegrading\u201d Hezbollah \u2013 the first reports of a massive strike began to emerge. Within less than an hour, Israeli journalists with connections to the country\u2019s defence and security establishment were suggesting that Nasrallah was the target and that he had been in the area of the headquarters at the time of the strike. That the strike was regarded as highly significant was quickly confirmed by a series of statements from Israel \u2013 including an image showing Netanyahu ordering the attack on the phone from his New York hotel room. What is clearer than ever, after a series of Israeli escalations against Hezbollah this month \u2013 including targeted killings and the explosion of thousands of modified pagers and walkie-talkies supplied to the group \u2013 is that the long-understood ground rules governing the balance of deterrence between the two sides has been blown away. Read the full analysis here: Israel\u2019s strike on Hezbollah leader is an alarming escalation in conflict Here\u2019s more from US secretary of state Antony Blinken\u2019s news conference in New York. Blinken said Israel\u2019s objective in Lebanon is an \u201cimportant and legitimate one\u201d, and that it is about \u201ccreating an environment that\u2019s secure enough to enable people to return home\u201d. He tells reporters: The question is: what\u2019s the best way to do that? What is the most effective, sustainable way to do that? He says the US and other countries who have joined calls for a 21-day ceasefire believe that the best way is through diplomacy and through a ceasefire. The Israeli military has warned residents of Dahiyeh, the southern suburb of Beirut, to evacuate certain areas, as they were \u201clocated near Hezbollah interests\u201d. Avichay Adraee, Israel\u2019s Arabic language military spokesperson, posted a map of certain areas of Dahiyeh on a post on X and said residents \u201cwere obliged to evacuate the buildings immediately and move away from them at a distance of no less than 500 meters\u201d. He added that the evacuation orders were for the \u201csafety of your loved ones\u201d. The map posted by the Israeli spokesperson showed different neighbourhoods of Dahiyeh, pointing to specific buildings in al-Laylakeh and al-Hadath that he said were Hezbollah bases. Both al-Laylakeh and al-Hadath are densely populated areas of Beirut. Earlier in the day, crowds of people fled from Dahiyeh and the immediate surrounding area for fear of further Israeli strikes. Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, said the events of the past week and the past few hours underscored how \u201cprecarious\u201d the situation is for the Middle East and the world. Blinken, at a press conference in New York, says Israel \u201chas the right to defend itself against terrorism\u201d but \u201cthe way it does so matters\u201d. He said: The choices that all parties make in the coming days will determine which path this region is on with profound consequences for its people now and possibly for years to come. One of the choices is the \u201cpath of diplomacy\u201d, he says, which involves reaching a ceasefire along the border between Israel and Lebanon, as well as a ceasefire in Gaza. The US has made clear that it believes that \u201cthe way forward is through diplomacy, not conflict\u201d, Blinken says. The path to diplomacy may seem difficult to see at this moment, but it is there, and in our judgment, it is necessary. We will continue to work intensely with all parties to urge them to choose that course. Joe Biden has said the US had no advance knowledge of or participation in the massive Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday. The US president told reporters that he is waiting for more information before commenting on the attack. He said: The United States had no knowledge of or participation in the IDF action. We\u2019re gathering more information. I\u2019ll have more to say when we have more information. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was continuing to strike Hezbollah sites throughout Lebanon. An IDF statement said it continuing to \u201cattack, damage and degrade the military capabilities and infrastructure\u201d of Hezbollah. It said Israeli fighter jets attacked \u201cdeep in Lebanon and southern Lebanon\u201d, and that it hit Hezbollah targets including launchers that were \u201cdirected towards Israeli civilians\u201d. Hezbollah announced two more attacks on Israel late Friday night, saying in statements that they launched a salvo of rockets at Karmiel and Sa\u2019ar, \u201cin response to Israeli attacks on cities, villages and civilians\u201d. Hezbollah had yet to put out a statement regarding the fate of its secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, after reports that he was targeted by Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, the southern suburbs of Beirut, earlier in the day. Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: Israel\u2019s military said it struck the central headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut on Friday, launching its heaviest air attack on Beirut in almost a year of conflict with the Lebanese militant group. Six loud explosions were heard across the Lebanese capital late on Friday afternoon. A number of buildings in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh were levelled. Residents of Dahiyeh and a nearby Palestinian refugee camp, Burj al-Barajneh, fled the area following the strikes. Israeli media reported the strike on Beirut as an attempt to kill Hezbollah\u2019s leader and key Iran ally, Hassan Nasrallah. Other media outlets quoted Hezbollah sources saying he was \u201calive and well\u201d. Hezbollah issued a statement saying there was \u201cno truth to any statement\u201d about the Israeli attack, without specifying what statements it was referring to. At least two people were killed and 76 others were injured by the Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday, according to the Lebanese health ministry, who cautioned it was a preliminary figure. Some early estimates put the number of dead at 300. More casualties are expected as rescue workers clear rubble. \u201cThey are residential buildings. They were filled with people. Whoever is in those buildings is now under the rubble,\u201d Lebanon\u2019s health minister, Firass Abiad, said. Israel braced itself for potential retaliation from Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well as from Yemen and Iran. After the Beirut strike, Hezbollah said it bombed Safed, a city in north Israel, with a rocket salvo \u201cin response to Israeli attacks on cities, villages and civilians\u201d. Israel\u2019s home front command has urged residents of Golan Heights, Safed, Merom HaGalil to stay near protected areas. Video of the Israeli strikes on Beirut suggested they were carried out with ground-penetrating munitions known as bunker busters. In some footage, a vertical jet of flame was visible as a bomb appeared to explode beneath the ground. St\u00e9phane Dujarric, the UN\u2019s spokesperson, said the organisation is watching the Israeli strikes on a \u201cdensely populated\u201d area in the southern suburbs of Beirut \u201cwith great alarm\u201d. The US insisted it did not have advance warning of the Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday. A Pentagon spokesperson said Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, was talking on the phone with his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, as the operation was under way. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office said he had personally approved the strike, and announced that he had cut short his US visit and would return immediately to Israel. The strikes came shortly after a bellicose speech by Netanyahu in the UN general assembly. Netanyahu shrugged off global appeals for a ceasefire in Lebanon and Gaza, and instead denounced the UN as an \u201cantisemitic swamp\u201d and insisted that Israel is \u201cwinning\u201d its wars on multiple fronts. Many national delegations walked out in protest as he took the floor. Even if he was not harmed in the strike, targeting Nasrallah would mark a staggering escalation on the Israeli side. The Hezbollah leader represents Iran\u2019s most important regional asset and has long been seen as linchpin in the so-called axis of resistance. The presence of Hezbollah\u2019s large rocket arsenal on Israel\u2019s northern border has long acted as a deterrent to an Israeli attack on Iran and its nuclear programme. Iran\u2019s embassy in Beirut said the airstrike represented \u201ca dangerous game-changing escalation that changes the rules of the game\u201d and warned that its perpetrator would be \u201cpunished appropriately\u201d. Najib Mikati, the caretaker prime minister of Lebanon, said the Israeli attack on Beirut shows that Israel \u201cdoes not care\u201d about global calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon. Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis said they targeted Israel\u2019s cities of Tel Aviv and Ashkelon with a ballistic missile and a drone in support of Gaza and Lebanon. The Israeli army said it had intercepted a missile that was fired from Yemen after sirens and explosions were heard early in the day. Britons in Lebanon have been urged to leave now and take \u201cthe next available flight\u201d. John Healey, the UK\u2019s defence secretary, was reportedly looking at a rumoured Israeli ground invasion into Lebanon \u201creally carefully\u201d. The Lebanese army was protectively setting up a security cordon around the US embassy in Lebanon, which is north of Beirut, a security source told Reuters. Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip shot and killed an aid worker from a US based charity, firing on her car in what government officials told her family was a case of mistaken identity. The car in which Islam Hijazi, Gaza programme manager at Heal Palestine, was travelling was intercepted on Thursday in the area of Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip. Hezbollah has put out a statement saying it has bombed Safed, a city in north Israel, with a rocket salvo \u201cin response to Israeli attacks on cities, villages and civilians\u201d. The Hezbollah statement did not mention the Israeli strike on Dahieh, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, on Friday night, reportedly targeting the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. Israeli media said a building had been hit in the rocket barrage, but that no injuries were reported yet. Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Saudi Arabia\u2019s foreign minister, responded to the Israeli prime minister\u2019s speech at the UN general assembly this afternoon, during which Benjamin Netanyahu frequently referred to the potential dividends of peace for both countries and the wider region. He claimed it would make the Middle East a \u201cglobal juggernaut\u201d. Netanyahu expressed his desire for an expansion of the Abraham Accords to include Saudi Arabia, a policy introduced during the Donald Trump administration that brokered peace between Arab states before addressing the Israel-Palestine conflict. Faisal bin Farhan stated that Netanyahu \u201cnot once mentioned Palestine and not once mentioned the Palestinians\u201d, adding that it would not be possible for the region to stabilise and achieve the potential Netanyahu referred to without peace in Palestine. The crux of the matter is how do you address the issue of Palestine? We address it through what has been established in international law: the formation of a Palestinian state. Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, the UN\u2019s secretary general, said he fully supports a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, warning that \u201cwe cannot afford endless negotiations as we have on Gaza\u201d. \u201cWe must avoid the regional war at all costs,\u201d Guterres told world leaders at the UN headquarters in New York on Friday, saying: Gaza remains the epicentre of violence, and Gaza is the key to ending it. The UN will continue to support all efforts towards sustainable peace, starting with an end to the violence, he said, adding: The death spiral must end for Gaza, for the people of Palestine and Israel, for the region and for the world. Sirens have been reported in Safed and nearby towns in northern Israel. From the Times of Israel: Hezbollah\u2019s media office has said there was \u201cno truth to any statement\u201d about the Israeli attack on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs. It did not specify what statements it was referring to. Hezbollah has not otherwise made any statement about the Israeli strikes, Reuters reported. The Lebanese army was protectively setting up a security cordon around the US embassy in Lebanon, which is north of Beirut, a security source told Reuters. The UK Foreign Office is again urging British nationals in Lebanon to leave immediately. British nationals in Lebanon should \u201ctake the next available flight\u201d, it said in a post on X. The Foreign Office said it is working to increase capacity and secure seats for British nationals to leave. It also asked British nationals to let the UK government know they were in Lebanon through its Register Your Presence service. Joe Biden, the US president, has been briefed by his national security team on the Israeli strikes in Beirut, the White House said. Iran\u2019s embassy in Beirut condemned Israel\u2019s airstrikes on Dahiyeh, the southern suburbs of Beirut, on Friday, saying the strikes \u201crepresent a serious escalation that changes the rules of the game\u201d. It added that Israel would be \u201cpunished appropriately\u201d. Since Israel\u2019s escalations in Lebanon, Iran has signalled that it is reluctant to get directly involved in Hezbollah\u2019s fight with Israel. In New York during a visit to the United Nations on Monday, Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian, said that a larger war in the Middle East \u201cwill not benefit anyone\u201d. Israel has carried out a series of deadly airstrikes in southern Beirut\u2019s Dahiyeh district on Friday, the largest Israel has carried out in Lebanon since it began exchanging fire with Hezbollah on 8 October. Here\u2019s our video report: Israel is bracing for potential retaliation from Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well as from Yemen and Iran. The home front command has urged residents of Golan Heights, Safed, Merom HaGalil to stay near protected areas. Residents of Dahiyeh, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, and a nearby Palestinian refugee camp, Burj al-Barajneh, began to flee the area in the hours following the Israeli airstrikes on the area on Friday night. Some people clutched bags, others held nothing as beeping scooters weaved through crowds of people leaving their homes. Calls went out for empty apartments in Achrafieh, a Christian area of east Beirut and areas in the mountains surrounding Beirut, which were spared from most of the fighting during the 2006 Lebanon Israel war. This is the second time in a week that residents of Lebanon fled Israeli airstrikes, after Israel launched a wide-ranging aerial campaign on Monday that displaced over 90,000 residents from south Lebanon. Hospitals asked people to donate blood, in anticipation of large numbers of casualties, with already 76 reported as injured, though emergency responders were only beginning rescue operations. The UN\u2019s special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said she is \u201cdeeply alarmed\u201d and \u201cprofoundly worried\u201d about the potential civilian impact of Israeli strikes on Beirut on Friday. The \u201cmassive\u201d strikes were on the Lebanese capital\u2019s \u201cdensely populated\u201d southern suburbs, Hennis posted to X. She added: The city is still shaking with fear and panic widespread. All must urgently cease fire. Here are some of the latest images from the newswires from Beirut, where Lebanon\u2019s health ministry says at least two people were killed and 76 others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Friday. As we reported earlier, the Pentagon has said that the US did not have advance warning of the Israeli strike on Beirut. Israel notified the US only moments before the strike, CNN reported, citing several sources. According to one US official, Israel informed Washington they were taking military action once the operation was already under way and Israel had planes in the air. CNN cited the official as saying: We had no foreknowledge of this and that does not qualify as a heads up. A Pentagon spokesperson said the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, was talking on the phone with his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, as the operation was under way. Lebanon\u2019s health minister, Firass Abiad, said there had been a \u201ccomplete decimation\u201d of four to six residential buildings as a result of the Israeli strikes on Beirut on Friday. Abiad told the New York Times that the number of casualties in hospitals was low so far because people were still trapped under the rubble. He said: They are residential buildings. They were filled with people. Whoever is in those buildings is now under the rubble. An Israeli official has told NBC News that Israel expects Hezbollah will attempt to mount a \u201cmajor retaliatory attack\u201d after the Israeli military said it struck the Lebanese militant group\u2019s headquarters in Beirut on Friday. Two people were killed and 76 injured in the Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh, the southern suburbs of Beirut today, according to Lebanon\u2019s ministry of health on Friday night. The death toll is expected to rise as rescue crews continue to clear rubble from the buildings collapsed in the strike. The Pentagon\u2019s spokesperson, Sabrina Singh, said the US did not have advanced warning of the Israeli strike in Beirut. She told reporters: The United States was not involved in this operation and we had no advanced warning. The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, spoke with his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, as the Israeli operation was ongoing, Singh added. She declined to say what Gallant told Austin about the operation and whether it had targeted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, as reported by Israeli media. At least one person was killed and 50 others wounded in Israeli airstrikes on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Friday, Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV is reporting. The UN\u2019s spokesperson, St\u00e9phane Dujarric, said the organisation is watching the Israeli strikes on a \u201cdensely populated\u201d area in the southern suburbs of Beirut \u201cwith great alarm\u201d. Dujarric added: Anyone who looks at the pictures of smoke billowing from a densely populated area should be alarmed. He added that the UN is \u201ctrying to gather more information as we speak\u201d. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will return tonight from New York to Israel, his office said. Netanyahu will take off from New York today at 8pm ET, it said. He was originally scheduled to leave on Saturday. The Israeli leader earlier today addressed the UN general assembly, where he told world leaders that Israel\u2019s campaign against Hezbollah would continue. The office of Benjamin Netanyahu has released a photo that it said showed the Israeli prime minister approving the airstrike on Hezbollah\u2019s headquarters in Beirut. The photo appears to show Netanyahu at his hotel in New York. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, posted a photo that he said showed him observing the strike from the Israeli air force\u2019s underground command room. The photo shows Gallant alongside the chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Herzi Halevi, and head of the Israeli air force, Tomer Bar. Here are some of the latest images from Dahiyeh in southern Beirut, where Israeli strikes on Friday shook the Lebanese capital and sent thick clouds of smoke over the city. The leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, is alive, Reuters is reporting, citing a source close to the group, after Israeli media reports that Nasrallah was the target of an Israeli strike in Beirut on Friday. A senior Iranian security official earlier told Reuters that Tehran is checking the status of Nasrallah. A source close to Hezbollah said Nasrallah is \u201cfine\u201d, AFP is reporting. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it carried a \u201cprecise strike\u201d on the Hezbollah headquarters in the Lebanese capital. The Lebanese Red Cross says it has dispatched 10 teams to the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh after Israeli airstrikes. There was no immediate word on casualties from the strikes. Friday\u2019s strikes were the most powerful yet seen in the Lebanese capital the past year. According to the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV, four buildings in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Dahiyeh were destroyed by the airstrikes. A source close to Hezbollah said the Israeli strikes \u201clevelled six buildings\u201d, AFP reported. Najib Mikati, the caretaker prime minister of Lebanon, said the Israeli attack on Beirut shows that Israel \u201cdoes not care\u201d about global calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon. The statement, reported by Reuters, was released while Mikati is in New York for the UN general assembly. Israel carried out what it said were multiple airstrikes on the main military headquarters of Hezbollah in the southern suburbs of Beirut, with Israeli media claiming that the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was present at the time of the strike \u2013 though the Guardian could not verify this claim. It was not immediately clear if Nasrallah was killed in the strike or not. If true, the targeting of Nasrallah would be a large escalation in fighting between Hezbollah-Israel, already teetering on the precipice of a full-scale war. According to Israeli spokesperson Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military targeted the Hezbollah headquarters, which was built \u201cunder residential buildings in Beirut in order to use them as human shields\u201d. Israeli media further claimed the army used bunker busters \u2013 large bombs capable of penetrating deep into the earth before exploding \u2013 in the attack. The strikes were the largest against Beirut since the beginning of fighting nearly a year ago. The explosions rocked the capital city, heard across the city. There were multiple large plumes of smoke billowing from the strike sites, seen as far as the city of Batroun, an hour\u2019s drive north of the capital city. According to the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV, four buildings were destroyed by the airstrikes. Videos showing the site of the airstrike showed several buildings that had completely collapsed, with fires burning under the rubble. Pictures showed a car swallowed by a hole in the ground, while rubble and dust made the asphalt street unrecognizable. The sound of ambulances rushing to the scene were heard across Beirut, but reports of casualties had yet to emerge. Friday\u2019s airstrike was the fifth time that Israel hit the capital city in a week, and came off the back of a week of an intensified aerial campaign against Lebanon. Israel said that it bombed more than 2,000 Hezbollah targets across Lebanon, killing at least 700 and wounding more than 1,835. According to Israeli media, Israel is checking if Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was at the group\u2019s headquarters in Beirut when it was hit by an Israeli strike. From the Times of Israel\u2019s Emanuel Fabian: A number of well-connected Israeli correspondents were briefed by Israeli security sources in the minutes after the strike that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was the target. We reported earlier that Fox News claimed that the target of the Israeli strike on Beirut was the head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. Axios is also reporting that the target of the attack was Nasrallah, citing an Israeli source. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is checking to see if Nasrallah was injured, it reports. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has posted a full statement by its spokesperson, Rear Adm Daniel Hagari, who said the Israeli military had carried out a \u201cprecise strike\u201d on Hezbollah\u2019s central headquarters in Beirut. Hagari said the Hezbollah central command centre was embedded deep within civilian areas in the heart of Dahiyeh, in the Lebanese capital\u2019s southern suburbs. The headquarters \u201cserved as the epicentre of Hezbollah\u2019s terror\u201d, he said. Fox News is reporting that the target of the Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday was the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. The Guardian has not yet been able to verify this report. As we reported earlier, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed it targeted Hezbollah\u2019s central command in the southern suburbs of Beirut. A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that the IDF strike on Beirut flattened six buildings. Israel carried out what it said was a strike against Hezbollah\u2019s main military headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday afternoon, in what were the largest airstrikes carried out on Beirut since the beginning of fighting nearly a year ago. According to Israeli spokesperson Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military targeted the Hezbollah headquarters, which was built \u201cunder residential buildings in Beirut in order to use them as human shields\u201d. The airstrikes rocked Beirut, with the series of explosions heard across the city and multiple large plumes of smoke billowing from the strike sites. The smoke could be seen from the city of Batroun, an hour\u2019s drive north of the capital city. According to the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV, four buildings were destroyed by the airstrikes. Videos showing the site of the airstrike showed several buildings that had completely collapsed, with fires burning under the rubble. Emergency responders arrived on the scene, but reports of a death toll had yet to emerge. Israel bombed Dahiyeh, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, late Friday afternoon local time, with at least six loud explosions heard across the city. Multiple large plumes of smoke billowed above the southern suburb of Beirut, visible from the city of Batroun, an hour\u2019s drive away. Israel said it conducted an airstrike against Hezbollah\u2019s military headquarters in the area. It was the largest bombing of Beirut since hostilities broke out nearly a year ago. It was the fifth time that Israel struck Beirut in a week. Lebanon\u2019s health minister, Firass Abiad, has said the death toll in Israeli strikes on Lebanon since the early hours of Friday was 25. One attack killed nine members of a family, including four children, in the border town of Shebaa, mayor Mohammad Saab told Reuters. More than 700 people in Lebanon have been killed in Israeli attacks since Monday, according to a tally of official tolls. The shops behind us were hit. The young boy who was with me was martyred [killed], and I\u2019m still alive,\u201d said 13-year-old Syrian Abdallah Tawfik Al-Hamid, lying in a hospital bed in southern Lebanon following an airstrike. Hezbollah said it had fired rockets into Israel on Friday at Kiryat Ata near the city of Haifa some 20 miles from the border, and at the city of Tiberias, declaring the attacks a response to Israeli strikes on villages, cities and civilians. Though Israeli air defences have shot down many of Hezbollah\u2019s rockets, limiting damage, the attacks have displaced tens of thousands and shut down normal life across much of northern Israel as more areas fall into its crosshairs. A series of powerful explosions shook Beirut a little earlier today and thick clouds of smoke reportedly rose over the city. Witnesses told the news agency Reuters of what appeared to be a fresh round of bombing on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital. Lebanese media said there were a series of Israeli airstrikes on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of the city. Israel\u2019s foreign minister yesterday rejected global calls for a ceasefire with the Iran-backed Hezbollah group and continued airstrikes that have killed hundreds of people in Lebanon this week and heightened fears of a regional war. Hezbollah\u2019s Al-Manar TV said four buildings had been destroyed in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital. Back on the ground in Lebanon, there are fresh reports of air strikes on the capital. Massive, thick clouds of smoke were seen rising from Beirut today after multiple explosions were heard, according to Reuters witnesses. We await further details. Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN\u2019s general assembly, where he said his country is winning. He declared that there is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach and called for a peace agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Speaking of Hezbollah, Netanyahu said \u201cenough is enough\u201d and that \u201cwe won\u2019t rest until our citizens can return safely to their homes.\u201d The Israeli leader also criticised the United Nations and the ICC prosecutor, and said that no army has done what Israel is doing to minimise civilian casualties. Earlier, the prime minister said in a statement that Israeli teams had meetings to discuss the US ceasefire proposals on Thursday and will continue discussions in the days ahead. \u201cIsrael shares the aims of the US-led initiative of enabling people along our northern border to return safely and securely to their homes,\u201d the statement said. UK defence secretary John Healey is looking at a rumoured Israeli ground invasion into Lebanon \u201creally carefully\u201d and that airstrikes and rocket fire exchanged between Israel and Hezbollah present a \u201crisk that this escalates into something that is much wider and much more serious\u201d. The Lebanese health minister, Firass Abiad, said 25 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon since the early hours of today. Nearly 700 people have been killed in Lebanon this week, according to Lebanon\u2019s health ministry. Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis said they had targeted Tel Aviv and Ashkelon with a ballistic missile and a drone. The UN said on Friday that a \u201ccatastrophic\u201d intensification of Israeli attacks targeting Hezbollah militants had left Lebanon facing its deadliest period in years, with its hospitals overwhelmed by casualties. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said that more than 30,000 people, mainly Syrians, have crossed into Syria from Lebanon in the past 72 hours. Australia suggested the world set \u201ca clear timeline for the international declaration of Palestinian statehood\u201d in a sign of increasing frustration about the stalled peace process. Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip shot and killed an aid worker from a US-based charity, firing on her car in what officials said was a case of mistaken identity. The American embassy in Beirut has said that it \u201cis not evacuating U.S. citizens at this time\u201d. \u201cThere is a commercially available flight that U.S. citizens who expressed interest in departing Lebanon will have to book and pay directly with the airline,\u201d it said. Here\u2019s footage of diplomats leaving the chamber ahead of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s speech at the UN general assembly in New York. Netanyahu also criticised the United Nations, referring to it as a \u201cswamp of antisemitic bile\u201d. \u201cUntil Israel, until the Jewish state, is treated like other nations, until this antisemitic swamp is drained, the UN will be viewed by fair-minded people everywhere as nothing more than a contemptuous farce.\u201d He also took aim at the international criminal court\u2019s prosecutor. In his speech at the UN general assembly, Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that Israel doesn\u2019t want to see a single innocent person die. \u201cNo army has done what Israel is doing to minimise civilian casualties: we drop fliers, we send text messages, we make phone calls by the millions to ensure that Palestinian civilians get out of harm\u2019s way,\u201d he said. Outside the luxury Loews Regency hotel on Park Avenue, a small group of anti-Benjamin Netanyahu protestors gathered across the street. Some waved Israeli flags while others held signs with Netanyahu\u2019s face imprinted with a red handprint. One protestor, Yehuda Cohen, 55, condemned Netanyahu\u2019s speech at the UN. \u201cWhile there is intense war in Israel, he\u2019s dealing with himself \u2026 he thinks he\u2019s the great speaker, he will save Israel by speaking, he\u2019s actually destroying Israel. He\u2019s responsible for the events of 7th of October,\u201d Cohen said. \u201cHe must put everything aside, stop the war and go for a hostage deal. I want my son back home. I sent my son to the army so he can protect Israel. On the 7th of October, they were outnumbered, he was neglected and kidnapped \u2026 The Israeli government, it\u2019s not that they\u2019re doing nothing for a hostage deal, they\u2019re doing everything to prevent a hostage deal,\u201d Cohen added. Netanyahu also stressed the need to achieve a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia, citing the experience of the Abraham accords. \u201cI say to you, what blessing such a peace with Saudi Arabia would bring \u2013 it would be a boon to the security and economy of our two countries, it would boost trade and tourism across the region, it would help transform the Middle East into a global juggernaut,\u201d he said. \u201cSuch a peace, I\u2019m sure, would be a true pivot of history: it would usher in a historic reconciliation between the Arab world and Israel, between Islam and Judaism, between Mecca and Jerusalem,\u201d the Israeli leader said. \u201cOne of the best ways to foil Iran\u2019s nefarious designs is to achieve the peace,\u201d he added. Speaking of Hezbollah, Benjamin Netanyahu said the group has murdered the citizens of many countries and attacked Israel unprovoked. \u201cEnough is enough,\u201d he said. \u201cWe won\u2019t rest until our citizens can return safely to their homes,\u201d he added. \u201cWe will not accept a terror army perched on our northern border, able to perpetrate another 7 October-style massacre,\u201d he said. \u201cHamas has got to go,\u201d Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu said at the UN general assembly. Israel seeks a demilitarised and deradicalised Gaza, he stressed. The hostages must be returned to their families, he said. \u201cThere is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach, and that\u2019s true of the entire Middle East,\u201d Netanyahu said at the UN general assembly. \u201cWe are winning,\u201d he declared, showing a map he termed \u201cthe curse\u201d of Iran\u2019s influence and another which he described as a blessing. Netanyahu also called for an end to the \u201cappeasement\u201d of Iran. Everything must be done to ensure Iran doesn\u2019t get nuclear weapons, the Israeli leader added. In a speech at the UN general assembly, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said his country will not rest until the remaining hostages are brought home. Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu is speaking of the \u201ccurse\u201d of 7 October and the atrocities committed that day. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, says at the UN general assembly that he didn\u2019t intend to come this year, but after he heard the \u201clies and slander\u201d levelled at Israel he decided to come and \u201cset the record straight\u201d. \u201cIsrael seeks peace, Israel yearns for peace,\u201d he said, adding that Israel must defend itself against \u201csavage murderers\u201d. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is about to speak at the UN general assembly. The chair is calling for order in the chamber. Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defence minister, has said that Israel will continue to use all means at its disposal to return the north\u2019s residents to their homes safely. UK defence secretary John Healey is looking at a rumoured Israeli ground invasion into Lebanon \u201creally carefully\u201d, reports the Press Association (PA). Healey said on Friday airstrikes and rocket fire exchanged between Israel and Hezbollah present a \u201crisk that this escalates into something that is much wider and much more serious\u201d. The PA reports that Healey faced questions about a possible ground invasion after Israeli army chief Lt Gen Herzi Halevi told troops on Wednesday that ongoing airstrikes were \u201cto prepare the ground for your possible entry and to continue degrading Hezbollah\u201d. Speaking to broadcasters, Healey said his \u201cfirst concern remains the safety of British nationals in Lebanon\u201d. He added: The travel advice remains the same \u2013 don\u2019t go to Lebanon. If you are in Lebanon, then get out and there are still commercial flights leaving so people can do that. But I left Labour conference earlier this week to chair a Cobra committee in government because we are making the preparations you\u2019d expect of government ahead of any potential developments in the future.\u201d The PA news agency understands the UK government has successfully asked airlines to increase capacity on routes out of Lebanon, with Foreign Office teams in Beirut to support British consulate services. It is thought they are ready to facilitate evacuations by sea or air, which could be triggered if the security environment degrades further and British nationals are no longer able to leave the Middle East through other routes. Asked about the rumoured ground invasion, the PA reports Healey as replying: We\u2019re watching this really carefully. That will be a matter for the Israelis. At the moment, it\u2019s airstrikes. At the moment, there are missiles from the Lebanese Hezbollah directed at Israel. This conflict serves no one.\u201d The defence secretary said Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu would \u201chear about the calls from many countries led by the United States and Britain for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon \u2013 21 days in which the fighting should stop on both sides\u201d when he attends the UN general assembly in New York on Friday. \u201cThat gives everyone a chance to concentrate on the peace plan that is on the table, that the Israelis themselves say would allow them to get their citizens back into northern Israel and the Lebanese to return to their homes in southern Lebanon,\u201d he added. The UN said on Friday that a \u201ccatastrophic\u201d intensification of Israeli attacks targeting Hezbollah militants had left Lebanon facing its deadliest period in years, with its hospitals overwhelmed by casualties, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). \u201cThe recent escalations in Lebanon are nothing short of catastrophic,\u201d said Imran Riza, the UN\u2019s humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon. \u201cWe are witnessing the deadliest period in Lebanon in a generation, and many express their fear that this is just the beginning,\u201d Riza told reporters in Geneva via video link from Beirut, reports AFP. He pointed out that on Monday alone, the death toll was equal to around half of the 1,200 killed during 34 days of war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006. \u201cThe level of displacement, the level of trauma, the level of panic, has been huge,\u201d he said. At the same time, Riza warned that Lebanon\u2019s \u201chealth sector is completely overrun\u201d. \u201cThe events of last week, including the explosions of communication devices, have nearly depleted health supplies,\u201d he said. Riza added: \u201cWith the recent escalations and hospitals reaching capacity, the system is struggling with limited resources to meet the growing demands.\u201d The hospitals in Lebanon \u201care overwhelmed\u201d, agreed Margaret Harris, spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO). She pointed out that the pager and walkie-talkie blasts had caused large numbers of serious injuries, especially to eyes and hands, which require specialised treatment. A full 777 injured remain in hospitals after those blasts, \u201cand 152 of those are critical cases\u201d, Harris said, according to AFP. \u201cThat means they\u2019re not leaving the hospital for quite some time, and so every day of bombing and blasts fills up beds that can\u2019t be unfilled.\u201d At the same time, she said, 37 health facilities had been closed across Lebanon due to events. Harris stressed that aid agencies had done a lot to prepare for possible mass-casualty events in Lebanon in case the past year of cross-border fire were to escalate. The WHO had helped \u201ctrain most of the health workers in most of the hospitals for mass casualty\u201d, she said. But \u201cin our planning scenarios, we didn\u2019t have anything like the numbers that have actually been affected\u201d. \u201cIt was way beyond anything that normal planning, even for a horrific event like this, would have expected.\u201d Australia has suggested the world should set \u201ca clear timeline for the international declaration of Palestinian statehood\u201d in a sign of increasing frustration about the stalled peace process. The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, will float the idea in a speech to the UN general assembly in New York on Saturday Australian time (Friday US time). Benjamin Netanyahu was also due to address the gathering amid mounting concern about an escalating regional war. Wong will tell the general assembly that \u201cevery country in this room\u201d must abide by the rules of war, and Israel \u201cmust comply with the binding orders of the international court of justice\u201d, according to speech remarks distributed to media in advance. Wong will say the Hamas-led attacks on Israel nearly one year ago \u201ccannot and should not be justified\u201d and the group must release all Israeli hostages. But she will say 11,000 Palestinian children have been killed and two million people in Gaza face acute food insecurity in the resulting war. \u201cThis must end,\u201d Wong will say. \u201cAll lives have equal value.\u201d One of the most significant parts of Wong\u2019s speech is her offer for Australia to \u201ccontribute to new ways to break the cycle of conflict\u201d. She will say Australia \u201cshares the frustration of the great majority of countries\u201d about a lack of progress, more than 77 years after UN general assembly resolution 181 outlined \u201ca plan for two states side by side\u201d. You can rerad the full piece here: Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip shot and killed an aid worker from a US based charity, firing on her car in what government officials told her family was a case of mistaken identity, reports Reuters. The car in which Islam Hijazi, Gaza programme manager at Heal Palestine, was travelling was intercepted on Thursday in the area of Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip. Gunmen riding in three cars sprayed the vehicle with dozens of bullets, according to residents and the woman\u2019s family. \u201cShe was the mother of two small children and a humanitarian with the highest ethics and professionalism,\u201d Heal Palestine, posted on its Facebook page. \u201cHEAL Palestine is more dedicated than ever to serving Gaza, in her honor. Ceasefire now,\u201d it added. Reuters reports that her family issued a statement on Friday, saying they were told by government parties at the hospital where her body was taken that she was killed by mistake. Her killers, whose identity was not immediately clear, had failed to identify the vehicle she was driving, they said. There has been no immediate comment from Hamas, according to Reuters. \u201cThat was a bigger shock \u2026 How would an innocent soul be wasted and 90 bullets fired at her car just for mistaken identification?\u201d the family said in a statement published by Palestinian media. Reuters was not able to verify the number of bullets fired. The incident highlights growing chaos and anarchy in Gaza almost a year into Israel\u2019s military offensive, which has weakened the ability of Hamas-run security services to police the streets, according to the group. Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Friday they had targeted Israel\u2019s cities of Tel Aviv and Ashkelon with a ballistic missile and a drone in support of Gaza and Lebanon, reports Reuters. The Israeli army said it had intercepted a missile that was fired from Yemen after sirens and explosions were heard early in the day. The Houthi\u2019s military spokesperson said their operations will not halt in the coming days until Israel\u2019s offensives in Gaza and Lebanon stop. \u201cWe will carry out more military operations against the Israeli enemy in victory for the blood of our brothers in Palestine and Lebanon,\u201d Yahya Sarea said in a televised speech. Israeli strikes have killed more than 600 people in Lebanon since Monday, with the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah at its most intense in more than 18 years. Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel for almost a year in support of its ally Hamas, which is fighting Israel in Gaza. Reuters reports that Lebanese health minister Firass Abiad said 25 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon since the early hours of Friday. No further details were provided. Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Friday they will soon issue a statement related to a military operation deep inside Israel, reports Reuters. The Israeli army said it intercepted a missile that was fired from Yemen after sirens and explosions were heard early on Friday. Saudi Arabia has formed a global alliance to push for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the country\u2019s foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said on Thursday on the sidelines of the UN general assembly meeting in New York. The alliance includes a number of Arab and Muslim countries and European partners, the Saudi state news agency reported, without specifying which countries had committed to join. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on X that the first meetings would be in Riyadh and Brussels. After the eruption of the Gaza war last October between Israel and Hamas that rules Gaza, Saudi Arabia put on ice US-backed plans for the kingdom to normalise ties with Israel, two sources familiar with Riyadh\u2019s thinking said earlier this year, according to Reuters. \u201cImplementing the two-state solution is the best solution to break the cycle of conflict and suffering, and enforce a new reality in which the entire region, including Israel, enjoys security and coexistence\u201d, bin Farhan was quoted as saying, reported Reuters. Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman said last week the kingdom would not recognise Israel without a Palestinian state and strongly condemned the \u201ccrimes of the Israeli occupation\u201d against the Palestinian people. Before a meeting with Donald Trump, the UK prime minister gave a speech at the UN general assembly where he told world leaders that Britain will approach international relations with less \u201cpaternalism\u201d than before while listening more and speaking less. He also pleaded with Israel and Hezbollah to step back from the brink of a wider war \u201cthat no one can control\u201d. \u201cI call on Israel and Hezbollah: stop the violence, step back from the brink. We need to see an immediate ceasefire to provide space for a diplomatic settlement and we are working with all partners to that end,\u201d he said. More than 30,000 people, mainly Syrians, have crossed into Syria from Lebanon in the past 72 hours, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday. In a post on X the UNHCR also shared a video of the UN high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, calling for a ceasefire. Extra commercial flights have been scheduled this weekend to allow Britons and other foreign nationals to evacuate from Lebanon while Israel\u2019s offensive against Hezbollah continues, mostly by Lebanese carrier Middle East Airlines. Official estimates are that there are 5,000 British citizens, single and dual nationals, and immediate family members who would be a priority for any emergency evacuation. Of those, several hundred are thought to be single nationals resident in the country. Britain, along with other western nations, has been urging its citizens to leave Lebanon since early August, while commercial flights are available, though back-up evacuation plans were stepped up this week when 700 UK troops were moved back into the region. Ministers are closely monitoring the status of Beirut\u2019s international airport, and if it closes because of Israeli bombing near the capital, that is likely to be a trigger to launch an international rescue to allow foreign nationals to escape the hostilities. However, with the summer holiday season over, the number of Britons leaving in recent days has been relatively modest, suggesting those remaining have close ties with Lebanon. Officials are monitoring closely how much demand there is for people to fly out this weekend, to assess the level of remaining need. Japan is urging its citizens to leave Lebanon and has decided to prepare military flights for their possible evacuation, the government said on Friday. Israeli bombing has killed hundreds of people this week in Lebanon, particularly in Hezbollah strongholds while the militant group has retaliated with rocket barrages. \u201cWe\u2019re currently checking the safety of Japanese citizens living in Lebanon, as well as urging them to leave the country while regular commercial flights remain in operation\u201d, chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Friday morning, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Hours later, the defence ministry said air force planes had been ordered to go to Jordan and Greece to be on stand-by in case Japanese nationals need to be transported out of the region. The C-2 transport aircraft would be used to evacuate about 50 Japanese citizens currently in Lebanon, media outlets including Kyodo News said, citing unnamed government sources. Yoko Kamikawa, Japan\u2019s foreign minister, said on Wednesday that Tokyo is \u201cstrongly concerned about the escalation of tensions between Israel and Hezbollah\u201d. Japan, she added, \u201cstrongly urges\u201d all parties to \u201cexercise the utmost restraint to avoid further escalation\u201d. As the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, arrived in New York on Thursday ahead of his address to the United Nations general assembly, scheduled for Friday morning, protesters opposed to the war in Gaza gathered near UN headquarters. One group of people who waved Israeli flags and campaign banners described themselves as an informal coalition of Jewish and Israeli-led organisations taking an anti-occupation and anti-war stance in relation to the Palestinian territories. They assembled close to the UN building in Manhattan to protest against Netanyahu\u2019s arrival after he flew in from Israel overnight. As it began to drizzle, a speaker addressed the crowd of about 50 people, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and telling those gathered that \u201cNetanyahu will lie to the world\u201d on Friday, just \u201clike he lies to us Israelis\u201d. \u201cStop killing children, end the war, sign the deal, bring the hostages home,\u201d the speaker continued. \u201cThere is no military solution.\u201d More protests are planned for Thursday evening, Friday and Saturday. People carried signs reading \u201cbring the hostages home\u201d and \u201cend the war\u201d, and when Netanyahu\u2019s name was mentioned in a speech, the crowd chanted \u201cshame, shame, shame\u201d. Phylisa Wisdom, the executive director of the New York Jewish Agenda, one of the groups organising the protest, said the coalition was coming together to call on Netanyahu to reach a deal to end the war in Gaza, and bring out the remaining Israeli hostages taken in the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October last year. \u201cThere is no solution but a diplomatic solution, and we\u2019re making sure that this message cuts through and gets to Netanyahu, to our government, and to all allies of peace who care about Israeli and Palestinian lives,\u201d Wisdom said. She added that the groups were also planning on protesting outside Netanyahu\u2019s hotel. Nearly 700 people have been killed in Lebanon this week, according to Lebanon\u2019s health ministry, reports the Associated Press (AP). Israel has dramatically escalated strikes, saying it is targeting Hezbollah\u2019s military capacities and senior Hezbollah commanders. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimated that more than 200,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon since Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel in October, in support of Hamas. The US, France and other allies jointly called for a 21-day ceasefire to try to avoid an all-out war. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is striking Hezbollah \u201cwith full force\u201d and will not stop until its goals are achieved. The Philippines said on Friday it will evacuate 11,000 citizens from Lebanon the moment Israeli forces cross the border to launch a ground offensive against Hezbollah, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Israeli bombing of Iran-backed Hezbollah strongholds around neighbouring Lebanon has killed hundreds of people this week, while the militant group has retaliated with rocket barrages. Israel has rejected a US-backed 21-day ceasefire call, and its military chief has told soldiers to prepare for a possible ground offensive. \u201cA ground invasion will lead to mandatory repatriation,\u201d foreign undersecretary Eduardo de Vega said at a press conference in Manila, adding the plan was to move thousands out of the country via the sea. He did not provide other details, according to AFP. Manila had earlier urged Filipinos to leave Lebanon before airlines stopped flying to Beirut but most of its citizens did not heed the call, Filipino diplomats said. Millions of Filipinos work overseas \u2013 with large numbers concentrated in the Middle East \u2013 due to limited job opportunities at home. About 90% of those working in Lebanon are women migrant domestic workers, reports AFP. \u201cTo some of them, getting killed in war is preferable to starving to death,\u201d de Vega said, adding there have so far been no Filipino casualties from the Israeli air campaign against Hezbollah. After Israel\u2019s war with Hamas erupted last year following the group\u2019s 7 October attack, Manila began voluntary repatriations of its citizens from the areas affected by the fighting. So far, only 500 Filipinos have taken up the government\u2019s offer to leave Lebanon, De Vega said. Filipino ambassador to Beirut Raymond Balatbat said 196 Filipinos have fled southern Lebanon, where the Israeli campaign has been concentrated. Most Filipinos working in the country are based in central Lebanon around Beirut, he added. Anthony Mandap, consul general at the Philippine embassy in Tel Aviv, said there are no plans as of now to repatriate 30,000 Filipinos working in Israel, reports AFP. The Israeli military said drones and rockets crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon on Friday, as Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah claimed a rocket attack on the Israeli city of Tiberias (see 9am BST). The drones infiltrated the coastal area of Rosh HaNikra and were intercepted by the military\u2019s defences, the Israeli military said, adding several rockets were also intercepted. An Israeli airstrike on Friday killed five Syrian soldiers near the border with Lebanon, the Syrian state news agency, Sana, reported, citing a military source. \u201cThe Israeli enemy carried out an aerial attack \u2026 on one of our military positions near Kfar Yabus on the Syrian-Lebanese border,\u201d Sana quoted the source as saying, adding that five Syrian soldiers were killed and one was wounded. The raid came a day after the Israeli army said its warplanes struck \u201cinfrastructure along the Syria-Lebanon border used by Hezbollah to transfer weapons from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon\u201d. According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said Israeli warplanes targeted a crossing that links Syria\u2019s Qusayr area to Lebanon, causing \u201ca number of wounded\u201d. The UK-based monitor, which relies on a network of sources on the ground, said it was the first such strike on Syria since Israel intensified its attacks on Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah this week. Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah militant group said its forces fired a salvo of rockets at the Israeli city of Tiberias on Friday, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). In a statement, Hezbollah said it was responding to Israel\u2019s \u201csavage\u201d strikes on Lebanese towns and civilians. The Israeli military said drones and projectiles had crossed its territory from Lebanon. Here are some of the latest images coming in on the newswires: Ten global unions have filed a complaint urging Israel to pay back wages for more than 200,000 Palestinian workers deprived of salaries since the start of the war in Gaza. The complaint, lodged at the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Friday, seeks unpaid wages and withheld benefits for workers employed in Israel before the 7 October attacks there by fighters from Palestinian militant group Hamas. According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the unions cited \u201cmillions of dollars of lost income, causing severe financial insecurity \u2026 and widespread hardship for the affected workers and their families, who have no access to judicial remedies\u201d. Israel has ratified the ILO convention on the protection of unpaid wages, which is legally binding on signatories. According to the complaint, 13,000 workers from the Gaza Strip have not been paid for work done before 7 October. In addition, nearly 200,000 Palestinian workers from the West Bank have not been allowed to enter Israel since the war erupted nearly one year ago and have not been paid for work done before it began, reports AFP. The ILO estimates average daily wages for Palestinians employed in Israel under regular work permits at $79 a day, while for informal workers, weekly pay ranged from $565 to $700. \u201cThese workers have experienced widespread wage theft due to the suspension of work permits and the unilateral termination of their contracts,\u201d the unions said. They include the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers\u2019 Associations (IUF) and the Building and Wood Workers\u2019 International (BWI). AFP reports that the ILO can decide to name a committee to review the complaint and the Israeli government\u2019s response, or in serious cases form an investigative committee. An Israeli strike at about 3am local time on Friday killed nine people from the same family in the southern Lebanese border-town of Shebaa, including four children, mayor Mohammad Saab has told Reuters. No further information was provided. The House of Commons foreign affairs committee chairwoman has warned a ground invasion by Israel into Lebanon could favour Hezbollah and its legitimacy, reports the Press Association (PA). Asked about escalating conflict in the Middle East, Emily Thornberry told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today programme: I think that we need to be aware that we have perhaps more clout than we have done recently, and I think we\u2019re in a fairly unique position, so \u2026 we are in a position to be able to pull people together. I think that the UN general assembly meeting at this time means that many other nations can be pulled behind the declaration that has been made, and that will make it stronger. We don\u2019t know whether or not Israel is bluffing about a ground war. We do know that in 2006 that they got very bogged down, that at the moment they may be ahead because they\u2019re using air power and surprise, but a ground war may well be different. And actually, the poor Lebanese, who you know many of whom do not want Hezbollah in the bottom of their country, certainly don\u2019t want to have the Israelis. And Hezbollah may well end up with more legitimacy as a result of that ground invasion.\u201d Israeli teams had meetings to discuss the US ceasefire proposals with Lebanon on Thursday and will continue discussions in the days ahead, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday, adding that he appreciated the US efforts. \u201cOur teams met (Thursday, 26 September) to discuss the US initiative and how we can advance the shared goal of returning people safely to their homes. We will continue those discussions in the coming days,\u201d he said in a statement, reports Reuters. The comments came after Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz said on Thursday there would be no ceasefire in the north, where Israeli jets have been carrying out the heaviest bombardment against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement in decades. On Thursday, after Netanyahu left for New York where he is attending the UN general assembly, his office issued a statement saying the prime minister had ordered Israeli troops to continue fighting with full force in Lebanon. Reuters reports that Netanyahu\u2019s statement made no reference to the comments of Katz and other Israeli politicians, who have also rejected a ceasefire, saying only that there had been \u201ca lot of misreporting around the US-led ceasefire initiative\u201d. \u201cIsrael shares the aims of the US-led initiative of enabling people along our northern border to return safely and securely to their homes,\u201d the statement said. \u201cIsrael appreciates the US efforts in this regard because the US role is indispensable in advancing stability and security in the region,\u201d it said. Israeli strikes over the past week have hit hundreds of targets in southern Lebanon and much deeper into the country, killing more than 600 people, reports Reuters. At the same time, Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets and missiles at targets in Israel, including one fired at Tel Aviv. Israel\u2019s air defence systems have intercepted many of the missiles, ensuring the damage has been relatively limited. The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has urged his Israeli counterpart to \u201clisten to the international community\u201d amid fears of an escalating conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon. The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, also declared that the world \u201ccannot allow any party to obstruct\u201d peace in the Middle East as she pressed for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon. Speaking hours after the Israeli government rejected growing international calls to agree to a three-week ceasefire with Hezbollah, Albanese had a sharp message for Benjamin Netanyahu. \u201cI say to prime minister Netanyahu that he needs to listen to the international community, just like the other players in that region need to listen to the international community,\u201d he told reporters in Melbourne. \u201cThe calls are very clear when you have the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, other nations all calling for a de-escalation of this conflict.\u201d In New York, Wong addressed the UN security council and emphasised the urgent need for \u201cde-escalation\u201d and \u201cdialogue\u201d. \u201cHezbollah are terrorists that have not complied with security council resolution 1701, but Lebanese civilians should not pay the price,\u201d Wong said. \u201cLebanon cannot become the next Gaza. Just as in Gaza, Australia calls for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon.\u201d In a pointed message to Israel, Wong said: \u201cWar has rules \u2013 even when confronting terrorists; even when defending borders.\u201d Israeli and US officials have met to discuss a US-backed ceasefire proposal with Hezbollah, the office of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late on Thursday. The meetings \u2013 which happened in New York on the sidelines of the UN general assembly \u2013 would continue in the days ahead, Netanyahu\u2019s office said, adding that they appreciated the US efforts. The statement came after Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz said on Thursday there would be no ceasefire in the north, where Israeli jets have been carrying out the heaviest bombardment against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement in decades. On Thursday, after Netanyahu left for New York where he is attending the UN general assembly, his office issued a statement saying the prime minister had ordered Israeli troops to continue fighting with full force in Lebanon. More on that in a moment, but first here is a summary of the day\u2019s other main events: Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel \u201cwill not stop\u201d its attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon despite calls from the US, France and other allies for an immediate three-week ceasefire. The Israeli prime minister told reporters that his government\u2019s policy was clear as he landed in New York on Thursday. \u201cWe are continuing to strike Hezbollah with full force, and we will not stop until we reach all our goals,\u201d Netanyahu said. The US and France called for a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to make way for broader negotiations. A joint statement calling for \u201ca diplomatic settlement\u201d of the crisis was also endorsed by the UK, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. It called for an urgent cessation of hostilities, which presented \u201can unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation\u201d. Lebanon\u2019s minister for foreign affairs, Abdallah Bouhabib, has said his country is enduring a crisis that \u201cthreatens its very existence\u201d. Speaking at the UN general assembly, he has said that his government welcomed yesterday\u2019s ceasefire plan raised by the US and France \u2013 and demanded it be implemented. US officials hope to persuade Netanyahu to accept the ceasefire proposal by the time he addresses the UN general assembly on Friday. They argue that a pause in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah could also provide a breathing space in which to revive long-stalled negotiations with Israel and Hamas over the release of Israeli hostages in return for a truce in Gaza. Hezbollah has yet to respond to the call for a truce, although it and its backer, Iran, have previously insisted it would halt its strikes only if there is a ceasefire in Gaza. Israeli airstrikes continued in Lebanon on Thursday, in which health authorities said 92 people had been killed. Two people were killed and 15 others injured, including a woman in critical condition, after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Thursday, according to Lebanon\u2019s health ministry. Israel said it carried out a strike that it said killed one of the heads of the Hezbollah air force unit, Mohammad Surur. Hezbollah later confirmed his death. Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthi movement said it had targeted the northern Israeli town of Safed with dozens of rockets on Thursday in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Later on Thursday, air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and across central Israel. The IDF said the sirens were triggered by a missile fired from Yemen, which it said was intercepted by Israel\u2019s Arrow missile defence system."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018I was so naive\u2019: 10 years after Umbrella protests, Hongkongers remember China\u2019s crackdown;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/i-was-so-naive-10-years-after-umbrella-protests-hongkongers-remember-chinas-crackdown;2024-09-28T04:27:31Z",
        "text": "A decade ago today Hong Kong\u2019s Central district filled with protesters, angry at Chinese government plans to renege on a promise of a fully democratic vote. What became known as Occupy Central, or the Umbrella protests, paralysed the city\u2019s financial centre and galvanised a generation of young people. Today Hong Kong\u2019s streets are quiet. Protest has been largely criminalised, and many of the leaders of the Umbrella movement have been exiled, jailed or otherwise silenced. Looking back, Wendy* remembers the feeling of that first day of Occupy. She was 25 and believed in Hong Kong\u2019s Basic Law, and its promise to deliver universal suffrage to the people now that the territory had been returned from British to Chinese control. But instead, China\u2019s government announced that in elections people would only be able to choose from a few candidates handpicked by a mostly pro-Beijing committee. \u201cIt seemed that the government wanted to break their promise,\u201d Wendy tells the Guardian from Hong Kong. \u201cSo I went out.\u201d Protest action against Beijing\u2019s plan had long been in the works. Three activists known as the Occupy Trio \u2013 academics Benny Tai and Chan Kin-man, and reverend Chu Yiu-ming \u2013 had for months been training a few thousand people in non-violent resistance to occupy Hong Kong\u2019s finance district as a last resort if demands weren\u2019t met. But student protests earlier that week had escalated to the storming of a public square, and the Occupy start date was brought forward. Thousands more joined. Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email It was 28 September. Wendy thought it would be peaceful, but stayed clear of the frontlines just in case. Then at 5:58pm, police fired teargas into the peaceful crowd. \u201cI smelled some strange scents and my eyes got uncomfortable,\u201d Wendy says. \u201cI looked up to the bridge over me, seeing a group of police holding shields and stepping forward to the protesters. The scene was frightening. I just kept asking in my mind \u2018Why do they treat us in that way?\u2019.\u201d Emily Lau, a veteran pro-democracy advocate and then a sitting legislator, had gone to speak to police earlier that day about bringing in some equipment for the Occupy Trio. Instead, they arrested her. By the time she was released later that night \u201cthe whole world had changed\u201d. Lau and a colleague took a taxi from the police station to the top of a hill overlooking Central. \u201cWhen we looked down, we were shocked because the roads were blocked and there were people just everywhere occupying Connaught Road,\u201d she says. \u2018The first step in a bigger war\u2019 The police force\u2019s decision to use teargas on day one against a peaceful crowd had just brought more people to the streets. Soon a vast self-sufficient tent city took over the Admiralty district. Other camps formed in Mong Kok and Causeway Bay. Volunteer groups took care of provisions, sanitation, and tutoring of students, while calling for Beijing to reverse its plans and for Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive, CY Leung, to step down. Tony*, then a \u201cregular office worker\u201d, joined the camp in his lunch breaks and evenings. He describes what he saw as \u201castonishing\u201d. \u201cIt was a completely new Hong Kong, a beautiful Hong Kong that I had never seen before. We saw Hong Kong people were really passionate about democracy, about their future and having a say in how the city is run.\u201d Thomas*, a Hong Kong writer now based in London, says a lot of people got engaged in the movement for the first time because of how government and authorities had responded to their concerns. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t any attempt [by Beijing] to just sort of say: I understand this isn\u2019t quite what you want, but this is the best we can get \u2026 It was literally: thank us and love us for it, aren\u2019t we wonderful,\u201d he says. But as Occupy stretched on, the public\u2019s tolerance waned and divisions deepened among protesters. The government remained unmoved, and police became more aggressive. Court injunctions ordered sections of the camps to clear, and Joshua Wong, a leader of the student protesters, ended his hunger strike. Numbers dwindled as the Trio urged people to leave, but the more radical student groups were determined to stay. \u201cT[he trio] didn\u2019t think the whole thing should drag on for so long,\u201d says Lau. \u201cI supported ending it because it doesn\u2019t mean ending the whole thing. You just go home and prepare to fight another day.\u201d It ended on 15 December after 79 days, without having achieved its stated aims and with deep fissures between pro-democracy factions, but still with a sense of hope. \u201cThere was a big banner that said \u2018We will be back\u2019,\u201d recalls Tony. \u201cPeople were hugging each other and saying farewells. There was a sense that the battle hadn\u2019t succeeded but it might be the first step in a bigger war.\u201d In an editorial one year later, the South China Morning Post said the outcome of the Occupy protests \u201cproved that Beijing will not yield to confrontational tactics\u201d. Protest leaders from both the older and student cohorts, including Tai, Chan and Wong, were eventually convicted and jailed. But, Lau says, \u201cthe protests had woken up the young people\u201d. New political parties and activist groups emerged. In June 2019, millions took to the streets again in massive pro-democracy protests. Participants used tactics and strategies fine-tuned during Occupy. But there was less of the hope and fight of 2014. Instead, the 2019 protests felt like a defiant \u201clast cry of an animal that was dying\u201d, says Thomas. Again Beijing did not yield, launching a crackdown that shocked even the most pessimistic observers. \u201cThe atmosphere and political reality today are totally different [to 2014],\u201d says Willy Lam, a senior non-resident fellow and China specialist at the Jamestown Foundation in Washington. Wendy looks back at how she felt in 2014 and laughs a little. \u201cI thought 2014 was shit at that time, but compared to 2019 it was just a piece of cake,\u201d she says. \u201cI was so naive, believing the government would be sensible, respect people\u2019s voice, and abide by the promise in the Basic Law. But now I can say I was totally wrong.\u201d Tony, now a lawyer based in the UK, says the Occupy protests left an important legacy, strengthening Hongkongers self-identity and their aspirations for democracy, human rights, and rule of law. \u201cNow I see that as part of the diaspora \u2026 and I hope people in the free world don\u2019t forget Hong Kong. There is still something to be fought for.\u201d *Names have been changed upon request of interviewees"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018People have a right to clean water\u2019: Austria\u2019s far right rides wave of public anger as election nears;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/people-have-a-right-to-clean-water-austrias-far-right-rides-wave-of-public-anger-as-election-nears;2024-09-28T04:00:04Z",
        "text": "Fear, uncertainty and suspicion are running high in Klagenfurt, southern Austria, before Sunday\u2019s high-stakes parliamentary election, in which the far-right Freedom party (FP\u00d6) could become the strongest force in the country for the first time in the postwar period. For at least a week, and some local people say much longer, the tap water in this city of baroque facades and a stunning Alpine lake has been contaminated with faecal bacteria and unsafe to drink. No one \u2013 not the government or environmental officials \u2013 has managed to ascertain the cause although baseless theories involving poisoned wells, migrants and other scapegoats run wild in pubs and the darker corners of the internet. Nor is a solution in sight. \u201cPlan C\u201d, as the public works chief, Erwin Smole, has described flushing pipes with diluted chlorine, is still being considered after other measures failed. As local citizens picked up their free drinking water in plastic bottles from a distribution point at a convention centre, the pessimism and outrage over the political class that have fuelled the rise of the far right across Europe was plain to see. \u201cI haven\u2019t decided who to vote for \u2013 it\u2019s hard to trust anyone these days,\u201d said hospital nurse Elisabeth Liftenegger, 55, summing up the anti-incumbent sentiment as she loaded up a shopping trolley with potable water. \u201cPeople are just tired and haven\u2019t received nearly enough information\u201d about the contamination, said Valbone Krasniqi, a 45-year-old office worker who emigrated from Kosovo as a child in the 1990s. She heaved a case of water into the boot of her car as her 10-year-old son played a video game on the front seat. \u201cIt\u2019s just one thing after another. I don\u2019t usually vote but I think I will this time \u2013 every year just seems to get harder and harder. I don\u2019t understand why people aren\u2019t protesting in the streets \u2013 they need to wake up.\u201d The anti-asylum, anti-Islam FP\u00d6 can count on critical momentum from rightwing extremists in many parts of Europe. But even if it wins, the FP\u00d6\u2019s ability to form a government would depend on whether a mainstream party agrees to cooperate with it, as it has little chance of gaining an absolute majority. But the ramifications of a powerful FP\u00d6 would be felt well beyond Austria, a small country of 9 million that tends to punch above its weight in the EU owing to its geographical prominence and strong alliances. Many Klagenfurters who spoke to the Guardian said the water crisis felt like the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back after years of anxiety about political leadership on immigration and asylum, the soaring cost of living and the war in Ukraine. \u201cIt\u2019s a catastrophe \u2013 they informed us of the problem far too late,\u201d said Michaela, 57, adding that she and her husband, Peter, had felt unwell after drinking from the tap up to three weeks before the government alert went out. She said that while they as a couple had to \u201cturn over every cent\u201d to make ends meet, \u201cthe others \u2013 the foreigners \u2013 get everything handed to them\u201d. Michaela, who declined to give her last name, said the FP\u00d6 was the only party talking about taking benefits away from non-Austrians. The FP\u00d6 has seized on the water problems as a symbol of broader government failings, with its local leader, Andreas Skorianz, asserting that city drinking fountains were still flowing days into the crisis. \u201cThe public has the right to transparent information and clean water,\u201d he said. The FP\u00d6, which is also pro-Kremlin and deeply Eurosceptic, came first in Austria during the June elections for the European parliament. Support for the party in Carinthia state, of which Klagenfurt is the capital, was 33.2%, the highest in the country. With days to go before Sunday\u2019s election, the FP\u00d6 has a narrow national lead in the polls with about 27% support, ahead of the ruling conservative Austrian People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP) with 25% and the opposition Social Democrats on 21%. Splinter outfits such as the communists, which have done well in some Austrian cities, and the apolitical Beer party are polling just below the 4% hurdle for representation. While the far right has clinched power in EU countries including Italy and the Netherlands and this month won for the first time since the Nazi era in a German federal state, the FP\u00d6 has long formed part of the mainstream in Austria, a country many critics say never fully owned up to its Nazi past. Founded by ex-Nazi functionaries and meant to provide former fascists with a political home after the second world war, it proved relatively moderate until the former FP\u00d6 leader and Carinthia premier J\u00f6rg Haider, who died in a car crash outside Klagenfurt in 2008, harnessed immigration fears to make it a potent political force. While Germany has maintained a \u201cfirewall\u201d against the hard-right AfD joining governments, Austria stunned Europe when the \u00d6VP made the far right its junior partner in government after elections in 1999 and again in 2017 in short-lived coalitions. The FP\u00d6 has government berths in three of Austria\u2019s nine states. Haider\u2019s legacy still looms large in Carinthia, particularly in rural regions where the FP\u00d6 is at its strongest. But in Klagenfurt too, with its picture-book old town and warm, glimmering lake that attracts tourists from across Europe, his brash anti-establishment rhetoric still resonates. Julia Partheym\u00fcller, a political scientist at the Vienna Center for Electoral Research, said the devastating flooding caused by Storm Boris this month and the water contamination in Klagenfurt were the kind of catastrophes that could prove decisive in a tight race, as undecided voters weigh their options. \u201cGoverning parties benefit in crisis situations because they\u2019re in the foreground and can demonstrate their capacity to act,\u201d she said. \u201cHowever, it depends a lot on how effective their crisis management is perceived by citizens to be.\u201d Despite doubts about the \u00d6VP\u2019s leadership amid high inflation and weak economic performance, Austria\u2019s chancellor, Karl Nehammer, is likely to be crucial to any future government. He has campaigned hard as a moderate alternative to the FP\u00d6, which uses anti-migrant slogans such as \u201cFortress Austria\u201d and \u201cAustria First\u201d and is led by the polarising former hardline interior minister Herbert Kickl, who dabbles in Nazi rhetoric but denies any intentional historical references. Nehammer has vowed that his party will not play kingmaker to the FP\u00d6 if it would make Kickl the head of the government. But he has expressed openness to a coalition if the hard right picks another leader. The alternative would be an awkward three-way alliance with the Social Democrats and either the Greens, now junior partners in government, or the liberal NEOS party. Germany\u2019s deeply unpopular tripartite government under its chancellor, Olaf Scholz, hobbled by infighting, serves as a cautionary tale for many Austrians. However, freezing out the FP\u00d6 if it wins is seen as risky in Austria in the long run, leaving its voters feeling disfranchised and potentially boosting its support. With the election outcome on a knife-edge, many voters said they felt particularly motivated to take part and make a difference. \u201cThe turnout will be high \u2013 I\u2019ll definitely be voting on Sunday,\u201d said Johann Uhl, 57, a farm bookkeeper who uses a wheelchair. \u201cWe\u2019ll be fighting for the famous centre to hold, and to make sure that no force backing a racist or anti-EU course wins out.\u201d Partheym\u00fcller said the outcome of Sunday\u2019s election would be incredibly tight and depend on mobilisation. \u201cThe country could truly go either way,\u201d she said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Boris Johnson: we considered \u2018aquatic raid\u2019 on Netherlands to seize Covid vaccine;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/boris-johnson-considered-raid-dutch-warehouse-seize-covid-vaccine;2024-09-27T23:18:37Z",
        "text": "Boris Johnson considered an \u201caquatic raid\u201d on a Dutch warehouse to seize Covid vaccines during the height of the pandemic, he has revealed in his memoirs. The former prime minister discussed plans with senior military officials in March 2021, according to an extract from his forthcoming book, Unleashed, published in the Daily Mail. The AstraZeneca vaccine was, at the time, at the heart of a cross-Channel row over exports, and Johnson believed the EU was treating the UK \u201cwith malice\u201d. Johnson said that he \u201chad commissioned some work on whether it might be technically feasible to launch an aquatic raid on a warehouse in Leiden, in the Netherlands, and to take that which was legally ours and which the UK desperately needed\u201d. The deputy chief of the defence staff, Lt Gen Doug Chalmers, told the prime minister the plan was \u201ccertainly feasible\u201d and would involve using rigid inflatable boats to navigate Dutch canals. \u201cThey would then rendezvous at the target; enter; secure the hostage goods, exfiltrate using an articulated lorry, and make their way to the Channel ports,\u201d Johnson wrote. However, Chalmers told Johnson it would be difficult to carry out the mission undetected, meaning the UK would \u201chave to explain why we are effectively invading a longstanding Nato ally\u201d. Johnson concluded: \u201cOf course, I knew he was right, and I secretly agreed with what they all thought, but did not want to say aloud: that the whole thing was nuts.\u201d Elsewhere in the published extracts, Johnson denied eating cake at what he described as the \u201cfeeblest event in the history of human festivity\u201d held to celebrate his 56th birthday during the Covid lockdown. He did not see or eat any cake at the event on 19 June 2020, he said, adding that it \u201cnever occurred\u201d to him or the then chancellor, Rishi Sunak, that the Partygate birthday gathering was \u201cin some way against the rules\u201d. He wrote: \u201cHere is what actually happened that day. I stood briefly at my place in the Cabinet Room, where I have meetings throughout the day, while the chancellor and assorted members of staff said happy birthday. \u201cI saw no cake. I ate no blooming cake. If this was a party, it was the feeblest event in the history of human festivity. I had only just got over Covid. I did not sing. I did not dance.\u201d Downing Street previously admitted that staff \u201cgathered briefly\u201d in the Cabinet Room for what was reportedly a surprise get-together for Johnson organised by his now-wife, Carrie. Johnson became the first prime minister to receive a criminal penalty while in office over Partygate, although an investigation by the former senior civil servant Sue Gray found that neither Johnson nor Sunak was aware of the event in advance. In the extracts from his autobiography, Johnson also said he believed he \u201cmight have carked it\u201d when he was in intensive care with Covid without the \u201cskills and experience\u201d of his nurses. Johnson spent several days in intensive care with Covid in April 2020. He described not wanting to fall asleep on his first night in intensive care \u201cpartly in case I never woke up\u201d. Following his release from hospital, the then prime minister spent some time at Chequers with his now-wife Carrie, and he recalled joining in with the clap for the NHS on a Thursday evening. \u201cI clapped with deep emotion because my lungs were telling me that I had been through something really pretty nasty, and that if it hadn\u2019t been for [his nurses] Jenny and Luis, fiddling with those oxygen tubes all night with all their skill and experience, I think I might have carked it,\u201d he wrote. On his admission to ICU, Johnson said he \u201cstarted to doze, but didn\u2019t want to sleep - partly in case I never woke up, or in case they decided to perform some stealthy tracheotomy without letting me know\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel launches massive airstrike on Beirut in apparent bid to kill Hezbollah leader;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/israel-air-attack-beirut-lebanon-hezbollah-hassan-nasrallah;2024-09-27T21:58:56Z",
        "text": "Israel has launched its heaviest air attack on Beirut in almost a year of conflict with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, levelling a number of buildings in a southern suburb in an apparent attempt to kill Hezbollah\u2019s leader and a key ally of Iran, Hassan Nasrallah. Six loud explosions were heard across the Lebanese capital late on Friday afternoon, and vast plumes of smoke were visible from as far as Batroun, a city an hour\u2019s drive away. Several apartment blocks in the predominantly Shia neighbourhood of Haret Hreik were reduced to rubble, and footage from the scene showed huge slabs of concrete topped by piles of twisted metal and wreckage. Several craters were visible, into one of which a car had fallen. The Lebanese health ministry said six people had died and 91 were injured, while some early estimates put the number of dead at 300. More casualties are expected as rescue workers clear rubble. Video of the strikes suggested they were carried out with ground-penetrating munitions known as bunker busters. In some footage, a vertical jet of flame was visible as a bomb appeared to explode beneath the ground. Israeli media reported that Nasrallah was the principle target and that the military was checking whether he had been hit. Other media outlets quoted Hezbollah sources saying he was \u201calive and well\u201d. The strikes came shortly after the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told the UN general assembly in a bellicose speech marked by the walkout of dozens of diplomats that Israel\u2019s campaign against Hezbollah would continue despite international efforts to secure a three-week ceasefire. The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, condemned the attack as a \u201cflagrant war crime.\u201d \u201cThe attacks perpetrated \u2026 by the Zionist regime in the Dahiya neighbourhood of Beirut constitute a flagrant war crime that has revealed once again the nature of this regime\u2019s state terrorism,\u201d he said in a statement carried by the official Irna news agency. Targeting Nasrallah \u2013 even if he was not harmed \u2013 would mark a staggering escalation on the Israeli side. He represents Iran\u2019s most important regional asset and has long been seen as linchpin in the so-called axis of resistance. The presence of Hezbollah\u2019s large rocket arsenal on Israel\u2019s northern border has long acted as a deterrent to an Israeli attack on Iran and its nuclear programme. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson, R Adm Daniel Hagari, said the strikes had hit the main Hezbollah headquarters, which he said was underground beneath residential buildings. Hagari said the IDF was still assessing the result of the attack, which he described as \u201cvery precise\u201d, and warned that Israel would attack other Hezbollah targets in the coming hours. Israel\u2019s Arabic-language military spokesperson Avichay Adraee posted a map showing three buildings in Dahiya in south Beirut and warned nearby residents to evacuate. Shortly after midnight, fresh explosions were heard and smoke rose over the city as Israel said it was attacking the three sites. Hezbollah issued a statement denying there had been weapons in the civilian buildings targeted. Further Israeli strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut were reported before 4am, after a similar warning from Adraee. Early on Saturday the IDF also claimed to have killed Muhammad Ali Ismail, the commander of Hezbollah\u2019s missile unit in southern Lebanon, and his deputy, Hossein Ahmed Ismail. The claims could not be independently verified. The British embassy reiterated its warning to UK citizens, posting: \u201cBritish nationals in Lebanon should leave now. You should take the next available flight.\u201d As night fell in Jerusalem, Netanyahu\u2019s office said he had personally approved the strike allegedly targeting Nasrallah, issuing a photograph of Netanyahu with his military secretary and chief of staff on the phone in his New York hotel. His office also announced that he had cut short his US visit and would return immediately to Israel. Late on Friday night, Hezbollah launched fresh rocket salvoes against the north Israeli cities of Safed, Karmiel and Sa\u2019ar, which it said were carried out \u201cin response to Israeli attacks on cities, villages and civilians\u201d. Underlining the significance of the strike, Israeli media reported that the operation was watched as it unfolded by the defence minister, Yoav Gallant, in the command centre of the Israeli air forcein Tel Aviv, along with the Israeli chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, and other top commanders. Although some Israeli media suggested that the US had been informed minutes before the attack, that was emphatically denied by US president Joe Biden who told reporters the US \u201cno knowledge of or participation\u201d in the strike. The explosions were so powerful that they rattled windows and shook houses in settlements 18 miles north of Beirut. Nearby witnesses quoted by the Lebanese daily L\u2019Orient-Le Jour described seeing substantial fissures open in the ground. Ambulances were seen heading to the scene of the explosions, sirens wailing. Not long before the attack, thousands of people had gathered in Dahiya for the funeral of three Hezbollah members, including a senior commander, killed in earlier strikes. Lebanon\u2019s prime minister, Najib Mikati, who is also in New York, was following developments as information arrived, according to a statement from his office. The statement said Mikati was in touch with the commander of the Lebanese armed forces, Joseph Aoun, and had ordered \u201cthe full mobilisation\u201d of emergency resources after reports of a large number of victims. \u201cThis new aggression demonstrates that the Israeli enemy is mocking all the international appeals in favour of a ceasefire from the international community,\u201d Mikati said. Earlier in the day, Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon killed about 25 people, taking the death toll this week to more than 720, health authorities said. The Israeli military said it had carried out dozens of strikes over the course of two hours across the south of Lebanon on Friday, including in the cities of Sidon and Nabatieh. It said it was targeting Hezbollah rocket launchers and infrastructure. It said Hezbollah fired a volley of rockets toward the northern Israeli city of Tiberias. A year of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has escalated sharply this week, raising fears of an even more destructive conflict. More than 90,000 people have been reported as newly displaced in Lebanon this week, according to the UN, adding to more than 111,000 already uprooted by the conflict. Hezbollah began firing at Israel on 8 October last year as the Gaza war began, declaring solidarity with the Palestinians. Hezbollah has said it will cease fire only when Israel\u2019s Gaza offensive ends. On Friday, the Moody\u2019s credit rating agency downgraded Israel\u2019s credit rating to \u201cBaa1\u201d and maintained its rating outlook at \u201cnegative\u201d amid the escalation of the conflict. Additional reporting by Quique Kierszenbaum"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Netanyahu defies calls for ceasefire at UN as Israeli missiles target Beirut;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/we-are-winning-benjamin-netanyahu-defies-calls-for-a-ceasefire-in-un-speech;2024-09-27T21:12:23Z",
        "text": "Benjamin Netanyahu shrugged off global appeals for a ceasefire in a defiant speech to the United Nations that was delivered barely an hour before massive airstrikes targeting Hezbollah\u2019s leader levelled several apartment blocks in Beirut. Addressing the general assembly in New York, Israel\u2019s prime minister presented his country as a champion of peace and prosperity for the Middle East, even as its security forces prepared an attack that spread terror in the streets of the Lebanese capital and heightened fears of an all-out regional war. \u201cIsrael seeks peace. Israel yearns for peace. Israel has made peace and will make peace again,\u201d he said, but made no mention of the ceasefire deals for Gaza and Lebanon that have been championed by the US. Instead he threatened more attacks in a campaign against Hezbollah that began last week with exploding pagers, and this week expanded to airstrikes that have killed more than 700 people and displaced at least 90,000. \u201cWe will continue degrading Hezbollah,\u201d he told a half-empty hall. Many national delegations had walked out in protest when Netanyahu took the podium. It was a clear retreat from plans for a 21-day ceasefire across the Lebanese border that had been backed by the US and France and drawn up in close collaboration with the Israeli government. Soon after he finished speaking, huge explosions ripped through southern Beirut, reducing six buildings to rubble, reportedly in an attempt to assassinate Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, by taking out an underground bunker. Netanyahu\u2019s office said he would fly home immediately, breaking a usual rule against travel on the Jewish Sabbath. It released a photo of the prime minister ordering the strike, apparently from a landline in a makeshift command centre in New York. World leaders gathered in New York for the UN general assembly this week repeatedly used their moment in the global spotlight to plead for a halt to the war in Gaza and across the Lebanese border. Before Israel was given the podium on Friday morning, the Slovenian prime minister, Robert Golob, demanded: \u201cMr Netanyahu, stop this war now,\u201d and Pakistan\u2019s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, described attacks in Gaza as \u201cthe systematic slaughter of innocent people\u201d. Netanyahu responded by denouncing the UN as an \u201cantisemitic swamp\u201d, and insisted that Israel was committed to military victory. \u201cWe are winning,\u201d he said, adding that since the Hamas-led attacks on 7 October, Israel had shown that \u201cif you strike us, we will strike you\u201d. Netanyahu said the campaign against Hezbollah would continue until Israelis could return to their homes in the north of the country, and the war in Gaza would stop only when Israel claimed \u201ctotal victory\u201d or Hamas laid down its arms. The Biden administration clearly thought it had brokered the outline of an agreement to halt the conflict in Lebanon earlier this week, and was angry about Netanyahu\u2019s last-minute decision to back away from that plan. Washington is Israel\u2019s most important ally, offering diplomatic protection in the UN as a permanent member of the security council and critical weapons for the military, but has struggled to leverage that support into influence over Netanyahu\u2019s political decisions. The US national security spokesperson, John Kirby, said pointedly that a statement about a 21-day pause \u201cwasn\u2019t just drawn up in a vacuum. It was done after careful consultation, not only with the countries that signed on to it, but Israel itself.\u201d Netanyahu said Israel was fighting an existential \u201cseven-front\u201d war against Hamas and its allies, from the Houthis in Yemen, to militias in Iraq and Syria, militants in the occupied West Bank and Hezbollah in Lebanon. \u201cMy country is at war, fighting for its life,\u201d he said, adding that he had left Jerusalem reluctantly, to \u201cset the record straight\u201d in New York. Nearly a year into a war that has reshaped politics in the region, his speech defiantly ignored those profound shifts. He called for a \u201chistoric peace agreement\u201d with Saudi Arabia, something that was on the table a year ago with strong backing from Washington. Now, though, Riyadh has ruled out normalisation without the recognition of a Palestinian state, and its delegation did not hear Netanyahu\u2019s proposal because they had left the room. He also urged global action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. This has been a long-term US preoccupation, but frantic efforts to stave off a full-blown conventional conflict with Iran have forced nuclear concerns down the diplomatic agenda. He ended with an awkward adaptation of two lines from the Welsh writer Dylan Thomas\u2019 poem about confronting mortality, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, using them to insist that Israel would outlast its enemies. \u201cTo paraphrase a great poet: Israel will not go gentle into that good night, we will never need to rage against the dying of the light, because the torch of Israel will forever shine bright,\u201d Netanyahu said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Trump vows to resolve Ukraine-Russia war \u2018very quickly\u2019 as he meets Zelenskyy;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/trump-zelenskyy-meet-high-stakes-ukraine-talks-new-york;2024-09-27T20:48:55Z",
        "text": "Donald Trump has met Volodymyr Zelenskyy in New York in a high-stakes meeting at which the Ukrainian leader hoped to repair ties with the former US president. The two men met at Trump Tower on Friday amid a growing feud between Zelenskyy and Republicans that Ukraine fears could sabotage further US military aid if Trump wins in November. \u201cWe have a very good relationship, and I also have a very good relationship, as you know, with President Putin,\u201d Trump said as he stood next to Zelenskyy before the meeting. \u201cAnd I think if we win, I think we\u2019re going to get it resolved very quickly \u2026 I really think we\u2019re going to get it \u2026 but, you know, it takes two to tango.\u201d Going into the meeting, Zelenskyy noted he and Trump last met in person five years ago. \u201cI think we have common view that the war in Ukraine has to be stopped, and Putin can\u2019t win, and Ukraine has to prevail,\u201d the Ukrainian leader said. \u201cAnd I want to discuss with you the details of our plan.\u201d That last meeting came before Trump was impeached for asking Zelenskyy in a 2019 phone call to investigate Joe Biden and his son in an attempt to influence the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election. He was acquitted in the Senate. In his opening remarks, Trump thanked Zelenskyy for what he said was his support during that scandal. \u201cOne of the reasons we won it so easily is that when he [Zelenskyy] was asked \u2026 he could have grandstanded and played cute, and he didn\u2019t do that,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe said President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong. He said it loud and clear, and the impeachment hoax died right there.\u201d Zelenskyy told reporters in October 2019 as Congress was launching its impeachment inquiry that there was \u201cno blackmail\u201d from Trump. The sit-down \u2013 which lasted less than an hour \u2013 could be Zelenskyy\u2019s last chance to head off a growing conflict with Trump, who has frequently made complimentary remarks about Vladimir Putin and has also at times said he would cut off aid to Ukraine in order to force Kyiv to negotiate a truce \u2013 under any terms \u2013 with Moscow. \u201cIt has to end,\u201d Trump said of the war in Ukraine. \u201cAt some point, it has to end. [Zelenskyy\u2019s] gone through hell. This country has gone through hell like few countries have ever\u2026 Nobody\u2019s ever seen anything like it.\u201d Zelenskyy later described the meeting as \u201cvery productive\u201d. He wrote on X: \u201cI presented our Victory Plan, and we thoroughly reviewed the situation in Ukraine and the consequences of the war for our people. Many details were discussed. We share the common view that the war in Ukraine must be stopped. Putin cannot win. Ukrainians must prevail.\u201d The meeting took place after Zelenskyy\u2019s visit to the UN general assembly and the White House to meet Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. During their meeting, the vice-president indirectly attacked Trump\u2019s policy on Ukraine by saying \u201csome in my country\u201d would pressure Ukraine to cede territory to negotiate a peace with Putin. \u201cThese proposals are the same as those of Putin, and let us be clear, they are not proposals for peace,\u201d Harris said. \u201cInstead, they are proposals for surrender, which is dangerous and unacceptable.\u201d The feud between the two men reignited this week after Zelenskyy said in an interview he did not believe Trump knew how to end the war in Ukraine and that his running mate, JD Vance, was \u201ctoo radical\u201d for endorsing a peace deal that would result in Kyiv giving up large swaths of occupied land to Russia. The Republican candidate has grown extremely critical of Zelenskyy on the campaign trail, attacking him in public speeches this week for \u201cmaking little nasty aspersions toward your favourite president, me\u201d. \u201cI watched this poor guy yesterday at the United Nations,\u201d Trump had said of Zelenskyy in a campaign speech in North Carolina. \u201cHe just didn\u2019t know what he was saying.\u201d He added: \u201cAny deal \u2013 the worst deal \u2013 would\u2019ve been better than what we have now. If they made a bad deal it would\u2019ve been much better. They would\u2019ve given up a little bit and everybody would be living and every building would be built and every tower would be aging for another 2,000 years \u2026 What deal can we make? It\u2019s demolished. The people are dead. The country is in rubble.\u201d Before the meeting on Friday, Trump posted on the Truth Social social media platform what appeared to be a private message from Zelenskyy requesting a meeting with the former president. The message, which was sent by text, was transmitted through Denys Sienik, Ukraine\u2019s deputy ambassador to Washington. The decision to post the message online with little explanation will heighten concerns that any frank negotiations about the war and what aid the US government would be willing to provide could be made public at any time by Trump. \u201cDays ago, we requested a meeting with you, and I really want to hear your thoughts directly and firsthand,\u201d the message read. \u201cI believe it\u2019s important for us to have a personal contact and to understand each other 100%. Let me know if you are in the city at that time \u2013 I would really like for our meeting to take place.\u201d It was signed \u201cVolodymyr\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel\u2019s strike on Hezbollah leader is an alarming escalation in conflict;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/israels-strike-on-hezbollah-leader-is-an-alarming-escalation-in-conflict;2024-09-27T19:44:34Z",
        "text": "Israel\u2019s apparent attempt to assassinate Hezbollah\u2019s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a massive strike on an underground headquarters in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs marks the most alarming escalation in almost a year of war between the Shia militant organisation and Israel. Immediately after a highly bellicose speech by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN general assembly \u2013 where he appeared to directly threaten Iran as well as promise to continue \u201cdegrading\u201d Hezbollah \u2013 the first reports of a massive strike began to emerge. Within less than an hour, Israeli journalists with connections to the country\u2019s defence and security establishment were suggesting that Nasrallah was the target and that he had been in the area of the headquarters at the time of the strike. That the strike was regarded as highly significant was quickly confirmed by a series of statements from Israel \u2013 including an image showing Netanyahu ordering the attack on the phone from his New York hotel room. What is clearer than ever, after a series of Israeli escalations against Hezbollah this month \u2013 including targeted killings and the explosion of thousands of modified pagers and walkie-talkies supplied to the group \u2013 is that the long-understood ground rules governing the balance of deterrence between the two sides has been blown away. For much of the early months of the conflict with Hezbollah, which began on 8 October\u2013 a day after Hamas\u2019s attack from Gaza \u2013 it was understood that Israel would not assassinate the militant group\u2019s most senior members. But in recent months those \u201cred lines\u201d have increasingly been rubbed away. As the geographic scope of attacks on both sides has moved deeper into Lebanon and Israel, so Israeli operations have aimed at ever more senior Hezbollah commanders, beyond those directly involved in launching strikes on the ground in Lebanon\u2019s south. Indeed, since the beginning of the year, diplomats and knowledgeable analysts in the region have suggested that one aim of the discreet to-and-fro between Israel and Hezbollah through US special envoy Amos Hochstein and intermediaries for the group has focused on preserving the understanding that the most senior figures in the militant group would not be targeted. On the Israeli side in the past fortnight, however, evidence has been building that a case was being made for a significant escalation. Claims of unsuccessful Hezbollah plots aimed at senior Israeli figures were made by the country\u2019s security agencies, while it was also suggested that the Israeli escalation was aimed at countering the militant group\u2019s own plans to launch a large offensive. All of which, it now seems clear, was a preamble for a long-prepared and multi-pronged effort to decapitate Hezbollah. While it may take several days to understand the full import of the fallout from Friday\u2019s strike, Netanyahu and his military chiefs have taken an enormous gamble, not simply regarding the situation in Israel\u2019s north, where tens of thousands have been displaced by the fighting, but with the wider region and with the country\u2019s relationships with its international partners. Coming in the midst of US- and French-led international efforts to broker a three-week ceasefire with Hezbollah, the move marks an emphatic slap in the face for the Biden administration, which believed it had an assurance from Netanyahu that he backed the temporary truce. Instead, it appears that Netanyahu and his military leadership were all the time secretly laying the ground for an attack timed to violently underline the rhetorical flourishes of the Israeli prime minister\u2019s warnings to Hezbollah and Iran during his thinly attended speech on Friday at the UN. Most significantly, the strikes represent a direct challenge to Tehran, for whom Nasrallah represents its most important strategic regional ally, whose tens of thousands of Iranian-supplied missiles aimed at Israel have long been seen as a key strategic foil preventing an Israeli attack on Iran itself. Now all bets are off. Despite anonymous Israeli claims \u2013 later disavowed by the IDF \u2013 that it had destroyed up to 50% of Hezbollah\u2019s missile arsenal of well over 100,000, that remains highly unlikely. And while Hezbollah\u2019s command and control has been severely damaged, it is probable that it retains a significant capacity. Other Iranian allies, including in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, have their own missiles and drones, which, while not as significant as Hezbollah\u2019s, could be brought into play \u2013 and not necessarily only against Israel but against US targets. Then there is the most important question: whether Iran can accept a strike against Nasrallah, or whether it too could be drawn into a widening conflict, and whether the strike against the Hezbollah leader is intended by Israel as setting the conditions for a strike against Iran. Underlying that concern, Iran\u2019s embassy in Beirut condemned Israel\u2019s airstrike, saying the attacks \u201crepresent a serious escalation that changes the rules of the game\u201d and that Israel would be \u201cpunished appropriately\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Poverty in Argentina soars to over 50% as Milei\u2019s austerity measures hit hard;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/poverty-rate-argentina-milei;2024-09-27T18:36:20Z",
        "text": "Argentina\u2019s poverty rate has soared to almost 53% in the first six months of Javier Milei\u2019s presidency, offering the first hard evidence of how the far-right libertarian\u2019s tough austerity measures are hitting the population. The new poverty rate, reported by the government\u2019s statistics agency on Thursday, is the highest level for two decades, when the country reeled from a catastrophic economic crisis, and means 3.4 million Argentinians have been pushed into poverty this year. Since taking office in December, the self-described \u201canarcho-capitalist\u201d \u2013 who campaigned with a chainsaw in hand to symbolise the cuts he would make \u2013 has slashed public spending in an effort to tame chronic inflation and eliminate the budget deficit. His administration has frozen pensions, reduced aid to soup kitchens, cut welfare programmes and stopped all public works projects. Tens of thousands of public employees have been fired, reduced energy and transportation subsidies have pushed costs up, and purchasing power has eroded. Kirsten Sehnbruch, an expert on Latin America at the London School of Economics and Political Science, said she had never seen such a large jump in poverty rates. \u201cThis new economic programme is not protecting the poor,\u201d she said. \u201cThe jump is absolutely horrendous.\u201d Milei\u2019s cuts, however, have been cheered by markets, investors and the International Monetary Fund, to which Argentina owes $43bn. Monthly inflation has also decreased from about 26% in December to about 4% in June, where it has remained, although annual inflation still remains one of the highest in the world, exceeding 230%. Mar\u00eda Claudia Albornoz, a community worker from Santa Fe, said the government had \u201cprovoked a situation of desperation\u201d. \u201cWe are feeling it in the fridge, empty and unplugged. Money is really worth absolutely nothing. We have three jobs and it is not enough,\u201d she said. Also among those affected is 33-year-old Catalina, who works for the ministry of justice and was told last week that she will soon be losing her job. \u201cLast week 2,500 of us were told that we will be out of a job by the end of this year, except for a handful of \u2018lucky ones\u2019 who will be offered to continue working the same hours for half the money,\u201d she said. \u201cI have been looking for another job for months, but there is no work. I don\u2019t know how I\u2019m going to make it. It\u2019s frightening.\u201d Christopher Sabatini, a senior fellow for Latin America at Chatham House, said that economic decline was inevitable when controlling inflation, and pointed to similar historic crises in Brazil and Bolivia, but questioned whether Milei\u2019s changes will work. \u201cIt is dangerous territory. The question is, will this belt-tightening have any benefit? What comes next? Can he actually control public sector spending? Can he shore up the currency? Without doing that, you\u2019ve just created poverty,\u201d he said. While Milei\u2019s popularity ratings have remained high, public support now appears to be waning. A survey published on Monday found a drop of almost 15% in September, the steepest fall during his nine-month administration. Recent polls have found that worries about inflation have been overtaken by fears of job loss and poverty. \u201cFor a county that has historically prided itself on being a middle-class nation, this poverty rate is terribly painful,\u201d Sabatini said. Milei\u2019s presidential spokesperson said the government had \u201cinherited a disastrous situation\u201d from previous left-leaning governments. \u201cThey left us on the brink of being a country with essentially all of its inhabitants poor,\u201d said Manuel Adorni. \u201cAny level of poverty is horrendous. We are doing everything, everything so that this situation changes.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;How Mohamed Al Fayed kept claims of sex crimes under cover for decades;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/how-mohamed-al-fayed-kept-claims-of-sex-crimes-under-cover-for-decades;2024-09-27T18:00:40Z",
        "text": "When Mike Radford, an executive producer at the BBC, was approached last year about the idea of a documentary on Mohamed Al Fayed\u2019s sexual crimes, he was concerned that it might not be worth putting the women through the trauma of recounting their ordeals on screen. \u201cIf we did not prove that his sexual offences were of the most serious nature, there was a danger that the audience might shrug and say, \u2018Well, we know that already,\u2019\u201d he said. The threshold was high; Fayed had to be proven to be a rapist for the world to finally listen. Since the broadcast last week of Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods, in which five women claimed to have been raped by the billionaire, more than 200 women have come forward and the police have said they are investigating whether there were accomplices to his crimes. On Friday, Omar Fayed, the late businessman\u2019s 37 year-old son, issued a statement in which he said he had been horrified by the \u201cextent and explicit nature of the allegations\u201d against his father which he said had \u201cthrown into question, the loving memory I had of him\u201d. \u201cHow this matter could have been concealed for so long and in so many ways, raises further disturbing questions\u201d, he added. But such impact was not a given. Stories of Fayed\u2019s predatory behaviour around young women had been in the ether since the mid-1990s but nothing ever seemed to stick. There was never any public outcry or major interest on Fleet Street. Vanity Fair was sued after writing in 1995 about the invasive medical examinations given to women and how Fayed would chase secretaries around the office and \u201ctry to stuff money down women\u2019s blouses\u201d. The two parties later settled the case. No damages were paid on the basis that Vanity Fair agreed to place all evidence in locked storage. Fayed cheerfully went on to buy Fulham football club two years later. Tom Bower\u2019s unauthorised biography in 1998 sought to build on the Vanity Fair allegations, with the covert help of its UK editor, Henry Porter. Bower reported that young women were sexually assaulted and paid off with bundles of \u00a350 notes. It made little or no impact in the national newspapers. Fayed\u2019s toxic world kept on spinning. When in 2008, Martin Smith, then the Mail on Sunday\u2019s crime correspondent, brought in the story that Fayed was under investigation for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old, the journalist was left frustrated that the paper was unable to name him after receiving legal letters from Fayed\u2019s lawyers. The paper described Fayed as a \u201csenior Harrods executive\u201d. This was despite the Met police, unusually, confirming that Fayed was the suspect, Smith said. The CPS ultimately did not prosecute the case on the grounds that the victim had been confused about the date on which she said she had been attacked. As a result, the allegations of sexual abuse were scarcely mentioned in the obituaries of the \u201cebullient\u201d billionaire after his death in 2023 at the age of 94. Why had Fleet Street been so loath to publish? Vanity Fair had, in part, decided to settle out of sympathy after the death of Diana, Princes of Wales and Fayed\u2019s son, Dodi, said David Hooper, a libel lawyer who worked with Porter. That traumatic event for the billionaire provided him with some cover from scrutiny in other quarters too, according to senior journalists. But those who have been the chief drivers of exposing Fayed\u2019s crimes also point to more sinister explanations. Fayed was \u201cvery litigious\u201d, said Radford, and such was the level of surveillance and harassment of the female victims by Fayed\u2019s security chief, John Macnamara, that any media outlet would be taking a gamble that their witnesses would stay the course and be willing to repeat their claims in court. Along with Fayed\u2019s willingness to spend exorbitant amounts of money on libel actions, he was very happy to play dirty. Such was the fear of Macnamara that one of the victims moved into Porter\u2019s basement. Bower said he received an ominous call from the head of security of the ruler of Dubai, a source for his book on Fayed. \u201cHe said, \u2018I\u2019ve got good news, bad news and good news,\u2019\u201d Bower said. \u201cThe bad news was that Macnamara had looked in London for someone to break my fingers so I couldn\u2019t write the book. The good news was he failed, and the bad news was, he was now looking in Liverpool.\u201d Fayed\u2019s \u201cgangsters\u201d, as Bower put it, were also quite skilled at what they did. Max Clifford, who died while serving a sentence for sex offences, was on his books and admitted in front of an undercover camera in 2008 of being able to trade with the tabloids when stories came up about \u201cthe randy old sod\u201d. But there was soft power too. Harrods had a huge advertising budget, and newspapers and magazines were not keen to lose access to it, said Porter. The smooth-talking Michael Cole, the former BBC man who was Fayed\u2019s PR man between 1988 and 1998, had excellent relationships with senior media figures. They would enjoy good lunches and the odd Harrods hamper, although there were some things in Fayed\u2019s world that were outside Cole\u2019s control. Two Fleet Street executives were invited by Fayed to take some fur coats home during a visit to Harrods, according to one senior journalist. They later had their homes broken in to and the furs went missing. Cole was handsomely paid for his efforts. One BBC journalist interviewed by Fayed to replace him after his retirement said the remuneration package on offer was \u00a3300,000, a flat in Hans Crescent in Knightsbridge and a chauffeur-driven car. Cole is believed to have been on a \u00a31m salary, although those applying for the position soon recognised the risks. \u201c[Fayed\u2019s] opening remark to me when he walked in was charming: \u2018Who\u2019s this cunt?\u2019\u201d recalled one applicant. According to the applicant, Fayed went on: \u201c\u2018So you\u2019re a big dick from the BBC? How big is your dick? Let\u2019s get them out to see \u2026 You have big hair, bigger than Michael Cole hair \u2026 Prince Philip killed my son, didn\u2019t he?\u201d Since last week, websites and newspapers have been filled with stories of Fayed\u2019s alleged crimes. Lawyers are circling around Harrods over its admissions of failings as a company. Radford expressed his admiration for the women who came forward and broke the dam. He said: \u201cWhat they did was, [make] other women, all of them, gain strength from each other.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon \u2013 a visual guide;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/israeli-airstrikes-on-lebanon-a-visual-guide;2024-09-27T17:13:40Z",
        "text": "A nearly year-long exchange of fire between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah dramatically escalated this week as Israel launched a huge number of strikes into Lebanon. Israel\u2019s political and military leadership said the attacks are intended to destroy Hezbollah\u2019s capabilities and prepare for a potential ground invasion. The Israeli strikes have targeted southern Lebanon, from where Hezbollah has fired rockets and missiles into Israel, and increasingly its strongholds in southern Beirut and the Bekaa valley, where Israel claims the group stores thousands of rockets. Hezbollah has directed a smaller number of strikes south, which Israel largely claims to have intercepted. A missile attack on Tel Aviv that was stopped by air defences represented its deepest attack yet into Israel. Hezbollah emerged as a force in the 1980s during the Lebanese civil war and fought Israel in southern Lebanon up to its withdrawal from the country in 2000. The two sides also went to war for 34 days in 2006. The current exchange of fire began on 8 October 2023, the day after the Hamas attack on Israel, when Hezbollah said it was firing at Israeli positions in solidarity with the Palestinians and pledging its support to Hamas. The Israeli airstrikes on Monday were by far the most deadly of the period since then and killed 558 people. Since the exchanges began, Hezbollah has fired an estimated 80,00 rockets at northern Israel and also hit military bases with drones. Israel had before Monday conducted air and artillery strikes against southern Lebanon and Hezbollah targets on a much smaller scale. This weeks\u2019 action by Israel followed attacks using sabotaged pagers and walkie-talkies last week that were widely blamed on Israel and an airstrike that killed a top commander in south Beirut. The UN says more than 110,000 Lebanese have left their homes in the south with approximately 70,000 people displaced in northern Israel. Israel has said the return of these people to their communities is a war aim. The extent of devastation in southern Lebanon this week is not fully known. Satellite images from the Bekaa valley have shown what appears to be smoke coming from areas in the villages that Israel has been targeting. Israel has also carried out strikes it says are targeting Hezbollah commanders. Many of these have been in Beirut, but also in southern Lebanon and Syria. On Thursday, Israel said a strike had killed a Hezbollah drone commander, Mohammed Hussein Surour."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;New relationship with EU possible but will not be easy, Keir Starmer says;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/new-relationship-with-eu-possible-but-will-not-be-easy-keir-starmer-says;2024-09-27T17:00:39Z",
        "text": "Keir Starmer has said a new relationship with the European Union will not be easy \u201cbut is possible\u201d before a meeting with Ursula von der Leyen next week, as he set out defence, borders and trade as areas where he hopes for improvement. The prime minister spoke of his hopes for a reset and did not rule out accepting an EU proposal for greater youth mobility \u2013 including easier travel, study and work for under 30s. Starmer said he had \u201cno plans\u201d to accept an EU mobility scheme but it is thought it could be a bargaining chip in negotiations in return for other concessions to benefit the UK. He has repeatedly put off going to Brussels since becoming prime minister, and reopening the issue of Brexit to improve Boris Johnson\u2019s deal is likely to be contentious. Some pro-Brexit campaigners will leap on any signs of \u201cwatering down\u201d the deal, while pro-EU advocates would like Starmer to do more to recover a closer relationship. Starmer confirmed his trip, which will take place on Wednesday, after a brief first meeting with von der Leyen, the European Commission president, in New York. Asked whether he could give a concrete example of how the EU reset could improve life, such as bringing down the cost of roaming charges or pressing the EU to allow British citizens to use e-gates when they travel to the EU, Starmer said it was \u201ctoo early to get into any specifics\u201d. But he added: \u201cLook, can we do more on defensive security together? Yes, I think we can. Can we do more on border security? Yes, I think we can. That needs to be done and can be done in closer relationship with the EU in addition to the bilateral work that I\u2019ve already started with France, Germany and Italy, and of course a closer trading relationship. \u201cI want to make it easier for businesses to trade because I think that is in the interest of the UK.\u201d Starmer has put promoting growth and attracting business to the UK at the heart of his priorities, with many business leaders lobbying for an easing of post-Brexit trade barriers and border checks. Asked if he thought a closer business relationship was possible with the UK outside the EU, common market and customs union, he said: \u201cI think it\u2019s possible. I\u2019m not going to pretend it\u2019s easy, but I think it\u2019s possible.\u201d On the idea of accepting a youth mobility scheme, Starmer said: \u201cWe\u2019ve no plans for a youth mobility scheme but we are heading out [to Brussels] for an important meeting this week \u2013 I don\u2019t want to get ahead of any important discussion we\u2019ll have.\u201d Starmer\u2019s comments come after Pedro Serrano, the EU\u2019s ambassador to the UK, this week suggested the commission may have softened its demands on what a youth mobility scheme could look like. He told Times Radio: \u201cIf we have a mechanism that allows young British citizens to go out for a gap year, for example, to any \u2013 they have a choice of 27 states within the European Union \u2013 to do a bit of learning and pay there for their learning while they\u2019re there, why not? \u201cIf people want then to stay later for work, it\u2019s a totally different process. This would be limited in time.\u201d Starmer will probably tread carefully on the issue of youth mobility as some Brexit supporters would see it as a partial return to free movement without signing up to the single market in full. Likewise, any efforts to reduce friction in trade at the border would probably have to be done without a formal return to accepting blanket rules and regulations from Brussels under the customs union and single market. Starmer, who supported remaining in the EU, has promised Labour would not reverse Brexit and has talked only in general terms about resetting the UK\u2019s relationship with Brussels. However, Brussels has been clear that a new negotiation with the EU rather than individual nations would be necessary if any parts of Johnson\u2019s Brexit deal are to be reworked."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Cinema in mafia boss\u2019s Sicily hometown refuses to show film of his life;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/cinema-mafia-boss-sicily-hometown-refuses-film-life-matteo-messina-denaro;2024-09-27T14:30:23Z",
        "text": "The owner of the only cinema in Castelvetrano, the Sicilian hometown of the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, has refused to screen a film based on his life. Denaro died of cancer in September last year, nine months after he was arrested following 30 years on the run. The heavily fictionalised film, Sicilian Letters, premiered at the Venice film festival and will be released in Italian cinemas on 10 October. Salvatore Vaccarino, the owner of Marconi cinema in Castelvetrano, refused to host a preview and to screen the film, the Giornale di Sicilia reported. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t interest me, it doesn\u2019t concern me,\u201d Vaccarino told the newspaper. He is the son of the late former mayor Antonio Vaccarino, who was convicted of drugs trafficking in the 1990s and is known for having corresponded with Denaro on behalf of Italy\u2019s secret services as they sought to capture him. Sicilian Letters is based on the correspondence. The Ansa news agency cited sources as saying one reason for Vaccarino not showing the film could be because of the reference to his father. Others said sympathies for Denaro ran deep in Castelvetrano and the film depicted him in a negative light. Giovanni Lentini, Castelvetrano\u2019s mayor, said he would try to persuade Vaccarino to show the film \u201cso that citizens can be given the chance to see it\u201d. Denaro was one of Italy\u2019s most-wanted men until his capture in a Palermo clinic, where he was receiving cancer treatment, in January 2023. He was given a life sentence in 2002 for crimes including involvement in the 1992 murders of the anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. He once bragged that he could \u201cfill a cemetery\u201d with his victims. While on the run, Denaro maintained his luxurious lifestyle thanks to several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, included politicians and businessmen. He lived in a modest apartment in Campobello di Mazara in the Sicilian province of Trapani in the months before his arrest. Elio Germano plays the mobster in the film, which also features Toni Servillo, who played the protagonist in Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s Oscar-winning movie The Great Beauty."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Libya central bank deal could resolve \u2018all political issues\u2019, says head of state;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/libya-central-bank-deal-resolve-political-issues;2024-09-27T14:29:45Z",
        "text": "A deal backed by leaders on both sides of Libya\u2019s political divide to appoint a new central bank governor has the potential \u201cto resolve all the political issues\u201d in the country, Libya\u2019s head of state has said. Mohamed al-Menfi, the president of Libya\u2019s Presidential Council who is largely aligned with the UN-recognised government in Tripoli, was accused of acting unilaterally and propelling the country into fresh turmoil when in August he dismissed the previous long-serving bank governor, Sadiq al-Kabir, who then fled into exile. Kabir\u2019s dismissal led to a shutdown of oil production and exports by forces in eastern Libya \u2013 rivals to the Tripoli government \u2013 who were furious at Menfi\u2019s decision. Libya\u2019s deep political divisions have given the central bank the key role of distributing state revenues between the east and west. In a rare interview with western reporters given at the UN in New York, Menfi justified his decree by claiming Kabir had been managing the bank\u2019s funds, largely made up of oil income, \u201cwithout any form of accountability\u201d and \u201chad exploited the state of division\u201d in the country. \u201cIt was an abnormal and unsustainable situation,\u201d he said. He said he had also issued his decree \u201cto spare the capital, Tripoli, from a certain war that would directly target the Central Bank after the failure of months of negotiations between the dismissed governor and the parliament\u201d. He claimed Kabir had lost the support of the armed forces in Tripoli. \u201cI tried to convince Kabir to share financial decisions in the country with others through the supreme financial committee. People were complaining they were not getting paid,\u201d he said. Kabir has said he and other senior bank staff were forced to leave the country to \u201cprotect our lives\u201d from potential attacks by armed militia and described the attempts to remove him as illegal. The deal to appoint a new governor and a deputy brokered by the UN mission in Libya has to be ratified by the country\u2019s two key representative bodies, the High Council of State in the west and House of Representatives in the east. Under the deal, Naji Issa is to be appointed interim governor, while Marai al-Barassi continues as deputy. A new board of governors, intended to be experts but reflecting the geographical interests in the country, will be nominated within two weeks to a month. Menfi said the three main purposes of the deal were to ensure good governance; for there to be accountability and transparency; and to enable a financial committee to distribute money equally inside the country. \u201cThe agreement that has now been reached regarding a governor and a deputy has happened because of the pressure we exerted to create a transparent administration and an integrated board of directors,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to put the money away from politicians and for it to be run by a financial committee.\u201d It is not clear how long the interim deal will stick, but first indications are that it will be enough for eastern forces who played a role in agreeing the new board and may now be minded to end the shutdown on oil production and exports. Oil production, concentrated in the east, had fallen from 1.2m barrels a day to about 350,000. Menfi\u2019s critics say the dismissal was not purely about accountability, but the west\u2019s loss of trust in how Kabir was distributing revenues. He denied the interim bank leadership he had installed had been unable to operate due to loss of access to the international banking system. But prices did rise as the value of the dinar fell. He said as a result of the deal \u201cinternational accountability should return by reinstatement of the international auditor that was unilaterally suspended by the previous and without the approval of any other institutions\u201d. Kabir has accused the government of not implementing reforms and spending money irresponsibly. He said the state had spent more than 420bn dinars since 2021, most of which was on consumer spending and not on development investments. Menfi said the agreement might open the path to tackling corruption in the country, including the smuggling of heavily subsidised fuel. That, he said, was turning into \u201ca real obstacle \u201cto any economic development\u201d, adding: \u201cThere are ideas to replace it gradually with direct cash support that will stimulate investments and create a private sector in the field of oil housing and transportation.\u201d He also backed simultaneous national parliamentary and presidential elections \u2013 long promised by all Libyan politicians \u2013 to end the existence of two competing legislative councils. He said the difficulty with presidential elections was that people were fearful of being excluded if someone else was elected. \u201cWe tried to go for parliamentary elections on its own and it did not work,\u201d he said. He said the long-term economic prospects for Libya were bright, and the country could diversify away from its dependency on oil."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;UN hostility will not trouble Netanyahu, but now he has angered the US | Patrick Wintour;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/un-hostility-will-not-trouble-netanyahu-but-now-he-has-angered-the-us-lebanon-ceasefire;2024-09-27T12:37:48Z",
        "text": "The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has for decades used set-piece speeches to the UN to denounce it. In 2017, he said it had been \u201cthe epicentre of global antisemitism\u201d and there was \u201cno limit to the UN\u2019s absurdities when it comes to Israel\u201d, but never have the tensions between him and the body he reviles reached such a pitch. Since the 7 October massacre by Hamas, Israel has ignored four UN resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and has not just described the UN\u2019s Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa as a terrorist state, but launched a campaign to bankrupt it. Arab envoys have walked out when the Israeli ambassador has started to speak. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, now itself a near full member of the UN, told the general assembly in his speech on Thursday that Israel no longer deserved to be a member, since it flouted its resolutions. It is the UN\u2019s historic role in the birth of the state of Israel, alongside a state for Palestinians, with the partition resolution of November 1947 that makes Israel such a central and difficult issue for the organisation. Having blessed Israel\u2019s creation, by 1975 the UN general assembly was passing a resolution saying Zionism was a form of racism and racial discrimination. History is catching up with both sides. When the UN\u2019s premier court, the international court of justice, in July found Israel\u2019s extended occupation of the Palestinian territories discriminatory, the UN\u2019s role in the birth of the state of Israel was the cornerstone of its wider judgment. The UN general assembly has demanded Israel leave the occupied territories within a year, and that the general secretary, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, prepare a report on progress towards this goal within a month. This last high-level week at the UN has seen speech after speech by world leaders condemning Israel for defying international law, and so damaging the UN\u2019s authority. Many have been crude, such as the Turkish president comparing Netanyahu to Hitler. Israel has long called the UN human rights council the terrorist rights council, but the conflict between the UN and Israel has now become visceral. In his farewell speech in August, the outgoing Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, said: \u201cIn this warped place, I hope one day you will also see the bias and perversion of morality here, and I pray that you will see the truth.\u201d Erdan\u2019s often theatrical and passionate defence of his country won him few friends at the UN, but is passionately supported back home. Pew research published earlier this month found the proportion of those in Israel who had a favourable view of the UN in Israel fell from 31% \u2013 which was already relatively low \u2013 to 21% over the past year. The median among 35 countries was 58%. Erdan\u2019s successor, Danny Danon, has this week attacked the UN over its agency for Palestinian refugees. \u201cPeace is hard to come by while the UN remains loth to come to terms with the sinister reality that one of its agencies, Unrwa in Gaza, has been overrun by Hamas terrorists,\u201d he wrote in an article for Fox News. \u201cFor that reason, and for the sake of peace for Israelis and for Gazans, Unrwa must be disbanded.\u201d Following a meeting on the sidelines of the UN in support of Unrwa, the Jordanian foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, said it was intolerable that a UN agency was being described as terrorist, and subject to a political assassination campaign. \u201cThe attack was undermining the whole UN system,\u201d he said. The Unrwa chief, Philippe Lazzarini, said behind the Israeli attack was an attempt to strip Palestinians of refugee status, and even their right to self-determination. But in the short term what will be disturbing Netanyahu, himself a former Israeli envoy to the UN, is not the hostility of UN mainstream opinion. He has entered the lion\u2019s den many times before and ultimately emerged unscathed. What will be exercising Netanyahu is the evident tension between him and the US administration over his behaviour before his eventual rejection of the US plan for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon. The deal was supposed to be the day diplomacy fought back, but by Thursday it looked like it was the day it fell over. The US clearly feels he reneged on a deal, and not for the first time since 7 October. One senior European diplomat, long opposed to US strategy, was incredulous that the US had not sought clearer guarantees from Netanyahu before going public with the 21-day ceasefire plan. Reflecting US anger, the US national security spokesperson John Kirby said pointedly: \u201cThat statement we worked on last night wasn\u2019t just drawn up in a vacuum. It was done after careful consultation, not only with the countries that signed on to it, but Israel itself.\u201d The French president, Emmanuel Macron, who had been at the heart of the talks in New York, said the proposal had been \u201cprepared, negotiated with the [Israeli] prime minister and his teams, both by the Americans and by ourselves\u201d . But it will not be the first time the west has thought Netanyahu is making a strategic mistake, but then proved unable or unwilling to force him to rethink."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Lebanon ceasefire hopes fade as Netanyahu issues contradictory statements;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-hopes-fade-netanyahu;2024-09-27T12:02:12Z",
        "text": "Optimism that a three-week ceasefire could be reached between Hezbollah and Israel appeared to recede as Benjamin Netanyahu issued a pair of contradictory statements on the proposal within hours of each other, as fresh Israeli strikes on Lebanon in the early hours of Friday killed 25 people. In the latest statement from Netanyahu\u2019s office, issued overnight on Friday, the Israeli prime minister chided reporting on the issue as he confirmed Israel had been consulted regarding a US-led ceasefire proposal. \u201cIsrael shares the aims of the US-led initiative of enabling people along our northern border to return safely and securely to their homes. Israel appreciates the US efforts in this regard because the US role is indispensable in advancing stability and security in the region,\u201d the statement read. A previous release earlier on Thursday, however, had said that reporting \u201cabout a ceasefire is incorrect. This is an American-French proposal that the prime minister has not even responded to.\u201d Netanyahu\u2019s twin statements appeared to replicate his response to previous US-led diplomatic initiatives over a Gaza ceasefire, where Israel has suggested it is more open to talks in private before reversing in the face of opposition from his coalition members. Not for the first time US officials appear to have been wrongfooted by Netanyahu, saying initially they had believed his government was \u201conboard\u201d with the plan for a 21-day ceasefire when it was announced by the US, France and other allies, saying the proposal had been \u201ccoordinated\u201d with Israel. \u201cWe had every reason to believe that in the drafting of it and in the delivery of it, that the Israelis were fully informed and fully aware of every word in it,\u201d John Kirby, the White House national security spokesperson, told reporters on Thursday, adding that the US \u201cwouldn\u2019t have done it if we didn\u2019t believe that it would be received with the seriousness with which it was composed\u201d. The late-night statement came after Abdallah Bou Habib, Lebanon\u2019s foreign minister, urged all parties to implement the proposal, saying the escalating violence threatened his country\u2019s \u201cvery existence\u201d. Speaking at the UN general assembly in New York, Bou Habib said the US-French ceasefire proposal was an \u201copportunity to generate momentum, to take steps towards ending this crisis\u201d. Earlier, the office of Netanyahu \u2013 who is addressing the UN general assembly on Friday \u2013 said the IDF would \u201ccontinue fighting with full force\u201d to achieve its war goals. Those war goals include the safe return home of more than 60,000 Israelis forced to abandon their homes in northern Israel by Hezbollah bombing, which began on 8 October last year, the day after the start of the Gaza war. The International Organization for Migration estimated that more than 200,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon since Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel in October in support of Hamas. According to officials in Lebanon, 25 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon since the early hours of Friday, including a family of nine in the Lebanese border town of Chebaa after a missile destroyed their three-storey building. On Thursday, Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said nearly 700 people had been killed this week, as Israel dramatically escalated strikes it says are targeting Hezbollah\u2019s military capacities. According to health authorities, a total of 1,540 people have been killed within its borders since 7 October. The IDF said a strike on a southern suburb of Beirut killed the head of Hezbollah\u2019s drone force, Mohammad Surur. Israel has carried out several strikes in Beirut this week, targeting senior Hezbollah commanders. The UN refugee agency says \u201cwell over 30,000\u201d people have crossed from Lebanon into neighbouring Syria over the past 72 hours in the wake of fighting between Hezbollah and Israeli forces in Lebanon. Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, the representative for the refugee agency UNHCR in Syria, said roughly half of the people who have fled were children and adolescents. He said about 80% were Syrians returning to their home country and the rest were Lebanese. \u201cNow these, of course, are people who are fleeing bombs and who are crossing into a country that has been suffering from its own crisis and violence for 13 years now,\u201d he told reporters in Geneva by video from the Lebanon-Syria border. Syria is facing \u201ceconomic collapse\u201d, he said. \u201cI think that this just illustrates the kind of extremely difficult choices both Syrians and Lebanese are having to make,\u201d he said. After the Beirut explosion, dozens of rockets were fired toward the northern Israeli city of Safed, with one hitting a street in a nearby town. In total, 175 projectiles were fired from Lebanon on Thursday, the military said. Most were intercepted or fell in open areas, some sparking wildfires. The IDF said on Friday it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen that set off air raid sirens across Israel\u2019s populous central area, including Tel Aviv. Another missile from Yemen landed in central Israel about two weeks ago. The strikes came after Israel\u2019s military chief said on Wednesday the country was preparing for a possible ground operation in Lebanon. On Thursday, the Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee reiterated that the military was preparing for a ground operation while awaiting a decision on whether to go ahead, and that the air force had reduced Hezbollah\u2019s weapons stockpile and was working to prevent the transfer of further arms from Iran. Hezbollah has yet to respond to the call for a truce, although it and its backer Iran have previously said it would halt its strikes only if there is a ceasefire in Gaza. Emmanuel Macron \u2013 who was a co-backer with Joe Biden of the 21-day ceasefire proposal \u2013 said Netanyahu would have to take responsibility for a regional escalation if he did not agree to the truce. \u201cThe proposal that was made is a solid proposal,\u201d the French president said, adding that the plan supported by the US and the EU had been prepared with Netanyahu himself. The domestic political repercussions of a ceasefire for Netanyahu were made clear when his national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, told the prime minister that his party, Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power), would not vote with the coalition if the government agreed a ceasefire with Hezbollah. \u201cWe will not abandon the residents of the north. Every day that this ceasefire is in effect and Israel does not fight in the north, Otzma Yehudit is not committed to the coalition,\u201d Ben-Gvir said at a party meeting. The leader of the opposition Democrats party, Yair Golan, also argued against committing to a three-week ceasefire, saying Israel should initially agree to a truce of a few days to see how well it was enforced."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Absolute chaos\u2019: counting the cost of a deadly wildfire in northern Portugal;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/absolute-chaos-counting-the-cost-of-a-deadly-wildfire-in-northern-portugal;2024-09-27T11:38:00Z",
        "text": "The fires are out in Albergaria-a-Velha now, their embers washed away by the heavy rain. But their reek still carries on the damp air, rising from the sooty earth, the scorched tree trunks, the burnt-out cars and houses, and the puddles of black and acrid water. If the numbers offer a glimpse of the toll that last week\u2019s wildfires took on this northern Portuguese municipality \u2013 four people dead, at least seven injured, 25,269 hectares burned and 81 homes damaged \u2013 they cannot convey the sense of fear and loss that the 26-metre-high flames brought with them. Maria Jo\u00e3o Aleluia, 66, isn\u2019t sure how to articulate how she feels as she stands in front of the house her grandfather built on the outskirts of town in the 1950s, and which she has loved since she was a child. A structural engineer will determine the extent of the damage, but even an untrained eye can take in the collapsed roof, the fire-cracked windows and the blackened walls. \u201cI\u2019ll be sick about all this in two months, but right now I have too much to do to be able to cry,\u201d says the consumer psychology consultant. Unable to get to the house after the fires reached the area on 16 September, Aleluia asked neighbours to send her the photos that confirmed her fears. When she managed to reach the house two days later, she brought big bottles of water with her in the hope that dousing the trees\u2019 roots would save them, especially her cherished linden tree, already a veteran of far too many wildfires. A little farther into town, close to a pair of burnt-out Minis and a Nissan whose bonnet and bumper have half-melted to reveal the skeletal engine beneath, Victor Manuel dos Santos was also counting the damage, and giving thanks for the smoke alarm he\u2019d bought in Lidl. The detector\u2019s beeping woke him early on Monday morning and he opened his eyes to see flames at his windowsill. \u201cIt must have been six or seven AM but it was so dark with smoke that I thought that it was night,\u201d he says. \u201cThere was no light. A sea of fire had come across the field next door that was so covered with brambles that it looked like the Amazon jungle.\u201d Dos Santos, 59, was well-prepared. He grabbed the helmet, gas mask and goggles he keeps near his bed and set about fighting the fire, which had already found its way into the neighbouring storeroom where he kept his papers, books and paint. \u201cI put on some gloves and grabbed a shovel and threw everything that was burning out into the garden,\u201d he says as he stands amid his charred loquat and citrus trees, his twisted bike and the melted remains of bottles. If the smoke alarm \u2013 \u201ca blessed investment\u201d \u2013 hadn\u2019t gone off, he says, everything, himself included, would have burned. Last week\u2019s fires, which were fuelled by strong winds, dry conditions and unseasonably hot temperatures of more than 30C (85F), killed nine people, injured dozens more and burned 100,000 hectares of land across northern and central Portugal. They have also brought back memories of the calamitous blazes of 2017, which claimed 66 lives, and serve as yet another reminder of the impact of the climate emergency in Europe. Jo\u00e3o Oliveira, who leads the civil protection agency in Albergaria, sums up the past few days in two words: \u201cAbsolute chaos.\u201d When asked how the fire compared with previous ones, he shakes his head. \u201cThere\u2019s no comparison at all. We\u2019re used to having these cyclical fires here every 10 years or so \u2026 but the amount of energy the fire created, the amount of damage it did and the intensity and violence of the fire were something we\u2019d never seen before.\u201d The only blessing, he says, is that the lessons of 2017 appear to have been learned. People in the area followed the safe villages plan, introduced in the wake of the tragedy seven years ago, which teaches residents to practise emergency drills and seek shelter in a designated local building, usually a church or chapel. That way the roads are kept clear and people are not burned as they try to flee in their cars, as happened in 2017. The state Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests also believes people are better informed than they were seven years ago. \u201cEvery municipality has its own fire protection plan, most of them updated, and new ones were also approved for the regional and sub-regional levels,\u201d says a spokesperson. \u201cThere are several projects intended to diversify land use and forest occupation, namely around villages and towns in forested areas.\u201d Experts agree that land use and forest management are absolutely essential to Portugal\u2019s efforts to contain future fires. Miguel Bugalho, who teaches forest and wildlife conservation at the University of Lisbon, points out how much the landscape has changed over the past few decades. Mixed land use \u2013 crop cultivation and animal grazing \u2013 have given way to enormous forests of eucalyptus, a tree prized for its rapid growth and use in the paper and cellulose industries. When the \u201cmosaic\u201d landscape is lost, says Bugalho, the land can become choked with vegetation from small eucalyptus growers unable to afford the costly task of keeping their land clear of the biomass that fuels the fires. \u201cSometimes people aren\u2019t aware that forest fires are symptoms of some very structural causes that are down to socioeconomic reasons,\u201d he says. \u201cWe need financial support so people can keep their vegetation at low levels, but we also need to find completely novel land-use systems, such as the mosaic approach that you see in some areas.\u201d Domingos Viegas, a fire researcher and professor at the University of Coimbra, argues that it\u2019s too easy to blame everything on the proliferation of eucalyptus trees. \u201cI\u2019m not very sympathetic when it comes to eucalyptus but I\u2019m also not against it,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the most widespread species in the country, so it\u2019s logical that many fires will burn eucalyptus \u2026 But there\u2019s a great difference in eucalyptus plantations across the country between those that are well managed and those that are not.\u201d So how can Portugal best prepare itself for the fires of the years to come? \u201cWe can organise the system better so that we\u2019re better prepared, but that\u2019s not an issue of having more planes and more fire trucks and all that,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s about \u2026 landscape management, creating a mixture of agriculture and forestry land so you have mosaics rather than continuous extensions of monoculture that support fires without stopping.\u201d Victor Manuel dos Santos concedes he panicked a bit when the flames were licking at his window. But he is also ready for the fires that the future will inevitably bring. \u201cWhen the next one comes, I\u2019ll fight it,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd if things are different, I\u2019ll tell death he\u2019s late because I\u2019ve lived a lot.\u201d Jo\u00e3o Oliveira, too, is also already planning for the next huge fire, whose flames, he fears, will spring from the charred trees and vegetation that now dot the municipality. \u201cThese extreme fires are becoming more common,\u201d he says. \u201cI think the next one will come in 2032 because no one will want all the burnt firewood that\u2019s on the hills and that will lead to further abandonment of the land. The forest will grow, the temperatures will continue to increase, and there will be more and more fuel for the fires to burn.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;S\u00e3o Paulo election \u2018a horror show\u2019 as candidates trade blows and insults;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/sao-paulo-mayor-election;2024-09-27T11:30:32Z",
        "text": "Brazilians call overcast S\u00e3o Paulo their country\u2019s \u201cland of drizzle\u201d. But in recent months it has been raining punches not precipitation as Latin America\u2019s largest city endures what observers call the most violent and unruly election in its history. Physical violence has meant two recent debates ahead of the 6 October mayoral election ended with participants being treated in hospital and questioned by police. In the first case, Jos\u00e9 Luiz Datena, the celebrity host of a sensationalist crime TV show, lost his cool and walloped a rival for the mayoralty called Pablo Mar\u00e7al with a carbon steel stool. During a second debate, an aide to Mar\u00e7al \u2013 a far-right self-help guru and convicted fraudster \u2013 thumped an adversary\u2019s spin doctor, landing him in hospital where he required a Cat scan and six stitches to a face wound. Those attacks led the campaign\u2019s leading female candidate, Tabata Amaral, to deplore what she called \u201ca horror show of out of control and violent men\u201d. \u201cIt\u2019s a real shame for the city,\u201d complained Amaral, 30, a centrist congresswoman who said she had hoped for a campaign focused on education, healthcare and public safety, not bloodshed and brawls. The president of Brazil\u2019s top electoral court, C\u00e1rmen L\u00facia Antunes Rocha, echoed those comments, urging police and prosecutors to investigate and punish violence which she called an insult to voters and democracy. The 2024 election, Rocha complained on Tuesday, had witnessed \u201cthe most contemptible and criminal scenes, which had reduced politics to episodes of pugilism, irrationality and police reports\u201d. The fisticuffs have caused anger and bemusement, but also a hint of titillation among S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s 11 million-plus citizens \u2013 and made global headlines. \u201cBrazilian Politician Upends Debate by Hitting Opponent With Chair,\u201d the New York Times declared in its report about Datena\u2019s \u201cstunning\u201d on-air assault on Mar\u00e7al which came after the latter called the former a coward. The British tabloid the Sun invited readers to watch footage of \u201cthe WWE-style brawl\u201d. One political journalist, Jos\u00e9 Roberto de Toledo, said that in nearly 40 years covering S\u00e3o Paulo elections he had never witnessed such ignominious scenes as the weaponisation of furniture. But Toledo, whose podcast, A Hora, is chronicling the slugfest\u2019s political implications, challenged the generalization that S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s election was in itself violent. Rather, Toledo believed the turmoil was the handiwork of one man \u2013 Mar\u00e7al \u2013 a controversial social media whiz and populist provocateur who many accuse of deliberately stirring up trouble in order to attract attention and win votes. \u201cThis phenomenon has a name [and] a surname \u2026 It\u2019s called Pablo Mar\u00e7al,\u201d said Toledo, describing how the multimillionaire rightwing influencer goaded rivals into verbal or physical confrontations he hoped would go viral. \u201cHe\u2019s the violent element in this election,\u201d Toledo added. \u201cIf you take him out of the picture, everything\u2019s normal.\u201d The attention-grabbing tactics employed by Mar\u00e7al, a 37-year-old often portrayed as a more provocative version of Brazil\u2019s far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, have been shocking, even for a nation accustomed to Bolsonaro\u2019s brash behaviour. In recent weeks Mar\u00e7al has relentlessly harassed and smeared opponents and journalists during media appearances, calling them pussies, wimps, lame arses, crypto-communists, scumbags, mental retards and orangutans. He has also made a series of baseless insinuations about his rivals, suggesting, without evidence, that one was a cocaine user and another a rapist. In July, Mar\u00e7al went so far as to suggest that Amaral was responsible for her father\u2019s suicide \u2013 a slur she called a \u201cdirty, filthy lie\u201d and for which he later apologized. Toledo said Mar\u00e7al\u2019s aggressive rhetoric and mastery of the dark arts of social media had helped him commandeer a significant chunk of Bolsonaro\u2019s electorate. Bolsonaro has endorsed S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s incumbent rightwing mayor, Ricardo Nunes, but polls suggest many Bolsonaristas will vote Mar\u00e7al. \u201cPablo Mar\u00e7al has broken Bolsonaro\u2019s hegemony over the radical right,\u201d Toledo said. Mar\u00e7al looks unlikely to win the election, despite dominating headlines and boasting about 20% of intended votes. Polls indicate that about half of voters oppose a politician whose past run-ins with the police have been widely documented in the media. In 2010, Mar\u00e7al received a four-year prison sentence for allegedly being part of a cyber gang that used malware to steal money from banks. (Mar\u00e7al, who denied knowledge of the criminal racket, reportedly avoided jail thanks to the statute of limitations). A run-off between Nunes and Guilherme Boulos, a leftist congressman supported by President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, looks likely. But Mar\u00e7al\u2019s incendiary style of politics looks set to linger, with the influencer tipped to run for Brazil\u2019s 81-seat senate in 2026. Amaral, who is polling in fourth place, behind Nunes, Boulos and Mar\u00e7al, decried how such a \u201cdespicable character\u201d was hogging the election limelight. \u201cI find it utterly absurd that such a person is being considered [for mayor],\u201d she said, pointing to Mar\u00e7al\u2019s criminal past and reports \u2013 which he denies \u2013 linking close allies to organized crime. One of the culprits for his success, Amaral thought, was social media, whose algorithms allowed such rabble-rousers to thrive. \u201cWe need to regulate the social networks in Brazil,\u201d she said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Anti-immigration mood sweeping EU threatens its new asylum strategy;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/anti-immigration-mood-sweeping-eu-capitals-puts-strain-on-blocs-unity;2024-09-27T11:24:52Z",
        "text": "In 2015, when more than 1.3 million people headed to Europe, mostly fleeing a brutal war in Syria, the response of Germany\u2019s then chancellor, Angela Merkel, was to say \u201cWir schaffen das\u201d (\u201cWe can manage this\u201d), and open the country\u2019s borders. Less than a decade later, and faced with a flow of irregular arrivals less than 10% of what it was at the peak of the bloc\u2019s migration crisis, EU capitals are increasingly saying, \u201cNo, we can\u2019t\u201d. Or, perhaps more accurately, \u201cWe won\u2019t\u201d. Under intense political pressure from far-right parties in power in half a dozen member states and advancing with almost every election in others, governments are outdoing each other in introducing tough anti-immigration measures. This month alone, Germany reintroduced checks at all its land borders, France vowed to restore \u201corder on our frontiers\u201d, the Netherlands announced its \u201ctoughest ever\u201d regime, and Sweden and Finland proposed harsh anti-migrant laws. The mood risks straining EU ties and could endanger not just the bloc\u2019s new asylum and immigration pact, recently finalised after nearly a decade of fraught negotiations, but its prized free-movement Schengen zone. Marcus Engler, of the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research, said: \u201cIt\u2019s hyperactive. It\u2019s one restriction after another, with no impact assessments and no evidence they will actually work. They\u2019re clearly driven by electoral logic.\u201d The number of people recorded arriving as irregular immigrants in the EU between January and the end of July was 113,400, a fall of about 36% year on year. Long seen as one of the bloc\u2019s most open members, Germany also recently tightened asylum and residency laws, reduced welfare benefits for some refugees and resumed deporting Afghan nationals for the first time since the Taliban took power in 2021. The fragile three-party Socialist-led coalition, trailing far behind its centre-right and far-right opposition in the polls, has insisted its reintroduction of checks this month on land borders would curb migration and \u201cprotect against the acute dangers posed by Islamist terrorism and serious crime\u201d. The move has been widely denounced as politically motivated after a series of knife attacks in which the suspects were asylum seekers, and historic successes in crunch state elections by the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD). At the European level, it was seen in many \u2013 though not all \u2013 capitals as a potentially far-reaching blow to the 27-nation, passport-free Schengen zone, considered one of the EU\u2019s biggest and most economically important achievements. \u201cIt\u2019s a kind of a trap,\u201d a diplomat from one EU member state said. \u201cOnce you introduce this kind of measure with no real practical justification, how do you sell to voters the notion, just a few months later, that it\u2019s now somehow safe to reverse it?\u201d Support came from Hungary\u2019s nativist government, which this month threatened to send a bus convoy of migrants to Brussels in protest against EU migration policies. \u201cWelcome to the club,\u201d said the prime minister, Viktor Orb\u00e1n. The Netherlands\u2019 new coalition, led by the far-right, anti-immigration Freedom party (PVV), did likewise. It has this month promised \u201cthe strictest admission rules in the EU\u201d, saying the country \u201ccan no longer bear the influx of immigrants\u201d. The four-party government plans to freeze new asylum applications, provide only basic accommodation, limit family reunification visas and accelerate forced returns. It also aims to declare an \u201casylum crisis\u201d so it can take measures without MPs\u2019 approval. Once-welcoming Sweden, whose minority rightwing coalition is propped up by the far-right Sweden Democrats, has this month proposed raising the amount it pays to people willing to return home from \u20ac880 (\u00a3665) to \u20ac30,000 each. Stockholm also has plans for a law obliging public sector workers to notify undocumented people to authorities, while Finland\u2019s coalition, which includes the far-right Finns, wants to ban undocumented people from accessing non-emergency healthcare. France\u2019s new rightwing government \u2013 whose survival will depend on whether and when the far-right National Rally (RN) of Marine Le Pen decides to back any future no-confidence vote from the left \u2013 is also bent on a far tougher approach. The prime minister, Michel Barnier, this week described immigration levels as \u201coften insufferable\u201d. Abolishing full healthcare for undocumented people who had been in France at least three months, as the RN has long wanted, was \u201cnot a taboo\u201d, he said. Barnier also praised \u201cwhat a Socialist chancellor in Germany is doing\u201d on border controls, calling it \u201ca wake-up call for us\u201d. His hardline interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, said France should see \u201chow far we can go\u201d to institute permanent checks. \u201cThe French people want more order: order in the streets, order at the borders,\u201d Retailleau said in his first television interview, adding that Paris aimed to \u201creview EU legislation that is no longer suitable\u201d. The contagious new mood, visible across the bloc, does not bode well for the future of the Schengen zone but could also threaten the EU\u2019s new asylum and migration pact, finalised this spring after almost a decade of negotiations. Criticised by rights groups who say it will increase suffering and reduce protection, the pact aims to strengthen external borders while spreading the financial and practical burden of resettlement. The Netherlands and Hungary have already said they want opt-outs. Retailleau\u2019s comments suggest France, too, may now be having second thoughts. \u201cAlready, national governments are saying it\u2019s not enough,\u201d Engler said. \u201cThey want new rules to give them even more control ... Even Germany\u2019s policymakers seem to have concluded it won\u2019t really work.\u201d Perhaps most striking is a concerted move to promote offshore processing, along the lines of agreements signed by Denmark with Kosovo and Italy with Albania (together, in Rome\u2019s case, with deals with leaders in Libya and Tunisia to reduce departures). Fifteen member states, led by Austria, Denmark, Italy and the Czech Republic, have reportedly written to the European Commission calling on it \u201cto identify, elaborate and propose new ways and solutions to prevent irregular migration to Europe\u201d. Outsourcing asylum reception and processing to countries outside the EU is one of the 15\u2019s main objectives, along with a \u201ccommon approach to returns\u201d, notably to safe third countries or countries of origin including Syria and Afghanistan. The commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, has promised such an approach. Gradually, said the EU diplomat, \u201cthe mood is changing. The language, the policies, are tougher. We\u2019re discussing things no one would have dared say a decade ago.\u201d A pattern is clearly emerging, said Alberto Alemanno, a professor of EU law at the College of Europe. \u201cA French rightwing government calling to make temporary border controls permanent. \u201cA German centre-left government de facto suspending Schengen. Migration deals \u00e0 la Italy-Albania becoming the new modus operandi. And the migration pact ready to be renegotiated, as if it wasn\u2019t strict enough \u2026 Who will counter this?\u201d Europe clearly faces very real migration challenges, Engler concluded. \u201cBut these are not solutions. Perhaps the influence of far-right parties has reached a critical point \u2013 the mainstream parties have no plan, but they\u2019re freaking out.\u201d He added: \u201cIt took several generations of politicians to build the EU as a space of free movement and human rights. It seems the current generation of political leaders is intent on tearing it all down in the space of a few years.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Japan\u2019s humble onigiri takes over lunchtimes around the world;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/japan-onigiri-rice-boom;2024-09-27T11:00:11Z",
        "text": "It is barely 10am and the queue outside Onigiri Bongo already stretches around the block. Some of the 30 or so early-bird diners sit on stools, sipping green tea and poring over laminated menus. Further back it is standing-room only. \u201cIt\u2019s always like this,\u201d says Yumiko Ukon, who has run this modest rice ball shop and restaurant in the Otsuka neighbourhood of Tokyo for almost half a century. \u201cBut we never run out of rice,\u201d she adds, seated in her office near a wall clock in the shape of a rice ball with a bite taken out. Bongo, opened in 1960 by Ukon\u2019s drum-playing husband, sells as many as 1,500 rice balls a day. Its customers are a mixture of loyal locals, inquisitive diners from out of town and, increasingly, a foreign clientele eager to taste the inspiration for the global boom in onigiri \u2013 triangles of warm, lightly salted rice embellished with a topping or filling and, more often than not, wrapped in crisp nori seaweed. The queues outside Bongo are as legendary as its choice of 57 toppings, from the popular sujiko \u2013 salmon roe \u2013 and umeboshi plum to the more unconventional bacon and cheese, all accompanied by pickled cucumber and radish and a bowl of miso soup. \u201cThe longest anyone has waited is eight hours,\u201d says Ukon, 72. \u201cOnigiri are so simple \u2013 rice, salt, seaweed and a topping \u2013 and anyone can make them. When you bring a smile to someone\u2019s face with something as simple as that, it\u2019s really special.\u201d At lunchtime, the diners waiting for a seat at Bongo\u2019s counter include Keita Kimura, who is just minutes away from sampling its koshihikari rice from Ukon\u2019s Niigata prefecture, enveloped in nori from the Ariake Sea. \u201cI eat a lot of convenience store onigiri but I\u2019ve never tried a speciality shop,\u201d says the 27-year-old, adding that he has decided to order toppings of tuna and mayonnaise and deep-fried chicken. \u201cThe variety is a big attraction, and you can eat them quickly.\u201d While rice sales in Japan are in decline, shortages notwithstanding, demand for onigiri is rising \u2013 a trend industry observers attribute to changing eating habits when the Covid-19 pandemic began, as people started ordering \u201cartisanal\u201d onigiri to take home for dinner. Wrapped triangular or circular rice balls have long been a staple of Japan\u2019s ubiquitous convenience stores, where they are snapped up by office workers looking for something cheap and filling to tide them over until the evening. Those stores, too, are riding the onigiri wave with new varieties and, at the FamilyMart chain, high-end versions made in collaboration with well-known restaurants feature fillings such as meuni\u00e8re-style salmon and line-caught bluefin tuna with smoked pickled radish. The major konbini chain 7-Eleven, which started selling onigiri soon after it opened its first store in 1974, sold more than 2bn rice balls in the year ending April 2023, according to the Toyo Keizai online business magazine. Now the humble dish is making its mark overseas, in Britain, Germany, Australia, the US and parts of Asia \u2013 a trend reflected in Japanese rice exports, which rose from 4,516 tonnes in 2014 to 28,928 tonnes in 2022, according to the agriculture ministry. Mika Kazato, who runs the Japanese cafe Parami in Sydney\u2019s Surry Hills, has been blown away by Australians\u2019 enthusiasm for the dish. \u201cI didn\u2019t expect it,\u201d she says. In 2022 her team started making just 50 onigiri each day but they now make up to 500, as customers flock to try the rice balls to accompany cups of coffee or matcha. \u201cIt\u2019s really yum, it\u2019s like the perfect little amount for a snack,\u201d says one customer, George. But it is the French who have arguably done most to propel onigiri into the same culinary space as sushi and Japan\u2019s other soul food, ramen. Paris is home to than 50 onigiri shops, rice balls are sold in many supermarkets and, this summer, the French judoka Luka Mkheidze credited them with giving him and his teammates that little extra required to win medals at the Paris Olympics. \u201cOnigiri are like fuel for the body,\u201d he told the Asahi Shimbun, three years after he tried his first onigiri at the postponed Tokyo Games. \u201cThey give me energy so I can perform properly throughout the day.\u201d \u2018A really flexible dish\u2019 In the Tokyo neighbourhood of Asakusa, Anastasia and Rame Bouslimi are among a glut of lunchtime customers outside Onigiri Yadoroku, the city\u2019s oldest rice ball shop and, in 2018, the recipient of a Michelin Bib Gourmand rating, awarded to restaurants that serve inexpensive meals. The couple have eaten onigiri in their native Germany but are eager to sample an early lunch at Yadoroku, which opened in 1954. \u201cThe onigiri in Japan are far, far better,\u201d Anastasia says. \u201cThey\u2019re cheap and good for you \u2026 like a healthy sandwich.\u201d Her husband says onigiri were the obvious choice for a late breakfast on their first full day in Japan. \u201cWhen you think of Germany you think of bread, when you think of Japan you think of onigiri. When we were considering what to eat, onigiri was the first thing that came to mind.\u201d The Japanese are thought to have been snacking on something resembling an onigiri \u2013 often referred to as omusubi in some parts of the country \u2013 since at least the early 11th century. They appear in Murasaki Shikibu\u2019s Heian period (794-1185) novel The Tale of Genji, and in the Hayao Miyazaki anime masterpiece Spirited Away, as well as in Utagawa Hiroshige\u2019s 1830s ukiyo-e prints The Fifty-Three Stations of the T\u014dkaido and Akira Kurosawa\u2019s classic 1954 film Seven Samurai. When Ukon\u2019s late husband opened Bongo there were very few specialist shops and Japan\u2019s first convenience store would not open for about another 10 years. For decades onigiri were considered a snack to be made and eaten at home, or as part of a bento for school sports days, picnics and long train journeys. Yusuke Nakamura\u2019s love of rice balls started as a young child. \u201cI didn\u2019t have much of an appetite so my mother would make onigiri, put them down and tell me it didn\u2019t matter if I ate them or not,\u201d says Nakamura, the chair of the Onigiri Society, which organised the first onigiri summit this year and hopes the dish will feature prominently at next year\u2019s World Expo in Osaka. \u201cBut, somehow, I always ate them and grew to love them.\u201d Nakamura, whose organisation works with businesses to promote onigiri domestically and internationally, expects the dish to adapt as it continues to attract fans beyond Japan\u2019s shores. \u201cIt\u2019s really flexible,\u201d he says. \u201cAs long as it contains rice and a filling and can be eaten with one hand, you can call it an onigiri.\u201d There is, though, one non-negotiable rule, he says. \u201cWhatever you do, do not sprinkle them with soy sauce.\u201d Additional reporting by Luca Ittimani"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Who is Japan\u2019s new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/who-is-new-japan-prime-minister-shigeru-ishiba;2024-09-27T10:11:09Z",
        "text": "Shigeru Ishiba\u2019s determination to lead Japan has never been in question, and now the veteran MP is poised to achieve that goal at the fifth time of asking after winning the race to lead the ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) on Friday. The 67-year-old will be installed as Japan\u2019s new prime minister on Tuesday by the LDP-controlled parliament. Having seen off a challenge from his rightwing rival, Sanae Takaichi, Ishiba will be expected to use his popularity among voters to boost the party\u2019s waning fortunes after months of scandal and infighting. In a victory speech at the party\u2019s headquarters, he said the outgoing prime minister, Fumio Kishida, had \u201cdecided to let the LDP be reborn and win back the public\u2019s trust. We must all pull together to do that.\u201d A member of Japan\u2019s tiny Christian population, Ishiba had described his candidacy for LDP president as the \u201cfinal battle\u201d of his career, having failed in four previous attempts to lead the party. He now faces other challenges on several fronts: voter anger over the cost-of-living crisis, low levels of public trust in \u201cmoney politics\u201d, and growing threats to regional stability from China and North Korea. Despite his victory on Friday, the softly spoken Ishiba, who listens to 1970s pop music and builds model warplanes, trains and ships in his free time, has become a voice of dissent inside a party that has drifted to the right over the past two decades. Instead, he draws his support from the party\u2019s rank and file, whose votes helped propel him to victory on Friday. Ishiba was alone among the nine candidates for the LDP presidency in calling for a post-Fukushima shift away from nuclear power to renewable energy and supports legislation that would allow women to become reigning empresses, a move opposed by many LDP lawmakers. He has also criticised the party for resisting public pressure to allow married couples to use separate surnames. On the economic front, Ishiba wants to boost wages and has voiced support for exempting some items from the 10% consumption (sales) tax to help people on lower incomes. He is unlikely to have time for his pursuits outside politics. He reportedly reads three books a day, preferring that to mingling with colleagues \u2013 some of whom he has alienated in his role as chief critic of the party\u2019s policy direction in recent years. \u201cI have undoubtedly hurt many people\u2019s feelings, caused unpleasant experiences, and made many suffer. I sincerely apologise for all of my shortcomings,\u201d he said in an address to LDP lawmakers on Friday. A former defence minister who entered parliament in 1986 after a short career in banking, Ishida was sidelined by Kishida. But Ishiba has never been far from the political fray, with media appearances, social media posts and on YouTube, where the married father of two daughters shares his thoughts on everything from Japan\u2019s falling birthrate to ramen with his 16,000-plus followers. He is not above self-deprecation, poking fun at his sometimes awkward manner and admitting to being a \u201cmilitary geek\u201d. \u201cI will do my utmost to believe in the people, to speak the truth with courage and sincerity, and to make this country a safe and secure place where everyone can live with a smile again,\u201d Ishiba said in a short speech after his victory. First, though, he must put a smile back on the faces of his embattled LDP colleagues. Reuters contributed to this report."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Israel strikes Hezbollah in blast targeting the militant group's leader;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/28/g-s1-25272/israel-strikes-hezbollah-in-blast-targeting-leader;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:46:55 -0400",
        "text": "Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was said to be the target of the strikes, but it was not immediately clear if he was at the site when they happened."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;A weakened Helene brings 'catastrophic' flooding as it crosses southern Appalachians;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/g-s1-25074/helene-north-carolina-florida-floods-asheville-death-toll;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:08:55 -0400",
        "text": "Helene, now a post-tropical cyclone, continues to flood parts of North Carolina and the Tennessee Valley.  Dozens of storm-related deaths were reported in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Justice Department sues Alabama, claiming it purged voters too close to the election;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/nx-s1-5131578/alabama-noncitizen-voter-purge-lawsuit;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:51:48 -0400",
        "text": "In a new lawsuit, the Justice Department claims Alabama violated federal law by systematically removing voters fewer than 90 days before a federal election."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;At the border in Arizona, Harris lays out a plan to get tough on fentanyl;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/nx-s1-5127374/harris-arizona-border-migration-asylum;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:04:31 -0400",
        "text": "Vice President Harris is trying to shore up one of her biggest political liabilities. She focused her border security remarks on disrupting fentanyl smuggling."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Something is Missing from London: Children;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/1202000758/something-is-missing-from-london-children;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:36:09 -0400",
        "text": "The Hackney area of East London is burgeoning with art galleries and cafes. But the neighborhood, like many places that are appealing to young professionals, is rapidly losing families with children. And some experts say it's a bad sign for the future. We go to Hackney to understand the problem."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Sean Combs accused of impregnating, threatening woman in new assault lawsuit;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/g-s1-25157/sean-diddy-combs-jane-doe-pregnant-assault-lawsuit;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:32:56 -0400",
        "text": "In the 12th lawsuit filed against the hip-hop mogul since last November, an unnamed victim alleges that Sean Combs coerced her into sex, impregnated her, then threatened her into silence."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;A new kind of drug for schizophrenia promises fewer side effects;https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/27/g-s1-25089/karxt-cobenfy-schizophrenia-psychosis-fda;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:31:05 -0400",
        "text": "A medicine that sidesteps the brain's dopamine receptors to reach different targets represents a new approach to schizophrenia treatment. The Food and Drug Administration approved it Thursday."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Netanyahu defies calls for a cease-fire at the U.N., as Israel strikes Lebanon;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/nx-s1-5131429/israel-netanyahu-un-speech-lebanon-gaza-iran;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:19:45 -0400",
        "text": "In a fiery speech at the United Nations General Assembly, the Israeli prime minister said his country would is \"winning\" and would attack Iran and its proxies anywhere in the Middle East."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Supreme Court rejects RFK Jr's appeal to be put on the New York ballot;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/g-s1-24569/supreme-court-rfk;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:30:33 -0400",
        "text": "In New York major party candidates automatically appear on the ballot, but minor party candidates must collect 45,000 voter signatures by petition in order to qualify. Kennedy, who has withdrawn from the race and backed Donald Trump, gathered more than 100,000 valid signatures.<br />"
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Auction for Shohei Ohtani's 50/50 ball goes live as fans fight over who owns it;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/nx-s1-5130841/shohei-ohtani-50-50-ball-auction-lawsuit-ownership;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:20:15 -0400",
        "text": "An 18-year-old filed a lawsuit against another baseball fan after the two tussled over Ohtani's historic 50th homerun ball. Now, an online auction for the ball may add another fan into the mix."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel says Hezbollah leader killed in Beirut strike;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/28/israel-says-hezbollah-leader-killed-in-beirut-strike?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:45:47 +0000",
        "text": "The Israeli army says it has killed Hezbollah\u2019s leader Hassan Nasrallah in an air attack on a neighbourhood in Beirut."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 946;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/28/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-946?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:36:14 +0000",
        "text": "As the war enters its 946th day, these are the main developments."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Families flee to Beirut\u2019s seafront to escape devastating Israeli attacks;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/28/lebanon-beirut-families-flee-devastating-israeli-attacks-seafront?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:26:04 +0000",
        "text": "Waves of Israeli attacks on southern areas in Lebanon&#039;s capital kill several people and force many residents to flee."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Is Austria\u2019s far right poised for historic win in Sunday elections?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/28/is-austrias-far-right-poised-for-historic-win-in-sunday-elections?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:19:11 +0000",
        "text": "The Freedom Party of Austria looks set to beat rivals for the first time. What are its policies?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018It\u2019s needless death\u2019: Ugandan activists decry restrictive abortion laws;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/28/its-needless-death-ugandan-activists-decry-restrictive-abortion-laws?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:08:15 +0000",
        "text": "Abortion is generally illegal in Uganda, and fear of imprisonment leads many to resort to extreme and unsafe practices."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Sombre mood after a Kolkata rape and murder dampens Durga Puja celebrations;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/28/sombre-mood-after-a-kolkata-rape-murder-dampens-durga-puja-celebrations?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 04:19:45 +0000",
        "text": "Losses mount for businesses as residents are in no mood to celebrate after the brutal rape and murder of a doctor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel \u2018escalates to de-escalate\u2019 with Hezbollah;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-listening-post/2024/9/27/israel-escalates-to-de-escalate-with-hezbollah?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:59:35 +0000",
        "text": "Israel reverts to its wartime playbook as it manufactures consent for all-out war on Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;US to end anti-ISIL operation in Iraq but unclear if troops will remain;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/us-to-end-anti-isil-operation-in-iraq-but-unclear-if-troops-will-remain?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:57:16 +0000",
        "text": "US officials offer little clarity on future of two-decade US military presence in Iraq amid &#039;transition&#039;."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Not serious\u2019: Blinken again urges diplomacy as Israel strikes Beirut;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/not-serious-blinken-again-urges-diplomacy-as-israel-strikes-beirut?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:43:56 +0000",
        "text": "Antony Blinken warns region faces &#039;precarious moment&#039;, but experts say US&#039;s failure to pressure Israel fuelling crisis."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;What will bring an end to Sudan\u2019s conflict?;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/9/27/what-will-bring-an-end-to-sudans-conflict?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:59:18 +0000",
        "text": "Sudan&#039;s army made gains in the capital Khartoum this week."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Is Sudan\u2019s army on the verge of recapturing Khartoum?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/is-sudans-army-on-the-verge-of-recapturing-khartoum?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:58:40 +0000",
        "text": "Sudan&#039;s army launched a major assault on Khartoum in a bid to recapture the capital from the Rapid Support Forces."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Qatar announces $100M for funding of UNRWA to support Gaza effort;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/27/qatar-announces-100m-for-funding-of-unrwa-to-support-gaza-effort?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:51:01 +0000",
        "text": "Qatari Minister of International Cooperation Lolwah Al-Khater announces $100M for funding of UNRWA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Why can the US election vote count take so long? What to know in 500 words;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/why-can-the-us-election-vote-count-take-so-long-what-to-know-in-500-words?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:45:43 +0000",
        "text": "US states determine ballot counting procedures in federal elections, with varying count times fuelling misinformation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Powerful Israeli bombardment hits Beirut\u2019s densely populated Dahiyeh;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/27/powerful-israeli-bombardment-hits-beiruts-densely-populated-dahiyeh?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:36:24 +0000",
        "text": "The largest Israeli bombardment in Lebanon to date has hit Beirut\u2019s densely populated Dahiyeh neighbourhood."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Man City\u2019s Rodri out for the season after undergoing knee surgery;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/27/man-citys-rodri-will-miss-the-rest-of-the-season-after-undergoing-knee-surgery?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:03:01 +0000",
        "text": "Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola confirms midfielder Rodri will miss the remainder of the season due to injury."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Lebanese community steps up to help people displaced by the war;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/27/lebanese-community-steps-up-to-help-people-displaced-by-the-war?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:56:00 +0000",
        "text": "Lebanese volunteers came together to help people displaced by the Israeli war on Southern parts of Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Is Israel dragging the US into a Mideast quagmire?;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2024/9/27/is-israel-dragging-the-us-into-a-mideast-quagmire?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:30:00 +0000",
        "text": "Experts weigh in on US strategy as Israel drags Middle East into escalating war in Lebanon and unending war in Gaza."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Waves of explosions rock Beirut as Israel says it attacked Hezbollah HQ;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/several-explosions-in-beirut-as-israel-says-it-attacked-hezbollah-hq?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:22:24 +0000",
        "text": "Israel says the attack targeted &#039;the central headquarters&#039; of Hezbollah in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Alongside Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs, hip-hop culture will also be on trial;https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/27/alongside-sean-diddy-combs-hip-hop-culture-will-also-be-on-trial?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:09:54 +0000",
        "text": "The revelations about the music mogul&#039;s abuse of women spanning decades should be a wake-up call for the industry."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;What we know about Israel\u2019s latest attacks on Lebanon;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/what-we-know-about-israels-latest-attacks-on-lebanon?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:38:11 +0000",
        "text": "Israel says the attacks that levelled residential buildings in southern Beirut targeted Hezbollah&#039;s &#039;central command&#039;."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Trump meets Zelenskyy in NYC amid concerns about US support for Ukraine;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/trump-meets-zelenskyy-in-nyc-amid-concerns-about-us-support-for-ukraine?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:17:51 +0000",
        "text": "Kyiv worries a peace deal brokered by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would lead to loss of territory."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel bombards Beirut;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/27/israel-bombards-beirut?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:14:00 +0000",
        "text": "Video shows the aftermath of successive Israeli strikes on the southern Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Netanyahu tells UN Israel will continue attacks on Gaza, Lebanon;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/netanyahu-tells-un-israel-will-continue-attacks-on-gaza-lebanon?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:03:28 +0000",
        "text": "Prime Minister says Israel will &#039;continue degrading Hezbollah&#039; until it achieves its goals along Lebanon border."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Civil war in the home of Mexico\u2019s Sinaloa cartel: Fear grips Culiacan;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/27/civil-war-in-the-home-of-mexicos-sinaloa-cartel-fear-grips-culiacan?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:51:56 +0000",
        "text": "Recent abduction and arrest of a top drug lord has set off a vicious war inside Mexico&#039;s most violent cartel."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Lebanese civilians fleeing Israeli attacks face hardship and exploitation;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/27/lebanese-civilians-fleeing-israeli-attacks-face-hardship-and-exploitation?traffic_source=rss;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:20:15 +0000",
        "text": "As Israel escalates attacks on Lebanon, civilians brace for more violent consequences amid conflict with Hezbollah."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Bowen: Huge Beirut strike leaves West powerless as Israel chases victory;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgn5xkp3rko;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:20:43 GMT",
        "text": "Diplomats were hoping to calm matters - they will be looking at events with dismay."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Tributes paid to 'true legend' Dame Maggie Smith;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk7375ngkxo;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:32:13 GMT",
        "text": "The King and prime minister add tributes to heartfelt memories from co-stars like Daniel Radcliffe."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Bridgerton ball promised glamour. It descended into chaos;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kj45yy88o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:02:59 GMT",
        "text": "The unofficial event has been compared to other viral flops, including the Wonka experience."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;At least 43 dead as Hurricane Helene pummels south-east US;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd13mezz7mo;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:19:14 GMT",
        "text": "Helene marked one of the largest storms to hit the US, causing widespread devastation across the southeast"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Al Fayed's son 'horrified' by sexual abuse allegations;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgdnmx3r43o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:37:32 GMT",
        "text": "Omar Al Fayed says the allegations have \"thrown into question the loving memory I had of him\"."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Penguin chicks survive tough winter after colossal iceberg cuts them off;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wp4qnljd1o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:56:18 GMT",
        "text": "For months a huge iceberg blocked the path of hundreds of penguin chicks but somehow they survived."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'My liquid Brazilian butt-lift went well but I regret it now I know the risks';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgeygelwljxo;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:06:46 GMT",
        "text": "Cairo Nakhate-Chirwa booked her procedure on Instagram and has no idea if the practitioner was qualified."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Manhunt underway as 17 people killed in South Africa mass shooting;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx25vperv9go;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:12:04 GMT",
        "text": "Fifteen women and two men were killed in a targeted attack on a village in Lusikisiki police say."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Lana Del Rey reportedly marries alligator tour guide in Louisiana;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6wg15nxvvo;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:03:50 GMT",
        "text": "The Grammy-nominated singer is reported to have tied the knot with Jeremy Dufrene near a bayou south of New Orleans."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Keir Starmer received more clothes worth \u00a316,000;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd4z9vzdnno;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:51:55 GMT",
        "text": "Downing Street says the way the donations were initially declared has been changed."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Austria's far right eyes unprecedented election win;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4xz013zx7o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:53:05 GMT",
        "text": "Sunday's election could see Herbert Kickl's party top the polls for the first time."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Company\u2019s skinny prosecco had too much sugar in it \u2013 court rules;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk7315rvxjo;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:31:14 GMT",
        "text": "Court hears low-sugar drinks sold with misleading labelling as website's owner is fined."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Watch: BBC correspondent records moment air strike hits Beirut;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cd0zvj0y9d7o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:53:46 GMT",
        "text": "BBC reporters capture the moment and aftermath of an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Who is Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wnp0vln19o;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:38:54 GMT",
        "text": "He played a key role in turning Hezbollah into the political and military force it is today."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Six of Dame Maggie Smith's greatest roles;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5zkw2436do;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:39:46 GMT",
        "text": "Here are some of Maggie Smith's most celebrated and revered performances."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;A look back at Dame Maggie Smith's career;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cx2m0ypjpz7o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:32:26 GMT",
        "text": "Dame Maggie Smith, star of the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey, has died at the age of 89."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Everybody wants to be in': How songs are chosen for EA FC;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr75zmr0m8vo;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:10:28 GMT",
        "text": "Steve Schnur explains how he chooses which songs get selected for the massive football game's soundtrack."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The Papers: Maggie Smith mourned and Johnson's Covid 'war cry';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wnp0rv5y5o;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:34:46 GMT",
        "text": "The passing of actress Dame Maggie Smith features prominently on Saturday's front pages."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The evolution of devolution: 25 years of the Scottish Parliament;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c206xwj8854o;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:34:57 GMT",
        "text": "Celebrations are taking place to mark the annivarsary of the parliament being \u201creconvened\u201d in 1999."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;How Cinnamon's great escape led to capybara craze;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c749nwrj1njo;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:32:34 GMT",
        "text": "Two weeks ago the world did not know the capybara from Hoo Zoo in Telford existed."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Smear campaign against celebrity-endorsed nature reserve exposed;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp39zvv6kl4o;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:18:25 GMT",
        "text": "How did a Philippine nature reserve get caught up in an information battle?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Al Fayed\u2019s victims in France call for investigation;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3g317y22o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:00:07 GMT",
        "text": "One woman says the owner of Harrods and the Paris Ritz ran his companies like a cult or a mafia."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The allegations span decades - our timeline tracks them;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj4521d4q6o;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:30:07 GMT",
        "text": "Here are some of the key moments and sex abuse claims amid Fayed\u2019s almost 40-year reign at the top of his business empire."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods;https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0023ff5;Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:00:00 GMT",
        "text": "Investigating alleged serious sex abuse of Harrods staff by former boss Mohamed Al Fayed."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Brightening comet set to shine in autumn sky;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7xg870x88o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:36:07 GMT",
        "text": "A newly-spotted comet is set to appear in the autumn sky but it's not clear how bright it will become."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;A&E doctor 'refused' to see woman before she died;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wnp7p3ez4o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:09:52 GMT",
        "text": "Marina Young's sister says hospital staff \"failed her fundamentally, on every level\"."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Uber terms mean couple can't sue after 'life-changing' crash;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy9j8ldp0lo;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:49:07 GMT",
        "text": "Uber's US terms of service, which they accepted, mean disputes have to be settled out of court."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Festival, football and floods: Photos of the week;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgv557lz18o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:08:24 GMT",
        "text": "A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sean 'Diddy' Combs facing more allegations of sexual assault;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg56zdr1047o;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:52:24 GMT",
        "text": "The music mogul faces mounting legal troubles including a 12th lawsuit, from an unnamed woman, which alleges drugging and assault."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Kamala Harris makes rare trip to US-Mexico border;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9jx3zp13mo;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 02:50:27 GMT",
        "text": "In her first visit to the border since 2021, the Democratic nominee promised \"common-sense solutions\"."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Activists throw soup on Van Gogh painting again;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c243v5m0r0lo;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:44:42 GMT",
        "text": "Just Stop Oil supporters have thrown soup over two Van Gogh paintings in central London."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Killed By Kids: The Machete Murder;https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0023qq3;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:00:00 GMT",
        "text": "When kids kill. The shocking story of two 12 year olds, a machete and a brutal murder."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Titan sub implosion: What have we learned?;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct6dws;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:50:00 GMT",
        "text": "The US Coast Guard has held two weeks of hearings"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Wada appeals against Sinner doping exoneration;https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/articles/c4gr8433527o;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:24:38 GMT",
        "text": "World number one Jannik Sinner was cleared of wrongdoing after twice testing positive for a banned substance in March."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Martinez banned for 'offensive behaviour';https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c756r1609dno;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 07:13:23 GMT",
        "text": "Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez will miss two World Cup qualifiers for Argentina."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Guardiola says he's been provoked into bigger Arsenal rivalry;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cg785r19p8mo;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:30:14 GMT",
        "text": "Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he's been provoked into a more intense rivalry with Arsenal as the fallout continues from their Premier League clash at Etihad Stadium last weekend."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;White Sox suffer record 121st defeat of season;https://www.bbc.com/sport/baseball/articles/c8703yv7094o;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:46:22 GMT",
        "text": "The Chicago White Sox break the modern-day record for most losses in a Major League Baseball season."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Flying wing with flying fists - meet England's electric new star;https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/cg7859k1ex1o;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:30:47 GMT",
        "text": "Bo Westcombe-Evans pulls on an England shirt for the first time on Sunday, less than three months after pulling off boxing gloves for the last time."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Absolute peach!' - Archer bowls Australia captain Marsh;https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/videos/cn03zyppk7zo;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:41:24 GMT",
        "text": "Watch as England's Jofra Archer bowls Australia captain Mitchell Marsh for 28 during the fourth ODI at Lord's."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Jury still out' on new UK government, Michelle O'Neill says;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5e3lzelpwo;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:39:57 GMT",
        "text": "The Sinn F\u00e9in deputy leader was speaking at the party's annual conference in Athlone."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;King and Queen's visit will mark 25 years of Scottish Parliament;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24n6q60d4o;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:34:43 GMT",
        "text": "King Charles will address the chamber and meet \"local heroes\" who have made contributions to their community."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Wales 'should get a lot more' of UK's rail cash;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9jvndrnxgo;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:41:40 GMT",
        "text": "Westminster's control of rail investment means Wales loses out on money, a transport expert says."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre au\u00a0Proche-Orient\u00a0: l\u2019arm\u00e9e isra\u00e9lienne annonce avoir \u00ab\u00a0tu\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb Hassan Nasrallah, le leader du Hezbollah lors du bombardement de Beyrouth;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/28/en-direct-guerre-au-proche-orient-l-armee-israelienne-annonce-avoir-tue-hassan-nasrallah-le-leader-du-hezbollah-lors-du-bombardement-de-beyrouth_6321740_3210.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:54:51 +0200",
        "text": "Apr\u00e8s avoir massivement bombard\u00e9 la banlieue sud de Beyrouth, vendredi, Isra\u00ebl a annonc\u00e9 la mort du leader du mouvement chiite. Le Hezbollah, sans confirmer sa mort, a reconnu que le \u00ab\u00a0contact\u00a0\u00bb \u00e9tait \u00ab\u00a0perdu\u00a0\u00bb depuis plusieurs heures. Selon un bilan provisoire des autorit\u00e9s libanaises, l\u2019attaque isra\u00e9lienne a six morts, 91 bless\u00e9s et d\u00e9truit des dizaines d\u2019immeubles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Djihadisme\u00a0: une Fran\u00e7aise condamn\u00e9e \u00e0 9\u00a0ans de prison pour avoir rejoint la Syrie;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/28/djihadisme-une-francaise-condamnee-a-9-ans-de-prison-pour-avoir-rejoint-la-syrie_6337631_3224.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:54:24 +0200",
        "text": "Farrah Zerari est la vingti\u00e8me femme condamn\u00e9e en France depuis 2012 pour avoir rejoint une organisation terroriste, selon l\u2019avocate g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, qui avait requis 11\u00a0ans de r\u00e9clusion assortie d\u2019une p\u00e9riode de s\u00fbret\u00e9 des deux tiers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Isra\u00ebl frappe le Hezbollah au c\u0153ur de Beyrouth, le sort de Hassan Nasrallah est incertain;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/28/israel-frappe-le-hezbollah-au-c-ur-de-beyrouth_6337586_3210.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 09:55:24 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019Etat h\u00e9breu a bombard\u00e9 vendredi soir le quartier g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du parti chiite dans la capitale libanaise, provoquant la destruction de plusieurs immeubles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Plong\u00e9e dans la bo\u00eete noire de la propagande mondiale en faveur des pesticides;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/28/plongee-dans-la-boite-noire-de-la-propagande-mondiale-en-faveur-des-pesticides_6337448_3244.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:58:07 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Bonus Eventus files (2/3)\u00a0\u00bb. Cr\u00e9\u00e9e par l\u2019ancien directeur de la communication de Monsanto, Jay Byrne, la plate-forme priv\u00e9e Bonus Eventus fournit \u00e0 ses membres, recrut\u00e9s par cooptation, une vaste base d\u2019arguments favorables \u00e0 l\u2019agrochimie destin\u00e9s \u00e0 influencer le d\u00e9bat public, r\u00e9v\u00e8lent \u00ab\u00a0Le Monde\u00a0\u00bb et un collectif de m\u00e9dias."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en Ukraine\u00a0: six morts dans une double frappe russe \u00e0 Soumy, selon le ministre de l\u2019int\u00e9rieur ukrainien;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/28/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-les-etats-unis-accusent-a-nouveau-la-chine-de-soutenir-la-machine-de-guerre-russe_6337411_3210.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:20:05 +0200",
        "text": "Les autorit\u00e9s r\u00e9gionales ont pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 que les deux frappes russes avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 perp\u00e9tr\u00e9es avec des drones Shahed."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Etats-Unis\u00a0: le bilan de l\u2019ouragan H\u00e9l\u00e8ne grimpe \u00e0 au moins 44 morts;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/27/le-bilan-de-l-ouragan-helene-retrograde-en-tempete-tropicale-grimpe-a-au-moins-trente-trois-morts-aux-etats-unis_6336312_3245.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:19:58 +0200",
        "text": "M\u00eame si les vents sont retomb\u00e9s \u00e0 55\u00a0km/h, le Centre am\u00e9ricain des ouragans a averti que des inondations \u00ab\u00a0historiques\u00a0\u00bb et \u00ab\u00a0catastrophiques\u00a0\u00bb, accompagn\u00e9es de glissements de terrain, continueraient dans les Appalaches."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Irak, la coalition internationale contre l\u2019organisation Etat islamique prendra fin en\u00a02025;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/28/en-irak-la-coalition-internationale-contre-le-groupe-etat-islamique-prendra-fin-en-2025_6337332_3210.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 04:06:53 +0200",
        "text": "Washington et Bagdad ont fait cette annonce conjointe, vendredi, sans pr\u00e9ciser ce qu\u2019il adviendra des troupes am\u00e9ricaines d\u00e9ploy\u00e9es en Irak. L\u2019alliance comprend des effectifs de plusieurs pays, dont la France et le Royaume-Uni."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct\u00a0: les d\u00e9put\u00e9s LFI et RN sont \u00ab\u00a0des \u00e9lus de la R\u00e9publique, point final\u00a0\u00bb, affirme Michel Barnier;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/27/en-direct-les-deputes-lfi-et-rn-sont-des-elus-de-la-republique-point-final-affirme-michel-barnier_6325006_823448.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:17:36 +0200",
        "text": "Les ministres \u00ab\u00a0recevront les \u00e9lus de La France insoumise ou du Rassemblement national s\u2019ils souhaitent \u00eatre re\u00e7us\u00a0\u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 le premier ministre au \u00ab\u00a0Journal de Sa\u00f4ne-et-Loire\u00a0\u00bb, vendredi. Il avait recadr\u00e9 plus t\u00f4t dans la semaine le ministre de l\u2019\u00e9conomie, Antoine Armand (Renaissance), qui avait d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que les \u00e9lus RN ne se trouvaient pas \u00ab\u00a0dans l\u2019arc r\u00e9publicain\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Belgique, le pape Fran\u00e7ois ne convainc pas toutes les victimes de violences sexuelles dans l\u2019Eglise catholique;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/27/en-belgique-le-pape-francois-ne-convainc-pas-toutes-les-victimes-de-violences-sexuelles-dans-l-eglise-catholique_6337200_3210.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:49:52 +0200",
        "text": "Le premier ministre d\u00e9missionnaire, Alexander de Croo, a affirm\u00e9 devant le souverain pontife que \u00ab\u00a0les nombreux cas d\u2019abus sexuels et d\u2019adoptions forc\u00e9es ont gravement entam\u00e9 la confiance\u00a0\u00bb envers l\u2019Eglise."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les services postaux dans les territoires vont subir une coupe de 50\u00a0millions d\u2019euros;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/27/les-services-postaux-dans-les-territoires-vont-subir-une-coupe-de-50-millions-d-euros_6337167_3224.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:54:58 +0200",
        "text": "Le contrat de pr\u00e9sence postale territoriale finance les 17\u00a0000\u00a0antennes en France, permettant \u00e0 La Poste de remplir sa mission de service public. Il est initialement assorti de cr\u00e9dits de 177\u00a0millions d\u2019euros par an. Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 ce maillage, plus de 97\u00a0% de la population se trouve \u00e0 moins de 5\u00a0kilom\u00e8tres d\u2019un \u00ab\u00a0point de\u00a0contact\u00a0\u00bb postal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Sur le p\u00e9riph\u00e9rique parisien, le passage \u00e0 50\u00a0kilom\u00e8tres/heure sera g\u00e9n\u00e9ralis\u00e9 le 10\u00a0octobre;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/27/sur-le-peripherique-parisien-le-passage-a-50-kilometres-heure-sera-generalise-le-10-octobre_6337101_3244.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:42:37 +0200",
        "text": "Le passage de la vitesse maximale \u00e0 50\u00a0kilom\u00e8tres/heure, au lieu des 70\u00a0kilom\u00e8tres/heure actuels, s\u2019appliquera d\u00e8s mardi sur un tron\u00e7on de l\u2019anneau qui ceint la capitale. \u00ab\u00a0On ne va pas verbaliser les automobilistes d\u00e8s le 1\u1d49\u02b3\u00a0octobre\u00a0\u00bb, a assur\u00e9 le premier adjoint \u00e0 la Mairie de Paris."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;La seconde vie du film \u00ab\u00a0Jeanne Dielman\u00a0\u00bb, chef-d\u2019\u0153uvre de Chantal Akerman;https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2024/09/27/la-seconde-vie-du-film-jeanne-dielman-chef-d-uvre-de-chantal-akerman_6335990_4500055.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:00:31 +0200",
        "text": "Longtemps, ce long-m\u00e9trage pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 \u00e0 Cannes en\u00a01975 est rest\u00e9 confidentiel. Un secret de cin\u00e9philes admirateurs de ce r\u00e9cit f\u00e9ministe de plus de trois heures, relatant le quotidien r\u00e9p\u00e9titif d\u2019une femme au foyer, qui se prostitue en fin de journ\u00e9e. Applaudi par un public de plus en plus nombreux, le travail de la r\u00e9alisatrice belge disparue en\u00a02015 fait l\u2019objet d\u2019une grande r\u00e9trospective au Jeu de paume, \u00e0 Paris."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Guerre en Ukraine\u00a0: Volodymyr Zelensky se f\u00e9licite d\u2019une r\u00e9union \u00ab\u00a0tr\u00e8s productive\u00a0\u00bb avec Donald Trump;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/27/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-se-felicite-d-une-reunion-tres-productive-avec-donald-trump_6327490_3210.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:01:22 +0200",
        "text": "A l\u2019issue de sa rencontre \u00e0 New York avec l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident des Etats-Unis, le pr\u00e9sident ukrainien s\u2019est dit \u00ab\u00a0reconnaissant\u00a0\u00bb, assurant lui avoir pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 son \u00ab\u00a0plan de victoire\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Affaire Poupette Kenza\u00a0: le compagnon de\u00a0l\u2019influenceuse \u00e0 son tour mis en examen pour\u00a0extorsion et incarc\u00e9r\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/27/affaire-poupette-kenza-le-compagnon-de-l-influenceuse-a-son-tour-mis-en-examen-pour-extorsion-et-incarcere_6337034_4408996.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:51:53 +0200",
        "text": "La star d\u2019Instagam et TikTok a \u00e9t\u00e9 mise en examen apr\u00e8s la plainte d\u2019un couple qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0physiquement menac\u00e9 sous condition de remise d\u2019une somme de 200\u00a0000\u00a0euros\u00a0\u00bb, avait expliqu\u00e9 en juillet le procureur de la R\u00e9publique."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A Londres, de nouveaux jets de soupe de militants \u00e9cologistes sur deux tableaux des \u00ab\u00a0Tournesols\u00a0\u00bb de\u00a0Van\u00a0Gogh;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/27/a-londres-de-nouveaux-jets-de-soupe-de-militants-ecologistes-sur-deux-tableaux-des-tournesols-de-van-gogh_6336968_3210.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:22:20 +0200",
        "text": "Cette action intervient juste apr\u00e8s la condamnation de deux activistes \u00e9cologistes \u00e0 de la prison ferme pour des faits similaires. Les \u0153uvres, aussit\u00f4t examin\u00e9es par un conservateur, ne sont pas \u00ab\u00a0endommag\u00e9es\u00a0\u00bb, a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 la National Gallery."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Haute-Garonne, la col\u00e8re des agriculteurs est retomb\u00e9e, mais des inqui\u00e9tudes persistent;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/27/en-haute-garonne-la-colere-des-agriculteurs-est-retombee-mais-des-inquietudes-persistent_6336933_3234.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:00:16 +0200",
        "text": "A Saint-Gaudens, le week-end du 20\u00a0septembre, se tenait le salon Les Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9ennes, un rendez-vous triennal qui voit d\u00e9filer plus de 100\u00a0000\u00a0visiteurs."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le Conseil d\u2019Etat confirme l\u2019interdiction de l\u2019abaya \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cole;https://www.lemonde.fr/education/article/2024/09/27/le-conseil-d-etat-confirme-l-interdiction-de-l-abaya-a-l-ecole_6336926_1473685.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:25:57 +0200",
        "text": "Les associations \u00ab\u00a0ne sont pas fond\u00e9es \u00e0 demander l\u2019annulation de la note de service\u00a0\u00bb du 31\u00a0ao\u00fbt\u00a02023, par laquelle le ministre de l\u2019\u00e9ducation avait interdit le port de tenues de type abaya ou qamis dans les \u00e9tablissements scolaires, selon la haute juridiction."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le Haut Conseil pour le climat critique les coupes budg\u00e9taires dans le domaine de l\u2019environnement et r\u00e9clame des mesures \u00ab\u00a0urgentes\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/27/le-haut-conseil-pour-le-climat-critique-les-coupes-budgetaires-dans-le-domaine-de-l-environnement-et-reclame-des-mesures-urgentes_6336922_3244.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:10:01 +0200",
        "text": "Les lettres plafonds pr\u00e9paratoires au projet de budget 2025 laissent augurer que les nouveaux cr\u00e9dits allou\u00e9s au fonds vert seront amput\u00e9s de pr\u00e8s de 1,5\u00a0milliard d\u2019euros, alors que pour atteindre la neutralit\u00e9 carbone il serait n\u00e9cessaire de consacrer des financements pluriannuels publics et priv\u00e9s estim\u00e9s entre 60\u00a0et 70\u00a0milliards d\u2019euros."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Deux ministres d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9s int\u00e8grent le gouvernement\u00a0: Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq au handicap, Jean-Louis Thi\u00e9riot aux arm\u00e9es;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/27/deux-ministres-delegues-integrent-le-gouvernement-charlotte-parmentier-lecocq-au-handicap-jean-louis-thieriot-aux-armees_6336921_823448.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:05:57 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019absence de titulaire du portefeuille du handicap dans la premi\u00e8re salve de nominations au gouvernement avait entra\u00een\u00e9 une fronde du secteur."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Aux Comores, la justice cl\u00f4t l\u2019enqu\u00eate sur la mort de l\u2019agresseur du pr\u00e9sident Azali Assoumani;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/27/aux-comores-la-justice-clot-l-enquete-sur-la-mort-de-l-agresseur-du-president-azali-assoumani_6336918_3212.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:00:11 +0200",
        "text": "Le jeune militaire qui avait bless\u00e9 au couteau le chef de l\u2019Etat est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 en d\u00e9tention, dans les heures qui ont suivi son arrestation, dans des circonstances non \u00e9lucid\u00e9es."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Accus\u00e9 d\u2019avoir favoris\u00e9 un informateur, l\u2019ancien patron des stups Fran\u00e7ois Thierry acquitt\u00e9;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/27/accuse-d-avoir-favorise-un-informateur-l-ancien-patron-des-stups-francois-thierry-acquitte_6336880_3224.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:32:27 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019ancien chef de l\u2019Office central pour la r\u00e9pression du trafic illicite des stup\u00e9fiants \u00e9tait jug\u00e9 pour \u00ab\u00a0faux\u00a0\u00bb et \u00ab\u00a0destruction de preuves\u00a0\u00bb par agent public pour son r\u00f4le, en\u00a02012, dans la fausse garde \u00e0 vue de Sofiane Hambli, un \u00ab\u00a0indic\u00a0\u00bb, consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme l\u2019un des plus gros importateurs de cannabis en France."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Clap de fin pour les derniers hypermarch\u00e9s et supermarch\u00e9s Casino;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/27/clap-de-fin-pour-les-derniers-hypermarches-et-supermarches-casino_6336837_3234.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:48:29 +0200",
        "text": "Les magasins qui n\u2019ont pas trouv\u00e9 de repreneur ferment d\u00e9finitivement leurs portes, \u00e9pilogue de l\u2019effondrement \u00e9clair d\u2019un groupe historique de la grande distribution."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Emmanuel Macron effectuera une visite d\u2019Etat au Maroc \u00e0 la fin du mois d\u2019octobre;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/27/emmanuel-macron-effectuera-une-visite-d-etat-au-maroc-a-la-fin-du-mois-d-octobre_6336834_3212.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:27:17 +0200",
        "text": "Cette visite, r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement \u00e9voqu\u00e9e mais sans cesse repouss\u00e9e depuis 2022, fait suite au r\u00e9chauffement des relations bilat\u00e9rales apr\u00e8s le soutien apport\u00e9 par Paris au plan d\u2019autonomie propos\u00e9 par Rabat pour le Sahara occidental."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;X suspend le compte d\u2019un journaliste am\u00e9ricain apr\u00e8s la publication de documents li\u00e9s \u00e0 J.D.\u00a0Vance, le colistier de Donald Trump;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/27/x-suspend-le-compte-d-un-journaliste-americain-apres-la-publication-de-documents-lies-a-j-d-vance-le-colistier-de-donald-trump_6336764_4408996.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:52:52 +0200",
        "text": "Le r\u00e9seau social emp\u00eache aussi la publication de tout lien pointant vers ces documents. L\u2019affaire rappelle celle de 2020, lorsque le r\u00e9seau social avait emp\u00each\u00e9 la circulation d\u2019un article consacr\u00e9 au fils de Joe Biden. Une d\u00e9cision contre laquelle Elon Musk, actuel propri\u00e9taire de la plate-forme, s\u2019\u00e9tait insurg\u00e9."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019actrice britannique Maggie Smith, connue pour ses r\u00f4les dans \u00ab\u00a0Downton Abbey\u00a0\u00bb et \u00ab\u00a0Harry Potter\u00a0\u00bb, est morte \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 89 ans;https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/09/27/maggie-smith-actrice-inoubliable-de-downton-abbey-et-de-harry-potter-est-morte_6336757_3382.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:30:43 +0200",
        "text": "A l\u2019affiche d\u2019une centaine de pi\u00e8ces de th\u00e9\u00e2tre et de pr\u00e8s de soixante longs m\u00e9trages, Maggie Smith n\u2019avait jamais cess\u00e9 de jouer. Un parcours impressionnant qui fit d\u2019elle l\u2019une des actrices britanniques les plus r\u00e9compens\u00e9es du septi\u00e8me art."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Ukraine, des m\u00e9thodes de mobilisation de plus en plus contest\u00e9es;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/27/en-ukraine-des-methodes-de-mobilisation-de-plus-en-plus-contestees_6335951_3210.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:30:05 +0200",
        "text": "Depuis que l\u2019\u00e2ge l\u00e9gal pour \u00eatre mobilis\u00e9 est pass\u00e9 de 27\u00a0ans \u00e0 25\u00a0ans, le rythme de recrutement s\u2019est acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9. Mais de nombreuses critiques se font entendre quant \u00e0 la violence des recruteurs, \u00e0 l\u2019in\u00e9galit\u00e9 sociale dans le choix des mobilis\u00e9s ou au manque de qualit\u00e9 de l\u2019entra\u00eenement des nouveaux soldats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Kiabi victime en juillet d\u2019une \u00ab\u00a0fraude financi\u00e8re sophistiqu\u00e9e d\u2019ampleur\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/27/kiabi-victime-en-juillet-d-une-fraude-financiere-sophistiquee-d-ampleur_6336721_3234.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:13:08 +0200",
        "text": "Franceinfo chiffre ce d\u00e9tournement \u00e0 100\u00a0millions d\u2019euros. La direction de l\u2019enseigne de v\u00eatements a admis la fraude, mais n\u2019a ni confirm\u00e9 ni d\u00e9menti son montant."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Donn\u00e9es personnelles\u00a0: nouvelle amende de 91\u00a0millions d\u2019euros pour Meta par l\u2019UE;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/27/donnees-personnelles-nouvelle-amende-de-91-millions-d-euros-pour-meta-par-l-ue_6336651_4408996.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:47:48 +0200",
        "text": "Le groupe est r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement mis en cause pour le traitement de donn\u00e9es personnelles de ses utilisateurs contraire au r\u00e8glement europ\u00e9en. Bien que nombreuses, ces condamnations semblent peu dissuasives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Mohammed Al-Fayed, ancien propri\u00e9taire de Harrods, accus\u00e9 de violences sexuelles par vingt-trois femmes suppl\u00e9mentaires;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/27/soixante-femmes-accusent-desormais-mohammed-al-fayed-l-ancien-proprietaire-de-harrods-de-violences-sexuelles_6336575_3210.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:37:21 +0200",
        "text": "Apr\u00e8s la diffusion d\u2019une enqu\u00eate de la BBC, il y a une semaine, trente-sept femmes avaient affirm\u00e9 avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 agress\u00e9es sexuellement ou viol\u00e9es par l\u2019homme d\u2019affaires \u00e9gyptien, mort en\u00a02023 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 94\u00a0ans. Elles sont d\u00e9sormais soixante."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Guin\u00e9e, vent de panique apr\u00e8s des tirs inexpliqu\u00e9s dans le centre de Conakry;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/27/en-guinee-vent-de-panique-apres-des-tirs-inexpliques-dans-le-centre-de-conakry_6336439_3212.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:25:38 +0200",
        "text": "Plusieurs hypoth\u00e8ses circulent, dont celle d\u2019un accrochage entre deux proches du pr\u00e9sident Mamadi Doumbouya au sein des forces sp\u00e9ciales."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A la Martinique, le\u00a0prix des pi\u00e8ces d\u00e9tach\u00e9es pour les voitures, symbole de\u00a0la\u00a0vie ch\u00e8re;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/27/a-la-martinique-le-prix-des-pieces-detachees-pour-les-voitures-symbole-de-la-vie-chere_6336438_823448.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:22:46 +0200",
        "text": "Sur cette \u00eele des Antilles en proie \u00e0 un mouvement de contestation depuis le d\u00e9but de\u00a0septembre, le budget automobile des m\u00e9nages est nettement plus \u00e9lev\u00e9 que dans l\u2019Hexagone, alors que les concertations men\u00e9es sous l\u2019\u00e9gide de la pr\u00e9fecture se concentrent sur l\u2019alimentation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Alcool sur les r\u00e9seaux sociaux\u00a0: les youtubeurs McFly et Carlito font leur mea culpa;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/27/alcool-les-reseaux-sociaux-montres-du-doigt-les-youtubeurs-mcfly-et-carlito-font-leur-mea-culpa_6336435_4408996.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:10:42 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019association Addictions France d\u00e9nonce, dans un rapport, l\u2019omnipr\u00e9sence de publicit\u00e9s pour l\u2019alcool sur les r\u00e9seaux sociaux et chez les influenceurs. Elle r\u00e9clame un durcissement de la loi."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Dans le monde agricole, apr\u00e8s la col\u00e8re, le d\u00e9sarroi gagne, les attentes sont immenses;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/27/dans-le-monde-agricole-apres-la-colere-le-desarroi-gagne-les-attentes-sont-immenses_6335881_3234.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:00:00 +0200",
        "text": "Mauvaises r\u00e9coltes, propagation de maladies dans les \u00e9levages, tr\u00e9soreries tendues\u2026 Les agriculteurs esp\u00e8rent beaucoup du gouvernement, alors que la loi d\u2019orientation pour le secteur n\u2019est toujours pas appliqu\u00e9e."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Ha\u00efti, plus de 3 600 personnes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9es dans les violences depuis janvier, s\u2019alarme l\u2019ONU;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/27/en-haiti-plus-de-3-600-personnes-ont-ete-tuees-dans-les-violences-depuis-janvier-s-alarme-l-onu_6336398_3210.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:37:27 +0200",
        "text": "Le petit pays carib\u00e9en p\u00e2tit depuis longtemps des violences de bandes criminelles, mais ces derniers mois elles ont redoubl\u00e9 et aggrav\u00e9 la crise humanitaire."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Entre la C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire et le Burkina Faso, des accusations permanentes de complot;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/27/entre-la-cote-d-ivoire-et-le-burkina-faso-des-accusations-permanentes-de-complot_6336396_3212.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:30:15 +0200",
        "text": "La junte au pouvoir \u00e0 Ouagadougou d\u00e9nonce des \u00ab\u00a0tentatives de d\u00e9stabilisation\u00a0\u00bb, tandis que les autorit\u00e9s ivoiriennes ont arr\u00eat\u00e9 en juillet une dizaine de jeunes suspect\u00e9s d\u2019\u00eatre all\u00e9s se former au maniement des armes dans le pays voisin."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Deepfakes audio de Joe Biden\u00a0: leur cr\u00e9ateur condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 6\u00a0millions de dollars d\u2019amende;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/27/deepfakes-audio-de-joe-biden-leur-createur-condamne-a-6-millions-de-dollars-d-amende_6336358_4408996.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:16:11 +0200",
        "text": "En janvier, Steve Kramer avait fabriqu\u00e9, \u00e0 l\u2019aide d\u2019une intelligence artificielle, un message audio du pr\u00e9sident pour dissuader des\u00a0\u00e9lecteurs de voter aux primaires d\u00e9mocrates de la pr\u00e9sidentielle am\u00e9ricaine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le risque d\u2019effacement du Tibet \u00e0 l\u2019\u0153uvre dans les mus\u00e9es fran\u00e7ais;https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/09/26/le-risque-d-effacement-du-tibet-a-l-uvre-dans-les-musees-francais_6334308_3246.html;Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:00:20 +0200",
        "text": "Une controverse mettant en cause le Mus\u00e9e du quai Branly et le Mus\u00e9e Guimet, \u00e0 Paris, soul\u00e8ve la question des possibles ing\u00e9rences du r\u00e9gime de P\u00e9kin, d\u00e9cid\u00e9 \u00e0 supprimer toute m\u00e9moire d\u2019un pays jadis ind\u00e9pendant."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Fresh incident of assault on doctors in Kolkata;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/fresh-incident-of-assault-on-doctors-in-kolkata/article68693863.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 14:18:51 +0530",
        "text": "According to the resident doctors, police arrived half an hour after the doctors\u2019 SOS call despite a newly started police outpost within the hospital premises."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;External Affairs Minister Jaishankar meets counterparts from Singapore, Uzbekistan; discuss global issues;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/external-affairs-minister-jaishankar-meets-counterparts-from-singapore-uzbekistan-discuss-global-issues/article68693866.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 14:13:45 +0530",
        "text": "The discussions between the leaders focused on bolstering ties between India and these nations, emphasising further expanding friendly ties"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tirupati laddu row: YSRCP leaders, cadres undertake atonement rituals for Andhra CM's 'sin';https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/tirupati-laddu-row-ysrcp-leaders-cadres-undertake-atonement-rituals-for-andhra-cms-sin/article68693874.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 14:11:59 +0530",
        "text": "Former Irrigation Minister Ambati Rambabu offered prayers at Venkateswara Swamy temple in Guntur, among other"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jagan bound to give declaration of his faith: BJP leader Yamini Sarma;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/jagan-bound-to-give-declaration-of-his-faith-bjp-leader-yamini-sarma/article68693741.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 14:10:23 +0530",
        "text": "BJP spokesperson S. Yamini Sarma insisted that Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy was free to recite verses from the Bible but he could not flout the norms during his visits to Hindu temples."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Woman arrested for murdering husband near Coimbatore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/woman-arrested-for-murdering-husband-near-coimbatore/article68691950.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 14:10:16 +0530",
        "text": "According to the police, Nandakumar would allegedly abuse his wife under the influence of alcohol and demand money from her"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israel Army announces killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-army-announces-killing-of-hezbollah-chief-hassan-nasrallah/article68693880.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 14:06:45 +0530",
        "text": "Source close to Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah group says that contact had been lost since last evening with chief Hassan Nasrallah"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Watch: Revival of GI-tagged Nanjangud rasabale banana;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/watch-revival-of-gi-tagged-nanjangud-rasabale-banana/article68693841.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 14:05:34 +0530",
        "text": "How farmers in Nanjangud in Karnataka have developed their own techniques to get better yield"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Maharashtra Assembly Polls: Election Commission reviews preparedness; directs action against fake news;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/maharashtra-assembly-polls-election-commission-reviews-preparedness-directs-action-against-fake-news/article68693870.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 14:00:18 +0530",
        "text": "The Chief Election Commissioner reviewed the Assured Minimum Facilities at all polling stations and directed DEOs to ensure proper management of voter queues on polling days in the State"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Several roads closed in Himachal Pradesh as rain continues;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/himachal-pradesh/several-roads-blocked-amid-rains-in-himachal-pradesh/article68693858.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:52:34 +0530",
        "text": "The highest number of 10 roads were closed in Kangra, seven each in Mandi and Sirmaur, two in Kullu and one in Shimla district"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CPI seeks Suresh Gopi\u2019s prosecution for \u201cmisusing\u201d ambulance for private transport\u00a0to dodge police restrictions on Thrissur Pooram Day;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/cpi-seeks-suresh-gopis-prosecution-for-misusing-ambulance-for-private-transport-to-dodge-police-restrictions-on-thrissur-pooram-day/article68693811.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:28:21 +0530",
        "text": "CPI Thrissur mandala secretary Sumesh K.P. alleged Mr. Gopi\u2019s use of an ambulance operated by Seva Bharathi, a non-profit organisation under the aegis of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;AAP to file plea in Supreme Court against 'unconstitutional, illegal' MCD standing committee poll: Atishi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/aap-to-file-plea-in-supreme-court-against-unconstitutional-illegal-mcd-standing-committee-poll-atishi/article68693789.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:12:51 +0530",
        "text": "The BJP won the last vacant seat of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi\u2019s 18-member Standing Committee unopposed on Friday"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Collection of \u2018transfer fee\u2019 on resale of flats: Madras High Court stays single judge\u2019s order;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/collection-of-transfer-fee-on-resale-of-flats-madras-high-court-stays-single-judges-order/article68693368.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:11:47 +0530",
        "text": "The single judge had, last year, ruled that an apartment owners\u2019 association had no authority to demand \u2018transfer fee\u2019 during every resale of a flat"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu invites public suggestions for AP\u2019s Vision - 2047;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/andhra-pradesh-cm-chandrababu-naidu-invites-public-suggestions-for-aps-vision-2047/article68693557.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:06:06 +0530",
        "text": "CM Naidu said India targeted to become a $2.40 trillion economy with a per capita income of over $43,000 by 2047, and AP embarked on its own journey to become Swarna Andhra Pradesh."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Indians lose \u20b91.5 lakh to cyber criminals every minute: official;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/indians-lose-15-lakh-to-cyber-criminals-every-minute-official/article68693674.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:58:35 +0530",
        "text": "An annual cyber security conference is on in Hyderabad."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP to contest Jharkhand polls in alliance with AJSU Party, JD(U): Himanta Biswa Sarma;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jharkhand/bjp-to-contest-jharkhand-polls-in-alliance-with-ajsu-party-jdu-himanta-biswa-sarma/article68693754.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:57:34 +0530",
        "text": "The seat-sharing agreement with the allies has been done on 99% of the seats, says BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bomb threat to a star hotel in Bengaluru\u2019s Race Course Road turns out to be a hoax;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/bomb-threat-to-a-star-hotel-in-bengalurus-race-course-road-turns-out-to-be-a-hoax/article68693708.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:55:48 +0530",
        "text": "The High Grounds police have registered a complaint for further investigation."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;4 killed, 30 injured as Puri-bound bus from Uttar Pradesh falls on its side;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/odisha/several-injured-killed-in-bus-accident-near-puri-in-odisha/article68693723.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:51:37 +0530",
        "text": "A 14 year-old boy named Tushar Mishra who was a passenger of the bus, managed to pull out seven people from the overturned bus but lost his father Rajesh Kumar Mishra in the accident"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;TNAU releases district-level seasonal forecast for Northeast monsoon;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tnau-releases-district-level-seasonal-forecast-for-northeast-monsoon/article68690429.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:49:17 +0530",
        "text": "Normal rainfall (plus or minus 10 percent deviation from long-term rainfall) is expected in all the districts in Tamil Nadu"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two children missing from home in Prakasam district, complaint lodged;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/two-children-missing-from-home-in-prakasam-district-complaint-lodged/article68693673.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:40:41 +0530",
        "text": "The Ongole police launched a search for the missing children."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;VBV Reddy remembered at Bullayya College;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/vbv-reddy-remembered-at-bullayya-college/article68693624.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:37:07 +0530",
        "text": "G. Madhu Kumar, the college Secretary highlighted that Reddy was a charming host, known for bringing together people from all walks of life"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tourism awards to The Hindu lens men among others;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/tourism-awards-to-the-hindu-lens-men-among-others/article68693605.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:30:17 +0530",
        "text": "An aerial view of the TU \u2013 142 Aircraft Museum and INS Kursura Submarine Museum on the Beach Road in Visakhapatnam which won the first prize for K.R. Deepak, The Hindu\u2019s Chief News Photographer"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;AP-Genco and NPHC sign pact for development of renewable energy projects;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/ap-genco-and-nphc-sign-pact-for-development-of-renewable-energy-projects/article68693421.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:20:46 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Arvind Kejriwal to soon vacate CM residence, AAP scouts for supremo\u2019s new address;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/arvind-kejriwal-to-soon-vacate-cm-residence-aap-scouts-for-supremos-new-address/article68693642.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:19:17 +0530",
        "text": "Arvind Kejriwal is prioritising locations near his Assembly constituency New Delhi, Aam Aadmi Party in a statement"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Why Photograph?\u2019: Chennai Photo Biennale reveals theme of 2024 edition;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/why-photograph-chennai-photo-biennale-reveals-theme-of-2024-edition/article68687634.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:16:43 +0530",
        "text": "The exhibition will be launched in two phases, with the first beginning on December 20, and the second on January 17, 2025, running until March 16, 2025"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon LIVE updates: Israel Army announces killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-hezbollah-war-lebanon-beirut-airstrike-live-updates/article68693609.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:15:43 +0530",
        "text": "Israeli fighter jets bombarded the southern suburbs of Lebanon\u2019s capital Beirut overnight into Saturday, sending panicked families fleeing massive strikes that were reportedly targeting Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah; Lebanon death toll rises to 700."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nepal rains bring floods, landslides that kill 10, with seven missing;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/nepal-rains-bring-floods-landslides-killing-several/article68693631.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:14:24 +0530",
        "text": "Most rivers in the Himalayan nation have swollen, spilling over roads and bridges, authorities said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Ukraine says it downed 69 drones, two missiles in overnight Russian attack;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/ukraine-says-it-downed-69-drones-two-missiles-in-overnight-russian-attack/article68693629.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:11:07 +0530",
        "text": "About 15 Russian attack drones were destroyed by air defence forces on the outskirts and in the capital Kyiv, the military administration said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Europeans, Arab, Muslim nations launch new initiative for independent Palestinian State;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/europeans-arab-muslim-nations-launch-new-initiative-for-independent-palestinian-state/article68693613.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:09:24 +0530",
        "text": "To accelerate work on these issues, Mr. Eide said almost 90 countries attended a meeting Thursday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly's current gathering of world leaders"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;State associations withdraw no-confidence motion against AITA president Anil Jain;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/state-associations-withdraw-no-confidence-motion-against-aita-president-anil-jain/article68693559.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:54:30 +0530",
        "text": "Eight state tennis associations, affiliated with AITA, had proposed to move a no-confidence motion against Mr. Jain and an Extra Ordinary General Meeting (EGM) was called on Saturday (September 28)"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Panel discussion on the importance of igniting children\u2019s imagination held in Bengaluru;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/panel-discussion-on-the-importance-of-igniting-childrens-imagination-held-in-bengaluru/article68693447.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:53:17 +0530",
        "text": "The ITC Group organized this event last week at St. Joseph\u2019s School in the city"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bangladesh\u2019s situation cannot improve without India: Tripura CM;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bangladeshs-situation-cannot-improve-without-india-tripura-cm/article68693556.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:46:03 +0530",
        "text": "Talking at a government function on World Tourism Day, CM Saha said the people of Bangladesh should remember India\u2019s contribution to their independence."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP presided over 'unprecedented deterioration' in Jammu security situation: Congress;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bjp-presided-over-unprecedented-deterioration-in-jammu-security-situation-congress/article68693553.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:42:59 +0530",
        "text": "The officials say there are around 50 to 60 terrorists, who have successfully intruded into the interiors of Jammu in April-May, says Congress leader Jairam Ramesh"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Trump says he will seek Google's prosecution if he wins election;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/trump-says-he-will-seek-googles-prosecution-if-he-wins-election/article68693561.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:42:53 +0530",
        "text": "Former U.S. President and Republican candidate, Donald Trump said he will seek the prosecution of Google if he wins the upcoming presidential elections"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hathras education board orders to close school, registers second case over 'human sacrifice';https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttar-pradesh/hathras-education-board-orders-to-close-school-registers-second-case-over-human-sacrifice/article68693528.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:40:16 +0530",
        "text": "According to the police, the boy was allegedly murdered on September 23 at the hostel of the school; the police already have arrested the five accused"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Man, four daughters found dead in their rented accommodation in Delhi's Vasant Kunj;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/man-4-daughters-found-dead-in-their-rented-accommodation-in-delhis-vasant-kunj/article68693491.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:35:17 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Meet Coimbatore artisan who makes clay golu dolls;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/meet-coimbatore-artisan-who-makes-clay-golu-dolls/article68684901.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:31:46 +0530",
        "text": "S Saravana Kumar of Rajavalli Shanmugam\u00a0Arts in Selvapuram makes up to 10,000 dolls a year"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Gravity of accusation against ex-R.G. Kar principal Sandip Ghosh, can attract death penalty if proved: Court;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/gravity-of-accusation-against-ex-rg-kar-principal-sandip-ghosh-can-attract-death-penalty-if-proved-court/article68693525.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:28:44 +0530",
        "text": "Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate S. Dey observed that the nature and gravity of the accusation is grave, and if proved, it may attract capital punishment"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israel Army announces new strikes targeting Hezbollah in east Lebanon;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-army-announces-new-strikes-targeting-hezbollah-in-east-lebanon/article68693515.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:27:44 +0530",
        "text": "Hezbollah on Saturday claimed a rocket attack on northern Israel, the first after heavy Israeli strikes pounded Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs overnight"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rashtriya Lok Morcha MP Upendra Kushwaha terms assault of Bihar students in West Bengal \"unfortunate\";https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/rashtriya-lok-morcha-mp-upendra-kushwaha-terms-assault-of-bihar-students-in-west-bengal-unfortunate/article68693485.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:14:31 +0530",
        "text": "The incident came to light after a video of the youth went viral on social media, gaining widespread condemnation; One of the students attempted to explain that they had been assigned to the Siliguri exam centre but was repeatedly asked to show his documents"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;IMD alerts several districts in Bihar amid heavy rain, flash flood possibility;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/imd-alerts-several-districts-in-bihar-amid-heavy-rain-flash-flood-possibility/article68693475.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:05:43 +0530",
        "text": "Heavy rain is likely in West and East Champaran, Sitamarhi, Sheohar, Muzaffarpur, Gopalganj, Siwan, Saran, Vaishali, Patna, Jehanabad, Madhubani and Bhojpur districts"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Fire breaks out at Tata Electronics facility in Hosur;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/fire-breaks-out-at-tata-electronics-facility-in-hosur-in-tamil-nadu/article68693354.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:02:01 +0530",
        "text": "\u201cWe have put out the fire in the outer complex. We are inching towards the core,\u201d a official from the Fire and Rescue Services said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;China, Brazil urge against nuclear threats over Ukraine;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/china-brazil-urge-against-nuclear-threats-over-ukraine/article68691985.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:00:54 +0530",
        "text": "Volodymyr Putin this week threatened to use nuclear weapons in the event of a major attack on Russian soil as Ukraine, which his forces invaded in 2022, seeks Western weapons to strike deeper across the border"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India deserves permanent UNSC seat: Bhutan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-deserves-permanent-unsc-seat-bhutan/article68693458.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:00:37 +0530",
        "text": "With its significant economic growth and leadership of the Global South, India deserves a permanent seat at the UN Security Council, says Bhutan\u2019s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Coldplay ticket rush: BookMyShow CEO, technical head summoned by Mumbai cops;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/coldplay-ticket-rush-bookmyshow-ceo-technical-head-summoned-by-mumbai-cops/article68693460.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:58:57 +0530",
        "text": "Mumbai police summoned BookMyShow CEO Ashish Hemrajani and the company's technical head in connection with a complaint alleging black marketing of tickets for shows of British rock band Coldplay"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Scolded for not studying, boy runs away from home; police launch probe;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/scolded-for-not-studying-boy-runs-away-from-home-police-launch-probe/article68693459.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:53:01 +0530",
        "text": "The boy's parents scolded him for not studying, following which he left the house around 9 p.m. on Wednesday"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;French rape trial sparks timid debate about masculinity;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/french-rape-trial-sparks-timid-debate-about-masculinity/article68690549.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:44:56 +0530",
        "text": "The trial has horrified people in France; several men have also publicly suggested it is in fact masculinity that is on trial and urged their peers to help stem the violence"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Centre exempts non-basmati white rice from export duty, cuts levy on parboiled rice;https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/centre-exempts-non-basmati-white-rice-from-export-duty-cuts-levy-on-parboiled-rice/article68693428.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:44:48 +0530",
        "text": "The revenue department also reduced export duty on parboiled rice, husked (brown rice), and rice in the husk (paddy or rough) to 10%"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Major explosion at fireworks unit near Sattur in T.N.;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/major-explosion-at-fireworks-unit-near-sattur-in-tamil-nadu/article68693444.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:42:23 +0530",
        "text": "Fire and Rescue Services personnel said they reached the accident site at 8.15 a.m on Saturday"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Passes of 3,600 contract workers of RINL cancelled, Unions fume;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/passes-of-4000-contract-workers-of-rinl-cancelled-unions-fume/article68691573.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:23:26 +0530",
        "text": "CITU State general secretary Ch. Narasinga Rao alleged the Centre was trying to mislead the media through a false campaign that VSP would be merged with SAIL"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rain delays start of second day's play in 2nd Test between India and Bangladesh;https://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/india-bangladesh-second-test-day-2-updates/article68693394.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:23:04 +0530",
        "text": "The drizzle in the morning Saturday turned into heavy rain and there is a possibility that play won't be possible until the final session of the day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kochi: Man found dead, wife charred to death, 4-year-old son battling for life;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/man-found-hanging-wife-charred-to-death-in-suspected-case-of-suicide-triggered-by-financial-constraints-4-year-old-younger-son-battling-for-life-with-100-burns/article68693355.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:22:04 +0530",
        "text": "The police found a note, presumably written by the wife, from the house that mentions financial constraints"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pakistan must realise cross-border terrorism will invite consequences: India responds to Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s speech in UNGA;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pakistan-must-realise-cross-border-terrorism-will-invite-consequences-india-responds-to-shehbaz-sharifs-speech-in-unga/article68693372.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:19:04 +0530",
        "text": "India asserted that Pakistan has long employed cross-border terrorism as a weapon against its neighbours"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;China says 'supervised' Philippine supply mission to disputed reef;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/china-says-supervised-philippine-supply-mission-to-disputed-reef/article68690563.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:16:11 +0530",
        "text": "Beijing claims almost all of the economically vital waterway and continues to press its assertions there despite an international tribunal ruling that they have no legal basis."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;An epitome of a bond between two soldiers;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/an-epitome-of-a-bond-between-two-soldiers/article68688939.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:02:56 +0530",
        "text": "A life-size statue of an Indian Army soldier, erected by his father who is also a retired soldier, is set to inspire the village youth to serve the country at the frontiers"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Four security personnel injured in encounter with terrorists in J&K's Kulgam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jammu-and-kashmir/terrorists-exchange-fire-with-security-forces-in-jks-kulgam/article68693361.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:01:23 +0530",
        "text": "A traffic police officer was also injured in the encounter that broke out in Adigam village of Devsar area after security personnel launched a cordon and search operation."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Odisha imposes internet shutdown in Bhadrak over communal tension;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/odisha/odisha-imposes-internet-shutdown-in-bhadrak-over-communal-tension/article68693346.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 09:57:00 +0530",
        "text": "Social media posting about prophet enraged a particular community, which wanted to organize public protest demanding immediate arrest of person responsible for online remark"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Iran treads carefully, backing Hezbollah while avoiding war;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/iran-treads-carefully-backing-hezbollah-while-avoiding-war/article68690500.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 09:54:48 +0530",
        "text": "Israeli air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon followed, killing hundreds. Hezbollah retaliated with rocket barrages"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Off the battleground, veterans of Military Madhavaram lead the fight to restore their village\u2019s legacy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/off-the-battleground-veterans-of-military-madhavaram-lead-the-fight-to-restore-their-villages-legacy/article68687389.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 09:48:06 +0530",
        "text": "After years of serving on the frontlines, the retired soldiers of a small village in West Godavari district find themselves in the thick of a new battle: reviving neglected facilities in their village. From rebuilding a collapsed culvert to restoring a historic library, the ex-servicemen are determined to preserve their legacy and empower their next generation to continue their rich tradition of military service"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Germany\u2019s beer sector relies on education to combat climate change;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/germanys-beer-sector-relies-on-education-to-combat-climate-change/article68690522.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 09:31:07 +0530",
        "text": "Germany\u2019s beer industry relies on education and research to combat the climate change that\u2019s wreaking havoc on farms and breweries across the country"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;In Beirut, volunteers race to help war displaced;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/in-beirut-volunteers-race-to-help-war-displaced/article68690512.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 09:30:54 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Learn to weave from weavers themselves at Chennimalai\u2019s Nurpu Handloom Collective;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/learn-to-weave-from-weavers-themselves-at-chennimalais-nurpu-handloom-collective/article68651290.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:47:39 +0530",
        "text": "It offers training modules for school and college students, letting them learn the nuances of weaving by hand"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delhi High Court asks social media influencer to take down videos against Complan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-high-court-asks-social-media-influencer-to-take-down-videos-against-complan/article68690798.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:33:44 +0530",
        "text": "The court observed that Prashant Desai, who has about one million followers on Instagram, spoke on the \u201cchemistry\u201d behind Complan even though he is \u2018neither a doctor nor a nutritionist\u2019"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Madhya Pradesh Investor Summit: Bundelkhand gets investment proposals of \u20b923,000 crore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/madhya-pradesh/mp-investor-summit-bundelkhand-gets-investment-proposals-of-23000-crore/article68691096.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:27:47 +0530",
        "text": "The major proposals include a \u20b93,200 crore integrated steel plant in Niwari district by the Pacific Industries and a 100 megawatt solar plant worth \u20b91,350 crore by the Bansal Group."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tens of thousands protest against Lebanon \u2018bloodbath\u2019 in Iran, Yemen;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/tens-of-thousands-protest-against-lebanon-bloodbath-in-iran-yemen/article68693243.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:24:24 +0530",
        "text": "Demonstrators carried portraits of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah as well as Palestinian and Hezbollah flags"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;44 dead as Hurricane Helene cuts a swath of destruction across the Southeast;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/44-dead-as-hurricane-helene-cuts-a-swath-of-destruction-across-the-southeast/article68693207.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 07:51:38 +0530",
        "text": "The deaths occurred in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PM Modi expresses condolences over demise of renowned organic farmer Pappammal;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-modi-expresses-condolences-over-demise-of-renowned-organic-farmer-pappammal/article68693203.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 07:49:43 +0530",
        "text": "In 2021, she was given the Padma Shri award for popularising organic farming in India and was regarded as a pioneer in the agriculture field"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Prohibitory orders imposed in Odisha\u2019s Bhadrak over communal tension;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/odisha/prohibitory-orders-imposed-in-odishas-bhadrak-over-communal-tension/article68691277.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 07:23:55 +0530",
        "text": "Members of a particular community became violent when the administration did not permit them to take out rally protesting social media comment about their prophet"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kejriwal attacks PM Modi; BJP raises issue of \u2018contaminated\u2019 water;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/kejriwal-attacks-pm-modi-bjp-raises-issue-of-contaminated-water/article68691764.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:52:45 +0530",
        "text": "People of Delhi will respond to the BJP\u2019s conspiracy in poll, says CM Atishi; Central Ground Water Board\u2019s report on deteriorating water quality."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Morning Digest: Hezbollah chief Nasrallah targeted in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon;  U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer backs India\u2019s bid for permanent UNSC seat, and more;https://www.thehindu.com/news/morning-digest-september-28-2024/article68692129.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:35:19 +0530",
        "text": "Here is a select list of stories to start the day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Psychotropic drug racket busted in Delhi, 6, including CEO of herbal company, arrested;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/psychotropic-drug-racket-busted-in-delhi-6-including-ceo-of-herbal-company-arrested/article68692095.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:27:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;ISRO competitions re-scheduled to October 8 and 9;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/isro-competitions-re-scheduled-to-october-8-and-9/article68692134.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:18:56 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;ACB arrests former Mines and Geology director Venkata Reddy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/acb-arrests-former-mines-and-geology-director-venkata-reddy/article68691310.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 04:05:16 +0530",
        "text": "He was accused of colluding with some private mining companies and causing a loss of about \u20b92,566 crore to the government."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;A journey across the Palk Strait;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/a-journey-across-the-palk-strait/article68691756.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:32:00 +0530",
        "text": "The Nagapattinam-Kankesanthurai ferry between India and Sri Lanka, restarted in October 2023 after nearly 40 years, was suspended after a week and resumed only this August. While the demand for the service was initially low, it has picked up in the last few weeks. Nacchinarkkiniyan M. travels on the ferry with tourists, traders, and refugees and reports on the excitement and concerns about the initiative in the two countries"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;IIA researchers find evidence of interaction between a radio jet and interstellar gas;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/iia-researchers-find-evidence-of-interaction-between-a-radio-jet-and-interstellar-gas/article68690621.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:17:00 +0530",
        "text": "Department of Science and Technology said the finding challenges the hypothesis that only large and massive galaxy jets which regulate star formation host AGN powered by massive black holes."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Regret standing with BJP during protest by farmers, says Dushyant Chautala;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/haryana-assembly/regret-standing-with-bjp-during-protest-by-farmers-says-dushyant-chautala/article68691036.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 02:11:34 +0530",
        "text": "JJP leader says it was a mistake that he did not understand farmers\u2019 sentiments but that he does not regret allying with the BJP in 2019"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delhi Assembly: Kejriwal attacks PM; BJP raises issue of \u2018contaminated\u2019 water;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-assembly-kejriwal-attacks-pm-bjp-raises-issue-of-contaminated-water/article68692141.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 01:16:23 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP wins MCD panel poll, gets control of civic body\u2019s main decision-making arm;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/bjp-wins-mcd-panel-poll-gets-control-of-civic-bodys-main-decision-making-arm/article68692100.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 01:14:09 +0530",
        "text": "Sunder Singh Tanwar, who had defected from the ruling party to BJP in August, wins the election; AAP boycotts the poll, says it will challenge the election process in court; Cong. councillors abstain"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;DUSU elections: students cast their ballot; votes likely to be counted after October 21;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/dusu-elections-students-cast-their-ballot-votes-likely-to-be-counted-after-october-21/article68691897.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 01:11:53 +0530",
        "text": "The counting of votes, which has been halted by the Delhi High Court, is likely to happen only after October 21"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;High Court seeks \u2018missing\u2019 file signed by ex-PM Manmohan Singh declaring Jama Masjid not a protected monument;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/hc-seeks-missing-file-signed-by-ex-pm-singh-declaring-jama-masjid-not-a-protected-monument/article68690914.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:55:58 +0530",
        "text": "The court was hearing petitions filed in 2014 that sought the historic mosque to be declared a protected monument and the removal of all encroachments in and around it"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Drug making unit busted; CEO, five others\u00a0arrested;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/xanax-manufacturing-unit-busted/article68691163.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:53:24 +0530",
        "text": "Police said that Alprazolam (Xanax) \u2014 a psychotropic drug \u2014 was allegedly manufactured in a unit of Biocase Foods and Extracts Pvt. Ltd"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Forum of SC castes urges State govt. to implement internal reservation;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/forum-of-sc-castes-urges-state-govt-to-implement-internal-reservation/article68686968.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:44:11 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Three arrested on charge of online fraud;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/three-arrested-on-charge-of-online-fraud/article68692017.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:40:14 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BMRCL begins geotechnical survey for Namma Metro Phase III expansion;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/bmrcl-begins-geotechnical-survey-for-namma-metro-phase-iii-expansion/article68690207.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:36:53 +0530",
        "text": "Earlier this year, the Karnataka government granted approval for the Phase III expansion. Following this, the Union Cabinet also greenlit the two corridors of Namma Metro\u2019s Phase III project, which is estimated to cost \u20b915,611 crore"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;30 teams demonstrate their ideas on Nirmaan Day at IIT-Madras;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/30-teams-demonstrate-their-ideas-on-nirmaan-day-at-iit-madras/article68690365.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:35:57 +0530",
        "text": "Student with ideas were given support to develop them into products, says institute director V. Kamakoti"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Woman killed in accident while trying to avoid pothole in Kochi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/woman-killed-in-accident-while-trying-to-avoid-pothole-in-kochi/article68691975.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:34:58 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Roll back 6% hike in property tax in Chennai: Ramadoss;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/roll-back-6-hike-in-property-tax-in-chennai-ramadoss/article68691529.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:31:05 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Name transfer charges fixed by Tambaram Corporation are exorbitant, say property owners;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/name-transfer-charges-fixed-by-tambaram-corporation-are-exorbitant-say-property-owners/article68681899.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:28:47 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jagan postpones Tirumala visit after Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu questions his faith declaration;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/jagan-postpones-tirumala-visit-after-andhra-pradesh-chief-minister-n-chandrababu-naidu-questions-his-faith-declaration/article68691817.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:20:09 +0530",
        "text": "\u2018Visited Tirumala 10 to 11 times.  Naidu raking up Declaration issue to divert people attention from his failures\u2019"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;E-khata is mandatory from September 30: Krishna Byre Gowda;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/e-khata-is-mandatory-from-september-30-krishna-byre-gowda/article68691510.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:18:51 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India to soon get a telecom manufacturing zone, says Scindia;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/india-to-soon-get-a-telecom-manufacturing-zone-says-scindia/article68691581.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:15:22 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;British Council, T.N. government partner for empowering cultural industries;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/british-council-tn-government-partner-for-empowering-cultural-industries/article68690180.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:14:28 +0530",
        "text": "They sign an MoU to drive economic innovation and cultural renaissance and encourage young artists and entrepreneurs"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Senior VCK leaders regret the \u2018setback\u2019 to the ties with DMK;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/senior-vck-leaders-regret-the-setback-to-the-ties-with-dmk/article68691376.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:13:13 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Zelenskyy and Trump meet amid tensions over Ukraine conflict;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/zelenskyy-and-trump-meet-amid-tensions-over-ukraine-conflict/article68692073.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:13:04 +0530",
        "text": "Ukrainian President seeks a \u2018just peace\u2019 as former U.S. President says he maintains \u2018good relations\u2019 with both Russia and Ukraine"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India Tourism Forum launched to bring together industry and academia;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/india-tourism-forum-launched-to-bring-together-industry-and-academia/article68691359.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:12:14 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law students rally against V-C\u2019s girls\u2019 hostel inspection, \u2018sexist remarks\u2019 and safety concerns;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rgnul-students-rally-against-v-cs-girls-hostel-inspection/article68686861.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:11:27 +0530",
        "text": "Students at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law in Patiala, Punjab are staging an indefinite sit-in protest to demand the ouster of V-C (Dr.) Jai Shankar Singh. The University administration has denied all allegations."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;People living in coastal region facing rights violations, says vicar general;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/people-living-in-coastal-region-facing-rights-violations-says-vicar-general/article68691644.ece;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:08:23 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018More than 200 startups and young leaders have emerged from tier II cities of Karnataka\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/more-than-200-startups-and-young-leaders-have-emerged-from-tier-ii-cities-of-karnataka/article68686725.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:58:25 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala\u2019s Responsible Tourism projects bag national awards;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/keralas-responsible-tourism-projects-bag-national-awards/article68690404.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:53:42 +0530",
        "text": "Kadalundi best RT village, Kumarakom best agri-tourism village"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Constitution-themed dolls to be put on display for Gandhi Jayanti in Gombe Habba season;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/constitution-dolls-to-be-put-on-display-for-gandhi-jayanti-in-gombe-habba-season/article68690650.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:50:03 +0530",
        "text": "The exhibition organised by Reclaim Constitution aims to showcase dolls that depict the 22 artworks in the Indian Constitution this year"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;ICOMOS expert visits Gingee Fort nominated for World Heritage Site tag;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/icomos-expert-visits-gingee-fort-nominated-for-world-heritage-site-tag/article68689806.ece;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:35:50 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Mainland Chinese early birds flock to Hong Kong ahead of National Day \u2018golden week\u2019;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3280357/mainland-chinese-early-birds-flock-hong-kong-ahead-national-day-golden-week?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 16:34:39 +0800",
        "text": "Tourists are seen crossing the city\u2019s land checkpoints in the morning, with some heading to selfie hotspots such as HKU."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Unsure how to spend National Day break in Hong Kong? The Post has you covered;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3280346/unsure-how-spend-national-day-break-hong-kong-post-has-you-covered?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 16:00:10 +0800",
        "text": "Hong Kong has lined up series of activities to mark 75th anniversary of country\u2019s founding, including discounts and an evening drone show."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Cathay Pacific business lounge at Hong Kong airport forced to shut after fire, 250 evacuated;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3280354/cathay-pacific-business-lounge-hong-kong-airport-forced-shut-after-fire-250-evacuated?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 15:50:30 +0800",
        "text": "Staff on duty promptly alerted firefighters of the incident at the lounge\u2019s supporting facilities on Saturday morning, carrier says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s Cally Kwong, award-winning choir to perform patriotic songs on National Day eve;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3280347/hong-kongs-cally-kwong-award-winning-choir-perform-patriotic-songs-national-day-eve?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 14:31:20 +0800",
        "text": "Next Generation Chorus Performance will take place at 8.30pm on Monday at Art Park in the West Kowloon Cultural District."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Macau top job candidate vows to regulate gaming, diversify economy in policy outline;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3280344/macau-top-job-candidate-vows-regulate-gaming-diversify-economy-policy-outline?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:56:41 +0800",
        "text": "\u2018We will strictly implement a new gaming law to regulate the industry and ensure its healthy, orderly development,\u2019 Sam Hou-fai says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Waterspout spotted over Hong Kong\u2019s Victoria Harbour: weather forecaster;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280343/waterspout-spotted-over-hong-kongs-victoria-harbour-weather-forecaster?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:14:48 +0800",
        "text": "Hong Kong Observatory says waterspout seen swirling across the harbour at 12.30pm."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police called after entry to MTR 45th anniversary carnival closes;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3280337/hong-kong-police-called-after-entry-mtr-45th-anniversary-carnival-closes?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:33:18 +0800",
        "text": "Crowds waiting outside the entrance repeatedly shouted \u2018open the door! Open the door!\u2019, footage shows."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;In Hong Kong\u2019s commercial real estate market, \u2018everybody has their own fair share of pain\u2019;https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3280208/hong-kongs-commercial-real-estate-market-everybody-has-their-own-fair-share-pain?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:00:11 +0800",
        "text": "Hong Kong\u2019s commercial property market has buckled under the crushing weight of China\u2019s economic malaise, an exodus of global firms, a supply glut and high interest rates."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Spirit of Hong Kong Awards: sifting through trash with civic-minded savvy;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3280181/spirit-hong-kong-awards-sifting-through-trash-civic-minded-savvy?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:00:08 +0800",
        "text": "Hong Kong entrepreneur Kenny Lam wants to improve waste management standards and make better recycling practices a way of life in the city."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Dinner with strangers? Hongkongers craving real-world connections turn to \u2018secret\u2019 meet-ups;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280302/dinner-strangers-hongkongers-craving-real-world-connections-turn-secret-meet-ups?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 09:00:15 +0800",
        "text": "Services have popped up to meet demand for authentic interactions in post-Covid world and amid social media fatigue."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Omega leases another shop in Hong Kong\u2019s Causeway Bay as agents see retail leasing pickup;https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3280217/omega-leases-another-shop-hong-kongs-causeway-bay-agents-see-retail-leasing-pickup?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:30:08 +0800",
        "text": "Swiss luxury watchmaker Omega is leasing another shop on Russell Street, once the world\u2019s priciest retail strip, for US$51,404 a month."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Jimmy Lai getting access to medical care, sunlight in prison, Hong Kong legal team says;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280326/jimmy-lai-getting-access-medical-care-sunlight-prison-hong-kong-legal-team-says?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:48:28 +0800",
        "text": "International legal team representing former media tycoon appealed to UN earlier this month about Lai\u2019s living conditions in prison."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;173 Hongkongers allegedly splashed with bodily fluids in public over past 8 months;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280318/173-hongkongers-allegedly-splashed-bodily-fluids-public-over-past-8-months?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:26:21 +0800",
        "text": "Group collects reports after victim in recent case slams court\u2019s decision to fine man who used pipette to squirt her with liquid containing semen."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong secondary school teacher arrested on suspicion of assaulting pupil;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280316/hong-kong-secondary-school-teacher-arrested-suspicion-assaulting-pupil?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:56:59 +0800",
        "text": "Teacher tried to mediate in dispute between boy and girl but reportedly became emotional and pushed him."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police investigate animal abandonment after 35 cats found in Sai Kung;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280313/hong-kong-police-investigate-animal-abandonment-after-35-cats-found-sai-kung?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:34:35 +0800",
        "text": "Animal welfare group believes purebred cats found among those rescued were used as tools for financial gains."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police to deploy 6,000 officers backed by security camera system on National Day;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280281/hong-kong-police-deploy-6000-officers-backed-security-camera-system-national-day?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:00:08 +0800",
        "text": "More personnel needed to enforce crowd control measures, particularly during fireworks display, insider says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;8 out of 10 Hong Kong pet owners say quarantine rules \u2018too harsh\u2019: survey;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280286/8-out-10-hong-kong-pet-owners-say-quarantine-rules-too-harsh-survey?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:13:11 +0800",
        "text": "Survey by organisation led by lawmaker Johnny Ng also finds over 90 per cent of pet owners feel waiting times for quarantine spots are too long."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Over 3,600 Hong Kong food outlets offer deals, discounts to celebrate National Day;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3280254/over-3600-hong-kong-food-outlets-offer-deals-discounts-celebrate-national-day?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:38:58 +0800",
        "text": "Restaurants, cafes and supermarkets to push out \u2018celebratory offers\u2019 and discounts of up to 30 per cent, say industry leaders."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong raises minimum wage for foreign domestic helpers by 2.5%;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3280248/hong-kong-raises-minimum-wage-foreign-domestic-helpers-25?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:23:16 +0800",
        "text": "Minimum wage for helpers increases from HK$4,870 to HK$4,990, but concern groups say salaries remain far too low."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;John Lee warns Hong Kong news industry against becoming \u2018corrupted\u2019 after Stand News case;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3280247/hong-kongs-john-lee-warns-news-industry-against-becoming-corrupted-after-stand-news-case?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:22:10 +0800",
        "text": "Chief Executive John Lee says \u2018there is no one or any industry that overrides the law\u2019 at media industry event marking country\u2019s founding."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong could regain top 3 IPO ranking by year-end after jumping to fifth in September;https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3280218/hong-kong-could-regain-top-3-ipo-ranking-year-end-after-jumping-5th-september?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:00:13 +0800",
        "text": "IPOs in the city reached US$7.14 billion in the first nine months, exceeding last year\u2019s total of US$5.9 billion, LSEG data shows."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police arrest 50 in 7-day crackdown on scammers who stole HK$110 million;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280197/hong-kong-police-arrest-50-7-day-crackdown-scammers-stole-hk110-million?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:44:01 +0800",
        "text": "Force highlights new ruse that targets those planning trips to Japan by offering fake currency exchange deals with favourable rates."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;3 from Vietnam jailed for running illegal Hong Kong diner selling dog, cat meat;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280190/3-vietnam-jailed-over-17-months-running-illegal-hong-kong-diner-selling-dog-cat-meat?utm_source=rss_feed;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:54:50 +0800",
        "text": "Trio are illegal immigrants who had operated restaurant from tenement flat in Mong Kok."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;India: Fire erupts at Tata iPhone parts plant in Tamil Nadu;https://www.dw.com/en/india-fire-erupts-at-tata-iphone-parts-plant-in-tamil-nadu/a-70351921?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Production at the plant was reportedly halted temporarily due to the blaze. Indian media outlets said nobody was harmed in the fire and the incident is now being investigated."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Thousands of Lebanese, Syrians flee Israeli bombs \u2014 into war-torn Syria;https://www.dw.com/en/thousands-of-lebanese-syrians-flee-israeli-bombs-into-war-torn-syria/a-70346986?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Half a million people have been displaced in Lebanon due to Israeli bombing. Of these, Syrian refugees may be in the most difficult situation. They cannot easily return home, nor can they access Lebanese state services."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China holds drills near disputed South China Sea reef;https://www.dw.com/en/china-holds-drills-near-disputed-south-china-sea-reef/a-70351677?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Chinese naval and air forces have held maneuvers in a disputed part of the South China Sea. The drills came shortly after high-level talks between Beijing and Washington about relieving regional tensions in the area."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Blinken says China's talk of Ukraine peace 'doesn't add up';https://www.dw.com/en/blinken-says-china-s-talk-of-ukraine-peace-doesn-t-add-up/a-70351667?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "China is working to gather support from developing countries behind a plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine. But, the United State has concerns about China's support for Russia's defense industrial base."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East: Israel says Hezbollah's Nasrallah 'eliminated';https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-israel-says-hezbollah-s-nasrallah-eliminated/live-70351279?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Israel\u2019s military continued waves of attacks which it said targeted Hezbollah in Beirut and in the southern parts of the country, claiming to have killed commanders of the militant group\u2019s missile units. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East updates: IDF says Hezbollah HQ in Beirut hit;https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-updates-idf-says-hezbollah-hq-in-beirut-hit/live-70339753?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Israel's military said it had conducted strikes on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, saying it targeted the central headquarters of Hezbollah. The strike followed soon after Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the UN."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Hamburg police seize 2 tons of cocaine worth \u20ac100M;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hamburg-police-seize-2-tons-of-cocaine-worth-\u20ac100m/a-70347569?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The cocaine was hidden in banana boxes stacked inside a shipping container near Hamburg's port. Police said the drug haul was the result of weeks of undercover investigation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tunisia court stripped of electoral power days before vote;https://www.dw.com/en/tunisia-court-stripped-of-electoral-power-days-before-vote/a-70350976?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The vote in parliament comes just nine days before presidential elections. It strips a court of its power to rule on electoral disputes. Opposition groups fear it aims to ensure President Kais Saied stays in power."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Deadly Tropical Storm Helene triggers floods, power outages;https://www.dw.com/en/deadly-tropical-storm-helene-triggers-floods-power-outages/a-70339954?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Hurricane Helene weakened to a tropical storm after making landfall in Florida, but officials warned the storm remained \"dangerous\" as it moved inland. At least 44 people have died."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: AfD leaders pick Weidel for chancellor candidate;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-afd-leaders-pick-weidel-for-chancellor-candidate/a-70349935?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Germany's next federal election is set for September 2025. Alice Weidel was already seen as the overwhelmingly likely candidate. But the final decision won't come until the party conference next year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;RECOMMENDED \u2014 Germany appears to have stopped exporting weapons to Israel, but insists there is no ban on the practice;https://www.dw.com/en/recommended-germany-appears-to-have-stopped-exporting-weapons-to-israel-but-insists-there-is-no-ban-on-the-practice/a-70347570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Berlin appears to have stopped approving war weapons exports to Israel, even while insisting that there is no ban in place. Observers believe the government has been spooked by legal threats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Former Germany keeper Lehmann fined over chainsaw incident;https://www.dw.com/en/former-germany-keeper-lehmann-fined-over-chainsaw-incident/a-70349612?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Jens Lehmann has been given a reduced fine over an incident in which the former Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper took a chainsaw to a neighbor's garage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Far-right AfD stages day of chaos in parliament;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-far-right-afd-stages-day-of-chaos-in-parliament/a-70344985?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Classified as \"extremist\" by the domestic intelligence agency, the anti-immigrant populist Alternative for Germany party in Thuringia is now staging a political scandal that bodes ill for German democracy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Mpox in Africa: Vaccine efforts ramp up;https://www.dw.com/en/mpox-in-africa-vaccine-efforts-ramp-up/a-70339681?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "An alarming surge in mpox cases has hit Africa, with more than 32,000 suspected infections recorded. The continent faces a critical challenge in mobilizing enough vaccine doses to curb the spread."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Afghanistan: Taliban impose new restrictions on media;https://www.dw.com/en/afghanistan-taliban-impose-new-restrictions-on-media/a-70347059?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Journalists in Afghanistan say there is little left of press freedom in their country after the Islamist hardline Taliban banned live broadcasts of political shows and criticism of their policies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Higgs Factory: Why CERN wants to build a giant particle smasher;https://www.dw.com/en/higgs-factory-why-cern-wants-to-build-a-giant-particle-smasher/a-70283573?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Scientists want to build a 90km Future Circular Collider to study the Higgs boson particle. At an estimated cost $17 billion, is it worth it?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Actress Maggie Smith dies at the age of 89;https://www.dw.com/en/actress-maggie-smith-dies-at-the-age-of-89/a-70347277?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Smith won two Academy Awards throughout her career and appeared in more than 50 films. Some of her more recent roles were in \"Downton Abbey\" and \"Harry Potter.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cyclist Muriel Furrer dies after World Championship crash;https://www.dw.com/en/cyclist-muriel-furrer-dies-after-world-championship-crash/a-70346993?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The 18-year-old suffered a severe head injury when she fell during the women's junior race at the Road World Championship in Zurich. She was taken to Zurich University hospital but succumbed to her injuries the next day."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Little remains of Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement 10 years on;https://www.dw.com/en/little-remains-of-hong-kong-s-umbrella-movement-10-years-on/a-70343315?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "A decade ago, yellow umbrellas used to shield against pepper spray became a symbol of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement. Today, the movement has largely disappeared under Beijing\u2019s tightening control."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Belgian PM demands 'concrete steps' over Catholic sex abuse;https://www.dw.com/en/belgian-pm-demands-concrete-steps-over-catholic-sex-abuse/a-70343039?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Pope Francis is in Belgium after revelations of abuse and cover-ups have damaged the Vatican's credibility. Both Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and King Philippe urged the pontiff and the Catholic Church to do more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Cologne Central Station to close to train traffic;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-cologne-central-station-to-close-to-train-traffic/a-70344601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Construction work will leave the German city almost entirely cut off from rail services overnight on Friday. The closure is the latest headache for Deutsche Bahn passengers in recent months."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Israel-Hezbollah conflict deepens Lebanon's economic crisis;https://www.dw.com/en/israel-hezbollah-conflict-deepens-lebanon-s-economic-crisis/a-70341661?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The escalating conflict between Hezbollah and Israel is contributing to Lebanon's economic instability. People in the crisis-ridden country are struggling to survive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Is Berlin in a 'club death' spiral?;https://www.dw.com/en/is-berlin-in-a-club-death-spiral/a-70341859?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Two iconic Berlin techno clubs recently announced they will close. Rising rents and falling profits are partly to blame, but is the city also losing its nightlife luster?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy meets Trump in New York;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-meets-trump-in-new-york/live-70340009?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The former US president and Republican candidate has previously described US military aid to Ukraine as a waste of money. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US, EU, Ukraine slam Russia's nuclear deterrence doctrine;https://www.dw.com/en/us-eu-ukraine-slam-russia-s-nuclear-deterrence-doctrine/a-70336251?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The US, EU and Kyiv all lambasted Russian President Vladimir Putin's \"irresponsible\" plans to amend the doctrine. The Kremlin meanwhile defended the move, describing it as a warning to the west."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Turkey is competing with China for influence in Africa;https://www.dw.com/en/how-turkey-is-competing-with-china-for-influence-in-africa/a-70301293?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Turkey is increasing its engagement in several African countries in an effort to boost its influence and trade. But with China and Russia being the dominant players there, Ankara is struggling to find its role."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine: Biden calls Germany meeting of Kyiv allies;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-biden-calls-germany-meeting-of-kyiv-allies/a-70331606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "US President Joe Biden has said he will convene a high-level meeting of 50 Ukrainian allies in Germany next month. He also announced nearly $8 billion in military aid to Ukraine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Will Formula 1 return to South Africa?;https://www.dw.com/en/will-formula-1-return-to-south-africa/a-70269906?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The last F1 race in Africa was in 1993. A return could be in the cards, but what would it mean for the country and the continent?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'After Hitler': Changing views of Nazism in postwar Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/after-hitler-changing-views-of-nazism-in-postwar-germany/a-70323500?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "From secret adoration to loud dismay, Germans have come to terms with the Nazi past over 80 years in very different ways, as a new exhibition shows."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Europe help contain spiraling violence in Lebanon?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-europe-help-contain-spiraling-violence-in-lebanon/a-70325262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "As Israel-Hezbollah fighting ramps up, the EU is calling for de-escalation. Internal divisions have hindered the bloc's diplomacy in the Middle East since 2023, but experts say France may now have a role to play."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Government crisis deepens as Green leaders resign;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-government-crisis-deepens-as-green-leaders-resign/a-70324309?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Green Party co-chairs Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour are stepping down. The move could make things even harder for Germany's fractious coalition government."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy warns UN on nuclear plant safety;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-warns-un-on-nuclear-plant-safety/live-70322985?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the UN General Assembly that intelligence suggested Russia was planning to attack nuclear plants still in Ukrainian hands. Meanwhile, Russia claimed more gains in Donetsk. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police investigate blast at Cologne cafe;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-investigate-blast-at-cologne-cafe/a-70323612?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "One suspect turned himself in after an overnight explosion in Cologne with another one still on the run, according to police. The latest blast is not believed to be connected to a recent wave of drug-related violence."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Torn patellar tendon: A rare but serious knee injury;https://www.dw.com/en/torn-patellar-tendon-a-rare-but-serious-knee-injury/a-70323136?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen sustained a torn patellar tendon on the weekend. DW fills you in on how serious an injury it is, how it is treated, and how long it could take for him to return to the pitch."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New LUNA facility will prepare astronauts for moon landings;https://www.dw.com/en/new-luna-facility-will-prepare-astronauts-for-moon-landings/a-70313230?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The moon may be 384,400 kilometers away, but an accurate replica of its surface has opened in Germany. Astronauts from around the world will use it to train for missions to the moon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Charges pressed in Schumacher family blackmail case;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-charges-pressed-in-schumacher-family-blackmail-case/a-70321726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Prosecutors in Wuppertal have filed charges against three men accused of trying to blackmail Michael Schumacher's family for millions. They allegedly threatened to public compromising data online unless they were paid."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German far-right AfD party taps into young voters' fears, disillusionment;https://www.dw.com/en/german-far-right-afd-party-taps-into-young-voters-fears-disillusionment/a-70319700?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "More and more young Germans support the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. It capitalizes on their pessimistic outlook and disappointment with other parties, experts say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Climate change made Central Europe floods more likely: study;https://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-made-central-europe-floods-more-likely-study/a-70318772?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The recent deadly floods in Central Europe have shown \"the devastating results\" of burning fossil fuels, scientists say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe's AI bosses sound warning on soaring compliance costs;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-s-ai-bosses-sound-warning-on-soaring-compliance-costs/a-70243489?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Recent decisions by US tech giants to withhold their latest artificial intelligence (AI) models from the European market have raised concerns over the level of regulation now impacting tech firms in the bloc."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Greece worried about consequences of German border checks;https://www.dw.com/en/greece-worried-about-consequences-of-german-border-checks/a-70320699?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Athens is worried that Germany's reintroduction of border checks could have a knock-on effect across Europe and see migrants being returned to Greece."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Flood warnings on Oder River in eastern Brandenburg;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-flood-warnings-on-oder-river-in-eastern-brandenburg/a-70319284?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The highest flood warning level is in effect for a short stretch of the Oder River in Brandenburg where it marks the German border with Poland. In some more rural areas, it has already burst its banks."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UEFA 's reassessment of Spain's handball doesn't help Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/uefa-s-reassessment-of-spain-s-handball-doesn-t-help-germany/a-70320827?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "In one of the most memorable incidents at the Euros, Spain's Marc Cucurella blocked a German shot with his hand, but no penalty was called. Now UEFA has admitted that the referee got it wrong \u2014 but it changes nothing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Green co-leaders Lang and Nouripour resign;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-green-co-leaders-lang-and-nouripour-resign/a-70319586?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The co-leaders of Germany's Greens, Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour, have announced they're stepping down. The party suffered a disastrous state election in Brandenburg, dropping below 5% and losing its seats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Why are sea levels rising?;https://www.dw.com/en/why-are-sea-levels-rising/a-70281203?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Rising oceans are posing a global threat, particularly to low lying islands and coastal cities. What is driving this, and how can we respond? Here's what you need to know."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dutch 'Mocro mafia' sets off alarm bells in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-mocro-mafia-sets-off-alarm-bells-in-germany/a-69764909?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "German police have warned of Dutch organized crime networks moving into Germany after a series of explosions in Cologne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;CERN at 70: Smashing elementary particles for humanity;https://www.dw.com/en/cern-at-70-smashing-elementary-particles-for-humanity/a-70298947?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "CERN has been an epicenter of scientific breakthroughs since 1954, including the discovery of the Higgs boson. Scientists there hope a new, larger particle smasher will lead them to more discoveries for years to come."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;75 years of Frankfurt Book Fair: World stage for protests;https://www.dw.com/en/75-years-of-frankfurt-book-fair-world-stage-for-protests/a-70283991?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The Cold War, neo-Nazis, as well as Iran's fatwa on Salman Rushdie all had an impact on the Frankfurt Book Fair, which turns 75 this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy says Iran, N. Korea 'accomplices';https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-says-iran-n-korea-accomplices/live-70307515?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denounced Iran and North Korea for providing weapons to Russia. He also said Moscow must be forced into any just peace. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Switzerland: Police investigate 1st use of 'suicide capsule';https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-police-investigate-1st-use-of-suicide-capsule/a-70314117?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Swiss police say they have detained several people and opened a criminal case a day after the first use of the \"Sarco\" capsule to end a person's life. Assisted dying is legal in Switzerland in some circumstances."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Deutsche Bahn: New train to link Berlin and Paris in 8 hours;https://www.dw.com/en/deutsche-bahn-new-train-to-link-berlin-and-paris-in-8-hours/a-70314292?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The first direct high-speed train service between both cities will be running from December, according to Deutsche Bahn. It will offer a journey without transfers, with stops in Frankfurt, Strasbourg and Karlsruhe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister: Eating habit survey shows developing tastes;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-eating-habit-survey-shows-developing-tastes/a-70309258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "A new government study points to changing tastes in food, but not a desire for rules, according to the agriculture minister. One thing stays constant \u2014 a pleasing taste was the most important factor for respondents."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Albanian PM has announced plans for the creation of a 27-acre sovereign state for a Sufi Muslim order in Tirana.;https://www.dw.com/en/albanian-pm-has-announced-plans-for-the-creation-of-a-27-acre-sovereign-state-for-a-sufi-muslim-order-in-tirana/a-70314510?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Albanian PM Edi Rama says he wants to establish a sovereign microstate for an Islamic Sufi order, the Shia Bektashi Muslims in Tirana. While welcomed by the order, the move has also been greeted with skepticism."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;North Korea and women's youth football: A perfect match;https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-and-women-s-youth-football-a-perfect-match/a-70313505?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "North Korea's young women have won their third U20 World Cup, so why is the isolated state so good at this level of the game?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany decries UniCredit bid for Commerzbank 'unfriendly';https://www.dw.com/en/germany-decries-unicredit-bid-for-commerzbank-unfriendly/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Italy's UniCredit stunned markets by clandestinely raising its stake in Germany's second-largest lender to 21%. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, the government stands by its side."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The true cost of protecting the Amazon and who should pay;https://www.dw.com/en/the-true-cost-of-protecting-the-amazon-and-who-should-pay/a-70309693?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The world\u2019s largest rainforest is battling deforestation, drought and record wildfires. Where is the money to save it coming from?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU divided over higher tariffs for Chinese EV imports;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-divided-over-higher-tariffs-for-chinese-ev-imports/a-70250391?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Despite \"constructive talks\" between the EU and China recently, the impasse over planned EU tariffs on China-made electric vehicles hasn't been resolved. The spat could escalate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police raids in southwest target human traffickers;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-raids-in-southwest-target-human-traffickers/a-70307600?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Police raided more than 20 properties in southwestern Germany and arrested at least four people. The case pertains to trafficking people from the Caucasus region to work illegally and for less than the minimum wage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How false memories make us who we are;https://www.dw.com/en/how-false-memories-make-us-who-we-are/a-70300263?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "We think of memory as a reliable recording of our lives. But we also have false memories, often pieced together from communal experience. Those false memories shape our identity the same as the real ones do."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;At least 4 die as migrant ship sinks off Greek island;https://www.dw.com/en/at-least-4-die-as-migrant-ship-sinks-off-greek-island/a-70306276?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "A small boat carrying migrants from nearby Turkey sank in the eastern Aegean Sea off the Greek island of Samos, killing at least four people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy eyes high-level talks on US trip;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-eyes-high-level-talks-on-us-trip/live-70298882?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The Ukrainian president met with Germany's Olaf Scholz in New York. Meanwhile, Russia said 31 civilians had been killed in Kursk and 131,000 others have been forced to flee. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German supermarket finds \u20ac7M of cocaine in crates of bananas;https://www.dw.com/en/german-supermarket-finds-\u20ac7m-of-cocaine-in-crates-of-bananas/a-70303810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Police did not identify the discount supermarket chain. However, they said the cocaine was found at stores in several cities across the state of North Rhine-Westphalia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: SPD seeks coalition after slim win in Brandenburg;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-spd-seeks-coalition-after-slim-win-in-brandenburg/live-70298970?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats will seek coalition talks with upstart left party BSW, as working with the far-right runner-up AfD has been ruled out. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goalie ter Stegen's injury leaves Germany coach in a bind;https://www.dw.com/en/goalie-ter-stegen-s-injury-leaves-germany-coach-in-a-bind/a-70302777?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Just weeks after being confirmed as Germany's new first-choice goalkeeper, Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has gone down with a potentially season-ending injury. Could Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann recall Manuel Neuer?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Volkswagen's crisis: How can Europe's car industry survive?;https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-s-crisis-how-can-europe-s-car-industry-survive/a-70231806?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "While Volkswagen and other European automakers are considering closing factories, Chinese rivals are searching for production sites on the continent. What's going wrong in Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Far-right gains in east Germany could deal blow to economy;https://www.dw.com/en/far-right-gains-in-east-germany-could-deal-blow-to-economy/a-70295769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "After elections in Thuringia and Saxony, the far-right AfD party has again massively gained in a poll in eastern Germany. Now the second-strongest force in Brandenburg, their success causes concerns among businesses."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany increases 'Deutschlandticket' price to \u20ac58;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-increases-deutschlandticket-price-to-\u20ac58/a-70300975?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The \"Deutschlandticket\" monthly travel pass allows passengers unlimited trips on local and regional trains, trams and buses. Starting in 2025, the ticket will be \u20ac9 more expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hamilton's near heatstroke puts F1 driver safety in focus;https://www.dw.com/en/hamilton-s-near-heatstroke-puts-f1-driver-safety-in-focus/a-69704130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Both Mercedes drivers suffered from 'borderline heatstroke' at the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix. Not for the first time this year, questions are being raised about their safety."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Brandenburg election brings relief for ruling SPD;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-brandenburg-election-brings-relief-for-ruling-spd/a-70298529?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats managed to fight off the far-right AfD in the regional vote. However, questions about the future of Germany's ruling coalition remain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Sudan crisis: Threat to culture 'unprecedented,' UNESCO says;https://www.dw.com/en/sudan-crisis-threat-to-culture-unprecedented-unesco-says/a-70284737?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Sudan is sinking into war and chaos. Many cultural and world heritage sites have been destroyed or looted as millions of people are displaced."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy: Naples house collapse kills mother and two kids;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-naples-house-collapse-kills-mother-and-two-kids/a-70296505?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The house is believed to have collapsed due to an explosion, local authorities said. The father of the kids and their 2-year-old brother were hospitalized after the incident."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;SPD set to finish ahead of far-right AfD in Brandenburg vote;https://www.dw.com/en/spd-set-to-finish-ahead-of-far-right-afd-in-brandenburg-vote/live-70291788?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Projections in state elections in the eastern German state of Brandenburg give the Social Democrats a slim lead over the far-right AfD in the race to be the largest party. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Swiss voters reject biodiversity, pension reforms;https://www.dw.com/en/swiss-voters-reject-biodiversity-pension-reforms/a-70295253?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Voters in Switzerland have voted \"no\" to measures on biodiversity preservation and pension reforms, according to official initial results."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Gaza's disabled cyclists deliver aid, inspiration and hope;https://www.dw.com/en/gaza-s-disabled-cyclists-deliver-aid-inspiration-and-hope/a-70269177?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "When the bombs started to fall in Gaza last October, the Gaza Sunbirds, a group of 25 Palestinian cyclists whose legs were amputated, started using their bikes to deliver food and shelters to their neighbors."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New French government announced in shift to the right;https://www.dw.com/en/new-french-government-announced-in-shift-to-the-right/a-70291188?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "French President Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff revealed the new center-right government from the Elysee Palace with some new faces in key positions and some who will be returning to their positions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brandenburg election: Campaigns and a concert on eve of vote;https://www.dw.com/en/brandenburg-election-campaigns-and-a-concert-on-eve-of-vote/a-70290694?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Politicians made last-ditch pitches in Brandenburg before Sunday's state election, where the far-right AfD is in the running to be the largest party. Several German bands gathered in Potsdam opposing this prospect."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Female referee deletes Instagram after sexist messages;https://www.dw.com/en/female-referee-deletes-instagram-after-sexist-messages/a-70290706?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Albanian referee Emanuela Rusta is making fast progress, but the sport she works in is not. The official made the decision to get rid of her social media account after constant remarks about her appearance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Paratroopers land in Arnhem honoring Operation Market Garden;https://www.dw.com/en/paratroopers-land-in-arnhem-honoring-operation-market-garden/a-70290283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned World War II operations. The Allied bid to secure a Rhine crossing proved \"A Bridge too Far.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Homeless World Cup: 'We want to do something special';https://www.dw.com/en/homeless-world-cup-we-want-to-do-something-special/a-70218267?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "National football teams made up of homeless people from around the world will soon gather in South Korea for the Homeless World Cup. For many of the players, the stakes are much higher than just the trophy on offer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starting a new life after political imprisonment in Belarus;https://www.dw.com/en/starting-a-new-life-after-political-imprisonment-in-belarus/a-70274513?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned dozens of political prisoners in recent months. Husband and wife Dmitry Luksha and Polina Polovinko, who were released in early July, spoke with DW about their ordeal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Two arsenals destroyed in Russia, Kyiv says;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-two-arsenals-destroyed-in-russia-kyiv-says/live-70289171?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Ukraine has destroyed two ammunition depots in Russia, the Ukrainian military said. Meanwhile, three people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Immigrants in eastern Germany ask: Leave or stay?;https://www.dw.com/en/immigrants-in-eastern-germany-ask-leave-or-stay/a-70289695?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The far-right AfD, leading in some polls, has campaigned aggressively against immigrants in state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg. But those states also depend on immigrant labor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Are Western double standards undermining the global order?;https://www.dw.com/en/are-western-double-standards-undermining-the-global-order/a-70289453?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The Global South has become increasingly critical of Western double standards. A study by the Munich Security Conference has warned that the rules-based international order is at stake."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How deadly is Ukraine's new 'dragon drone'?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-deadly-is-ukraine-s-new-dragon-drone/a-70287164?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The Ukrainian armed forces have deployed a new kind of drone to defend their country, one filled with a pyrotechnic thermite mixture that rains fire down on enemy positions. Its use is highly controversial."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Fridays for Future protests draw 75,000 in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/fridays-for-future-protests-draw-75-000-in-germany/a-70287782?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Climate activists filled the streets of German cities from Berlin to Munich, calling on authorities to take stronger action. Meanwhile, a court jailed two elderly climate activists for sabotaging an oil pipeline."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Heat pumps: Why Germany's heating revolution is stalling;https://www.dw.com/en/heat-pumps-why-germany-s-heating-revolution-is-stalling/a-70192621?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "It's a signature project of Germany's environmentalist Greens: Instead of heating homes with fossil fuels, Germans should use heat pumps based on air or groundwater. But demand for these devices has plummeted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starlink satellites are blinding astronomers' view of space;https://www.dw.com/en/starlink-satellites-are-blinding-astronomers-view-of-space/a-70273835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Starlink and other satellite networks are vital for providing high speed internet to remote communities, but unintended radiation leakages are making life difficult for astronomers who need clear skies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Tupperware parties empowered homebound suburban women;https://www.dw.com/en/how-tupperware-parties-empowered-homebound-suburban-women/a-70273741?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "As Tupperware files for bankruptcy, here's a look back at how the iconic US plastic kitchenware company and its \"Tupperware party\" business model became a cultural phenomenon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Czech Republic struggling to mitigate risks as Russian firms flourish;https://www.dw.com/en/czech-republic-struggling-to-mitigate-risks-as-russian-firms-flourish/a-70181088?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Czechia hosts by far the highest number of Russian-owned companies of any EU state. Experts warn this cohort of over 12,500 firms pose economic and security risks that the government must eventually start to mitigate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oktoberfest: Beer and pretzels in a sustainable package;https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-beer-and-pretzels-in-a-sustainable-package/a-70235282?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "More than Bavarians in lederhosen balancing frothing beer mugs and fried sausages, the world's largest folk festival is becoming more inclusive and eco-friendly."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;COVID FLiRT variants KP.3 and XEC: What you need to know;https://www.dw.com/en/covid-flirt-variants-kp-3-and-xec-what-you-need-to-know/a-70266402?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another variant and become XEC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Two European firms in focus of Hezbollah pager explosions;https://www.dw.com/en/two-european-firms-in-focus-of-hezbollah-pager-explosions/a-70248830?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The Taiwanese company whose name appeared on the pagers that detonated across Lebanon has denied manufacturing the devices. That has put relatively unknown Hungarian and Bulgarian firms in the spotlight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine wants action after Belarus Olympic medalist ceremony;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-wants-action-after-belarus-olympic-medalist-ceremony/a-70262052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The ceremony, held on Belarus' National Unity Day, appears to violate the Olympic neutrality rules. Ukraine wants action, with the country's sports minister telling DW further sanctions are necessary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cities start fighting rental crisis triggered by overtourism;https://www.dw.com/en/cities-start-fighting-rental-crisis-triggered-by-overtourism/a-70228085?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "In many of Europe's hottest tourist destinations like Barcelona and Paris, locals struggle to access affordable housing. How much are vacation rentals to blame?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Exploding Hezbollah pagers: How did it happen?;https://www.dw.com/en/exploding-hezbollah-pagers-how-did-it-happen/a-70250960?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Although the devices have lithium-ion batteries that can catch fire or explode, it is more likely the pagers were sabotaged."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains \u2014 study;https://www.dw.com/en/pregnancy-completely-rewires-mothers-brains-study/a-70246399?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Neuroscientists scanned the brain of a pregnant woman and captured a 'widespread reorganization' of her brain before, during and after pregnancy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Use, and misuse, of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "As Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell become the latest celebs to endorse Kamala Harris, here's a look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Google wins legal battle against EU over \u20ac1.5 billion fine;https://www.dw.com/en/google-wins-legal-battle-against-eu-over-\u20ac1-5-billion-fine/a-70246709?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "After years of back and forth, an EU court annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it sold advertisements. The fine was one of three major penalties the EU has leveled against the tech giant in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Namibia's strategy to cull animals save them?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-namibia-s-strategy-to-cull-animals-save-them/a-70213343?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Does Namibia's plan to kill animals to save them, and help the human population from ongoing drought, stack up?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand shrinks;https://www.dw.com/en/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy-as-demand-shrinks/a-70245540?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Once popular for its colorful food storage containers, US firm Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy. The company succumbed to a plummeting demand for its products."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Intel's factory delay adds to Germany's economic woes;https://www.dw.com/en/us-intel-s-factory-delay-adds-to-germany-s-economic-woes/a-70241739?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has announced it is postponing a $30 billion investment in Germany due to financial problems at the firm. But is the German government still committed to the investments?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the arts are a thorn in the side of Germany's AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-arts-are-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-germany-s-afd/a-70239911?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How new technologies can mitigate the risks of flooding;https://www.dw.com/en/how-new-technologies-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-flooding/a-70239314?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "With extreme weather, floods are getting as common in Europe as they are in Asia and Africa. From mobile barriers to specialized dams, people are finding solutions to life-threatening floods across the globe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China's technology drive leaves young people jobless;https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-technology-drive-leaves-young-people-jobless/a-70187883?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "China is investing billions to become a global tech power. But AI, robotics and quantum computing are not labor-intensive sectors, so what to do about the millions of young Chinese who can't find a job?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Alex Morgan: The greatest female footballer of all time?;https://www.dw.com/en/alex-morgan-the-greatest-female-footballer-of-all-time/a-70153127?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Marta may have won six FIFA player awards, but two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan is more of a household name. Teammate Megan Rapinoe achieved on and off the field, yet Morgan had a grace on the pitch few could match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany's ter Stegen is happy the wait is finally over;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-ter-stegen-is-happy-the-wait-is-finally-over/a-70144838?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "National team goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has spoken of his frustration during years of being stuck behind Manuel Neuer, while at the same time paying tribute to his predecessor."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Half the world lacks access to safe drinking water;https://www.dw.com/en/half-the-world-lacks-access-to-safe-drinking-water/a-70089835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "A new report shows 4.4 billion people across the world have no access to safe drinking water, more than double many previous estimates."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is methane?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. Where does methane come from, and what can we do to stop it from getting into the atmosphere?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Concerning' rise in unprotected sex among teenagers;https://www.dw.com/en/concerning-rise-in-unprotected-sex-among-teenagers/a-70079734?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-28 02:00:09",
        "text": "A majority of teenagers in Europe, Central Asia, and Canada do not use condoms. Experts warn of rising risks of STIs and unwanted pregnancies."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Austria election live: polling on a knife-edge, with far-right Freedom party just ahead of incumbent leader;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/29/austria-election-live-far-right-freedom-party-fpo-ovp-spo-latest;2024-09-29T15:03:14Z",
        "text": "Polls have closed. We are now waiting for the first projections. The last polls will close in Austria in 15 minutes. Stay tuned for first projections and reactions. Fear, uncertainty and suspicion ran high in Klagenfurt, southern Austria, before today\u2019s high-stakes parliamentary election, in which the far-right Freedom party (FP\u00d6) could become the strongest force in the country for the first time in the postwar period. For at least a week, and some local people say much longer, the tap water in this city of baroque facades and a stunning Alpine lake has been contaminated with faecal bacteria and unsafe to drink. No one \u2013 not the government or environmental officials \u2013 has managed to ascertain the cause although baseless theories involving poisoned wells, migrants and other scapegoats run wild in pubs and the darker corners of the internet. Nor is a solution in sight. \u201cPlan C\u201d, as the public works chief, Erwin Smole, has described flushing pipes with diluted chlorine, is still being considered after other measures failed. As local citizens picked up their free drinking water in plastic bottles from a distribution point at a convention centre, the pessimism and outrage over the political class that have fuelled the rise of the far right across Europe was plain to see. \u201cI haven\u2019t decided who to vote for \u2013 it\u2019s hard to trust anyone these days,\u201d said hospital nurse Elisabeth Liftenegger, 55, summing up the anti-incumbent sentiment as she loaded up a shopping trolley with potable water. Read the full story here. One of Europe\u2019s oldest far-right parties, the FP\u00d6 was founded in 1956. Despite being initially headed by a former Nazi functionary and SS officer, it was a relatively moderate liberal party until the mid-1980s, when it veered radically right under the firebrand leader J\u00f6rg Haider. The party has twice been the junior partner in short-lived coalition governments with the conservative Austrian People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP), after finishing second in the parliamentary elections of 1999 with 27% of the vote and third in 2017 with 26% of the vote. Both coalitions ended early. Bitter FP\u00d6 infighting led to the collapse of the first in 2002, and the so-called Ibizagate scandal in 2019 forced the resignation of the party\u2019s then leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, and torpedoed the second after 18 months in office. Now led by the controversial former interior minister Herbert Kickl, the FP\u00d6 is nativist, anti-immigration, hostile to Islam and staunchly Eurosceptic. One of its MEPs, Harald Vilimsky, has described its electoral mission as \u201ckicking the establishment in the butt\u201d. The FP\u00d6\u2019s programme, \u201cFortress Austria, Fortress of Freedom\u201d, plans to cut provision for irregular migrants and asylum seekers to a bare minimum, block family reunification for migrants already in Austria, and promote \u201cremigration\u201d, particularly for offenders. It also wants to cut corporate tax and wage costs, and in foreign policy it is opposed to EU sanctions against Russia and further aid to Ukraine. The FP\u00d6 has signed and renewed a \u201ccooperation agreement\u201d with Vladimir Putin\u2019s United Russia party. Read the full explainer here. Here are some images from election day in Austria. Austrians are going to the polls today. Riding a far-right surge in many parts of Europe, the pro-Kremlin, anti-migration Freedom party (FP\u00d6) and its leader, Herbert Kickl, are capitalising on fears around migration, asylum and crime heightened by the August cancellation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna over an alleged Islamist terror plot. Mounting inflation, tepid economic growth and lingering resentment over strict government measures during Covid have dovetailed into an 11-point leap in the polls for the FP\u00d6 since the last election in 2019. Polling shows the election on a knife-edge, with the far right in the lead at 27%, two points ahead of the \u00d6VP of Chancellor Karl Nehammer. The opposition Social Democrats (SP\u00d6) look set for third place with about 21%. Despite devastating flooding this month from Storm Boris bringing the climate crisis to the fore, the Greens are on just 8%, nearly six points off their 2019 result. Given the electoral maths, any winner will require a coalition to form a government. The first polling stations opened at or shortly before 7am (0500 GMT). Projections are due minutes after polls close at 5pm, with results being finessed over the ensuing hours. Read the full story here. Good afternoon and welcome to a special edition of the Europe blog, focused on today\u2019s election in Austria. Stay tuned for results, reaction and analysis. Send thoughts and tips to lili.bayer@theguardian.com."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis live: reports of airstrikes launched towards Yemen\u2019s Hodeidah port;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/29/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-bombardment-lebanon-hezbollah-hassan-nasrallah-latest;2024-09-29T15:00:58Z",
        "text": "Peter Beaumont is a senior international reporter for the Guardian Israeli and Yemeni media are reporting a significant air strike on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah. Video posted on social media and also shared by Israeli publications suggests that oil storage facilities at the port were in an air strike. Images showed a very large explosion and a towering column of black smoke over the city. The explosion in Hodeidah follows the targeting of Israeli with a ballistic missile fired from Yemen on Saturday, with the Iran backed Houthis said was aimed at Tel Aviv\u2019s international airport. The missile was intercepted outside Israel\u2019s airspace. There are reports of an airstrike on the the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah in Yemen. Reuters reports that fuel tanks were hit. We will bring you the latest on this as we get more information. Hodeidah, which has been under Houthi control since 2021, is critical for delivering food and other necessities to the Yemeni population, who depend on imports. The Iran-backed Houthis have launched missiles and drones at Israel and disrupted global trade through the Red Sea in response to Israel\u2019s ongoing assault on Gaza. In his interview with CNN, John Kirby, the White House national security spokesperson, said that nobody is mourning the death of Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader killed in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut on Friday. He said: I don\u2019t think anybody\u2019s mourning the loss of Mr Nasrallah, a known terrorist, a guy with American blood on his hands, as well as Israeli blood on his hands. This is a terrorist organization. He was the leader of it. And I think people are safer without him walking around. When asked what the civilian death toll of the strike was, Kirby said: \u201cWe can\u2019t quantify that right now.\u201d In a newly released statement, the Pentagon says the US \u201cretains the capability to deploy forces on short notice\u201d and is determined to prevent Iran and Iranian-backed partners and proxies from \u201cexploiting the situation or expanding the conflict\u201d. The US says its priority is ensuring the protection of US citizens and forces in the region, defending Israel and cooling tensions across the region through \u201cdeterrence and diplomacy\u201d. White House national security spokesperson John Kirby has said Israel will not be able to safely get people back into their homes in the north of the country by waging a full-scale war with Hezbollah or Iran. Israel has claimed that its goal is to make its northern areas safe from Hezbollah rocket fire and allow thousands of displaced residents to return. \u201cAn all-out war with Hezbollah, certainly with Iran, is not the way to do that. If you want to get those folks back home safely and sustainably, we believe that a diplomatic path is the right course,\u201d Kirby told CNN. The US is watching to see what Hezbollah does to try to fill its leadership vacuum \u201cand is continuing to talk to the Israelis about what the right next steps are\u201d, he said after news that much of Hezbollah\u2019s leadership has been killed by the Israeli military. \u201cWe have made no bones about the fact that we don\u2019t necessarily see the tactical execution the same way that they do in terms of protection (of civilians),\u201d Kirby said. He added that the US\u2019s support for Israel remains intact. Washington is by far the biggest arms supplier to Israel. Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, said the killing of Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) deputy commander, by Israel was a \u201chorrible crime\u201d that would not go unanswered. Nilforoushan was killed in the Israeli strikes on Beirut on Friday, in which Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was also assassinated. Nasrallah\u2019s body has been recovered intact from the site of Friday\u2019s strike, a medical source and a security source told Reuters. Israel said that it killed 20 Hezbollah figures alongside Nasrallah in its attack on the group\u2019s underground headquarters on Friday. Ali Karaki, leader of Hezbollah\u2019s southern front, and Ibrahim Hussein Jazini, head of Nasrallah\u2019s security unit, were also among those killed, the IDF said. The Israeli military also said on Sunday that it killed senior Hezbollah figure Nabil Kaouk in an airstrike in Lebanon yesterday. Hezbollah later confirmed his death. He is the seventh senior leader of the Lebanese militant group to be killed since 20 September. The Israeli military has carried out new attacks on Lebanon today, including on Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of the capital, Beirut, and on Bekaa Valley in north-eastern Lebanon. Hezbollah was reported to have fired rockets at the Ofek military base in northern Israel earlier today and has been targeting Israel\u2019s Sa\u2019ar settlement with rocket strikes. European foreign ministers, including officials from the UK, Germany and France, have stepped up calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah amid fears of the conflict spreading across the region. The Lebanese army said it \u201ccalls on citizens to preserve national unity and not to be drawn into actions that may affect civil peace at this dangerous and delicate stage\u201d. The country\u2019s prime minister, Najib Mikati, urged Lebanese people \u201cto come together\u201d to preserve civil order. Diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire with Israel are ongoing. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) launched an emergency operation to provide food for up to 1 million people affected by the conflict in Lebanon. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 6,000 injured as a result of Israeli attacks in the past two weeks, the health ministry said, and about one million Lebanese people have been displaced by Israeli strikes. At least 41,595 Palestinian people have been killed and 96,251 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said. The Lebanese health ministry has said that 14 paramedics had been killed in two days of intense Israeli bombardment in Lebanon\u2019s east and south and in Beirut, the capital. \u201cThis series of attacks killed 14 paramedics in two days,\u201d the ministry said in a statement, adding it \u201ccondemns in the strongest terms the Israeli enemy\u2019s repeated attacks on medical centres\u201d and that \u201cparamedics do not participate in hostilities\u201d. The Israeli military has carried out new attacks on Lebanon today, including on Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of the capital, Beirut, and on Bekaa Valley in north-eastern Lebanon. Hezbollah has denied Israeli claims to have assassinated Abu Ali Rida, the commander of the group\u2019s Bader Unit in south Lebanon (see earlier post at 13.30 for more details). \u201cThere is no truth to the Zionist propaganda about the assassination of the brother and fighter Abu Ali Rida, he is alive and well,\u201d the group said in a statement to the press. Lebanon\u2019s environment minister, Nasser Yassin, said the government estimates that about 250,000 people have left their homes and taken refuge in government-run shelters and informal ones. However, he told the Associated Press the total number is about \u201cfour times as many directly affected and/or displaced outside the shelters\u201d. Figures quoted by the country\u2019s state run news agency show more than 36,000 Syrians and 41,300 Lebanese people crossed the border into Syria territory between last Monday and today. The Lebanese government has converted schools and other facilities into temporary shelters, but many people are sleeping on the streets and have nowhere safe to stay. As my colleague William Christou explains in this story, Lebanon\u2019s state was already overwhelmed by a previous wave of people who fled an intense Israeli aerial campaign in south Lebanon and the Bekaa valley, which started last Monday and killed about 700 people. The body of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been recovered from the site of the Israeli airstrike on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs and is intact, sources have told Reuters. The Guardian has not yet been able to verify this information. Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, was killed by Israel in a series of strikes on the group\u2019s underground headquarters in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, on Friday. Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, yesterday announced five days of national mourning to honour what he called the \u201cmartyrdom of the great Nasrallah\u201d. Israel\u2019s military said Nasrallah had \u201cthe blood of thousands... on his hands\u201d. The Israeli military says it killed over 20 Hezbollah members of different ranks when they assassinated the Lebanese Shiite militant group\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, at Hezbollah\u2019s headquarters in Beirut on Friday. \u201cMore than 20 other terrorists of varying ranks, who were present at the underground headquarters in Beirut located beneath civilian buildings, and were managing Hezbollah\u2019s terrorist operations against the state of Israel, were also eliminated,\u201d the military said. Some of the Hezbollah figures the military says were killed include: Ali Karaki, a member of Hezbollah\u2019s Jihad council and the commander of the organisation\u2019s southern front. Ibrahim Hussein Jazini, head of Hassan Nasrallah\u2019s security unit. Samir Tawfiq Dib, who the IDF describes as \u201cNasrallah\u2019s long-time confidant and adviser\u201d. Hezbollah says it has fired rockets at the Ofek military base in northern Israel today and has been targeting Israel\u2019s Sa\u2019ar settlement with rocket strikes, according to reports. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said this afternoon that 10 rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon. An Israeli strike on Lebanon\u2019s Bekaa Valley earlier today killed a senior figure in the Sunni Jama\u2019a Islamiya group, Mohammad Dahrouj, two security sources told Reuters. The group has fired rockets on Israel over the past year and the Israeli military has previously conducted strikes targeting other leading figures from the group. Hezbollah has confirmed that Nabil Kaouk, another of its senior leaders, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, the Associated Press are reporting. The Israeli military said earlier on Sunday that it had killed Kaouk in an airstrike the day before. He is the seventh senior leader of the Lebanese militant group to be killed since 20 September, including Hassan Nasrallah, who was Hezbollah\u2019s top leader for 32 years. William Christou is reporting for the Guardian from Beirut Initial reports in Israeli media suggest the target of Israel\u2019s strike on Beirut on Sunday afternoon was Abu Ali Rida, the commander of the group\u2019s Bader Unit, which is responsible for the second line of defence in south Lebanon after the initial border zone. Rida was the last remaining senior military commander of Hezbollah that remained alive, which, if reports of his death were true, would leave Hezbollah without any of its senior military leadership. The Guardian was not able to independently verify Israeli media reports and Hezbollah had not yet issued a statement. Reuters is reporting that France\u2019s foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot will travel to Lebanon on Sunday. It comes as Israel continued to strike multiple targets in the country. The French foreign ministry said: We confirm that the minister is going to Lebanon this weekend to talk with local authorities and provide French support, particularly humanitarian support Barrot is one of several European foreign ministers have stepped up calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah [see 11.56 BST]. Barrot has said Israel must \u201cimmediately stop its strikes in Lebanon\u201d, adding that his country was opposed to any form of ground operation by the Israelis. Over in Cyprus, the EU\u2019s nearest member state to the Middle East, an anti-war rally has been held outside a British Sovereign base that activists have accused of \u201cfacilitating\u201d Israel\u2019s armed action. Hundreds of protestors, chanting \u201cNo to war\u201d and \u201cOut, Out, British bases out,\u201d rallied within metres of the gates of RAF Akrotiri amid mounting fears of the Mediterranean island being drawn into a wider conflict if hostilities spiral out of control. The leftwing Akel party official Haris Karamanou told demonstrators: We are here, right outside the British Air Force airport in Akrotiri, because from here British spy planes are assisting the occupying forces of Israel in gathering information on the \u2018operations\u2019 in Gaza. And because hundreds of tons of bombs and ammunition have passed through here to aid the total destruction of Gaza. Speaking to the Guardian, Nicoletta Charalambidou, a prominent human rights lawyer also attending the rally said: The government of Cyprus has failed to take a clear stance against the war and we are against the facilitation it has granted that has allowed the British bases to indirectly support Israel\u2019s war in Palestine, Gaza and Lebanon. Others activists said they were furious at the growing use \u201con Cypriot land\u201d of the installation, one of two bases retained by Britain, a former colony. In a statement urging people to attend Sunday\u2019s protest, the left-wing backed Cyprus Peace Council said it was imperative the island\u2019s government took a clear stance if the country was to avoid becoming a target for attack. It said: The large military activities carried out these days on the ground and air around the Akrotiri base as well as the large concentration of US military forces in our country to prepare for a broader war, heightens the feeling of concern that Cyprus may become a target for an attack. The statement came hours after the UK announced it was \u201cbolstering contingency teams\u201d in the region, moving 700 troops to the island in preparation of mass evacuations from Lebanon Earlier this year protestors conducted a similar rally outside Akrotiri to demonstrate against the British bases being used as an \u201caggressive launch pad\u201d for the war in Gaza amid revelations of its deployment as a staging point for fighter jets involved in strikes against pro-Palestinian Houthi militia in Yemen. UK defence officials have robustly denied accusations of the bases being used to funnel weapons to Israel. On Sunday, the Cyprus Mail quoted a British bases spokesperson as saying: \u201cNo RAF flights have transported lethal cargo to the Israeli Defence Forces.\u201d It was standard practice the spokesperson said \u201cfor the UK Ministry of Defence to routinely authorise requests for a limited number of allies and partners to access the UK\u2019s air bases.\u201d Under the terms of the bases\u2019 establishment, Britain is not formally obliged to seek permission from Cyprus for operations conducted out of the military installations. A school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip was hit by Israeli strikes earlier, Reuters reported. Four people were killed and several others injured, Gaza medics said. In another strike, three people were killed in a house in Gaza City, medics said. Four others were reportedly killed in three separate airstrikes in Nuseirat and Khan Younis in central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip. William Christou is reporting for the Guardian from Beirut Israel has carried out a strike on Beirut, with the sound of a missile flying overhead and an impact being heard by a Guardian correspondent. A plume of smoke emanated from the outskirts of Chiyah, a section of the city on the borders of Dahiyeh, the southern suburbs of Beirut which have been the main target of Israeli bombing over the past week. The target of the strike was not immediately clear. Hezbollah has announced the death of senior military commander Ali Karaki on Sunday afternoon, killed in the large Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh, the southern suburbs of Beirut. These are the same strikes that killed the former head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. Karaki was a member of the group\u2019s Jihad Council and the commander of the organisation\u2019s southern front. He had escaped death a few days prior, after Israel said it attempted to assassinate him in an airstrike on Dahieh last Monday. \u201c[Karaki] was directly and on the ground responsible for leading the southern front with all its axes and units in the support front from 8 October, 2023, until his blessed martyrdom\u201d, a statement from Hezbollah read announcing his death. Karaki was the latest in a series of military commanders to be killed by Israel, leaving Hezbollah\u2019s senior military leadership almost completely wiped out. Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, said the killing of Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) deputy commander, by Israel was a \u201chorrible crime\u201d that would not go unanswered. Nilforoushan was killed in the Israeli strikes on Beirut on Friday, in which Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was also assassinated. European foreign ministers, including officials from the UK, Germany and France, have stepped up calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah amid fears of the conflict spreading across the region. The Israeli military said on Sunday that it killed senior Hezbollah figure Nabil Kaouk in an airstrike in Lebanon yesterday. He was the deputy head of the Lebanese militant group\u2019s central council and was one of the few remaining senior members of the organisation. On Sunday, Israel said it hit \u201cdozens\u201d more Hezbollah targets overnight. The Lebanese army said it \u201ccalls on citizens to preserve national unity and not to be drawn into actions that may affect civil peace at this dangerous and delicate stage\u201d. The country\u2019s prime minister, Najib Mikati, urged Lebanese people \u201cto come together\u201d to preserve civil order. Diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire with Israel are ongoing. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) launched an emergency operation to provide food for up to 1 million people affected by the conflict in Lebanon. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 6,000 injured as a result of Israeli attacks in the past two weeks, the health ministry said, and about one million Lebanese people have been displaced by Israeli strikes. At least 41,595 Palestinian people have been killed and 96,251 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said. Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, said the killing by Israel of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) deputy commander was a \u201chorrible crime\u201d that would not go unanswered. Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan was killed in the Israeli strikes on Beirut on Friday, in which Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah also was assassinated. \u201cThere is no doubt that this horrible crime committed by the Zionist regime (Israel) will not go unanswered,\u201d Araqchi said. In 2019, Nilforoushan was appointed as the operations deputy of the IRGC, which Iran uses to provide Hezbollah with most of its funding, training and weapons. Here are some of the latest images coming out from the newswires: European foreign ministers have stepped up calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, amid concern that Israel\u2019s killing of Hezbollah\u2019s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, risks seriously destabilising Lebanon and the region. Even as Israeli defence officials continued to raise the prospect of a cross-border operation into southern Lebanon, the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK voiced alarm over the latest escalation on the Israeli side. Israel must \u201cimmediately stop its strikes in Lebanon\u201d, the French foreign minister, Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot, said, adding that his country was opposed to any form of ground operation by the Israelis. David Lammy, the UK foreign secretary, said on X that he had spoken to the Lebanese prime minister, Najib Mikati. \u201cWe agreed on the need for an immediate ceasefire to bring an end to the bloodshed. A diplomatic solution is the only way to restore security and stability for the Lebanese and Israeli people,\u201d Lammy wrote. The German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, told the broadcaster ARD that Nasrallah\u2019s killing \u201cthreatens destabilisation for the whole of Lebanon\u201d, which \u201cis in no way in Israel\u2019s security interest\u201d. You can read the full story by my colleagues, Peter Beaumont and William Christou here: At least 41,595 Palestinian people have been killed and 96,251 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The health ministry has said thousands of other dead people are most likely lost in the rubble of the enclave. In a statement, the Lebanese army has said that it \u201ccalls on citizens to preserve national unity and not to be drawn into actions that may affect civil peace at this dangerous and delicate stage\u201d following the Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on Friday, and as Israeli attacks continue. \u201cThe Israeli enemy is working to implement its destructive plans and sow division among Lebanese,\u201d the army statement added. Lebanon has long been divided along sectarian lines which had contributed to a devastating civil war between 1975-1990. Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group, wields great power in Lebanon\u2019s south. Its military might dwarfs Lebanon\u2019s national armed forces. A Lebanese army official told Agence France-Presse (AFP) troops had been deployed since Saturday in Beirut. The country\u2019s prime minister, Najib Mikati, urged Lebanese people \u201cto come together\u201d to preserve civil order. William Christou has been reporting for the Guardian from Beirut Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati will chair a meeting of the government emergency committee this afternoon, along with several ministers. The meeting comes as Lebanon deals with successive waves of displacement, with 90,000 fleeing Israeli bombardment of the south and the Bekaa Valley last Monday, and many more evacuating the southern suburbs of Beirut after intense Israeli airstrikes on Friday. Beirut\u2019s public spaces are filled with families, gathered on sidewalks and small parks across the cities with their belongings. Many have spent the last two nights homeless and hungry, with the Lebanese state unable to respond to the scale of the humanitarian crisis. Private initiatives have sprung up to fill the gap, with small NGOs and even individuals distributing food and water in areas where the displaced have gathered. Lebanon\u2019s information minister, Ziad Makary, has said during a cabinet session that diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire with Israel are ongoing. He said: It is certain that the Lebanese government wants a ceasefire, and everyone knows that Netanyahu went to New York based on the premise of a ceasefire, but the decision was made to assassinate Nasrallah. Diplomatic efforts to achieve a ceasefire are ongoing. The prime minister is not falling short, but the matter is not that easy. Israel rejected global calls on Thursday for a ceasefire with the Hezbollah movement, defying its biggest ally in Washington. Despite Israel\u2019s stance, the US and France sought to keep prospects alive for an immediate 21-day truce they proposed on Wednesday, and said negotiations continued. Lebanon\u2019s prime minister Najib Mikati said a ceasefire would mean the UN security resolution 1701 - adopted to end the last Israel-Lebanon war of 2006, but never properly implemented - could be applied. At least 1,640 people are reported to have been killed in Lebanon since 8 October 2023, including 104 children and 194 women, the majority in Israeli strikes over the last fortnight. We have a little more information on Nabil Kaouk, the high-ranking Hezbollah official the Israeli military said was killed in an airstrike yesterday (see earlier post at 09.41). Kaouk was a veteran member of Hezbollah going back to the 1980s and had previously served as Hezbollah\u2019s military commander in southern Lebanon. The US had announced sanctions against him in 2020. A source close to Hezbollah confirmed to AFP that Kaouk was killed in a strike on Saturday and identified him as a member of Hezbollah\u2019s central council in charge of security in the group. In Gaza, two people were killed in separate strikes this morning in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp in the central part of the enclave. This is according to the nearby Awda hospital, which received the bodies. It said another six people were injured. In northern Gaza, first responders recovered two bodies after a strike on a house early on Sunday morning, according to the civil defence. Lebanon\u2019s state news agency reports that an Israeli airstrike on a house in the town of Ain, in the Bekaa valley, eastern Lebanon, killed 11 people earlier today. This figure has not been independently verified by the Guardian yet. Israeli strikes have increasingly targeted Hezbollah\u2019s strongholds in southern Beirut and the Bekaa valley, where Israel claims the group stores thousands of rockets. The Israeli military said in a post on X that it killed top Hezbollah leader, Nabil Kaouk, one of the few remaining senior leaders of the organisation. Kaouk was the deputy head of Hezbollah\u2019s central council. Kaouk was reportedly one of those being considered to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday, as the head of Hezbollah. The choices of who will now lead the organisation are narrowing, with analysts suggesting that Hashim Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah\u2019s executive council, is the favored pick. Naeem Qassem, the deputy secretary general of the organisation, is also reportedly in the running. Kaouk\u2019s death is a further blow to Hezbollah\u2019s leadership, already decimated from a relentless Israeli assassination campaign. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said it has launched an emergency operation to provide food for up to 1 million people affected by the conflict in Lebanon. \u201cFurther escalation of the conflict this weekend underscores the need for urgent humanitarian response,\u201d the WFP said in a post on X. The WFP has operated in Lebanon for 10 years. Its says workers are dispatching food, hot meals, \u201cready-to-eat rations\u201d and cash for civilians, including displaced people who have fled Israeli attacks and those staying in shelters. As of yesterday, there were well over 200,000 people who had been displaced inside Lebanon, according to the UN high commissioner for refugees. \u201cLebanon is at a breaking point and cannot endure another war,\u201d WFP regional director Corinne Fleischer said. At least 18 Palestinian people were detained by Israeli forces last night into Sunday morning in a series of raids across the occupied West Bank, Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, reports, citing sources. The detentions were reported to have taken place in various locations, including Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus and Jenin. The total number of Palestinians detained in the occupied West Bank since 7 October 2023 is estimated to have risen to well over 10,000. Human rights groups and international organisations have alleged widespread abuse of inmates detained by Israel in raids in the occupied West Bank, which Palestinians want as the core of a future independent state along with Gaza. China says it is \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d and is \u201cclosely following\u201d soaring tensions in the Middle East, after Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in strikes on Lebanon. \u201cChina is closely following this incident and deeply concerned about the escalation of tensions in the region,\u201d Beijing\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement. The ministry urged \u201call parties, particularly Israel, to take immediate steps to cool down the situation.\u201d The ministry said it opposes any violation of Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty. The world\u2019s second largest economy, China has recently stepped up its involvement in various crises. In July, it hosted talks between Palestinian rivals including Hamas and Fatah in Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping helped broker a March 2023 deal to end a diplomatic rift between Saudi Arabia and Iran, leaving the US on the sidelines. During the UN general assembly on Saturday, China\u2019s foreign minister, Wang Yi, called for a cessation of fighting in the Middle East. William Christou has been reporting for the Guardian from Beirut Fighting between Hezbollah and Israel continued through the night and early morning, with Israeli warplanes carrying out airstrikes across south Lebanon and the Bekaa valley. Hezbollah launched a rocket salvo at the \u201cOfik base\u201d using the group\u2019s medium range Fadi-1 rockets, according to a statement on Sunday morning. It was not immediately clear if Hezbollah\u2019s attacks resulted in any Israeli casualties. Among those killed by Israel\u2019s overnight airstrikes were four paramedics while they were working in their medical centre in Tair Dirba, south Lebanon, Lebanon\u2019s national news agency reported on Sunday. The day prior, Israeli strikes killed 33 people and injured 195, the country\u2019s health ministry reported. Hello and welcome to the Guardian\u2019s live coverage of the conflict in the Middle East. Israel has continued its attacks on Lebanon, with its military claiming to have hit dozens of Hezbollah targets in the past hours, a day after the Lebanese militant group confirmed its leader Hassan Nasrallah had been killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut. Israel has killed hundreds of people, including children, in its attacks on Lebanon over the past week, which included the massive strike on a densely populated area of south Beirut that is believed to have killed Nasrallah on Friday and levelled several entire apartment blocks. Iran vowed to avenge his death on Saturday, while US President Joe Biden said his killing provided a \u201cmeasure of justice for his many victims\u201d. Biden did not mention the many civilians killed by Israel, including children, in this week\u2019s attacks. Lebanon is to hold three days of official mourning for Nasrallah from Monday, according to the prime minister\u2019s office. Hezbollah has yet to announce a date for his funeral. In other developments: More than 1,000 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 6,000 wounded as a result of Israeli attacks in the past two weeks, the health ministry said, and about one million Lebanese people have been displaced by the strikes, including hundreds of thousands since Friday, Nasser Yassin, the minister coordinating the government\u2019s crisis response, has told Reuters. The Lebanese ministry of public health reported last night that the Israeli attacks across Lebanon yesterday killed 33 people and injured 195 others, according to Wafa, the Palestinian news agency. Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has confirmed the death of Brig Gen Abbas Nilforoushan, deputy commander of IRGC operations. He was killed in the Israel\u2019s air strikes on Lebanon on Friday which also killed other senior Hezbollah figures, including the group\u2019s leader Hassan Nasrallah. In its statement mourning Nilforoushan\u2019s killing, the IRGC, a major military, political and economic force in Iran, condemned \u201ccrimes of the Zionist regime\u201d in Lebanon and praised his role in defending the \u201cresistance front\u201d and Iran. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, has said Lebanese people are the new target of \u201cIsrael\u2019s policy of genocide, occupation and invasion.\u201d The Turkish leader, who has been highly critical of Israel\u2019s ongoing assault on Gaza, said children were among Lebanese civilians who have been \u201cmurdered\u201d by \u201cbrutal\u201d Israeli strikes conducted on Lebanon this week. \u201cBy the grace and power of God, the blows struck by the Resistance Front on the worn-out, deteriorating body of the Zionist regime will become even more crushing,\u201d said Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei about Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. He went on to add: \u201cThe foul-natured Zionist regime has not become victorious by carrying out this atrocity.\u201d Iran\u2019s parliament speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, commenting on the killing of Nasrallah, said on Sunday that what Iran terms \u201cresistance groups\u201d will continue to confront Israel with the help of Iran, according to Iranian state media. Iran has called for the UN security council to meet over Israel\u2019s assault on Lebanon and across the region. Joe Biden ordered the Pentagon to enhance America\u2019s defence posture in the region. He said: \u201cThe United States fully supports Israel\u2019s right to defend itself against Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and any other Iranian-supported terrorist groups.\u201d UN secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said he is \u201cgravely concerned by the dramatic escalation of the events in Beirut in the last 24 hours\u201d. He went on to add: \u201cThis cycle of violence must stop now. All sides must step back from the brink.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Which Hezbollah leaders have been killed and who will succeed Hassan Nasrallah?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/which-hezbollah-leaders-have-been-killed-and-who-will-succeed-hassan-nasrallah;2024-09-29T14:54:04Z",
        "text": "Even before Sunday\u2019s new attacks, Israel\u2019s military had boasted that it had killed most senior leaders of Hezbollah. With the news that Nabil Qaouk, another major figure within the Shia Muslim militant Islamist organisation, has died in an airstrike in Beirut, the job of eliminating the top echelons of Hezbollah\u2019s military command structure appears almost complete. The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the veteran secretary-general of Hezbollah on Friday, was only the most spectacular and high profile killing in an unprecedented effort over many months. Qaouk, like many of the 19 senior Hezbollah officials who have been killed, joined as a teenager in the very earliest years of the organisation\u2019s 41-year history and went on to fill a series of military command positions. Recently, Qaouk had begun to operate in more political roles, and was a frequent traveller to Iran, where he had a good relationship with the some of the top officials in the regime. Other Hezbollah veterans killed in recent days include Ibrahim Aqil, a second founder member of the organisation\u2019s military wing. Aqil, who was in his early 60s, is believed to have been the acting commander of the Radwan [special forces] brigades. Fuad Shukr, who died in July, had been involved in the massive suicide bombings launched against US, French and Israeli targets in 1983 by a coalition of Islamist Shia groups that was a precursor to Hezbollah. He went on to play a key role in developing Hezbollah\u2019s military capabilities, took on a role as chief of staff within Hezbollah and was a senior military adviser to Nasrallah. Another casualty of Israel\u2019s campaign was Ali Karaki, who had responsibility for military operations along the contested border with Israel. Analysts say Karaki, who has fulfilled a number of clandestine international roles in his long militant career, was being groomed for a senior leadership role within Hezbollah. He died alongside Nasrallah in the massive IDF strike on Beirut on Friday. So too did Ibrahim Jazini, who was responsible for internal security within Hezbollah. Though without any personal following and something of a loner within the organisation, Jazini was trusted and liked by Nasrallah. The loss of such men leaves Hezbollah in total disarray, stripped of capable operators who possessed deep military and international experience. \u201cHezbollah is facing a reality much worse than any worst case scenario they might have war-gamed. The chain of command is obliterated,\u201d said Naveed Ahmed, an independent Gulf-based security analyst and expert on Hezbollah. The most obvious candidate to succeed Nasrallah is Hashem Safieddine, who chairs Hezbollah\u2019s executive council. A cousin of Nasrallah, Safieddine was born in 1964 in southern Lebanon and is another founder member. He is thought to have spent many years in Qom, the Iranian religious city, and has been entrusted by Hezbollah with a variety of tasks over the decades, including managing the organisation\u2019s extensive portfolio of legal and illegal businesses. A powerful public speaker, Safieddine is popular within the organisation and among its sponsors in Tehran. Last year he said: \u201cIt may take one war, two wars, three wars, multiple confrontations, military confrontation, the sacrifice of martyrs, bearing the burden, dealing with the consequences, but ultimately, [Israel] must come to an end.\u201d Israel\u2019s assassination campaign has so far targeted Hezbollah\u2019s military commanders, leaving the top political echelons largely unscathed. Safieddine sits on the Jihad Council of the organisation however, so may soon be targeted too. \u201cIt is impossible to predict who would be a successor right now as the Israeli targeted strikes continue to take out commanders. It\u2019s in Hezbollah\u2019s interest to not publicly declare a successor. Nasrallah\u2019s funeral, if at all held, would be a rich source of intelligence and targets,\u201d Ahmed said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Impact of Hezbollah assassinations may take months to emerge;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/impact-of-hezbollah-assassinations-may-take-months-to-emerge;2024-09-29T11:39:17Z",
        "text": "In 1992, Israeli media celebrated an assassination. The man killed then was Abbas al-Musawi, the secretary general of Hezbollah, whose convoy was struck by Israeli helicopters. Then, as now, Israeli analysts speculated that Musawi\u2019s death might possibly portend the end of Hezbollah, which had been founded 10 years before after Israel\u2019s invasion of Lebanon. The opposite would turn out to be true. Musawi was succeeded by his 31-year-old protege, Hassan Nasrallah, who went on to lead and build Hezbollah for three decades, right until his own assassination by Israel on Friday. Nasrallah\u2019s killing, in a subterranean Hezbollah headquarters in a southern suburb of Beirut, has inevitably focused attention on two questions: whether Israel\u2019s long-term policy of assassinations is effective, and what the killing of Nasrallah and other senior Hezbollah commanders means for the group. The issue of the efficacy of assassinations is a moot point, even within the Israeli security and political establishment which have long debated the issue, including some current ministers who reportedly opposed Nasrallah\u2019s killing. Israel has also killed senior members of Hamas in the past, including key founders Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, both in 2004, neither of which delivered it any long-term strategic advantage when it came to Gaza. The reality is that it may take months to see what, if any, significant impact the campaign of assassinations of Hezbollah leaders will have dealt the group, not least because of Nasrallah\u2019s decades-long efforts to embed it in Lebanese-Shia society as a social provider as well as an armed force. While experts consider Hezbollah to have been significantly harmed by recent events, many are uncertain whether it is a fatal blow or indeed whether the advantage to Israel may turn out to have been overstated, on the ground and in terms of diplomatic fallout. Sanam Vakil, the head of the Chatham House thinktank\u2019s Middle East and North Africa Programme, unpacked some of these contradictions. \u201cHezbollah is militarily and operationally degraded,\u201d Vakil wrote on X, \u201cand knows that any escalation will lead to a conflict they cannot win. But should it not respond, its morale and legitimacy will be further weakened. She added: \u201cWhat should be heeded though is that both Hezbollah and Hamas while down, are certainly not out. The continuation of fighting will undoubtedly mobilize if not radicalize another generation of fighters.\u201d Writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the veteran journalist Jack Khoury questioned whether the latest assassinations would benefit Israel. \u201cThis is not the first targeted killing of a Hezbollah leader that Israel has carried out \u2026 it quickly turned out that their replacements didn\u2019t display a more moderate or less militant attitude.\u201d In the immediate term, it is also clear that Nasrallah\u2019s assassination and the heavy strikes of recent days have not stopped rocket fire towards Israel, even if for now it is somewhat diminished. The reality is that Hezbollah\u2019s impact on Israel, from the beginning of the war on 8 October \u2013 with tens of thousands of Israelis displaced from the north \u2013 was largely achieved with a relatively small-scale intervention, not with the use of Hezbollah\u2019s heavy rocket arsenal. Indeed most of the initial displacement followed small, lighter sporadic attacks with anti-tank weapons across the border before the emerging use of more sophisticated weapons such as kamikaze drones, a pattern that Israel has struggled to counter. And while an ageing generation of Hezbollah\u2019s top leadership \u2013 many of them personally connected to Nasrallah \u2013 has been removed, it is unclear whether those who replace them will share the same approach in trying to manage the conflict beneath the threshold of all-out war. While Nasrallah ultimately failed in this ambition, not least by fatally underestimating the calculus in Israel, it is not yet clear whether Israel\u2019s decision to kill him, in the longer term, is necessarily more sound. Already it is clear that one aspect of the Iranian response is to rapidly reify the idea of Nasrallah as an indispensable \u201cmartyr\u201d and \u201cmaster of resistance\u201d who can remain as a figurehead for the movement. Other experts see Hezbollah as more resilient than its recent losses might suggest. \u201cHezbollah is a robust institution with a strong chain of command that should ensure continuity at the leadership level,\u201d wrote Nicholas Blanford, a longtime observer of the group, in an opinion for the Atlantic Council thinktank. \u201cAn unknown factor, however, is who within the upper echelons of Hezbollah died alongside Nasrallah. If other significant leaders were killed, it could complicate \u2013 and perhaps delay for a while \u2013 the process of re-establishing command and control over the entire organisation, potentially leaving the party vulnerable to Israel\u2019s next moves. \u201cAnother pressing question is whether the death of Nasrallah will force Iran and Hezbollah to begin employing more advanced precision-guided missile systems that could potentially inflict far greater damage and casualties in Israel compared to the older, unguided rockets the group has been using until now. \u201cOr will cold rational logic continue to prevail, with Tehran ensuring a vengeful and angry Hezbollah does not fall into the trap of a full-force response against Israel? A response of that kind could lead to a major war, one that could erode Hezbollah\u2019s capabilities and therefore reduce its deterrence effect for Iran. The coming days will tell.\u201d Writing in the Lebanese newspaper L\u2019Orient-Le Jour in the immediate aftermath of the assassination, Anthony Samrani also warned against underestimating the group. \u201cWe know nothing about what is happening inside the party, nor anything about the intentions of the Iranians,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIsrael carried out thousands of strikes in a week, which likely destroyed part of Hezbollah\u2019s arsenal. But neither the 150,000 missiles and rockets it holds, nor the tens of thousands of armed men who form the militia, have disappeared in the snap of a finger. \u201cEven if it seems more complicated every day, we cannot exclude the fact that Hezbollah still has the means to respond to its adversary and wage a total and longer-lasting war. The party is in shock. Can it rally?\u201d He added: \u201cAll scenarios are on the table. That of a total war, of a defeat that the [Shia] party will make Lebanon pay for, and of the most fragile opportunity, to finally learn the lessons of everything that led Lebanon, beyond Hezbollah, to find itself in this situation.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Milan appeals against \u2018grotesque\u2019 move to rename airport after Berlusconi;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/milan-council-appeals-against-move-to-rename-main-airport-after-berlusconi;2024-09-29T11:22:28Z",
        "text": "Milan council has appealed against a \u201cgrotesque\u201d move to rename the city\u2019s main airport after the scandal-tainted late former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. The council approved a resolution to take the case to the Lombardy region\u2019s administrative court after the initiative to rename Malpensa was accelerated by Matteo Salvini, the transport minister in Giorgia Meloni\u2019s far-right government. Salvini has been pushing for the airport to be named after Berlusconi since the billionaire media magnate\u2019s death in June last year and approved the plan this summer after it was given the green light by Enac, Italy\u2019s civil aviation authority. There is normally a mandatory 10-year wait after a person\u2019s death before a public place can be named after them. Milan\u2019s mayor, Giuseppe Sala, claimed Salvini had made the move without involving SEA, the company that manages the airport, or the local councils in its vicinity. He also accused Enac of succumbing to pressure from rightwing politicians. The leader of the centre-left Democratic party in Lombardy, Pierfrancesco Majorino, said Milan\u2019s council had made \u201can important and unforeseen choice\u201d. \u201cThe council, together with other municipal administrations in the area, will not stand by and watch in the face of a grotesque and needlessly divisive act desired by Salvini and the Meloni government,\u201d he said. Thousands of people signed a petition calling on the government to stop the plan and there have also been protests against it. In response to the appeal, Salvini wrote on X: \u201cEven after his death, the hate and rancour towards Berlusconi doesn\u2019t stop.\u201d Berlusconi was born in Milan and died in the city last year at the age of 86. Forza Italia, the party he founded, is a partner in Meloni\u2019s ruling coalition. The decision to give Berlusconi a state funeral also caused an outcry in Italy, as did the government\u2019s approval of a postage stamp marking the first anniversary of his death."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;European ministers call for immediate ceasefire in Lebanon;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/european-ministers-call-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-lebanon;2024-09-29T10:05:50Z",
        "text": "European foreign ministers have stepped up calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, amid concern that Israel\u2019s killing of Hezbollah\u2019s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, risks seriously destabilising Lebanon and the region. Even as Israeli defence officials continued to raise the prospect of a cross-border operation into southern Lebanon, the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK voiced alarm over the latest escalation on the Israeli side. Israel must \u201cimmediately stop its strikes in Lebanon\u201d, the French foreign minister, Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot, said, adding that his country was opposed to any form of ground operation by the Israelis. David Lammy, the UK foreign secretary, said on X that he had spoken to the Lebanese prime minister, Najib Mikati. \u201cWe agreed on the need for an immediate ceasefire to bring an end to the bloodshed. A diplomatic solution is the only way to restore security and stability for the Lebanese and Israeli people,\u201d Lammy wrote. The German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, told the broadcaster ARD that Nasrallah\u2019s killing \u201cthreatens destabilisation for the whole of Lebanon\u201d, which \u201cis in no way in Israel\u2019s security interest\u201d. The US president, Joe Biden, has described Nasrallah\u2019s death as a \u201cmeasure of justice\u201d, though he also told reporters on Saturday: \u201cIt\u2019s time for a ceasefire.\u201d Since Nasrallah\u2019s death Hezbollah has said it will continue fighting Israel and has continued to fire rockets at it, including a salvo on Sunday morning. More than 700 people have been killed in Lebanon since Israel stepped up its bombardment of Hezbollah strongholds last Monday, according to health ministry figures. In Beirut, displaced families spent the night on benches at Zaitunay Bay, a string of restaurants and cafes on Beirut\u2019s waterfront where private security usually shoos away any loiterers. The UN refugee chief, Filippo Grandi, said \u201cwell over 200,000 people are displaced inside Lebanon\u201d and more than 50,000 had fled to neighbouring Syria. Nasrallah was killed in a massive Israeli air attack on Friday on Hezbollah\u2019s headquarters in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs. It was a major blow to the group and to Iran, removing an influential ally who helped build Hezbollah into the linchpin of Tehran\u2019s network of allied groups in the Arab world. Israel announced his killing on Saturday and Hezbollah later confirmed his death. The growing international concern over the potential impact of Nasrallah\u2019s assassination came as Israel continued to launch dozens of strikes against Hezbollah. According to reports, one air raid in northern Lebanon on Sunday morning killed 11 people. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the military had endorsed a potential ground operation. It cited army officials as saying they had gained substantial experience in Gaza and that Israeli intelligence on Lebanon was much better than what it had had on Hamas in Gaza. Reports in the Israeli media suggested that the leadership of the Israel Defense Forces was continuing to push for a limited ground offensive within weeks, seeing a closing window of opportunity. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Saturday that Nasrallah\u2019s killing was a necessary step toward \u201cchanging the balance of power in the region for years to come\u201d. \u201cNasrallah was not a terrorist, he was the terrorist,\u201d Netanyahu said in a statement, warning of challenging days ahead. The Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said: \u201cHis elimination makes the world a safer place.\u201d Hezbollah began low-intensity cross-border strikes on Israeli troops a day after its Palestinian ally Hamas staged its unprecedented attack on Israel on 7 October, triggering the war in Gaza. The Israeli military said on Sunday that it had killed Nabil Kaouk, another top Hezbollah leader, on Saturday. Kaouk was one of the few remaining senior members of the organisation, and reportedly one of those being considered to succeed Nasrallah as leader. Analysts suggest that Hashem Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah\u2019s executive council, is the favoured pick to succeed Nasrallah. Naeem Qassem, the deputy secretary general of the organisation, is also reportedly in the running. Hezbollah\u2019s leadership has been decimated by a relentless Israeli assassination campaign."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Six days of horror: America\u2019s thirst for executions returns with a vengeance;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/america-executions-death-penalty;2024-09-29T10:00:31Z",
        "text": "The death penalty is waning in America. Most states have abolished it or put it on pause, the annual crop of executions and new death sentences is in decline, and public opinion is turning steadily against the practice. So the battle to break America\u2019s primal adherence to a-life-for-a-life is prevailing. Not this week, it isn\u2019t. Five executions. Five different states over six days of horror. This was the week in which America\u2019s ailing death penalty bit back. Such a concentrated glut of judicial killing was last seen more than 20 years ago in the US. Across the US south and midwest \u2013 from Alabama to Missouri, Oklahoma to South Carolina, and of course in the heart of it all, Texas \u2013 states fired up their death chambers. Experts said it was a random coincidence that so many capital cases, with their convoluted legal journeys, came to a climax at once. But there was nothing random or coincidental about the disdain for probable innocence that was on display this week. Nor about the racial animus, or the callous indifference to life animating supposedly \u201cright-to-life\u201d states. \u201cThis week has exposed the reality of the death penalty in America, in all its brutality and injustice,\u201d said Maya Foa, joint executive director of the human rights group Reprieve. \u201cAcross the US, executing states are going to ever more extreme lengths to prop up the practice.\u201d While much of the US is focused on Donald Trump\u2019s remolding of the Republican party and his efforts to bring his Make America Great Again (Maga) movement back to the White House in November\u2019s election, a parallel shift has taken hold in the death penalty world, albeit behind the scenes and largely unnoticed. Republican prosecutors, many of whom pay lip service to Trump and his Maga values, have become increasingly aggressive in pushing capital cases to finality. The federal courts, which Trump transformed by appointing more than 200 judges during his presidency, have also changed their tune. Where they once acted as a failsafe against unreliable convictions, they now largely step aside. That is especially true of the US supreme court, with its new ultra-right supermajority secured by Trump\u2019s three appointed justices, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. \u201cThere\u2019s been a radical shift in the legal culture as it relates to the death penalty in the past six years,\u201d said Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, who perhaps more than anyone has alerted Americans to the inequities of death row. \u201cThe refs are gone, there is no more oversight.\u201d The result, Stevenson said, was that the rump of largely southern states still wedded to capital punishment are now unbound. \u201cWithout safeguards, without accountability, the states have leeway to do pretty much what they want,\u201d he said. This week is a case in point. \u2022\u2022\u2022 Any analysis of the death penalty in America should begin with innocence. It\u2019s the great fear that until recently concerned even hardcore supporters of capital punishment \u2013 that the state might be poised to kill an innocent person. That anxiety also guided the supreme court. \u201cDeath is different\u201d was their mantra \u2013 the idea being that with no appeal possible once a condemned man\u2019s heart has been stopped, his conviction had better be sound. \u201cThere was a time when if you had a decent innocence case, with enough questions raised, then you could rely on the courts to stay the execution,\u201d said Stephen Bright, one of the most revered capital defenders who for more than 40 years has exposed injustices across the US south. \u201cBut look at Missouri. It\u2019s just unbelievable.\u201d By Missouri, Bright was referring to the case of Marcellus \u201cKhaliifah\u201d Williams, 55. Doubts in his death sentence for murdering a local newspaper reporter, Lisha Gayle, in 1998 were abundant. Though there was plenty of DNA material left on the kitchen knife used to commit the crime, none of it matched Williams\u2019s. Other forensic evidence had been destroyed or contaminated by prosecutors, leaving the defendant to be sent to death row on the basis of two witnesses with incentives to testify against him including leniency in their own criminal cases and a $10,000 reward. With so many glaring contradictions, calls for a reprieve grew deafening this week. They came from the victim\u2019s family, the Gayles, who pleaded for a stay of execution. They came too from the current prosecuting attorney in St Louis county who was so concerned that a miscarriage of justice had been committed by his own office that he even signed off on a court-approved agreement to spare Williams\u2019s life. Missouri\u2019s Republican attorney general, Andrew Bailey, a Maga loyalist who has used the power of his office to try to overturn Trump\u2019s 34 felony convictions in the New York hush-money case, was unimpressed. He threw out the court-backed deal, swept aside the searing doubts and sent Williams to the death chamber. The US supreme court was also unimpressed. The supermajority of six ultra-conservative justices, Trump\u2019s triad of appointees among them, refused to consider a last-minute petition from Williams, without offering an explanation. The three liberal-leaning justices \u2013 Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson \u2013 dissented, saying they would have granted a stay, but were overruled. Williams was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6.10pm on Tuesday. \u201cYou\u2019ve got the prosecuting attorney saying don\u2019t execute this guy, the victim\u2019s family saying don\u2019t execute this guy, and you go ahead and execute him,\u201d Bright said. \u201cReally? I mean, what\u2019s the point of that?\u201d Two of the five prisoners killed this week had strong claims of innocence. In addition to Williams, there was Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, 46, AKA Freddie Owens, who last Friday became the first person to be executed by South Carolina in 13 years. Yet again, no forensic evidence linked Allah to the murder of a convenience store cashier, Irene Graves, in 1997. Yet again, he was sent to death row on the testimony of a self-interested party, in this case his co-defendant who last week came forward and gave sworn testimony that Allah had not been present at the robbery. Despite such misgivings, Henry McMaster, the Republican governor of South Carolina, who has called Trump \u201cthe face of America\u2019s strength\u201d, declined to grant Allah clemency. The supreme court also refused to hear an appeal, with Sotomayor this time dissenting. Allah was pronounced dead at 6.55pm last Friday. \u2022\u2022\u2022 Three of the five men executed this week were Black. They were Williams and Allah, and a third man on death row, Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52. Littlejohn was executed by Oklahoma on Thursday for the 1992 murder of a convenience store owner, Kenneth Meers. Doubts swirled around his conviction, too. Littlejohn confessed that he had been part of the robbery, but insisted that he had not pulled the trigger. Once more, such concerns did not trouble the state\u2019s Trump-endorsed governor, Kevin Stitt, who declined clemency. His decision was paradoxical, given that Stitt has bragged about Oklahoma being the \u201cmost pro-life state in the country\u201d. The heavy bias towards Black prisoners going to their deaths this week reflects a nationwide reality. Since 1976, 34% of all those executed have been African American, while just 13% of the country\u2019s population are Black, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. In Williams\u2019s case, the racial rot went deeper. Shortly before he was executed, the original trial prosecutor testified that he had removed a potential juror from the jury pool partly because he was Black \u2013 a discriminatory move that is banned under the US constitution. Six of the seven potential Black jurors were thrown out, creating a final jury with 11 white members and one Black member. \u201cI don\u2019t think anything represents our long history of racial injustice more dramatically than the tolerance of racial bias in the administration of the death penalty,\u201d Stevenson said. \u201cFor a Black defendant to be tried by a nearly all-white jury in a county with a substantial Black population, and have the courts look the other way, that\u2019s the shadow, the pollution, that the history of lynching and segregation and punitive enslavement has created.\u201d \u2022\u2022\u2022 Another trait in the way the death penalty is now administered was on lurid display this week. Some call it brutality, others cruelty, and in the case of Alan Miller, it has even been denounced as torture. On Thursday, Miller, 59, was put to death by Alabama for the 1999 shootings of three of his co-workers. The state used nitrogen gas effectively to suffocate him \u2013 an experimental killing technique that has only been deployed once before in US history, with the execution in January of Kenneth Smith, also by Alabama. An eyewitness for the Associated Press described Miller\u2019s death by nitrogen in hauntingly similar terms to Smith\u2019s: \u201cHe shook and trembled on the gurney for about two minutes with his body at times pulling against the restraints. That was followed by about six minutes of periodic gulping.\u201d But that convulsive death was not the most disturbing aspect of Miller\u2019s end. This was the second time that guards had escorted the prisoner to the death chamber and strapped him to the gurney \u2013 Alabama had tried to kill him once before and failed. In court documents, Miller told how in September 2022, nameless officials dressed in green and aqua scrubs spent 90 minutes searching for one of his veins through which they could inject lethal drugs. They stuck needles into his biceps, inner arms, elbow pit, hands and feet. When that didn\u2019t work, they slapped his neck to see if that might produce results, then suspended him upside down on the gurney to aid blood flow. They left him dangling there, head down, for 20 minutes. \u201cMr Miller was deeply disturbed by state employees silently staring at him while he was hanging vertically from the gurney,\u201d the court document says. Miller\u2019s 2022 execution had a happy conclusion, of sorts. Shortly before midnight, the department of corrections admitted defeat and sent him back to his cell, then promptly began the paperwork to get him back in the death chamber. This week they got their way. Miller was pronounced dead at 6.38pm on Thursday. \u2022\u2022\u2022 Spare a thought for the fifth condemned man to die this week, Travis Mullis, 38. Of the five, he attracted least media attention, and yet his execution by Texas also speaks volumes. Mullis, who was convicted for killing his three-month-old son, Alijah, in 2008, was what is known as a \u201cvolunteer\u201d \u2013 meaning, he actively wanted to die, waiving all appeals and urging his executioners on. In his last statement, Mullis called his death a form of \u201cassisted suicide\u201d \u2013 which is not inaccurate. Texas, a state that bans physician-assisted suicide, loaded Mullis up with the sedative pentobarbital and helped him slip away. He was pronounced dead at 7.01pm on Tuesday. \u2022\u2022\u2022 Where does this week\u2019s orgy of death leave the US? Anyone hoping for answers from the current political moment are likely to be disappointed. Trump has indicated that if he wins in November, he will pursue the federal death penalty with even more gusto than he did when he was last in office. In the final days of his presidency, his administration executed 13 federal prisoners \u2013 more than under any president in 120 years. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris, the vice-president and Democratic presidential candidate, has gone silent on the subject. She used to be an avowed abolitionist, but now she declines to comment, and this summer the Democratic party quietly removed opposition to capital punishment from its official platform. That leaves Bryan Stevenson fearful for the future. He said: \u201cWhen people are executed even when the prosecutor says they are likely innocent, when others are subjected to torturous multiple executions, when the death penalty continues to be so skewed by race \u2013 then you know that the integrity of the United States, its moral quotient, is in question.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Japan\u2019s magic bullet: 60 years of the train that helped rebuild the idea of a country;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/japans-magic-bullet-60-years-of-the-train-that-helped-rebuild-the-idea-of-a-country;2024-09-29T09:00:30Z",
        "text": "At 6am on 1 October 1964, two trains set off in opposite directions in a daring experiment that would quickly turn them into symbols of Japan\u2019s transformation from militarist pariah to global economic powerhouse. Black-and-white footage shows smartly dressed men, women and children marvelling at the countryside whizzing past their windows, some perhaps trying to calm their nerves at being whisked along at speeds unheard of in rail travel. Crowds gathered on platforms to watch the two trains reach their destinations, Tokyo and Osaka. Then, like now, they arrived exactly on time, at 10am, depositing their passengers after a 320-mile journey that had once taken almost seven hours but which they had just completed in four. Six decades on, it is hard to believe that many then viewed the shinkansen \u2013 now the jewel in the crown of the country\u2019s public transport infrastructure \u2013 as an indulgence. There were protests over the acquisition of land, while critics labelled it an expensive anachronism in a postwar age of prosperity and mobility in which air and road travel would surely reign. Instead, the shinkansen, commonly known outside Japan as the bullet train, has become a byword for Japanese comfort and efficiency. The network has expanded to cover all four of the country\u2019s main islands \u2013 a network of more than 1,800 miles that connects most major cities, taking passengers to their destinations at speeds of up to 200mph. Mark Schreiber, a longtime resident of Japan, remembers being \u201cthrilled\u201d as an 18-year-old to be making his first bullet train trip, from Tokyo to Kyoto, with his brother and parents in 1965. \u201cThe ride was so smooth, the only sensation of speed was watching the scenery fly by,\u201d said Schreiber, who wrote a history of the shinkansen for a Japanese magazine when the service marked its 25th year. \u201cThis is a country that really loves its trains, and their pride and enthusiasm has been contagious.\u201d The shinkansen \u2013 literally \u201cnew trunk line\u201d \u2013 is also a lesson, not least for HS2 planners in Britain, in how to run a high-speed rail service. The Tokyo-Nagoya-Osaka service alone, known as the Tokaido line, has carried 6.4 billion people, according to Central Japan Railway \u2013 while there has not been a single fatality as a result of an accident anywhere on the network. British commuters will be dismayed to learn that the average delay is less than a minute. The shinkansen\u2019s debut was part of the emergence of a new Japan \u2013 a constitutional democracy with a soaring economy and revitalised population, whose readmission into the international community would be completed nine days later by the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. \u201cThe opening of the Tokaido Shinkansen and the 1964 Olympics become entwined in a powerful symbolic message to the world: Japan is back. But not only is Japan back, it is ready to be a world leader,\u201d said Christopher Hood, reader in Japanese studies at Cardiff University and author of Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan. The service has not rested on its laurels. The travelling time between Tokyo and Osaka has been cut to 2 hours and 22 minutes, at a maximum speed of 178mph. In 1964, it served an average of 60,000 passengers a day; by 2013, it was 424,000. But the service is marking its 60th year at an uncertain time. The next-generation bullet train has been blighted by delays, rows about its environmental impact and doubts over its appeal in an age of budget air travel. The Chuo Shinkansen, originally scheduled to open in 2027, will connect Tokyo with the central city of Nagoya in just 40 minutes rather than the current one hour 34 minutes, with trains reaching a maximum speed of more than 300mph. The resignation this year of a local governor who had led objections to plans for the line to pass through his prefecture has removed one obstacle, but others remain. This month, officials said the presence of soft ground along the proposed route would delay completion of one of the tunnels by more than five years. It is now not expected to go into commercial operation until 2034 at the earliest. Hood attributes much of the train\u2019s success to its safety record and reliability. \u201cAnother aspect is that it connects key cities,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople in the UK probably don\u2019t appreciate how big Japan really is. In area terms it\u2019s only about 50% bigger than the UK, but it stretches a long way.\u201d Hood believes other countries would not have built their own high-speed railways had it not been for the shinkansen. Shigeru Morichi, a transport policy expert and professor emeritus at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, credits the network\u2019s expansion with revitalising the economies of cities located along its lines. \u201cIt has expanded the sphere of economic activity, just as the silk road and Roman road-building revolutionised the economy, culture, and civilisation of the time,\u201d said Morichi, who uses the service at least 10 times a year. Donna Burke, who has been the English-language \u201cvoice\u201d of the shinkansen for around two decades, said the train \u201cepitomises what I love about most about Japan \u2013 pride in your work, service to others, efficiency and dependability\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Moment of truth\u2019 for Austria as far right senses election triumph;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/moment-of-truth-for-austria-as-far-right-senses-election-triumph;2024-09-29T08:08:11Z",
        "text": "The wiry, bespectacled man in the down vest, looking like an amiable ski instructor, beams on stage as the crowd chants \u201cHerbert! Herbert! Herbert!\u201d, waving hundreds of Austrian flags. Just after sunset behind the soaring spire of Vienna\u2019s St Stephen\u2019s Cathedral, Austria\u2019s far-right leader Herbert Kickl tells voters they have the chance with Sunday\u2019s potentially watershed national election to \u201ctake our country back\u201d. \u201cFive good years,\u201d Kickl promised the audience, with polls showing that his pro-Kremlin, anti-migration Freedom party (FP\u00d6) could for the first time win the most votes. \u201cVolkskanzler!\u201d supporters shout, using the \u201cpeople\u2019s chancellor\u201d moniker once used to describe the Austrian-born Adolf Hitler, which Kickl has also come to embrace. Riding a far-right surge in many parts of Europe and taking Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n as a model, the FP\u00d6 and Kickl are capitalising on fears around migration, asylum and crime heightened by the August cancellation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna over an alleged Islamist terror plot. Mounting inflation, tepid economic growth and lingering resentment over strict government measures during Covid have dovetailed into an 11-point leap in the polls for the FP\u00d6 since the last election in 2019. It is a remarkable comeback for a party humiliated five years ago after the so-called Ibiza scandal in which Austria\u2019s then deputy chancellor and FP\u00d6 leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, was caught on video at a Spanish luxury resort discussing a potential bribe from a woman purporting to be the niece of a Russian oligarch. The disgraced Strache and his parliamentary leader, Johann Gudenus, who had initiated the meeting, were forced to resign, triggering snap elections in which the centre-right Austrian People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP), led by \u201cwunderkind\u201d chancellor Sebastian Kurz, triumphed. Two years later Kurz quit politics amid a corruption investigation. The last term has been marked by a stunning reversal for the government, an \u00d6VP coalition with the Greens, even by the baroque standards of politics in this Alpine country of nine million. The conservatives have shed 13 points in that time, with the FP\u00d6 leading in the polls since late 2022 and coming first in European parliament elections in June. Kickl said he chose the capital\u2019s most important religious monument as a backdrop for its historical significance \u2013 as the site of a key election rally by his mentor J\u00f6rg Haider 25 years before. The former firebrand FP\u00d6 leader and Carinthia state premier, who died in 2008 in a drink-driving crash, transformed the party founded by ex-Nazi functionaries and SS officers into the anti-migrant, anti-Islam outfit it is today. \u201cJust imagine what might have been if we had had J\u00f6rg Haider as chancellor,\u201d Kickl said to cheers, as counter-protesters whistled and beat drums from behind a police cordon. \u201cBut this time you can feel it: we\u2019re going to do it.\u201d Children clutched FP\u00d6 turquoise balloons as the crowd roared when Kickl railed against anti-Russian sanctions, \u201cthe snobs, headteachers and know-it-alls\u201d, climate activists and \u201cdrag queens in schools and the early sexualisation of our children\u201d. He hailed a proposed constitutional amendment declaring the existence of only two genders. But the biggest applause line remained his call for \u201cremigration\u201d, or forced deportation of people \u201cwho think they don\u2019t have to play by the rules\u201d of Austrian society. \u201cIt was a fantastic speech,\u201d said Elisabeth Br\u00fcnner, 67, a retired forestry worker. \u201cHerr Kickl is a free spirit \u2013 people try to paint him as an extremist but that\u2019s wrong. He\u2019s a patriot.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve been an FP\u00d6 supporter from the start and Kickl learned what he knows from Herr Haider,\u201d said butcher Martha, 58. \u201cHe wants to put Austria first above all other countries and turn things around.\u201d Peter, 55, clutching a small Austrian flag and wearing a Trump hat, joined in the \u201cHerbert\u201d chants. Asked what Kickl had in common with the former US president, he said: \u201cA healthy understanding of the people and culture and a rejection of the great replacement,\u201d a white nationalist conspiracy theory. Kickl has been joined on the campaign trail by far-right allies from abroad who have sought to mimic the FP\u00d6\u2019s success since Haider, including Germany\u2019s Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland co-leader Alice Weidel. Polling shows the election on a knife-edge, with the far right in the lead at 27%, two points ahead of the \u00d6VP of Chancellor Karl Nehammer. The opposition Social Democrats (SP\u00d6) look set for third place with about 21%. Despite devastating flooding this month from Storm Boris bringing the climate crisis to the fore, the Greens are on just 8%, nearly six points off their 2019 result. Given the electoral maths, any winner will require a coalition to form a government. The first polling stations opened at or shortly before 7am (0500 GMT). Projections are due minutes after polls close at 5pm, with results being finessed over the ensuing hours. Nehammer, the SP\u00d6 and the Greens used their final rallies in Vienna to warn against Kickl, who has kept company with known neo-Nazis and extremists of the pan-European far-right nationalist Identitarian Movement. In the campaign, the incumbent called the FP\u00d6 leader a \u201csecurity risk\u201d for Austria and a threat to its standing in Europe. Kickl at his Vienna rally slammed Nehammer as \u201cpersonified lack of credibility \u2013 lies pave his path\u201d. Unlike the other centrist opposition parties, however, the \u00d6VP has not ruled out cooperating with the FP\u00d6 in the next government, as it has twice in the past in taboo-breaking alliances at the national level. Nehammer, however, has said that Kickl as chancellor would be a non-starter, setting up a potential showdown in which the FP\u00d6 would have to either jettison Kickl or take a backseat in government to win the \u00d6VP\u2019s support. Nehammer has actively sought to co-opt the FP\u00d6\u2019s hardline stance on immigration, which the far right hopes to bring to bear at the EU level using Austria\u2019s outsized influence in Brussels. \u201cThe government has drastically reduced asylum applications,\u201d the chancellor said on Thursday. \u201cBut we need more: asylum procedures in third countries before asylum seekers come through several European countries. And more: complete access to social welfare only after five years of residency in Austria.\u201d Migrant groups have expressed fear for the future in Austria, which critics say has failed to fully own up to its Nazi past. Rabbi Jacob Frenkel of Vienna\u2019s Jewish Council has called the election a \u201cmoment of truth\u201d. Political scientist Julia Partheym\u00fcller, of the Vienna Centre for Electoral Research, said conservatives\u2019 attempts across Europe to steal the hard right\u2019s thunder on immigration rarely worked and often backfired. \u201cInstead of trying to win back the FP\u00d6\u2019s voting base, which is difficult, they should focus on their core strengths like the economy and social welfare and put forward competent leaders,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat doesn\u2019t work is taking over populist positions, which usually just leads to the entire political debate shifting [to the right].\u201d First-time voter Nina Brabcov\u00e1, 16, said the far right had earned her support. \u201cEven though I\u2019m a \u2018foreigner\u2019 \u2013 my family came from Slovakia \u2013 I think the foreigners need to leave Austria, at least the criminal ones.\u201d Speaking in Klagenfurt in Haider\u2019s former fiefdom, she said many of her schoolmates shared her view of the FP\u00d6 thanks in part to the party\u2019s adept use of TikTok. \u201cWe don\u2019t feel safe taking the train alone at night,\u201d she said, citing a common theme in far-right campaigns. Regardless of the outcome, the \u00d6VP seems poised to hold on to power, either in an alliance with the far right or an unwieldy, unprecedented three-way coalition with smaller centrist parties. Many of the people at Kickl\u2019s Vienna rally said they had come not out of support but to get a firsthand look at the political force likely to be shaping Austria\u2019s future, one way or another, for years to come. \u201cIt was incredibly depressing to see what people applauded for \u2013 just the response to \u2018remigration\u2019 alone was chilling,\u201d said Alice, 32, a financial services employee who would only give her first name. \u201cTo be honest, tonight was scary.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Harrods must reveal all NDAs signed by Mohamed Al Fayed\u2019s victims, say lawyers;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/harrods-must-reveal-all-ndas-signed-by-mohamed-al-fayeds-victims-say-lawyers;2024-09-29T08:00:29Z",
        "text": "Lawyers acting for women attacked by Mohamed Al Fayed say Harrods must reveal how many people were silenced by non-disclosure agreements after its new owners pledged not to enforce any signed during his ownership. Fayed covered up his sexual abuse by intimidating victims into signing NDAs in exchange for money, as well as taking libel action against media outlets that tried to expose him. Yet the full extent of his abuses remains unclear and although more than 200 people have come forward so far, some women who were attacked may feel unable to take action, lawyers say. Harrods said in a statement: \u201cThere are no NDAs attached to settlements made under the current ownership and Harrods would not seek to enforce any NDAs that relate to alleged historical sexual abuse by Fayed that were entered into during the period of his, Fayed\u2019s, ownership.\u201d However, it was unable to say how many NDAs were signed under Fayed. Dino Nocivelli, a partner in the abuse team at Leigh Day, one of the law firms representing victims, said Harrods had a duty to go further. \u201cHave they reached out to women who have signed NDAs to let them know?\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s possible that some of the women have seen the publicity around this, but think that they can\u2019t say anything because of something they\u2019ve signed. Have Harrods put it on their website? Have they told any of the lawyers involved? \u201cIt\u2019s important that we know the true scale of this \u2013 how many women he abused, the time period, how old they were, where that abuse took place and when the allegations were made.\u201d The reason for understanding the scale, Nocivelli said, was that other people had helped Fayed cover up his crimes. \u201cThe fact that NDAs were used in certain cases, literally silencing a victim all over again, is despicable and resulted in other women having to carry the burden of their abuse for many unnecessary and painful years,\u201d he said. Fayed, who died last year aged 94, owned Harrods, the Ritz hotel in Paris and Fulham Football Club, as well as a charitable foundation, a publishing company and several properties. Harrods was sold to a firm controlled by the Qatari royal family in 2010. The BBC documentary Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods heard from more than 20 women who worked for Fayed. Five said he raped them while they were worked at the store. Fayed would pick out young female employees to to work more closely with him on the fifth floor of the Knightsbridge department store. He would then assault them in his offices, his apartment or on overseas trips. There have been allegations of attacks in London, Paris, St Tropez and Abu Dhabi. Since the documentary was shown, more women said they were attacked. Barristers from a legal team called Harrods Survivors, solicitors Leigh Day and US firm Motley Rice are now representing at least 60 people. Harrods Survivors said last week they had \u201ccredible evidence of abuse at other Al Fayed properties and businesses, including Fulham Football Club\u201d. Fulham said it was in the process of finding out whether anyone at the club had been affected. In May the previous government passed the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024, which would mean anyone signing an NDA who believed they were the victim of a crime would still be able to contact police, lawyers or other professionals. But the NDA clause has not yet come into force. Campaigners including Pregnant Then Screwed and Can\u2019t Buy My Silence have called for NDAs to be banned in employment disputes. Others have suggested a central authority should be created where NDAs should be registered before they can be enforced. The Metropolitan police said last week it was investigating new allegations against Fayed. Officers are \u201ccarrying out full reviews of all existing allegations reported to us about Al Fayed to ensure there are no new lines of enquiry based on new information which has emerged\u201d, it said. Although Fayed cannot now be pursued, \u201cwe must ensure we fully explore whether any other individuals could be pursued for any criminal offences\u201d, it added. Nineteen women made allegations between 2005 and 2023 to police about offences that took place between 1979 and 2013, including three allegations of rape, 15 sexual assaults and one related to trafficking. Yet Fayed was never prosecuted. The Met said officers had approached the Crown Prosecution Service five times, and passed a file of evidence twice, in 2009 and 2015. Various publications and broadcasters tried to investigate Fayed while he was alive. Vanity Fair reported in 1995 that Fayed had sexually harassed female staff and women were subjected to invasive medical examinations. Fayed sued, and the case was settled after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed. ITV\u2019s The Big Story reported in 1997 that four women said they had been groped by Fayed and promised rewards for sex, and evidence that Fayed had bugged employee phones in Harrods. Fayed\u2019s son, Omar, said in a statement to Sky News that he was \u201chorrified\u201d by the allegations against his father. \u201cThe extent and explicit nature of the allegations are shocking and has thrown into question the loving memory I had of him,\u201d he said. \u201cHow this matter could have been concealed for so long and in so many ways raises further disturbing questions.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;The Middle East in crisis: 7 October, the day that changed the world;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/the-middle-east-in-crisis-7-october-the-day-that-changed-the-world;2024-09-29T05:00:26Z",
        "text": "Even the day before, the only people anywhere in the world who knew exactly what was planned could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Israeli intelligence services had been deceived, or had failed to comprehend. Those who would take part, the militants of Hamas and some allied groups, did not yet know what they had been training for. To keep the secret, Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza, had confided in three or four key lieutenants. Only they knew what was to come, and where, and when. So on that Friday evening, in Rafah and Khan Younis, Tel Aviv and Sderot, in the kibbutzim of southern Israel, in Beit Lahia and Deir al Balah, life went on as usual. Only at 6.29 the next morning, when thousands of rockets launched from Gaza towards Israel across the lightening sky did anyone begin to suspect that this 7 October would be very different. Still, few anticipated the catastrophe that it would bring, nor the year of crisis it would provoke. This weekend the regional war that so many have feared for so long is apparently closer than ever. More than 1,200, mostly civilians, died on 7 October. Of the 250 abducted that day by Hamas, half were released in a short-lived ceasefire in November and half of the remainder are thought to be dead. No one knows how many died in Friday\u2019s massive strike in southern Beirut. More than 41,000 have been killed in Gaza, mostly civilians, one in 55 of the pre-war population. More than 700 have died in Lebanon in the recent wave of Israeli attacks, including the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. When the sheer scale and brutality of the Hamas attack into Israel on 7 October became clear over the following days, it was obvious that Israel\u2019s response would be as unprecedented in scale and violence as the event that provoked it. From London, the big pessimistic picture seemed easy enough to paint: an ever accelerating cycle of attack and retaliation that would eventually spread across the Middle East. Since then, we have seen the Israeli offensive in Gaza; a war of attrition on Israel\u2019s contested northern border that has left hundreds dead; Israel\u2019s recent strikes against Hezbollah and its leaders in Lebanon; a large missile and drone attack on Israel by Iran; three US servicemen killed in Jordan by Iran-backed Shia militia in southern Syria; a special forces raid on north-west Syria by Israel and multiple air strikes; US and British airstrikes in Yemen in response to Houthi attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea; a Hamas leader assassinated (presumably) by the Mossad in Tehran; and appalling bloodshed in the West Bank, while Jordan has only narrowly escaped jihadi attacks as levels of radicalisation rise. At the moment, with an Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon looming and the Iran-backed Islamist militant organisation retaliating insofar as it can, we are hearing a lot about the importance of avoiding \u201can all-out war\u201d. Given this welter of violence across thousands of miles, you would be forgiven for thinking one is already here. It is entirely understandable that we seek to impose definitions on this conflict. We still have an understanding of war that is anachronistic: of finite contests of strength on restricted battlefields. This was given new life by the war in Ukraine, which has seen tanks, artillery and infantry fighting in scenes we have not witnessed in Europe since 1945. But current conflicts that have received less attention, such as that in Sudan, or recent ones that have been forgotten with astonishing rapidity, such as the Syrian civil war, suggest that in reality today\u2019s conflicts are very different. They do not move up and then down a predictable scale of violence. They are neither \u201call out\u201d or its opposite, whatever that may be, but a continuing and dynamic stream of varying levels of violence, surging in one location, ebbing in another. They do not so much end as subside for long enough to be ignored by all but those immediately affected. Another neat and nonsensical phrase was used earlier in the conflict that began on 7 October, when many spoke of planning for \u201cthe day after\u201d. This was rooted in an early expectation that the war would be short and would end with a definite moment when reconstruction and rehabilitation could begin. It was also a consequence of the equally unrealistic conviction that Israel\u2019s government would allow some kind of new administrative structure in Gaza after removing Hamas from power, possibly involving Arab states if not the Palestinian Authority. After six months of conflict, the phrase was heard less, and is now heard barely at all, again with good reason. Last week, a father of three in Gaza, an administrator with the relief agency Unrwa and a sensitive, clever man, described how his very gentle young son has decided to be \u201ca soldier\u201d when he grows up. This is a profession for which the boy would likely be singularly unsuited, but his logic is that he needs to be able to defend his home and so never be forced to leave his toys again. The child is in Cairo, having made it out of Gaza with his mother and siblings months ago, and will never return to his home and toys, which were destroyed in an airstrike at the start of the war. He may never even return to Gaza. He is alive though, and so are his close family. Many others remain only in the memories of the bereaved. For none of them will there ever be a \u201cday after\u201d. Nor for the 80,000 or so who have been wounded, often seriously. Or for the relatives of those who have simply disappeared. These number in the thousands - adults and children, possibly dead, dumped in a mass grave or under the rubble, perhaps simply lost, amnesiac, detained by Israeli security forces, otherwise unfindable. There will be no \u201cday after\u201d here either. The effort to mark time, literally, is not restricted to those in Gaza who, in interview after interview, have spoken of how they had lost track of days, weeks or months and simply wanted the war to end. For families of hostages held by Hamas, the days their loved ones have been in Gaza are numbered closely, but, relatives pointed out, this communicated nothing of the lived experience of their anguish. Released hostages themselves talk of how they lost track of time. Reservists mobilised to fight in Gaza described hours on sentry duty, days of waiting, weeks of tedious patrolling, minutes of great tension, seconds of extreme violence. Above all, as one said, time in Gaza \u201clost its usual sense\u201d. Many Israelis talk about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on an individual, familial or even national scale. Some darkly joke that they are looking forward to having PTSD, because currently they are still in the trauma phase. They are not yet in the \u201cpost\u201d, the after. In the detention centres where Palestinians have been held in Israel, frequently subjected to appalling conditions, time means little in a legal sense as any limits to incarceration seem arbitrary, nor in a subjective sense, as those held experience the same stretching and concertina effect as others caught up in the conflict elsewhere. A relative insisted in an interview on describing the exact time passed since the detention of her son in hours, not days or weeks or months. But a man picked up in a raid in Tulkarm described how, during days blindfolded, he lost all sense of the hours passing. Such subjectivity is not limited just to calculating the time passing in this conflict. The same is true of space, when interviewees spoke of the extent of the war. Of course, lines can be drawn on maps. It is only a 40-minute drive south from where young Israeli hipsters enjoy breakfast in the sun in central Tel Aviv streets to the site of the Nova festival, where hundreds of similarly aged young Israelis were gunned down as they partied, or indeed to parts of Gaza where the UN has identified pockets of famine. Drive north and it is only an hour or so to Haifa, targeted by Hezbollah missiles, and then the northern border, where 70,000 were evacuated for fear of a Hezbollah version of the 7 October attack and have remained displaced. Beirut, if the borders were open, is only a short and spectacular drive further on. But the space that matters most for many Israelis cannot be plotted on a map. Lots of those civilians killed on 7 October died in their security rooms. These are not reinforced bunkers, but a designated place within a home, often a bedroom, with minimal additional protection where you shelter for danger to pass or for security forces to come to rescue you. On 7 October, it was not the security forces who entered these most intimate of spaces, but Hamas militants. This, in a country created in the belief that it would provide a persecuted people with a place where they would be safe and where faith in the army\u2019s ability to protect is fundamental, meant more than the seizure of any strategic site by any enemy. In the occupied West Bank, where closures and other restrictions imposed by the Israeli authorities have shuttered the lives of millions, Palestinian villagers described looking across a valley to their olive trees and knowing that, despite the short distance, they cannot walk across the rocky ground to bring in their harvest. In Nablus, young men carrying assault rifles talked of dying as martyrs and how they had never seen the sea, 42km away. In Tulkarm, where tarpaulins cast narrow streets into shade to provide cover for gunmen from Israeli drones, men talked of former places of work in Israel just a few kilometres away that are now totally inaccessible and worried about feeding their families. One particular aspect of this conflict that was radically different to other wars \u2013 at least for a reporter \u2013 was that the principal theatre of the violence, from 8 October onwards, was closed to the media. Other conflicts have been almost impossible to reach, or been entirely forgotten for other reasons, but few have been of such immediate importance and interest to so many people and so inaccessible. For the first few weeks of the conflict, TV crews broadcast from what became known among media professionals as the \u201chill of shame\u201d \u2013 a mound well inside Israel which had an unobstructed if distant view of the northern edge of Gaza, and so, as the days passed, of increasingly significant destruction there. Hundreds of messages and calls to and from Gaza could eventually allow an idea of what was happening to be painstakingly built up: the rolling waves of bombardment, the shattering of all the elements of a previous life, the schools turned into overcrowded camps for the displaced, the lack of food, the ever present fear. A Red Cross doctor described performing dozens of amputations in a day, badly burned children dying with insufficient anaesthetics and the horror of triage in overwhelmed emergency rooms. UN officials described the difficulties they faced bringing in aid. But this dislocation \u2013 to report a war at such distance \u2013 brought odd opportunities. A reporter in Jerusalem could spend hours making calls to Gaza from a hotel room, and then walk through the Old City to the Western Wall, the holiest available prayer site anywhere for Jews, to report on a service and rally in support of hostages in Gaza. On a fine evening, if visibility was good and deadlines permitted, it was possible to walk further, on to a spur from which the ridge beyond the River Jordan could be seen, the distant light of cities winking in the dusk. Recent days have underlined the inadequacy of our vocabulary for this moment in the conflict. Sinwar is still alive, though has not surfaced for many months from the extensive tunnel network he built under Gaza with funds that could have been used for schools and hospitals, and knowing that if the Israelis attacked he would be safe while civilians above would suffer. Benjamin Netanyahu has thundered belligerent defiance at the UN, ignoring the increasingly pathetic pleas of his most powerful ally to make some kind of peace. In Beirut, an entire block has been levelled and the leader of Hezbollah, a key Iranian asset, is dead. It is impossible to say where all this leads, though we can be sure of one thing: the fact there is no \u201call-out war\u201d makes little difference to those under the bombs and that, for them at least, nor will there be any \u201cday after\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018World of horrors\u2019: families huddle on Beirut\u2019s streets amid the bombs;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/world-of-horrors-families-huddle-on-beiruts-streets-amid-the-bombs;2024-09-28T19:25:51Z",
        "text": "Gunshots fired into the air, women wailing in the streets, the ever-present buzz of drones and the distant thud of Israeli airstrikes: this was the sound of mourning in Beirut on Saturday. Hassan Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for 32 years, was dead, killed in an Israeli airstrike on Dahieh, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the day before. For many in Lebanon, his killing had been unimaginable. But Israel\u2019s war with Hezbollah had long surpassed what was previously thought possible. Pagers had exploded in hands, walkie-talkies blew up in belts and Israeli warplanes killed hundreds in half a day. The death of Nasrallah was one more blow to the Lebanese psyche, already struggling to grasp soaring death tolls and, for some, the loss of their home overnight. \u201cWe are living on what the Seyed [Nasrallah] has given us. He allowed us to raise our heads up high. Whatever the Seyed would say, I would follow,\u201d said Faisal, a 46-year-old man from Dahieh, sharing a piece of broken-off Styrofoam with his wife as a cushion while they watched their two young boys play in Martyrs\u2019 Square in downtown Beirut. They sat in a decrepit, rusted phone booth, using it for shelter from the sun, which had been beating down on them for hours. \u201cAriel Sharon was living in the presidential palace, his feet propped up on the desk. Could Netanyahu do that now? No. Why? Because of Hezbollah,\u201d Faisal said. The couple had not slept in over a day, the evidence of fatigue revealed in red-rimmed eyes and dried blood running down Faisal\u2019s arm, still unwashed. They had been displaced by the very same very same airstrike that killed Nasrallah the day before, the series of intense explosions levelling a city block, injuring more than 100 and killing 11 \u2013 a death toll expected to soar as rescue workers picked their way through rubble. The force of the explosion brought Faisal\u2019s wife to the streets, barefoot, with two children in tow. Eventually she found Faisal and they headed to the square, following others going in the same direction who hoped the Christian demographic of the area would protect them from Israeli bombs. Hundreds of families from Dahieh crammed into the wide forum, a sea change from the farmers\u2019 markets and running events the square usually usually hosts. Many fled after the first airstrikes hit Dahieh on Friday afternoon, the largest explosions in Beirut since the conflict started. Others fled hours later, after the Israeli military issued maps with buildings they would soon hit, urging residents to flee immediately. Families remained in the square overnight, tucking into street corners and laying their heads on each other\u2019s laps in an attempt to get some sleep. The dawn found most still awake, the sound of Israeli bombing by their homes still audible from downtown Beirut. People were strewn across the Square, some in nearby parks, others propped up against walls. A group of Syrians were lined up on the pavement, waiting for a taxi that would take them to Damascus. \u201cLebanon has become worse than Syria, only god knows what will happen next,\u201d said Mohammed, a 59-year old Syrian who has lived in Dahieh for the past 10 years. He complained that taxi drivers had tripled the price of a trip to Damascus, citing increased demand. \u201cWe were sitting at home, and then suddenly there was a sound. We ran away but we didn\u2019t know where we were going. We came here because it seemed safer. Israel is bombing every hour,\u201d said Murshid Yusuf, a middle-aged man who used a walker. Yusuf had been displaced from south Lebanon two months earlier, after an airstrike killed his wife and destroyed his home. \u201cWe\u2019ve been sitting here since yesterday. We don\u2019t know what to do. Now, we\u2019re living in a world of horrors,\u201d Yusuf said, sitting on the side of the road. Lebanon\u2019s state was already overwhelmed by a previous wave of people who fled an intense Israeli aerial campaign in south Lebanon and the Bekaa valley, which started last Monday and killed about 700 people. Schools, converted into displacement shelters, were already hosting about 70,000 people before Israel\u2019s strikes on Dahieh began on Friday. One woman from the Bekaa valley said through tears that her family had been turned away by a shelter, which told them it was at capacity. Her son and husband had been sleeping in a car for four days, looking for somewhere which would accept them. The state, beleaguered from five years of economic crisis, has limited resources at the best of times. To try to fill the gap left by the overwhelmed government, individuals across Lebanon had started to pitch in. At Nation Station, a community centre and aid organisation housed in an abandoned gas station in Achrafieh, east Beirut, a legion of volunteers have worked throughout the week to get hot meals and aid to displaced people \u2013 chopping onions and rinsing rice in 20-gallon sized pots in the community kitchen. \u201cWhen I saw all the cars from the south to the north just fleeing, I thought that we already had a kitchen and are distributing food, so let\u2019s start cooking,\u201d said Josephine Abou Abdo, a founder of Nation Station. Nation Station and its volunteers have distributed 1,800 meals a day to displaced shelters across Beirut and the surrounding areas. They have also been able to collect and donate clothes, medicine and other essential supplies. \u201cFood is a tool to show hope. A hot meal means that someone has cooked for you and someone has thought of you,\u201d Josephine said. Rami Mehio, a 30-year old researcher in urban planning, who went to Nation Station to donate some supplies and sign up as a volunteer, said that volunteering during times of crisis was \u201cintrinsic\u201d to Lebanese people. \u201cYou can\u2019t call it volunteering, we are the ones who keep the country together, even in cases of extreme tragedy, otherwise, Lebanon just wouldn\u2019t function,,\u201d Mehio said, explaining that he could not just \u201csit at home as he watched his people get picked off one by one\u201d. Despite the scale of individual initiatives popping up throughout Lebanon, the relentless pace of strikes across Beirut had left the country struggling to keep up. In Martyr\u2019s Square, families said no one had come to help them yet. \u201cSome individuals came distributing water bottles, but that was it,\u201d Yusuf said, complaining of hunger. Nasrallah\u2019s death added another layer of uncertainty for those ejected from their homes the night before. For his political opponents in Lebanon, of which Nasrallah had plenty, the late leader\u2019s death was a cause for celebration. In private, some quietly rejoiced, eager for anything that would weaken the Iranian-backed group they saw as dominating Lebanon. For those recently displaced from Dahieh, however, Nasrallah was the only political leader they felt had represented them in Lebanon. \u201cThe Seyed was an honest man, but Israel, it has no mercy,\u201d Yusuf said. Despite the scale of their losses, revenge was not on the minds of those families lying exposed under the Beirut sun. \u201cCut me and I will bleed resistance. Whatever the Seyed said, it would happen,\u201d Faisal said. \u201cBut, I\u2019m tired and I have kids. They should be playing at home, not here in the street.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Leave now\u2019, Foreign Office urges Britons in Lebanon;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/leave-now-foreign-office-urges-britons-in-lebanon;2024-09-28T19:20:49Z",
        "text": "The British government has been securing extra flights for UK nationals to make their way out of Lebanon, as ministers continued to urge citizens still in the country to \u201cleave now\u201d. Official advice has been warning British nationals to leave the country for months. But with the escalation of tension following the killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, there have been fresh appeals to Brits to urgently secure a place on a flight. Commercial flights are still operating and Foreign Office officials have been working to increase the number available for British nationals. There have also been appeals for them to register their presence in the country with the government. The embassy is also being aided by an emergency team attempting to make contact with British people known to be in the country. Official advice to leave the country has actually been in place since October last year, citing the risks arising for the conflict taking place in Gaza. The latest government assessment states that \u201ctensions are high and events could escalate with little warning, which could affect or limit exit routes out of Lebanon\u201d. Many airlines stopped flying to Lebanon as Israel intensified its offensive, and the few flights still leaving Beirut are sold out. But not all the Britons in Beirut want to leave. Chris Watts founded and runs Future Academy, a sports and education charity for children living in two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. They support people who don\u2019t have the option to leave and he wants to keep working. \u201cIf I did not stay I would regret it for the rest of my life,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m trying to make sure that the children who are affected by last time this happened, and the ones who will be affected this time, get the best education possible.\u201d On Saturday he was going ahead with a planned house move, and said he will only try to get out of Lebanon if the Israeli campaign, currently focused on Hezbollah strongholds, expands to other parts of the city. \u201cI have a red line \u2026 indiscriminate bombing of Beirut.\u201d The Foreign Office has not given its own estimate of the number of Britons it believes remain in Lebanon. \u201cOur advice is clear, British nationals should register their presence, book the first available flight and leave now,\u201d said a spokesperson. \u201cWe have worked with partners to increase flights and secure seats for British nationals to leave and have also sent a rapid deployment team to bolster the efforts of our embassy in supporting British nationals. \u201cWe know it\u2019s a distressing time for British nationals and all people in Lebanon, which is why we are doing everything we can to help.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Iran vows vengeance after assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/israel-says-it-has-killed-hezbollah-leader-hassan-nasrallah;2024-09-28T17:35:52Z",
        "text": "Iran\u2019s supreme leader has warned Israel that its assassination of Hezbollah\u2019s veteran leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, will \u201cnot go unavenged\u201d, as fears of a spiralling conflict in the Middle East grow. As the shockwaves from Friday evening\u2019s airstrike that killed Nasrallah reverberated through the region, and Israel continued to pound targets in Lebanon, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced five days of official mourning on Saturday and called for an urgent meeting of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Iran also called for the UN security council to meet over Israel\u2019s actions in Lebanon and across the region. Israel\u2019s security forces were also put on high alert for possible retaliation, as experts warned the region was facing several scenarios following the killing, including the risk of a widening war that could draw Iran, Hezbollah\u2019s main backer, into a direct conflict with Israel. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that the killing of Nasrallah was a historical turning point that could change the balance of power in the Middle East though he warned of \u201cchallenging days\u201d ahead. \u201cNasrallah was not a terrorist, he was the terrorist,\u201d Netanyahu said in a statement. \u201cNasrallah\u2019s killing was a necessary step toward achieving the goals we have set, returning residents of the north safely to their homes and changing the balance of power in the region for years to come.\u201d US president Joe Biden called Nasrallah\u2019s assassination \u201ca measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis and Lebanese civilians\u201d as he ordered the Pentagon to enhance America\u2019s defence posture in the region. Biden added that the US \u201cfully supports Israel\u2019s right to defend itself against Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and any other Iranian-supported terrorist groups\u201d. He added, however: \u201cIn Gaza, we have been pursuing a deal backed by the UN security council for a ceasefire and the release of hostages. In Lebanon, we have been negotiating a deal that would return people safely to their homes in Israel and southern Lebanon. It is time for these deals to close, for the threats to Israel to be removed, and for the broader Middle East region to gain greater stability.\u201d But other world leaders expressed fears over Nasrallah\u2019s assassination. The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, said he was \u201cgravely concerned\u201d over the \u201cdramatic escalation\u201d in Lebanon, joining others in warning of the danger of destabilisation. Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, was killed by Israel in a series of strikes on the group\u2019s underground headquarters in Dahieh, a southern suburb of Beirut. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced his death on Saturday morning and Hezbollah confirmed the news later in the day, saying Nasrallah \u201chad joined his fellow martyrs\u201d. It added that the group would \u201ccontinue the holy war against the enemy and in support of Palestine\u201d. The statement, however, did not mention who would succeed Nasrallah, or how the group would respond to the assassination. Israel continued airstrikes on Lebanon on Saturday, saying it had hit a Hezbollah target in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs. Heavy bombing has killed more than 700 people and displaced about 118,000 since it began. In response. Hezbollah said it had fired rockets at Israel. The Israeli military also said it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen at Tel Aviv, in what appeared to be an attack by Houthi rebels. The killing of Nasrallah marks a major moment in the crisis in the Middle East and threatens to reshape the course of events in the region where he was a significant actor. Iran considers Hezbollah to be one of its most significant assets. Khamenei, who Reuters reported had been transferred to a secure location inside Iran, had earlier called on Muslims \u201cto stand by the people of Lebanon and the proud Hezbollah with whatever means they have\u201d. In a letter to the UN security council, Iran\u2019s envoy, Amir Saeid Iravani, wrote that Tehran \u201cstrongly warns against any attack on its diplomatic premises and representatives in violation of the foundational principle of the inviolability of diplomatic and consular premises and reiterates that it will not tolerate any repeat of such aggression.\u201d The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, told his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, that the US was determined to prevent Iran or Iran-backed groups from expanding the conflict and was committed to the defence of Israel, the Pentagon said. Russia condemned the killing of Nasrallah as \u201cpolitical murder\u201d and called on Israel to stop hostilities in Lebanon. According to sources in Israel, the Israeli security cabinet had previously pulled back from plans to kill Nasrallah, but having established he was due to attend a meeting at the command complex, approved a plan to kill him in an operation reportedly codenamed New Order. Reports in the Israeli media said the assassination had been carried out by a squadron of F-15I jets equipped with bunker-busting bombs although Israel refused to comment on claims they were US-supplied type 84 munitions. The news was initially broken by military spokesperson Lt Col Nadav Shoshani in a brief post on X saying: \u201cHassan Nasrallah is dead.\u201d In a statement issued shortly afterwards, the IDF said Nasrallah had been killed along with Hezbollah\u2019s southern front commander, Ali Karki, and other commanders attending the meeting. \u201cFollowing precise intelligence from the IDF and the Israeli security establishment, IAF [Israeli air force] fighter jets conducted a targeted strike on the central headquarters of the Hezbollah terrorist organisation which was located underground, embedded under a residential building in the Dahieh area of Beirut,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThe strike was conducted while Hezbollah\u2019s senior chain of command was operating from the headquarters and advancing terrorist activities against citizens of the state of Israel.\u201d The Israeli military said it was on \u201chigh alert\u201d and prepared for a wider escalation. Shoshani later predicted that Hezbollah would continue to target Israel. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen Hezbollah carry out attacks against us for a year. It\u2019s safe to assume that they are going to continue carrying out their attacks against us, or try to,\u201d he said. After Israel\u2019s announcement, the streets of Beirut emptied. Gunfire could be heard across the city as mourners fired in the air to commemorate his death. Storefronts in Gemayzeh \u2013 an upmarket neighbourhood in east Beirut \u2013 were mostly closed. The Lebanese army deployed throughout Beirut on Saturday afternoon, standing guard at major intersections throughout the city, probably in anticipation of public reaction. Lines formed at supermarkets as people rushed to buy basic goods, while people waited in queues at cash machines. Low-flying Israeli patrol drones buzzed overhead throughout the day. Lebanon\u2019s cabinet announced it would convene for an extraordinary session at 7.30pm. In Dahieh, one resident told the Guardian: \u201cI\u2019m in despair, I don\u2019t know what to feel.\u201d Other supporters of Hezbollah struck a different tone. \u201cThe group will go on, it\u2019s not just centred around one leader,\u201d Fatimah, a resident of Dahieh, said from her car in downtown Beirut where she has been sleeping with her husband and son since the strikes on Dahieh started last week. The Hezbollah\u2019s second in command, Hashem Safieddine, who could succeed Nasrallah, was reportedly also targeted in Friday\u2019s airstrike. The IDF\u2019s chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, said on Saturday that the elimination of Nasrallah was \u201cnot the end of our toolbox\u201d, indicating that more strikes were planned. The military said it was mobilising additional reserve soldiers as tensions escalated with Lebanon, activating three battalions of reserve soldiers to serve across Israel. It sent two brigades to northern Israel earlier in the week to train for a possible ground invasion. Among Hezbollah\u2019s constituents, Nasrallah was viewed with a prophet-like fervour, seen as the liberator of south Lebanon from Israel\u2019s 18-year occupation. At Hezbollah rallies, supporters chant \u201cLabaik ya Hussein and Labaik ya Nasrallah\u201d \u2013 \u201cO Hussein, O Nasrallah, I am here for you\u201d \u2013 shouting their devotion to Hussein, a key figure in Shia Islam, and Nasrallah. When Nasrallah spoke in televised addresses, supporters would tune in for guidance on political, spiritual and cultural issues. Many Lebanese people attribute the failure of the 2019 revolution to a speech by Nasrallah, when he told his supporters it was time to get off the streets, depriving the protest movement of its non-sectarian character. Whoever replaces the enigmatic former secretary general will have to deal with an organisation that over the last year has lost almost every senior military leader and is on the back foot from the Israeli bombing campaign across Lebanon. The death of Nasrallah also throws the fate of the Lebanese state into question. Hezbollah is deeply embedded in the state, controlling a key share of parliament and exercising influence over several ministries, such as the directorate of general security. Lebanon\u2019s foreign policy is largely dictated by the group, particularly when it comes to neighbouring states such as Israel."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;The killing of Hassan Nasrallah leaves Iran with a fateful choice and the US humiliated;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/hassan-nasrallah-hezbollah-iran-lebanon-israel-us-analysis;2024-09-28T17:10:40Z",
        "text": "When Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, told reporters in New York on Friday that the coming days will determine the future path of the Middle East, he could not have been more prescient, even if at the time he was hoping that Hezbollah and Israel could be persuaded to step back from the brink. Now, with the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah confirmed killed, the region, after 11 months, has finally stepped over the brink and into a place it has truly never been before. All eyes will turn to the response by Tehran. It faces the fateful choice it has always sought to avoid and one its new reformist leadership in particular did not wish to make. If it simply angrily condemns Israel for the destruction of the centrepiece of the axis of resistance that it has laboriously built up over so many years, or calls on others to take unspecified action, Iran\u2019s credibility is in jeopardy. But pragmatism may lead Iran to advise Hezbollah to absorb the losses and accept a ceasefire that does not also bring about a ceasefire in Gaza, Hezbollah\u2019s stated objective. If on the other hand Iran instead launches a direct military reprisal against Israel, it has to be meaningful. It knows it will be going into battle against a military that has proved the deadly value of its vastly superior technological and intelligence capabilities. Israel\u2019s intelligence has clearly penetrated deep inside Hezbollah and may have done the same in Tehran. For the new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, elected on a ticket of lifting economic sanctions partly by building better relations with the west, Nasrallah\u2019s death could not come at a worse time. His foreign minister, Sayeed Abbas Araghchi, had just spent a full week in New York on the sidelines of the UN general assembly, meeting European politicians such as Germany\u2019s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock and the British foreign secretary, David Lammy, in an attempt to persuade them to reopen talks to restore the nuclear deal that was sealed in 2015 \u2013 and Donald Trump tore up in 2018. Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN nuclear inspectorate, had been impressed by what he heard from the meetings, saying: \u201cI think this is the moment when it is possible to do something about the nuclear issue. The advantage of Mr Araghchi is that he knows everything about this process so he allows it to move faster\u201d. Nasrallah\u2019s killing makes it that much harder for the reformists to persuade the Iranian military that an olive branch still makes any sense. Pezeshkian had already been complaining that he had received little in return for listening to western-inspired pleas not to seek immediate revenge for the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader assassinated by Israel in Tehran. Pezeshkian said he had been promised that a Gaza ceasefire deal that would see the release of hostages and Palestinian political prisoners was only a week or two away. The deal never materialised because, in Iran\u2019s eyes, the US refused to put the pressure required on Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the ceasefire terms. Let down once, Pezeshkian is hardly inclined to believe US vows that it had no prior knowledge of the plan to kill Nasrallah \u2013 and, anyway, Netanyahu might have sanctioned his death from a hotel bedroom in New York, but it was US-supplied bombs that exploded in Beirut. In what is likely to be a holding statement, Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called on Muslims on Saturday \u201cto stand by the people of Lebanon and the proud Hezbollah with whatever means they have and assist them in confronting the \u2026 wicked regime [of Israel]\u201d. For Washington, this is a diplomatic humiliation and a display of its inability, or refusal, to control its troublesome ally. Netanyahu hopes to have played American diplomats for fools in New York. The US state department insists it had a clear understanding on the basis of conversations with Ron Dermer, Israel\u2019s strategic affairs minister, and Netanyahu that Israel would accept a 21-day ceasefire, and yet as soon as the plan was announced, Netanyahu reneged on the deal. In some ways, it is the culmination of nearly 12 months of an American strategy that now lies in ruins. Time after time since the 7 October attacks by Hamas, the US has asked Israel to adopt a different strategy over the delivery of food into Gaza, protection zones, a ground offensive in Rafah, the terms of a ceasefire and, above all, over avoiding conflict escalation. Each time, Netanyahu acknowledged the US position, sidestepped a clear response and then ultimately ignored Washington. Each time, the US \u2013 vexed and frustrated \u2013 has expressed misgivings about Netanyahu\u2019s strategy, but each time it has continued to pass the ammunition. With a presidential election near and Netanyahu enjoying a surge in domestic popularity \u2013 as well as few Arab states shedding tears about Nasrallah\u2019s demise \u2013 the US appears to have few options available. Netanyahu insists he is winning and on course for total victory. At the moment, unless Iran proves to be more decisive than it has been so far, it is Netanyahu the great survivor who is in the driving seat."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel\u2019s strike on Lebanon killed five of my family members, says British woman;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/israels-strike-on-lebanon-killed-five-of-my-family-members-says-british-woman;2024-09-28T17:01:37Z",
        "text": "A British woman returning to the UK from Lebanon has said Israeli airstrikes killed five members of her family. Sana Chamseddin\u2019s uncle, his wife and their three daughters, all in their 20s, were killed when their home in the city of Tyre was bombed by the Israel Defense Forces, she told the PA news agency. Two of the daughters were doctors and one was an engineer who was supposed to get married in 10 days, she said. Chamseddin \u2013 a UK citizen along with her husband, Abbas \u2013 was arriving back at Heathrow airport, London, on Saturday with her children, two-month-old Zien and one-year-old Jawad. Speaking of her guilt at escaping the besieged Lebanon, she said: \u201cOn Monday morning we wake up as a big bomb [hit] just beside our house, and we saw on the news that they said another round [of attacks] will start in one hour, so we didn\u2019t take it seriously because we don\u2019t fight \u2013 we are normal civilians. \u201cI was talking with my uncle over WhatsApp, he told me that it\u2019s OK, it\u2019s not going to bomb him, but we lost the connection when they bombed around us. \u201cWhen we arrived after 10 hours on the road we found out that he didn\u2019t make it \u2013 me and my husband feel very guilty to come here [to England] and [leave] our family in unsafe places.\u201d She added her uncle \u201cwas the perfect person, he liked to live and to talk all the time\u201d. Her husband, biochemical engineer Abbas Chamseddin, showed PA photographs of the family and said: \u201cLook at this smile, this is the future of Lebanon \u2013 they\u2019re killing the future of Lebanon, look at the smile, this is what they kill.\u201d It comes after British nationals in Lebanon were urged to leave the country immediately as violence escalated between Israel and Hezbollah. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said on Friday night that British nationals in Lebanon should leave on the next available flight. It added: \u201cWe are working to increase capacity and secure seats for British nationals to leave.\u201d British nationals in Lebanon should register their presence on the FCDO\u2019s website to stay up to date with the latest information, it said in a statement. On Saturday, the Israeli government said it had killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, with the Israeli Defense Forces posting on X that he would \u201cno longer be able to terrorise the world\u201d. It comes after a series of massive explosions levelled multiple apartment buildings in Beirut on Friday night. There are an estimated 5,000 British nationals and immediate family members in Lebanon. Of those, several hundred are believed to be UK single nationals. According to the PA Media news agency, the government has successfully asked airlines to increase capacity on routes out of Lebanon, with FCDO teams in Beirut ordered to support the British consulate. It is thought they are ready to facilitate evacuations by sea or air, which could be triggered if the security environment degrades further and British nationals are no longer able to leave via other routes."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Snatched from their beds, taken on the streets - the young men in Myanmar forced to fight the junta\u2019s losing war;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/snatched-from-their-beds-taken-on-the-streets-the-young-men-in-myanmar-forced-to-fight-the-juntas-losing-war;2024-09-28T16:00:08Z",
        "text": "Than Htun, 29, was still in bed when the men came to his home in Yangon to take him away. \u201cHe couldn\u2019t prepare anything. They just ordered him to bring his national identity card, a copy of his census registration and two sets of clothes,\u201d recalled his sister, Khin May. The group of soldiers and local officials were forcibly conscripting Than Htun into Myanmar\u2019s military. He would be made to fight for the country\u2019s widely loathed junta in its fierce war against pro-democracy fighters and ethnic armed groups. The Myanmar junta implemented a mandatory conscription law for the first time this year, a move that has evoked terror across the country. Those with the means to do so fled immediately, selling everything they owned and taking on debt to fund their escape. Queues stretched for hours outside embassies and many travelled to areas of the country under the control of opposition groups. People who remain in military-controlled cities such as Yangon live with a constant sense of fear, paying bribes to local officials to avoid being drafted. Families from across the country have told the Observer of how their loved ones have been snatched from their homes and forced to enlist, or taken from the streets by soldiers. Since April, when the military began the actual process of conscription, which it made mandatory in February for men aged 18-35, it is believed 25,000 have been taken away to training camps and that 5,000 of these men have been deployed to the frontlines. For the military, facing a severe shortage of manpower after a stream of humiliating defeats and defections, the conscription law could be critical to its survival. More than three years after it seized power in a coup, ousting the government of Aung San Suu Kyi, it is unable to halt armed groups opposing its rule and losing control of vast areas along the borders. \u201cThe military is losing continuously,\u201d said Morgan Michaels, research fellow for south-east Asian politics and foreign policy, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. \u201cThose losses, if they continue at that level, that\u2019s not sustainable.\u201d Military defeats have escalated since October last year, when a coalition known as the Brotherhood Alliance launched a surprise offensive in northern Shan state. The military was already struggling to control anti-junta groups \u2013 called people\u2019s defence forces \u2013 that had been formed by civilians after the coup to oppose the dictatorship, often with support from some of the more established ethnic armed factions that have long fought for greater independence. The entry of the Brotherhood Alliance into the conflict stretched the military even further. Over the months that followed, thousands of military personnel, including entire battalions, were reported to have surrendered. Little is known about the training conscripts will be given. Many fear they will be used as cannon fodder or porters \u2013 in effect, human shields sent out to clear mines or shield soldiers from gunfire. The soldiers reassured Than Htun\u2019s family, telling them he would be sent for training and then returned to Yangon to work as a security guard. \u201cFor us, it was such a relief to hear that,\u201d said Khin May. But it wasn\u2019t true. Instead, he was sent to Rakhine state on the western border, the centre of some of the worst fighting, where the military is desperately trying to hold back the Arakan Army, a member of the Brotherhood Alliance. Than Htun would call his family whenever he could get a phone signal. His sister remembers every conversation. At first, he was assigned as a security guard in a downtown area of the state capital, Sittwe. Then, he told them, he was required to board a ship to Maungdaw in the north of Rakhine, though a fierce storm left them stranded in the middle of the sea, preventing them from continuing. \u201cFood had run out and they were forced to drink rainwater,\u201d she said. Others faced a worse fate; many soldiers were wounded after one of the military\u2019s naval vessels was attacked by a drone. Than Htun told her of how his unit was sent to rescue them. At the end of July, Than Htun called again one evening to say he had to take a speedboat to Maungdaw. \u201cIt was the last phone call he made to us. We haven\u2019t been able to contact him since then,\u201d she said. The military has said it aims to conscript up to 60,000 people by the end of the year, with regime-controlled media saying this will help the junta eliminate its opponents, whom it considers to be terrorists seeking to destabilise the country. In a statement on Thursday, the military said it invited \u201cterrorist\u201d groups to stop fighting and solve problems politically through elections \u2013 an unprecedented offer that is likely intended to show its ally China that it is committed to stability. Among the public, it was widely viewed as delusional and disingenuous. Hours later, the military carried out airstrikes in northern Shan state. Groups aligned with the pro-democracy movement want a complete removal of the military from politics \u2013 something the junta is unlikely to accept. Than Htun was among the hundred of thousands who took to the streets to call for the return of democracy after the military seized power on 1 February 2021. The armed forces responded to their peaceful protests by opening fire and detaining, or even torturing and killing, anyone suspected of opposing junta rule, prompting people to take up arms. The ensuing conflict has turned the country upside down. Basic services such as healthcare have collapsed, millions are displaced and poverty rates have soared. According to the UN, nearly half the population was living below the national poverty line of 1,590 kyats (about 50p) a day by the end of 2023, up from 24.8% in 2017. Mandatory conscription, which has driven away young people, has only worsened economic hardship. Saw John was another young man snatched from his home. He delivered food by bicycle for a living and was the only breadwinner in the home he shared with his elderly parents. He was taken to a police station for refusing conscription, then to an interrogation centre and later to a training camp in Shan state. His parents were promised support, but it never came. Unable to pay rent, they were kicked out by their landlord. Saw John\u2019s mother died at the end of August. \u201cWhat I think is that she died of mental anguish after losing contact with her son,\u201d said her close friend Win Khaing. \u201cAfter their son was arrested, they hardly talked to each other. I had to keep watching them at night, for a month, because I was worried that they might attempt suicide.\u201d Win Khaing felt outraged, he said. \u201cBut I can\u2019t do anything because I am only human. I cannot protect myself from guns. I don\u2019t want to be tortured by the soldiers.\u201d In the early days of conscription, some would agree to be drafted in exchange for financial incentives raised by others in their ward. Reports suggest far fewer people are now willing to do this \u2013 and that the military has in turn resorted to greater numbers of arrests. Among these was the 27-year-old brother of Thidar, who was returning from work on a peanut field last month when he and other labourers were arrested. Just two days later, they were sent to Taunggyi in Shan state. \u201cNow we are scared even of going to the forest near our village,\u201d Thidar said. The whole village was distraught. \u201cNot only my younger brother and nephew but also all other conscripts are my cousins and relatives. My nephew has a wife who is pregnant,\u201d she added. If they are to fight, she would rather they were doing so for the anti-junta resistance. \u201cWe do not have freedom any more. We are working for our livelihoods in fear \u2013 thinking of how the military may know where we are,\u201d said Thidar. Like Than Htun\u2019s sister, she has no idea of her brother\u2019s fate. It is the poorest who are being targeted under conscription, according to Khin May, not the children of military officers or the wealthy, who have already fled abroad. Than Htun\u2019s mother still believes he is alive and that it is possible he has been arrested and detained by the anti-junta forces. She has diabetes and hypertension, and her condition has worsened since he was taken in April. She prays continually, with tears in her eyes, asking for him to stay safe. \u201cWe want to know exactly whether my brother is alive or [has] died,\u201d Khin May said. \u201cIf he [has] died, we want to get his body back.\u201d The names of interviewees have been changed throughout"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;German far-right politician accused of using political prisoners as cheap labour in Belarus;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/german-far-right-politician-accused-of-using-political-prisoners-as-cheap-labour-in-belarus;2024-09-28T14:57:36Z",
        "text": "Midway through Nikolai\u2019s shift sorting onions alongside other political prisoners in a warehouse in western Belarus, a tall and bald foreigner entered the building. \u201cHe arrived in a car with German license plates. Then he came over and greeted us warmly,\u201d Nikolai*, recalled in an interview with the Observer. The onion plantation, where Nikolai and dozens of other political detainees were working in February 2024, was owned by J\u00f6rg Dornau, a member of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Saxony\u2019s state parliament. Nikolai claims that the man he saw that day, touring the farm and speaking to workers, was Dornau himself. Dornau, 54, a heavily built farmer with a bald pate, was revealed to be the owner of the onion farm located on Belarussian soil earlier this year when he was fined \u20ac20,862 for failing to declare his extra, non-parliamentary income with the Saxony parliament in which he has sat as an MP since 2019. Despite the obvious moral questions around collaborating with a dictatorship, the matter might have moved little beyond the issue of the fine, except for the new allegations that have emerged claiming that he knowingly employed political prisoners there. Reports that Dornau had struck a deal with a prison in Lida, a city in western Belarus, to employ prisoners jailed for political dissent were first reported last week by the independent Belarusian outlet Reform.news. Dornau was approached by the Observer and asked for comment about the legal and ethical concerns surrounding the allegations, but did not respond. Nikolai said there were around 30 prisoners working on the farm during his time there in February, many of whom, like him, had been jailed on political grounds. They sorted onions for roughly \u00a34 a day on what he described as a strictly voluntary basis. A few weeks earlier, Nikolai had been detained by the Belarusian security services for \u201cliking\u201d an old social media post from 2021 and was sentenced to 15 days in jail as part of the regime\u2019s brutal crackdown on all forms of dissent. Belarus was first rocked by mass pro-democracy protests during Aleksandr Lukashenko\u2019s controversial re-election as president in August 2020 for a sixth term, which the opposition and the west condemned as fraudulent. At that time, Belarusian authorities detained more than 35,000 people, many of whom were tortured in custody or left the country. Dornau is reported to have established Zybulka-Bel Ltd, the company that runs the farm, in October 2020 when nationwide pro-democracy protests were still sweeping the country. Since then, the Lukashenko regime, backed by Vladimir Putin \u2013 whom Minsk in turn supports in the war in Ukraine \u2013 has intensified its repression of even the smallest acts of dissent, charging critics with \u201cextremism\u201d and \u201cterrorism\u201d for actions as minor as leaving critical comments on social media or following so-called \u201cextremist\u201d Telegram channels. Human rights groups estimate that there are currently more than 1,400 political prisoners in Belarus, including Viasna\u2019s founder, Nobel peace prize laureate Ales Bialiatski. On the farm, Nikolai described the work as difficult, with long days and the harsh February cold. \u201cWe had breakfast at 7am and worked until evening, with few breaks,\u201d he recalled. However, he stressed that he had no complaints about the labour, saying he preferred it to being in jail. \u201cI went to work with a smile. It felt like complete freedom compared to being locked up.\u201d \u201cAnd the onions tasted good,\u201d he added. The Observer could not independently verify Nikolai\u2019s account, but an independent prison watchdog group reported receiving accounts from prisoners working at Dornau\u2019s onion farm starting from early 2024. \u201cAround 30 people were brought in at once to work \u2013 from both the detention centre and the pre-trial detention facility. About 20 hired workers were also working for wages,\u201d the watchdog told the Observer. After his release from jail in Belarus, Nikolai, who had already been detained twice on political grounds and now faced the threat of a longer sentence, decided to flee the country. AfD politicians have often been accused of acting as mouth pieces for the Kremlin, earning the party the lingering moniker \u201cPutin-friendly\u201d. Allegations have swirled for years that they have also benefited financially from their connections with Moscow. Reports that an MP from the AfD may have financially benefited from employing political prisoners jailed for opposing Lukashenko will likely bring new scrutiny to the party\u2019s ties with authoritarian regimes. Other AfD politicians, including those in the Saxony parliament, which sits in the eastern city of Dresden and where he is a member, were also asked for a response but none of them replied. A spokesperson for the Saxony AfD parliamentary group in Dresden said: \u201cAs a matter of principle, our group does not comment on anonymous allegations\u201d. The only response from the party so far has been from a member of the \u201cwing\u201d \u2013 the most radical element of the AfD to which Dornau also belongs. Hans-Thomas Tillschneider called for people to \u201cshow solidarity\u201d towards Dornau. Tillschneider, known as a Putin ally who has defended Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, said of the allegations: \u201cIf the Belarussian penal system allows for the possibility that prisoners are put to work, like they are in Germany, and such undertakings take place in the fields belonging to my colleague Dornau, then there is nothing wrong with that. Yuck, what a smear campaign!\u201d he wrote on X. Meanwhile, Dornau has continued to operate his company in Belarus. In addition to onions and other vegetables, the farm is reported to mainly produce melons, root plants, and tubers. But the revelations may yet have legal repercussions for Dornau. A lawyer linked to the Greens took to X to say that he had filed a criminal complaint against Dornau. \u201cIf the evidence from the Belarussian newspaper is confirmed, this is clearly a case of exploitation of people in difficult circumstances,\u201d he wrote. *Some names have been changed"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Brazil\u2019s \u2018Paradise\u2019 on fire: \u2018The forest is burning. Animals are burning. Everything\u2019s burning\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/brazils-paradise-on-fire-the-forest-is-burning-animals-are-burning-trees-are-burning-everythings-burning;2024-09-28T14:16:20Z",
        "text": "\u201cAll of that up there is Paradise,\u201d said Maria Moraes de Souza, gesturing to the string of villages among which she lives along one of the Amazon\u2019s most important waterways. But lately life in this supposedly Arcadian community has taken a toxic turn, as the River Madeira\u2019s waters have fallen to their lowest level since the 1960s and the skies overhead have filled with smoke from wildfires that are raging across Brazil. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen it like this,\u201d said Souza, a 44-year-old subsistence farmer as her canoe glided through the murk towards her smog-shrouded hamlet, chaperoned by river dolphins whose aquatic home is growing smaller by the day. To reach Souza\u2019s wooden house in Para\u00edso Grande (Big Paradise) \u2013 a former rubber-tapping community near the port town of Humait\u00e1 \u2013 visitors must now scale a sun-scorched bluff that has been exposed by the plummeting waters. Vast, desert-like expanses of red-hot sand lie between some river-dwellers and the waters on which they depend for food, transport, education and work. Some of those beaches are hundreds of metres wide. \u201cIn the old days we used to understand the river\u2019s rise and fall \u2026 But lately man has started to affect nature to such an extent that we no longer know how things work,\u201d complained village leader Jos\u00e9 Francisco Vieira dos Santos, describing how the Amazon\u2019s annual rainy and dry seasons were being scrambled for reasons locals struggled to comprehend. \u201cEven the animals can feel the change,\u201d added Santos, 42. An Amazon catfish called the \u201cbod\u00f3\u201d used to lay its eggs in January. Now locals said it was happening as early as October. \u201cEverything has spun out of control,\u201d said Santos, who suspected construction of two hydroelectric dams further up the Madeira had added to the problem. Brazil\u2019s president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva \u2013 whose administration has faced criticism over what some consider its sluggish response to the crisis \u2013 has painted his country\u2019s tribulations as part of a growing global emergency fuelled by climate change. \u201cHurricanes in the Caribbean, typhoons in Asia, drought and flooding in Africa, and torrential rain in Europe have left a trail of death and destruction,\u201d Lula told the UN general assembly last week, adding record floods, fires and drought in Brazil to that list. \u201cThe planet is no longer waiting to make the next generation pay the price and is fed up with climate deals that are not fulfilled.\u201d This year\u2019s drought \u2013 which authorities have called the most intense and widespread in Brazil\u2019s history \u2013 has brought misery to those who live along the Madeira, and other major Amazon waterways, including the Solim\u00f5es and the Negro. In Porto Velho, the largest city on the Madeira, passenger ships have found themselves high and dry because the waters are no longer deep enough to set sail. \u201cWe\u2019ve been stuck here for two weeks,\u201d said 50-year-old skipper Aurean Guimar\u00e3es, whose wooden ferry was stranded at a sun-baked port called Cai N\u2019 \u00e1gua (literally \u201cFall in the Water\u201d). \u201cThe river\u2019s so dry. There\u2019s so much sand. So many rocks \u2026 This is the first year we\u2019ve faced something like this,\u201d Guimar\u00e3es complained as the Madeira hit its lowest level since 1967. A banner hanging from the ferry\u2019s top deck declared: \u201cSOS\u201d. Indigenous communities have been hit particularly hard, with dozens of waterways drying up and dry vegetation supercharging wildfires that are ripping through their ancestral homes. Megaron Txucarram\u00e3e, an Indigenous leader from the Amazon state of Mato Grosso, said at least four territories in his region were going up in smoke, including in the Capoto Jarina area where a firefighter was killed in the blaze. \u201cI\u2019ve lived here since I was born and I\u2019ve never seen the forest burn like this \u2026 The forest is burning. Animals are burning. Trees are burning. Everything\u2019s burning,\u201d he said, lamenting how Indigenous sages who understood rain patterns were no longer alive to help out. \u201cThe firefighters aren\u2019t managing to put out these fires \u2013 only rain can do this.\u201d Erika Berenguer, a tropical forest expert from Oxford University who studies the Amazon, said she feared climate change meant that 2024\u2019s \u201capocalyptic scenario\u201d and \u201cdystopian sunsets\u201d might simply be a glimpse of an even bleaker future. \u201cIt\u2019s scary to think that this might be the best extreme drought that we have in the next 20 years. Because \u2026 in terms of the Amazon, we already have across the basin a 1.5-degree increase in temperature [since the 1970s]. Parts of the basin have a dry season that is one week longer [than before]. Parts of the basin have a dry season that is 34% drier,\u201d she said. Scientists attributed a 2023 drought that punished the Amazon to the natural climate phenomenon El Ni\u00f1o. But Berenguer noted how the strongest El Ni\u00f1o on record \u2013 1998\u2019s so-called \u201cKing Kong\u201d event \u2013 \u201cdidn\u2019t have the impacts that it\u2019s having now, either in terms of river drought or in terms of fires\u201d. \u201cWhy is that?\u201d she added. \u201cBecause from 1998 to 2024, the climate has already changed \u2026 Any extreme drought is already happening on top of [that]. So the impacts of drought are just exacerbated, and everything becomes really, really dry.\u201d Speaking at the UN, Lula admitted more needed to be done to tackle the fires and the drought and vowed to continue his crackdown on the environmental criminals growing rich from wrecking nature. In Para\u00edso Grande, where most residents declared themselves supporters of the politician they affectionately call \u201cPapai Lula\u201d (Daddy Lula), locals hope the president is true to his word and urged him to come to their rescue by sending humanitarian aid. \u201cThis heatwave is just crazy \u2013 and it\u2019s because of these folk who are just setting everything on fire,\u201d said Maria Delcy Barros de Moraes, blaming the farmers, ranchers and loggers whose use of fire to clear land has caused the wildfires to spread. \u201cWhy,\u201d she wondered, \u201cmust the righteous always pay for the sinners?\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskyy condemns Russian attack on hospital as death toll rises \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/28/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-putin-latest-news;2024-09-28T14:02:10Z",
        "text": "Thanks for following along today. At least nine people were killed in two consecutive Russian attacks on a hospital in Sumy. Initial shelling had killed one and damaged several floors of the building, but Russian forces struck again during the evacuation of the hospital\u2019s patients, authorities said. At least 12 were reported injured in the attacks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, one day after his meeting with Donald Trump in New York, condemned the Sumy attack. \u201cEveryone in the world who speaks about this war must pay attention to what Russia is targeting,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on X. \u201cThey are waging war on hospitals, civilian objects, and people\u2019s lives. Only strength can force Russia into peace. Peace through strength is the only right way.\u201d In addition to the nine killed on Saturday, at least seven other civilians were killed throughout Ukraine over the past 24 hours, authorities said. Four were killed in Kryvyi Rih after a Russian missile struck a five-storey police administration building on Friday \u2013 authorities completed rescue efforts there today. Of the four killed in Kryvyi Rih, three were police officers. Meanwhile, other missile and air strikes on residential areas of the Kherson, Donetsk and Odesa oblasts left dozens more injured. Russia is prepared to go to court over the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, with a foreign ministry spokeswoman saying on Saturday that Russia has filed \u201cpre-trial claims\u201d against Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. Maria Zakharova accused the West of attempting to \u201csweep the matter under the carpet\u201d, maintaining that the explosions that ruptured the multi-billion dollar pipeline in September 2022 \u2013 seven months after Russia invaded Ukraine \u2013 \u201can egregious act of international terrorism\u201d. NATO members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland will seek European Union funding to build a network of bunkers, barriers, distribution lines and military warehouses along their borders with Russia and Belarus, Estonia\u2019s officials have said. The three Baltic countries initially announced the plan for a \u201cBaltic Defence Line\u201d in January. In May, Poland announced a similar project called the \u201cEastern Shield\u201d with a purpose to strengthen its borders with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus. Russia appears to be expending a \u201csignificant amount of effort\u201d to influence the debate around allowing Ukraine to use Western-provided weapons to directly attack Russia, the Institute for the Study of War said. In a new analysis, the Institute noted that even a small number of successful Ukrainian long-range strikes on Russia \u201ccould have asymmetric impacts and prompt Russian forces to move significant military and storage facilities outside the range of Western-provided weapons\u201d. In particular, Vladimir Putin has recently reintroduced several of the Kremlin\u2019s previously most effective narratives into both the Western and Russian information spaces in recent weeks, the Institute said. NATO members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland will seek European Union funding to build a network of bunkers, barriers, distribution lines and military warehouses along their borders with Russia and Belarus, Estonia\u2019s officials have said The three Baltic countries initially announced the plan for a \u201cBaltic Defence Line\u201d in January. In May, Poland announced a similar project called the \u201cEastern Shield\u201d with a purpose to strengthen its borders with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus. \u201cThe need for a (Baltic) defence line stems from the security situation and supports NATO\u2019s new forward defence concept,\u201d Estonian defence minister Hanno Pevkur said in a statement, adding that \u201cit is extremely important to coordinate our activities with Poland.\u201d At the same time, it strengthens the security of the European Union and the military defence of its borders, which is why we clearly see that the EU could also financially support the project. Here are some of the latest images coming in from the wires: At least nine people were killed in two consecutive Russian attacks on a hospital in Sumy. Initial shelling had killed one and damaged several floors of the building, but Russian forces struck again during the evacuation of the hospital\u2019s patients, authorities said. At least 12 were reported injured in the attacks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, one day after his meeting with Donald Trump in New York, condemned the Sumy attack. \u201cEveryone in the world who speaks about this war must pay attention to what Russia is targeting,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on X. \u201cThey are waging war on hospitals, civilian objects, and people\u2019s lives. Only strength can force Russia into peace. Peace through strength is the only right way.\u201d In addition to the nine killed on Saturday, at least seven other civilians were killed throughout Ukraine over the past 24 hours, authorities said. Four were killed in Kryvyi Rih after a Russian missile struck a five-storey police administration building on Friday \u2013 authorities completed rescue efforts there today. Of the four killed in Kryvyi Rih, three were police officers. Meanwhile, other missile and air strikes on residential areas of the Kherson, Donetsk and Odesa oblasts left dozens more injured. Russia is prepared to go to court over the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, with a foreign ministry spokeswoman saying on Saturday that Russia has filed \u201cpre-trial claims\u201d against Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. Maria Zakharova accused the West of attempting to \u201csweep the matter under the carpet\u201d, maintaining that the explosions that ruptured the multi-billion dollar pipeline in September 2022 \u2013 seven months after Russia invaded Ukraine \u2013 \u201can egregious act of international terrorism\u201d. Australia\u2019s ABC News is rejecting Moscow\u2019s claims that two of its journalists acted illegally by entering the Ukrainian-occupied Kursk region in Russia. The Russian news agency Tass reported on Friday that the Russian Federal Security Service had \u201cinitiated and is investigating criminal cases\u201d against the broadcaster\u2019s Europe correspondent Kathryn Diss and camera operator Fletcher Yeung, as well as Romanian journalist Barbu Mircea, for the crime of \u201cIllegal crossing of Russia\u2019s State Border\u201d \u2013 a crime punishable by up to five years\u2019 imprisonment. Diss and Yeung were escorted by a Ukrainian military unit to Sudzha in the Kursk region on 31 August, marking the first time the broadcaster had entered Russia since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Russia has filed \u201cpre-trial claims\u201d against Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland over the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, accusing the West of trying to \u201csweep the matter under the carpet\u201d, Reuters is reporting. The multi-billion dollar pipeline that carried natural gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea was ruptured by a series of blasts in September 2022, seven months after Russia invaded Ukraine. While no one has claimed responsibility for the explosions, Moscow \u2013 without providing evidence \u2013 has repeatedly accused the United States and the United Kingdom of carrying out the attacks. Both countries have denied the allegations. Last month, German prosecutors said they had issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian diving instructor in Poland in connection with the attacks, though a spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denied any involvement from Kyiv. On Saturday, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the \u201cpre-trial claims\u201d that Russia has filed against Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland are based on the 1997 International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and the 1999 International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism. \u201cIf the issue is not resolved at this stage, then Russia intends to take the matter to court and appeal to the International Court of Justice in connection with the violation by the countries in question of their obligations under the conventions,\u201d she said. \u201cOther states that may have something to do with the Nord Stream blasts are next in line. The West will not get away with the attempts to \u2018sweep the matter under the carpet\u2019.\u201d She called the blasts \u201can egregious act of international terrorism that falls under a number of international treaties that establish obligations to prevent, suppress, investigate, prosecute and co-operate with other states to achieve these goals\u201d. \u201cUnfortunately, we see that these commitments are not being fulfilled, despite repeated appeals by Russia.\u201d A ninth person has died following the consecutive Russian strikes on a hospital in Sumy today. The initial shelling killed just one and destroyed several floors of the hospital, but Russian forces struck again during the evacuation of the hospital\u2019s patients, authorities said. The regional military administration for the Sumy oblast has since updated the death toll to nine people killed, with 12 reported seriously injured. Authorities have completed rescue efforts in Kryvyi Rih, where a Russian missile struck a five-storey police administration building yesterday. The National Police of Ukraine have updated the death toll from this attack to four people killed, including three police officers. Six more were injured. In addition to the eight killed in the Russian attack on a hospital in Sumy, at least six other civilians were killed throughout Ukraine over the past 24 hours, authorities said. At least three were killed when a Russian missile struck a police administration building in Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast, while other missile and air strikes on residential areas of the Kherson, Donetsk and Odesa oblasts left dozens more injured. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has posted an update to the death toll in Saturday\u2019s attacks on a medical centre in Sumy. Eight people have now been killed in the Russian strikes, with 11 more injured. Zelenskyy said 113 patients have been evacuated from the hospital. \u201cEveryone in the world who speaks about this war must pay attention to what Russia is targeting,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on X. \u201cThey are waging war on hospitals, civilian objects, and people\u2019s lives. Only strength can force Russia into peace. Peace through strength is the only right way.\u201d A civilian was killed in a drone attack in the city of Shebekino in Russia\u2019s Belgorod oblast on Saturday, the regional governor said. Images and video posted on Telegram by regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov showed smoke billowing out of a window on the top floor of a building. In addition to the civilian who was killed, two more civilians were injured, Gladkov said \u2013 a man with a \u201cmine-explosive injury and facial wounds\u201d and a woman with a \u201cmine-explosive injury and head and hand wounds\u201d. The attack that struck the building caused a fire that was quickly put out, and damaged four other nearby buildings, puncturing gas and water pipes, Gladkov said. The attack blew out the glass of two social buildings and two commercial buildings, and damaged some vehicles. A drone that detonated in the courtyard of an apartment building damaged the windows of several apartments and hit four cars with shrapnel. Shebekino is located just under five miles (7.8 km) from the border of Ukraine. While Ukrainian armed forces have not claimed responsibility for the attack, there has been an increase of drones hitting Russia from across the border over the past months. Here are some images from this morning\u2019s Russian attack on a medical centre in Sumy. Authorities said Russian kamikaze drones struck the hospital twice: once destroying several floors of the building and killing one, and again while patients were evacuating. At least even people were killed and 12 people were injured in the consecutive attack. Australia\u2019s ABC News is rejecting Moscow\u2019s claims that two of its journalists acted illegally by entering the Ukrainian-occupied Kursk region in Russia. The Russian news agency Tass reported on Friday that the Russian Federal Security Service had \u201cinitiated and is investigating criminal cases\u201d against the broadcaster\u2019s Europe correspondent Kathryn Diss and camera operator Fletcher Yeung, as well as Romanian journalist Barbu Mircea, for the crime of \u201cIllegal crossing of Russia\u2019s State Border\u201d \u2013 a crime punishable by up to five years\u2019 imprisonment. Diss and Yeung were escorted by a Ukrainian military unit to Sudzha in the Kursk region on 31 August, marking the first time the broadcaster had entered Russia since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. \u201cWe reject Russia\u2019s claim that the ABC\u2019s reporters have done anything illegal,\u201d an ABC spokesperson said. \u201cThey were reporting from occupied territory in a war zone and in full compliance with international law. \u201cTheir reporting was done in the interests of keeping the public fully informed on a story of international importance.\u201d More here: The regional military administration for the Sumy oblast has updated the death toll in Saturday\u2019s attack on a medical centre. Seven people have now been killed, with 12 reported seriously injured. The regional military administration said on Telegram that Russian forces used Shakhed unmanned aerial drones to carry out the attack. A policeman was among those killed \u2013 this comes as rescuers continue searching the rubble that once was a police administration building in the central city of Kryvyi Rih. A Russian missile attack that struck this five-storey building on Friday killed at least three people and injured six others. At least six people were killed Saturday morning following two consecutive Russian strikes on a medical centre in Sumy, a city in northeastern Ukraine. Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine\u2019s interior minister, said on Telegram that one person died in the initial shelling that destroyed several floors of the hospital \u2013 but during the evacuation of the hospital\u2019s patients, Russian forces struck again, killing more. A policeman was one of the six confirmed dead. The deadly attack came after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Donald Trump in New York amid concerns over the future of US aid to Ukraine if Trump \u2013 who has frequently made complimentary remarks about Vladimir Putin \u2013 wins in November. The sit-down lasted less than an hour, during which Trump told Zelesnkyy that if he won November\u2019s presidential election he would get the Ukraine war \u201cresolved very quickly\u201d. \u201cWe have a very good relationship, and I also have a very good relationship, as you know, with President Putin,\u201d Trump said as he stood next to Zelenskyy before the meeting. \u201cAnd I think if we win, I think we\u2019re going to get it resolved very quickly \u2026 I really think we\u2019re going to get it \u2026 but, you know, it takes two to tango.\u201d Zelenskyy described the meeting as \u201cvery productive\u201d. Elsewhere: China and Brazil on Friday pressed ahead with an effort to gather developing countries behind a plan to end Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine \u2013 an effort that Zelenskyy has dismissed as one that serves Moscow\u2019s interests. Seventeen countries attended a meeting on the sidelines of the UN general assembly chaired by China\u2019s foreign minister, Wang Yi, and Brazilian foreign policy adviser Celso Amorim. Wang told reporters they discussed the need to prevent escalation in the war, avoid the use of weapons of mass destruction and prevent attacks on nuclear power plants. Zelenskyy, in a speech to the assembly earlier this week, questioned why China and Brazil were proposing an alternative to his own peace formula. Proposing \u201calternatives, half-hearted settlement plans, so-called sets of principles\u201d would only give Moscow the political space to continue the war, he said. US secretary of state Antony Blinken, speaking after a meeting with Wang, underscored strong US concerns about China\u2019s support for Russia\u2019s defence industrial base. He told reporters that China, while saying it seeks an end to the Ukraine conflict, \u201cis allowing its companies to take actions that are actually helping Putin continue the aggression. That doesn\u2019t add up.\u201d South Korea\u2019s foreign minister said Russia was engaging in illegal arms trade with North Korea, reiterating statements by the US, Ukraine and independent analysts that Pyongyang is supplying rockets and missiles in return for economic and other military assistance from Moscow. Misuse of Russia\u2019s right to veto as a permanent member of the UN security council is hindering the UN\u2019s efforts to end war, foreign minister Cho Tae-yul said during the UN general assembly on Saturday. Finland will place a key Nato base less than 200 kilometers (125 miles) from its border with Russia, \u201csending a message\u201d to its eastern neighbour, the defence ministry said Friday. Finland became a Nato member last year, dropping decades of military non-alignment after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. A Russian drone may have breached the national airspace of Nato member Romania for \u201ca very brief period of under three minutes\u201d overnight during an attack on neighbouring Ukraine, the Romanian defence ministry said on Friday. Three people were killed in the attack, according to Ukrainan officials. Russia\u2019s FSB security service is investigating three foreign journalists for reporting in parts of Russia\u2019s Kursk region occupied by Ukrainian forces, bringing the total of such investigations to 12. The three, Kathryn Diss and Fletcher Yeung from Australia\u2019s ABC News and Romanian journalist Mircea Barbu, are being investigated for illegally crossing the Russian border, state news agency Ria Novosti reported."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Hassan Nasrallah: Hezbollah\u2019s leader inspired adulation and bitter enmity \u2013 they will find him very hard to replace;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/hassan-nasrallah-hezbollahs-leader-inspired-adulation-and-bitter-enmity-they-will-find-him-very-hard-to-replace;2024-09-28T13:23:42Z",
        "text": "The killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the veteran leader of Hezbollah, on Friday marks a turning point in the conflict in the Middle East. Both Nasrallah and the organisation he led were hardened by successive decades of conflict within Lebanon, against Israel and, latterly, in Syria. Both were powerful political and social forces with very significant regional and local influence. Through more than three decades in charge of Hezbollah, Nasrallah built up a fervent personal following, steering the Shia Muslim movement through a number of transitions, balancing the demands of its military role with those of its expansive social welfare systems, building a political wing and negotiating the various crises that broke across the region. He earned adulation from supporters and bitter personal enmity from foes. Nasrallah was born in about 1960, the son of a Shia vegetable seller in a poor, mixed neighbourhood of Beirut. Despite their growing numbers, Lebanon\u2019s Shia people had long been marginalised politically and economically. Nasrallah was inspired by the new Islamist ideologies spreading across the Middle East and by a moderate Iranian-born cleric, Musa al-Sadr, who sought to mobilise Lebanon\u2019s Shia to win greater representation and more resources. He joined Amal, a Shia militia formed shortly before the brutal civil war that broke out in Lebanon in 1975. Four years later, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized power following the Iranian revolution. This seismic event sent a wave of energy coursing through Shia communities everywhere in the Middle East. Nasrallah had became close to Khomeini when studying in a seminary in Najaf, the Iraqi holy city, where the radical cleric had been exiled. In about 1981, like many other young recruits, Nasrallah left Amal to seek more radical alternatives. When Israel sent an army into Lebanon in 1982 in response to cross-border attacks by Palestinian militants, a coalition of Islamist groups was formed with Iranian sponsorship and direction. Nasrallah was an enthusiastic early recruit. Under the name \u201cIslamic Jihad\u201d, this coalition went on to launch massive suicide bombings against the invaders and then against US and French peacekeepers, killing hundreds. Three years later, the coalition had been melded by Iran into an organisation called Hezbollah, the party of God. In 1985, Hezbollah published its main manifesto, lambasting the US, the USSR and calling for the destruction of Israel. A qualified Islamic scholar, effective public speaker and competent organiser, Nasrallah gained leadership experience during the long battle against Israeli troops and their local auxiliaries in the south of Lebanon. In 1992, he was chosen as the movement\u2019s new secretary-general after Israel assassinated his predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi. Months later, Iran used Hezbollah networks and operatives to execute a massive bombing of the Israeli embassy in Argentina, killing 29. In 2000, Israel\u2019s humiliating and chaotic withdrawal from Lebanon\u2019s south brought Hezbollah and Nasrallah acclaim in the Middle East and broader Islamic world, despite historic sectarian animosity between majority Sunnis Muslims and the minority Shia. The victory came at personal cost to Nasrallah: a son was killed in a clash with Israeli troops. Six years later, Nasrallah led Hezbollah into a new confrontation with Israel, when he ordered an attack across the contested border that killed eight Israeli soldiers and captured two. This war was less conclusive, and Nasrallah turned his attention to a more political strategy, emphasising his movement\u2019s Lebanese nationalist credentials and building a portfolio of businesses, many illicit. Any residual project of creating a Khomeini-style Islamic regime had long been shelved. Imposition of conservative codes in the swaths of Lebanon controlled by Hezbollah was, on the whole, lax. Reconciling this new role with the demands of Iran, Hezbollah\u2019s principal sponsor, was a complex task and Nasrallah only reluctantly agreed in 2013 to send thousands of his fighters into Syria at Tehran\u2019s behest to bolster the regime of Bashar al-Assad. This helped tip the balance in the brutal civil war in the neighbouring country, but hurt Hezbollah at home. So too did Nasrallah\u2019s fierce resistance to political reform in Lebanon. There is no evidence that Nasrallah knew what Hamas had planned for 7 October, but he reacted to the bloody raids on Israel with what must have seemed fine judgment. Hezbollah did not launch a major offensive but began firing some of its vast stocks of rockets and missiles into Israel in a bid to maintain its \u201cresistance\u201d credentials. Nasrallah probably believed the conflict would be short and he could avoid further escalation. On both counts, he was fatally wrong. The consequences of the killing of Nasrallah are hard to gauge. Pessimists will predict massive escalation, as Iran seeks to reassert its power and avenge the death of a leader who was one of its most important overseas assets. Optimists may argue that it has effectively removed a key player from the conflict, deterring Tehran and opening a way to some kind of diminution of, if not an end to, hostilities. Finding any replacement will be very difficult for Hezbollah and Iran. Even without the elimination of key lieutenants by Israel over recent months, there is no one in the movement who has anywhere near Nasrallah\u2019s regional stature, experience or influence. It is now clear that Israel is capable of gathering critical, timely intelligence from the very heart of Hezbollah, and of acting on it effectively. The life expectancy of any new secretary-general is likely to be extremely short."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018A cruel and painful year\u2019: how 7 October tore apart UK Jewish families and friends;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/a-cruel-and-painful-year-how-7-october-tore-apart-uk-jewish-families-and-friends;2024-09-28T11:00:05Z",
        "text": "The young couple getting on the 310 bus at Golders Green were unquestionably Jewish. He wore a black hat over his peyot, or sidelocks, and a heavy black coat despite the warmth of the day. Her hair was covered, her clothes modest, her shoes plain. On the 45-minute journey to Stamford Hill, they conversed quietly in Yiddish. Until a few weeks ago, the journey on public transport between two areas of north London with significant Jewish populations required a change of bus midway. Jewish passengers had reported antisemitic abuse while waiting for the connection. The new 310 direct route between Golders Green and Stamford Hill would help Jewish Londoners to feel safe while travelling on public transport, said the city\u2019s mayor Sadiq Khan. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to recognise the tremors of hate that are felt by Jewish people across the country,\u201d he told the BBC. The bus is a fragment in a complicated mosaic of life for British Jews over the past year. Since Hamas\u2019s murderous attack on Jews in Israel on 7 October triggered a massive onslaught of death and destruction in Gaza, British Jews have felt overwhelming shock and grief for the victims of that fateful day. Many have also felt growing unease at the ongoing war and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza; some feel revulsion and shame. Almost all have felt more vulnerable as antisemitic abuse and attacks have rocketed. \u201cIt\u2019s been an extraordinarily cruel and painful year, and it\u2019s still very raw,\u201d said Jonathan Wittenberg, the senior rabbi of Masorti Judaism, a traditional branch of the Jewish faith. \u201cThe trauma of 7 October and what has followed is very present in the UK Jewish community.\u201d Rabbi Charley Baginsky, who co-leads Progressive Judaism, said: \u201cIn many ways, we still haven\u2019t processed what happened on 7 October because everything has been in constant motion. Every day is shaped by those events.\u201d Raymond Simonson, chief executive of JW3, a Jewish community and cultural centre in north London, said 7 October was a \u201cpunch in the stomach. Everyone was shocked, scared and confused. And then we were plunged into a war that has gone on and on. The feeling is one of exhaustion\u201d. In the days following the Hamas attack, the response of British Jews was overwhelmingly one of solidarity and shared trauma. The visceral connection that most have to the only Jewish state is powerful. Nine in 10 have visited Israel and eight in 10 have close friends or family living there. But a new study has also found a growing distrust of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the actions of the Israeli government. The Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) will soon publish the results of a survey of 4,600 British Jews, ranging from ultra-orthodox to secular, conducted earlier this summer. \u201cWe found high levels of concern about Netanyahu and his motives,\u201d said Jonathan Boyd, the JPR\u2019s executive director. \u201cAbout three-quarters of those we questioned think he is serving his own interests over and above those of the state of Israel as a whole. There\u2019s also a sense that the Israeli government could have done more towards the release of the hostages, and to provide humanitarian aid [to Gaza] \u2013 not overwhelmingly so, but leaning in those directions. \u201cPeople are more forgiving of the Israeli army. Most Jews are likely to think that the army has operated within the bounds of international law than think they haven\u2019t. There\u2019s more criticism of the government than there is of the military.\u201d While events of the past year have reinforced a sense of Jewish identity for many, the shockwaves from 7 October have often strained relations within families and communities. \u201cMany of us have got different thoughts in our heads which come to the fore at different times. The hostages, the grief and anguish in Israel, the fear for the future, the terrible suffering of ordinary Palestinians \u2013 it\u2019s an internal war in one\u2019s mind,\u201d said Wittenberg. \u201cIt\u2019s also very strong in families. Some people feel they can\u2019t talk about this at home because of the way other members of their family have reacted. It doesn\u2019t follow entirely on generational lines, but some of it does. There are powerful arguments within the Jewish community: \u2018Why don\u2019t you have more solidarity with Israel when its people need it so badly?\u2019 \u2018How can I, when I look at what Israel\u2019s government is doing?\u2019 These are explicit or implicit arguments and debates, and it\u2019s extremely painful. But we have to listen to each other.\u201d Baginsky said: \u201cTo not recognise that level of internal turmoil \u2013 within individuals, families and congregations \u2013 is to do injustice to the Jewish community. But trying to give voice to the complexities is challenging. We don\u2019t have the language. We\u2019re not a society that deals well with nuance.\u201d The past year has brought to the fore differences in the UK Jewish community \u2013 which has never been monolithic but comprises multiple communities from ultra-orthodox to secular, from far left to far right. Major institutions once thought to speak on behalf of British Jews \u2013 the Board of Deputies, the Chief Rabbi, the Jewish Chronicle \u2013 have come under fire from within the community. Some disagreements have played out in public. Simonson said that for the first time in 30 years of working in and for the community: \u201cI\u2019ve had people say publicly I should be sacked or cancelled\u201d. When he suggested a show of solidarity with an immigrant law centre during the far-right riots over the summer, \u201cthere were people in the Jewish community saying, \u2018these are the people that go to the [pro-Palestinian] marches \u2013 why are you there standing with them? You\u2019re a traitor\u2019\u201d. He was called a Kapo, referring to Jewish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps who worked for the SS \u2013 \u201cthe most disgusting thing a Jew can call another Jew\u201d. He said: \u201cI think those that were already quite far on the left within the community and those that were quite far right have been pushed further into their positions. They\u2019ve become more entrenched, and the gap between those two ends of the community feels more bitter and hostile than it was before. And sometimes, if you\u2019re in the middle, you can get caught up in that.\u201d The tensions were undeniable, said Simonson. \u201cThe saying is that where there are two Jews there are three opinions. Now where there are two Jews there are five opinions. Yet there\u2019s a need to have more togetherness and more unity than ever before.\u201d From outside the community, there has been a shocking surge in antisemitism. The Community Security Trust (CTS), a charity that monitors antisemitism and provides security for Jewish people in the UK, said incidents more than doubled in the first half of 2024, a spike attributed to the war in Gaza. \u201cThe scale of it is completely new, and the way it has spread into parts of society \u2013 schools, workplaces \u2013 where we hadn\u2019t seen problems before,\u201d said Dave Rich of the CST. \u201cThe worry is that this has created a new reality for Jewish people in the UK. This has been going on for a year now, and this is now normal.\u201d Members of the community were \u201calmost withdrawing inwards\u201d, he said. \u201cPeople are having to think seriously about what it means to be Jewish in Britain today. There\u2019s almost a psychological retrenchment in terms of who you can trust.\u201d Antisemitism in the workplace had emerged as a new issue over the past year. \u201cLots of workplaces and employment sectors now have Jewish WhatsApp networks that didn\u2019t exist before 7 October \u2013 safe spaces where people can discuss issues, share their feelings.\u201d Before 7 October, many Jewish people \u201cblithely sailed along through life\u201d, never asking fundamental questions about what it means to be Jewish, he said. But \u201csomeone said to me the other night that the golden age is over. Now we\u2019re having to look over our shoulders all the time\u201d. The JPR research also presents a bleak picture. It found that approximately one in three British Jews said they had personally experienced an incident of antisemitism since 7 October. \u201cWhen we asked people if they feel less safe as Jews living in the UK post-October 7, only about 25% said it hasn\u2019t really changed,\u201d said Boyd. \u201cBut of the remaining 75%, almost everyone said they felt less secure. \u201cThe pattern is similar when looking at people\u2019s confidence about being open about their Jewishness \u2013 most feel wary about doing so.\u201d The survey picked up a \u201csense of loss of hope and trust in the future\u201d, he added. Wider society felt \u201cmore hostile\u201d and Jews\u2019 \u201csense of place in Britain has been shaken\u201d. Without doubt, the anniversary will be a painful experience for British Jews. \u201cIt will be a time of prayer, grief, solidarity \u2013 and reflection about what\u2019s been done to us, what we have been drawn into, the antisemitism and hatred released in the world, the longing for hope,\u201d said Wittenberg. \u201cWe are caught in a perpetual liminal space,\u201d said Baginsky. \u201cThere\u2019s a huge amount of guilt within the community for all sorts of reasons \u2013 guilt for not being there [in Israel], guilt for not doing whatever is the right thing in this situation, guilt for what is happening in Gaza. And there is no sense this is ending soon.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel\u2019s strike on Hezbollah leader is an alarming escalation in conflict;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/israels-strike-on-hezbollah-leader-is-an-alarming-escalation-in-conflict;2024-09-28T10:23:56Z",
        "text": "Israel\u2019s claimed assassination of Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a massive strike on an underground headquarters in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs marks the most alarming escalation in almost a year of war between the Shia militant organisation and Israel. Immediately after a bellicose speech by the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the UN general assembly \u2013 where he appeared to directly threaten Iran as well as promise to continue \u201cdegrading\u201d Hezbollah \u2013 the first reports of a major strike began to emerge. In less than an hour, Israeli journalists with connections to the country\u2019s defence and security establishment were suggesting Nasrallah was the target and that he had been in the area of the headquarters at the time of the strike. On Saturday morning, the Israeli military said he had been killed. That the strike was regarded as highly significant was quickly confirmed soon after it happened by a series of statements from Israel \u2013 including an image showing Netanyahu ordering the attack on the phone from his New York hotel room. What is clearer than ever, after a series of Israeli escalations against Hezbollah this month \u2013 including targeted killings and the explosion of thousands of modified pagers and walkie-talkies supplied to the group \u2013 is that the long-understood ground rules governing the balance of deterrence between the two sides has been blown away. For much of the early months of the conflict with Hezbollah, which began on 8 October \u2013 a day after Hamas\u2019s attack from Gaza \u2013 it was understood Israel would not assassinate the militant group\u2019s most senior members. But in recent months those \u201cred lines\u201d have increasingly been rubbed away. As the geographic scope of attacks on both sides has moved deeper into Lebanon and Israel, so Israeli operations have aimed at ever more senior Hezbollah commanders, beyond those directly involved in launching strikes on the ground in Lebanon\u2019s south. Indeed, since the beginning of the year, diplomats and knowledgeable analysts in the region have suggested that one aim of the discreet to-and-fro between Israel and Hezbollah through US special envoy Amos Hochstein and intermediaries for the group has focused on preserving the understanding that the most senior figures in the militant group would not be targeted. On the Israeli side in the past fortnight, however, evidence has been building that a case was being made for a significant escalation. Claims of unsuccessful Hezbollah plots aimed at senior Israeli figures were made by the country\u2019s security agencies, while it was also suggested that the Israeli escalation was aimed at countering the militant group\u2019s own plans to launch a large offensive. All of which, it now seems clear, was a preamble for a long-prepared and multi-pronged effort to decapitate Hezbollah. While it may take several days to understand the full import of the fallout from Friday\u2019s strike, Netanyahu and his military chiefs have taken an enormous gamble, not simply regarding the situation in Israel\u2019s north, where tens of thousands have been displaced by the fighting, but with the wider region and with the country\u2019s relationships with its international partners. Coming in the midst of US- and French-led international efforts to broker a three-week ceasefire with Hezbollah, the move marks an emphatic slap in the face for the Biden administration, which believed it had an assurance from Netanyahu that he backed the temporary truce. Instead, it appears that Netanyahu and his military leadership were all the time secretly laying the ground for an attack timed to violently underline the rhetorical flourishes of the Israeli prime minister\u2019s warnings to Hezbollah and Iran during his thinly attended speech on Friday at the UN. Most significantly, the strikes represent a direct challenge to Tehran, for whom Nasrallah represented its most important strategic regional ally, whose tens of thousands of Iranian-supplied missiles aimed at Israel have long been seen as a key strategic foil preventing an Israeli attack on Iran itself. Now all bets are off. Despite anonymous Israeli claims \u2013 later disavowed by the IDF \u2013 that it had destroyed up to 50% of Hezbollah\u2019s missile arsenal of well over 100,000, that remains highly unlikely. And while Hezbollah\u2019s command and control has been severely damaged, it is probable that it retains a significant capacity. Other Iranian allies, including in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, have their own missiles and drones, which, while not as significant as Hezbollah\u2019s, could be brought into play \u2013 and not necessarily only against Israel but against US targets. Then there is the most important question: whether Iran can accept the strike against Nasrallah, or whether it too could be drawn into a widening conflict, and whether the strike is intended by Israel as setting the conditions for a strike against Iran. Underlying that concern, Iran\u2019s embassy in Beirut condemned Israel\u2019s airstrike, saying on Friday night \u2013 before Israel\u2019s claim that Nasrallah had been killed \u2013 that the attacks \u201crepresent a serious escalation that changes the rules of the game\u201d, and that Israel would be \u201cpunished appropriately\u201d."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;IDF prepares to invade southern Lebanon as 2 more Hezbollah leaders are presumed dead;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/29/g-s1-25330/idf-strikes-hezbollah-invasion-lebanon;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 09:34:22 -0400",
        "text": "At least 11 people were killed in the latest Israeli airstrikes, according to Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency. The Israeli military, meanwhile, says it\u2019s preparing for a ground invasion into southern Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Should you vote your feelings? A traveling play helps audiences think that through;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/nx-s1-5107876/fight-night-theater-election-drama-ann-arbor-durham-minneapolis-santa-barbara;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 07:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "An acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe show encourages the audience to think about why they're voting the way they do."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Getting the COVID vaccine during pregnancy protects newborns from hospitalization;https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/27/g-s1-25069/getting-the-covid-vaccine-during-pregnancy-protects-newborns-from-hospitalization;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 07:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "Babies under six months can't be vaccinated directly against COVID. A new study found that most infants hospitalized for COVID had mothers who didn\u2019t get the vaccine while they were pregnant. <br />"
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Why the U.S. government is hailing Israel's killing of Hezbollah's leader as 'justice';https://www.npr.org/2024/09/29/g-s1-25322/biden-nasrallah-hezbollah-israel;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 06:27:53 -0400",
        "text": "Hezbollah\u2019s leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed by Israeli airstrike this weekend. The Biden administration said it gives the victims of the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group \"a measure of justice.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;If you want to stress less, join NPR's quest to reclaim your calm;https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/28/nx-s1-5084630/anxiety-stress-relief-tips-strategies;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 06:01:00 -0400",
        "text": "Life can be stressful, and how you manage it is key. We have science-backed tips to help you cope. Get five weekly newsletters and a master class in stress management: Join us."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Hezbollah leader's killing sparks joy and rage across the Middle East;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/29/nx-s1-5132098/hezbollah-nasrallah-world-reaction-israel-us-lebanon;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "President Biden called the killing of Hassan Nasrallah \"a measure of justice for his many victims,\" while Iran's supreme leader condemned what he called an Israeli massacre in Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Terry Crews shares the advice his mom gave him that he carries to this day;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/26/nx-s1-5127377/terry-crews-nfl-bear-grylls-career-americas-got-talent;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "Terry Crews went to college on an art scholarship, played football in the NFL and now stars in movies and hosts <em>America's Got Talent</em>. The key, he says, is to be really good at failure."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Death toll in Nepal flooding reaches at least 100, dozens still missing;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/29/g-s1-25324/death-toll-in-nepal-flooding-reaches-at-least-100-dozens-still-missing;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 02:07:50 -0400",
        "text": "Dozens were still reported missing as landslides continued across the mountainous country."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed by Israel;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/28/nx-s1-5132046/longtime-hezbollah-leader-hassan-nasrallah-killed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:16:17 -0400",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;SpaceX launches ISS-bound crew that hopes to bring home 2 stuck astronauts;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/28/nx-s1-5132090/spacex-nasa-crew-9-launch;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 14:10:26 -0400",
        "text": "Two astronauts were launched on a five-month mission that also hopes to rescue two NASA astronauts left behind on the ISS. The four are expected to return to Earth in February."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Starving Gaza;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/fault-lines/2024/9/29/starving-gaza?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:30:00 +0000",
        "text": "A Palestinian doctor tries to save severely malnourished children amid Israel\u2019s US-backed illegal siege on Gaza."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;US says it killed 37 ISIL, Hurras al-Din fighters in separate Syria attacks;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/29/us-says-it-killed-37-isil-hurras-al-din-fighters-in-separate-syria-attacks?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 13:38:30 +0000",
        "text": "The two attacks occurred on September 16 and 24, according to CENTCOM."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Mourning in Lebanon as Israel keeps bombing after killing Nasrallah;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/29/mourning-in-lebanon-as-israel-keeps-bombing-after-killing-nasrallah?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 13:27:18 +0000",
        "text": "Israel has continued its deadly bombing of Lebanon, a day after it confirmed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah&#039;s killing"
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Kashmiris protest Israel\u2019s killing of Hezbollah chief Nasrallah;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/29/kashmiris-protest-israels-killing-of-hezbollah-chief-nasrallah?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 13:26:01 +0000",
        "text": "Hundreds hit the streets in the Muslim-majority region, denouncing the killing of Nasrallah and Israel&#039;s war on Gaza."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;The Indigenous \u2018watchmen\u2019 safeguarding Peru\u2019s isolated tribes;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/29/the-indigenous-watchmen-safeguarding-perus-isolated-tribes?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 13:18:13 +0000",
        "text": "Protection agents risk their lives to prevent deadly contact between remote tribes and settled communities"
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;People flee Lebanon to Syria in fear of Israeli ground incursion;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/29/people-flee-lebanon-to-syria-in-fear-of-israeli-ground-incursion?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 13:14:44 +0000",
        "text": "Al Jazeera reports from Lebanon&#039;s border as hundreds cross into Syria every hour, fearing worsening Israeli attacks."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Senegal\u2019s president on reforms, snap election and pan-Africanism;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/talk-to-al-jazeera/2024/9/29/senegals-president-on-reforms-snap-election-and-pan-africanism?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 12:30:00 +0000",
        "text": "Bassirou Diomaye Faye on domestic and geopolitical challenges, five months into his presidency."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel\u2019s assassinations can\u2019t kill resistance;https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/29/israels-assassinations-cant-kill-resistance?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 11:51:19 +0000",
        "text": "The long history of Israeli assassinations demonstrates their futility and counterproductive nature."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Growing mushroom houses on the moon? NASA\u2019s fungus-filled plan;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/29/growing-mushroom-houses-on-the-moon-nasas-fungus-filled-plan?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 11:16:28 +0000",
        "text": "The space agency has out-of-this-world aims to grow &#039;hotels&#039; and other structures using mushrooms and lunar dust."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Worldwide protests against Israel\u2019s war on Lebanon, Gaza;https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/29/worldwide-protests-against-israels-war-on-lebanon-gaza?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 11:05:16 +0000",
        "text": "Thousands of people have rallied across the world, calling on Israel to end its war on Gaza and Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Kamindu, spinners lead Sri Lanka to Test series win over New Zealand;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/29/kamindu-spinners-lead-sri-lanka-to-test-series-win-over-new-zealand?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 10:34:05 +0000",
        "text": "Six wickets from Nishan Peiris lead Sri Lanka to a win by an innings and 154 runs in the second Test at Galle."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;SpaceX launches mission to rescue astronauts stranded at ISS;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/29/spacex-launches-mission-to-rescue-astronauts-stranded-at-iss?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 10:03:24 +0000",
        "text": "The Dragon spacecraft, by SpaceX, will reach the ISS on Sunday to bring back Suni Williams and Barry Wilmore."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Austria votes in general election as far right eyes victory;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/29/austria-votes-in-general-election-as-far-right-eyes-victory?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 09:26:30 +0000",
        "text": "Austria votes as far-right Freedom Party battles conservatives amid concerns over migration, inflation, and Ukraine war."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israelis rally in Tel Aviv demanding Gaza ceasefire deal to free captives;https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/29/israelis-rally-in-tel-aviv-demanding-gaza-ceasefire-deal-to-free-captives?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 08:56:11 +0000",
        "text": "More than 1,000 people took to the streets of Tel Aviv to demand a deal with Hamas to return the Israelis held in Gaza."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel bombs Lebanon for a seventh day as people forced to sleep on streets;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/29/israel-bombs-dozens-of-targets-in-lebanon-after-nasrallahs-assassination?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 08:25:23 +0000",
        "text": "The Israeli military says it attacked dozens of targets of Hezbollah as fears grow of an all-out war."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Lebanon\u2019s PM looked to UN for \u2018solutions\u2019 as Israel chose \u2018treachery\u2019;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/29/lebanons-pm-looked-to-un-for-solutions-as-israel-chose?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 07:42:43 +0000",
        "text": "Lebanon\u2019s PM says Israel chose \u2018treachery\u2019 with more bombings, including the one that killed Hezbollah&#039;s Nasrallah."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Hurricane Helene devastates southeastern US, millions without power;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/29/hurricane-helene-devastates-southeastern-us-millions-without-power?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 07:10:48 +0000",
        "text": "At least 63 are killed, and over 2.6 million people go without electricity as Helene leaves a trail of destruction."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;FIFA names Club World Cup 2025 venues; New Jersey to host final;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/29/fifa-names-club-world-cup-2025-venues-new-jersey-to-host-final?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 06:36:41 +0000",
        "text": "The revamped 32-team tournament will be held at 12 venues across the US a year before it hosts the FIFA World Cup 2026."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018He was like a father to us\u2019: Hezbollah supporters mourn Hassan Nasrallah;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/28/he-was-like-a-father-to-us-hezbollah-supporters-mourn-hassan-nasrallah?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:14:51 +0000",
        "text": "Many of Nasrallah&#039;s supporters have expressed anguish and disbelief after Israel assassinated the Hezbollah leader."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Is the killing of Hassan Nasrallah a game changer?;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/9/28/is-the-killing-of-hassan-nasrallah-a-game-changer?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 21:04:47 +0000",
        "text": "Assassination of Hezbollah head is the culmination of a series of major Israeli attacks on the group&#039;s leaders."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;US political leaders rally behind Israel after Nasrallah killing;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/28/us-political-leaders-rally-behind-israel-after-nasrallah-killing?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 20:13:44 +0000",
        "text": "President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris express support despite threat of regional war."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Who will succeed Hassan Nasrallah as Hezbollah\u2019s next leader?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/28/who-will-succeed-hassan-nasrallah-as-hezbollahs-next-leader?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:57:13 +0000",
        "text": "Nasrallah was Hezbollah&#039;s leader since 1992. His killing leaves a major void in the group&#039;s leadership."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Coastal communities face \u2018catastrophic flooding\u2019 from rising sea levels;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/28/coastal-communities-face-catastrophic-flooding-from-rising-sea-levels?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:20:21 +0000",
        "text": "Global mean sea levels have risen faster in the 20th century than in any prior century over the past 3,000 years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Three days of mourning in Lebanon for slain Hezbollah chief Nasrallah;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/28/three-days-of-mourning-in-lebanon-for-slain-hezbollah-chief-nasrallah?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:13:10 +0000",
        "text": "PM Najib Mikati\u2019s office says official mourning to start on Monday, with flags to fly at half-mast on public buildings."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel kills Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut: What does this mean for Hezbollah?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/28/hassan-nasrallah-killed-what-does-this-mean-for-hezbollah?traffic_source=rss;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:38:01 +0000",
        "text": "Hezbollah leader was killed by an Israeli strike on Beirut - what does this mean for the Lebanese group?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Maternity pay has gone too far, says Kemi Badenoch;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c781m9v4255o;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:27:23 GMT",
        "text": "The Tory leadership candidate says the government should be reducing regulatory burdens for businesses."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Labour to tighten ministerial hospitality rules after row over donations;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj9m379jg7o;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 12:04:57 GMT",
        "text": "The move follows criticism over freebies accepted by the prime minister and other cabinet ministers."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What I found on the secretive tropical island they don't want you to see;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckdg7jjlx2go;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 11:38:05 GMT",
        "text": "BBC reporter gains access to the remote ocean territory despite UK and US attempts to stop her."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Boy, 8, dies after being shot in the head at farm;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2y7wyx56o;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 08:31:34 GMT",
        "text": "Police arrest a man in his 60s after responding to reports that a child had suffered serious firearm injuries at a farm."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'My wife and daughter cannot be alone with our complex needs son';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k749pzdgo;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 09:33:21 GMT",
        "text": "Four fathers of children with severe learning difficulties tell BBC Spotlight about the physical challenges they face."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Hollywood star shepherds sheep over London bridge;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y9l4z9qdqo;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 13:53:53 GMT",
        "text": "Damian Lewis ushered sheep along the historic trade route into the City of London."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Skripals will not give evidence at Salisbury poisonings inquiry;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0erdydx0go;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 10:04:08 GMT",
        "text": "A judge has ruled that Sergei and Yulia Skripal will not give evidence over fears for their safety."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Hollywood's big boom has gone bust;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6er83ene6o;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 23:18:00 GMT",
        "text": "Productions are down by about 40% and entertainment industry employees say they can't find work."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;A child bride won the right to divorce - now the Taliban say it doesn't count;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24evnk5d2o;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:45:40 GMT",
        "text": "The Taliban have been revisiting rulings made under the US-backed government, overturning thousands of cases."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The red flags that were missed or dismissed when Harrods was bought;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2ryxp969o;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 05:01:35 GMT",
        "text": "Experts say Qatar either missed or dismissed much of what was already known about Mohamed Al Fayed at the time of the purchase."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What might Hezbollah, Israel and Iran do next?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yj7r029yyo;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:29:09 GMT",
        "text": "Israel has killed Hezbollah's leader - but this may bring the region one step closer to a much wider conflict."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'The worst moment the country has passed through': Fear on the streets of Beirut;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20jpyzgq8qo;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 20:03:56 GMT",
        "text": "Lebanon is a country that knows war - but for some Israel\u2019s recent escalation already feels worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Analysing videos of Beirut strikes that killed Nasrallah;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cm28l6pnmxko;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:57:52 GMT",
        "text": "How the BBC worked out the facts about blasts in Lebanon's capital from clues in social media footage."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;When to recline and how to share armrests: The rules to avoid a mid-flight row;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c869178wqzno;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 23:47:30 GMT",
        "text": "Experts share their top tips for staying out of our fellow travellers' bad books."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sold out in minutes, resold for millions: Coldplay tickets spark outrage in India;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99v12e3yj4o;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:24:50 GMT",
        "text": "Coldplay's concerts in Mumbai sold out in minutes and now resellers are charging up to $10,000 for a ticket."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;An 'abomination' of a sub \u2013 and the boss convinced Titan was safe;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgn39epv85o;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 16:39:48 GMT",
        "text": "A damning picture emerges from a public hearing into the failure of Oceangate\u2019s Titan submersible."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'When I joined the police, not many looked like me';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9505xynnno;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 06:15:29 GMT",
        "text": "Leicestershire's first female Sikh police officer has retired after 28 years in the force."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Vintage TV adverts for classic British comics found in basement;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgeyq99ezdwo;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 08:04:26 GMT",
        "text": "The collection of 1950s adverts for comics like Bunty, Jackie and the Dandy have been archived online."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;France's Mr Africa spills the beans on secret cash;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrm8r1k8nzo;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 02:11:35 GMT",
        "text": "Long a confidant of French and African leaders, Robert Bourgi lifts the lid on post-colonial relations."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'The steelworks is our identity - we are the steel town';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c756r6plw55o;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 06:29:07 GMT",
        "text": "With the closing of Port Talbot's blast furnaces, locals say the future is still unclear for their hometown."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;King reflects on late Queen's final days in Scotland;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxr5xppx84o;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:57:13 GMT",
        "text": "The monarch called Scotland a \"uniquely special place\" for the royal family."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;People 'jump from roof to roof' as floods kill 148 in Nepal;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qz82e7d1jo;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 13:17:28 GMT",
        "text": "People are left stranded on rooftops in Kathmandu with workers carrying out rescues on rafts."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Marburg virus outbreak kills six in Rwanda;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8el1ky2nd6o;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 07:58:57 GMT",
        "text": "Most of the victims are healthcare workers in the intensive care unit, the health minister says."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Dame Maggie Smith was able to live normal life - until Downton Abbey;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kl4338ddo;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:55:36 GMT",
        "text": "She was a multi award-winning actress - but Dame Maggie Smith never loved the limelight."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Schofield suggests Cast Away is his last TV appearance;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxdwv4v1p7o;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:06:39 GMT",
        "text": "The 62-year-old appeared on the Channel 5 show, which sees him deserted on an island for 10 days."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Three charged with murder after man found stabbed;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgn5ve1zldo;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 21:51:53 GMT",
        "text": "Police name Kalvin Taylor as the victim after a body was found inside a flat on 21 September."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;A crucial election fight unfolds in Tim Walz's home state;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce812qvld9do;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:34:54 GMT",
        "text": "An electoral quirk could mean rural voters in Nebraska hold the tie-breaking vote in November\u2019s presidential election."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Hezbollah's leader killed... Is wider war now inevitable?;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jtfpb3;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:03:00 GMT",
        "text": "Israel assassinate Hassan Nasrallah after strikes on Beirut"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;One dead after 'large group fight with knives';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4d0mxr1w3o;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 12:42:55 GMT",
        "text": "A man in his 20s has died in south London following reports of a large group fighting with knives."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Arrest after car stolen with teenage girl still inside;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4y780v4e1o;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 13:56:34 GMT",
        "text": "A man who stole a car from south Belfast with a 17-year-old passenger on board was later detained across the border."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Room for negotiation' on national care service plan - Gray;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gljpn7wlko;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 13:15:02 GMT",
        "text": "The health secretary says Cosla had made a \"pre-emptive\" decision regarding the scheme."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon critique Benjamin Haddad\u00a0: la porte-parole du gouvernement d\u00e9nonce des \u00ab\u00a0sous-entendus naus\u00e9abonds\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/29/jean-luc-melenchon-critique-benjamin-haddad-la-porte-parole-du-gouvernement-denonce-des-sous-entendus-nauseabonds_6338867_823448.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:39:53 +0200",
        "text": "Le chef de file de La France insoumise avait accus\u00e9 le nouveau ministre d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9 aux affaires europ\u00e9ennes d\u2019\u00eatre \u00ab\u00a0acquis \u00e0 la politique de Benyamin N\u00e9tanyahou\u00a0\u00bb. La porte-parole du gouvernement, Maud Bregeon, y a vu une allusion \u00e0 la jud\u00e9it\u00e9 de Benjamin Haddad."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en Ukraine\u00a0: Kiev affirme avoir frapp\u00e9 un d\u00e9p\u00f4t de missiles et de munitions en Russie;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/29/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-kiev-affirme-avoir-frappe-un-depot-de-missiles-et-de-munitions-en-russie_6337411_3210.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:04:55 +0200",
        "text": "Kiev a rapport\u00e9 avoir bombard\u00e9, dans la nuit de samedi \u00e0 dimanche, un d\u00e9p\u00f4t de missiles et de munitions dans la r\u00e9gion occidentale de Volgograd. Les autorit\u00e9s locales russes affirment que l\u2019op\u00e9ration ukrainienne n\u2019a fait \u00ab\u00a0ni victimes ni d\u00e9g\u00e2t\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre au Proche-Orient\u00a0: Isra\u00ebl poursuit ses bombardements au Liban et affirme avoir \u00e9limin\u00e9 vingt membres du Hezbollah\u00a0avec la frappe qui a tu\u00e9 Hassan Nasrallah;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/29/en-direct-conflit-au-proche-orient-israel-poursuit-ses-bombardements-au-liban-et-affirme-avoir-elimine-vingt-membres-du-hezbollah-dans-la-frappe-qui-a-tue-hassan-nasrallah_6321740_3210.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:36:14 +0200",
        "text": "Selon les autorit\u00e9s libanaises, au moins 33\u00a0personnes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9es par l\u2019arm\u00e9e isra\u00e9lienne depuis samedi dans tout le pays, o\u00f9 un million de personnes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9plac\u00e9es.\u00a0Le ministre des affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res fran\u00e7ais est attendu au Liban ce soir."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les images de l\u2019ouragan H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, qui a fait 63\u00a0morts aux Etats-Unis;https://www.lemonde.fr/videos/video/2024/09/29/les-images-de-l-ouragan-helene-qui-a-fait-63-morts-aux-etats-unis_6338795_1669088.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:20:21 +0200",
        "text": "D\u00e9sormais requalifi\u00e9 en \u00ab\u00a0cyclone post-tropical\u00a0\u00bb, l\u2019ouragan a caus\u00e9 d\u2019importants d\u00e9g\u00e2ts dans l\u2019est et le sud-est des Etats-Unis."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au N\u00e9pal, le bilan des pluies diluviennes monte \u00e0 148\u00a0morts et 59\u00a0port\u00e9s disparus;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/29/au-nepal-le-bilan-des-pluies-diluviennes-monte-a-148-morts-et-59-portes-disparus_6338293_3245.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:12:02 +0200",
        "text": "La vall\u00e9e de Katmandou a \u00e9t\u00e9 touch\u00e9e par des inondations et des glissements de terrain. Il s\u2019agit des plus fortes pr\u00e9cipitations enregistr\u00e9es dans la capitale depuis les ann\u00e9es 1970."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Comment se faire remarquer sur LinkedIn, le r\u00e9seau social des professionnels;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/29/linkedin-le-reseau-social-des-professionnels-a-fait-sa-mue_6338305_4408996.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 06:00:31 +0200",
        "text": "Des \u00e9changes respectueux, des contenus argument\u00e9s\u00a0: la plate-forme a fait sa mue et b\u00e9n\u00e9ficie d\u2019une nouvelle aura."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019arm\u00e9e am\u00e9ricaine dit avoir men\u00e9 des frappes contre des groupes islamistes en Syrie pendant le mois de septembre;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/29/l-armee-americaine-annonce-avoir-realise-plusieurs-frappes-visant-des-groupes-islamistes-en-syrie_6338760_3210.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:22:25 +0200",
        "text": "Au moins 37\u00a0membres du groupe Etat islamique et d\u2019une milice proche d\u2019Al-Qaida ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9s dans ces attaques, selon le commandement central des Etats-Unis pour le Moyen-Orient, l\u2019Asie du Sud et l\u2019Asie centrale."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct\u00a0: Manuel Bompard (LFI) ne veut pas de la primaire sugg\u00e9r\u00e9e par le Parti socialiste avant l\u2019\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/29/en-direct-gouvernement-barnier-avant-la-declaration-de-politique-generale-du-premier-ministre-des-elus-macronistes-avertissent-que-toute-hausse-d-impots-est-impensable_6325006_823448.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:07:26 +0200",
        "text": "Le coordinateur de La France insoumise a r\u00e9affirm\u00e9 son opposition \u00e0 ce mode de d\u00e9signation, une suggestion du premier secr\u00e9taire du PS, Olivier Faure. \u00ab\u00a0Les primaires, \u00e7a cr\u00e9e des divisions, \u00e7a cr\u00e9e des clivages\u00a0\u00bb, a-t-il jug\u00e9 dans l\u2019\u00e9mission \u00ab\u00a0Questions politiques\u00a0\u00bb sur France Inter en partenariat avec \u00ab\u00a0Le Monde\u00a0\u00bb et France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Entre influence et d\u00e9sinformation, comment l\u2019administration Trump a tent\u00e9 de torpiller le pacte vert europ\u00e9en;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/29/entre-influence-et-desinformation-comment-l-administration-trump-a-tente-de-torpiller-le-pacte-vert-europeen_6338307_3244.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 06:00:42 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Bonus Eventus Files\u00a0\u00bb (3/3). En\u00a02020, alors que l\u2019Europe annonce une ambitieuse politique visant \u00e0 rendre son agriculture plus soutenable, l\u2019administration du pr\u00e9sident r\u00e9publicain d\u00e9cide de passer \u00e0 l\u2019attaque. Et recrute dans sa croisade la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019influence v-Fluence, fond\u00e9e par un ancien cadre de Monsanto."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Cyclisme\u00a0: Julian Alaphilippe abandonne le championnat du monde sur route apr\u00e8s une chute;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/29/cyclisme-julian-alaphilippe-abandonne-le-championnat-du-monde-sur-route-apres-une-lourde-chute_6338690_3242.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 12:56:25 +0200",
        "text": "Selon l\u2019encadrement de l\u2019\u00e9quipe de France, le coureur de 32\u00a0ans s\u2019est d\u00e9bo\u00eet\u00e9 l\u2019\u00e9paule gauche lors d\u2019une chute survenue apr\u00e8s environ une heure de course dimanche, \u00e0 Zurich (Suisse)."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Nouvelle-Cal\u00e9donie, le FLNKS demande du temps pour \u00e9viter une \u00ab\u00a0effusion de sang\u00a0\u00bb dans le fief ind\u00e9pendantiste de Saint-Louis;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/29/en-nouvelle-caledonie-le-flnks-demande-du-temps-pour-eviter-une-effusion-de-sang-dans-le-fief-independantiste-de-saint-louis_6338689_823448.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 12:54:59 +0200",
        "text": "Les fun\u00e9railles de deux jeunes hommes tu\u00e9s par les forces de l\u2019ordre le 19\u00a0septembre avaient lieu ce dimanche, \u00e0 la tribu de Saint-Louis. La gendarmerie, qui recherche des auteurs d\u2019exactions, avait \u00ab\u00a0suspendu les op\u00e9rations le temps du deuil\u00a0\u00bb, soit jusqu\u2019\u00e0 lundi."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A Bruxelles, le pape Fran\u00e7ois demande aux \u00e9v\u00eaques de ne rien \u00ab\u00a0couvrir\u00a0\u00bb des abus sexuels dans l\u2019Eglise;https://www.lemonde.fr/religions/article/2024/09/29/abus-sexuels-dans-l-eglise-lors-d-une-messe-a-bruxelles-le-pape-demande-aux-eveques-de-ne-rien-couvrir_6338652_1653130.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 11:46:49 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Le mal ne peut pas \u00eatre cach\u00e9, le mal doit \u00eatre r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 au grand jour, qu\u2019il soit connu\u2026 que l\u2019agresseur soit jug\u00e9, qu\u2019il soit la\u00efc ou \u00e9v\u00eaque\u00a0\u00bb, a exig\u00e9  le pape lors d\u2019une grande messe au stade national de Bruxelles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Entretien | Thierry Breton\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0La voix de la France porte moins\u00a0\u00bb en Europe;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/29/thierry-breton-la-voix-de-la-france-porte-moins-en-europe_6338302_3210.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 06:00:18 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019ex-commissaire europ\u00e9en fran\u00e7ais voit une \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9rive\u00a0\u00bb dans le poids croissant de l\u2019Allemagne dans les institutions communautaires. \u00ab\u00a0L\u2019Europe, c\u2019est l\u2019\u00e9quilibre, au service de l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat g\u00e9n\u00e9ral europ\u00e9en, pas d\u2019un seul pays. Si on casse cet \u00e9quilibre, le projet europ\u00e9en est en danger\u00a0\u00bb, met-il en garde."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;A Beyrouth, la stupeur apr\u00e8s la mort de Hassan Nasrallah;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/29/a-beyrouth-la-stupeur-apres-la-mort-de-hassan-nasrallah_6338190_3210.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:55:55 +0200",
        "text": "Dans le quartier chiite de Khandak Al-Ghamik, les habitants naviguent entre col\u00e8re et sentiment d\u2019abandon. La violence de la mort du chef du Hezbollah a cr\u00e9\u00e9 une onde de choc au-del\u00e0 de la communaut\u00e9 chiite."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Marseille\u00a0: nouvelle fusillade dans les quartiers nord, deux hommes tu\u00e9s dans un local associatif;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/29/a-marseille-une-fusillade-fait-deux-morts-et-quatre-blesses-dans-les-quartiers-nord_6338480_3224.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 09:25:03 +0200",
        "text": "Les victimes, deux hommes de 25\u00a0ans \u00e0 35\u00a0ans, se trouvaient dans un local associatif vis\u00e9 par des tirs de fusil d\u2019assaut. Le mobile de la fusillade n\u2019est pas connu, mais plusieurs cit\u00e9s des quartiers nord de Marseille sont gangren\u00e9es par la pauvret\u00e9 et le trafic de drogue."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Polyn\u00e9sie, quatre policiers suspendus et en garde \u00e0 vue pour violences sur une personne handicap\u00e9e;https://www.lemonde.fr/outre-mer/article/2024/09/29/en-polynesie-quatre-policiers-suspendus-et-en-garde-a-vue-pour-violences-sur-une-personne-handicapee_6338447_1840826.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 08:52:11 +0200",
        "text": "Une vid\u00e9o, film\u00e9e de nuit dans un quartier d\u00e9favoris\u00e9 de Papeete, montre un policier entour\u00e9 de ses coll\u00e8gues faisant tomber un homme en fauteuil roulant et lui ass\u00e9nant un coup au visage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Imp\u00f4ts\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Le Monde\u00a0\u00bb r\u00e9v\u00e8le les projets du gouvernement pour limiter le d\u00e9ficit;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/29/impots-les-projets-du-gouvernement-pour-limiter-le-deficit_6338303_823448.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 06:00:18 +0200",
        "text": "Pr\u00e9l\u00e8vement de 8\u00a0milliards d\u2019euros sur les grands groupes, taxe sur les rachats d\u2019actions, stabilit\u00e9 de l\u2019imp\u00f4t sur le revenu\u2026 \u00ab\u00a0Le Monde\u00a0\u00bb a consult\u00e9 les projets de mesures fiscales examin\u00e9s par l\u2019ex\u00e9cutif pour stopper la d\u00e9rive des comptes publics."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Autriche, un chant nazi a \u00e9t\u00e9 entonn\u00e9 aux fun\u00e9railles d\u2019un ancien \u00e9lu d\u2019extr\u00eame droite, juste avant les l\u00e9gislatives;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/29/en-autriche-un-chant-nazi-a-ete-entonne-aux-funerailles-d-un-ancien-elu-d-extreme-droite-juste-avant-les-legislatives_6338256_3210.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:11:41 +0200",
        "text": "Plusieurs membres du FP\u00d6 \u00e9taient pr\u00e9sents, vendredi, \u00e0 cet enterrement de leur ancien membre Walter Sucher, selon une vid\u00e9o diffus\u00e9e par le journal autrichien \u00ab\u00a0Der Standard\u00a0\u00bb. Le parti fait figure de favori aux \u00e9lections qui se tiennent dimanche."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Royaume-Uni, une d\u00e9put\u00e9e quitte le parti travailliste pour protester contre le scandale des cadeaux re\u00e7us par Keir Starmer;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/29/au-royaume-uni-une-deputee-quitte-le-parti-travailliste-pour-protester-contre-le-scandale-des-cadeaux-recus-par-keir-starmer_6338223_3210.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:48:05 +0200",
        "text": "Rosie Duffield reproche au gouvernement travailliste de poursuivre des politiques d\u2019\u00e9conomie touchant les plus modestes mises en place par les conservateurs, alors que le premier ministre a accept\u00e9 des pr\u00e9sents d\u2019une valeur de plus de 100\u00a0000\u00a0livres sterling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0Ils vivaient ensemble, et puis plouf\u00a0! \u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: ces parents qui vivent la s\u00e9paration de leur enfant comme un drame personnel;https://www.lemonde.fr/intimites/article/2024/09/28/au-secours-mon-enfant-se-separe_6337405_6190330.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:00:06 +0200",
        "text": "Entre sentiment de culpabilit\u00e9, crainte pour l\u2019avenir et perte du lien avec la belle-fille ou le gendre ador\u00e9, certains parents vivent tr\u00e8s mal la s\u00e9paration de leurs enfants."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Une mission de\u00a0SpaceX a\u00a0d\u00e9coll\u00e9 samedi, \u00e0\u00a0la\u00a0rescousse des deux astronautes coinc\u00e9s dans la Station spatiale internationale;https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/09/28/une-mission-de-spacex-a-decolle-samedi-a-la-rescousse-des-deux-astronautes-coinces-dans-la-station-spatiale-internationale_6338057_1650684.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:35:18 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019astronaute de la NASA Nick Hague et le cosmonaute russe Alexandre Gorbounov embarqueront \u00e0 leur retour, en f\u00e9vrier\u00a02025, Butch Wilmore et Suni Williams, qui n\u2019ont pas pu revenir sur Terre en raison de probl\u00e8mes d\u00e9tect\u00e9s sur leur vaisseau d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 par Boeing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ouragan H\u00e9l\u00e8ne\u00a0: le bilan monte \u00e0 au moins 63\u00a0morts, des inondations massives et des millions de personnes sans \u00e9lectricit\u00e9 aux Etats-Unis;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/28/aux-etats-unis-les-secours-s-activent-apres-le-passage-meurtrier-de-l-ouragan-helene_6338023_3244.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:55:48 +0200",
        "text": "Plus d\u2019un million de clients \u00e9taient toujours priv\u00e9s d\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 samedi apr\u00e8s-midi en Caroline du Sud ainsi que 730\u00a0000 en G\u00e9orgie, et plusieurs autres centaines de milliers \u00e0 travers plusieurs Etats, selon le site de suivi poweroutage.us."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;De l\u2019Allemagne \u00e0 la France en passant par l\u2019Italie, l\u2019obsession de l\u2019immigration en Europe;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/28/europe-vers-un-nouveau-durcissement-sur-l-immigration_6337410_3210.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:00:29 +0200",
        "text": "Alors que les arriv\u00e9es irr\u00e9guli\u00e8res ont baiss\u00e9 de 39\u00a0% depuis le d\u00e9but de l\u2019ann\u00e9e 2024, les dirigeants europ\u00e9ens, de droite comme de gauche, n\u2019h\u00e9sitent pas \u00e0 emprunter les id\u00e9es que l\u2019extr\u00eame droite d\u00e9fend depuis quarante ans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;\u00ab\u00a0IVG p\u00e9nalis\u00e9e, femmes sacrifi\u00e9es\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: des manifestations en\u00a0France pour d\u00e9fendre le\u00a0droit \u00e0\u00a0l\u2019avortement;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/28/plusieurs-manifestations-en-france-pour-defendre-le-droit-a-l-avortement_6338021_3224.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:47:58 +0200",
        "text": "A l\u2019occasion de la journ\u00e9e internationale consacr\u00e9e \u00e0 ce droit, qui reste entrav\u00e9, voire inexistant dans certains pays, plusieurs cort\u00e8ges se sont \u00e9lanc\u00e9s dans plusieurs villes de France, samedi."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Cyclisme\u00a0: Lotte Kopecky conserve son titre de\u00a0championne du\u00a0monde;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/28/cyclisme-lotte-kopecky-conserve-son-titre-de-championne-du-monde_6337988_3242.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:30:11 +0200",
        "text": "D\u00e9j\u00e0 sacr\u00e9e en\u00a02023 \u00e0 Glasgow (Ecosse), la coureuse belge s\u2019est impos\u00e9e au sprint au terme de l\u2019\u00e9preuve en ligne du championnat du monde, disput\u00e9e sous des trombes d\u2019eau \u00e0 Zurich (Suisse)."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Quand l\u2019Eglise pr\u00f4nait le \u00ab\u00a0grand effacement\u00a0\u00bb de l\u2019abb\u00e9 Pierre;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/28/archives-sur-l-abbe-pierre-tout-cela-pourra-un-jour-ou-l-autre-etre-connu-quand-l-eglise-pronait-le-grand-effacement-d-henri-groues_6337401_3224.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 05:30:02 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Le Monde\u00a0\u00bb a pu consulter les archives nationales de l\u2019Eglise, \u00e0 Issy-les-Moulineaux, et celles du dioc\u00e8se de Grenoble, ouvertes jeudi. Des lettres y d\u00e9voilent la prise de conscience progressive, par la hi\u00e9rarchie eccl\u00e9siale, de la \u00ab\u00a0gravit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb des faits reproch\u00e9s au pr\u00eatre, et \u00e9clairent la trajectoire de celui qui, d\u00e8s les ann\u00e9es 1940, est d\u00e9crit comme incontr\u00f4lable."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au proc\u00e8s des viols de Mazan, les accus\u00e9s plaident le \u00a0\u00ab\u00a0viol sans intention de le commettre\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/28/au-proces-pelicot-les-accuses-agitent-la-theorie-du-viol-sans-intention-de-le-commettre_6337634_3224.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:00:01 +0200",
        "text": "Neuf des 50\u00a0coaccus\u00e9s de Dominique Pelicot ont \u00e9t\u00e9 entendus. Tous d\u00e9clinent la m\u00eame d\u00e9fense, assurant qu\u2019ils ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0manipul\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb et ne mesuraient pas que la victime \u00e9tait inconsciente sous l\u2019effet des m\u00e9dicaments que lui faisait ing\u00e9rer son mari en cachette."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au N\u00e9pal, cinquante-neuf morts dans des inondations, quarante-quatre personnes disparues;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/28/au-nepal-cinquante-neuf-morts-dans-des-inondations_6337839_3210.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:51:23 +0200",
        "text": "Compte tenu des importantes pr\u00e9cipitations survenues vendredi, les autorit\u00e9s avaient mis en garde contre les crues soudaines de plusieurs rivi\u00e8res. Quarante-quatre personnes sont \u00e9galement port\u00e9es disparues."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le parcours de Hassan Nasrallah, chef charismatique du Hezbollah dont l\u2019arm\u00e9e isra\u00e9lienne a annonc\u00e9 la mort;https://www.lemonde.fr/guerre-au-proche-orient/article/2024/09/28/le-parcours-de-hassan-nasrallah-chef-charismatique-du-hezbollah-dont-l-armee-israelienne-a-annonce-la-mort_6337738_6325529.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:44:43 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019Etat h\u00e9breu a annonc\u00e9, samedi, que le leader de la milice arm\u00e9e chiite pro-iranienne, fer de lance de la r\u00e9sistance \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl et v\u00e9ritable Etat dans l\u2019Etat au Liban, a \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9 par une frappe isra\u00e9lienne sur son fief de la banlieue sud de Beyrouth."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Naufrage d\u2019un bateau au large des Canaries\u00a0: neuf personnes sont mortes, 48\u00a0toujours recherch\u00e9es;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/28/aux-canaries-le-naufrage-d-un-bateau-transportant-84-migrants-fait-au-moins-9-morts-et-48-disparus_6337637_3210.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:03:09 +0200",
        "text": "Au moins 9\u00a0personnes sont mortes dans ce naufrage, dans la nuit de vendredi \u00e0 samedi, ont annonc\u00e9 les secours maritimes espagnols. Vingt-sept personnes ont pu \u00eatre secourues apr\u00e8s l\u2019appel au secours re\u00e7u vers 00\u00a0h\u00a015."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Une Fran\u00e7aise condamn\u00e9e \u00e0 neuf ans de prison pour avoir rejoint une organisation djihadiste en Syrie;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/28/djihadisme-une-francaise-condamnee-a-9-ans-de-prison-pour-avoir-rejoint-la-syrie_6337631_3224.html;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:54:21 +0200",
        "text": "Farrah Zerari est la vingti\u00e8me femme condamn\u00e9e en France depuis 2012 pour avoir rejoint une organisation terroriste, selon l\u2019avocate g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, qui avait requis onze\u00a0ans de r\u00e9clusion assortie d\u2019une p\u00e9riode de s\u00fbret\u00e9 des deux tiers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Sur le p\u00e9riph\u00e9rique parisien, le passage \u00e0 50\u00a0kilom\u00e8tres/heure sera g\u00e9n\u00e9ralis\u00e9 le 10\u00a0octobre;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/27/sur-le-peripherique-parisien-le-passage-a-50-kilometres-heure-sera-generalise-le-10-octobre_6337101_3244.html;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:42:33 +0200",
        "text": "Le passage de la vitesse maximale \u00e0 50\u00a0kilom\u00e8tres/heure, au lieu des 70\u00a0kilom\u00e8tres/heure actuels, s\u2019appliquera d\u00e8s mardi sur un tron\u00e7on de l\u2019anneau qui ceint la capitale. \u00ab\u00a0On ne va pas verbaliser les automobilistes d\u00e8s le 1\u1d49\u02b3\u00a0octobre\u00a0\u00bb, a assur\u00e9 le premier adjoint \u00e0 la Mairie de Paris."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Congress govt.\u2019s appeasement has resulted in unprecedented violence in State, says Yatnal;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/congress-govts-appeasement-has-resulted-in-unprecedented-violence-in-state-says-yatnal/article68698147.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:26:40 +0530",
        "text": "Siddaramaiah government has failed to deliver on all fronts, according to the Vijayapura BJP MLA"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Renovation of rural roads a priority: DDC;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/renovation-of-rural-roads-a-priority-ddc/article68698036.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:26:22 +0530",
        "text": "At the District Development Committee, MLA demands steps to ensure protective measures in areas most susceptible to sea surge in Alappad"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;92% of workers cleaning urban sewers, septic tanks are from SC, ST, OBC\u00a0groups;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/92-of-workers-cleaning-urban-sewers-septic-tanks-are-from-sc-st-obc-groups/article68697861.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:23:35 +0530",
        "text": "Almost 69% of the 38,000 workers profiled are from SC communities; almost 15% are OBCs, with 8% each in ST and general categories; Centre estimates about one lakh SSWs in 4,800 urban local bodies"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Glaciologist digs deep into permafrost to gauge future disasters;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/glaciologist-digs-deep-into-permafrost-to-gauge-future-disasters/article68698268.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:19:32 +0530",
        "text": "S.N. Remya from Kerala is part of this year\u2019s Indian Arctic Expedition, currently based at Himadri research station in Norway. She says her work aims to identify the probability of disasters due to permafrost collapse and help provide early warnings to local communities"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pabitra Narayan wins Kochi round of The Hindu businessline Cerebration Corporate Quiz 2024;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/pabitra-narayan-wins-kochi-round-of-the-hindu-businessline-cerebration-corporate-quiz-2024/article68698280.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:17:47 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Remand prisoner dies after complaining of chest pain, family refuses to receive the body;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/remand-prisoner-dies-after-complaining-of-chest-pain-family-refuses-to-receive-the-body/article68698282.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:14:20 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Forest Department confirms leopard\u2019s death by unidentified persons;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/forest-department-confirms-leopards-death-by-unidentified-persons/article68697793.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:06:30 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Police detained two friends, alleges Siddique\u2019s son;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/police-detained-two-friends-alleges-siddiques-son/article68698130.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:05:33 +0530",
        "text": "Actor\u2019s son Shaheen says one friend called him up seeking information on Siddique\u2019s location and the car he used. It is learnt that they were released later in the day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Licence of fireworks unit suspended following blast on Saturday;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/licence-of-fireworks-unit-suspended-following-blast-on-saturday/article68698244.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:03:58 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Thunderstorm likely in 17 Telangana districts on Monday;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/thunderstorm-likely-in-17-telangana-districts-on-monday/article68698126.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:03:52 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Lulu Group to make major investments in Vizag, Vijayawada and Tirupati;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/lulu-group-to-make-major-investments-in-vizag-vijayawada-and-tirupati/article68697950.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:00:48 +0530",
        "text": "The Abu Dhabi-based company has decided to construct an international standard shopping mall with eight-screen Imax multiplex in Visakhapatnam, state-of-the-art hypermarkets in Vijayawada and Tirupati, and modern food processing and logistic centres"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Boy playing with boat in Naripaiyur seashore killed;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/boy-playing-with-boat-in-naripaiyur-seashore-killed/article68698008.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:59:46 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Over one lakh palm seeds to be planted in Coimbatore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/over-one-lakh-palm-seeds-to-be-planted-in-coimbatore/article68698082.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:58:33 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;YouTuber, folk songwriter Mallik Teja booked on charge of sexual assault;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/youtuber-folk-songwriter-mallik-teja-booked-on-charge-of-sexual-assault/article68697994.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:58:24 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Weekly-offs to resume for Rythu Bazaars from October 1 in Vizag;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/weekly-offs-to-resume-for-rythu-bazaars-from-october-1-in-vizag/article68698050.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:57:26 +0530",
        "text": "Farmers and staff argue that the off is essential for providing rest to the farmers and to enable sanitation activities in the Bazaar premises"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BEE and EESL select NSL textiles factories for energy efficiency projects;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/bee-and-eesl-select-nsl-textiles-factories-for-energy-efficiency-projects/article68698172.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:56:51 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Caste census report to be implemented in the coming days, Siddaramaiah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/caste-census-report-to-be-implemented-in-the-coming-days-siddaramaiah/article68698133.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:55:46 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh Managing Director promises to develop sports amenities in Visakhapatnam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/sports-authority-of-andhra-pradesh-managing-director-promises-to-develop-sports-amenities-in-visakhapatnam/article68697959.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:52:08 +0530",
        "text": "He discusses with the District Collector about the development of water sport activities at Rushikonda and Gambheeram, identification of a ground for para-athletes, construction of Integrated Sports Complex and Multi-Games Indoor Stadium"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Siddaramaiah asserts confidence to overcome political challenges;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/siddaramaiah-asserts-confidence-to-overcome-political-challenges/article68698214.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:50:12 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hyderabad government employee conned of \u20b921.67 lakh in investment fraud;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/hyderabad-government-employee-conned-of-2167-lakh-in-investment-fraud/article68697802.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:49:50 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Appeal to include temple in Thrikkakara municipal area;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/appeal-to-include-temple-in-thrikkakara-municipal-area/article68697827.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:48:33 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pharmacist found dead near Arakkonam town;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/pharmacist-found-dead-near-arakkonam-town/article68698101.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:47:59 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vasant Kunj deaths: Delhi Police to study Burari suicide case to probe 'occult practices' angle;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/vasant-kunj-deaths-delhi-police-to-study-burari-suicide-case-to-probe-occult-practices-angle/article68698127.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:46:39 +0530",
        "text": "Delhi Police investigate occult angle in Burari suicide case, studying red thread and sweets found at scene"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Swiggy seeks to expand its footprint in Andhra Pradesh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/swiggy-seeks-to-expand-its-footprint-in-andhra-pradesh/article68697744.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:45:43 +0530",
        "text": "Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Tirupati are the top three markets for food-ordering in the State, says its Food Marketplace CEO Rohit Kapoor"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CBSE Cluster VII Football competition kicks off in Kurnool;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/cbse-cluster-vii-football-competition-kicks-off-in-kurnool/article68697913.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:42:46 +0530",
        "text": "3,500 students from across 143 schools of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are participating in the games held at Ridge School"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Public entry to Chamundeshwati temple restricted, move draws flak;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/public-entry-to-chamundeshwati-temple-restricted-move-draws-flak/article68697778.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:41:49 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Archbishop Kuriakose Kunnassery Foundation Award given away;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/archbishop-kuriakose-kunnassery-foundation-award-given-away/article68698051.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:39:18 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Depositors seek urgent steps to recover money from crisis-ridden Thiruvithamcore Cooperative Society;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/depositors-seek-urgent-steps-to-recover-money-from-crisis-ridden-thiruvithamcore-cooperative-society/article68697873.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:38:26 +0530",
        "text": "They seek action against BJP leader and former president of the society M.S. Kumar and other administrative committee members"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Telangana aims to boost early breastfeeding rate by reducing C-sections;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-aims-to-boost-early-breastfeeding-rate-by-reducing-c-sections/article68697735.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:38:14 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;34 snake-bite cases reported in the last almost 90 days in Yadir district;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/34-snake-bite-cases-reported-in-the-last-almost-90-days-in-yadir-district/article68694314.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:37:32 +0530",
        "text": "Farmers going to their fields fear for their lives and take precautionary measures against the ever-possible attacks by slithering snakes, especially when it rains"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Female teacher arrested for sexual assault on minor girl in Coimbatore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/female-teacher-arrested-for-sexual-assault-on-minor-girl/article68698029.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:37:20 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Spot admissions for vacant seats at APJ Abdul Kalam tech varsity;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/spot-admissions-for-vacant-seats-at-apj-abdul-kalam-tech-varsity/article68697943.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:37:12 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Over 1.38 lakh cases disposed of in National Lok Adalat; \u20b927.2 crore refunded to cybercrime victims in Telangana;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/over-138-lakh-cases-disposed-of-in-national-lok-adalat-272-crore-refunded-to-cybercrime-victims-in-telangana/article68697505.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:35:15 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Construction debris processing plant in Coimbatore to remain a distant dream;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/construction-debris-processing-plant-in-coimbatore-to-remain-a-distant-dream/article68697921.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:34:00 +0530",
        "text": "The proposal has not yet been approved by the State government, says Corporation Commissioner Sivaguru Prabhakaran"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh to take over as new Indian Air Force Chief tomorrow;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/air-marshal-amar-preet-singh-to-take-over-as-new-indian-air-force-chief-tomorrow/article68697692.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:33:22 +0530",
        "text": "The Air Officer is a certified flight instructor and an experimental test pilot with over 5,000 hours of flying experience on various fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vizag cricketer Nitish Reddy selected for Bangladesh T20s;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/vizag-cricketer-nitish-reddy-earns-maiden-call-up-for-bangladesh-t20s/article68697662.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:31:45 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vikramaditya Singh meets Kharge, conveys his steadfastness to Congress ideology;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/vikramaditya-singh-meets-kharge-conveys-his-steadfastness-to-congress-ideology/article68698114.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:30:10 +0530",
        "text": "Vikramaditya Singh said he has assuaged the Congress high command\u2019s concerns about ideology following his recent remarks on the street vendors issue"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pollution Board urges industries to adopt waste management techniques in Srikakulam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/pollution-board-urges-industries-to-adopt-waste-management-techniques-in-srikakulam/article68697828.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:29:15 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Centre has given priority to Tamil Nadu\u2019s transformation in last 10 years: Union Minister L. Murugan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/centre-has-given-priority-to-tamil-nadus-transformation-in-last-10-years-union-minister-l-murugan/article68697930.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:27:35 +0530",
        "text": "Over \u20b96,300 crore was allocated to Tamil Nadu in the 2024-25 Railway Budget, he says"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Authorities told to ensure secure, morally sound environment at Chittoor sub-jail;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/authorities-told-to-ensure-secure-morally-sound-environment-at-chittoor-sub-jail/article68697645.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:27:15 +0530",
        "text": "SP V.N. Manikanta Chandolu convenes coordination meeting with authorities and staff at the facility, interacts with inmates"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Health walks, screening camps mark World Heart Day in Tiruchi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/health-walks-screening-camps-mark-world-heart-day-in-tiruchi/article68698074.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:26:23 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Justice Manmohan takes oath as Chief Justice of Delhi High Court;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/justice-manmohan-takes-oath-as-chief-justice-of-delhi-high-court/article68698057.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:24:21 +0530",
        "text": "Justice Manmohan sworn in as Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, succeeding Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vellampalli Srinivas slams Naidu, Pawan Kalyan on laddu prasadam row;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/vellampalli-srinivas-slams-naidu-pawan-kalyan-on-laddu-prasadam-row/article68697852.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:24:19 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Wayanad\u2019s charms, tourism campaigns yet to entice global tourists to return to district;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/wayanads-charms-tourism-campaigns-yet-to-entice-global-tourists-to-return-to-district/article68686937.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:24:14 +0530",
        "text": "District saw only 37,226 tourists this Onam vacation as against the 1.11 lakh visitors last season. Besides its Safe Wayanad campaign, the Tourism dept. is devising strategies to woo tourists back to the destination post the landslides"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;District Monitoring Officer inspects Tata facility in Krishnagiri;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/district-monitoring-officer-inspects-tata-facility-in-krishnagiri/article68697968.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:24:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Prakash Karat to be interim leader of CPI(M);https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/prakash-karat-to-be-interim-chief-of-cpim/article68698031.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:23:22 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Karat will be the coordinator of the polit bureau and the central committee until the 24th party congress to be held in April 2025 in Madurai. Party general secretary Sitaram Yechury\u2019s untimely demise recently left the post vacant."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Striking for identity and inclusion;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/striking-for-identity-and-inclusion/article68696935.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:22:55 +0530",
        "text": "It has been over three weeks since the Dhangar community in Maharashtra has started a fast-unto-death agitation in Pandharpur for a Scheduled Tribe reservation, claiming they are the Dhangad community already listed in the Constitution. Vinaya Deshpande Pandit visits Solapur district to understand the political ramifications of the State\u2019s second largest community in the upcoming Assembly elections"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Southern Railway seeks feasibility reports from Tiruchi, Madurai and Salem divisions on extension of two trains;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/southern-railway-seeks-feasibility-reports-from-tiruchi-madurai-and-salem-divisions-on-extension-of-two-trains/article68697983.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:22:50 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Anantapur police inspects Prasanthi Express for illegal ganja transportation;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/anantapur-police-inspects-prasanthi-express-for-illegal-ganja-transportation/article68697660.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:21:06 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CPI(M) activist Pushpan cremated in Thalassery;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/cpim-activist-pushpan-cremated-in-thalassery/article68697494.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:20:49 +0530",
        "text": "He was left bedridden for nearly three decades after being severely injured in the Koothuparamba police firing. Pushpan had remained a party loyalist till the end"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Local paddlers give a tough fight at the national-level championship;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/local-paddlers-give-a-tough-fight-at-the-national-level-championship/article68698026.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:20:07 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;African countries eye world\u2019s first joint 'debt-for-nature' swap;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/african-countries-eye-worlds-first-joint-debt-for-nature-swap/article68698022.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:16:06 +0530",
        "text": "Debt-for-nature deals involve bonds or loans are bought and replaced with cheaper debt, with savings used for environmental protection"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;South Indian farmers\u2019 organisations oppose Genetically Modified crops;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/south-indian-farmers-organisations-oppose-genetically-modified-crops/article68697867.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:14:59 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two abducted Manipur youths seek CM Biren Singh\u2019s help to save their lives;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/manipur/two-abducted-manipur-youths-seek-cms-help-to-save-their-lives/article68697926.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:12:40 +0530",
        "text": "Of the three Meitei men kidnapped by Kuki extremists on September 27, one managed to escape"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;APERC approves wheeling charges for open access users for control period 2024-25 to 2028-29;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/aperc-approves-wheeling-charges-for-open-access-users-for-control-period-2024-25-to-2028-29/article68697825.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:12:22 +0530",
        "text": "For the first time since the enactment of Electricity Act, Discoms are allowed to collect the charges on kWh basis instead of the traditional kVA, which is considered a strategic move to encourage integration of solar rooftop installations at lower voltage levels"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Works on two flyovers near Nellore Bypass have resumed after years of delay, says Nellore Rural MLA;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/works-on-two-flyovers-near-nellore-bypass-have-resumed-after-years-of-delay-says-nellore-rural-mla/article68695089.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:08:10 +0530",
        "text": "The service roads will be completed within a month, while the flyovers will be made available for the public by next year, he says"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rubber growers up in arms over move to take over Central Nursery;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/rubber-growers-up-in-arms-over-move-to-take-over-central-nursery/article68697777.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:07:10 +0530",
        "text": "They argue that the move comes at a time when the rubber plantation sector in Kerala is struggling with a severe shortage of quality rubber plants"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Centralised marketing operations of steel PSUs mooted to help VSP tide over losses;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/centralised-marketing-operations-of-steel-psus-mooted-to-help-vsp-tide-over-losses/article68697084.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:05:57 +0530",
        "text": "Of the 150-160 million tonnes of steel produced in the country per annum, only 30 mtpa is produced by State-owned PSUs; if steel production is completely privatised, there will be a burden on govt. infra projects like highways and bridges, opines RINL official"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CM says he will not interfere in probe by Lokayukta in MUDA case;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/cm-says-he-will-not-interfere-in-probe-by-lokayukta-in-muda-case/article68697350.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:03:50 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;DPH lists Health Dept. initiatives for healthy life;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/dph-lists-health-dept-initiatives-for-healthy-life/article68697731.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:03:03 +0530",
        "text": "World Heart Day was celebrated on Sunday"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Top news of the day: Senthilbalaji, three other Tamil Nadu Ministers sworn in; Hezbollah confirms another top commander killed in Israeli strike, and more;https://www.thehindu.com/news/top-news-of-the-day-september-29-2024-senthilbalaji-three-other-tamil-nadu-ministers-sworn-in-hezbollah-confirms-another-top-commander-killed-in-israeli-strike-and-more/article68698038.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:02:49 +0530",
        "text": "The major news headlines of the day and more."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP Kisan Morcha performs purification ritual at Labbipet temple in Vijayawada;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/bjp-kisan-morcha-performs-purification-ritual-at-labbipet-temple-in-vijayawada/article68697757.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:02:45 +0530",
        "text": "They allege YSRCP of conducting a smear campaign against Tirumala temple and its deity Lord Venkateswara, demand apology from Jagan, former TTD Chairmen, over laddu prasadams controversy"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Businessman from Coimbatore arrested for rape;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/businessman-from-coimbatore-arrested-for-rape/article68697503.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:02:25 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Frigid alien planet may offer a glimpse at Earth's distant future;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/frigid-alien-planet-may-offer-a-glimpse-at-earths-distant-future/article68697953.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:01:58 +0530",
        "text": "The First rocky planet, about 4,200 light years away, found orbiting white dwarf offers insight into Earth\u2019s potential survival after sun\u2019s death"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Women\u2019s waiting room opened at Kozhikode KSRTC terminal;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/womens-waiting-room-opened-at-kozhikode-ksrtc-terminal/article68697559.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:59:33 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;TNAU condoles death of Padma Shri awardee Pappammal;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/tnau-condoles-death-of-padma-shri-awardee-pappammal/article68694944.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:59:14 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.S. airstrikes on Syria kill 37 militants affiliated with extremist groups;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-airstrikes-on-syria-kill-37-militants-affiliated-with-extremist-groups/article68697646.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:58:33 +0530",
        "text": "The U.S. military says 37 militants in Syria affiliated with the extremist Islamic State group and an al-Qaeda-linked group were killed in two strikes"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pawan Kalyan\u2019s vision will ensure speedy development of Vizianagaram district, say Jana Sena Party leaders;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/pawan-kalyans-vision-will-ensure-speedy-development-of-vizianagaram-district-say-jana-sena-party-leaders/article68697714.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:57:31 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Police search 40 locations in Coimbatore city, in an anti-narcotics operation to rein in addicted students;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/police-search-40-locations-in-coimbatore-city-in-an-anti-narcotics-operation-to-rein-in-addicted-students/article68695171.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:57:03 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two students drown in Kuttiyadi river;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/two-students-drown-in-kuttiyadi-river/article68697566.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:54:42 +0530",
        "text": "The incident took place around 1 p.m. when the students were bathing in the river"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Yellow alert for nine districts on Monday;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/yellow-alert-for-nine-districts-on-monday/article68697893.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:54:28 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;HC asks TDB to conduct Vigilance probe into irregularities in cleaning works at temple;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/hc-asks-tdb-to-conduct-vigilance-probe-into-irregularities-in-cleaning-works-at-temple/article68697595.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:53:32 +0530",
        "text": "Court criticises TDB for not ordering a Vigilance probe despite  a recommendation by the Chief Vigilance\u00a0and Security Officer. Row over cleaning of septic and water tanks at the Edathavalam for Sabarimala pilgrims at the Pandalam Valiyakoikkal\u00a0temple"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Wayside parking of heavy trucks challenge safety of motorists at night;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kozhikode/wayside-parking-of-heavy-trucks-challenge-safety-of-motorists-at-night/article68697651.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:53:19 +0530",
        "text": "Inadequate street lighting and limited parking facilities exacerbate safety concerns for inter-district passengers, while truck operators face challenges in finding proper resting spots along the highways"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Landslide-prone areas of Wayanad to come under Ecologically Sensitive Areas in State;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/landslide-prone-areas-of-wayanad-to-come-under-ecologically-sensitive-areas-in-state/article68697607.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:51:20 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Residents move High Court again seeking service lanes along Tiruchi-Thanjavur NH;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/residents-move-high-court-again-seeking-service-lanes-along-tiruchi-thanjavur-nh/article68697729.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:47:59 +0530",
        "text": "The residents associations have been lobbying for building the 14.5-km-long service lanes since 2010; the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court in 2019 asked the NHAI to build the service lanes"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;2 mediapersons manhandled;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/2-mediapersons-manhandled/article68697361.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:45:36 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;On visit to Greece, Navy Chief discusses cross-training in niche technologies, strategic and operational ties;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/on-visit-to-greece-navy-chief-discusses-cross-training-in-niche-technologies-strategic-and-operational-ties/article68697711.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:45:05 +0530",
        "text": "Navy Chief\u2019s visit to Greece lays groundwork for defence collaboration with a focus on strategic naval opportunities, capacity building, shared training initiatives, and enhancing interoperability"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;SCR to run 650 special trains in October;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/scr-to-run-650-special-trains-in-october/article68697611.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:44:20 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tiruchi Corporation to replace old sewer lines in Srirangam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/tiruchi-corporation-to-replace-old-sewer-lines-in-srirangam/article68697824.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:39:25 +0530",
        "text": "Pipelines of about 550 metre in length from the railway track to Tiruchi Chennai Trunk Road running at 8 feet depth below Gandhi Road will be replaced"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;BJP in Telangana to oppose HYDRAA demolishing homes of the poor;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/bjp-in-telangana-to-oppose-hydraa-demolishing-homes-of-the-poor/article68697582.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:39:07 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Clean-up and restoration drives take off in Coonoor and Udhagamandalam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/clean-up-and-restoration-drives-take-off-in-coonoor-and-udhagamandalam/article68697228.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:36:25 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Exercise on new Revenue Act in final stages, says Revenue Minister;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/exercise-on-new-revenue-act-in-final-stages-says-revenue-minister/article68697666.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:32:10 +0530",
        "text": "New Act aimed at rectifying mistakes of the previous regime and strengthening administration"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;J&K Assembly Polls: Campaigning for final phase concludes, stakes high for BJP;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jammu-and-kashmir-assembly/jk-assembly-polls-campaigning-for-final-phase-concludes-stakes-high-for-bjp/article68697829.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:31:45 +0530",
        "text": "Intense campaigning for final phase of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election with major parties engaging in fierce exchanges"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Five arrested for murdering couple in Dharmapuri;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/five-arrested-for-murdering-couple-in-dharmapuri/article68697654.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:28:45 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vembanad fish count records 85 species;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/vembanad-fish-count-records-85-species/article68697412.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:25:56 +0530",
        "text": "100 volunteers, including academics, researchers and fishermen from across the region, participate in this year\u2019s count"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Controversy erupts over split-second finish in Nehru Trophy Boat Race final;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/controversy-erupts-over-split-second-finish-in-nehru-trophy-boat-race-final/article68697351.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:21:54 +0530",
        "text": "When the final race results were initially displayed on the screen, both Karichal and Veeyapuram were shown to have finished at the same time, allege representatives of VBC Kainakary, who rowed the Veeyapuram Chundan"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Study highlights decline in over-summering shorebirds along Ramanathapuram coast;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/study-highlights-decline-in-over-summering-shorebirds-along-ramanathapuram-coast/article68697396.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:17:50 +0530",
        "text": "The decline in over-summering shorebird abundance across all sites suggests an ongoing habitat degradation issue, says study"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Drive launched to plant one crore palmyra plants in Mayiladuthurai district;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/drive-launched-to-plant-one-crore-palmyra-plants-in-mayiladuthurai-district/article68697760.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:16:37 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Deity will be worshipped in 10 alankarams during Dasara festivities at Kanaka Durga temple in Vijayawada from October 3, says Executive Officer;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/deity-will-be-worshipped-in-10-alankarams-during-dasara-festivities-at-kanaka-durga-temple-in-vijayawada-from-october-3-says-executive-officer/article68697588.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:15:03 +0530",
        "text": "The Vaidic Committee decided to start the festivities with Sri Bala Tripurasundari Devi Alankaram, he says"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Lightning kills couple in Sri Sathya Sai district;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/lightning-kills-couple-in-sathya-sai-district/article68697549.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:13:14 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pope denounces abuse cover-ups as he wraps thorny Belgium visit;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pope-denounces-abuse-cover-ups-as-he-wraps-thorny-belgium-visit/article68697780.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:08:12 +0530",
        "text": "Pope Francis addresses sexual abuse, calls for transparency, condemns abusers during visit to Belgium, faces challenges on gender inequality"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Casuarina farming sees resurgence in Vedaranyam six years after Cyclone Gaja;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/casuarina-farming-sees-resurgence-in-vedaranyam-six-years-after-cyclone-gaja/article68697696.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:06:14 +0530",
        "text": "Most of the casuarina plantations on about 7,000 acres of land in the region were destroyed when Cyclone Gaja hit the region; the plantations have been raised on 1,000 acres of land now"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israeli airstrikes kill 11 Palestinians in Gaza;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israeli-airstrikes-kill-11-palestinians-in-gaza/article68697705.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:05:57 +0530",
        "text": "The Israeli military said it struck Hamas militants operating from a command centre embedded in a compound that had previously served as Um Al-Fahm School"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Govt to launch revamped Vatsalya Mission portal for integrated child protection services: official;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/govt-to-launch-revamped-vatsalya-mission-portal-for-integrated-child-protection-services-official/article68697739.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:05:24 +0530",
        "text": "Ministry of Women and Child Development Secretary Anil Malik noted that the current system has its limitations, as children in emergency situations require immediate and well-coordinated action"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Neurological disorders pose a significant health challenge in the country, says expert;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/neurological-disorders-pose-a-significant-health-challenge-in-the-country-says-expert/article68697598.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:55:00 +0530",
        "text": "\u2018There have been notable advancements in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological conditions, offering hope for improved patient outcomes\u2019"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;MVA to meet on September 30 - October 1 to finalise seat sharing formula: Congress leader Patole;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/mva-to-meet-on-september-30-october-1-to-finalise-seat-sharing-formula-congress-leader-patole/article68697676.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:53:10 +0530",
        "text": "Leaders of the MVA, which comprises the Shiv Sena (UBT), Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) and the Congress, will meet on September 30 and October 1 to finalise the seat sharing formula"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;IG visits injured police officials in Namakkal; former DGP praises Namakkal encounter;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/ig-visits-injured-police-officials-in-namakkal-former-dgp-praises-namakkal-encounter/article68697526.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:49:52 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CMR Group donates \u20b950 lakh to Vijayawada flood victims;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/cmr-group-donates-50-lakh-to-vijayawada-flood-victims/article68695432.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:47:45 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;MUDA scam: Activist Snehamayi Krishna complains to ED against CM Siddaramaiah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/muda-scam-activist-snehamayi-krishna-complains-to-ed-against-cm-siddaramaiah/article68697630.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:47:19 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Krishna has sought an investigation into the alleged misuse of official powers by CM Siddaramaiah into the allotment of 14 sites to his wife, Parvathi, under PMLA."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;ADG Donny Michael appointed as Coast Guard Commander of Eastern Seaboard in Visakhapatnam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/adg-donny-michael-appointed-as-coast-guard-commander-of-eastern-seaboard-in-visakhapatnam/article68695514.ece;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:45:34 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;All you need to know about waterspouts after rare sighting in Hong Kong\u2019s Victoria Harbour;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3280435/all-you-need-know-about-waterspouts-after-rare-sighting-hong-kongs-victoria-harbour?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 21:22:01 +0800",
        "text": "A waterspout was seen in Hong Kong\u2019s Victoria Harbour for the first time since records began in 1959, so what caused the phenomenon?"
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Cathay Pacific flight diverted to Tokyo to remove \u2018unruly passenger\u2019 who verbally abused crew;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3280441/cathay-pacific-flight-diverted-tokyo-remove-unruly-passenger-who-verbally-abused-crew?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:58:18 +0800",
        "text": "Flight CX806 from Hong Kong to Chicago was diverted to Tokyo to offload man who had been drinking."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong man, 20, arrested for allegedly indecently assaulting 8 girls in single morning;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280439/hong-kong-man-20-arrested-allegedly-indecently-assaulting-8-girls-single-morning?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:21:31 +0800",
        "text": "Two teenagers reported cases to police, with suspect alleged to have indecently assaulted at least six more girls on the same morning."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong boy, 4, dies after being given herbal medicine pills; mother arrested;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280433/hong-kong-mother-arrested-after-son-allegedly-injected-herbal-medicine-boy-critically-ill?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:51:02 +0800",
        "text": "Source says boy took two herbal pills at around 11am."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Cathay Pacific reopens premium lounge at Hong Kong airport day after fire breaks out;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3280424/cathay-pacific-reopens-premium-lounge-hong-kong-airport-day-after-fire-breaks-out?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:32:06 +0800",
        "text": "Business lounge The Pier had temporarily closed after blaze broke out and forced more than 250 people to evacuate."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Schools need to teach about tech, not just use it in lessons;https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3280183/schools-need-teach-about-tech-not-just-use-it-lessons?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:30:08 +0800",
        "text": "Amid an AI revolution, we must reform lesson plans and retrain teachers to educate the young about technology and how to use it for good."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong violinist wins top international competition, the first from city to do so;https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3280417/hong-kong-violinist-wins-top-international-competition-first-city-do-so?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:01:01 +0800",
        "text": "\u2018I felt I was really in the moment,\u2019 Angela Chan says of her prize-winning performance at the Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong man dies after collapsing on boat in waters off Lamma Island;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280416/hong-kong-man-dies-after-collapse-boat-waters-lamma-island?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:43:42 +0800",
        "text": "Police received report of man collapsing on speedboat, with victim certified dead after being sent to Queen Mary Hospital."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong mainland visitor numbers unlikely to \u2018reach pre-pandemic levels in next 2 years\u2019;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3280415/hong-kong-mainland-visitor-numbers-unlikely-reach-pre-pandemic-levels-next-2-years?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:38:19 +0800",
        "text": "Travel Industry Council executive director says global economy has worsened, shortage of tour guides also weighing on city\u2019s tourism sector."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;UK, Spain keen to tap Hong Kong\u2019s financial services to grow Asia presence, Paul Chan says;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3280412/uk-spain-keen-tap-hong-kongs-financial-services-grow-asia-presence-paul-chan-says?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:35:01 +0800",
        "text": "Finance chief Paul Chan says countries\u2019 political and business sectors weighing how to leverage city\u2019s advantages as he returns from Europe."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Wild boar killed after Hong Kong taxi runs over family of hogs in Southern district;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280411/wild-boar-killed-after-hong-kong-taxi-runs-over-family-hogs-southern-district?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:28:25 +0800",
        "text": "Dashcam footage circulating online shows two adult boars and three piglets walking down road before being struck by taxi."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Spirit of Hong Kong Awards: feeding elderly for free while giving them jobs;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280408/spirit-hong-kong-awards-feeding-elderly-free-while-giving-them-jobs?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 12:50:58 +0800",
        "text": "Kenneth Choi has turned Gingko House into a flourishing catering business that aims to give older residents \u2018sense of purpose and dignity\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Experts sound alarm as growing number of Hong Kong elderly become socially isolated;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280406/experts-sound-alarm-growing-number-hong-kong-elderly-become-socially-isolated?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 12:41:29 +0800",
        "text": "Study finds proportion of people aged 65 and above experiencing social isolation hit 53 per cent in 2023-24, up from 41.2 per cent in 2017-18."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Major Hong Kong road under repair after taxi plunges into sinkhole, leaving driver injured;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280402/hong-kong-taxi-driver-injured-passenger-unscathed-cab-plunges-flooded-sinkhole?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 11:33:21 +0800",
        "text": "Repairs along Lai Chi Kok Road in Kowloon to last until Monday after burst pipe creates sinkhole."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s cash-for-residency scheme is attracting applicants, but will they stay?;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3280388/hong-kongs-cash-residency-scheme-attracting-applicants-will-they-stay?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 09:00:25 +0800",
        "text": "Immigration consultants say some applicants with HK$30 million to invest are simply seeking business \u2018stepping stone\u2019 or education for children."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Pure Fitness says unpaid rent dispute with Central branch landlord resolved;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3280385/pure-fitness-says-unpaid-rent-dispute-central-branch-landlord-resolved?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:00:28 +0800",
        "text": "Physical fitness chain tells customers all of its gyms operating as usual, but some patrons remain sceptical of company\u2019s future."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong taxi driver gets maximum demerit points for overcharging under new penalty system;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3280377/hong-kong-taxi-driver-gets-maximum-demerit-points-overcharging-under-new-penalty-system?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 20:32:40 +0800",
        "text": "Transport authority hands out punishment within first week of implementing penalty system to keep cabbies on their best behaviour."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Crowds buzzing for National Day-themed drone show over Hong Kong\u2019s Victoria Harbour;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280374/crowds-buzzing-national-day-theme-drone-show-over-hong-kongs-victoria-harbour?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 20:02:27 +0800",
        "text": "\u2018Galloping Horses in the Sky\u2019 was the theme of the 12-minute drone show."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong customs arrests 5 men, seizes HK$45 million worth of black market cigarettes;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280373/hong-kong-customs-arrests-5-men-seizes-hk45-million-worth-black-market-cigarettes?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:51:41 +0800",
        "text": "Officers intercepted a suspicious fishing boat in the waters off Hong Kong\u2019s southernmost island, Po Toi, on Friday morning."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;From pandas to supercars: Hong Kong\u2019s Cathay Cargo chief says no shipment too challenging;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3280368/pandas-supercars-hong-kongs-cathay-cargo-chief-says-no-shipment-too-challenging?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:00:32 +0800",
        "text": "Tom Owen, cargo service\u2019s director, tells Post in exclusive interview that company\u2019s expertise ranges from delivering complicated to delicate goods."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;2 workers charged in case of Hong Kong girl, 4, whose heart stopped after getting stitches;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3280366/2-workers-charged-case-hong-kong-girl-4-whose-heart-stopped-after-getting-stitches?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 18:36:28 +0800",
        "text": "Women, aged 26 and 62, face one count of ill-treatment or neglect by those in charge of a child or young person."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong must crack down harder on wealthy residents living in public flats, leader says;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3280362/hong-kong-must-crack-down-harder-wealthy-residents-living-public-flats-leader-says?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:19:03 +0800",
        "text": "Chief Executive John Lee says misuse of system must stop so deserving residents can be given chance to start new life."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Less pressure on students if university language rule axed, Hong Kong head teachers\u2019 group says;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3280361/less-pressure-students-if-university-language-rule-axed-hong-kong-head-teachers-group-says?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:14:40 +0800",
        "text": "Hong Kong Association of the Heads of Secondary Schools has proposed universities adopt points system based on exam results of candidates\u2019 best five subjects."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong buyers snap up 200 flats as market sentiment improves on interest rate cut;https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3280360/hong-kong-buyers-snap-200-flats-market-sentiment-improves-interest-rate-cut?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:11:37 +0800",
        "text": "Hong Kong saw the most number of new flats sold on a single day since May as market sentiment improved after a rate cut by the HKMA."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;2 taxi drivers killed in accident on Hong Kong-Shenzhen Western Corridor;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3280359/2-drivers-critically-injured-highway-accident-near-hong-kong-shenzhen-border?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:05:47 +0800",
        "text": "Both drivers were hit by third vehicle while they were discussing an earlier collision."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Waterspout spotted in Hong Kong\u2019s Victoria Harbour for first time since records began;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280343/waterspout-spotted-over-hong-kongs-victoria-harbour-weather-forecaster?utm_source=rss_feed;Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:14:48 +0800",
        "text": "Hong Kong Observatory says waterspout seen swirling across the harbour."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New NATO chief Mark Rutte faces challenge to build consensus;https://www.dw.com/en/new-nato-chief-mark-rutte-faces-challenge-to-build-consensus/a-70355945?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Mark Rutte takes the helm at NATO on October 1, after more than a dozen years as Dutch prime minister. He'll need all his diplomatic skills to manage the alliance in testing times."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine: Adoption rates on the rise;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-adoption-rates-on-the-rise/a-70339567?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "As Russia's war on Ukraine continues, ever more Ukrainians are adopting orphans. DW spoke to foster parents about the process."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Syria: US airstrikes kill 37 Islamist militants;https://www.dw.com/en/syria-us-airstrikes-kill-37-islamist-militants/a-70355869?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The militants killed in two September strikes in Syria were affiliated with the extremist \"Islamic State\" group and an al-Qaeda-linked group, the United States military said."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East: IDF says it's killed another Hezbollah figure;https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-idf-says-it-s-killed-another-hezbollah-figure/live-70354520?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Israel's military said Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah's Central Council, was killed in a strike in Beirut. It follows the killing of the group's long-time leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police arrest man over arson attacks, van crash;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-arrest-man-over-arson-attacks-van-crash/a-70355387?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Police in Germany say they have arrested a man over two arson attacks and a van collision. Two children were critically injured in one of the attacks, believed to have been aimed at a particular family."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nepal floods, landslides leave at least 126 dead;https://www.dw.com/en/nepal-floods-landslides-leave-at-least-126-dead/a-70354640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "A heavy monsoon downpour has triggered floods and landslides in the Himalayan nation. Over a hundred people have died and search is on for dozens of missing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zaporizhzhia hit by 'massive aerial strikes';https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zaporizhzhia-hit-by-massive-aerial-strikes/live-70355030?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "At least 16 people were wounded in a huge Russian air attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. Meanwhile, Russia said it had shot down 125 Ukrainian drones. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Austria votes in tight election as far-right eyes historic win;https://www.dw.com/en/austria-votes-in-tight-election-as-far-right-eyes-historic-win/a-70354491?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Austrians are voting to elect a new parliament. The far-right Freedom Party is poised to beat the ruling conservatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Austrian elections: Could the far-right FP\u00d6 win?;https://www.dw.com/en/austrian-elections-could-the-far-right-fp\u00f6-win/a-70350413?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Polls suggest the far-right Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) could win Sunday's general election. But this is far from certain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Austria: Outrage on election eve amid funeral with Nazi song;https://www.dw.com/en/austria-outrage-on-election-eve-amid-funeral-with-nazi-song/a-70354166?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Three far-right politicians were reportedly at the funeral where a song glorified by Germany's Nazi-era SS was sung on election eve. The Austrian Jewish Students\u2019 Union has reported the politicians involved."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian refugees: Forever displaced?;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-refugees-forever-displaced/a-70353072?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The plight of Palestinian refugees has worsened dramatically since the Israel-Hamas war began. DW explains their status."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Fans bid farewell to Tokyo pandas before return to China;https://www.dw.com/en/fans-bid-farewell-to-tokyo-pandas-before-return-to-china/a-70353895?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Crowds of adoring fans came out to see off Ri Ri and Shin Shin, two giant pandas living in a Tokyo zoo. China sends pandas to zoos abroad but maintains ownership over the animals and any cubs they produce."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pope Francis promises 'help' to Belgian sex abuse victims;https://www.dw.com/en/pope-francis-promises-help-to-belgian-sex-abuse-victims/a-70353319?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Pope Francis spoke in Brussels with victims of clergy sexual abuse who are demanding compensation from the Catholic Church. The Vatican said that he is looking over the requests."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Europe's far right is changing EU asylum policy;https://www.dw.com/en/how-europe-s-far-right-is-changing-eu-asylum-policy/a-70337161?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The EU has been hardening its migration policy for years, but the ascendant fortunes of the far right have member states skittish about their freshly agreed asylum reform package."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NATO's Indo-Pacific policy riddled with challenges;https://www.dw.com/en/nato-s-indo-pacific-policy-riddled-with-challenges/a-70282598?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Western allies are waking up to the threat on NATO's borders and the increased ties between Russia and China. But the security alliance's goal to work more closely with the Indo-Pacific region still has a long way to go."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Brazil: Illegal salvage from Nazi ships poses oil threat;https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-illegal-salvage-from-nazi-ships-poses-oil-threat/a-70321767?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "There are more than 500 WWII wrecks off the coast of Brazil, some containing valuable metals. Researchers warn that the hunt for these resources could cause massive oil spills."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What's behind Russia's plan to ban 'child-free' ideology?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-s-behind-russia-s-plan-to-ban-child-free-ideology/a-70324064?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The Russian parliament is discussing a law to ban so-called \"propaganda of childlessness\" with fines up to $4,300 for individuals. Will that help to solve the country's demographic crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Thuringia lawmakers pick CDU speaker, rejecting AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-thuringia-lawmakers-pick-cdu-speaker-rejecting-afd/a-70352586?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The parliament in the eastern German state of Thuringia has chosen a member of the conservative CDU as its new speaker. The far-right AfD, which won the most seats, was blocked by all other parties from taking the role."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jannik Sinner tennis doping case: What is happening?;https://www.dw.com/en/jannik-sinner-tennis-doping-case-what-is-happening/a-70352569?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "US Open men's champion and world number one Jannik Sinner could be banned from tennis for up to two years. The World Anti-Doping Agency says doping rules were not followed in a case involving Sinner."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dark web: Is the Tor browsing network still secure?;https://www.dw.com/en/dark-web-is-the-tor-browsing-network-still-secure/a-70342836?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Two million people worldwide use the Tor network to surf the Internet anonymously or to get around censors. Now, reports suggest the system has been breached. What does that mean for users?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Sumy hospital hit by deadly double attack;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-sumy-hospital-hit-by-deadly-double-attack/live-70352274?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Ukrainian regional authorities say two strikes on a medical center in Sumy near the border with Russia killed several people. Meanwhile, President Zelenskyy said Trump promised to support Ukraine. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Hamburg police seize 2 tons of cocaine worth \u20ac100M;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hamburg-police-seize-2-tons-of-cocaine-worth-\u20ac100m/a-70347569?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The cocaine was hidden in banana boxes stacked inside a shipping container near Hamburg's port. Police said the drug haul was the result of weeks of undercover investigation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: AfD leaders pick Weidel for chancellor candidate;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-afd-leaders-pick-weidel-for-chancellor-candidate/a-70349935?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Germany's next federal election is set for September 2025. Alice Weidel was already seen as the overwhelmingly likely candidate. But the final decision won't come until the party conference next year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany slows arms exports to Israel \u2014 without admitting it;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-slows-arms-exports-to-israel-without-admitting-it/a-70347570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Berlin appears to have stopped approving war weapons exports to Israel, even while insisting that there is no ban in place. Observers believe the government has been spooked by legal threats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Former Germany keeper Lehmann fined over chainsaw incident;https://www.dw.com/en/former-germany-keeper-lehmann-fined-over-chainsaw-incident/a-70349612?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Jens Lehmann has been given a reduced fine over an incident in which the former Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper took a chainsaw to a neighbor's garage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Far-right AfD stages day of chaos in parliament;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-far-right-afd-stages-day-of-chaos-in-parliament/a-70344985?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Classified as \"extremist\" by the domestic intelligence agency, the anti-immigrant populist Alternative for Germany party in Thuringia is now staging a political scandal that bodes ill for German democracy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Higgs Factory: Why CERN wants to build a giant particle smasher;https://www.dw.com/en/higgs-factory-why-cern-wants-to-build-a-giant-particle-smasher/a-70283573?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Scientists want to build a 90km Future Circular Collider to study the Higgs boson particle. At an estimated cost $17 billion, is it worth it?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cyclist Muriel Furrer dies after World Championship crash;https://www.dw.com/en/cyclist-muriel-furrer-dies-after-world-championship-crash/a-70346993?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The 18-year-old suffered a severe head injury when she fell during the women's junior race at the Road World Championship in Zurich. She was taken to Zurich University hospital but succumbed to her injuries the next day."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Belgian PM demands 'concrete steps' over Catholic sex abuse;https://www.dw.com/en/belgian-pm-demands-concrete-steps-over-catholic-sex-abuse/a-70343039?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Pope Francis is in Belgium after revelations of abuse and cover-ups have damaged the Vatican's credibility. Both Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and King Philippe urged the pontiff and the Catholic Church to do more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Cologne Central Station to close to train traffic;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-cologne-central-station-to-close-to-train-traffic/a-70344601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Construction work will leave the German city almost entirely cut off from rail services overnight on Friday. The closure is the latest headache for Deutsche Bahn passengers in recent months."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Israel-Hezbollah conflict deepens Lebanon's economic crisis;https://www.dw.com/en/israel-hezbollah-conflict-deepens-lebanon-s-economic-crisis/a-70341661?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The escalating conflict between Hezbollah and Israel is contributing to Lebanon's economic instability. People in the crisis-ridden country are struggling to survive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Is Berlin in a 'club death' spiral?;https://www.dw.com/en/is-berlin-in-a-club-death-spiral/a-70341859?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Two iconic Berlin techno clubs recently announced they will close. Rising rents and falling profits are partly to blame, but is the city also losing its nightlife luster?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy meets Trump in New York;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-meets-trump-in-new-york/live-70340009?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The former US president and Republican candidate has previously described US military aid to Ukraine as a waste of money. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US, EU, Ukraine slam Russia's nuclear deterrence doctrine;https://www.dw.com/en/us-eu-ukraine-slam-russia-s-nuclear-deterrence-doctrine/a-70336251?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The US, EU and Kyiv all lambasted Russian President Vladimir Putin's \"irresponsible\" plans to amend the doctrine. The Kremlin meanwhile defended the move, describing it as a warning to the west."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Turkey is competing with China for influence in Africa;https://www.dw.com/en/how-turkey-is-competing-with-china-for-influence-in-africa/a-70301293?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Turkey is increasing its engagement in several African countries in an effort to boost its influence and trade. But with China and Russia being the dominant players there, Ankara is struggling to find its role."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine: Biden calls Germany meeting of Kyiv allies;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-biden-calls-germany-meeting-of-kyiv-allies/a-70331606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "US President Joe Biden has said he will convene a high-level meeting of 50 Ukrainian allies in Germany next month. He also announced nearly $8 billion in military aid to Ukraine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Will Formula 1 return to South Africa?;https://www.dw.com/en/will-formula-1-return-to-south-africa/a-70269906?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The last F1 race in Africa was in 1993. A return could be in the cards, but what would it mean for the country and the continent?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'After Hitler': Changing views of Nazism in postwar Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/after-hitler-changing-views-of-nazism-in-postwar-germany/a-70323500?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "From secret adoration to loud dismay, Germans have come to terms with the Nazi past over 80 years in very different ways, as a new exhibition shows."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Europe help contain spiraling violence in Lebanon?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-europe-help-contain-spiraling-violence-in-lebanon/a-70325262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "As Israel-Hezbollah fighting ramps up, the EU is calling for de-escalation. Internal divisions have hindered the bloc's diplomacy in the Middle East since 2023, but experts say France may now have a role to play."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Government crisis deepens as Green leaders resign;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-government-crisis-deepens-as-green-leaders-resign/a-70324309?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Green Party co-chairs Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour are stepping down. The move could make things even harder for Germany's fractious coalition government."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy warns UN on nuclear plant safety;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-warns-un-on-nuclear-plant-safety/live-70322985?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the UN General Assembly that intelligence suggested Russia was planning to attack nuclear plants still in Ukrainian hands. Meanwhile, Russia claimed more gains in Donetsk. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police investigate blast at Cologne cafe;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-investigate-blast-at-cologne-cafe/a-70323612?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "One suspect turned himself in after an overnight explosion in Cologne with another one still on the run, according to police. The latest blast is not believed to be connected to a recent wave of drug-related violence."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Torn patellar tendon: A rare but serious knee injury;https://www.dw.com/en/torn-patellar-tendon-a-rare-but-serious-knee-injury/a-70323136?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen sustained a torn patellar tendon on the weekend. DW fills you in on how serious an injury it is, how it is treated, and how long it could take for him to return to the pitch."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New LUNA facility will prepare astronauts for moon landings;https://www.dw.com/en/new-luna-facility-will-prepare-astronauts-for-moon-landings/a-70313230?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The moon may be 384,400 kilometers away, but an accurate replica of its surface has opened in Germany. Astronauts from around the world will use it to train for missions to the moon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Charges pressed in Schumacher family blackmail case;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-charges-pressed-in-schumacher-family-blackmail-case/a-70321726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Prosecutors in Wuppertal have filed charges against three men accused of trying to blackmail Michael Schumacher's family for millions. They allegedly threatened to public compromising data online unless they were paid."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German far-right AfD party taps into young voters' fears, disillusionment;https://www.dw.com/en/german-far-right-afd-party-taps-into-young-voters-fears-disillusionment/a-70319700?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "More and more young Germans support the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. It capitalizes on their pessimistic outlook and disappointment with other parties, experts say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe's AI bosses sound warning on soaring compliance costs;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-s-ai-bosses-sound-warning-on-soaring-compliance-costs/a-70243489?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Recent decisions by US tech giants to withhold their latest artificial intelligence (AI) models from the European market have raised concerns over the level of regulation now impacting tech firms in the bloc."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Climate change made Central Europe floods more likely: study;https://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-made-central-europe-floods-more-likely-study/a-70318772?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The recent deadly floods in Central Europe have shown \"the devastating results\" of burning fossil fuels, scientists say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Greece worried about consequences of German border checks;https://www.dw.com/en/greece-worried-about-consequences-of-german-border-checks/a-70320699?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Athens is worried that Germany's reintroduction of border checks could have a knock-on effect across Europe and see migrants being returned to Greece."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Flood warnings on Oder River in eastern Brandenburg;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-flood-warnings-on-oder-river-in-eastern-brandenburg/a-70319284?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The highest flood warning level is in effect for a short stretch of the Oder River in Brandenburg where it marks the German border with Poland. In some more rural areas, it has already burst its banks."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UEFA 's reassessment of Spain's handball doesn't help Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/uefa-s-reassessment-of-spain-s-handball-doesn-t-help-germany/a-70320827?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "In one of the most memorable incidents at the Euros, Spain's Marc Cucurella blocked a German shot with his hand, but no penalty was called. Now UEFA has admitted that the referee got it wrong \u2014 but it changes nothing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Green co-leaders Lang and Nouripour resign;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-green-co-leaders-lang-and-nouripour-resign/a-70319586?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The co-leaders of Germany's Greens, Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour, have announced they're stepping down. The party suffered a disastrous state election in Brandenburg, dropping below 5% and losing its seats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Why are sea levels rising?;https://www.dw.com/en/why-are-sea-levels-rising/a-70281203?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Rising oceans are posing a global threat, particularly to low lying islands and coastal cities. What is driving this, and how can we respond? Here's what you need to know."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dutch 'Mocro mafia' sets off alarm bells in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-mocro-mafia-sets-off-alarm-bells-in-germany/a-69764909?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "German police have warned of Dutch organized crime networks moving into Germany after a series of explosions in Cologne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;CERN at 70: Smashing elementary particles for humanity;https://www.dw.com/en/cern-at-70-smashing-elementary-particles-for-humanity/a-70298947?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "CERN has been an epicenter of scientific breakthroughs since 1954, including the discovery of the Higgs boson. Scientists there hope a new, larger particle smasher will lead them to more discoveries for years to come."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;75 years of Frankfurt Book Fair: World stage for protests;https://www.dw.com/en/75-years-of-frankfurt-book-fair-world-stage-for-protests/a-70283991?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The Cold War, neo-Nazis, as well as Iran's fatwa on Salman Rushdie all had an impact on the Frankfurt Book Fair, which turns 75 this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy says Iran, N. Korea 'accomplices';https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-says-iran-n-korea-accomplices/live-70307515?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denounced Iran and North Korea for providing weapons to Russia. He also said Moscow must be forced into any just peace. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Switzerland: Police investigate 1st use of 'suicide capsule';https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-police-investigate-1st-use-of-suicide-capsule/a-70314117?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Swiss police say they have detained several people and opened a criminal case a day after the first use of the \"Sarco\" capsule to end a person's life. Assisted dying is legal in Switzerland in some circumstances."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Deutsche Bahn: New train to link Berlin and Paris in 8 hours;https://www.dw.com/en/deutsche-bahn-new-train-to-link-berlin-and-paris-in-8-hours/a-70314292?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The first direct high-speed train service between both cities will be running from December, according to Deutsche Bahn. It will offer a journey without transfers, with stops in Frankfurt, Strasbourg and Karlsruhe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister: Eating habit survey shows developing tastes;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-eating-habit-survey-shows-developing-tastes/a-70309258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "A new government study points to changing tastes in food, but not a desire for rules, according to the agriculture minister. One thing stays constant \u2014 a pleasing taste was the most important factor for respondents."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Albanian PM has announced plans for the creation of a 27-acre sovereign state for a Sufi Muslim order in Tirana.;https://www.dw.com/en/albanian-pm-has-announced-plans-for-the-creation-of-a-27-acre-sovereign-state-for-a-sufi-muslim-order-in-tirana/a-70314510?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Albanian PM Edi Rama says he wants to establish a sovereign microstate for an Islamic Sufi order, the Shia Bektashi Muslims in Tirana. While welcomed by the order, the move has also been greeted with skepticism."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;North Korea and women's youth football: A perfect match;https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-and-women-s-youth-football-a-perfect-match/a-70313505?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "North Korea's young women have won their third U20 World Cup, so why is the isolated state so good at this level of the game?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany decries UniCredit bid for Commerzbank 'unfriendly';https://www.dw.com/en/germany-decries-unicredit-bid-for-commerzbank-unfriendly/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Italy's UniCredit stunned markets by clandestinely raising its stake in Germany's second-largest lender to 21%. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, the government stands by its side."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The true cost of protecting the Amazon and who should pay;https://www.dw.com/en/the-true-cost-of-protecting-the-amazon-and-who-should-pay/a-70309693?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The world\u2019s largest rainforest is battling deforestation, drought and record wildfires. Where is the money to save it coming from?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU divided over higher tariffs for Chinese EV imports;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-divided-over-higher-tariffs-for-chinese-ev-imports/a-70250391?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Despite \"constructive talks\" between the EU and China recently, the impasse over planned EU tariffs on China-made electric vehicles hasn't been resolved. The spat could escalate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police raids in southwest target human traffickers;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-raids-in-southwest-target-human-traffickers/a-70307600?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Police raided more than 20 properties in southwestern Germany and arrested at least four people. The case pertains to trafficking people from the Caucasus region to work illegally and for less than the minimum wage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How false memories make us who we are;https://www.dw.com/en/how-false-memories-make-us-who-we-are/a-70300263?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "We think of memory as a reliable recording of our lives. But we also have false memories, often pieced together from communal experience. Those false memories shape our identity the same as the real ones do."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;At least 4 die as migrant ship sinks off Greek island;https://www.dw.com/en/at-least-4-die-as-migrant-ship-sinks-off-greek-island/a-70306276?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "A small boat carrying migrants from nearby Turkey sank in the eastern Aegean Sea off the Greek island of Samos, killing at least four people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy eyes high-level talks on US trip;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-eyes-high-level-talks-on-us-trip/live-70298882?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The Ukrainian president met with Germany's Olaf Scholz in New York. Meanwhile, Russia said 31 civilians had been killed in Kursk and 131,000 others have been forced to flee. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German supermarket finds \u20ac7M of cocaine in crates of bananas;https://www.dw.com/en/german-supermarket-finds-\u20ac7m-of-cocaine-in-crates-of-bananas/a-70303810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Police did not identify the discount supermarket chain. However, they said the cocaine was found at stores in several cities across the state of North Rhine-Westphalia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: SPD seeks coalition after slim win in Brandenburg;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-spd-seeks-coalition-after-slim-win-in-brandenburg/live-70298970?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats will seek coalition talks with upstart left party BSW, as working with the far-right runner-up AfD has been ruled out. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goalie ter Stegen's injury leaves Germany coach in a bind;https://www.dw.com/en/goalie-ter-stegen-s-injury-leaves-germany-coach-in-a-bind/a-70302777?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Just weeks after being confirmed as Germany's new first-choice goalkeeper, Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has gone down with a potentially season-ending injury. Could Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann recall Manuel Neuer?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Volkswagen's crisis: How can Europe's car industry survive?;https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-s-crisis-how-can-europe-s-car-industry-survive/a-70231806?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "While Volkswagen and other European automakers are considering closing factories, Chinese rivals are searching for production sites on the continent. What's going wrong in Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Far-right gains in east Germany could deal blow to economy;https://www.dw.com/en/far-right-gains-in-east-germany-could-deal-blow-to-economy/a-70295769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "After elections in Thuringia and Saxony, the far-right AfD party has again massively gained in a poll in eastern Germany. Now the second-strongest force in Brandenburg, their success causes concerns among businesses."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany increases 'Deutschlandticket' price to \u20ac58;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-increases-deutschlandticket-price-to-\u20ac58/a-70300975?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The \"Deutschlandticket\" monthly travel pass allows passengers unlimited trips on local and regional trains, trams and buses. Starting in 2025, the ticket will be \u20ac9 more expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hamilton's near heatstroke puts F1 driver safety in focus;https://www.dw.com/en/hamilton-s-near-heatstroke-puts-f1-driver-safety-in-focus/a-69704130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Both Mercedes drivers suffered from 'borderline heatstroke' at the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix. Not for the first time this year, questions are being raised about their safety."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Brandenburg election brings relief for ruling SPD;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-brandenburg-election-brings-relief-for-ruling-spd/a-70298529?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats managed to fight off the far-right AfD in the regional vote. However, questions about the future of Germany's ruling coalition remain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Sudan crisis: Threat to culture 'unprecedented,' UNESCO says;https://www.dw.com/en/sudan-crisis-threat-to-culture-unprecedented-unesco-says/a-70284737?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Sudan is sinking into war and chaos. Many cultural and world heritage sites have been destroyed or looted as millions of people are displaced."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy: Naples house collapse kills mother and two kids;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-naples-house-collapse-kills-mother-and-two-kids/a-70296505?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The house is believed to have collapsed due to an explosion, local authorities said. The father of the kids and their 2-year-old brother were hospitalized after the incident."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;SPD set to finish ahead of far-right AfD in Brandenburg vote;https://www.dw.com/en/spd-set-to-finish-ahead-of-far-right-afd-in-brandenburg-vote/live-70291788?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Projections in state elections in the eastern German state of Brandenburg give the Social Democrats a slim lead over the far-right AfD in the race to be the largest party. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Swiss voters reject biodiversity, pension reforms;https://www.dw.com/en/swiss-voters-reject-biodiversity-pension-reforms/a-70295253?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Voters in Switzerland have voted \"no\" to measures on biodiversity preservation and pension reforms, according to official initial results."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Gaza's disabled cyclists deliver aid, inspiration and hope;https://www.dw.com/en/gaza-s-disabled-cyclists-deliver-aid-inspiration-and-hope/a-70269177?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "When the bombs started to fall in Gaza last October, the Gaza Sunbirds, a group of 25 Palestinian cyclists whose legs were amputated, started using their bikes to deliver food and shelters to their neighbors."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New French government announced in shift to the right;https://www.dw.com/en/new-french-government-announced-in-shift-to-the-right/a-70291188?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "French President Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff revealed the new center-right government from the Elysee Palace with some new faces in key positions and some who will be returning to their positions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Female referee deletes Instagram after sexist messages;https://www.dw.com/en/female-referee-deletes-instagram-after-sexist-messages/a-70290706?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Albanian referee Emanuela Rusta is making fast progress, but the sport she works in is not. The official made the decision to get rid of her social media account after constant remarks about her appearance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Paratroopers land in Arnhem honoring Operation Market Garden;https://www.dw.com/en/paratroopers-land-in-arnhem-honoring-operation-market-garden/a-70290283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned World War II operations. The Allied bid to secure a Rhine crossing proved \"A Bridge too Far.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Homeless World Cup: 'We want to do something special';https://www.dw.com/en/homeless-world-cup-we-want-to-do-something-special/a-70218267?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "National football teams made up of homeless people from around the world will soon gather in South Korea for the Homeless World Cup. For many of the players, the stakes are much higher than just the trophy on offer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Heat pumps: Why Germany's heating revolution is stalling;https://www.dw.com/en/heat-pumps-why-germany-s-heating-revolution-is-stalling/a-70192621?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "It's a signature project of Germany's environmentalist Greens: Instead of heating homes with fossil fuels, Germans should use heat pumps based on air or groundwater. But demand for these devices has plummeted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starlink satellites are blinding astronomers' view of space;https://www.dw.com/en/starlink-satellites-are-blinding-astronomers-view-of-space/a-70273835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Starlink and other satellite networks are vital for providing high speed internet to remote communities, but unintended radiation leakages are making life difficult for astronomers who need clear skies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Tupperware parties empowered homebound suburban women;https://www.dw.com/en/how-tupperware-parties-empowered-homebound-suburban-women/a-70273741?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "As Tupperware files for bankruptcy, here's a look back at how the iconic US plastic kitchenware company and its \"Tupperware party\" business model became a cultural phenomenon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Czech Republic struggling to mitigate risks as Russian firms flourish;https://www.dw.com/en/czech-republic-struggling-to-mitigate-risks-as-russian-firms-flourish/a-70181088?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Czechia hosts by far the highest number of Russian-owned companies of any EU state. Experts warn this cohort of over 12,500 firms pose economic and security risks that the government must eventually start to mitigate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oktoberfest: Beer and pretzels in a sustainable package;https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-beer-and-pretzels-in-a-sustainable-package/a-70235282?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "More than Bavarians in lederhosen balancing frothing beer mugs and fried sausages, the world's largest folk festival is becoming more inclusive and eco-friendly."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;COVID FLiRT variants KP.3 and XEC: What you need to know;https://www.dw.com/en/covid-flirt-variants-kp-3-and-xec-what-you-need-to-know/a-70266402?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another variant and become XEC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Two European firms in focus of Hezbollah pager explosions;https://www.dw.com/en/two-european-firms-in-focus-of-hezbollah-pager-explosions/a-70248830?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The Taiwanese company whose name appeared on the pagers that detonated across Lebanon has denied manufacturing the devices. That has put relatively unknown Hungarian and Bulgarian firms in the spotlight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine wants action after Belarus Olympic medalist ceremony;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-wants-action-after-belarus-olympic-medalist-ceremony/a-70262052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The ceremony, held on Belarus' National Unity Day, appears to violate the Olympic neutrality rules. Ukraine wants action, with the country's sports minister telling DW further sanctions are necessary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cities start fighting rental crisis triggered by overtourism;https://www.dw.com/en/cities-start-fighting-rental-crisis-triggered-by-overtourism/a-70228085?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "In many of Europe's hottest tourist destinations like Barcelona and Paris, locals struggle to access affordable housing. How much are vacation rentals to blame?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Exploding Hezbollah pagers: How did it happen?;https://www.dw.com/en/exploding-hezbollah-pagers-how-did-it-happen/a-70250960?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Although the devices have lithium-ion batteries that can catch fire or explode, it is more likely the pagers were sabotaged."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains \u2014 study;https://www.dw.com/en/pregnancy-completely-rewires-mothers-brains-study/a-70246399?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Neuroscientists scanned the brain of a pregnant woman and captured a 'widespread reorganization' of her brain before, during and after pregnancy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Use, and misuse, of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "As Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell become the latest celebs to endorse Kamala Harris, here's a look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Google wins legal battle against EU over \u20ac1.5 billion fine;https://www.dw.com/en/google-wins-legal-battle-against-eu-over-\u20ac1-5-billion-fine/a-70246709?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "After years of back and forth, an EU court annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it sold advertisements. The fine was one of three major penalties the EU has leveled against the tech giant in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Namibia's strategy to cull animals save them?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-namibia-s-strategy-to-cull-animals-save-them/a-70213343?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Does Namibia's plan to kill animals to save them, and help the human population from ongoing drought, stack up?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand shrinks;https://www.dw.com/en/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy-as-demand-shrinks/a-70245540?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Once popular for its colorful food storage containers, US firm Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy. The company succumbed to a plummeting demand for its products."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Intel's factory delay adds to Germany's economic woes;https://www.dw.com/en/us-intel-s-factory-delay-adds-to-germany-s-economic-woes/a-70241739?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has announced it is postponing a $30 billion investment in Germany due to financial problems at the firm. But is the German government still committed to the investments?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the arts are a thorn in the side of Germany's AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-arts-are-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-germany-s-afd/a-70239911?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How new technologies can mitigate the risks of flooding;https://www.dw.com/en/how-new-technologies-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-flooding/a-70239314?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "With extreme weather, floods are getting as common in Europe as they are in Asia and Africa. From mobile barriers to specialized dams, people are finding solutions to life-threatening floods across the globe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China's technology drive leaves young people jobless;https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-technology-drive-leaves-young-people-jobless/a-70187883?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "China is investing billions to become a global tech power. But AI, robotics and quantum computing are not labor-intensive sectors, so what to do about the millions of young Chinese who can't find a job?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Alex Morgan: The greatest female footballer of all time?;https://www.dw.com/en/alex-morgan-the-greatest-female-footballer-of-all-time/a-70153127?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Marta may have won six FIFA player awards, but two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan is more of a household name. Teammate Megan Rapinoe achieved on and off the field, yet Morgan had a grace on the pitch few could match."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-29 08:03:31",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Wilders and Orb\u00e1n congratulate Austria\u2019s far-right Freedom party on poll success \u2013 latest updates;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/30/austria-far-right-fpo-freedom-party-herbert-kickl-election-ovp-latest-updates;2024-09-30T08:59:11Z",
        "text": "Austrian media is noting this morning the geographic differences in the far-right\u2019s performance yesterday. The far-right did especially well in rural areas and smaller towns, while the Social Democrats performed well in most big cities. Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders also celebrated the outcome of Austria\u2019s election. \u201cThe Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, France, Spain, Czech Republic and today Austria! We are winning! Times are changing!\u201d he wrote. Academic Cas Mudde has written of the Austrian election results that the \u201cswing is mainly WITHIN and not towards \u00d6VP-FP\u00d6.\u201d \u201cThis is increasingly common: right-wing block wins modestly but within the right-wing block the far right wins big,\u201d he added. Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n has congratulated Herbert Kickl, describing the election results as a \u201chistoric victory.\u201d Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Fidesz party and Kickl\u2019s far-right Freedom party are both members of the Patriots for Europe group. The far right won the most votes in an Austrian election for the first time since the Nazi era on Sunday, as the Freedom party (FP\u00d6) rode a tide of public anger over migration and the cost of living to beat the centre-right People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP). The pro-Kremlin, anti-Islam FP\u00d6 won 29.2% of votes, beating the ruling \u00d6VP of the chancellor, Karl Nehammer, into second place on 26.5%, according to near-complete results. The opposition Social Democratic party scored its worst ever result \u2013 21% \u2013 while the liberal NEOS drew about 9%. Despite devastating flooding this month from Storm Boris bringing the climate crisis to the fore, the Greens, junior partners in the government coalition, tallied 8.3% in a dismal fifth place. Profiting from a rightwing surge in many parts of Europe and taking Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n as a model, the FP\u00d6 capitalised on fears around migration, asylum and crime heightened by the August cancellation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna over an alleged Islamist terror plot. Its polarising lead candidate, Herbert Kickl, who campaigned using the \u201cpeople\u2019s chancellor\u201d moniker once used to describe the Austrian-born Adolf Hitler, said he was ready to form a government with \u201ceach and every one\u201d of the parties in parliament. Read the full story here. Good morning and welcome back to the Europe blog. Send thoughts and tips to lili.bayer@theguardian.com."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin says Russia will accomplish \u2018all goals set\u2019 in Ukraine as Kyiv hit in drone attack;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/30/kursk-kyiv-drones-volodymyr-zelenskyy-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-war-live-updates;2024-09-30T08:58:24Z",
        "text": "Ukraine\u2019s new foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, is on a diplomatic trip to Hungary today to meet with his counterpart, Peter Szijjarto, according to Ukraine\u2019s press service. Topics that will be discussed will include the economy, the promotion of Ukraine\u2019s accession to the EU and Nato and border infrastructure. Sybiha replaced Dmytro Kuleba, who had led the foreign ministry since 2020, as foreign minister earlier this month in the biggest ministerial reshuffle since Russia launched its full-scale invasion more than two years ago. Hungary\u2019s prime minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n has been an outspoken critic of western military aid to Ukraine and is Europe\u2019s most pro-Russian leader. It has made for frosty relations between Kyiv and Budapest. US citizen Stephen James Hubbard pleaded guilty to charges of mercenary activity in a Moscow court on Monday, admitting that he had received money to fight for Ukraine against Russia, the RIA state news agency reported. \u201cYes, I agree with the indictment,\u201d RIA cited him as saying. Hubbard, 72, was placed in pre-trial detention last week for six months and is facing a sentence of seven to 15 years if convicted, Reuters reports. The prosecution said Hubbard, whose sister said he had worked as an English teacher abroad for decades, was promised $1,000 (\u00a3745) a month and was given training, weapons and ammunition. Hubbard\u2019s sister Patricia Fox denied her brother was a mercenary and said he had no interest in fighting in any war. As we mentioned in the opening summary, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has released a video message released to mark the second anniversary of what Russia calls \u201cReunification Day\u201d \u2013 two years since Moscow formally claimed the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson as its own. Having held referendums \u2013 widely condemned as shams \u2013 in the four regions on 30 September 2022, Putin signed a document with the Russian-installed leaders of the occupied regions to unilaterally incorporate them into the Russian Federation, despite Russia not fully controlling the territories. Since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion was launched in February 2022, Kyiv has stepped up its pursuit of Nato and EU membership, steps that it regards as vital for its self-defence and independence from Russia but are opposed by Moscow. Putin said when he started the war that his aim was to demilitarise and \u201cdenazify\u201d Ukraine \u2013 a statement dismissed by Kyiv and the west as a pretext for an imperial-style conflict of expansion. \u201cThe truth is on our side. All goals set will be achieved,\u201d Putin said in his video message on Monday. He went on to criticise \u201cwestern elites\u201d who he claims \u201cturned Ukraine into their colony, a military base aimed at Russia\u201d and who fanned \u201chate, radical nationalism \u2026 hostility to everything Russian\u201d. \u201cToday we are fighting for a secure, prosperous future for our children and grandchildren,\u201d Putin said. We are restarting our live coverage of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine and will give you the latest updates throughout the day. Kyiv, Ukraine\u2019s capital, has been targeted by several waves of Russian attack drones overnight, the country\u2019s military has said, with air raid sirens sounding in the capital just after 1am local time. Kyiv\u2019s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said drone debris fell by a residential building with emergency services working on site. The Ukrainian air force said it shot down 67 out of 73 drones and one of three missiles launched by Russia during the overnight attack. It did not specify how many had attacked Kyiv. All these drones were destroyed by defence systems or \u201cneutralised\u201d by electronic warfare, Serhiy Popko, the head of Kyiv\u2019s military administration, wrote on Telegram. There have been no casualties reported from the attack. Russian drone attacks on Kyiv have intensified in recent weeks as Moscow\u2019s forces target Ukraine\u2019s critical energy, military and transport infrastructure ahead of the winter. Here are some of the other latest developments from Ukraine: Vladimir Putin has vowed that Moscow would accomplish all goals it has set for itself in Ukraine. \u201cThe truth is on our side. All goals set will be achieved,\u201d the Russian president said in a video message released to mark the second anniversary of what Russia calls \u201cReunification Day\u201d, when Moscow annexed four Ukrainian regions. In his address, Putin repeated his justification for his full-scale invasion, launched in February 2022, as protecting Russian speakers against a \u201cneo-Nazi dictatorship\u201d that aimed to \u201ccut them off forever from Russia, their historic homeland\u201d. Russia hit the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia with multiple guided bombs on Sunday, wounding at least 16 people and damaging railways, infrastructure and residential and commercial buildings, Ukrainian officials said. Russian forces attacked 14 communities across the Sumy region, including in the town of Esman and in Hlukhiv, injuring 10 people throughout the day, the Sumy oblast military administration reported. Russia\u2019s defence ministry said on Sunday its forces had repelled six new Ukrainian attempts to enter its western Kursk region and had also taken control of the settlement of Makiivka in eastern Ukraine\u2019s Luhansk region. The ministry said on Telegram that its forces, with the support of aircraft and artillery, repelled attempts to enter the region near the village of Novy Put, about 80km (50 miles) west of Sudzha, a strategic crossing point for Russian natural gas exports to Europe via Ukraine. Ukrainian forces raided the Kursk region on 6 August and Zelenskyy said earlier this month that his forces controlled 100 settlements over an area of more than 1,300 sq km (500 sq miles). Denmark said it was unlocking 1.3bn kroner ($194m) to help Ukraine bolster its arsenal against Russia\u2019s invasion. The weapons and equipment would be produced in Ukraine but financed by Denmark and frozen Russian assets, the Danish defence ministry said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis live: Hamas says its leader in Lebanon has been killed; Israel accused of central Beirut strike;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/30/israel-attacks-live-blog-lebanon-yemen-hamas-hezbollah-news-updates-middle-east-crisis;2024-09-30T08:57:16Z",
        "text": "Reuters reports, citing the state news agency WAM, that the UAE is to pledge an urgent relief aid package worth $100m (\u00a374.5m / \u20ac89.3m) to Lebanon. While Israel steps up its attacks on targets inside Lebanon to its north, the Israeli military also continues operations in Gaza to its south-west. Hani Mahmoud reporting for Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, tells the news network: Since this morning, we\u2019ve been seeing funeral after funeral in the halls of the hospital. And there are more bodies still in the morgue as officials are waiting for family members to arrive and take them for burial. Additionally, more shelters have been attacked by Israel, deepening the trauma as it plays out this psychological warfare. The Palestinians\u2019 sense of safety is shattered by these attacks. Al Jazeera has been banned from operating inside Israel by Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government, which has also raided and closed the network\u2019s officie in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. There are multiple unconfirmed reports of explosions being heard in Damascus in Syria. More details soon \u2026 Our video team have put together this report on Israel\u2019s attack against the Houthi-controlled Yemeni Red Sea port city of Hodeidah. Israel\u2019s military has stated on its official Telegram channel that in the last hour about 35 projectiles have crossed into northern Israel from Lebanon. It said \u201cseveral projectiles were intercepted and the rest fell in open areas\u201d. There are no reports of any casualties. There are media reports that Hezbollah deputy secretary-general, Naim Qassem, will be giving a speech at noon local time (9am GMT). More details soon \u2026 Iran will not leave any of \u201cthe criminal acts\u201d of Israel unanswered, Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said in a weekly news conference on Monday, Reuters reports. In other Iranian reaction, the Tasnim news agency quotes head of the Iranian government information council, Elias Hazrati, saying: We will show the defeat of Israel to the people of the world. The experience of the past several decades shows that the page will return. Hezbollah\u2019s foundations are so strong that there is no possibility of disruption on its path. Hezbollah has kicked Israel out of Lebanon many times. A terrorist who should have been arrested is now ordering assassinations from the United Nation. Hezbollah has not used its weapons and now it must start. The Islamic Republic of Iran stands by the people of Lebanon and Hezbollah, and we use all our capacity to help Hezbollah and the people of Lebanon. Here are some of the latest images sent to us from Lebanon over the news wires. The European Union\u2019s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is convening an extraordinary informal meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday to discuss the EU\u2019s response to the latest escalation in Lebanon, Rueters reports an EU spokesperson said on Monday. Here is the latest round-up of news from the Middle East crisis from my colleague Peter Beaumont: Israel\u2019s rapidly expanding war on multiple fronts saw it strike central Beirut for the first time since 2006 early on Monday, after heavy Israeli air strikes involving dozens of aircraft bombed Yemen hours earlier in a long range raid. The latest strike came as the UN reported some 100,000 people had fled Lebanon for Syria since the latest escalation in the war and as CNN quoted an unnamed figure in the Biden administration saying that the US has changed it military posture in the Middle East amid concerns Iran might attack Israel in response for Israel\u2019s assassination of Hezbollah\u2019s ling time leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday. The Beirut strike targeted three senior figures in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a group associated with a series of high profile aircraft hijackings in the 1970s. The left wing faction, which has not played a significant role in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, said that its military and security commanders in Lebanon, and a third member, were killed in the attack. Israeli strikes on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, and elsewhere continued on Monday as the Palestinian militant group Hamas said its leader in Lebanon was killed Monday in a strike on the country\u2019s south. Monday\u2019s airstrike comes after Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said 105 people had been killed and another 359 injured by Israeli strikes across the country on Sunday. More than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, it said, without saying how many were civilians. The government said a million people \u2013 a fifth of the population \u2013 have fled their homes. Here is the video clip of US president Joe Biden saying \u201ca broader war in the Middle East had to be averted\u201d. Despite diplomatic efforts the US, Egypt and Qatar have been unable to broker a deal between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza since the 2023 deal ended ten months ago on 30 November. Itay Blumental, who is military correspondent at Israel\u2019s Channel 11, reports on social media that the UAV intercepted earlier by Israel\u2019s military was targeted at infrastructure in the Karish gas field out at sea. Israel\u2019s military has also issued a video which it says shows the interception. The Karish gas field belongs to Israel as part of a deal brokered with Lebanon over disputed waters in 2022. Reuters and Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency are both also reporting an Israeli strike on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs. Since Israel stepped up its campaign in its north in the past two weeks, more than 1,000 Lebanese people have been killed and 6,000 wounded. Lebanon\u2019s government has said a million people \u2013 a fifth of the population \u2013 have fled their homes. About 60,000 people in northern Israel have been forced to evacuate due to Hezbollah and other anti-Israeli forces launchiung rockets into the north of the country. There are unconfirmed media reports, including from Israeli army radio, that Israel has again struck at the southern suburbs of Beirut in Lebanon. More details soon \u2026 Israel\u2019s military has reported on its official Telegram channel that it intercepted a UAV that had crossed into Israel\u2019s territorial water in the north. The claim has not been independently verified. Israeli media outlet Haaretz reports that families of those being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas have gathered to protest in Jerusalem outside the residence of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling for a ceasefire deal and their release. On 7 October 2023 about 250 people were seized in southern Israel and taken hostage. Nearly a year later, Israeli authorities believe that about 100 of them are still in captivity in Gaza. Hamas said on Monday that its leader in Lebanon had been killed in an airstrike in the country\u2019s south, as official media reported a strike on a Palestinian refugee camp. \u201cFatah Sharif Abu al-Amine, the leader of Hamas \u2026 in Lebanon and member of the movement\u2019s leadership abroad\u201d was killed in a strike on his \u201chome in the Al-Bass camp in south Lebanon\u201d, a Hamas statement said. Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency reported an airstrike on the camp near the southern city of Tyre. A Palestinian militant group said three of its leaders were killed in an Israeli attack on central Beirut early on Monday, in what would be the first time Israel\u2019s military had struck the centre of Lebanon\u2019s capital city since 2006. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a militant group taking part in the fight against Israel, said three senior figures were killed in the Beirut attack, with initial footage from the scene showing two storeys of an apartment building completely blown out, and onlookers running towards the building. Two bodies could be seen lying on the street atop a car outside the building, seemingly ejected by the force of the blast. The sound of the explosion was heard around the city. There was no immediate comment from Israel\u2019s military. The Beirut strike, carried out using a drone, according to one source quoted by Agence France-Presse, hit near the Kola intersection, a popular reference point in the city, where taxis and buses gather to pick up passengers. A hundred munitions \u2013 including, it is believed, US-made 2,000lb bombs \u2013 were used by the Israeli air force in Friday evening\u2019s overwhelming air raid that killed the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an underground complex hidden in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh. Nasrallah, who was careful to the point of paranoia about his security arrangements and only rarely appeared in public, would have given little notice of his plan to undertake the fateful trip to the meeting. But the intelligence penetration of Hezbollah was so deep that Israel knew Nasrallah and other surviving members of Hezbollah\u2019s already decimated leadership would be meeting at the supposedly secret location \u2013 and that an order to bomb them could be given. Benjamin Netanyahu was required to give permission to undertake the attack from New York, where the Israeli prime minister had given a bellicose speech at the UN general assembly. There was, presumably, felt to be little time to wait. According to an unsubstantiated report in the French newspaper Le Parisien, the mole who informed the Israelis that Nasrallah was on his way to the bunker was Iranian. If true, it would be eye-catching, given that Iran is Hezbollah\u2019s principal backer. Hello and welcome to the Guardian\u2019s continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. Palestinian militant group Hamas has said that its leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, was killed along with some of his family members in an Israeli strike in the south of the country. It comes as another Palestinian group announced that three of its leaders were killed in an Israeli strike on central Beirut, which if confirmed would be the first attack within the Lebanese capital\u2019s city limits since 2006. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said the three leaders were killed in a strike that targeted Beirut\u2019s Kola district. The strike hit the upper floor of an apartment building in the Kola district of Lebanon\u2019s capital, Reuters witnesses said. There was no immediate comment from Israel\u2019s military. More on that in a moment, first here\u2019s a summary of the day\u2019s other main events. More than 100 people were killed across Lebanon by Israeli strikes on Sunday, according to the country\u2019s health ministry. It said more than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, without saying how many were civilians. The government said a million people \u2013 a fifth of the population \u2013 have fled their homes. Israel said it bombed Houthi targets in Yemen on Sunday. The airstrikes on Yemen\u2019s port of Hodeidah were a response to Houthi missile attacks on Israel in recent days, Israel said. The Houthi-run health ministry said at least four people were killed and 29 wounded. Images from Hodeidah showed parts of the city covered in a massive pall of dust, and towering explosions in the distance. Hezbollah confirmed that Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of the militant group\u2019s central council, was killed on Saturday, making him the seventh senior Hezbollah leader slain in Israeli strikes in a little over a week. The group also confirmed that Ali Karaki, another senior commander, died in the airstrike on Friday strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah denied claims that Abu Ali Rida, the commander of the group\u2019s Bader Unit in south Lebanon had been killed. Rida is the last remaining senior military commander of Hezbollah that remains alive. White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said Israel\u2019s airstrikes in Lebanon had \u201cwiped out\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s command structure, but he warned the group will work quickly to rebuild it. President Joe Biden said Sunday he would speak soon with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and believes that an all-out war in the Middle East must be avoided. Israel on Sunday vowed to keep up its assault. \u201cWe need to keep hitting Hezbollah hard,\u201d Israel\u2019s military chief of staff Herzi Halevi said. Israel\u2019s military said it struck dozens of targets in Lebanon including launchers and weapons stores and had intercepted eight projectiles coming from the direction of Lebanon and one from the Red Sea. It also said dozens of Israeli aircraft had attacked power plants and Ras Issa and Hodeidah ports in Yemen, accusing the Houthis of operating under Iran\u2019s direction and in cooperation with Iraqi militias. The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has broken his silence on Israel\u2019s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah. On Sunday, Syria\u2019s state-run outlet Sana quoted Assad as saying: \u201cWe are certain that the Lebanese national resistance will continue on the path of struggle and justice in the face of the occupation, and will continue to support the Palestinian people in their struggle for their just cause.\u201d Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said Israel should not be allowed to attack countries in the Iran-aligned \u201cAxis of Resistance\u201d one after the other. Pezeshkian, in comments carried by state media, said Lebanon should be supported. An Iranian Revolutionary Guards deputy commander, Abbas Nilforoushan, was also killed in the attack that killed Nasrallah in Beirut. Pezeshkian said \u201cwe cannot accept such actions and they will not be left unanswered. A decisive reaction is necessary.\u201d Saudi Arabia has stressed the \u201cneed to preserve Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d. In a statement released on Sunday amid Israel\u2019s deadly airstrikes, the Saudi foreign ministry said it was \u201cfollowing with great concern the developments taking place in Lebanon\u201d. Israeli opposition lawmaker Gideon Saar rejoined Netanyahu\u2019s government on Sunday, a step that is likely to strengthen the Israeli prime minister politically. Saar, who has been one of Netanyahu\u2019s most vocal critics in the past few years, is due to serve as a minister without a portfolio and have a seat in the prime minister\u2019s security cabinet, Israeli media reported. Expanding the government to include Saar\u2019s strengthens Netanyahu by making him less reliant on other members of his ruling coalition, which has been struggling in the polls."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Concerns over Gender Queer book dismissed by Australian classifications board as anti-LGBTQ+, court hears;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/bernard-gaynor-classification-appeal-gender-queer-graphic-novel-ntwnfb;2024-09-30T07:37:01Z",
        "text": "The Australian classifications board made a \u201cbroadbrush dismissal\u201d of over 500 submissions calling for a ban of the book Gender Queer by labelling those submissions as anti-LGBTQ+, a court has heard. In July last year, the Classification Board rejected calls to restrict access to a memoir about gender identity that was the target of conservative campaigns to have it banned in the US, and found the content was appropriate for its intended audience. Activist Bernard Gaynor had applied to the board in early 2023 to review the classification of the graphic novel-style memoir about gender identity by writer Maia Kobabe. Complaints about the book \u2013 which details Kobabe\u2019s experience coming out as non-binary \u2013 are focused on the cartoon images of sex scenes, one of which has been described by critics seeking a ban as \u201cpornographic\u201d and \u201cpaedophilic\u201d. Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email When the Australian Classification Board upheld its original decision to classify the book as unrestricted with the consumer advice of \u201cM \u2013 not recommended for readers under 15 years\u201d, Gaynor appealed against the ruling to the federal court. In a hearing on Monday, Bret Walker SC, acting for Gaynor, said the overwhelming majority of submissions to the board on the review of the decision had called for the publication to be restricted or refused classification. He argued the classification board had erred by not taking these submissions into account, by broadly labelling them as \u201canti-LGBTQIA+\u201d. Walker said there was a \u201cdeliberately broadbrush dismissal\u201d of those submissions, many of which he said objected to what they saw as depicting a man having sex with a minor \u2013 referring to an image portraying Plato\u2019s Symposium. Walker said many of those objections did not refer to the gender of the image\u2019s subjects, just that it appeared to depict paedophilia. Justice Ian Jackman said that while by his count, about 600 submissions from among 9,000 people had been considered to be anti-LGBTQ+ by the board, on closer examination Jackman said just 52 of these expressed anti-LGBTQ+ views \u2013 less than 1% of submissions received. Walker said the board gave little weight to the submissions, and had failed to engage with them in its review decision. In response, the barrister for the minister for communications and the classification board, Houda Younan SC, said the law did not require the board to accept submissions as part of the review of its classification decision and that the invitation of submissions did not require the decision-maker to then consider them. However, Younan said the board did consider the public submissions and did not dismiss them on the basis of being anti-LGBTQ+ but because they did not assist the board in its statutory task of a classifications decision. \u201cWe say that in this case, every submission was received and considered,\u201d Younan said. Submissions in the decision were labelled to give their tenor, she said. Submissions were given weight based on whether they contained evidence the writer had read Gender Queer and understood its content within the context of the publication. Those that did not demonstrate an engagement with the publication were given little weight, she said. Younan indicated the board had considered whether a submission noted the context of the image being of Plato\u2019s Symposium, or was a criticism of the image on its own, removed of context. She later identified 14 additional examples of explicitly anti-LGBTQ+ submissions beyond those initially identified by Jackman. Among the orders sought, Gaynor is seeking to have the decision remitted back to the classifications board. Jackman reserved his decision. In the US, Gender Queer is one of the most challenged books in libraries. Kobabe told the ABC in May that the US push to ban the book had been frustrating and that the depiction of Plato\u2019s Symposium had been included as it was one of the few gay-themed texts Kobabe had encountered in college. \u201cIt stuck in my mind, because it was the only one.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;British judge Nicholas Phillips steps down from Hong Kong court;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/nicholas-phillips-british-hong-kong-court-judge-steps-down-personal-reasons;2024-09-30T05:55:12Z",
        "text": "British judge Nicholas Phillips has stepped down from Hong Kong\u2019s top appeals court, the fourth overseas judge to leave the city\u2019s judiciary this year. Phillips, 86, is leaving Hong Kong\u2019s court of final appeal (CFA) after 22 years for \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d after his fourth term ended on Monday and he said he did not wish to extend it, the court said. Phillips was among a long line of non-permanent foreign judges to serve on Hong Kong\u2019s judiciary, including from the UK, Australia and Canada. Phillips is the fifth foreign judge to resign from the court this year, and the 10th since the introduction of the 2020 national security law, criminalising acts of dissent and subversions. The law has been criticised as vaguely defined and the government accused of wielding it as a political weapon against the pro-democracy movement. In a statement to the Guardian the judiciary said it was grateful to Phillips for \u201chis support for the rule of law in Hong Kong\u201d. \u201cDespite the departure of some [non-permanent judges, or NPJs] in recent years, an overwhelming majority of the serving and departed NPJs have publicly reiterated their continued confidence in judicial independence in Hong Kong and the commitment of the Hong Kong courts towards upholding the rule of law,\u201d it said. Two other British judges who resigned from the CFA this year \u2013 Jonathan Sumption and Lawrence Collins \u2013 both cited the new political situation in Hong Kong. In an opinion piece in the Financial Times in June, Sumption said Hong Kong \u201cis slowly becoming a totalitarian state\u201d. \u201cThe rule of law is profoundly compromised in any area about which the government feels strongly,\u201d he wrote. Canadian judge Beverley McLachlin also resigned this year, as did Australian judge Murray Gleeson, who cited his age, 85. Phillips\u2019 departure leaves just six foreign judges on the CFA benches: four Australians and two from the UK \u2013 Lennie Hoffmann and David Neuberger. Pro-democracy activists and human rights groups have been calling on those remaining to also quit, saying their presence lends legitimacy to a legal system that has been undermined by the worsening security environment. In June, Sumption said it was \u201cno longer realistic\u201d to think the presence of overseas judges was sustaining the rule of law in Hong Kong. At the same time, however, Neuberger told the Guardian: \u201cHong Kong has an impressive and independent judiciary and a thriving and able legal profession, both of which benefit the people of Hong Kong and contribute to the rule of law. They deserve support, not undermining.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Monday briefing: Battlefield Birmingham as the Conservative leadership race takes shape;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/first-edition-conservative-conference-leadership-race;2024-09-30T05:52:04Z",
        "text": "Good morning. Despite Labour\u2019s best efforts to hog the limelight over the weekend with the resignation of Rosie Duffield \u2013 the fastest that an MP has stood down after a general election victory in modern times \u2013 many eyes this week will be on the Conservative party conference, which began yesterday and runs until Wednesday. Three months after a historic electoral defeat, it is the first conference out of government for the party since 2009. It is going to be a low-key affair in Birmingham, with Rishi Sunak having made his final conference address as leader on Sunday, and many former senior Tories not in attendance. The lack of a clear leader has also exacerbated the low interest, with business leaders and lobbyists also steering clear. A quiet, wound-licking atmosphere seems assured, as members, activists and politicians try to piece together the remnants of their party. The central focus of the conference is going to be on the protracted leadership race, with Tom Tugendhat, James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick battling it out to try to win over MPs and members. There is little enthusiasm for the contest, however, with senior Tories already predicting that whoever takes on the mantle will not actually last very long. Meanwhile, barely a day into conference and Badenoch is already facing a backlash because of comments she made about maternity pay being \u201cexcessive\u201d. Although she has since walked back the claim, it could set her back significantly. For today\u2019s newsletter, I spoke with deputy editor of Conservative Home, Henry Hill, about the mood of the conference and the future of the Conservative party. That\u2019s right after the headlines. Five big stories Austria | The far right won the most votes in an Austrian election for the first time since the Nazi era on Sunday, as the pro-Kremlin, anti-Islam Freedom party (FP\u00d6) rode a tide of public anger over migration and the cost of living to beat the centre-right People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP). Health | At least 18,000 deaths in England were associated with flu over the past two winters, figures have revealed, as health experts urge those eligible to take up a free vaccination on the NHS. Energy | Almost half of British adults will ration their energy use this winter, a survey has found, as energy bills will rise again by 10% this week. Wales | The steel town of Port Talbot is braced for the shutdown of the final furnace at its plant on Monday which will result in heavy job losses and deal a devastating blow to communities in south Wales. Music | Kris Kristofferson, the US country singer who ably balanced a prolific acting career alongside his music, has died aged 88. In depth: Four differing agendas, one common goal By the time his replacement is chosen, Rishi Sunak will have been leader of the opposition for longer than any defeated prime minister since James Callaghan lost in 1979. During his final conference address as Tory leader, he defended the party\u2019s record in office. \u201cWe did not get everything right\u201d, the former prime minister said, \u201cbut we should not forget what we have achieved these last 14 years. We must not, and I know we will not, let Keir Starmer rewrite history\u201d. His words come three months after that devastating election defeat for his party, and the four contenders for Tory leader will be pitching themselves as the person who can most effectively repair the damage. However, the drawn-out race, which started officially in July, has thus far been painful for almost everyone involved \u2013 so much so that Jenrick and Tugendhat have called for the contest to be shortened by a week. There is frustration that the lengthy race has mean that the leaderless party has been unable to capitalise on Labour\u2019s shaky start to government. Although each will be trying to differentiate themselves \u2013 One Nation Tory Tugendhat, hard-line right-winger Jenrick, culture war stirrer Badenoch, and unifier Cleverly \u2013 the lines remain blurred because no candidate has made clear their positions on the most substantive policy issues. *** The tone so far Following the 2022 leadership race between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, which at points became aggressive and acrimonious, it is understandable why there are guardrails this time around on what contenders can and can\u2019t say. Introducing a yellow card penalty system, which is supposed to stop contenders from mud-slinging and personally attacking rivals, has regulated the tone of the race so far. It has also, however, made it somewhat difficult for candidates to assess the record of the previous government and what roles the other candidates might have played in it. \u201cWe have an adversarial political system and that\u2019s not a bad thing,\u201d Hill says. \u201cWe can police that and make sure it\u2019s done in a sportsmanlike manner, but candidates holding other candidates to account is an important part of how most democratic systems work.\u201d Because there has been so little back and forth, up until this point the race has seemed like \u201cdead time\u201d, Hill adds. *** The battle For the four hopefuls, the conference is going to begin with a \u201cfireside chat\u201d and members\u2019 questions for an hour with each candidate today and tomorrow. On the last day, each contender will have 20 minutes to make their case in a speech that they hope will tip the scales in their favour. The quality and fallout of the speeches will solidify the frontrunners, but it will be another week before the candidates are whittled down to two. Then it will be a head-to-head to win over the Tory members, who will vote on 31 October with the winner announced two days later. Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty separated the four contenders into two camps: \u201cThose for whom libertarian economics comes first, and those who speak golf-club identity politics.\u201d Though the divide between these two camps is porous, Badenoch and Jenrick are comfortably in the latter category, while Cleverly and Tugendhat occupy the former. Badenoch was the bookies\u2019 favourite for a while, but Jenrick pulled ahead in the first two rounds of MP voting. Once a middle-of-the-road centrist, Jenrick is now the only candidate calling for Britain to pull out of the European convention on human rights and has said that \u201cwoke culture\u201d and immigration has put English national identity at risk. Badenoch\u2019s blunt manner and her position on culture war issues has gained her significant favourability in some corners of the party, but has gained her some enemies, too. A full 24 hours of conference has not passed yet, and Badenoch is already in hot water after controversial comments on maternity pay, which she described as \u201cexcessive\u201d, adding that people should exercise \u201cmore personal responsibility\u201d. She has since walked back her comments, insisting that she was misrepresented. The comment followed a morning of uncompromising and provocative messages on the Middle East and immigration. \u201cI think it\u2019s possible to over-interpret what [the member support for Badenoch] means in ideological terms because Penny Mordaunt was, until [this year\u2019s] election, among the members\u2019 favourites,\u201d Hill says. \u201cOn the grassroots side, there\u2019s a real frustration because the last government wasn\u2019t really doing anything to please anyone, so there is a sense that what the members want is somebody who will at least stand up for conservatism as they understand it. That\u2019s to Badenoch\u2019s advantage because she is out there and having those fights.\u201d Cleverly is going ahead with what Hill has described as the \u201cmost vibes-based campaign\u201d, trying to win people over by being a \u201cnice person\u201d. He performs well as a communicator and has been regarded as the unity candidate due to his ability to bridge the gap between the Tory right and the One Nation camp, but unity alone is unlikely to win him the leadership. Over the course of the next few days, he will have to set out a real political vision, which he has so far lacked. Tugendhat\u2019s more centrist credentials have appealed to some, but his campaign has fallen flat in many ways and he has struggled to widen his net. His attempt to broaden his appeal has put off some in his One Nation camp, but he also recognises that without more support he will not defeat the frontrunners. Cleverly and Tugendhat\u2019s challenge during this conference will be demonstrating that they have the numbers and momentum to get to the final round. *** What else is on the agenda? Without a leader there is no real policy agenda. Instead, the rest of the conference will be likely occupied with gauging the mood of the party and the membership, and understanding what their positions are now. \u201cIt will be interesting to see whether or not there are issues where the members\u2019 understanding is actually running ahead of that of the parliamentary party,\u201d Hill says. Although it will be unlikely, the main thing that Hill will be looking out for during this conference as an analyst is a \u201cclear diagnosis of what went wrong\u201d. \u201cYou don\u2019t even need to know how to fix it at this point, but you at least need to know why it all happened. Most of the candidates haven\u2019t really confronted that issue in clear terms yet.\u201d The Middle East crisis Over the weekend, Hezbollah\u2019s leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli bombardment in Beirut\u2019s suburbs. Jason Burke has written a comprehensive profile on Nasrallah and an explainer on who could succeed him. The impact of the assassination will likely take months to reveal itself. After a month of intensifying conflict, the airstrikes marked \u201cthe most alarming escalation in almost a year of war between the Shia militant organisation and Israel\u201d, Peter Beaumont wrote in his analysis. As the war firmly reaches Lebanon, William Christou\u2019s dispatch from Beirut takes a look at the impact on civilians who have been forced to flee their homes, while Patrick Wintour unpacks the far-reaching consequences of the weekend\u2019s events for both the US and Iran. Despite international calls for a ceasefire, Israel has expanded its assault, launching a wave of airstrikes at Houthi targets in Yemen, and carrying out an apparent strike in central Beirut in the early hours of Monday morning, the first time it has struck Beirut outside the southern suburbs since 2006. For the latest reporting on the regional conflict, keep a close eye on the Guardian homepage and live blog. What else we\u2019ve been reading \u201cI\u2019ve witnessed people that have birthed their own arch nemesis\u201d: I found Adrienne Matei\u2019s piece about mothers who regret having children insightful and candid (for more from the Guardian US Well Actually strand, you can sign up to their newsletter here). Hannah J Davies, deputy editor, newsletters After months of trying to balance upholding the legacy of her soon-to-be former boss with championing change, it seems as though Kamala Harris is running away from Joe Biden and his record in office. David Smith finds out why. Nimo \u201cIs this a mountain? A multistorey car park?\u201d: Oliver Wainwright writes about Shanghai\u2019s new artificial \u201cTwin Hills\u201d, which have transformed a former industrial area, drawing a mixed reaction in the process. Hannah London Euston is one of the most hated stations in the capital \u2013 it\u2019s overcrowded, unsightly and trains are always delayed. Andrew Anthony asks if redemption is possible. Nimo Apologies to my colleagues who almost certainly just heard my stomach rumble as I read Joe Trivelli\u2019s summer-to-autumn recipes, including a herby, hearty sardine brodetto. Hannah Sport Football | Writes Jamie Jackson of United\u2019s humiliating 3-0 defeat to Spurs: \u201cThis is the nadir of Erik ten Hag\u2019s United tenure. A slipshod shambolic mess that Tottenham exploited gleefully, pinging the ball about and punching through their storied hosts as if in a men-v-kids knockabout\u201d. Ten Hag denied any concern that he may be sacked after the loss. Cricket | Australia claimed a 3-2 ODI series win against England in Bristol. Cycling | Tadej Pogacar won the world road race championship in Zurich thanks to an audacious attack 100km from the finish, securing the coveted \u201ctriple crown\u201d of the Giro d\u2019Italia, Tour de France and world road titles in the same season. The front pages Middle East coverage dominates today\u2019s front pages as the Guardian leads with \u201cViolence escalates as Israel targets Yemen in airstrikes\u201d. The Times says \u201cIsraeli tanks at border as Lebanon braces for battle\u201d. The Financial Times has \u201cIsrael steps up attacks on Iran proxies\u201d and i reports \u201cIsrael targets Iranian weapons network in Yemen after \u2018wiping out\u2019 Hezbollah leaders\u201d. The Telegraph leads with \u201cBadenoch sparks Tory splits over maternity pay costs\u201d. The Mail splashes with \u201cBoris: Macron wanted \u2018punishment beating\u2019 for Britain over Brexit\u201d. Today in Focus The mysteries of IBS Irritable bowel syndrome affects one in five adults in the UK but is little understood and has no known cure. Hannah Moore discusses living with the condition with a friend and asks a dietitian whether new research into the mind-gut connection may bring answers. Cartoon of the day | Edith Pritchett Sign up for Inside Saturday to see more of Edith Pritchett\u2019s cartoons, the best Saturday magazine content and an exclusive look behind the scenes The Upside A bit of good news to remind you that the world\u2019s not all bad The Guardian\u2019s Country Diary has been running for over 100 years, providing a record of the rural life across the United Kingdom, and how it has changed across the centuries. \u201cQuietly, since it began in 1904, the Country Diary goes about its business as a useful historical record of the changes that have taken place in the countryside,\u201d says its editor Paul Fleckney, in this piece celebrating the column, pegged to a newly published collection of highlights called Under the Changing Skies. \u201cLooking into the archives, you see casual references to species that are now rare such as corncrakes or red squirrels,\u201d explains Fleckney. \u201cIt also tells a story about how people live in the countryside, how they relate to wildlife and, today, the huge changes wrought by global heating on our seasons and nature\u201d. The diary \u201cisn\u2019t a wildlife tracking device per se\u201d, he adds, \u201calthough that is part of its broad remit. It also exists to transport you to a different landscape. It comes in the paper after more than 20 pages of hard news so it\u2019s partly a postcard from a particular place, a little bit of escapism.\u201d Sign up here for a weekly roundup of The Upside, sent to you every Sunday Bored at work? And finally, the Guardian\u2019s puzzles are here to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until tomorrow. Quick crossword Cryptic crossword Wordiply"
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        "label": "The Guardian;Far-right Freedom party finishes first in Austrian election, latest results suggest;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/far-right-freedom-party-winning-austrian-election-first-results-show;2024-09-30T04:25:35Z",
        "text": "The far right won the most votes in an Austrian election for the first time since the Nazi era on Sunday, as the Freedom party (FP\u00d6) rode a tide of public anger over migration and the cost of living to beat the centre-right People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP). The pro-Kremlin, anti-Islam FP\u00d6 won 29.2% of votes, beating the ruling \u00d6VP of the chancellor, Karl Nehammer, into second place on 26.5%, according to near-complete results. The opposition Social Democratic party scored its worst ever result \u2013 21% \u2013 while the liberal NEOS drew about 9%. Despite devastating flooding this month from Storm Boris bringing the climate crisis to the fore, the Greens, junior partners in the government coalition, tallied 8.3% in a dismal fifth place. The Communist party and the apolitical Beer party looked unlikely to clear the 4% hurdle to representation. Turnout was high at about 78%. Profiting from a rightwing surge in many parts of Europe and taking Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n as a model, the FP\u00d6 capitalised on fears around migration, asylum and crime heightened by the August cancellation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna over an alleged Islamist terror plot. Mounting inflation, tepid economic growth and lingering resentment over strict government measures during Covid dovetailed into a huge leap in support for the FP\u00d6 since the last election in 2019. Its polarising lead candidate, Herbert Kickl, who campaigned using the \u201cpeople\u2019s chancellor\u201d moniker once used to describe the Austrian-born Adolf Hitler, said he was ready to form a government with \u201ceach and every one\u201d of the parties in parliament. \u201cWe have written a piece of history together today,\u201d he told cheering party supporters in Vienna. \u201cWe have opened a door to a new era.\u201d \u201cWe don\u2019t need to change our position, because we have always said that we\u2019re ready to lead a government, we\u2019re ready to push forward this change in Austria side by side with the people,\u201d Kickl said in an appearance alongside other party leaders on ORF public television. \u201cThe other parties should ask themselves where they stand on democracy,\u201d he added, arguing that they should \u201csleep on the result\u201d. Nehammer called the result, which will send shock waves through Europe, \u201cbitter\u201d while his defence minister, Klaudia Tanner, admitted the debacle for the governing parties was a \u201cwake-up call\u201d. Because it failed to win an absolute majority, the FP\u00d6 will need a partner to govern. Unlike the other centrist parties, the \u00d6VP has not ruled out cooperating with the far right in the next government, as it has twice in the past in taboo-breaking alliances at the national level. Nehammer, however, repeated on Sunday that a scenario in which Kickl, a former hardline interior minister, became chancellor was a non-starter, setting up a potential showdown in which the FP\u00d6 would have to either jettison Kickl or take a backseat in government to win the \u00d6VP\u2019s support. \u201cWe\u2019ll see in the coming weeks which is more important to FP\u00d6 voters \u2013 claiming the chancellor\u2019s seat or Herbert Kickl,\u201d the political scientist Peter Filzmaier told ORF, adding that exit polling had shown it was issues and not personalities that had motivated voters. Kickl, a bespectacled marathon runner, was a protege of J\u00f6rg Haider. The former firebrand FP\u00d6 leader and Carinthia state premier, who died in 2008 in a drink-driving crash, transformed the party founded by ex-Nazi functionaries and SS officers into the ultra-nationalist force it is today. Migrant groups have expressed fear for the future in Austria, which critics say has failed to fully own up to its Nazi past and role in the Holocaust. Rabbi Jacob Frenkel of Vienna\u2019s Jewish Council called the election a \u201cmoment of truth\u201d. At his final rally in central Vienna on Friday, Kickl drew cheers from the crowd railing against anti-Russia EU sanctions, \u201cthe snobs, headteachers and know-it-alls\u201d, climate activists and \u201cdrag queens in schools and the early sexualisation of our children\u201d. He hailed a proposed constitutional amendment declaring the existence of only two genders. But the biggest applause line remained his call for \u201cremigration\u201d, or forced deportation of people \u201cwho think they don\u2019t have to play by the rules\u201d of Austrian society. Nehammer actively sought during the campaign to co-opt the FP\u00d6\u2019s tough stance on immigration, which the far right hopes to bring to bear at the EU level using Austria\u2019s outsized influence in Brussels due to its geographical prominence and strong alliances. Congratulations to Kickl poured in from rightwing populist parties across Europe including Germany\u2019s Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland and Hungary\u2019s ruling Fidesz party. \u201cThe government has drastically reduced asylum applications,\u201d the chancellor said on Thursday. \u201cBut we need more: asylum procedures in third countries before asylum seekers come through several European countries. And more: complete access to social welfare only after five years of residency in Austria.\u201d It was a remarkable comeback for the FP\u00d6, humiliated five years ago after the so-called Ibiza scandal in which Austria\u2019s then deputy chancellor and party leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, was caught on video at a Spanish luxury resort discussing a potential bribe from a woman purporting to be the niece of a Russian oligarch. The disgraced Strache and his parliamentary leader, Johann Gudenus, who had initiated the meeting, were forced to resign, triggering snap elections in which the \u00d6VP, then led by \u201cwunderkind\u201d chancellor Sebastian Kurz, triumphed. Two years later Kurz quit politics amid a corruption investigation. The last term has been marked by a stunning reversal for the government, an \u00d6VP coalition with the Greens, even by the baroque standards of politics in this Alpine country of 9 million. The conservatives shed 11 points in support in that time, with the FP\u00d6 leading in the polls since late 2022 and coming first in European parliament elections in June. Coalition negotiations are expected to take several weeks before a new government is in place. Regardless of the outcome, the \u00d6VP seems poised to hold on to power, either in an alliance with the far right or an unwieldy, unprecedented three-way coalition with smaller centrist parties, similar to Germany\u2019s unpopular government. A two-way alliance with the Social Democrats could eke out a wafer-thin majority but analysts said such a pact was unlikely."
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    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Deep intelligence penetration enabled Israel to kill Hassan Nasrallah;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/deep-intelligence-penetration-enabled-israel-to-kill-hassan-nasrallah;2024-09-30T04:00:08Z",
        "text": "A hundred munitions \u2013 including, it is believed, US-made 2,000lb bombs \u2013 were used by the Israeli air force in Friday evening\u2019s overwhelming air raid that killed the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an underground complex hidden in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh. Nasrallah, who was careful to the point of paranoia about his security arrangements and only rarely appeared in public, would have given little notice of his plan to undertake the fateful trip to the meeting. But the intelligence penetration of Hezbollah was so deep that Israel knew Nasrallah and other surviving members of Hezbollah\u2019s already decimated leadership would be meeting at the supposedly secret location \u2013 and that an order to bomb them could be given. Benjamin Netanyahu was required to give permission to undertake the attack from New York, where the Israeli prime minister had given a bellicose speech at the UN general assembly. There was, presumably, felt to be little time to wait. According to an unsubstantiated report in the French newspaper Le Parisien, the mole who informed the Israelis that Nasrallah was on his way to the bunker was Iranian. If true, it would be eye-catching, given that Iran is Hezbollah\u2019s principal backer. The reports of the planning behind the attack indicate that Israel had an eye on the location for some time. The commander of the 69th Squadron of F-15I jets that carried out the attack, named in Israeli media only as Lt Col M, said the aircrews involved were preparing for \u201cseveral days\u201d, though they were told of the intended target only a few hours before. The F-15I jets were armed to strike and destroy below ground, requiring a large amount of explosive, capable also of eliminating the buildings above. Video released by the Israel Defense Forces on Saturday of the jets \u201ctaking off for the strike from Hatzerim airbase\u201d showed eight US-made F-15Is. One taking off is laden with multiple missiles, under the wings and at the rear. Experts said they appeared to be American-manufactured BLU-109 2,000lb bombs, of the class the Biden administration had decided to withhold from Israel in the summer amid concerns about their use in densely populated Gaza. Justin Bronk, an aviation expert with the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) thinktank, said the Israeli air force would have probably used 2,000lb joint direct attack munition guided missiles fitted with penetrating fuses designed to explode after a building or the ground is struck. Israeli air force officers said that during the attack, named Operation New Order, about 100 munitions were used and that bombs were dropped \u201cevery two seconds\u201d. Four residential buildings were hit, three destroyed utterly, leaving behind only smouldering craters, and two more were damaged in the strike. Initial estimates on the ground suggested that 300 people may have been killed, although Lebanon\u2019s official count was that 11 were killed and 108 wounded. Israel said it had killed more than 20 members of Hezbollah and that the strike was justified because \u201cNasrallah intentionally built Hezbollah\u2019s central headquarters under residential buildings in Dahiya\u201d. Brig Gen Amichai Levine, the commander of the Hatzerim airbase where the 69th Squadron is based, gave more details of the planning. The first challenge, in what he coldly described as \u201celimination operations\u201d was precise intelligence; the second, he said at a briefing, was to ensure that the target \u201cdoes not escape while the planes are en route or the munitions are on their way to the target\u201d \u2013 for example by not receiving early warning that the fighter jets were in the air and on their way. A tantalising question is why Nasrallah felt it necessary to meet other Hezbollah members in person. It was nearly a fortnight ago that Israel\u2019s war against Hezbollah stepped up with the explosions of sabotaged pagers and walkie-talkies used by the militant group that may have injured as many as 1,500 \u2013 low tech preferred by Nasrallah because he distrusted the way mobile phones could be tracked. With all electronic means distrusted, a face-to-face meeting may have been the only way to discuss Israel\u2019s escalation of the crisis with close colleagues. In any event, it is now clear that Israel has been unfolding an orchestrated plan in the past fortnight to attack and destroy Hezbollah\u2019s military leadership, from the pager attack to several rounds of airstrikes, wreaking havoc on Lebanese civilians as it does so. An estimated million people have been displaced as well as several hundred killed, a price Israel deems acceptable as it seeks to halt Hezbollah attacks on Israel\u2019s north and allow 65,000 Israelis to go back home from the border area. Israel\u2019s success in killing Nasrallah and other leaders can only have come following an intelligence penetration of Hezbollah that stands in sharp contrast to the misjudgment of Hamas\u2019s intentions before 7 October. Matthew Savill, a military analyst at Rusi, said Israel probably \u201cspent years building up and sustaining a comprehensive intelligence picture\u201d of Hezbollah, involving \u201can element of human sources involved, to keep it current\u201d. That, he argued, \u201cbrings into even starker relief the failure to identify and prevent Hamas\u2019s operation last year, lending credibility to the theory they concentrated on Lebanon and Iran at the expense of Gaza\u201d. \u2022 This article was amended on 30 September 2024. An earlier version suggested Jerusalem was the capital of Israel. It is not recognised as such by the international community."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;High tech, high yields? The Kenyan farmers deploying AI to increase productivity ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/high-tech-high-yields-the-kenyan-farmers-deploying-ai-to-increase-productivity;2024-09-30T04:00:03Z",
        "text": "Sammy Selim strode through the dense, shiny green bushes on the slopes of his coffee farm in Sorwot village in Kericho, Kenya, accompanied by a younger farmer called Kennedy Kirui. They paused at each corner to input the farm\u2019s coordinates into a WhatsApp conversation. The conversation was with Virtual Agronomist, a tool that uses artificial intelligence to provide fertiliser application advice using chat prompts. The chatbot asked some further questions before producing a report saying that Selim should target a yield of 7.9 tonnes and use three types of fertiliser in specific quantities to achieve that goal. \u201cMy God!\u201d Selim said upon receipt of the report. He had planned to use much more fertiliser than Virtual Agronomist was recommending. \u201cI could have wasted money.\u201d In Kericho and other parts of Kenya, AI-powered tools have become increasingly popular among small-scale farmers seeking to improve the quality and quantity of their produce. Pests, diseases and a lack of technical knowhow mean farmers have become accustomed to suffering crop losses on a large scale. They used to rely on advice from agricultural extension officers \u2013 professionals deployed by local governments to provide educational services to farmers \u2013 but their numbers have declined in recent years due to inadequate funding. Selim started using Virtual Agronomist on his 0.4-hectare (1-acre) farm in 2022, with the help of another farmer who had a smartphone at the time. Following its recommendations, his farm produced 7.3 tonnes of coffee, his highest yield ever. He\u2019s optimistic that the new set of recommendations will work this time too. \u201cTechnology helps,\u201d he said. Before adopting Virtual Agronomist, Selim would simply apply fertiliser using what he described as \u201cgeneral farmer\u2019s knowledge\u201d, applying different types at different times of the year without knowing the soil health. The farm\u2019s productivity was low. In one season, he managed to produce only 2.3 tonnes of coffee. At other times, he\u2019d take samples of his soil for testing at labs far from Sorwot, but the results would take months to come back and sometimes they wouldn\u2019t arrive at all. \u201cA big challenge for farmers is not knowing exactly what their soil needs,\u201d said Florah Maritim, factory manager at Sorwot Coffee Farmers Cooperative Society, which pulps and dries coffee from local farmers. The story is similar for farmers trying to determine what pests and diseases have affected their crops. Musau Mutisya, from Kwa Mwaura village in Machakos county, said he used to rely on his own knowledge to identify pests and diseases, but he wasn\u2019t always accurate. On a recent sunny morning on his 0.6-hectare (1.5-acre) farm, he stood next to a maize plant, pointing his phone\u2019s camera at a ragged, torn leaf using PlantVillage, an AI-powered app for diagnosing pests and diseases. A voice assistant instructed him on where to hold the phone, identified the pest as the fall armyworm, then gave him advice on how to control it. \u201cWe were doing guesswork in the past,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019ll end up using more money treating what you don\u2019t know.\u201d Both tools work by training AI models on images and data. Researchers at PlantVillage fed their model thousands of images of healthy and diseased crops to help it learn how to identify pests, while for Virtual Agronomist researchers trained a model to predict PH and other soil properties using continent-wide satellite data. There are seven and a half million small-scale farmers in Kenya. But the country has an extension officer-to-farm household ratio of 1:1093, far greater than the 1:400 ratio that the Food and Agriculture Organization recommends. Farmers need information to succeed, said Enock Chikava, director for agricultural delivery systems at the Gates Foundation, which supports the nonprofit outfit iSDA that created Virtual Agronomist. Technology can help fill a gap left by the lack of extension officers, he said. \u201cWe believe in the power of digital,\u201d Chikava said. \u201cIt can really, really disrupt things.\u201d A report released in July by the GSM Association found that most use cases of AI in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa were in agriculture and food security. The report said the potential for the technology to support socioeconomic growth on the continent was massive, but to realise it efforts needed to be made to tackle digital skills shortages and get more smartphones in people\u2019s hands. Both PlantVillage and Virtual Agronomist use a \u201clead farmer\u201d model, whereby farmers with smartphones are trained to use the tools not only on their own farms but also neighbouring plots. PlantVillage is free to use, as is Virtual Agronomist for all crops apart from coffee, for which it charges KSh300 (about \u00a31.70) for advice. Despite the promise, some scientists caution about dependence on AI tools for agriculture. Angeline Wairegi, who has researched the use of the technology in agriculture in east Africa, said most AI training datasets exclude indigenous knowledge, meaning the information they provide can exclude successful localised practices. \u201cHeavy reliance on AI tools to set farming practices may result in the erosion of long-held, and tested, indigenous agricultural practices,\u201d said Wairegi, founder and research director at Athene Research Group. But for farmers such as Boniface Nzivo in Mua village in Machakos county, AI is a gamechanger. He uses a system called FarmShield to monitor temperature, humidity and soil moisture and advise him on when to water his cucumbers \u2013 aspects that he used to struggle with. \u201cI don\u2019t waste time trying to figure out how much water to use,\u201d he said while inside a greenhouse for growing the plant, which needs a consistent supply of water. \u201cIt\u2019s a great technology.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Denial, terror and bravado in Beirut as residents await next Israeli air attack;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/lebanon-reels-from-israeli-bombardment-with-no-sign-of-respite;2024-09-30T04:00:03Z",
        "text": "For months, the staff at Rafik Hariri university hospital had been preparing for the worst. Nurses ran drills in parking garages, practising transferring patients from the wards to the bombproof concrete structures. A building was left empty on the hospital campus so that if mass bombing occurred, medics could bring their families with them and not worry about their safety. On Friday night, the drills seemed to pay off. Dozens of bombs were dropped on Dahiya, the southern suburbs of Beirut, sending residents running to the safest place they could think of \u2013 the nearby hospital. People ran to the gates of Rafik Hariri hospital, asking to stay in the car park until the bombing ceased. Staff could not let them in because they had to keep the way clear for incoming wounded and were expecting hundreds of casualties from the airstrikes, which killed the head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, and levelled a city block. The residents settled for waiting outside the hospital gates, staying as close to the structure as possible until the Israeli bombing of Dahiya slowed in the morning. Once the displaced left, the wounded started coming in. Hospitals in Dahiya transferred patients to Rafik Hariri and other surrounding medical centres after the ministry of health ordered the evacuation of all hospitals in the southern suburbs. Contrary to expectations, the wounded from Friday\u2019s strike on Dahiya came at a trickle, the health ministry reporting 11 dead and 108 wounded in its latest update. The deep craters where six buildings used to stand, a result of the powerful bunker bombs Israel had dropped, made search and rescue difficult. Lebanon\u2019s first responders, who had grown used to sifting through rubble over the last 12 months of fighting, found themselves combing through destruction the likes of which they had never seen before. Two days after the strike, the death toll continued to steadily climb. The hospital system had successfully passed its latest crisis, nurses and doctors exhausted after two weeks of non-stop mass casualty events. No one, however, was optimistic, bracing themselves for further escalation, including the possibility of an Israeli ground invasion. \u201cWe\u2019re facing a big psychological challenge. We\u2019re are scared that the basic supplies will be cut off. I\u2019m scared that if the situation continues, we will be cut off from everything,\u201d Shoshana Mazraani, the emergency room director of Marjayoun public hospital in south Lebanon, said. Those fears were multiplied when Israel continued to escalate its aerial campaign across wide swathes of the country. On Saturday in Shebaa, a town on the Lebanon-Israel border, residents\u2019 phones began to ring. An Israeli official on the line told them to evacuate their homes immediately, as they soon would be struck. \u201cThey told us which road to take; they even called the police. Everyone was frightened and fled. Just 10 minutes after the calls started, they started to bomb the town,\u201d Mohammed Saab, the mayor of the Shebaa, said over the phone. He added that three homes were destroyed by the Israeli strikes. Rumours of people receiving similar calls began to circulate on social media, with people warning each other to stay away from certain areas lest they be bombed. In one case, rumours swirled that residents of a building housing displaced people in the town of Baakline in the mountains of south-east Lebanon had evacuated after receiving a call. One of the building\u2019s residents later said that it was just hearsay and that no one had been called by the Israelis. On the streets of Beirut, Lebanese soldiers stood at intersections mostly devoid of cars. An Israeli drone patrolled overhead, the strengthening and receding of its buzz periodically sending residents to their balconies, where they craned their heads to spot any smoke that would signal a strike. The period of official mourning for Nasrallah\u2019s death did not start until Monday. For some people in the capital, there was a reluctance to believe he had gone. \u201cThey said that they killed Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, which until now 90% of the people don\u2019t believe. This is what the media wants us to hear, this is my thinking,\u201d Amir, a 24-year-old shop owner in Karkoun al-Druze, a mixed-sect neighbourhood in Beirut, said. \u201cIt will just take a little bit of time for him to get back. If he does come back and he\u2019s alive, things will get way worse [for Israel].\u201d About a mile away, as Amir was speaking, media reported that rescue workers had found Nasrallah\u2019s body, lifting his shrouded corpse with a crane. Amir\u2019s neighbour agreed with him that the late leader of Hezbollah, who during his three-decade command of the group achieved mythical status among supporters and enemies alike, was not dead. The group\u2019s announcement of his death was just a ploy to fool the Israelis, who to Amir and his neighbour were verging on hubris by even thinking of a ground invasion. \u201cIt\u2019s impossible for them to set a foot in Lebanon. If we\u2019re facing 10 of them, there will be hundred of us,\u201d Amir said, saying that despite the fact that he was Sunni, he supported what he saw as the Shia organisation\u2019s defence of Lebanon against Israel. Even if some Lebanese might face the prospect of an Israeli invasion with bravado, there were doubts as to whether the Lebanese state was prepared for it. \u201cThey said they had been preparing for a year, but look what happened last Friday. No one was expecting it,\u201d Yusuf, who owned a shop next to Amir, said. \u201cI\u2019m afraid it will be like 2006 all over again. It was very difficult then: food stocks ran out, supplies were low.\u201d In downtown Beirut, the lack of preparation was evident. Families displaced from Dahiya crowded together under the few trees that dotted a park, shielding themselves from the afternoon sun. The prospect of more fighting, regardless of whether it was missiles fired at or coming from Israel, was a disturbing one for some of those who had lost their homes. Murshid Yusuf\u2019s wife had been killed and his home destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon. \u201cI want the situation to get better. I want everyone to be in their homes sitting with their family,\u201d he said. \u201cI want people to be able to go out and be happy. That\u2019s it.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Japan\u2019s incoming prime minister Shigeru Ishiba to call snap election \u2013 reports;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/japan-election-prime-minister-shigeru-ishida-ldp-party;2024-09-30T03:18:05Z",
        "text": "Japan\u2019s incoming prime minister Shigeru Ishiba is poised to call a snap election for the end of the month, according to media reports, days after he promised to lift his party\u2019s dwindling fortunes and \u201cput a smile\u201d back on the faces of the public. Ishiba, a moderate who saw off a rightwing challenge on Friday to become the new leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP), will be approved as prime minister in parliament on Tuesday and appoint his cabinet later the same day. The 67-year-old former defence minister, who won the party leadership race at his fifth attempt, will try to seek an early public mandate on 27 October, the public broadcaster NHK and several newspapers said on Monday, more than a year before an election is due. Ishiba has said only that he would call a lower house election \u201cas soon as possible\u201d, but observers believe he wants to go to voters quickly, possibly to capitalise on his recent party victory and to give the main opposition Constitutional Democratic party as little time as possible to prepare under its new leader, Yoshihiko Noda. Ishiba could turn to one of his erstwhile leadership rivals in an attempt to revive the LDP\u2019s fortunes after months of fallout from a fundraising scandal. Shinjiro Koizumi, who was knocked out of the contest after finishing third in the first round of voting, is expected to be made head of the party\u2019s election committee, effectively making him the face of the campaign. Although the 43-year-old Koizumi, the son of the former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, struggled to mount a credible challenge for the LDP presidency, he is popular among voters. Ishiba\u2019s main rival for the LDP presidency, the ultra-conservative Sanae Takaichi, reportedly turned down the offer of a senior party post, the Kyodo news agency said, underlining the difficulties he faces in reuniting the party ahead of the rumoured general election. Takaichi, who lost to Ishiba in the second and final round of voting, was vying to become Japan\u2019s first female prime minister. Reports suggest that the most senior posts in Ishiba\u2019s cabinet will go to party heavyweights, including the former prime minister Yoshihide Suga, who is believed to have backed him in the leadership race. Ishiba is expected to unveil measures to help low-income households through the cost of living crisis and, on the foreign policy front, to pursue the creation of an \u201cAsian Nato\u201d to counter threats from China and North Korea."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Strike on central Beirut as Lebanon death toll passes 100 \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/29/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-bombardment-lebanon-hezbollah-hassan-nasrallah-latest;2024-09-30T02:02:36Z",
        "text": "We\u2019re ending our live coverage here, but if you want to read the latest on the strike on central Beirut, William Christou has this wrap of the day. More than 100 people were killed across Lebanon by Israeli strikes on Sunday, according to the country\u2019s health ministry. It said more than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, without saying how many were civilians. The government said a million people \u2013 a fifth of the population \u2013 have fled their homes. A strike was carried out near the Kola intersection in central Beirut in the early hours of Monday morning, the first time Beirut has been hit outside the southern suburbs since 2006. The strike hit the upper floor of an apartment building. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said in a statement that three of its leaders were killed in the attack and blamed Israel. Israel said it bombed Houthi targets in Yemen on Sunday. The airstrikes on Yemen\u2019s port of Hodeidah were a response to Houthi missile attacks on Israel in recent days, Israel said. The Houthi-run health ministry said at least four people were killed and 29 wounded. Images from Hodeidah showed parts of the city covered in a massive pall of dust, and towering explosions in the distance. Hezbollah confirmed that Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of the militant group\u2019s central council, was killed on Saturday, making him the seventh senior Hezbollah leader slain in Israeli strikes in a little over a week. The group also confirmed that Ali Karaki, another senior commander, died in the airstrike on Friday strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah denied claims that Abu Ali Rida, the commander of the group\u2019s Bader Unit in south Lebanon had been killed. Rida is the last remaining senior military commander of Hezbollah that remains alive. White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said Israel\u2019s airstrikes in Lebanon had \u201cwiped out\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s command structure, but he warned the group will work quickly to rebuild it. President Joe Biden said Sunday he would speak soon with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and believes that an all-out war in the Middle East must be avoided. Israel on Sunday vowed to keep up its assault. \u201cWe need to keep hitting Hezbollah hard,\u201d Israel\u2019s military chief of staff Herzi Halevi said. Israel\u2019s military said it struck dozens of targets in Lebanon including launchers and weapons stores and had intercepted eight projectiles coming from the direction of Lebanon and one from the Red Sea. It also said dozens of Israeli aircraft had attacked power plants and Ras Issa and Hodeidah ports in Yemen, accusing the Houthis of operating under Iran\u2019s direction and in cooperation with Iraqi militias. The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has broken his silence on Israel\u2019s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah. On Sunday, Syria\u2019s state-run outlet Sana quoted Assad as saying: \u201cWe are certain that the Lebanese national resistance will continue on the path of struggle and justice in the face of the occupation, and will continue to support the Palestinian people in their struggle for their just cause.\u201d Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said Israel should not be allowed to attack countries in the Iran-aligned \u201cAxis of Resistance\u201d one after the other. Pezeshkian, in comments carried by state media, said Lebanon should be supported. An Iranian Revolutionary Guards deputy commander, Abbas Nilforoushan, was also killed in the attack that killed Nasrallah in Beirut. Pezeshkian said \u201cwe cannot accept such actions and they will not be left unanswered. A decisive reaction is necessary.\u201d Saudi Arabia has stressed the \u201cneed to preserve Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d. In a statement released on Sunday amid Israel\u2019s deadly airstrikes, the Saudi foreign ministry said it was \u201cfollowing with great concern the developments taking place in Lebanon\u201d. Israeli opposition lawmaker Gideon Saar rejoined Netanyahu\u2019s government on Sunday, a step that is likely to strengthen the Israeli prime minister politically. Saar, who has been one of Netanyahu\u2019s most vocal critics in the past few years, is due to serve as a minister without a portfolio and have a seat in the prime minister\u2019s security cabinet, Israeli media reported. Expanding the government to include Saar\u2019s strengthens Netanyahu by making him less reliant on other members of his ruling coalition, which has been struggling in the polls. The loss of its senior commander leaves Hezbollah in total disarray, stripped of capable operators who possessed deep military and international experience. \u201cHezbollah is facing a reality much worse than any worst-case scenario they might have war gamed. The chain of command is obliterated,\u201d said Naveed Ahmed, an independent Gulf-based security analyst and expert on Hezbollah. The most obvious candidate to succeed Nasrallah is Hashem Safieddine, who chairs Hezbollah\u2019s executive council. A cousin of Nasrallah, Safieddine was born in 1964 in southern Lebanon and is another founder member. He is thought to have spent many years in Qom, the Iranian religious city, and has been entrusted by Hezbollah with a variety of tasks over the decades, including managing the organisation\u2019s extensive portfolio of legal and illegal businesses. A powerful public speaker, Safieddine is popular within the organisation and among its sponsors in Tehran. Last year he said: \u201cIt may take one war, two wars, three wars, multiple confrontations, military confrontation, the sacrifice of martyrs, bearing the burden, dealing with the consequences, but ultimately, [Israel] must come to an end.\u201d Israel\u2019s assassination campaign has so far targeted Hezbollah\u2019s military commanders, leaving the top political echelons largely unscathed. Safieddine sits on the Jihad Council of the organisation however, so may soon be targeted too. \u201cIt is impossible to predict who would be a successor right now as the Israeli targeted strikes continue to take out commanders. It\u2019s in Hezbollah\u2019s interest to not publicly declare a successor. Nasrallah\u2019s funeral, if at all held, would be a rich source of intelligence and targets,\u201d Ahmed said. In just over a week, Israeli strikes in Lebanon have killed seven high-ranking commanders and officials from Hezbollah. \u201cIt has lost its head, and we need to keep hitting Hezbollah hard,\u201d Israel\u2019s military chief of staff Herzi Halevi said on Sunday. Lebanon\u2019s most powerful military and political force now finds itself trying to recuperate from severe blows, having lost key members who have been part of Hezbollah since its establishment in the early 1980s. Chief among them was Hassan Nasrallah. Since 1992, Nasrallah had led the group through several wars with Israel, and oversaw the party\u2019s transformation into a powerful player in Lebanon. After Syria\u2019s uprising 2011 spiraled into civil war, Hezbollah played a pivotal role in keeping Syrian president Bashar Assad in power. Under Nasrallah, Hezbollah also helped develop the capabilities of fellow Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq and Yemen. Nabil Kaouk, who was killed in an airstrike Saturday, was the deputy head of Hezbollah\u2019s Central Council. He had been seen as a potential successor to Nasrallah. Ibrahim Akil was a top commander and led Hezbollah\u2019s elite Radwan Forces, which Israel has been trying to push further away from its border with Lebanon. He was also a member of its highest military body, the Jihad Council, and for years had been on the United States\u2019 wanted list. The U.S. state department says Akil was part of the group that carried out the 1983 bombing of the US embassy in Beirut and orchestrated the taking of German and American hostages. Ahmad Wehbe was a commander of the Radwan Forces and played a crucial role in developing the group since its formation almost two decades ago. He was killed alongside Akil in an airstrike in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs that struck and leveled a building. Ali Karaki led Hezbollah\u2019s southern front, playing a key role in the ongoing conflict. He was killed alongside Nasrallah. Mohammad Surour was the head of Hezbollah\u2019s drone unit, which was used for the first time in this current conflict with Israel. Ibrahim Kobeissi led Hezbollah\u2019s missile unit. The Israeli military says Kobeissi planned the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli soldiers at the northern border in 2000, whose bodies were returned in a prisoner swap with Hezbollah four years later. Even in the months before this recent escalation, Israel\u2019s military had targeted top commanders, most notably Fuad Shukur in late July, hours before an explosion in Iran widely blamed on Israel killed the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh. The US accuses Shukur of orchestrating the 1983 bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American servicemen. Leaders of key units in the south, Jawad Tawil, Taleb Abdullah, and Mohammad Nasser, who over several decades became instrumental members of Hezbollah\u2019s military activity were all killed as well. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said in a statement early on Monday that three of its leaders were killed in the Israeli strike that targeted Beirut\u2019s Kola district. Israel is yet to comment on the strike, which is the first attack on central Beirut since 2006. More images from the site of the Israeli strike on Beirut\u2019s Kola district have started coming in. It\u2019s being reported that four people were killed in the attack on an apartment building. The IDF has said its attack on Lebanon\u2019s Bekaa valley tonight was targeting \u201cdozens of launchers\u201d and buildings where Hezbollah weapons were stored. Fighter jets of the Air Force attacked dozens of terrorist targets of the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the Bekaa region of Lebanon in the last two hours.\u201d Israel\u2019s military has also said it launched attacks on areas in southern Lebanon. A Lebanese security official has told the AFP news agency that four people were killed in the Israeli strike on central Beirut on Monday. An Israeli drone targeted an apartment belonging to two members of the Lebanese Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya, the source said. The strike marks the first time Israel has carried out attacks within Beirut\u2019s city walls since 2006. Television footage showed the partially flattened floor of the building targeted by the strike, in the predominantly Sunni neighbourhood of Kola, near the road linking the capital to Beirut airport. It\u2019s just coming up to 3am in Beirut, here\u2019s a quick summary of where things stand. More than 100 people were killed across Lebanon by Israeli strikes on Sunday, according to the country\u2019s health ministry. It said more than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, without saying how many were civilians. The government said a million people \u2013 a fifth of the population \u2013 have fled their homes. Israel carried out a strike near the Kola intersection in central Beirut in the early hours of Monday morning, the first time it has struck Beirut outside the southern suburbs since 2006. The strike hit the upper floor of the apartment building and a security source told Reuters that at least two people were killed. Prior to Monday morning\u2019s strike, Israel had confined its strikes on Lebanon\u2019s capital city to its southern suburbs. Israel said it bombed Houthi targets in Yemen on Sunday. The airstrikes on Yemen\u2019s port of Hodeidah were a response to Houthi missile attacks on Israel in recent days, Israel said. The Houthi-run health ministry said at least four people were killed and 29 wounded. Images from Hodeidah showed parts of the city covered in a massive pall of dust, and towering explosions in the distance. Hezbollah confirmed that Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of the militant group\u2019s central council, was killed on Saturday, making him the seventh senior Hezbollah leader slain in Israeli strikes in a little over a week. The group also confirmed that Ali Karaki, another senior commander, died in the airstrike on Friday strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah denied claims that Abu Ali Rida, the commander of the group\u2019s Bader Unit in south Lebanon had been killed. Rida is the last remaining senior military commander of Hezbollah that remains alive. White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said Israel\u2019s airstrikes in Lebanon had \u201cwiped out\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s command structure, but he warned the group will work quickly to rebuild it. President Joe Biden said Sunday he would speak soon with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and believes that an all-out war in the Middle East must be avoided. Israel on Sunday vowed to keep up its assault. \u201cWe need to keep hitting Hezbollah hard,\u201d Israel\u2019s military chief of staff Herzi Halevi said. Israel\u2019s military said it struck dozens of targets in Lebanon including launchers and weapons stores and had intercepted eight projectiles coming from the direction of Lebanon and one from the Red Sea. It also said dozens of Israeli aircraft had attacked power plants and Ras Issa and Hodeidah ports in Yemen, accusing the Houthis of operating under Iran\u2019s direction and in cooperation with Iraqi militias. The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has broken his silence on Israel\u2019s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah. On Sunday, Syria\u2019s state-run outlet Sana quoted Assad as saying: \u201cWe are certain that the Lebanese national resistance will continue on the path of struggle and justice in the face of the occupation, and will continue to support the Palestinian people in their struggle for their just cause.\u201d Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said Israel should not be allowed to attack countries in the Iran-aligned \u201cAxis of Resistance\u201d one after the other. Pezeshkian, in comments carried by state media, said Lebanon should be supported. An Iranian Revolutionary Guards deputy commander, Abbas Nilforoushan, was also killed in the attack that killed Nasrallah in Beirut. Pezeshkian said \u201cwe cannot accept such actions and they will not be left unanswered. A decisive reaction is necessary.\u201d Saudi Arabia has stressed the \u201cneed to preserve Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d. In a statement released on Sunday amid Israel\u2019s deadly airstrikes, the Saudi foreign ministry said it was \u201cfollowing with great concern the developments taking place in Lebanon\u201d. Israeli opposition lawmaker Gideon Saar rejoined Netanyahu\u2019s government on Sunday, a step that is likely to strengthen the Israeli prime minister politically. Saar, who has been one of Netanyahu\u2019s most vocal critics in the past few years, is due to serve as a minister without a portfolio and have a seat in the prime minister\u2019s security cabinet, Israeli media reported. Expanding the government to include Saar\u2019s strengthens Netanyahu by making him less reliant on other members of his ruling coalition, which has been struggling in the polls. Israeli opposition lawmaker Gideon Saar is rejoining prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government, a step that is likely to strengthen Netanyahu politically. Saar, who has been one of Netanyahu\u2019s most vocal critics in the past few years, is due to serve as a minister without a portfolio and have a seat in the prime minister\u2019s security cabinet, Israeli media reported. Expanding the government to include Saar\u2019s strengthens Netanyahu by making him less reliant on other members of his ruling coalition, which has been struggling in the polls. \u201cDifficult and trying days lie ahead,\u201d Netanyahu said in a statement. \u201cThis move contributes to our own unity and to our unity in the face of our enemies.\u201d Saar and Netanyahu said they were putting their past rifts aside. \u201cWe will work together, shoulder to shoulder, and I intend to seek his [Saar\u2019s] assistance in the forums that influence the conduct of the war,\u201d Netanyahu said. Opposed to Palestinian statehood on security grounds, Saar is seen as further to the right than Netanyahu ideologically, but his joining the government is not widely expected to have a big impact on its security policy. By joining the government with his four-seat party, Saar will give Netanyahu a solid majority of 68 in the 120-seat parliament. This could help solve one of the biggest political challenges the coalition faces in the next few months \u2013 passing a new military conscription law, after Israel\u2019s supreme court ruled in June that the state must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students into the military. The issue has widened cracks in Netanyahu\u2019s coalition, which relies on two ultra-Orthodox parties that want to keep their constituents in religious seminaries and out of the army. Saar\u2019s inclusion also reduces the power of the far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has threatened to bring the government down if it ends the war in Gaza. Saar, 57, was once a senior member in Netanyahu\u2019s right-wing Likud party but left after a failed leadership challenge. We\u2019re getting more information on the Israeli strike on central Beirut. Reuters news agency is reporting that an apartment building was hit in what would be the first attack within the Lebanese capital\u2019s city limits. The strike hit the upper floor of the apartment building in the Kola district, Reuters witnesses said. A security source told Reuters that at least two people were killed. The area where the strike took place is a primary Sunni district with a busy thoroughfare lined with shops and residential buildings. There has been no immediate comment from Israel\u2019s military. A reminder, authorities in Lebanon say at least 105 people were killed by Israeli airstrikes on Sunday. The government says a million people \u2013 a fifth of the population \u2013 have fled their homes. The IDF says it has launched new strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon\u2019s Bekaa valley. In the past, Israel has claimed the group stores thousands of rockets in the region. The strike on central Beirut came as French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot arrived in Lebanon on Sunday night, making him the first high-level foreign diplomat to visit since Israeli airstrikes intensified one week ago. The arrival of Barrot, who earlier called for an immediate halt to the strikes, came as the foreign ministry announced that a second French national had been killed in Lebanon, though details were unclear. After a meeting about the status of French nationals, Barrot on Monday will meet officials including prime minister Najib Mikati. He is also due to meet the UN Special coordinator for Lebanon and members of the UN peacekeeping force in the south. Israel should not be allowed to attack countries in the Iran-aligned \u201cAxis of Resistance\u201d one after the other, Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday. The president\u2019s comments came after Israel said it had bombed Houthi targets in Yemen. Pezeshkian, in comments carried by state media, said Lebanon should be supported. \u201cLebanese fighters should not be left alone in this battle so that the Zionist regime [Israel] does not attack Axis of Resistance countries one after the other,\u201d he said. An Iranian Revolutionary Guards deputy commander, Abbas Nilforoushan, was also killed in the attack that killed Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in Beirut. \u201cWe cannot accept such actions and they will not be left unanswered. A decisive reaction is necessary,\u201d Pezeshkian said. Israel carried out an airstrike near Kola intersection in central Beirut in the early hours of Monday morning, the first time it has struck Beirut outside the southern suburbs since 2006. The sound of the explosion was heard around the city. Kola intersection is a popular reference point in Beirut, where taxis and buses gather to pick up awaiting passengers. Initial pictures from the scene of the strike showed two stories of an apartment building completely blown out. A video showed onlookers running towards the building, and a mangled body laying on the sidewalk outside the building, seemingly ejected by the force of the blast. Prior to Monday morning\u2019s strike, Israel had confined its strikes on Lebanon\u2019s capital city to its southern suburbs. The airstrike threw into doubt which areas of Beirut were still safe from Israel\u2019s expanding aerial campaign. A blast was heard and smoke seen in Beirut\u2019s Kola district and ambulances can reportedly be heard in the area. It\u2019s being reported that this is likely the first Israeli strike outside of Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs and within the city limits. The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has called on countries to urgently recommit to respecting international law, pointing to \u201cthe number of wounded and dead during the conflicts in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine\u201d. Mirjana Spoljaric said international humanitarian law (IHL) was being \u201csystematically trampled underfoot by those who lead military operations\u201d, in an interview with Swiss daily Le Temps. The ICRC is the caretaker of the Geneva conventions which strives to act as a neutral intermediary in conflicts. But it was finding its access to populations in need \u201cincreasingly constrained\u201d, said Spoljaric. On Friday the ICRC launched an initiative with six countries \u2013 Brazil, China, France, Jordan, Kazakhstan and South Africa \u2013 in a bid to galvanising political support for humanitarian law. The Geneva conventions, adopted in 1949 in the wake of the second world war, \u201cembody humanity\u2019s shared conscience, values that transcend borders and creeds\u201d, they said in a joint statement. \u201cYet, the suffering we witness today in armed conflicts around the world is proof that respect for and compliance with their most fundamental rules are not being upheld.\u201d The initiative will strive to develop concrete recommendations for ways to prevent humanitarian violations and promote increased protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure, said the IHRC. Here\u2019s a look at where things stand: More than 100 people have been killed across Lebanon by Israeli strikes on the country. In an update released on Sunday evening (eastern European summer time), the Lebanese health ministry said 105 people had been killed and another 359 injured. The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has broken his silence on Israel\u2019s assassination of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. On Sunday, Syria\u2019s state-run outlet Sana quoted Assad as saying: \u201cWe are certain that the Lebanese national resistance will continue on the path of struggle and justice in the face of the occupation, and will continue to support the Palestinian people in their struggle for their just cause.\u201d Saudi Arabia has stressed the \u201cneed to preserve Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d. In a statement released on Sunday amid Israel\u2019s deadly airstrikes, the Saudi foreign ministry said it was \u201cfollowing with great concern the developments taking place in Lebanon\u201d. The Houthi-run health ministry said at least four people were killed and 29 wounded in the airstrikes on Yemen\u2019s port of Hodeidah. The strikes took place as Israel attacked more targets in Lebanon. While Israeli air strikes have hit Yemen before in response to drone and missile attacks, this appears to have been the largest Israeli raid on Yemen involving a large number of aircraft and hit up to 10 targets. Images from Hodeidah showed parts of the city covered in a massive pall of dust, and towering explosions in the distance. More than 100 people have been killed across Lebanon by Israeli strikes on the country. In an update released on Sunday evening (eastern European summer time), the Lebanese health ministry said that 105 people have been killed while another 359 have been injured. Israel\u2019s deadly attacks which took place in the last 24 hours occurred on towns and villages in southern Lebanon, Bekaa, Baalbek-Hermel and the southern suburbs of Beirut. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has broken his silence on Israel\u2019s assassination of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. On Sunday, Syria\u2019s state-run outlet Sana quoted Assad as saying: The resistance does not weaken with the martyrdom of its leader, but rather remains firmly rooted in the hearts and minds, because great leaders build in their lives the doctrine of struggle, its approach and its path, and they depart leaving behind them an intellectual system and a practical approach to resistance and honor ... We are certain that the Lebanese national resistance will continue on the path of struggle and justice in the face of the occupation, and will continue to support the Palestinian people in their struggle for their just cause. Martyr Nasrallah will remain in the memory of the Syrians, as a sign of loyalty to his standing by Syria in its war against the tools of Zionism, despite the burdens of confrontation that he carried. At the heart of this loyalty, the name of Martyr Hassan Nasrallah will remain immortal. Saudi Arabia has stressed the \u201cneed to preserve Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d. In a statement released on Sunday amid Israel\u2019s deadly airstrikes, the Saudi foreign ministry said that it was \u201cfollowing with great concern the developments taking place in Lebanon\u201d. The ministry added that it \u201caffirms its support for the Lebanese people and the need for humanitarian consequences\u201d. It also said it is currently coordinating efforts to provide aid and relief to the Lebanese people. The US was not given notice of Israel\u2019s strike that killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, according to a top Biden aide. The Guardian\u2019s Edward Helmore reports: The White House said on Sunday it had not been warned in advance of the airstrike that killed Hezbollah\u2019s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a Beirut suburb and assumed it had caused civilian casualties, while reaffirming its \u201cironclad\u201d support for Israel. John Kirby, the national security spokesperson, said the US had not been informed of the airstrike, and that the president, Joe Biden, found out about it only once Israeli planes were in the air. Speaking to CNN, Kirby also said there was \u201cno question\u201d that civilians had been killed in the attack. \u201cWe certainly assume there have been civilian casualties. I don\u2019t think we can quantify it right now, but we are in touch with our Israeli counterparts,\u201d he said. Read the full story here: The Houthi-run health ministry said at least four people were killed and 29 wounded in the airstrikes on Yemen\u2019s port of Hodeidah. The strikes took place as Israel attacked more targets in Lebanon, where its intensifying bombardment over two weeks has killed a string of top Hezbollah leaders and driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. US president Joe Biden said on Sunday he would speak with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and believes that an all-out war in the Middle East must be avoided. \u201cIt has to be,\u201d Biden told reporters as he boarded Air Force One for Washington. \u201cWe really have to avoid it.\u201d The president\u2019s statements come as Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon killed dozens of people on Sunday, AP reported. He would not say when he planned to speak with Netanyahu. Here are some of the latest images coming through the news wires from Lebanon, where Israeli attacks across the country have killed more than 50 people over the past 24 hours: Over 50 people have been killed in Israel\u2019s latest strikes on Lebanon, according to the Lebanese health ministry. On Sunday, the health ministry reported that 21 people have been killed while 47 others wounded in Israeli attacks on Baalbek-Hermel in eastern Lebanon. The ministry also reported that 32 people have been killed with another 53 wounded in Ain al-Delb, a rise from the ministry\u2019s previously reported numbers of 24 people killed and 29 people wounded in the southern village. The death toll on Israel\u2019s attack on Ain el-Delb, a southern village in Lebanon, has risen to 32, according to the Lebanese health ministry. Earlier today, the health ministry said Israeli airstrikes have killed 21 people on Sunday in Baalbek-Hemel, east Lebanon. Houthi-run media is reporting that four people have been killed while at least 30 have been injured in Israel\u2019s latest strikes on Yemen, according to Agence France-Presse. Among the four people killed were a port worker and three engineers, Al-Masirah TV reports. Thirty-three people have been wounded in the \u201cinitial toll\u201d, the outlet added. Houthi media is reporting that four people have been killed in the latest Israeli airstrikes, according to Agence France-Presse. Violent clashes between members of Jamaat-e-Islami and Pakistani security forces have taken place in Pakistan following Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah\u2019s assassination: Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said Israeli airstrikes have killed 21 people on Sunday in east Lebanon, Agence France Press reports. \u201cThe Israeli enemy raids on Baalbek-Hemel have killed 21 people and wounded 47,\u201d the ministry said, giving a provisional toll. The bomb that Israel used to kill Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was US-made, according to US senator Mark Kelly. On Sunday, Kelly, chair of the US Senate armed services airland subcommittee, told NBC that Israel used a 2,000lb (900kg) Mark 84 series bomb. \u201cWe see more use of guided munitions, JDAMs [Joint Direct Attack Munitions], and we continue to provide those weapons,\u201d Kelly said, Reuters reports. \u201cThat 2,000lb bomb that was used, that\u2019s a Mark 84 series bomb, to take out Nasrallah.\u201d The Israeli military has not commented on the weapons that were used in the attack that killed Nasrallah and levelled at least six residential buildings, killing several people and injuring dozens more. Here are some images coming through the newswires of the Israeli strikes on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah: The Israeli Air Force l said that the raid on Yemen had been carried out by F-15s from Israel\u2019s Tel Nof airbase which were accompanied by support aircraft. Posting on X, Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said the raid proved that no location was too far away for Israel to hit. \u201c\u2018I will hunt down my enemies and I will overtake them and I will not return until their end\u2019 (Psalms, chapter 18, verse 38),\u201d wrote Gallant. \u201dI followed the attack against the Houthis from the control room of the air force. The message is clear \u2013 for us, no place is too far,\u201d he added. As well as striking Houthi targets, it seems clear that the large and sophisticated air raid on Yemen was designed to send a message to Iran that the Israeli Air Force was willing and able to launch air raids from a significant distance away. Senior Houthi official Nasr ad-Din Amer, who also serves as the head of the Saba Yemeni news agency, posted on Twitter/X: The attacks failed. Precautions were taken, the oil tanks were emptied in advance at the port of Ras Issa and Hodeidah, and there was an emergency plan. The Zionists will not stop our operations under any circumstances, we will make them more qualitative. While Israeli air strikes have hit Yemen before in response to drone and missile attacks, this appears to have been the largest Israeli raid on Yemen involving a large number of aircraft and hit up to 10 targets. Images from Hodeidah showed parts of the city covered in a massive pall of dust, and towering explosions seen from a distance. Axios is reporting that an Israeli official said that the latest Israeli strikes on Yemen\u2019s Hodeidah port was carried out with US Central Command (Centcom). According to Israeli officials, the strikes were in retaliation for the long-range ballistic missile attacks launched by Houthis on Tel Aviv in recent weeks. A statement released by the IDF described dozens of Israeli aircraft involved in the raid. Here are some of the lines from the statement: The Israeli Air Force struck Houthi terror targets in Yemen \u2013 1,800km from the State of Israel \u2026 Today [Sunday], during an extensive, intelligence-based aerial operation, dozens of IAF aircraft \u2013 including fighter jets, mid-air refueling aircraft, and intelligence aircraft struck military targets belonging to the Houthi terrorist regime in the Ras Isa and Hudaydah areas of Yemen. The targets included power plants and a seaport used to import oil, which were used by the Houthi terrorist regime to transfer Iranian weapons to the region, in addition to military supplies and oil. The strikes were carried out in response to the recent attacks by the Houthis against the State of Israel \u2026 Over the past year, the Houthis have been operating under the direction and funding of Iran, and in cooperation with Iraqi militias in order to attack the State of Israel, undermine regional stability, and disrupt global freedom of navigation \u2026 The IDF is determined to continue operating at any distance \u2013 near or far \u2013 against all threats to the citizens of the State of Israel. Peter Beaumont is a senior international reporter for the Guardian Israeli and Yemeni media are reporting a significant air strike on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah. Video posted on social media and also shared by Israeli publications suggests that oil storage facilities at the port were in an air strike. Images showed a very large explosion and a towering column of black smoke over the city. The explosion in Hodeidah follows the targeting of Israeli with a ballistic missile fired from Yemen on Saturday, with the Iran backed Houthis said was aimed at Tel Aviv\u2019s international airport. The missile was intercepted outside Israel\u2019s airspace. There are reports of an airstrike on the the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah in Yemen. Reuters reports that fuel tanks were hit. Hodeidah, which has been under Houthi control since 2021, is critical for delivering food and other necessities to the Yemeni population, who depend on imports. The Iran-backed Houthis have launched missiles and drones at Israel and disrupted global trade through the Red Sea in response to Israel\u2019s ongoing assault on Gaza. In his interview with CNN, John Kirby, the White House national security spokesperson, said that nobody is mourning the death of Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader killed in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut on Friday. He said: I don\u2019t think anybody\u2019s mourning the loss of Mr Nasrallah, a known terrorist, a guy with American blood on his hands, as well as Israeli blood on his hands. This is a terrorist organization. He was the leader of it. And I think people are safer without him walking around. When asked what the civilian death toll of the strike was, Kirby said: \u201cWe can\u2019t quantify that right now.\u201d In a newly released statement, the Pentagon says the US \u201cretains the capability to deploy forces on short notice\u201d and is determined to prevent Iran and Iranian-backed partners and proxies from \u201cexploiting the situation or expanding the conflict\u201d. The US says its priority is ensuring the protection of US citizens and forces in the region, defending Israel and cooling tensions across the region through \u201cdeterrence and diplomacy\u201d. White House national security spokesperson John Kirby has said Israel will not be able to safely get people back into their homes in the north of the country by waging a full-scale war with Hezbollah or Iran. Israel has claimed that its goal is to make its northern areas safe from Hezbollah rocket fire and allow thousands of displaced residents to return. \u201cAn all-out war with Hezbollah, certainly with Iran, is not the way to do that. If you want to get those folks back home safely and sustainably, we believe that a diplomatic path is the right course,\u201d Kirby told CNN. The US is watching to see what Hezbollah does to try to fill its leadership vacuum \u201cand is continuing to talk to the Israelis about what the right next steps are\u201d, he said after news that much of Hezbollah\u2019s leadership has been killed by the Israeli military. \u201cWe have made no bones about the fact that we don\u2019t necessarily see the tactical execution the same way that they do in terms of protection (of civilians),\u201d Kirby said. He added that the US\u2019s support for Israel remains intact. Washington is by far the biggest arms supplier to Israel. Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, said the killing of Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) deputy commander, by Israel was a \u201chorrible crime\u201d that would not go unanswered. Nilforoushan was killed in the Israeli strikes on Beirut on Friday, in which Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was also assassinated. Nasrallah\u2019s body has been recovered intact from the site of Friday\u2019s strike, a medical source and a security source told Reuters. Israel said that it killed 20 Hezbollah figures alongside Nasrallah in its attack on the group\u2019s underground headquarters on Friday. Ali Karaki, leader of Hezbollah\u2019s southern front, and Ibrahim Hussein Jazini, head of Nasrallah\u2019s security unit, were also among those killed, the IDF said. The Israeli military also said on Sunday that it killed senior Hezbollah figure Nabil Kaouk in an airstrike in Lebanon yesterday. Hezbollah later confirmed his death. He is the seventh senior leader of the Lebanese militant group to be killed since 20 September. The Israeli military has carried out new attacks on Lebanon today, including on Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of the capital, Beirut, and on Bekaa Valley in north-eastern Lebanon. Hezbollah was reported to have fired rockets at the Ofek military base in northern Israel earlier today and has been targeting Israel\u2019s Sa\u2019ar settlement with rocket strikes. European foreign ministers, including officials from the UK, Germany and France, have stepped up calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah amid fears of the conflict spreading across the region. The Lebanese army said it \u201ccalls on citizens to preserve national unity and not to be drawn into actions that may affect civil peace at this dangerous and delicate stage\u201d. The country\u2019s prime minister, Najib Mikati, urged Lebanese people \u201cto come together\u201d to preserve civil order. Diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire with Israel are ongoing. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) launched an emergency operation to provide food for up to 1 million people affected by the conflict in Lebanon. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 6,000 injured as a result of Israeli attacks in the past two weeks, the health ministry said, and about one million Lebanese people have been displaced by Israeli strikes. At least 41,595 Palestinian people have been killed and 96,251 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said. The Lebanese health ministry has said that 14 paramedics had been killed in two days of intense Israeli bombardment in Lebanon\u2019s east and south and in Beirut, the capital. \u201cThis series of attacks killed 14 paramedics in two days,\u201d the ministry said in a statement, adding it \u201ccondemns in the strongest terms the Israeli enemy\u2019s repeated attacks on medical centres\u201d and that \u201cparamedics do not participate in hostilities\u201d. The Israeli military has carried out new attacks on Lebanon today, including on Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of the capital, Beirut, and on Bekaa Valley in north-eastern Lebanon. Hezbollah has denied Israeli claims to have assassinated Abu Ali Rida, the commander of the group\u2019s Bader Unit in south Lebanon (see earlier post at 13.30 for more details). \u201cThere is no truth to the Zionist propaganda about the assassination of the brother and fighter Abu Ali Rida, he is alive and well,\u201d the group said in a statement to the press. Lebanon\u2019s environment minister, Nasser Yassin, said the government estimates that about 250,000 people have left their homes and taken refuge in government-run shelters and informal ones. However, he told the Associated Press the total number is about \u201cfour times as many directly affected and/or displaced outside the shelters\u201d. Figures quoted by the country\u2019s state run news agency show more than 36,000 Syrians and 41,300 Lebanese people crossed the border into Syria territory between last Monday and today. The Lebanese government has converted schools and other facilities into temporary shelters, but many people are sleeping on the streets and have nowhere safe to stay. As my colleague William Christou explains in this story, Lebanon\u2019s state was already overwhelmed by a previous wave of people who fled an intense Israeli aerial campaign in south Lebanon and the Bekaa valley, which started last Monday and killed about 700 people. The body of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been recovered from the site of the Israeli airstrike on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs and is intact, sources have told Reuters. The Guardian has not yet been able to verify this information. Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, was killed by Israel in a series of strikes on the group\u2019s underground headquarters in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, on Friday. Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, yesterday announced five days of national mourning to honour what he called the \u201cmartyrdom of the great Nasrallah\u201d. Israel\u2019s military said Nasrallah had \u201cthe blood of thousands... on his hands\u201d. The Israeli military says it killed over 20 Hezbollah members of different ranks when they assassinated the Lebanese Shiite militant group\u2019s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, at Hezbollah\u2019s headquarters in Beirut on Friday. \u201cMore than 20 other terrorists of varying ranks, who were present at the underground headquarters in Beirut located beneath civilian buildings, and were managing Hezbollah\u2019s terrorist operations against the state of Israel, were also eliminated,\u201d the military said. Some of the Hezbollah figures the military says were killed include: Ali Karaki, a member of Hezbollah\u2019s Jihad council and the commander of the organisation\u2019s southern front. Ibrahim Hussein Jazini, head of Hassan Nasrallah\u2019s security unit. Samir Tawfiq Dib, who the IDF describes as \u201cNasrallah\u2019s long-time confidant and adviser\u201d. Hezbollah says it has fired rockets at the Ofek military base in northern Israel today and has been targeting Israel\u2019s Sa\u2019ar settlement with rocket strikes, according to reports. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said this afternoon that 10 rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon. An Israeli strike on Lebanon\u2019s Bekaa Valley earlier today killed a senior figure in the Sunni Jama\u2019a Islamiya group, Mohammad Dahrouj, two security sources told Reuters. The group has fired rockets on Israel over the past year and the Israeli military has previously conducted strikes targeting other leading figures from the group. Hezbollah has confirmed that Nabil Kaouk, another of its senior leaders, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, the Associated Press are reporting. The Israeli military said earlier on Sunday that it had killed Kaouk in an airstrike the day before. He is the seventh senior leader of the Lebanese militant group to be killed since 20 September, including Hassan Nasrallah, who was Hezbollah\u2019s top leader for 32 years. William Christou is reporting for the Guardian from Beirut Initial reports in Israeli media suggest the target of Israel\u2019s strike on Beirut on Sunday afternoon was Abu Ali Rida, the commander of the group\u2019s Bader Unit, which is responsible for the second line of defence in south Lebanon after the initial border zone. Rida was the last remaining senior military commander of Hezbollah that remained alive, which, if reports of his death were true, would leave Hezbollah without any of its senior military leadership. The Guardian was not able to independently verify Israeli media reports and Hezbollah had not yet issued a statement. Reuters is reporting that France\u2019s foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot will travel to Lebanon on Sunday. It comes as Israel continued to strike multiple targets in the country. The French foreign ministry said: We confirm that the minister is going to Lebanon this weekend to talk with local authorities and provide French support, particularly humanitarian support Barrot is one of several European foreign ministers have stepped up calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah [see 11.56 BST]. Barrot has said Israel must \u201cimmediately stop its strikes in Lebanon\u201d, adding that his country was opposed to any form of ground operation by the Israelis. Over in Cyprus, the EU\u2019s nearest member state to the Middle East, an anti-war rally has been held outside a British Sovereign base that activists have accused of \u201cfacilitating\u201d Israel\u2019s armed action. Hundreds of protestors, chanting \u201cNo to war\u201d and \u201cOut, Out, British bases out,\u201d rallied within metres of the gates of RAF Akrotiri amid mounting fears of the Mediterranean island being drawn into a wider conflict if hostilities spiral out of control. The leftwing Akel party official Haris Karamanou told demonstrators: We are here, right outside the British Air Force airport in Akrotiri, because from here British spy planes are assisting the occupying forces of Israel in gathering information on the \u2018operations\u2019 in Gaza. And because hundreds of tons of bombs and ammunition have passed through here to aid the total destruction of Gaza. Speaking to the Guardian, Nicoletta Charalambidou, a prominent human rights lawyer also attending the rally said: The government of Cyprus has failed to take a clear stance against the war and we are against the facilitation it has granted that has allowed the British bases to indirectly support Israel\u2019s war in Palestine, Gaza and Lebanon. Others activists said they were furious at the growing use \u201con Cypriot land\u201d of the installation, one of two bases retained by Britain, a former colony. In a statement urging people to attend Sunday\u2019s protest, the left-wing backed Cyprus Peace Council said it was imperative the island\u2019s government took a clear stance if the country was to avoid becoming a target for attack. It said: The large military activities carried out these days on the ground and air around the Akrotiri base as well as the large concentration of US military forces in our country to prepare for a broader war, heightens the feeling of concern that Cyprus may become a target for an attack. The statement came hours after the UK announced it was \u201cbolstering contingency teams\u201d in the region, moving 700 troops to the island in preparation of mass evacuations from Lebanon Earlier this year protestors conducted a similar rally outside Akrotiri to demonstrate against the British bases being used as an \u201caggressive launch pad\u201d for the war in Gaza amid revelations of its deployment as a staging point for fighter jets involved in strikes against pro-Palestinian Houthi militia in Yemen. UK defence officials have robustly denied accusations of the bases being used to funnel weapons to Israel. On Sunday, the Cyprus Mail quoted a British bases spokesperson as saying: \u201cNo RAF flights have transported lethal cargo to the Israeli Defence Forces.\u201d It was standard practice the spokesperson said \u201cfor the UK Ministry of Defence to routinely authorise requests for a limited number of allies and partners to access the UK\u2019s air bases.\u201d Under the terms of the bases\u2019 establishment, Britain is not formally obliged to seek permission from Cyprus for operations conducted out of the military installations. A school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip was hit by Israeli strikes earlier, Reuters reported. Four people were killed and several others injured, Gaza medics said. In another strike, three people were killed in a house in Gaza City, medics said. Four others were reportedly killed in three separate airstrikes in Nuseirat and Khan Younis in central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip. William Christou is reporting for the Guardian from Beirut Israel has carried out a strike on Beirut, with the sound of a missile flying overhead and an impact being heard by a Guardian correspondent. A plume of smoke emanated from the outskirts of Chiyah, a section of the city on the borders of Dahiyeh, the southern suburbs of Beirut which have been the main target of Israeli bombing over the past week. The target of the strike was not immediately clear. Hezbollah has announced the death of senior military commander Ali Karaki on Sunday afternoon, killed in the large Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh, the southern suburbs of Beirut. These are the same strikes that killed the former head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. Karaki was a member of the group\u2019s Jihad Council and the commander of the organisation\u2019s southern front. He had escaped death a few days prior, after Israel said it attempted to assassinate him in an airstrike on Dahieh last Monday. \u201c[Karaki] was directly and on the ground responsible for leading the southern front with all its axes and units in the support front from 8 October, 2023, until his blessed martyrdom\u201d, a statement from Hezbollah read announcing his death. Karaki was the latest in a series of military commanders to be killed by Israel, leaving Hezbollah\u2019s senior military leadership almost completely wiped out. Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, said the killing of Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) deputy commander, by Israel was a \u201chorrible crime\u201d that would not go unanswered. Nilforoushan was killed in the Israeli strikes on Beirut on Friday, in which Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was also assassinated. European foreign ministers, including officials from the UK, Germany and France, have stepped up calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah amid fears of the conflict spreading across the region. The Israeli military said on Sunday that it killed senior Hezbollah figure Nabil Kaouk in an airstrike in Lebanon yesterday. He was the deputy head of the Lebanese militant group\u2019s central council and was one of the few remaining senior members of the organisation. On Sunday, Israel said it hit \u201cdozens\u201d more Hezbollah targets overnight. The Lebanese army said it \u201ccalls on citizens to preserve national unity and not to be drawn into actions that may affect civil peace at this dangerous and delicate stage\u201d. The country\u2019s prime minister, Najib Mikati, urged Lebanese people \u201cto come together\u201d to preserve civil order. Diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire with Israel are ongoing. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) launched an emergency operation to provide food for up to 1 million people affected by the conflict in Lebanon. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 6,000 injured as a result of Israeli attacks in the past two weeks, the health ministry said, and about one million Lebanese people have been displaced by Israeli strikes. At least 41,595 Palestinian people have been killed and 96,251 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said. Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, said the killing by Israel of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) deputy commander was a \u201chorrible crime\u201d that would not go unanswered. Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan was killed in the Israeli strikes on Beirut on Friday, in which Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah also was assassinated. \u201cThere is no doubt that this horrible crime committed by the Zionist regime (Israel) will not go unanswered,\u201d Araqchi said. In 2019, Nilforoushan was appointed as the operations deputy of the IRGC, which Iran uses to provide Hezbollah with most of its funding, training and weapons. Here are some of the latest images coming out from the newswires: European foreign ministers have stepped up calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, amid concern that Israel\u2019s killing of Hezbollah\u2019s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, risks seriously destabilising Lebanon and the region. Even as Israeli defence officials continued to raise the prospect of a cross-border operation into southern Lebanon, the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK voiced alarm over the latest escalation on the Israeli side. Israel must \u201cimmediately stop its strikes in Lebanon\u201d, the French foreign minister, Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot, said, adding that his country was opposed to any form of ground operation by the Israelis. David Lammy, the UK foreign secretary, said on X that he had spoken to the Lebanese prime minister, Najib Mikati. \u201cWe agreed on the need for an immediate ceasefire to bring an end to the bloodshed. A diplomatic solution is the only way to restore security and stability for the Lebanese and Israeli people,\u201d Lammy wrote. The German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, told the broadcaster ARD that Nasrallah\u2019s killing \u201cthreatens destabilisation for the whole of Lebanon\u201d, which \u201cis in no way in Israel\u2019s security interest\u201d. You can read the full story by my colleagues, Peter Beaumont and William Christou here: At least 41,595 Palestinian people have been killed and 96,251 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The health ministry has said thousands of other dead people are most likely lost in the rubble of the enclave. In a statement, the Lebanese army has said that it \u201ccalls on citizens to preserve national unity and not to be drawn into actions that may affect civil peace at this dangerous and delicate stage\u201d following the Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on Friday, and as Israeli attacks continue. \u201cThe Israeli enemy is working to implement its destructive plans and sow division among Lebanese,\u201d the army statement added. Lebanon has long been divided along sectarian lines which had contributed to a devastating civil war between 1975-1990. Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group, wields great power in Lebanon\u2019s south. Its military might dwarfs Lebanon\u2019s national armed forces. A Lebanese army official told Agence France-Presse (AFP) troops had been deployed since Saturday in Beirut. The country\u2019s prime minister, Najib Mikati, urged Lebanese people \u201cto come together\u201d to preserve civil order. William Christou has been reporting for the Guardian from Beirut Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati will chair a meeting of the government emergency committee this afternoon, along with several ministers. The meeting comes as Lebanon deals with successive waves of displacement, with 90,000 fleeing Israeli bombardment of the south and the Bekaa Valley last Monday, and many more evacuating the southern suburbs of Beirut after intense Israeli airstrikes on Friday. Beirut\u2019s public spaces are filled with families, gathered on sidewalks and small parks across the cities with their belongings. Many have spent the last two nights homeless and hungry, with the Lebanese state unable to respond to the scale of the humanitarian crisis. Private initiatives have sprung up to fill the gap, with small NGOs and even individuals distributing food and water in areas where the displaced have gathered. Lebanon\u2019s information minister, Ziad Makary, has said during a cabinet session that diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire with Israel are ongoing. He said: It is certain that the Lebanese government wants a ceasefire, and everyone knows that Netanyahu went to New York based on the premise of a ceasefire, but the decision was made to assassinate Nasrallah. Diplomatic efforts to achieve a ceasefire are ongoing. The prime minister is not falling short, but the matter is not that easy. Israel rejected global calls on Thursday for a ceasefire with the Hezbollah movement, defying its biggest ally in Washington. Despite Israel\u2019s stance, the US and France sought to keep prospects alive for an immediate 21-day truce they proposed on Wednesday, and said negotiations continued. Lebanon\u2019s prime minister Najib Mikati said a ceasefire would mean the UN security resolution 1701 - adopted to end the last Israel-Lebanon war of 2006, but never properly implemented - could be applied. At least 1,640 people are reported to have been killed in Lebanon since 8 October 2023, including 104 children and 194 women, the majority in Israeli strikes over the last fortnight. We have a little more information on Nabil Kaouk, the high-ranking Hezbollah official the Israeli military said was killed in an airstrike yesterday (see earlier post at 09.41). Kaouk was a veteran member of Hezbollah going back to the 1980s and had previously served as Hezbollah\u2019s military commander in southern Lebanon. The US had announced sanctions against him in 2020. A source close to Hezbollah confirmed to AFP that Kaouk was killed in a strike on Saturday and identified him as a member of Hezbollah\u2019s central council in charge of security in the group. In Gaza, two people were killed in separate strikes this morning in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp in the central part of the enclave. This is according to the nearby Awda hospital, which received the bodies. It said another six people were injured. In northern Gaza, first responders recovered two bodies after a strike on a house early on Sunday morning, according to the civil defence. Lebanon\u2019s state news agency reports that an Israeli airstrike on a house in the town of Ain, in the Bekaa valley, eastern Lebanon, killed 11 people earlier today. This figure has not been independently verified by the Guardian yet. Israeli strikes have increasingly targeted Hezbollah\u2019s strongholds in southern Beirut and the Bekaa valley, where Israel claims the group stores thousands of rockets. The Israeli military said in a post on X that it killed top Hezbollah leader, Nabil Kaouk, one of the few remaining senior leaders of the organisation. Kaouk was the deputy head of Hezbollah\u2019s central council. Kaouk was reportedly one of those being considered to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday, as the head of Hezbollah. The choices of who will now lead the organisation are narrowing, with analysts suggesting that Hashim Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah\u2019s executive council, is the favored pick. Naeem Qassem, the deputy secretary general of the organisation, is also reportedly in the running. Kaouk\u2019s death is a further blow to Hezbollah\u2019s leadership, already decimated from a relentless Israeli assassination campaign. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said it has launched an emergency operation to provide food for up to 1 million people affected by the conflict in Lebanon. \u201cFurther escalation of the conflict this weekend underscores the need for urgent humanitarian response,\u201d the WFP said in a post on X. The WFP has operated in Lebanon for 10 years. Its says workers are dispatching food, hot meals, \u201cready-to-eat rations\u201d and cash for civilians, including displaced people who have fled Israeli attacks and those staying in shelters. As of yesterday, there were well over 200,000 people who had been displaced inside Lebanon, according to the UN high commissioner for refugees. \u201cLebanon is at a breaking point and cannot endure another war,\u201d WFP regional director Corinne Fleischer said. At least 18 Palestinian people were detained by Israeli forces last night into Sunday morning in a series of raids across the occupied West Bank, Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, reports, citing sources. The detentions were reported to have taken place in various locations, including Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus and Jenin. The total number of Palestinians detained in the occupied West Bank since 7 October 2023 is estimated to have risen to well over 10,000. Human rights groups and international organisations have alleged widespread abuse of inmates detained by Israel in raids in the occupied West Bank, which Palestinians want as the core of a future independent state along with Gaza. China says it is \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d and is \u201cclosely following\u201d soaring tensions in the Middle East, after Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in strikes on Lebanon. \u201cChina is closely following this incident and deeply concerned about the escalation of tensions in the region,\u201d Beijing\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement. The ministry urged \u201call parties, particularly Israel, to take immediate steps to cool down the situation.\u201d The ministry said it opposes any violation of Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty. The world\u2019s second largest economy, China has recently stepped up its involvement in various crises. In July, it hosted talks between Palestinian rivals including Hamas and Fatah in Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping helped broker a March 2023 deal to end a diplomatic rift between Saudi Arabia and Iran, leaving the US on the sidelines. During the UN general assembly on Saturday, China\u2019s foreign minister, Wang Yi, called for a cessation of fighting in the Middle East. William Christou has been reporting for the Guardian from Beirut Fighting between Hezbollah and Israel continued through the night and early morning, with Israeli warplanes carrying out airstrikes across south Lebanon and the Bekaa valley. Hezbollah launched a rocket salvo at the \u201cOfik base\u201d using the group\u2019s medium range Fadi-1 rockets, according to a statement on Sunday morning. It was not immediately clear if Hezbollah\u2019s attacks resulted in any Israeli casualties. Among those killed by Israel\u2019s overnight airstrikes were four paramedics while they were working in their medical centre in Tair Dirba, south Lebanon, Lebanon\u2019s national news agency reported on Sunday. The day prior, Israeli strikes killed 33 people and injured 195, the country\u2019s health ministry reported. Hello and welcome to the Guardian\u2019s live coverage of the conflict in the Middle East. Israel has continued its attacks on Lebanon, with its military claiming to have hit dozens of Hezbollah targets in the past hours, a day after the Lebanese militant group confirmed its leader Hassan Nasrallah had been killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut. Israel has killed hundreds of people, including children, in its attacks on Lebanon over the past week, which included the massive strike on a densely populated area of south Beirut that is believed to have killed Nasrallah on Friday and levelled several entire apartment blocks. Iran vowed to avenge his death on Saturday, while US President Joe Biden said his killing provided a \u201cmeasure of justice for his many victims\u201d. Biden did not mention the many civilians killed by Israel, including children, in this week\u2019s attacks. Lebanon is to hold three days of official mourning for Nasrallah from Monday, according to the prime minister\u2019s office. Hezbollah has yet to announce a date for his funeral. In other developments: More than 1,000 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 6,000 wounded as a result of Israeli attacks in the past two weeks, the health ministry said, and about one million Lebanese people have been displaced by the strikes, including hundreds of thousands since Friday, Nasser Yassin, the minister coordinating the government\u2019s crisis response, has told Reuters. The Lebanese ministry of public health reported last night that the Israeli attacks across Lebanon yesterday killed 33 people and injured 195 others, according to Wafa, the Palestinian news agency. Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has confirmed the death of Brig Gen Abbas Nilforoushan, deputy commander of IRGC operations. He was killed in the Israel\u2019s air strikes on Lebanon on Friday which also killed other senior Hezbollah figures, including the group\u2019s leader Hassan Nasrallah. In its statement mourning Nilforoushan\u2019s killing, the IRGC, a major military, political and economic force in Iran, condemned \u201ccrimes of the Zionist regime\u201d in Lebanon and praised his role in defending the \u201cresistance front\u201d and Iran. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, has said Lebanese people are the new target of \u201cIsrael\u2019s policy of genocide, occupation and invasion.\u201d The Turkish leader, who has been highly critical of Israel\u2019s ongoing assault on Gaza, said children were among Lebanese civilians who have been \u201cmurdered\u201d by \u201cbrutal\u201d Israeli strikes conducted on Lebanon this week. \u201cBy the grace and power of God, the blows struck by the Resistance Front on the worn-out, deteriorating body of the Zionist regime will become even more crushing,\u201d said Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei about Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. He went on to add: \u201cThe foul-natured Zionist regime has not become victorious by carrying out this atrocity.\u201d Iran\u2019s parliament speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, commenting on the killing of Nasrallah, said on Sunday that what Iran terms \u201cresistance groups\u201d will continue to confront Israel with the help of Iran, according to Iranian state media. Iran has called for the UN security council to meet over Israel\u2019s assault on Lebanon and across the region. Joe Biden ordered the Pentagon to enhance America\u2019s defence posture in the region. He said: \u201cThe United States fully supports Israel\u2019s right to defend itself against Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and any other Iranian-supported terrorist groups.\u201d UN secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said he is \u201cgravely concerned by the dramatic escalation of the events in Beirut in the last 24 hours\u201d. He went on to add: \u201cThis cycle of violence must stop now. All sides must step back from the brink.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel strikes Lebanon and Yemen: what we know so far ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/israel-strikes-yemen-lebanon-attack-hezbollah-middle-east-war-latest;2024-09-30T00:35:23Z",
        "text": "Lebanon\u2019s health ministry has said more than 100 people have been killed by Israeli strikes on Sunday. It said more than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, without saying how many were civilians. The government said a million people \u2013 a fifth of the population \u2013 have fled their homes. Israel carried out a strike in central Beirut in the early hours of Monday, the first time it has struck beyond the city\u2019s southern suburbs since 2006. The strike hit an upper floor of an apartment building near the Kola intersection, and a security source told Reuters that at least two people were killed. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said in a statement early on Monday that three of its leaders were killed in the strike. Israel has not commented on the attack. Israel said it bombed Houthi targets in Yemen on Sunday. The airstrikes on Yemen\u2019s port of Hodeidah were a response to Houthi missile attacks on Israel in recent days, Israel said. The Houthi-run health ministry said at least four people were killed and 29 wounded. Images from Hodeidah showed parts of the city covered in a massive pall of dust, and towering explosions in the distance. The Israeli military said dozens of its aircraft had attacked power plants and Ras Issa and Hodeidah ports, accusing the Houthis of operating under Iran\u2019s direction and in cooperation with Iraqi militias. Hezbollah confirmed that Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of the militant group\u2019s central council, was killed on Saturday, making him the seventh senior Hezbollah leader slain in Israeli strikes in a little over a week. The group also confirmed that Ali Karaki, another senior commander, died in the airstrike on Friday strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Three days of mourning were announced, starting on Monday, after the killing of Nasrallah. Hezbollah denied claims that Abu Ali Rida, the commander of the group\u2019s Bader Unit in south Lebanon had been killed. Rida is the last remaining senior military commander of Hezbollah who remains alive. White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said Israel\u2019s airstrikes in Lebanon had \u201cwiped out\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s command structure, but he warned the group would work quickly to rebuild it. President Joe Biden said on Sunday he would speak soon with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and believes that an all-out war in the Middle East must be avoided. Israel on Sunday vowed to keep up its assault in Lebanon. \u201cWe need to keep hitting Hezbollah hard,\u201d Israel\u2019s military chief of staff Herzi Halevi said. Israel\u2019s military said it struck dozens of targets in Lebanon including launchers and weapons stores and had intercepted eight projectiles coming from the direction of Lebanon. The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has broken his silence on Israel\u2019s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah. On Sunday, Syria\u2019s state-run outlet Sana quoted Assad as saying: \u201cWe are certain that the Lebanese national resistance will continue on the path of struggle and justice in the face of the occupation, and will continue to support the Palestinian people in their struggle for their just cause.\u201d Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said Israel should not be allowed to attack countries in the Iran-aligned \u201cAxis of Resistance\u201d one after the other. Pezeshkian, in comments carried by state media, said Lebanon should be supported. An Iranian Revolutionary Guards deputy commander, Abbas Nilforoushan, was also killed in the attack that killed Nasrallah in Beirut. Pezeshkian said \u201cwe cannot accept such actions and they will not be left unanswered. A decisive reaction is necessary.\u201d Saudi Arabia has stressed the \u201cneed to preserve Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d. In a statement released on Sunday amid Israel\u2019s deadly airstrikes, the Saudi foreign ministry said it was \u201cfollowing with great concern the developments taking place in Lebanon\u201d. Israeli opposition lawmaker Gideon Saar rejoined Netanyahu\u2019s government on Sunday, a step that is likely to strengthen the Israeli prime minister politically. Saar, who has been one of Netanyahu\u2019s most vocal critics in the past few years, is due to serve as a minister without a portfolio and have a seat in the prime minister\u2019s security cabinet, Israeli media reported. Expanding the government to include Saar\u2019s strengthens Netanyahu by making him less reliant on other members of his ruling coalition, which has been struggling in the polls."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel strikes Houthi targets in Yemen as it continues to bomb Lebanon;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/israel-launches-fresh-airstrikes-at-houthi-targets-in-yemen;2024-09-29T21:58:22Z",
        "text": "Israel launched a wave of airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen on Sunday while continuing to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon, where the Lebanese health ministry said 105 people had been killed and another 359 injured. The fresh assaults on Iran-backed proxies across the Middle East risk accelerating a slide towards a devastating regional conflict on multiple fronts. The attack on the port of Hodeidah in Yemen involved dozens of Israeli planes and appears to have targeted fuel facilities, power plants and docks at the Ras Issa and Hodeidah ports. It one of the biggest such operations yet seen in the near year-long crisis in the region. Houthi media reports said the strikes had killed four people and wounded 33. Residents said the strikes caused power cuts in most parts of Hodeidah. Israeli military officials said the raid targeted the Houthis, an armed Iranian-backed group that controls most of Yemen. They have fired at Israeli targets for months in what they say is solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. They have also targeted international shipping in the Red Sea. On Saturday, they launched a ballistic missile attack on Israel\u2019s main international airport when Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, was arriving. The strikes in Yemen and the new wave of attacks in Lebanon came 48 hours after the Israeli operation that killed Hassan Nasrallah, the veteran leader of Hezbollah, in Beirut. Since Nasrallah\u2019s death, Hezbollah, which is also backed by Iran, has said it will continue fighting Israel. A series of salvos were launched from Lebanon on Sunday, including one that Hezbollah said targeted a group of Israeli soldiers. Others targeted built-up areas in northern Israel, according to officials in Israel. Nasrallah\u2019s assassination dealt a major blow to Hezbollah and to Iran, removing an influential ally who helped build the Shia Muslim militant organisation into the linchpin of Tehran\u2019s \u201cAxis of Resistance\u201d, the loose network of anti-Israeli, pro-Iranian armed groups across the Middle East which includes the Houthis and Hamas. The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, was quoted by the semi-official Tasnim news agency on Sunday as saying that Israel should not be allowed to attack Iran-aligned groups one after the other. The sites targeted in Yemen on Sunday were used by the Houthis \u2013 who seized the Yemeni capital, Sana\u2019a, in 2014 \u2013 to \u201ctransfer Iranian weaponry to the region and supplies for military needs\u201d, the Israeli military said in a statement. \u201cOver the past year, the Houthis have been operating under the direction and funding of Iran, and in cooperation with Iraqi militias in order to attack the state of Israel, undermine regional stability and disrupt global freedom of navigation,\u201d it said. A statement issued by the office of the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, after he monitored the strikes from an air force command centre, said: \u201cOur message is clear. For us, no place is too far.\u201d More than 1,600 people have been killed and 8,000 wounded in Lebanon since Israel stepped up its bombardment of Hezbollah strongholds last Monday, according to health ministry figures. The Lebanese health ministry said preliminary tolls showed 24 killed and 29 wounded in an Israeli strike near the main southern city of Sidon on Sunday. It later reported that Israeli air raids on the Baalbek-Hemel area of eastern Lebanon \u201ckilled 21 people and wounded 47\u201d. Four more died in a raid targeting Joub Jenin in the Bekaa area, the ministry said. Israel\u2019s military said the air force had struck dozens of targets including launchers and weapons stores, while its navy said it had intercepted eight projectiles coming from the direction of Lebanon. The strikes were concentrated in the south of Lebanon, where tit-for-tat exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah have been going on for almost a year. Drones could be heard flying over all parts of the Lebanese capital overnight and throughout the day on Sunday. Nasrallah\u2019s death capped a devastating fortnight for Hezbollah, starting with the detonation of thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by its members. The attack, blamed on the Mossad, the Israeli foreign intelligence service, killed 42 people and injured several thousand, mostly Hezbollah members. Israeli airstrikes across Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon, the Bekaa valley near the Syrian border and Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs have killed a string of the group\u2019s other most senior commanders. The Israeli military said on Sunday it had killed Nabil Kaouk, the deputy chairman of Hezbollah\u2019s executive council, in a strike on Saturday. Hezbollah confirmed his death, bringing the number of senior Hezbollah leaders who have died in Israeli strikes in the last 10 days to seven. They include at least three founding members who had evaded death or detention for decades. Hezbollah denied on Sunday Israel\u2019s claim to have assassinated Abu Ali Rida \u2013 a key Hezbollah commander in south Lebanon and the last remaining senior military leader left alive \u2013 in an airstrike. In Beirut, displaced families spent the night on benches at Zaitunay Bay, a string of restaurants and cafes on Beirut\u2019s waterfront where private security usually shoos loiterers away. The UN\u2019s high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, said \u201cwell over 200,000 people are displaced inside Lebanon\u201d and more than 50,000 had fled to neighbouring Syria. Reports in the Israeli media suggested that the leadership of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was continuing to push for a limited ground offensive within weeks, seeing a closing window of opportunity. Netanyahu said on Saturday that Nasrallah\u2019s killing was a necessary step toward \u201cchanging the balance of power in the region for years to come\u201d. \u201cNasrallah was not a terrorist, he was the terrorist,\u201d he said, warning of challenging days ahead. An international diplomatic push for a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel has made little progress, though Lebanon\u2019s information minister, Ziad Makary, said during a cabinet meeting on Sunday that efforts were still under way. The White House national security spokesperson, John Kirby, said on Sunday that Israel would not be able to safely get people back into their homes in the north of the country by waging an all-out war with Hezbollah or Iran. Israel\u2019s stated goal for its campaign in Lebanon is to make its northern areas safe from Hezbollah rocket fire and allow more than 60,000 displaced people to return. \u201cAn all-out war with Hezbollah, certainly with Iran, is not the way to do that. If you want to get those folks back home safely and sustainably, we believe that a diplomatic path is the right course,\u201d Kirby told CNN. European foreign ministers also stepped up their calls for a ceasefire. Israel must \u201cimmediately stop its strikes in Lebanon\u201d, the French foreign minister, Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot, said, adding that his country was opposed to any form of ground operation. The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, said he had spoken to the Lebanese prime minister, Najib Mikati, and that \u201cwe agreed on the need for an immediate ceasefire to bring an end to the bloodshed\u201d. Nasrallah\u2019s body was recovered intact from the site of Friday\u2019s strike, a medical source and a security source told Reuters on Sunday. Hezbollah has not yet said when his funeral will be held. Supporters of the group and other Lebanese people who hailed its role in fighting Israel, which occupied south Lebanon for years, mourned him on Sunday. \u201cWe lost the leader who gave us all the strength and faith that we, this small country that we love, could turn it into a paradise,\u201d said a Lebanese Christian woman, Sophia Blanche Rouillard, carrying a black flag to work in Beirut. The fighting between Hezbollah and Israel, their latest round of warfare in four decades of on-off conflict, has been waged in parallel with Israel\u2019s war in Gaza against Hamas, which began after the Iranian-backed Palestinian group\u2019s attack against Israel on 7 Oct 2023. The group has said it will cease fighting only when Israel\u2019s offensive in Gaza ends. Gideon Saar, the Israeli opposition lawmaker, will rejoin Netanyahu\u2019s government, the two said on Sunday, in a step that is likely to strengthen the premier politically. The hawkish Saar, who has been one of Netanyahu\u2019s most vocal critics in the past few years, is due to serve as a minister without a portfolio and have a seat in the prime minister\u2019s security cabinet, Israeli television station N12 said. Saar and Netanyahu said they were putting their past rifts aside. \u201cWe will work together, shoulder to shoulder, and I intend to seek his [Saar\u2019s] assistance in the forums that influence the conduct of the war,\u201d Netanyahu said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Malcolm Turnbull condemns UK\u2019s \u2018extraordinary\u2019 hypocrisy over Spycatcher affair;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/malcolm-turnbull-condemns-uks-extraordinary-hypocrisy-over-spycatcher-affair;2024-09-29T19:00:39Z",
        "text": "The former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has accused the UK government of hypocrisy and concealment over the way it continues to block the release of secret files about the Spycatcher affair. Before entering politics, Turnbull was a barrister for Peter Wright, a retired senior MI5 intelligence officer who revealed a series of illegal activities by the British security services in his memoir Spycatcher. British officials have repeatedly refused to disclose 32 files concerning the Spycatcher affair. \u201cThere is something that they are still trying to hide,\u201d Turnbull said. He added: \u201cWhat\u2019s the public interest in keeping them suppressed?\u201d Spycatcher detailed how MI5 bugged embassies, plotted against the former prime minister Harold Wilson, and was run for almost a decade by a suspected Soviet agent, Roger Hollis. Turnbull represented Wright in a 1986 court battle in Australia that caused Margaret Thatcher global humiliation over her government\u2019s failure to stop publication of the book. During the trial Turnbull forced Thatcher\u2019s cabinet secretary Robert Armstrong to admit he had been \u201ceconomical with the truth\u201d. Previously classified prime ministerial papers released last year revealed just how brazenly Armstrong had lied to the Australian court and how Thatcher had misled parliament. The damning memos were released after a long campaign by the journalist and author Tim Tate for his book To Catch a Spy: how the Spycatcher affair brought MI5 in from the cold. Speaking at an event to mark the book\u2019s publication at the Chelsea history festival in London, Turnbull said: \u201cArmstrong\u2019s perjury was really extraordinary.\u201d Cross-examining Armstrong during the 1986 trial, Turnbull asked Armstrong whether No 10 and MI5 had agreed to cooperate with the right-leaning writer Chapman Pincher in a book about Hollis in the hope of securing a \u201csafely conservative\u201d account of Hollis\u2019s suspected treachery. Armstrong dismissed this as \u201ca very ingenious conspiracy theory\u201d and \u201ctotally untrue\u201d. But the memos released last year showed Armstrong had in fact instructed how Pincher should be briefed because he believed he would write a \u201csympathetic presentation\u201d. The memos were signed off with Thatcher\u2019s initials. The former prime minister later told parliament that a secret investigation into Hollis found no evidence that he was a Soviet agent, when it fact it had warned there was a 20% chance that he was a traitor. Turnbull said: \u201cArmstrong\u2019s perjury was really extraordinary. Since then I\u2019ve obviously had a lot of experience as a prime minister in government. To me, it is still mind boggling that the cabinet secretary of the United Kingdom feels so entitled that he could go into a witness box and tell a dead set 100% lie. \u201cNot a fudge, a dead set lie, knowing that what he described as \u2018totally untrue\u2019 was, in fact, totally true, and evidenced by a memo signed by him sitting in a filing cabinet in Downing Street. The fact that he felt so invulnerable, really staggers me.\u201d Turnbull also pointed out that years before those memos were declassified they were made available to Thatcher\u2019s biographer Charles Moore. He said: \u201cInterestingly Charles Moore was able to read them, for his official biography of Maggie Thatcher, and even Charles, who is a very sympathetic biographer, was unable to defend Armstrong.\u201d He said giving Moore access to secret memos had echoes of how Thatcher\u2019s government tried to brief Pincher in the hope of securing a sympathetic account. He said: \u201cOf course it\u2019s hypocritical, it\u2019s the same old thing all over again. If it has been made available to Charles Moore it should be made available to everyone.\u201d Turnbull said he had been discussing the Spycatcher affair recently, and Armstrong\u2019s perjury, with the former Australian politician Kim Beazley. He said: \u201cWe could not imagine an Australian civil servant doing that. But maybe Armstrong was unique. It was a shocking act of perjury, Armstrong was bang to rights.\u201d Referring to the Spycatcher trial, Turnbull added: \u201cI accused Armstrong of lying on several occasions, and it turns out I was right on several occasions.\u201d Most government documents are released after 30 years, but officials have cited various exemptions under the Freedom of Information Act to block publication of the 32 Spycatcher files. Armstrong died in 2020. Wright died in 1995."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Austria election live: far-right Freedom party got most votes, early projections show \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/29/austria-election-live-far-right-freedom-party-fpo-ovp-spo-latest;2024-09-29T17:53:17Z",
        "text": "Preliminary results from Austria\u2019s general election showed the far-right Freedom party (FP\u00d6) winning the most votes for the first time in the postwar period. The party rode a tide of public anger over migration and the cost of living, and was projected to win 29% of the vote. The centre-right Austrian People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP) was projected to come in second place with 26.3%, while the Social Democratic party (SP\u00d6) was at 21%. Because it failed to win an absolute majority, the FP\u00d6 will need a partner to govern. The \u00d6VP\u2019s Karl Nehammer, Austria\u2019s chancellor, has said that the FP\u00d6\u2019s Herbert Kickl as chancellor would be a non-starter, setting up a potential showdown in which the FP\u00d6 would have to either jettison Kickl or take a back seat in government to win the \u00d6VP\u2019s support. Far-right parties across Europe congratulated the FP\u00d6 on its projected result. Read the full story here. Karl Nehammer said his party will stand by what it has promised before the election. Here are the updated projections from ORF: The Social Democrats\u2019 Andreas Babler has said that now it\u2019s about negotiations and he is ruling out a coalition with the FP\u00d6. Christian Stocker, the centre-right \u00d6VP\u2019s general secretary, has said the party is united behind Karl Nehammer. He also said the party does not want to enter a coalition with Herbert Kickl. Because it failed to win an absolute majority, the far-right Freedom party (FP\u00d6) will need a partner to govern. Unlike the other centrist parties, the centre-right People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP) has not ruled out cooperating with the far right in the next government, as it has twice in the past in taboo-breaking alliances at the national level. The Austrian chancellor, \u00d6VP\u2019s Karl Nehammer, however, has said that FP\u00d6 lead candidate Herbert Kickl, a former hardline interior minister, as chancellor would be a non-starter, setting up a potential showdown in which the FP\u00d6 would have to either jettison Kickl or take a back seat in government to win the \u00d6VP\u2019s support. Kickl, a bespectacled marathon runner, was a protege of J\u00f6rg Haider. The former firebrand FP\u00d6 leader and Carinthia state premier, who died in 2008 in a drink-driving crash, transformed the party founded by ex-Nazi functionaries and SS officers into the nationalist, anti-Islam outfit it is today. Read the full story here. The far-right Freedom party\u2019s Herbert Kickl has said he is ready for talks with everyone. Andreas Babler, leader of the Social Democratic party, has said that he is prepared to enter into exploratory talks with the centre-right Austrian People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP), ORF reported. Karl Nehammer, Austria\u2019s chancellor, has said that he wants to stay on as leader of the Austrian People\u2019s party. And here are the latest ORF projections. Freedom party members celebrated early projections today. Preliminary results showed Austria\u2019s far-right Freedom party (FP\u00d6) winning the most votes in a general election for the first time in the postwar period as it rode a tide of public anger over migration and the cost of living. \u201cAustrians made history tonight,\u201d FP\u00d6 general secretary Michael Schnedlitz told public broadcaster ORF at his party\u2019s election night celebration. \u201cYou can clearly see that change has come.\u201d The \u00d6VP tried to put a brave face on the result, which will send shockwaves through Europe. \u201cWe didn\u2019t manage to get first place, but we made up a lot of lost ground in recent weeks,\u201d its general secretary, Christian Stocker, said. \u201cGoverning means confronting tough realities and we\u2019ve done that in the last years.\u201d And here are updated projections, from ORF. A member of the European parliament from Hungary\u2019s ruling Fidesz party has also congratulated Austria\u2019s far-right Freedom party. Far-right figures from Spain and Belgium have welcomed the projected results in Austria. Here is an updated projection from ORF. The far-right Freedom party is at 29%. Alice Weidel of the German far-right party Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland has congratulated the Freedom party. The far-right Freedom party is celebrating the first projections, which show the party got the most votes in today\u2019s election in Austria. Here are the latest images from Vienna. Here\u2019s the projected seat distribution, from ORF: Far-right MEP Harald Vilimsky has thanked voters. The far right got the most votes in today\u2019s election, according to first projections. Far-right Freedom party (FP\u00d6): 29.1% Centre-right Austrian People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP): 26.2% Social Democratic party (SP\u00d6): 20.4% NEOS-New Austria: 8.8% Greens: 8.6% Polls have closed. We are now waiting for the first projections. The last polls will close in Austria in 15 minutes. Stay tuned for first projections and reactions. Fear, uncertainty and suspicion ran high in Klagenfurt, southern Austria, before today\u2019s high-stakes parliamentary election, in which the far-right Freedom party (FP\u00d6) could become the strongest force in the country for the first time in the postwar period. For at least a week, and some local people say much longer, the tap water in this city of baroque facades and a stunning Alpine lake has been contaminated with faecal bacteria and unsafe to drink. No one \u2013 not the government or environmental officials \u2013 has managed to ascertain the cause although baseless theories involving poisoned wells, migrants and other scapegoats run wild in pubs and the darker corners of the internet. Nor is a solution in sight. \u201cPlan C\u201d, as the public works chief, Erwin Smole, has described flushing pipes with diluted chlorine, is still being considered after other measures failed. As local citizens picked up their free drinking water in plastic bottles from a distribution point at a convention centre, the pessimism and outrage over the political class that have fuelled the rise of the far right across Europe was plain to see. \u201cI haven\u2019t decided who to vote for \u2013 it\u2019s hard to trust anyone these days,\u201d said hospital nurse Elisabeth Liftenegger, 55, summing up the anti-incumbent sentiment as she loaded up a shopping trolley with potable water. Read the full story here. One of Europe\u2019s oldest far-right parties, the FP\u00d6 was founded in 1956. Despite being initially headed by a former Nazi functionary and SS officer, it was a relatively moderate liberal party until the mid-1980s, when it veered radically right under the firebrand leader J\u00f6rg Haider. The party has twice been the junior partner in short-lived coalition governments with the conservative Austrian People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP), after finishing second in the parliamentary elections of 1999 with 27% of the vote and third in 2017 with 26% of the vote. Both coalitions ended early. Bitter FP\u00d6 infighting led to the collapse of the first in 2002, and the so-called Ibizagate scandal in 2019 forced the resignation of the party\u2019s then leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, and torpedoed the second after 18 months in office. Now led by the controversial former interior minister Herbert Kickl, the FP\u00d6 is nativist, anti-immigration, hostile to Islam and staunchly Eurosceptic. One of its MEPs, Harald Vilimsky, has described its electoral mission as \u201ckicking the establishment in the butt\u201d. The FP\u00d6\u2019s programme, \u201cFortress Austria, Fortress of Freedom\u201d, plans to cut provision for irregular migrants and asylum seekers to a bare minimum, block family reunification for migrants already in Austria, and promote \u201cremigration\u201d, particularly for offenders. It also wants to cut corporate tax and wage costs, and in foreign policy it is opposed to EU sanctions against Russia and further aid to Ukraine. The FP\u00d6 has signed and renewed a \u201ccooperation agreement\u201d with Vladimir Putin\u2019s United Russia party. Read the full explainer here. Here are some images from election day in Austria. Austrians are going to the polls today. Riding a far-right surge in many parts of Europe, the pro-Kremlin, anti-migration Freedom party (FP\u00d6) and its leader, Herbert Kickl, are capitalising on fears around migration, asylum and crime heightened by the August cancellation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna over an alleged Islamist terror plot. Mounting inflation, tepid economic growth and lingering resentment over strict government measures during Covid have dovetailed into an 11-point leap in the polls for the FP\u00d6 since the last election in 2019. Polling shows the election on a knife-edge, with the far right in the lead at 27%, two points ahead of the \u00d6VP of Chancellor Karl Nehammer. The opposition Social Democrats (SP\u00d6) look set for third place with about 21%. Despite devastating flooding this month from Storm Boris bringing the climate crisis to the fore, the Greens are on just 8%, nearly six points off their 2019 result. Given the electoral maths, any winner will require a coalition to form a government. The first polling stations opened at or shortly before 7am (0500 GMT). Projections are due minutes after polls close at 5pm, with results being finessed over the ensuing hours. Read the full story here. Good afternoon and welcome to a special edition of the Europe blog, focused on today\u2019s election in Austria. Stay tuned for results, reaction and analysis. Send thoughts and tips to lili.bayer@theguardian.com."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Hassan Nasrallah obituary;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/hassan-nasrallah-obituary;2024-09-29T16:39:56Z",
        "text": "Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, has died aged 64 in an Israeli bomb attack on the movement\u2019s HQ in Dahiyeh, Beirut. His death came after 11 months of conflict between his fighters, based in Lebanon, and Israel. On 7 October last year Hamas militants from Gaza entered Israel and killed more than 1,200 people. The next day Nasrallah ordered cross-border bombardments on Israel, and a limited conflict of attrition followed. This month Israel dramatically escalated matters by assassinating Hezbollah leaders, infiltrating the group\u2019s security apparatus, hitting tower blocks and sabotaging pagers, walkie-talkies and arms silos, while rebuffing US calls for a ceasefire. Over three decades Nasrallah, politically astute and often ruthless, transformed his Shia Muslim community, the largest yet most marginalised of Lebanon\u2019s 18 sects \u2013 Muslim, Christian and Druze \u2013 into Beirut\u2019s powerbrokers. His \u201cparty of God\u201d also grew from a local militia into a disciplined body active elsewhere in the region. Adored by supporters, Nasrallah was essential to Hezbollah\u2019s success. His state-within-a-state runs schools, clinics, scout troops, support for farming, an alternative banking system, armed checkpoints, prisons, radio and TV stations and telecom networks. Central to Hezbollah\u2019s ethos is muqawama \u2013 resistance to Israel and its allies. Hezbollah claimed credit when in 2000 Israel ended its 18-year-long occupation of southern Lebanon. The militia armed Palestinian factions during the second intifada of 2000-05 (the first having come in 1987-93); it trained Houthi rebels in Yemen and Shia factions in Iraq and Bahrain. Nasrallah\u2019s fighters became the most powerful non-state military in the Middle East. Hezbollah\u2019s estimated 60,000 troops and 150,000 Iranian-supplied rockets eclipsed Lebanon\u2019s national army. In July 2006 Hezbollah fought a month-long war with Israel, with more than 1,100 dead on the Lebanese side, and more than 160 Israelis killed. Once hostile Sunnis hailed Nasrallah as the restorer of Arab pride. Their mood changed when in 2012 his forces joined President Bashar al-Assad and Iran in an internal Syrian war that killed half a million mostly Sunni civilians. In October 2019 many Shia joined protests against him after gross mismanagement led Lebanon to the brink of bankruptcy. Foes blamed Nasrallah for overseeing the same corrupt political system he had once condemned. Despite championing the Palestinian cause, Hezbollah did little to ease insufferable conditions for Palestinians in Lebanon. Then in August 2020, there was an explosion caused by 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in a part of Beirut harbour under Hezbollah control. The blast killed 218, rendered 300,000 people homeless, and caused billions in damage, leading demonstrators to hang Nasrallah in effigy. Hezbollah had a turbulent role in other aspects of Lebanon\u2019s domestic affairs. It was the only civil war militia that had been allowed to keep its weapons after fighting ended in 1990. Nasrallah became Hezbollah secretary general in February 1992, the day after Israel assassinated his predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi. He was re-elected in 1993 and repeatedly thereafter. Nasrallah rejected UN calls to disarm after Israel withdrew in 2000 and prevented Lebanon\u2019s army from guarding the southern border. In 2005 a car bomb in Beirut killed Lebanon\u2019s former premier, Rafik Hariri. UN investigators named Hezbollah and Syria as likely culprits. Two months later massive \u201ccedar revolution\u201d protests forced Syrian troops out of Lebanon after 29 years of domination. Yet Nasrallah choreographed a pro-Syrian alliance with Michel Aoun, a Christian former renegade general newly returned from exile in France. Hezbollah scored well in June polls, and two members joined the cabinet for the first time. When Lebanon\u2019s pro-western prime minister, Fouad Siniora, rejected Nasrallah\u2019s demand for a blocking veto, Hezbollah shut down parliament for 18 months. In May 2008 Hezbollah gunmen crushed opponents in Beirut, Sidon, Tripoli and Aley \u2013 contradicting Nasrallah\u2019s promise never to attack fellow citizens. Still, many Lebanese adored him for defying Israel and affirming their dignity. Others resented his outsized influence. They said he was an Iranian proxy who killed enemies, including Shia intellectuals, brought starvation to besieged Syrian towns, and recreated the schisms of Lebanon\u2019s 1975-90 civil war. That conflict, and especially the Israeli invasion and occupation of 1982, inspired the young cleric to choose a political path. However, the greatest impetus was Ayatollah Khomeini\u2019s 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. As the Lebanese analyst Saleh el-Machnouk put it, by 2020 Lebanon had become a \u201cmafia-militia nexus [where] Iran uses Hezbollah as a subcontractor\u201d. Born in Bourj Hammoud, then a mainly Christian Armenian town, Hassan was the eldest of nine children of Mahdiyya Safi al-Din and Abdul Karim Nasrallah, a grocer. Hassan devoured Islamic texts while his siblings played football. When war erupted in 1975, the family fled to their ancestral village of Bazourieh, near Tyre. Hassan joined Amal (\u201chope\u201d), the mostly Shia movement that opposed traditional elites, whether Shia, Sunni or Christian. In 1976 the penniless 16-year-old left for the famous Iraqi Shia seminary in Najaf. Al-Musawi, a fellow Lebanese exile, became his mentor. After Iraq expelled Lebanese students in 1978, Nasrallah studied with Al-Musawi in Baalbek, in the Beqaa Valley, and joined Amal\u2019s politburo. By 1982 younger Shias such as Nasrallah were deserting Amal for Khomeini\u2019s camp. Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards based in Lebanon turned these radicals into Hezbollah. Its affiliates conducted suicide attacks in 1983 that killed more than 300 US and French peacekeeping soldiers. They later fought Amal and kidnapped westerners such as Terry Waite for the benefit of Iran. In 1989 Nasrallah moved to Iran to study at the seminary in Qom. Back in Lebanon, in 1991 he grudgingly accepted the Syrian-backed Taif power-sharing accord that formally ended the civil war. A month after he became secretary general of Hezbollah, it was accused of killing 29 people at the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires; in 1994 another assault on an Argentinian Jewish communal centre claimed 85 lives. Hassan never stood for election; instead, the speaker of parliament and former rival, the Amal leader Nabih Berri, conveyed his views to the world. Nasrallah admitted Tehran was Hezbollah\u2019s chief sponsor. Nonetheless, foreign intelligence claimed that the party benefited from narcotics traffic, an illicit diamond trade and millions more from expatriate tycoons. Nasrallah cemented his image as a consensual national figure with Maronite Christian clergymen. He promised not to impose theocratic rule on a religiously diverse and often secular public and arranged for Hezbollah to contest elections between 1992 and 2022. He displayed a dignified response when his son, Mohammed Hadi, died fighting Israelis in September 1997. Nasrallah helped Lebanon\u2019s national army crush a revolt by Sobhi Tufaili, an anti-Iranian populist and first secretary general of Hezbollah, four months later. He tutored Al-Assad before the latter became Syria\u2019s president in 2000. He also returned from Israel 29 Hezbollah captives and 400 Palestinian prisoners in 2004. Often, however, the moderate facade would slip. Nasrallah praised Holocaust deniers and in 2001 reportedly called Jews \u201cmiserly and cowardly\u201d. In 2008 Nasrallah\u2019s de facto deputy, Imad Mughniyeh, was blown up in Damascus. After that the leader avoided public appearances, and coordinated regional strategy with Qassem Suleimani, Iran\u2019s external operations chief, himself killed by a US drone strike in 2020. After another two-year shutdown of parliament, Hezbollah ensured that it elected Aoun as president in late October 2016. Following Lebanon\u2019s economic meltdown, however, Nasrallah\u2019s coalition lost its majority in assembly elections in 2022. That same year Hezbollah agreed a maritime and gas field demarcation agreement with Israel. But showing solidarity with Hamas after 7 October, and so displacing 65,000 Israelis in the north of the country, led to his death. Nasrallah\u2019s wife, Fatima Yassin, and their children Jawad, Ali and Mahdi, survive him; his daughter Zeinab died in the same blast as him. \u2022 Hassan Nasrallah, political leader, born 31 August 1960; died 27 September 2024"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Catholic Belgian university \u2018deplores\u2019 comments by Pope Francis moments after speech;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/catholic-belgian-university-deplores-comments-by-pope-francis-moments-after-speech;2024-09-29T02:23:55Z",
        "text": "Pope Francis has been sharply criticised by one of Belgium\u2019s Catholic universities over his stance on the role of women in society, in a strongly worded press release issued just moments after the pontiff spoke at the college. Professors and students at UCLouvain, where the 87-year-old pontiff had made a speech on Saturday afternoon, said they wanted to express their \u201cincomprehension and disapproval\u201d about the pope\u2019s views. \u201cUCLouvain deplores the conservative positions expressed by Pope Francis on the role of women in society,\u201d said the statement, in extraordinary language from a Catholic university about a pope. Francis went to the university on Saturday to celebrate its upcoming 600th anniversary as part of a weekend trip he is making to Belgium. His speech largely called for global action on climate change, but he also responded to a letter to him from students and professors that had asked about the Catholic church\u2019s teaching on women. In the letter, which was read out loud to him, the students questioned him on the Church\u2019s historical part in entrenching female subservience, the unfair division of labour and even disproportionate female poverty. \u201cThroughout the history of the Church, women have been made invisible,\u201d the letter read. \u201cWhat place, then, for women in the Church?\u201d Francis replied by saying the Church was female, noting that the Italian word for it, \u201cchiesa\u201d, is a feminine noun. \u201cA woman within the People of God is a daughter, a sister, a mother,\u201d he said, adding \u201cwomanhood speaks to us of fruitful welcome, nurturing and life-giving dedication\u201d. He did not give any details about potential plans for reform. The university statement called the pope\u2019s position on women\u2019s roles in society \u201cdeterministic and reductive\u201d. \u201cWe are really shocked,\u201d said Valentine Hendrix, a 22-year-old student. \u201cHe reduces us to a role of childbearer, mother, wife, everything we want to emancipate ourselves from.\u201d Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, a climatologist at UCLouvain university, said Francis had \u201cfailed to rise to the occasion.\u201d \u201cTo reply that the Church is a woman is really missing the point of the question \u2013 about the Church\u2019s respect for women and their role in the institution and in society,\u201d he said. Earlier the pope visited the tomb of Belgium\u2019s King Baudouin who in 1990 famously refused to sign a law lifting penalties against abortion, citing personal convictions. Francis described the legislation \u2013 passed after the king temporarily renounced his functions to avoid having to endorse it \u2013 as \u201ca murderous law\u201d. Francis has faced criticism during events throughout his trip to Belgium. The country\u2019s king and prime minister called on the pope to take more concrete actions to help survivors of abuse by Catholic clergy, and a rector at a different Catholic university asked him to reconsider the Catholic church\u2019s ban on ordaining women as priests. UCLouvain is a French-speaking university in Belgium. It has 38,000 students studying across 20 faculties. The Catholic church has an all-male clergy. Francis has created two commissions to consider whether women could serve as deacons, who, like priests, are ordained, but cannot celebrate Mass, but has not moved forward on the issue. However, during his 11 years as pontiff, Francis has also changed the Vatican\u2019s primary governing document to allow women to lead departments, and has also allowed women to vote at major global meetings of bishops, known as synods, for the first time. The pope\u2019s three-day Belgium visit has been dominated by the Church\u2019s dark legacy of child sexual abuse, and saw him meet on Friday with 17 victims. The group shared their stories and expressed their expectations to the pope, who \u201ctook note\u201d of their requests, according to the Vatican. Belgium has been rocked by decades of abuse scandals and cover-ups and a hard-hitting documentary last year put the issue back on front pages, prompting new victims to come forward. In an open letter this month, some had demanded the pontiff address paedophilia and set up a process for financial reparations. On Saturday morning, during a gathering with clergy and pastoral workers at the vast Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Brussels, Francis was pressed on the issue for a second day running. Replying to a question by a representative of an organisation helping abuse victims, the pontiff acknowledged the \u201catrocious suffering and wounds\u201d caused by the Church. \u201cThere is a need for a great deal of mercy to keep us from hardening our hearts before the suffering of victims, so that we can help them feel our closeness,\u201d Francis said. Reuters and Agence France-Presse contributed to this report"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ukraine war briefing: Russian attacks on hospital in Ukraine\u2019s Sumy kill 10, Kyiv says ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/ukraine-war-briefing-russian-attacks-on-hospital-in-ukraines-sumy-kill-10-kyiv-says;2024-09-29T00:54:00Z",
        "text": "At least ten people were killed in two consecutive Russian attacks on a hospital in Sumy. Initial shelling had killed one and damaged several floors of the building, but Russian forces struck again during the evacuation of the hospital\u2019s patients, authorities said. At least 22 were reported injured in the attacks. Danielle Bell, head of the UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, said \u201cloitering munitions\u201d \u2013 or suicide drones \u2013 hit the Saint Panteleimon clinical hospital in two attacks 45 minutes apart. \u201cMost of the fatalities occurred during the second strike, which hit as first responders arrived at the site and patients attempted to evacuate,\u201d she said. Sumy city is located 32 km (20 miles) from the Russian border. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, one day after his meeting with Donald Trump in New York, condemned the Sumy attack. \u201cEveryone in the world who speaks about this war must pay attention to what Russia is targeting,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on X. \u201cThey are waging war on hospitals, civilian objects, and people\u2019s lives. Only strength can force Russia into peace. Peace through strength is the only right way.\u201d In addition to the ten killed on Saturday, at least seven other civilians were killed throughout Ukraine in the previous 24 hours, authorities said. Four were killed in Kryvyi Rih after a Russian missile struck a five-storey police administration building on Friday \u2013 authorities completed rescue efforts there on Saturday. Of the four killed in Kryvyi Rih, three were police officers. Meanwhile, other missile and airstrikes on residential areas of the Kherson, Donetsk and Odesa oblasts left dozens more injured. Russia\u2019s top diplomat warned on Saturday against \u201ctrying to fight to victory with a nuclear power\u201d, delivering a UN general assembly speech packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as western machinations in Ukraine and elsewhere \u2013 including inside the United Nations itself. Three days after Russia\u2019s president, Vladimir Putin, aired a shift in his country\u2019s nuclear doctrine, his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, accused the west of using Ukraine as a tool to try \u201cto defeat\u201d Moscow strategically. China\u2019s foreign minister warned fellow leaders on Saturday against an \u201cexpansion of the battlefield\u201d in the war and said the Beijing government remained committed to shuttle diplomacy and efforts to push the conflict toward its end. China, along with Brazil, has proposed new talks involving Kyiv and Moscow and this week gathered Global South countries behind that plan. Zelenskyy dismissed China and Brazil\u2019s efforts, questioning why they were proposing an alternative to his own peace formula. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an interview with Fox News aired on Saturday, said he had received \u201cvery direct information\u201d from Donald Trump that the former US president would support Ukraine in the war against Russia if he is reelected in the November presidential election. Zelenskyy said: \u201cI don\u2019t know what will be after elections and who will be the president \u2026 But I\u2019ve got from Donald Trump very direct information that he will be on our side, that he will support Ukraine.\u201d Two Russian attacks in Ukraine\u2019s northeastern Kharkiv region killed four people on Saturday including a supreme court judge who was delivering aid to local residents in a civilian car, Ukrainian officials said. Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said an air attack killed three people and injured at least three others in the village of Slatyne, which lies about 25 km (15 miles) north of the city of Kharkiv \u2013 the regional capital. Russia is prepared to go to court over the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, with a foreign ministry spokesperson saying on Saturday that Russia has filed \u201cpre-trial claims\u201d against Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. Maria Zakharova accused the west of attempting to \u201csweep the matter under the carpet\u201d, maintaining that the explosions that ruptured the multi-billion dollar pipeline in September 2022 \u2013 seven months after Russia invaded Ukraine \u2013 were \u201can egregious act of international terrorism\u201d. Nato members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland will seek EU funding to build a network of bunkers, barriers, distribution lines and military warehouses along their borders with Russia and Belarus, Estonia\u2019s officials have said. The three Baltic countries initially announced the plan for a \u201cBaltic Defence Line\u201d in January. In May, Poland announced a similar project called the \u201cEastern Shield\u201d with the purpose of strengthening its borders with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus. North Korea, which has been accused of illegally supplying weapons to Russia, said on Sunday that US military aid worth $8bn to Ukraine was \u201can incredible mistake\u201d and playing with fire against nuclear superpower Russia. \u201cThe United States and the west should not dismiss or underestimate Russia\u2019s serious warning,\u201d Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, said in a statement published by state news agency KCNA. Vladimir Putin has warned he could use nuclear weapons if Russia were to be hit with missiles. North Korea has shipped at least 16,500 containers of weapons to Russia since September last year and Russia has fired missiles from those shipments against Ukraine, the US has said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel launches fresh assault on Beirut as uncertainty surrounds fate of Hezbollah leader;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/israel-launches-fresh-assault-on-beirut-as-uncertainty-surrounds-fate-of-hezbollah-leader;2024-09-28T05:42:38Z",
        "text": "Israel has launched another series of attacks on Beirut and Lebanon, a day after it carried out a massive strike on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital in an apparent attempt to kill Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, a key ally of Iran. Reuters witnesses heard more than 20 airstrikes before dawn on Saturday. Abandoning their homes in the southern suburbs, thousands of Lebanese congregated in squares, parks and sidewalks in downtown Beirut and seaside areas. The unprecedented five hours of continuous strikes early on Saturday followed Friday\u2019s attack in which several whole apartment blocks were levelled, by far the most powerful by Israel on Beirut during nearly a year of war with Hezbollah. Targeting Nasrallah \u2013 even if he was not harmed \u2013 would mark a staggering escalation on the Israeli side. He represents Iran\u2019s most important regional asset and has long been seen as linchpin in the so-called axis of resistance. The presence of Hezbollah\u2019s large rocket arsenal on Israel\u2019s northern border has long acted as a deterrent to an Israeli attack on Iran and its nuclear programme. The latest escalation has sharply increased fears the conflict could spiral out of control, potentially drawing in Iran, Hezbollah\u2019s principal backer, as well as the US, Israel\u2019s main ally. There was no immediate confirmation of Nasrallah\u2019s fate after Friday\u2019s heavy strikes, but a source close to Hezbollah told Reuters he was not reachable. The Lebanese armed group has not made a statement. Other media outlets quoted Hezbollah sources saying he was \u201calive and well\u201d. Israel has not said whether it tried to hit Nasrallah, but a senior Israeli official said top Hezbollah commanders were targeted. \u201cI think it\u2019s too early to say \u2026 Sometimes they hide the fact when we succeed,\u201d the Israeli official told reporters when asked if the strike on Friday had killed Nasrallah. The Israeli military said in a statement early Saturday that it had killed the commander of Hezbollah\u2019s missile unit, Muhammad Ali Ismail, and his deputy, Hossein Ahmed Ismail. After a relentless night, the strikes appeared to stop at around 6am, though fires were still smouldering in several areas. \u201cI felt like the building was going to collapse on top of me,\u201d said Abir Hammoud, a teacher in her 40s. Lebanese health authorities confirmed six dead and 91 wounded in Israel\u2019s initial attack on Friday \u2013 the fourth on Beirut\u2019s Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs in a week and the heaviest since a 2006 war \u2013 which flattened several apartment blocks in the densely populated neighbourhood of Haret Hreik, in the suburb of Dahiya. Hezbollah\u2019s al-Manar television reported seven buildings were destroyed. Some early estimates put the number of dead from the strike at 300. The death toll was expected to rise significantly as rescue workers clear rubble. The strikes reportedly left craters up to five metres wide, an Agence France-Presse photographer said, adding that ambulances were coming from all sides while fires burned. More than 700 people have been killed in Israeli attacks over the past week, authorities said. Early on Saturday Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said hospitals in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs would be evacuated, urging hospitals in unaffected areas to stop admitting non-urgent cases. Israeli strikes were also reported early on Saturday in the mountain town of Bhamdoun, south-east of Beirutm and in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. Friday\u2019s strike came shortly after the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told the UN general assembly in a bellicose speech marked by the walkout of dozens of diplomats that Israel\u2019s campaign against Hezbollah would continue despite international efforts to secure a three-week ceasefire. The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, condemned the attack as a \u201cflagrant war crime\u201d. \u201cThe attacks perpetrated \u2026 by the Zionist regime in the Dahiya neighbourhood of Beirut constitute a flagrant war crime that has revealed once again the nature of this regime\u2019s state terrorism,\u201d he said in a statement carried by the official Irna news agency. Netanyahu\u2019s office said he had personally approved the strike allegedly targeting Nasrallah, issuing a photograph of Netanyahu with his military secretary and chief of staff on the phone in his New York hotel. His office also announced that he had cut short his US visit and would return immediately to Israel. Underlining the significance of the strike, Israeli media reported that the operation was watched as it unfolded by the defence minister, Yoav Gallant, in the command centre of the Israeli air force in Tel Aviv, along with the Israeli chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, and other top commanders. Although some Israeli media suggested that the US had been informed minutes before the attack, that was emphatically denied by the US president, Joe Biden, who told reporters the US had \u201cno knowledge of or participation\u201d in the strike. Hours later, the Israeli military told residents in parts of Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs to evacuate as it targeted missile launchers and weapons storage sites it said were under civilian housing. Hezbollah denied any weapons or arms depots were located in buildings that were hit in the Beirut suburbs, the Lebanese armed group\u2019s media office said in a statement. Alaa al-Din Saeed, a resident of a neighbourhood Israel identified as a target, told Reuters he was fleeing with his wife and three children. \u201cWe found out on the television. There was a huge commotion in the neighbourhood,\u201d he said. The family grabbed clothes, identification papers and some cash but were stuck in traffic with others trying to flee. \u201cWe\u2019re going to the mountains. We\u2019ll see how to spend the night \u2013 and tomorrow we\u2019ll see what we can do.\u201d About 100,000 people in Lebanon have been displaced this week, increasing the number uprooted in the country to well over 200,000. Israel\u2019s government has said that returning 70,000 Israeli evacuees to their homes is a war aim. Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets and missiles against targets in Israel, including Tel Aviv. The group said it fired rockets on Friday at the northern Israeli city of Safed, where a woman was treated for minor injuries. Israel\u2019s air defence systems have ensured the damage has so far been minimal. Iran, which said Friday\u2019s attack crossed \u201cred lines\u201d, accused Israel of using US-made \u201cbunker-busting\u201d bombs. At the UN, where the annual general assembly met this week, the intensification prompted expressions of concern including by France, with which the US has proposed a 21-day ceasefire. Netanyahu dismissed the ceasefire proposals. \u201cThis must be brought to an end immediately,\u201d French ambassador Nicolas de Riviere told a Security Council meeting. At a New York press conference, the US secretary of state Antony Blinken said: \u201cWe believe the way forward is through diplomacy, not conflict \u2026 We will continue to work intentionally with all parties to urge them to choose that course.\u201d Reuters contributed to this report"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ukraine war briefing: China and Brazil push peace plan at UN despite Zelenskyy opposition;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/ukraine-war-briefing-china-and-brazil-push-peace-plan-at-un-despite-zelenskyy-opposition;2024-09-28T01:16:38Z",
        "text": "China and Brazil on Friday pressed ahead with an effort to gather developing countries behind a plan to end Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, despite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s dismissal of the initiative as serving Moscow\u2019s interests. Seventeen countries attended a meeting on the sidelines of the UN general assembly chaired by China\u2019s foreign minister, Wang Yi, and Brazilian foreign policy adviser Celso Amorim. Wang told reporters they discussed the need to prevent escalation in the war, avoid the use of weapons of mass destruction and prevent attacks on nuclear power plants. Zelenskyy, in a speech to the assembly earlier this week, questioned why China and Brazil were proposing an alternative to his own peace formula. Proposing \u201calternatives, half-hearted settlement plans, so-called sets of principles\u201d would only give Moscow the political space to continue the war, he said. US secretary of state Antony Blinken, speaking later, after a meeting with Wang, underscored strong US concerns about China\u2019s support for Russia\u2019s defence industrial base. Addressing reporters, he said that China, while saying it seeks an end to the Ukraine conflict, \u201cis allowing its companies to take actions that are actually helping Putin continue the aggression. That doesn\u2019t add up.\u201d South Korea\u2019s foreign minister said Russia was engaging in illegal arms trade with North Korea, reiterating statements by the US, Ukraine and independent analysts that Pyongyang is supplying rockets and missiles in return for economic and other military assistance from Moscow. Misuse of Russia\u2019s right to veto as a permanent member of the UN security council is hindering the UN\u2019s efforts to end war, foreign minister Cho Tae-yul said during the UN general assembly on Saturday. Donald Trump met Volodymyr Zelenskyy in New York in a high-stakes meeting at which the Ukrainian leader hoped to repair ties with the former US president. The two men met at Trump Tower on Friday amid a growing feud between Zelenskyy and Republicans that Ukraine fears could sabotage further US military aid if Trump wins in November. Trump told Zelesnkyy that if he won November\u2019s presidential election he would get the Ukraine war \u201cresolved very quickly\u201d. \u201cWe have a very good relationship, and I also have a very good relationship, as you know, with President Putin,\u201d Trump said as he stood next to Zelenskyy before the meeting. \u201cAnd I think if we win, I think we\u2019re going to get it resolved very quickly \u2026 I really think we\u2019re going to get it \u2026 but, you know, it takes two to tango.\u201d The sit-down \u2013 which lasted less than an hour \u2013 could be Zelenskyy\u2019s last chance to head off a growing conflict with Trump, who has frequently made complimentary remarks about Vladimir Putin and has also at times said he would cut off aid to Ukraine in order to force Kyiv to negotiate a truce \u2013 under any terms \u2013 with Moscow. Zelenskyy later described the meeting as \u201cvery productive\u201d. He wrote on X: \u201cI presented our Victory Plan, and we thoroughly reviewed the situation in Ukraine and the consequences of the war for our people. Many details were discussed. We share the common view that the war in Ukraine must be stopped. Putin cannot win. Ukrainians must prevail.\u201d Finland will place a key Nato base less than 200 kilometers (125 miles) from its border with Russia, \u201csending a message\u201d to its eastern neighbour, the defence ministry said Friday. Finland became a Nato member last year, dropping decades of military non-alignment after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russia said on Friday it had captured the village of Marynivka in eastern Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region, where its forces have been pushing towards the important logistics hub of Pokrovsk. Ukraine\u2019s General Staff said nothing about Marynivka changing hands in an evening report, noting that the village was among nearly a dozen localities where Russian forces had \u201creceived a fierce rebuff\u201d. Russia\u2019s FSB security service is investigating three foreign journalists for reporting in parts of Russia\u2019s Kursk region occupied by Ukrainian forces, bringing the total of such investigations to 12. The three, Kathryn Diss and Fletcher Yeung from Australia\u2019s ABC News and Romanian journalist Mircea Barbu, are being investigated for illegally crossing the Russian border, state news agency Ria Novosti reported. Nine children deported to Russia since Moscow\u2019s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine returned home on Friday with the help of Qatar acting as an intermediary, Ukraine\u2019s ombudsman said. Dmytro Lubinets, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the children ranged in age from 13 to 17, with a 20-year-old man also included in the operation. Several suffered from disabilities and a number of them had been taken from an orphanage in southern Kherson region, first to the Russian-held town of Skadovsk and then to Russia itself, Lubinets said. A Moscow court on Friday began the trial of a 72-year-old American man accused of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported. Moscow City Court is hearing a criminal case against the American \u201cover participating as a mercenary in the armed conflict on the side of Ukraine,\u201d Ria Novosti news agency said. A Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih struck a five-storey building housing the regional police department on Friday, killing at least three people and injuring six others, officials said. Three bodies \u2013 of a man and two women \u2013 were found under the rubble, the regional governor Serhiy Lysak said on the Telegram messaging app. A Russian drone may have breached the national airspace of Nato member Romania for \u201ca very brief period of under three minutes\u201d overnight during an attack on neighbouring Ukraine, the Romanian defence ministry said on Friday. Three people were killed in the attack, according to Ukrainan officials."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;To combat misinformation, start with connection, not correction;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/g-s1-24711/to-combat-misinformation-start-with-connection-not-correction;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 04:30:00 -0400",
        "text": "People trust information more when it comes from sources or contexts they\u2019re familiar with. Help counter misinformation in your community by having conversations with your friends and family."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;An airstrike hits a Beirut residential building as Israel expands attacks in Lebanon;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/g-s1-25396/israel-beirut-lebanon-hezbollah;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:25:22 -0400",
        "text": "The first apparent Israeli airstrike on central Beirut in nearly a year of conflict leveled an apartment building early Monday. It came after Israel hit targets across Lebanon and killed dozens of people."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Flooding deaths in Nepal approach 200 as recovery work is stepped up;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/g-s1-25389/nepal-floods-deaths-recovery;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:27:23 -0400",
        "text": "The number of people killed by flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rainfall over the weekend in Nepal has reached 193, while 31 people were still reported missing."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Austrian far-right party wins national vote but its chances of governing are unclear;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/g-s1-25385/austria-election-far-right;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:31:53 -0400",
        "text": "The Freedom Party on Sunday secured the first far-right national parliamentary election victory in post-World War II Austria. But political rivals have said they won\u2019t work with the party's leader."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;The death toll rises as rescue crews respond to Hurricane Helene's devastation;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/29/g-s1-25359/death-toll-hurricane-helene-asheville-tampa-augusta;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:35:41 -0400",
        "text": "Power was out for more than 2 million customers across the Southeast and southern Appalachia on Sunday. Residents in hard-hit western North Carolina and Georgia faced water outages."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;California Gov. Newsom vetoes AI safety bill that divided Silicon Valley;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5119792/newsom-ai-bill-california-sb1047-tech;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:18:59 -0400",
        "text": "The measure, known as SB 1047, was one of the nation\u2019s most far-reaching regulations on the booming AI industry. It would have held AI companies legally liable for harms caused by AI and enabled a \"kill switch\" if systems went rogue."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;From pager blasts to Nasrallah\u2019s killing: 12 days that transformed a bloody conflict;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/29/g-s1-25348/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-hassan-nasrallah-timeline;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:36:32 -0400",
        "text": "NPR steps back and takes a closer look at the days leading up to the killing of Hezbollah's leader. Experts say this development has transformed an already complex and deadly conflict."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;The Pentagon says it wants to prevent Iran from spreading the conflict in the Middle East;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/29/g-s1-25343/pentagon-iran-hezbollah-israel-middle-east;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 13:25:40 -0400",
        "text": "After Israel killed Hezbollah's leader, the U.S. says it wants to stop Iran from \"exploiting the situation or expanding the conflict.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Along Florida's Gulf Coast, residents are reeling from the effects of Hurricane Helene;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/29/nx-s1-5132116/in-south-florida-residents-are-reeling-from-the-effects-of-hurricane-helene;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 07:49:10 -0400",
        "text": "The scope of the damage Hurricane Helena caused is still not totally clear."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Has Russia\u2019s military improved enough to take on NATO?;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/30/has-russias-military-improved-enough-to-take-on-nato?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:33:50 +0000",
        "text": "Al Jazeera&#039;s defence editor on why Russia&#039;s army is unprepared for a conflict with NATO, a scenario Putin is warning of."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israeli air attack hits central Beirut;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/30/israeli-air-attack-hits-central-beirut?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:04:25 +0000",
        "text": "An Israeli air attack on an apartment in central Beirut on Sunday reportedly killed three members of a Palestinian group"
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Video: Aftermath of deadly flooding and landslides in Nepal;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/30/video-aftermath-of-deadly-flooding-and-landslides-in-nepal?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:38:44 +0000",
        "text": "Rescue teams have been looking for people stuck in their homes or under mud after floods and landslides in Nepal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Punish violent fans and the players inciting them: Atletico manager Simeone;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/30/punish-violent-fans-and-the-players-inciting-them-atletico-manager-simeone?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:33:13 +0000",
        "text": "Diego Simeone calls for action after the Spanish football league&#039;s Madrid derby was halted due to crowd trouble."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Modi\u2019s Kashmir statehood promise. Poll rhetoric or genuine outreach?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/modis-kashmir-statehood-promise-poll-rhetoric-or-genuine-outreach?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:15:36 +0000",
        "text": "Modi promises Kashmir statehood amid regional elections, but analysts doubt full autonomy will be restored."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;How secondhand clothes took Zimbabwe by storm \u2013 and hammered retail;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/30/how-secondhand-clothes-took-zimbabwe-by-storm-and-hammered-retail?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:14:11 +0000",
        "text": "The country\u2019s clothes manufacturers are taking a beating from imported \u2018preloved\u2019 clothes and a struggling economy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Nepal surveys damage after deadly floods kill at least 193 people;https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/30/nepal-surveys-the-damage-after-deadly-floods-killed-at-least-192-people?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0000",
        "text": "Recovery and rescue work has stepped up, with casualty numbers pushing towards 200."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Trump escalates personal attacks on rival, calls Harris \u2018mentally impaired\u2019;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/trump-escalates-personal-attacks-on-rival-calls-harris-mentally-impaired?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:27:37 +0000",
        "text": "Trump\u2019s rally in Pennsylvania took on similar themes as an event a day before that he described as a &#039;dark speech&#039;."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Hugely significant\u2019: Who\u2019s in the race to become UK Conservatives leader?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/hugely-significant-whos-in-the-race-to-become-uk-conservatives-leader?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:08:37 +0000",
        "text": "Four candidates hope to rule over the party that is trying to recover from an historic electoral blow. Who are they?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;US approves $567m in military support for Taiwan;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/us-approves-567m-in-military-support-for-taiwan?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:02:05 +0000",
        "text": "The support is the latest move by Washington to boost the island&#039;s military in the face of rising tensions with China."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;In the Philippines, costly marriage annulments spur calls to allow divorce;https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/30/in-the-philippines-costly-marriage-annulments-spur-calls-to-allow-divorce?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 04:41:24 +0000",
        "text": "Bill to legalise divorce offers hope to Filipino women currently relying on expensive and lengthy annulment process."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Earthquake\u2019: Austria\u2019s far-right Freedom Party wins election;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/earthquake-austrias-far-right-freedom-party-wins-election?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 04:04:50 +0000",
        "text": "The far right might struggle to form a coalition because most other parties have said they will not work with it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Can a war in the Middle East be averted?;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/9/30/can-a-war-in-the-middle-east-be-averted?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:24:04 +0000",
        "text": "The region braces for further attacks after Israel&#039;s killing of Hezbollah&#039;s leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israeli strike on central Beirut marks further escalation;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/israeli-attacks-kill-105-people-in-lebanon-as-war-escalates?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:13:56 +0000",
        "text": "The strike in the heart of Lebanon&#039;s capital for first time in years signals that Israel sees &#039;no red lines&#039;."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;What comes next for Hezbollah after Israel\u2019s assassination of Nasrallah?;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/29/what-comes-next-for-hezbollah-after-israels-assassination-of-nasrallah?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:55:04 +0000",
        "text": "Hassan Nasrallah\u2019s assassination has left a void in Hezbollah\u2019s leadership."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel likely used US-made bombs in Nasrallah assassination: Report;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/29/israel-likely-used-us-made-bombs-in-nasrallah-assassination-report?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 21:40:55 +0000",
        "text": "Washington Post reports the Israeli army possibly dropped heavy US bombs in the attack, which razed buildings in Beirut."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Who are the top 10 players to watch at the ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2024?;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/29/womens-t20-cricket-world-cup-2024-top-10-players-to-watch?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:47:57 +0000",
        "text": "From Smriti Mandhana to Abtaha Maqsood, Al Jazeera picks the 10 players who could light up the tournament in the UAE."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Former Netanyahu rival Gideon Saar joins Israeli cabinet;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/29/former-netanyahu-rival-gideon-saar-joins-israeli-cabinet?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:47:17 +0000",
        "text": "The move will boost the prime minister&#039;s governing coalition domestically as Israel attacks countries across the region."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;What\u2019s behind recent false claims about immigrants and crime in the US?;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/29/whats-behind-recent-false-claims-about-immigrants-and-crime-in-the-us?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:23:20 +0000",
        "text": "Studies show rhetoric about immigrants and crime is often exaggerated or false. So why do these false narratives spread?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018We lost a great supporter\u2019: Palestinians in Gaza mourn Hassan Nasrallah;https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/29/we-lost-a-great-supporter-palestinians-in-gaza-mourn-hassan-nasrallah?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:17:32 +0000",
        "text": "Displaced families in Deir el-Balah share feelings of heartbreak and numbness over the killing of the Hezbollah leader."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Hopes of finding 48 missing people fade after boat sinks off Canary Islands;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/29/hopes-of-finding-48-missing-people-fade-after-boat-sinks-off-canary-islands?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:01:27 +0000",
        "text": "At least nine people, including a child, have been confirmed dead and 27 rescued after shipwreck off the Spanish coast."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Austria\u2019s far-right Freedom Party projected to win election;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/29/austrias-far-right-freedom-party-projected-to-win-election?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:16:44 +0000",
        "text": "A victory for Herbert Kickl&#039;s party would make Austria the latest EU country to register surging far-right support."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Nepal closes schools as heavy rains bring country to standstill;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/29/nepal-closes-schools-as-heavy-rains-bring-country-to-standstill?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:10:24 +0000",
        "text": "Some 150 people killed and dozens missing after bad weather triggers floods and landslides."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Video: Global reactions to Hassan Nasrallah\u2019s killing;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/29/video-global-reactions-to-hassan-nasrallahs-killing?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:08:50 +0000",
        "text": "Israel\u2019s killing of Hassan Nasrallah has prompted reactions across the region."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israeli army launches air raids on Yemen\u2019s Ras Isa and Hodeidah;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/29/israeli-army-launches-air-raids-on-yemens-ras-isa-and-hodeidah?traffic_source=rss;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:59:31 +0000",
        "text": "Attacks on western Yemen come a day after Houthis say they fired a missile at airport near Tel Aviv."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Young Lebanese girl left fighting for life after Israeli strikes;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c781m43rzymo;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:52:17 GMT",
        "text": "Noor Mossawi, aged six, is one of a number of people in critical condition in a hospital in eastern Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;McDonald\u2019s and big supermarkets failed to spot slavery, BBC finds;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kdg84zj4wo;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:03:41 GMT",
        "text": "Red flags went undetected as victims worked at a restaurant and a supermarket supplier, BBC finds."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Far right in Austria 'opens new era' with election victory;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rdygy5888o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:19:46 GMT",
        "text": "The Freedom Party wins its first election, but building a coalition will be difficult."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Cruise ship passengers set sail after being held up for four months in Belfast;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4y7q2dyndo;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 21:16:13 GMT",
        "text": "Passengers of the Villa Vie Residences cruise ship spent their last day in Belfast on a beer bike tour of the city."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Thirty killed in one county after hurricane swamps North Carolina;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly5d9y07e3o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 04:53:53 GMT",
        "text": "At least 105 people have died nationwide, as officials airdrop supplies to devastated areas of the US south-east."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;TV menopause doctor's clinics probed by watchdog over 'information of concern';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8e5y4e83lo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:15:11 GMT",
        "text": "Doctors and patients question the prescribing of high HRT doses by Dr Louise Newson and her clinics."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Drop in UK flu shots warning ahead of winter;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62d8r0nnl6o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:15:41 GMT",
        "text": "Fewer people got shots last year and if that repeats the UK could be in for a worse winter, experts warn."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;SpaceX docks at ISS to collect stranded astronauts;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clylvz1ppdmo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:43:07 GMT",
        "text": "The craft will return Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams - stranded since June - to Earth."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;House price growth at near two-year high;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9dx5y4vro;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:44:13 GMT",
        "text": "Prices in September were up 3.2% from a year ago, with terraced homes driving the rise, says Nationwide."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Pregnant British woman's 'guilt' over fleeing Lebanon;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y8emq35y1o;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:14:42 GMT",
        "text": "Alla Ghalayini, who arrived in London on Sunday, says she can \"still hear the bombs\" from Israeli air strikes."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;How sailors say they were tricked into smuggling cocaine by a British man;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9j2nlgezvo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 02:30:23 GMT",
        "text": "The BBC sets out to find the man allegedly behind a plot to smuggle 1.2 tonnes of cocaine to Europe."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Kris is still saving lives,' says twin of late breast cancer campaigner;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98ypw8l8yyo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 02:14:59 GMT",
        "text": "Maren Hallenga says her sister Kris - founder of charity Coppafeel - was a \"beacon of hope\" for many people."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;The Papers: 'Israel steps up attacks' and Badenoch 'sparks maternity pay row';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw5yyjx75po;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:35:36 GMT",
        "text": "Monday's front pages are dominated by reports of Israel's air strikes on Yemen and its offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Lots and lots of sex': Dame Jilly Cooper on her show Rivals;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07e3j3ny44o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:16:09 GMT",
        "text": "The author's 1980s \"bonkbuster\" has been turned into a star-studded new series."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Pictures capturing the final days of steelmaking in Port Talbot;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9d1j2eergo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:36:54 GMT",
        "text": "Photographers have documented the impact of the closure of the second blast furnace at Tata Steel."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Can I fix my energy tariff as gas and electricity prices rise?;https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58090533;Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:11:23 GMT",
        "text": "Typical gas and electricity prices are rising by 10% in England, Scotland and Wales on 1 October."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Does Chinese investment benefit or damage Ireland?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9je2wnveko;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:19:06 GMT",
        "text": "Ireland is home to 40 Chinese firms, which some critics say harms the country's reputation."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Switzerland and Italy redraw border due to melting glaciers;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk7r0rrdnmo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:32:01 GMT",
        "text": "Glacier ridgelines marking the border near the Matterhorn mountain are shifting as ice continues to melt."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;BTS star Suga given \u00a38,600 fine for drink-driving on e-scooter;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9p3vl8q3no;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 04:20:28 GMT",
        "text": "Police caught Suga driving his electric scooter while intoxicated near his home in Seoul."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;UK economy grew less than thought in spring;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8djelgl6y8o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:50:29 GMT",
        "text": "The downward revision in growth between April and June comes ahead of next month's Budget."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Special' singer and actor Kris Kristofferson dies;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwd69n7xxgo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:10:27 GMT",
        "text": "Friends and co-stars including Barbra Streisand and Dolly Parton pay tribute to Kris Kristofferson."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Biden was right to stand aside in critical election, Hillary Clinton says;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y9lg50gndo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:32:06 GMT",
        "text": "The former presidential hopeful tells the BBC \"the future of democracy is at stake\" in November's vote."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;First celebrity leaves this year's Strictly after dance-off - who was it?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz6k60614o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:31:24 GMT",
        "text": "Two contestants faced the first dreaded dance-off in front of the judges to decide their fate."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Zookeeper mauled to death by lion in Nigeria;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3e9zv1ypxko;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:50:33 GMT",
        "text": "The man, 35, reportedly agreed to show some visitors the lion's feeding routine after hours."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Labour Lads, Tory Tussles and the Middle East;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jtjnsy;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 12:23:00 GMT",
        "text": "Does the government have a \u2018lads\u2019 problem?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Man Utd boss Ten Hag 'not thinking' about losing job;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c2eknvm8jj1o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:56:45 GMT",
        "text": "Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag says he is \"not thinking\" about the club's owners opting for a change of manager following a 3-0 defeat by Tottenham."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Ireland stun world champions New Zealand in WXV1;https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/cly5d65n122o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:00:37 GMT",
        "text": "Ireland secure a sensational last-gasp 29-27 win over world champions New Zealand in their opening match of the WXV1 tournament in Vancouver."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'This felt like the end for Ten Hag - if not now, very soon';https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cwy90e2dpkgo;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:35:55 GMT",
        "text": "How can Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag survive the humiliation of an Old Trafford thrashing by Spurs?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'No idea if I would play' - how Kartal's success followed health scare;https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/articles/clylg4y2987o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:29:12 GMT",
        "text": "Sonay Kartal feared she would not play again in 2024 because of a health issue. Now she is celebrating the best season of her life."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Boy, 8, dies after being shot in the head at farm;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2y7wyx56o;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 21:00:21 GMT",
        "text": "A man aged in his 60s is arrested after police respond to reports of a child suffering serious firearm injuries at a farm."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sinn F\u00e9in press officers resign over McMonagle references;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj9mvv1z0mo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:00:53 GMT",
        "text": "Se\u00e1n Mag Uidhir and Caol\u00e1n McGinley had given references for a former colleague who was later convicted of sex offences."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Minimum price of alcohol in Scotland rises by 30%;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2d2kdgzeo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:19:20 GMT",
        "text": "A typical 12.5% bottle of wine cannot be sold for less than \u00a36.09 and a bottle of vodka will be \u00a317.06."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Traditional steelmaking ends in Port Talbot;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70zxjldqnxo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:30:06 GMT",
        "text": "The Tata steelworks will stop producing liquid iron as part of a restructure costing 2,800 jobs."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le passage pol\u00e9mique du boulevard p\u00e9riph\u00e9rique parisien \u00e0 50 km/h \u00e0 partir du 1er octobre;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/30/le-passage-polemique-du-boulevard-peripherique-a-50-km-h_6339312_3234.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:00:01 +0200",
        "text": "La mise en place, mardi, sera progressive, d\u2019ici au 10\u00a0octobre. Deux sujets sont au c\u0153ur du dossier\u00a0: diminuer la vitesse et la voie r\u00e9serv\u00e9e au covoiturage. Avec un d\u00e9bat juridique loin d\u2019\u00eatre simple, au vu de l\u2019imbroglio de textes qui r\u00e9gissent le statut des voies parisiennes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct\u00a0: Isra\u00ebl a frapp\u00e9 le centre de Beyrouth dans la nuit\u00a0; le chef du Hamas au Liban a \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9 dans le sud du pays;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/30/en-direct-guerre-au-proche-orient-quatre-morts-dans-une-frappe-israelienne-au-c-ur-de-beyrouth-trois-membres-du-front-de-liberation-de-la-palestine-tues_6321740_3210.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:34:57 +0200",
        "text": "C\u2019est la premi\u00e8re fois que la capitale libanaise est directement vis\u00e9e par l\u2019Etat h\u00e9breu depuis l\u2019attaque du Hamas contre Isra\u00ebl le 7 octobre 2023. Les bombardements des jours pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents avaient cibl\u00e9 la banlieue sud de la ville."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: Ya\u00ebl Braun-Pivet se dit \u00ab\u00a0assez inqui\u00e8te\u00a0\u00bb apr\u00e8s les propos de Bruno Retailleau sur l\u2019immigration et l\u2019Etat de droit;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/30/en-direct-gouvernement-barnier-les-propos-de-bruno-retailleau-en-faveur-d-un-referendum-sur-l-immigration-denonces-par-la-gauche-et-salues-par-le-rn_6325006_823448.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:52:18 +0200",
        "text": "Le nouveau ministre de l\u2019int\u00e9rieur a dit, dimanche, son \u00ab\u00a0regret\u00a0\u00bb qu\u2019on ne puisse pas faire de r\u00e9f\u00e9rendum sur l\u2019immigration en France \u00ab\u00a0pour des raisons constitutionnelles\u00a0\u00bb, promouvant une initiative r\u00e9clam\u00e9e par une partie de la droite et par le Rassemblement national."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le gouverneur de Californie met son veto \u00e0 la loi sur la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 de l\u2019IA;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/30/le-gouverneur-de-californie-met-son-veto-a-la-loi-sur-la-securite-de-l-ia_6339529_3234.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:35:56 +0200",
        "text": "Le texte rendait les entreprises d\u2019intelligence artificielle l\u00e9galement responsables des dommages caus\u00e9s par leurs mod\u00e8les."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en Ukraine\u00a0: la Russie lance plusieurs attaques aux drones contre Kiev, selon l\u2019arm\u00e9e ukrainienne;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/30/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-la-russie-lance-plusieurs-attaques-aux-drones-contre-kiev-selon-l-armee-ukrainienne_6337411_3210.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:32:49 +0200",
        "text": "Les syst\u00e8mes de d\u00e9fense a\u00e9rienne ont \u00e9t\u00e9 activ\u00e9s pendant plusieurs heures pour repousser ces frappes, a par ailleurs d\u00e9clar\u00e9 l\u2019arm\u00e9e ukrainienne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au N\u00e9pal, le bilan des inondations monte \u00e0 192\u00a0morts;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/30/au-nepal-le-bilan-des-inondations-monte-a-192-morts_6339429_3244.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:48:32 +0200",
        "text": "Plusieurs quartiers de la capitale, Katmandou, sont sous les eaux apr\u00e8s des pluies diluviennes. Trente et une personnes sont port\u00e9es disparues."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Kris Kristofferson, star de la country et acteur, est mort \u00e0 88\u00a0ans;https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/09/30/kris-kristofferson-star-de-la-country-et-acteur-est-mort-a-88-ans_6339428_3382.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:30:59 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019Am\u00e9ricain, dont les chansons ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Johnny Cash ou Janice Joplin, avait jou\u00e9 aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de Barbra Streisand dans \u00ab\u00a0Une \u00e9toile est n\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Kenya, apprendre le mandarin pour trouver un emploi\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Google Translate ne fait pas tout\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/09/30/au-kenya-apprendre-le-mandarin-pour-trouver-un-emploi-google-translate-ne-fait-pas-tout_6339427_3212.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:30:07 +0200",
        "text": "Alors que la pr\u00e9sence chinoise ne cesse de progresser dans le pays, les jeunes K\u00e9nyans sont de plus en plus nombreux \u00e0 suivre des cours afin de pouvoir travailler dans le tourisme, le commerce ou les technologies de l\u2019information."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Coupe de monde de futsal\u00a0: K\u00e9vin Ramirez, capitaine exp\u00e9riment\u00e9 des Bleus;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/30/coupe-de-monde-de-futsal-kevin-ramirez-capitaine-experimente-des-bleus_6339392_3242.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:00:24 +0200",
        "text": "Le footballeur, qui a jou\u00e9 en Espagne, en Angleterre, en Azerba\u00efdjan, en R\u00e9publique tch\u00e8que, en Inde ou encore en Italie, visera, lundi avec les l\u2019\u00e9quipe de France, face au Paraguay, une place en demi-finales."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le vol de SpaceX charg\u00e9 de ramener les deux astronautes coinc\u00e9s dans l\u2019espace a \u00e9t\u00e9 amarr\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019ISS;https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/09/30/le-vol-de-spacex-charge-de-ramener-les-deux-astronautes-coinces-dans-l-espace-a-ete-amarre-a-l-iss_6339383_1650684.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:49:37 +0200",
        "text": "La fus\u00e9e Falcon\u00a09, transportant un vaisseau Dragon, avait d\u00e9coll\u00e9 samedi apr\u00e8s-midi de Cap Canaveral, en Floride. Le retour sur Terre est pr\u00e9vu en f\u00e9vrier."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Assistants des eurod\u00e9put\u00e9s FN\u00a0: le proc\u00e8s d\u2019un syst\u00e8me organis\u00e9 au service des finances du parti frontiste;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/30/assistants-des-eurodeputes-fn-le-proces-d-un-systeme-organise-au-service-des-finances-du-parti-frontiste_6339381_3224.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:39:53 +0200",
        "text": "De Marine Le Pen \u00e0 Nicolas Bay, des figures du parti d\u2019extr\u00eame droite, devenu depuis le RN, d\u00e9fileront \u00e0 partir de lundi et jusqu\u2019au 27\u00a0novembre sur les bancs des pr\u00e9venus au tribunal de Paris."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ouragan H\u00e9l\u00e8ne aux Etats-Unis\u00a0: le bilan s\u2019\u00e9l\u00e8ve d\u00e9sormais \u00e0 93\u00a0morts, les recherches de disparus se\u00a0poursuivent;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/30/ouragan-helene-aux-etats-unis-le-bilan-s-eleve-desormais-a-91-morts-les-recherches-de-disparus-se-poursuivent_6339276_3244.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 02:17:30 +0200",
        "text": "La Caroline du Nord est l\u2019Etat le plus touch\u00e9, avec trente-sept personnes tu\u00e9es par les intemp\u00e9ries. Pr\u00e8s de 2,5\u00a0millions de foyers sont toujours priv\u00e9s d\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 dans le sud-est du pays."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ligue\u00a01\u00a0: l\u2019OM s\u2019incline pour la premi\u00e8re fois de la saison, face \u00e0 Strasbourg, malgr\u00e9 l\u2019arriv\u00e9e de Rabiot;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/29/ligue-1-l-om-s-incline-pour-la-premiere-fois-de-la-saison-face-a-strasbourg-malgre-l-arrivee-de-rabiot_6339210_3242.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:54:38 +0200",
        "text": "Apr\u00e8s une premi\u00e8re p\u00e9riode largement domin\u00e9e par les Strasbourgeois, les Marseillais se sont montr\u00e9s plus dangereux ensuite, avec notamment l\u2019entr\u00e9e en jeu de l\u2019international fran\u00e7ais. Mais le Racing a tenu son avantage au score jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la fin (1-0)."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au Mexique, l\u2019ouragan John a fait au moins 16 morts;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/29/au-mexique-l-ouragan-john-a-fait-au-moins-16-morts_6339111_3244.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 21:47:35 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019ouragan a touch\u00e9 terre mardi en ouragan de force 3, provoquant de fortes pluies dans trois Etats (Guerrero, Oaxaca et Michoacan)."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En Autriche, l\u2019extr\u00eame droite remporte une victoire historique, sans garantie de pouvoir gouverner;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/29/en-autriche-le-fpo-extreme-droite-arrive-en-tete-des-legislatives-avec-29-1-des-suffrages-selon-les-premieres-projections_6338904_3210.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:30:14 +0200",
        "text": "Le Parti de la libert\u00e9 d\u2019Autriche (FP\u00d6, 29,1\u00a0%) devance les conservateurs du chancelier Karl Nehammer (26,3\u00a0%), selon les projections de la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision publique. \u00ab\u00a0Nous ne sommes pas parvenus \u00e0 rattraper\u00a0\u00bb l\u2019extr\u00eame droite, a regrett\u00e9 le chancelier, qui pourrait tout de m\u00eame se maintenir au pouvoir."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le pape Fran\u00e7ois relance les pol\u00e9miques sur l\u2019avortement en Belgique;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/29/le-pape-francois-relance-les-polemiques-sur-l-avortement-en-belgique_6339009_3210.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:08:31 +0200",
        "text": "Au dernier jour de sa visite, le souverain pontifie a annonc\u00e9 sa volont\u00e9 de faire b\u00e9atifier le d\u00e9funt roi Baudouin, adversaire r\u00e9solu de l\u2019IVG."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les cinq infos \u00e0 retenir du week-end\u00a0: les pistes fiscales de Matignon, l\u2019assassinat de Hassan Nasrallah\u2026;https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2024/09/29/assassinat-de-hassan-nasrallah-les-pistes-de-matignon-sur-l-impot-bilan-de-l-ouragan-helene-les-cinq-infos-a-retenir-du-week-end_6339007_4355770.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:00:16 +0200",
        "text": "Vous n\u2019avez pas suivi l\u2019actualit\u00e9, samedi\u00a028\u00a0et dimanche 29\u00a0septembre\u00a0? Voici ce qu\u2019il s\u2019est pass\u00e9 ces derni\u00e8res quarante-huit heures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Quelle strat\u00e9gie pour Marine Le Pen lors de son proc\u00e8s pour d\u00e9tournement de fonds publics;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/29/assistants-parlementaires-europeens-du-fn-marine-le-pen-mise-sur-une-defense-plus-politique-que-juridique_6338901_823448.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:00:05 +0200",
        "text": "Dans l\u2019affaire des assistants parlementaires europ\u00e9ens du Front national, Marine Le Pen, qui risque l\u2019in\u00e9ligibilit\u00e9, mise sur une d\u00e9fense plus politique que juridique."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au N\u00e9pal, le bilan des pluies diluviennes monte \u00e0 170\u00a0morts et 42\u00a0port\u00e9s disparus;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/29/au-nepal-le-bilan-des-pluies-diluviennes-monte-a-148-morts-et-59-portes-disparus_6338293_3245.html;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:12:00 +0200",
        "text": "La vall\u00e9e de Katmandou a \u00e9t\u00e9 touch\u00e9e par des inondations et des glissements de terrain. Il s\u2019agit des plus fortes pr\u00e9cipitations enregistr\u00e9es dans la capitale depuis les ann\u00e9es 1970."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Govt extends deadline for filing Income Tax audit report to October 7;https://www.thehindu.com/business/govt-extends-deadline-for-filing-income-tax-audit-report-to-october-7/article68700564.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:28:59 +0530",
        "text": "The I-T Department said that due to the difficulties faced by taxpayers in electronic filing of audit reports, the deadline is being extended from September 30, 2024 to October 7, 2024"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Pakistani national, family arrested at Jigani in Bengaluru with fake identify documents;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/pakistani-national-family-arrested-at-jigani-in-bengaluru/article68700442.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:18:25 +0530",
        "text": "Preliminary inquiry revealed that the wife is from Bangladesh. The Pakistani national met her in Dhaka and got married to her"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Who were the seven high-ranking Hezbollah officials killed over the past week?;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/who-were-the-seven-high-ranking-hezbollah-officials-killed-over-the-past-week/article68700559.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:16:51 +0530",
        "text": "Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill top Hezbollah officials, including leader Hassan Nasrallah, escalating conflict in the Middle East"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two arrested in CNMC doctor assault case: Police;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/two-arrested-in-cnmc-doctor-assault-case-police/article68700690.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:15:38 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Iran will not leave Israel's 'criminal acts' unanswered, says foreign ministry;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/iran-will-not-leave-israels-criminal-acts-unanswered-says-foreign-ministry/article68700662.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:14:31 +0530",
        "text": "Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani was referring to the killing of Iranian Guard deputy commander  by Israel Army in Beirut"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Don\u2019t land in trouble by trying to please your political, executive bosses: Justice K. Lakshman tells HYDRAA, Ameenpur tahasildar;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/dont-land-in-trouble-by-trying-to-please-your-political-executive-bosses-justice-k-lakshman-tells-hydraa-ameenpur-tahasildar/article68700592.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:13:36 +0530",
        "text": "After hearing to the explanation of both the officials, the judge directed them to file counter affidavits by October 17"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hyderabad | The show Peer Parayi Jaane Re celebrates the Mahatma through poetry and music;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/hamari-urdu-mohabbat-hum-to-present-a-musical-narrative-peer-parayi-jaane-re-on-the-life-of-mahatma-gandhi/article68693868.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:08:31 +0530",
        "text": "Ahead of Gandhi Jayanti on October 2,  Hamari Urdu Mohabbat (HUM) presents a musical narrative on the life of Gandhi"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Supreme Court grants interim protection from arrest to Malayalam actor Siddique in sexual assault case;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/supreme-court-grants-interim-protection-from-arrest-to-malayalam-actor-siddique-in-sexual-assault-case/article68700611.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:58:18 +0530",
        "text": "Siddique approached Supreme Court for anticipatory bail in case related to sexual assault of a woman actor after he was denied bail by Kerala High Court"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Malayalam cinema make-up artiste booked for sexual assault;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/malayalam-cinema-make-up-artiste-booked-for-sexual-assault/article68700625.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:55:55 +0530",
        "text": "Professional make-up artiste Saji Koratty was booked based on a statement given by a woman professional before Kerala government-appointed Justice K. Hema Committee"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Priority to be given for normal devotees during Dasara Festivities;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/priority-to-be-given-for-normal-devotees-during-dasara-festivities/article68698176.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:50:02 +0530",
        "text": "Police to impose traffic diversions, special App proposed to provide darshan for VVIPs, says Police Commissioner S.V. Rajashekar Babu"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;NDRF personnel saved 381 lives, evacuated 20,575 persons in recent Vijayawada floods, says Commandant;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/ndrf-personnel-saved-381-lives-evacuated-20575-persons-in-recent-vijayawada-floods-says-commandant/article68694806.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:46:10 +0530",
        "text": "26 teams from Andhra Pradesh and five other States participated in the relief and rescue operations"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;No infighting in BJP; confident of forming government for third time: Haryana CM Nayab Saini;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/haryana/no-infighting-in-bjp-confident-of-forming-government-for-third-time-haryana-cm-nayab-saini/article68700524.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:39:10 +0530",
        "text": "CM Saini also attacked Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi ahead of the second leg of the Congress leader's \"Haryana Sankalp Yatra\", terming it as \"political tourism\""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Complete lack of interest\u2019 about Delhi\u2019s green cover: Supreme Court on Forest Department;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/complete-lack-of-interest-about-delhis-green-cover-supreme-court-on-forest-department/article68700541.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:38:54 +0530",
        "text": "Justice Oka said increasing the green cover of the capital was for the sake of the people of the national capital"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Motorcycle-borne Delhi constable on patrol mowed to death, one held;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/motorcycle-borne-delhi-constable-on-patrol-mowed-to-death-one-held/article68700528.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:33:18 +0530",
        "text": "The FIR mentions constable Sandeep Malik allegedly stopped two occupants of a car from drinking alcohol inside the vehicle"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Japan\u2019s likely next leader Ishiba says he will call election for October 27;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/japans-likely-next-leader-ishiba-says-he-will-call-election-for-october-27/article68700538.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:32:51 +0530",
        "text": "Shigeru Ishiba, the head of Japan\u2019s governing party, says he plans to call a parliamentary election on October 27 after he is formally elected as prime minister on Tuesday"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Search operations in Kathua, Rajouri extended to fresh areas;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/search-operations-in-kathua-rajouri-extended-to-fresh-areas/article68700483.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:32:11 +0530",
        "text": "At least three more foreign terrorists of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) are believed to be hiding in the forest belt"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Punjab police arrest two cyber criminals for duping Vardhman Group chairman S.P. Oswal of \u20b97 crore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/punjab/punjab-police-arrest-two-cyber-criminals-for-duping-vardhman-group-chairman-sp-oswal-of-7-crore/article68700367.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:16:13 +0530",
        "text": "The fraudsters cheated the Vardhman Group owner Mr. Oswal by getting \u20b97 crore withdrawn from various bank accounts belonging to the industrialist"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Britain to become first G7 country to end coal power as last plant closes;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/britain-to-become-first-g7-country-to-end-coal-power-as-last-plant-closes/article68700536.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:14:57 +0530",
        "text": "This is in line with the U.K. long term plan as part of wider measures to reach its climate targets"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Untouchability wall\u2019 separating plots from cremation yard used by SCs razed near Sivakasi in T.N.;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/untouchability-wall-separating-housing-layout-from-cremation-yard-used-by-dalits-razed-near-sivakasi-in-tn/article68700403.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:07:24 +0530",
        "text": "The Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front had called for a protest against the wall, contending it was an \u201cuntouchability wall\u201d constructed by a real-estate promoter on poramboke land"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;FIR filed against Samajwadi Party leader for abducting woman in Uttar Pradesh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttar-pradesh/fir-filed-against-samajwadi-party-leader-for-abducting-woman-in-uttar-pradesh/article68700470.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:07:13 +0530",
        "text": "According to the FIR, the woman visited the house of the SP leader, Shambhu Nath Yadav, on September 25 and has been missing since then."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Manipur DGP asked to secure release of two kidnapped youths: Manipur CM;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/manipur/manipur-dgp-asked-to-secure-release-of-two-kidnapped-youths-manipur-cm/article68700390.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:05:16 +0530",
        "text": "Three youths were allegedly abducted by militants in Kangpokpi district three days ago"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.P. Man held with counterfeit notes at Lucknow railway station;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttar-pradesh/up-man-held-with-counterfeit-notes-at-lucknow-railway-station/article68700463.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:03:37 +0530",
        "text": "The police recovered a total of 394 counterfeit notes, each with a face value of \u20b9500, amounting to \u20b91,97,000"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala Film Chamber of Commerce opposes workplace harassment complaints helpline initiated by FEFKA;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-film-chamber-of-commerce-opposes-workplace-harassment-complaints-helpline-initiated-by-fefka/article68700422.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:03:29 +0530",
        "text": "KFCC says FEFKA lacks legal standing to offer such a helpline number as complaints related to workplace harassment have to be reported before internal complaints committee set up in each film location"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Alluri district constable, home guards assaulted by ice cream vendor in Visakhapatnam;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/alluri-district-constable-home-guards-assaulted-by-ice-cream-vendor-in-visakhapatnam/article68700253.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:02:24 +0530",
        "text": "The incident took place when the three police department personnel reportedly objected to selling ice cream above the Maximum Retail Price"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two killed, one injured as lorry overturned in Krishna district;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/two-killed-one-injured-as-lorry-overturned-in-krishna-district/article68700396.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:54:45 +0530",
        "text": "The injured was admitted to Government Headquarters Hospital, Machilipatnam, says Avanigadda DSP, P. Muralidhar"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Maratha quota: Manoj Jarange plans show of unity at Dussehra rally in Beed;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/maratha-quota-manoj-jarange-plans-show-of-unity-at-dussehra-rally-in-beed/article68700380.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:42:34 +0530",
        "text": "Activist Manoj Jarange Patil also said he will speak at the rally but there will be no politics at the event"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;District Selection Committee (DSC) 2024 results released; CM says appointment orders will be given before Dasara;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/district-selection-committee-dsc-2024-results-released-by-telangana-cm/article68700410.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:28:51 +0530",
        "text": "The last successful DSC process took place in 2017-18 which filled 8,792 teacher posts."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Emergency filmmakers inform Bombay HC of reaching settlement with CBFC;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/emergency-filmmakers-inform-bombay-hc-of-reaching-settlement-with-cbfc/article68700316.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:24:04 +0530",
        "text": "CBFC told the Bombay High Court\u00a0Emergency\u00a0will get a certificate only after the makers of the film make required cuts as suggested by the Revising Committee"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mahindra Thar Roxx: All-round, rugged appeal;https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/motoring/mahindra-thar-roxx-all-round-rugged-appeal/article68693936.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:12:07 +0530",
        "text": "Building on the Thar brand is the all-new, five-door version christened the Thar Roxx, but that is where the similarity with the three-door ends"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Madhya Pradesh Government to recruit 30,000 health workers soon to boost medical services: Deputy CM Rajendra Shukla;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/madhya-pradesh/madhya-pradesh-government-to-recruit-30000-health-workers-soon-to-boost-medical-services-deputy-cm-rajendra-shukla/article68700283.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:10:16 +0530",
        "text": "\u201cOnce a sufficient number of doctors and paramedical staff are available, the arrangements in the district hospitals as well as community and primary health centres will improve,\u201d Madhya Pradesh\u00a0Deputy CM Shukla said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kolkata doctor rape-murder case LIVE: SC to shortly resume hearing suo motu plea;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/kolkata-rape-murder-case-supreme-court-hearing-live-updates-september-30/article68700267.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:05:40 +0530",
        "text": "The West Bengal Junior Doctors\u2019 Front has threatened to cease work over the assault on health staff at state-run Sagore Dutta Hospital in North 24 Parganas"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mysuru team wins State-level sports championship for hearing impaired;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/mysuru-team-wins-state-level-sports-championship-for-hearing-impaired/article68698540.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:52:27 +0530",
        "text": "The 3-day event was held in Bagalkot"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;No \u2018spin-doctoring\u2019 can change fact that 2014-24 saw \u2018jobloss growth\u2019: Congress slams Centre;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/no-spin-doctoring-can-change-fact-that-2014-24-saw-jobless-growth-congress-slams-centre/article68700172.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:52:23 +0530",
        "text": "Congress General Secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh dismissed the government's claims on creating eight crore employment opportunities between 2021 and 2024 and 6.2 crore net subscribers joining the EPFO database"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jaishankar reaches Washington DC, to meet Blinken;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jaishankar-reaches-washington-dc-to-meet-blinken/article68700239.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:51:17 +0530",
        "text": "Apart from meeting U.S. Secretary of State Blinken, the External Affairs Minister is also scheduled to interact with the think-tank community"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;EY employee\u2019s death: Anna wanted to work for UN and WHO, she wanted to explore the world, says her mother;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/ey-employees-death-anna-wanted-to-work-for-un-and-who-she-wanted-to-explore-the-world-says-her-mother/article68700257.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:50:12 +0530",
        "text": "Anna was allegedly glued to her laptop and clocking in hours to serve the client requirements, the over-exerted youngster did this in the hope of a better future"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Flood situation in Bihar worsens as embankments of Kosi, Bagmati rivers breached;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/flood-situation-in-bihar-worsens-as-embankments-of-kosi-bagmati-rivers-breached/article68700252.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:48:30 +0530",
        "text": "The embankment of the Bagmati River at Madhkaul village in Sitamarhi and the Gandak river's embankment in West Champaran were damaged due to excessive water pressure, resulting in inundation in the Valmiki Tiger Reserve"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Family of five finds dead lizard in biryani at Chennai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/family-of-five-finds-dead-lizard-in-biryani-suffers-from-food-poisoning-in-chennai/article68700091.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:47:14 +0530",
        "text": "Shortly after consuming the biryani, all five of them began vomiting, the police said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nasrallah's body found: source close to Hezbollah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/nasrallahs-body-found-source-close-to-hezbollah/article68700157.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:44:24 +0530",
        "text": "Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah\u2019s body recovered after Israeli air strike in Beirut and his funeral arrangements have not yet been arranged"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.S. President Joe Biden approves $567 mn defence assistance to Taiwan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-president-joe-biden-approves-567-mn-defence-assistance-to-taiwan/article68700182.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:38:50 +0530",
        "text": "The United States in April this year approved billions in military aid for Taiwan in the face of an increasingly assertive China"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Coldplay concert ticket case: BookMyShow CEO, technical head summoned again today;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/coldplay-concert-ticket-case-bookmyshow-ceo-technical-head-summoned-again-today/article68700167.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:29:51 +0530",
        "text": "The investigation was initiated following a complaint filed by Advocate Amit Vyas accusing the ticketing platform of facilitating the black marketing of tickets for the highly anticipated concert"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delay in completion of dredging work on Mattancherry Jetty premises irks passengers;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/delay-in-completion-of-dredging-work-on-mattancherry-jetty-premises-irks-passengers/article68698719.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:20:03 +0530",
        "text": "West Kochi Passengers\u2019 Association petitions CMO seeking Chief Minister\u2019s intervention in the issue; the delay affects plans to resume ferry service to the thickly-populated region"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Vietnam to free nearly 3,800 prisoners in amnesty;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/vietnam-to-free-nearly-3800-prisoners-in-amnesty/article68700171.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:16:49 +0530",
        "text": "The detainees to be released include around 20 foreigners from Cambodia, China, Iceland, India, Laos, South Africa and the United States"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israel targets Palestinian group in first strike on Beirut centre;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-targets-palestinian-group-in-first-strike-on-beirut-centre/article68700100.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:16:34 +0530",
        "text": "The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a secular left-wing group, said three of its members were killed in strike on Beirut's Kola district"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mallikarjun Kharge's comments on PM Modi absolutely distasteful, disgraceful: Amit Shah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/mallikarjun-kharges-comments-on-pm-modi-absolutely-distasteful-disgraceful-amit-shah/article68700139.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:11:29 +0530",
        "text": "\"As for the health of Kharge Ji, Modi Ji prays, I pray and we all pray that he lives a long, healthy life. May he continue to live for many years and may he live to see the creation of a Viksit Bharat by 2047,\" Amit Shah said"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Madras High Court CJ administers oath of office to Justice Shamim Ahmed;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/madras-high-court-chief-justice-administers-oath-of-office-to-justice-shamim-ahmed/article68700098.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:07:10 +0530",
        "text": "He has been transferred to the Madras High Court from Allahabad High Court"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Stuck NASA astronauts welcome SpaceX capsule that\u2019ll bring them home next year;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/stuck-nasa-astronauts-welcome-spacex-capsule-thatll-bring-them-home-next-year/article68700089.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:59:55 +0530",
        "text": "The two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station since June are welcoming their new ride home"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;'Pothole-free Delhi': CM Atishi, ministers inspect roads;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/pothole-free-delhi-cm-atishi-ministers-inspect-roads/article68700102.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:57:20 +0530",
        "text": "The Chief Minister directed the officials to start the repair work on a war footing and said \u2018under the guidance of Arvind Kejriwal, it is our endeavour that all Delhiites get pothole-free roads by Diwali\u2019"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Trump urges 'violent' police crackdown as Harris campaigns in Nevada;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/trump-urges-violent-police-crackdown-as-harris-campaigns-in-nevada/article68700047.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:57:17 +0530",
        "text": "Donald Trump calls for \u2018violent\u2019 police crackdown on crime, while Kamala Harris emphasises immigration reform in key battleground states"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Custard apple flooding markets in Yadgir and Shorapur;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/custard-apple-flooding-markets-in-yadgir-and-shorapur/article68697610.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:53:44 +0530",
        "text": "Custard apple trees grow in hilly areas. They yield fruits during August to November"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Rajiv Rahadari property owners urge government to reduce proposed road widening;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/rajiv-rahadari-property-owners-urge-government-to-reduce-proposed-road-widening/article68698025.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:52:33 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mominul strikes patient century, India reduce Bangladesh to 205/6;https://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/india-bangladesh-kanpur-test-updates/article68700065.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:28:45 +0530",
        "text": "Bangladesh were 107-3 in their first innings when the fourth day began under clear skies in Kanpur"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Nepal flood deaths reach 193, recovery work stepped up;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/death-toll-in-flood-and-landslide-affected-nepal/article68700028.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:28:39 +0530",
        "text": "Rescuers in Nepal have recovered dozens of bodies from buses and other vehicles that were buried in landslides near the capital Kathmandu as the death toll from flooding rose to at least 148 with dozens missing"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Everything is being taken to Gujarat\u2019: Uddhav Thackeray slams Maharashtra CM Shinde on losing big projects;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/everything-is-being-taken-to-gujarat-uddhav-thackeray-slams-maharashtra-cm-shinde-on-losing-big-projects/article68699996.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:19:43 +0530",
        "text": "Former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray criticises CM Eknath Shinde for industrial projects moving to Gujarat and also for the Shivaji statue collapse"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Ahead of Navarathri, dolls take centre stage;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/ahead-of-navarathri-dolls-take-centre-stage/article68700005.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:17:14 +0530",
        "text": "Here is some help on putting together a stellar kolu display"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Probe underway after fire incident at Tata plant making components for Apple iPhones;https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/india-to-probe-fire-at-tata-plant-making-components-for-apple-iphones/article68699958.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:47:40 +0530",
        "text": "A massive fire broke out at the\u00a0Tata Electronics facility\u00a0at Nagamangalam in Denkanikottai, Krishnagiri district, in the early hours of September 28"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;A scientist\u2019s passion for tech transfer gets him national recognition;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/a-scientists-passion-for-tech-transfer-gets-him-national-recognition/article68698316.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:45:47 +0530",
        "text": "IIT Madras professor Prabhu Rajagopal is well known in several industries and corporations"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Power fluctuations\u00a0plague\u00a0R.A.\u00a0Puram residents;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/power-fluctuations-plague-ra-puram-residents/article68699964.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:40:22 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;APSRTC Chairman urged to resolve employees\u2019 pending issues;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/apsrtc-chairman-urged-to-resolve-employees-pending-issues/article68698315.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:40:12 +0530",
        "text": "Employees\u2019 union leaders felicitate Narayana Rao at his residence in Machilipatnam"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;VRA killed as a bomb connected to a detonator goes off under his cot\u00a0in Andhra;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/vra-killed-as-a-bomb-connected-to-a-detonator-goes-off-under-his-cot-in-andhra/article68699916.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:38:52 +0530",
        "text": "His wife has been grievously injured"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Five officials, including two cops, suspended over Ujjain wall collapse;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/madhya-pradesh/five-officials-including-two-cops-suspended-over-ujjain-wall-collapse/article68698691.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:22:55 +0530",
        "text": "Two street vendors died and two others, including a three-year-old girl, were injured after the wall of a government school-turned heritage hotel near gate 4 of the temple collapsed following incessant rains on Friday evening"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;'When terrorists kill Hindu soldiers, do you feel sad?': Assam CM Himanta slams Congress and alliance partners;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/haryana-assembly/when-terrorists-kill-hindu-soldiers-do-you-feel-sad-assam-cm-himanta-slams-congress-and-alliance-partners/article68699881.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:13:19 +0530",
        "text": "Sarma drew attention to the ongoing conflict between Israel and its neighbours, comparing it to the situation in Kashmir"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;No demolitions of buildings under FTL unless they run businesses in illegal constructions;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/no-demolitions-till-deepawali-on-ftl-buildings-unless-they-run-businesses-in-illegal-constructions/article68698580.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:03:19 +0530",
        "text": "Demolitions on Musi river bed are not in the plan at all, say sources"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Bengaluru start-up aims to solve cold chain logistics for healthcare;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/bengaluru-start-up-aims-to-solve-cold-chain-logistics-for-healthcare/article68695294.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0530",
        "text": "A Bengaluru-based company has developed a portable battery-powered cooling device that can carry medical supplies to hinterlands\u00a0with limited electricity access"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Five-year-old girl tells parents about 'bad touch', cops detain school watchman's minor son in Madhya Pradesh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/five-year-old-girl-tells-parents-about-bad-touch-cops-detain-school-watchmans-minor-son-in-madhya-pradesh/article68699888.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:46:10 +0530",
        "text": "The incident allegedly occurred in the watchman's room on the third floor of the school building; the accused is the son of a watchman at the private school, where the victim is a upper kindergarten student"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Sugarcane price is lower in Karnataka than in T.N., Kerala despite its higher rate of recovery\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/sugarcane-price-is-lower-in-karnataka-than-in-tn-kerala-despite-its-higher-rate-of-recovery/article68697895.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:41:03 +0530",
        "text": "The All India Sugarcane Farmers Federation has called upon farmers in Karnataka to fight for State Advised Price"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Karnataka farm leaders demand transparency while effecting change of guard in sugar units;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/karnataka-farm-leaders-demand-transparency-while-effecting-change-of-guard-in-sugar-units/article68697590.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:39:11 +0530",
        "text": "\u201cWe should be consulted in the leasing process\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;California governor Gavin Newsom vetoes bill to create first-in-nation AI safety measures;https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/california-governor-gavin-newsom-vetoes-bill-to-create-first-in-nation-ai-safety-measures/article68699871.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:28:24 +0530",
        "text": "California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a landmark bill aimed at establishing first-in-the-nation safety measures for large artificial intelligence models"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Woman tied to tree in Tripura, burnt alive by sons;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tripura/woman-tied-to-tree-in-tripura-burnt-alive-by-sons/article68699878.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:23:10 +0530",
        "text": "Police said they have arrested the sons, and suspect that a family dispute might have led to the gruesome murder"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Ranjit Chautala among eight rebels expelled by BJP in Haryana;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/haryana-assembly/ranjit-chautala-among-eight-rebels-expelled-by-bjp-in-haryana/article68699854.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:06:08 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Chautala decided to quit BJP after he was denied the poll ticket from Rania, the seat he represented in the Assembly when he was an independent MLA"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israeli airstrike hits central Beirut LIVE updates: Hamas says its leader in Lebanon was killed;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-houthi-war-live-updates-september-30-2024/article68699842.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:39:35 +0530",
        "text": "President Joe Biden to speak with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu; Hezbollah chief Nasrallah\u2019s body has been recovered"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PM Modi calls Kharge to enquire about his health;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-modi-calls-kharge-to-enquire-about-his-health/article68699828.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:55:21 +0530",
        "text": "Mallikarjun Kharge became unwell while addressing a rally in the Jasrota belt of Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Morning Digest: Bengal doctors threaten fresh protests over hospital violence; Hezbollah confirms a 7th top commander was killed in Israeli airstrikes, and more;https://www.thehindu.com/news/morning-digest-september-30-2024/article68699049.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:46:37 +0530",
        "text": "Here is a select list of stories to start the day"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PWD to carry out repair works in Chennai schools ahead of monsoon season;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/pwd-to-carry-out-repair-works-in-chennai-schools-ahead-of-monsoon-season/article68697769.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:23:56 +0530",
        "text": "The PWD will carry out major works such as reconstructing a damaged lab, patching up a ceiling of a classroom to among others to ensure there are no leaks during monsoon season"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Death toll soars in U.S. from storm Helene, North Carolina reeling;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/death-toll-soars-in-us-from-storm-helene-north-carolina-reeling/article68699205.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:20:00 +0530",
        "text": "Helene blew into Florida's northern Gulf shore as a huge Category Four hurricane with winds of 140 miles (225 kilometers) per hour."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;ACA chief Kesineni Sivanath meets BCCI president Roger Binny;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/aca-chief-kesineni-sivanath-meets-bcci-president-roger-binny/article68698351.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 04:31:20 +0530",
        "text": "Mr. Sivanath had a brief interaction with BCCI president Roger Binny, BCCI Apex Council member Dilip Vengsarkar and BCCI Secretary Jay Shah."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Biden says he\u2019ll speak with Israeli leader, vowing all-out war in the Middle East must be avoided;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/biden-says-hell-speak-with-israeli-leader-vowing-all-out-war-in-the-middle-east-must-be-avoided/article68699021.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:40:00 +0530",
        "text": "Joe Biden\u2019s statements come as Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon killed dozens of people on Sunday. He would not say when he planned to speak with Netanyahu."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;In border town, Israelis torn between relief and fear;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/in-border-town-israelis-torn-between-relief-and-fear/article68699004.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:07:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;U.S. chemical plant fire prompts evacuations;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-chemical-plant-fire-prompts-evacuations/article68699040.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 02:50:00 +0530",
        "text": "Evacuations were ordered in the area surrounding the plant while other residents were told to shelter in place and keep their windows closed and air conditioners turned off."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Harris is set to rally again in Las Vegas as both campaigns emphasise swing-state Nevada;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/harris-is-set-to-rally-again-in-las-vegas-as-both-campaigns-emphasise-swing-state-nevada/article68698993.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 02:33:00 +0530",
        "text": "Vice President Kamala Harris attended a San Francisco fundraiser and had plans for an event in Los Angeles before heading to Nevada, with a return to Washington set for Monday night."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Austrian president Alexander Van der Bellen tells parties to hold talks after far-right win;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/austrian-president-alexander-van-der-bellen-tells-parties-to-hold-talks-after-far-right-win/article68698997.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:50:00 +0530",
        "text": "Alexander Van der Bellen told political parties to hold talks with each other after the far-right Freedom Party won a parliamentary election but fell well short of a majority."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two killed in accident in Kochi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/two-killed-in-accident-in-kochi/article68699006.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:42:13 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Waste dumping sites turn into gardens in Eloor;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/waste-dumping-sites-turn-into-gardens-in-eloor/article68678355.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:41:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Man held on charge of online trading fraud;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/man-held-on-charge-of-online-trading-fraud/article68698858.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:38:46 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;TRURA seeks revision of traffic plan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/trura-seeks-revision-of-traffic-plan/article68698884.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:35:37 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;L-G should focus on curbing crime instead of interfering in govt.\u2019s functioning: AAP;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/l-g-should-focus-on-curbing-crime-instead-of-interfering-in-govts-functioning-aap/article68698339.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:23:19 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;24 sittings this year, but Assembly skipped Question Hour;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/24-sittings-this-year-but-assembly-skipped-question-hour/article68698809.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:20:14 +0530",
        "text": "Moreover, it was held only twice in 2023 and on five occasions in 2022, according to the Assembly website."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mahipalpur deaths: police probe suicide angle;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/mahipalpur-deaths-police-probe-suicide-angle/article68698970.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:19:39 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Donald Trump, anxious for a win in Pennsylvania, holds rally in Erie;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/donald-trump-anxious-for-a-win-in-pennsylvania-holds-rally-in-erie/article68698982.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:15:00 +0530",
        "text": "Many allies and informal advisers to Trump privately characterize Pennsylvania as the most important of the battleground states in the Nov. 5 election"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Two arrested in connection with firing at sweets shop;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/two-arrested-in-connection-with-firing-at-sweets-shop/article68698975.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:04:53 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Cash transfers in Andhra Pradesh: a lifeline with gaps;https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/cash-transfers-in-andhra-pradesh-a-lifeline-with-gaps/article68697605.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:03:27 +0530",
        "text": "Government must ensure that cash transfers reach all marginalised populations"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Time taken to grant patents should be minimal: VIT chancellor;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/time-taken-to-grant-patents-should-be-minimal-vit-chancellor/article68698030.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:54:01 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Southern Railway suffered huge losses due to wrong incentives: CAG report;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/southern-railway-suffered-huge-losses-due-to-wrong-incentives-cag-report/article68698084.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:46:20 +0530",
        "text": "CAG report points to wrong concession, irregular allowance and non-assessment of railway property"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Getting into electronic components manufacturing next big game for T.N.: MeitY Secretary S. Krishnan;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/getting-into-electronic-components-manufacturing-next-big-game-for-tn-meity-secretary-s-krishnan/article68698789.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:43:58 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Stalin writes to Union Minister for securing the release of T.N. fishermen from Lankan Navy;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/stalin-writes-to-union-minister-for-securing-the-release-of-tn-fishermen-from-lankan-navy/article68698414.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:40:44 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Udhayanidhi will be people\u2019s deputy, not just mine, says Stalin;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/udhayanidhi-will-be-peoples-deputy-not-just-mine-says-stalin/article68698417.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:35:50 +0530",
        "text": "Stalin reiterated that the achievements of his government were not solely due to his work but due to collective efforts, and underlined the role played by the Ministers in the past three years."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;T.N. police report drop in fatal road accidents;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tn-police-report-drop-in-fatal-road-accidents/article68698438.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:23:23 +0530",
        "text": "DGP Shankar Jiwal says enforcement of traffic rules and other road safety measures led to 5% fall in fatalities"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;40-year-old killed after a portion of compound wall in Perambur railway station collapses;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/40-year-old-killed-after-a-portion-of-compound-wall-in-perambur-railway-station-collapses/article68697707.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:23:16 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Three instances in three months: issues of laser beam interferences for pilots continue to persist at Chennai airport;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/three-instances-in-three-months-issues-of-laser-beam-interferences-for-pilots-continue-to-persist-at-chennai-airport/article68697726.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:23:07 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;K.K. Nagar police arrest two persons for possessing and selling methamphetamine;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/kk-nagar-police-arrest-two-persons-for-possessing-and-selling-methamphetamine/article68697485.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:22:53 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Welding assistant killed after falling into a pit dug up for storm water drain in K.K. Nagar;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/welding-assistant-killed-after-falling-into-a-pit-dug-up-for-storm-water-drain-in-kk-nagar/article68697504.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:22:44 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s CUHK designs satellite that can pre-empt natural disasters;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3280534/hong-kongs-cuhk-launches-first-locally-funded-satellite-can-pre-empt-natural-disasters?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:31:41 +0800",
        "text": "CUHK satellite funded by city\u2019s Innovation and Technology Commission and supported by mainland Chinese authorities launched off Shandong coast."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong needs to fix its student housing supply;https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3280477/hong-kong-needs-fix-its-student-housing-supply?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:30:06 +0800",
        "text": "The private student accommodation market shows great potential, but repurposing existing properties will only go so far to satisfy growing demand."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong police arrest 185 in 3-day citywide crackdown on triad-related activities;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280518/hong-kong-police-arrest-185-3-day-citywide-crackdown-triad-related-activities?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:37:10 +0800",
        "text": "Officers round up suspects after raiding gambling dens and searching entertainment venues, including mahjong parlours and nightclubs."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Another foreign judge of Hong Kong\u2019s top court steps down citing \u2018personal reasons\u2019;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280502/another-foreign-judge-hong-kongs-top-court-steps-down-citing-personal-reasons?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:05:19 +0800",
        "text": "Nicholas Addison Phillips, 86, is fifth foreign judge to leave city\u2019s top court this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Excessive heat expected in Hong Kong as Super Typhoon Krathon approaches;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3280501/excessive-heat-expected-hong-kong-super-typhoon-krathon-approaches?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:58:40 +0800",
        "text": "Krathon enters within 800km of city, is expected to make landfall in Taiwan on Wednesday."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong court grants bail to 2 medical staff accused of ill-treating girl whose heart stopped;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280491/2-hospital-staff-accused-ill-treating-hong-kong-girl-whose-heart-stopped-granted-bail?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:31:19 +0800",
        "text": "Nurse, 26, and patient care assistant, 62, ordered to stay in city, avoid contact with prosecution witnesses and report to police twice weekly."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Actress Shu Qi, Sanxingdui, Asia\u2019s fascination with cults: 5 weekend reads you missed;https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3280468/actress-shu-qi-sanxingdui-asias-fascination-cults-5-weekend-reads-you-missed?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:15:07 +0800",
        "text": "From Chinese actress Shu Qi to gold and bronze relics uncovered in Sanxingdui, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong property investors to keep powder dry as interest-rate cut fails to tempt;https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3280413/hong-kong-property-investors-keep-powder-dry-interest-rate-cut-fails-tempt?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:30:08 +0800",
        "text": "\u2018I would not say an interest-rate-cut cycle has begun,\u2019 expert says. \u2018Therefore, we won\u2019t be seeing many investors entering the market.\u2019."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong spends on record number of National Day events, but do they fit the vibe?;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3280427/hong-kong-spends-record-number-national-day-events-do-they-fit-vibe?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:15:07 +0800",
        "text": "City\u2019s districts spend more on China\u2019s 75th-anniversary celebrations, but some events raise eyebrows."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Spirit of Hong Kong Awards: former basketball player teaches youths to take the shot;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280447/spirit-hong-kong-awards-former-basketball-player-teaches-youths-take-shot?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:00:21 +0800",
        "text": "Leung Kwok-shing, founder of Hoops for Hope Basketball Asia, is in the running for 12th Spirit of Hong Kong Awards\u2019 \u2018nurturing\u2019 category."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Rising bad debts on Hong Kong commercial property \u2018a concern\u2019: HKMA CEO;https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3280303/rising-bad-debts-hong-kong-commercial-property-concern-hkma-ceo?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:30:08 +0800",
        "text": "The increase is \u2018not alarming\u2019 as the banking system is robust enough to handle the uptick, according to Eddie Yue."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;More pandas are great, but let\u2019s also grow Hong Kong as a city of art;https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3280403/more-pandas-are-great-lets-also-grow-hong-kong-city-art?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:15:08 +0800",
        "text": "While Hong Kong remains one of the world\u2019s leading auction capitals, the worth of having a healthy arts scene must also be recognised."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Our Hong Kong Foundation vows to mend \u2018huge reputation damage\u2019 to city amid US-China rift;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280438/our-hong-kong-foundation-vows-mend-huge-reputation-damage-city-amid-us-china-rift?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:30:17 +0800",
        "text": "Harris or Trump? US election result won\u2019t make a difference in \u2018new norm\u2019, think tank chief Bernard Chan says."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Renowned Hong Kong doctor accused of making sexual jokes to nurses cleared of misconduct;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280446/renowned-hong-kong-doctor-accused-making-sexual-jokes-nurses-cleared-misconduct?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:09:05 +0800",
        "text": "Medical Council finds gynaecologist Dr Stephen Suen not guilty of professional misconduct, but notes \u2018unbecoming\u2019 culture at clinic."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong boy, 4, dies after being given herbal medicine pills; mother arrested;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280433/hong-kong-mother-arrested-after-son-allegedly-injected-herbal-medicine-boy-critically-ill?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:51:02 +0800",
        "text": "Source says boy took two herbal pills at around 11am."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Russia launches drone attack on Kyiv;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-russia-launches-drone-attack-on-kyiv/live-70359038?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Several waves of Russian drones targeted the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in the early hours of Monday morning. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow will achieve \"all goals\" in Ukraine. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Japan: Incoming PM Ishiba to call snap election for Oct. 27;https://www.dw.com/en/japan-incoming-pm-ishiba-to-call-snap-election-for-oct-27/a-70359775?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Japanese stocks fell on Monday as incoming prime minister Shigeru Ishiba called for snap elections on October 27. He recently won the race for the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Greece: Wildfires near Corinth kill 2 people;https://www.dw.com/en/greece-wildfires-near-corinth-kill-2-people/a-70359654?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "A wildfire fanned by strong winds tore across a rugged mountainous area in the Corinth region of central Greece. Several villages were evacuated overnight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Biden approves $567 million in defense support for Taiwan;https://www.dw.com/en/biden-approves-567-million-in-defense-support-for-taiwan/a-70359348?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "It marks the latest attempt by Washington to boost the island's military in the face of rising tensions with China. While the US does not have official ties with Taipei, it is its most important arms supplier."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Spain: Hopes of rescue fade after migrant boat disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/spain-hopes-of-rescue-fade-after-migrant-boat-disaster/a-70358604?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Spanish authorities continued their search for 48 migrants who were aboard a boat that capsized near the Canary Islands. Nine people had already been reported dead."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East updates: Israel strikes central Beirut;https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-updates-israel-strikes-central-beirut/live-70358297?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Israel has continued to hit dozens of targets inside Lebanon, with reports an apartment building has been struck in central Beirut. Lebanese authorities say more than 100 have been killed in a 24-hour period. Follow DW."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Austria's far-right FP\u00d6 wins parliamentary vote;https://www.dw.com/en/austria-s-far-right-fp\u00f6-wins-parliamentary-vote/a-70354491?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Following the parliamentary election in Austria, the far-right Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) will be the strongest faction in the parliament, beating the conservative \u00d6VP for the first time in history."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US: Hurricane Helene leaves millions without power;https://www.dw.com/en/us-hurricane-helene-leaves-millions-without-power/a-70357862?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Rescuers were air dropping food and water to areas affected by Hurricane Helene across the southeastern US, where hundreds of roads remain blocked in the wake of the storm."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nepal floods, landslides leave at least 151 dead;https://www.dw.com/en/nepal-floods-landslides-leave-at-least-151-dead/a-70354640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "A heavy monsoon downpour has triggered floods and landslides in the Himalayan nation. Over a hundred people have died and search is on for dozens of missing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Israel strikes Yemen as Lebanon attacks continue;https://www.dw.com/en/israel-strikes-yemen-as-lebanon-attacks-continue/live-70354520?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Israeli army said that it struck power plants and a port used by Houthi militants in western Yemen. Meanwhile, Hezbollah confirmed the death of top commander Ali Karaki in an Israeli strike on Beirut. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pakistan: Gunmen kill 7 workers in Balochistan;https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-gunmen-kill-7-workers-in-balochistan/a-70356937?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Pakistan's Balochistan province has been rocked by a series of attacks on Punjabi workers by separatist militants. Baloch nationalist groups accuse the central government and China of stealing the province's resources."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Turkey: Violence against children \u2014 a neglected problem;https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-violence-against-children-a-neglected-problem/a-70310542?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Turkish public has been shocked by the murder of an 8-year-old girl. But Narin's case is by no means an isolated one. Experts say the government must do more to combat the problem of violence against children."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New NATO chief Mark Rutte takes over at critical juncture;https://www.dw.com/en/new-nato-chief-mark-rutte-takes-over-at-critical-juncture/a-70355945?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Mark Rutte takes the helm at NATO on October 1, after more than a dozen years as Dutch prime minister. He'll need all his diplomatic skills to manage the alliance in testing times."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine: Adoption rates on the rise;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-adoption-rates-on-the-rise/a-70339567?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "As Russia's war on Ukraine continues, ever more Ukrainians are adopting orphans. DW spoke to foster parents about the process."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Syria: US airstrikes kill 37 Islamist militants;https://www.dw.com/en/syria-us-airstrikes-kill-37-islamist-militants/a-70355869?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The militants killed in two September strikes in Syria were affiliated with the extremist \"Islamic State\" group and an al-Qaeda-linked group, the United States military said."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police arrest man over arson attacks, van crash;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-arrest-man-over-arson-attacks-van-crash/a-70355387?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Police in Germany say they have arrested a man over two arson attacks and a van collision. Two children were critically injured in one of the attacks, believed to have been aimed at a particular family."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zaporizhzhia hit by 'massive aerial strikes';https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zaporizhzhia-hit-by-massive-aerial-strikes/live-70355030?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "At least 16 people were wounded in a huge Russian air attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. Meanwhile, Russia said it had shot down 125 Ukrainian drones. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Austrian elections: Could the far-right FP\u00d6 win?;https://www.dw.com/en/austrian-elections-could-the-far-right-fp\u00f6-win/a-70350413?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Early exit polls indicate the far-right Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) will be the strongest faction in the parliament. However, FP\u00d6 lawmaker Herbert Kickl's path to becoming chancellor is far from clear."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Austria: Outrage on election eve amid funeral with Nazi song;https://www.dw.com/en/austria-outrage-on-election-eve-amid-funeral-with-nazi-song/a-70354166?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Three far-right politicians were reportedly at the funeral where a song glorified by Germany's Nazi-era SS was sung on election eve. The Austrian Jewish Students\u2019 Union has reported the politicians involved."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Has Israel-Hamas war displaced Palestinian refugees forever?;https://www.dw.com/en/has-israel-hamas-war-displaced-palestinian-refugees-forever/a-70353072?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The plight of Palestinian refugees has worsened dramatically since the Israel-Hamas war began. DW explains their status."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pope Francis promises 'help' to Belgian sex abuse victims;https://www.dw.com/en/pope-francis-promises-help-to-belgian-sex-abuse-victims/a-70353319?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Pope Francis spoke in Brussels with victims of clergy sexual abuse who are demanding compensation from the Catholic Church. The Vatican said that he is looking over the requests."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Europe's far right is changing EU asylum policy;https://www.dw.com/en/how-europe-s-far-right-is-changing-eu-asylum-policy/a-70337161?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The EU has been hardening its migration policy for years, but the ascendant fortunes of the far right have member states skittish about their freshly agreed asylum reform package."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What's behind Russia's plan to ban 'child-free' ideology?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-s-behind-russia-s-plan-to-ban-child-free-ideology/a-70324064?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Russian parliament is discussing a law to ban so-called \"propaganda of childlessness\" with fines up to $4,300 for individuals. Will that help to solve the country's demographic crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Thuringia lawmakers pick CDU speaker, rejecting AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-thuringia-lawmakers-pick-cdu-speaker-rejecting-afd/a-70352586?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The parliament in the eastern German state of Thuringia has chosen a member of the conservative CDU as its new speaker. The far-right AfD, which won the most seats, was blocked by all other parties from taking the role."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jannik Sinner tennis doping case: What is happening?;https://www.dw.com/en/jannik-sinner-tennis-doping-case-what-is-happening/a-70352569?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "US Open men's champion and world number one Jannik Sinner could be banned from tennis for up to two years. The World Anti-Doping Agency says doping rules were not followed in a case involving Sinner."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Sumy hospital hit by deadly double attack;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-sumy-hospital-hit-by-deadly-double-attack/live-70352274?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Ukrainian regional authorities say two strikes on a medical center in Sumy near the border with Russia killed several people. Meanwhile, President Zelenskyy said Trump promised to support Ukraine. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Hamburg police seize 2 tons of cocaine worth \u20ac100M;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hamburg-police-seize-2-tons-of-cocaine-worth-\u20ac100m/a-70347569?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The cocaine was hidden in banana boxes stacked inside a shipping container near Hamburg's port. Police said the drug haul was the result of weeks of undercover investigation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: AfD leaders pick Weidel for chancellor candidate;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-afd-leaders-pick-weidel-for-chancellor-candidate/a-70349935?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Germany's next federal election is set for September 2025. Alice Weidel was already seen as the overwhelmingly likely candidate. But the final decision won't come until the party conference next year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany slows arms exports to Israel \u2014 without admitting it;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-slows-arms-exports-to-israel-without-admitting-it/a-70347570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Berlin appears to have stopped approving war weapons exports to Israel, even while insisting that there is no ban in place. Observers believe the government has been spooked by legal threats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Former Germany keeper Lehmann fined over chainsaw incident;https://www.dw.com/en/former-germany-keeper-lehmann-fined-over-chainsaw-incident/a-70349612?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Jens Lehmann has been given a reduced fine over an incident in which the former Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper took a chainsaw to a neighbor's garage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Far-right AfD stages day of chaos in parliament;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-far-right-afd-stages-day-of-chaos-in-parliament/a-70344985?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Classified as \"extremist\" by the domestic intelligence agency, the anti-immigrant populist Alternative for Germany party in Thuringia is now staging a political scandal that bodes ill for German democracy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Higgs Factory: Why CERN wants to build a giant particle smasher;https://www.dw.com/en/higgs-factory-why-cern-wants-to-build-a-giant-particle-smasher/a-70283573?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Scientists want to build a 90km Future Circular Collider to study the Higgs boson particle. At an estimated cost $17 billion, is it worth it?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cyclist Muriel Furrer dies after World Championship crash;https://www.dw.com/en/cyclist-muriel-furrer-dies-after-world-championship-crash/a-70346993?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The 18-year-old suffered a severe head injury when she fell during the women's junior race at the Road World Championship in Zurich. She was taken to Zurich University hospital but succumbed to her injuries the next day."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Belgian PM demands 'concrete steps' over Catholic sex abuse;https://www.dw.com/en/belgian-pm-demands-concrete-steps-over-catholic-sex-abuse/a-70343039?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Pope Francis is in Belgium after revelations of abuse and cover-ups have damaged the Vatican's credibility. Both Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and King Philippe urged the pontiff and the Catholic Church to do more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Cologne Central Station to close to train traffic;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-cologne-central-station-to-close-to-train-traffic/a-70344601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Construction work will leave the German city almost entirely cut off from rail services overnight on Friday. The closure is the latest headache for Deutsche Bahn passengers in recent months."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Israel-Hezbollah conflict deepens Lebanon's economic crisis;https://www.dw.com/en/israel-hezbollah-conflict-deepens-lebanon-s-economic-crisis/a-70341661?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The escalating conflict between Hezbollah and Israel is contributing to Lebanon's economic instability. People in the crisis-ridden country are struggling to survive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Is Berlin in a 'club death' spiral?;https://www.dw.com/en/is-berlin-in-a-club-death-spiral/a-70341859?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Two iconic Berlin techno clubs recently announced they will close. Rising rents and falling profits are partly to blame, but is the city also losing its nightlife luster?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy meets Trump in New York;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-meets-trump-in-new-york/live-70340009?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The former US president and Republican candidate has previously described US military aid to Ukraine as a waste of money. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US, EU, Ukraine slam Russia's nuclear deterrence doctrine;https://www.dw.com/en/us-eu-ukraine-slam-russia-s-nuclear-deterrence-doctrine/a-70336251?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The US, EU and Kyiv all lambasted Russian President Vladimir Putin's \"irresponsible\" plans to amend the doctrine. The Kremlin meanwhile defended the move, describing it as a warning to the west."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Turkey is competing with China for influence in Africa;https://www.dw.com/en/how-turkey-is-competing-with-china-for-influence-in-africa/a-70301293?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Turkey is increasing its engagement in several African countries in an effort to boost its influence and trade. But with China and Russia being the dominant players there, Ankara is struggling to find its role."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine: Biden calls Germany meeting of Kyiv allies;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-biden-calls-germany-meeting-of-kyiv-allies/a-70331606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "US President Joe Biden has said he will convene a high-level meeting of 50 Ukrainian allies in Germany next month. He also announced nearly $8 billion in military aid to Ukraine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Will Formula 1 return to South Africa?;https://www.dw.com/en/will-formula-1-return-to-south-africa/a-70269906?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The last F1 race in Africa was in 1993. A return could be in the cards, but what would it mean for the country and the continent?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'After Hitler': Changing views of Nazism in postwar Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/after-hitler-changing-views-of-nazism-in-postwar-germany/a-70323500?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "From secret adoration to loud dismay, Germans have come to terms with the Nazi past over 80 years in very different ways, as a new exhibition shows."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Europe help contain spiraling violence in Lebanon?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-europe-help-contain-spiraling-violence-in-lebanon/a-70325262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "As Israel-Hezbollah fighting ramps up, the EU is calling for de-escalation. Internal divisions have hindered the bloc's diplomacy in the Middle East since 2023, but experts say France may now have a role to play."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Government crisis deepens as Green leaders resign;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-government-crisis-deepens-as-green-leaders-resign/a-70324309?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Green Party co-chairs Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour are stepping down. The move could make things even harder for Germany's fractious coalition government."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy warns UN on nuclear plant safety;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-warns-un-on-nuclear-plant-safety/live-70322985?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the UN General Assembly that intelligence suggested Russia was planning to attack nuclear plants still in Ukrainian hands. Meanwhile, Russia claimed more gains in Donetsk. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police investigate blast at Cologne cafe;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-investigate-blast-at-cologne-cafe/a-70323612?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "One suspect turned himself in after an overnight explosion in Cologne with another one still on the run, according to police. The latest blast is not believed to be connected to a recent wave of drug-related violence."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Torn patellar tendon: A rare but serious knee injury;https://www.dw.com/en/torn-patellar-tendon-a-rare-but-serious-knee-injury/a-70323136?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen sustained a torn patellar tendon on the weekend. DW fills you in on how serious an injury it is, how it is treated, and how long it could take for him to return to the pitch."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New LUNA facility will prepare astronauts for moon landings;https://www.dw.com/en/new-luna-facility-will-prepare-astronauts-for-moon-landings/a-70313230?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The moon may be 384,400 kilometers away, but an accurate replica of its surface has opened in Germany. Astronauts from around the world will use it to train for missions to the moon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Charges pressed in Schumacher family blackmail case;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-charges-pressed-in-schumacher-family-blackmail-case/a-70321726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Prosecutors in Wuppertal have filed charges against three men accused of trying to blackmail Michael Schumacher's family for millions. They allegedly threatened to public compromising data online unless they were paid."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German far-right AfD party taps into young voters' fears, disillusionment;https://www.dw.com/en/german-far-right-afd-party-taps-into-young-voters-fears-disillusionment/a-70319700?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "More and more young Germans support the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. It capitalizes on their pessimistic outlook and disappointment with other parties, experts say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe's AI bosses sound warning on soaring compliance costs;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-s-ai-bosses-sound-warning-on-soaring-compliance-costs/a-70243489?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Recent decisions by US tech giants to withhold their latest artificial intelligence (AI) models from the European market have raised concerns over the level of regulation now impacting tech firms in the bloc."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Climate change made Central Europe floods more likely: study;https://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-made-central-europe-floods-more-likely-study/a-70318772?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The recent deadly floods in Central Europe have shown \"the devastating results\" of burning fossil fuels, scientists say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Greece worried about consequences of German border checks;https://www.dw.com/en/greece-worried-about-consequences-of-german-border-checks/a-70320699?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Athens is worried that Germany's reintroduction of border checks could have a knock-on effect across Europe and see migrants being returned to Greece."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Flood warnings on Oder River in eastern Brandenburg;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-flood-warnings-on-oder-river-in-eastern-brandenburg/a-70319284?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The highest flood warning level is in effect for a short stretch of the Oder River in Brandenburg where it marks the German border with Poland. In some more rural areas, it has already burst its banks."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UEFA 's reassessment of Spain's handball doesn't help Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/uefa-s-reassessment-of-spain-s-handball-doesn-t-help-germany/a-70320827?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "In one of the most memorable incidents at the Euros, Spain's Marc Cucurella blocked a German shot with his hand, but no penalty was called. Now UEFA has admitted that the referee got it wrong \u2014 but it changes nothing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Green co-leaders Lang and Nouripour resign;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-green-co-leaders-lang-and-nouripour-resign/a-70319586?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The co-leaders of Germany's Greens, Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour, have announced they're stepping down. The party suffered a disastrous state election in Brandenburg, dropping below 5% and losing its seats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Why are sea levels rising?;https://www.dw.com/en/why-are-sea-levels-rising/a-70281203?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Rising oceans are posing a global threat, particularly to low lying islands and coastal cities. What is driving this, and how can we respond? Here's what you need to know."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dutch 'Mocro mafia' sets off alarm bells in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-mocro-mafia-sets-off-alarm-bells-in-germany/a-69764909?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "German police have warned of Dutch organized crime networks moving into Germany after a series of explosions in Cologne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;CERN at 70: Smashing elementary particles for humanity;https://www.dw.com/en/cern-at-70-smashing-elementary-particles-for-humanity/a-70298947?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "CERN has been an epicenter of scientific breakthroughs since 1954, including the discovery of the Higgs boson. Scientists there hope a new, larger particle smasher will lead them to more discoveries for years to come."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;75 years of Frankfurt Book Fair: World stage for protests;https://www.dw.com/en/75-years-of-frankfurt-book-fair-world-stage-for-protests/a-70283991?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Cold War, neo-Nazis, as well as Iran's fatwa on Salman Rushdie all had an impact on the Frankfurt Book Fair, which turns 75 this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy says Iran, N. Korea 'accomplices';https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-says-iran-n-korea-accomplices/live-70307515?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denounced Iran and North Korea for providing weapons to Russia. He also said Moscow must be forced into any just peace. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Switzerland: Police investigate 1st use of 'suicide capsule';https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-police-investigate-1st-use-of-suicide-capsule/a-70314117?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Swiss police say they have detained several people and opened a criminal case a day after the first use of the \"Sarco\" capsule to end a person's life. Assisted dying is legal in Switzerland in some circumstances."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Deutsche Bahn: New train to link Berlin and Paris in 8 hours;https://www.dw.com/en/deutsche-bahn-new-train-to-link-berlin-and-paris-in-8-hours/a-70314292?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The first direct high-speed train service between both cities will be running from December, according to Deutsche Bahn. It will offer a journey without transfers, with stops in Frankfurt, Strasbourg and Karlsruhe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister: Eating habit survey shows developing tastes;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-eating-habit-survey-shows-developing-tastes/a-70309258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "A new government study points to changing tastes in food, but not a desire for rules, according to the agriculture minister. One thing stays constant \u2014 a pleasing taste was the most important factor for respondents."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Albanian PM has announced plans for the creation of a 27-acre sovereign state for a Sufi Muslim order in Tirana.;https://www.dw.com/en/albanian-pm-has-announced-plans-for-the-creation-of-a-27-acre-sovereign-state-for-a-sufi-muslim-order-in-tirana/a-70314510?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Albanian PM Edi Rama says he wants to establish a sovereign microstate for an Islamic Sufi order, the Shia Bektashi Muslims in Tirana. While welcomed by the order, the move has also been greeted with skepticism."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;North Korea and women's youth football: A perfect match;https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-and-women-s-youth-football-a-perfect-match/a-70313505?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "North Korea's young women have won their third U20 World Cup, so why is the isolated state so good at this level of the game?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany decries UniCredit bid for Commerzbank 'unfriendly';https://www.dw.com/en/germany-decries-unicredit-bid-for-commerzbank-unfriendly/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Italy's UniCredit stunned markets by clandestinely raising its stake in Germany's second-largest lender to 21%. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, the government stands by its side."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The true cost of protecting the Amazon and who should pay;https://www.dw.com/en/the-true-cost-of-protecting-the-amazon-and-who-should-pay/a-70309693?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The world\u2019s largest rainforest is battling deforestation, drought and record wildfires. Where is the money to save it coming from?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU divided over higher tariffs for Chinese EV imports;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-divided-over-higher-tariffs-for-chinese-ev-imports/a-70250391?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Despite \"constructive talks\" between the EU and China recently, the impasse over planned EU tariffs on China-made electric vehicles hasn't been resolved. The spat could escalate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police raids in southwest target human traffickers;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-raids-in-southwest-target-human-traffickers/a-70307600?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Police raided more than 20 properties in southwestern Germany and arrested at least four people. The case pertains to trafficking people from the Caucasus region to work illegally and for less than the minimum wage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How false memories make us who we are;https://www.dw.com/en/how-false-memories-make-us-who-we-are/a-70300263?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "We think of memory as a reliable recording of our lives. But we also have false memories, often pieced together from communal experience. Those false memories shape our identity the same as the real ones do."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;At least 4 die as migrant ship sinks off Greek island;https://www.dw.com/en/at-least-4-die-as-migrant-ship-sinks-off-greek-island/a-70306276?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "A small boat carrying migrants from nearby Turkey sank in the eastern Aegean Sea off the Greek island of Samos, killing at least four people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy eyes high-level talks on US trip;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-eyes-high-level-talks-on-us-trip/live-70298882?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Ukrainian president met with Germany's Olaf Scholz in New York. Meanwhile, Russia said 31 civilians had been killed in Kursk and 131,000 others have been forced to flee. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German supermarket finds \u20ac7M of cocaine in crates of bananas;https://www.dw.com/en/german-supermarket-finds-\u20ac7m-of-cocaine-in-crates-of-bananas/a-70303810?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Police did not identify the discount supermarket chain. However, they said the cocaine was found at stores in several cities across the state of North Rhine-Westphalia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: SPD seeks coalition after slim win in Brandenburg;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-spd-seeks-coalition-after-slim-win-in-brandenburg/live-70298970?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats will seek coalition talks with upstart left party BSW, as working with the far-right runner-up AfD has been ruled out. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goalie ter Stegen's injury leaves Germany coach in a bind;https://www.dw.com/en/goalie-ter-stegen-s-injury-leaves-germany-coach-in-a-bind/a-70302777?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Just weeks after being confirmed as Germany's new first-choice goalkeeper, Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has gone down with a potentially season-ending injury. Could Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann recall Manuel Neuer?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Volkswagen's crisis: How can Europe's car industry survive?;https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-s-crisis-how-can-europe-s-car-industry-survive/a-70231806?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "While Volkswagen and other European automakers are considering closing factories, Chinese rivals are searching for production sites on the continent. What's going wrong in Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Far-right gains in east Germany could deal blow to economy;https://www.dw.com/en/far-right-gains-in-east-germany-could-deal-blow-to-economy/a-70295769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "After elections in Thuringia and Saxony, the far-right AfD party has again massively gained in a poll in eastern Germany. Now the second-strongest force in Brandenburg, their success causes concerns among businesses."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany increases 'Deutschlandticket' price to \u20ac58;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-increases-deutschlandticket-price-to-\u20ac58/a-70300975?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The \"Deutschlandticket\" monthly travel pass allows passengers unlimited trips on local and regional trains, trams and buses. Starting in 2025, the ticket will be \u20ac9 more expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hamilton's near heatstroke puts F1 driver safety in focus;https://www.dw.com/en/hamilton-s-near-heatstroke-puts-f1-driver-safety-in-focus/a-69704130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Both Mercedes drivers suffered from 'borderline heatstroke' at the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix. Not for the first time this year, questions are being raised about their safety."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Brandenburg election brings relief for ruling SPD;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-brandenburg-election-brings-relief-for-ruling-spd/a-70298529?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats managed to fight off the far-right AfD in the regional vote. However, questions about the future of Germany's ruling coalition remain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Sudan crisis: Threat to culture 'unprecedented,' UNESCO says;https://www.dw.com/en/sudan-crisis-threat-to-culture-unprecedented-unesco-says/a-70284737?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Sudan is sinking into war and chaos. Many cultural and world heritage sites have been destroyed or looted as millions of people are displaced."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Italy: Naples house collapse kills mother and two kids;https://www.dw.com/en/italy-naples-house-collapse-kills-mother-and-two-kids/a-70296505?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The house is believed to have collapsed due to an explosion, local authorities said. The father of the kids and their 2-year-old brother were hospitalized after the incident."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Gaza's disabled cyclists deliver aid, inspiration and hope;https://www.dw.com/en/gaza-s-disabled-cyclists-deliver-aid-inspiration-and-hope/a-70269177?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "When the bombs started to fall in Gaza last October, the Gaza Sunbirds, a group of 25 Palestinian cyclists whose legs were amputated, started using their bikes to deliver food and shelters to their neighbors."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Female referee deletes Instagram after sexist messages;https://www.dw.com/en/female-referee-deletes-instagram-after-sexist-messages/a-70290706?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Albanian referee Emanuela Rusta is making fast progress, but the sport she works in is not. The official made the decision to get rid of her social media account after constant remarks about her appearance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Homeless World Cup: 'We want to do something special';https://www.dw.com/en/homeless-world-cup-we-want-to-do-something-special/a-70218267?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "National football teams made up of homeless people from around the world will soon gather in South Korea for the Homeless World Cup. For many of the players, the stakes are much higher than just the trophy on offer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Heat pumps: Why Germany's heating revolution is stalling;https://www.dw.com/en/heat-pumps-why-germany-s-heating-revolution-is-stalling/a-70192621?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "It's a signature project of Germany's environmentalist Greens: Instead of heating homes with fossil fuels, Germans should use heat pumps based on air or groundwater. But demand for these devices has plummeted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starlink satellites are blinding astronomers' view of space;https://www.dw.com/en/starlink-satellites-are-blinding-astronomers-view-of-space/a-70273835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Starlink and other satellite networks are vital for providing high speed internet to remote communities, but unintended radiation leakages are making life difficult for astronomers who need clear skies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Tupperware parties empowered homebound suburban women;https://www.dw.com/en/how-tupperware-parties-empowered-homebound-suburban-women/a-70273741?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "As Tupperware files for bankruptcy, here's a look back at how the iconic US plastic kitchenware company and its \"Tupperware party\" business model became a cultural phenomenon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Czech Republic struggling to mitigate risks as Russian firms flourish;https://www.dw.com/en/czech-republic-struggling-to-mitigate-risks-as-russian-firms-flourish/a-70181088?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Czechia hosts by far the highest number of Russian-owned companies of any EU state. Experts warn this cohort of over 12,500 firms pose economic and security risks that the government must eventually start to mitigate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oktoberfest: Beer and pretzels in a sustainable package;https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-beer-and-pretzels-in-a-sustainable-package/a-70235282?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "More than Bavarians in lederhosen balancing frothing beer mugs and fried sausages, the world's largest folk festival is becoming more inclusive and eco-friendly."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;COVID FLiRT variants KP.3 and XEC: What you need to know;https://www.dw.com/en/covid-flirt-variants-kp-3-and-xec-what-you-need-to-know/a-70266402?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another variant and become XEC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Two European firms in focus of Hezbollah pager explosions;https://www.dw.com/en/two-european-firms-in-focus-of-hezbollah-pager-explosions/a-70248830?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Taiwanese company whose name appeared on the pagers that detonated across Lebanon has denied manufacturing the devices. That has put relatively unknown Hungarian and Bulgarian firms in the spotlight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine wants action after Belarus Olympic medalist ceremony;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-wants-action-after-belarus-olympic-medalist-ceremony/a-70262052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The ceremony, held on Belarus' National Unity Day, appears to violate the Olympic neutrality rules. Ukraine wants action, with the country's sports minister telling DW further sanctions are necessary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cities start fighting rental crisis triggered by overtourism;https://www.dw.com/en/cities-start-fighting-rental-crisis-triggered-by-overtourism/a-70228085?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "In many of Europe's hottest tourist destinations like Barcelona and Paris, locals struggle to access affordable housing. How much are vacation rentals to blame?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Exploding Hezbollah pagers: How did it happen?;https://www.dw.com/en/exploding-hezbollah-pagers-how-did-it-happen/a-70250960?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Although the devices have lithium-ion batteries that can catch fire or explode, it is more likely the pagers were sabotaged."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains \u2014 study;https://www.dw.com/en/pregnancy-completely-rewires-mothers-brains-study/a-70246399?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Neuroscientists scanned the brain of a pregnant woman and captured a 'widespread reorganization' of her brain before, during and after pregnancy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Use, and misuse, of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "As Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell become the latest celebs to endorse Kamala Harris, here's a look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Google wins legal battle against EU over \u20ac1.5 billion fine;https://www.dw.com/en/google-wins-legal-battle-against-eu-over-\u20ac1-5-billion-fine/a-70246709?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "After years of back and forth, an EU court annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it sold advertisements. The fine was one of three major penalties the EU has leveled against the tech giant in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Namibia's strategy to cull animals save them?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-namibia-s-strategy-to-cull-animals-save-them/a-70213343?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Does Namibia's plan to kill animals to save them, and help the human population from ongoing drought, stack up?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand shrinks;https://www.dw.com/en/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy-as-demand-shrinks/a-70245540?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Once popular for its colorful food storage containers, US firm Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy. The company succumbed to a plummeting demand for its products."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Intel's factory delay adds to Germany's economic woes;https://www.dw.com/en/us-intel-s-factory-delay-adds-to-germany-s-economic-woes/a-70241739?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has announced it is postponing a $30 billion investment in Germany due to financial problems at the firm. But is the German government still committed to the investments?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the arts are a thorn in the side of Germany's AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-arts-are-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-germany-s-afd/a-70239911?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How new technologies can mitigate the risks of flooding;https://www.dw.com/en/how-new-technologies-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-flooding/a-70239314?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "With extreme weather, floods are getting as common in Europe as they are in Asia and Africa. From mobile barriers to specialized dams, people are finding solutions to life-threatening floods across the globe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China's technology drive leaves young people jobless;https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-technology-drive-leaves-young-people-jobless/a-70187883?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "China is investing billions to become a global tech power. But AI, robotics and quantum computing are not labor-intensive sectors, so what to do about the millions of young Chinese who can't find a job?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 02:00:05",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Middle East crisis live: IDF says it has begun a \u2018targeted and demarcated ground operation in southern Lebanon\u2019;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/30/israel-attacks-live-blog-lebanon-yemen-hamas-hezbollah-news-updates-middle-east-crisis;2024-10-01T00:00:02Z",
        "text": "As the IDF ground operation in southern Lebanon began, Israeli warplanes were launching strikes on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs. The Guardian\u2019s reporter in Beirut, Will Christou, has posted this video that purportedly shows the moment that an Israeli strike hit Lailakeh, in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs. Late on Monday, at least two rockets were fired at a military base hosting US forces near Baghdad International Airport. \u201cThe Victory Base at Baghdad Airport was targeted with three rockets, two of which were shot down by the base\u2019s special defences, while the third fell near the headquarters of the Counter Terrorism Service Command,\u201d a security source told AFP. A second security source confirmed the report, noting that there were no casualties and that the rockets did not affect air traffic. We have a bit more on the British efforts to evacuate citizens from Lebanon. Speaking to broadcasters earlier on Monday evening, foreign secretary David Lammy said: \u201cWe will do all that we can to assist people to get out and we have secured places on commercial flights that are flying tomorrow so that UK nationals can get out. I urge them to leave because the situation on the ground is fast moving \u2026 And of course, whilst we will do everything we can to protect British nationals \u2013 and those plans are in place to do so \u2013 we cannot anticipate the circumstances and the speed with which we could do that if things escalate in a major way over the coming hours and days.\u201d Mr Lammy chaired a ministerial meeting of the Cobra emergency committee on Monday to discuss the crisis. There are an estimated 5,000 British citizens in Lebanon and the government says it is working on \u201call contingency options\u201d. British military assets have been deployed to Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean in case an evacuation is required, although ministers and officials have stressed that Britons should leave immediately. Israeli media have noted that it is exactly 18 years to the days since the IDF withdrew from southern Lebanon after the Second Lebanon war. On 1 October 2006, most Israeli troops withdrew from Lebanon after a months-long war against Hezbollah. The IDF has reported rockets from southern Lebanon have continued to be fired into Israel. Air alerts have been active across sections of the country\u2019s north over the last hour. The Israeli military said about \u201cten launches were detected that crossed the territory of Lebanon\u201d. The IDF says some of them were intercepted by air defence and others dropped into \u201can open area.\u201d As the Israeli military made its announcement that a \u201climited\u201d ground operation had begun in southern Lebanon, Syrian state media reported that \u201chostile targets\u201d had been intercepted over Damascus. Local media reported that explosions could be heard over the Syrian capital. IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari has said Israeli forces \u201ctrained and prepared in recent months\u201d for the ground operation which began in southern Lebanon in the last few hours. The ground forces are accompanied in an attack effort by the Air Force and artillery forces, which attack military targets in the area in a coordinated effort with the fighters of the ground forces \u2026 Operation \u201cNorthern Arrows\u201d continues according to the assessment of the situation at the same time as the fighting in Gaza and other arenas. Israel has begun limited raids against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, the military has said in a statement. The IDF began a few hours ago a targeted and demarcated ground operation in southern Lebanon against terrorist targets and infrastructures of the terrorist organization Hezbollah.\u201d The IDF said that the targets were villages close to the border that pose an immediate threat to Israeli communities in the country\u2019s north. The statement follows a similar proclamation from the US earlier, in which White House officials that Israeli forces appeared to have launched \u201climited ground operations\u201d targeting Hezbollah. Heavy shelling into Lebanon has been taking place along the border in the area north of Kiryat Shimona. The towns of Marjayoun, Wazzani and Khiam were being shelled on Monday night. The Biden administration has reportedly told the Israeli government that they are concerned that an \u201coperation limited in time and limited in geographic scope slides into something larger and longer\u201d, Axios reporter Barak Ravid has said. Ravid reports that the White House believes that they have reached an understanding with Israel on the scope of the ground operation in southern Lebanon, but \u201cfear that it will expand and take longer.\u201d Jacob Magid, the Times of Israel US bureau chief, has also reported concern from the White House that the \u201cIDF will get bogged down in the country or be drawn to expand the mission once it\u2019s already in motion.\u201d Magid reports that a US official pointed to Israel\u2019s 1982 invasion of Lebanon which was characterised as a \u201climited incursion, but it turned into an 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon\u201d. More on that statement from Hezbollah; the militant group has said it \u201ctargeted\u201d Israeli troops carrying out \u201cmovements\u201d near the Lebanese border. A source close to the group told the AFP news agency that Israeli soldiers were \u201cright on the border\u201d. The group said it targeted \u201cenemy soldiers\u2019 movements in the orchards opposite Adaisseh and Kfarkila\u201d near the border. A Lebanese security official told AFP there were \u201cIsraeli army movements on the southern Lebanese border\u201d. Hezbollah media reported \u201cartillery shelling\u201d near seperate border areas. Lebanon\u2019s state-run National News Agency also reported \u201ccontinued artillery shelling\u201d on border areas. Lebanon\u2019s army has moved troops away from its southern border, a Lebanese military official told AFP. As Israeli strikes on Beirut appear to intensify, a former Israeli diplomat has criticised the IDF\u2019s ground incursion into Lebanon, saying that it could lead to the kind of deadly mission creep that had characterised the past failed operations of 1982 and 2006. \u201cWhat the hell does Israel mean by a limited [incursion],\u201d Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli diplomat and critic of Benjamin Netanyahu, told the Guardian. \u201cIs it limited in firepower? Is it limited in time? Is it limited in the employment of forces?\u201d Asked what could make this incursion different from the wars of 1982 or 2006, which resulted in a high numbrer of casualties among Israeli soldiers, he said: \u201cNothing. That\u2019s what worries me. Yeah, nothing. I see no thinking here.\u201d More broadly, Pinkas doubted Israel\u2019s reported goals of establishing a buffer zone in southern Lebanon that would allow Israeli residents to return to the border region. \u201cGoing into Lebanon and establishing some kind of a buffer zone from the Israeli border to say, the Litani River \u2026 it\u2019s very, very difficult to maintain that, that this is a very hostile area,\u201d he said, adding that it had been hostile during the 1982 and 2006 wars. \u201cBut the important thing is, by doing so, you\u2019re not eliminating Hezbollah\u2019s ability to launch long range missiles.\u201d He also warned that the Israelis, as in previous incursions into southern Lebanon, would face the lure of mission creep. \u201cOnce it begins to roll, things change, and all of the sudden, we got to take that village too. What about that hill? What about that little valley?\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then you have an \u201882 all over again.\u201d Pinkas said he wasn\u2019t denouncing all military actions, just those that would lead to a protracted occupation of Lebanese territory. \u201cI stress the military importance of going in, doing what you got to do, and going out, right,\u201d he said. \u201cBut if this evolves into some kind of a protracted presence in southern Lebanon, then what the hell did you achieve by that?\u201d Late on Monday night, Israeli media reported that government sources had said the country\u2019s cabinet had approved the next stage of the military operation targeting Hezbollah after a meeting earlier in the evening chaired by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It remains unclear quite what the situation on the border is. Hezbollah has said that they targeted Israeli troops near the border. Meanwhile, strikes across Beirut have intensified over the last hour. Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: Israeli forces appeared to have launched what sources called \u201climited ground operations\u201d targeting Hezbollah inside southern Lebanon, US and other officials said late on Monday. Heavy shelling into Lebanon was taking place along the border in the area north of Kiryat Shimona. The towns of Marjayoun, Wazzani and Khiam were being shelled on Monday night. There were also reports of a heavy presence of Israeli aircraft over southern Lebanon. Israel carried out more airstrikes in Dahieh, the southern suburbs of Beirut, after the Israeli military issued new instructions ordering residents of three buildings in the neighbourhood to evacuate immediately. Huge explosions were heard in the Lebanese capital late on Monday night. Israel\u2019s military spokesperson Avichay Adraee issued maps of three locations in Dahieh, instructing residents to evacuate more than 500 metres away, marking the second time Israel instructed residents of Dahieh to evacuate prior to strikes. At least 95 people were killed in Israeli strikes across Lebanon on Monday, according to the country\u2019s health ministry. An airstrike early on Monday hit an apartment building in central Beirut \u2013 the first to hit in the heart of the Lebanese capital since 2006. The strike killed three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a small, leftist Palestinian faction. Families of people who went missing in the strikes on the country have been urged to take DNA tests to identify the remains of loved ones. The Lebanese army said it was \u201crepositioning and regrouping forces\u201d amid reports it had withdrawn three miles from the country\u2019s southern border. The Lebanese army has evacuated observation posts at Lebanon\u2019s southern border with Israel and moved to barracks in the border villages, according to reports. UN peacekeepers in Lebanon can no longer patrol border areas in the south due to heavy artillery fire from Israeli forces and Hezbollah, a UN spokesperson said. The peacekeeping force of more than 10,000 personnel \u201cremain in position\u201d but cannot carry out road patrols due to \u201cthe intensity of the rockets going back and forth\u201d, a spokesperson for the UN secretary general said on Monday. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, told community leaders that the \u201cnext phase of the war against Hezbollah will begin soon\u201d. Gallant had earlier told troops in northern Israel: \u201cWe will use all of our capabilities \u2013 including you.\u201d The Israeli military later declared areas of Metula, Misgav Am and Kfar Giladi in northern Israel a closed military zone. Israel\u2019s security cabinet approved the next phase of the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon following a meeting on Monday night, according to Israeli media reports. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel\u2019s prime minister, warned Iran it could strike anywhere in the region at will. \u201cThere is nowhere in the Middle East Israel cannot reach,\u201d he said in a video addressed to the Iranian people. In a three-minute video clip in English, Netanyahu accused Iran of subjugating its citizens and directly threatened its leaders. There was no official comment from Israeli officials on the ground operations in Lebanon, but Aryeh Deri, an Israeli minister who has been involved in wartime decision-making, tweeted the text of a Jewish prayer for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) mentioning Lebanon. An IDF spokesperson warned Israelis not to publish information on troop movements and not to \u201cspread irresponsible rumours\u201d. A US state department spokesperson said Israel had informed the US that it was conducting \u201climited ground operations focused on Hezbollah infrastructure near the border\u201d. The US president, Joe Biden, said he was aware of Israel\u2019s plans to launch an operation into Lebanon as he urged against such a move. \u201cI\u2019m more aware than you might know and I\u2019m comfortable with them stopping,\u201d he told reporters at the White House. \u201cWe should have a ceasefire now.\u201d Hezbollah vowed to keep fighting even after its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah and other senior officials had been killed by Israeli strikes. Friday\u2019s assassination of Nasrallah \u2013 the most powerful leader in Tehran\u2019s \u201caxis of resistance\u201d against Israeli and US interests in the Middle East \u2013 was one of the heaviest blows in decades to Hezbollah and Iran. The group\u2019s acting leader, Naim Qassem, said in a televised statement that if Israel launched a ground offensive, Hezbollah was ready. He said the commanders killed in recent weeks had already been replaced. Hamas said its leader in Lebanon was killed on Monday in an Israeli strike on the country\u2019s south. Fatah Sharif Abu al-Amine, \u201ca member of the movement\u2019s leadership abroad\u201d was killed in an airstrike on his home in the al-Bass camp in south Lebanon, a Hamas statement said. The head of the UN\u2019s agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), Philippe Lazzarini, told reporters that Abu al-Amine was placed under investigation and suspended from his job at Unrwa in March. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said on Sunday that more than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, without saying how many were civilians. The government said a million people \u2013 a fifth of the population \u2013 have fled their homes. At least 11 Palestinians were killed, including women and children, in an Israeli strike on a house in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip, according to Gaza medics on Monday. Palestinian health officials said the Palestinian journalist, Wafa Al-Udaini, was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Monday. Yemen\u2019s Houthis said they would escalate military operations against Israel in response to its attacks on the country on Sunday. On Sunday, a major Israeli raid hit ports in Yemen run by the Houthi militia group, which is also backed by Iran, fuelling fears of a slide towards a devastating regional conflict on multiple fronts. A spokesperson for the Houthis said after Sunday\u2019s strikes would not cause the Iran-backed group to \u201cabandon Gaza and Lebanon\u201d. The US is ending a \u201cfew thousand\u201d troops to the Middle East to bolster security and to defend Israel if necessary, the Pentagon said on Monday. The increased presence will involve multiple fighter jet and attack aircraft squadrons, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh told reporters. The additional forces would raise the total number of troops in the region to as many as 43,000. The UK government announced it has chartered a commercial flight out of Lebanon for Britons wanting to leave amid escalating violence. The flight is due to leave Beirut-Rafic Hariri international airport on Wednesday, the Foreign Office said, with priority given to vulnerable British nationals and their spouses, partners and children under 18. Britain\u2019s foreign secretary, David Lammy, repeated calls for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, after a call with his US counterpart, Antony Blinken. The French foreign minister, Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot, visited Lebanon where he urged Israel against any ground incursion into the country. Barrot said the 21-day ceasefire proposal submitted by France\u2019s president, Emmanuel Macron, and Biden was \u201cstill there on the table to be discussed\u201d, adding: \u201cThere is hope, but time is very limited.\u201d Germany evacuated some non-essential staff out of Lebanon, as well as families of embassy workers and German nationals who are medically vulnerable, a statement by the German foreign ministry said on Monday. The US embassy in Beirut said it was working with airlines \u201cto address US citizens request to depart Lebanon\u201d. A Lebanese security official told AFP that Israel conducted at least six strikes on south Beirut late on Monday and early Tuesday. \u201cSix or seven Israeli strikes hit the southern Beirut suburbs,\u201d the official told the news agency. Videos posted on social media show huge blasts in the Lebanese capital. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said 95 people had been killed in Israeli strikes across the country on Monday. An additional 172 people were injured in the past 24 hours, the ministry said. The UK government has announced it has chartered a commercial flight out of Lebanon for Britons wanting to leave amid escalating violence. The flight is due to leave Beirut-Rafic Hariri international airport on Wednesday, the foreign office said. Priority will be given to vulnerable British nationals and their spouses, partners and children under 18, it said. A statement by Britain\u2019s foreign secretary, David Lammy, reads: The situation in Lebanon is volatile and has potential to deteriorate quickly. The safety of British nationals in Lebanon continues to be our utmost priority. That\u2019s why the UK Government is chartering a flight to help those wanting to leave. It is vital that you leave now as further evacuation may not be guaranteed. Israel\u2019s security cabinet has approved the next phase of the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to Israeli media reports. Members of the cabinet gave their approval during a meeting of the Israeli security cabinet this evening, the Jerusalem Post reported. Israel carried out two more airstrikes in Dahieh, the southern suburbs of Beirut, the second pair of strikes producing explosions that rattled windowpanes in the capital city and were heard as far as Bhamdoun, a town in the mountains surrounding Lebanon. Israel conducted at least four airstrikes in Dahieh on Monday night. Israel has carried out airstrikes on at least 10 different locations across south Lebanon over the past two hours, in addition to shelling towns along the border with artillery, Lebanon\u2019s state news agency reported. Hezbollah said in a statement at midnight on Tuesday that it targeted a group of Israeli soldiers who were in the \u201corchard [trees]\u201d facing the Lebanese border towns of Adaisseh and Kafr Kila, \u201cachieving confirmed casualties\u201d. Kafr Kila is one of the towns that borders the area that Israel declared a closed military zone on Monday night, before a potential incursion over the Lebanese border. Even as the Israeli ground operation appeared to be beginning, Israeli commentators were quick to recall that previous Israeli incursions into Lebanon over the past four plus decades had ended without achieving their objectives, with the occupation of southern Lebanon (1985-2000) prompting the formation of Hezbollah. Among them was Netanyahu biographer Anshel Pfeffer, who remarked: Israel always knows how it goes into Lebanon. It\u2019s the exit-strategy it seems to struggle with. This government certainly doesn\u2019t have one. Israeli journalist Amichai Stein has posted a video that he said showed Israeli strikes hitting the Dahieh suburb of southern Beirut. At least two explosions have been reported over the area, after the Israeli military issued new instructions ordering residents of three buildings in Dahieh to evacuate immediately. Israel carried out two airstrikes in Dahieh, the southern suburbs of Beirut, just a little over 30 minutes after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for residents close to what it said were buildings housing Hezbollah installations. The sounds of explosions were heard by a Guardian correspondent in Lebanon\u2019s capital city. At least two Israeli strikes have been reported in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs, Reuters is reporting. The BBC\u2019s Nafiseh Kohnavard says she heard a loud explosion and that her apartment shook. It comes after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ordered residents to evacuate three areas in southern Beirut \u201cimmediately\u201d. While bombing in Lebanon\u2019s south continued, Israel\u2019s military spokesperson Avichay Adraee issued maps of three locations in the southern suburbs of Beirut, instructing residents to evacuate more than 500 metres away. Adraee said in a video posted on Twitter/X: To those present in the buildings specified in the map and those around them ... You are near [installations] which belong to Hezbollah, for your and your family\u2019s safety, you must evacuate these buildings immediately. This was at least the second time that Israel instructed residents of Dahieh to evacuate prior to strikes. On Friday, after carrying out sudden airstrikes which killed former secretary general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, Israel\u2019s military issued similar warnings to residents of the southern Beirut suburbs to leave, bombing the area soon after. The warnings, and subsequent bombings, almost entirely depopulated Dahieh and caused a wave of displacement within Lebanon\u2019s capital city. Many displaced residents have been sleeping rough since, unable to find accommodation or spaces in government-run shelters. A resident in Marjayoun, a town facing the Israel-Lebanon border that was being shelled on Monday night, said that a municipal official had received a phone call ordering the town\u2019s residents to evacuate \u2013 similar to phone calls residents Lebanon had been receiving over the last two weeks. However, before they could evacuate, Israeli shelling of the roads surrounding Marjayoun had already begun. The Marjayoun resident said: They called the Mukhtar of Marjayoun, and told us we needed to evacuate. But we can\u2019t move, the roads are filled with shelling and airstrikes. In Rmeish, a Christian border town that has been mostly spared from fighting over the past year, a first responder said that there had been shelling on Ayta al-Shaab, immediately to its west. \u201cThe army moved away from the border back to their barracks,\u201d the first responder said, echoing earlier reports that Lebanese soldiers had pulled back from their posts on the border. Footage posted by Israel\u2019s Channel 12 filmed in northern Israel showed a series of powerful detonations lighting up the sky on the Lebanese side of the border. An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson has warned Israelis not to publish information on troop movements following remarks by some rightwing Israeli politicians that indicated a significant military operation may be taking place in southern Lebanon. IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari cited security concerns in a post on Twitter/X. He said: In recent hours there have been many reports and rumors about IDF activity on the Lebanese border. We ask that no reports be circulated about the activities of the forces. \u201cStick to the official reports only and do not spread irresponsible rumors,\u201d he added. Earlier, Aryeh Deri, leader of the conservative Shas party, published a prayer asking God to protect Israeli troops operating \u201cfrom the border of Lebanon to the desert of Egypt\u201d. A meeting of Israel\u2019s security cabinet convened by Benjamin Netanyahu has ended, the Times of Israel is reporting. The Israeli prime minister is now consulting with a smaller group of ministers in his office, the outlet reports. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has issued evacuation orders for several areas in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs. Civilians near several buildings in the Dahieh neighbourhood of southern Beirut should evacuate immediately, the IDF said in a statement. Israel\u2019s Arabic-language military spokesperson Avichay Adraee posted a map alongside the announcement, showing the buildings in Dahieh. The head of the UN\u2019s agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) has denied knowing that one of its employees, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, was a Hamas commander in Lebanon. Hamas announced on Monday that the head of its Lebanon branch, Abu el-Amin, was killed along with family members in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon. Abu el-Amin was placed under investigation and suspended from his job at Unrwa in March following allegations concerning his politics, the agency\u2019s chief Philippe Lazzarini said. He told reporters: The specific allegation at the time was that (he was) a part of the local leadership...I never heard the word commander before. What\u2019s obvious for you today, was not obvious yesterday. Lazzarini, at a news conference in Geneva, called on UN members states to push back against Israeli attacks on the agency. The Israeli parliament has been working to declare the UN agency a \u201cterrorist body\u201d, a move that Lazzarini described as \u201cabsolutely unconscionable\u201d. The Unrwa chief accused Israel\u2019s government earlier this month of driving a campaign to drive the agency out of existence. Unrwa, one of the UN\u2019s largest agencies, has 13,000 staff working in Gaza and more than 30,000 in the region providing health and educational facilities to Palestinian refugees. Families of people who went missing in Israeli strikes on Lebanon have been urged to take DNA tests to identify the remains of loved ones. A statement by the Lebanese police, reported by AFP, urged families to head fo specialised centres \u201cto conduct DNA tests\u201d, adding that it was: To help families of those who went missing following the Israeli aggression on Lebanon and to make the process of identifying victims and their remains smoother. For the past week, Israel has heavily bombed the country\u2019s east, south and southern Beirut suburbs, killing hundreds of people and displacing up to one million. An AFP correspondent in southern Lebanon reported hospital morgues were filled with unidentified remains. Britain\u2019s foreign secretary, David Lammy, has repeated calls for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, after he held a call with his US counterpart, Antony Blinken. \u201cWe\u2019ve both seen the reports in the media about a next phase for Israel in Lebanon,\u201d Lammy told Sky News. He added: We both agreed the position that we had at the UN last week that the best way forward is an immediate ceasefire and to get back to a political solution \u2026 We both are urging de-escalation at this time. Lammy urged Britons in Lebanon to leave the country, warning that \u201cthe situation on the ground is fast moving\u201d. He added: Whilst we will do everything we can to protect British nationals - and those plans are in place to do so \u2013 we cannot anticipate the circumstances and the speed with which we could do that if things escalate in a major way over the coming hours and days. The Lebanese army has evacuated observation posts at Lebanon\u2019s southern border with Israel and moved to barracks in the border villages, CNN is reporting, citing a Lebanese security source. It comes after the Israeli military declared a closed military zone around three towns in the far north on its border with Lebanon. A Lebanese military official told AFP that the Lebanese army is repositioning troops stationed on its southern border. The Lebanese army is \u201crepositioning and regrouping forces\u201d at the southern border following threats of an Israeli incursion, the official told the new agency. As my colleague William Christou wrote earlier, Lebanese media is reporting Israeli shelling and firing tanks at border villages adjacent from the area it announced was a closed military border. Calls for a tougher response from Iran\u2019s reformist-led government redoubled after news that Brig Gen Abbas Nilforushan, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) deputy commander for Lebanon and Syria, had been killed in Beirut alongside the Hezbollah chief, Hassan Nasrallah. The dominant line in Iranian government circles remains that a direct war between Israel and Iran should be avoided as it would play into Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s hands and draw in the US \u2013 but that Hezbollah should not be left to fight alone. The atmosphere in Iran appeared to have been affected by Netanyahu\u2019s statement that Nasrallah\u2019s death was essential to \u201cchange the balance of power in the region\u201d. On Monday, the Israeli prime minister made an explicit call for regime change in Tehran, saying Iran will be \u201cfree \u2026 a lot sooner than people think\u201d. Read the full analysis here: The decapitation of Hezbollah leaves Iran weighing its options Lebanese media has reported that Israel has been shelling and firing tanks at border villages adjacent from the area it announced was a closed military border a few hours before, ahead of a reported Israeli land incursion of south Lebanon. The area around Khiam and Wizani, both facing the Lebanon-Israel border, have been shelled for at least two hours. They are both directly east of the closed military area specified by Israel\u2019s military spokesperson late on Monday night. If Israel did intend to conduct a land invasion across the Lebanese border, shelling and tank fire would likely precede their entry. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has declared the areas around the communities of Metula, Misgav Am, and Kfar Giladi in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon as a closed military zone. Entry to those areas around the communities was prohibited, the IDF said. It said the decision was taken following a situational assessment and signed off by the chief of Israel\u2019s northern command, Ori Gordin. Lebanese troops have pulled back from positions along Lebanon\u2019s southern border with Israel, Reuters is reporting, citing local residents and several security sources. A Lebanese security source told the news agency that Lebanese troops have pulled back to at least five kilometres north of the border. Another security source said the troops pulled back to larger army bases in the area. Reports are coming in that the Lebanese army is in the process of withdrawing from the border area close to Israel, Lebanon\u2019s southern neighbour. The news agency Reuters has said sources have told them the country\u2019s military is pulling back from \u201cseveral positions on the southern border with Israel\u201d, while adding that a Lebanese army spokesperson has neither confirmed nor denied such reports. Separately, Iran-backed Hezbollah has been launching rockets into Israel from the border area and has been the target of heavy attacks from Israel in recent days. The Lebanese army is part of the official national military of Lebanon, under the control of the central government, and has not been waging a military offensive against Israel since last October, unlike Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a separate entity with its own military wing that is known to be more powerful than the Lebanese army. The United Nations peacekeepers mission in Lebanon, under Security Council Resolution 1701, is to \u201ccontrol the area\u201d and help the Lebanese government and armed forces establish control south of the Litani River, which is around 30km (20 miles) from the border with Israel. The resolution ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, the AFP writes. It called for all armed personnel to pull back north of the Litani, except for Lebanese state security forces and United Nations peacekeepers. While Hezbollah has not had a visible military presence in the border area since then, the group still holds sway over large parts of the south. Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, said the peacekeepers: Are able to observe what they can from where they are but they are not doing any road patrols.\u201d Dujarric said some civilian staff \u201chave been moved north\u201d as a precaution. We have a contingency plan and we\u2019re looking at the situation hour by hour,\u201d he added. United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon have been unable to conduct patrols because of the intensity of Israeli strikes and Hezbollah\u2019s rockets targeting Israel, a UN spokesman said earlier today. With more than 10,000 personnel, the peacekeeping force, Unifil (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon), has been stationed in Lebanon since 1978, with its role strengthened after a 33-day conflict between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports. Our Unifil Blue Helmets remain in position in the mission\u2019s area of responsibility, while the intensity of fighting is preventing their movements and ability to undertake their mandated tasks. Given the intensity of the rockets going back and forth, they are not able to do patrolling,\u201d Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, told a media briefing. Even before the dramatic escalation in fighting seen in recent weeks, several Blue Helmets had been wounded in the crossfire between Israel and Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah movement. Here\u2019s a recap of the latest developments: Israel has launched small, precision raids across the border in Lebanon and a larger ground operation is being planned, AP is reporting, citing two officials. It was not clear if Israel had made a final decision on a broader operation, the news agency reported. Israel has told the US it is planning a \u201climited\u201d ground operation in Lebanon that could start \u201cimminently\u201d, according to multiple US media reports. A US official said it had looked like Israel was planning a major ground invasion but the plan now appears to have been \u201csignificantly scaled down\u201d. Israel\u2019s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, said that \u201cnext phase of the war against Hezbollah will begin soon\u201d, in comments that further indicate that Israel plants to mount a ground invasion of Lebanon. Gallant earlier on Monday told troops in the north of the country that \u201cwe will use all of our capabilities \u2013 including you\u201d. Hezbollah\u2019s deputy leader Naim Qassem said the group would shortly appoint a replacement for assassinated leader Hassan Nasrallah, and claimed Hezbollah was still only using a fraction of the group\u2019s capabilities to attack Israel. In a defiant address, he boasted of the range of Hezbollah\u2019s weaponry, and said that the group would continue to fight. Iran\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson said Israel \u201cwill not go unpunished for the crimes it has committed\u201d. Nasser Kanaani said \u201cWe do not make empty promises. Iran will not leave any aggressive actions of the Zionist regime, which target Iran\u2019s interests, unanswered\u201d. Israel\u2019s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a fresh warning to Iran on Monday, saying \u201cthere is nowhere in the Middle East Israel cannot reach\u201d. A Lebanese solider has been killed by an Israeli drone strike, Lebanon\u2019s army announced. Since Israel stepped up its air attacks, which it says are targeting Hezbollah, in Lebanon 1,000 people are reported to have been killed, with 6,000 more wounded, and one million people displaced from their homes by Israeli strikes Throughout the day Israel\u2019s military continued to report projectiles being fired into northern Israel from the direction of Lebanon. There have been no reports of any casualties. Earlier Israel reported intercepting a UAV out at sea, believed to be targeting infrastructure at the Karish gas field. Yemen\u2019s Houthis said they will escalate military operations against Israel in response to its attacks on the country on Sunday. Germany has evacuated some non-essential staff out of Lebanon, as well as families of embassy workers and German nationals who are medically vulnerable, a statement by the German foreign ministry said on Monday. The UK government has said it is doing \u201ceverything we can\u201d to secure seats on commercial flights as it reiterated calls for British nationals to leave Lebanon. The US embassy in Beirut said it is working with airlines \u201cto address US citizens request to depart Lebanon\u201d. The embassy said it will provide additional flights \u201cwith seats for personal purchase\u201d. The European Union\u2019s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell convened an extraordinary informal meeting of EU foreign ministers to discuss the EU\u2019s response to the latest escalation While Israel continues airstrikes on Lebanon, its assault on the Gaza Strip also continues, with at least 12 people including journalist Wafa Al-Udaini reported dead in strikes on Monday Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that Israeli security forces have detained 45 people in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in the past 24 hours US state department spokesperson Matthew Miller says Washington wants to ultimately see a diplomatic resolution to the conflict. Miller says the US \u201cof course\u201d continues to support a ceasefire but, he says sometimes people \u201ceither misinterpret or have their own version of what a ceasefire is.\u201d A ceasefire is not one side in a conflict unilaterally putting down its arms and stopping the conflict. It is an agreement for both sides to stop the conflict. In this case, what we have proposed is a 21 day ceasefire where both sides would stop attacking the other and we would reach a diplomatic resolution. He says the US will continue to engage with Israeli and Lebanese counterparts to reach that objective. Miller adds: Military pressure can, at times, enable diplomacy. Of course, military pressure can also lead to miscalculation. It can lead to unintended consequences, and we\u2019re in conversations with Israel about all these factors now. The US state department\u2019s spokesperson, Matthew Miller, is holding a briefing with reporters. Miller says the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and other senior US officials have been monitoring and responding to \u201cunfolding events in the Middle East\u201d over the weekend. He says he will let Israel \u201cspeak to its own military operations\u201d, including the \u201ctiming, purpose, tempo of those\u201d operations\u201d. He adds that the US has been engaged in conversations with Israel about those operations. About reports about Israeli ground operations in Lebanon, Miller says: We\u2019ve had some conversations with them about that. They have told us that those are limited operations focused on Hezbollah infrastructure near the border, but we\u2019re in continuous conversations with them about it. The Israeli military said it is \u201cpreparing for the next steps in the fighting\u201d in a statement on Monday. In the statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) added that the chief of Israel\u2019s northern command, Maj Gen Ori Gordin, recently approved tactical battle plans with officers who would potentially be involved in a ground offensive in Lebanon, the Times of Israel reports. Israel has launched small, precision raids across the border in Lebanon and a larger ground operation is being planned, AP is reporting, citing two officials. It was not clear if Israel had made a final decision on a broader operation, the news agency reported. Benjamin Netanyahu issued a warning to Iran on Monday that there was nowhere in the Middle East beyond Israel\u2019s reach, two days after Israel\u2019s military killed the leader of the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. In a video address, Netanyahu said Israel\u2019s enemy was the Iranian government, not the Iranian people, and that when the government fell, its people would be better off. Yemen\u2019s Houthis said they will escalate military operations against Israel in response to its attacks on the country on Sunday. On Sunday, Israel bombed Houthi targets in Yemen in strikes that killed at least four people and wounded 29 others, according to the Houthi-run health ministry. Israel\u2019s military said dozens of aircraft, including fighter jets, had attacked power plants and a seaport in the port city of Hodeidah and the port of Ras Issa. It was the second such Israeli attack on Yemen in just over two months. In July, Israeli planes struck Houthi military targets near Hodeidah after a Yemeni drone hit Tel Aviv and killed one man. A spokesperson for the Houthis said after Sunday\u2019s strikes would not cause the Iran-backed group to \u201cabandon Gaza and Lebanon\u201d. The Pentagon said an unspecified number of American troops have been put on prepare to deploy orders. Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh told reporters on Monday: [US secretary of state Lloyd] Austin increased the readiness of additional US forces to deploy, elevating our preparedness to respond to various contingencies. I\u2019m just not going to get into specifics for [operational security] reasons, but these forces cover a wide range of capabilities and missions. The US and Israel are still in discussions \u201cabout the best way forward\u201d, Singh said in response to questions about whether Israel was planning a ground invasion in Lebanon. She said: We\u2019re continuing to engage with them, trying to learn more. We continue discussions on the best way forward. Syria\u2019s foreign minister, Bassam Sabbagh, has warned that Israel\u2019s strikes in Lebanon, Gaza, the occupied Golan Heights and his own country are propelling the region to the edge of perilous \u201cescalation and confrontation\u201d. Sabbagh was addressing the UN general assembly on Monday, where he urged all countries to work toward ending \u201cIsraeli aggression\u201d and to hold Israel accountable, AP reported. The Syrian minister accused the US and other, unnamed nations of giving Israel \u201cimmunity, impunity, and unlimited support\u201d. Sabbagh said: This large-scale Israeli aggression, which is unfettered by any restrictions and limitations, is pushing the region to the brink of a dangerous escalation and confrontation whose consequences cannot be predicted. The US has observed positioning of Israeli troops that suggests that a ground incursion into Lebanon could be imminent, a US official has told Reuters. The official declined to offer further details on the posture of Israeli forces and declined further comment, according to Reuters. Benjamin Netanyahu will convene ministers from Israel\u2019s security cabinet this evening, according to his office. After the meeting, the Israeli leader will hold consultations with several ministers, Amichai Stein of Israel\u2019s Kan news reports, amid increasing speculation that Israel could imminently launch a ground incursion into Lebanon. Israel appears ready to mount a limited ground invasion of southern Lebanon, the Washington Post is reporting, citing a US official. According to the paper, the US official said it had looked like Israel was planning a major ground invasion. But the plan now appears to have been \u201csignificantly scaled down\u201d, the paper writes. The Israeli plan in southern Lebanon will be focused on \u201cclearing out Hezbollah infrastructure near Israeli border communities\u201d, including \u201cdestroying Hezbollah tunnels, rocket launchers, weapons caches and other infrastructure\u201d, the US official said. Israel has indicated that they would conduct \u201climited raids in a number of villages along the border\u201d, the US official said, citing discussions within the Biden administration over the weekend. Israel will then pull its forces back, the US official said. The Israeli strategic purpose is to \u201censure that Hezbollah cannot sustain its capacity to attack Israeli communities on the other side of the border\u201d, the paper wrote. The paper quoted an Israeli familiar with military deliberations who corroborated the US official\u2019s account. The Israeli source said: Israel has plans for a limited operation that will be imminent. They are in line with the Americans. The understanding is that they are not going to do another Gaza. As we reported earlier, Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, appeared to hint on Monday at a possible ground operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Gallant, in a video statement, told armoured corps near the border with Lebanon that Israel will do whatever it takes to return its citizens to evacuated communities on its northern border safely. Here\u2019s a clip of Gallant\u2019s statement: Air France is suspending flights between Paris and Tel Aviv, and between Paris and Beirut, until 8 October due to concerns over the regional security situation, according to the airline. Hezbollah said it fired a \u201cNour Missile\u201d at Israel, which sources familiar with the Shia militant group told Reuters is a ballistic missile. It was the first time they have used the missile, the statement said. The missile hit the village of Kafr Giladi in northern Israel, the Hezbollah statement said, adding that it had fired it in response to \u201cIsraeli violations of cities, villages, and civilians.\u201d US president Joe Biden called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, as he indicated he was opposed to a potential Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon. Asked if he was comfortable with Israel\u2019s plan for a limited ground invasion of Lebanon, Biden replied: I\u2019m more aware than you might know and I\u2019m comfortable with them stopping. We should have a ceasefire now. The Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said that \u201cnext phase of the war against Hezbollah will begin soon\u201d, in comments that further indicate that Israel plants to mount a ground invasion of Lebanon. Gallant, in a meeting of local council heads in northern Israel on Monday, reported by the Times of Israel, said: The next stage in the war against Hezbollah will begin soon \u2026 We will do this. And as I said here a month ago [that] we will shift the center of gravity [to the north], this is what I say now: We will change the situation and return the residents home. As we reported earlier, Gallant hinted of an Israeli ground incursion of Lebanon as he addressed troops on Monday. CBS is also now reporting that Israel has notified the US that it intends to launch a limited ground incursion into Lebanon, according to a US official, after a report by the Washington Post. That operation could start as soon as today, the US official told CBS, the BBC reported. India\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, saud he had spoken to his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, about \u201crecent developments in West Asia\u201d. India is \u201ccommitted to supporting efforts for an early restoration of peace and stability,\u201d Modi wrote in a post on X. Terrorism has no place in our world. It is crucial to prevent regional escalation and ensure the safe release of all hostages. Israel\u2019s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a fresh warning to Iran on Monday, saying \u201cthere is nowhere in the Middle East Israel cannot reach\u201d. Netanyahu, in a video statement in English, addressed the people of Iran and warned that their government was bringing them \u201ccloser to the abyss\u201d. Netanyahu said: There is nowhere we will not go to protect our people and protect our country. He said Iran and Israel would be at peace when Iran is \u201cfinally free\u201d, which he said would \u201ccome a lot sooner than people think\u201d. \u201cEverything will be different,\u201d he said. Our two countries, Israel and Iran, will be at peace. Iran will thrive as never before. French foreign minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot said Lebanon must elect a president as soon as possible. \u201cThe Lebanese must look solid,\u201d Barrot told reporters at a news conference in Lebanon. We will support the army of Lebanon \u2026 In these painful circumstances, France will stay for the side of Lebanon and the Lebanese. Lebanon\u2019s prime minister, Najib Mikati, met with Barrot in Beirut earlier on Monday. According to a statement from his office, Mikati said: The key to the solution is to put an end to the Israeli aggression against Lebanon and to revive the appeal launched by the United States and France... in favour of a ceasefire. The French foreign minister, Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot, has been holding a news conference during a visit to Lebanon. Barrot urged all parties to accept the 21-day ceasefire proposal submitted by his president, Emmanuel Macron, and the US president, Joe Biden. The proposal was \u201cstill there on the table to be discussed\u201d, he told reporters. \u201cThere is hope, but time is very limited.\u201d He added: I urge Israel to stop any ground incursion and to stop firing, and I urge Hezbollah to not make any step that will lead to the destabilisation of the security in the region. Filippo Grandi, the UN\u2019s high commissioner for refugees, said the number of people crossing into Syria from Lebanon had reached 100,000. Israel has told the US it is planning a \u201climited\u201d ground operation in Lebanon that could start \u201cimminently\u201d, the Washington Post has reported, citing a US official. The US official told the paper that Israel\u2019s planned campaign would be \u201csmaller than its last war against Hezbollah in 2006\u201d and would focus on \u201cclearing out militant infrastructure along the border to remove the threat to Israeli border communities\u201d. The US embassy in Beirut said it is working with airlines \u201cto address US citizens request to depart Lebanon\u201d. Posting to X, the US embassy said it will provide additional flights \u201cwith seats for personal purchase\u201d. The US embassy also urged American citizens currently in Lebanon to depart \u201cwhile commercial options still remain available\u201d, and that they should \u201cexercise security awareness of their surroundings, maintain a low profile, and take appropriate measures to ensure their safety and security.\u201d On Sunday, some employees at the US embassy in Beirut and their family members were ordered to leave Lebanon. A US state department statement on Sunday said: US Embassy Beirut personnel are restricted from personal travel without advance permission. Additional travel restrictions may be imposed on U.S. personnel under Chief of Mission security responsibility, with little to no notice due to increased security issues or threats. Germany has evacuated some non-essential staff out of Lebanon, as well as families of embassy workers and German nationals who are medically vulnerable, a statement by the German foreign ministry said on Monday. The German foreign ministry raised its crisis level for missions in Beirut, Ramallah and Tel Aviv again at the weekend, though the embassies there remain operational, Reuters reported. There are currently 1,800 German citizens in Lebanon who have registered on the ministry\u2019s emergency preparedness Elefand list, a spokesperson for the ministry said. According to the German news agency dpa, a ministry spokesperson said it was assisting people seeking to leave Lebanon but that \u201cwe are not explicitly in an evacuation scenario\u201d right now. Israel\u2019s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, appears to have hinted that Israel intends to mount a ground invasion of Lebanon, after he told troops in the north of the country that \u201cWe will use all of our capabilities \u2013 including you\u201d. Gallant said that returning Israelis to their homes in the north \u2013 about 60,000 have been forced to evacuate by repeated rocket fire from Lebanon \u2013 was \u201cthe mission of the IDF\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s deputy leader Naim Qassem issued a defiant statement, saying that the group would shortly appoint a replacement for assassinated leader Hassan Nasrallah, and claimed Hezbollah was still only using a fraction of the group\u2019s capabilities to attack Israel. He boasted of the range of Hezbollah\u2019s weaponry, and said that the group would continue to fight. He suggested that any other organisation subjected to the pager and walkie-talkie sabotage attack in Lebanon would have collapsed, but Hezbollah did not. The attack, which killed dozens and injured thousands of others, has been widely attributed to an Israeli attempt to target Hezbollah operatives Iran\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson has said Israel \u201cwill not go unpunished for the crimes it has committed\u201d. Nasser Kanaani said \u201cWe do not make empty promises. Iran will not leave any aggressive actions of the Zionist regime, which target Iran\u2019s interests, unanswered\u201d A Lebanese solider has been killed by an Israeli drone strike, Lebanon\u2019s army has announced. Since Israel stepped up its air attacks, which it says are targeting Hezbollah, in Lebanon 1,000 people are reported to have been killed, with 6,000 more wounded, and one million people displaced from their homes by Israeli strikes Throughout the day Israel\u2019s military has continued to report projectiles being fired into northern Israel from the direction of Lebanon. There have been no reports of any casualties. Earlier Israel reported intercepting a UAV out at sea, believed to be targeting infrastructure at the Karish gas field The UK government has said it is doing \u201ceverything we can\u201d to secure seats on commercial flights as it reiterated calls for British nationals to leave Lebanon The European Union\u2019s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell convened an extraordinary informal meeting of EU foreign ministers to discuss the EU\u2019s response to the latest escalation While Israel continues airstrikes on Lebanon, its assault on the Gaza Strip also continues, with at least 12 people including journalist Wafa Al-Udaini reported dead in strikes on Monday Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that Israeli security forces have detained 45 people in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in the past 24 hours Here are some of the latest pictures from Lebanon over the news wires. Israeli media reports that the latest barrage fired towards Israel from the direction Lebanon consisted of 25 projectiles heading towards western Galilee. A Lebanese solider has been killed by an Israeli drone strike, Lebanon\u2019s army has announced. The National News Agency reports that in a statement the army said \u201cone of the soldiers was martyred as a result of an Israeli enemy drone targeting a motorcycle\u201d. It said the incident happened at a checkpoint. Israel has claimed it is targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon. So far, since Israel stepped up its aerial bombardment of Lebanon, about 1,000 people have been killed and 6,000 injured, with the government stating that one million Lebanese people have been forced to flee their homes. Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that Israeli security forces have detained 45 people in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in the past 24 hours. It states that the total number of people detained by Israeli forces since 7 October now exceeds 11,000. The claims have not been independently verified. Britain has said that all sides should seek de-escalation and a ceasefire after Israeli strikes on Lebanon, adding that arms export licences to Israel are held under \u201cconstant review\u201d. A spokesperson for prime minister Keir Starmer said that Britain\u2019s support for Israel\u2019s right to self-defence was \u201cironclad\u201d but that only a ceasefire could restore stability and security to the region. \u201cClearly we stood with Israel previously. We do repeatedly say that Israel has the right to defend itself, but our focus now is on a ceasefire, and we call on all sides to show restraint, to step back from the brink and avoid any further escalation,\u201d he said. He was also asked about arms export licences. In response, the spokesperson said: \u201cIt\u2019s slightly distinct, the arms export criteria specifically in legislation, but it\u2019s kept under constant review, and the UK is continually obliged to review its position on that, and obviously we\u2019ll continue to do so and provide any updates if anything was to change in that.\u201d The British government has said it is doing \u201ceverything we can\u201d to secure seats on commercial flights as it reiterated calls for British nationals to leave Lebanon, PA Media reports. The prime minister\u2019s official spokesperson said: \u201cThe prime minister has been very, very clear that British nationals should leave now, particularly whilst commercial flights are still available. \u201cWe\u2019re doing everything we can to work with commercial airlines to maximise capacity because we want people to leave, and I understand that there have been extra Middle East Airlines flights leaving Lebanon over the weekend, another scheduled for Tuesday and we have secured seats for British nationals on those flights.\u201d The spokesperson added: \u201cWhat we\u2019re focused on at the moment is securing extra spaces on commercial flights for those who do want to leave and reiterating our calls for those to leave and to register their presence with us and book the first available flights. We\u2019re also working to send a rapid deployment team to bolster the efforts of our embassy in supporting British nationals who want to leave.\u201d Asked why an evacuation has not started, the spokesperson said: \u201cWe\u2019ve been clear whilst there are commercial flights available, British nationals can and, indeed, should leave.\u201d The spokesperson also pointed to the deployment of 700 troops, alongside Border Force and Foreign Office officials, to Cyprus to continue work on \u201call contingency options and plan for a range of scenarios in the region\u201d. Bahrain\u2019s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has said it is important to preserve Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and to intensify efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza, Reuters reports. The death toll from an Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese town of Ain Deleb has risen to 45, Reuters reports, citing Lebanon\u2019s health ministry. Al Jazeera is carrying a fuller version of Iran\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson\u2019s quotes from earlier, in which he said Israel \u201cwill not go unpunished for the crimes it has committed.\u201d Nasser Kanaani said during a news briefing: We do not make empty promises, we have shown in practice that we stand firmly against aggressors who intend to violate Iran\u2019s national security, and our response will be regretful for them. Iran will not leave any aggressive actions of the Zionist regime, which target Iran\u2019s interests, unanswered. This regime will not go unpunished for the crimes it has committed, and Iran will take appropriate measures in response. Israel\u2019s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, appears to have hinted that Israel intends to mount a ground invasion of Lebanon, after he told troops in the north of the country that \u201cWe will use all of our capabilities \u2013 including you.\u201d Gallant said that returning Israelis to their homes in the north \u2013 about 60,000 have been forced to evacuate by repeated rocket fire from Lebanon \u2013 was \u201cthe mission of the IDF.\u201d He continued: That is what we will do, and we will deploy whatever is needed \u2013 you, other forces, from the air, from the sea, and from the land. He described the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as \u201ca very important step, but that\u2019s not all.\u201d Earlier, Hezbollah\u2019s deputy leader Naim Qassem issued a defiant statement, saying that the group would shortly appoint a replacement for Nasrallah, and claimed Hezbollah was still only using a fraction of the group\u2019s capabilities to attack Israel. He boasted of the range of Hezbollah\u2019s weaponry, and said that the group would continue to fight. He suggested that any other organisation subjected to the pager and walkie-talkie sabotage attack in Lebanon would have collapsed, but Hezbollah did not. The attack, which killed dozens and injured thousands of others, has been widely attributed to an Israeli attempt to target Hezbollah operatives. While Israel continues airstrikes on Lebanon, its assault on Gaza also continues, with 12 people including a journalist reported dead in strikes on Monday. In Lebanon 1,000 people are reported to have been killed, with 6,000 more wounded, and one million people displaced from their homes by Israeli strikes. Over the weekend Israel attacked targets in the Houthi-controlled region of Yemen, and on Monday morning there were reports of explosions in Damascus in Syria. Reuters reports that 12 people, including journalist Wafa Al-Udaini, have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza today. It cited Palestinian health officials. Udaini\u2019s death raised the number of Palestinian journalists killed in the Israeli offensive since 7 October to 174, the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said. The Committee to Protect Journalists puts the figure slightly lower, at 116 journalists and media workers killed since 7 October, which still makes it the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict. Germany\u2019s foreign spokesperson has said that Israel\u2019s assassination of Hezbollah\u2019s leader Hassan Nasrallah, via an airstrike on a residential area of Lebanon\u2019s capital Beirut, was use of Israel\u2019s right to self-defence. Reuters reports the spokesperson said: Hezbollah is of course a terrorist organization and it was obviously a meeting of the top leadership of Hezbollah, from which one can assume, even from a distance, that they were planning their further operations. So in this respect, there are also reasons to believe that the right to self-defence was exercised here. Lebanon will hold a parliamentary session to elect a new president as soon as a ceasefire in the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel takes hold, Retuers reports the caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati said on Monday after talks with the house speaker. Lebanon has been without a president since October 2022, when the term of Michel Aoun ended. The Kremlin on Monday condemned the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli air attack last week, Reuters reports. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Nasrallah\u2019s death had led to a serious destabilisation in the broader region. He said the bombing of residential areas in Lebanon had caused heavy casualties and would create a humanitarian catastrophe akin to the one in Gaza. Israel\u2019s military has issued a statement about the killing of Fatah Sharif Abu al-Amine, the leader of Hamas in Lebanon, who the organisation earlier said was killed in an airstrike. In the statement, Israel said: Overnight, during a joint IDF and ISA intelligence-based activity, the IAF struck and eliminated the terrorist Fatah Sharif, head of the Lebanon branch in the Hamas terrorist organisation. Sharif was responsible for coordinating Hamas\u2019 terror activities in Lebanon with Hezbollah operatives. He was also responsible for Hamas\u2019 efforts in Lebanon to recruit operatives and acquire weapons. He led the Hamas terrorist organization\u2019s force buildup efforts in Lebanon and operated to advance Hamas\u2019 interests in Lebanon, both politically and militarily. The IDF and the ISA will to continue to operate against anyone who poses a threat to the civilians of the state of Israel. In another part of his address, the Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem said that Israeli tactics against the organisation consisted of \u201ctwo tracks\u201d. He said: To our families and our beloved ones, I know the sacrifice is great. And the enemy works on two tracks. One to attack the military capabilities and the leaders of the resistance. The other track to hit the towns, villages and civilians, to create a rift between the resistance and the people. The Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem did not announce replacements for any of the senior figures recently assassinated by Israel, but said the matter was in hand. He said \u201cin our hierarchy, we have deputies for all commanders. We have other alternatives in case the leader was killed or got injured.\u201d He added \u201cWe will choose a secretary general for Hezbollah sooner [rather] than later, according to the mechanism put in to select the new secretary general. And all the posts, all the vacancies will be filled.\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s deputy secretary-general, Naim Qassem, in an address, has claimed Israel is committing massacres of civilians in Lebanon with the full support of the US, that Hezbollah \u2018love martyrdom\u2019, and that any other organisation would have collapsed in the face of the attacks launched at it by Israel, but it did not. He pledged the group would continue to fight Israel and \u201cvictory will be ours\u201d. He said Israel is committing crimes and massacres in every part of Lebanon. Israel has chosen particular villages and towns and houses, and every house has the traces of the Israeli aggression. Israel attacks the civilians, the medics. Israel attacks everyone who walks in the streets and, everyone who stays in the houses. They are not fighters. The Israeli forces are killing, committing massacres and crimes against the civilians The US administration is supporting Israel by all means, and America is a partner with Israel in everything, through the unlimited military support, all types and kinds of support, culturally, politically, economically. And if Israel thinks that determination to be brutal and to continue aggressions, then Israel is deluded. The pains are there, the sacrifices are there. But everyone must know that we love martyrdom. He went on to say: We have sacrificed a lot since the pager operations and the martyrdom of the leaders and the martyrdom of the leader. If this happens anywhere else, these organisations will collapse, but we did not. We are going on despite the pains and the sacrifices. We are going on because we have the hope and we trust Allah almighty to be victorious. We are the people of jihad. He boasted of Hezbollah\u2019s reach into Israel and ability to target places like Haifa, and said that just one missile had caused a large number of Israelis to flee their homes. He said that Hezbollah would continue to fight, saying: We are all there in the field, despite the loss of some leaders and Hassan Nasrallah the main target, and despite the aggressive attacks against all the civilians in Lebanon, despite the sacrifices and the actions that are aimed to create chaos in our front. We will stay there. We will be steadfast. We will continue the Islamic resistance. We will continue facing the Israeli enemy in support of Palestine and Gaza and in defence of our Lebanese people. He suggested that Hezbollah was currently using \u201cthe minimum efforts from our side\u201d and said that \u201cWe are strong enough, and we will turn the Israelis mad because they will never, ever be able to reach and hit and hurt our military capabilities.\u201d He finished by saying \u201cWe need to be patient. We need some time. But the tools and equipment are there. Allah almight asked us to prepare the tools and the equipment and inshallah, this is happening, and this will happen, and peace be upon you all.\u201d Please note this is a transcription of the address as it was being translated live into English. Hezbollah\u2019s deputy secretary-general, Naim Qassem has begun an address, and said the group lost a brother and a leader when Israel assassinated Hassan Nasrallah. He has offered condolences to the families of everybody who was killed in the same strike. Reuters reports, citing the state news agency WAM, that the UAE is to pledge an urgent relief aid package worth $100m (\u00a374.5m / \u20ac89.3m) to Lebanon. While Israel steps up its attacks on targets inside Lebanon to its north, the Israeli military also continues operations in Gaza to its south-west. Hani Mahmoud reporting for Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, tells the news network: Since this morning, we\u2019ve been seeing funeral after funeral in the halls of the hospital. And there are more bodies still in the morgue as officials are waiting for family members to arrive and take them for burial. Additionally, more shelters have been attacked by Israel, deepening the trauma as it plays out this psychological warfare. The Palestinians\u2019 sense of safety is shattered by these attacks. Al Jazeera has been banned from operating inside Israel by Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government, which has also raided and closed the network\u2019s officie in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. There are multiple unconfirmed reports of explosions being heard in Damascus in Syria. More details soon \u2026 Our video team have put together this report on Israel\u2019s attack against the Houthi-controlled Yemeni Red Sea port city of Hodeidah. Israel\u2019s military has stated on its official Telegram channel that in the last hour about 35 projectiles have crossed into northern Israel from Lebanon. It said \u201cseveral projectiles were intercepted and the rest fell in open areas\u201d. There are no reports of any casualties. There are media reports that Hezbollah deputy secretary-general, Naim Qassem, will be giving a speech at noon local time (9am GMT). More details soon \u2026 Iran will not leave any of \u201cthe criminal acts\u201d of Israel unanswered, Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said in a weekly news conference on Monday, Reuters reports. In other Iranian reaction, the Tasnim news agency quotes head of the Iranian government information council, Elias Hazrati, saying: We will show the defeat of Israel to the people of the world. The experience of the past several decades shows that the page will return. Hezbollah\u2019s foundations are so strong that there is no possibility of disruption on its path. Hezbollah has kicked Israel out of Lebanon many times. A terrorist who should have been arrested is now ordering assassinations from the United Nation. Hezbollah has not used its weapons and now it must start. The Islamic Republic of Iran stands by the people of Lebanon and Hezbollah, and we use all our capacity to help Hezbollah and the people of Lebanon. Here are some of the latest images sent to us from Lebanon over the news wires. The European Union\u2019s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is convening an extraordinary informal meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday to discuss the EU\u2019s response to the latest escalation in Lebanon, Rueters reports an EU spokesperson said on Monday. Here is the latest round-up of news from the Middle East crisis from my colleague Peter Beaumont: Israel\u2019s rapidly expanding war on multiple fronts saw it strike central Beirut for the first time since 2006 early on Monday, after heavy Israeli air strikes involving dozens of aircraft bombed Yemen hours earlier in a long range raid. The latest strike came as the UN reported some 100,000 people had fled Lebanon for Syria since the latest escalation in the war and as CNN quoted an unnamed figure in the Biden administration saying that the US has changed it military posture in the Middle East amid concerns Iran might attack Israel in response for Israel\u2019s assassination of Hezbollah\u2019s ling time leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday. The Beirut strike targeted three senior figures in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a group associated with a series of high profile aircraft hijackings in the 1970s. The left wing faction, which has not played a significant role in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, said that its military and security commanders in Lebanon, and a third member, were killed in the attack. Israeli strikes on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, and elsewhere continued on Monday as the Palestinian militant group Hamas said its leader in Lebanon was killed Monday in a strike on the country\u2019s south. Monday\u2019s airstrike comes after Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said 105 people had been killed and another 359 injured by Israeli strikes across the country on Sunday. More than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, it said, without saying how many were civilians. The government said a million people \u2013 a fifth of the population \u2013 have fled their homes. Here is the video clip of US president Joe Biden saying \u201ca broader war in the Middle East had to be averted\u201d. Despite diplomatic efforts the US, Egypt and Qatar have been unable to broker a deal between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza since the 2023 deal ended ten months ago on 30 November. Itay Blumental, who is military correspondent at Israel\u2019s Channel 11, reports on social media that the UAV intercepted earlier by Israel\u2019s military was targeted at infrastructure in the Karish gas field out at sea. Israel\u2019s military has also issued a video which it says shows the interception. The Karish gas field belongs to Israel as part of a deal brokered with Lebanon over disputed waters in 2022. Reuters and Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency are both also reporting an Israeli strike on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs. Since Israel stepped up its campaign in its north in the past two weeks, more than 1,000 Lebanese people have been killed and 6,000 wounded. Lebanon\u2019s government has said a million people \u2013 a fifth of the population \u2013 have fled their homes. About 60,000 people in northern Israel have been forced to evacuate due to Hezbollah and other anti-Israeli forces launchiung rockets into the north of the country. There are unconfirmed media reports, including from Israeli army radio, that Israel has again struck at the southern suburbs of Beirut in Lebanon. More details soon \u2026 Israel\u2019s military has reported on its official Telegram channel that it intercepted a UAV that had crossed into Israel\u2019s territorial water in the north. The claim has not been independently verified. Israeli media outlet Haaretz reports that families of those being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas have gathered to protest in Jerusalem outside the residence of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling for a ceasefire deal and their release. On 7 October 2023 about 250 people were seized in southern Israel and taken hostage. Nearly a year later, Israeli authorities believe that about 100 of them are still in captivity in Gaza. Hamas said on Monday that its leader in Lebanon had been killed in an airstrike in the country\u2019s south, as official media reported a strike on a Palestinian refugee camp. \u201cFatah Sharif Abu al-Amine, the leader of Hamas \u2026 in Lebanon and member of the movement\u2019s leadership abroad\u201d was killed in a strike on his \u201chome in the Al-Bass camp in south Lebanon\u201d, a Hamas statement said. Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency reported an airstrike on the camp near the southern city of Tyre. A Palestinian militant group said three of its leaders were killed in an Israeli attack on central Beirut early on Monday, in what would be the first time Israel\u2019s military had struck the centre of Lebanon\u2019s capital city since 2006. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a militant group taking part in the fight against Israel, said three senior figures were killed in the Beirut attack, with initial footage from the scene showing two storeys of an apartment building completely blown out, and onlookers running towards the building. Two bodies could be seen lying on the street atop a car outside the building, seemingly ejected by the force of the blast. The sound of the explosion was heard around the city. There was no immediate comment from Israel\u2019s military. The Beirut strike, carried out using a drone, according to one source quoted by Agence France-Presse, hit near the Kola intersection, a popular reference point in the city, where taxis and buses gather to pick up passengers. A hundred munitions \u2013 including, it is believed, US-made 2,000lb bombs \u2013 were used by the Israeli air force in Friday evening\u2019s overwhelming air raid that killed the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an underground complex hidden in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh. Nasrallah, who was careful to the point of paranoia about his security arrangements and only rarely appeared in public, would have given little notice of his plan to undertake the fateful trip to the meeting. But the intelligence penetration of Hezbollah was so deep that Israel knew Nasrallah and other surviving members of Hezbollah\u2019s already decimated leadership would be meeting at the supposedly secret location \u2013 and that an order to bomb them could be given. Benjamin Netanyahu was required to give permission to undertake the attack from New York, where the Israeli prime minister had given a bellicose speech at the UN general assembly. There was, presumably, felt to be little time to wait. According to an unsubstantiated report in the French newspaper Le Parisien, the mole who informed the Israelis that Nasrallah was on his way to the bunker was Iranian. If true, it would be eye-catching, given that Iran is Hezbollah\u2019s principal backer. Hello and welcome to the Guardian\u2019s continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. Palestinian militant group Hamas has said that its leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, was killed along with some of his family members in an Israeli strike in the south of the country. It comes as another Palestinian group announced that three of its leaders were killed in an Israeli strike on central Beirut, which if confirmed would be the first attack within the Lebanese capital\u2019s city limits since 2006. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said the three leaders were killed in a strike that targeted Beirut\u2019s Kola district. The strike hit the upper floor of an apartment building in the Kola district of Lebanon\u2019s capital, Reuters witnesses said. There was no immediate comment from Israel\u2019s military. More on that in a moment, first here\u2019s a summary of the day\u2019s other main events. More than 100 people were killed across Lebanon by Israeli strikes on Sunday, according to the country\u2019s health ministry. It said more than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, without saying how many were civilians. The government said a million people \u2013 a fifth of the population \u2013 have fled their homes. Israel said it bombed Houthi targets in Yemen on Sunday. The airstrikes on Yemen\u2019s port of Hodeidah were a response to Houthi missile attacks on Israel in recent days, Israel said. The Houthi-run health ministry said at least four people were killed and 29 wounded. Images from Hodeidah showed parts of the city covered in a massive pall of dust, and towering explosions in the distance. Hezbollah confirmed that Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of the militant group\u2019s central council, was killed on Saturday, making him the seventh senior Hezbollah leader slain in Israeli strikes in a little over a week. The group also confirmed that Ali Karaki, another senior commander, died in the airstrike on Friday strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah denied claims that Abu Ali Rida, the commander of the group\u2019s Bader Unit in south Lebanon had been killed. Rida is the last remaining senior military commander of Hezbollah that remains alive. White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said Israel\u2019s airstrikes in Lebanon had \u201cwiped out\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s command structure, but he warned the group will work quickly to rebuild it. President Joe Biden said Sunday he would speak soon with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and believes that an all-out war in the Middle East must be avoided. Israel on Sunday vowed to keep up its assault. \u201cWe need to keep hitting Hezbollah hard,\u201d Israel\u2019s military chief of staff Herzi Halevi said. Israel\u2019s military said it struck dozens of targets in Lebanon including launchers and weapons stores and had intercepted eight projectiles coming from the direction of Lebanon and one from the Red Sea. It also said dozens of Israeli aircraft had attacked power plants and Ras Issa and Hodeidah ports in Yemen, accusing the Houthis of operating under Iran\u2019s direction and in cooperation with Iraqi militias. The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has broken his silence on Israel\u2019s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah. On Sunday, Syria\u2019s state-run outlet Sana quoted Assad as saying: \u201cWe are certain that the Lebanese national resistance will continue on the path of struggle and justice in the face of the occupation, and will continue to support the Palestinian people in their struggle for their just cause.\u201d Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said Israel should not be allowed to attack countries in the Iran-aligned \u201cAxis of Resistance\u201d one after the other. Pezeshkian, in comments carried by state media, said Lebanon should be supported. An Iranian Revolutionary Guards deputy commander, Abbas Nilforoushan, was also killed in the attack that killed Nasrallah in Beirut. Pezeshkian said \u201cwe cannot accept such actions and they will not be left unanswered. A decisive reaction is necessary.\u201d Saudi Arabia has stressed the \u201cneed to preserve Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d. In a statement released on Sunday amid Israel\u2019s deadly airstrikes, the Saudi foreign ministry said it was \u201cfollowing with great concern the developments taking place in Lebanon\u201d. Israeli opposition lawmaker Gideon Saar rejoined Netanyahu\u2019s government on Sunday, a step that is likely to strengthen the Israeli prime minister politically. Saar, who has been one of Netanyahu\u2019s most vocal critics in the past few years, is due to serve as a minister without a portfolio and have a seat in the prime minister\u2019s security cabinet, Israeli media reported. Expanding the government to include Saar\u2019s strengthens Netanyahu by making him less reliant on other members of his ruling coalition, which has been struggling in the polls."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;UK charters flight for Britons in Lebanon to leave as violence escalates;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/uk-flight-britons-lebanon-leave-violence-escalates;2024-09-30T22:44:41Z",
        "text": "The UK has chartered a flight out of Lebanon for Britons to leave the country amid the escalating violence in the region. The flight is due to leave Beirut-Rafic Hariri international airport on Wednesday. David Lammy, the foreign secretary, described the situation in Lebanon as \u201cvolatile\u201d and with the \u201cpotential to deteriorate quickly\u201d. British nationals and their spouses, partners and children under 18 are eligible for the flight, and those who are vulnerable will be prioritised. There are 5,000 British single and dual nationals in Lebanon, including members of their immediate families, and the government said it was working on \u201call contingency options\u201d. Israeli has launched small ground raids against Hezbollah and sealed off communities along its northern boundary, the US and other officials said late on Monday. At least 95 people were killed by Israeli strikes on Monday, according to Lebanon\u2019s health ministry. Lammy said: \u201cThe situation in Lebanon is volatile and has potential to deteriorate quickly. The safety of British nationals in Lebanon continues to be our utmost priority. That\u2019s why the UK government is chartering a flight to help those wanting to leave. It is vital that you leave now as further evacuation may not be guaranteed\u201d. He chaired a ministerial meeting of the Cobra emergency committee on Monday to discuss the conflict. Heavy shelling by Israeli forces took place along the border in the area north of Kiryat Shmona. The towns of Marjayoun, Wazzani and Khiam were shelled on Monday night and there were reports of a heavy presence of Israeli aircraft over southern Lebanon. British military assets have been deployed to Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean in case an evacuation is required, although ministers and officials have stressed that Britons should leave immediately. Speaking earlier on Monday, Lammy said: \u201cWe will do all that we can to assist people to get out and we have secured places on commercial flights that are flying tomorrow so that UK nationals can get out. \u201cI urge them to leave because the situation on the ground is fast moving.\u201d He added: \u201cAnd of course, whilst we will do everything we can to protect British nationals \u2013 and those plans are in place to do so \u2013 we cannot anticipate the circumstances and the speed with which we could do that if things escalate in a major way over the coming hours and days.\u201d Lammy said he had spoken his US counterpart, Antony Blinken, and that they agreed that \u201cthe best way forward is an immediate ceasefire\u201d. It is understood that about 15 spaces for British nationals were secured on a flight that arrived on Sunday and a further 40 on a flight due to leave on Tuesday."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Russia to raise defence budget by 25% to highest level on record;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/russias-defence-spending-to-rise-by-25-next-year-the-highest-since-the-cold-war;2024-09-30T20:23:43Z",
        "text": "Russia is to increase its spending on defence by 25% to its highest on record, as Vladimir Putin vows to continue his war efforts in Ukraine and further escalate his standoff with the west. The latest planned increase in spending will take Russia\u2019s defence budget to a record 13.5tn rubles (\u00a3109bn) in 2025, according to draft budget documents published on Monday on the parliament\u2019s website. That is about 3tn rubles more than was set aside for defence this year, which was the previous record. Taken together, spending on defence and security will account for about 40% of Russia\u2019s total government spending \u2013 or 41.5tn rubles in 2025. The 2025 budget suggests Putin has embraced what economists have dubbed \u201cmilitary Keynesianism\u201d, marked by a significant rise in military spending, which has fuelled the war in Ukraine, spurred a consumer spending boom and driven up inflation. \u201cThis increase is confirmation the economy has switched to a war footing, and, even if the war in Ukraine ends soon, channeling money to the army and a bloated defence sector will remain a top priority,\u201d the Bell, a leading Russian outlet specialising on the economy, wrote in its newsletter. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that spending on the military and security will exceed combined expenditure on education, healthcare, social policy and the national economy,\u201d it added. According to the draft budget, social spending is expected to decrease by 16% from 7.7tn rubles this year to 6.5tn rubles next year. The massive Russian investment in the military has worried European war planners, who have said Nato underestimated Russia\u2019s ability to sustain a long-term war. Meanwhile, Ukraine is facing uncertainty over the level of future support from its closest allies. This has increased confidence in Moscow, where on Monday Putin boasted that \u201call goals set\u201d in what Russia calls its special military operation \u201cwill be achieved\u201d. Putin\u2019s speeches over the last year have been marked by growing confidence as Russian troops make creeping gains in eastern Ukraine. Recently, he has taken a hardline stance, demanding Ukraine\u2019s unconditional surrender and calling for the \u201cdenazification of Ukraine, its demilitarization, and neutral status\u201d. Analysts believe the long-term economic outlook for Russia is far gloomier than it was before the invasion. The Kremlin\u2019s pivot toward China and other markets, sanctions-busting and other workarounds cannot make up for direct access to western markets or technology. Russia\u2019s military spending boom has sent inflation surging at home, forcing the central bank to raise borrowing costs, while the country struggles with acute labour shortages as Moscow pumps fiscal and physical resources into the military."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel has begun ground attacks on Hezbollah inside Lebanon, says US;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/israel-threatens-what-could-be-ground-offensive-against-hezbollah-in-lebanon;2024-09-30T19:25:44Z",
        "text": "Israeli forces appeared to have launched what sources called \u201climited ground operations\u201d targeting Hezbollah inside southern Lebanon, US and other officials said late on Monday. \u201cThis is what they have informed us that they are currently conducting, which are limited operations targeting Hezbollah infrastructure near the border,\u201d the state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, told journalists. Heavy shelling into Lebanon was taking place along the boundary in the area north of Kiryat Shmona, in an area where Israeli armour and infantry advanced into Lebanon during the 2006 war. Airstrikes continued in Beirut and in at least 10 locations across the south of the country, according to Lebanon\u2019s state news agency. Reports of a cross-border operation came after Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, told community leaders that the \u201cnext phase of the war against Hezbollah will begin soon\u201d. Israeli media cited government sources who said that the cabinet had approved the next stage of its campaign against Hezbollah, after a meeting chaired by the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Earlier on Monday Netanyahu issued a warning to Iran, saying it could strike anywhere in the region at will. \u201cThere is nowhere in the Middle East Israel cannot reach,\u201d he said in a video addressed to the Iranian people. The Israeli military later declared areas of Metula, Misgav Am and Kfar Giladi in northern Israel a closed military zone. The US president, Joe Biden, said he was aware of Israel\u2019s plans to launch an operation into Lebanon as he urged against such a move. \u201cI\u2019m more aware than you might know and I\u2019m comfortable with them stopping,\u201d he told reporters at the White House. \u201cWe should have a ceasefire now.\u201d The towns of Marjayoun, Wazzani and Khiam \u2013 which sit in a series of interlocking valleys overlooked by steep slopes \u2013 were being shelled on Monday night. One resident in Marjayoun said that a local official had received a phone call ordering residents to evacuate but shelling had started before people could leave the town. \u201cThey called the mukhtar of Marjayoun, and told us we needed to evacuate. But we can\u2019t move, the roads are filled with shelling and airstrikes,\u201d the resident said. An hour later, the road leading out of Marjayoun was hit by an Israeli airstrike and rendered inoperable, Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency reported. The area, with its scattered villages, and scrubby landscape hiding bunkers and combat tunnels, has long been a base for Hezbollah fighters and was heavily fought over during the last war between Israel and Hezbollah 18 years ago. Hezbollah said in a statement that it targeted a group of Israeli soldiers who were in the \u201corchard\u201d near the Lebanese border towns of Odaisseh and Kafr Kila, \u201cachieving confirmed casualties\u201d. Kafr Kila is one of the towns that borders the area that Israel declared a closed military zone on Monday. Friday\u2019s assassination of the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah \u2013 the most powerful leader in Tehran\u2019s \u201caxis of resistance\u201d against Israeli and US interests in the Middle East \u2013 was one of the heaviest blows in decades to Hezbollah and Iran. But Netanyahu and senior military commanders in Israel appear committed to continuing what has become a region-wide effort to kill longstanding enemies. Seven top military officials and about another dozen senior commanders have been killed in the continuing Israeli air offensive in Lebanon, which IDF officials say is aimed at stopping Hezbollah\u2019s cross-border fire that keeps about 60,000 Israelis from returning to homes that were evacuated last October. The group\u2019s acting leader, Naim Qassem, said Hezbollah would keep fighting, adding that the commanders killed in recent weeks had already been replaced. Late on Friday, loud explosions were again heard in Beirut as Israeli warplanes targeted Dahiya, a densely targeted neighbourhood in the southern suburbs. The attacks came shortly after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for residents close to what it said were buildings housing Hezbollah installations. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said 95 people had been killed and 172 injured in Israeli strikes across the country on Monday. Meanwhile, the Lebanese army said it was \u201crepositioning and regrouping forces\u201d amid reports it had withdrawn three miles from the country\u2019s southern border. Though many analysts caution that senior Israeli officials have repeatedly made threats, there is now acute international concern that a substantial Israeli force could cross the contested border into southern Lebanon and reach Hezbollah\u2019s strongholds within days. Israeli commentators were quick to recall that previous Israeli incursions into Lebanon have ended without achieving their objectives. The Netanyahu biographer Anshel Pfeffer remarked: \u201cIsrael always knows how it goes into Lebanon. It\u2019s the exit-strategy it seems to struggle with. This government certainly doesn\u2019t have one.\u201d Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli diplomat and critic of Benjamin Netanyahu, warned that any ground incursion could lead to the kind of deadly mission creep that had characterised the previous operations of 1982 and 2006. \u201cWhat the hell does Israel mean by a limited [incursion],\u201d he asked. \u201cIs it limited in firepower? Is it limited in time? Is it limited in the employment of forces?\u201d More broadly, Pinkas doubted Israel\u2019s reported goals of establishing a buffer zone in southern Lebanon that would allow Israeli residents to return to the border region. \u201cI stress the military importance of going in, doing what you got to do, and going out, right,\u201d he said. \u201cBut if this evolves into some kind of a protracted presence in southern Lebanon, then what the hell did you achieve by that?\u201d Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said on Sunday that more than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, without saying how many were civilians. The government said 1 million people \u2013 a fifth of the population \u2013 have fled their homes. In a three-minute video clip in English, Netanyahu accused Iran of subjugating its citizens and directly threatened its leaders. \u201cThere is nowhere we will not go to protect our people and protect our country \u2026. There is nowhere in the Middle East Israel cannot reach,\u201d Netanyahu said. Addressing the Iranian people, Netanyahu said that Iran\u2019s \u201ctyrants\u201d did not care about their future and that when Iran was free, everything would be different. An airstrike early on Monday hit an apartment building in central Beirut \u2013 the first to strike the heart of the Lebanese capital since the short war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006 \u2013 and killed three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a small, leftist Palestinian faction. Videos showed ambulances and a crowd gathered near the building on a busy shop-lined thoroughfare in a mainly Sunni district. Hamas said its leader in Lebanon was killed on Monday in an Israeli strike on the country\u2019s south. Fatah Sharif Abu al-Amin, \u201ca member of the movement\u2019s leadership abroad\u201d, was killed in an airstrike on his home in the al-Bass camp in south Lebanon, a Hamas statement said. Paris and Washington, joined by Arab and other western and European countries, called last week for Israel and Hezbollah to agree an \u201cimmediate 21-day ceasefire\u201d and to \u201cgive diplomacy a chance\u201d. Israel dismissed the plan."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Lebanon to seek humanitarian funds as bombardment by Israel continues;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/lebanon-humanitarian-funds-displacement-bombardment-by-israel;2024-09-30T18:14:35Z",
        "text": "Lebanon\u2019s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, announced on Monday that he would meet donor countries to seek additional funding for Lebanon\u2019s growing displacement crisis, as hundreds of thousands of people fled Israel\u2019s widening aerial campaign. \u201cWe are trying as much as possible to fill the gaps; as I said yesterday, it is not an easy process,\u201d Mikati said, announcing that he would ask donors on Tuesday to give money to Lebanon through the UN. Donors are expected to give more than $450m (\u00a3336m), according to the caretaker minister of the environment and head of the government\u2019s crisis cell, Nasser Yassin. Yassin said this amount should satisfy the \u201cimmediate needs\u201d of Lebanon\u2019s brewing humanitarian crisis, though he noted that additional funds might be needed for reconstruction efforts when fighting between Hezbollah and Israel stops. Lebanon\u2019s southern council has said damages were in excess of $1.7bn, though this was prior to Israel\u2019s intense bombing campaign that started two weeks ago. Israeli warplanes continued to bombard southern Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley and parts of Beirut, creating successive waves of internal displacement. About 115,000 people are living in state-run shelters, according to the Lebanese council of ministers, though the true numbers of displaced people is believed to be far greater. More than 77,000 people, Lebanese and Syrian, have fled to Syria over the past five days, Lebanon\u2019s general security directorate said on Sunday. Many displaced people were sleeping rough on the streets of Beirut, crowding public parks and lying on pavements. Those who spoke to the Guardian said they had not been given any services since their displacement on Friday night. Hezbollah\u2019s interim leader, Naim Qassem, announced in a speech on Monday that the group would continue its war with Israel. Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said it would use \u201call the capabilities we have\u201d against Hezbollah. In Beirut, an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in the early hours of Monday shocked residents. The strike was the first time that Israel had targeted Beirut proper since 2006, its previous airstrikes over the last two weeks having been entirely concentrated in the capital\u2019s southern suburbs. The area that was struck, Cola, a popular intersection where buses and taxis congregate in the mornings, was not known for its affinity for Hezbollah. The strike killed two military and security commanders, as well as a third member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine \u2013 a militant organisation associated with a series of high-profile aircraft hijackings in the 1970s. On Monday afternoon, debris still lay at the foot of the apartment building, and onlookers gathered around a cordoned-off area patrolled by Lebanese special forces. \u201cIsrael isn\u2019t thinking of a certain sect, religion or area. Wherever they want to kill someone, they\u2019ll kill them, there won\u2019t ever be peace\u201d, said Mohammed, 28, a computer scientist, who was lightly injured when the airstrike brought down a wall in his apartment. On Sunday an Israeli airstrike in the town of Qraiyeh, east of the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, killed 45 people. Wassim Jabour, an employee in the Qraiyeh municipality, said: \u201cThere are so many dead and wounded, it was truly a massacre. And they all still trying to clear the rubble, there are entire families still missing.\u201d Israel announced two weeks ago that it intended to return to their homes about 60,000 residents of northern Israel displaced by Hezbollah rocket attacks since 8 October last year. Since then it has pounded Lebanon with airstrikes, killing more than 700 people, triggered an attack using sabotaged pagers and walkie-talkies commonly used by Hezbollah that killed at least 37 people, including some children, and injured nearly 3,000, and called reserve troops to its border with Lebanon. In the first speech by any Hezbollah official since the group\u2019s longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday, Qassem said Hezbollah was still functioning despite the killing of almost every single senior military commander by Israel over the last two months and the targeting of hundreds of weapon depots across the country. He said it \u201cwill continue to confront the Israeli enemy in support of Gaza and Palestine and in defence of Lebanon and its people\u201d. Qassem said Hezbollah would soon appoint a new secretary general, without naming a potential candidate. It is widely believed that Hashem Safieddine, the head of the group\u2019s executive council, would be picked as the next leader \u2013 though the organisation has denied rumours that a successor had been picked. Gallant, meanwhile, hinted that Israel was readying itself to conduct a ground invasion in Lebanon. \u201cThe elimination of Nasrallah is a very important step but it is not everything. We will use all the capabilities we have,\u201d he said to troops in north Israel. Since fighting between Israel and Hezbollah started on 8 October, more than 1,600 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 8,400 wounded. Hezbollah attacks in the same period have killed 50 Israelis."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;US looks unable to talk Netanyahu out of planned invasion of Lebanon;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/us-looks-unable-to-talk-netanyahu-out-of-planned-invasion-of-lebanon;2024-09-30T17:55:23Z",
        "text": "The Biden administration is losing influence over whether Benjamin Netanyahu launches a ground invasion into southern Lebanon or not. For more than a year, Joe Biden and his senior advisers have managed to forestall an Israeli ground incursion into Lebanon in fear of a larger war that could envelop the entire Middle East. In the days after the 7 October attack, Biden phoned Netanyahu to talk him out of a massive retaliation against Hezbollah, which had begun firing guided rockets against Israeli positions following the Hamas raid. In April this year, Biden also told Netanyahu that the US would not support Israel in an offensive war against Iran after Tehran launched dozens of loitering munitions, cruise missiles and drones toward Israel. But on Monday, US outlets reported that Netanyahu\u2019s administration had told White House officials they were planning a limited ground incursion into Lebanon, essentially escalating a conflict with Hezbollah and its backer Iran to a level that Biden and his team have tried desperately to avoid. The Washington Post reported that Israel was planning a limited campaign \u2013 smaller than its 2006 war against Hezbollah \u2013 that nonetheless would mark a drastic escalation with Hezbollah and Iran. The New York Times suggested US officials believed they had talked Israel out of a full invasion of Lebanon, but that smaller incursions into southern Lebanon would continue. But Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defence minister, has briefed a meeting of local council heads in northern Israel on Monday, according to the Times of Israel. \u201cThe next stage in the war against Hezbollah will begin soon \u2026 We will do this. And as I said here a month ago [that] we will shift the center of gravity [to the north], this is what I say now: we will change the situation and return the residents home.\u201d Earlier that day, he had told Israel Defense Forces soldiers that to return some 60,000 Israelis to their homes in the country\u2019s north, we \u201cwill use all the means that may be required \u2013 your forces, other forces, from the air, from the sea, and on land\u201d. The plan to attack comes at a unique moment \u2013 with war hawks dominating domestic Israeli politics at the same time as a lame duck Biden administration appears increasingly unable or unwilling to intervene in the conflict. And, according to analysts, Netanyahu believes he has a limited window around the US elections to attack Iranian proxies across the region. With just a month left until the US presidential elections, the Biden administration has launched a tepid effort at a ceasefire that Netanyahu appears to have chosen to ignore \u2013 or simply to wait out until US elections that could bring in a Trump administration that would do even less to restrain him than the current one has. \u201cNetanyahu made a calculation, and the calculation was that there was no way that the Democrats between now and November 5th [election day] could do anything that would criticise, let alone restrain him from that,\u201d said Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who focuses on US foreign policy and the Middle East. \u201cYou saw [vice-president Kamala] Harris\u2019s statement, you saw the White House statement, you saw the Democrat and Republican consensus on the killing of Nasrallah and what the Israelis have done there,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd since Iran is involved in this, unlike in Gaza, the toxicity of animus against Iran in this town is so intense that the Republican party, which is now the \u2018Israel can do no wrong\u2019 party, is just winging for the administration.\u201d Until recently, prominent US officials have thought they still had a chance to conclude a ceasefire and prevent the war from escalating further. Last week, US and French officials along with dozens of other countries called for a ceasefire in Lebanon. US officials briefed on the matter said they believed the \u201ctime was right\u201d and that Israel would sign up. A western official last week told the Guardian that the Israeli threat to invade northern Lebanon was probably \u201cpsyops\u201d largely designed to force Hezbollah and Iran to the negotiating table. But, at the same time, the official said, the situation in the region was extremely volatile, and could be upset by as little as a single drone strike against a sensitive target. One day later, a massive airstrike launched by the Israeli air force killed the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, upending security calculations in the region and potentially emboldening Israeli officials to believe they could fundamentally change the security dynamics in the region. \u201cI understand, and happen to be very understanding of the administration position, because I spent almost 30 years inside knowing full the constraints of how to get anything done in this region, which is very hard,\u201d Miller said. \u201cBut the notion that a US-French proposal for a three-week ceasefire in the middle of all this could work, I mean, it was, it was simply not well thought out.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;\u2018Do they take us for fools?\u2019: Argentina vice-president lambasts Falklands pact;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/argentina-falklands-pact-victoria-villarruel;2024-09-30T17:28:38Z",
        "text": "Argentina\u2019s vice-president has lambasted a new UK-Argentina Falkland Islands agreement, saying her nation had been offered \u201ccrumbs\u201d. The pact, announced last week, includes resuming flights to the islands, restarting negotiations on a humanitarian project plan, and organising a trip for relatives of fallen soldiers of the Falklands war to visit their graves. Argentina\u2019s foreign minister, Diana Mondino, and her British counterpart, David Lammy, reached the agreement on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly, with both foreign offices saying the measures would \u201cimprove the bilateral relationship\u201d. Once a month, flights to the islands from S\u00e3o Paulo in Brazil will stop in C\u00f3rdoba, Argentina, while both countries have also agreed to cooperate on the conservation of fisheries. But the vice-president, Victoria Villarruel, hit out at the plans over the weekend, saying they were \u201ccontrary to the interests of our nation\u201d. \u201cDo they take us for fools? They are getting material, concrete and immediate benefits, while they are offering us crumbs as emotional consolation and weakening our ability to negotiate,\u201d said Villarruel, a fiercely conservative politician who comes from a military family. The Falklands, known in Argentina as the Malvinas, lie 300 miles east of the South American country\u2019s coast. Sovereignty over the islands has been disputed since colonial times. Argentina has claimed sovereignty since the early 19th century, but Britain, which has also claimed sovereignty, seized the territory in 1833, expelling the few remaining Argentinian occupants. A 74-day war between the two countries in 1982 ended with Argentina\u2019s surrender, and the loss of 649 members of the Argentinian military, 255 British service personnel, and three islanders. In a 2013 referendum, 99.8% of residents voted for the islands to remain a British territory. Nonetheless, sovereignty remains a fraught topic across Argentina; all public transport units must display signs reading \u201cThe Malvinas are Argentinian\u201d, while the dispute is used frequently during political campaigning. It is not the first time Villarruel \u2013 who was crucial in building the voter base that led to Javier Milei\u2019s surprising electoral success last year \u2013 has broken ranks with the president. Other disagreements have seen the pair clash over pay rises and even a football chant. Dr Julio Montero, an associate professor in political theory at the University of San Andr\u00e9s, said the dispute \u201cspeaks to the ideological tensions\u201d within Javier Milei\u2019s recently formed La Libertad Avanza party. \u201cMilei is meant to be a libertarian. Villarreal is a conservative nationalist with ties with the military,\u201d he said. Jack Ford, the chair of the Falkland Islands legislative assembly, said that \u201call parties stand to gain from this cooperation\u201d, which he said would provide substantial economic benefits, along with closure for the families who lost loved ones in the war."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;The decapitation of Hezbollah leaves Iran weighing its options;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/the-decapitation-of-hezbollah-leaves-iran-weighing-its-options;2024-09-30T17:13:03Z",
        "text": "Iran\u2019s reformist-led government has said it has no plans to send troops to reinforce Hezbollah in Lebanon, but it is coming under domestic pressure from hardliners seeking to exploit what they regard as a failure to stand up to Israel \u2013 and also hoping to block any discussion with the west over future oversight of Iran\u2019s nuclear programme. Calls for a tougher Iranian response redoubled when it emerged that Brig Gen Abbas Nilforushan, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) deputy commander for Lebanon and Syria, had been killed in Beirut alongside the Hezbollah chief, Hassan Nasrallah. Such is the tension in Iran that some conservatives have been accused of sowing a poisonous atmosphere on social media by distorting remarks made by the president, Masoud Pezeshkian, and his spokesperson to make them appear unsupportive of the \u201caxis of resistance\u201d. The dominant line in government circles remains that a direct war between Israel and Iran should be avoided as it would play into Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s hands and draw in the US \u2013 but that Hezbollah should not be left to fight alone. This was the position Pezeshkian rehearsed in New York last week before Nasrallah\u2019s killing. Similarly, on Monday, the foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani vowed that Israel\u2019s actions would not go unanswered \u2013 but said there was no need to deploy Iranian auxiliary or volunteer forces, since the Lebanese and Palestinian governments had the capacity to confront Israel\u2019s aggression. Pezeshkian remains aggrieved that he was given US assurances via intermediaries that if he did not attack Israel in response to the killing of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July then the Israelis would sign a Gaza ceasefire deal. Hardliners in parliament such as Hossein Amir-Sabeti, an adviser to Saeed Jalili, one of the candidates beaten to the presidency by Pezeshkian, have claimed someone disobeyed an order from the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, to strike back in revenge for Haniyeh\u2019s death. He claimed that Tehran\u2019s restraint had given a green light for Israel to kill Nasrallah. \u201cWhy should 80 million Iranians and the resistance front pay for the naivety of a few people?\u201d he asked. The allegations have even prompted the president\u2019s son to come to his father\u2019s defence, saying his government would never disobey the supreme leader. Whether such a ceasefire promise was ever explicitly made to Tehran by anyone with the authority to make such an offer is disputable, but the current infighting reveals the political unease about how Iran can restore its deterrent. In a speech later this week, Jalili is likely to call for Iran to ignite its so-called \u201cring of fire\u2019 around Israel, and reject any idea that Hezbollah should effectively surrender by saying it is no longer seeking to press Israel into a ceasefire in Gaza. In an attempt to remove any doubt about his loyalties, Pezeshkian himself went to Hezbollah offices in Tehran to deliver a handwritten note of condolence. He also stepped up his calls for Arab and Islamic countries to recognise they have a heavy responsibility to intervene. The atmosphere in Iran appeared to have been affected by Netanyahu\u2019s statement that Nasrallah\u2019s death was essential to \u201cchange the balance of power in the region\u201d. On Monday, the Israeli prime minister made an explicit call for regime change in Tehran, saying Iran will be \u201cfree \u2026 a lot sooner than people think\u201d. In a long message on X, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law, argued that the destruction of Hezbollah\u2019s leadership \u201cis significant because Iran is now fully exposed. The reason why their nuclear facilities have not been destroyed, despite weak air defense systems, is because Hezbollah has a loaded gun pointed at Israel. Iran spent the last forty years building this capability as its deterrent. President Trump would often say, \u2018Iran has never won a war but never lost a negotiation.\u2019 The Islamic Republic\u2019s regime is much tougher when risking Hamas, Hezbollah, Syrian and Houthi lives than when risking their own.\u201d Hailing the prospect of a new Middle East \u201cwithout Iran\u2019s fully loaded arsenal aimed at Israel\u201d, he said it was now time for Israel to finish the job. Kushner may currently be nowhere near the government in the US, but that could change in a matter of weeks. Such remarks are only likely to add to tensions in Tehran, and strengthen the case for Iranians who say Netanyahu has no compunction about going up the escalatory ladder \u2013 and that the US government has no means of or interest in stopping him. For now, Iran now has few good options to re-establish deterrence. But, according to Dr Burcu Ozcelik, a senior research fellow for Middle East security at the Rusi defence thinktank, the worst course of action would be a direct attack on Israel. \u201cWhile this may salvage Iran\u2019s credibility with its core base inside Iran and across its axis, the risk is that, like its attack on 13 April in response to the attack on its consulate in Damascus, the barrage of missiles will be intercepted by Israel\u2019s Iron Dome system and by the US and its Arab allies. This would further erode Iran\u2019s projection of military strength and cause a legitimacy crisis inside Iran,\u201d she wrote. That leaves Iran with the option of slowly rebuilding the shattered Hezbollah organisation, resorting to low-level state-backed terrorism \u2013 or building its own nuclear weapon."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Letter: Peter Vincent obituary;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/letter-peter-vincent-obituary;2024-09-30T15:55:50Z",
        "text": "As a member of Amnesty International, the TV comedy writer Peter Vincent was involved with its group in St Albans, Hertfordshire, for more than three decades, from the early 1990s until 2013. Apart from acting as occasional chairman, his main interest lay in human rights in China, for which he took the group lead. He also helped with fundraising and attended demonstrations in London organised by Amnesty International UK, mainly to do with China. Active and committed, he was valued for his kindness."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;The link between deprivation and the risk of future riots | Letter;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/the-link-between-deprivation-and-the-risk-of-future-riots;2024-09-30T15:34:04Z",
        "text": "The Guardian\u2019s analysis of court data provides valuable evidence that alleged participants in the 2024 riots are local to the communities where the riots and demonstrations took place (Local. Left behind. Prey to populist politics? What the data tells us about the 2024 UK rioters, 25 September). But the fact that the alleged rioters come from depressed communities does not by itself substantiate that deprivation can help predict radical action. In a 2023 article in the journal Plos One, we show that measures of local deprivation help predict variation in violent rightwing attacks in England, in line with the argument that people who observe more deprivation in their community are more likely to become disillusioned and support extremism. Identifying deprivation can help us better understand where the risk of future violence is higher, and efforts to reduce community deprivation can also help reduce future political violence. Margherita Belgioioso Associate professor in quantitative international relations, University of Leeds, Christoph Dworschak Lecturer in quantitative political science, University of York, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch Regius professor of political science, University of Essex \u2022 Do you have a photograph you\u2019d like to share with Guardian readers? If so, please click here to upload it. A selection will be published in our Readers\u2019 best photographs galleries and in the print edition on Saturdays."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Mount Everest is having a growth spurt, say researchers;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/mount-everest-is-having-a-growth-spurt-say-researchers;2024-09-30T15:00:04Z",
        "text": "Climbing Mount Everest has always been a feat, but it seems the task might be getting harder: researchers say Everest is having something of a growth spurt. The Himalayas formed about 50m years ago, when the Indian subcontinent smashed into the Eurasian tectonic plate \u2013 although recent research has suggested the edges of these plates were already very high before the collision. With the process still going on, the mountain range continues to be pushed upwards, though landslides and other events mean rock is also being lost. But now experts say Everest \u2013 which currently stands at 8,849m (29,032ft) \u2013 has been experiencing an additional boost to its height as a result of erosion by its neighbouring rivers. The team say the process has resulted in Everest rising an extra 15 to 50 metres over the last 89,000 years, with the uplift continuing today. \u201cOur study demonstrates that even the world\u2019s highest peak is subject to ongoing geological processes that can measurably affect its height over relatively short geological timescales,\u201d said Prof Jingen Dai, co-author of the study from China University of Geosciences in Beijing. Dai noted Everest is something of an anomaly, with its peak about 250 metres higher than the Himalayas\u2019 other tallest mountains. In addition, data has suggested a discrepancy between Everest\u2019s long-term and short-term rates of uplift. \u201cThis raised the question of whether there was an underlying mechanism making Everest\u2019s anomalous elevation even higher,\u201d said Dai. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, Dai and colleagues report how they created computer models to explore the evolution of river networks in the Himalayas. Their results suggest that about 89,000 years ago the upper reach of the Arun River that lies to the north of Everest \u2013 and which would have flowed eastward on the Tibetan plateau \u2013 merged with its lower reach, as a result of the latter eroding northward. The upshot was that the entire length of the Arun River became part of the Kosi River system. The team suggest the rerouting arising from this \u201criver capture\u201d resulted in an increase in river erosion near Everest, and the formation of the Arun River gorge. \u201cAt that time, there would be an enormous amount of additional water flowing through the Arun River, and this would have been able to transport more sediment and erode more bedrock, and cut down into the valley bottom,\u201d said Dr Matthew Fox, co-author of the research, from University College London. The researchers say the reduction in weight on the Earth\u2019s crust as this material was removed has led to an uplift of the surrounding land \u2013 a process known as isostatic rebound. The team estimates the process is propelling Everest upwards by about 0.16mm to 0.53mm a year, with its neighbouring peaks Lhotse and Makalu, the world\u2019s fourth and fifth highest peaks respectively, experiencing a similar uplift. \u201cThis effect will not continue indefinitely,\u201d said Dai. \u201cThe process will continue until the river system reaches a new equilibrium state.\u201d Prof Mika\u00ebl Attal of the University of Edinburgh, who was not involved in the work, said while river capture was a well-known phenomenon, it was relatively rare. \u201cWhat is unique in this study is the demonstration that erosion resulting from river capture can lead to such a dramatic response of the Earth\u2019s surface, with an area the size of Greater London going up a few tens of metres in tens of thousands of years, which is fast,\u201d he said. However, Attal notes this rebound only explains a fraction of the unusual height of the highest peaks of the Himalayas. Indeed, Fox noted other mechanisms such as tectonic stresses associated with earthquake cycles, and loss of mountain glaciers, could also cause uplift. Dr Elizabeth Dingle of Durham University said the study\u2019s findings could be important beyond Everest. \u201cThere are other river captures known to have occurred in the Himalaya,\u201d she said, \u201cSo it would be interesting to know whether similar effects are preserved elsewhere, or in other tectonically active mountain ranges more broadly.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Russia-Ukraine war: Ukrainian man jailed for life after Russian nationalist injured in car bomb \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/30/kursk-kyiv-drones-volodymyr-zelenskyy-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-war-live-updates;2024-09-30T14:54:59Z",
        "text": "The Ukrainian air force said Russia fired missiles and drones at 11 of the country\u2019s regions. It was the 33rd consecutive night of aerial attacks behind the frontline and set a new monthly record of drone barrages. Kyiv, Ukraine\u2019s capital, was targeted by several waves of Russian attack drones overnight. No casualties were reported. Russia plans to boost its defence budget by almost 30 percent next year as it diverts resources to its war on Ukraine, spending more on the military than welfare and education combined, a draft budget indicated. Russian troops are trying to use a heavy flamethrower system and drop guided bombs near the Vovchansk aggregate plant in the Kharkiv oblast, according to reports. Russia is planning to draft 133,000 Russians between October and January, according to a decree \u2013 signed by Russian president Vladimir Putin \u2013 which affects those not in the reserve and who are eligible for military service. Putin vowed that Moscow would accomplish all goals it has set for itself in Ukraine. \u201cThe truth is on our side. All goals set will be achieved,\u201d the Russian president said in a video message released to mark the second anniversary of what Russia calls \u201cReunification Day\u201d, when Moscow annexed four Ukrainian regions. A Russian court sentenced Alexander Permyakov, a man convicted over a car bombing that seriously injured the nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin, to life in prison. Thank you for following today\u2019s latest news. This blog is closing now but you can read all our Ukraine coverage here. Russia is planning to draft 133,000 Russians between October and January, according to a decree signed by Vladimir Putin earlier today. It affects those not in the reserve and who are eligible for military service. It means men aged 18-30 will be drafted as part of the regularly occurring autumn conscription campaign, according to the Kyiv Independent. Russian forces are pushing forward in eastern Ukraine on parts of a vast 1,000 km (627-mile) frontline and are trying to eject Ukrainian forces from Russia\u2019s Kursk region. In April, Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, signed a bill to lower the minimum conscription age from 27 to 25 to increase the numbers joining the military. Kyiv was desperate to replenish its drained and depleted forces. Russia has a huge advantage in numbers and weapons on the battlefield. Combined spending on defence and security will account for about 40% of Russia\u2019s total government spending, seen at 41.5tn rubles ($447bn; \u00a3334bn) in 2025. The \u201ctop priority\u201d of the budget is \u201csocial support for citizens\u201d, finance minister Anton Siluanov told a televised government meeting last Tuesday. \u201cThe second is the provision of expenditures on defence and security, providing the resources for the special military operation and support for families of those participating in the special military operation,\u201d he added. Kyiv will allocate more than 60% of the country\u2019s entire budget to defence and security next year. Russia is planning a 30% defence spending hike next year, Agence France-Presse (AFP) has said in a snap. The latest planned increase in spending will take Russia\u2019s defence budget to 13.5tn rubles ($145bn; \u00a3108bn) in 2025, newly published draft budget plans show. This figure does not include some other resources being directed to the war, such as spending that Russia labels as \u201cdomestic security\u201d. The Kremlin has been increasing spending as its forces slowly advance in eastern Ukraine. The Russian government has raised personal and corporate taxes to plug holes in the budget. Russian troops are trying to use a heavy flamethrower system and drop guided bombs near the Vovchansk aggregate plant in the Kharkiv oblast, Ukrinform has cited Vitaliy Sarantsev, a spokesperson for the Kharkiv regional military unit, as having said. \u201cHe (the enemy) is currently trying to use the maximum range of weapons in that location (the aggregate plant in Vovchansk). They are using a heavy flamethrower system and dropping guided bombs,\u201d Sarantsev said. These claims have not been independently verified by the Guardian. Sarantsev said the plant does not have a specific military purpose for the Russians, but its loss would represent \u201ca very powerful image blow\u201d for the Ukrainian forces. Russian troops had been in control of the Vovchansk plant, a sprawling complex of 30 concrete buildings, for several months before the facility was recaptured on 24 September 2024, Ukraine\u2019s military intelligence has previously reported. Vovchansk is a town about 4 km from the border and 45 km from Kharkiv city. A Russian court has sentenced a man convicted over a car bombing that seriously injured the nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin to life in prison, the Associated Press reports. Prosecutors claim the May 2023 bombing in the Nizhny Novogorod region was conducted at the direction of Ukraine\u2019s security services. Prilepin was seriously injured and his driver died in the bombing. The convicted defendant Alexander Permyakov is from Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donbas region and once fought with the Russian-backed separatists there, news reports say. Prilepin was known for his vehement defense of both the Russia-backed eastern Ukraine rebels who rose up in 2014, and of Russia\u2019s fighting in Ukraine that began in February 2022. Since Russia sent troops into Ukraine, two prominent nationalist figures have been killed. Darya Dugina, a commentator on Russian TV channels and the daughter of the Kremlin-linked ideologue Alexander Dugin, died in an August 2022 car bombing that investigators suspected was aimed at her father. Vladlen Tatarsky, a well-known military blogger, died in April 2023, when a statue given to him at a party in St Petersburg exploded. The Russian political activist Darya Trepova was convicted in the case and sentenced to 27 years. She said she was following orders from a contact in Ukraine. There have been reports of power outages in Kherson, southern Ukraine, because of Russian attacks. In the central district, emergency works are being carried out, meaning some households have been left without power. \u201cA part of the coastal zone of the Dnipro district has also been without electricity since yesterday,\u201d the Kherson city council added in a post on Telegram. \u201cThe difficult security situation, caused primarily by the extremely high activity of Russian drones, does not allow us to quickly begin to eliminate the damage.\u201d Over the course of its full-scale invasion, Russia has fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Ukrainian electricity generation, transmission and distribution facilities. The first big wave of strikes hit in the autumn and winter of 2022. The strikes have continued throughout the war, though Moscow has markedly stepped up its campaign since March. Mark Rutte, the blunt-speaking liberal who led four Dutch coalition governments over 13 years, takes the reins at a perilous moment for Ukraine, a defining test for the transatlantic alliance. Nato allies recently pledged to bolster long-term support to Ukraine \u201cso it can prevail in its fight for freedom\u201d. Far from prevailing, Ukraine is facing its third winter fighting Russia\u2019s brutal invasion, while Vladimir Putin\u2019s forces continue to advance in the east of the country. Nato has changed considerably since Jens Stoltenberg, the outgoing and second-longest serving secretary general, took over a decade ago. When Stoltenberg arrived at Nato HQ, Russia had already annexed Crimea and, aided by local separatists, was seizing territory into eastern Ukraine. Yet in 2014 Nato allies were more focused on Afghanistan, and as Stoltenberg said earlier this month, support for Ukraine was \u201cmarginal\u201d. Full story below The Ukrainian air force says Russia fired missiles and drones at 11 of the country\u2019s regions. It was the 33rd consecutive night of aerial attacks behind the frontline and set a new monthly record of drone barrages, the Associated Press news agency reports. In Kyiv, multiple explosions and machine gun fire could be heard throughout the night as the Ukrainian capital\u2019s air defences fought off a drone attack for five hours. No casualties were reported in Kyiv or elsewhere. Russia has increasingly deployed Shahed drones in its aerial bombardment of Ukrainian cities since the war began in February 2022 and launched more than 1,300 in September alone \u2013 the highest number in a single month. More now on the update we brought you earlier in our round-up at 8.50am BST on those Russian strikes inside Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, in a post on X, 14 people were injured and two rescued after the attacks, which saw bombs hit residential buildings. A single Russian ship, carrying Kalibr missiles, continues its combat duty in the Black Sea, the Ukrainian navy said in an operational update posted to Facebook this morning. \u201cThere is one hostile ship in the Black Sea, carrying Kalibr cruise missiles with a total volley of up to four missiles. No hostile ships in the Sea of Azov,\u201d the post reads. The Black Sea fleet has been used, in part, by the Kremlin to project power into the Middle East and Mediterranean. The navy added in its Facebook post that there is one hostile Russian ship capable of carrying up to 16 Kalibr cruise missiles which is on duty in the Mediterranean Sea. Belarus has begun an inspection of the combat readiness of its armed forces, the defence ministry has said. The exercises will involve the preparation of weapons and special military equipment, according to the military. The Belarusian military frequently engage in training exercises within Belarus, including large-scale operations. They are not directly fighting in Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. Military drills in Belarus, which allowed Russia to use its territory as a staging post for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, periodically raise security concerns in Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic states. Minsk \u2013 which is the junior partner in a \u201cunion state\u201d alliance with Moscow \u2013 denies any hostile plans towards its neighbours, but warned that any incursion against Belarusian territory will provoke a response. Seven frontline regions \u2013 Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Sumy and Chernihiv \u2013 have received 600 generators as part of humanitarian aid ahead of winter, the Ukrainian ministry of reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories wrote on Telegram. The generators will be used to provide \u201cuninterrupted power supply to social and healthcare institutions\u201d and \u201cstaging areas\u201d in the event of blackouts, the ministry said. \u201cThe implementation of this project is a successful example of cooperation between central and local authorities and international partners to support the war-affected civilian population,\u201d the ministry said. Ukraine is much better prepared for the winter now than at the beginning of the war, with hospitals, critical infrastructure and many businesses having generator capacity. Russia has already destroyed much of Ukraine\u2019s energy capacity with its frequent attacks on the country\u2019s energy facilities. There are concerns that many Ukrainians will still have to cope with emergency blackouts over the winter if Russia pounds critical infrastructure then. There will be intense pressure on the system as power demands will rise amid sub-zero temperatures. Russian forces have captured the village of Nelipivka in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region, the Interfax news agency cited the Russian defence ministry as saying today. This claim has not been independently verified by the Guardian. Russian forces continued offensive operations near Nelipivka and west of Toretsk in the direction of the village of Shcherbynivka, also in the Donetsk region, on 28 and 29 September, according to the Institute for the Study of War. Nelipivka had a population of just under 1,000 people before the war began in 2022, according to official statistics. Russian forces have in recent weeks accelerated their progress in Donetsk, taking a series of towns and villages, including claiming to have captured Marynivka and Ukrainsk. Moscow\u2019s forces have been pushing towards the important logistics hub of Pokrovsk. If the east Ukrainian city falls, then Russian forces will cut off one of the main supply routes in the region. We have been reporting on Russia launching several waves of drone attacks targeting Kyiv overnight. Air defence units engaged in repelling the strikes for several hours, according to reports. Here are the latest images from the Ukrainian capital that have been sent to us over the newswires: Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented a so-called \u201cvictory plan\u201d to Joe Biden, who has just months left in office, at the White House last week. He also discussed it with presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris and members of Congress. Zelenskyy has kept the details of the plan secret, but US officials have said it includes additional American aid to prevent a Ukrainian rout on the battlefield and \u201cprovide the [Ukrainian] people with the assurance that their future is part of the west\u201d. Ukraine\u2019s request to be able to use western-made long-range missiles to strike deep inside Russia is reported to also likely be included in the plan. The plan will be made public but some parts will remain secret, the head of the presidential office Andriy Yermak has now said. Yermak said the plan will be presented to Ukrainians with some \u201csensitive\u201d details left out to prevent information from leaking to Russia. Speaking on national TV, he was quoted by the Kyiv Independent as saying: Everything that becomes public is heard not only in our country, but also by the enemy. That is why some details of this plan are classified. But it is important to see the implementation of this plan on enemy territory. Ukraine\u2019s new foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, is on a diplomatic trip to Hungary today to meet with his counterpart, Peter Szijjarto, according to Ukraine\u2019s press service. Topics that will be discussed will include the economy, the promotion of Ukraine\u2019s accession to the EU and Nato and border infrastructure. Sybiha replaced Dmytro Kuleba, who had led the foreign ministry since 2020, as foreign minister earlier this month in the biggest ministerial reshuffle since Russia launched its full-scale invasion more than two years ago. Hungary\u2019s prime minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n has been an outspoken critic of western military aid to Ukraine and is Europe\u2019s most pro-Russian leader. It has made for frosty relations between Kyiv and Budapest. US citizen Stephen James Hubbard pleaded guilty to charges of mercenary activity in a Moscow court on Monday, admitting that he had received money to fight for Ukraine against Russia, the RIA state news agency reported. \u201cYes, I agree with the indictment,\u201d RIA cited him as saying. Hubbard, 72, was placed in pre-trial detention last week for six months and is facing a sentence of seven to 15 years if convicted, Reuters reports. The prosecution said Hubbard, whose sister said he had worked as an English teacher abroad for decades, was promised $1,000 (\u00a3745) a month and was given training, weapons and ammunition. Hubbard\u2019s sister Patricia Fox denied her brother was a mercenary and said he had no interest in fighting in any war. As we mentioned in the opening summary, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has released a video message released to mark the second anniversary of what Russia calls \u201cReunification Day\u201d \u2013 two years since Moscow formally claimed the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson as its own. Having held referendums \u2013 widely condemned as shams \u2013 in the four regions on 30 September 2022, Putin signed a document with the Russian-installed leaders of the occupied regions to unilaterally incorporate them into the Russian Federation, despite Russia not fully controlling the territories. Since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion was launched in February 2022, Kyiv has stepped up its pursuit of Nato and EU membership, steps that it regards as vital for its self-defence and independence from Russia but are opposed by Moscow. Putin said when he started the war that his aim was to demilitarise and \u201cdenazify\u201d Ukraine \u2013 a statement dismissed by Kyiv and the west as a pretext for an imperial-style conflict of expansion. \u201cThe truth is on our side. All goals set will be achieved,\u201d Putin said in his video message on Monday. He went on to criticise \u201cwestern elites\u201d who he claims \u201cturned Ukraine into their colony, a military base aimed at Russia\u201d and who fanned \u201chate, radical nationalism \u2026 hostility to everything Russian\u201d. \u201cToday we are fighting for a secure, prosperous future for our children and grandchildren,\u201d Putin said. We are restarting our live coverage of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine and will give you the latest updates throughout the day. Kyiv, Ukraine\u2019s capital, has been targeted by several waves of Russian attack drones overnight, the country\u2019s military has said, with air raid sirens sounding in the capital just after 1am local time. Kyiv\u2019s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said drone debris fell by a residential building with emergency services working on site. The Ukrainian air force said it shot down 67 out of 73 drones and one of three missiles launched by Russia during the overnight attack. It did not specify how many had attacked Kyiv. All these drones were destroyed by defence systems or \u201cneutralised\u201d by electronic warfare, Serhiy Popko, the head of Kyiv\u2019s military administration, wrote on Telegram. There have been no casualties reported from the attack. Russian drone attacks on Kyiv have intensified in recent weeks as Moscow\u2019s forces target Ukraine\u2019s critical energy, military and transport infrastructure ahead of the winter. Here are some of the other latest developments from Ukraine: Vladimir Putin has vowed that Moscow would accomplish all goals it has set for itself in Ukraine. \u201cThe truth is on our side. All goals set will be achieved,\u201d the Russian president said in a video message released to mark the second anniversary of what Russia calls \u201cReunification Day\u201d, when Moscow annexed four Ukrainian regions. In his address, Putin repeated his justification for his full-scale invasion, launched in February 2022, as protecting Russian speakers against a \u201cneo-Nazi dictatorship\u201d that aimed to \u201ccut them off forever from Russia, their historic homeland\u201d. Russia hit the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia with multiple guided bombs on Sunday, wounding at least 16 people and damaging railways, infrastructure and residential and commercial buildings, Ukrainian officials said. Russian forces attacked 14 communities across the Sumy region, including in the town of Esman and in Hlukhiv, injuring 10 people throughout the day, the Sumy oblast military administration reported. Russia\u2019s defence ministry said on Sunday its forces had repelled six new Ukrainian attempts to enter its western Kursk region and had also taken control of the settlement of Makiivka in eastern Ukraine\u2019s Luhansk region. The ministry said on Telegram that its forces, with the support of aircraft and artillery, repelled attempts to enter the region near the village of Novy Put, about 80km (50 miles) west of Sudzha, a strategic crossing point for Russian natural gas exports to Europe via Ukraine. Ukrainian forces raided the Kursk region on 6 August and Zelenskyy said earlier this month that his forces controlled 100 settlements over an area of more than 1,300 sq km (500 sq miles). Denmark said it was unlocking 1.3bn kroner ($194m) to help Ukraine bolster its arsenal against Russia\u2019s invasion. The weapons and equipment would be produced in Ukraine but financed by Denmark and frozen Russian assets, the Danish defence ministry said."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel launches rare strike on central Beirut;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/lebanon-beirut-israel-strikes-yemen-hezbollah-latest-news;2024-09-30T13:57:02Z",
        "text": "Israel struck central Beirut for the first time since 2006 early on Monday, hours after dozens of aircraft bombed Yemen in a long-range raid, as it pursued a rapidly expanding war on multiple fronts. The Beirut strike targeted three senior figures in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a group associated with a series of high-profile aircraft hijackings in the 1970s. The leftwing faction, which has not played a significant role in the continuing conflict between Israel and the Shia militant group Hezbollah, said its military and security commanders in Lebanon, and a third member, were killed. Initial footage from the scene showed two storeys of an apartment building completely blown out, and onlookers running towards the building. Two bodies could be seen lying on the street on top of a car outside the building, seemingly ejected by the force of the blast. The sound of the explosion was heard around the city. There was no immediate comment from Israel\u2019s military. Top Israeli political and military officials have continued to hint at a potential ground incursion into Lebanon, although some US and western officials have suggested that those are threats aimed at pressuring Hezbollah to capitulate rather than face an invasion. On Monday, Israel\u2019s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, told troops in the north of the country: \u201cWe will use all of our capabilities \u2013 including you.\u201d He said that the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, was a \u201cvery important step\u201d but added that it was \u201cnot all\u201d the military planned to do. The declaration came as Gallant said that returning Israelis to their homes near the border with Lebanon was the \u201cmission of the IDF\u201d. \u201cThat is what we will do, and we will deploy whatever is needed \u2013 you, other forces, from the air, from the sea, and from the land,\u201d he said. In a separate speech, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, issued a direct threat to the Iranian leadership and told the people of Iran that Israel was ready to carry out attacks across the region in other countries if it felt that its own security was at risk. \u201cThere is nowhere in the Middle East Israel cannot reach,\u201d Netanyahu said. \u201cThere is nowhere we will not go to protect our people and protect our country.\u201d The latest strike came as the UN reported that 100,000 people had fled Lebanon for Syria since the latest escalation in the war and as CNN quoted an unnamed Biden administration official who said the US had changed its military posture in the Middle East amid concern Iran might attack Israel in response to Nasrallah\u2019s assassination on Friday. The Palestinian militant group Hamas said its leader in Lebanon was killed on Monday in an Israeli strike on the country\u2019s south. \u201cFatah Sharif Abu al-Amine, the leader of Hamas \u2026 in Lebanon and member of the movement\u2019s leadership abroad\u201d was killed in an airstrike on his \u201chome in the al-Bass camp in south Lebanon\u201d, a Hamas statement said. The Beirut strike, carried out using a drone, according to a source quoted by Agence France-Presse, hit near the Kola intersection, a popular reference point in the city, where taxis and buses gather to pick up passengers. Israel had confined its strikes on Lebanon\u2019s capital city to its southern suburbs. The airstrike threw into doubt which areas of Beirut were still safe from Israel\u2019s expanding aerial campaign. Israeli drones hovered over Beirut for much of Sunday, with the loud blasts of new airstrikes echoing around the city. In the first speech by a Hezbollah official since Nasrallah\u2019s death, the militant group\u2019s deputy chief, Sheikh Naim Qassem, said the group was prepared for an Israeli ground invasion and that it would continue to fight despite a series of devastating attacks on its leaders and top military commanders by Israeli forces. \u201cWe will face any possibility and we are ready if the Israelis decide to enter by land and the resistance forces are ready for a ground engagement,\u201d Qassem said in a speech filmed in an undisclosed location. \u201cDespite the losses of its commanders, the attacks against civilians throughout Lebanon, and great sacrifices, we will not budge from our position,\u201d Qassem said. Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said 105 people had been killed and a further 359 injured by Israeli strikes across the country on Sunday. More than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, it said, without saying how many were civilians. The government said a million people \u2013 a fifth of the population \u2013 have fled their homes. Also on Monday, the Lebanese army announced that one of its soldiers had been killed in an Israeli drone strike that targeted a motorcycle at a checkpoint. On Sunday, Israel launched a wave of airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, fuelling fears of a slide towards a devastating regional conflict on multiple fronts. The attack on the port of Hodeidah involved dozens of Israeli planes and appears to have targeted fuel facilities, power plants and docks at the Ras Issa and Hodeidah ports. It was one of the biggest such operations yet in the near year-long crisis in the region. Houthi media reported the strikes had killed four people and wounded 33. Residents said the strikes caused power cuts in most parts of Hodeidah. Israeli military officials said the raid targeted the Houthis, who have fired at Israeli targets for months in what they say is solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The Houthis have also targeted international shipping in the Red Sea. On Saturday, they launched a ballistic missile attack on Israel\u2019s main international airport when Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, was arriving. In Lebanon, Hezbollah confirmed that Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of its central council, was killed on Saturday, making him the seventh senior Hezbollah leader killed in Israeli strikes in a little over a week. The group also confirmed that Ali Karaki, another senior commander, died in the airstrike on Friday that killed Nasrallah. Three days of mourning were announced, starting on Monday, after the killing of Nasrallah. Hezbollah denied claims that Abu Ali Rida, the commander of the group\u2019s Bader Unit in south Lebanon, had been killed. Rida is the last remaining senior military commander of Hezbollah who remains alive. Israel has vowed to keep up the assault and says it wants to make its northern areas secure again for residents who have been forced to flee Hezbollah rocket attacks. Joe Biden, asked if an all-out war in the Middle East could be avoided, said: \u201cIt has to be.\u201d The US president said he would be talking to Netanyahu. Meanwhile, the White House national security spokesperson, John Kirby, said Israel\u2019s airstrikes in Lebanon had \u201cwiped out\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s command structure, but he warned that the group would work quickly to rebuild it. \u201cI think people are safer without him walking around,\u201d Kirby said of Nasrallah. \u201cBut they will try to recover. We\u2019re watching to see what they do to try to fill this leadership vacuum. It\u2019s going to be tough \u2026 Much of their command structure has now been wiped out.\u201d Speaking on CNN\u2019s State of the Union, Kirby sidestepped questions about whether the Biden administration agreed with how the Israelis have targeted Hezbollah leaders. The White House continues to call on Israel and Hezbollah to agree to a 21-day temporary ceasefire floated by the US, France and other countries during the UN general assembly last week. Reuters contributed to this report"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;More than 200 dead in Nepal floods, as parts of Kathmandu left under water;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/more-than-200-dead-in-nepal-floods-as-parts-of-kathmandu-left-under-water;2024-09-30T13:28:57Z",
        "text": "More than 200 people were killed in Nepal over the weekend in what experts described as some of the worst flash flooding to have hit the capital, Kathmandu, and the surrounding valleys. Swathes of Kathmandu were left underwater after the heaviest monsoon rains in two decades fell on Friday and Saturday, washing away entire neighbourhoods, bridges and roads. The heavy rains caused the Bagmati River, which runs through the city, to swell more than 2 metres higher than deemed safe. Officials reported that by Monday afternoon, 204 bodies had been recovered from the disaster and at least 30 more people were still stranded or missing, while hundreds more were injured. Dozens who died had been travelling on buses that were washed away when the highways were engulfed by surging flood waters. Nepal\u2019s army said more than 4,000 people had been rescued using helicopters, motorboats and rafts. Search teams continued working to dig people buried in deep mud and rubble, while rescue teams also used ziplines to reach those who were stranded. The mountain city of Pokhara, which is popular with tourists, was also hit by heavy flooding. In the aftermath, thousands were displaced and hundreds were left without access to power and drinking water. The damage to the roads was so extensive that all main routes out of Kathmandu remained blocked and schools in the capital were closed for the next three days. Officials and experts attributed the disaster to the climate crisis, which is causing increasingly intensive and erratic downpours and deadly flooding in south Asian countries such as Nepal. While the monsoon rains are drawing to a close, the onslaught over the weekend was caused by unusual monsoon weather patterns. More than 300 people have died in Nepal this year from rain-related incidents, and recent studies have shown that the incidence of heavy flooding is likely to increase in the Himalayan country in the next five years as it is disproportionately affected by the changing climate. Arun Bhakta Shrestha, an environmental risks expert at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), said he had \u201cnever before seen flooding on this scale in Kathmandu\u201d. ICIMOD said the scale of the disaster had been worsened by unplanned urban encroachment on flood plains and unauthorised construction without proper drainage along the banks of the Bagmati River. It called for the restoration of wetlands in areas vulnerable to flooding."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Wilders and Orb\u00e1n congratulate Austria\u2019s far-right Freedom party on poll success \u2013 as it happened;https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/30/austria-far-right-fpo-freedom-party-herbert-kickl-election-ovp-latest-updates;2024-09-30T13:26:02Z",
        "text": "Austria\u2019s main parties are preparing to begin tense wrangling to form a government amid warnings about the country\u2019s democracy. On Sunday, the far-right Freedom party (FP\u00d6) scored its strongest result since its founding with just over 29% of the vote. The first place finish by the FP\u00d6 marks another significant step in the radical right\u2019s onward march across Europe. But the FP\u00d6 will face an uphill battle to form a government as it failed to secure an absolute majority. The centre-right \u00d6VP would be a potential partner but has called a government led by polarising FP\u00d6 leader Herbert Kickl a dealbreaker. Far-right figures across the continent celebrated the results. Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders said \u201cthe Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, France, Spain, Czech Republic and today Austria! We are winning! Times are changing!\u201d Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n congratulated Kickl, describing the election results as a \u201chistoric victory.\u201d Val\u00e9rie Hayer, leader of the liberal Renew Europe group, said that \u201cour democracies deserve to be constantly reminded of the unprecedented danger posed by the extreme right.\u201d Val\u00e9rie Hayer, leader of the liberal Renew Europe group, has said that \u201c24 years ago, everyone was appalled. Today, some might consider it commonplace for a party that was led by a former SS to win elections. We don\u2019t.\u201d \u201cThis can never be the right choice. Our democracies deserve to be constantly reminded of the unprecedented danger posed by the extreme right,\u201d she added. Austria\u2019s main parties are preparing to begin tense wrangling to form a government amid warnings about the country\u2019s democracy after the far right\u2019s watershed victory in a general election that saw angry voters punish centrist incumbents over migration and inflation. On Sunday the anti-Islam, Kremlin-friendly Freedom party (FP\u00d6) scored its strongest result since its founding after the second world war by former Nazi functionaries and SS officers with just over 29% of the vote. Despite its resounding win, the FP\u00d6, which calls for a \u201cFortress Austria\u201d against migration and \u201cremigration\u201d or forced deportations of unwanted foreigners, will face an uphill battle to form a government as it failed to secure an absolute majority. All of the smaller parties have ruled out any cooperation with the hard right. The \u00d6VP, which has worked with the rightwing populists several times at the national and regional level, would be a potential partner but has called a government led by polarising FP\u00d6 leader Herbert Kickl a dealbreaker. Read the full story here. The first place finish in Austria\u2019s parliamentary elections by the far-right, anti-immigration, Russia-friendly Eurosceptic Freedom party (FP\u00d6) nonetheless marks another significant step in the radical right\u2019s onward march across Europe. It rounds off 12 months of elections in which illiberal parties have won the most seats in parliaments across Europe. The FP\u00d6 is not certain to be part of Austria\u2019s next government. As kingmaker, the \u00d6VP may seek an alliance with the third-placed, centre-left SP\u00d6 and the liberals. It has repeatedly said it will not rule with the FP\u00d6\u2019s inflammatory leader, Herbert Kickl. But if Kickl can be persuaded to abandon his prime ministerial ambitions for a less controversial FP\u00d6 figure, and the \u00d6VP can overcome its concerns about a third \u2013 likely tempestuous \u2013 alliance with the far-right party, an FP\u00d6-\u00d6VP coalition is possible. For the EU, that holds the unappetising prospect of Austria becoming part of a putative Moscow-friendly, anti-Brussels, autocratic bloc that, by this time next year, could include Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Hungary, Robert Fico\u2019s Slovakia and Andrej Babi\u0161\u2019s Czech Republic. That could have significant consequences, for example for EU policies towards \u2013 and support for \u2013 Ukraine. Far-right parties already in government or pushing at the gates are already resulting in dramatically tougher policies on immigration across the bloc. Read the full analysis here. Karl Nehammer, Austria\u2019s chancellor, called the result, which will send shock waves through Europe, \u201cbitter\u201d while his defence minister, Klaudia Tanner, admitted the debacle for the governing parties was a \u201cwake-up call\u201d. Because it failed to win an absolute majority, the far-right Freedom party (FP\u00d6) will need a partner to govern. Unlike the other centrist parties, the People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP) has not ruled out cooperating with the far right in the next government, as it has twice in the past in taboo-breaking alliances at the national level. Nehammer, however, repeated on Sunday that a scenario in which Herbert Kickl, a former hardline interior minister, became chancellor was a non-starter, setting up a potential showdown in which the FP\u00d6 would have to either jettison Kickl or take a backseat in government to win the \u00d6VP\u2019s support. Read the full story here. German Green MEP Daniel Freund reacted to the Austrian election\u2019s outcome with an emoji. Here\u2019s an interesting graph of where the far-right\u2019s votes came from. Here\u2019s a map from ORF showing which parties came first in each Austrian municipality. Austrian media is noting this morning the geographic differences in the far-right\u2019s performance yesterday. The far-right did especially well in rural areas and smaller towns, while the Social Democrats performed well in most big cities. Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders also celebrated the outcome of Austria\u2019s election. \u201cThe Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, France, Spain, Czech Republic and today Austria! We are winning! Times are changing!\u201d he wrote. Academic Cas Mudde has written of the Austrian election results that the \u201cswing is mainly WITHIN and not towards \u00d6VP-FP\u00d6.\u201d \u201cThis is increasingly common: right-wing block wins modestly but within the right-wing block the far right wins big,\u201d he added. Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n has congratulated Herbert Kickl, describing the election results as a \u201chistoric victory.\u201d Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Fidesz party and Kickl\u2019s far-right Freedom party are both members of the Patriots for Europe group. The far right won the most votes in an Austrian election for the first time since the Nazi era on Sunday, as the Freedom party (FP\u00d6) rode a tide of public anger over migration and the cost of living to beat the centre-right People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP). The pro-Kremlin, anti-Islam FP\u00d6 won 29.2% of votes, beating the ruling \u00d6VP of the chancellor, Karl Nehammer, into second place on 26.5%, according to near-complete results. The opposition Social Democratic party scored its worst ever result \u2013 21% \u2013 while the liberal NEOS drew about 9%. Despite devastating flooding this month from Storm Boris bringing the climate crisis to the fore, the Greens, junior partners in the government coalition, tallied 8.3% in a dismal fifth place. Profiting from a rightwing surge in many parts of Europe and taking Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n as a model, the FP\u00d6 capitalised on fears around migration, asylum and crime heightened by the August cancellation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna over an alleged Islamist terror plot. Its polarising lead candidate, Herbert Kickl, who campaigned using the \u201cpeople\u2019s chancellor\u201d moniker once used to describe the Austrian-born Adolf Hitler, said he was ready to form a government with \u201ceach and every one\u201d of the parties in parliament. Read the full story here. Good morning and welcome back to the Europe blog. Send thoughts and tips to lili.bayer@theguardian.com."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Austrian parties to begin talks on forming government after far-right win;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/austria-election-talks-forming-government-far-right-freedom-party-win;2024-09-30T13:01:43Z",
        "text": "Austria\u2019s main parties are preparing to begin tense wrangling to form a government amid warnings about the country\u2019s democracy after the far right\u2019s watershed victory in a general election in which angry voters punished centrist incumbents over migration and inflation. On Sunday, the anti-Islam, Kremlin-friendly Freedom party (FP\u00d6) scored its strongest result since its founding after the second world war by former Nazi functionaries and SS officers with just over 29% of the vote. The outcome surpassed expectations and beat the ruling centre-right People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP) by nearly three percentage points. The centre-left opposition Social Democratic party (SP\u00d6) turned in its worst-ever performance with 21% while the Greens, junior partners in government, sank to 8%. Exit polls showed that the 13-point gain for the FP\u00d6 since the last parliamentary election in 2019 came thanks to strong support among younger voters. Amid deep frustration with the cost of living and angst about immigration, the hard right clearly won among Austrians under 34 with 27% of that demographic, and even more decisively with the 35-to-59 set on 37%. The FP\u00d6 profited as well from festering resentment over Austria\u2019s strict measures during the Covid pandemic. The FP\u00d6, which cites Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n as a model, placed only third with over-60s on 22%. Instead, they gave their support to the \u00d6VP of the chancellor, Karl Nehammer, with 38%, and the SP\u00d6 on 24%. Austria has often faced criticism about its tepid culture of historical remembrance of the Nazi period, long casting itself as the Nazis\u2019 \u201cfirst victim\u201d despite its enthusiastic welcome of the Anschluss in 1938 by native son Adolf Hitler. In the wake of Sunday\u2019s results, the International Auschwitz Committee, representing survivors of the Nazi extermination camp from 19 countries, denounced an \u201calarming new chapter\u201d in Austria. Its vice-president, Christoph Heubner, said they were placing their faith in the \u201ccommon ground among Austria\u2019s democrats\u201d to \u201cstand up to historical amnesia and the ideology of old and new rightwing extremists \u2026 in the interest of the country and Europe\u201d. Benjamin N\u00e4gele, the general secretary of the Jewish Community of Vienna, described the results as \u201cshocking but unfortunately not surprising.\u201d In the wake of the election, many had sought to contextualise the party\u2019s triumph within the surge of support for the far-right across Europe, he said: \u201cBut we as a community have always emphasised the fact that this is not a normal far-right party.\u201d He added: \u201cRather, it\u2019s a continuation of the secretive German nationalist fraternities and the political movement of the National Socialists \u2014 a direct lineage founded by an SS member \u2013 that makes them quite specific and highly problematic.\u201d Despite its resounding win, the FP\u00d6, which calls for a \u201cFortress Austria\u201d against migration and \u201cremigration\u201d or forced deportations of unwanted foreigners, will face an uphill battle to form a government as it failed to secure an absolute majority. All of the smaller parties have ruled out any cooperation with the hard right. The \u00d6VP, which has worked with the rightwing populists several times at national and regional level, would be a potential partner but has called a government led by polarising FP\u00d6 leader Herbert Kickl a dealbreaker. Kickl routinely deploys Nazi rhetoric in his speeches, rails against immigrants, sides with Russia in its war against Ukraine and was previously ousted as a hardline interior minister. The FP\u00d6 would have to defenestrate Kickl, an acolyte of the late firebrand party leader J\u00f6rg Haider, if it hopes to realise its dream of claiming the chancellery. Celebrating his triumph, Kickl urged the \u00d6VP and Nehammer to \u201csleep on the results for a few nights\u201d before sticking to a firm ultimatum. A few hundred leftist protesters rallied outside the parliament building in Vienna\u2019s historic centre late on Sunday to urge the democratic parties to stand firm against the FP\u00d6, shouting \u201cNazis out\u201d and \u201cNever Kickl\u201d. President Alexander Van der Bellen, a former Greens leader who has the power to task parties with forming a government, urged the political class to preserve \u201cthe pillars of our liberal democracy\u201d. The thinly veiled encouragement to unite in isolating the FP\u00d6 could result in Nehammer, with his second-place \u00d6VP, cobbling together an alliance with the Social Democrats and the Greens or the liberal Neos, the only party in parliament beyond the FP\u00d6 to make gains in the election. However, Vedran D\u017eihi\u0107, a senior researcher at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, called such a move \u201cfraught with great risk\u201d. \u201cThis would bolster the (FP\u00d6) rhetoric around \u2018parties of the system\u2019 and \u2018coalition of losers\u2019, again picking up dissatisfied voters and setting it on a course for growth,\u201d he said. But he said the alternative, with the far right in power, would be far worse, \u201cendangering democracy and the rule of law\u201d. A conservative hard-right coalition would \u201cput Austria on the track of Hungary and Orb\u00e1n \u2026 with more illiberalism, more fear and incitement, less Europe and less stability in society\u201d. D\u017eihi\u0107, who has just published Ankommen (Arrival), about his experiences in Austria after fleeing the Bosnian war in 1993, said he saw himself and his children \u201cdirectly targeted when the FP\u00d6 talks about remigration\u201d. \u201cWhen you yourself become the object of such hateful and violent omnipotence fantasies you get scared,\u201d he said, adding that he was \u201dshocked that so many people in this country are prepared to give this party their vote\u201d. On the other hand, \u201cthere are still 71% who are clearly speaking out for democratic parties and reject the FP\u00d6,\u201d he said. \u201cThat makes me hopeful that a large majority in this country will defend democracy and freedom in Austria.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;American man pleads guilty in Moscow court to charge of fighting for Ukraine;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/american-man-pleads-guilty-in-moscow-court-to-charge-of-fighting-for-ukraine;2024-09-30T12:55:46Z",
        "text": "A US citizen has pleaded guilty in a Moscow court to charges of fighting for Ukraine, marking the first known instance of an American being tried as a mercenary in Russia. Russian state media reported that Stephen James Hubbard, 72, of Michigan, had admitted he had received money to fight for Ukraine against Russia. \u201cYes, I agree with the indictment,\u201d the state news agency Ria Novosti quoted him as saying in court on Monday. The Kremlin-friendly Izvestia newspaper, citing a prosecutor in court, said Hubbard was paid $1,000 (\u00a3750) after he signed a contract with a Ukrainian territorial defence unit in the eastern city of Izium in February 2022. He was captured by Russian forces in April 2022, according to the prosecutor, during the occupation of Izium by Russian troops. The city was later liberated by Ukrainian forces in the autumn of 2022. If convicted of participating in mercenary activities, he could face up to 15 years in prison. Hubbard\u2019s sister Patricia Fox denied her brother was a mercenary and said he was too old for combat. \u201cHe is so non-military,\u201d Fox told Reuters. \u201cHe never had a gun, owned a gun, done any of that \u2026 He\u2019s more of a pacifist.\u201d In a public Facebook group, Fox earlier said that her brother had been \u201ckidnapped up in the Ukraine\u201d nearly three years ago. Hubbard has reportedly spent decades working abroad as an English teacher, including in Japan, Cyprus and Ukraine, where he was living at the time of Moscow\u2019s invasion in February 2022. A spokesperson for the US embassy in Moscow said last week that it was aware of the detention of an American citizen, but declined further comment. Hubbard is one of at least a dozen Americans behind bars in Russia. Arrests of Americans in Russia have become increasingly common as relations between the two countries sink to cold war-era lows. Washington has previously accused Moscow of using US citizens as bargaining chips for political leverage. Hubbard is the first known US citizen to be tried in Russia on mercenary charges in relation to the war in Ukraine. In June 2022, two American men were captured by Russian-backed separatist forces in Donbas while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces during a battle north of Kharkiv. The men were later released along with five British citizens as part of a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine that was brokered by Saudi Arabia."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;British judge Nicholas Phillips steps down from Hong Kong court;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/nicholas-phillips-british-hong-kong-court-judge-steps-down-personal-reasons;2024-09-30T12:18:32Z",
        "text": "The British judge Nicholas Phillips has stepped down from Hong Kong\u2019s top appeals court, the fifth overseas judge to leave the city\u2019s judiciary this year. Phillips, 86, is leaving Hong Kong\u2019s court of final appeal (CFA) after 22 years for \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d after his fourth term ended on Monday and he said he did not wish to extend it, the court said. Phillips was among a long line of non-permanent foreign judges to serve on Hong Kong\u2019s judiciary, including from the UK, Australia and Canada. He is the fifth foreign judge to resign from the court this year, and the 10th since the introduction of the 2020 national security law that criminalised acts of dissent and subversion. The law has been criticised as vaguely defined and the government accused of wielding it as a political weapon against the pro-democracy movement. In a statement to the Guardian the judiciary said it was grateful to Phillips for \u201chis support for the rule of law in Hong Kong\u201d. \u201cDespite the departure of some [non-permanent judges, or NPJs] in recent years, an overwhelming majority of the serving and departed NPJs have publicly reiterated their continued confidence in judicial independence in Hong Kong and the commitment of the Hong Kong courts towards upholding the rule of law,\u201d it said. Two other British judges who resigned from the CFA this year \u2013 Jonathan Sumption and Lawrence Collins \u2013 both cited the new political situation in Hong Kong. In an opinion piece in the Financial Times in June, Sumption said Hong Kong \u201cis slowly becoming a totalitarian state\u201d. \u201cThe rule of law is profoundly compromised in any area about which the government feels strongly,\u201d he wrote. The Canadian judge Beverley McLachlin also resigned this year, as did the Australian judge Murray Gleeson, who cited his age, 85. Phillips\u2019s departure leaves six foreign judges on the CFA benches: four Australians and two from the UK, Lennie Hoffmann and David Neuberger. Pro-democracy activists and human rights groups have been calling on those remaining to also quit, saying their presence lends legitimacy to a legal system that has been undermined by the worsening security environment. In June, Sumption said it was \u201cno longer realistic\u201d to think the presence of overseas judges was sustaining the rule of law in Hong Kong. At the same time, however, Neuberger told the Guardian: \u201cHong Kong has an impressive and independent judiciary and a thriving and able legal profession, both of which benefit the people of Hong Kong and contribute to the rule of law. They deserve support, not undermining.\u201d The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation called for the remaining foreign judges to resign. \u201cThere should be no overseas judges giving any sort of veneer of legitimacy to a legal system which is now quite clearly under the control of the Chinese Communist party, no longer independent, and no longer trustworthy,\u201d said Alyssa Fong, the foundation\u2019s manager and author of the report Lending Prestige to Persecution."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Milan police arrest 19 people in operation against football ultras;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/italy-police-arrest-football-ultras-ac-milan-inter;2024-09-30T12:18:03Z",
        "text": "Police in Milan have arrested 19 people as part of an operation against hardcore \u201cultra\u201d football fans, most of whom were accused of having links to the mafia. Among those arrested were Luca Lucci and Renato Bosetti, leaders of the AC Milan and Inter Milan ultras respectively. Lucci, who was previously convicted on drug charges, was photographed shaking hands with Matteo Salvini, the leader of the far-right League party, in 2018. Salvini is deputy prime minister and transport minister in Giorgia Meloni\u2019s far-right government. The investigation began after the murder of Antonio Bellocco, a powerful member of the \u2019Ndrangheta crime syndicate, in early September. Bellocco was killed during a fight outside a Milan boxing gym, allegedly by Andrea Beretta, one of Bosetti\u2019s predecessors. Beretta had a leading role in the Inter Milan ultras, known as the Curva Nord, after the career criminal Vittorio Boiocchi was shot dead outside his home in October 2022. Italy\u2019s finance police said the charges included \u201ccriminal conspiracy aggravated by mafia methods, extortion, assault and other serious crimes\u201d. Bellocco\u2019s murder heightened suspicions over the growing connection between mafia clans and ultras operating in Milan\u2019s San Siro stadium. Marco Ferdico, a close associate of Bellocco, was also arrested, as were Alex Cologno and Christian Rosiello, who were described by the Italian press as being \u201cfriends and bodyguards\u201d of the high-profile rapper Fedez. The alleged crimes include ticket touting; forced \u201cpizzo\u201d payments, or protection money, from the sellers of food and drink outside the stadium, or in return for car park spaces; and grievous bodily harm. The Milan prosecutor Marcello Viola, quoted by the Ansa news agency, said it was \u201ca complex investigation\u201d brought together by various branches of Italy\u2019s state police. He also said Milan police had banned numerous others from accessing \u201cplaces where sporting events take place\u201d. He described illicit economic activities at the San Siro stadium as being \u201cbeyond control\u201d and that this was partly due to the \u201cshortcomings\u201d in the management of fan relations. AC Milan and Inter Milan are two of Italy\u2019s most prominent football clubs. Supporters of the two teams made a \u201cnon-belligerence\u201d agreement in 1981 after the death of a 21-year-old fan. But police said the pact turned into a business deal aimed at \u201cmaking profits\u201d and jointly infiltrating \u201cevery possible profitable aspect of football\u201d. Ultras tend to be well-organised, extremely violent and racist. Ultra leaders reportedly earn thousands of euros a month in illegal activities."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Victory in Austria is another step in far right\u2019s march across Europe;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/victory-austria-another-step-far-right-march-europe-eu;2024-09-30T11:50:29Z",
        "text": "It had been expected for months \u2013 the party had been leading the polls since 2022. Nor was it exactly a crushing victory: far from an absolute majority, and just two points more than its previous highest score. It may not even end up in government. But the first place finish in Austria\u2019s parliamentary elections by the far-right, anti-immigration, Russia-friendly Eurosceptic Freedom party (FP\u00d6) nonetheless marks another significant step in the radical right\u2019s onward march across Europe. The FP\u00d6, founded by former Nazis, has been in power before, as the junior partner in short-lived coalition governments with the centre-right Austrian People\u2019s party (\u00d6VP) in 2000 and 2017, but it has never before finished first in a national election. Its performance on Sunday, with a score of 29%, represents a remarkable comeback after it looked close to collapse barely five years ago, when the cash-for-influence Ibiza scandal forced its then leader to resign and brought down the government. It rounds off 12 months of elections in which illiberal parties have won the most seats in parliaments across Europe. This time last year, populist, autocratic, Brussels-baiting Robert Fico topped the ballot in Slovakia and formed a government soon after. Less than two months later, the Freedom party (PVV) of the anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders finished first in Dutch elections, eventually assembling a cabinet that has promised the country\u2019s toughest-ever policies on immigration and law and order. In May, Marine Le Pen\u2019s far-right National Rally (RN) achieved its best ever result in European parliament elections in France, inflicting a humiliating defeat on President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s centrist forces and prompting him to dissolve parliament. In the ensuing vote, the RN went on to record its highest ever score in the first round. In the second it took an even higher share of the vote and, despite unprecedented tactical voting against it, wound up as the largest single party in the assembly. This month in Germany, Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) secured a historic victory in regional elections in Thuringia, the first time the far-right party had topped a state ballot, and finished a close second in two more, Saxony and Brandenburg. Looking ahead, the nation-first, populist ANO party of the former prime minister Andrej Babi\u0161 could sweep parliamentary elections due in the Czech Republic by October after topping the EU ballot and, this month, dominating regional and senate votes. Next September, the AfD \u2013 now polling ahead of all three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s fractured and ailing coalition, and trailing only the opposition centre-right Christian Democrats \u2013 will have high hopes for federal elections due in Germany. And if, as seems distinctly possible, the right-leaning government cobbled together in France this month fails to survive for long, fresh elections could in principle be held anytime after next July \u2013 and a bet against the RN finishing first would be a brave one. The FP\u00d6 is not certain to be part of Austria\u2019s next government. As kingmaker, the \u00d6VP may seek an alliance with the third-placed, centre-left SP\u00d6 and the liberals. It has repeatedly said it will not rule with the FP\u00d6\u2019s inflammatory leader, Herbert Kickl. But if Kickl can be persuaded to abandon his prime ministerial ambitions for a less controversial FP\u00d6 figure, and the \u00d6VP can overcome its concerns about a third \u2013 likely tempestuous \u2013 alliance with the far-right party, an FP\u00d6-\u00d6VP coalition is possible. For the EU, that holds the unappetising prospect of Austria becoming part of a putative Moscow-friendly, anti-Brussels, autocratic bloc that, by this time next year, could include Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Hungary, Fico\u2019s Slovakia and Babi\u0161\u2019s Czech Republic. That could have significant consequences, for example for EU policies towards \u2013 and support for \u2013 Ukraine. Far-right parties already in government or pushing at the gates are already resulting in dramatically tougher policies on immigration across the bloc. Parties classed as far right or national conservative are in ruling coalitions in seven EU states: Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovakia. In Sweden, a far-right party is propping up a minority government. In France, Le Pen\u2019s RN holds the fate of the new government in its hands, its survival dependent on whether and when her far-right party decides to back any future vote of no confidence tabled by the leftwing New Popular Front (NPF) bloc. Alarmingly, the FP\u00d6\u2019s success on Sunday suggests that \u2013 similarly to the AfD and Wilders\u2019 PVV, but unlike the RN and Brothers of Italy \u2013 Europe\u2019s far-right parties may now no longer feel a pressing need to \u201csanitise\u201d their image. Austria\u2019s far-right party is regularly accused of using antisemitic and fascist tropes, which it denies. Kickl, who has spread Covid and climate conspiracy theories, says he wants to be Volkskanzler, or \u201cpeople\u2019s chancellor\u201d \u2013 a term used by Adolf Hitler. Almost 25 years ago, when the FP\u00d6 under its then leader, J\u00f6rg Haider, won just under 27% of the vote and entered government, it caused such a profound shock around the EU that diplomatic visits were cancelled and punitive measures imposed. Today\u2019s Europe is very different."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Triumph and a broken promise: Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador vowed to transform Mexico, but did he?;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/mexico-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador;2024-09-30T11:30:12Z",
        "text": "The last weeks of Mexican president Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s government have been marked by political triumph and a broken promise. As the new congressional supermajority of Morena, the party L\u00f3pez Obrador founded, began changing the constitution in ways that will cement its political hegemony, the families of the 43 students who were forcibly disappeared in Ayotzinapa 10 years ago again took the streets to protest over the lack of justice \u2013 justice L\u00f3pez Obrador vowed to deliver, but did not. These are two facets of the momentous but complex legacy left by L\u00f3pez Obrador \u2013 known colloquially as Amlo \u2013 six years after he became Mexico\u2019s first elected leftwing president, promising to reshape a country racked by inequality, corruption and violence. The self-described \u201cfourth transformation\u201d \u2013 which put Amlo\u2019s project on a level with the Mexican revolution and the war of independence \u2013 fell well short of its lofty goals. But L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s popularity nonetheless carried his party to a landslide victory in June\u2019s election. Claudia Sheinbaum, his close ally, will become Mexico\u2019s first female president on Tuesday, with a concentration of political power not seen since the country became a democracy in 2000. Her electoral triumph reflects the foremost success of Amlo\u2019s government: the sense of socioeconomic justice. A mix of minimum salary hikes, direct cash transfers and labour policy reform mean many Mexicans have seen their incomes jump. Poverty has fallen. \u201cL\u00f3pez Obrador doubled the minimum wage without creating macroeconomic instability,\u201d said Viri R\u00edos, an economist. \u201cHe showed us that there was space, and maybe still is, to increase wages in Mexico.\u201d These concrete results were augmented by Amlo\u2019s political narrative. \u201cIt was very simple: he said the country had been captured by elites, and that they had been corruptly benefiting a very small set of the population,\u201d said R\u00edos. \u201cWhich is obviously the case in Mexico, one of the most unequal countries in the world. You don\u2019t get there by accident.\u201d By putting inequality at the centre of his discourse \u2013 and acting on it \u2013 Amlo restored large parts of the population to confidence in democracy. By 2023, 61% of Mexicans said they had faith in their national government, compared with 29% when L\u00f3pez Obrador took office. \u201cMost of the population feel that there is finally someone in power who responds to their interests,\u201d said Humberto Beck, a historian. And in the minds of voters, this seems to have outweighed Amlo\u2019s unkept promises. Corruption and impunity have not improved. Amlo\u2019s government, like those before it, has had corruption scandals. Meanwhile, justice remains distant even for the most high-profile crimes, such as the forced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students. Although the homicide rate fell slightly during the last years of Amlo\u2019s government, Mexico has seen more than 30,000 murders each of the last six years. Its homicide rate is still among the highest in Latin America. Security in some states, such as Chiapas, has deteriorated dramatically, leading to streams of Mexicans being forcibly displaced and even seeking refuge in neighbouring countries. Meanwhile, more than 100,000 people remain missing. In August 2023, the director of the national search commission resigned, citing pressure to reduce the ever-rising number of disappeared people, which had become politically damaging to the government. Many of those missing people could be among the 72,000 bodies lying in Mexico\u2019s morgues \u2013 but the institutions set up to identify them have been dismantled. Yet perhaps the most striking about-face of this government was Amlo\u2019s stance on the military. Before taking power, he promised to return the soldiers to their barracks. Upon gaining it, he both deepened the military\u2019s role in domestic security and gave it new roles in infrastructure construction, the development of tourism and customs management. Last week, Morena changed the constitution to put the 130,000-strong national guard, which it created as a civilian security force but which was largely staffed by former soldiers, under the control of the military. \u201cL\u00f3pez Obrador expanded the military\u2019s involvement in areas previously reserved for civil society to a level we never could have imagined,\u201d said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a political scientist. This militarisation, coupled with Morena\u2019s newfound political hegemony, has led its opponents to sound the alarm about the threat of democratic regression. With its congressional supermajority, Morena will be able to rewrite the constitution at will, until at least the legislative elections in 2027. It has already pushed through a controversial judicial reform that will make all judges, including those on the supreme court, stand for election. Critics say this threatens the rule of law, and thus liberal democracy in Mexico. But others argue that Mexico has never truly been a liberal democracy for all of its people. \u201cI think it was a very functional electoral democracy, but not a liberal democracy, understood as checks and balances and the protection of humans rights,\u201d said R\u00edos. In any case, Morena is moving Mexico away from the conception of liberal democracy defined by the separation of powers, and towards a vision of democracy that forefronts popular participation and majority approval. Morena\u2019s majority approval has been built around Amlo\u2019s personal charisma \u2013 which raises the question of how it will evolve without him. Although the outgoing president has often said he would retire to his ranch upon leaving power, few believe he will disappear from the scene entirely. Some see the recent appointment of his son, Andr\u00e9s L\u00f3pez Beltr\u00e1n, as secretary of Morena, as a sign of the influence he will continue to hold. \u201cI think you can read that as an attempt to institutionalise the personal power of L\u00f3pez Obrador beyond his term,\u201d said Beck."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Mark Rutte takes charge of Nato at a perilous moment for Ukraine;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/mark-rutte-takes-charge-of-nato-at-a-perilous-moment-for-ukraine;2024-09-30T10:33:33Z",
        "text": "At 9am (0700 GMT) on Tuesday, wreaths will be laid at the granite monument to the men and women who have died fighting under the banner of Nato during the last 75 years. It will be a brief moment of solemnity at the headquarters of the transatlantic alliance in Brussels. Then, after retreating into the cavernous, windowless North Atlantic Council room, Mark Rutte will officially take charge as Nato secretary general. Rutte, the blunt-speaking liberal who led four Dutch coalition governments over 13 years, takes the reins at a perilous moment for Ukraine, a defining test for the transatlantic alliance. Nato allies recently pledged to bolster long-term support to Ukraine \u201cso it can prevail in its fight for freedom\u201d. Far from prevailing, Ukraine is facing its third winter fighting Russia\u2019s brutal invasion, while Vladimir Putin\u2019s forces continue to advance in the east of the country. Nato has changed considerably since Jens Stoltenberg, the outgoing and second-longest serving secretary general, took over a decade ago. When Stoltenberg arrived at Nato HQ, Russia had already annexed Crimea and, aided by local separatists, was seizing territory into eastern Ukraine. Yet in 2014 Nato allies were more focused on Afghanistan, and as Stoltenberg said earlier this month, support for Ukraine was \u201cmarginal\u201d. Now the alliance reports tens of thousands of combat-ready troops on Nato\u2019s eastern flank, compared with zero a decade ago. And 23 of 32 Nato members meet the target to spend at least 2% of GDP on defence, compared with just three a decade ago. Yet Nato, and western support more broadly, has been too little, too late to tip the scales in Ukraine\u2019s favour. Western support is still \u201cnot enough, sadly\u201d, said Tom\u00e1\u0161 Val\u00e1\u0161ek, a former Nato ambassador for Slovakia, now a member of the Slovak parliament. \u201cThe reality is that two years on we have been too slow to crank up the industrial production. The Russian Federation, which is essentially an economy a fraction of the size of the combined US and European economies, has been able \u2026 to certainly give us a proper run for our money in defence production, which is a little ridiculous.\u201d Western nations, for example, waited a year to get moving on desperately needed ammunition. \u201cUkraine is completely unnecessarily being forced to cede ground in the east because of banal problems such as the lack of munitions, which should have been eminently within our means to supply Ukraine with.\u201d At the Washington summit last July, Nato leaders pledged \u20ac40bn (\u00a333bn) \u201cminimum funding\u201d for Ukraine for the next year and an \u201cirreversible path\u201d to Nato membership. The new secretary general will have to manage both Ukraine\u2019s membership hopes and money at the next summit in The Hague in June 2025. Oana Lungescu, who was Nato\u2019s chief spokesperson for 13 years, said money would be a major test for Rutte. \u201cHe will need to bolster his credentials as a strong advocate of increased defence spending across the alliance and that will help consolidate his credibility as the Nato secretary general, both with Washington, but also with the countries of central and eastern Europe, which perhaps were a bit lukewarm at the beginning when his name was put forward.\u201d The Netherlands, for many years a laggard in defence spending, was announced as meeting Nato\u2019s 2% target just days before Rutte was appointed. In a farewell speech this month Stoltenberg said it was obvious that Nato allies needed to spend \u201csignificantly more than 2%\u201d if they were going to fulfil defence spending plans, but declined to offer a precise figure. Lungescu, now a fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said there had already been talks in Nato for more than a year of \u201cat least 3% or more\u201d, pointing out the average defence spend in the cold war was about 4%. Then there is the prospect of Donald Trump, who said earlier this year he would encourage Russia \u201cto do whatever the hell they want\u201d when recounting an alleged encounter with a Nato leader of a country that had not met the 2% target. Camille Grand, who served as assistant secretary general at Nato during the first Trump presidency, said he was in the pessimistic camp about a second Trump administration. Thinktanks close to Trump pitch \u201ca dormant Nato\u201d that stops all further expansion. Grand, now at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said he feared not so much a formal withdrawal under Trump \u201cbut statements or actions that would undermine the fundamental logic of the alliance, which is that of solidarity, the sort of musketeer-style \u2018one for all and all for one\u2019\u201d. While Nato insiders would be relieved by a victory for Kamala Harris, the pressure for Europe to contribute more to its own defence, as the US switches focus to the far east, would remain. (China was named as a \u201cdecisive enabler\u201d of Russia\u2019s aggression by Nato leaders in July, the strongest rebuke of Beijing, albeit without consequences.) Talks about burden-sharing would continue under a Harris administration, Grand said. \u201cNo matter who is in the White House, [they will] be more focused on the Indo-Pacific, more focused on domestic issues, they have resource constraints and therefore it is impossible to assume that it\u2019s going to be the old-fashioned Nato coming back.\u201d Lungescu thinks that whoever is elected US president in November, Nato will have to step up support for Ukraine, increase defence spending, but also look further afield to stay relevant for a US administration: \u201cNato will need to do more in order to counter China\u2019s ambitious and influence including by making its partnerships with the democracies of the Indo-Pacific more substantive\u201d. Former Nato insiders see Rutte as well placed to navigate relations between Nato\u2019s 32 members, including the US under a Trump administration. Nicknamed the Trump whisperer, Rutte is credited with averting a near-disaster at the 2018 Nato summit in Brussels, when he talked Trump round on defence spending. More recently, he has counselled allies to stop \u201cwhining and moaning about Trump\u201d, because Europe has to work \u201cwith whoever is on the dance floor\u201d. A veteran of EU summitry, Rutte is also in a strong position to bridge any mismatch between the bloc\u2019s growing defence ambitions and Nato. The EU will soon have its first commissioner for defence, the former Lithuanian prime minister Andrius Kubilius, who is tasked with leading work on \u201cdefence projects of common European interest\u201d, such as a European air shield and cyber defences. Nato has traditionally been wary of EU defence ambitions, but Rutte, a fiscal conservative who is not romantic about the EU motto of \u201cever closer union\u201d, could be the man to bridge any potential gap. Years of coalition-building in the Netherlands should also stand him in good stead. \u201cAs a secretary general, you\u2019re far more of a secretary than general,\u201d Val\u00e1\u0161ek said. \u201cA lot of your job is simply brokering, convincing, occasionally pleading, listening.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Activists say they have proof ministers tried to influence police over Israeli arms firm protests;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/activists-say-they-have-proof-ministers-tried-to-influence-police-over-israeli-arms-firm-protests;2024-09-30T09:06:29Z",
        "text": "Internal government documents show that Home Office ministers and staff tried to influence police and prosecutors to crack down on activists targeting the UK factories of an Israeli arms manufacturer, campaigners have claimed. Briefing notes, obtained through freedom of information (FoI) requests by Palestine Action, show details of government meetings, predating the 7 October Hamas attacks and Israel\u2019s response in Gaza, intended to \u201creassure\u201d Elbit Systems UK, an Israeli arms manufacturer, which is subject to a direct action campaign by the campaign group. Prosecutions of Palestine Action activists, who say they are trying to protect Palestinian lives and stop war crimes, have led to some convictions, including for burglary and criminal damage, but also acquittals by juries and magistrates despite defendants admitting their actions. As well as Home Office ministers attending meetings with Elbit Systems representatives, the heavily redacted briefing notes show that one was attended by a director from the Attorney General\u2019s Office said to be representing the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). They also show that Home Office officials contacted the police about Palestine Action. Tim Crosland, a coordinator of Defend Our Juries, which claims that jurors\u2019 absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience is being eroded by judges placing limits on what defendants can say about their motivations, said: \u201cThese disclosures, despite the extensive redaction, are the smoking gun on what has been obvious for a while: the government has been trying to put a stop to juries acquitting those who expose and resist corporate complicity in violations of international law and mass loss of life. \u201cSuch political interference is a national scandal that goes right to the top \u2013 the corruption of democracy and the rule of law by those with wealth and power.\u201d A private secretary note dated 2 March 2022 for a meeting between the then home secretary, Priti Patel, and Martin Fausset, the chief executive of Elbit Systems UK, said: \u201cPalestine Action\u2019s criminal activity is for the police to investigate and though they are operationally independent of government meaning we cannot direct their response, my officials have been in contact with the police about PA.\u201d A briefing note dated 19 April last year for a meeting between Chris Philp, then a Home Office minister, and Elbit, said: \u201cA director from the Attorney General\u2019s Office will be attending to represent the CPS. The CPS declined to participate in this meeting to preserve their operational independence.\u201d The contents of a section titled \u201cpast lobbying\u201d were redacted. A spokesperson for Palestine Action said the manifestations of independence were contradicted within the same sentences in which they were made. \u201cWhat\u2019s going on behind closed doors demonstrates clear evidence of collusion between government, a foreign private arms manufacturer, the CPS, the Attorney General\u2019s Office and the police,\u201d they said. \u201cThis clear abuse of power shows how the state is prioritising the interests of Elbit Systems over the rights and freedoms of its own citizens.\u201d Documents previously revealed through FoI requests suggested Israeli embassy officials in London attempted to get the Attorney General\u2019s Office to intervene in UK court cases relating to the prosecution of protesters. This month the UK suspended 30 of 350 arms export licences to Israel because of a \u201cclear risk\u201d that they might be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law, a move pro-Palestinian groups said did not go far enough, but which supporters of Israel condemned as unjustified. A Home Office spokesperson said: \u201cWe fully respect the operational independence of the police and the independent judiciary, which remains the bedrock of our policing model. These meetings took place under the previous government.\u201d Philp, Patel and Elbit Systems UK were all approached for comment. At the time of publication only Elbit had responded, stating it was proud to be a supplier to the British armed forces."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;High tech, high yields? The Kenyan farmers deploying AI to increase productivity;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/high-tech-high-yields-the-kenyan-farmers-deploying-ai-to-increase-productivity;2024-09-30T04:00:03Z",
        "text": "Sammy Selim strode through the dense, shiny green bushes on the slopes of his coffee farm in Sorwot village in Kericho, Kenya, accompanied by a younger farmer called Kennedy Kirui. They paused at each corner to send the farm\u2019s coordinates to a WhatsApp conversation. The conversation was with Virtual Agronomist, a tool that uses artificial intelligence to provide fertiliser application advice using chat prompts. The chatbot asked some further questions before producing a report saying that Selim should target a yield of 7.9 tonnes and use three types of fertiliser in specific quantities to achieve that goal. \u201cMy God!\u201d Selim said upon receipt of the report. He had planned to use much more fertiliser than Virtual Agronomist was recommending. \u201cI could have wasted money.\u201d In Kericho and other parts of Kenya, AI-powered tools have become increasingly popular among small-scale farmers seeking to improve the quality and quantity of their produce. Pests, diseases and a lack of technical knowhow mean farmers have become accustomed to suffering crop losses on a large scale. They used to rely on advice from agricultural extension officers \u2013 professionals deployed by local governments to provide educational services to farmers \u2013 but their numbers have declined in recent years due to inadequate funding. Selim started using Virtual Agronomist on his 0.4-hectare (1-acre) farm in 2022, with the help of another farmer who had a smartphone at the time. Following its recommendations, his farm produced 7.3 tonnes of coffee, his highest yield ever. He\u2019s optimistic that the new recommendations will work too. \u201cTechnology helps,\u201d he said. Before adopting Virtual Agronomist, Selim would simply apply fertiliser using what he described as \u201cgeneral farmer\u2019s knowledge\u201d, putting different types at different times of the year without knowing the soil health. The farm\u2019s productivity was low. In one season, he managed to produce only 2.3 tonnes of coffee. At other times, he\u2019d take samples of his soil for testing at labs far from Sorwot, but the results would take months to come back and sometimes they wouldn\u2019t arrive at all. \u201cA big challenge for farmers is not knowing exactly what their soil needs,\u201d said Florah Maritim, factory manager at Sorwot Coffee Farmers Cooperative Society, which buys coffee from local farmers. The story is similar for farmers trying to determine what pests and diseases have affected their crops. Musau Mutisya, from Kwa Mwaura village in Machakos county, said he used to rely on his own knowledge to identify pests and diseases, but he wasn\u2019t always accurate. On a recent sunny morning on his 0.6-hectare (1.5-acre) farm, he stood next to a maize plant, pointing his phone\u2019s camera at a ragged, torn leaf using PlantVillage, an AI-powered app for diagnosing pests and diseases. A voice assistant instructed him on where to hold the phone, identified the pest as the fall armyworm, then gave him advice on how to control it. \u201cWe were doing guesswork in the past,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019ll end up using more money treating what you don\u2019t know.\u201d Both tools work by training AI models on images and data. Researchers at PlantVillage fed their model thousands of images of healthy and diseased crops to help it learn how to identify pests, while for Virtual Agronomist researchers trained a model to predict PH and other soil properties using continent-wide satellite data. There are seven and a half million small-scale farmers in Kenya. But the country has an extension officer-to-farm household ratio of 1:1093, far lower than the 1:400 ratio that the Food and Agriculture Organization recommends. Farmers need information to succeed, said Enock Chikava, director for agricultural delivery systems at the Gates Foundation, which supports the nonprofit outfit iSDA that created Virtual Agronomist. Technology can help fill the gap left by the lack of extension officers, he said. \u201cWe believe in the power of digital,\u201d Chikava said. \u201cIt can really, really disrupt things.\u201d A report released in July by the GSM Association found that most use cases of AI in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa were in agriculture and food security. The report said the potential for the technology to support socioeconomic growth on the continent was massive, but to realise it efforts needed to be made to tackle digital skills shortages and get more smartphones in people\u2019s hands. Both PlantVillage and Virtual Agronomist use a \u201clead farmer\u201d model, whereby farmers with smartphones are trained to use the tools not only on their own farms but also on neighbouring plots. PlantVillage is free to use, as is Virtual Agronomist for all crops apart from coffee, for which it charges KSh300 (about \u00a31.70) for advice. Despite the promise, some scientists caution about dependence on AI tools for agriculture. Angeline Wairegi, who has researched the use of the technology in agriculture in east Africa, said most AI training datasets exclude indigenous knowledge, meaning the information they provide can exclude successful localised practices. \u201cHeavy reliance on AI tools to set farming practices may result in the erosion of long-held, and tested, indigenous agricultural practices,\u201d said Wairegi, founder and research director at Athene Research Group. But for farmers such as Boniface Nzivo in Mua village in Machakos county, AI is a game changer. He uses a system called FarmShield to monitor temperature, humidity and soil moisture and advise him on when to water his cucumbers \u2013 aspects that he used to struggle with. \u201cI don\u2019t waste time trying to figure out how much water to use,\u201d he said while inside a greenhouse for growing the plant, which needs consistent water supply. \u201cIt\u2019s a great technology.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Ukraine war briefing: 16 injured in Russian attacks on city of Zaporizhzhia ;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/ukraine-war-briefing-zaporizhzhia-attacks-injured-russia;2024-09-30T01:13:55Z",
        "text": "Russia hit the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia with multiple guided bombs on Sunday, wounding at least 16 people and damaging railways, infrastructure and residential and commercial buildings, Ukrainian officials said. Russian forces hit three districts in the south-eastern city with a total of 13 guided bombs between 5am and 7am, the governor of Zaporizhzhia region said. The strikes injured at least 16 people, including two children aged eight and 17, Ivan Fedorov said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the Telegram messaging app that several residential buildings, the city\u2019s infrastructure and railways were damaged, and posting pictures from the attack sites showing charred cars, a hole blown through a residential building and rescuers battling fires. Local officials said trains were delayed and diverted while rescuers cleared the debris. The management of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station said Ukrainian forces had launched a new attack on a nearby electricity substation, destroying a transformer. The plant\u2019s management said on Telegram on Sunday that an artillery strike had hit the transformer at the \u201cRaduga\u201d substation in the town of Enerhodar in south-eastern Ukraine. It described the incident as aimed at \u201cdestabilising the situation in the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant\u2019s satellite city\u201d, posting a photograph showing smoke billowing from the top of a building. Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment on the claim, but the foreign minister, Andriy Sybiha, has previously accused Russia of planning strikes on Ukrainian nuclear facilities before the winter. Russia launched several waves of drones targeting Kyiv early on Monday but air defence successfully defended the city, Ukraine\u2019s military said. Reuters\u2019 witnesses heard numerous blasts in the Ukrainian capital in what sounded like air defence systems in operation and saw objects being hit in the air. All the drones Russia launched at Kyiv were either destroyed by defence systems or neutralised by electronic warfare, Serhiy Popko, the head of Kyiv\u2019s military administration, said on Telegram. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties and no damage reported, he said. Ukraine said it sent more than 100 drones deep inside Russia to hit a major weapons depot on Sunday, as it stepped up attacks further inside Russian territory. \u201cDefence forces struck the Kotluban military depot\u201d in the Volgograd region, hundreds of kilometres from the Ukrainian border, a day after a shipment of Iranian weapons reportedly arrived at the site, Ukraine\u2019s military general staff wrote on Telegram on Sunday. \u201cA fire and ammunition detonation were observed on the depot\u2019s territory,\u201d the post said, adding that the facility was being used for storage and the modernisation of missiles and artillery. Russia did not confirm the strike, reporting only that it had destroyed 67 drones overnight in the Volgograd region. A Ukrainian defence sector source told media that 120 drones had flown more than 600km (370 miles) to target the depot early on Sunday. Russia\u2019s defence ministry said on Sunday its forces had repelled six new Ukrainian attempts to enter its western Kursk region and had also taken control of the settlement of Makiivka in eastern Ukraine\u2019s Luhansk region. The ministry said on Telegram that its forces, with the support of aircraft and artillery, repelled attempts to enter the region near the village of Novy Put, about 80km (50 miles) west of Sudzha, a strategic crossing point for Russian natural gas exports to Europe via Ukraine. Ukrainian forces raided the Kursk region on 6 August and Zelenskyy said earlier this month that his forces controlled 100 settlements over an area of more than 1,300 sq km (500 sq miles). Russian sources dispute this figure and Moscow says it has since taken back some villages in a counterattack. The defence ministry said 50 Ukrainian servicemen had been killed and injured in the latest attempted Kursk incursion, and that a tank and four combat armoured vehicles as well as a car were destroyed. Ukraine has not commented. The battlefield reports could not be confirmed. Denmark said it was unlocking 1.3bn kroner ($194m) to help Ukraine bolster its arsenal against Russia\u2019s invasion. The weapons and equipment would be produced in Ukraine but financed by Denmark and frozen Russian assets, the Danish defence ministry said on Sunday. The Scandinavian country also announced the creation of a joint defence hub in Kyiv designed to help develop of new partnerships. \u201cWars are not only won on the battlefield but also in industry,\u201d the trade and industry minister, Morten Bodskov, said in a statement. Norway may put a fence along part or all of the 198km (123-mile) border it shares with Russia, a minister said, a move inspired by a similar project in its neighbour Finland. \u201cA border fence is very interesting, not only because it can act as a deterrent but also because it contains sensors and technology that allow you to detect if people are moving close to the border,\u201d the justice minister, Emilie Enger Mehl, told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK published late on Saturday. She said the Norwegian government was currently looking at \u201cseveral measures\u201d to beef up security on the border with Russia in the Arctic north, such as fencing, increasing the number of border staff or stepping up monitoring. Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday marked the 83rd anniversary of a Nazi massacre of more than 30,000 Jewish people at the Babyn Yar ravine near Kyiv in 1941 \u2013 the largest massacre by the Germans and their local collaborators of Jewish people in Ukraine during the second world war. The Ukrainian president said on X: \u201cBabyn Yar is a terrifying symbol, showing that the most heinous crimes occur when the world chooses to ignore, remain silent, stay indifferent, and lacks the determination to stand up against evil.\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Guardian;Israel strikes Lebanon and Yemen: what we know so far;https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/israel-strikes-yemen-lebanon-attack-hezbollah-middle-east-war-latest;2024-09-30T00:35:23Z",
        "text": "Lebanon\u2019s health ministry has said more than 100 people have been killed by Israeli strikes on Sunday. It said more than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, without saying how many were civilians. The government said a million people \u2013 a fifth of the population \u2013 have fled their homes. Israel carried out a strike in central Beirut in the early hours of Monday, the first time it has struck beyond the city\u2019s southern suburbs since 2006. The strike hit an upper floor of an apartment building near the Kola intersection, and a security source told Reuters that at least two people were killed. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said in a statement early on Monday that three of its leaders were killed in the strike. Israel has not commented on the attack. Israel said it bombed Houthi targets in Yemen on Sunday. The airstrikes on Yemen\u2019s port of Hodeidah were a response to Houthi missile attacks on Israel in recent days, Israel said. The Houthi-run health ministry said at least four people were killed and 29 wounded. Images from Hodeidah showed parts of the city covered in a massive pall of dust, and towering explosions in the distance. The Israeli military said dozens of its aircraft had attacked power plants and Ras Issa and Hodeidah ports, accusing the Houthis of operating under Iran\u2019s direction and in cooperation with Iraqi militias. Hezbollah confirmed that Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of the militant group\u2019s central council, was killed on Saturday, making him the seventh senior Hezbollah leader slain in Israeli strikes in a little over a week. The group also confirmed that Ali Karaki, another senior commander, died in the airstrike on Friday strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Three days of mourning were announced, starting on Monday, after the killing of Nasrallah. Hezbollah denied claims that Abu Ali Rida, the commander of the group\u2019s Bader Unit in south Lebanon had been killed. Rida is the last remaining senior military commander of Hezbollah who remains alive. White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said Israel\u2019s airstrikes in Lebanon had \u201cwiped out\u201d Hezbollah\u2019s command structure, but he warned the group would work quickly to rebuild it. President Joe Biden said on Sunday he would speak soon with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and believes that an all-out war in the Middle East must be avoided. Israel on Sunday vowed to keep up its assault in Lebanon. \u201cWe need to keep hitting Hezbollah hard,\u201d Israel\u2019s military chief of staff Herzi Halevi said. Israel\u2019s military said it struck dozens of targets in Lebanon including launchers and weapons stores and had intercepted eight projectiles coming from the direction of Lebanon. The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has broken his silence on Israel\u2019s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah. On Sunday, Syria\u2019s state-run outlet Sana quoted Assad as saying: \u201cWe are certain that the Lebanese national resistance will continue on the path of struggle and justice in the face of the occupation, and will continue to support the Palestinian people in their struggle for their just cause.\u201d Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said Israel should not be allowed to attack countries in the Iran-aligned \u201cAxis of Resistance\u201d one after the other. Pezeshkian, in comments carried by state media, said Lebanon should be supported. An Iranian Revolutionary Guards deputy commander, Abbas Nilforoushan, was also killed in the attack that killed Nasrallah in Beirut. Pezeshkian said \u201cwe cannot accept such actions and they will not be left unanswered. A decisive reaction is necessary.\u201d Saudi Arabia has stressed the \u201cneed to preserve Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d. In a statement released on Sunday amid Israel\u2019s deadly airstrikes, the Saudi foreign ministry said it was \u201cfollowing with great concern the developments taking place in Lebanon\u201d. Israeli opposition lawmaker Gideon Saar rejoined Netanyahu\u2019s government on Sunday, a step that is likely to strengthen the Israeli prime minister politically. Saar, who has been one of Netanyahu\u2019s most vocal critics in the past few years, is due to serve as a minister without a portfolio and have a seat in the prime minister\u2019s security cabinet, Israeli media reported. Expanding the government to include Saar\u2019s strengthens Netanyahu by making him less reliant on other members of his ruling coalition, which has been struggling in the polls."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;'America's Nobel' goes to a power couple who made a startling discovery about HIV;https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/09/30/g-s1-25433/hiv-prevention-lasker-prize-aids;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:41:22 -0400",
        "text": "This year's Lasker Prize for public service goes to South African researchers Salim and Quarraisha Abdool-Karim. The married couple made a startling discovery about HIV \u2014 and did something about it."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Israel Widens Its Airstrikes in Lebanon, How Will Iran Respond?;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/1202833904/israel-widens-its-airstrikes-in-lebanon-how-will-iran-respond;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:40:06 -0400",
        "text": "Israel began a series of attacks against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah with pagers and walkie talkies that exploded. They then launched airstrikes targeting the group's leadership. One strike killed Hezbollah's leader of over thirty years, Hassan Nasrallah. The attacks are an effort to prevent Hezbollah from continuing to fire rockets at northern Israel, which it has been doing since the war in Gaza began. Israel's airstrikes are continuing to widen and their military is massing at the border, pointing to a possible ground invasion.   <br /><br />We'll hear from our correspondent in Beirut about the feeling on the ground there. We also hear about whether and how Iran might respond. Iran had been arming Hezbollah to counter Israel, and the weakening of the group is a blow to an important proxy of Iran's.  <br /><br />For more coverage of all sides of this conflict, go to <a href=\"http://npr.org/mideastupdates\">npr.org/mideastupdates </a>"
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;FAQ: Your house flooded. Now what?;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5133829/hurricane-helene-storm-flooding;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:04:07 -0400",
        "text": "Experts say the first thing is to make sure it\u2019s safe to go back inside. Then you need to dry things out as fast as possible."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Two major student loan grace periods are set to expire this week. Here's what to know;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5133296/student-loan-default-fresh-start-explainer;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:18:50 -0400",
        "text": "Two federal programs that helped federal student loan borrowers ease back into payments are ending. It will have the biggest impact on borrowers with defaulted loans or borrowers who miss payments moving forward."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Harris talks about marijuana and racial identity in 'All the Smoke' interview;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5133963/kamala-harris-marijuana-racial-identity;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:04:43 -0400",
        "text": "Vice President Harris made her comments during a wide-ranging conversation with former NBA stars Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes for their podcast <em>All the Smoke</em>."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;A tiny town just got slammed by Helene. It could massively disrupt the tech industry;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5133462/hurricane-helene-quartz-microchips-solar-panels-spruce-pine;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:32:38 -0400",
        "text": "Spruce Pine is a major global supplier of high-purity quartz. It\u2019s an essential ingredient for microchips and solar panels."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Why the most climate-resistant glaciers are hiding in plain sight;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5109050/climate-resistant-glaciers-hold-water-cooler-temperatues;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:54:32 -0400",
        "text": "In the American West, white glaciers and snow fields are outnumbered by long-overlooked \u201crock glaciers.\u201d The rock covering these vast hunks of ice makes them far less affected by warming temperatures."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Ryan Routh pleads not guilty to attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5133485/ryan-routh-donald-trump-pleads-not-guilty-charge-attempt-assassination;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:23:42 -0400",
        "text": "Shackled and dressed in khaki prison garb at a hearing in West Palm Beach, Fla., Routh also requested a jury trial. He faces four other charges, such as possession of a firearm by a convicted felon."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;Israel launches a 'limited' ground offensive in southern Lebanon;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5133463/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-invasion;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:06:21 -0400",
        "text": "The Israeli military has launched what it called a \"limited, localized\" ground offensive in southern Lebanon against the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah."
    },
    {
        "label": "NPR;San Francisco ramps up policing of homeless camps, with the Supreme Court's blessing;https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5094930/supreme-court-homeless-camps-san-francisco;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:00:00 -0400",
        "text": "There are fewer tents on San Francisco sidewalks. The city has ramped up enforcement of anti-camping laws, and police are playing a bigger role."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel launches ground offensive into southern Lebanon;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/30/israel-launches-ground-offensive-into-southern-lebanon?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:45:12 +0000",
        "text": "The Israeli military has launched a ground offensive into several Lebanese villages near the border."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Raging wildfires in central Greece leave two people dead;https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/30/raging-wildfires-in-central-greece-leave-two-people-dead?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:54:29 +0000",
        "text": "Two people died overnight in a large wildfire burning through forestland above a seaside resort in southern Greece."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;How will Lebanon cope with a looming humanitarian crisis?;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/9/30/how-will-lebanon-cope-with-a-looming-humanitarian-crisis?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:57:51 +0000",
        "text": "Israeli attacks have forced hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians from their homes."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Russia to hike defence spending by a quarter in 2025;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/russia-to-hike-defence-spending-by-a-quarter-in-2025?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:56:17 +0000",
        "text": "The increase represents a new post-Soviet high for the country as it continues its war in Ukraine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;\u2018Cruel\u2019: Biden administration toughens asylum restrictions at US border;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/cruel-biden-administration-toughens-asylum-restrictions-at-us-border?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:38:14 +0000",
        "text": "Migrant rights advocates slam measures, which will make it more difficult to apply for asylum, as &#039;cruel&#039; and illegal."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;More than 100 killed by Hurricane Helene in southeastern US;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/30/more-than-100-killed-by-hurricane-helene?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:32:34 +0000",
        "text": "Clean up and rescue efforts are under way after Hurricane Helene wrought havoc across five states in the US."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel says \u2018next phase\u2019 of war with Hezbollah in Lebanon to \u2018begin soon\u2019;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/israel-says-next-phase-of-war-with-hezbollah-in-lebanon-to-begin-soon?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:52:54 +0000",
        "text": "Defence Minister Yoav Gallant says Israel will use all the means at its disposal to attack Hezbollah."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;These families have been fleeing Israel\u2019s bombardment in Lebanon;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/30/these-families-have-been-fleeing-israels-bombardment-in-lebanon?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:48:23 +0000",
        "text": "Lebanon\u2019s prime minister says as many as one million people have been displaced by Israel\u2019s attacks across the country."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Man charged with attempted assassination of Trump pleads not guilty;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/man-charged-with-attempted-assassination-of-trump-pleads-not-guilty?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:27:07 +0000",
        "text": "Suspect Ryan Routh faces several charges, including attempted assassination of a major US presidential candidate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;UN extends Haiti security mission for another year as violence soars;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/un-extends-haiti-security-mission-for-another-year-as-violence-soars?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:35:22 +0000",
        "text": "Measure extends multinational police mission until early October 2025 as Haiti struggles to stem deadly gang violence."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israeli tanks mass near Lebanon border amid fears of ground invasion;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/30/israeli-tanks-mass-near-lebanon-border-amid-fears-of-ground-invasion?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:21:01 +0000",
        "text": "A large number of Israeli tanks and soldiers were seen near Israel\u2019s border with Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Tickets, teams, India vs Pakistan: The ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2024 guide;https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/9/30/schedule-india-vs-pakistan-favourites-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-icc-womens-t20-world-cup-204-matches-venues-winners-tickets?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:19:32 +0000",
        "text": "How many teams are playing and who are the favourites? When is India vs Pakistan? Here are all your answers."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;US official says could be up to \u2018600 lost lives\u2019 from Hurricane Helene;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/death-toll-from-hurricane-helene-rises-to-100-in-us-with-rescues-continuing?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:07:10 +0000",
        "text": "Severe damage in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee as confirmed death toll rises to 100."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;UK\u2019s last coal-fired power plant to close after more than 100 years;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/uks-last-coal-fired-power-plant-to-close-after-more-than-100-years?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:38:46 +0000",
        "text": "Britain&#039;s transition to net zero is changing the country&#039;s energy landscape."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Rwanda reports eight deaths linked to Marburg virus;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/rwanda-reports-eight-deaths-linked-to-marburg-virus?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:36:51 +0000",
        "text": "The deadly Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads among people through close contact."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Could rival Lebanese factions exploit a weakened Hezbollah?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/could-rival-lebanese-factions-exploit-a-weakened-hezbollah?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:16:51 +0000",
        "text": "Rival Lebanese parties may exploit Hezbollah&#039;s weakness as the group struggles to survive a war against Israel."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;What is the legacy of Mexico\u2019s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/what-is-the-legacy-of-mexican-president-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:50:07 +0000",
        "text": "Mexico&#039;s outgoing leader enjoys record popularity after slashing poverty, but divisive reforms have drawn outrage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Why South Africa should adopt Namibia\u2019s reciprocal visa regime;https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/30/why-south-africa-should-adopt-namibias-reciprocal-visa-regime?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:39:16 +0000",
        "text": "A reciprocal visa regime will not damage tourism. In fact, it could benefit South Africa economically and politically."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel\u2019s attack on Beirut\u2019s Kola: What happened and why it matters;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/israels-attack-on-beiruts-kola-what-happened-and-why-it-matters?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:34:54 +0000",
        "text": "The attack on Sunday was the first one to target a central district of Beirut, not its suburbs, since October 7."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel \u2018on a high\u2019 after Nasrallah killing, as mood for an invasion grows;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/israel-on-a-high-after-nasrallah-killing-as-mood-for-an-invasion-grows?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:30:21 +0000",
        "text": "Confident amid successes against Hezbollah, Israel&#039;s public is increasingly in favour of deepening the war in Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel hits Yemen\u2019s infrastructure again: What we know and why it matters;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/israel-hits-yemens-infrastructure-again-what-we-know-and-why-it-matters?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:03:54 +0000",
        "text": "The large-scale Israeli attacks targeted seaports and power stations."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Israel has been bombing Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Gaza;https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/30/israel-has-been-bombing-yemen-lebanon-syria-and-gaza?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:41:34 +0000",
        "text": "Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza were all hit by Israeli air strikes in the space of roughly 24 hours."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Austria election results: Far-right FPO wins, what\u2019s next?;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/austria-election-results-far-right-fpo-wins-whats-next?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:26:50 +0000",
        "text": "The OVP and the FPO can form a coalition government if Kickl gives up the chancellor position, experts say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Sudan military denies targeting UAE diplomatic post in Khartoum;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/sudan-military-denies-targeting-uae-diplomatic-post-in-khartoum?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:21:38 +0000",
        "text": "The Sudanese army accuses the RSF armed group of the &#039;shameful and cowardly&#039; attack on ambassador&#039;s residence."
    },
    {
        "label": "Al Jazeera;Three children among 12 dead as boat capsizes off Tunisian coast;https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/at-least-12-dead-10-missing-as-boat-capsizes-off-tunisian-coast?traffic_source=rss;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:54:09 +0000",
        "text": "At least 10 people still missing and 29 rescued in latest boat disaster in the Mediterranean."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;UK charters flight for British nationals to leave Lebanon;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v615yvmq1o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:54:22 GMT",
        "text": "British nationals and their spouse or partner, and children under the age of 18 are eligible."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Energy bills rise 10% as support withdrawn;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v6l26v585o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:03:31 GMT",
        "text": "A 10% energy price rise has taken effect, meaning annual bills will be \u00a31,717 on average."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Cruise ship leaves Belfast port after four-month delay;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crl80re72zlo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:16:04 GMT",
        "text": "Ecstatic passengers of the Villa Vie Residences' Odyssey boarded the ship on Monday evening."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Workers to keep all customer tips under new law;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj9mxnyezdo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:51:34 GMT",
        "text": "Bosses must pass on all tips and service charges to staff under new employment rules."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Lorry falls 60 metres from motorway bridge;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8y483rem0o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:19:40 GMT",
        "text": "The lorry fell off the Thelwall Viaduct on the M6 and landed on the embankment below."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Landmark moment as UK closes last coal power station;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y35qz73n8o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:02:44 GMT",
        "text": "The UK's last coal power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, is due to end operations on Monday."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Sperm donor cash rises by \u00a310 as UK faces shortage;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm24vd6ldypo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:05:00 GMT",
        "text": "The \u00a310 rise comes into effect in England, Wales and Northern Ireland from 1 October."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;BBC apologises to Abbington over Strictly bullying but clears Pernice of physical aggression;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce81p7w6xggo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:10:39 GMT",
        "text": "But BBC News understands that Giovanni Pernice has been cleared of the most serious claims of physical aggression."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Prince Harry celebrates 'little legends' at London charity awards;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kdzkpdk84o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:41:23 GMT",
        "text": "The prince made a rare public appearance in the UK to attend the awards."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;UK's top civil servant to step down on health grounds;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd43864z5eo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:24:16 GMT",
        "text": "Simon Case has been undergoing medical treatment for 18 months."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Watch: Moment mudslide tears through home in North Carolina;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c148g6g2z6zo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:41:25 GMT",
        "text": "Footage shows a torrent of debris and dirt surging down a hill during Hurricane Helene."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'People are just scrambling' - North Carolina reels from devastating storm;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xe5x7v0jpo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:07:13 GMT",
        "text": "Residents describe how the storm \"destroyed everything in its path\" and wiped out entire communities in the state."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;What to know about the Israel-Hezbollah conflict;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9jwkppnd1o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:35:42 GMT",
        "text": "A guide to recent developments in the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Mum fears for Belfast toddler who won\u2019t be leaving Lebanon;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dj1743nd6o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:20:56 GMT",
        "text": "The BBC speaks to a father in Beirut after the High Court rules he should be returned to his mother in Belfast."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'I grabbed my grandchildren and ran': Lebanon families flee Israeli strikes;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2591w37q9o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:53:13 GMT",
        "text": "People sleeping rough at a Beirut school describe fleeing Israel's bombardment with moments to spare."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;At the scene of Israeli strike in the heart of Beirut;https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cm291g3p4lxo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:01:45 GMT",
        "text": "The BBC's Carine Torbey says the attack on Kola has sent shockwave through Lebanon."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Has Strictly Come Dancing been tainted by scandal?;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg560ljgvv2o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:29:37 GMT",
        "text": "The BBC's biggest show - now in its 20th year - has been rocked by allegations."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Far right in Austria 'opens new era' with election victory;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rdygy5888o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:47:13 GMT",
        "text": "The Freedom Party wins its first election, but building a coalition will be difficult."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;A Himalayan river may be making Everest taller;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wn827dedyo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:00:57 GMT",
        "text": "River erosion at its base is helping push Mount Everest upwards, a new study says."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Netflix fails to get Baby Reindeer lawsuit dropped;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj31lpvnzl3o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:08:30 GMT",
        "text": "Fiona Harvey claims the streaming giant told \"brutal lies\" about her to more than 50 million viewers."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Families of Gaza hostages call on UK government to 'do more';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3dvpj2y1m7o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:39:53 GMT",
        "text": "Hostage families call on the government to table a UK plan to get their relatives released."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Tugendhat warns against Tories becoming Reform UK;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k9385xn7o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:52:04 GMT",
        "text": "The Tory leadership hopeful says the party needs to rebuild trust, in a pitch to members at their conference."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Boy, 8, fatally shot at farm is named;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4qxwkngwdo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:00:30 GMT",
        "text": "Jay Cartmell was taken to hospital by air ambulance on Saturday but died from his injuries."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Last Dinner Party 'appalled' after gig security checks focus on male fans;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly7rp29g00o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:27:09 GMT",
        "text": "Men going to see the band on their own say they faced \"thorough\" searches and \"condescending\" questions."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Traditional steelmaking in Port Talbot ends;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70zxjldqnxo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:27:11 GMT",
        "text": "The site's blast furnaces will eventually be replaced with electric arc furnaces."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Post Office investigation suggests IT faults existed before Horizon;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24pzpgy0eo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:46:54 GMT",
        "text": "A report says it is likely that Capture, which preceded the Horizon system, also caused shortfalls."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Kris Kristofferson: Five (or maybe 10) of his best songs;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c625wjp593lo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:26:25 GMT",
        "text": "A look back at some of the biggest and best songs by Kris Kristofferson, who has died aged 88."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Israel Tells US it Plans to Enter Lebanon;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jtrsrc;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:55:00 GMT",
        "text": "As the situation in Lebanon escalates, is this beginning of more to come?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Slavery on the High Street;https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0023h3b;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:01:00 GMT",
        "text": "How did victims of modern day slavery end up making food for major high street chains?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Normally I'm proud of them' - Martin 'hurt' by Southampton display;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cx2l5ly0xyqo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:08:29 GMT",
        "text": "Southampton boss Russell Martin says he is \"hurt by the lack of spirit and fight\" his side showed in their 3-1 Premier League defeat at Bournemouth."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;'Pure joy' - James revitalised by playing alongside son;https://www.bbc.com/sport/basketball/articles/c4glvekxelmo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:15:57 GMT",
        "text": "Los Angeles Lakers star Lebron James says the prospect of playing with his eldest son Bronny has given him \"a lot of life\"."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Ryan wants immediate Mayer rematch after paint attack;https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/articles/cz6w9xl5v4wo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:15:58 GMT",
        "text": "Sandy Ryan says \"an immediate rematch should be ordered\" with Mikaela Mayer after their controversial bout last week."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Who has made Troy's Premier League team of the week?;https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/clyldndmr84o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:40:01 GMT",
        "text": "After every round of Premier League matches this season, Troy Deeney gives us his team of the week. Do you agree with his choices?"
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Mahomes, Chase and Henry star in NFL best plays;https://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/videos/c9wky2gky0lo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:28:19 GMT",
        "text": "Patrick Mahomes, Ja'Marr Chase and Derrick Henry all feature in the best plays from week four of the 2024 NFL season."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Two men sentenced over car attack on NHS worker;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr54r1y3qq5o;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:44:07 GMT",
        "text": "Phillip Adams and Patrick James drove a car into Katungua Tjitendero in 2020, severely injuring him."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;Probe over river 'polluted with dead fish and blood';https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4dwjwj8gvo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:42:55 GMT",
        "text": "Locals spotted the emission - which they said smelled like \"rotting fish\" - coming from a waste pipe into the river in Fort William."
    },
    {
        "label": "BBC News;I'm 26 and flu left me in hospital last Christmas;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8ez6lyn2jo;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:44:38 GMT",
        "text": "Joseph says having flu is the most ill he has ever felt and it took weeks to recover."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Avec pr\u00e8s de 79\u00a0000\u00a0d\u00e9tenus au 1er\u00a0septembre, la surpopulation carc\u00e9rale continue d\u2019augmenter en France;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/10/01/avec-pres-de-79-000-detenus-au-1er-septembre-la-surpopulation-carcerale-continue-d-augmenter-en-france_6340260_3224.html;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:22:31 +0200",
        "text": "Les prisons fran\u00e7aises comptent \u00e0 peine 62\u00a0000\u00a0places op\u00e9rationnelles, ce qui \u00e9tablit la densit\u00e9 carc\u00e9rale globale \u00e0 127,3\u00a0%. Plus de 3\u00a0600\u00a0d\u00e9tenus \u00e9taient contraints de dormir sur un matelas pos\u00e9 au sol."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Ouragan H\u00e9l\u00e8ne aux Etats-Unis\u00a0: le bilan s\u2019\u00e9l\u00e8ve d\u00e9sormais \u00e0 118\u00a0morts;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/30/ouragan-helene-aux-etats-unis-le-bilan-s-eleve-desormais-a-91-morts-les-recherches-de-disparus-se-poursuivent_6339276_3244.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 02:17:30 +0200",
        "text": "La Caroline du Nord est l\u2019Etat le plus touch\u00e9, avec quarante-neuf personnes tu\u00e9es par les intemp\u00e9ries. Joe Biden, qui se rendra sur place mercredi, a r\u00e9pondu \u00e0 Donald Trump qui accuse l\u2019Etat f\u00e9d\u00e9ral de ne pas \u00eatre \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9actif\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre au Proche-Orient\u00a0: Isra\u00ebl confirme mener \u00ab\u00a0des raids terrestres limit\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb dans le sud du Liban;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/10/01/en-direct-guerre-au-proche-orient-israel-a-debute-au-liban-des-operations-terrestres-limitees-et-mene-de-nouvelles-frappes-sur-la-banlieue-sud-de-beyrouth_6321740_3210.html;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:38:27 +0200",
        "text": "L\u2019arm\u00e9e isra\u00e9lienne a affirm\u00e9 dans un communiqu\u00e9 diffus\u00e9 dans la nuit de lundi \u00e0 mardi avoir entam\u00e9 une op\u00e9ration terrestre \u00ab\u00a0contre des cibles et des infrastructures terroristes du Hezbollah dans le sud du Liban\u00a0\u00bb. L\u2019op\u00e9ration avait \u00e9t\u00e9 annonc\u00e9e lundi soir par le d\u00e9partement d\u2019Etat am\u00e9ricain, qui en avait \u00e9t\u00e9 inform\u00e9 par l\u2019Etat h\u00e9breu."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, guerre en Ukraine\u00a0: Vladimir Poutine signe un d\u00e9cret sur la conscription pour le service militaire, 133 000 Russes vont \u00eatre enr\u00f4l\u00e9s;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2024/09/30/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-vladimir-poutine-signe-un-decret-sur-la-conscription-pour-le-service-militaire-133-000-russes-vont-etre-enroles_6337411_3210.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:12:15 +0200",
        "text": "\u00ab\u00a0Tous les objectifs fix\u00e9s seront atteints\u00a0\u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 le pr\u00e9sident russe \u00e0 l\u2019occasion de la \u00ab\u00a0Journ\u00e9e de la r\u00e9unification avec les \u201cr\u00e9publiques populaires\u201d de Donetsk et de Louhansk et les oblasts de Zaporijia et de Kherson\u00a0\u00bb, anniversaire de l\u2019annexion de ces territoires ukrainiens."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les chasseurs de fossiles amateurs, des passionn\u00e9s indispensables \u00e0 la science;https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/09/30/les-chasseurs-de-fossiles-amateurs-des-passionnes-indispensables-a-la-science_6339924_1650684.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:00:05 +0200",
        "text": "Des autodidactes mordus de dinosaures, de trilobites ou d\u2019ammonites sont \u00e0 l\u2019origine de d\u00e9couvertes qui font progresser une discipline o\u00f9 les chercheurs acad\u00e9miques ont toujours moins de temps pour prospecter de nouveaux terrains. Reportage \u00e0 la rencontre d\u2019insatiables d\u00e9fricheurs."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Abb\u00e9 Pierre\u00a0: son portrait d\u00e9grad\u00e9 sur la Fresque des Lyonnais;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/30/abbe-pierre-son-portrait-degrade-sur-la-fresque-des-lyonnais_6339944_3224.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:29:52 +0200",
        "text": "Le mot \u00ab\u00a0violeur\u00a0\u00bb a \u00e9t\u00e9 tagu\u00e9 en lettres capitales et de la peinture rouge mise pour barrer les yeux de l\u2019abb\u00e9 Pierre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;En direct, gouvernement Barnier\u00a0: \u00e0 vingt-quatre heures de sa d\u00e9claration de politique g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, le premier ministre annonce qu\u2019il ne sollicitera pas de vote de confiance;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/09/30/en-direct-gouvernement-barnier-a-vingt-quatre-heures-de-sa-declaration-de-politique-generale-le-premier-ministre-annonce-qu-il-ne-sollicitera-pas-de-vote-de-confiance_6325006_823448.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:14:13 +0200",
        "text": "Sans majorit\u00e9 absolue \u00e0 l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e, Michel Barnier ne sollicitera pas de vote de confiance mardi apr\u00e8s avoir pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 sa feuille de route.  La Constitution n\u2019en fait pas une obligation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Jean-Marie Le Pen film\u00e9 chantant avec un groupe n\u00e9onazi, Marine Le Pen porte plainte;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/30/jean-marie-le-pen-filme-chantant-avec-un-groupe-neonazi-marine-le-pen-porte-plainte_6339931_823448.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:26:03 +0200",
        "text": "La pr\u00e9sidente du Rassemblement national a d\u00e9pos\u00e9 une plainte pour abus de faiblesse contre le groupe de musiciens, affirmant que son p\u00e8re n\u2019\u00e9tait pas en \u00e9tat de donner son consentement."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;BFM2, une cha\u00eene num\u00e9rique \u00ab\u00a0compl\u00e9mentaire\u00a0\u00bb de BFM-TV pour tenter de r\u00e9sister aux audiences grandissantes de CNews;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/30/bfm2-une-chaine-numerique-complementaire-de-bfm-tv-pour-tenter-de-resister-aux-audiences-grandissantes-de-cnews_6339930_3234.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:24:56 +0200",
        "text": "Le groupe rachet\u00e9 par le milliardaire Rodolphe Saad\u00e9 a lanc\u00e9, le 25\u00a0septembre, un canal \u00ab\u00a0100\u00a0% digital\u00a0\u00bb, nourri notamment par le suivi d\u2019\u00e9v\u00e9nements en direct qui ne trouvent pas leur place sur la cha\u00eene amirale, d\u00e9pass\u00e9e par sa concurrente CNews en septembre."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Dikembe Mutombo, ancien joueur de NBA, est mort;https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/09/30/dikembe-mutombo-ancien-joueur-de-nba-est-mort_6339927_3382.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:14:29 +0200",
        "text": "L\u00e9gende du basket-ball, le pivot congolais de 2,18 m\u00e8tres \u00e9tait surtout c\u00e9l\u00e9br\u00e9 pour ses qualit\u00e9s d\u00e9fensives. Il est mort \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 58\u00a0ans d\u2019un cancer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Affaire des assistants parlementaires du FN\u00a0: tout comprendre aux enjeux du proc\u00e8s qui s\u2019est ouvert \u00e0 Paris;https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2024/09/30/affaire-des-assistants-parlementaires-du-fn-tout-comprendre-aux-enjeux-du-proces-qui-s-ouvre-a-paris_6339923_4355770.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:00:05 +0200",
        "text": "Vingt-sept pr\u00e9venus, dont Marine Le\u00a0Pen, la cheffe de file des d\u00e9put\u00e9s du Rassemblement national \u00e0 l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e nationale, sont jug\u00e9s depuis lundi pour des soup\u00e7ons de d\u00e9tournements de plusieurs millions d\u2019euros de fonds europ\u00e9ens."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au proc\u00e8s de Peter Cherif, une survivante de \u00ab\u00a0Charlie Hebdo\u00a0\u00bb fait sortir l\u2019accus\u00e9 de son silence\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0C\u2019est le destin\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/30/au-proces-de-peter-cherif-une-survivante-de-charlie-hebdo-fait-sortir-l-accuse-de-son-silence-c-est-le-destin_6339920_3224.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:49:51 +0200",
        "text": "Le djihadiste avait jusqu\u2019ici refus\u00e9 de r\u00e9pondre aux membres de la r\u00e9daction du journal venus t\u00e9moigner. Il a finalement engag\u00e9 un dialogue, lundi, avec Sigol\u00e8ne Vinson, qui s\u2019\u00e9tait retrouv\u00e9e par hasard dans le m\u00eame avion que lui apr\u00e8s son arrestation \u00e0 Djibouti."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;L\u2019\u00e9quipe de France de futsal qualifi\u00e9e pour les demi-finales de la Coupe du monde;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/30/l-equipe-de-france-de-futsal-qualifiee-pour-les-demi-finales-de-la-coupe-du-monde_6339887_3242.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:39:14 +0200",
        "text": "Les Bleus ont battu le Paraguay (2-1), en quarts de finale du Mondial, lundi, \u00e0 Boukhara, en Ouzb\u00e9kistan."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Editis\u00a0: un mouvement de gr\u00e8ve p\u00e9nalise les sorties de Michel Bussi et Riad Sattouf;https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/09/30/editis-un-mouvement-de-greve-penalise-les-sorties-de-michel-bussi-et-riad-sattouf_6339883_3234.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:18:19 +0200",
        "text": "Un conflit social lanc\u00e9 par FO au sein d\u2019Interforum, la filiale distribution d\u2019Editis, bloque, en pleine rentr\u00e9e litt\u00e9raire, la mise en vente de plus d\u2019un million d\u2019exemplaires en librairie."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Imp\u00f4t sur les successions\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Comment, au pays de l\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9, en est-on arriv\u00e9 \u00e0 ce paradoxal consentement aux in\u00e9galit\u00e9s\u00a0?\u00a0\u00bb;https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/09/30/impot-sur-les-successions-comment-au-pays-de-l-egalite-en-est-on-arrive-a-ce-paradoxal-consentement-aux-inegalites_6339387_3232.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0200",
        "text": "Depuis les ann\u00e9es 1980, on s\u2019enrichit moins par le travail que par l\u2019h\u00e9ritage, devenu la premi\u00e8re source d\u2019in\u00e9galit\u00e9s. Et pourtant neuf Fran\u00e7ais sur dix rejettent toute hausse de l\u2019imp\u00f4t successoral, analyse Jean-Michel Bezat, journaliste au \u00ab\u00a0Monde\u00a0\u00bb, dans sa chronique."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Jug\u00e9s pour \u00ab\u00a0favoritisme\u00a0\u00bb, EDF et son ancien patron Henri Proglio relax\u00e9s;https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/09/30/juges-pour-favoritisme-edf-et-son-ancien-patron-henri-proglio-relaxes_6339840_3224.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:25:01 +0200",
        "text": "Comme onze autres pr\u00e9venus, poursuivis dans une affaire de contrats litigieux avec des consultants entre 2010 et 2016, ils ont \u00e9t\u00e9 relax\u00e9s. Le tribunal correctionnel a estim\u00e9 que \u00ab\u00a0l\u2019intention d\u00e9lictueuse\u00a0\u00bb de l\u2019ancien PDG n\u2019\u00e9tait pas d\u00e9montr\u00e9e."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Venezuela\u00a0: l\u2019opposante Maria Corina Machado r\u00e9compens\u00e9e par le Conseil de l\u2019Europe;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/30/venezuela-l-opposante-maria-corina-machado-recompensee-par-le-conseil-de-l-europe_6339834_3210.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:40:18 +0200",
        "text": "Le prix Vaclav-Havel r\u00e9compense des d\u00e9fenseurs des droits de l\u2019homme. Mme\u00a0Machado, 56\u00a0ans, vit dans la clandestinit\u00e9 au Venezuela depuis la r\u00e9\u00e9lection contest\u00e9e du pr\u00e9sident Nicolas Maduro en juillet."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Jacques R\u00e9da, po\u00e8te prolifique et ancien directeur de \u00ab\u00a0La Nouvelle Revue fran\u00e7aise\u00a0\u00bb, est mort;https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/09/30/jacques-reda-poete-prolifique-et-ancien-directeur-de-la-nrf-est-mort_6339830_3382.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:28:07 +0200",
        "text": "Auteur d\u2019une \u0153uvre diverse et abondante distingu\u00e9e par le Grand Prix de l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise en\u00a01993, grand amateur de jazz, l\u2019ancien directeur de \u00ab\u00a0La NRF\u00a0\u00bb est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le\u00a030\u00a0septembre \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 95\u00a0ans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Le rythme de r\u00e9chauffement des oc\u00e9ans a presque doubl\u00e9 depuis 2005, selon Copernicus;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/30/le-rythme-de-rechauffement-des-oceans-a-presque-double-depuis-2005-selon-copernicus_6339730_3244.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:11:42 +0200",
        "text": "Un rapport de l\u2019observatoire europ\u00e9en, publi\u00e9 lundi, rapporte que plus d\u2019un cinqui\u00e8me de la surface oc\u00e9anique mondiale a connu une vague de chaleur s\u00e9v\u00e8re en\u00a02023. Ce r\u00e9chauffement s\u2019explique par le fait que les oc\u00e9ans ont absorb\u00e9 depuis 1970 \u00ab\u00a0plus de 90\u00a0% de l\u2019exc\u00e8s de chaleur du syst\u00e8me climatique\u00a0\u00bb."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Piratage de la campagne de Donald Trump\u00a0: trois Iraniens inculp\u00e9s aux Etats-Unis;https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/09/30/piratage-de-la-campagne-de-donald-trump-trois-iraniens-inculpes-aux-etats-unis_6339727_4408996.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:56:21 +0200",
        "text": "Accus\u00e9s d\u2019avoir orchestr\u00e9 le piratage de documents de la campagne de Trump et d\u2019avoir tent\u00e9 de les diss\u00e9miner aupr\u00e8s du camp d\u00e9mocrate et des m\u00e9dias, ils font d\u00e9sormais l\u2019objet de poursuites judiciaires."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Avec l\u2019\u00e9limination d\u2019Hassan Nasrallah, l\u2019arm\u00e9e isra\u00e9lienne lave l\u2019affront que le Hezbollah lui avait inflig\u00e9 en\u00a02006;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/30/avec-l-elimination-d-hassan-nasrallah-l-armee-israelienne-lave-l-affront-que-le-hezbollah-lui-avait-inflige-en-2006_6339692_3210.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:16:57 +0200",
        "text": "Les frappes qui d\u00e9ciment depuis deux semaines le haut commandement et l\u2019arsenal du mouvement chiite sont le r\u00e9sultat de pr\u00e8s de vingt ann\u00e9es de pr\u00e9paration de l\u2019\u00e9tat-major isra\u00e9lien."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Douze migrants tunisiens morts noy\u00e9s dans un\u00a0naufrage au large de Djerba;https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/09/30/douze-migrants-tunisiens-morts-noyes-dans-un-naufrage-au-large-de-djerba_6339691_3210.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:15:35 +0200",
        "text": "Vingt-neuf autres ont \u00e9t\u00e9 sauv\u00e9s lors de cet accident aux causes inconnues. Les douze victimes, \u00ab\u00a0originaires de plusieurs r\u00e9gions de la Tunisie\u00a0\u00bb, sont \u00ab\u00a0cinq hommes, quatre femmes et trois b\u00e9b\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb, a\u00a0pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 le porte-parole du tribunal de M\u00e9denine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Les propos de Bruno Retailleau sur l\u2019Etat de droit et l\u2019immigration suscitent la r\u00e9probation des macronistes;https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/30/les-propos-de-bruno-retailleau-sur-l-etat-de-droit-et-l-immigration-suscitent-la-reprobation-des-macronistes_6339655_823448.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:24:14 +0200",
        "text": "Dans une interview au \u00ab\u00a0JDD\u00a0\u00bb, le nouveau ministre de l\u2019int\u00e9rieur a estim\u00e9 que \u00ab\u00a0l\u2019Etat de droit, \u00e7a n\u2019est pas intangible, ni sacr\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb. Sur \u00ab\u00a0LCI\u00a0\u00bb, il a exprim\u00e9 son \u00ab\u00a0regret\u00a0\u00bb qu\u2019on ne puisse pas faire de r\u00e9f\u00e9rendum sur l\u2019immigration, exacerbant les tensions\u00a0entre une partie du gouvernement et certains parlementaires du camp pr\u00e9sidentiel."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Antoine Griezmann annonce la fin de sa carri\u00e8re en \u00e9quipe de France de football;https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2024/09/30/antoine-griezmann-annonce-la-fin-de-sa-carriere-en-equipe-de-france-de-football_6339620_3242.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:09:19 +0200",
        "text": "Le vice-capitaine des Bleus a annonc\u00e9, lundi, dans un message publi\u00e9 sur X, la fin de sa carri\u00e8re internationale en \u00e9quipe de France."
    },
    {
        "label": "Le Monde;Au N\u00e9pal, le bilan des victimes des inondations monte \u00e0 deux cents\u00a0morts;https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/09/30/au-nepal-le-bilan-des-inondations-monte-a-192-morts_6339429_3244.html;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:48:32 +0200",
        "text": "Plusieurs quartiers de la capitale, Katmandou, sont sous les eaux apr\u00e8s des pluies diluviennes. Vingt-six personnes sont port\u00e9es disparues."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;APBDICL aims to complete Phase-I of Nakkapalli bulk drug park by March 2026;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/apbdicl-aims-to-complete-phase-i-of-nakkapalli-bulk-drug-park-by-march-2026/article68702190.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 05:25:00 +0530",
        "text": "Department of Pharmaceuticals gave its approval for the BDP in December 2023 and the A.P. government accorded administrative clearance in January 2024"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israeli forces in 'limited' Lebanon ground operations against Hezbollah: U.S.;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israeli-forces-in-limited-lebanon-ground-operations-against-hezbollah-us/article68703342.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 05:02:00 +0530",
        "text": "Despite international calls for de-escalation, Israel earlier vowed to keep fighting Hezbollah and sealed part of the border after killing the Iran-backed group's leader."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Mother Earth as a cow;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/mother-earth-as-a-cow/article68701375.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 05:00:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Israel army orders residents of three areas in southern Beirut to evacuate;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-army-orders-residents-of-three-areas-in-southern-beirut-to-evacuate/article68703162.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 04:17:00 +0530",
        "text": "Ahead of a likely strike on alleged Hezbollah targets in the group's stronghold, Israel army orders residents of three areas in southern Beirut to evacuate"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;As toll crosses 100, Donald Trump puts Hurricane Helene at election center stage;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/as-toll-crosses-100-donald-trump-puts-hurricane-helene-at-election-center-stage/article68703134.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 03:40:00 +0530",
        "text": "Georgia and North Carolina were epicenters of the destruction -- and are among the key swing states where the U.S. election will be decided in just five weeks' time"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Hezbollah important pillar of security in West Asia: Iran envoy at condolence meet for Hassan Nasrallah;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/hezbollah-important-pillar-of-security-in-west-asia-iran-envoy-at-condolence-meet-for-hassan-nasrallah/article68702859.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 03:07:00 +0530",
        "text": "They say the death of Nasrallah will not impact the military campaign against Israel and that Hezbollah\u2019s fight will continue"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tripura CM\u2019s statement on reopening political murder cases triggers a row;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tripura-cms-statement-on-reopening-political-murder-cases-triggers-a-row/article68702755.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:50:00 +0530",
        "text": "While Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha had stated that he sought to ensure justice and redress for the victims and their families, Congress leader Sudip Roy  Barman asked, \u201cHow can murder cases that have already seen acquittal of the accused through proper trial proceedings be reopened?\u201d"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Residents welfare associations in Chennai oppose move to hike property tax;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/residents-welfare-associations-in-chennai-oppose-move-to-hike-property-tax/article68701908.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:24:19 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;ECI issues notice to J&K Chief Secretary over appointment of Army officer as SSP;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jammu-and-kashmir-assembly/eci-issues-notice-to-jk-chief-secretary-over-appointment-of-army-officer-as-ssp/article68702584.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:12:00 +0530",
        "text": "The Chief Secretary has been instructed to submit a compliance report by 11 a.m. on October 1"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;No survey yet of vendors on Marina Beach, many left with no ID cards;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/no-survey-yet-of-vendors-on-marina-beach-many-left-with-no-id-cards/article68695178.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:58:52 +0530",
        "text": "An official from Teynampet Zone confirmed that no survey was conducted recently, hindering the issuance and tracking of ID cards. He stated that actions will follow directives from higher authorities"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Human skull found in paddy field at Cherpu in Thrissur;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/human-skull-found-in-paddy-field-at-cherpu-in-thrissur/article68701841.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:29:40 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India\u2019s \u2018silver dividend\u2019, challenge to opportunity;https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/indias-silver-dividend-challenge-to-opportunity/article68702476.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:27:00 +0530",
        "text": "There need to be tailored reforms to cater to the evolving needs of the country\u2019s senior citizens"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chennai Corporation to develop mobile app for street vendor registration;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chennai-corporation-to-develop-mobile-app-for-street-vendor-registration/article68697600.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:23:41 +0530",
        "text": "A mobile app will also be developed for vendor registration"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;New science awards, old political project;https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/new-science-awards-old-political-project/article68702079.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:23:00 +0530",
        "text": "The Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar awards seem like an attempt to bring scholars in line by hijacking their reward mechanisms"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Marina declared \u2018Red Zone\u2019 for six days; flying of drones, other aerials objects banned;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/marina-declared-red-zone-for-six-days-flying-of-drones-other-aerials-objects-banned/article68701948.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:15:31 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;March by men and women from Ladakh stopped on Delhi border;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/march-by-men-and-women-from-ladakh-stopped-on-delhi-border/article68703070.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:15:00 +0530",
        "text": "They have been demanding constitutional safeguards for the region"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;From political to personal in Karnataka;https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/from-political-to-personal-in-karnataka/article68702098.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:11:00 +0530",
        "text": "The BJP and the Congress have different styles in building corruption narratives"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Govt. initiates special audit of 12 DU colleges;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/govt-initiates-special-audit-of-12-du-colleges/article68702813.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:57:49 +0530",
        "text": "An eight-member team to investigate allegations of financial irregularities; DU panel had earlier given clean chit to the Delhi govt.-funded institutions"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delhi HC refuses to entertain plea on removal of blockade at Singhu border;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-hc-refuses-to-entertain-plea-on-removal-of-blockade-at-singhu-border/article68702923.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:57:47 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CM, Ministers inspect city roads to ensure \u2018pothole-free\u2019 Delhi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/cm-ministers-inspect-city-roads-to-ensure-pothole-free-delhi/article68702805.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:57:26 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Constable\u2019s killing: main accused arrested, other sent to police custody;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/constables-killing-main-accused-arrested-other-sent-to-police-custody/article68703035.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:57:02 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delhi Police bans protests in parts of city till October 6;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-police-bans-protests-in-parts-of-city-till-october-6/article68703004.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:53:54 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;History-sheeter, absconding from Kerala, arrested in Chennai airport;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/history-sheeter-absconding-from-kerala-arrested-in-chennai-airport/article68701797.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:52:58 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delhi govt. restarts \u2018Green War Room\u2019 to fight air pollution;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-govt-restarts-green-war-room-to-fight-air-pollution/article68702506.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:51:48 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Jagdish Tytler moves Delhi High Court against order to frame charges in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/jagdish-tytler-moves-delhi-high-court-against-order-to-frame-charges-in-1984-anti-sikh-riots-case/article68702316.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:50:26 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;AAP takes on Delhi L-G over \u2018spike in gang violence\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/aap-takes-on-delhi-l-g-over-spike-in-gang-violence/article68701858.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:49:07 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Auto driver arrested for abusing and pushing a traffic police official by TVK Nagar police;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/auto-driver-arrested-for-abusing-and-pushing-a-traffic-police-official-by-tvk-nagar-police/article68701438.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:47:18 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Fed Chair Powell says U.S. economy is in 'solid shape' with more rate cuts coming;https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/fed-chair-powell-says-us-economy-is-in-solid-shape-with-more-rate-cuts-coming/article68703094.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:46:21 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;L&T Metro Rail extends concession offers;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/lt-metro-rail-extends-concession-offers/article68702484.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:38:05 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Oecophylla ants pushing montane birds higher up the mountains, finds study;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/oecophylla-ants-pushing-montane-birds-higher-up-the-mountains-finds-study/article68701356.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:35:38 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Paid parking at Nagole, Miyapur metro station from Oct. 6;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/paid-parking-at-nagole-miyapur-metro-station-from-oct-6/article68702471.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:35:24 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;City police prohibit laser beam lights, hot air balloons around airspace near Chennai Airport;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/city-police-prohibit-laser-beam-lights-hot-air-balloons-around-airspace-near-chennai-airport/article68702709.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:33:59 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Actor Rajinikanth admitted in hospital;https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/actor-rajinikanth-admitted-in-hospital/article68703074.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:33:40 +0530",
        "text": "Hospital sources say Rajinikanth\u2019s condition was stable; elective procedure to be performed on October 1"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Prepare plan to tackle monkey menace: Delhi HC to civic bodies;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/prepare-plan-to-tackle-monkey-menace-delhi-hc-to-civic-bodies/article68702360.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:25:55 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Cartoon conclave gets under way at Kochi college;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/cartoon-conclave-gets-under-way-at-kochi-college/article68701735.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:24:31 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Court declares Veerappan associate as proclaimed offender;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/court-declares-veerappan-associate-as-proclaimed-offender/article68702309.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:18:57 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Do not react to news emotionally, says CM Stalin;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/do-not-react-to-news-emotionally-says-cm-stalin/article68703071.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:18:28 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Former CM flays AINRC-BJP govt. for rise in encroachment of properties in Puducherry;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/former-cm-flays-ainrc-bjp-govt-for-rise-in-encroachment-of-properties-in-puducherry/article68700792.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:18:12 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Right lower limb of Thrissur ATM heist accused amputated in Coimbatore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/right-lower-limb-of-thrissur-atm-heist-accused-amputated-in-coimbatore/article68702121.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:17:06 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018BBMP in consultation with Railways Department over repair of Hoodi flyover\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/bbmp-in-consultation-with-railways-department-over-repair-of-hoodi-flyover/article68701504.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:14:10 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Former MP urges government to push case for CFC inclusion;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/former-mp-urges-government-to-push-case-for-cfc-inclusion/article68701510.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:11:31 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;PMK urges Centre to listen to Muslim organisations before passing amendments to Waqf Act;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/pmk-urges-centre-to-listen-to-muslim-organisations-before-passing-amendments-to-waqf-act/article68702141.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:08:44 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;ED has become an instrument of harassment for opponents of Modi: Jairam Ramesh;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/ed-has-become-an-instrument-of-harassment-for-opponents-of-modi-jairam-ramesh/article68702742.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:08:23 +0530",
        "text": "Meanwhile, a meeting between Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar and Home Minister G. Parameshwara \u2013 both chief ministerial aspirants \u2013 has given rise to much speculation"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Guide for cardiac care released;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/guide-for-cardiac-care-released/article68702075.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:08:20 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;IIT Madras to offer training course in semiconductors;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/iit-madras-to-offer-training-course-in-semiconductors/article68701309.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:07:38 +0530",
        "text": "Candidates with engineering, science with electronics background may apply by October 3"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin moves to third rank in inter-se seniority of Ministers;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/deputy-cm-udhayanidhi-stalin-moves-to-third-rank-in-inter-se-seniority-of-ministers/article68702232.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:02:27 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;People will put an end to family politics in 2026 Assembly election, says Edappadi K. Palaniswami;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/people-will-put-an-end-to-family-politics-in-2026-assembly-election-says-edappadi-k-palaniswami/article68701276.ece;Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:01:43 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Y.S. Sharmila welcomes apex court\u2019s observations on prasadam row;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/ys-sharmila-welcomes-apex-courts-observations-on-prasadam-row/article68702946.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:50:40 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;131 more buildings in Puducherry get heritage tag;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/131-more-buildings-in-puducherry-get-heritage-tag/article68700896.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:49:13 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Association demands 1% job reservation for speech and hearing impaired community in Coimbatore;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/association-demands-1-job-reservation-for-speech-and-hearing-impaired-community-in-coimbatore/article68701734.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:46:32 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Cleanliness drive clears 400 kg of solid waste;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/cleanliness-drive-clears-400-kg-of-solid-waste/article68701632.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:42:06 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Private bus rams ambulance, container lorry injuring patient, passengers in Kochi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/private-bus-rams-ambulance-container-lorry-injuring-patient-passengers-in-kochi/article68702802.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:39:52 +0530",
        "text": "The woman in the ambulance was recuperating post-surgery after an accident and was being taken home at the time of the mishap; police book bus driver for rash and negligent driving"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala set to attract major investments in life sciences sector, says KSIDC;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-set-to-attract-major-investments-in-life-sciences-sector-says-ksidc/article68703031.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:36:39 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;\u2018Equipment testing lab set up at SIPCOT in Sriperumbudur\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/equipment-testing-lab-set-up-at-sipcot-in-sriperumbudur/article68702877.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:34:56 +0530",
        "text": "Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited, a Defence Public Sector Undertaking established by the the Centre, celebrated its third anniversary"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Police to intensify drug crackdown and enhance crime prevention measures;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/police-to-intensify-drug-crackdown-and-enhance-crime-prevention-measures/article68702899.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:33:44 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Cattle run over incidents in Tiruchi Railway Division remains a cause of concern;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/cattle-run-over-incidents-in-tiruchi-railway-division-remains-a-cause-of-concern/article68701698.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:33:36 +0530",
        "text": "As many as 199 incidents were reported this year up to August; 10 \u201cvulnerable stretches\u201d identified"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Akshaya Patra Foundation\u2019s 75th kitchen inaugurated;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/akshaya-patra-foundations-75th-kitchen-inaugurated/article68702213.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:32:57 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Delhi CM Atishi moves sessions court over defamation case filed by BJP leader;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-cm-atishi-moves-sessions-court-over-defamation-case-filed-by-bjp-leader/article68702993.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:32:53 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Former revenue officials sentenced in vigilance case;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/former-revenue-officials-sentenced-in-vigilance-case/article68702968.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:31:30 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Congress, Shiv Sena(UBT) spar over seat sharing in Vidarbha, MVA talks extend;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/congress-shiv-sena-ubt-spar-over-seat-sharing-in-vidarbha-mva-talks-extend/article68702930.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:29:21 +0530",
        "text": "Sources say Congress\u2019 Nana Patole and Shiv Sena(UBT)\u2019s Sanjay Raut sparred at the meeting over seat distribution"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kerala Minister for Social Justice lauds role of NSS, NCC in success of \u2018We Care\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-minister-for-social-justice-lauds-role-of-nss-ncc-in-success-of-we-care/article68701750.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:19:29 +0530",
        "text": "State-level inauguration of the second phase of fund collection under \u2018We Care\u2019"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Parking issues rock Kozhikode Corporation Council meeting;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/parking-issues-rock-kozhikode-corporation-council-meeting/article68702184.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:18:23 +0530",
        "text": "Council members raise concerns over unauthorised parking, infrastructure deficits, and loss of \u20b936-crore FSTP project"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;SEBI tightens noose on insider trading;https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/sebi-tightens-noose-on-insider-trading/article68702885.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:15:51 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;One injured in accident;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/one-injured-in-accident/article68702979.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:15:01 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Five persons held for rape;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/five-held-for-raping-woman/article68702788.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:13:53 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Watch: What does Dissanayake\u2019s victory mean for Sri Lanka and India?;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/watch-what-does-dissanayakes-victory-mean-for-sri-lanka-and-india/article68702997.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:08:37 +0530",
        "text": "Stanly Johny and Meera Srinivasan discuss Dissanayake\u2019s victory and the challenges he faces both on the domestic and foreign policy front"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;China's Xi Jinping calls for Taiwan reunification in national day speech;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/chinas-xi-jinping-calls-for-taiwan-reunification-in-national-day-speech/article68702678.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:07:36 +0530",
        "text": "President Xi Jinping calls for opposition to Taiwanese independence, emphasising China\u2019s goal of reunification with Taiwan"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Water level in Bihar rivers recede but flood woes continue;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bihar/water-level-in-bihar-rivers-recede-but-flood-woes-continue/article68701671.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:58:41 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;TRAI releases consultation paper on formulating digital radio broadcast policy for private radio broadcasters;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/trai-releases-consultation-paper-on-formulating-digital-radio-broadcast-policy-for-private-radio-broadcasters/article68701727.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:58:21 +0530",
        "text": "Currently, analogue terrestrial radio broadcast in India is carried out in medium wave (526\u20131606 KHz), short wave (6\u201322 MHz), and VHF-II (88\u2013108 MHz) spectrum bands"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;NHRC issues notice to Madhya Pradesh government over death of two children while cleaning hostel water tank;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/madhya-pradesh/nhrc-issues-notice-to-madhya-pradesh-government-over-death-of-two-children-while-cleaning-hostel-water-tank/article68701330.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:53:47 +0530",
        "text": "The Commission said the incident, if true, raises a serious concern about human rights violations of the victim students"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Supreme Court opens IIT door for student who could not pay fees on time;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/supreme-court-opens-iit-door-for-student-who-could-not-pay-fees-on-time/article68702846.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:53:22 +0530",
        "text": "Atul Kumar missed admission to IIT Dhanbad as he could not pay \u20b917,500 on time before the portal closed. The SC noted that Mr. Kumar had struggled against the odds to achieve his dream to study at an IIT and exercised its extraordinary power under Article 142 to give him admission."
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;CM\u2019s wife chooses to return MUDA sites;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/cms-wife-chooses-to-return-muda-sites/article68702951.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:53:17 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Six years after Justice Nagamohan Das Commission submitted report, BBMP initiates process;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/six-years-after-justice-nagamohan-das-commission-submitted-report-bbmp-initiates-process/article68700826.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:51:24 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Proposal to revive 147 lapsed posts at IMH submitted to T.N. governments;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/proposal-to-revive-147-lapsed-posts-at-imh-submitted-to-tn-governments/article68702939.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:50:01 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Chennai Metro Rail\u2019s first driverless train to have trial run in three weeks;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chennai-metro-rails-first-driverless-train-to-have-trial-run-in-three-weeks/article68701906.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:46:55 +0530",
        "text": "There is a plan to request the Chief Minister M. K. Stalin to unveil the driverless train and flag-off the first trial run, likely to be scheduled after October 15"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Court rejects bail to former R.G. Kar principal, former Tala police officer;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/court-rejects-bail-to-former-rg-kar-principal-former-tala-police-officer/article68702607.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:44:36 +0530",
        "text": "The CBI arrested the two for\u00a0alleged tampering of evidence and delay in filing of FIR. During the hearing, the CBI faced flak from the court when it prayed for custodial interrogation of the accused"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Over 20,000 polling staff mobilised for final phase of Assembly elections in J&K;https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jammu-and-kashmir-assembly/over-20000-polling-staff-mobilised-for-final-phase-of-assembly-elections-in-jk/article68702475.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:34:39 +0530",
        "text": "Over 39 lakh voters are eligible to vote in this phase, covering 40 Assembly seats in Jammu, Udhampur, Samba and Kathua in the Jammu region and Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara in north Kashmir"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Dayanidhi Maran writes to Union Finance Minister seeking investigation into alleged ticketing scams and profiteering of high-demand goods;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/dayanidhi-maran-writes-to-union-finance-minister-seeking-investigation-into-alleged-ticketing-scams-and-profiteering-of-high-demand-goods/article68702522.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:34:01 +0530",
        "text": "He drew her attention to the issue that had come to light following widespread complaints on the hoarding and resale of tickets for an upcoming Coldplay concert in Mumbai"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Four of family killed in road accident in Udupi;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/four-of-family-killed-in-road-accident-in-udupi/article68702815.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:30:11 +0530",
        "text": "One of the pillions is critical and undergoing treatment at Udupi Government Hospital in Ajjarkad"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;LIC donates \u20b91 crore to Kidwai on completion of 100 bone marrow transplants;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/lic-donates-1-crore-to-kidwai-on-completion-of-100-bone-marrow-transplants/article68702129.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:29:45 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;170 patients undergo free angioplasty at Jayadeva;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/170-patients-undergo-free-angioplasty-at-jayadeva/article68701892.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:27:17 +0530",
        "text": "With one patient requiring more than one stent, around 200 stents were given for free to all the patients"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Walkathon held to raise awareness of healthy heart;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/walkathon-held-to-raise-awareness-of-healthy-heart/article68702868.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:27:00 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Udhayanidhi Stalin accorded warm reception in Madurai;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/udhayanidhi-stalin-accorded-warm-reception-in-madurai/article68702841.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:22:59 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Alert residents rescue newborn on outskirts of Sarjapur;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/alert-residents-rescue-newborn-on-outskirts-of-sarjapur/article68701199.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:20:14 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;India's Adani Group unit raises 19.5 billion rupees via bond issue, say bankers;https://www.thehindu.com/business/indias-adani-group-unit-raises-195-bln-rupees-via-bond-issue-say-bankers/article68702706.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:20:13 +0530",
        "text": "Adani Airport Holdings raises \u20b919.5 billion through A+ rated bond issue, attracting mutual funds and private banks"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Kolkata\u2019s Durga Puja economy takes a major hit amidst ongoing R.G. Kar protests;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/kolkatas-durga-puja-economy-takes-a-major-hit-amidst-ongoing-rg-kar-protests/article68701722.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:19:50 +0530",
        "text": "Footfall at markets shows sign of increasing, but business owners feel business this year is worse than COVID times"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Labourer held on charge of murder;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/labourer-held-on-charge-of-murder/article68701308.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:16:52 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Inefficient scribes, no quota hinder disabled candidates writing TNPSC;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/inefficient-scribes-no-quota-hinder-disabled-candidates-writing-tnpsc/article68701815.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:16:29 +0530",
        "text": "TNPSC has stated that candidates cannot bring their scribes and that a scribe would be assigned to them. The scribes are teachers from the centres allotted for the examination for the TNPSC candidates"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Tiruchi book fair gaining momentum gradually;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/tiruchi-book-fair-gaining-momentum-gradually/article68701876.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:14:22 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Financier arrested for stabbing milk vendor to death;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/financier-arrested-for-stabbing-milk-vendor-to-death/article68701102.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:13:08 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Railway Minister visits Japan to resolve bullet train issues ahead of Modi visit this year;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/railway-minister-visits-japan-to-resolve-bullet-train-issues-ahead-of-modi-visit-this-year/article68702327.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:10:18 +0530",
        "text": "Officials say that while the entire land acquisition in Gujarat and Maharashtra had been completed, the deadlock over costs for supplying rolling stock or train sets and signalling systems still persists"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Extending unemployment benefits major challenge for India: ILO report;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/extending-unemployment-benefits-major-challenge-for-india-ilo-report/article68702204.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:08:16 +0530",
        "text": "Social protection increased in Asia-Pacific region, says report; it adds that about 2.1 billion people still remain unprotected against various lifecycle and socio-economic risks as progress in extending social protection has been uneven"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;No residential area will be flooded this monsoon, says Thoothukudi Mayor;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/no-residential-area-will-be-flooded-this-monsoon-says-thoothukudi-mayor/article68702500.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:05:45 +0530",
        "text": "Desilting of nine major storm-water drains to be completed by October 15 and construction of new drains have been completed, says Mayor P. Jegan"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Russia says captured another village in east Ukraine;https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/russia-says-captured-another-village-in-east-ukraine/article68701613.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:04:31 +0530",
        "text": "The Russian Defence Ministry said in a daily briefing that its units had \"actively liberated the village of Nelepovka,\" using the Russian name for the village"
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;T-Hub invites startups for Panasonic Nessum HD-PLC Tech innovation challenge;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/t-hub-invites-startups-for-panasonic-nessum-hd-plc-tech-innovation-challenge/article68702419.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:03:12 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Protest against CM \u2018portraying Malappuram district as a hub of anti-national activities\u2019;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/protest-against-cm-portraying-malappuram-district-as-a-hub-of-anti-national-activities/article68702753.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:59:04 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Panel inspects red earth-mined areas near Coimbatore for second day;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/panel-inspects-red-earth-mined-areas-near-coimbatore-second-day/article68702538.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:56:24 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Fourth graduation ceremony of BMS College of Commerce and Management organised;https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/fourth-graduation-ceremony-of-bms-college-of-commerce-and-management-organised/article68702248.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:56:19 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;Call for stringent action against practice of breaking pumpkin on road;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/call-for-stringent-action-against-practice-of-breaking-pumpkin-on-road/article68702356.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:56:03 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "The Hindu;History-sheeter jumps off bridge near Coimbatore, fractures leg;https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/history-sheeter-jumps-off-bridge-near-coimbatore-fractures-leg/article68702704.ece;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:52:42 +0530",
        "text": ""
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Eye doctor injured in alleged attack at Hong Kong public hospital;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280611/eye-doctor-injured-alleged-attack-hong-kong-public-hospital?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:41:15 +0800",
        "text": "Doctor at Pok Oi Hospital allegedly attacked during consultation, sustaining injuries to ear, head and neck."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Technical glitch grounds drone show Hong Kong planned on eve of country\u2019s 75th anniversary;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280605/technical-glitch-grounds-drone-show-hong-kong-planned-eve-countrys-75th-anniversary?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:06:12 +0800",
        "text": "Thousands of people, including many tourists, had gathered for spectacle at West Kowloon Cultural District."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Elderly man falls to death while hanging laundry in Hong Kong, in second such death in 2 weeks;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280603/elderly-man-falls-death-while-doing-household-chores-hong-kong-second-such-death-2-weeks?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:43:04 +0800",
        "text": "Security personnel alert police after discovering 83-year-old man lying on podium near Yee Yip House at Tsing Yi Estate."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;After Hong Kong boy with asthma dies, here\u2019s what parents should know;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3280594/after-hong-kong-boy-asthma-dies-heres-what-parents-should-know?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:17:10 +0800",
        "text": "The Post looks at how asthma affects children after death of four-year-old, whose mother gave him herbal pills without prescription."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;How do Hong Kong\u2019s Cathay, other airlines deal with unruly fliers? The Post has answers;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3280589/how-do-hong-kongs-cathay-other-airlines-deal-unruly-fliers-post-has-answers?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:38:43 +0800",
        "text": "Incident involving drunk passenger on Chicago-bound Cathay flight puts safety back under microscope, as industry body warns of legal loophole."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong\u2019s latest Silver Bond sale starts strong as stable returns appeal;https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3280587/hong-kongs-latest-silver-bond-sale-starts-strong-stable-returns-appeal?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:30:21 +0800",
        "text": "As interest rates have begun to fall, the guaranteed 4 per cent yield of the US$6.4 billion in bonds looks better by comparison."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong among top destinations for mainland Chinese tourists during \u2018golden week\u2019 break;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3280581/hong-kong-among-top-destinations-mainland-chinese-tourists-during-golden-week-break?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:54:16 +0800",
        "text": "State media says Osaka, Seoul and Kuala Lumpur also popular, while tourism insiders highlight Hong Kong\u2019s ease of access as an advantage."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong needs office overseeing planning for mega events, think tank says;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3280577/hong-kong-needs-office-overseeing-planning-mega-events-think-tank-says?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:37:51 +0800",
        "text": "Our Hong Kong Foundation also says number of sports venues need upgrading to comply with international requirements."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Alibaba, HKEX attract Chinese investors as inflows to Hong Kong stocks surge;https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3280558/bullish-chinese-investors-charge-hong-kong-stocks-stimulus-ignited-buying-frenzy?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:00:07 +0800",
        "text": "Net inflows blow past last year\u2019s total in a buying rush ahead of the \u2018golden week\u2019 holiday."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong air pollution reaches serious levels in parts of city amid weak winds;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3280562/hong-kong-air-pollution-reaches-serious-levels-parts-city-amid-weak-winds?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:55:05 +0800",
        "text": "Seventeen of 18 local monitoring stations issue very high risk warnings on Monday, with remaining one recording serious alert."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Son of late Hong Kong tycoon Eric Hotung sued for more than HK$8 million in unpaid fees;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280557/son-late-hong-kong-tycoon-eric-hotung-sued-more-hk8-million-unpaid-fees?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:42:20 +0800",
        "text": "Anthony Hotung is accused of failing to pay costs, interest by law firm that represented him in two-decade-long legal feud involving family."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong-designed satellite to help pre-empt natural disasters after successful launch;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3280534/hong-kongs-cuhk-launches-first-locally-funded-satellite-can-pre-empt-natural-disasters?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:31:41 +0800",
        "text": "CUHK satellite funded by city\u2019s Innovation and Technology Commission and supported by mainland Chinese authorities launched off Shandong coast."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Another foreign judge at Hong Kong\u2019s top court steps down citing \u2018personal reasons\u2019;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280502/another-foreign-judge-hong-kongs-top-court-steps-down-citing-personal-reasons?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:05:19 +0800",
        "text": "Nicholas Addison Phillips, 86, is fifth foreign judge to leave city\u2019s top court this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hotter weather expected in Hong Kong as Super Typhoon Krathon approaches;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3280501/excessive-heat-expected-hong-kong-super-typhoon-krathon-approaches?utm_source=rss_feed;Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:58:40 +0800",
        "text": "Krathon enters within 800km of city and is expected to make landfall in Taiwan on Wednesday."
    },
    {
        "label": "South China Morning Post;Hong Kong boy, 4, dies after being given herbal medicine pills; mother arrested;https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3280433/hong-kong-mother-arrested-after-son-allegedly-injected-herbal-medicine-boy-critically-ill?utm_source=rss_feed;Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:51:02 +0800",
        "text": "Source says boy took two herbal pills at around 11am."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East: Israel launches ground operations in Lebanon;https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-israel-launches-ground-operations-in-lebanon/live-70370002?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The Israeli military said it commenced ground raids against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Meanwhile, loud explosions were heard over the Lebanese capital, Beirut. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Olympic champion Werth rides M\u00fcller's horse;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-olympic-champion-werth-rides-m\u00fcller-s-horse/a-70369688?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "When Lisa and Thomas M\u00fcller, German dressage rider and international footballer respectively, bought D'avie in 2020, they hoped for greater success. Now, German equestrian legend Isabell Werth has taken the reins."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NBA star Dikembe Mutombo dies at 58 from brain cancer;https://www.dw.com/en/nba-star-dikembe-mutombo-dies-at-58-from-brain-cancer/a-70369395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The basketball legend earned recognition as one of the best defenders ever. One of the NBA's first African stars, he devoted much time and money to his native Democratic Republic of Congo after retirement."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the US election outcome could impact the Western Balkans;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-us-election-outcome-could-impact-the-western-balkans/a-70367944?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "As the US presidential election approaches, the countries of the Balkans \u2014 in particular Serbia and Kosovo \u2014 are watching closely. What impact will the election outcome have on this corner of southeastern Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Man accused of trying to assassinate Trump pleads not guilty;https://www.dw.com/en/man-accused-of-trying-to-assassinate-trump-pleads-not-guilty/a-70368960?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The 58-year-old was arrested on September 15, accused of plotting to kill the Republican presidential candidate at his Florida golf course."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New Zealand reclaims the world record for the largest haka;https://www.dw.com/en/new-zealand-reclaims-the-world-record-for-the-largest-haka/a-70367212?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "More than 6,000 people took part in the event, surpassing the previous record set a decade ago in France. The haka is surely best known nowadays because of New Zealand's All Blacks performing it before rugby matches."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UAE, Sudan blame each other over bombing of ambassador home;https://www.dw.com/en/uae-sudan-blame-each-other-over-bombing-of-ambassador-home/a-70366701?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The UAE has blamed the Sudanese armed forces for the attack on the home of its ambassador in Khartoum. But the military has blamed the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, which it claims is backed by the UAE."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German inflation sinks to lowest rate since 2021;https://www.dw.com/en/german-inflation-sinks-to-lowest-rate-since-2021/a-70367860?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Inflation in Germany has fallen to its lowest level in more than three years, to a provisional figure of 1.6%. Energy prices fell, but the cost of services increased more than the overall rate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Austria: Far-right faces rocky road to coalition;https://www.dw.com/en/austria-far-right-faces-rocky-road-to-coalition/a-70366828?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The Freedom Party won the most seats in parliament, a first since World War II. However, all of Austria's other major parties have signalled unwillingness to form a coalition with the far-right."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German police raid homes of pro-Palestinian activists;https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-raid-homes-of-pro-palestinian-activists/a-70363024?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Police in Berlin have raided the homes of five men in connection with protests and online posts that they say included anti-Semitic slogans. One of the suspects was accused of a violent attack on a state politician."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Higgs Factory: Why CERN wants to build a giant particle smasher;https://www.dw.com/en/higgs-factory-why-cern-wants-to-build-a-giant-particle-smasher/a-70283573?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Scientists want to build a 90km Future Circular Collider to study the Higgs boson particle. At an estimated cost $17 billion, is it worth it?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Africa's fight against antimicrobial resistance;https://www.dw.com/en/africa-s-fight-against-antimicrobial-resistance/a-70350443?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Antimicrobial resistance is linked to more than 1 million disease-related deaths in Africa, according to a report by the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance Project. What's behind the statistics?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is the point of a Nobel Prize?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-the-point-of-a-nobel-prize/a-70346756?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The Nobel Prize is considered the 'Mount Everest of science.' But it faces criticism for how the winners get chosen. How relevant is the prize in an era of global research?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Venezuela opposition figure wins top European rights prize;https://www.dw.com/en/venezuela-opposition-figure-wins-top-european-rights-prize/a-70363263?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "This year, the Council of Europe's Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize goes to Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany captain Alexandra Popp retires from national team;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-captain-alexandra-popp-retires-from-national-team/a-70362423?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Alexandra Popp, captain of the women's national team, has retired from international football ending her 14-year career with the side. The Olympic gold medalist is still going strong with Wolfsburg."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can the German government survive its 'ultimatum autumn'?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-the-german-government-survive-its-ultimatum-autumn/a-70362885?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Whether it's pensions, the economy or migration, the German government is at odds over most issues. But now the FDP has issued an ultimatum: The coalition must come to terms or face the end."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;France's Le Pen on trial for alleged misuse of EU funds;https://www.dw.com/en/france-s-le-pen-on-trial-for-alleged-misuse-of-eu-funds/a-70362288?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The far-right leader is accused of partaking in a fake jobs scheme that misappropriated European Union funds. She risks 10 years in prison if convicted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe: The pop star of his time?;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-the-pop-star-of-his-time/a-70359931?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Long before the internet, the German literary giant had a cult following among young people for a novel that was consumed like social media posts."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Middle East updates: Hezbollah says group will fight on;https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-updates-hezbollah-says-group-will-fight-on/live-70358297?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Hezbollah's deputy says a new leader will be chosen \"as soon as possible\" following the death of Hassan Nasrallah. Meanwhile, an Israeli strike has killed the leader of Hamas in Lebanon. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Seoul court fines BTS star Suga over e-scooter incident;https://www.dw.com/en/seoul-court-fines-bts-star-suga-over-e-scooter-incident/a-70360971?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "A court in the South Korean capital has imposed a fine on the K-pop star Suga for riding an e-scooter while drunk."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Russia launches drone attack on Kyiv;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-russia-launches-drone-attack-on-kyiv/live-70359038?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Several waves of Russian drones targeted the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in the early hours of Monday morning. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow will achieve \"all goals\" in Ukraine. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Greece: Wildfires near Corinth kill 2 people;https://www.dw.com/en/greece-wildfires-near-corinth-kill-2-people/a-70359654?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "A wildfire fanned by strong winds tore across a rugged mountainous area in the Corinth region of central Greece. Several villages were evacuated overnight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Spain: Hopes of rescue fade after migrant boat disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/spain-hopes-of-rescue-fade-after-migrant-boat-disaster/a-70358604?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Spanish authorities continued their search for 48 migrants who were aboard a boat that capsized near the Canary Islands. Nine people had already been reported dead."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Austria's far-right FP\u00d6 wins parliamentary vote;https://www.dw.com/en/austria-s-far-right-fp\u00f6-wins-parliamentary-vote/a-70354491?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Following the parliamentary election in Austria, the far-right Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) will be the strongest faction in the parliament, beating the conservative \u00d6VP for the first time in history."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Turkey: Violence against children \u2014 a neglected problem;https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-violence-against-children-a-neglected-problem/a-70310542?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The Turkish public has been shocked by the murder of an 8-year-old girl. But Narin's case is by no means an isolated one. Experts say the government must do more to combat the problem of violence against children."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NATO chief Mark Rutte takes charge at critical time;https://www.dw.com/en/nato-chief-mark-rutte-takes-charge-at-critical-time/a-70355945?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Mark Rutte takes the helm at NATO on October 1, after more than a dozen years as Dutch prime minister. He'll need all his diplomatic skills to manage the alliance in challenging times."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine: Adoption rates on the rise;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-adoption-rates-on-the-rise/a-70339567?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "As Russia's war on Ukraine continues, an increasing number of Ukrainians are adopting orphans. DW spoke with foster parents about the difficult process."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Austria: Outrage on election eve amid funeral with Nazi song;https://www.dw.com/en/austria-outrage-on-election-eve-amid-funeral-with-nazi-song/a-70354166?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Three far-right politicians were reportedly at the funeral where a song glorified by Germany's Nazi-era SS was sung on election eve. The Austrian Jewish Students\u2019 Union has reported the politicians involved."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pope Francis promises 'help' to Belgian sex abuse victims;https://www.dw.com/en/pope-francis-promises-help-to-belgian-sex-abuse-victims/a-70353319?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Pope Francis spoke in Brussels with victims of clergy sexual abuse who are demanding compensation from the Catholic Church. The Vatican said that he is looking over the requests."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Europe's far right is changing EU asylum policy;https://www.dw.com/en/how-europe-s-far-right-is-changing-eu-asylum-policy/a-70337161?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The EU has been hardening its migration policy for years, but the ascendant fortunes of the far right have member states skittish about their freshly agreed asylum reform package."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What's behind Russia's plan to ban 'child-free' ideology?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-s-behind-russia-s-plan-to-ban-child-free-ideology/a-70324064?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The Russian parliament is discussing a law to ban so-called \"propaganda of childlessness\" with fines up to $4,300 for individuals. Will that help to solve the country's demographic crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Thuringia lawmakers pick CDU speaker, rejecting AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-thuringia-lawmakers-pick-cdu-speaker-rejecting-afd/a-70352586?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The parliament in the eastern German state of Thuringia has chosen a member of the conservative CDU as its new speaker. The far-right AfD, which won the most seats, was blocked by all other parties from taking the role."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Jannik Sinner tennis doping case: What is happening?;https://www.dw.com/en/jannik-sinner-tennis-doping-case-what-is-happening/a-70352569?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "US Open men's champion and world number one Jannik Sinner could be banned from tennis for up to two years. The World Anti-Doping Agency says doping rules were not followed in a case involving Sinner."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Hamburg police seize 2 tons of cocaine worth \u20ac100M;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hamburg-police-seize-2-tons-of-cocaine-worth-\u20ac100m/a-70347569?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The cocaine was hidden in banana boxes stacked inside a shipping container near Hamburg's port. Police said the drug haul was the result of weeks of undercover investigation."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: AfD leaders pick Weidel for chancellor candidate;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-afd-leaders-pick-weidel-for-chancellor-candidate/a-70349935?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Germany's next federal election is set for September 2025. Alice Weidel was already seen as the overwhelmingly likely candidate. But the final decision won't come until the party conference next year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany slows arms exports to Israel \u2014 without admitting it;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-slows-arms-exports-to-israel-without-admitting-it/a-70347570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Berlin appears to have stopped approving war weapons exports to Israel, even while insisting that there is no ban in place. Observers believe the government has been spooked by legal threats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Former Germany keeper Lehmann fined over chainsaw incident;https://www.dw.com/en/former-germany-keeper-lehmann-fined-over-chainsaw-incident/a-70349612?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Jens Lehmann has been given a reduced fine over an incident in which the former Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper took a chainsaw to a neighbor's garage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Far-right AfD stages day of chaos in parliament;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-far-right-afd-stages-day-of-chaos-in-parliament/a-70344985?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Classified as \"extremist\" by the domestic intelligence agency, the anti-immigrant populist Alternative for Germany party in Thuringia is now staging a political scandal that bodes ill for German democracy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cyclist Muriel Furrer dies after World Championship crash;https://www.dw.com/en/cyclist-muriel-furrer-dies-after-world-championship-crash/a-70346993?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The 18-year-old suffered a severe head injury when she fell during the women's junior race at the Road World Championship in Zurich. She was taken to Zurich University hospital but succumbed to her injuries the next day."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Belgian PM demands 'concrete steps' over Catholic sex abuse;https://www.dw.com/en/belgian-pm-demands-concrete-steps-over-catholic-sex-abuse/a-70343039?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Pope Francis is in Belgium after revelations of abuse and cover-ups have damaged the Vatican's credibility. Both Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and King Philippe urged the pontiff and the Catholic Church to do more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Cologne Central Station to close to train traffic;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-cologne-central-station-to-close-to-train-traffic/a-70344601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Construction work will leave the German city almost entirely cut off from rail services overnight on Friday. The closure is the latest headache for Deutsche Bahn passengers in recent months."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Israel-Hezbollah conflict deepens Lebanon's economic crisis;https://www.dw.com/en/israel-hezbollah-conflict-deepens-lebanon-s-economic-crisis/a-70341661?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The escalating conflict between Hezbollah and Israel is contributing to Lebanon's economic instability. People in the crisis-ridden country are struggling to survive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Is Berlin in a 'club death' spiral?;https://www.dw.com/en/is-berlin-in-a-club-death-spiral/a-70341859?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Two iconic Berlin techno clubs recently announced they will close. Rising rents and falling profits are partly to blame, but is the city also losing its nightlife luster?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Turkey is competing with China for influence in Africa;https://www.dw.com/en/how-turkey-is-competing-with-china-for-influence-in-africa/a-70301293?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Turkey is increasing its engagement in several African countries in an effort to boost its influence and trade. But with China and Russia being the dominant players there, Ankara is struggling to find its role."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine: Biden calls Germany meeting of Kyiv allies;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-biden-calls-germany-meeting-of-kyiv-allies/a-70331606?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "US President Joe Biden has said he will convene a high-level meeting of 50 Ukrainian allies in Germany next month. He also announced nearly $8 billion in military aid to Ukraine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Will Formula 1 return to South Africa?;https://www.dw.com/en/will-formula-1-return-to-south-africa/a-70269906?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The last F1 race in Africa was in 1993. A return could be in the cards, but what would it mean for the country and the continent?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'After Hitler': Changing views of Nazism in postwar Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/after-hitler-changing-views-of-nazism-in-postwar-germany/a-70323500?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "From secret adoration to loud dismay, Germans have come to terms with the Nazi past over 80 years in very different ways, as a new exhibition shows."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Europe help contain spiraling violence in Lebanon?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-europe-help-contain-spiraling-violence-in-lebanon/a-70325262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "As Israel-Hezbollah fighting ramps up, the EU is calling for de-escalation. Internal divisions have hindered the bloc's diplomacy in the Middle East since 2023, but experts say France may now have a role to play."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Government crisis deepens as Green leaders resign;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-government-crisis-deepens-as-green-leaders-resign/a-70324309?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Green Party co-chairs Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour are stepping down. The move could make things even harder for Germany's fractious coalition government."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy warns UN on nuclear plant safety;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-warns-un-on-nuclear-plant-safety/live-70322985?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the UN General Assembly that intelligence suggested Russia was planning to attack nuclear plants still in Ukrainian hands. Meanwhile, Russia claimed more gains in Donetsk. DW has more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police investigate blast at Cologne cafe;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-investigate-blast-at-cologne-cafe/a-70323612?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "One suspect turned himself in after an overnight explosion in Cologne with another one still on the run, according to police. The latest blast is not believed to be connected to a recent wave of drug-related violence."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Torn patellar tendon: A rare but serious knee injury;https://www.dw.com/en/torn-patellar-tendon-a-rare-but-serious-knee-injury/a-70323136?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen sustained a torn patellar tendon on the weekend. DW fills you in on how serious an injury it is, how it is treated, and how long it could take for him to return to the pitch."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;New LUNA facility will prepare astronauts for moon landings;https://www.dw.com/en/new-luna-facility-will-prepare-astronauts-for-moon-landings/a-70313230?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The moon may be 384,400 kilometers away, but an accurate replica of its surface has opened in Germany. Astronauts from around the world will use it to train for missions to the moon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Charges pressed in Schumacher family blackmail case;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-charges-pressed-in-schumacher-family-blackmail-case/a-70321726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Prosecutors in Wuppertal have filed charges against three men accused of trying to blackmail Michael Schumacher's family for millions. They allegedly threatened to public compromising data online unless they were paid."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German far-right AfD party taps into young voters' fears, disillusionment;https://www.dw.com/en/german-far-right-afd-party-taps-into-young-voters-fears-disillusionment/a-70319700?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "More and more young Germans support the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. It capitalizes on their pessimistic outlook and disappointment with other parties, experts say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Europe's AI bosses sound warning on soaring compliance costs;https://www.dw.com/en/europe-s-ai-bosses-sound-warning-on-soaring-compliance-costs/a-70243489?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Recent decisions by US tech giants to withhold their latest artificial intelligence (AI) models from the European market have raised concerns over the level of regulation now impacting tech firms in the bloc."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Climate change made Central Europe floods more likely: study;https://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-made-central-europe-floods-more-likely-study/a-70318772?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The recent deadly floods in Central Europe have shown \"the devastating results\" of burning fossil fuels, scientists say."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Greece worried about consequences of German border checks;https://www.dw.com/en/greece-worried-about-consequences-of-german-border-checks/a-70320699?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Athens is worried that Germany's reintroduction of border checks could have a knock-on effect across Europe and see migrants being returned to Greece."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Flood warnings on Oder River in eastern Brandenburg;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-flood-warnings-on-oder-river-in-eastern-brandenburg/a-70319284?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The highest flood warning level is in effect for a short stretch of the Oder River in Brandenburg where it marks the German border with Poland. In some more rural areas, it has already burst its banks."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;UEFA 's reassessment of Spain's handball doesn't help Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/uefa-s-reassessment-of-spain-s-handball-doesn-t-help-germany/a-70320827?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "In one of the most memorable incidents at the Euros, Spain's Marc Cucurella blocked a German shot with his hand, but no penalty was called. Now UEFA has admitted that the referee got it wrong \u2014 but it changes nothing."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Green co-leaders Lang and Nouripour resign;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-green-co-leaders-lang-and-nouripour-resign/a-70319586?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The co-leaders of Germany's Greens, Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour, have announced they're stepping down. The party suffered a disastrous state election in Brandenburg, dropping below 5% and losing its seats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Why are sea levels rising?;https://www.dw.com/en/why-are-sea-levels-rising/a-70281203?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Rising oceans are posing a global threat, particularly to low lying islands and coastal cities. What is driving this, and how can we respond? Here's what you need to know."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dutch 'Mocro mafia' sets off alarm bells in Germany;https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-mocro-mafia-sets-off-alarm-bells-in-germany/a-69764909?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "German police have warned of Dutch organized crime networks moving into Germany after a series of explosions in Cologne."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;CERN at 70: Smashing elementary particles for humanity;https://www.dw.com/en/cern-at-70-smashing-elementary-particles-for-humanity/a-70298947?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "CERN has been an epicenter of scientific breakthroughs since 1954, including the discovery of the Higgs boson. Scientists there hope a new, larger particle smasher will lead them to more discoveries for years to come."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;75 years of Frankfurt Book Fair: World stage for protests;https://www.dw.com/en/75-years-of-frankfurt-book-fair-world-stage-for-protests/a-70283991?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The Cold War, neo-Nazis, as well as Iran's fatwa on Salman Rushdie all had an impact on the Frankfurt Book Fair, which turns 75 this year."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy says Iran, N. Korea 'accomplices';https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-zelenskyy-says-iran-n-korea-accomplices/live-70307515?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denounced Iran and North Korea for providing weapons to Russia. He also said Moscow must be forced into any just peace. DW has the latest."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Switzerland: Police investigate 1st use of 'suicide capsule';https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-police-investigate-1st-use-of-suicide-capsule/a-70314117?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Swiss police say they have detained several people and opened a criminal case a day after the first use of the \"Sarco\" capsule to end a person's life. Assisted dying is legal in Switzerland in some circumstances."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Deutsche Bahn: New train to link Berlin and Paris in 8 hours;https://www.dw.com/en/deutsche-bahn-new-train-to-link-berlin-and-paris-in-8-hours/a-70314292?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The first direct high-speed train service between both cities will be running from December, according to Deutsche Bahn. It will offer a journey without transfers, with stops in Frankfurt, Strasbourg and Karlsruhe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister: Eating habit survey shows developing tastes;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-eating-habit-survey-shows-developing-tastes/a-70309258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "A new government study points to changing tastes in food, but not a desire for rules, according to the agriculture minister. One thing stays constant \u2014 a pleasing taste was the most important factor for respondents."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;North Korea and women's youth football: A perfect match;https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-and-women-s-youth-football-a-perfect-match/a-70313505?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "North Korea's young women have won their third U20 World Cup, so why is the isolated state so good at this level of the game?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany decries UniCredit bid for Commerzbank 'unfriendly';https://www.dw.com/en/germany-decries-unicredit-bid-for-commerzbank-unfriendly/a-70206639?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Italy's UniCredit stunned markets by clandestinely raising its stake in Germany's second-largest lender to 21%. As Commerzbank's management now tries to fend off a possible takeover, the government stands by its side."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The true cost of protecting the Amazon and who should pay;https://www.dw.com/en/the-true-cost-of-protecting-the-amazon-and-who-should-pay/a-70309693?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The world\u2019s largest rainforest is battling deforestation, drought and record wildfires. Where is the money to save it coming from?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU divided over higher tariffs for Chinese EV imports;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-divided-over-higher-tariffs-for-chinese-ev-imports/a-70250391?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Despite \"constructive talks\" between the EU and China recently, the impasse over planned EU tariffs on China-made electric vehicles hasn't been resolved. The spat could escalate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Police raids in southwest target human traffickers;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-raids-in-southwest-target-human-traffickers/a-70307600?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Police raided more than 20 properties in southwestern Germany and arrested at least four people. The case pertains to trafficking people from the Caucasus region to work illegally and for less than the minimum wage."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How false memories make us who we are;https://www.dw.com/en/how-false-memories-make-us-who-we-are/a-70300263?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "We think of memory as a reliable recording of our lives. But we also have false memories, often pieced together from communal experience. Those false memories shape our identity the same as the real ones do."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: SPD seeks coalition after slim win in Brandenburg;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-spd-seeks-coalition-after-slim-win-in-brandenburg/live-70298970?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats will seek coalition talks with upstart left party BSW, as working with the far-right runner-up AfD has been ruled out. Follow DW for more."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goalie ter Stegen's injury leaves Germany coach in a bind;https://www.dw.com/en/goalie-ter-stegen-s-injury-leaves-germany-coach-in-a-bind/a-70302777?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Just weeks after being confirmed as Germany's new first-choice goalkeeper, Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen has gone down with a potentially season-ending injury. Could Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann recall Manuel Neuer?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Volkswagen's crisis: How can Europe's car industry survive?;https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-s-crisis-how-can-europe-s-car-industry-survive/a-70231806?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "While Volkswagen and other European automakers are considering closing factories, Chinese rivals are searching for production sites on the continent. What's going wrong in Europe?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Far-right gains in east Germany could deal blow to economy;https://www.dw.com/en/far-right-gains-in-east-germany-could-deal-blow-to-economy/a-70295769?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "After elections in Thuringia and Saxony, the far-right AfD party has again massively gained in a poll in eastern Germany. Now the second-strongest force in Brandenburg, their success causes concerns among businesses."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany increases 'Deutschlandticket' price to \u20ac58;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-increases-deutschlandticket-price-to-\u20ac58/a-70300975?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The \"Deutschlandticket\" monthly travel pass allows passengers unlimited trips on local and regional trains, trams and buses. Starting in 2025, the ticket will be \u20ac9 more expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hamilton's near heatstroke puts F1 driver safety in focus;https://www.dw.com/en/hamilton-s-near-heatstroke-puts-f1-driver-safety-in-focus/a-69704130?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Both Mercedes drivers suffered from 'borderline heatstroke' at the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix. Not for the first time this year, questions are being raised about their safety."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Brandenburg election brings relief for ruling SPD;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-brandenburg-election-brings-relief-for-ruling-spd/a-70298529?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats managed to fight off the far-right AfD in the regional vote. However, questions about the future of Germany's ruling coalition remain."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Sudan crisis: Threat to culture 'unprecedented,' UNESCO says;https://www.dw.com/en/sudan-crisis-threat-to-culture-unprecedented-unesco-says/a-70284737?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Sudan is sinking into war and chaos. Many cultural and world heritage sites have been destroyed or looted as millions of people are displaced."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Gaza's disabled cyclists deliver aid, inspiration and hope;https://www.dw.com/en/gaza-s-disabled-cyclists-deliver-aid-inspiration-and-hope/a-70269177?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "When the bombs started to fall in Gaza last October, the Gaza Sunbirds, a group of 25 Palestinian cyclists whose legs were amputated, started using their bikes to deliver food and shelters to their neighbors."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Female referee deletes Instagram after sexist messages;https://www.dw.com/en/female-referee-deletes-instagram-after-sexist-messages/a-70290706?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Albanian referee Emanuela Rusta is making fast progress, but the sport she works in is not. The official made the decision to get rid of her social media account after constant remarks about her appearance."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Homeless World Cup: 'We want to do something special';https://www.dw.com/en/homeless-world-cup-we-want-to-do-something-special/a-70218267?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "National football teams made up of homeless people from around the world will soon gather in South Korea for the Homeless World Cup. For many of the players, the stakes are much higher than just the trophy on offer."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Heat pumps: Why Germany's heating revolution is stalling;https://www.dw.com/en/heat-pumps-why-germany-s-heating-revolution-is-stalling/a-70192621?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "It's a signature project of Germany's environmentalist Greens: Instead of heating homes with fossil fuels, Germans should use heat pumps based on air or groundwater. But demand for these devices has plummeted."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Starlink satellites are blinding astronomers' view of space;https://www.dw.com/en/starlink-satellites-are-blinding-astronomers-view-of-space/a-70273835?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Starlink and other satellite networks are vital for providing high speed internet to remote communities, but unintended radiation leakages are making life difficult for astronomers who need clear skies."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How Tupperware parties empowered homebound suburban women;https://www.dw.com/en/how-tupperware-parties-empowered-homebound-suburban-women/a-70273741?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "As Tupperware files for bankruptcy, here's a look back at how the iconic US plastic kitchenware company and its \"Tupperware party\" business model became a cultural phenomenon."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Czech Republic struggling to mitigate risks as Russian firms flourish;https://www.dw.com/en/czech-republic-struggling-to-mitigate-risks-as-russian-firms-flourish/a-70181088?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Czechia hosts by far the highest number of Russian-owned companies of any EU state. Experts warn this cohort of over 12,500 firms pose economic and security risks that the government must eventually start to mitigate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Oktoberfest: Beer and pretzels in a sustainable package;https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-beer-and-pretzels-in-a-sustainable-package/a-70235282?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "More than Bavarians in lederhosen balancing frothing beer mugs and fried sausages, the world's largest folk festival is becoming more inclusive and eco-friendly."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;COVID FLiRT variants KP.3 and XEC: What you need to know;https://www.dw.com/en/covid-flirt-variants-kp-3-and-xec-what-you-need-to-know/a-70266402?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another variant and become XEC."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Two European firms in focus of Hezbollah pager explosions;https://www.dw.com/en/two-european-firms-in-focus-of-hezbollah-pager-explosions/a-70248830?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The Taiwanese company whose name appeared on the pagers that detonated across Lebanon has denied manufacturing the devices. That has put relatively unknown Hungarian and Bulgarian firms in the spotlight."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Ukraine wants action after Belarus Olympic medalist ceremony;https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-wants-action-after-belarus-olympic-medalist-ceremony/a-70262052?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The ceremony, held on Belarus' National Unity Day, appears to violate the Olympic neutrality rules. Ukraine wants action, with the country's sports minister telling DW further sanctions are necessary."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Cities start fighting rental crisis triggered by overtourism;https://www.dw.com/en/cities-start-fighting-rental-crisis-triggered-by-overtourism/a-70228085?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "In many of Europe's hottest tourist destinations like Barcelona and Paris, locals struggle to access affordable housing. How much are vacation rentals to blame?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Exploding Hezbollah pagers: How did it happen?;https://www.dw.com/en/exploding-hezbollah-pagers-how-did-it-happen/a-70250960?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Although the devices have lithium-ion batteries that can catch fire or explode, it is more likely the pagers were sabotaged."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains \u2014 study;https://www.dw.com/en/pregnancy-completely-rewires-mothers-brains-study/a-70246399?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Neuroscientists scanned the brain of a pregnant woman and captured a 'widespread reorganization' of her brain before, during and after pregnancy."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Use, and misuse, of music in US presidential campaigns;https://www.dw.com/en/use-and-misuse-of-music-in-us-presidential-campaigns/a-70186808?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "As Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell become the latest celebs to endorse Kamala Harris, here's a look at the history of music in political campaigns."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Google wins legal battle against EU over \u20ac1.5 billion fine;https://www.dw.com/en/google-wins-legal-battle-against-eu-over-\u20ac1-5-billion-fine/a-70246709?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "After years of back and forth, an EU court annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it sold advertisements. The fine was one of three major penalties the EU has leveled against the tech giant in recent years."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can Namibia's strategy to cull animals save them?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-namibia-s-strategy-to-cull-animals-save-them/a-70213343?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Does Namibia's plan to kill animals to save them, and help the human population from ongoing drought, stack up?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand shrinks;https://www.dw.com/en/tupperware-files-for-bankruptcy-as-demand-shrinks/a-70245540?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Once popular for its colorful food storage containers, US firm Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy. The company succumbed to a plummeting demand for its products."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;US Intel's factory delay adds to Germany's economic woes;https://www.dw.com/en/us-intel-s-factory-delay-adds-to-germany-s-economic-woes/a-70241739?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "US chipmaker Intel has announced it is postponing a $30 billion investment in Germany due to financial problems at the firm. But is the German government still committed to the investments?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How the arts are a thorn in the side of Germany's AfD;https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-arts-are-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-germany-s-afd/a-70239911?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How new technologies can mitigate the risks of flooding;https://www.dw.com/en/how-new-technologies-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-flooding/a-70239314?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "With extreme weather, floods are getting as common in Europe as they are in Asia and Africa. From mobile barriers to specialized dams, people are finding solutions to life-threatening floods across the globe."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;China's technology drive leaves young people jobless;https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-technology-drive-leaves-young-people-jobless/a-70187883?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "China is investing billions to become a global tech power. But AI, robotics and quantum computing are not labor-intensive sectors, so what to do about the millions of young Chinese who can't find a job?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds;https://www.dw.com/en/rapa-nui-s-early-inhabitants-survived-despite-the-odds/a-70232317?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide \u2014 an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies suggests the theory is wrong."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The new-look Champions League for 2024-25;https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-champions-league-for-2024-25/a-67831201?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "More teams, more games and, in all likelihood, more confusion. The men's UEFA Champions League has been overhauled for the 2024-25 season. But what is the \"Swiss Model\" and will it hold off the Super League?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Manchester City hearing into 115 financial charges begins;https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-hearing-into-115-financial-charges-begins/a-70220640?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Premier League champions Manchester City face a different kind of challenge as they answer 115 financial charges. DW looks at what has happened and what could be the outcome of a high-profile case."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India;https://www.dw.com/en/nipah-virus-a-recurring-deadly-threat-in-india/a-66814386?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. Transmitted by fruit bats, it's often fatal among humans."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Emmys: Japanese-language show 'Shogun' breaks record;https://www.dw.com/en/emmys-japanese-language-show-shogun-breaks-record/a-70224747?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Japanese-language historical drama \"Shogun\" has smashed Emmy records by winning 18 trophies at the latest edition of TV's most coveted awards. The 76th Emmys also saw \"Hacks,\" \"The Bear,\" and \"Baby Reindeer\" shine."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How is climate change impacting flooding around the world?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-is-climate-change-impacting-flooding-around-the-world/a-69289787?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? These five visualizations will help you understand the connections."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;How important is the ozone layer?;https://www.dw.com/en/how-important-is-the-ozone-layer/a-69665982?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "It may just be a thin layer of gas, but it protects life on Earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest environmental success stories."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dyslexia: German researchers find cause in the brain;https://www.dw.com/en/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/a-70199780?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;A brief history of diamond desirability;https://www.dw.com/en/a-brief-history-of-diamond-desirability/a-70130225?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status \u2014 but also have a dark side. A look at the many meanings of diamonds."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Floods in Europe caused by Vb conditions. What are they?;https://www.dw.com/en/floods-in-europe-caused-by-vb-conditions-what-are-they/a-69264729?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "With the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany preparing for heavy rainfall and flooding, here's what you need to know about the extreme weather phenomenon \"five B\" and why it's getting worse."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The pacesetter of a century: Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg;https://www.dw.com/en/the-pacesetter-of-a-century-arnold-sch\u00f6nberg/a-70198415?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Composer, painter, inventor of the 12-tone technique: musical pioneer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, was born 150 years ago. The music world celebrates one of its greats."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI can debunk conspiracy theories. Can it help your uncle?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-can-debunk-conspiracy-theories-can-it-help-your-uncle/a-70200703?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Could you convince a person their fringe beliefs are wrong? Maybe not, but a new experimental chatbot has shown it\u2019s up to the task in welcome news for dinner hosts ahead of Thanksgiving."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;NFL: Do 'guardian caps' make the sport safer?;https://www.dw.com/en/nfl-do-guardian-caps-make-the-sport-safer/a-70198031?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Concussion remains a major health concern in American Football. A handful of players now choose to wear special protectors over their helmets, but most continue to play without. Might this change the sport?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Dedollarization: How the West is boosting China's yuan;https://www.dw.com/en/dedollarization-how-the-west-is-boosting-china-s-yuan/a-70118356?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Western sanctions on Russia have spurred trade in China's renminbi to new highs. The curbs are helping China to test the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, sparking new tariff threats from Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic;https://www.dw.com/en/when-germany-targets-jewish-artists-as-antisemitic/a-70180570?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Young Asian stars are conquering the chess world;https://www.dw.com/en/young-asian-stars-are-conquering-the-chess-world/a-70187437?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "A glance at the team lists at the Chess Olympiad reveals that Europe has lost its leading position in the sport to Asia."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;'Coolcation': Is climate change transforming travel?;https://www.dw.com/en/coolcation-is-climate-change-transforming-travel/a-70187090?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "As heatwaves scorch southern Europe, some tourists are heading to colder destinations. Could vacation spots with cooler temperatures be the trend of the future?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;World-first face, eye transplant a 'cautious' success story;https://www.dw.com/en/world-first-face-eye-transplant-a-cautious-success-story/a-70180158?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Aaron James made history when New York surgeons performed the world's first face and whole eye transplant in 2023. A year on, he says the procedure has given him a new lease on life."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Hydrogen vs battery: The race for the truck of the future;https://www.dw.com/en/hydrogen-vs-battery-the-race-for-the-truck-of-the-future/a-69456987?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Truck manufacturers are under immense pressure to cut emissions. But should they bet on batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or both? Multinationals are reaching different conclusions. And the wrong choice could be expensive."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What Volkswagen's woes say about Germany's economic future;https://www.dw.com/en/what-volkswagen-s-woes-say-about-germany-s-economic-future/a-70150224?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Job cuts and possible factory closures at Germany's largest carmaker are a symptom of a wider malaise in Europe's largest economy. Are the doomsayers right or will the \"Made In Germany\" monicker reign supreme again?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Kamala Harris and Donald Trump trade barbs on economy;https://www.dw.com/en/kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-trade-barbs-on-economy/a-70185008?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Inflation and the economy were central themes in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Both candidates have strikingly differing plans on an issue Trump thinks he can win on."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Nagelsmann's Germany keep shining after Euro 2024;https://www.dw.com/en/nagelsmann-s-germany-keep-shining-after-euro-2024/a-70171474?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "A spirited draw against the Netherlands concluded a positive September for Germany, who kept their momentum rolling."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Palestinian national football team eye World Cup and homecoming;https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-national-football-team-eye-world-cup-and-homecoming/a-70165044?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "The Palestinian men's football team is closer to World Cup qualification than it has ever been. But with all that is happening in their homeland, the chance to play back where they belong also means plenty."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Can European cities lead the way for climate action?;https://www.dw.com/en/can-european-cities-lead-the-way-for-climate-action/a-69642554?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Over 100 cities have committed to ambitious climate targets by 2030. From free public transport for youth in Porto to green construction in Warsaw and closing Helsinki's coal plants, here's how they plan to do it."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda;https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space \u2014 so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Beethovenfest: Making classical music accessible to all;https://www.dw.com/en/beethovenfest-making-classical-music-accessible-to-all/a-70171262?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Under the motto \"Together,\" the Beethovenfest in Bonn is aiming to create a democratic and inclusive experience that calls for the public's participation \u2014 going far beyond the music."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;EU report calls for \u20ac800 billion investment boost;https://www.dw.com/en/eu-report-calls-for-\u20ac800-billion-investment-boost/a-70173239?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "In a report on EU competitiveness, former ECB chief Mario Draghi proposes \"radical change\" to counter aggressive competition from China and the US. He touts the use of joint EU borrowing and other controversial measures."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Bye-bye body positivity, hello 'heroin chic'?;https://www.dw.com/en/bye-bye-body-positivity-hello-heroin-chic/a-70026120?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Low-rise jeans and belly button piercings are back on runways and streets, coinciding with a viral hype around weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Are \"magic\" injections and Y2K nostalgia the end of body positivity?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany: Football games under match-fixing investigation;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-football-games-under-match-fixing-investigation/a-70164395?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Authorities in several German states are investigating reports of match-fixing in 17 lower-league football matches. The manipulation is reported to have taken place in connection with online betting firms."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;After Brazil's X ban, what social media alternatives exist?;https://www.dw.com/en/after-brazil-s-x-ban-what-social-media-alternatives-exist/a-70146551?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Elon Musk's platform X, formerly Twitter, has received plenty of criticism over the years. After Brazilians found themselves blocked from the social media platform last week, many were left searching for alternatives."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;AI: Money-making machine or a billion-dollar sinkhole?;https://www.dw.com/en/ai-money-making-machine-or-a-billion-dollar-sinkhole/a-70136557?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Scores of climate conferences have been held to slow global warming \u2014 but greenhouse gas emissions continue rising. Could AI help tackle the climate crisis?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Time to criminalize environmental damage, says survey;https://www.dw.com/en/time-to-criminalize-environmental-damage-says-survey/a-70143258?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Germany hammer Hungary 5-0 in Nations League match;https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hammer-hungary-5-0-in-nations-league-match/a-70162964?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Germany dominated in their Nations League match against Hungary, beating the visitors 5-0. Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz dazzled for what's seen as a new era for Germany."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Goethe Medal 2024: Celebrating three women in the arts;https://www.dw.com/en/goethe-medal-2024-celebrating-three-women-in-the-arts/a-70151283?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Germany's highest prize for foreign cultural policy goes to Claudia Cabrera, Carmen Romero Quero and Iskra Geshoska. They pursue their vision despite all obstacles."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;No cancer danger from mobile phones, research concludes;https://www.dw.com/en/no-cancer-danger-from-mobile-phones-research-concludes/a-70133650?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "A review of 28 years of research has shown that mobile phones and wireless tech devices are not linked to increased risk of cancer. The radio waves they emit do not contain enough energy to damage the human body or DNA."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;VW's warning on plant closures in Germany causes outcry;https://www.dw.com/en/vw-s-warning-on-plant-closures-in-germany-causes-outcry/a-70123969?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Europe's biggest carmaker is intensifying cost-cutting measures that no longer rule out plant closures or layoffs in Germany. This has sparked criticism and resistance from politicians and labor unions."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;German minister wants DB to make cuts and trains run on time;https://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-wants-db-to-make-cuts-and-trains-run-on-time/a-70119726?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Transport Minister Volker Wissing has called on state-owned rail carrier Deutsche Bahn to improve punctuality \"in the short term,\" but also to make cuts and improve its bottom line. He wants quarterly progress reports."
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;Infected blood scandal: A 'horrifying' global disaster;https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying. What have we learned?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;The Galapagos mystery that just won't die;https://www.dw.com/en/the-galapagos-mystery-that-just-won-t-die/a-69958565?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Sex, greed and death marred a German group's search for utopia in the 1930s. A new book and a Ron Howard film revisit their media-fodder exploits, including those of a free-loving baroness dubbed \"crazy panties.\""
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;East meets West in Tan Dun's music at the 2024 Campus Project;https://www.dw.com/en/east-meets-west-in-tan-dun-s-music-at-the-2024-campus-project/a-70107601?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "What happens when you bring together nearly 200 young musicians from 40 countries and a world-famous composer in the service of Beethoven?"
    },
    {
        "label": "Deutsche Welle;What is hydrogen and how green is it?;https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-hydrogen-and-how-green-is-it/a-70094332?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf;2024-09-30 17:03:13",
        "text": "Politicians and industry leaders meet in Namibia this week to hype hydrogen. DW takes a closer look at the pros and cons of the powerful gas, widely regarded as a key part of a green energy future."
    }
]